From the first floor to the fourth floor, there are only forty-eight steps.

In the past, the fastest journey was only half a minute, but at this moment, for Ju Xiaoxing, it seems to have experienced half a century.

She didn't know why the neighborhood she should have been familiar with seemed to be a little different, and she didn't know who the voice seemed to come from the sky, but the demonic black shadow behind her was a nightmare that she would never erase in her life.

It was a thin man, even thin man, but no matter how hard Ju Xiaoxing tried, he couldn't see his face clearly, as if this person's facial features were always covered by a layer of mist.

She didn't know what the other party was going to do to her, but her heart was extremely terrified, as if she had already had some kind of heart-rending painful experience.

The demon had just burst out of the bushes by the roadside and wrapped her arms tightly from behind, and the voice from the shadows reminded her that she had a fruit knife in her pocket, and she had stabbed the demon in the leg with the knife and narrowly escaped.

The demon's blood stained almost half of his trousers, but the knife still stuck in his leg didn't seem to hurt him in any way, and the demon only staggered a few steps, and after pulling out the knife, he still walked like a fly.

The tip of his tongue licked the blade and dripped blood, and the other party's cold eyes like poisonous snakes made Ju Xiaoxing shudder, and his legs seemed to have been pulled out of the bones in an instant, and he almost didn't even have the strength to stand.

Run! Run home and be safe!

The voice in the darkness had become Ju Xiaoxing's last straw, the moment she regained control of her body, she instantly burst out with all the power accumulated in her body, and rushed towards her home at a speed of 100 meters.

The demon still seemed to be following behind unhurriedly, with a leisurely pace as if walking, but the distance between him and her was obviously shortening.

Fifty meters...... Thirty meters...... Twenty meters ......

When Ju Xiaoxing fled into the unit door downstairs like a frightened rabbit, the distance between the two was less than five meters.

"Help! That demon, he's about to catch me! Help me! ”

Ju Xiaoxing didn't know who the voice was in the dark, but this was her only and last hope.

"Ju Xiaoxing, don't panic, there's a bag of soybeans around the corner of the third floor, knock it over!" The voice in the darkness didn't abandon her after all.

Sure enough, there was a bag of open soybeans on the corner of the third floor.

Ju Xiaoxing remembered that there was no such thing when she went downstairs just now, maybe someone dried it here after she left? But it doesn't matter anymore.

At the same time as the figure swept by, Ju Xiaoxing violently pushed the bag full of soybeans to the ground, and tens of thousands of round and plump soybeans were sprinkled on the stairs below, and the sound was like a summer rainstorm, and the entire corridor was dyed with a layer of harvest-like gold.

There was a dull sound of heavy objects rolling down the stairs behind him, and the terrifying oppression that was almost within reach behind him was also lightened, but Ju Xiaoxing didn't even dare to look back at the result, grabbed this rare little gap, and rushed to the fourth floor in one go.

"I ...... I can't find my keys! ”

Ju Xiaoxing touched all over his body and didn't find the key, and the heavy footsteps came from the bottom of the stairs again.

"Don't worry, you just took it out and didn't find it, look down, the key is at your feet." The voice sounded again at the right time.

Trembling and picking up the key at his feet, Ju Xiaoxing finally opened the door lock and fled into the room at the moment when the demon appeared at the corner of the stairs.

Before she could feel the sense of security brought to her by the hard and cold touch of the steel security door, she suddenly felt that her eyes were dark, and she didn't know anything.

……

"Is the treatment over?"

Wu Ansu stared at Li Mengnan's face, although she didn't know what happened just now, the conversation between Li Mengnan and Ju Xiaoxing was very concrete, and she could roughly make up part of the picture.

"It's not a treatment, it's just an examination."

Li Mengnan moved his body, which was slightly stiff due to his full attention, and walked to the window to open the curtains, and the bright and soft sunlight filled the entire ward again.

"How? Can it be restored? Wu Ansu can not care about the process, she just wants to see the final result.

"The situation is more complicated than I expected, if it was just a simple logic bomb guide zhì's memory shattering, it would not be a problem, but I didn't expect that there was such a nightmare hidden in Ju Xiaoxing's subconscious."

The confusion of Ju Xiaoxing's body monitoring just now caused an alarm from the instrument, and several medical staff hurried to check the situation, Li Mengnan gave Wu Ansu a look, and walked out of the ward and walked down the stairs to the rooftop roof.

The rooftop of the inpatient department is also one of the activity venues open to patients, but compared to the small tree-lined garden behind the building, the bare roof, with only a few chairs, is really not attractive, and few people visit it except to watch the sunset at dusk.

