"Dr. Lucy, if you didn't lie to me, all this is an illusion of my imagination, then in this case, you must not be hurt, right?"

As he spoke, Allman raised his right hand, which had been converted into a pistol, and aimed it at Lucy's eyebrows, as if he could not hear the approaching enforcers, nor could he see the members of the Terror Squad who had jumped from the armored hovercar and were about to rush into the first floor of the hospital.

"Wait a minute, Allman."

"I can't wait any longer, they're urging me!"

Allman raised his voice, and he didn't hesitate to press the trigger, "Doctor Lucy, you're not wrong, the scene when the person's head explodes is too decompressing!" Oh yes, it's just a dream, I'm not here, you're not here, I'm going to wake up in a while......"

"Bang ——!"

The members of the Terrorist Task Force who burst into the first floor responded to Allman with more gunfire, and they continued to do what they had always done, and the bullets were so bullets that he couldn't find an intact part of his body.

And Lucy's thoughts seemed to stop at this moment.

She's going to die.

The Terrorist Squad was a step too late, and she distinctly heard the gunshots and tongues of fire from Allman's pistol.

The muzzle of the gun was already aimed at her head, and the next moment, her head might burst like Allman's boss.

But......

Is she going to die at the hands of a sick person so simply?

"Time is starting to flow, flash away!"

The sound in her ears pulled her back to reality, and if it was an illusion, Lucy seemed to see Hogg teleport, teleporting to her side from a few steps away from her, struggling to crash away from her.

The bullet that had been fired at her head hit the Terror Squad member's body, only to rub a tiny spark on it.

Lucy found himself sitting on the ground in embarrassment, but Hogg had already turned to a serious expression, he turned to look at the members of the Terror Task Force, and said in a deep voice, "You guys are coming too slowly! ”

If he hadn't activated his stand-in ability at the last moment, the new friends he had managed to make might be in danger.

The members of the Terror Squad apparently recognized Hogg and did not dare to refute his lesson.

They didn't expect the dignified Foster family to appear here, and what was even more incredible was that at the moment when the criminals opened fire, he actually knocked out a psychiatrist with his body, knowing that Allman's modified prosthetic pistol was equipped with an explosive warhead, and Hogg could also be injured as a result.

This is not the parliamentarian they are familiar with.

In the face of this crisis situation, they wish that the people around them would be their own shields to help them block every shrapnel.

Could it be ......

Is this psychiatrist Hogg's concubine?

But looking at their age, there should be a difference of more than 40 years.

The members of the Terrorist Task Force all had such thoughts, but on second thought, this age difference is very common in the first district, and it is not uncommon for the councillors to hide the kinaya, and they can hear a lot of lace news about the councillors every day in the bureau.

"Go and get your work done."

Hogg gave them the order, bent down to help Lucy, and helped her into the elevator while she was still in a groggy state.

Lucy's office is designed in the style of an apartment, with warm colors throughout the room, and the living room has been converted into a small library, with the first bookshelf filled with books on psychology.

She usually lives here, the living room is used for office, and she goes directly to the bedroom to rest after work.

She sat down on the couch with no strength, still recovering from the accident just now.

This is where she usually chats with her patients, and Allman has sat next to her before, confiding in him about the unfair treatment he has suffered in the workplace, and the last time she sees Allman is before the elevator door is about to close, he is lying in a pool of blood, and has been put into a body bag like garbage by the members of the Terror Task Force.

The criminals died on the spot.

His name may make it to the entertaining evening news of the First District, and become the object of ridicule by the host.

She didn't resent Allman, a poor man crushed by his work, and poor people like him abound in the First District.

"I didn't expect that being a psychiatrist is also a dangerous profession, and you have often encountered this kind of thing before?"

Hogg was a little curious, this was the first time he had observed other people's lives through his own eyes, in the past, his knowledge of other professions was limited to work reports or data provided during meetings, and for councillors, the rest of the world was cold data.

It's hard to empathize with data, so even deaths related to crime, illness and accidents don't cause too many emotional swings in his mind.

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But this time, he thinks of his new friend, Lucy.

If she had died at the hands of that psychopath, it would only increase the number of people in the crime report by one person, and it would not even be able to shake the percentage of deaths, which is too ...... Insignificant.

For the first time in Hogg's life, he felt heavy because of the cold data.

"No, it's the first time."

