The doctor gradually quieted down, Fang Liang circled a piece of land with a rope, stood in the circle, and began to tell the reasoning with the doctor as the protagonist.

Fang Liang took the end of the rope and tied it to one of the doctor's legs: "The curse, or the source of the curse, existed before Tonghu Village developed into a small town, but it was originally sleeping in the forest of the Dawn Swamp, and someone released it, causing a tragedy. ”

"For a small town, you are a foreigner, you are a doctor, you have studied modern medicine in the city, and you have beliefs and ideas that are different from those that have been passed down from the locals for generations."

"Compared with the chaotic ancestral soil method in the town, knowledge and education bring you more opportunities and self-confidence, and also bring higher efficiency to the town to cure routine minor diseases."

"Maybe it's a visit to the countryside arranged by a hospital, or maybe it's a whimsical that is not willing to accept the status quo. In any case, in your spare time at work or studying in a city hospital, you notice the richness of the forest just like the unpaid speculators. ”

"At that time, everything was still very good, and the forest was slowly expanding, far from reaching the terrifying appearance of forming a tree wall and completely sealing off all paths."

"With the prosperity and expansion of the forest, a large amount of herbs and prey were produced, which made speculators from other villages pay attention to the potential value of Tonghu Town. You are also one of the speculators, but your methods are not as bad as the others, after all, you are a doctor. ”

"As far as the interests of the industry are concerned, there is no extreme competition between you and others, even if you are an investigator with impure motives and unknown origins, you may need your medical knowledge assistance in some aspects, so you are a superficial cooperative relationship."

"After negotiating with your wife, you decided to move out of the city where it was too difficult to make money to support your family and the pressure of work was too great, move to Tonghu Village, and be the first batch of speculators to eat the dividends of Tonghu Town, even if Tonghu Village did not really develop, you would not have much loss."

"Actually, doctor, you really did it, after all, in the city hospital you usually get a dead salary, and when you come to Tonghu Town to open a private clinic, your income and happiness index have risen significantly, the forest has changed your life, and you are very satisfied with your investment skills."

"Later, you can use the money you earn to buy a car, so that you can drive around the town to see people in the town, or you can drive back to the city to visit those patients who seek medical treatment."

"Even if you regret it one day and want to go back to the city, you don't need to ask anyone, you can just drive yourself. In fact, as long as you have money and a lot of work experience, it is very simple to settle in any city. ”

"In this way, Tonghu Village gradually developed into Tonghu Town."

"In the past few years, the public resources and buildings in the city have been slowly completed in the town. Timber factories, rural primary schools, the development of planting and breeding, etc., people even have the money to use expensive film cameras to record the beautiful changes in life......"

"The village chief doesn't know how many land deeds or land development contracts have been signed and sold, and there is even a church built here, and you have long forgotten how many patients you have received, everyone is making a lot of money, but the hidden dangers of resource development are starting to emerge—"

Fang Liang stared at the doctor's eyes and whispered word by word: "The resources near the forest are beginning to become scarce, not only herbs, but also prey are becoming scarce day by day. ”

"The villagers, accustomed to making money every day, are unwilling to return to the poverty that calls the heavens and the earth unspiritual, and people begin to explore the depths of the forest, and many people are unaware of the connection between the forest and the curse, except for the believers of unknown origin, you, and the little boy."

The doctor couldn't escape Fang Liang's gaze, and when Fang Liang mentioned the little boy, his body trembled slightly for no reason.

"Although you have cured many people's minor illnesses and reduced the pain for the town, you can't do anything about the professional identification and follow-up treatment of mental illness, at most you can only provide some drugs to calm your emotions and calm your nerves."

"Even so, you still took in the little boy and left an indelible stain on your career. Because your dream of a miracle doctor is shattered, even if no one blames you, your heart still has a memory resistance to the little boy. ”

"Admitting that your behavior is tainted is not an easy task in itself, most people instinctively want to explain or cover it up, and the explanation you get comes from the group of believers who say that the little boy is God's spokesman, and that is where the curse comes from."

