The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear.

As long as we live in this world, any living thing will have something to fear.

Fear is the natural reaction of living beings when their lives are threatened, just as herbivores are afraid of carnivores, and they are afraid that their natural enemies will instinctively stay away or even flee, which is something imprinted in the survival instinct of all living beings.

Even the human beings who have become the elders of all souls on this planet are no exception, they arm themselves with civilization and technology, they make up for the weakness of individuals with a large and complex social system, they have modified nature to protect themselves in the cold steel forest, if it were not for cannibalism, I am afraid that there is nothing that can endanger their lives, but in modern society there will also be all kinds of feared existences.

Howard woke up from the nightmares of the day, cold sweat soaked his pajamas, the wet fabric stuck to his skin and made people feel uncomfortable, but he didn't have time to care about these discomforts at the moment, a scene that made him extremely frightened flashed in front of his eyes like a marquee, the intense fear made him forget how to breathe for a while, Howard opened his mouth wide to breathe air with his mouth, but like a fish stranded ashore, his mouth opened and closed in vain.

The more panicked and frightened, the more difficult it seemed to be to control his throat and lungs, and the feeling of suffocation became more and more intense, but after a short but long few seconds, the scene flashed away, as if the fear of choking his throat gradually subsided, and he gasped greedily as if he had been pardoned.

Maybe at this time, some people will say, is it a bit too exaggerated to be scared like this by a nightmare when he is a big man, then I can only tell you, it is not an exaggeration at all.

Many times, the sense of fear is not something you can control, you don't feel terrible when you watch horror movies, it can only be said that the horror elements presented in horror movies do not match the point you are afraid of, if you give you a whole Chinese horror movie, let you see those paper people with weird smiles and looking at you, with thick blush on their white faces, sharp knives and awls stuck in their faces, they may not look bloody at all, but they can definitely stimulate the deepest fear in your heart, and make you feel panicked from the bottom of your heart.

Because true fear cannot be suppressed and controlled by reason alone.

Howard, male, 38 years old, is an old mercenary who retired from the battlefield, thanks to the blessing of the past ten years of taking his life to make money, and some countries deliberately used as a-stirring stick to stir up the political situation in the turbulent region, he was born and died in a dangerous and turbulent area, and every day with death as a companion, whoever gave more money would take whomever order, and it only took more than ten years to earn enough money that others could earn in a lifetime, so he decisively washed his hands and returned to China to enjoy his retirement life in advance.

However, like everyone who survives the battlefield, he could not avoid the mental trauma of war after witnessing the hell in the troubled area.

Last night, he was still talking and laughing, talking freely about the comrade-in-arms who went back to his hometown to marry his girlfriend after completing this vote, but today he was killed by a stray bullet and became a dead corpse.

The emaciated child you help may pull out a pistol in the next second and shoot you with a blank face that kills you.

Drones would circle in the sky to drive the soldiers together, bombarding them with artillery just when they thought it was safe.

Cities were destroyed by the war, buildings were reduced to rubble in the shelling, mourning was everywhere, soldiers and thugs killed displaced refugees, men and women, the strong robbed the weak, and countless dead were exposed to the wilderness, gradually rotting under the scorching sun and fly bites, and everywhere was filled with the smell of corpses and gunsmoke.

It was hell, and I am afraid that no one would like that environment except for the madmen and hypocritical politicians who do not have to face the battlefield, where humanity is trampled on and morality and the law are bullshit. The only safety criterion on the battlefield is that there is no security, and the only survival technique is to destroy all threats, so they are like wild beasts there to fight, bomb, and exterminate everything that threatens them, perhaps the only difference between them and wild beasts is that wild beasts can only rely on teeth and claws, while they are using more and more advanced and more desperate weapons to slaughter their own people.

Just close your eyes

The hellish sights would resurface, and the sound of gunfire, artillery, and drones hovering would ring in his ears like an aftermath, keeping him awake at night.

Even if he returns to a safe and peaceful society, the trauma is still tormenting his spirit, he will take the thunder as the sound of artillery, wake up from a light sleep and crawl to hide behind a furniture that can be used as a cover, he will be very sensitive to the gaze and every move of others, often unconsciously want to kill others first, and even sleep will dream that he returns to the battlefield to continue fighting, these pains and beds, like a hound chasing him will never stop.

Post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is a mental disorder that persists after an individual has experienced or witnessed a brutal event, and is also a mental illness that Howard suffers from.

After taking a deep breath, Howard broke free from the fear that kept him moving, and turned his head to look at the digital alarm clock on the bedside table. It was half past eight in the morning, and there was not much time left before the service began, and although his house was relatively close to the church, he was also short on time to rush over except for washing and eating.

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Perhaps it was a Sunday, and there didn't seem to be many pedestrians on the street, so Howard looked around almost subconsciously vigilantly, and after making sure that no one was paying attention to him, he put on his coat and walked in the direction of the church, but before he had taken a few steps, he bumped into someone around the corner, and was knocked back several steps by a huge force.

Howard took several steps back to stabilize his body, he looked up and found that it was an Asian man who hit him, and when he didn't even look at him like no one was doing anything, this irascible mercenary who was used to the kind of battlefield life that would do it if he didn't accept it, suddenly got angry and took two steps forward and pushed the Asian man, and scolded and said: Hey! Shorty! Is it deliberately finding fault?

However, the strange thing is that Howard feels like he is pushing a wall, and not only does he not push the other person, but he is almost half a step back by the reaction force. It was only then that the Asian man turned his head as if he realized something, smiled kindly at him, and apologized to him in a very fluent English: Oh, sir, I am very sorry for the unintentional offense, sir, if you have time, how about I apologize for inviting you to a drink?

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