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Chapter 1144 Medical Consultation (Part Two)

"Think about it, you killed so many people who transmigrated into that book. From the perspective of someone outside the book, what does that seem like?"

"Doctor, can you stop beating around the bush? It's giving me a headache."

Jin Fenglong shook his head and said, "Patients who refuse to interact with doctors are the real headaches."

Okay, I'll just get straight to the point.

To those outside the book, your story is a series of independent fan fiction stories, and each change in the story is a new record.

But from your perspective in the book, you only lived once, experiencing your one and only life.

In the reader's eyes, the first time you killed one person, then the second time you killed two, and the more people you traveled through time, the more you killed, eventually turning from a normal person into a serial killer.

But for the "you" in the book, your life has been a straight path to becoming a serial killer, with no other life ever lived.

However, you cannot deny that other lives did not exist.

Similarly, applying this to your current world, you may never see the Wandering Poet again before you die, and you may never have a conflict with the Demon Poet again before you die, but at some point in the future, you are destined to clash with the Demon Poet again.

That depends on how far this world will evolve.

What concerns us, the named authors, even more is whether we are now, just like you, in the new 'book'?
Of course, we all think we are in the realm of the Origin Sea God, transcending all the constraints of this world, but everyone knows that narrative layers can be nested infinitely downwards and can also rise infinitely upwards.

Just like the fourth wall often used by cliché novelists.

Behind the wall... it's still in the book.

"real or fake?"

"Exploration is meaningless. What we need to know is what God allows us to know. As a person who is both God and man, we only need to consider the future of mankind."

Ultimately, these are just guesses.

Let's have a medical consultation first. What's wrong with you?

"Um... let me think about how to say it."

Xia Shou carefully organized his thoughts, and after a while, decided to start with delusional disorder.

He described in detail the hallucinations he experienced due to delusions, but because he was embarrassed to say it was Shangguan Yan, he said that the hallucination was of a girl he liked in high school.

Xia Shou felt that this didn't count as lying.

Xia Shou inquired, "I also know a little about the True Delusion Syndrome. This symptom is one of the ways that the anonymous people select their disciples, right? But is it possible for the person to experience hallucinations that are very familiar to them?"

Jin Fenglong: "In most cases, this is the case. In very rare cases, those who are anonymous can peer into the minds of patients with Abyss Syndrome and create corresponding hallucinations."

This is because it is not in the interests of the anonymous individuals. The anonymous individuals are there to select disciples whose desires align with their own, not simply to drive any random patient insane.

Therefore, the illusions they create will be seen by those whose desires align with them, and not by those who do not.

Unless the patient is in the sea of ​​esoteric practitioners, where having one's inner thoughts spied upon is also a manifestation of desire, but I remember you were there…?

"A sea where blood never ceases to flow!"

“Yes, then it shouldn’t be like that. It’s more likely to be another situation, such as—the hallucination isn’t a true delusional disorder.”

"It's not a true delusion?!"

"Hmm, how can you be so sure it's delusional? If every hallucination is delusional, then wouldn't everyone in a regular mental hospital have delusional disorder?"

"You mean... I'm simply mentally ill?" "That conclusion is too arbitrary; it could be a manifestation of the diary law."

"What does this have to do with the diary law?"

"The Diary Law is just a generalization of the phenomenon of the spread of mysterious knowledge, but its academic significance and references go far beyond just writing a diary."

Writing a diary is a compromise made by the person when their subconscious strongly wants to spread taboo messages, but their rationality strongly prevents it.

In the secular world, some smokers cannot live a normal life without smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. When they have to quit smoking for their health, they will use e-cigarettes or chew gum to relieve their cravings.

Doesn't this seem a bit like the diary principle?
The same applies to the extraordinary world. When you have a strong urge to do something, but your rational mind is frantically preventing it, your subconscious will manifest in a way that indirectly satisfies your inner desires.

Those superhumans who exhibit diary-like symptoms and are in the final stages often need to fulfill certain prerequisites before they can unleash their superhuman abilities. For example, they may need to announce their abilities or promote certain ideas to the audience and their opponents in order to use their powers normally.

All these behaviors are aimed at satisfying desires and thereby bringing peace to one's mind.

If such people do not satisfy their desires, some may be unable to use their superpowers, and some may even inexplicably feel thirsty, tired, or anxious.

why?
Because superpowers are inherently a product of desire, and rationality is inherently a slave to desire, many of those in the late stages of diary addiction feel that they cannot achieve a certain goal without doing so.

But in their subconscious, their true thought process is: [I want to satisfy my desires, so I need to find an excuse for myself. Let's stipulate that I can't use my superpowers if I don't satisfy them.]
Yes, theoretically, they are creating obstacles for themselves, but in the end, it manifests as a kind of mandatory cost.

Xia Shou's eyes lit up: "So that's what I'm saying! It can actually be done without any cost!"

"Um... no, because the satisfaction of desire is the primary condition. This is the most basic principle that no living being can violate, not even mortals, cats, or dogs."

Why are people able to live normal lives? Is it because they have self-control?
No, then why didn't any of them choose to die?
Because of the will to survive, and because normal people's daily behavior is constantly satisfying basic desires, their thinking and physical functions are not impaired.

Patients in the late stages of the diary simply find that their desires have exceeded the limits of their daily needs, which is why they cannot use their normal abilities if their desires are not satisfied.

This is essentially no different from someone who has been starving for six days being unable to work.

Jin Fenglong pushed up his glasses again and said, "Okay, let me give you another example... I've treated many patients in the late stages of diary syndrome before."

One person felt he had to self-harm before eating, while another felt he had to sew a piece of clothing before going to bed.

I gave these two people two pieces of advice. For the former, I suggested that he self-harm to the point of near death, and for the latter, I suggested that he set aside a year to sew clothes non-stop.

After this treatment, they were able to eat and sleep normally for a long period of time afterward without needing any pre-treatment procedures.

Xia Shou suddenly realized: "I get it! Just keep going until you're sick of it!"

"Your comprehension skills have really deteriorated a lot."

It seems that the obstacle of unfulfilled desire is affecting your IQ.

Okay, let me explain in more detail.

This phenomenon is similar to depositing and withdrawing money at a bank.

You're now a master of lying down and spending whatever money you have. Since there's no money in your account right now, you have to work first and wait for your salary to be deposited into your card before you can withdraw it.

But if you're a workaholic and work overtime for a whole year straight, you'll be able to withdraw money every time before your year's salary runs out.

Simply put... the total amount of pre-emptive actions hasn't decreased, but the benefit of doing it in advance is that when you need money, that is, in an emergency where you need to use your normal abilities, you don't have to frantically seek to satisfy your desires.

do you understand? "

(End of this chapter)