Xie Qingcheng was the last to follow the firefighters down the rope ladder.
When he came down, the fire was already approaching in his direction and the smoke was so thick that you could barely open your eyes. When his feet touched the ground, the lifeguards rushed to check his wounds.
Xie Qingcheng saw Xie Xue in the middle of the crowd, several doctors surrounded her, and hurried to say, "How are you?"
"You are..."
"I'm his brother."
"Oh oh oh, don't worry, it's okay, his vital signs are stable, he will wake up as soon as he passes the medicine."
Only then did Xie Qingcheng sighed relieved.
The ambulance employee looked at the man from top to bottom with his body tall and without a shirt, which made him reflect, although it was not the time, that he could be more skilled when such a handsome man looked at his work.
But Xie Qingcheng did not realize how provocative he seemed with his slender shoulders and his narrow waist sunk in his silver buckle belt, he was a cold and dominant man who does not usually care much about his appearance or the look of others.
No, the paramedics looked at him one after the other, but after looking at Xie Xue he only knew how to face Chengkang Hospital, which was still in flames.
Xie Qingcheng looked at the roof on fire and had mixed feelings for a while. As far as the eye could be seen, you could see the patients who had not yet been rescued screaming in panic on the window sill, hitting the lattice windows with their hands.
"Help!"
"Help us! The fire! The fire is coming!!!"
"I don't want to die yet... help! Help me."
The bars, originally placed to prevent patients from jumping out the windows, were now the biggest obstacle to emergency rescue, and the only way to take them out was to risk life and physical integrity by rushing and unlocking each room.
The cries of lamentation were like those of a ghost, and the entire Chengkang Psychiatric Hospital had become, as Jiang Lanpei had cursed, a purgatory on earth.
In the pavilion closest to the fabric and herb room, there was an old man screaming, but he called his parents. The old man was mad and often went crazy, which his children did not like and they had sent him here.
Perhaps in his heart he also knew vaguely that they would rejoice in his death.
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Only his parents who had already died loved him deeply. Before he died, he cried and howled like a child, and kept calling his parents.
The firefighters tried to break the window, but it was too late. The old man's room was too close to the fire, and he was devoured by the flames while everyone watched, with a still stiff hand peeking out on the fence ......
No one knew if in his last moments, he was an old man who had been abandoned because he was sick, or a child who missed his parents.
The firefighter's lips trembled when he turned to the crowd and shouted: "Where are the keys? Did any of you have your keys when you escaped?"
"No, no...... remember..."
"They are hanging in the boss's office on the third floor!"
There was another deafening explosion and the windows were fired along with the shattered wood remains.
One of the rescued caregivers got up and said, "Comrade, don't go back in there!" It's too dangerous!!!"
"Yes ...... it's too late ...... to save him at all ......"
Someone went so far as to whisper: "All those are seriously ill ...... the higher the floor, the sicker they are, it makes no sense to take them out ......"
The surrounding area was chaos.
Xie Qingcheng saw that suddenly in chaos: there was a lonely figure standing, looking at the building on fire for a while and then going to the north gate in the depths of the neglected bushes.
Xie Qingcheng was surprised...
Hey?!
"Excuse me, borrow a mask."
Xie Qingcheng said, judging the situation of the fire, grabbed two protective masks and ran after He Yu's direction.
"Hey! Comrade!" The ambulance employee came to her senses, fuck, you can't be so capricious even if you're a handsome man! He shouted: "What are you doing? Don't go back to the fire!!!"
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But Xie Qingcheng limited himself to ignoring her, looking into He Yu's back like a cheetah and chasing him again.
I didn't expect this man to get back into the fire, what was he going to do?
He did not go to the north gate, where the firefighters were gathered, but grabbed a rope ladder that had not yet been removed and went up directly to the roof from which he had just escaped. Xie Qingcheng followed him, but it was too late for the others to follow him, since the tongues of fire had already burned it, turning the lower half of the rope into ash.
He Yu rolled down the railing of the roof in one fell swoop, and looked under the water tower, where there was only one charred and crowded mass of a burning human body, Jiang Lanpei's corpse.
He opened the door suddenly, looked at the fire and then ran to the director's office.
