Trembling At A High Altitude

Chapter 975

"You're here to investigate the disappearance?"

One of the two women, a middle-aged woman, came over and looked at Li Teng and the others with hostility.

"Yes, we are also acting under orders. Everything can be discussed." Fang Jianguo said to the middle-aged woman with a smile on his face.

"We have submitted the report. Are you still dissatisfied? Do you think we lied? We must arrange for someone to come and investigate?" The middle-aged woman continued to vent her dissatisfaction.

"Ahem, you know, we are acting under orders and have to come. We are just going through the motions. We will leave in three days and will not deliberately embarrass you." Fang Jianguo continued to laugh, trying to make the other party put it down. Be wary of them.

After all, they have to live here for three days and cannot leave within three days. If these people are hostile to them, it is not a good thing in Fang Jianguo's opinion.

Although he had a fight with Mei Qiugui just now, which exposed his impulsive personality, he also understands that the strong dragon will not suppress the local snake. The people in this mental hospital are definitely not easy to mess with, so it is better to be polite. .

"I would like to advise you to leave as soon as possible! Otherwise, when you want to leave, you may not be able to leave!" The middle-aged woman continued to drive the four people away.

"Well, since they said they came here under orders, it makes no sense for you to drive them away like this."

The man with gray hair and a white coat behind the middle-aged woman coughed a few times, opened his mouth, and walked to the front.

"Dean, is this kind of investigation meaningful? It's better to let them return the way they came while it's still dark!" The middle-aged woman said a few words to the gray-haired man in the white coat.

"Young man, tell the truth to the old man, why are you here?"

The old man in a white coat, known as the dean, walked up to the four people and looked at them carefully, especially at Mei Qiugui's eyes and half of Fang Jianguo's swollen face.

In addition, there was He Siying standing nearby with an angry face and rolling her eyes.

Except that the burly man was normal, the other two men and one woman were a little strange.

Is this what normal investigators are like? These four people were obviously having internal conflicts and did not have the calm temperament that investigators should have.

"We were really sent here to conduct an investigation. The results of the investigation are not important. What is important is that the three of us must stay in the hospital to complete the tasks assigned above." Fang Jianguo tried his best to keep his posture low.

The meaning in his words is already obvious. Don't be hostile to us. We are just four people sitting in an office and dawdling around. Even if there is any problem with your mental hospital, it has nothing to do with us. As long as we stay there for three days to eat, Just finish it in these three days.

"Okay, in order to facilitate your investigation, the old man will not do anything else these days and will stay with you the whole time." The dean seemed to understand what Fang Jianguo meant and kept them.

"Dean! You are so busy, and you still accompany them the whole time? And these people...are really inappropriate! Think about this again. I don't think they are good people, so let's get rid of them!" The young woman continued to talk to the dean, seemingly determined to drive away Li Teng and others.

Under normal circumstances, Li Teng and others would definitely be dissatisfied with the middle-aged woman's attitude.

He did not welcome them, spoke harshly, and kept driving them away.

But Li Teng, who has watched and participated in many horror movies, doesn't think so.

Perhaps this middle-aged woman is the only one in this mental hospital who is normal and a good person.

She drove them away because she didn't want them to enter the horrible place of the mental hospital. She thought they would die here. If she didn't want them to die, driving them away was the best choice.

Therefore, you can pay attention to the movements of this middle-aged woman in the future. She may be able to get the most critical clues to complete the mission and leave alive.

"Why do we have to drive them away? They are here to help us solve the problem. We should receive them well and stop saying those rude words." The dean has decided to keep them and stopped the middle-aged woman from continuing.

"Oh, Dean..." The middle-aged woman seemed disappointed, but the Dean had already talked about this, so she couldn't say anything else.

Li Teng felt that the dean was not a good person.

Under normal circumstances, the directors of mental hospitals are BOSS-level beings. Even if they are not, they are BOSS's puppets and have full control of the entire mental hospital on behalf of BOSS.

Therefore, this person must be wary.

It is conceivable that the next three days will be extremely terrifying and difficult.

At the end of the three days, their watches will prompt them with the coordinates of the rescue helicopter.

Li Teng estimated that the helicopter must be far away from the mental hospital.

