Chapter 1699: Facts and Truth (Things before the New Year are done)

Is it normal to eat hot pot in the reception room?

It is normal for Chitanda to have doubts about this, but seeing that Yanami and Duanmu Huai both looked as if it was a matter of course, she couldn't say anything.

"Well, this meat is delicious! Is this the so-called Wagyu?"

"I don't know, I just bought it casually."

"It's great, our family can only enjoy this luxury when the supermarket has a big sale..."

Looking at the two people eating hot pot leisurely in front of her, Chitanda didn't know what to do, and Yanami smiled and handed Chitanda a plate of meat.

"Come on, Eru, this is delicious."

"Ah, um, thank you..."

To be honest, Chitanda was very worried about what would happen if someone in the hospital found out about eating hot pot here. Whether it was a patient or a doctor, they would be very angry when they saw this situation. However, Duanmu Huai and Yanajian's reaction of being indifferent to others made Chitanda very confused. After all, people are like this. When you see others doing things that they shouldn't do here as if nothing happened, and they look righteous, you will first doubt whether there is something wrong with your brain.

Chitanda is like this now.

"By the way, Chitanda."

Just as she started to taste the hot pot, Duanmu Huai spoke to her casually.

"Do you think we are looking for facts here? Or the truth?"

"Hey? Is there a difference between the two?"

Chitanda was a little surprised by Duanmu Huai's question.

"Of course there is a difference."

Duanmu Huai took a sip of his drink and snapped his fingers at Yanajian.

"Yanajian, tell me the story about this mansion again."

"Oh, okay, um..."

Yanajian ate a piece of beef and tilted his head to recall it.

"This mental hospital suddenly caught fire one day. When people around found out, they immediately called the fire department. Firefighters came here to put out the fire, and then found bodies inside. According to the police's appraisal, the doctors and patients inside seemed to have died in a fight. Because there were no survivors or witnesses, no one knew what happened."

"That's it."

Duanmu Huai nodded and looked at Chitanda again.

"Do you understand?"

"………………………?"

To be honest, Chitanda didn't understand at all.

"The facts refer to what happened here, and the truth refers to why it happened."

Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"With the current madness of the mental hospital, it is almost impossible for us to know the latter, but it is very easy to know the former."

"Ah, I understand!"

After eating, Yanaijian's IQ will double, and it is the same now.

"As long as we stay here and continue to watch, we will know why this place caught fire, right?"

"That's right."

Duanmu Huai nodded.

"The truth is not important. You see, just like the police arrested a criminal, found the criminal's fingerprints on the murder weapon, and he had no alibi, and there was his DNA residue at the scene, then it can be proved that he killed the victim. But why did he kill the victim? Maybe the criminal won't tell us, we will never know, but is it important? No, it's not important. What's important is to find the criminal and arrest him."

"Wow... I still think things shouldn't be like this."

Chitanda was still a little awkward, while Yanami laughed.

"Ah, I can understand, just like reading a detective novel, if the motive for the crime is not mentioned at the end, I always feel that something is missing."

"That's right."

Duanmu Huai nodded.

"Doesn't this often happen in mystery novels? The police arrested someone based on clues at the scene, and then the detective discovered that they might have arrested the wrong person, so they started a rescue operation. It seems that the police are incompetent, but the problem is that this is the police's duty. Evidence, testimony, and witnesses, as long as these things are there, the criminal can be locked. As for the motive for the murder, we can only ask about it later."

"But the motive may also be false, it may be due to some trivial matter, or it may be simply made up. The word truth has different interpretations in different contexts. For example, in this incident, what is the truth? Who attacked whom? Or who attacked whom for what reason?"

"Wu........."

Faced with Duanmu Huai's puzzle that seemed to be talking in circles, even Yanaijian, who had the bonus of food, frowned and thought about it, not to mention Chitanda.

"Generally speaking, it should be the patient who attacked the doctor."

After a moment, Yanaijian gave his answer.

"Because the doctor locked them up in the ward, didn't he? The patient must have resented the doctor, so he attacked him."

"Is that what you think?"

"No, I saw this statement when I was reading it online. It said that mental treatment at that time was not formal, and doctors often gave patients inhumane corporal punishment, so patients hated the doctors, killed them, and then turned into bloodthirsty undeads, etc...."

I see.

"But it's also very convincing, isn't it?"

Indeed, in general, when people hear a story, they will subconsciously sympathize with the weak. In mental hospitals, patients are naturally weak compared to doctors. It is even lower than ordinary patients, because doctors can restrict or imprisonment on the grounds of violent impulse or dangerous behavior. Faced with this behavior, patients could not even resist.

"I also have a guess."

Duanmuhuai ate the last bite of meat and leaned comfortably on the sofa.

"Do you think the normal boundary is?"

"…………………………"? "

"What is a normal person, a normal life? For example, I asked you, do you think you are a normal high school girl?"

"…………………………"? "

Baya saw and Qianqian Tian glanced at each other.

