Embers Ad Infinitum

"Let me out! Let me out!"

Odik slapped the iron door and shouted loudly.

He used the Honghe dialect that he was more accustomed to and more instinctive with.

"Look, he proved what I said with his performance." The doctor in a white coat and blue mask spread his hands, "Let's communicate. If you have any questions, come to me in the office."

He didn't warn them again because he felt that without giving the key to these people, they would not be able to communicate through the iron gate even if they didn't want to.

Lauris raised her hand to wipe her eyes and said to Jiang Baimian and others:

"You can ask Odike now. If you need me to avoid it, please tell me."

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

"Then please leave for now. Don't worry, we will get it done soon."

When Lauris, who was wearing dark culottes, turned into the stairs and disappeared from the eyes of several members of the "Old Tune Team", Jiang Baimian turned his head to look at Shang Jianyao, sighed and said:

"Go ahead and try to see if you can communicate."

Shang Jianyao walked towards the room where Odik was kept with a serious expression.

The iron door of the room is blue-green, with a small hole at a person's height above it. There are metal bars welded to the front and back of the hole to provide isolation.

Through the hole, Odik saw Shang Jianyao approaching. He suddenly became excited, stretched out his hands, grabbed the metal bars, and shook them vigorously:

"Let me out! Let me out!"

His face, which could not be called handsome but decent enough, turned red and was quite distorted, as if he wanted to choose someone to devour.

Shang Jianyao glanced at his extremely fragile but unremarkable nose and asked seriously:

"Do you remember us?"

"Let me out! Let me out!" Odik slapped the iron door manically, making it make a banging sound.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Shang Jianyao suddenly woke up and apologized politely, "We made a disguise, it's normal that you can't recognize it. Do you remember Xue Shiyue and Zhang Qubing?"

Odik glanced at him fiercely, his expression becoming a little dazed.

He shouted excitedly:

“There’s a person on the left, a person on the right, and a small photo frame in the middle!

"You have one big eye and one small eye. You are not a good person. Let me dig them out for you!"

When Jiang Baimian heard this, he breathed out silently.

Judging from the communication just now, Odik is really crazy.

If he was pretending, Jiang Baimian could only praise his flawless acting skills.

Shang Jianyao sighed, and then said:

"look:

“Together we have fought against false ‘priests’;

“Together we controlled the nobles of Weed City;

"so……"

At the "soul corridor" level, Shang Jianyao's "reasoning clown" format no longer needs to be so rigorous, but he is a person with a sense of ritual, if he remembers it.

Odik suddenly became quiet.

He put his face close to the hole in the door, letting the metal fence squeeze out marks on his skin.

He smiled, lowered his voice, and said cautiously:

"Let me out, let me out."

As he spoke, he became excited again and his voice rose again:

"If you are a friend, let me out!"

Bang bang bang, he slapped the iron door frantically.

Shang Jianyao listened and watched quietly. After he calmed down, he asked aloud:

"What did you find in that nightmare?"

Odik's distorted expression relaxed, revealing a bit of confusion and a bit of stupidity.

“There’s a person on the left, a person on the right, and a small photo frame in the middle.

"You have one big eye and one small eye. You are not a good person. I will dig them out for you."

He widened his slightly hollow blue eyes and repeated his previous words in a babble.

Shang Jianyao watched intently, suddenly opened his arms, raised his head slightly, and closed his eyes:

"Everything is a fantasy, why take it seriously?"

He then turned sideways and looked at Jiang Baimian:

"He can understand my words to a certain extent and can be affected by abilities similar to the 'reasoning clown', but he cannot communicate effectively."

Shang Jianyao was sure that the "reasoning clown" just now had an effect.

As for the effect, he couldn't judge from the current feedback.

Jiang Baimian looked around and confirmed that there was no one else in the corridor, and there were no patients living in the nearby rooms. Only from further away could there be sounds of talking to oneself, intermittent singing, laughing and crying. .

Looking at Odik behind the iron gate, Jiang Baimian said thoughtfully:

"The two sentences he keeps repeating are the information he used his ability to spy on in the 'nightmare'?

"There is a person on the left, a person on the right, and a photo frame in the middle... One eye is big, and the other is small. He is not a good person, and he wants to dig them both out...

"The former is very symmetrical, but the back is asymmetrical...Is this obsessive-compulsive disorder?

"But Odik's price is not this...

"Also, he is so excited and trying so hard to figure it out, why doesn't he use his ability?"

Long Yuehong was a little confused after hearing this, and couldn't help asking questions:

"Team leader, there seems to be no necessary connection between your first sentence and the next three sentences."

Could it be that the information Odik snooped out was obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Jiang Baimian smiled bitterly and said:

"The first sentence is to guess the meaning of those two paragraphs, and the second sentence is to analyze the intelligence they may hide."

