This is a very strange big city.
Although the row upon row of high-rise buildings and the brightly lit city skyline are almost the same as those of Jiangnan City, and it is also full of violent winds and showers, lightning and thunder, as if the whole world is swallowed by floods and thunder, but Li Yao still suffers from the hot and humid climate and roads. The tropical plants around him recognized that this place was closer to the south than Jiangnan City, and they escaped at least nearly a thousand kilometers while he was in a coma.
Sure enough, Ms. Huiwu told Li Yao that this is a provincial capital city in the southern hilly area, and it is also a transportation hub for four or five surrounding provinces. The geological structure in this area is very stable, and there has never been a large-scale natural disaster in history. Earthquakes, rainstorms, floods, and hailstones are rare, and tsunamis and storms are even more uncommon.
According to "Red Pole Star", if the "Will of the Earth" is willing to pay a huge price, theoretically speaking, it is certainly possible to wipe out such an extremely stable big city deep inland, but it is absolutely impossible to forcibly create a large city. The natural disasters that occurred belonged to "going against the sky", which would consume too much of its power, and might lead to its failure in the "cosmic war". Therefore, they are safe for the time being.
Sure enough, although there was heavy rain here, and some low-lying streets were flooded, the normal operation mechanism of the city was not affected, and it has not yet reached the point of complete paralysis.
The destination of Li Yao and his party was the downtown area of the city, a secret office of the Ark Foundation.
It is said to be a "secret office", but it has an open cover on the surface. It is a quite high-end psychological counseling club called "Spiritual Space".
Ms. Gray Mist told Li Yao that the Apocalypse Organization might not know that the "Mind Space" is a branch of the Ark Foundation, but still the same sentence, the downtown area is their best cover. If both monsters and superpowers are revealed to the world, it will stimulate the muddle-headed human society, and perhaps "cancer cell mutations" will occur, which is definitely not what the "Earth Will" wants to see.
What's more, most of the doctors and staff in "Spiritual Space" are ordinary people who know nothing about the truth. Similar outlying institutions are spread all over the world. Even if one is destroyed, the Ark Foundation is hidden in the deep sea The body of the body will not have much impact.
"This time, the Apocalypse organization suffered heavy casualties. It is estimated that the hunters will need at least 24 hours to regroup enough people to launch a second wave of attacks."
Ms. Gray Mist said to Li Yao, "We'll rest here for one night, waiting for the awakening of the neighboring provinces—the Prison Breakers will come to support us, and we'll set off again in the morning, all the way south, across the border. Of course, there are also a batch of advanced equipment here. A preliminary test can be performed on you."
"How do you test?"
Li Yao immediately became vigilant.
Although he is more inclined to the Ark Foundation, and has a vague intimacy and familiarity with the Red Pole Star, it does not mean that he likes to be "tested" by being revealed the secrets deep in his soul.
"rest assured."
Ms. Gray Mist said, "It won't be too difficult—we have a very special patient here. I hope you can treat him and relieve his troubles. That's it."
"what?"
Li Yao was stunned, "Wait, what do you mean, isn't it a test, why did it become a treatment? Besides, I'm not a psychiatrist, so how can I treat your patients? What's going on?"
"Don't ask me, I don't know, this is the instruction of Red Pole Star."
Ms. Gray Mist said, "Red Star said, 'If you really were you, then you must know how to treat this patient'."
Li Yao became more and more confused, but no matter how much he asked, Ms. Gray Mist was equally confused.
Everyone entered the building and took the elevator to the "spiritual space" on the thirteenth floor.
This is not a professional spiritual treatment institution, but it is set up for modern people to relieve stress and vent negative emotions. It looks like an elegantly decorated abode. On both sides of a long corridor filled with light green light, there are four or five rooms of different styles. Most of the rooms in the "decompression room" are empty at the moment, only the innermost room is squatting a middle-aged man with blackened Yintang, swollen eyes, restless, restless and hyperactive.
If it wasn't for his dazed expression and blurred eyes, this middle-aged man could be called handsome, with a serious and elegant temperament in his gestures. According to Li Yao's guess, he should be engaged in education, and he has done quite well. success.
Sure enough, the information Ms. Huiwu handed him showed that this middle-aged patient named "Zhang Jiashu" was the dean of the No. 12 Middle School in this city. Responsible, treats students strictly but still cares. The rate of students entering higher education is very high. He has won the title of outstanding educator at the municipal level many times. He is a well-known good teacher. He is upright, determined, principled, and his family is very happy Happiness is the envy of colleagues and colleagues. Logically speaking, there should be no psychological problems.
