Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 14 The fire burned the whole heaven
【Blooming Paradise】, the hillside is filled with flowers as far as the eye can see.

Zhuang Jing looked at Gu Ran and Chen Ke: "Should you stay here and watch, or should you study by yourself?"

Chen Ke wanted to stay and watch, but she still said: "I will continue to look for the [Professional Card]."

"I want to stay and take a look." Gu Ran said.

"Hiss—" Wei Hong took a breath, "I feel a lot of pressure when there is an audience."

Gu Ran saw that he was really stressed and was not joking, so he changed his mind and said, "Then I'd better go practice."

"I'm sorry, junior brother." Wei Hong apologized.

Just as Gu Ran was about to speak, Tong Ling said, "Okay, brothers, don't be inseparable. If you say something and he says something, you've wasted all of us's time."

Gu Ran and Wei Hong looked at each other and thought at the same time with a tacit understanding: We haven't even said a long word together.

"You two, come with me." Tong Ling took Chen Ke and Gu Ran to the other side of the hillside.

On the way, she asked: "How are you two progressing?"

"I haven't found the [Professional Card] yet. Gu Ran found it last Friday." Chen Ke replied.

"You just came in-"

"I reported for work last Wednesday and officially started working on Thursday." Gu Ran said.

Tong Ling snorted and continued: "It's only been two days, don't worry, there are only a few talented girls like me who can be found in one day."

Chen Ke laughed twice.

Gu Ranze said to himself:

OK, another young woman over 20 years old who calls herself a girl.

Are girls that good?
Why does everyone like girls?
It's just that they like each other in different ways. They are 'becoming girls', and Gu Ran just wants to chat with girls.

After crossing the ridge, Tong Ling stood still and said: "Chen Ke, you continue to look for him. Gu Ran and I are training here to give him some pointers."

"Ah."

"come on!"

Because there was Tong Ling and there was no cheeky Gu Ran as the vanguard, Chen Ke was embarrassed to use the "rolling search method".

Thinking of the 'rolling to find method', she thought of the accident last Friday, when the two of them unexpectedly looked at each other among the flowers.

She quickly pushed the floating image back into the sea of ​​memory, as if she accidentally picked up a human tooth while picking up shells at the beach.

She searched carefully among the flowers.

Both Zhuang Jing and Tong Ling comforted her and told her not to worry. In fact, there was no need to worry. Psychological counselors usually spend half a month looking for [career cards].

But Gu Ran discovered that in such an atmosphere, "general" has no meaning.

"Have you learned "Iceberg Therapy"?" Tong Ling raised her head slightly and looked at Gu Ran.

She is shorter than Chen Ke. Even if she stands far away, she still has to raise her head to speak.

"I learned it. Teacher Zhuang Jing taught it last week." Gu Ran replied.

Even Su Qing called Teacher Zhuang Jing, but he also changed his name and stopped calling her 'Aunt Jing'.

"Do you know how? Ask me if you don't understand."

"It's no problem for now. When there is a problem, I'll trouble Senior Sister."

"It's okay, okay, don't waste time, let's get started."

The two also started training separately.

Gu Ran recalled "Iceberg Therapy" in his mind. The scene from last Friday reappeared in his mind, and Zhuang Jing seemed to explain it to him again.

"The second layer is the changing sea, and my consciousness is the iceberg. I have to stand firm on the sea, only one-eighth of it is exposed, and gaze at the first layer of dreams."

Gu Ran started to fall asleep.

Consciousness falls, and then "knows the dream" and wakes up in the second level of dreamland.

Just because the consciousness of falling is not enough, the dream is chaotic.

In the chaos, the cranked staff, symbolizing the Shepherd, emitted a faint light, looming.

--not enough.

Gu Ran's dream body split into two thought at the same time.

Consciousness continues to fall, like gravel in an hourglass, slowly falling from the first level of dreamland to the second level of dreamland.

This process is difficult. While I feel sleepy, I have to keep myself half asleep and half awake.

'Drowsiness is unstoppable. Even if you have a strong will and external stimulation, you will eventually be captured by sleep, just like a person who is bound to die. '

Gu Ran recalled the psychiatrist's knowledge.

In his mind, teachers appeared one after another except Zhuang Jing.

'Psychological trauma, don't resist it, don't escape it. If you can't resist it, you can't escape it, but face it and make the problem a part of your life - in the future, when you get the [Professor Card] and control the [Monster], This basic theory will also be used'

Like an open-book exam, Gu Ran frantically searched for the answer in his mind.

The words the teacher said and the books he read became his goals.

Maybe a flash of inspiration is needed?
No, what problem is he facing?Mastering the [Professional Card] is just the threshold for a psychologist. If the experience summarized by previous generations cannot even solve this problem, what is the point of experience?
All it takes is the right arrangement and combination, and the trick is definitely there.

Gu Ran found a solution and began to try it, holding the cranked staff in [Blooming Heaven].

The cranked staff was in his hand.

At the same time, he opened his eyes hard, but his eyelids fell unshakably from time to time as if the second hand was moving, and he felt sleepy.

Thinking becomes uncontrollable.

Sleepy.

