Chapter 282
Chapter 282
Li Yang’s smile froze at her words.
All the rides?
Damn it!
Qingqing’s miserable experience a few days earlier was still fresh in his mind.
Was she trying to kill him?
Eager to enjoy the show, Zhang Bei glanced at Gu Yue’s icy expression nearby.
He had no authority to speak on matters of the heart.
Quietly watching from the sidelines would do.
But when it came to having fun, as the owner of an amusement park, he could certainly call himself an expert!
“Li Yang hasn’t been busy lately anyway. Take her on all the rides.”
“I… No, but how…”
Faced with those pleading eyes, Li Yang couldn’t bring himself to refuse.
He sighed quietly. “What do you want to try?”
“That one!”
He followed her pointing finger. The three medical students were still screaming their lungs out on the Destiny Ejection Chair.
At that moment, Li Yang felt rather like Heizi after eating shit. Words couldn’t do it justice.
“Take her over. This round’s almost finished anyway.”
Zhang Bei’s words sealed off his final escape route.
Li Yang was only an employee. What could he do?
Under Boss Zhang’s oppression, he could only head toward the Ejection Chair.
The little girl’s choice of ride was perfectly timed.
The Giant Swing had finished its first run, and the psychiatric patients, their faces contorted, were being fed Suxiao Jiuxin Wan.
To maximize the treatment’s effects, Yang Liangcai sent the entire group straight to the Ejection Chair without a second thought.
Conscious or not, it didn’t matter. Once they had taken Suxiao Jiuxin Wan, they would wake up in a few minutes anyway.
Zhang Bei was satisfied. Yang Liangcai was satisfied too.
As for the patients?
Sorry. The attending physician had the final say over every aspect of their psychiatric treatment.
After drifting around for three minutes, Yang Xuan’s soul returned to her body.
She looked to her side in confusion.
Her briefly sluggish brain snapped awake.
Hadn’t she already been on a ride?
Wasn’t it over?
What were they doing?
The safety belt across her waist gave her a clear answer. Over?
Not even close!
Yang Xuan wiped an unidentified liquid from her face.
As the Ejection Chair began to move, she let out her most despairing roar in five years.
“Yang Liangcai, fuck your ancestors!”
Her wretched cry vanished in an instant as the Ejection Chair launched.
Professor Wei looked at the three medical students collapsed on the ground, a nearly imperceptible trace of concern in his eyes.
Students these days were far too fragile. The future of medicine looked bleak!
After watching the psychiatric patients fly skyward, Zhang Bei began chatting with the two mental-health doctors who ought to have retired.
A long illness could make a patient into a doctor. He had never formally studied any of this, but yearly examinations since childhood, along with having Chi Fu as a friend, gave him enough knowledge to hold a conversation with them.
Without their noticing, the conversation turned to a few years earlier, and then to Boss Zhang himself.
Yang Liangcai still wore his customary smile.
“Even after all these years, I still don’t think Xiao Bei’s antisocial personality has gone away.”
Yu Yingzong raised an eyebrow. “On what basis? You said yourself that he scored almost full marks on the psychological tests.”
Yang Liangcai looked at Zhang Bei. “On a path beside a cliff, would you prefer to walk along the inner edge or the outer edge?”
“The outer edge.”
Zhang Bei answered without a moment’s thought.
The question was a novel one, but having seen the entire bank of psychological test questions, he understood it perfectly.
It was really a question about assessing danger.
The inner edge represented a timid personality. The outer edge represented courage and confronting danger directly.
Yu Yingzong considered it carefully and found nothing wrong with Zhang Bei’s answer.
“What’s the problem with that?”
Seeing that he still hadn’t understood, Yang Liangcai tried a simpler approach.
“Who proposed the theory of psychoanalysis?”
“Sigmund Freud. He also established the psychoanalytic method.”
In certain areas, Zhang Bei’s memory was extraordinarily powerful.
He supplied the answer almost instantly.
Yang Liangcai sighed. “By the third year after I met this kid, he could recite every psychological test bank in the world from memory.”
Yu Yingzong was silent for a long time. “Every one?”
Zhang Bei scratched his head. Back then, a bunch of psychiatrists had surrounded him every day.
He had been sick of it too!
To get rid of them for good, he had simply read through the question banks in his spare time.
After careful thought, Yu Yingzong realized that in Yang Liangcai’s position, he would probably have been equally helpless.
Psychiatrists depended largely on a patient’s cooperation.
Even methods like hypnosis required the patient’s trust.
But Zhang Bei…
Forget it. Time to change the subject.
Wisely, Yu Yingzong steered the conversation elsewhere, and they resumed chatting pleasantly.
Meanwhile, in an office far away at Central Hospital, a sallow-faced Director Wu was leafing through medical records.
Suddenly, his gaze settled on a list.
It contained the names of internists who had spent years treating elderly patients.
After lengthy consideration, he called the finance department.
“We haven’t used up that grant from above yet, have we?”
“Not yet. Do you need something, Director Wu?”
“Organize the internists. Have them take part in the experience program.”
“When?”
“This afternoon. I’m leaving for Yanjing then.”
“All right!”
Director Wu hung up, feeling thoroughly cheerful.
Ever since the doctors had begun taking occasional trips around the Amusement Park, his workload had dropped sharply.
The people most prone to psychological problems were now friendly and well-adjusted.
Even disputes between doctors and patients had decreased considerably.
Of course, life might have been even better without that incident in which Xu Kuan drugged him.
By coincidence, Director Wu and Xu Kuan had both been on duty that night.
Who knew where the brat had learned to be so shameless? He had slipped sleeping pills mixed with a powerful laxative into Director Wu’s late-night meal.
By the time he woke up, the entire on-call room was uninhabitable.
That stuff was all over the walls, the bed, and the floor.
Without his mental fortitude, he might have killed himself long ago.
Having learned from that incident, Director Wu now chose days when he would be away on business to send people to the Amusement Park.
As it happened, an upcoming symposium in Yanjing would keep him away for at least a week.
Wasn’t that the perfect time to send those balding middle-aged men off for a round at the amusement park?
Leaving aside the crowd of middle-aged men soon to arrive, Li Yang was currently being driven almost mad on the Destiny Ejection Chair.
As one of the Amusement Park’s very first employees, he considered his ability to withstand pressure among the best of anyone there.
He had endured Boss Zhang’s torment for so long, after all.
But he really hadn’t ridden the Ejection Chair many times.
Even his trips on the Roller Coaster outnumbered them.