"Neat and symmetrical?" Jiang Baimian asked in confirmation.
Lauris pointed to the coffee table with certainty:
"right.
"Look at..."
Uh, if Xiaohong is here and hears these words, she will have post-traumatic stress disorder again... Jiang Baimian's mind flashed such a thought.
Of course, Lauris couldn't hear her slander, and continued on her own:
"There should have been a vase, a wooden box for tissues, and two drinking cups.
"But he said the vase and the wooden box were not symmetrical and had to be removed."
Following Lauris' words, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao turned their attention to the coffee table and found that there were only four ceramic cups left on it - two of which were added because of their visit.
Symmetric OCD? While Jiang Baimian retracted his gaze, he glanced at Shang Jianyao.
Shang Jianyao nodded to her.
However, Jiang Baimian couldn't understand what he meant by nodding now.
Do you agree with what Lauris said, or did you hear my heart
Lauris, unaware of the secret interaction between the two, sighed and said:
"It's actually okay, but I'm a little tired, and I have to always pay attention to the placement of things, as well as my clothes and hairstyle.
"Well, Odick won't be angry about it, he'll just silently make it the way he wants, and be very persistent."
This reminded Jiang Baimian of the phrase "one eye is big, the other is small, he is not a good person, I will dig it out for you".
It is also a manifestation of symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder, only more violent and crazier.
After Shang Jianyao finished listening, he rubbed his chin:
"Besides this, what else?"
"It's nothing." Lauris shook her head slowly, as if recalling the details of her relationship with Odick in the past two days.
She was silent for a moment, then hesitantly said:
"There is one more point, I don't know if it counts..."
"Although it is said, it is up to the therapist to decide." Shang Jianyao, who loves to play Qiu Xin Qiuqi, said in the tone of a senior psychiatrist.
Lauris was very grateful that he had initially cured Odyk, and she believed in his medical skills, so she no longer hesitated after hearing this:
"He seems timid and weaker than before.
"Before going out to the Hunter Guild today, he looked in the mirror and muttered to himself for a while before he mustered up his courage."
Doctor Shang Jianyao nodded:
"It's a type of post-traumatic stress disorder.
"Simply put, the tragic results of his previous fight against the 'nightmare' left him a psychological shadow, and he is no longer as confident as before, easily fearful of things with certain risks, and easy to appear weak in front of the strong.
"It needs long-term treatment to resolve, but it's not a big problem, don't worry too much."
"I understand." Lauris breathed a sigh of relief, "No wonder I insisted on letting him stay at home for the past two days and not going to see those churchmates, but he agreed, which is impossible in the usual way. Well, he is not only cleaning up I was very insistent on the placement, and I chose to listen to me on everything else.”
Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao asked again and again, and finally confirmed that Odick had no other abnormality.
Because they were worried about an accident on Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Genova, they didn't wait for Odick to go home.
In order not to implicate the Odick family, they drove the vehicle into several deserted alleys around them, and then set foot on the correct path back to the Green Olive Area after making rounds and rounds.
— After more citizens joined the army, the first city during the day became more and more quiet, and there were many secluded places without shops that often took ten to twenty minutes for people to pass by.
"At present, there are four more abnormalities in Odick: mania, symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder, cowardice, weakness, and insanity." Jiang Baimian in the co-pilot position summed up the harvest of this visit.
"It's really miserable..." The compassionate Zen Master Purdue sighed sincerely.
Anyone who shares one of them will affect their normal life, and Odick gets four at a time.
Before the words of Zen Master Purdue were finished, Shang Jianyao, who hated evil and hated it, added:
"So it can't be left like this!"
Shang Jianyao, who attaches great importance to feelings, followed up and said:
"If we can solve the 'Nightmare' minions and find clues to deal with 'It', maybe it can help Odick truly recover."
Jiang Baimian was a little bit at a loss when you said something to me.
When the voice echoing in the car calmed down, she sighed and said:
"The madness caused by the influence of 'nightmare' will cause so many problems in one breath?"
In her cognition, there should be only one insanity or mania.
Although symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder is serious to a certain extent, it can be regarded as a mental illness, but it is often not related to insanity.
Timid and weak are not even mental illnesses.
Moreover, there is no necessary connection between these four anomalies, and in the field of mental illness, only mania and delirium are relatively common.