Of course, there is no reason for such a thing as mental illness.
"What's wrong with this teacher Zhang?"
Li Yao glanced through the door and found Zhang Jiashu, the director of training, looking up at the ventilation ducts above the "decompression room" with his neck concentrated, his eyes rolling around, not showing the slightest demeanor of being a teacher, but like a sneaky thief.
This kind of very... wretched temperament at first glance, I always feel very familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.
"Teacher Zhang has awakened, but his awakening is very strange. It is different from the regular awakened people we found. It seems to be polluted by some...foreign things, awakening memories and souls that do not belong to him."
Ms. Huiwu handed over a medical record and said, "As you can see, Teacher Zhang was originally a very decent, kind and traditional person with a happy family and a successful career. He can be regarded as a winner in this life. Generally speaking, Such people are rarely awakened.
"However, according to Teacher Zhang's self-report, one day when he was patrolling the classroom, he confiscated a mobile phone from a certain student. There is nothing to say if the mobile phone is confiscated. Anyway, it will be returned to the students at the end of the semester.
"It's just that after Mr. Zhang confiscated the student's mobile phone, he glanced at it in a strange way. He was attracted by the phone with just one glance. In his own words, 'it seems to have entered a magic cave'. It took about one In one week, I read all the millions of words.
"The student secretly read, of course, not some world famous book, but an Internet. Mr. Zhang himself graduated from the Chinese Department and taught Chinese, so he rarely reads these... In his original words, 'shoddy, cheating "Gods and ghosts" things, but this time, somehow, this movie seemed to have a terrifying magic power, which made him stay up and down day and night, forgetting to eat and sleep, and even not having the heart to deal with his own work.
"Of course, this alone is not enough to make Mr. Zhang seek help from psychiatrists and psychological counselors.
"In the few days after watching this network, Mr. Zhang had a small high fever, had two or three days of nightmares, and then developed many very strange habits."
Li Yao was fascinated by this, and couldn't help but ask, "What habit?"
"Drill sewers and ventilation ducts."
Ms. Huiwu said, "According to Mr. Zhang's self-report, after this fever, he seems to have sleepwalking problems. He often sneaks out of the house in the middle of the night, uncovers the manhole cover in the community, and goes into the sewer to run and explore. , as if only in a narrow, dark and stuffy space, he felt like a fish in water and extremely comfortable.
"In the end, not only at night, but even in broad daylight when he was very conscious, he couldn't help thinking about the ventilation system of each building, thinking about how to crawl in without anyone noticing—and, really paying Actions.
"Teacher Zhang told us that he really got into the ventilation ducts of several buildings, trying to avoid everyone's eyes and ears and intrude into the tightest space. If someone caught him in the ventilation duct, and he couldn't speak clearly with his mouth all over his body, he might really lose his reputation, but he just couldn't help it, the impulse that came from the depths of his soul."
Li Yao: "Uh..."
"Also, it's temperament."
Ms. Huiwu continued, "Teacher Zhang was originally very popular with the students in the school. Although he held the position of 'dean of instruction' which had to be strict, he still impressed many students with his integrity and elegance. But according to His self-report and our secret investigation found that many students do think that Mr. Zhang has recently become... wretched, treacherous, and cunning, and will use many despicable and shameless tricks to deal with students. The way of "bad students" is clear, even worse than "bad students", and many students complained.
"But sometimes, it seems that his brain is not enough, and his IQ suddenly drops, and he will blurt out some very naive words. He has changed from a dignified high school dean to a mindless junior high school student."
Li Yao: "Also, is there such a thing?"
"There are also those nightmares. Although the fever has subsided long ago, they still haunt him, making him sleepless for days and nights. Often when he closes his eyes and opens them, he finds himself in the ventilation duct or the sewer. Teacher Zhang As a last resort, I had to see a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist said that he was middle-aged, his married life was not harmonious, and his desires could not be vented. Subconsciously, he found sewers and ventilation pipes as a substitute for his wife, you know .”
Ms. Huiwu said, "Teacher Zhang scoffed at this statement, but the problem did exist, and it had to be treated. After looking around, we found us."
"and many more-"
Li Yao frowned and said, "Let me ask first, what is the name of the book that Mr. Zhang read before he got sick?"
"You should have guessed."
Ms. Huiwu looked at Li Yao, "It's "Forty Thousand Years of Cultivation" written by Zhang Daniu."