Bai Chen thought for a while and said:

"Maybe Odik was simply describing what he saw in that nightmare before he went crazy:

"There is a person on the left, a person on the right, and a photo frame in the middle. One of the people has big eyes on one side and small eyes on the other.

"'Don't look like a good person' and 'Help dig it out.' I think they were added by Odik himself after he went crazy. They are disturbing information and need to be eliminated."

"It makes sense." Jiang Baimian agreed.

Then, she laughed and shook her head:

"After Odik went crazy, did he develop obsessive-compulsive disorder?

"When I had contact with him before, he should not have this problem."

Jiang Baimian's smile was obviously bitter.

"The most important thing is the issue you just mentioned. It's impossible for a crazy awakened person to be imprisoned so easily." Shang Jian Yao rubbed his chin, "Is it possible that he subconsciously doesn't want to harm innocent people?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Odik, who had been muttering "one person on the left, one on the right" and other words, became furious again, shook the metal fence in the cavity vigorously, and shouted loudly:

"Let me out! Let me out!"

After the "senior hunter" calmed down a little, Jiang Baimian sighed and said:

"Unfortunately, the 'Destiny Pearl' has long been used up.

"I don't have the ability to choose the 'last man' field."

Otherwise, you can now directly look through Odik's memories and look for clues.

After a short silence, Long Yuehong asked:

"What should we do now?"

"There is a 'Morning Star' behind Odik, and they will definitely pursue it." Jiang Baimian regained his composure, "Even if we want to intervene and contribute a little to avenge him, and prevent more people from dying or going crazy, the best option is to It would be nice to cooperate with the True Self Teaching."

They have a basis for cooperation with the "True Self Cult", but have almost no dealings with the "Morning Star" - their cooperation with Odik originated from the Hunter Guild.

Bai Chen, Long Yuehong and Gnawa agreed with the team leader's suggestion.

Shang Jianyao glanced at the doctor's office near the stairs:

"I want to ask if Odik can be cured."

"Yes." Jiang Baimian did not object.

Shang Jianyao always had the ability to take action, so he knocked on the door and entered the doctor's office, where he found the doctor just now.

He had taken off his mask, revealing a slightly slender face.

After listening to Shang Jianyao's question, the doctor said with a serious expression:

“Your friend’s condition is quite serious.

"If he is just excited, has a bad temper, has violent tendencies, and is a little unable to control himself, then it is relatively simple and can be controlled with drugs, but it is obvious that he has regarded the fantasy as reality and is living in his own world, constantly Repeating words that are difficult for us to understand prevents effective communication.

"To what extent it can be cured requires long-term observation and continuous adjustment of the plan."

Doesn’t this mean that it is difficult to cure? Long Yuehong muttered in her heart.

On the dirt, those who cannot be cured within a certain period of time will definitely be abandoned unless their family is really rich, so as not to waste resources.

Shang Jianyao didn't say much, he nodded calmly and said:

"I see."

A group of five people left the doctor's office and walked towards the stairs.

With sharp eyes, Jiang Baimian saw Odik's wife Lauris squatting in the shadow of the corner, burying her face in her arms on her knees.

Sensing the movement, Lauris stood up suddenly.

Perhaps because she moved too fast, she staggered and almost lost her balance.

"Are you okay? What's the harvest?" She asked eagerly with red eyes.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"The words he repeated may be clues, but further investigation and confirmation is needed."

At this time, Shang Jianyao suddenly took a step forward and said:

"I can alleviate Odik's condition. Do you want to give it a try?"

ah? Jiang Baimian glanced at Shang Jianyao in surprise and found that his expression was serious and his eyes were serious.

"Really?" Lauris was excited.

Shang Jianyao nodded sincerely:

“I have enough experience in treating mental illness and a unique approach.

"However, this cannot cure Odike's problem. He will still behave abnormally from time to time and needs long-term observation and treatment. But most of the time, he is still your original husband."

If Shang Jianyao promised that he would be cured, Lauris couldn't believe it. But after hearing that he only relieved the condition, Lauris couldn't help but ignite hope:

"I have no problem, I can give it a try."

It can't be worse anyway.

Shang Jianyao raised the corners of his mouth, revealing an indescribable smile:

"My treatment plan is rather special, and I need you to tell me in detail what kind of person Odik is.

"The more detailed you are, the greater the hope of remission."

After hearing this, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong were still at a loss, but Jiang Baimian had some guesses, and there was unconcealable sadness in his eyes.

Lauris didn't pay attention to her performance. She looked at Shang Jianyao and said excitedly:

"Are you trying to awaken Odik little by little through the details of his daily life?

"Okay, I'll tell you!"

She then looked around and said with an apologetic smile:

"This may be more, we, let's find a place where we can sit down and talk."

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