Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Sick

The action began, and they surrounded the building where Moriarty was located, and the rain was so perfect that a normal person could not even tell them out of the darkness without looking at them.

The kestrel and the others were still approaching, but the other person had already broken into the building first, he should not have participated in this operation, but perhaps out of anger at the sin, at his own insistence, Joey also joined the operation, and he wanted to examine the doctor himself.

That disturbing memory was a disgrace for Joey and the last thing he wanted to mention, and he was rarely angry, except when it was involved.

It's a courtroom, with the night stalker as the watchman, the kestrel and robin as the jury, and Joey as the plaintiff and the witnesses, who want to try the weird doctor.

The breakthrough was smooth, unhindered, and he walked lightly, like a ghost, and in the blink of an eye Joey arrived at the door of Moriarty's room, and the kestrel and the others were belatedly behind.

With a large-caliber revolver in his hand, Joey tried not to use a thermite rifle indoors, because it was not used well and could easily cause a fire, and they did not have the time or conditions to evacuate the rest of the building.

Thinking back to the goddamn doctor, Joey clenched the gun in his hand, wondering whether to knock on the door or just break in.

A subtle sound sounded, like a crisp snap of fingers, subtle but clear, and it was well muffled in the sound of the rain, as if it were a woman's soft sigh, which reached everyone's ears.

In an instant, everyone had a strange feeling, but they couldn't tell what it was, and then the thunder that could not be ignored sounded, and the thunder was so fierce that it seemed to be a glow that pierced the heavens and the earth.

The thunder rolled, shaking all the glass and trembling wildly, everyone couldn't help but look out the window, the miserable white light reflected half of the night, the thunder was so hot, for a moment Joey even saw it as the burning eyes of the witcher.

The next moment, the illusory world merged with reality, and the sound of friction sounded in the confusion, and the door was slowly pushed open.

Joey didn't seem to be relieving himself from the thunder, but then he raised his gun and pointed it at the door, and he was greeted by a different face, a familiar one.

Moriarty wore glasses, and he wore proper formal clothes as if he knew Joey was coming.

"I thought you would come earlier. ”

Joey had a cold face, as if he didn't expect this to unfold tonight, and the kestrel behind him followed, he also raised his gun and looked at Moriarty vigilantly, while the robin burst into the room with a folding knife.

After controlling Moriarty, the rest of the group burst into the room and searched the room for a short time, making sure that he was the only one.

As if he knew what was going to happen, Moriarty raised his hands, stepped back with a calm face, and finally sat back down on the couch in the living room.

Without waiting for Joey and the others to say the purpose of their trip, Moriarty said directly.

"I know what you guys are going to do, this is my identification, this is the pass to the Montenegrin hospital, and these ......"

The low table was already filled with proof of Moriarty's connections, and he smiled, without the slightest sense of fear of being pointed at guns by several people.

"You're in a good state of mind. ”

Instead of paying attention to that, the Night Stalker was interested in Moriarty's reaction.

Although he didn't know where he got the news that Joey and the others were coming, he didn't have any fear, didn't even run away, and had everything ready and waiting for him here.

He was innocent? But even then he was too calm, unusually calm.

"It's natural, I'm a doctor at the Black Mountain Hospital, after all, and I deal with people with strange symptoms all day long...... You've been there more or less, haven't you? The enthusiastic sick aren't so easy to deal with, and I'm used to working under the wails of those madmen. ”

It was not a beautiful scene, but Moriarty said it so easily, as if everything he was used to now and in the Black Mountain Hospital.

The Night Stalker realizes that this operation has become complicated.

"We doubt you ......"

"I know, I know, before I met this ...... Mr. Joshua, I realized. Moriarty looked at Joey with a smile.

Joey's face was reflected in the transparent mirror, and the man's gaze was calm and mocking.

Joey suddenly felt a little uneasy, as if he was facing a strange poisonous snake, and he had walked into his trap, but he didn't know it.

