Dr. Nguyen Li's private meeting was very suspicious, and I suspected early on that there was a "mystery" at work, as evidenced by the surveillance footage of Apricot, that only the "mysterious" could interfere with the "mysterious", and at least the same mystery of Cheng Dù could have an effect. The people who arrived at the meeting site at this time effectively avoided the direct monitoring of apricots. I don't know how mysterious Kyoko was after she transformed her demonic abilities into an electronic demon messenger, and whether she used all her strength at this point - as a rule of thumb, it should have been none - but it was enough to prove that the last person to arrive in the room, or this group of people, had the same intensity of mystery as the current one.

If we can't directly observe these people, we can only rely on other clues to speculate indirectly, however, for me and Ryder, the gap between the clues that can be captured and the clues that Apricot can get is obviously extremely obvious. Because, Apricot said with great certainty that not all of the people who entered the conference room were people.

"There's only one person, and about seven ghosts." Apricot who had been lazy sat up cross-legged and smiled energetically, as if to say that something very interesting had happened.

"Ghosts?" Ryder was a little confused, but he didn't have any doubts about the "ghost" this time. In the process of becoming a mystical expert, it is inevitable to come into contact with various occult sciences to substitute the mysterious events that you encounter, and although the content of the occult can also be misleading, you have to use this knowledge to forcibly explain the phenomena caused by the incomprehensible "mystery". This act of forcible explanation is not necessarily useful for resolving the incident, but it is obvious for spiritual support. Human beings, after losing the ability to define and explain the phenomena of things. No different from a monkey.

Even if you know that it is a wrong interpretation, there must be an explanation. This is the reason why occult experts are proficient in the occult, otherwise why bother to specialize in knowledge that is of little use?

The word "ghost" represents something in the occult of Europe and the United States, and in the occult of Asia. There are similar characteristics, but they are not all the same. In the Asian occult, "ghosts" are divided into many types by many details, and are the most troublesome things. Kyoko is an Asian who seems to have been born in the Japanese Special Administrative Region, and the "ghost" she calls should belong to the school of Asian occultism. The Special Administrative Region of Japan, which is also the eleventh district of the Central Principality, is separated from the Central Principality. For thousands of years, it has been influenced by the ancient culture of the Central Principality, and its characteristic occultism originates from the occultism of the Central Principality, but it is full of the unique introspection and self-destructive tendencies of the island culture. The "ghosts" born from this have some extremely difficult concepts, and the mystery that can be forcibly explained by such "ghosts" is naturally not simple.

"Wraiths?" In my mind, this most classic image immediately came to mind.

"This person. Is it Asian? "Ryder's vision is different from mine, but. The expression is equally deliberate. No matter which apocalyptic fantasy world it is, Asia has always been known as a "mysterious" desert on the surface, however, there has never been a mystery expert who would really despise the situation in Asia, because. As long as you go deep into the "mystery" and experience the unfathomable nature of the "mystery", you can't help but think of the question, why are there so few mysterious events in Asia? I don't have much evidence, but. I think there will be no shortage of conspirators who want to use mysterious forces to conquer Asia and open up this "desert". However, even the Doomsday Shinrikyo is ultimately just doing some underground work in the Central Duchy. In the past apocalyptic fantasy, my city was involved in a huge sacrificial ceremony, and it was precisely because of the assistance of the Netball that the destruction did not expand, but, on the other hand, my city is not the biggest base of the Netball, and Asia is also the weakest point of the Netball's power, so why do those heavy conspiracy events in Asia always end up like this?

Even if we look at this problem from the perspective of "hospital reality", we cannot find too many powerful explanations. As a native of Asia, I also feel that the situation in Asia is too strange, as if there is a "force of fate" hanging over Asia, so that all the "mysterious" events and phenomena involved cannot be expanded. Even if there are mysterious organizations like me and the Whisperers, we are the only ones who have been identified from the front.

