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"I'm going to buy groceries first."

Mars said, getting ready to go out.

"But, Dad, shouldn't we go to the hospital?"

Ada asked hurriedly.

"The doctor just called and said that the time has been postponed. It seems to be an emergency."

Ada shrugged.

Most people in Europe and America make reservations for whatever they do. If you cancel at such last minute, maybe something really went wrong.

Of course, there is another reason - that is, Mars himself did not want to go to the hospital, so he found an excuse to deal with it.

After all, the mentality of mentally ill patients... is somewhat abnormal.

Mars quickly left the house.

"I'm going to call the doctor."

After Mars left, Ada stood up.

"What's wrong?"

Catherine is a little strange.

"We don't have a phone installed at all in our house - to be precise, it should be our home phone. It has never been replaced since it broke a month ago. He just doesn't want to go to the hospital."

"Well……"

It seems that this is undoubtedly the second situation, and Mars did lie to them.

"Kate, Mr. Bittman will come over later. Originally, he wanted to go to the hospital with his father. Please explain the situation."

"I see."

There seemed to be no public phone booths around, and it looked like Ada still had to run a long distance.

Ada stood up and left the room, but Catherine remained.

Ada crossed the street and came to a public phone box.

But just as she was about to make a call, she discovered that there seemed to be someone standing behind her.

"dad?!"

Ada was startled.

"Ada, come out. I know what you are going to do." Mars still looked calm.

"But dad-"

"No but, listen, Ada. If you insist on sending me to a hospital, maybe the next time you see me, it will be in a mental hospital."

"It's just a lobotomy...Dad..."

Ada looked at each other.

Lobotomy is a neurosurgery and the world's first psychosurgery. It includes schizophrenia, clinical depression, and other anxiety disorders. It also includes some people who are considered neurotic, such as

Said: moody, young and frivolous, etc.

This surgery will be abolished in the future because it has too many side effects and has almost no effect, but now it is a very popular surgery. Americans are superstitious that this surgery can solve all mental problems.

If the white matter or cortex of the front lobe of the brain is removed, people will calm down. However, the reason why the patient who has the white matter removed becomes docile is not because his mental illness has been cured, but because of the higher mental state controlled by the front lobe of the brain.

The active function is cut off. In other words, the patient becomes a cripple and an idiot.

The famous novel and movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" describes this kind of sick American society.

"No buts, Ada." Mars' eyes suddenly turned red, and then he roughly pulled Ada out of the phone booth.

"No buts, do you understand?"

Ada hesitated to speak, and her eye circles began to turn red, but this was completely different from what Mars meant.

In the 1950s and 1960s, mentally ill patients with serious violent tendencies in the United States were forced to undergo "frontal lobotomy surgery."

This scene on the street was just seen as a conflict between the girl and her father.

At Ada's home, Catherine also welcomed a guest.

"Oh, beautiful Miss Catherine, I didn't expect that we could meet here." Bitman smiled at Catherine.

"Ada went to make a phone call, and Mr. Mars went to buy groceries. If you want to find them, you have to wait."

Catherine said to the other party.

But after waiting for a long time, neither Ada nor Mars came back, which made Catherine a little strange.

"Strange, what happened to them?"

Catherine was a little worried and then stood up.

She opened the door and looked down the corridor, but still saw no one.

Bitman rolled his eyes, then looked out the window, but he still didn't seem to see anyone.

He suddenly took out a bottle from his medicine cabinet, and then took out a towel.

"Maybe Miss Ada met Mr. Mars, and then they went to the supermarket together."

After hearing Bitman's words, Catherine began to think so. Although New York was very chaotic, the security in Philadelphia was slightly better. Catherine guessed that this was probably the case.

"Miss Catherine, why don't we do another short hypnotherapy session."

"Brief hypnosis?"

"Yes, it will be ready in about ten minutes."

"Sounds pretty good."

Anyway, I’m just waiting. Although I haven’t had any problems recently, it doesn’t seem to be harmful to me. After all, I have already done it once last time. However, Catherine feels that Jenny’s method seems to be better.

Bitman put the towel on the sofa and motioned for Catherine to lie down.

"Okay...close your eyes now."

He looked out the window again.

Still no one.

At the corner of the street, Mars roughly pulled Ada's collar.

"No! I won't go back!"

Ada yelled.

"Shut up! You are my daughter, so go back with me now!"

Mars became extremely angry.

He seemed to be about to explode, but he seemed to be trying his best to suppress his emotions.

"Listen, Ada. I could never go to that place. Don't you understand how your Uncle Bill is doing now?"

The Uncle Bill that Mars refers to is his comrade-in-arms. Two years ago, he was also forced to undergo a lobotomy by his family because of mental problems.

"He's doing much better! At least better than you!"

Mars seemed to suddenly calm down.

Ada looked at him blankly.

"Yes, it's completely different from before. I sit at home every day and become dementia. Listen, Ada, you have to be responsible. I love you just like I love your mother. Maybe you don't understand, but

You guys really look alike..."

The tears just flowed out.

"I know... you want to go to Hollywood and be an actor, but I am against it. I don't want you to go with those people on the dark road. Ada... oh... Ada... you are the only one I have alive.

The bright light..."

He suddenly knelt down.

"Ada...I really don't want to lose you."

Ada opened her mouth, but found tears flowing from her cheeks into her mouth.

"But... that's just an operation that can cure you."

"No! You don't understand!" He suddenly became violent again, and then pressed Ada's shoulders with both hands.

"Okay, let's go home."

Mars pulled Ada, but the other party would rather die than obey.

"No! I will never go! Help! Help!"

Perhaps because of the previous sentence, passers-by seemed to regard Ada as a delinquent girl who ran away from home, so they ignored her.

Ada resisted desperately, but how could her strength be compared with Mars?

But at this time, Mars suddenly put Ada down.

"Um?"

Ada came back to her senses, only to find that Mars had already run forward quickly. Then she went in the direction of Mars, and she saw a small car, and the doctor Bitman who happened to be coming to her place

, but at this moment, he was carrying a girl who seemed to be sleeping into the car.

"Kate?!"

Ada was startled, but at this time, Mars had already rushed forward.

…

Is attack and reception really that important? Being able to advance and retreat is a real magic weapon~