"As time goes on, the reduction in resource production makes people more anxious, and although you don't know if those people are overdrawn because of their credit, you and your family are also feeling uneasy about the increasing number of people missing from the forest in the town."

"The rich and beautiful forest suddenly turned into a dark nightmare, and some investors were discouraged and they evacuated, while more outsiders waited outside the forest to see what happened...... You call them rats, or survey teams. ”

"At first, there was a slight illusion in your heart that it was all just a ridiculous farce, but as time went on, more and more people got lost in the depths of the forest."

"Your wife decided to abandon this place and evacuate Copperkettle with her children, and she left you like that, and had a terrible accident during the evacuation, and no matter how much you waited and sent the signal, she never returned."

"In fact, by the time you realize that the expansion of the forest is not a blessing from nature, but a terrible curse, you are already in the vortex of curse."

Under Fang Liang's statement, the doctor became more and more uncontrollable and trembling wildly, his eyes were confused, like a poor epileptic patient having a seizure, and he could barely control his expression and the focus of his gaze.

"You don't perceive the call of the forest, which is essentially a cursed trap, and you and the others follow the sound and go into the depths of the forest."

"The forest and the night quickly make you lose your way, when you get close to this cave, the voice of your wife and children is in the cave, you enter the cave**, but you find nothing."

"By the time you find your way back to the clinic, you'll find that everything has been turned upside down, the walls and the treetops have blocked all paths, and you have no way out of here, so you can only quit and go home in a frenzy of scramble and doubt."

When Fang Liang said this, he suddenly pulled the rope, and the doctor stared at the cave as if he had just woken up from a dream, and listened to Fang Liang say word by word:

"But, you don't realize that you've been cursed from the moment you fell into the forest. You didn't find your wife and children that day, and you didn't leave the cave, but the curse has long confused your perception. ”

"As of now, I'm sixty percent sure that your body is still sleeping near the cave's light source, but I don't know how many years you've been sleeping in the cave, and if your spirit has become one with the curse."

"All the deaths and nightmares you dream of are nothing more than a cycle of dreams, and with each death, your spirit becomes more broken, just like those who were cursed earlier, who fell into nightmares and slept here forever."

"In fact, you've been in a 'lucid sleepwalking state', and you don't dare admit those nightmares, because they are almost indistinguishable from reality, and every death brings you closer to destruction and madness."

"The terrible thing is that in this lucid sleepwalking state, you are not self-aware, and therefore there is never a way to escape from the forest, because there is a limit to the range of the forest, and there is a limit to the range of dreams."

"Once you touch the boundaries of the dream, another similar dream will start again, and once you die in the nightmare, you will wake up in the 'real world' before our eyes. The more you are sure that the world in front of you is real, the more it will refuse to let you go......"

Fang Liang grabbed the rope, the man whose nose was about to wear out, there was no way to escape: "Doctor, answer me." ”

"If your body has long been destroyed by the erosion of time, if your wife and children are long gone, if you are one of those monsters that walk in the dark, if you wake up and find that you have nothing to love, do you really want to wake up?"

The doctor trembled all over, like a lightning strike, Fang Liang's words were like a deadly bayonet, instantly piercing all his defenses: "If, if I had already died, then I am standing here now, then I, what the hell is I!" ”

Fang Liang stared at him, and a strange figure gradually rose behind him: "You are the doctor's remaining hope in the depths of the nightmare, or it may be a wisp of the doctor's personality that has not given up on his own salvation." ”

"If your body is long dead in reality, then the moment you wake up, you will disappear without a trace, just like you never existed in this world, you are just a sad and helpless dream."

The doctor was sweating in fear, gasping for air, and even though he forced himself to close his eyes, his eyes were still rolling wildly uncontrollably: "So, what are your chances of survival?" ”

Fang Liang tilted his head and squinted at the timid doctor: "If you want me to say, since reality is already so painful, why don't you just get a fragile and eternal life in the dream realm, and live forever like this?" ”

"Like the cursed ones in the caves, you have been cursed, and may continue to do so for years, your spirit and dream world are sustained by the power of the curse, and once I try to separate the power of the curse, the outcome is unknown."