Using the relationship between the "virus" and the consciousness of patients with doomsday syndrome to explain it is also not very good to find a foothold. The patients with doomsday syndrome in the hospital are not mainly "Asian", and the research needs patients as materials, but the hospital is absolutely not capable of focusing on Asia. As far as I can see, the research team is predominantly European and American, which also proves that they do not have much support from the Asian side, which has deep differences between Europe and the United States and Asia, in terms of culture, thinking, and behavior.

Therefore, it is absolutely unfeasible to explain the weirdness of Asia in the apocalyptic fantasy with the phrase "the consciousness of patients with doomsday syndrome is biased towards Asia".

In the process of recording and looking through my own stories again and again, trying to find out the "truth" from them, there is only one hypothesis that can explain the situation, but this assumption is the most absurd, the most hopeful, and the most frightening, and it is also the most full of contradictions, and I can't regard it as a kind of "real" - the compiler of the story, the qiē that I encountered, the one qiē that I could observe, is actually a Matryoshka story, I'm just a character in a story written by an indescribable compiler...... And so on and so forth. Based on this hypothesis, I have embedded the story characters at least three times: a certain Cun Zài created the story of the "virus", and the "virus" created the story of "Jiang", and the "Jiang" created the story of "me". These stories enjoy the common material of a certain number of dùshang, and the main line of a series of links on a certain dù, from different perspectives, using the description of "ideological agency" to allow the characters of different levels of nested stories to interact.

Thus, the anomaly in Asia, and the inexplicable anomaly in Asia, is simply because the highest level of storyteller set it up - without any reason, it may involve the ideology of the storyteller. Because, for the storyteller. This is just a story that does not pursue "logic", "reason" and "rigorous science", so the essence of everything that is "unexplainable" is "unexplainable".

That's right, a perfect explanation of what happened to me, the treacherous fate I was in. Let me have a deep fear and a strong hope for the ending, because this assumption makes it impossible for the "virus" and "jiang" who theoretically decide the ending to determine the ending, and only the thoughts of the storyteller who doesn't know what exactly it is can decide the ending. Except for the will of the storyteller, all the human and non-human wills that I recognize are meaningless.

However, it is also because of this. I can't accept it. For any wise person, it is also an extremely negative thought.

This idea popped into my head suddenly. I don't even know why I suddenly thought that way, but when it took shape, I went back and looked for the veins in which it formed. However, the reason for its formation can be discovered. It can be explained by a qiē, though. I buried it deep in my heart and didn't think about it often.

Abandoning the assumption of "storytellers" and looking at the mystery of Asia, all that mystery experts can recognize is "weirdness", which produces associations and fears, and further deepens the fear of Asia in their consciousness. Just don't go back to the roots. If you ask why Asia is like this, you can have a very clear understanding of the impression of Asia in the mysterious circle. Any mysterious event that can be applied to the Asian occult will cheer up the occult experts.

The "ghost" that Kyoko talks about when she is born in Asia is the "ghost" in Asian occultism. The "ghosts" of the Asian occult follow someone in the current meeting. Then, whether this person is Asian or not inevitably makes people think. And regardless of whether the other party is Asian or not, whether or not they are proficient in Asian occultism, the mystery that can be forcibly interpreted as "ghosts" should not be underestimated.

Whether it's Apricot, Ryder, or me, we're definitely no strangers to the classic concept of "ghosts" in Asian occultism. Apricot is already adjusting her ability according to this concept, and the proof of this is that the image on the TV screen is clear again.

"Ghost Waves?" Ryder asked.

Apricot shrugged and said, "Maybe, who knows?" I don't need to be conceptually precise. Moreover, there is no accurate and correct understanding of this kind of thing. ”

After having a basic judgment and a general understanding of the current situation, I feel that I should do this, I feel that I can do this, I feel that this can solve the problem, so I do it, and I do it easily or painstakingly - most of the feelings of the application of "mystery" are like this. So, questions like "why can I do it, how can I do it, can I do it" are meaningless questions. The concept of "mystery" has a slimy feel to it, and it is inherently impossible to identify and use it with the precision of a scalpel.

