The phone was connected, and there was silence in the earpiece for a few seconds, except for the sound of Dr. Nguyen Li's breathing. The voice was not rushed, it was no different from usual, and it put me at ease all at once.

"Mom, it's me." I say.

"Achuan?" Dr. Ruan Li was a little surprised, she seemed to be still working at this time, and I heard the sound of a pen and a notebook moving and colliding on the desktop, "What's wrong?" Call at this time. ”

I was amazed by her answers and feelings. According to the situation I am in, I think that Dr. Nguyen Li's emotions fluctuate, and it should not be like this. She wasn't worried, she just wondered why I was calling her at this time, and I was on my side in such a situation, wasn't it a matter of course to call her? I realized in an instant that something was wrong.

"I ...... I remember this afternoon, I attended the paper presentations of the symposium with those experts. As soon as I said this, I was interrupted by Dr. Nguyen Li.

She didn't say anything at first, but the change in the sound of her breathing made me really feel that she had something to say, and these words must be the problem. She was silent for about three seconds before she said to me, "I see, Achuan." I'm glad you could call me, but what I want to tell you is that the time for you to attend the dissertation presentation is not this afternoon. It was the afternoon three days ago. ”

…… What the? I couldn't help but doubt my ears. Three days ago in the afternoon? I looked at the clock next to the old telephone and suddenly noticed that although the second hand was beating all the time, the minute hand did not seem to be moving at all. Maybe I'm mistaken, when I first entered the door, what number did the minute hand refer to? And the calendar, I scanned the room. None of the diary items were found.

My thoughts kept beating, so I grabbed the phone on the other side and lit up the screen to check the time: there was only the time on it, and the exact date was completely unavailable. I should have confirmed that the date of this phone should be complete. I thought so, but some of the present. are all hinting at all sorts of anomalies.

"Are you sure? What time is today? Dr. Nguyen Li's voice rang out in time, and her reply seemed to explain the anomaly I was currently aware: "You can't be sure, can you?" I don't find it surprising, because you don't have an objective indication of time and date. ”

"What?" I couldn't help but blurt out, surprised.

"You're sick." "It may be difficult for you to understand, but it has happened many times in the past, and you can imagine that you are back to normal three days after the onset of the disease. No, and it shouldn't be said to be completely normal, there are some side effects that linger and make it impossible to determine the true situation you are in. ”

I took a few deep breaths and gradually calmed down, as Dr. Nguyen Le said now, I should have noticed it a long time ago. In her observations, it should have been something wrong on my side. The world I see. It's not the same world as she sees it. And this case. It's true that this isn't the first time it's happened, isn't that the source of the anomaly I noticed before?

"I'm in the hospital?" Even though I looked around and couldn't feel it at all, I asked anyway. Two girls were yelling in the bathroom, and the boys started drinking. Neighbors frolicking outside the window, and several people ran out of the door, dousing a large bucket of water and soaking wet. This qiē, although placed after the incident, seems very daily. But it's not without its weird smell, especially the man I saw vomiting before. I can't explain the feeling, just like the furnishings and decoration of this room, although there is a strange and abnormal feeling, not like the preference of normal people, but it is also not a mysterious anomaly.

"Yes. Two days ago, I sent you to a psychiatric hospital, and if you didn't escape without permission, then you should be in the hospital now. Dr. Nguyen Le said unequivocally, "So, where are you now?" Where do you feel you are? ”

At this point, I have almost understood what kind of situation is on my side in the eyes of Dr. Nguyen Li: for Dr. Nguyen Li, the attack from Area 51 that occurred at the report club is already a "thing of the past" that has come to an end for the time being. At that time, I was in a state of illness, and in order to facilitate care and treatment, she sent me to a psychiatric hospital. Although I had already mentioned to her that I wanted to meet with the other patients on the same list of patients, especially Marceau, I was a little surprised that I was sent away when I was judged to be ill.

The discrepancy between what I am describing now and what Dr. Nguyen Le has observed must be a side effect of the "onset of illness" - for example, I lost my memory of what happened in three days.