"Your wife and child left the forest in fear, but she also left you, she and her children were already killed on the way out, and even if you had seized the opportunity to awaken only theoretically, you would be nothing more than a hairy, unclothed savage."

"Answer me, doctor, are you afraid to wake up?"

"Answer me, doctor, what is your reason for living?"

"Answer me, doctor, do you really want to wake up?"

"Or you die in a dream like this, die again, forget me, and forget us, just like everyone else killed you in a nightmare, we could have killed you, after all, your so-called life has lost its meaning."

Fang Liang raised his gun, holding the rope, he quietly aimed at the doctor's head, and whispered like a demonic temptation: "Forget the pain, forget the truth, forget the difference between life and death, after all, reality is meaningless, isn't this good?" ”

However, in the midst of the painful struggle, the doctor opened his eyes again, and he panted and said: "No, I want to live, even if I will disappear completely the moment I wake up, I also want to really wake up, no longer be tormented by this never-ending nightmare!" ”

Fang Liang was stunned for a moment, as if he was a little surprised by such an answer, and couldn't help but sneer: "Are you serious? A moment of courage and recklessness may be able to revive you, but how can this world and human society accept a wild man who has been sleeping for many years? ”

"You don't know anything, you don't understand anything, like an old and penniless homeless man who can only live by wagging his tail and begging. The moment you are cursed, you are abandoned by the world and civilization, all that awaits you is eternal panic and hesitation, your life has long lost its meaning, and you have no reason to live! ”

"Isn't it even more cruel than this nightmare to force someone who has no reason to live to smile on a smile?"

"Isn't it darker and more painful to force an outcast to return to the human world than to live in a dream?"

"Answer me, doctor, do you want to die!"

Fang Liang's voice grew louder and louder, his roar seemed to echo wildly throughout the dream, and the doctor saw the figure rise from behind Fang Liang and slowly walk towards him, the coldness and trembling on his body almost tearing him apart completely.

"I want to live, I want to live! I must live! The doctor muttered the words frantically, and he felt the wound he had inflicted when he stepped on the trap become exceedingly painful under the restraint of the rope.

"Why?"

The doctor stared at the muzzle of the black hole: "If everything is produced with life, then as long as I live, maybe everything will meet the answer, right?" ”

"I—I want to know why my wife and children left me forever without a word."

"I want to know what the world looks like when I'm awake, and I don't want to give up, even if it's so painful that people want to die."

"I want to really come back to life, even if I'm just a wisp of consciousness of the doctor himself, and the moment I wake up, I will dissipate directly......"

"I want to live! Please, help me, I ......"

At this point, Fang Liang just raised his gun for a moment, and then sighed and put away the gun: "Okay, now we have two pieces of news, just like many old-fashioned stories, always one good and one bad. ”

"The good news is that your personality is solid enough, even if the other personalities of the Doctor have gone crazy or died, as long as you can break through the barrier of the curse and truly wake up, you may become the main personality of the Doctor, overriding all other personalities and gaining physical dominance."

"The bad news is that the curse not only imprisons your body, it is also rooted in your spiritual world and is inseparable from you. If you are hastily severed from the curse, the stability of your existence will immediately begin to crumble. ”

Fang Liang took out the broken knife and wiped it on the broken knife casually, but there were ashes falling on the surface of the metallic broken knife: "This is the thing that leaves the cursed body, as you can see, it is also a cursed thing." ”

"I used some kind of trick to strip it off of its body. It's just that you've also seen that curse tokens that are out of their bodies, like leaves that leave the branches, will naturally collapse and disappear over time, and you may be affected by it. ”

"Even if you come back to life, the power of the curse that remains in you will still be with you for the rest of your life and will never dissipate."

"Even if you never go to a happy ending, even if the future is all pain, even if you wake up and find that life has long lost its direction, do you ...... Do you still have to wake up from this dream? ”