"By increasing daily touching and touching, improving insensitivity and making patients accustomed to intimate contact, it is an original treatment method."
Facing Hodge's pickiness, Brett replied: "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice is a good cat."
"It's a culture outside the city again?" Hodge sneered, and said unmoved, "Pets are fine too."
"I think you should have tried it, and I'm afraid the effect is not satisfactory."
Hodge was choked for a moment. Indeed, as Brett said, he had tried all kinds of pets, large ones, small ones, animal ones, humanoid ones, sane ones, and non-sane ones... In the initial fresh After the feeling passed, he lost all interest, not to mention touching or even giving eyes, everything was destroyed.
On the surface, he glared at Brett viciously, showing an expression of anger after being told a secret, and then immediately restrained himself, maintaining his usual indifference. Sure enough, such a performance attracted Bright to continue to try to persuade him.
The way of persuasion is not words, but actions.
Hodge felt the hand holding his neck gently rubbing, bringing a tingling and numb feeling, spreading up and down along the spine. That palm gave him too strong a feeling, as if all his consciousness and perception were concentrated there, and his senses were infinitely magnified.
He tries to suppress that good feeling, keeping his voice calm: "The key is control."
"Huh?" The man made a questioning voice.
On a piece of skin the size of a coin, there are 25-meter-long nerve fibers and more than a thousand nerve endings, which convey information through touch, give life experience, and build a sense of security. The aversion to touch is a manifestation of extreme insecurity from a certain point of view, because it has been in a state of unsatisfied needs for too long, resulting in extreme behavior and physiological disorders, just like people who have been hungry for a long time will hate food. Increasing control over the surrounding environment and conditions is one of the important means to relax people and reduce insecurities.
After Hodge explained the principle, he sneered: "No one is more obedient than you, Brett." He said this, as if he disliked Brett's uncontrollable nature, but it actually meant that he did not refuse the man's approach, and he agreed to participate in the treatment process recommendations.
His brown eyes lit up, and the man said: "Follow your will, and pursuing absolute control is not conducive to your condition. Even a god cannot control the overall situation every time. There are always accidents."
Just like you.
Hodge thought to himself.
"It was just this accident." Brett said what Hodge was thinking. For some reason, the latter felt a tremor in his left chest, and his body moved uneasily. Because of his posture, he couldn't escape, so he could only continue to listen to the other party. Say.
"Take me as the only variable in all your controllable life. I will challenge your tolerance bottom line and let you face the change, accept it, adapt to it, overcome it, and master it."
Hodge hears "it" as "he."
Master him, master everything about the man in front of you.
Hodge was not one to be easily seduced, but he had to say he was moved by Bright's words.
"Will you cooperate with me and do everything I ask of you?"
"I try my best."
"Then," the handsome man raised his chin slightly and said arrogantly, "Kneel down."
"..." Master and servant PLAY
Brett looked at Hodge's expression, he seemed to be joking, but not like it.
He hesitated for two seconds, but did as he did—I wish you an early New Year in advance.
Staring at the pair of black pupils, Brett slowly knelt down on one knee, like a knight paying homage to the king, kneeling on the thick carpet, the soft feeling made him regain his senses from the glowing black eyes of the other party.
Those eyes were usually cold and dark, and Brett found that when the other party looked at him, they were always shining brightly, as bright as stars, as if they contained the entire universe. He didn't know if he was the same, he just thought his eyes were beautiful, and wished there could be more light inside and last longer.
Brett guessed that Hodge had a mental illness. He let himself kneel down, on the one hand, he was probably testing his sincerity, and on the other hand, he might really like it.
Nevertheless, this proud and intelligent man who was often in pain aroused feelings of pity in Brett's heart.
Yes, pain. In a world full of material desires, everyone is indulged and happy, but there are some people who cannot accept the touch of the same kind and will never be satisfied. Moreover, can such a heterogeneous person who cannot integrate into the mainstream obtain happiness
Brett sees through Hodge's calm and indifferent exterior the pain inside him, perhaps without him even realizing it.
It is not clear where the feeling of heartache comes from, probably because in his eyes, Hodge is a victim—no matter who the perpetrator is, there is no way to pursue it in this world. According to the mental evaluation standard, there is probably no one in this city who is normal. He has a high IQ, amazing talent, social status and respect, but he's still a victim.
