Restricted Doomsday Syndrome Chapter 1230: Night Talk

The call was connected, and there was silence in the receiver for a few seconds, only the breathing of Dr. Ruan Li was heard. The voice was not rushing, and it was no different from usual, which made me feel relieved at once.

"Mom, it's me." I said.

"A Chuan?" Doctor Ruan Li was a little surprised. She seemed to be still working at this time. I heard the sound of a pen and a notebook moving and colliding on the desktop, "What's the matter? Call me at this time."

Her answers and emotions surprised me. According to my own situation, I feel that Dr. Ruan Li’s mood swings shouldn’t be like this. She wasn't worried, she just wondered why I called her at this time. Isn't it right for me to call her in such a situation? I instantly realized that something went wrong.

"I...remember that this afternoon, the experts and I participated in the seminar's paper report." When I said this, I was interrupted by Dr. Ruan Li.

She didn't say anything at first, but the change in breathing made me really feel that she has something to say, and these words must be the problem. She was silent for about three seconds before she said to me: "I understand, Achuan. I am very happy that you can call me, but what I want to tell you is that the time you attended the thesis report meeting is not this afternoon. . It’s the afternoon three days ago."

...what? I couldn't help but doubt my ears. The afternoon three days ago? I looked around at the clock next to the old telephone, and suddenly found that although the second hand was beating all the time, the minute hand did not seem to move at all. Maybe I remembered it wrong, when I first walked in. Which digit does this minute hand refer to? There is also the calendar. I scanned the entire room and found nothing in the diary.

My thoughts kept beating, and I grabbed the phone on the other side and turned on the screen to check the time: there is indeed only time on it. The exact date is completely missing. I should have confirmed that the date of this phone should be complete. I think so, but some of the things in front of me all hint at all sorts of abnormalities.

"Have you confirmed? When is today?" Dr. Ruan Li's voice sounded over there in time, and her reply seemed to explain the abnormality I was currently aware of: "You can't confirm, are you? Me? It’s not surprising. Because you don’t have an objective time and date indicator."

"What?" I couldn't help but blurt out, wondering.

"You are sick." Dr. Ruan Li said, "It may be difficult for you to understand it yourself, but it has happened many times in the past. It should be said that it is completely normal, and some side effects remain, making you unable to determine the real situation you are in."

I took a few deep breaths, and my mood gradually calmed down. As Dr. Ruan Li said now, I should have noticed it a long time ago. In her observation. There should be a problem on my side. The world I saw was different from the world she saw. And this situation. It is indeed not the first time it has happened. Didn't the abnormality I noticed before come from this?

"I'm in the hospital?" Although I looked around and couldn't feel it, I still asked. Two girls were yelling in the bathroom, and the boys started drinking. The neighbors outside the window were frolicking, and a few people ran out from the door. Was drenched with a large bucket of water. All this, although placed after the incident. It seems very everyday, but it is not without a strange smell, especially the vomiting man I saw before. I can't explain this feeling, just like the furnishings and decorations of this room. Although there are weird and unusual feelings, which are not like normal people's preferences, they are also not full of mysterious feelings.

"Yes. Two days ago, I sent you to a mental hospital. If you did not escape privately, then you should be in the hospital now." Dr. Ruan Li said unambiguously, "Then, you Where are you now? Where do you think you are?"

At this point, I have almost understood it. From Dr. Ruan Li’s point of view, what kind of situation is on my side: For Dr. Ruan Li, what happened in the report is from District 51. The attack is the "past tense" that has come to an end for a while. At that time, I was in a state of illness. In order to facilitate nursing and diagnosis and treatment, she sent me to a mental hospital. Although I mentioned to her a long time ago that I wanted to meet other patients on the same seminar’s routine consultation list, especially Marceau, I was actually sent away under the condition of being judged to be sick, but some Accident.

The difference between the situation I described now and the situation observed by Dr. Ruan Li, in her eyes, must be due to the side effects caused by the "morbidity"-for example: I lost three Memories of what happened during the day.

I didn’t answer right away, I just asked: "Is there no specific date on my phone?"