"You just said Nightmares? What is that? As soon as he went to the roof, Wu Ansu couldn't wait to ask.

Li Mengnan waved his hand, first took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, lit it and took a deep breath, saying that he had suffocated him in the ward just now.

"Generally speaking, nightmares are actually the remnants of the memories of the things that humans fear or care about the most in the subconscious, because they often reproduce in dreams in a concrete form, so they are also called nightmares...... That is, we often call the psychological shadow. ”

Li Mengnan walked to the guardrail on the side of the rooftop, looked at the flow of people coming and going in the square below, flicked his cigarette ash and continued: "It is impossible for people to be fearless, and it is impossible for them to have no regrets, so everyone is bound to have nightmares. It's just that the intensity of most nightmares will continue to weaken over time, that is, gradually forgotten by us, but there are also a very few that will be firmly entrenched in the subconscious and become a lifelong lingering nightmare...... Just like Ju Xiaoxing now. ”

Whether it is in China or abroad, there has been a nightmare since ancient times, and Li Mengnan just re-elaborated it from a scientific point of view, and it is not difficult for Wu Ansu to understand this.

"Then will this nightmare have any effect on Ju Xiaoxing's consciousness?"

"Under normal circumstances, although the nightmare will cause a certain amount of damage to a person's mental state, it is not a big deal, but for a person like Ju Xiaoxing, whose memory has been destroyed by Yanzhòng, it can be said to be quite troublesome......

Li Mengnan knew that Wu Ansu would definitely not understand this, so he gave a more vivid example - it was like a person who was hungry and wanted to go out to buy food, and he only had to walk a few hundred meters to the supermarket, but when he opened the door, he found an equally hungry wolf squatting outside the house.

Ju Xiaoxing is now facing such a tangled state, if he wants to retrieve his memory, he must leave the room and go to the outside world, but when he leaves the room, he will be attacked by nightmares, not only will he have to experience the painful memories of the past again, but also the result of searching for memories will be zero.

It's like having to start over from the respawn point after dying in the game.

"Isn't this a loop? Won't Ju Xiaoxing never wake up? ”

Wu Ansu thought that Ju Xiaoxing could wake up and identify the murderer according to the memories in the dream, but now it was obviously all in vain.

Li Mengnan shrugged his shoulders and pretended to be relaxed: "Don't be so pessimistic, this cycle of death can actually be broken - as long as Ju Xiaoxing kills that nightmare in his dream." ”

"It's the same as if you didn't say it."

Wu An gave Li Mengnan a blank look, which was as perfunctory as what doctors often said, "We have done our best, and the rest depends on the patient's will to survive".

"And what do you want me to say? Pat your chest to ensure that the medicine is cured? Sister, I'm just a trickster, it's enough to help people see a doctor, and you still expect me to cure all diseases? I'm not a retired veteran......"

Li Mengnan jumped to sit on the guardrail of the rooftop, leaned on the protective barbed wire, cocked Erlang's legs, and continued to complain helplessly: "You police should have the best experience in this regard, if the victim himself can't think about it, no matter how much persuasion others have...... Heart disease also needs heart medicine, and the bell needs to be tied to the bell, you just say it casually? ”

Wu Ansu thought about it, maybe it was Li Mengnan who had created too many incredible miracles all along, which made her have an illusion in her heart that this thing was omnipotent.

In the final analysis, Li Mengnan is just an ordinary person who can play tricks.

"Ju Xiaoxing's illness can only rely on her own will? Is there any other way? Home remedies are also fine......" Wu Ansu is still very stubborn and unwilling to give up.

"Yes, I have two more ways to wake her up."

Although Wu Ansu didn't hold out much hope at all, Li Mengnan unexpectedly raised two fingers.

"The first method is to find a real Xiangxi corpse chaser, their group of people also belong to the Fang Shi lineage back then, and our trickster lineage is just the opposite of studying the living, their specialty is to study the dead and the living dead, like Ju Xiaoxing's condition maybe they will have a treatment."

Wu Ansu's facial muscles twitched a few times unconsciously, even Li Mengnan, a trickster, was the first time she had heard of it, the mysterious profession of corpse chaser that she couldn't even determine whether there was a zài, if she could find it, it would be hell.

Li Mengnan obviously also knew that Wu Ansu would definitely not be able to do the first plan, and he didn't leave her time to think about it, and continued: "The second plan leads to Ju Xiaoxing's subconscious subconscious subpersonality, which is usually called the second personality......"

"Second personality? Isn't that something that only the mentally ill have? Wu Ansu's first reaction was to think of the perverted murderers with split personalities in the movie.

"Actually, a lot of people, even professional psychiatrists, think so, and it's not surprising that you would have this thought."