The Asylum of All Worlds

Chapter 65 Barney
Baltimore Psychiatric Retention Center.

I'm sorry that our eyes returned to this place again, because no matter how beautiful the building is, it still can't hide the fact that this place is a gloomy place.After all, no one likes mental illness, and no one likes criminals, and no one likes a place full of mentally ill criminals.

Hmm. This sentence is a bit absolute, because there are still some people who like this kind of place.

Like our nurse Barney.

Barney was a good boy, really a good boy.

He is 38 years old, and like everyone here, he has no car, no house, and no girlfriend, but he is a little different from you in that he is strong, polite, serious in his work, strong in character, sincere in dealing with others, and never Speaking ill of others behind their backs, in fact, he never speaks in front of others.

Because he is dumb.

Anyway, he has many advantages, so now let's pick a simple one. For example, "strong personality".It was easy to see that he was alive after all.

Yes, he did not commit suicide, which is enough to prove his strength.

Because in the past 30 years, his experience has been extremely exciting. After he was born, the first interaction from his family he enjoyed was domestic violence. His father was a dismissed worker who drank alcohol all day long. Just beat Barney, even when he was sober, just because Barney was born dumb.

Later, when he was 10 years old, his mother finally summoned up the courage to divorce his father. The court mercifully awarded Barney's custody to his mother, and when he was 10 years and three months old, his mother died. Because of a car accident, Barney spent almost all of the last 20 years with his father.

He was bullied on campus when he was in school, dropped out of school early to find a job, and was beaten at home like three meals a day. He lived hard until he was 20 years old. When he finally reached the size that his father could not beat him, he had to He worked even harder to pay off his gambling debts, and when he was 35 years old, the gambling debts were finally paid off, and his father suffered from a whole body of diseases because of obesity.

And because his father has never had any work for decades, and he has never paid taxes at all, so when a dying old man is lying in the hospital, the law once again throws high medical expenses at the hospital. on Barney's head.

Fortunately, at this time, Barney got a job as a nurse at the 'Baltimore Mental Crime Asylum Center', so he was grateful for it, after all, this job allowed him to barely continue to live.

Anyway, like this, his 200-pound father happily lay on the hospital bed for three years, and finally died under the gaze of the pretty little nurse.

Look, if you feel that your life is very unsatisfactory, then Barney is your role model. He has devoted his whole life to a man who tortured him. Until the end, he never scolded or even refuted that man once, and these tragic He also has no way to confide in others about his experiences, who made him dumb.

So it can only be kept in the bottom of my heart until it breaks out or dies.

Oh, by the way, Barney is not a name, who would call such a strange name.

[Barney] is just a kind code name, because he can't speak, so he can only whine out simple pronunciations like "bar" or "ne", so other colleagues here are also used to calling him Barney directly .

And his real name is
【Michael Lemo】

After dinner, the Baltimore Asylum Center was, as usual, silent and gloomy.

But I don't know what happened recently. In short, everyone can see that Barney is in a good mood these days.He always has a faint smile on his face, nodding his head to greet every colleague passing by, and sometimes, when passing by his lounge, people can hear him humming to himself from inside.

It was as if he was gradually changing from a cold, boring gourd to a warm and polite gentleman.

After get off work, everyone left, only some doctors and guards on duty remained.

But Barney has no home, his home has already been mortgaged by his father as a bet, so he lives in the lounge of the detention center all year round, and the warden also likes that he can stay at work 24 hours a day employees.

In the darkness, a flickering light.

The light in the back kitchen of the cafeteria was turned on.
Barney's breath passed through his incomplete vocal cords, humming an ugly tune, echoing in the empty prison kitchen.

He came to a corner of the freezer, his thick arms rummaged through the refrigerated ingredients, and finally, he found a piece of liver.

This piece of liver didn't seem to have been refrigerated for long, and there was only a thin layer of frost on the surface of the plastic bag.

Barney was very satisfied. He took out the liver, carefully washed off the residual blood, put it on the chopping board, and carefully cut it into small pieces
His technique is very proficient. It is hard to imagine that a man of five big and three thick can have such delicate knife skills. The soft fat becomes less brittle because of refrigeration. palm.
Barney seemed to enjoy this feeling very much, and he happily raised the volume of humming.

Yes, the liver must have thick fat, so that after high temperature, the expanded surface can absorb more spices, it can be egg yolk, or some flour mixed with lemonade, in short, only in this way can it be overwhelmed The faint bitterness in the viscera.Then watch them gradually become crispy on the outside in butter but still soft on the inside, garnished with some celery and degreased green beans. Best paired with a glass of naturally fermented white wine.

It's a pity you can't find white wine in prison kitchens, but the liver was still perfect.

So Barney arranged the dish carefully with satisfaction, and then closed it with an aluminum lid.

He didn't eat by himself, but pushed the dining cart, in this dark, empty corridor,
Accompanied by the harsh sound of the wheels creaking bearings
disappeared into the darkness.

(End of this chapter)