In fact, for a long time, the vast majority of Schiller's friends did not have a clear understanding of the severity of his dissociative identity disorder, commonly known as split personality.

But rather than describe it that way, the severity of Schiller's split is beyond anyone's imagination.

Many of Schiller's friends have seen or even entered Schiller's Thinking Tower, knowing that there are many personalities in it, and even knowing that these are just the norm, and that there is an abyss of sick habitation under the Thinking Tower.

But if every character trait of Schiller had cracked enough to act alone, then the matter would have gone from unscientific to terrifying, even catastrophic.

"That's definitely Schiller." Natasha was adamant, she pressed her back against the door and said, "I can see clearly this time, the hand with the knife is Schiller's!" ”

"But he's not there." Batman shook his head and said, "We only see the reflection inside the glass, but according to the optical principle, there is no figure of him in the actual location corresponding to the reflection, which means that there is only one reflection." ”

"Schiller has become a ghost." Natasha still had the same ghostly expression, which was actually the scariest expression a female agent could make, but it was actually much scarier than a ghost.

"Nope." Batman shook his head, he remembered more details, so he pointed to Natasha's clothes and said, "We're all in hospital gowns." ”

"So what?" Natasha glanced down at her clothes, which she had woken up in and had put on, the blue-and-white tops and bottoms that were common in psychiatric hospitals.

Suddenly, she suddenly realized, and then said, "The cuffs of that hand are not hospital gowns, they are ...... Black shirt. ”

"But that's definitely Schiller." Natasha emphasized again: "I saw half of his face just now, I couldn't be mistaken. ”

"That means he's not the Professor Schiller we know."

Batman seems to have a guess, he looks out and sees that there is no movement outside, so he begins to tell.

"Remember how we got here?"

After a brief recollection, Natasha said: "I remember passing by the previous game in the gladiatorial arena, we were all a little tired, and we fell asleep after getting in the car. ”

The female agent also noticed that something was wrong, she said: "Actually, I haven't felt sleepy in many years, I don't need to sleep to rest like ordinary people, I don't get sleepy unless I want to sleep." ”

"And even on the bus, we weren't in a safe position, and I couldn't have been sleepy in such a situation, which was completely in conflict with my instincts."

"I don't fall asleep in any unsafe place." Batman spoke, "It's not that I don't want to sleep, it's that I can't sleep, which means I can't sleep anywhere except in those places that are relatively safe for me." ”

"But you're asleep."

"This means that this sleep is mandatory, and it is our entrance to the next level of the game."

Batman then speculated, "There's a problem, why does it have to be sleep?" ”

"The killer in this level can completely drive the bus into a thick fog like before, and when it comes out again, it will be another world, and that can also make us enter the illusion world, instead of having to make us fall asleep in the car."

"You mean, it's a dream?"

Batman nodded and said: "Since ancient times, people have had all kinds of speculations about dreams, and they also have a deep fear of nightmares, which has derived countless literary or film works, and since the previous games have similar plots to horror movies, then this time is probably the same." ”

"Dream Killer ......" Natasha immediately thought of a classic character, but suddenly she was stunned.

"That's right." Batman nodded, affirmed Natasha's guess, and then said: "This is a dream, and the dream takes place in our consciousness space, which means that this world is on the same level as our consciousness world, and the same is true of Schiller's consciousness world." ”

Natasha slowly opened her mouth.

Half an hour ago, in Schiller's thinking tower, greed, who was knocking on the floor tiles, raised his head in confusion and said, "Why is there no sound?" ”

He stood up, glanced outside, and walked out anyway, just in time to bump into the superego who was about to go to the elevator.

"Why didn't they crash?"

"Something is very wrong." The superego said: "Either way, sickness is part of Schiller, and they share the same body with us. ”

"They never mess around like that, because if the tower is affected and gets out of control, then Schiller's body will also be injured, which is a danger outside of control, and it is never pathologically wanted, and it has never happened before."

"Then why did they crash?"

Superego shook his head, headed for the elevator and said, "Let's go down and see." ”

So greed and the superego take the elevator to the abyss.

After arriving in the abyss, the superego examined the ceiling of the abyss, the foundation of the Tower of Thinking, and found that there was no damage.

As if he realized something, he said, "Go to the edge." ”

Greedy was stunned for a moment, and the two of them hurried to the edge without stopping, and then saw a large hole in the wall on the side of the abyss.

