Aoyama, Center for the Study of Abnormal Humans.

After the taxi stopped, the driver looked at the passenger who was getting off the bus with a hesitant expression, and saw that the other party was leaving, so he finally couldn't help but ask.

"Excuse me, are you Liu Yifei?"

Bai Xiuchu stopped, turned around, politely took off his sunglasses and replied, "I'm not." ”

Seeing Bai Xiuchu's true face, the driver was sure that the other party was not Liu Yifei, he was too young - no matter how beautiful he was born to be maintained, he would not be 46 years old, and he would still be twenty years old.

But instead of being disappointed, he was even happier.

Because it's really beautiful.

"Do you still use a car? I'm waiting for you here. ”

"No thanks."

Bai Xiuchu put on her sunglasses again, and when she turned around and was about to walk inside, she stopped again - she had seen a lot of such things, and she knew that this driver would not leave easily.

So he looked back a little helplessly and said, "I'm here to see a doctor, and I'm going to be hospitalized." ”

"Huh?"

When the driver was dumbfounded, Bai Xiuchu had already taken some heavy steps and walked towards the place officially known as the 'Abnormal Human Research Center', commonly known as the 'Mental Hospital'.

She's not sick, she's here to work, but she thinks she's going to get sick soon—those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black.

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"Hello."

"Hello, who are?"

"My name is Bai Xiuchu, and I was transferred from the Security Bureau, and this is my information and proof."

"Oh, it's you, you don't have to look at the information."

"Huh?"

The other party looked at her face and said with a smile: "You are so beautiful, everything you say is right." ”

“…… Thank you. ”

"Come with me, I'll take you through the entry procedures for the 'Guardian' and arrange the dormitory."

"Okay, thanks."

The relevant procedures were completed quickly, but Bai Xiuchu, who had a break one day, refused, and proposed to start work directly.

In this regard, her direct leader, Sister Chen, is very supportive.

"He is worthy of being a person from the Security Bureau, and his professionalism and discipline are high."

After Sister Chen took Bai Xiuchu to familiarize herself with the environment of the research center, she took her to the inpatient department.

This is one of the highest-security areas in the entire research center, and the six-story building looks more like a prison building from the outside because it has no windows.

Outside the building is a small square with a wide view, patrolled by heavily armed security guards, and several equipment that look like small excavators.

It's just that there are no shovels or cabs on these devices, only machine guns that look very ferocious.

Bai Xiuchu could see at a glance that it was a self-propelled combat robot developed and manufactured by a research institute in the Dragon Kingdom three years ago, numbered 'Heavenly Soldier 2023'.

The machine gun cartridge used in the usual situation has a caliber of 12.7 mm, and the ammunition magazine is capable of holding 1600 rounds.

Combined with the world's most advanced automatic aiming and shooting system, this self-propelled combat robot can even use its machine gun as a sniper rifle.

"Don't be afraid."

Sister Chen noticed Bai Xiuchu's eyes and smiled and was relieved.

"Although we have strong security here, we haven't had an incident in years.

Because all the abnormal humans in our place use the third generation of genetic locks.

Their superpowers are all banned. ”

Bai Xiuchu nodded and said, "The third-generation gene lock is indeed very easy to use, and we are safe...... There were never any accidents in my previous unit after the refit. ”

"The first and second generations are not good, occasionally malfunctioning, and we have had several accidents in the past, all because the gene lock has failed."

"I've also encountered it once, with a second-generation gene lock. That superpowered criminal injured more than a dozen of our colleagues. ”

When Sister Chen heard Bai Xiuchu mention the matter of the Security Bureau, she actually wanted to ask the other party why she came here.

But the adult world can't be so direct, so I held back and continued to talk about work.

"The abnormal humans we contain here, that is, superpowers, mainly have some mental problems. So, you have to pay attention to this in the process of work afterwards. Grace ......"

Sister Chen groaned slightly, and then said in a serious tone: "Don't be deceived by their normal behavior and language, you have to firmly believe that each of them is mentally ill." ”

"Okay." After Bai Xiuchu responded, he asked curiously: "Do mentally ill people also have normal behavior and language?" ”

"Haha."