It was also at this moment that another flash of thunder flashed, shaking everything in the world, perhaps feeling the wrath of the unknown god, the lights in the room went on and off, and the bleak white thunder light reflected on Moriarty's mirror, like a fire, but then extinguished.

Moriarty was in control, and the people in front of him didn't realize what they were up against.

The night owl's eyes turned cold, he was probably the first of these people to realize Moriarty's danger, according to their original plan, it was to force a breakthrough, and then use the erosion judgment in the interrogation to make a preliminary judgment about Moriarty's condition, but this guy messed everything up.

"I know exactly what you're going to do, I'm one of you, after all. ”

Moriarty continued, as if the window had not been closed, and the icy evening breeze poured in.

"Mr. Joshua suspects that I have something to do with demons, after all, you seem to hate me. As he spoke, Joey remained silent without replying.

"It's understandable, the guys who left the Black Mountain Hospital don't like to see us again, but you...... Joey Joshua, you're a little different, this is your case, you took hallucinogens, you were in a trance, you were treated in a Montenegrin hospital for a long time before you were discharged, but after you were discharged, you didn't see a psychiatrist regularly as required.

Although your psychological assessment is qualified, we all know that you are fighting against the existence of demons on the front line, and it is easy to force yourself to become sane, even with the help of Florent's potion for the time being. ”

Moriarty said as he took out a medical record from the low table, which was Joey's, it should have been sealed, but now it was placed on the low table.

"What do you mean?" said Joey, looking a little angry.

"Wait!"

The night owl chirped and noticed something unusual.

"James Moriarty, we now have conditional suspicions related to demons, judging by what you said...... There's something else going on, right?"

Things started to go in the other direction, and the Night Stalker vaguely guessed, and his eyes were wary of Joey.

"Yes, actually, it was also by chance that I met Mr. Joshua at the mutual aid club I was in charge of, and perhaps because of my sensitivity as a healer, I found that he was mentally disturbed. ”

"No! I took the erodive contamination with me when I touched you!" Joey lashed.

"Then you can check it, Geiger counter, I know that. ”

Moriarty calmly opened his hands, the night stalker didn't speak, but he made a move, and the Geiger counter was brought over, although not as sensitive as the large Geiger counter, but as long as it was close enough, it could still detect some anomalies.

Moriarty cooperated to take over the Geiger counter, and although it was only a shoddy test, it also reassured these people a lot.

Everyone is looking at this place vigilantly, and whatever the hell is going on, this instrument will give the answer.

Minute by second...... The Geiger counter was unresponsive, ticking without any warning, and the glowing green light remained on.

"Looks like I don't have a problem. ”

Moriarty smiled, as a doctor, he had a smile that made people let go of all their guards, but that smile was so hateful to Joey now, and suddenly there was a nameless anger that he couldn't stop, and he didn't know why.

"What's going on?"

When Kestrel saw the result, he also felt that something was wrong.

He still remembered Joey's tragic situation, and judging from the current results, it seems that none of this is true.

According to attendance records, Moriarty has had no unusual activity recently, no special items have been found in the room, and he has not carried any sources of pollution at all, and he has not been able to release the erosion.

Kestrel slowly shifted his gaze to Joey, although he didn't want to, but now he suspected that it was pointed at Joey.

The reason why this action was so swift was because of the trust in Joey, but there is no evidence that Moriarty has a problem.

Although the follow-up investigation will still be carried out, the situation has now made people think otherwise.

"Well, how did you know we were coming. ”

The Night Stalker said calmly at this point, he didn't plan to let Moriarty go so easily.

"Quite simply, because of him. ”

Moriarty pointed at Joey.

"We are all members of the purification agency, but in different departments, but I am more or less aware of the rules of your actions, and Mr. Joshua has become suspicious of me, according to which I am bound to be checked.

Of course, I thought that a few people would come and ask me to fill out the form for a psychological evaluation, but I didn't expect it to be such a big battle. ”

Moriarty smiled at the Night Stalker, who seemed to know what the Night Stalker wanted to ask next, and went straight on.

