Chapter 259: Inception and Truman (Part II)

Schiller, who was at the head of the globe, stretched out his hand, snapped his fingers, and a screen appeared above the heads of several people, and he said: "You can see the situation outside through my consciousness space, just like this......"

"This is Hugo Strange, and what you see now is his first day in Gotham......"

Hugo Strange's face is shown in the frame, and in the first view, a sleeve in a white coat appears, followed by an arm shaking hands with Hugo.

"We're looking at your first perspective now, right?" Victor asked.

"That's right, I'm being polite with him at this point, note, I'm going to introduce the topic of psychological theory next......"

Several people were very interested, staring intently at the screen, only to see Hugo in the first perspective, and soon began his tirade, and Schiller kept discussing with him, and after a while, Schiller's hand in the first perspective took out a bottle of wine from his bag.

"Wait, isn't it a little too weird to drink in an academic discussion?" Evans asked, "You're obviously talking about a very serious academic topic, and when you take out a bottle of wine, won't he feel that something is wrong?" ”

"It is precisely because we are now discussing serious academic topics that he does not notice this, because all his energy is focused on how to refute my theory, look at his expression, pay attention here......"

Schiller got a whip out of nowhere, then pointed to the screen and said, "See? He glanced down at my hand that was opening the cap, but as I did it, I asked him a question, and his attention was distracted......"

"His curiosity about what I was doing was far less intense than his desire to refute me and prove himself."

In the first view of the screen, the two hands took out two wine glasses, and then poured wine for Hugo and himself, and several people heard Schiller say: "I am used to having a drink after work, what about you?" Dr. Hugo? ”

Hugo didn't seem to care, he didn't look like an alcoholic, but he didn't seem to averse to drinking, and when Schiller pushed the glass in front of him, as if to give Schiller a face, he still took a sip of the glass.

And when the debate became more and more intense, Hugo began to raise his wine glass frequently in between thoughts, and Schiller, who was in the head of the globe, pointed to the screen and said: "He began to use secondary objects as pauses and transitions in his thinking, just as there are many people who like to spin their pens, bite their fingers, and play with erasers in class......"

After a while, it can be seen from the lens of the screen that Hugo is starting to get groggy, and Victor asks, "Is he going to dream?" ”

"That's right, guess where the first act starts?"

"Just like us, we wake up in the same scene and are completely unaware that we are dreaming." Colbert said in a deep voice.

Schiller shook his head and said: "It's a good start, but it's a little mediocre, and if the cause of a script is too bland, the follow-up development may not be very exciting." ”

"And where are you going to start, Professor?"

Schiller stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers, and everything in the room began to reced, the floor was torn off section by section, the sofas disappeared layer by layer, and the cabinets and tables all merged into the floor and ceiling in a magical way.

Then, all sorts of things churned out of the walls of the space to form another scene, and several people stood in the middle of the space, and Evans looked up and down and said, "It seems like this is ...... Railroad car? ”

"That's right, I think a gradual opening will be a good choice, you may have seen it in some movies, the protagonist takes the train to a strange city, he looks out the window of the scenery, fantasizing about his future life, this kind of opening is a bit literary, but I like it......"

With that, Schiller walked to the door of a carriage room, and then pulled the door open, and it was Hugo Strange sitting inside.

"But I think there's something missing." Evans touched his chin and said, "Oh, by the way, in drama creation, the protagonist needs some motivation, and with motivation, it can push the protagonist to do things......"

"Of course, I have also prepared, but let me state first, I do not control his spirit, just like you, he also has the ability to think independently in the consciousness space."

"Now ......" Schiller snapped his fingers, and the narrow corridor and the layers of partitions on the train unfolded like cardboard boxes and became a flat surface, leaving only Hugo and the chair he was sitting on, and the table in front of him.

Several people followed Schiller's footsteps to Hugo, and Colbert asked, "Can't he see us?" ”

"That's a good question." Schiller said: "I was about to speak about this. ”

"People's consciousness space and dreams are divided into many layers, at least in my case, different floors cannot communicate with each other, nor can they interfere with each other."

"We're on a different floor from him?"

"That's right, the place you're in now is the 'theater' in my temple of thinking, on the 68th, 69th, and 70th floors."

What is this concept? Is there any difference between the floors? ”

"Of course there is, it's actually very complicated to say, because such a temple of thinking is not built in a day, but there are rules to follow, simply put, the lower the number of floors, the more chaotic, and the higher the number of layers, the more orderly."

"Hugo is on the 68th floor, which is the stage, and you are on the 69th floor, which is the audience."

"And I, even though I'm standing next to you right now, I'm actually on the 70th floor of the theater, which is the director's room, or the director's office."

"So, I can control everything on stage, like this......" As Schiller finished speaking, he snapped his fingers again, and a newspaper appeared on Hugo's table.

"Newspapers? So what is written on it? Evans wanted to lean over to take a look, but as if he didn't want to get too close to Hugo, Schiller reminded him: "You can come over and see, he can't see you." ”

"In my temple of mind, each part has different rules, and in the theater, the consciousness at the top can see the consciousness at the bottom, but the consciousness at the bottom cannot see the consciousness at the top."

"So, you can see him, but he can't see you, and at this point, in his field of vision, he should be sitting on the train, following the train into Gotham City."

"Hasn't he already arrived? And also chatting with you and drinking......"

"You have a lot of stupid questions." Jack glared at Evans, who was asking, and Schiller waved his hand and said, "Don't be like that, Jack, I like people who love to ask questions." ”

"Generally speaking, people don't realize that they are dreaming when they are dreaming, just like when you first came here, although everything is uncoordinated, everywhere reveals weirdness, but you are completely unaware of it."