Sister Chen laughed twice: "Of course there are, different from many people's stereotypes, in fact, in many cases, they look more normal than normal people." ”

"Well, I watched a few movies before I came, and I feel like the psychopaths in them are crazy."

"Film and television dramas must be appropriately exaggerated, otherwise, it will be difficult to let the audience know that a certain character is mentally ill at the first time."

"Makes sense."

As they spoke, the two walked through the small square and entered the building under the watchful eye of the security guards.

The quadruple identification of face, fingerprints, pupils, and work ID once again illustrated the danger of this work to Bai Xiuchu.

"You've just arrived, so I'll arrange for you to be a more manageable patient. You have to remember that while your job is to be the guardian of the superpowers, we are here......

The primary task of a Guardian is to watch, not to guard. ”

When Sister Chen took Bai Xiuchu, who expressed her gratitude, upstairs, she gave a detailed introduction.

"Ji Tianqi, male, thirty-three years old, single-soldier superpower.

He has two superpowers, one is physical enhancement and the other is energy release.

He is a very severe delusional patient, not only with the most common auditory hallucinations of delusional patients, but also with very severe visual hallucinations and other sensory hallucinations.

But you don't have to worry too much, when he is not sick, he is almost indistinguishable from a normal person. ”

Bai Xiuchu asked curiously, "Is fantasy a type of schizophrenia?" ”

"It can be said that paranoia, delusion, delusion, and paranoia can all be regarded as a type of schizophrenia."

Sister Chen said with a smile: "You don't actually need to know this, we guardians, we just need to watch them one-on-one, and we generally don't need to participate in their treatment, there is a professional medical team." ”

"Then it's a lot easier, what are his fantasies?"

"He fantasizes that his superpower is to travel through time, and he will often travel to another world, a high-martial world that he calls Daxuan."

"Huh?"

"He doesn't recognize the two superpowers that we have determined after research, but thinks that the physical enhancement and energy release he has come from the martial arts he has learned and practiced in another world."

"I really haven't heard of the superpower of traversal."

Bai Xiuchu recalled: "Of the nearly a million superpowers known, none of them really involve other worlds, as well as superpowers in other times in our world. ”

"It would be nice if he had, and it would be even better if his superpowers were really traversal."

Sister Chen's tone was a little embarrassed.

"Then the martial arts he learned in the other world are all things we can practice, and the monsters and superpowered criminals are no longer a threat to us."

"He told him the martial arts secrets he learned in the other world?"

"Yes, I said it at the beginning. It's a pity that no one but him has been able to practice. ”

As soon as Sister Chen finished speaking, she noticed that something was wrong and hurriedly corrected it.

"Oh, no, he didn't practice it himself. The improvement of his physical fitness, as well as the internal strength he calls it, all comes from his true superpowers. ”

Bai Xiuchu suddenly said: "Because no one can practice, so he was judged to be a delusional patient?" ”

"That's just one of the bases, there's more. For example, he says that he has physically traveled through the past, but in fact, he has always been in our world.

For example, he said that what he did in the other world, in fact, he did something in our world. ”

"Huh?"

Bai Xiuchu was a little incomprehensible for a while.

Just as the two of them had already taken the stairs to the third floor, Sister Chen stopped at the door of a ward very close to the stairwell.

The ward door is all-metal with a small window on it, but it is closed at this point.

Sister Chen's hand pressed on a screen on the side of the door frame, and after identifying the permission with the palm print, the relevant operation function appeared.

She chose 'visitation', and the screen showed up inside the ward.

Bai Xiuchu, who got the signal, stepped forward and saw a ward like a hotel-style apartment.

The inside looks clean and tidy, with minimal personal belongings.

On the ground in front of the bed, a man in ancient costume sits cross-legged with his hands on his knees and palms facing up.

He has a resolute countenance, well-rounded features, and long hair in a shawl. Although he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, his back was straight.

is quite a handsome middle-aged uncle - for 22-year-old Bai Xiuchu, 33-year-old Ji Tianqi is indeed an uncle.

When Bai Xiuchu thought like this, she heard Sister Chen's voice.

"He thinks he's meditating and cultivating his inner strength."

