Truth is everywhere within range

"The collective unconscious."

Qiao Qiao put down the information and said.

"This is a psychological theory. The unconscious is the opposite of consciousness and is formed by the most primitive impulses, desires, perceptions and experiences. The collective unconscious is similar to the underlying psychology of all human beings."

"The theoretical basis for this is that humans have many things called prototypes that have nothing to do with culture, race, or region."

After hearing Qiao Qiao's words, Ariko's eyes turned into circles.

"Teacher, what does this have to do with the problems we are encountering now?"

"Well, it doesn't matter. I just suddenly thought of this. Although it is possible that killing people with an ax is the archetypal image of a hospital, it should not only cause specific people to have the same dream."

Qiao Qiao shook his head.

The most likely scenario is that something strange is causing trouble in the hospital and disturbing the mind.

But just now, Qiao Qiao's psychic vision and channeling did not detect these strange existences.

Very strange.

Everything seems normal, but it's just the delusions of a mentally ill patient in a psychiatric sanatorium.

But for Qiao Qiao, this kind of normality is actually very abnormal.

It was getting late, so Qiao Qiao copied some important information and prepared to take it home.

He was riding a scooter, carrying Ya Lizi back, and suddenly, Qiao Qiao felt something in his heart.

It seems like I haven’t been to my boss for a long time. I wonder how he is doing?

He thought so and asked.

"Ariko, I'm going to go to the boss's place later, how about you?"

"Ah, I will go wherever the teacher goes!"

Ariko answered without hesitation.

The two came to a secluded alley in Shinjuku.

The late-night cafeteria had just opened at this time.

After parking the car, Qiao Qiao opened the curtain and found that there were still no other customers in the canteen late at night. Only the boss was leaning alone at the table and smoking a cigarette.

"You came."

When the boss saw Qiao Qiao, he said nothing with emotion.

Then he saw Yalizi behind Qiao Qiao.

"Are you here too?"

He was stunned, and hurriedly put out the cigarette butt he had just smoked in the ashtray.

"Boss, I want a pork soup set meal."

Qiao Qiao knows the location well.

"Then I also want the pork soup set meal."

Ariko followed Qiao Qiao as she spoke.

"okay."

The boss clapped his hands and returned to the kitchen. After a while, he served two sets of pork soup.

"Boss, are you okay with the earthquake before?"

Qiao Qiao picked up the soup bowl of pork soup and blew lightly. The aroma of freshly sprinkled green onions mixed with oil was inhaled into his nose, making people secrete saliva unconsciously.

"it's okay no problem."

The boss subconsciously glanced at the location of the small warehouse.

"That's good. I also think there should be no problem on your side, boss."

Qiao Qiao nodded, then picked up a piece of pork mixed with green onions, wrapped it in a ball of rice, and put it in his mouth.

The juices from the pork seep into the hot rice, reducing the greasiness and making it very delicious.

"Boss, do you know Showa University?"

Qiao Qiao stopped his chopsticks for a moment and asked.

Since the boss has been in Tokyo for so many years, he should know something about Showa University-related events.

"I know, I know. Isn't that a medical university? What's wrong?"

The boss touched his chin and asked.

Qiao Qiao briefly said that he got the clues left by Tsuchimikado Kiyoaki and went to Showa University to investigate and learned the information.

"Do you kill someone in your dream?"

The boss couldn't help but take out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. He was about to light it when he noticed Yali who was devouring the food in the bowl, so he put the cigarette next to the table.

"I remember the exorcist from Shinagawa."

The boss thought for a moment and then spoke as if he was confused.

"I don't seem to know them very well. It's strange. I always feel like I should know one or two of them."

He scratched the back of his head.

"Sure enough, there's nothing the boss can do?"

Qiao Qiao sighed with emotion.

It seems that the problem here is really difficult.

Qiao Qiao finished his dinner quickly. While waiting for Ya Lizi to finish, he took out the information and read it carefully a second time.

"It just doesn't make sense financially for a woman to live alone at home for seven years."

The boss glanced casually.

"really."

Qiao Qiao always felt that he had overlooked something important, but he couldn't remember it.

"By the way, I have to tell Sayoko that I won't go home for dinner tonight."

He thought of the three girls at home again and took out his mobile phone.

Just when Qiao Qiao took out his mobile phone, something fell out of his pocket, but before it hit the ground, Qiao Qiao had already caught it flexibly.

That's a pocket watch.

The prototype miniature version of Einstein's reality-augmented anchor has a limited area of ​​influence, so Qiao Qiao carries it with him as a talisman.

When he saw the pocket watch, Qiao Qiao suddenly felt that he had understood something.

He turned it on and flicked the switch.

"!"

As if the hazy world suddenly became clear, Qiao Qiao felt that the gray mist that had previously enveloped him suddenly dissipated.

“It’s memetic pollution!”

Qiao Qiao couldn't help but stood up.

"What?"

Ariko had just put down her chopsticks, but when she heard Qiao Qiao's words, she felt confused.

But as the three-meter-radius Einstein reality-augmented anchor radiated to her body, Ariko's expression suddenly seemed like she had an epiphany.

"It's such an advanced antimeme that even the thought of memetic contamination has been eliminated."

Qiao Qiao said.

Almost everything suddenly became clear.

"What?"

The boss still didn't know what Qiao Qiao was talking about.

"Well, to put it simply, Ariko and I were probably entangled in the weirdness of antimemes when we entered Showa Hospital."

"The weirdness of this antimeme can erase almost all traces of its existence, and even ordinary psychic vision and psychics cannot detect it. Not only that, it also prevents us from thinking about things related to the meme, thus ignoring it. Drop this possibility."

"No wonder I thought there were a lot of clues before, but I couldn't figure out how to solve it. It's probably because even the concept of 'meme' has been erased by that weirdness."

Qiao Qiao gradually straightened out his thoughts.

This one is weird and not complicated.

What's really great about it is its powerful antimemetic capabilities.

Even spiritual masters like Qiao Qiao and Ariko were deceived by it, so it would be impossible for those doctors and patients to detect it.

Perhaps this is a weird evolved technique for surviving the fierce competition for survival.

Hide yourself and clean up.

"So, maybe the husband and daughter that Ms. Yasuda mentioned are both..."

Ariko seemed to have thought of something and spoke in surprise, but before she could finish speaking, she hurriedly stood up when she saw Qiao Qiao.

"Teacher, on you, on your pants"

She pointed to Qiao Qiao's trouser legs.

There, there was a bloody handprint.