I didn't answer right away, I just asked, "Doesn't my phone have a specific date either?" ”

Dr. Nguyen Li replied calmly: "There is no zài time indication in the hospital, and all the clocks and dates are incorrect, in order to blur the patient's sense of time. It's also for the ease of treatment, you know, Achuan. ”

Yes, I can understand that.

"It's the same with your phone. After entering the psychiatric hospital, we replaced you with a new one. "We feel that doing this will make you less irritable. ”

"My previous cousin was irritable?" I asked rhetorically.

"You may not be able to describe irritability, but your behavior seems to be very concerned about time." Dr. Nguyen Le said, "So, I agree to blur your sense of time. ”

I see, on her side, something like this happened. However, it is difficult for me to have a personal sense of reality about the three-day vacancy. For me, waking up and still in the conference room on the fourth floor of that building was a difficult situation to understand.

"When I was sober, I was in the conference room where the briefing was held." I pinched my head and tail and said to Dr. Ruan Li, "Do you think that I ran over by myself and then forgot about it?" ”

"It's possible, but I didn't see it with my own eyes, and I didn't get a report from the hospital, maybe you just sneaked out of the hospital tonight, maybe you didn't know." Dr. Nguyen Li replied with an obvious attitude, and asked instead, "So, Ah Chuan." Why do you think you're in the conference room? Does that room have any special meaning to you? ”

"Maybe." I hesitated, but I recounted my knowledge in full, including how we were attacked by the enemy and how I broke off and defeated the enemy. When you wake up from the anomaly, you're what you are now. I would like to know how Dr. Nguyen Le observes this qiē from his own perspective.

After listening to this, Dr. Nguyen Li was silent for a while, and I could tell from the voice on the other side of the earpiece that she was rummaging for something. After a while, she said to me, "It sounds like the influence of Claudia White." But there is also a spiritual element inherent in you. At the briefing three days ago. Something did happen to the guests of the seminar, and two people died. ”

"What accident? What about the cause of death? I asked.

"Someone died, and it was an accident in itself. The exact cause of death has not yet been found, but many indications suggest that it was related to Claudia's influence. Dr. Nguyen Le said, "You weren't the only one who had hallucinations at that time. But it's not all of them. And the deceased should be the most severely ill, not just mentally ill. It also puts a huge burden on the physiology, and eventually the body cannot bear the load, which leads to death. ”

"Not suicide?" The word "suicide" suddenly came to mind.

"No, it's not that strict." Dr. Nguyen Le said, "It's like a cold and fever, the body is hot, and the endocrine system is chaotic. In the end, due to physiological problems, he died of exhaustion. ”

Her description reminds me of one of the most typical ways of dying in patients with doomsday syndrome, the kind of mental frenzy and physical fever that is a fairly obvious feature. In the reality of the hospital, it is xiàn. This phenomenon of reaching the limit of the illness is placed in the apocalyptic illusion, and there are many corresponding phenomena. For example, when taking "Paradise", when using Super Powers beyond the limit, and when being eroded by Saya infection.

"What was my watch at the time?" I couldn't help but ask.

"Something like that. I've told you before that you were mentally ill before you were under the influence of Claudia White. Dr. Nguyen Le said, "Claudia White makes your condition worse, but the aggravation is not obvious, and on the surface, it seems that there is some kind of hallucinatory resonance and consistency with other patients who are affected by Claudia White. But in fact, when it comes to Yan zhòng Cheng dù, before you were infected, your mental state was already quite poor. On the contrary, it was only during the period when I determined how much influence White Claudia had on you, that you had to be closer to the average person. ”

Dr. Nguyen Li's tone has always exuded a sense of calm: "I have forgotten and explained to me repeatedly, but I will forget again". She seems to be accustomed to this qiē, and of course, this is not good news.

Actually, I haven't forgotten too much. It's just ...... What happened within three days of being sent to a psychiatric hospital after the incident? If, as Dr. Nguyen Le said, my memory is stuck in three days ago, then I should not have lost much. I took out the diary from my coat pocket and flipped through the contents while talking to Dr. Nguyen Li. She thinks I'm in good shape, but I don't.

Although I am still full of energy at this time, this rupture of the sense of time and cognitive bias are very troublesome situations.

