Just as Dr. Ander had thought, the fog in the hallway was rising, reaching his knees, and the swirling gray mist made everything that had been nothing more than a dead thing seem to come back to life. Wood, stone, sand, cement, alloy, porcelain...... The things that are ubiquitous in life are soaked in gray mist under the deep red moonlight, whether the surface is smooth or rough, and it gives Dr. Ender a feeling that can be described as "melting". Not just visually, but when Dr. Ender subconsciously touched them to see if it was really the case, the soft touch was like a flashlight. Dr. Ender was startled, even if he had guessed beforehand, the synchronisation of touch and sight telling him that the changes he was perceiving were not illusions—no, no, he shook his head vigorously, not wanting to believe it was real. He prefers to believe that this is because his condition has worsened, which has led to neurological problems. Not only the senses of sight and touch, but also the senses of taste and hearing, have shown the difference between normal and day-to-day.

People who rely on their senses to observe the world will also change the world they observe when their senses change. Dr. Ender used this reason to comfort himself that "the world has changed" is more comforting than "the world has changed", but "people themselves have changed". However, he is also well aware that either change is not a good thing for others.

Who in this hospital can accept these changes in the environment and the people themselves? Although the changes are not always painful, the changes that occur in this isolated hospital are completely painful, and people can vaguely perceive that there is an even greater horror behind this pain.

After saying goodbye to the head of the research team, Dr. Ender had been walking, walking through the hallway, and on a whim, opening the door to the nearby room, he wasn't sure what he could find, but his instincts told him it made sense. Of course, he can also disbelieve in this inexplicable intuition, the past as a researcher has brought him richer and more rigorous logic, not any intuition, this intuition and the flash of inspiration needed to break through the difficulties of scientific research are completely different, this point can be clearly distinguished.

Even so, the thoughts and emotions that were tumbling in his head, the temperature that seemed to rise from the cellular level, the sense of disobedience and impulses that seemed to penetrate into his genes, made it impossible for him to stop such behavior when he was aware of it. He felt as if a ghost had been created in his body that was not part of his own subjective consciousness, using another physiological system that was different from the common sense of human behavior to interfere with this body.

He finally understood what "the human body hides terrible secrets", and suddenly understood that "the subjective consciousness of human beings is not its own master", and suddenly realized what "ghosts" are interfering with the operation of this body - it is clear that although the secrets of the human body have not been completely solved by the scientific frontiers that he knows, there are still many hypotheses to deny the explanation of the "biological composition of man" that has always been believed by the world, and those assumptions are often terrifying and do not want to believe, Nor is there much evidence to prove its correctness, because those assumptions do not constitute a complete and practical system. In other words, the hypotheses that are not systematic, as if they magnify one-sided factors, take words out of context to scare people, and create an entertaining sense of fear, have always been just assumptions, and there is neither practical proof nor real examples.

However, a real example seems to have happened. No, it's always happening, in patients with doomsday syndrome, and Dr. Ender, who used to be half-convinced and didn't see those assumptions as the point of explaining them, can't help but want to find a sense of comfort in these assumptions that he can understand.

Whether it's a mitochondrial riot, or a dormant fragment of a gene, or a tens of thousands of years of evolutionary history used to show off how superior humans are, and the parts of this evolution that have been discarded, consciously or unconsciously...... What used to seem like an after-dinner conversation was eroding Dr. Ender's skeptical and logically prioritized brain, even if he knew very well that this would not work, that it would not be right, that it would only make his state worse and worse until he was completely mired in the ensuing illusion.

However, when "are these hallucinations really just hallucinations?" Is it possible that this is just another side of the same thing seen from different perspectives? When such thoughts come to me irrepressibly, the strong impulse and curiosity can no longer hold these things that I have disdained in the past in the corners of my thoughts.

Dr. Ander does not feel that he has entered a dead end of thinking, nor does he feel that he has drilled the tip of the horns, and he does not feel that this kind of bizarre illness affects his mental and physical pain at the same time, and puts his thinking into a painful pause. On the contrary, he felt that he was getting smarter and more awake, and that the forgotten memories in his brain were awakened, just as the areas that had been sleeping in the cerebral cortex were reactivated in this stimulus that was getting hotter and hotter, as if to melt or burn itself.

He had to think that the memories that came to his mind came from his own past knowledge, and he knew that there was a theory in biology, and it was believed by the world today: the human brain does not forget the information that has been recorded, but only freezes it in a certain area when it is useless. The human brain hides great secrets, and those areas that seem to be sleeping, or have a low rate of activity, are not really useless or functioning. The change in the behavior of "thinking" that is completely different from the past seems to be the anomaly caused by the reactivation and high activity of these inactive areas.

However, even if this kind of activity is explained by today's biology, it is by no means a good change, at least one thing, Dr. Ender understands, that exercise activity requires a huge amount of energy, and the energy required to maintain normal physiological activities of human beings is definitely difficult to support the level of continuous activity of those inactive parts of the human body. The human body is a very delicate and complex machine, which place is used the most, which place is used little, which place is active, and which place is dormant, has its own regularity and necessity, and it is a choice to adapt to change over many years. When one of the links is broken, violating the original mechanism, it will inevitably affect the other mechanisms, and it is likely that people will collapse structurally - just like those machines with complex structures that are overloaded.

