Chapter 3 Fire in the Stone, Body in the Dream

Qingshan Hospital, 11:30 at night.

Lao Liu, the doctor on duty tonight, had just refilled himself a cup of strong tea when the door was kicked open with a bang.

"What are you doing?" Old Liu shouted angrily.

"Second knife, hold him down."

"Press where?"

"On the table."

Erdao strode up to Lao Liu and pressed his head on the table with a thud, causing half of his face to feel burning pain.

Brother Pao pushed Chen Shuo and Wang Huiling and walked into the ward slowly: "Chen Shuo confessed that you took 50,000 yuan from him and conspired to lock his nephew in a mental hospital?"

Old Liu yelled, "Someone, someone, someone! There's a medical disturbance!"

There were hurried footsteps in the corridor, but Pao Ge was not panicked at all. He just took off his Tang suit, slowly rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, revealing his arms full of tattoos and muscles.

When a primitive beast sheds its disguise in the face of its prey, everyone it targets must cherish their lives.

When two male nurses appeared at the door, Pao Ge leaned his body slightly to the right to avoid the incoming punch. The next second, he hit one of the male nurses in the jaw with a thunderous hook, knocking him into a stiff state.

Before the other male nurse could react, Brother Pao flashed in front of him like a jaguar and hit him in the jaw with an uppercut again!

"too weak."

Just as he finished speaking, two thuds were heard, and the two male nurses fell to the ground like two wooden sticks and fell unconscious.

Brother Pao turned around and looked at Lao Liu who was pinned on the table: "Is there anyone else?"

"No...no more."

"Can you speak properly?"

"Yes! Yes!"

"Okay, three of us squat in a row," Pao Ge pulled a chair and sat down, crossing his legs: "Is Chen Ji mentally ill?"

"No, no," Lao Liu said, "He just has a bit of abnormal brain circuitry, and has a slight tendency towards violence and depression. He is not really sick."

Brother Pao lit a cigarette and said, "It's strange. Since he predicted your actions in advance, why did you guys still let him in in the end?"

"He wants to use you to get revenge on us!"

Brother Pao shook his head: "No, he came to me specifically to get a loan, so he must know what I do. Why can't he just give me the money and buy your legs? Why put himself in a mental hospital!"

Chen Shuo: "..."

Brother Pao suddenly asked, "Did you kill his parents?"

Chen Shuo wanted to cry but had no tears: "His parents died in a car accident. The driver has been found. It has nothing to do with us."

Brother Pao motioned for Chen Shuo to stretch out his hand, and then flicked the ash into the other's palm: "A 17-year-old child's parents have only been gone for half a year, and you uncles and aunts are trying to covet his house. You are really a piece of shit. And you, a doctor, you have done this kind of thing before, right?"

Old Liu said hurriedly: "I have never harmed anyone before. The patients I treated were all those who committed crimes and did not want to go to jail, so they came to me to get a diagnosis certificate."

"Oh?" Brother Pao thought thoughtfully: "What have those people done?"

"The most recent one is a gangster named Wang Long, who does earth-moving business. Half a year ago, he ran over and killed a couple with his car..." When Old Liu said this, he suddenly looked up at Brother Pao in horror.

With a hissing sound, Pao Ge pressed the cigarette butt into Chen Shuo's palm in a daze, and screams echoed throughout the corridor.

Brother Pao put on a black Tang suit, grabbed Old Liu's sparse hair and walked out: "I know why he must go to the mental hospital. You are really lacking in virtue to harm such a child. Erdao, punish them to teach them a lesson. I will take the doctor to the sixth floor. I know Wang Long, he is not that easy to deal with."

Chen Shuo was shaking like a sieve: "This is a hospital, there are surveillance cameras, you can't commit murder here!"

Erdao scratched the scar on his bald head: "Brother Pao, execute immediately?"

“Do it repeatedly.”

……

……

There were snoring sounds in the ward. Chen Ji lay on the bed with his eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling quietly.

He found that the sleep talking in mental hospitals was particularly frequent and difficult to understand.

In a trance, he seemed to have returned to his childhood and heard the clanging sound of the green train starting.

Chen Ji was weak and sickly when he was young. He always heard shouting and killing in his dreams, so his father had to take him to the capital to seek medical treatment frequently.

When they had no money, the two of them would buy standing tickets for the green train.

They would sit in the open space between the two carriages. When Chen Ji felt sleepy, he would lie in his father's arms and take a nap. When he was hungry, his father would take out instant noodles from his backpack, get hot water, and then hold the noodles in his hands for him to eat first.

When he woke up, Chen Ji lay on the car door glass and asked a hundred thousand questions, and his father answered them patiently.

Later, when he was 12 years old, he recovered from his illness, and his father made money from business and bought a villa.

On summer nights, his mother taught him to use a flashlight to look for cicadas that had just emerged from the ground in the yard, soak them in salt water, and then fry them and eat them.

During the Chinese New Year, the mother would take Chen Ji with her to cut window flowers, paste Spring Festival couplets, and steam beautifully shaped steamed buns.

Lying on the hospital bed, Chen Ji was in a trance, gently wiping away his tears with his fingers.

Li Qingniao came to his bedside without knowing when: "Now, if you sell me something, I can answer one more question for you."

Chen Ji's eyes were empty but deep: "What do you want to buy?"

"Cicada." "How old is the cicada?"

