Mental Illness
Three months have passed since the "Fourth Middle School Incident".
The mortality rate among students, teachers, and staff at Jupiter City Fourth Middle School reached 57%. While this number seems alarming, it is considered the lowest mortality rate compared to previous cases of "Crevice Area Coverage".
Fortunately, almost all the teachers of the cultural studies and logic analysis courses who were organizing the exam papers in the Teaching Building survived, except for the Dean of Academics who died.
With the physical education teacher's best efforts to protect them, more than one-third of the students survived, which to some extent proves their abilities, and they will receive preferential treatment in their subsequent re-enrollment.
The most attention-grabbing part of the whole incident was undoubtedly Luo Di, this special student.
As a high school graduate, he was able to fight against a mature Pseudo-Human head-on, and even joined forces with Gao Yuxuan and Li Xiaoying to kill a fully-fledged Pseudo-Human at the last moment.
Such outstanding students are usually promoted directly to the Investigation Bureau, or even assigned to the capital to obtain an internship at the EIA World Bureau.
But not long after the Fourth Middle School Incident...
Luo Di beat Wu Zhiping, the general manager of Baigu Foods, a subsidiary of Taisha Group, so badly that Wu suffered a severe brain hemorrhage and was paralyzed after surgery, bringing him to the brink of death.
This is a very serious crime.
An ordinary person would be sent to a high-security prison, where they would likely die in an "accident".
But Luo Di's situation was special. Both the City Research Bureau and the City Investigation Bureau stepped forward to protect him and requested a mental evaluation.
Of course, the entire assessment was conducted without any manipulation, and Luo Di was diagnosed with a relatively severe form of schizophrenia.
Director Wang of the City Investigation Bureau was also prepared, and took out Luo Di's detailed file report, which clearly recorded what had happened three and a half years ago.
The Residential Zone 13 where Luo Di lived was the site of Pseudo-Human attack years ago.
When Luo Di returned home from school in his third year of junior high, he opened the door and found that his whole family had been murdered. Moreover, they had just been murdered. Headless corpses were sitting around the dining table, and their severed heads were placed on the table.
According to the Corner Law,
Relatively intact bodies are prohibited from cremation. They need to be preserved, sealed in sterile bags, and then buried in a centrally managed cemetery. The bodies of the Luo Di family members were buried in an ordinary cemetery not far from their home.
Luo Di would occasionally dig up graves late at night, and then put the bodies back in afterwards, leaving no trace at the scene. He always chose blind spots for surveillance cameras, so he was rarely caught on camera.
These ordinary residential cemeteries are very large, and the corners don't affect the bodies, so supervision is weak, and security guards spend most of their time slacking off.
Because the weekly checks of the cemetery never found any missing bodies, the matter remained undiscovered.
The information provided by Director Wang further explains Luo Di's mental health issues.
Another important point is that even when his mental state was terrible, his Pituitary Gland did not show any Mind Corner.
This makes the subsequent operations much easier.
Luo Di, who was originally supposed to stay in Jupiter City, was secretly sent to the remote Pluto City and placed in the newly built Fifth Hospital, which had relatively better conditions.
Luo Di was able to recuperate peacefully in a remote city least affected by the external factors, receiving psychological treatment.
They could also use the relatively unregulated peripheral city of Pluto City to conduct underhanded operations, and if they recover mentally quickly, they might be able to return to society ahead of time.
Such talent must not be wasted.
However, after Luo Di was sent to the Fifth Hospital as a mental patient, his condition not only did not improve, but became increasingly strange.
The Fifth Hospital's Intensive Care Unit
In room number [0510], Luo Di, wearing an anklet, lives. This was the room number he had insisted on when he was transferred to the intensive care unit.
Due to the dangerous nature of critically ill patients, to prevent them from using various tools to self-harm or attempting to escape,
The ward contained only a springless foam mattress, a squat toilet, and a water outlet with a flexible hose.
Another emergency "ball light" is placed in the corner. It is made of soft material and can light up by simply squeezing it. It is generally used in case of emergency power outage.
Because they need to take a lot of medication, critically ill patients are in a daze almost every day, spending most of their time in a daze and sleeping. Even if they do nothing, they don't feel bored.
certainly,
Most patients are reluctant to take medication, often requiring fully armed security guards to suppress them before experienced nurses administer the injections.
