Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 225 NO.00e0: Traumatic Flashback and the Director

"Damn it!"

Accompanied by an exclamation from the gate, Donata was like a human sculpture for hospital teaching. Her limbs were stiff and she fell to the concrete floor of the corridor without any struggle, letting out an unpleasant dull sound. Falling sound.

Immediately afterwards, a bright light beam, like a stage light, came down from the gate above and hit her.

This scene seems to give people a sense of drama at the climax of a tragedy.

And this familiar scene made Jim regard the falling Donata as another person.

A nightmare that lingers in his memory.

"Don't worry about me. Just let me stay here, Jimmy."

It was a flaxen-haired girl who fell to the bottom of a deep well. Her hands and feet were twisted into angles that were impossible for humans to bend like a broken doll.

She looked up at Jim and said:

"You know I wouldn't blame you."

Under the pain that would make ordinary people faint, she warned her with a smile as if nothing was wrong:

"Let's go and don't look back."

At this moment, her soft voice echoed in Jim's ears.

He nodded expressionlessly.

here we go again……

Then, the throbbing in his chest made Jim take several steps back, causing him to lean directly against the wall beside him.

The cold touch of the metal wall made Jim regain some reality, which made his hand that was about to open the Paroxetine pump stop.

No...it was not the touch of the wall that allowed me to anchor back to the present so quickly, but myself.

Jiang Zhou thought.

Each upgrade path will transform human cognition in the corresponding field. The contradiction between those altered cognitions and the current social form has become the real source of cyberpsychosis.

This is true of Icarus, and so is the Orphic Path.

In Depth 1 adjustment and transformation, the enhancement of the brain's mirror neurons will lead to a condition called "stress flashback cognitive dissonance." Simply put, this makes Orphic Path adjusters more likely to develop symptoms of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).

Once he is activated by a scene similar to that past trauma, the adjuster of the Orpheus path will have visual and auditory hallucinations that are indistinguishable from reality - which cannot even be said to be hallucinations, but as if he It was like being thrown back into the time and space of the past.

In the past, Jim not only needed to take psychotropic drugs such as Paroxetine to relieve symptoms, but also needed to use "totems" to confirm his current time and space in order to slowly and completely come out of the hallucination.

Thinking of this, Jim took out a resin twenty-sided die from his pocket.

It was a lead-filled die, and no matter how it was thrown, its number would only stop at 20.

Big success……

Jim thought, but he didn't roll the die.

Because now he no longer needs it.

Individuals cannot observe themselves beyond their own systems, so they often find it difficult to save themselves after falling into hallucinations. But now, after connecting with Jiang Zhou's mind, he has found a perspective that helps him anchor reality and illusion.

Jiang Zhou, who was both within himself and outside himself, discovered a contradiction in his consciousness.

So, it was like piercing the dream, and the hallucination of the flaxen-haired girl lingering in front of him dissipated like mist.

Jim sighed softly. He didn't look at Donata anymore, but looked up.

At this moment, at the gate leading to the negative level, a head wearing a black matte tactical helmet was leaning down to look at Donata who fell to the ground - that beam of light, like a searchlight, was fixed on that person. It was taken from the flashlight on my shoulder.

The man's head turned around, as if he wanted to confirm his surroundings. Then he immediately spotted Jim leaning against the wall.

The man said politely:

"Sir, before you try to do anything, see what this is."

As he spoke, he waved an "Aries" model laser pistol in front of the light - this person's voice was exactly the same as the "damn" when Donata fell.

On the other hand, Jiang Zhou had heard this voice much earlier.

This is really a big ghost...

He muttered in his mind.

The moment he saw the other person, Jim began to analyze - he examined the subtle pauses in the other person's words, reviewed the subtle changes in tone of voice, and also observed the hidden information when the other person's head turned... Compared with consciousness itself, the human subconscious mind The amount of information brought by the subtle influence on behavior at every moment is not at all of the same order of magnitude.

Phenomenon is essence, this is probably a truth that every adjuster of the Orphic path will agree with. Even after only completing the depth 1 adjustment, they were able to analyze whether the other person's mother was left-handed or right-handed by observing the slight deviation of the subject's head when speaking - the direction in which most adults' heads are accustomed to shift. It is often related to the mother's dominant hand when breastfeeding.

Using a similar principle, Jim could tell at a glance that the other person was a motherless orphan.

But at the same time, Jiang Zhou, whose body had not undergone the Orphic path adjustment and transformation, also came to the same conclusion.

But the reason he could see was simpler - Jiang Zhou knew the person in front of him.

"I said..."

Looking at the "Aries" that the other party took out, Jim took a deep breath to suppress his previous weakness, and then said in a mocking tone:

"Isn't the first reaction of today's police officers not to pull out their police badges, but to pull out their guns?"

The man at the gate replied:

"If you stay in the underground area of ​​the resettlement area for a long time, you will find that guns are more persuasive."

Analyzing the other party's representation topology, Jim can conclude that the appearance of himself and Donata is definitely not the reason why the other party came here tonight - in fact, the other party bumped into him, just like Jim bumped into him, and it was not planned. matters within.

At this time, the man continued the previous question and said:

"Now that you have seen it, think carefully about what will happen if you plan to turn around and run back through this unobstructed corridor."

After saying that, he put back his head and gun. About a second later, the man jumped directly from the gate into the corridor. With a loud "thud", he stirred up a cloud of dust as he landed.

The opponent's hands and feet were all mechanical prostheses, and the police badge on his chest contained a sword and two bars.

A certain absurd feeling came to Jim's mind - as soon as he arrived underground in the resettlement area, he immediately bumped into the person in charge of the first floor branch of the Public Security Bureau?

Black Falcon-111, former member of Icarus, suspected adjuster of Depth 3.

At the same time, he was also the person in charge originally appointed by the "tenth-level" government to replace Shen Lan and take over the negative one of the resettlement area.

And if Jiang Zhou remembers correctly, he is still the director of the Public Security Bureau on the first floor.

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