'I'm so sleepy, but my fatal flaw is that I don't like to refuse. I just put on a hat and go out.'

Inexplicable lyrics pop up in my mind for no apparent reason.

Thinking is divergent.

"Hey!"

Gu Ran suddenly woke up, and the cranked wooden staff disappeared from his hand.

Tong Ling's smiling face came into view: "It's August [-]th, a painful Monday; the location is Blooming Heaven; I am Tong Ling, you are Gu Ran, you are practicing to master [Professional Card Shepherd]."

Gu Ran exhaled and took a new breath. His mind was much clearer, as if the breath in his body before was hypnotic gas.

He said: "Thank you, senior sister."

"It's okay." After a pause, Tong Ling said, "You look cute when you doze off."

"This is the first time I've heard of this." Gu Ran sighed helplessly, "I'm so handsome that I have no blind spots and I'm impeccable."

"Haha!" Tong Ling laughed, "Are you men so narcissistic? Wei Hong is the same. He says he is handsome all day long and spends as much time looking at himself in the mirror in the office as we do!"

You women keep saying that you are a girl all day long. You are not familiar with it yet. Gu Ran would not dare to say this.

He pretended to be serious: "Maybe this is what Cao Cao said, 'Heroes all over the world see the same thing.'"

This sentence is obviously not as funny as the previous sentence. It is like eating a fruit platter, eating the sweetest pineapple first, then eating the watermelon, which is not so sweet. Tong Ling's smile is a little less.

"Okay, go ahead." She chuckled.

Gu Ran was about to continue.

At this time, raging fire rushed from the opposite side of the hillside like a tide, and the boundless sea of ​​fiery red roared and rolled.

The flowers withered, Gu Ran's whole body was burning, the child in front of her turned into a pillar of fire, and everything was burning.

boom!
A wall appeared behind Tong Ling. It was engraved with abstract paintings and gibberish-like text. Several of the lines lit up, outlining a clear picture among the chaos.

A pair of birds.

Bird blinked at Gu Ran, and the next moment, he broke free from the wall.

The simple lines quickly turned into flesh and made a living cry.

One was black and had scissor-like tail feathers. It was a swallow. The other bird was unknown to him.

Two birds, the swallow landed on Tong Ling's shoulder, protecting her and Gu Ran in the flames, while the other flew towards Chen Ke in the distance.

"The labor and swallows will fly apart." Tong Ling whispered, as if she was remembering something, and her tone was a little emotional.

Gu Ran also knew the name of another bird: shrike.

Shrikes fly in the east and swallows fly in the west.

Is it from a patient suffering from mental illness due to the separation of relatives or loved ones?
"Is this Senior Sister's monster?" Gu Ran asked.

"Yeah." Tong Ling nodded.

Chen Ke ran from a distance, and when she was still ten meters away, the shrike actually left her.In the terrifying fire, Chen Ke's dream body quickly faded.

This is [Blooming Paradise], it’s not the patient’s psychological shadow, it doesn’t matter if he dies, it’s like having a nightmare of being burned to death, but don’t even think about training today.

"Go back quickly!" Tong Ling shouted.

Chen Ke quickly retreated, and the shrike who had gone away fell back onto her thin shoulders.

Ten meters away, amidst the sound of blazing fire, Tong Ling shouted to explain: "The shrike and the swallow cannot be together! And there must be someone around both birds!"

Chen Ke also shouted: "Did Senior Brother Wei Hong set the fire?"

"I'm so tired, junior brother, I said, you come and shout." Tong Ling said.

Gu Ran: "."

Then, Gu Ran shouted: "Senior Sister Tong Ling said! Senior Brother Wei Hong is subduing [Bonfire]! This is caused by [Bonfire] riots!"

"I understand! What should we do!"

"You can keep looking! The [Professor Card] is hidden in the burnt flowers!"

"I know! Thank you, Senior Sister Tong Ling!" After a pause, "Thank you too, Senior Brother Gu Ran!"

Tong Ling laughed so hard that her stomach hurt, and the swallow couldn't stand firmly on her shoulders, as if she was practicing the independence of the golden rooster.

"You..." she gasped, "are you acting? Hahaha!"

"It's not because of you, senior sister." After spending a short time together, the distance between Gu Ran and her also shortened, and he dared to talk freely.

Tong Ling laughed for a while longer, then wiped away her tears and asked, "Why did she call you Senior Brother Gu Ran?"

"She holds a grudge."

"Chen Ke? Holding a grudge? It doesn't look like that."

Chen Ke looks quiet and beautiful, with a girlish and mature temperament. He is a member of the opposite sex that people can't help but feel fond of, and he will not hold grudges no matter how he looks at her.

"Some people look good on the outside, but how dark they are on the inside." Gu Ran can take Gu Ran as an example.

Su Qing is fine too.

Tong Ling suddenly asked: "You two have a story?"

"what?"

He heard it and asked only to express surprise and denial.

"Even if there is no story, there will be stories sooner or later about such things as 'senior brothers' and 'grudges' between men and women."

Tong Ling looked at Gu Ran and continued: "Gu Ran, if you really like Chen Ke and are interested in her, I fully support you, but if you are not interested in her, don't get too close. After all, she has a boyfriend."