Xie Qingcheng thought he was crazy, which of course he was, and grabbed He Yu's arm as he opened the fireproof iron door and rebuked him very severely: "What are you doing! Don't you want to die? Hurry up and go down with me to the north gate! There isn't much fire here yet, it's not too late yet."
He Yu looked him in the face as if he didn't know him: "What are you doing up here?"
Xie Qingcheng didn't bother to talk to him, his eyes were sharp: "Come down with me, fuck!"
"No. This time it's different. This time I want to save someone."
"You..."
"They are of my class, only I can save them, only I can get them all out on time. You've already heard what those people said down there. That old man burned alive before his eyes, and there were more waiting to die, but they only said, "Forget it."
There was something almost frightening in He Yu's eyes.
He said quietly: "- it is not worth saving the mentally ill, when it comes to things like this, everyone abandons them and gives up. Everyone deserves to die."
He stared into Xie Qingcheng's eyes, and the corners of his mouth slowly curved into a cold and penetrating smile: "Is that what you think too? Dr. Xie?"
"That's because it's really too late...... Be rational! You can't open one door after another." Xie Qingcheng's voice was turned off, "There is no time."
He Yu didn't talk anymore, he was so strong that he pulled Xie Qingcheng's hand in one fell swoop and ran in the direction of the office.
Fortunately, the office area was separated from the area where the biggest fire occurred due to a large bathroom. In the past, construction workers had saved themselves the trouble of putting the wooden frames, putting only the tiles, so now this is the area where the flames spread most slowly.
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He found a large number of keychains in that room and went to the part of the pavilion on the third floor where the fire had not yet arrived.
"Help..."
"Help!!!"
"I don't want to die yet...... I don't want to die yet!!!"
"Ooooooooooooooo, is it the fire of the devil that burns? It's the fire of the devil!!!"
The lights in the corridor had been turned off a long time ago, and screams could be heard on both sides of the corridor, but in as many other rooms, there were no more screams even ......
The keychain was marked with the door number, and He Yu took the nearest bunch and began to open the door.
He had already opened the first door when Xie Qingcheng came after him, and a woman with disheveled hair ran out of her, screaming aaaaahhhh in disorder. Xie Qingcheng's heart cooled down with just sight, this was not under control at all.
Normal people would have lost their minds in such a situation, much more these patients.
The woman shouted and, without having any idea, set out to run in the direction of the fire. Xie Qingcheng was about to stop her, but he saw that He Yu stretched out his hand and dragged her back...
"Don't go in that direction!"
"She won't listen to you..."
"Fire! There is fire."
In the chaos, Xie Qingcheng suddenly saw a flash of cold light.
It was He Yu who held a blade that he had just taken out of the office and ran it through the palm of his hand.
The blood immediately sprouted from the wound, and for a moment, Xie Qingcheng did not know why he had done it, but there seemed to be a distant memory shaking in his mind, and before he could read it, his instincts already made his hair stand on end.
The next moment, his eyes widened when he saw that He Yu was unhooking one of the rings from the keychain and also staining it with his own blood, and said quietly, but unequivocally, to the madwoman: "Take this set of keys and open the door, open a door, give the people inside other keys and order them to open more doors. Be quick. The faster you are, the more patients you can save. Do it."
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Something horrible happened, the woman who had been hysterical before suddenly seemed to have received some kind of tranquilizer, and the moment the blood of He Yu smelled, her eyes became very calm -
It was as if He Yu's blood, through his sense of smell, had provoked some kind of reflex reaction inside his skull, also manipulating his emotions.
The woman took the keychain and immediately ran to the other iron doors.
The whole command process was very brief, but Xie Qingcheng looked at him with chills all over his body, even his fingertips cooled...
Case No. 4, He Yu, the capacity of his illness in adulthood is ......
In the data record file, the "blood ox" had been marked as doubtful.
There is a lack of clinical data on mental Ebola, and the only way to speculate on the disease is through the three previous cases and a series of numerical estimates. The truth is that, in addition to the basic characteristics of each patient, those who suffer from this psychiatric disorder also have an individual pathological capacity.
In short, the disease mutates in the individual, and each person's genes are different, which causes this mutation of the disease to be projected in different directions, which often develops along with the age of the patient, fully revealing itself in adulthood and tending to stabilize.
In case number 1, the variant of the disease that emerged at that time was smell.
