Hearing sounds that normal people can't hear, seeing things that normal people can't see, but for normal people, these sounds and pictures are "non-existent", specifically, they don't have any effect on them. However, people with doomsday syndrome have to endure the effects of these sounds and things that should not be there. The original research believed that this is a phenomenon that is fed back from the psychological level to the physiological level, and that a hundred times simpler is a kind of high-intensity hypnosis, and of course, there are many other phenomena that should not exist in terms of known hypnosis theories, but the general phenomenon is similar.

On the other hand, it is not very difficult to understand the psychological and spiritual changes caused by abnormal changes on the physiological level.

Psychological and physical changes feed back and reinforce each other, leading to the suffering that the doomsday syndrome experiences that is not understood by outsiders.

Originally, the research on "virus" and "doomsday syndrome" only ended here, and researchers have also tried to adjust the physiology through drugs and mental adjustment through psychological physiotherapy, and even if it cannot be cured, some of the expected effects should be achieved. However, it is not so simple, and the treatment carried out in a theoretically effective way not only does not produce the desired effect, but contributes to further deterioration, no, or should it be said, a variation of the condition.

When mutation occurs, all the previous treatment theories are overturned, just as people have finally found classical physics and can use it to serve life, and suddenly, the basic rules that make up the world have undergone a fundamental change, and classical physics must be completely ineffective, and it must be restarted. Repeat the accumulation of a hundred years to find formulas that describe the basic rules of the new world.

Such a change would undoubtedly be a heavy blow to any researcher, however, it was not long before they noticed it. Every time I find a theory that can correspond to the current situation and try to apply it, the things that correspond to the theory change again. If it's just once, it may be seen as a mistake, and twice as a coincidence, but every time it's like this, one has to feel a kind of fear - as if something unseen is watching you, as if you're playing with it. Pushing the sandcastle that it had managed to build up with a bang was as simple as raising your hands and feet.

What kind of things are you facing? Such an idea, after in-depth contact with patients with doomsday syndrome, and even a detailed understanding of all the descriptions of "virus" in the database, will inevitably come to mind. In human-centered wisdom. It is very difficult to form an opponent who is "beyond comprehension". It's also hard to accept. Because, this practice of overestimating the "virus" without an upper limit will make all your thoughts and actions seem meaningless. This meaninglessness, and the unknown that creates meaninglessness, can lead to extreme negative emotions.

This hospital is staffed with psychologists who serve patients with doomsday syndrome at the same time. It is also serving the researchers themselves. Transcendent thinking makes it impossible for people to imagine and understand how terrible what they are about to face, but because of this, it makes people feel a kind of fear like an abyss.

Fear. Despair and madness have always been the themes of this hospital. That's why the hospital had to be located on an isolated island. When was the hospital founded, and when did the study of the "virus" begin? Actually, the people who work in the hospital don't know very well.

Huge and extreme negative emotions, in the form of a small social structure, spread across the island, a situation that every psychologist knows. This is not a new problem, and it cannot be avoided as long as research into "viruses" and "doomsday syndromes" continues. It is also the responsibility of researchers to try to channel and suppress such emotions. The hospital has many impersonal rules and regulations, some of which are even conservative, like a secret society in the Middle Ages, and even reminiscent of a cult. No one can say how many people are active in places they can't see, and how many of them are in such invisible places, during the day and at night.

The unknowns that can be created by these people are not useless, nor are they superfluous, and they cannot simply be called "tumors".

If you want to survive in this hospital, you have to face it at times, and you have to ignore it at other times. If the orthodox courtyard is white, and the underground groups that operate secretly are black, then there is also a huge gray area to reconcile the two colors. The hospital on this isolated island carries too many secrets and becomes very complicated. However, the composition of this living environment is entirely caused by the "virus".

The "virus" is like a magnet, and the changeable human heart has surrounded it and forged a terrible shell. This is not something that can be broken by one person or a group. At first, there was a plan that "just in case, we could drop a nuclear bomb on the isolated island hospital and violently eliminate everything", but the nuclear bomb also requires people to press the launch twist, and it is the human heart that dominates people's behavior. Nowadays, it is also questionable whether the idea of "dropping a nuclear bomb" can be unified and implemented.

Several times, I heard that the people above were terrified and ready to destroy everything here, but in the end, the Lonely Island Hospital still existed. Just when people thought it would continue to exist as it always was, the signs of destruction were revealed directly from the inside of the hospital. Not only inside the hospital, but also the outside world is not as peaceful as it used to be.

"The virus is active."

This is the only answer that can be given after the hospital has spent so much time and energy, and it can be described as infuriating and unsatisfactory. But what can be done about this? If it were a movie, there would probably be a dramatic twist, and maybe it could save everyone from fire and water. But where is this dramatic turn?

No one can be sure.

Everyone is struggling with the fear of the unknown.

Dr. Nguyen Le is very aware that there is a clear dividing line between the past and the present situation, and perhaps anyone who knows more about the inside story can feel this dividing line. It began with the death of the special test subject "Takakawa", which is regarded as a death in common sense, but LCL does not mean outright death in theory. As time passed, this feeling became clearer and clearer.

Even researchers who don't believe in "feeling" can statistically see a series of things happen over a period of several months. to verify the odds of such a change.