It is very likely that you have to go through the entire mountain road. Even if you survive three days, if you want to escape from the mental hospital to the rescue point, the journey will be extremely dangerous.

He didn't know much about this mental hospital yet, so Li Teng couldn't say he had any clue. For the time being, he could only take one step at a time.

Li Teng recalled what the mother-in-law at the foot of the mountain said earlier:

1. What the eyes see may not be true; 2. What the ears hear is likely to be a lie; 3. The power of hatred can never be greater than understanding; 4. The truth is always only in the hands of a few people.

Is there any mystery hidden in these four sentences that my mother-in-law said?

It's impossible for the script to arrange for a mother-in-law to be there for no reason and then say a few boring words to them, right?

As my mother-in-law, I used to be a nurse here and worked in a mental hospital for decades.

She should know a lot of unknown things.

My mother-in-law's face was severely burned. Does that mean there was a fire in the mental hospital?

The mother-in-law also left for this reason, but why was she unwilling to stay away from the mental hospital, but chose to live in a board house at the foot of the mental hospital?

Is it because she can't leave, or is it for some other reason?

The answers to these puzzles require Li Teng to investigate bit by bit to solve them.

Fire may be a starting point.

…

"Old man, I am the director of this mental hospital. You can call me Director Zhao."

The old man in the white coat led Li Teng and the others to the mental hospital, introducing himself to them as they walked.

"Is there water and electricity here? What do you use to make a fire for cooking?" He Siying asked Dean Zhao.

Mei Qiugui glared at He Siying. The supporting character died because he talked too much. Why does his wife like to talk so much? Do you want to be the first to die? There is simply nothing that can be done against this brainless woman.

He Siying noticed that Mei Qiugui was glaring at her, but she did not stop asking questions because of this, but gave Mei Qiugui a sideways look.

"We use gasoline to generate electricity, as well as solar power and wind power. Basically, the electricity is enough. The water is taken from the mountain spring and pumped into the water tower by a pump for use by the entire hospital.

Chapter 976

"For cooking, we naturally use local materials from the mountains. There used to be a coal mine in the mountains, but it is now abandoned, but there are still a lot of briquettes and cinders left behind. Every once in a while, we will arrange for people to transport briquettes to the coal mine. Or dig cinders back to make briquettes and burn them." Dean Zhao answered He Siying.

Upon hearing the word 'briquettes', Mei Qiugui's face changed again and again, and she seemed a little unhappy, but Dean Zhao was obviously not targeting him, so Mei Qiugui had no reason to get angry.

"Coal briquettes are very expensive outside, right? I didn't expect them to be so cheap here. They are everywhere and cost nothing." Fang Jianguo found a good opportunity to scold Mei Qiugui, so he talked to Dean Zhao about the briquettes without any courtesy. Questions were chatted.

"Few people burn briquettes now, and no one digs coal to make briquettes. That's why briquettes are expensive. Although the briquettes we use cost nothing, they are still very labor-intensive. After all, there are so many people in the hospital, and burning coal is The amount of coal used is also very large, but fortunately the coal mine has large reserves, so it can be used for decades without any problem."

Dean Zhao answered Fang Jianguo. He obviously did not understand the meaning of the words "briquets" and "cheap" in Fang Jianguo's mouth.

Mei Qiugui glared at Fang Jianguo fiercely. He knew that Fang Jianguo was scolding him in a different way, but now was not the right time to have an attack.

"Coward!" He Siying heard Mei Qiugui talk about the fight with Fang Jianguo when she was at the foot of the mountain. She was angry at the time, so Mei Qiugui followed her and said.

She knew that people talking about briquettes would make Mei Qiugui very angry, and she also heard that Fang Jianguo was scolding Mei Qiugui, but Mei Qiugui didn't say a word. He Siying was unhappy with Mei Qiugui, so she deliberately used words to slander him. .

An unknown fire rose from Mei Qiugui's chest. In the end, he did not have an attack and decided to endure the anger first and settle the score with Fang Jianguo later.

"We have to worship the God of Fire tomorrow, wouldn't it be nice if there were outsiders here?" The young woman who had been silent before spoke and whispered a few words to Dean Zhao.

Although it was a whisper, Li Teng and others could still hear it.

"What's this? It's not a shameful thing." Dean Zhao looked unconcerned.