Even so, this "gradual awakening of the sleeping part" is highly active, allowing him to examine the information he has received from a more comprehensive perspective - the information that cannot be remembered, fills in some confusing gaps, and connects with the information that has not been forgotten, generating a new logic. This new, seemingly more comprehensive logic and cognition is giving Dr. Ender an illusion of "evolution" and "sublimation."

Dr. Ender is sure that this is a delusion, precisely because he never felt that the seemingly sleeping part of the human body, and the information it carries, is really "sleeping" and "not working". On the contrary, Dr. Ender has always believed that they are always in contact with the rest of the body's active parts, and that this connection is reflected in people's own subconscious actions, from subconscious reactions, and from the seemingly natural actions that people take for granted.

Since all the seemingly dormant and useless structures are actually working, the evolution and sublimation of their work today is naturally an illusion, because their work has not produced "qualitative" changes, but is more active and massive, so that they are more "main" and "important" than they were in the past. And this is the illusion, which never becomes primary and important, because they are never unimportant and unimportant.

Just as some science fiction works describe mitochondria with a skeptical and harsh attitude, it is impossible for humans to remove mitochondria - if mitochondria are not important, not primary, then it should be surgically removed like the cecum. But in reality, when humans lose their mitochondria, there will be a total structural collapse. Even though today's science treats the cecum as a dispensable, Dr. Ender has always been skeptical of this – he studied it in detail during his Ph.D. and published several papers, but it was overshadowed by mainstream voices, and even so, he still believed that his experiments could be a non-negligible complement to human research.

Now, Dr. Ender felt so excited, impulsive, and dizzy, as if he had a high fever, as if he were drunk, and his thoughts were speeding up in such an inappropriate state. He kept recalling, constantly thinking, constantly tearing the past cognition and logic into pieces, and constantly adding those recalled information, and then forming a new logic and cognition. In the end, he suddenly felt that he was in a kind of ignorance and trance, not knowing where those new logics and cognitions, those terrible involuntary thoughts, had taken him.

Doomsday syndrome is terrible, and anyone who studies this type of condition would not object to this perception, and Dr. Ender felt that he was a patient with Doomsday Syndrome that he could truly realize how terrible this type of condition was. The dual pathologies of the mental and physical levels, like a chemical reaction between each other, are faster than expected and more complex than what is observed externally - therefore, the specific drugs developed by the hospital can only be developed in a targeted manner, and they will become invalid after the patient takes it once, which may not be a "virus" at work, but a manifestation of the distorted adaptability of patients with doomsday syndrome after their own alienation.

Yes, in rigorous science, what seems good is not always good.

The collapse of patients with doomsday syndrome may not be a disease of common sense, but a price of rapid evolution - those internal structures that are active for some reason are compressing changes that take tens of millions of years to accumulate and adapt to in less than a year, or even a few dozen days.

When Dr. Ander thought of this, he suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction, as if he had figured out something that had been bothering him. At this time, he suddenly realized what he was going to do - his thinking was no longer controlled by his own subjective consciousness, how long had he been in this dormitory building? And I was separated from everyone else, and I didn't accomplish anything I wanted to do.

Where are you? He looked around in confusion, and although the silhouette was still in the dormitory where the girls had stayed, the scenery he saw seemed to fluctuate in steam, and there was a plausible distortion of the scenery. The ground was soft, as was the iron railing, with a fleshy texture and color, except for the crimson moon and the misty mist.

The flickering lights of the hallway brought not only the sound of electricity, but also the frightening silence set off by these fragmentary sounds—as if he was the only one left in the whole building, and as if there was something other indescribable peeping outside of himself.

Dr. Ender was reminded of the doomsday syndrome patients he had seen in the past: they would suddenly go berserk, run violently, as if they were running away from something terrible, and huddle in a corner shivering.

Yes, that's it. Dr. Ender said to himself that he was sick and had seen what the same patients had seen.

Looking out from the corridor, everything that could be seen within the hospital was already shrouded in gray mist, and the terrifying looming hallucinations would flash in the corners of the field of vision from time to time, and disappear again when the consciousness tried to catch them. And these hallucinations, as if never appearing directly in front of the field of vision, are observed in a more realistic way.

Dr. Ender reassures himself that all of this is an illusion and that it will not cause him any harm—the physical effect of the spirit, which is at the heart of the "Human Completion Project" that he researched and promoted in the hospital, and he wants this effect to be smaller than he had imagined at any time, because his own spirit has been strongly influenced, and according to his philosophy, this influence will be fed back into his real physical physiology, with terrible consequences.

Even if it is an illusion, it has become something that can actually hurt itself.

The more this can be understood, the more it makes Dr. Ender feel at risk.