"Huh? So if he's like this, will his energy release superpower increase in power? ”

"Yes, but it's a normal level of growth, about the same as a similar superpower."

"Is there a possibility that the internal skills he practiced are actually effective? I mean, it only works for him. ”

Hearing Bai Xiuchu's doubts, Sister Chen was not surprised.

Because there are too many known types of superpowers in the world, nearly a million superpowers, which can be described as strange.

"Then do you know what the internal skills he practices are called?"

"What's it called?"

"Jiuyang Gong."

Bai Xiuchu was stunned for a moment.

Sister Chen asked with a smile: "The other world has the martial arts in our martial arts novels, isn't it amazing?" ”

"This is also one of the bases for determining that he is mentally ill."

"Yes, and it's more than that." Sister Chen asked again, "Do you know how he said he got Jiuyang Gong?" ”

"How did you get it?"

"He fell off a cliff in another world, even if he didn't fall to his death, he also found the secret of Jiuyang Gong in the stomach of a cow's corpse."

"......" Bai Xiuchu was a little confused: "This is more like the plot of a novel." ”

"That's right."

"This ......"

Bai Xiuchu looked at Ji Tianqi's attractive appearance and sighed.

"The words and theories of another world can't be the same as ours."

"That's right. Let's not say that his story sounds too familiar, just say that if the other world really exists, how can it be the same as our words? These are the basis for judging him as mentally ill. ”

Sister Chen said with a smile.

"He can be said to be the safest patient we have here, as long as he is not sick, he has been practicing.

His reason is that the protagonist in the novel has such a good foundation, and after getting Jiuyang Gong, he also practiced in Kunlun Mountain for five years before he became Jiuyang Gong.

He didn't have any foundation, and he started cultivating at the age of twenty-seven, and if he wanted to practice Jiuyang Gong, no matter what, it would take thirty or fifty years. ”

Bai Xiuchu was stunned for a moment.

"You mean, he knows that his experience is a lot like fiction?"

"Yes, we know, he knows, he knows more about these martial arts novels than we do."

"Then ...... him"

He believes that the different world he travels through is the kind of comprehensive world of infinite streaming web novels.

“？？？ This ......"

Bai Xiuchu suddenly laughed.

"Then the opportunity he grabbed is a little too bad, it is also a cliff, and the Northern Spiritual Gong is much better than the Jiuyang Gong. At least I feel like this, I don't have to work hard to cultivate myself, and directly absorb the internal force of others. ”

Sister Chen's eyes suddenly became strange, she looked at Bai Xiuchu and said, "He is indeed going to find the Northern Spiritual Gong." ”

"Huh?"

"But we didn't let him go before."

"En???"

"I told you just that he thinks he has traveled to another world physically, but he is still in our world.

Therefore, if he wants to travel from Kunlun Mountain to Wuliang Mountain in another world, he will have to walk at least more than 1,400 kilometers in our world. ”

"At least?"

"Yes, the straight-line distance is more than 1,400 kilometers, and there were no highways in ancient times.

Bai Xiuchu groaned: "You just said that you didn't let him go before?" ”

Sister Chen nodded and said, "Yes, it's quite a coincidence that you came, and you want to transport a treadmill over today for him." ”

"Treadmill?"

"That's right, the medical team said that they want to try to let him walk thousands of miles to see if he will think that he has arrived at his destination and learn what Lingbo Bu and Northern Spiritual Skills."

"What's the point of that?"

"I've been treated for seven years, and I want to see if he's getting sicker and there's no cure. I was still able to recognize the reality and return to normal. ”

"Understood." Bai Xiuchu asked again: "Then how can you let him run on the treadmill, but think that he is in a hurry in another world?" ”

Sister Chen laughed.

"Look, you forgot that he's mentally ill."

"Huh?"

"Don't worry about it, he will make up his own hallucinations about the other world."

"That is, he will go for a run on the treadmill by himself and think that he is in a different world?"

"Based on previous experience, it is."

Bai Xiuchu suddenly thought of a question: "Then what about him eating and drinking Lazar?" ”

Sister Chen didn't answer, but just nodded with a strange expression.

A picture appeared in Bai Xiuchu's mind, and he suddenly realized something disgusting.

It's a mental illness.