The worst of the sick in the past usually went down a path of self-destruction, and they rarely dragged others with them when they were sick, as Allman did, which led Lucy to fall into deep self-remorse, and the advice she offered to the other person helped, "I thought he was cured." ”

She remembers the last time they met, Mr. Allman was in good spirits.

His whole mentality has changed, no longer focusing on his boss's harsh criticism of him, and the unhappiness he encounters at work, he began to think about his future life, he said that as long as he persists for two more years, he can return to his hometown with a large amount of savings and live a slow-paced life.

He could buy a big house and take the whole family to live in, and recently he was working on artificial intelligence and asked her to help with advice.

At that time, Allman was full of hope for the future life.

It seems that because of Hogg's involvement, they were quickly informed by the law enforcement department.

The whole thing doesn't sound complicated.

It's nothing more than because the company has been in a recession recently, and a group of employees need to be fired, and Allman was included in the list because he had taken leave to see a psychiatrist before, but later Allman found that it was all an excuse, and soon a new employee took his place, and he wanted to go to his boss to theorize, but was beaten by the security guard and thrown on the street.

In a fit of rage, Allman went to the prosthetic hospital, transformed his hand into a pistol, and shot his boss in the head on the way out.

"It's the usual thing for the company."

Hogg commented that he knows the company so well that they don't need much reason to fire people, and when they think that you are no longer of value to the company, they will find many legal and compliant ways to fire you.

This happens all the time, and Allman is perhaps the most special of them.

Because the others will only swallow this dumb loss in resignation and leave the first district in ashes.

"His condition deteriorated dramatically due to his unemployment, and he had only recently repaid the debt he owed for prosthetic reconstruction......"

Lucy muttered to herself.

She understood Allman's actions, but she didn't understand the inexplicable words he said as he pressed the trigger gun - someone was urging him.

Who's urging him?

And why rush him?

Despite the fact that auditory hallucinations are a very common symptom for mentally ill people, Lucy has a vague sense that something is wrong, and she has to suspect that someone may have said something to Allman that caused his condition to deteriorate dramatically.

After being laid off and unemployed, Allman never contacted him again, and when he reappeared, he was so sick that he pointed a gun to her head.

But then, Lucy discovers something more important.

"Thank you, Mr. Hogg, if it weren't for you, I would probably be dead."

Theoretically, she approached Hogg to treat the other party's mental illness, but she never expected that she would be saved by Hogg instead.

She figured that Jock would not believe what had just happened on the first floor.

When confronted by a gun-wielding criminal, Hogg runs away from her at the last chance at the risk of being shot.

Perhaps, this is also one of the symptoms of the disease, but it makes Hogg gentle and empathetic.

"No thanks, the stand-in messengers should help each other."

Hogg said, "And even without me, your double will help you dodge bullets in times of crisis, and it has been said that a double is the embodiment of human mental power, so it will definitely protect you." ”

“…… Someone? Do you have any other companions? ”

Lucy felt like she had captured an important message.

"It's not convenient for him to show up."

"I understand."

Lucy nodded thoughtfully, realizing that, just like what happened to Allman, Hogg's belief in his identity as a double messenger was probably the product of someone's guidance, and what had just happened had made her think differently about the concept.

She still couldn't explain how Hogg, who was a few steps away from her, had smash her away faster than a bullet.

Unless......

Hogg was really able to stop the time of the whole world for 2 seconds, as he said.

"You'd better have a good rest, and we'll get back in touch."

Hogg saw that Lucy was not in good spirits, and took the initiative to say, "You have my contact information, I should have been staying in the first district recently, keeping in touch at all times." ”

……………………………………

After anxiously waiting, Jock finally receives a call from Lucy.

"What was the diagnosis? When will he be back to normal soonest? More medication could be used, at least to keep him awake at next week's meeting. ”

The moment the call was connected, Jock's cannon-like tone came.

"Mr. Jock."

Lucy waited patiently for Jock to finish, and gave him a few seconds to calm down before she said, "After meeting Mr. Hogg, I changed my mind. ”

As she spoke, she was standing in front of the window, looking out at the familiar night scene of the First District.

As night fell, the city was lit up, and she saw that there were countless people like Allman on the other side of the building.

And after this night of encounter, she developed a strong interest in Hogg.

"Perhaps, the stand-in messenger is real."

When she said this, there was a long silence on both ends of the phone.

Jock pondered for a long time, as if sorting out the words.

But after more than ten seconds, he finally couldn't help it.

"Lucy, you're sick too?"