Deep in the Living

Chapter 77 Mental illness

Three months have passed since the "No. 4 Middle School Incident".

The death rate of teachers, students and staff at Jupiter No. 57 Middle School reached %. Although this number looks scary, it is the lowest death rate compared with the "gap area coverage" that has occurred in the past.

Fortunately, almost all the teachers of cultural courses and logical analysis courses who were sorting the test papers in the teaching building survived, only the Dean of Academic Affairs died.

With the physical education teacher's best efforts to protect them, more than one-third of the students survived. This also proves the abilities of these students to some extent, and they will receive preferential treatment when they return to school later.

The most eye-catching person in the whole incident is naturally Luo Di, a 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 perfect pseudo-human at the last moment.

Such outstanding students are usually transferred directly to the Investigation Bureau, or even arranged to go to the capital to obtain internship qualifications at the EIA World Bureau.

But not long after the No. 4 Middle School incident,

However, Luo Di beat Wu Zhiping, the general manager of Baigu Food, a subsidiary of Taishe Group, to the point of suffering severe cerebral hemorrhage. He was paralyzed after the operation and was only one step away from death.

This is a very serious crime.

If it were an ordinary person, he would be sent to a maximum-security prison and would most likely die in an "accident" in prison.

But Luo Di's situation was special, and both the Municipal Research Bureau and the Municipal Investigation Bureau took the initiative to protect him and demanded a mental evaluation.

Of course, there was no manipulation in the entire appraisal, and Rody was diagnosed with a more serious schizophrenia.

Director Wang of the Municipal Investigation Bureau was also well prepared and took out Luo Di's detailed file report, which clearly recorded what happened three and a half years ago.

The No. 13 resettlement community where Luo Di lived was attacked by a pseudo-human that year.

When Luo Di returned home from school on the third grade of junior high school, he opened the door and saw that his entire family had been killed, and the murder had just happened. The headless bodies were sitting around the dining table, and the severed heads were placed on the table.

According to the Corner Law,
Relatively intact bodies are not allowed to be cremated. They need to be embalmed and sealed in sterile bags, and then buried in a cemetery under unified management. The bodies of Rody's family were buried in an ordinary residents' cemetery not far from their home.

Rody would occasionally dig graves late at night, and then put the bodies back afterwards. He never left any traces at the scene, and he always chose blind spots in surveillance cameras, so they were rarely captured on camera.

However, this type of cemetery for ordinary residents is large in scale, and the corners will not have any impact on the corpses, so the supervision is relatively weak and the security guards are slacking off most of the time.

Because the weekly inspections of the cemetery had never revealed any missing bodies, the matter had never come to light.

This information provided by Director Wang can further illustrate Luo Di’s mental problems.

Another point is that no matter how bad his mental state was, his pituitary gland did not show any thinking corner, which is very important.

This will make subsequent operations easier.

Rody, who was originally going to stay in Jupiter City, was secretly sent directly to the remote Pluto City and lived in the newly built Fifth Hospital with relatively better conditions.

Luo Di can rest and recuperate in the marginal city that is least affected by the corner and receive mental treatment.

They can also conduct secret operations in marginal cities with less supervision, such as Pluto City. If they recover quickly on the mental level, they may be able to return to society earlier.

Such talents must not be wasted.

However, after Rody was sent to the Fifth Hospital as a mental patient, his condition not only did not improve, but became even more strange.

……

The intensive care unit of the Fifth Hospital,
Rody, who was wearing an anklet, lived in room number [0510]. This was the room number he had strongly requested when he was transferred to the intensive care unit.

Due to the danger of critically ill patients, in order to prevent them from using various props to hurt themselves or try to escape,

Inside the ward, there was only a springless sponge mattress, a squat toilet and a hose-structured water outlet.

There is also an emergency "ball lamp" placed in the corner. It is made of soft material and can light up with just a pinch. It is usually used in emergency power outages.