"It's rare for people to question so seriously from insiders, and that undermines our trust and unity, so as to why I'm so sure that Mr. Joshua would question me......

He's a patient, and doctors know patients best, don't they?"

"What are you talking about!"

Joey suddenly realized that the current situation was completely controlled by Moriarty, and the original situation should have been that he was holding a gun to his head and asking him to explain all these damn weirdness, but now it has changed, completely changed.

"Calm down Mr. Joshua, your emotions are very excited now, normal people are suspected of being like this, it's normal, but you are a high-ranking knight, you should always stay calm. Moriarty said.

"I had seen Mr. Joshua's case, and according to what was documented on it, he didn't receive follow-up treatment, which caught my attention, but I'm just a doctor, and I can't be an interdepartmental person, right, so I put it aside until I met Mr. Joshua again at the mutual aid meeting. ”

Moriarty looked up, looked directly at Joey, and raised his hand.

"I'm a doctor, a psychiatrist, and I need to open the patient's mind to help him, so I had a brief conversation with Mr. Joshua at that time, and from the details of the conversation I found that he was not healed, he was still haunted by the nightmares of the past, and he was not aware of them at all, and thought he was living a normal life.

He needed to be healed. ”

That damn past, the blood-colored memories, every time I think about it, it puts a lot of pressure on Joey.

He would rush into the bathroom and take a shower, rinsing his body repeatedly until his skin was bruised and tiny beads of blood oozed out.

But Joey can wipe away the filth from his body, but he can't get rid of his soul.

Moriarty snapped his fingers as he spoke, a normal gesture, but the crisp sound hit Joey's heart like a drumbeat.

"Joey had hallucinations, terrible hallucinations. Kestrel said.

"It's his own mental state, he never got out of that nightmare, but then he continued to fight the demons and fell into an even bigger nightmare...... Language is magical, we psychiatrists rely on conversation to heal patients, and he is like a dam full of holes, which can burst at any time, and I just caused this in advance.

It's better to fall into the illusion of madness in your bedroom than to collapse on the battlefield, right? ”

Listening to Moriarty like this, he was like a good person.

"But how do you explain the abnormal Geiger index?"

The silent robin asked, they had no proof that Moriarty was in trouble, and they couldn't prove that Joey had fallen into madness, but that index wouldn't lie, it could give the key.

"I can't explain it...... Even now, we still don't know what a demon is, let alone the weird erosion, but I know that when the erosion acts on the spirit, it amplifies all the negative emotions, and the negative emotions will continue to expand the erosion, the vicious circle, and fall into madness. ”

Moriarty stood up suddenly, and the others couldn't help but raise their guns, but Moriarty was undaunted, and he walked up to Joey and came face to face with him.

"Joey, you're sick. ”

This time he affectionately calls him Joey.

As if being watched by some kind of monster, Joey lost all ability to move for a while, as if all his bones were frozen together, and his muscles no longer obeyed his commands.

His face was reflected in the transparent lenses, and although he tried to remain calm, he could see the different emotions in it, anger, horror, hatred......

"You're sick, and you don't want to believe you're sick, so you blame me for your mistakes, and you think I'm the one who caused you to hallucinate. ”

Moriarty's voice was gentle, as he said, he was a psychiatrist, and he wanted to make patients let their guard down and open up in simple words.

It was a soothing sound, like a soft palm gently pressing against your cheek.

"No, it's from your own disease, I just channeled it......"

Thunder swept through the window, the nameless pressure exerted on everyone's minds, the Geiger counter had already turned red, and the high-frequency screams never stopped, but Joey and the others didn't realize it at all.

Their eyes were hollow, and the darkness reflected the burning eyes.

Moriarty didn't actually stand up, he still sat comfortably on the couch, smiling at the people who had stepped into the trap.

A faint smoke rose from the room, and the flaming Horseweed combined with the strange power of the frenzied hallucinations had been in tune with reality as long as they arrived, and they sank into it, unaware of the danger.