In the diary, there is indeed no "three days of amnesia", and in addition, I don't seem to have written anything during the three days of amnesia, and the transition to the present is very smooth.

I think I'm more or less comfortable with this slightly unprepared situation.

"Mom, what should I do?" I said, "Where I am......" I glanced around the room again and said, "It doesn't look like a mental hospital." With that, I explained to Dr. Nguyen Le about the situation of my encounter with five male and female students and their escort to this resort full of wooden cabins.

Dr. Nguyen Li did not express his opinion immediately, but sorted out the current situation: "When you wake up, you realize that you are in the conference room, and the memory is stuck in the time when you escaped the monster attack three days ago......" She said this, and I interrupted her, I said, "It's not escape, it's victory." ”

"Okay." Dr. Nguyen Li's tone allowed me to imagine her shrugging her shoulders, "You think that when you defeated the monster and came to your senses, you felt that time hadn't passed too long—only about ten hours, right?" So. You feel like you've been left in that place. Afterwards, a group of people go to the building and take your chances, meet you, and take you back to their quarters. It's a resort-like place with lots of cabins, right? ”

"Yes." I say.

"In the period. You are also completely unaware of the real time and date. Dr. Nguyen Li said, "Do you think this is an oversight that should not be done, or some mysterious force is playing tricks, right?" ”

"Yes." I replied.

"So, how do you feel about the resort you're at now, and the people you're in contact with?"

"It's just ordinary people. Although the décor of the room was a bit strange, it was acceptable. Although it has a slight abnormal smell, it is not a dangerous situation. I don't think there's going to be a monster all of a sudden. It's the feeling of meeting strange people and seeing strange hobbies. ”

"Good." Dr. Nguyen Li's tone sounded satisfied, and after a pause, she said, "Well, now I'm going to tell you something that might surprise you." ”

"What?" I asked.

"The right to develop this peninsula. Completely in private hands. Dr. Nguyen Le said, "I'm pretty sure that there are villas on the island. There is no other resort. ”

I was a little surprised by what she said.

"Only the villa can receive tourists?" I confirmed it again.

"Yes, including accommodation, food and all kinds of entertainment activities, are only available in the villa area." Dr. Nguyen Le said: "On the peninsula, apart from the villa area and the wild ecological nature reserve, there is also the hospital area. If you see a dwelling that is different from the villa. If it is not in a wild ecological nature reserve, it must belong to a hospital. ”

Here—I looked around the house, looking out through the window—everything I saw belonged to a mental hospital?

I couldn't help but say to Dr. Nguyen Li, "I talked to those students, and they don't feel like they are mentally ill. ”

"That's because you're mentally ill." Dr. Nguyen Li's answer. Leave me speechless.

It would not seem so difficult to understand if the sense of the everyday, which I felt was the result of the life of a mentally ill person. However, it is not so easy for me to regard these people around me as mentally ill just based on the current situation.

The three boys seemed to have forgotten that I was here, and they were a little dissolute. I heard the bathroom door knock again, and the two girls ran out with only bath towels around, took a large bottle of milk from the refrigerator, and poured it down in one go. I couldn't help but rub my temples, is there really anything strange about such a scene?

"Is it still there? Achuan. Dr. Nguyen Li's voice came.

"Ah, yes, it's still there." I cheered up and replied, "But I've heard that the mental hospital is not on the peninsula, but near the mainland. ”

"That was a long time ago." Dr. Nguyen Le said, "The psychiatric hospital has undergone several expansions, alterations and relocations before being transferred to the seminar...... No, it should be said that when it was handed over to the sponsors of this symposium, it was not what it was at the beginning. In order to create a more open environment for patients, a part of the forest area has also been purposefully added. Although I don't know exactly where the wooden house belt you are talking about is located in the hospital, it is estimated that it is in the newly added forest area. ”

"Mentally ill, do you really need such a large environment?" I couldn't help but question.