Doctor Ruan Li calmly replied: "There is no time indication in the hospital. All clocks and dates are incorrect, in order to obscure the patient’s sense of time. This is also for the convenience of treatment, you understand Yes, Achuan."

Yes, I can understand this.

"The same goes for your mobile phone. After entering the mental hospital, we replaced you with a new one." Dr. Ruan Li said, "We think this can make you less irritable."

"My previous performance was very irritable?" I asked back.

"You may not be able to describe it as irritability, but your behavior seems to care about time." Dr. Ruan Li said: "So, I agree to blur your sense of time."

That's how it happened. On her side, something like this happened. However, it is difficult for me to have a personal sense of reality for these three-day vacancies. For me, after waking up, I am still in the conference room on the fourth floor of that building, which is a difficult situation to understand.

"When I was awake, I was in the conference room used for the report meeting." I pinched the head and tail, and said to Dr. Ruan Li: "You think I ran over by myself, and then forgot, yes Did you run there by yourself?"

"It's possible, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes, nor have I received a report from the hospital. Maybe you just ran out of the hospital quietly tonight, maybe." Dr. Ruan Li responded with obvious Attitude to answer. Then he asked: "So, Achuan, why do you think you are in the conference room? Does that room have any special meaning to you?"

"Maybe." I hesitated. But I will repeat my knowledge completely, including how we were attacked by the enemy, how I broke and defeated the enemy, and when I woke up from the anomaly, it became what it is today. I want to know that Dr. Ruan Li from his own point of view. How to observe all this.

After listening, Dr. Ruan Li was silent for a while, and I can tell from the voice on the other side of the receiver what she was looking for. After a while, she said to me: "It sounds like the influence of White Claudia. But there are also inherent spiritual factors in you. At the report meeting three days ago, the seminar guests did something wrong. , Two people died."

"What accident? The cause of death?" I asked.

"If someone died, it was an accident. The specific cause of death has not been found for the time being. However, many signs indicate that it is related to the influence of White Claudia." Dr. Ruan Li said: "I had hallucinations at the time. People. Not only you, but not all of them. And the deceased should be the most severely ill, not just a mental illness. It also brings a huge burden to the physiology, and eventually the body can’t bear the burden, which leads to death. ."

"Not suicide?" I suddenly thought of the word "suicide".

"No, it's not that serious." Dr. Ruan Li said, "It's like a cold and fever, with fever and endocrine disorder. Finally, due to serious physical problems, he died of exhaustion."

Her description can't help but remind me of one of the most typical ways of death for patients with doomsday syndrome. That kind of mental frenzy, and the change of physical heat. It is a fairly obvious feature. The phenomenon of reaching the limit of the condition, which is shown in the reality of the hospital, is placed in the doomsday illusion, and there are many corresponding phenomena. For example, when taking "Paradise", when using super power beyond the limit, and when being corroded by Saya infection.

"What was my performance at the time?" I couldn't help but ask.

"Similar. I told you before that you were a mentally ill patient before being affected by White Claudia." Dr. Ruan Li said, "White Claudia made your condition worse. But the degree of aggravation is not obvious. On the surface, it seems to have a hallucinatory resonance and consistency with other patients affected by White Claudia. But in fact, in terms of severity, before you are infected , The mental state is already quite bad. On the contrary, when I have determined how much Claudia White has affected you, you have only appeared to be closer to ordinary people."

In Dr. Ruan Li's tone, there is always a sense of calmness of "I repeatedly forget, and repeatedly explain to me, but I will forget again". She seems to be accustomed to all this, of course, this is not good news.

Actually, I haven't forgotten too much. Just...what happened within three days of being sent to a mental hospital after the incident? If, as Dr. Ruan Li said, my memory stayed three days ago, then I shouldn't have lost much. I took out the diary from my pocket and flipped through the contents, while chatting with Dr. Ruan Li. She thinks my condition is pretty good, but I don't think so.

Although I am still full of energy at this time, this break in the sense of time and cognitive deviation are both very troublesome.

