Chapter 12: Conversations
Li Xun still clearly remembers the scene when he first saw Zuoqiu
Zuoqiu, who was still a child, wore a coat that was not too tattered but had obvious stains. He wore a sports cap on his head that didn't fit at all, and the brim of the hat was buttoned down, almost blocking his entire face. The parents didn't seem to want to touch him much, and walked in front, a little away from each other. The child's walking movements were stiff and weird, like a marionette, if it weren't for Li Xun touching the temperature of his skin, I am afraid that these two middle-aged people would have come to the door with a realistic robot to make trouble.
When making relevant records, Li Xun took off Zuoqiu's hat with great curiosity, and a nurse who was paying attention to his actions screamed the next moment, but Li Xun, who had always been short-tempered, did not scold the nurse, because she was also scared.
At that time, Zuoqiu's face was even worse than now, his dark circles were dark and purple, and his eyes were so large that they exposed their entire pupils, and there was no emotion to be read in those dark pupils.
His first thought was that the child didn't look like a person, or even a living being. Maybe he's a ghost? A ghost doll full of resentment and death.
"Is there anything unusual about him?" Li Xun looked at the ghost doll for a while, and the ghost doll grinned at him with a subtle and well-behaved smile, looking terrifying and pitiful. He quickly looked away and asked the parents.
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"They said there was a problem with the child's memory." Li Xun, who was caught in the memory, was a little confused, if it wasn't for Victor's reminder, maybe he would have been like this forever. Li Xun took a deep breath and summed up the couple's lengthy nonsense into one sentence - there was a problem with memory.
Victor remembered three of the three disorders in the document: paranoia, compulsions on the mind, and memory disorders.
He opened his eyes wide and waited for the next words, and his well-behaved appearance turned out to be a little like a child waiting for snacks.
"Zuoqiu's memory is mixed with a lot of fantasies, the capacity of the brain is limited, and the memories in reality are constantly squeezed by fantasies and are constantly decreasing. The more often he experiences things he doesn't want to remember, the easier it is for him to forget...... Or it can be replaced by a short, more acceptable memory. ”
"For example, the memories of being hospitalized with a fever and being burned by hot oil were replaced by epilepsy on his 10th birthday. Hell, he didn't have a chance to celebrate his tenth birthday at that time. ”
"Then we experimented with a five-digit number and waited for a minute and then asked him what the number was. He had forgotten that he had even touched the numbers before. ”
"What are those brain-occupying fantasies?"
"Delusions about the earth, his memories are full of people and things about the earth, he seems to think that he is an earthling, but those so-called memories are not about himself."
"Why is it a delusion about the Earth?"
"That wife used to be a librarian, and Zuoqiu has been in and out of the library since he was six years old, and he seems to be very interested in the history of the earth, and he has read every book about the earth in the library, including some wild history and fantasy novels."
"He does know a thing or two about the planet. We asked a lot of questions about the earth, and there was some very obscure knowledge about it, but he knew it all, not only did he know, but he also spoke in detail. ”
"Not at all?"
"Absolutely."
Victor couldn't help but imagine the scene at that time, but the more he thought about it, the more strange he felt, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt a chill in his back. "Maybe he's from Earth? Isn't he an orphan? Maybe it's a cross-over. You see, no matter how much you know about the earth, you can't know everything, right? ”
Li Xun looked at Victor in surprise, and thought about the possibility of turning this new dean into a new patient.
Victor knew that this assumption was not reliable, but he still thought it was a bit strange that a ten-year-old child could understand everything about the earth. Li Xun also thinks it is rare, but many madmen are geniuses, which is also an indisputable fact. In his eyes, Zuoqiu may just be a more genius.
When Li Xun didn't have more information to show, Victor continued to browse the information, and then the content was about the treatment process of the condition, slowly ten pages, using various drugs and psychological counseling, but this seemed to be just a small dessert for Zuoqiu, with a taste, but no substantive effect.
If it continues like this, maybe Zuoqiu's whole life will be spent in this small mental hospital. How pitiful and lonely it is.
The delicate Victor couldn't help but feel sad.
Little did he know that the guy he was pitiful had run back to the ward, lay down on the bed, put on his glasses, and started a new round of games.
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【Entering the game】
[Game Mode: Single-player nightmare.]
Number of participants: 1 person
Game category: Story Adventure
Belongs to the world view: fairy tale kingdom
The one you choose is the Nightmare difficulty, and when you clear the dungeon, you'll be rewarded with random items
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[This is the earth...... The former home of mankind. This time, the voice changed to a slightly immature girl.