Brett is not a holy father, and he doesn't have a savior complex. He just wants to use Hodge and at the same time repay the only kindness he has. Apart from that, he can't give anything else.
This kind of pure kindness and tenderness is unique in this city, only this one.
Hodge felt it, which made him puzzled, irritable, and fearful, but at the same time longing, reassuring, and nostalgic.
His mind was confused by his own feelings.
This night, Hodge could have used this to tempt him to torment him, but in the end he just let the man kneel on the ground, say some ridiculously stupid things to himself, and then fell asleep with his head on his lap.
Hodge sank into the sofa, running his hands through Brett's hair, recalling the conversation they had just had.
“It’s boring,” Hodge says, and the feeling of just being there and not doing something is so weird, it’s uncomfortable.
"It takes time for the effects to come out."
"Sounds like perfunctory."
The man sneered a few times, which made Hodge angry, but not all, because his expression was soft.
With a bit of malice, Hodge imagined the appearance of the man after he learned the truth, in order to retaliate for the man's rudeness just now, and the familiar coldness made him feel comfortable.
At the back, the man was already in a daze, as if he was about to fall asleep.
"We need a safe word... I think Latiao is good..."
What is spicy strips
What a strange out-of-towner.
Bright returned to the doomsday zombie game world. He didn't fall asleep. He just controlled his heartbeat and brain activity to make his body sleep. After leveling up, his control over his body became stronger and stronger, and he was able to Step in and out of the game world while remaining conscious. In other words, the only thing that currently restricts his access to the game is the early morning time.
Back on the second floor, the wall next to the desk was covered with paper strips, with pens and markers of different colors recording the people and things he met, as well as all the information he could gather. Among them are his number one mysterious enemy Zha Zha, former teammate veterans and others, agent Ou Keke, members of the allied wolf pack, animal protection organizations, etc., and of course Hodge.
Bright put a question mark on Hodge's identity. His initial judgment may be wrong. He is not as simple as a free man. Hodge has too much power in the program group.
After hesitating for a moment, he changed the green mark next to Hodge's name to yellow.
He uses the color of the marker to distinguish the degree of danger and the camp. The scumbag is black, the program group and the army are red, Andy the Bear, Pierce No. 56 are orange, Oco is yellow, and most of the players are orange and yellow. Currently only the werewolves It's green and represents a teammate or harmless party.
"Spicy sticks, the whole wall can hardly fit." Brett said to the big black back beside him.
He took off the piece of paper on "The Beast" and read the information on that guy again. This was the first person he killed with his own hands. The strange thing is that he didn't feel sick, dizzy, or retching. The reaction is probably because the body is used to killing.
Or maybe it was because of the high pressure from the outside that kept him busy all the time, and he had no time or energy to think about other things. After he had time, it took too long for that incident, and the time limit for stress response had already passed, and nothing happened. It seems hypocritical to say that you are sad.
He ended up simply putting away the "Beast" records and putting them in a drawer.
The program group notified Ou Keke to go to the meeting, and Ou Keke was very disgusted with this kind of behavior of wasting time.
Hold a meeting, talk as if she has the right to express her opinion, isn't it just listening to the leader's pressure, and the people below them bow their heads and obey their orders, and suffer hardships and run away
Sitting in a conference room full of people, she touched the needle tube in her pocket, feeling a little relieved, and if she really couldn't bear it, she would give herself a needle. Because she wanted to take the opportunity to meet Brett after the meeting, and the most popular artist in her hands, obviously disapproved of her addictive behavior—although Brett never said anything, she just felt it. So, she hesitated for a while before going out, but still didn't call.
To Ou Keke's surprise, the director actually attended the meeting, to be precise, it was his voice that was there.
When she was guessing what happened, she was named, and one of the important things in today's meeting was actually related to her.
"The actions of animal protection organizations have already caused irreparable losses to the program group... Violent bears still have commercial value, and abandoning them immediately will cause losses... No. 199 Because this video has won the favor of animal protection organizations, many viewers regard him as A model of being close to nature... In order to divert conflicts, I suggest using old topics to create new ones, and portraying Violent Bear and No. 199 as fateful enemies, falling in love and killing each other."
What? ! Make a pair of Brett and Violent Bear
Let her take it easy, go to the toilet and get an injection first...
Ou Keke suspects that she has already had an injection, but the medicine caused her to lose her memory and have hallucinations.
She may have had a false meeting.