In the diary, there is indeed no "three days of amnesia" content. In addition, I didn't seem to write anything in the three days of amnesia, and the transition to the present was very smooth.

I think I should be able to adapt to this slightly unprepared situation.

"Mom, what should I do?" I said, "Where I am now..." I scanned the room again and said, "It's not like a mental hospital." With that said, I will encounter five A male and female student, and accompanied them to this resort full of wooden houses, explained to Dr. Ruan Li.

Dr. Ruan Li did not immediately comment, but sorted out the current situation: "When you are awake, you realize that you are staying in the conference room, and the memory stays in the escape from the monster three days ago. Time..." When she said this, I was interrupted, and I said: "It's not escape, it's victory."

"Okay." Dr. Ruan Li's tone made me imagine her shrugging appearance, "You think you have defeated the monster, when you wake up. I feel that time has not passed too long—only ten hours. Left and right, right? So, you feel like you were left in that place. After that, a group of people went to the building to try their guts and met you. They brought you back to their residence. It was like a resort, located Where there are many wooden houses, right?"

"Yes." I said.

"During the period, you were completely unaware of the real time and date." Dr. Ruan Li said, "You think this is a kind of negligence that shouldn't have been done, or it's just a mysterious force that is making a ghost. Right?"

"Yes." I replied.

"So, how do you feel about the resort where you are now and the people you are in contact with?"

"They are all ordinary people. Although the decoration of the room is a bit strange, it is still acceptable. Although there is a little abnormal smell. But it is not that dangerous situation, and I don’t think that a monster will suddenly pop up. Come. I just met strange people, saw strange hobbies, this feeling."

"Very good." Dr. Ruan Li's tone sounded very satisfying, and after a pause, she said: "Then, now I want to tell you one thing. Maybe something that will surprise you."

"What?" I asked.

"The right to develop this peninsula is entirely in private hands." Dr. Ruan Li said: "I am pretty sure that there are no other resorts on the island except for the villa area."

What she said really surprised me a bit.

"Only the villa side can receive tourists?" I checked again.

"Yes, including accommodation, food, and various recreational reception activities, which are only available in the villa area." Dr. Ruan Li said: "On the peninsula, except for the villa area and the wild ecological nature reserve. , Is the hospital area. If you see a house that is different from a villa. And it is not in the wild ecological nature reserve, then it must belong to the hospital."

Here--I looked around the house. Look outside the house through the window-everything you see belongs to the category of a mental hospital?

I couldn't help but say to Dr. Ruan Li: "I talked to those students, they don't feel like a mental patient."

"That's because. You are a mental patient." Dr. Ruan Li's answer left me speechless.

If the everyday strangeness that I feel is from the life of a mental patient, it doesn't seem so difficult to understand. However, it is not easy for me to treat these people around me as mental patients just based on the current situation.

The three boys seemed to have forgotten that I was here, and they drank a little sloppy. Hearing the sound of the bathroom door again, the two girls ran out with only the bath towels, took a large bottle of milk from the refrigerator, and poured it down in one breath. I couldn't help but rubbed my temples. Is there really anything weird about this situation?

"Are you still there? A Chuan." Dr. Ruan Li's voice came.

"Ah, yes, it's still there." I cheered up and replied: "But I heard that the mental hospital is not on the peninsula, but near the mainland."

"That was a long time ago." Dr. Ruan Li said, "After several expansions, reconstructions and relocations, the mental hospital was transferred to the seminar... No, it should be said that it was transferred to the sponsor of this seminar. At the time, it was not what it was at the beginning. In order to facilitate the creation of a more open environment for the patients, a part of the forest area was purposely added. Although I am not sure, where the wooden house belt you mentioned is located in the hospital. , But it is estimated that it should be in the newly added forest area."

"Ment patients, do you really need such a large area of ​​the environment?" I couldn't help but question.

"Who knows? I haven't studied this aspect, but maybe Dallas has it." Dr. Ruan Li paused and said, "Moreover, even if it is really useful, it probably won't be reflected in the fact that the natural environment is good for patients. In terms of psychological impact, it is even less humane."