"Should be counted?"

"Reason?"

"We all go to class every day, participate in community activities, and also go out to play with friends?"

"So you mean, don't go to class well, do not participate in community activities, and people who have no friends will not be a normal high school girl?"

"Hmm .............. This is ..."

Baya saw a little bit of time without knowing how to answer.

"Reason?"

"Maybe because ... everyone does this?"

"Yes."

Duanmuhuai made a finger.

"What is normal definition? What is normal? Most people's consensus? Or, as you said, everyone does this. Then I ask you, if you go to a school, most of the students in the school are most I love learning, do not participate in club activities, I am reading and writing homework from 8 am to eight pm. Will you be the same as them? Or do you still insist on yourself? "

There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!

"I……………"

Baya saw and Qianqian Tian glanced at each other.

"It should be the same as them, after all, if everyone does not participate in community activities ..."

"So, what is the normal standard at that time?"

"Woo ..."

"Okay, it's a bit far away. Back to this hospital, what do you think is the normal standard here?"

"? ??"

"You think the patients here are patients, doctors are normal people, right?"

"Isn't it?"

Thousands of fields seemed to grab the hidden meaning in Duanmu Huai's words, staring at him with wide eyes.

"Yes, think about it, if you are a doctor, you are together with a group of nonsense mental patients all day, for example, ... um, they treat yourself as a teapot, think you are a tea cup, and you want to give it every day. You are full of tea ""

"Hey .............. Little loves you the topic is a bit inferior?"

Baya saw a word, and Duanmuhuai smiled.

"But you will definitely not treat yourself as a tea cup."

"This is of course."

"But if you are with them every day, they have always regarded you as a tea cup, will you really treat yourself as a tea cup in the end?"

"……………………"

"assimilation."

Duanmu Huai pointed at the house in front of him.

"You all have seen it. This place is inaccessible and far away from human smoke. After the doctors are off work, it is impossible to get in touch with normal people. And you should also notice that many of those mental patients are quite confusing. This kind of guy is in contact with and cannot return to normal society, so do you think you can still understand where the normal limit is? "

".......... So, Xiao Ai, you mean, these doctors are real doctors, but they have been with mental patients for too long, so they become abnormal?"

Thousands of fields, the more I think it is incredible.

"But ... they are a doctor, but they are professional!"

"It is not a strange thing that the doctor is not self -medical. The respiratory doctor smokes less? Do they not know that smoking is harmful to health? The lungs they have seen because of smoking and carcinogenic deaths are more than the horror movies we have watched. . If you are with these mental patients 24 hours a day and live for a year or two, can you guarantee that you are still normal?

"……………"

Thousands of Tianda wanted to say yes, but when she thought of those mental patients who said to her as ambiguous and true and false, she was not confident.

These people are too capable, and the logic is very smooth. I feel reasonable so much! What is even more scary is that you can't tell which one he compiled and which one he said seriously.

"Emotions can be contagious, sad, and angry. You also know that doctors and nurse will wear masks, gloves, and protective clothing in order to prevent them from being transmitted by patients. Relying on the protective service can solve the problem.

Duanmu Huai took another sip of cola, raised his head and looked at the hanging paintings on the wall of the living room in front of him. It was a pair of oily paintings, with devils and angels painted on it. Among them, the devil is located below the oil painting. They stretched out their hands and tried to grab the angel, while the angel opened the white wings and reached out to the demon at the same time, as if to save them, but the inner side of the angel's white wing became turned into The dark roots.

"Psychologists are also prone to psychological problems, because mental infections are difficult to isolate and prevent with physical means, so you can imagine the situation here. Patients infect each other, then infect doctors, and then doctors infect each other... However, none of them are aware of it..."

"Wow... It feels a bit scary."

"By the way, we are the same. Do you think normal people would eat hot pot here?"

"Huh? Probably not!"

Chitanda was shocked, but Yanami was very calm.

"But the hot pot is delicious?"

"Xingcai, I don't think it's a question of whether it tastes good or not..."

"But it tastes good, right?"

"This... is delicious..."

Chitanda also lost in front of Yanami.

"It's delicious!"

"Of course, it doesn't matter."

Duanmu Huai yawned.

"This is the memory of the dead, so we don't need to do anything at all."

"What does this mean?"

"It means that they will take the initiative to tell us what happened."

As Duanmu Huai's voice fell, suddenly, a piercing scream suddenly sounded from outside the door.

That's all about the New Year. I'll talk about the rest after the New Year. I'll resume updating from today. As the saying goes, no one knows which will come first, tomorrow or an accident, but only those who have experienced it personally will have a personal experience. I'm still suffering now, because I have to hide it from my grandma until after the New Year. Seeing her happy every day, I just feel a lot of mental pressure. By the way, I originally had anxiety disorder, and I have been controlling it with medication. It has been much better, but now it has relapsed. It's really a headache. That's it. Everyone, please complain more about the book, and I'll be happier. That's it. The rest will be discussed after the New Year.