The disease altered his olfactory nerves and his nose became unusually sensitive. In general, the olfactory nerves of a dog occupy four times the surface of those of a human; the sense of smell of patient No. 1 became more than eight times that of a normal human after the mutation of the disease, and any minimal smell in the air stimulated his olfactory nerves, tormenting him to a growing mental disorder.
No. 2, No. 3, both showed their unique disease mutations before dying.
The number 4, He Yu, on the other hand, had not shown any sign of the mutation of his condition before Xie Qingcheng's departure.
Xie Qingcheng originally thought that perhaps the individual mutation of mental Ebola was not an absolute requirement, and that He Yu could be an exception.
But to his surprise, it was the most frightening mutation possible in the estimation of data: Blood compulsion.
The so-called blood compulsion is that He Yu's blood, under certain conditions, has a paralyzing effect that can be induced in a specific group of people, such as psychopaths. It is like serotonin, which immediately calms the patient's emotions, and at the same time, like a drug, stimulates the reward mechanism in the patient's brain, giving him the illusion that "if he listens to him, he will get more," thus causing the patient to let himself be controlled by He Yu's words, as if he were "under the spell." The effect was like a "compulsion."
At that time, the laboratory calculations were nothing more than an assumption, and some researchers did not even believe in the data when they suggested the direction of the mutation of the "blood compulsion."
But now...
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The patients opened the doors one by one.
The speed was amazing, and once a door was opened and someone was rescued, there was another person who helped open the door, and the keys were distributed quickly, and the frantic patients, stimulated by blood compulsion, became trained soldiers.
He Yu went through it with a cold expression, as a spiritual leader who controls these patients. He walked to the end of the corridor, where the only escape route was in the direction of the north entrance, the voices of the firefighters were already hovering around the entrance of the building and would soon go up to the third floor.
But in the meantime, the flames at the end of the corridor were already nearby, hissing like roaring fire dragons as they ran towards them, wrapped in a roll of suffocating smoke, as if they were going to sink them into this delinquent channel with suffocating poisonous fumes and high ruinous heat.
But at the same time, the flames at the end of the corridor were already near, roaring towards them like a dragon of roaring fire, wrapping them with undulating and suffocating smoke, as if to suffocate them with poisonous gas and devastating heat in this impressive tunnel.
There was not even water to wet the cloths to cover their mouth and nose, so they could only increase the speed.
Standing in front of the fire door, He Yu turned his face slightly to the side and gave orders to all the patients: "Kn down as much as you can, in my direction, and go down to the fire. Hurried up."
Like robots fed with instructions, the patients advanced in droves, running to the safe place with amazing speed and order, as if they were zombies manipulated in a science fiction movie ......
When the last patient ran down, the fire was already near, the concentration of smoke was increasing, almost to the point of having to throw himself on the ground to breathe. He Yu looked at Xie Qingcheng, who approached him with a rather ugly look, and said nothing, he just stepped aside to let Xie Qingcheng in as well.
With a strong blow, the firewall door of the safe passage was suddenly closed behind them, temporarily isolating the approaching fire dragon.
Icy apricot eyes looked in the dark at the stunned peach flower eyes: "Xie Qingcheng. Don't tell anyone."
Xie Qingcheng's face was very blue, but he finally gave He Yu a gas mask in his hand without saying a word.
"Take it. Go."
The tongues of fire crashed into the firewalls, and He Yu and Xie Qingcheng ran down the stairs after the patients who had been rescued ......
"Brother! Brother !!!!!"
Xie Qingcheng and He Yu were received by the firefighters, and when they, the last two ran away, they were greeted by two almost broken howls, and as soon as Xie Qingcheng took off his mask, he saw the already awake Xie Xue running towards him with her face full of tears, running so much that she even dropped the shoes that the firefighters had found for her.
"Brother ah ah ah ah ...... big brother!! Older brother!! Are you trying to kill me with the scare? Are you trying to scare me out of a scare! I thought you didn't even love me anymore!! I thought even you left me behind! Brother woo woo woo ......"
