Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 279: Delusion and Truth Details

When Xia Shouyi walked in and looked towards the bar, he saw that Ximen Qing was still sitting in his regular seat.

Xia Shou immediately stepped forward, and after exchanging pleasantries, he got straight to the point and asked his question.

"Hmm... I see. You want to ask if we can use the ladder on the History Tree in the past to go to other places on the History Tree, right?"

"Yes, that's what I mean." Xia Shou nodded in affirmation.

Ximen Qing: "Of course you can. The branches are all connected. As long as you can find the ladder, you can get there."

"Then can I travel to the future relative to an earlier period? For example, travel from now to the fifteenth century, and then from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century." Xia Shou deliberately concealed the true time period to avoid exposure.

"Just find the corresponding ladder." Ximen Qing replied.

Xia Shou pondered for a moment and asked the most crucial question: "If I go to 1685 now, can I meet the Mr. Xia you mentioned?"

"I'm not sure, but it probably isn't possible. The past time period keeps repeating within a certain period of time. After a cycle, everything will be reset. People who don't belong to that time will naturally not be reset. I think Mr. Xia may not be from that time and space." Ximen Qing lowered his head and thought.

Xia Shou's eyes narrowed behind the plaster headgear. Ximen Qing's words contained a lot of information.

But this also confirmed Xia Shou's initial guess that the predecessor with the same name went to 1685 and contacted Ximen Qing, and Ximen Qing was really a person from the past. He came from the past to the reality where Xia Shou is now by occupying the quota of a modern person.

"Thank you, that's all I can do, but I still have some questions for you."

"You ask."

"Delusion. People with delusional disorder will experience hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. Do you know what the overall development of this disease is?"

"Oh, I do know about this, but its reference value is another matter. Even the Control Bureau thinks that this research consumes too many resources, let alone an individual researcher like me. However, I still have some special sample data from kind people who are willing to cooperate with me in writing the "Deep Diving Manual"... Please wait a moment."

Ximen Qing reached into the lining and took out a piece of paper. It was the interview record about delusion, as if he had prepared this information long ago.

"Through the several cases I have come across, I have divided delirium into the early, middle, late and final stages.

In the early stages, the most common symptoms are visual and auditory hallucinations. At this time, the patient can actually judge the truth or falsity of things from many details. Apart from being very realistic, they are not much different from the hallucinations of ordinary mental patients.

But in the middle stage, sensory hallucinations such as tactile and olfactory hallucinations will appear.

In the middle stage, it is extremely difficult for patients to distinguish the truth from falsehood of the hallucination unless they are in close contact. Just like this cup, I pick it up, I can see and touch it, and it has a heavy weight. Can I say it is fake?

No way?
Are the drinks and meals here fake?

You can’t say that. After all, it tastes and drinks like the real thing, and you can eat and drink your fill here.

But what about the reality? We lie in bed, no matter how full we are in our dreams, when we wake up, our stomachs are still empty.

This level of delusion is like a brain in a vat, very difficult to distinguish. Without special methods, it is almost impossible to distinguish. "

Xia Shouxin tensed up and asked again: "What if you can't tell the difference?"

"Ah? I can't tell it apart, right?... Generally no one can tell it apart, right?" Ximen Qing tilted his head, the ancient-style plaster headgear looked particularly funny.

Xia Shou understood what the other party meant. Most patients with delusional disorder actually made a misjudgment from the beginning. They did not have Alice to distinguish hallucinations for them at any time, so they failed almost at the beginning of the delusional disorder, or even at the first sight of the hallucination.

"Apart from these common sensory symptoms, will patients with delusional disorder experience any physical and mental changes?" Xia Shou asked in a different way.

"There are many kinds, including those with physical deformities and those with mental insanity, but I only recorded those with physical deformities. Those with relatively normal minds would not cooperate with me in this kind of academic research. To be honest, these symptoms are so bizarre that there is no pattern to follow. At least from the sample records I have, I cannot infer any useful conclusions.

I can only summarize some common changes among patients with delusional disorder, which are what I just mentioned. "

Xia Shou nodded. He no longer had any expectations in his heart, but he still let Ximen Qing continue. "What we just talked about was the middle stage, and then there is the late stage. Late stage patients with delusional disorder have only one more characteristic, that is, they can sense the location of other delusional disorder patients. Their source of information is their hallucinations, but the information is indeed correct.

For example, I have a patient who has a hallucination of a frog that always appears in his first cup of coffee in the morning. The frog told him about the condition of another patient with delusional disorder, and described the other person's residence in detail, as well as his appearance and recent living conditions.

The final result also proved that this was indeed correct. The frog had been instigating him to kill that person recently. "

Xia Shou chewed over these words over and over again, as if he knew why Alice asked him to pretend not to see those hallucinations.

"What about the final stage?" Xia Shou asked.

“At the end of the day, they become friends with hallucinations, and that’s the most dangerous thing in my opinion.”

"What would it be like to be friends with a hallucination?"

"In the previous stages, although patients with delusional disorder would interact with hallucinations, the real intelligence information provided by the hallucinations to the patients was one-way. The patients could not choose, nor could they influence the actions of the hallucinations.

But at the end, the intelligence is different. For example, in the example just now, the patient who can see frogs can let the frog jump into the control bureau to peek at the top-secret intelligence data in the control bureau, and then sneak out to tell him. This can be done!"

Xia Shou opened his eyes wide. If he wasn’t wearing the Faust mask, the other person would have seen a face frozen with extreme shock.

"Is this even possible?! Wouldn't it be invincible if Illusion were to be a spy?!"

This is even more outrageous than Su Weiyu's. Su Weiyu's life was in danger, but the illusion was fake and she would not be hurt at all.

Do not!
wrong!

An illusion that could reach this level was definitely not something the person had imagined, but rather something weird - a weirdness like a hallucination.

In this case, the Control Bureau must have a way to deal with it. Xia Shou even felt that the Control Bureau might secretly have several people in the late stage of delusion and let them use illusions to fight against other illusions that sneak in.

"You seem very excited?" Ximen Qing said.

Xia Shou was stunned and shook his head: "No, it's the first time I heard it, and I found it very novel."

"That's right. By the way, there is another strange rule. If a person with delusion syndrome is in the Seven-branched History Tree, that is, in the past, or in the choir club, or anywhere else, he or she will not show symptoms."

"That is to say, delusion only occurs in reality..."

Xia Shou fell into deep thought.

He had actually already vaguely sensed this conclusion.

During the long time he was in Moonburn Village, his delusion never occurred, and the same was true in the choir club.

"I see. By the way... every time I come here, I can basically see you here."

"Well, because the exchange of information here is safe and secure, I try to sleep as much as possible. Don't think too much, I don't have any delusion." Ximen Qing stared at Xia Shou and said.

"I didn't say you had delusions..."

Xia Shou was silent for a while, then said, "I feel like I've asked everything I need to ask. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first.

By the way, last time you asked me to help you save someone, are you not ready yet? "

Xia Shou still remembered what he promised the other party last time.

"There are some preparatory work, and I am very slow at doing it. I will tell you when it is done." Ximen Qing smiled embarrassedly.

(End of this chapter)