Chapter 379: Abnormal

"They're fighting again..." Seeing two psychiatric patients suddenly start fighting in the originally calm and quiet leisure hall, and then, like a contagious disease, it immediately spread and radiated to the surroundings, with other psychiatric patients one after another suddenly becoming manic and violent, brawling with each other, while only a portion of the patients were guided to evacuate under the arrangement and assistance of the medical staff... Jia Yuanzhang, who spent most of his time every day watching surveillance, felt his chest tight and congested again, and hurriedly swallowed a Heart-Protecting Pill to stay safe.

He, a dignified Dean, lived more like a security captain...

Fortunately, the security team and medical staff took action in time, controlling the frenzied patients before the situation deteriorated beyond repair; fortunately, no lives were lost, but those with serious injuries would likely not be able to get out of their hospital beds for half a year.

The culprit behind all of this was Patient No. 8, who was currently staying honestly in his own ward.

Although the patient who started the trouble first had finally regained his sanity after being injected with sedatives and waking up, realizing what he had done, he immediately confessed and pleaded guilty, painfully repenting and saying he shouldn't have done that, he just suddenly couldn't control himself for a moment.

Before being admitted, this patient was a national Go master, born into a family of chess players, with exquisite and formidable chess skills, having won global Go championships many times; his wife was gentle and virtuous, he had both a son and a daughter, and his children were obedient and sensible, all of them being the model "other people's children" in everyone's eyes... All of this sounded quite glorious and happy, yet in reality, the patient's heart was already riddled with holes.

Born into a prestigious family and being the only male descendant of that generation in the clan, the patient had been burdened with high expectations from his family since childhood, groomed to be the next generation's top national master. The patient indeed had great talent, but if one exerts too much effort into something, and it is a group of people you know behind you forcing you to exert that effort, it is like a person squeezed against a wallboard; sooner or later, he will be crushed into pulp.

His life was filled with Go everywhere; even his own wife was like a chess piece arranged by his family, secretly planted for him. His children were also brainwashed by the family one day after they became sensible, making them, who were originally pure and flawless, stand on that dark side as well... Everyone was forcing him to play chess, forcing him to succeed, forcing him not to make mistakes, and he, like a boulder rolling down a high mountain, could not stop. He could not leave the people around him, nor could he leave Go, because once he left and withdrew, he simply did not know how he should live or what else he could do.

He could not make mistakes, he was only allowed to succeed... and so he became a perfectionist, harsh and obsessive, not allowing any slight deviation to appear in his life.

Unless the stone was shattered into pieces, there would never be a day for him to stop.

Finally, in another highly anticipated tournament, he exploded, but he received global attention on another level.

That time, he had already won the global championship, but due to an entertainment event planned by the tournament organizers, he needed to play a game against the latest iteration of artificial intelligence.

As a human, he, a perfectionist, had to compete in chess against a machine that never made mistakes. Fundamentally, this match was a test of who would make a mistake first, because one mistake meant the whole game was lost, beyond recovery.

Human strength has its limits. After two consecutive draws, having experienced high-intensity play, his spirit was finally exhausted. In a moment of carelessness, he made a mistake, played a wrong move, and then it was as if he had returned to his childhood self, being teased and mocked by the adults around him. Watching himself lose pieces one after another, the string in his heart snapped instantly.

He went mad on the spot, stood up abruptly, grabbed the chair behind him and smashed the computer to pieces, then tackled the tournament host who had rushed over to save the situation to the ground, crazily clawing and biting the other person's face. At that moment, in his eyes, everyone had malicious, sinister smiles; they were mocking him for losing, losing because of a low-level mistake he had made.

He was transferred between multiple psychological medical institutions and psychiatric hospitals, and finally came here for treatment.

The diagnosis results for him also came out: depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, etc... like labels stuck on his medical record.

Jia Yuanzhang's hospital was famous throughout the country, and he had great achievements in treating and controlling mental health issues. Under his years of help, the chess-playing patient's condition had been well controlled and had almost never recurred. Until recently, when he started playing chess again, he had not shown any manic or restless emotions, and his mood was very stable.

But today, the chess-playing patient found that the fellow patient playing chess with him was simply crazy. The other party seemed to be deliberately making trouble, not only playing chess in a chaotic way, but also deliberately shifting the placement of the pieces, refusing to place them in the center of the cross, insisting on moving them to one side. Although his mouth was clean, he would always say things that had nothing to do with the chess game or the two of them, appearing to be very disrespectful to this game.

The chess-playing patient endured all of this, constantly telling himself that this was a trial and he had to control himself.

This patience lasted until the person opposite mentioned something about chess, and the chess-playing patient completely exploded.

The person opposite said: "Do you know? Now AI can even learn and imitate the chess paths of human players, and can even do it more perfectly than the person being learned from."

Hearing this, a bad premonition inexplicably welled up in the chess-playing patient's heart.

The person opposite said with a smile: "It is said that that AI perfectly replicated the chess path of you, the Chess Saint, and then that sub-AI that mastered your chess style was called the Chess Saint AI. Then some busybodies were curious, if the Chess Saint AI were to play against the AI that played against you back then, what do you think would happen? And then the Chess Saint AI lost, hahaha..."

The chess-playing patient could no longer restrain himself. Just like those hideous faces he saw back then, he grabbed the chessboard and smashed it on his opponent's face again and again. Watching the falling chessboard shatter, and the other person's head and face being destroyed and bleeding with each blow, his anger could not dissipate even a little bit.

If that face was gone, he would never be able to smile again!

As long as that mouth was torn to shreds, he would never be able to speak again!

Just like that, kill him!

Anger, gratification, excitement...

Afterwards, he was controlled by the security personnel who arrived, injected with sedatives, lost consciousness, and then it reached the present.

The family members and medical staff around the chess-playing patient listened to his ashamed and painful crying, and they also felt sincere sympathy and distress.

Jia Yuanzhang, however, did not say a word; everyone seemed to be blaming the foul-mouthed patient in their hearts.

But who would know that the foul-mouthed patient had been in contact with No. 8 not long ago.

Although the contact time was not long, and it was unclear what exactly they had talked about, it was probably only about five minutes, but No. 8 had already brought enough influence to that foul-mouthed patient.

He made the patient, who was originally stable in temperament, suddenly become uncharacteristically sharp and mean at the moment of playing chess with the chess-playing patient, causing the whole thing to spiral completely out of control.