I ignored the conversation between the two men, and focused on the person who could finally be accurately observed—a man in his forties, a man of standard stature, a man of European and American stature, full of the confident temperament of a successful person in his dress, demeanor and demeanor, who looked like a businessman, but with a bit of the rigor of a researcher. Because I'm not Asian, I'm a little surprised compared to the "ghost" in Apricot's mouth. He sat at the head of the long table in the conference room and did not immediately start speaking, but the experts in the field of psychology, including Dr. Nguyen Lê, stopped their work and made eye contact with each other, waiting for the meeting to begin.

Judging from their demeanor and movements, the psychology experts have a certain friendship with each other, but the friendship with the newly arrived conference host is the least. The feeling that I have is only in the Cheng dù of "knowing that there is such a person".

"Identity?" Ryder looked at Apricot.

Subsequently, information about the middle-aged man's social identity appeared on the TV screen. It can be roughly described as: a rising star in the field of psychology, the founder of a pharmaceutical company, with patents for thirteen specific drugs, ten of which have been proven to be effective in clinical practice for specific types of psychiatric patients. I suspect that he is Dr. Nguyen Li's partner, and that the off-market drugs I have been taking are produced using his energy. Perhaps, some of the ten special drugs for the mentally ill are attributed to Dr. Nguyen Li. His name is: Dallas?

I was reminded of the name again, as if it had been a long time. I was reminded of the reality of the hospital full of secrets. and what happened to me there. There is no doubt that much of my knowledge of the apocalyptic illusion so far has been based on information obtained from the reality of the hospital. I can't prove the reality of the hospital, or the truth of the information I got there. However, it must be regarded as real in order to observe today's apocalyptic illusion from another angle. I met a lot of people in the hospital, including Dr. Ender's research team, special forces to maintain order and secrecy in the hospital, and lurkers who secretly worked against the hospital, and of course, these lurkers gave me the feeling. It's not a good guy for justice and justice, it's just a bunch of commercial spies, government agents, and the like that walk in the dark on a full-time basis.

Dallas, the hospital reality, my former partner, a journalist disguised as a mentally ill person, or. A mentally ill person who thinks of himself as a journalist in order to find out the "truth" hidden in the hospital. Embark on the most sinister and massive adventure of his life, which he confesses. In the end, it was designed by the hospital team and the lurkers, and it was not known whether it would be dead or alive.

The man who appeared on the TV screen and the real Dallas in the hospital were different in appearance and temperament, compared to Marceau. The Dallas I am familiar with, and the Dallas in front of me, are more like two completely different people. Maybe just the namesake? I thought so, however, the name brought back deep memories for me. Sensually, it is impossible to see him as a complete stranger. Of course, they are not friends.

Neither I nor I have a consistent stance or behavior pattern with the person "Dallas".

"Do you know this guy?" Ryder seemed to notice my expression.

"No, it's just the same name as one of my acquaintances." I say.

Ryder nodded, not asking.

"This person and Dr. Nguyen Le have a collaboration in drug production research." "It can be said that it is Dr. Nguyen Li's biggest source of funding," Apricot said. In terms of research topics, no matter what this person raises, Dr. Nguyen Le probably will not object. Mr. Dallas, who directly or indirectly runs a number of psychiatric-related institutes and hospitals, has had a blast through his practice. However, because there was not much chaos, the attention in NOG was not very high. ”

"Those ghosts, his electronic demons?" Ryder asked.

"Can't judge ......" Kyoko hesitated for a moment before saying, "During the monitoring process, I have the feeling that these ghosts are indeed related to electronic demons, but they are different from ordinary electronic demons. It's similar to our study, but it's not identical. ”

"Is it also a specific electronic demon messenger?" Ryder smiled calmly, "He might hope that he can go further in terms of specialization?" Through the study of specificity, a large army of mentally ill people has been created? ”

"If you want to know, you can ask him." Kyoko said, "But I don't think he's the biggest boss." ”

"There are no isolated incidents here." Ryder said: "When the world is no longer pure, every trace of turbidity will have a relationship with outsiders. I just want to know that the Church of Doomsday Truth won't have a foot in him. ”