The suggestion of Dr. Ruan Li is obvious enough. This seminar clearly pointed out that the activities of experts and patients should be concentrated in mental hospitals. As far as I know, what is being done in this mental hospital is research related to ‘paradise’. All this shows that this vast hospital area actually exists to cover up some dark conditions. The history of this mental hospital is not very good. Every expansion will be accompanied by some tragic events. Despite this, it was still preserved, and although it kept changing hands, it didn't mean to go bankrupt at all.

The history of the towns in the surrounding area, as well as the many weird behaviors of the townspeople, can actually be traced from the history of the mental hospital.

Thinking about it this way, Dallas expanded the mental hospital again. A lot of "natural and wild" factors have been added, which is actually not that difficult to understand. Whether it's for cover for private research, or if something happens to destroy the corpses, this spacious natural forest area. All are great places.

"So, I was actually brought back to the mental hospital by a group of mental patients?" I said that, always feeling a little weird.

Doctor Ruan Li couldn't help being silent for a while before saying: "...In short, you probably have already answered the hospital."

"But. Can the hospital allow patients to enter and leave at will?" I asked, "When I returned with these five people, I didn't see the cordon."

"As far as I know, this psychiatric hospital will decide whether the patients live in a more free place or a more enclosed place based on their different conditions." Dr. Ruan Li quickly replied: "How to resettle Patients’ questions are very free here."

"Excessive freedom, right?" I said.

"From the researcher's point of view, a high degree of freedom means that more details and more possibilities can be tried. Now that cattle and sheep are raised, isn't there also centralized breeding and open grazing?" Ruan Dr. Li said: "Assuming that the people you encounter are really stocked mental patients, then. Probably they will not be any dangerous patients. This place is not far from the resort area. In terms of development, the actual safety of the guests And security must also be considered."

"That is to say. The people who stay here are all mental patients who look similar to ordinary people and have mild illnesses?" I concluded.

"Yes, so you can stay there for one night with peace of mind." Dr. Ruan Li said, "There is nothing you need to worry about. What should have happened has already happened, and it's over."

Although she said. Everything that happened before is over. but. I have no real feelings. On the contrary, I now have a very strong feeling. There is a deeper continuation that is gradually infiltrating in. This shadow makes this seemingly relatively safe place less safe. The everyday and the weird are intertwined, and the abnormality without mystery has begun to change the taste.

Three days.

I lost three days.

The enemy is enough to prepare for another attack in these three days.

Although, logically speaking, if they need "Paradise", they should not interrupt the research here before the "Paradise" is successfully tested. However, there are precedents in the 51 districts, who can be sure whether they have other ideas, and whether they need to put "paradise" on the first goal? Even if the factors of Dr. Ruan Li and I are excluded, just mentioning the seminar, there are already enough factors for other mysterious experts to act, because the doomsday truth sect is indeed here.

Similarly, just because the doomsday truth is in the seminar, the seminar must be extremely unstable. The Doomsday Truth Sect under Dr. Ruan Li’s observation is also undergoing structural and conceptual changes, and Dr. Ruan Li, as one of them, must be clear about this.

"Are the others okay?" I asked about the fitness instructor, the fortune-teller, and Mitsui Tsukao~ IndoMTL.com~ They and I personally experienced the anomaly on the third floor of the building. How did they interact with each other? What did Dr. Ruan Li say? After they were rescued, how did their perceptions change?

"Well, it's okay. They are worried about you." Dr. Ruan Li just said.

I couldn't help but ask again: "Mom, do you think they are also affected by the white Claudia?"

Doctor Ruan Li was silent for a moment and replied, "It doesn’t matter what they think of themselves. Don’t forget, it’s not the first time that they have the situation. On the way here, they also took your medicine. ."

"The hallucinations must be due to White Claudia?" I asked.

"The key lies in whether the effect appears after taking the medicine." Dr. Ruan Li said, "Obviously, there is indeed a little effect on them. This is why I have expectations of them, but now Said that they cannot completely get rid of the influence of White Claudia. Their mental state is breaking down a little bit." (to be continued)

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