The only exception is Luo Di.
He never rejected medication and never needed injections; he would take all the large quantities of tablets delivered to his room each time.
With Mr. Luo Fei's help, they even obtained twice the dosage of the drug. Although the hospital was unwilling, they couldn't resist Mr. Luo Fei personally signing a full liability agreement and even obtaining approval documents from the City Research Bureau.
Knock knock~
The tightly closed iron gate was knocked on.
A plate containing three dishes and a soup was brought in through an opening under the door.
Because of Mr. Luo Fei's arrival, the quality of the food changed noticeably, and it even had a wok hei (wok aroma), as if it was specially cooked for Luo Di.
There was also a crime thriller novel under the plate, which could be used to pass the time.
A plastic medicine bottle was placed in the upper right corner of the plate.
Luo Di, who had been sitting on the bed in a daze, immediately widened his eyes and took a step closer.
It wasn't that they were in a hurry to enjoy the delicious food, nor were they going to pick up any novels.
Instead, he grabbed the plastic medicine bottle and twisted it open with one hand.
After confirming that the number of pills inside had indeed doubled, a rare smile appeared on Luo Di's face.
I screwed the cap back on and carefully placed it on the bedside table.
Luo Di picked up his plate and began to eat heartily, taking the time to read the text in the book during his meal.
This moment felt like being back in my senior year of high school, back sitting at a table in the cafeteria at lunchtime, eating while reading my academic books.
However, when encountering text that is difficult to understand, there is no longer any way to ask Xiao Gao for help.
Half an hour after the meal,
Luo Di closed the book he was holding and placed it on the bedside table, then picked up the medicine bottle again.
Instead of taking the double dose of pills at once, he divided one portion into two parts and left the other in the bottle.
Examine the pills in your palms again.
After confirming that everything is correct, swallow in the fixed order*.
(* Risperidone, Olanzapine, Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride, Quetiapine Fumarate, Amisulpride)
When the last piece is swallowed into the abdomen, it is completely absorbed by the small intestine and then transported throughout the body via the blood vessels.
Luo Di's thinking did not become sluggish, he did not feel sleepy, and he did not experience any discomfort.
Everything seemed to be going normally.
However, his ears picked up a strange sound, a sound coming from outside the door.
It sounded like the friction of some kind of metal, but there seemed to be some other sound mixed in.
Such voices should never be heard in Mental Hospital, much less in intensive care units.
Upon hearing the sound, Luo Di instantly perked up, his eyes becoming more focused than ever before.
He tucked the medicine bottle behind his waistband, got up, and walked towards the ward door.
The thick iron door, which should have been equipped with a triple- Lock body and an alarm device, was now unlocked, and wisps of heat were even seeping through the cracks.
Insert four fingers into the crack in the door and pry it open inwards.
No alarms were triggered.
During his off-duty hours, Luo Di easily left the intensive care unit ward, but the outside environment seemed to have changed somewhat.
Although it was still the familiar hospital corridor, with identical iron gates lined up in the corridor and gray-green paint covering the walls.
However, the temperature inside the passageway seemed to be 5°C higher than that in the room.
The LED strip lights attached to the ceiling had some yellow spots on the white background, filling the entire passageway with a warm, even restless, atmosphere.
Not only that,
Although the hospital was newly built not long ago, the walls were already mottled, and some of the wall surface was even peeling off under the light, scattering ashes in the air.
A foul and pungent smell followed.
At the same time, a pain spread through my feet.
The Metal Shackles that were originally worn on his feet sprouted thorns after being stained with the falling ashes, and the overall style changed from modern to those old-fashioned thorny shackles, completely piercing through Luo Di's ankles.
But it didn't affect his walking; it seemed he had long been used to the persistent stinging pain.
Clang clang~
The clanking of shackles echoed through the corridor as Luo Di wandered alone.
His spine, stained with ash, gradually became more prominent, its clear outline visible even through his hospital gown.
Painful groans echoed from the cells on both sides, and occasionally a peeling, Blood Hand would peek out from between the doors and windows.
However, Luo Di's eyes revealed an unusual excitement; he had a clear purpose: he wanted to reach a certain special area.