Kyoko glanced at the information about Dallas a few more times, shook her head and said, "Even if it is related to the Doomsday Shinrikyo Religion, we can't interfere." He is one of the initiators of the seminar that Dr. Nguyen Le will attend, and if he wants to make a move, he will do it in the city where the seminar will be held - that city...... What is the town called? Hey, I can't find it? Ryder, do you think there will be towns in France without names? ”

"Maybe." Ryder didn't care much about this problem, but it did show something unusual about the town. And, what's even more bizarre is that no one ever cared about this issue until it was reconfirmed because of Dallas's appearance.

I know some of the overviews about that town, which seem to have been looked up online. However, this description makes the town's anomaly more prominent, because, judging from the description, it is not an obscure Cheng dù. Since it is valued, it should have a name.

"Can you still find news about that town on the Internet?" I asked.

Suddenly, several TVs turned off the screen, and when they were turned on again, they became rows of web projects, but the news brought was not very good. "Nothing was found." Apricot said a little sternly, "It's like yes, there is no zài at all." Ryder, do you remember your impressions of that town? ”

"Of course." Ryder said.

"Are you sure where you got this information and impression?" Apricot asked.

"I don't remember." Ryder replied earnestly, he knew what Apricot was trying to ask, "When you doubt it, it's like a rootless pingweed floating there." ”

"Nice description." Apricot smiled, gathered her expression, and began to be in a daze again.

I don't remember how I knew about the town, and I didn't think it was right when I brought it up, and when I brought it up, I thought Ryder's description was accurate—it just came to mind like a rootless duckweed, and I didn't know when it would disappear. The fact that a seminar was held in such a town was nothing short of a disaster for ordinary people. However, because he had long realized that Dr. Ruan Li's trip was already dangerous, and mysterious events were inevitable, so he was not too surprised. If it weren't for that, I'd probably use some excuse to go to the place where I remember the Mar Jones family originated. Tomie has been away from me for a while, and according to some of my assumptions about "Jiang", the longer she is out of observation, the closer the danger from the "virus" becomes. I was a little worried, but I couldn't stop it, like the big hand of fate, pushing and shoving again, so that Yiqiē could follow the steps and not be diverted by personal wishes.

Dallas had already begun to distribute the report, and the "ghost" around him was gradually appearing on the television screen in the process: a distorted, almost transparent, apparently foreign object, accompanied by each psychologist who opened the report and appeared behind them one by one. At this time, Dallas looked puzzled, and his eyes were raised to the sky, making me feel that he was feeling Apricot surveillance and was looking for us. However, the result is naturally useless.

After that, the meeting officially began. Although some methods have improved the quality of surveillance, most of the voices in the conference room are accompanied by strong noises that sound indistinct. In the end, he guessed the core of the meeting in Dallas: he planned to invite a group of psychologists to follow up on a secret research project centered on a certain town. The name of the place is still unclear, but it is probably the town where the seminar was held. At that time, there must have been more psychology experts, and it was enough to see that the psychology experts present at this time were the ones who had the deepest relationship with Dallas. Even the one with the least friendship is the same. Although other psychology experts will be invited to the seminar, I hope that everyone present will continue to cooperate with him and further expand his career according to Dallas's personal wishes.

However, when asked about the purpose, outline, and methodology of the secret research project, Dallas only claimed that the previous knowledge was no longer valid and that new thinking was necessary, but did not answer the relevant content. Among them, there is an artistic description of "the call of the old days", and at this time, the expressions of the psychologists are not very normal. Among them, the expressions of doubt and noncommittal are the most. I paid special attention to Dr. Ruan Li's expression, but Dr. Ruan Li's control over the feelings was too strong, and he listened carefully and did not express his attitude throughout the whole process.

However, I think the topic is probably already about "mystery". Dr. Ruan Li has always had a negative attitude towards "mystery". It's just that, as Apricot said, for my sake, Dr. Nguyen Le will most likely not refuse Dallas's offer. (To be continued......)