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He jumped into Xie Qingcheng's arms immediately, hugging him so hard that he almost broke his waist, the explosions and screams around him continued, some of them could not really be saved...... She was so terrified that it was as if all the blood had been drained from her body, and only a fine painted skin remained on the ground, only when she hugged her brother's tall body hard did she ran out of breath while crying and breathing the smell of Xie Qingcheng's body. Only then did he seem to have a heartbeat again and the blood spilled back into his body.\n
The drops of tears fell down his face, dirtying his face like a brindle cat while with his mouth open and without taking care of any image, a dragged scream escaped from his lips: "You can't leave me like mom and dad! You can't leave me like mom and dad did, big brother! I'm very afraid... I'm very afraid... Hug me, embrace me!!!"
"It's okay. It's okay."
Xie Qingcheng rarely has moments in which she accepts such strong feelings, she is a very family-conscious person, but her love for her is usually introverted and even expressed in the form of accusations.
But at this time I was also a little overwhelmed. She hugged her sister, who was shaking and wrapped in a long coat, and kissed her messy bird's nest head, with her eyes a little red.
"Okay, Xie Xue."
Xie Xue howled in Xie Qingcheng's arms for a while before seeing He Yu again.
His mood, which had just calmed down a little, broke again and threw himself into He Yu's arms crying again; no, to be precise, he dragged He Yu to hug him along with his older brother, so that He Yu was forced to approach and Xie Qingcheng also bowed, very close together.
There was some embarrassment on He Yu's elegant and beautiful face. He had never hugged a man so close, especially if that man was Xie Qingcheng, and he felt very uncomfortable. Seeing Xie Qingcheng's expression, it seemed to mean that he felt the same way.
But both men did not move for the sake of Xie Xue's face and feelings, letting her force the three of them in a hug and allow themselves the meeting that belonged to them in the midst of all the chaos.
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"Help! HELP!!! Comrade! There's someone here! I'm here!!!"
A white-haired man screamed scared at the entrance of the elevator of Chengkang Hospital, belonged to the oldest group of leaders in Chengkang, had broken his leg some time ago when he went to play polo with Liang Jicheng, and now he could only move in a wheelchair. He wouldn't have returned today if it weren't for a temporary job in his unit that he had to take care of.
The man was fighting in the wheelchair, β‘β‘ he was completely wet and urine dripping through the pants tube. For the first time, he realized how terrible the pain of not being able to take care of himself was. The fire was approaching in his direction, and he was frantic pressing the button even though he knew that he could not take the elevator, or even that it was broken. (1)
"Fast! Quickly... someone, help me... I have money... someone help me... I have a lot of money!"
The muscles of his cheeks became tense and they had violent spasms due to tension.
As if the sky had heard his prayers, a man with the appearance of a firefighter and with a gas mask came running down the dark safety corridor and saw him, paralyzed in his wheelchair.
For man it was like seeing a god: "Comrade! Help!! Help me!!!"
His nostrils were agitated with excitement, the pale flesh of his nose was covered with fine drops of sweat and his pupils contracted with excitement, reflecting the figure of the other man who approached him with the fire team.
Then, it froze. His eyes suddenly closed!
The man in the firefighter's suit showed a grimace of contempt through the viewfinder in his eyes, and continued to turn on the equipment he had in his hand ...... That wasn't a fire extinguishing device! That was......
Gasoline!!
"You, you are..."
"The Chenkhang disaster is inevitable, I am the one who was sent to "clean it." A muted male voice came out from under the mask: "Save that money of yours to spend it down there."
"NO!!!"
Boom!!
The gasoline and the lighter were thrown together on the man's face, which was completely distorted by extreme panic, and the face ended up looking like the crooked face of Munch's Cry, while it was swallowed by the flames ......
Author's comment.
I'm not going to lie, I really crave Xie's body as I write... suck that one... there's still a touch of soft science fiction in it... but you can probably ignore it, it's only for plot purposes la la la la la la la la ~
Minitheater.
When will the light of the straight path shine?
Xie Qingcheng: When necessary.
He Yu: When it is related to a mental illness.
Xie Xue: When it comes to eating.
Humble author: when he writes about sleeping with Xie Qingcheng (?) Every day when he wakes up I ask He Yu, haven't you slept with your wife? First you don't have to sleep, even if it's a kiss, it's fine!!! I beg you, help me, heterosexual man!!!
1)- Those squares were there. They didn't reveal the name of man to us