"There are a small number of people who are able to realize that they are dreaming in their dreams, and use the principle of believing that what is true is true to the extreme, and accomplish many things in dreams that cannot be done in reality, and we generally call this kind of dream 'lucid dream'."

"But apparently, Hugo, who had just fallen asleep, could not realize that he was dreaming, and in his opinion, he had just received a notice of employment, got on the train to Gotham, and then saw a newspaper on the car......"

"So what did you say about the motivation to add to him?"

Schiller waved his hand again, and another newspaper appeared in Hugo's hand, which looked a little old, and Victor leaned over to look at it and said, "Is this a report about you?" ”

"That's right, I hinted to him that he noticed me before he came to Gotham and investigated some information about me, which should pique his curiosity about me, speed up his arrival at Arkham Hospital, and set the stage for the rest of the story......"

And then......" Schiller snapped his fingers, the table was pulled away from Hugo's face, the newspaper flew into the air and disappeared, and Hugo stepped directly into the office of the attending physician of Arkham Psychiatric Hospital,

"Why jump directly?" Victor asked him, "Doesn't he feel a little strange?" ”

"Aren't all dreams like this? Clip after clip, skipping from breakfast to class to lunch break and then to coming home from school, you can't finish a full math lesson in your dreams, do you? ”

"What's next? Is he going to get to work? ”

"No, his motivation is not enough, I need to add fuel to the fire."

Immediately after, Schiller waved his hand, and a person who looked exactly like him appeared next to him, except that his head became a normal Schiller's head instead of a globe.

"What is this? Your doppelganger? ”

"He's the next actor to appear......"

Following Schiller's words, the other himself walked into the office of Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, and then very warmly shook Hugo's hands and said to him: "Thank goodness that you are finally here." ”

Schiller then began to be polite with Hugo, and Victor commented: "You are acting too much like an unscrupulous quack who is eager to shirk his responsibilities." ”

"That's exactly what I want, and if I give him the impression that I'm very incompetent and eager to pass the buck, then he'll think I'm not up to my name, and he'll have a stronger incentive to debunk me and disprove my theories."

"I really don't understand." Victor crossed his arms and said, "What is your ultimate purpose in arranging this play?" It doesn't really just come for fun, right? ”

"Watching fun is one of the aspects, after all, long nights, no sleep, and it's not bad to direct and act in a play, but it does have another purpose, you will know when you look back."

Then, Schiller's figure exited, and Brand's figure walked in again, and before they could ask, Schiller explained: "This is just a doll that I have embodied, and Brand is not here, after all, his direction is pathology, and he is not interested in these things." ”

Then. Hugo began to make his high-minded talk that "the temple of thinking does not exist", and in the process, Jack laughed so happily that it almost turned into a hilarious laugh, and he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said: "It's like a person saying in a dream that 'people can't dream', it's a funny joke, hahahahaha!" Replacing the position of the joke that Schiller is an ordinary person in my heart......"

Since Schiller's head was a globe, no one else could see his expression, but Victor quipped, "What did I just see?" Is Texas where you roll your eyes? ”

Then, they saw Hugo come out with an egg-shaped machine in his arms, and Colbert frowned and said, "What's that?" ”

"It should be something that he embodied with his own mind, like the chicken wing head and ice gun you just made, and he believed that he made this thing, so it really appeared."

Then they saw that Hugo picked up the medical records and began to look through them, then walked to the phone and began to call.

Suddenly, a shrill bell rang in the space, and Cobot looked down in confusion to see a phone ringing floating in front of him.

"Your phone." Schiller said with a smile.

"What's going on? He called me in a dream, and he really hit me? ”

"I'm the one who got him here, otherwise it's not interesting for us to watch here, and I've always felt that immersive theater performance has a lot of potential, and the interaction between the actors and the audience is also a top priority......

"So what am I going to do now?"

Victor tapped Copote on the shoulder and said, "Answer the phone." ”

Colbert picked up the phone, and he really heard Hugo's voice, and at this point, the two were facing each other in the office, Hugo was holding the phone on the left side of the table, and Copo was holding the phone on the right side of the desk.

"Hey, is that Mr. Copote? This is Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, and my medical records here show that you need to come for a follow-up visit recently, are you free tomorrow afternoon? ”

Copote was stunned, but he agreed to the request for a follow-up visit, and then he looked at Schiller and said, "What am I going to do next?" Do you really go for a follow-up appointment? ”

"Didn't you see what I just did? Imagine a virtual personality and then manifest him and let him go down and participate in the show for you. ”

Schiller explains to Copote how to manifest another self in the space of consciousness, and he emphasizes: "The trick is not to give it a higher-dimensional perspective, like a Copote ...... who has actually been notified of a follow-up visit, who does not know why and intends to go"

"You mean to create a virtual memory for him?" Copote asked with a frown.

"That's right, you can arrange a reasonable reason for him, for example, in his memory, he didn't know that I was leaving, and felt that the follow-up was just a routine and nothing, so it would be beneficial for him to be more engaged in the next performance......"

When the other Copot was portrayed, the others were amazed, and when he walked into the examination room and lay down in a chair, Hugo brought the machine out, and Copote in the audience asked, "What is he going to do?" ”

"He may be trying to enter the world of your consciousness."

"But isn't he in the world of consciousness in the first place?"

"Remember the rules here? He thinks it's the real world, and he's a psychiatrist, so he's going to get into your head. ”

"And that's what I'm talking about, my other purpose, and it's also the subject I've been focusing on lately......"

"What?"

"A dream within a dream."

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