"Who knows? I didn't do any research on that, but maybe Dallas did. Dr. Ruan Li paused and said, "Moreover, even if it is really useful, it will probably not be reflected in the impact of the natural environment on the patient's psychology, but in a less humane place." ”

Dr. Nguyen Lê's hint is obvious enough. The symposium made it clear that the activities of specialists and patients should be concentrated in psychiatric hospitals. As far as I know, what is being done in this psychiatric hospital is research related to 'paradise'. This qiē shows that this vast hospital area actually existed to cover up some dark conditions. The history of this psychiatric hospital is not very good, and every time it is expanded, it will be accompanied by some tragic events. Despite this, it has been preserved, and although it has changed hands, it has not been closed down in the slightest.

The history of the surrounding towns, as well as the many strange behaviors of the townspeople, can actually be traced from the history of the mental hospital.

Thinking about it this way, Dallas has expanded the psychiatric hospital again, adding a lot of "natural wildness" factors, which is actually not so incomprehensible. Whether it's to give private research a cover. Or if something happens and the corpses are destroyed, this spacious natural mountain forest area is an excellent place.

"So, I was actually taken back to a psychiatric hospital by a group of mentally ill people?" I said so. It's always a little weird.

Dr. Ruan Li couldn't help but be silent for a long time before he said, "...... Anyway, you've probably answered the hospital. ”

"But is the hospital free for patients to come and go?" I asked, "When I returned with these five people, we didn't see the blockade. ”

"As far as I know, the psychiatric hospital will decide whether the patients will live in a freer place or a more closed place, depending on their situation." Dr. Nguyen Le was quick to answer: "The question of how to place the patient. It's very free here. ”

"It's a bit too free, isn't it?" I say.

"From the researcher's point of view, a high degree of freedom means that more details can be tried, more possibilities can be attempted. Nowadays, when raising cattle and sheep, isn't there also centralized breeding and open grazing? Dr. Nguyen Li said: "Assuming that these people you encounter are really mentally ill people who are being free-range, then they probably won't be dangerous patients." The place is not far from the resort area. In terms of development, the actual safety and safety of the guests must also be considered. ”

That is to say. The people who stayed here were all mentally ill people who looked similar to ordinary people and had mild illnesses? I concluded.

"Yes, so, you can stay there for one night." Dr. Nguyen Le said, "There is nothing you need to worry about. What should have happened has happened, and it has ended. ”

Although she said. The previous qiē has already ended. But I didn't really feel it. On the contrary, I now have a very strong feeling, a deeper continuation. It is gradually seeping in, and this shadow makes this seemingly relatively safe place less safe. The everyday and the weird are intertwined, and there is no mystery in the anomaly, which has begun to change the taste.

Three days.

I lost three days.

And the enemy was enough to prepare for another attack in these three days.

Although, logically speaking, if they need "paradise", they should not interrupt the research here until "paradise" is successful. But with the precedent of District 51, who can be sure if they have other ideas, and if they need to put "paradise" as the first goal? Even excluding me and Dr. Nguyen Lê, just mentioning the seminar already has enough elements for other occult experts to act, because the Doomsday Shinrikyo is indeed here.

In the same way, precisely because the Apocalyptic Shinrikyo is in the midst of the seminar, there must be extreme instability within the seminar. The Doomsday Shinrikyo under Dr. Nguyen Lê's observation is also undergoing structural and conceptual changes, and Dr. Nguyen Lê, who is a member of it, must be very clear about this.

"Are everyone else okay?" I asked about the fitness trainer, the soothsayer, and Tsukao Mitsuki. They had experienced the anomaly on the third floor of the building with me, what exactly did they say to Dr. Nguyen Li? After they were rescued, how did their cognition change?

"Well, it's okay. They're worried about you. That's what Dr. Nguyen Le said.

I couldn't help but ask again: "Mom, do you think they were also influenced by Claudia White?" ”

Dr. Nguyen Lê was silent for a moment and replied, "It doesn't matter how they think they are. Don't forget jì, it's not the first time they've been in a situation. On the way here, they also took your medicine. ”

"Does the hallucination have to be because of Claudia White?" I asked rhetorically.

"The key is whether there is an effect after taking the medicine." "Obviously, in them, there is a little bit of an effect, which is why I have expectations for them, but at the moment, they can't completely get rid of the influence of Claudia White," says Dr. Nguyen Lê. Little by little, their mental state is crumbling. (To be continued......)