"Ran out?!" Greed shouted in shock: "But there is no ...... outside the subconscious"

Superego shook his head and said, "There must be space outside, otherwise they wouldn't have crashed." ”

After thinking about it for a while, Greed agreed with the superego, because he knew, and the pathopathic also knew that the outside of the abyss, that is, the outside of the subconscious boundary, was solid, and there was nothing but the wall, so they didn't have to hit the wall in this direction at all.

But if they bump into it, it means that they may be aware that there is something on the outside of their subconscious, at least a space that allows them to pass, so what is it?

Around the subconscious, in the space around it, Greed slowly spits out a word: "Dream." ”

"And it's not a simple dream." The superego frowned and speculated: "The dream that surrounds the subconscious must not be a coincidence, not above the subconscious, not under the subconscious, not within the subconscious, but surrounding. ”

"Dreams above the subconscious are too shallow to wake up, dreams under the subconscious are too deep to construct, and dreams within the subconscious are the most common dreams and the easiest dreams to shape, so why not?"

"Unless the other person wants more than just a dream." "When people are asleep, their limbs cannot move freely, because the apparent consciousness that controls the movement of the body is completely dormant, and the software system does not give instructions, and the hardware naturally does not work. ”

"But when people who sleepwalk are monitored, they find that their brains still send signals to their limbs, but they don't remember when they wake up, because it's the subconscious rather than the conscious that controls their bodies."

"The subconscious mind can of course manipulate the body, and only when the apparent mind is unconscious." The superego said, and he went on to speculate: "Sleepwalking is a manifestation of the manipulation of the body by dreams in the subconscious. ”

As if he had thought of something, Greed said, "If you want to manipulate a person's body, then create a dream in his subconscious, so that his actions in the dream in his subconscious will affect the limbs in the real world." ”

"But if you want to manipulate the bodies of a group of people at the same time, then creating dreams in a relatively independent subconscious space is not a good choice."

"If a being already has the ability to create dreams, like a dream god, then it would be a good idea to create a common dream like the dream realm."

"And the other party probably doesn't have the power of Oneiroiroi." The superego crossed his arms and said, "He can't create the deepest dream under everyone's consciousness, so he chooses to create a common dream around the subconscious of several people." ”

The greedy instinct constructs the imagination of similar scenes, that is, normal dreams occur within the human subconscious, like sesame seeds in rice balls.

And the shared dream is like putting the rice balls in a bowl, the rice balls are soaked in the soup, and this soup is the common dream.

Both sesame seeds and soup can affect the taste of the rice balls, just as ordinary dreams and shared dreams can manipulate people's limbs by affecting the subconscious.

The superego looked up at the ceiling of the abyss and said, "Although the actions in the dream do not exactly correspond to the actions in reality, there is a certain connection, and if I guess correctly, all the contestants' real bodies have moved. ”

Speculation continues on the ward between Batman and Natasha, but they are at an impasse.

They guessed that it was a dream, but they didn't think of the true intention of the killer in this level.

Because there is a significant contradiction in this.

They had previously speculated that the killer should not be able to kill for a period of time after the game starts, otherwise it would be easy to have an embarrassing scene of blocking the door.

But the dream and the real world may not exactly correspond, and now a day and a night have passed in the dream, and it may only be two hours in reality.

But this murderer obviously can't set the speed of time like this, because it's very bad for him, if 1 hour in reality is equal to 12 hours in the dream world, then wouldn't it be a few days in the dream world before he can start killing?

So it should be the other way around, that is, 1 hour in the dream is equal to 12 hours in reality, so that they have spent a day and a night in the dream is equivalent to spending several days in reality, then the security protection will definitely not apply, and the killer will definitely be able to kill.

But in that case, why didn't this murderer do it?

Although it was smashing the ceiling and lifting the tiles just now, this kind of action is more special effects than damage, not to mention Batman and Natasha, just call a few college students to come, at most it is to smash some skin.

This isn't really a horror movie, you have to make a huge special effect to kill with one hit, since there are ghosts in the dream, then just rush up and strangle a few people to death, isn't it over?

Then there is also a possibility that the killer can't control the flow of time in the reality of the dream.

The flow of time is forcibly fixed at a value that is favorable to the contestant, i.e., a day has passed since the dream and a few hours have passed since the reality.

So why did the killer encourage a few people to escape from the hospital?

If it may take days for the killers to start killing, then keeping them in the hospital is the best option.

Judging from the weakened physical fitness of the contestants, there is no need to make any hospital scenes at all, and they can't smash a tin house directly, just start killing when the time comes.

"Did you notice that the two hallways we just ran over are unusually long?" Batman said with a frown.

(End of chapter)