Chapter 300: Lunatics' Dinner (Part 1)
The last rays of the setting sun dyed many parts of the city red. On a stone path going down, Gate and Song Suo held hands with strange smiles on their faces. The aroma of food came from many households on both sides.
"It's true. We can't be careless at all. The dean is right. The lipstick in my bag is gone."
Song Suo said, looking at the shoulder bag at his hand, Gate smiled strangely. Most of the houses around looked a bit old. This is the junction of District 38 and District 39, which is located at the bottom and middle of the north. It is an old city area. Many facilities in it still retain the appearance of a hundred years ago. Some houses can still see chimneys and tile houses.
Most of the stone slabs have been polished smooth. The original dark gray stone slabs have now turned white, and most of the stone slabs have cracks.
The path is long and winding, and the planning here is a bit chaotic. Because when the city was built, the climate in the north was the best, and a large number of people flocked here to build houses, resulting in a complicated situation here, and many places are not monitored.
At this time, the entire path winding downwards seemed to be covered with blood, and the light was gradually turning red. This was a phenomenon when the artificial sun went out, and the real color of the big fireball in the sky.
A breeze blew by, rolling up some dry leaves. A semicircular square was in front of a building with a huge area. In the middle of the square, there was a statue without a head. At this point, there were no people in the square.
On both sides of the huge building in front of us, there were two trees that grew a little twisted and crooked due to long-term malnutrition. Some of the leaves on them were green and some were yellow, which looked very deformed. It was also because the building in front of us could not get enough sunlight all year round. Only at noon every day, the sun's rays would sprinkle on the building in front of us.
There are two rusty iron gates, and the 10-meter-high black walls on both sides are made of black stone piles. There are spiked fences on the walls, and there is a reason why the sunlight cannot penetrate these walls.
The building inside is a long 5-story building, nearly 300 meters long, with three round small buildings that look like big pillars standing in three places of this Changxing building. There are iron fences on rows of windows, and people flash inside from time to time.
At this time, the lights opposite the building have been lit. On the right side of the gate, there is a pillar with a row of large characters on it, Frye Mental Hospital.
"Every time I come back here, I feel uncomfortable. It's true. This is a place that is much darker than the Fortress Area, the abyss of the Brilliant City."
Gate smiled strangely and held Song Suo's hand. The two of them looked a little excited at this time. When they walked to the gate, a man in white clothes and a mask with dim eyes came over and opened a small door on the right. After the two walked in, there was a click, and the man locked the chain again, and then smiled strangely.
"Yes, No. 091, today I can finally come here to unlock and close the door again."
The person next to him laughed sharply, and then squatted on the ground, clapping his hands, and kept making creepy laughter.
Song Suo squatted down slightly and looked at the person who was laughing in front of him.
"Have you found the lock I told you about before?"
Song Suo Xie asked with a smile. The man on the ground suddenly looked terrified and uncomfortable. He scratched his neck with his hands. Soon, his skin was broken and bleeding. He whimpered, trembled unconsciously, shook his head, and kept saying lock, lock and so on.
"Okay, don't tease him. The dean is still waiting for us."
On both sides of the big iron gate, near the main building, there are flower beds. Some men and women wearing masks and people in white clothes are taking care of the flower beds. There are farmlands on both sides, which will emit a foul smell. Some people are carrying manure water to irrigate. Many people look dazed and suddenly make a cry from time to time.
This is the largest Frye Mental Hospital in Brilliant City, which holds nearly 30,000 mentally ill patients. Most of them are patients who have regular food or money provided by others. Mental illness is the most common disease in modern society. People with fragile hearts are easily affected by extremely depressing environments or encountering insurmountable pain. Once they have mental illness, they will lose everything. In the end, if the treatment is ineffective, they can only be sent to the mental hospital by their families, and then their families regularly provide food or money as the only chance for these mentally ill patients to survive.
Most mentally ill patients who do not have money provided by their families will either be euthanized or directly exiled to the barrier area after the determination of the 4th department, but as long as the mentally ill patients have certain cognitive abilities and can do some work, they can also survive.
Gate and Song Suo walked slowly to the entrance of the mental hospital facing the iron fence gate. In front of them sat a half-old man in a white coat, with gray hair and beard, and in good spirits. He was wearing gray pants and a pair of old and damaged black leather boots. A large piece of his right ear had fallen off, leaving only one-third, his nose was crooked, and his teeth were incomplete.
This man's name is Fry. He was the most famous psychiatrist in Brilliant City fifty years ago. However, after only working in the operations department for three short months, he came to this place, formerly known as the First Mental Hospital, as a doctor.
Frye smiled, a smile that was slightly gloomy because of his incomplete black teeth. There were also scars in many places on his cheeks. He only had three fingers on his right hand, and both the little finger and the ring finger were gone.
There is also a mark on the back of his left hand that has been eroded by acidic substances. The bones under the skin can be clearly seen. Frye's whole body looks a bit scary.
"Thank you both for your hard work."
Frye's voice was a little hoarse and thick. At this moment, the two women next to him started fighting and talking crazy words. One of them stuffed mud from the ground into the other's mouth, and the other chewed it. He looked so happy, but he had no idea that his mouth had been scratched by a stone in the soil, and blood was flowing down.
"Your master is here, hurry up and greet him, No. 354, No. 578."
Frye said something, and the two women who were wrestling in the flower bed next to them suddenly stood up and knelt on the ground. They choked and smiled ferociously, as if their throats were stuck, and their saliva and tears were flowing. out.
"What happened?"
Frye asked, and the two immediately bowed.
"Dean, my lipstick is missing."