What kind of existence is "Takakawa"? Why did he become such a dividing line? What changes have happened to him that are invisible to the naked eye and that the theory has not analyzed in advance? These questions are related to the secrets of the "virus", and all researchers who try to analyze "Takakawa" have such clear or vague thoughts, but they must exist.

Dr. Nguyen Le considered herself one of the closest researchers to Gao Chuan, and this experience eventually became her taking over the deceased's work and becoming the capital of the hospital's research team. However, even she had to admit it. I don't really know much about the person "Gao Chuan". Of course, if you look at "Gao Chuan" as a teenager, her psychological knowledge is enough to complete a relatively complete objective description of it, but it is also in the process of this description that you can feel that the person who constitutes "Gao Chuan" exists. It's not just "a human teenager". In the depths of his body and mind, there was something else hidden. A lot of people try to get their hands on this kind of thing. Analyzing this kind of thing, "Takakawa" himself signed a contract and volunteered to become an experimental subject to cooperate with various researches in the hope of being able to complete antidotes such as "serum".

"Takakawa" does not set limits on research, and the researchers cherish this special sample. As much as possible to prove its worth, however, this close doctor-patient relationship is now one of the reasons for the destruction of the hospital itself. Dr. Nguyen Le in the underground research room of the Lurkers. I experienced a very horrible scene, a terrible force that suddenly appeared, killed many people in an unobservable way - if I want to describe it, it is like a performance in a horror movie, which originally existed only on the screen, and was simply a signal transcription, suddenly came out of the screen and became a terrible entity.

Since then, the atmosphere in the hospital has deteriorated. Doomsday Syndrome patients are becoming shorter and shorter, their alienation is more rapid, and the number of infected people in hospitals is rising, all of which are deliberately covered up, but it is impossible not to leak a hint of the news.

When Dr. Nguyen Li realized that he was also suffering from doomsday syndrome, the sense of depression and terror that the apocalypse was coming became clearer and clearer. For a while, she observed every normal person, and she didn't feel that the other person was normal, but just like herself, pretending to be normal. Every day, there are people who have met a few times or talked to each other, and suddenly there is no sound. When observing the LCL, I always think that many of my acquaintances are in it.

Then there are dreams, dreams that are the same, but cannot be remembered clearly. Even if you are awake, you will suddenly fall into a trance. When you feel pain, it is accompanied by realistic and dark hallucinations. At first, Dr. Nguyen Li was only in a state of suspicious agitation, but now, even the anxiety has been worn away, and only numbness remains.

Dr. Nguyen Li believes that in fact, people who can maintain a superficial normality like themselves also have this kind of numb mentality. However, numbness does not save anyone, and it may go further and make people think calmly, but from many perspectives, it is still a poison of the mind.

Dr. Nguyen Le constantly used his knowledge of psychology to adjust himself, but it didn't make much difference.

As now, she saw the person who didn't exist—in this closed, theoretically alone laboratory, there was something else, and it, or he, was standing in the corner. The interior that should be illuminated by the light is not as bright as I thought, and the shadows in the corners are clear, but it does not make people feel discordant.

He seemed to melt into the shadows, and he seemed to stand out of the shadows. Even if Dr. Ruan Li treats him as non-existent and imparts hints to his own psychology, he can't completely avoid caring about him.

"Gao Chuan......" Dr. Nguyen Li sighed, and finally gave up this practice of treating nothing. She turned and looked at the shadow in the corner, and the figure in the shadow, the silhouette so familiar.

"You look like a ghost now." Dr. Nguyen Li said to himself, and the thing in the shadows did not react to her words, as if it just wanted to stay there.

However, Dr. Nguyen Le suddenly realized that it was not that corner where there was an apparition called "Gao Chuan".

I don't know when I was surrounded by this ghost-like existence.

All of them were Gao Chuan, but their faces were not clear, only a faint silhouette, accompanied by his shadow, which at this time, had already enveloped the entire laboratory. The sound of the machine, the flashing lights, the metal and non-metal shells, have all been alienated into an old and archaic appearance.

Dr. Nguyen Le felt that the place he was in was not a modern high-tech laboratory, but a bloody research chamber of the Middle Ages. Bloodstained everywhere, familiar devices have been transformed into other devices with similar functions, but old and eerie shapes. The "Gao Chuan clone" was not lying in the cabin, some were disassembled and hung on the wall, some were lying in a coffin without a cover, some were lying on a bloodstained, stone bed like an operating table, and some were sitting in front of them, staring directly at themselves, of course, there were people behind them, but Dr. Ruan Li had a deep horror and did not dare to turn back.

Dr. Nguyen Lê was only smoking, and she did not respond to such a sight, let alone to respond. The response she made at the beginning had already made her regret it a little. I shouldn't sigh and say the name "Takakawa", maybe I won't have such a terrifying illusion. With what she knew about people with doomsday syndrome, she knew very well that if she admitted this hallucination, something terrible would happen.

However, even if you tell yourself in your heart that all this is an illusion, you can't completely deny everything in front of you from the bottom of your heart, because the air, breath and touch here are so real. Dr. Nguyen Li knows that many times, "what you want to believe" and "what you really believe" have nothing to do with it, and it is not your own decision not to believe, but your subconscious mind will definitely follow such a decision.

Dr. Nguyen Le just smoked silently.

She already understood why when "Takakawa" was still alive, the young man always looked silent.

Because, there is no better way to deal with it than silence. (To be continued......)