"Twelve-year-old cicada."

"Not for sale."

At this time, Chen Shuo's screams of pain came from downstairs, echoing throughout the hospital.

Time is running out.

Chen Ji turned over and jumped off the bed. He took out a dagger from the straps on his thigh, threw away the scabbard, and ran straight to a place in the ward.

He was a little scared, afraid of what he was about to do and the consequences after he did it.

But he had no other choice.

Wang Long, after being drunk, hit and killed a man and a woman and then fled the scene. The victims died due to delayed treatment. The next day, Wang Long surrendered to the police station, but he had obtained a diagnosis certificate from Qingshan Mental Hospital in advance. The court was going to review the diagnosis certificate, but Wang Long's family gathered more than 60 earthwork drivers to make trouble in the court, and the matter ended up in vain. Wang Long escaped trial and was admitted to Qingshan Hospital.

But how can you escape judgment?
Chen Ji came to Wang Long's bed quietly and stabbed him with the dagger with all his strength.

Wang Long suddenly opened his eyes and grabbed Chen Ji's wrist with his strong hands. He sneered, "Do you really think I don't know you?"

During the litigation process, Chen Ji had always asked a lawyer to appear, so he and Wang Long had never met. But Wang Long wanted to reconcile with the family of the deceased, so he naturally asked someone to investigate him.

So when Wang Long saw Chen Ji appear here, he knew what Chen Ji was planning.

He said hastily, "I can compensate you with more money! A lot of money! Your parents are gone, you have to learn to move on!"

He didn't want to kill anyone again. If he did, he would have to stay here for the rest of his life.

Chen Ji silently pressed the tip of the knife down, getting closer to Wang Long's chest.

"Looking for death!" After all, Wang Long's strength was much greater than that of the young man. He roared, snatched Chen Ji's dagger, and stabbed it into Chen Ji's left waist with his backhand, piercing his ribs.

Wang Long originally thought that this blow would be enough to make Chen Ji lose all his fighting power, but what he didn't expect was that when he grabbed the knife, Chen Ji didn't resist at all. Instead, he took advantage of the gap between his hands and bit his carotid artery like a beast!
Blood continued to seep out from between Chen Ji's lips and teeth, staining the pillow black and purple.

Chen Ji felt the fishy sweetness between his teeth, and the touch of blood spraying into his mouth and then flowing out.

The first time he killed someone for revenge, he was so frightened that his heart was trembling, but he held on tightly and refused to let go.

Wang Long felt the pain in his neck, which made him tremble like an electric current. This was a sense of crisis of approaching death.

He pulled out the dagger that had pierced Chen Ji's chest and abdomen, and stabbed him again: "Let go!"

"Relax!"

"Let go..."

With roars and stabbings, Chen Ji did not respond. Instead, his teeth clenched tighter and tighter, biting off a piece of flesh from Wang Long's neck.

Wang Long's pupils began to dilate. He twirled the dagger in his hand while muttering, "Is it that serious? Is it that serious..."

But what Wang Long didn't understand was that for Chen Ji, his life had long been left in the past by the car accident, endless and inextricable.

The dark purple blood flowed over the white pillow, just like flowing over the traces of life.

With a click, the iron door of the ward was opened from the outside, and Pao Ge, wearing a black Tang suit, appeared at the door, grabbing Lao Liu's hair.

Wang Long's right hand finally loosened the handle of the knife, and it fell down weakly.

Chen Ji raised his head with blood all over his face and looked at Pao Ge. It was not known whether it was fear or the aftereffects of the adrenaline rush that caused his whole body to tremble.

Brother Pao sighed and said, "It's too late."

Chen Ji fell to the end of the bed, holding the wound on his waist, and whispered to Brother Pao: "I'm sorry."

Brother Pao knew that the boy was talking about using him, so he grinned and said, "It's okay. Although you are dying, it's not too late to get to know each other now. My real name is Chen Chong, and my friends like to call me Brother Pao."

"Okay, Brother Pao."

"First time killing someone? He remained calm beforehand, but used all his strength when killing, without a word of nonsense. I like it," Brother Pao kicked Lao Liu aside and lit a cigarette.

Chen Ji laughed bitterly: "You are going to die anyway."

As he spoke, blood continued to flow out of Chen Ji's wound.

"Smoking a cigarette?"

"Don't smoke."

"Do you need help?"

"My phone is with Dr. Liu. It should have recorded evidence of his illegal transactions with my second uncle. Please send it out for me."

Brother Pao didn't expect that this young man would remember to take fair revenge on every enemy before he died...

He sat next to Chen Ji and asked, "Do you have any other wishes?"

"No more," Chen Ji's voice became weaker and weaker. He felt sleepy, but he was reluctant to close his eyes. He just stared out the window, at the crescent moon.

In the ward, the patients slowly stood up and looked over here silently.

Li Qingniao came to Chen Ji, slowly stroked Chen Ji's eyes, and said softly: "Sigh, you are a colt in the gap, a fire in the stone, and a body in the dream. The forty-nine heavens cannot hold you back. Go, go to where you should go."

After saying that, he returned to his idiotic appearance and sat beside the bed, while Pao Ge covered Chen Ji with a black Tang suit and turned to walk towards the darkness outside the ward: "It's a pity that we met too late."

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(My friends, I'm back. Long time no see.)
(Except today, it will be updated at 18: every day.)
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