"I understand that." Pete nodded, "No explanation. It's a trauma of war, and a lot of people I know have had this experience, which is said to be caused by overstimulation. ”

"Yes. Indeed it is. That's what my doctor said. Have you ever had one too? Avery asked.

"Yes." Pete nodded, "It's just a dream." As Pete spoke, the scene he often saw in dreams came to his mind again, that is, the dream he had told Dr. Feng. It's just that those dreams are not all battles, and some are more like memories, and they just put the things in the depths of their memories again.

"Then you're at least asleep." Ellie said with a wry smile.

"It's not necessarily good to fall asleep." Pete shook his head and lowered his voice, "On the first day I came to Helmet, you didn't arrive on time, and it was said that you went for a review. Is this because of this? Don't mind, I'm not asking around. Just talk casually, if you don't want to say it, forget it. ”

"Nope. It's nothing. In fact, I'd love to talk to someone about this damn trauma. Ellie sighed, "Maybe like you said, I'm terrified. ”

"We're all the same, Alley. Actually, everyone is afraid. Pete said and gestured to Ochoa, "Wasn't he the most nervous before?" Just before you came, I had flashed the scene over and over again in my mind, so it was only when you got close that I suddenly realized that someone was coming. This is actually caused by fear. ”

"When did you start having it? I mean this kind of dream that makes you uncomfortable. Avery asked.

Pete thought for a moment and said, "I don't remember." I didn't come out of nowhere. It's more like it slowly emerges over time. When I realized there was a problem, I couldn't remember exactly when it started. Because since I started to be stationed overseas, I always have some inexplicable and scary dreams, but what really makes me a little unbearable is also the one that appears most frequently when I am stationed overseas. That time it was one of our platoons on a mission. We sat in the car, which was kind of like when we got here today, one after the other, except that the car was a bulletproof Humvee. I was in the second car, and I remember walking on a road that wasn't very wide shortly after I got out of town. The car in front of us, to be precise, suddenly blew up on the lower left side of the car. ”

"Rockets?" Avery asked.

"Nope." Pete shook his head. It was supposed to be an IED (improvised explosive device) buried on the side of the road that blew up. I still remember that the car in front of me was blown up and jumped off the ground, which should be more accurate. Then there was nothing to be seen, because all the dust on the ground flew up. Then there was a clanging sound on our bodies, and it was clear that someone was firing heavily at us. Pete sighed as he spoke, "I didn't know what to do at the time. I only knew that I couldn't stop here, but I didn't drive far before I crashed into the car that had just been blown up in front of me. At this moment, I don't know who shouted, off the road, off the road! It was really time to leave, because who knows if a rocket would fly out of nowhere? So the driver quickly turned around and drove out to the side of the road, and just as I was about to get around the car in front of me, I saw a man staggering out of the car, with his helmet tilted on his head and his face still bleeding. He opened the door and got out of the car, and I thought he wanted to get away from the road quickly. But this was not the case, he got out of the car and tried to pull the other people out of the car, but as soon as he turned around, he was hit by a bullet and fell to the side of the door. ”

"It's unfortunate... Ellie whispered.

"It's unfortunate. But that's not the end of it. We hurriedly drove off the road. There were people urging to get out of the car, and although we were still in the opponent's range from the clanging sound coming from the body, we had to fight back, and we couldn't always get beaten. And the others behind us have already begun to fight back, and we have to keep up. Pete said and glanced at Eli, "I was the second to get out of the car, and a guy in front of us pushed open the door and rushed out, and as soon as my feet hit the ground, something that I don't know what exploded not far from us, and I watched as this comrade of mine was thrown out and fell heavily to the ground." His little arm... Pete said as he gestured to his left arm, "and landed beside me." I didn't know how the others felt at the time, but I was blown up, and for a moment I thought I was finished, and I was unconscious. I don't know how long it took for me to get back up from the ground, gun ready to return fire. But when we were really engaged in the battle, we found that there was no movement in the direction in which we were shooting. ”

"Ran away?" Avery asked.

"Yes. Ran. Pete nodded, "We barely caused each other much trouble. Here I was a mess, wailing wounded, the bloody corpses of my fallen comrades, the large patches of blood on the side of the car on the ground, and the stump of my comrade-in-arms. Ever since that time I have dreamed of that day many times, again and again ... The most torturous thing was that I yelled in my dream to stop and told them that there was a bomb ahead, but the dream wouldn't stop at all, and no one paid attention to me in the dream, so it still exploded. And then it happened again, including the ones I least wanted to see. After saying that, Pete let out a long sigh and turned to look at Ellie, "What about you?" What was it like when you were a soldier? ”

"Me?" Avery shook his head slightly and said, "Much better than you." Although I have been to a war zone while stationed overseas, I have never really exchanged fire. Just patrol the occupied territories. Sometimes we can hear gunshots, but they have nothing to do with us. As you should have seen, I'm actually pretty nervous tonight. ”

"That's good. Don't think it's majestic in a hail of bullets, it's all a lie. But how did you have this trauma? After coming to Hermet? Pete asked.

"Yes." Ellie shrugged his shoulders as he said, "It wasn't that long ago. On the territory of Africa, Nigeria. It was the hardest experience of my life. ”

"I've heard it mentioned by the chief." "You were ambushed, and then there was a disagreement. He said, glancing at Morris over there, "Disagreement puts you in greater danger. ”

"Yes. Unlike what you said, your battle was terrible but didn't last long. Mine lasted much longer than we expected. What scares me the most is our own disunity, the desperation and helplessness of those who need our protection, and I can't breathe like a kind of pressure. Ellie said and waved his hand, "You don't know. At that time, it was all over, and they didn't agree. Fighting on their own, before I fell unconscious... The Boss should have told you. I was blown unconscious. Before I fell unconscious, I didn't even know what to do, I felt like I had arrived in a strange team and became overwhelmed and overwhelmed. I had a problem when I came back. Ellie gestured to his head, "Luckily the explosion didn't make me lose anything, it's just that my brain is not the same as before." ”