Jiang Baimian initially suspected that timidity and weakness were indeed the psychological shadow left by Odick after encountering a "nightmare", as Shang Jianyao said.
At this time, Shang Jianyao has become calm:
"In this way, Xiaobai's guess at the time was correct:
"One big eye and one small eye is what Odyk saw in 'Nightmare', 'Not a good person, I'll dig it out for you' is a remark added by Odyk himself after his symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder."
Hearing these two sentences, Jiang Baimian muttered to himself:
"Appear… "
She pondered for a moment, then suddenly turned to look at Shang Jianyao:
"Why can't it be an infection
"Before we set out to visit Odyk and Lauris, we guessed that the extra anomaly in Odyk might be due to his imitation of some of the things he perceived at the time, or the traces left after being infected by 'madness'."
Shang Jianyao slowed down the car, took his right hand off the steering wheel, and rubbed his chin:
"If it is infection or imitation, there must be a source or reference object."
"One person on the left, one person on the right, and a small photo frame in the middle, which is very symmetrical in itself, as I said at the time." Jiang Baimian's thinking was active and his expression was calm.
Shang Jianyao thought for a while and said:
"You mean, 'picture frame' or another person, has a symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder
"Through the 'nightmare', they 'infected' this problem on Odyk?"
"Maybe..." Jiang Baimian replied uncertainly at first, then sat up abruptly, "If this is the case, the reason why the target we tracked always wears sunglasses is not because of photophobia or trying to cover up his appearance. characteristics, but because his partner has a symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder, and his failure to do so will inevitably lead to infighting!
"When he asked for directions at night, his companions were lurking around!"
…
Green Olive Area.
Genova sat in the room, paying attention to replacing the high-performance batteries that needed to be charged.
This rental house is diagonally opposite, separated from it by a corridor, and in the room near the stairs, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong are quietly lurking.
No one lives here, and the tables, chairs and benches are obviously dusty. Bai Chen and Long Yuehong took advantage of the silence in the corridor and no one passed by before unlocking the lock and hiding in.
Here, through keyholes and cat eyes, they can see the situation at the entrance of the stairs, and with the help of cameras installed in hidden locations, they can observe whether there is any abnormality in the rental house where Genawa is located.
Long Yuehong went through the several situations listed earlier in his mind over and over again, lest he forget the corresponding plan.
"Don't be too nervous, the more nervous you are, the easier it is to forget details that shouldn't be forgotten and make mistakes that shouldn't be made." Bai Chen comforted Long Yuehong while looking out through the cat's eyes.
Yes, don't be nervous, I have to make Xiaobai feel that I am calm and reliable... Long Yuehong took a breath and let it out slowly, to calm down her mood.
After an unknown amount of time, Bai Chen suddenly suppressed his voice and said:
"Someone came up."
Long Yuehong subconsciously leaned towards the door.
Bai Chen looked back at him, his voice lowered:
"You use your computer to read.
"Don't crowd at the door together, it is very suspicious in the induction of the awakened."
"Okay..." Long Yuehong gently retracted to the table that had been sorted out.
Bai Chen's laptop was always on, using the temporary base station of Genawa as the signal source, and displaying the pictures captured by the surveillance camera at the door.
Long Yuehong glanced around and saw a man dressed in ordinary clothes with the same appearance entering this floor and turning to the right.
It is noon now, and many people who are not far from work will choose to go home for dinner. It is not a big fuss to be haunted.
However, the man stopped at the door of the rental house where Genova was.
He reached out and patted the door, and his voice was so loud that it was directly transmitted to Bai Chen and Long Yuehong:
"Open the door! I'm back!"
He patted it for a few seconds before trying to unlock the key from his waist.
At this moment, Genova's deliberately imitating human voice came from behind the door:
"Who are you?"
"Who are you?" The man was surprised.
He then glanced left and right, patted his forehead and said:
"Dry!
"Wrong floor!"
He didn't apologize, turned around, and walked quickly to the stairs, as if trying to escape this embarrassing scene.
This seems to be just a random incident.
But Bai Chen was not careless, and whispered to himself:
"Affected by someone's memory?"
"If that's the case..." Long Yuehong habitually echoed.
Then, he was startled:
"As neighbors on the same floor of the target, will we be quietly flipping through our memories?"