Because they need to take large amounts of medication, critically ill patients are in a dazed state almost every day, spending most of their time in a daze and sleeping. They will not feel bored even if they do nothing.

of course,

Most patients are very reluctant to take medicine and often need to be suppressed by fully armed security guards and then given drug injections by experienced nurses.

The only exception is Rody.

He never rejected medication and never needed injections. He would take the large amount of tablets delivered to his room every time.

With Luo Fei's help, he even got a double dose of the drug. Although the hospital was unwilling, Luo Fei signed a full responsibility letter in person and even got approval documents from the Municipal Research Bureau. ...

dong dong~
There was a knock on the closed iron door.

A plate of three dishes and a soup was brought in from under the door.

Because of Luo Fei's arrival, the quality of the food became obviously different, and it even had the smell of wok, as if it was specially cooked for Luo Di.

There is also a crime suspense novel at the bottom of the plate, which can be used to pass the time.

There is a plastic medicine bottle in the upper right corner of the plate.

Luo Di, who was sitting on the bed in a daze, immediately widened his eyes and stepped forward.
Not in a hurry to taste delicious food, nor to pick up novels,

Instead, he grabbed the plastic medicine bottle and unscrewed it with one hand.

After confirming that the number of pills inside had really doubled, a rare smile appeared on Rody's face.

Screw the bottle cap back on and place it carefully at the bedside.

Luo Di picked up the plate and ate with relish, and during the meal he took the time to read the text in the book.

At this moment, I felt like I was back in my senior year of high school, back to sitting at the table in the cafeteria at noon, eating and reading books on cultural subjects.

However, when I encountered text that was difficult to understand, I could no longer ask Xiao Gao beside me for help.

Half an hour after a meal,
Luo Di closed the book in his hand and put it on the bedside, then took the medicine bottle in his hand again.
Instead of taking a double dose of the pills all at once, he divided one dose out and left the other in the bottle.

Check the pills between your palms again.
After confirming that everything is correct, swallow according to 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 transported through blood vessels to the whole body.

Rody's thinking did not become slow, he did not feel sleepy, and he did not have any discomfort symptoms.

Everything seemed to be normal.

However, his ears received a strange sound, a sound coming from outside the door.

It sounded like some kind of metallic friction sound, and seemed to be mixed with some other sounds.

This kind of sound should never appear in a mental hospital, let alone in an intensive care unit.

But when he heard the voice, Rody instantly became alert, and his eyes became more focused than ever.

He tucked the medicine bottle behind his waistband, then stood up and walked towards the ward door.

The thick iron door, which should have been equipped with three different lock structures and an alarm device, was not locked and there was even a wisp of hot air coming through the gap under the door.

Insert four fingers into the crack of the door and pry it open.

No alarm was triggered.
Roddy easily left the intensive care unit during non-activity hours, but the environment outside seemed to be a little different.

Although it was still the familiar hospital corridor, exactly the same iron doors were lined up in the corridor, and the walls were painted with gray-green paint.

It's just that the temperature in the passage seems to be 5℃ higher than in the room.

The light strip attached to the ceiling had some yellow spots among the white, and the whole passage was filled with warmth and even dryness.

Not only that,

Although this was a newly built hospital, the walls were already mottled. Some of the wall surface had even begun to fall off under the light, floating in the air in the form of ash.

A smell followed, smelly and pungent.

At the same time, there was a pain spreading under my feet.

The metal shackles originally worn on his feet grew thorns after being contaminated by the drifting ashes. The overall style also changed from modern to those ancient thorn shackles, which completely pierced Rody's ankles.

But it did not affect his walking, as if he had long been accustomed to the penetrating pain.

Bang bang bang bang~
The sound of shackles clashing echoed in the corridor where Rody was walking alone.

The spine on his back gradually became more prominent after being stained with ashes, and even through the hospital gown, one could see the clear outline of each section.
Painful groans could be heard from the cells on both sides, and occasionally a peeling bloody hand would stretch out from between the doors and windows.
However, Rody's eyes revealed an unusual excitement. He had a clear purpose, he wanted to reach a certain special area.

(End of this chapter)