Although it was broad daylight, the people in the ward listened to it with horror.

The patient in the next bed also opened the curtain and spoke at this time: "Old sister-in-law, are you telling a ghost story?" ”

Yao Jingjing also said: "Yes, Mom, what are you talking about!" ”

Yao's mother said: "I'm in no mood to tell ghost stories, it's all my own experience." I was frightened that day, and I had a high fever the next day, so I came to the hospital for a check-up, and it turned out that there was such a problem later. I also told your dad that I hit a ghost and wanted to go to Yuantong Temple to burn incense! ”

Yao's father said, "It's true, but you didn't tell me about looking in the mirror!" Where are people still playing rock-paper-scissors in front of the mirror, are you hallucinating? ”

Yao's mother said: "How embarrassing it is to say this! Let you know, I won't be laughed at by you for the rest of my life! ”

Yao's father said: "It's all like this, and you still want to save face!" So how do you say that now? ”

Yao's mother said: "Isn't this my son-in-law asking!" ”

As soon as Yao Jingjing heard that her mother was starting to be a son-in-law and a son-in-law again, she hurriedly interrupted and asked, "Then did you go to burn incense later?" ”

Yao's mother said, "I didn't go. Later, I didn't find out that I had this disease, so I thought it might be a hallucination caused by my poor health. But for a long time, I didn't dare to look in the mirror and go to the toilet in the middle of the night. And I felt like someone was following me all day, like someone was watching. ”

"You've watched too many spy war dramas." Yao's father said.

"Don't interrupt!" Yao's mother glared at him, "Actually, it's not the same as stalking, that person is not the kind that is far away from you, but is with you, overlapping with you, like your shadow." It's a strange feeling, sometimes it scares me, sometimes it makes me feel kind, as if I suddenly have a companion, I can do everything I want, even when I'm sick, it's like someone can share my pain, but I can't see her. ”

"Later, for some reason, I started dreaming. As soon as you sit down, you get drowsy, you dream as soon as you sleep, and you dream all day long. The dreams are also varied, but the strange thing is that all the dreams are real things that happened to me when I was a child and when I was young, just like a movie that replayed my life, except that the order is disrupted, but the things are true, and I have forgotten a lot of things myself, even the letters I wrote with my pen pal when I was in school, and there is not a word in it. ”

Aoki knew that this was a deep hypnotic excavation of memories, like a computer virus searching for hard drive files in the background. This process is very consuming of CPU and memory resources, similarly, people in the state of deep hypnosis are extremely harmful to the spirit and brain when searching for memories, and hypnotists need to maintain hypnosis for a long time at this frequency It also consumes great mental power, even more than the damage suffered by the hypnotized person, but hypnotists are generally professionally trained and have much stronger mental power than ordinary people. Therefore, hypnotists will never do such a thing unless necessary.

Aoki is because Yao's mother's brain lesion is close to Xia Wenyuan, so he wants to ask her if she has seen a shadow in a nightmare, so as to judge whether there is a connection between Xia Lao's illness and the shadow in the dream. However, he didn't expect that Yao's mother's situation seemed to be more complicated than Xia Lao's, and she actually fell into something like a consciousness virus and searched for memories in her brain.

"Auntie, did you dream of anything special later?" Aoki asked.

Yao's mother said: "I saw her later. ”

"Who?"

"It's the guy who has been following me, and the guy who plays rock-paper-scissors with me in the mirror." Yao's mother's face turned a little pale when she talked about this person, "I just started chemotherapy that day, and I was very uncomfortable, and I saw her as soon as I fell asleep." She looked exactly like me and was wearing a hospital gown. I saw her as if I were seeing myself in a mirror, but I knew at a glance that it wasn't me. ”

"At that time, Jingjing and her father hid from me, didn't tell me about any illness, and only said that they were taking antibiotics for chemotherapy injections. At that time, I had already guessed in my heart that I had a bad disease, but the real thing must have been told by the person in the dream. She said that I was dying and there was no cure, and told me to be honest, otherwise she would kill me before I died. ”

Aoki and Yao Jingjing asked together, "What does she want you to explain?" ”

Yao's mother said, "I don't know! She didn't say anything, she asked me to confess all day long, asked me to confess, and then came to choke my neck. Every time I felt like I was about to be strangled to death by her, I woke up. ”

"If you want to talk about nightmares, it's not like I haven't done it before, I saw ghosts in dreams, I fell into the river, everything, but I can't remember it when I wake up, so I don't think there's anything terrible about having nightmares. But the dream was so real that it was like it had happened. At that time, I was not a ghost with chemotherapy injections, my hair fell out, and I was in a daze all day, but the things in my dreams were more real. Every day someone who looks exactly like me wants to kill me, but they don't really kill me. You haven't encountered that kind of situation, but if you do, you will know what life is better than death. If it weren't for Jingjing's lifelong event."

Yao Jingjing was worried that her mother would start calling Aoki's son-in-law again, when the patient in the next bed helped her out and interjected: "Old sister-in-law, you're not dreaming, you're called obsessive-compulsive fantasy." I have a relative who is like this, and he always thinks that someone is trying to harm him, and he is suspicious, and sometimes he says that the food he eats is poisonous, and the next time he says that someone is following him. I got up in the middle of the night and took a taxi all over the city, telling the driver that there were spies chasing him behind him, and he was going to send information to the organization's liaison station. Ask him for any information, and he won't say anything about it. ”

Yao's mother was a little embarrassed and said, "I also secretly asked the doctor, and the doctor said that it might be because I was too nervous because of my illness and told me to relax." ”

"Do you still have dreams like this now?" Aoki asked.

Yao's mother said: "I haven't done it for a long time, and I won't have this dream after the chemotherapy is over." ”

Aoki can now be sure that Yao's mother's situation is similar to Xia Wenyuan's, but Xia Wenyuan's mental power is relatively strong, and he has been resisting that invading consciousness, so his consciousness has always been in a shadow state. And Yao's mother is just an ordinary person, her mental power is very weak, and the invading consciousness soon becomes a person exactly like her.

The only thing I don't understand is that the intrusive consciousness has the ability to kill her and the dove occupies the magpie's nest, why doesn't he kill her all the time, but forces her to confess something?

If Yao's mother knows any secrets, the invading consciousness has already searched her memories through the consciousness virus. There will be nothing left out of the subconscious search memory, unless someone uses a strong mental power to set up a protected area in a certain area of Yao's mother's brain, just like encrypting the computer hard drive, if even the administrator rights cannot be decrypted, the virus will not be able to search this area.

But why did that invading consciousness give up later? Could it be because Yao's mother is terminally ill, so the intrusive consciousness thinks that she is worthless?

"Auntie, do you remember the circumstances under which you stopped dreaming? Where did she go in the dream? Did you leave anything to say? ”

Yao's mother said: "I remember that day, that 'me' came to force me to confess some secret, and when she was about to strangle me, my cat came, and she seemed to be very afraid of cats, so she ran away." ”

"Cats?" Aoki didn't expect this to be the result at all.