When Li Teng heard the word 'Vulcan', he thought of his mother-in-law at the foot of the mountain, and felt that there must be a certain connection between the two.

There must have been disasters related to 'fire' in this mental hospital.

And it is likely to be the key clue that triggered these disappearances.

…

A group of four people followed Dean Zhao into a building in the mental hospital.

Then he entered a room in the building.

This room is the dean's office.

Although the mental hospital looks shabby on the outside, the interior of the director's office is still very neat.

After entering the dean's office, dean Zhao asked the young woman to pour tea for the four of them, and then gave an excuse to send the middle-aged woman and the young woman away.

After the middle-aged woman and the young woman left, Dean Zhao walked over and closed the office door in person, and then sat down across from everyone.

"Show me your letters of introduction and IDs." Dean Zhao proposed to the four of them.

The four of them took out the letters of introduction and certificates prepared for them by the prison and handed them to Dean Zhao.

"Fang Jianguo, is that you? Hmm, Li Teng, Mei Qiugui, He Siying..."

Dean Zhao took the certificates and compared the four people one by one, as if he wanted to remember their names and appearances and match them one by one.

"Do you have anything to ask me?" Dean Zhao read the letter of introduction and returned the certificates to everyone.

"Actually, I have nothing to ask. If you are willing to tell us something, we will listen." Fang Jianguo looked at Dean Zhao with a harmless smile.

"I know you still have some things you want to ask, so feel free to ask." Dean Zhao grinned.

"What happened to the mother-in-law who was burned by the fire at the foot of the mountain? She said she was a nurse here and had been working for decades. Why did she leave? But she didn't go far and lived alone in a wooden house at the foot of the mountain?" Li Teng saw that the other three people seemed to be staying out of the matter, so he had no choice but to ask some questions himself.

"The mother-in-law who was burned by the fire...are you talking about Tian Qinzhi? She turned out to be the head nurse here. I didn't drive her away. She insisted on leaving. Two months ago, she suddenly said that she didn't want to live here. Here, I couldn't keep her, but later I found out that she hadn't gone far, and was living in a board house built by former workers at the foot of the mountain. Specifically why she didn't want to live here, and went to live at the foot of the mountain by herself. In fact, I'm not very good at it either. clear."

Dean Zhao answered Li Teng.

"Why did she get burned by the fire? The lady we were traveling with was quite frightened." Li Teng asked pretending to be casual, and then observed the subtle changes in Dean Zhao's expression.

The corner of Dean Zhao's mouth seemed to twitch imperceptibly, but he immediately covered it up with a smile.

"It was last winter. She thought the room was too cold and burned a brazier. However, she accidentally ignited the mosquito net at night and burned herself. When using fire in the room in winter, you must be careful, otherwise it will appear Disaster." Dean Zhao explained to Li Teng.

Based on facial expression and hand and foot movement management analysis, Li Teng concluded that Dean Zhao must be lying.

The head nurse named Tian Qinzhi should be related to worshiping the God of Fire, right?

Why do mental hospitals worship the god of fire?

"You are going to worship the God of Fire tomorrow? Can you let us visit?"

Just when Li Teng wanted to ask about Vulcan, He Siying suddenly interrupted and asked Dean Zhao.

Li Teng simply stayed silent and listened to Dean Zhao's answer.

At this moment, the door to the dean's office was suddenly pushed open.

Two strong men in white coats broke in.

"Dean! I heard from Suqin and the others that you welcomed a bunch of random people in? When did this happen? How can you let outsiders in?" As soon as a strong man rushed in, he loudly questioned Dean Zhao. .

"I'm talking about something, when will you learn the basic etiquette? Can't you learn to knock on the door when you enter my office?" Dean Zhao looked very unhappy.

"Don't talk about those things that are there or not. We are responsible for the security of the mental hospital. These unknown outsiders have come in. What if they are a group of bad guys with ulterior motives, or investigators disguised as escapees from prison? How can we ensure the safety of the hospital?" The strong man continued to question loudly.

"We are all good people, how could we be disguised as escapees from prison? And we will only stay here for three days. We will never go anywhere you don't let us go. We will leave on our own after three days." Fang Jianguo quickly laughed. explain.

"Someone come quickly! It's on fire!"

Someone suddenly shouted outside.