"Sister Tong, don't worry."

"Also, don't just say 'Don't worry' to women casually. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Baoyu said 'Don't worry' to Lin Daiyu."

"Senior sister, I didn't mean to curse you to death, really, I swear."

"Have you read "A Dream of Red Mansions" seriously?!"

"I have read the original text specifically about Jia Baoyu and Xiren." Gu Ran raised his chest and raised his head, as proud as if he had read "Spring and Autumn".

"." Tong Ling knew that she had been tricked by her junior brother.

I thought it was so pure.

But how can a handsome guy be pure?

They have the calmness that women have actively pursued. This kind of self-confidence makes them have high emotional intelligence in matters between men and women - in fact, it is difficult to make mistakes, and women will basically have a good impression of them.

On the contrary, if a beautiful woman has that special smile when talking to a man, it means that she also has the ease to control a man.

Fortunately, Tong Ling only saw calmness in Gu Ran, not dissoluteness.

Probably still a virgin.

The 'virginized' Gu Ran asked: "Senior sister, can I still continue studying?"

"If it doesn't work, Teacher Zhuang Jing won't let you in."

Gu Ran continued to learn "Iceberg Therapy" and only tried it once today, so he had to hurry up.

He began to fall asleep.

Consciousness falls, and the second layer of dreams is born.

Different from the previous chaos, perhaps because [Blooming Heaven] is burning with fire, the second layer of dreams also has flames.

Gu Ran carefully avoided these flames and continued to grasp the balance of consciousness, adding and subtracting weights on the scale of the two levels of dreams.

"call!"

The flames of the second dreamland suddenly burst into flames.

The scorching flames, like a big snake wrapping around its prey, attacked Gu Ran.

Before the flames came close, Gu Ran's thoughts were confused, strange thoughts burst out in his heart, and various monsters were born in the dream, which instantly turned into a purgatory.

Gu Ran suddenly woke up.

It was still Tong Ling's smiling face.

For a moment, Gu Ran suspected that "heaven is on fire" and "she and Chen Ke shouted to each other" were all dreams like "A Dream of Red Mansions".

"It's August [-]th, and the paradise is on fire. I talked to you about Lin Daiyu, and your second attempt at "Iceberg Therapy" failed."

Gu Ran woke up and completely understood the difference between the second dream and the first dream.

Only then did he see a hint of schadenfreude in Tong Ling's smile.

"Senior sister, have you guessed that I would be frightened awake by the flames?" he tried to ask.

"Shh!" Tong Ling made a low-pitched gesture, "Wait until Chen Ke finds the [Professional Card] and let her be scared again."

"Senior sister, were you the first one to be frightened?"

"Sisters and sisters from the same discipline, we share the blessings." Tong Ling puffed out her chest, which could only be considered to be slightly breasted at best.

Gu Ran had nothing to say. He was indeed a genius who found the [Professional Card] on the first day. His mind was as lively as the sunshine, rainbow, and white horse.

"Sister, what should we do now?" he asked.

Tong Ling became serious: "You have to remember, whether it's your career card, the blooming heaven, or the bonfire, they are all dreams. They must not be taken seriously. If they are, you will be mentally ill."

Gu Ran nodded.

Falls are dangerous.

So far, there is only one person who has truly confirmed the fall and return, Dante, who later wrote the Divine Comedy.

"You can try "Fire Therapy" and imagine that there is a small fire in your heart. As long as the fire in your heart is stable, the fire from the outside world cannot burn you." Tong Ling added.

Gu Ran tried again.

On the second level of the dream, the fire python was still winding. The dream was like a can, filled with pythons, and he hid in the last corner.

Sweating profusely, but still erect and unable to wake up.

The fire in my heart gradually stabilized, the fire python disappeared, and those strange dream monsters also disappeared.

There were no further incidents after that, and the one-hour training passed quickly.

Chen Ke didn't find the [Professional Card], Gu Ran didn't master the [Shepherd], and Wei Hong failed to conquer the [Bonfire].

Wei Hong was a little discouraged.

Lu Lu will be operated on this week. If there is a [Bonfire], his role will be improved, and the difficulty and risk of the operation will be reduced.

"Okay." Zhuang Jing clapped her hands and said, "Gu Ran and Chen Ke, you two will continue tomorrow. Let's all get busy."

You can only lucid dream for a maximum of one hour a day, otherwise it will affect your subsequent work efficiency.

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"Private Diary": On August [-], I saw two monsters: [Bonfire] and [Lao Yan Flying Together].

The former is powerful, while the latter has special effects and is enviable.

I was told this by Senior Sister Tong Ling today. I think, in the final analysis, it was me who took the initiative to call Junior Sister Chen Ke the cause.

learn a lesson.

Alas, I’m so tired. I have to be so cautious about what I say. It’s okay if this handsome guy doesn’t do it!

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"Doctor's Diary": On August [-]th, the [Monster] is indeed powerful, but it also has an obvious dangerous aura, so be cautious.

Don't fall, not everyone can come back alive to write "Divine Comedy 2".

(End of this chapter)