Odd Containment Specialist

As soon as Xia Shou walked in, he looked towards the bar and sure enough, Ximen Qing was still in his fixed seat.

Xia Shou immediately stepped forward, and after exchanging pleasantries, he asked his question straight to the point.

"Hmm...I understand. You want to ask if you can borrow the ladder on the history tree to go to other locations in the history tree in the past, right?"

"Yes, that's what I mean." Xia Shou nodded in confirmation.

Ximen Qing: "Of course it is possible. The branches are all interconnected, as long as you can find the ladder."

"Then can I travel to the future relative to that period in an earlier period? For example, travel from the present to the fifteenth century, and then go to the seventeenth century in the fifteenth century." Xia Shou deliberately made a fuss about the real time period. Cover it up to avoid being exposed.

"Just find the corresponding ladder." Ximen Qing replied.

Xia Shou pondered for a moment and asked the most critical question: "Then if I go to 1685 now, can I see the Mr. Xia you mentioned?"

"I'm not sure, but it probably won't work. The past time period continues to cycle within a certain period. After a cycle, everything will be reset. People who don't belong to that time in the first place are naturally not included in the reset. I I think Mr. Xia may not be from that time and space." Ximen Qing lowered his head and thought.

Xia Shou's eyes narrowed behind the plaster hood. Ximen Qing's words were very informative.

But this also confirmed Xia Shou's initial guess that the predecessor with the same name went to 1685 to contact Ximen Qing, and Ximen Qing was really a person from the past. He came from the past by occupying the place of a modern person. Now comes the reality Xia Shou is in now.

"Thank you, there's nothing we can do about it, but I still have questions to ask you."

"You asked."

"True delusion, hallucinations and auditory hallucinations will occur when suffering from true delusion. What is the overall development of this disease? Do you know?"

"Oh, I do know about this, but the reference is another matter. Even the Control Bureau thinks this research is too resource-intensive, let alone an individual researcher like me, but I still have some special sample data. , they are all kind-hearted people who are willing to cooperate with me in writing the "Deep Diving Manual"... Just wait a moment."

Ximen Qing reached into the lining and took out a piece of paper, which was an interview record about true delusion, as if he had prepared this information a long time ago.

"Through the several cases I have come into contact with, I have classified the atmosphere of delirium into the early, middle, late and final stages.

In the early stage, visual and auditory hallucinations are the most common. At this time, patients can actually judge the authenticity of things from many details. In addition to being very realistic, they are not much different from the hallucinations of ordinary mental patients.

But as long as it reaches the middle stage, sensory hallucinations such as phantom touch and smell will appear.

In the middle stage, it is extremely difficult for patients to distinguish the authenticity of an illusion if they do not get close to it. Just like this cup, when I pick it up, I can see it and touch it, and it still has a heavy weight. Can I say it is fake?

No way?

Are the drinks and meals here fake?

You can’t say that, after all, it tastes like the real thing when you drink it, and you can still eat and drink your fill here.

But what about reality? We lie in bed, and no matter how full we are in our dreams, our stomachs are still empty when we wake up.

This level of true delusion is like a brain in a vat. It is very difficult to distinguish. Without special methods, it is almost 100% impossible to distinguish. "

Xia Shou's heart tightened and he asked again, "What if you don't recognize it?"

"Ah? I didn't tell it, no... usually no one can tell it, right?" Ximen Qing tilted his head, and the ancient-style plaster hood looked particularly funny.

Xia Shou understood what the other party meant. Most patients with true delusion actually misjudged it from the beginning. They did not have Alice to distinguish hallucinations for them at any time, so almost in the early stages of developing true delusion, they even saw hallucinations. At first glance, it was already a failure.

"In addition to this common sensory symptom, will patients with true delirium undergo any physical and mental changes?" Xia Shou asked in a different way.

"There are many kinds, including those with physical distortions and mental madness, but the ones I recorded are all with physical distortions and relatively normal thinking. After all, those with abnormal thinking will not cooperate with me in this kind of academic research. To be honest, this kind of The symptoms are all kinds of strange and there is no pattern to follow. At least from the sample records I have, I can't draw any useful conclusions.

I can only summarize some common changes among patients with true delusion, which are the ones I just mentioned. "

Xia Shou nodded, he had no expectations anymore, but he still let Ximen Qing continue.

"What I just mentioned is the middle stage, and then it is the late stage. Patients with true delusion in the late stage have only one more characteristic, that is, they can perceive the positions of other patients with true delusion, and their source of information is their hallucinations. , but the information is indeed correct.

For example, I have a patient here. One of his hallucinations is a frog that will always appear in his first cup of coffee in the morning. That frog told him the condition of another patient with true delirium. He described in detail where the other party lived, his appearance, and his recent living conditions, and told him everything.

The final result also proved that this was indeed correct. The frog had been encouraging him to kill that person recently. "

Xia Shou chewed this passage over and over, as if he knew why Alice wanted to pretend that she couldn't see those hallucinations.

"What about the final stage?" Xia Shou asked.

"At the end of the day, they become friends with hallucinations, which in my opinion is the most dangerous."

“What would it be like to be friends with an illusion?”

“In the previous stages, although patients with true delusions would interact and communicate with hallucinations, the reality intelligence information provided by the hallucinations to the parties was one-way, the parties could not choose, and the parties could not influence the actions of those hallucinations.

But in the final stage, the intelligence is different. For example, in the example just now, the patient who can see a frog can let the frog jump into the control bureau to peek at the top-secret intelligence information in the control bureau, and then sneak out to tell He, it can be done! "

Xia Shou opened his eyes wide. If it weren't for the Faustian hood, the other party would have seen a face frozen in extreme shock.

"Can it still be like this?! Then if the illusion is a spy, isn't it invincible!?"

This is even more outrageous than Su Weiyu. Su Weiyu's life is still in danger, but the illusion is fake and will not be hurt at all.

No!

wrong!

An illusion that can reach this level is definitely not imagined by the person involved, but something weird - like a hallucination.

In this case, the Control Bureau must have a way to deal with it. Xia Shou even thought that the Control Bureau might be secretly raising several people in the final stages of true delusion, letting them use illusions to fight other illusions that slipped in.

"You seem very excited?" Ximen Qing said.

Xia Shou was stunned and shook his head: "No, it's the first time I heard it and I thought it was very novel."

"That's true, yes, there is another strange rule, that is, if a patient with true delusion is on the Seven Branches of History tree, that is, in the past, or in a choir club, or other places, they will not develop symptoms."

"In other words, true delusion only occurs in reality..."

Xia Shou fell into thinking.

He was actually vaguely aware of this conclusion.

When he was in Yuezhuo Village, he never had an episode of true delusion for such a long time, and it was the same in the choir club.

"I understand. Speaking of which...every time I come here, I can basically see you."

"Well, because the exchange of information here is safe and secure, I can sleep as much as possible. Don't think too much, I don't have any real delusions." Ximen Qing stared at Xia Shou and said.

"I didn't say you were delusional..."

Xia Shou was silent for a while and then said: "I feel like I have asked everything that needs to be asked clearly. If there is nothing wrong, I will leave first.

By the way, you asked me to help you save someone last time, are you not ready yet? "

Xia Shou still remembered what he promised the other party last time.

"I did some preparations very slowly. I'll tell you when I'm done." Ximen Qing smiled sheepishly.