Next up, there is the background CG of the game.
Gorgeous and strange scenery floats by from far and near in the sight of the left hill.
A giant pea seedling passes through thick clouds and leads to the sky. The open pea flower condensed two drops of crystal dew, and as the sun rose, the dew slid down, turning into raindrops the size of beans, and across the endless sea, several beautiful girls with fish tails lay on the reef, they were delighted by the pouring rain, and sang a beautiful song in their throats. A prince dressed in white stood at the bow of the ship, seemingly intoxicated by the singing, and constantly stroking a crystal clear glass slipper in his hand. In another place, a pair of red shoes danced and danced, and its owner spun and screamed, crashing into a hunter in a tiger skin suit.
Zuoqiu suddenly felt a strong feeling of weightlessness, and he staggered back two steps until his back hit the wall. A girl in white wearing red shoes is dancing, it is the girl who bumped into him, the girl's graceful dancing posture, beautiful face, make her look like a beautiful white swan, but her expression is not similar to the swan, she is crying, crying so that the tone of the voice is a little weird.
The girl seemed to want Zuoqiu to help her, but her feet couldn't stop, and the red shoes spun and took her away from everyone's sight.
Zuoqiu withdrew his gaze from the girl who had left, and began to look at what he was wearing. A dusty tiger fur coat, ankle-high wide-legged trousers, and a bow and ten sharp arrows.
He fumbled with his hand in his arms for a while, and when he reached out, he already had an extra pair of scissors in his hand—the scissors of the Rip Girl.
Novice players can choose to bring an item with them when they enter a dungeon. After that, for every 10 levels, the capacity you can carry will be +2. The prop chosen by Zuoqiu when entering the dungeon is naturally the most practical rip female scissors at present.
This dress, it should be a hunter, I don't know what the related task is? With such a question in mind, open the taskbar, which is only a short two-line text.
【Complete Shirayuki's wish.】 0/1 Time Remaining: 35:59:09. 】
True to its nightmare mode, this is actually a time-limited mission.
And the four words of Snow White quickly made Zuoqiu understand his identity.
As he was thinking, a trumpet suddenly sounded, and as he looked at the sound, his eyes skimmed over the buildings with a distinctly ancient European style. Eventually, it stopped on a high platform made of stone. There was a round fat man standing on the high platform, and judging by his dress, he should be a wandering poet. The fat man cleared his throat and said, "In a distant land, there lives a king and queen, and they desire to have a child......
After listening to it for a while, Zuoqiu understood that the fat man was telling the story of Snow White, which should be a design made by the system to help everyone understand the task. Although Zuoqiu already knew it, he still stood still and listened.
The story goes that the vicious stepmother sent hunters to hunt down the princess and stopped, and the round fat man smiled lewdly, twisted and ran away. This kind of behavior like a broken dog in a novel made many listeners around him angry and blew their beards and glare, but the fat man's speed formed two extremes with his body size, and it didn't take a few seconds to get out of everyone's sight.
Is there any meaning to the story here? Or is it reminding me of something? Zuoqiu thought more in his heart, he thought to himself, a pair of lifeless eyes looking back and forth around.
The houses are not dense, but they are not dilapidated, and this place is not a village but a small town. A high wall had been erected not far away, and it must have been on the edge of the town.
Now I have two choices, one is to go out, and the other is to go inside.
Without thinking too much, Zuoqiu walked briskly towards the town gate.
There is a road outside the town gate, and the road is long and long, and I don't know where it leads. After walking hundreds of meters along the road, Zuoqiu suddenly stopped.
Not quite right.
Just two minutes ago, he stepped on a small puddle, and after more than ten steps, he left a very obvious wet mud mark on the ground. And now, right before his eyes, the same puddle appeared again. Those identical footprints tell Zuoqiu that this is no coincidence.
Zuoqiu's eyes didn't fluctuate, he picked up a stone on the side of the road, put a ♂ symbol on the ground, and then walked forward at the same speed, and about two minutes later, the puddle appeared again, and with it the symbol of [♂].
Ghost hitting the wall? No, in fairy tales, there are no such creatures as ghosts - it's magic.
The magic stood in his way and left him in an endless loop. Or ...... The left mound threw a stone forward, and strangely enough, instead of going straight forward, the stone was zigzag, and rolled like a snake towards the half-man-high grass on either side of the road.