Under Merlin's series of brainwashing, both Lin Qiye and Li Yifei stayed where they were.
"You mean... the world we live in is not real?" Lin Qiye had a strange expression.
"right."
"Do you have evidence?"
"Isn't this evidence that our myths suddenly appear in your world?"
"…" Lin Qiye rubbed the corners of his eyes and suddenly felt that... what Merlin said seemed to make sense.
"But if the world we live in is false, does that mean we ourselves are false?" Li Yifei couldn't help but say.
"Yes." Merlin nodded matter-of-factly.
"In this case, how can you, a false existence, question the authenticity of the world?" Li Yifei paused, "As you just said, fish will not question creatures outside the ocean, and two-dimensional creatures will not Will question the world outside the plane...
So, when you start to question whether the world is false, is your existence itself... still false? "
When Merlin heard Li Yifei's words, he was immediately petrified on the spot like a lightning strike.
Lin Qiye's eyes changed instantly when he looked at Li Yifei.
"Do you still understand philosophy?" He leaned into Li Yifei's ear and asked.
"No, I just didn't figure it out." Li Yifei scratched his head.
Lin Qiye gave him a meaningful look, then turned to look at Merlin, "You said you were a scholar looking for the real world, but have you found it?"
Merlin's eyes sparkled again!
"Found it!" He said firmly, "I don't know how long ago, I used magic to communicate with a mysterious plane. Although I don't know where it is specifically, I can vaguely predict that it is the real world!"
"What's that world like?"
"It seems to be under the sea. There are various small houses inside, including pineapple-shaped ones, human head-shaped ones, shops selling strange food, and there seems to be a strange yellow cube... "
Merlin began to recall what he saw and heard at that time, his eyes widened and his body began to twitch involuntarily...
Lin Qiye frowned, realizing that the matter was not simple, and silently took half a step back with Li Yifei.
"The real world... I saw the real world!!" Merlin's hands and feet danced wildly with excitement. The calmness and wisdom in his eyes had long since disappeared, replaced by a touch of strange madness.
His body twisted violently, and after a moment, he turned into a pink starfish.
He reached out and grabbed it, and the staff beside the chair turned into a fishing net. He quickly ran to Lin Qiye's side and started dancing.
"SpongeBob!!
Let's go catch jellyfish! "
Paidaxing Merlin circled Lin Qiye a few times, then ran out of the hospital building quickly with the fishing net, and started running in the yard. As he ran, he jumped up, and the fishing net in his hand danced wildly, as if he was catching holding something invisible.
Suddenly, he saw Nicks sitting in a rocking chair in a daze...
"Boss! Boss! Are you here too?" Patrick Merlin approached Nyx and asked cheerfully.
Nyx was stunned, staring blankly at the pink unknown object, and fell into deep thought...
After a moment, she tremblingly stretched out her hand, hugged Patrick Merlin into her arms, and spoke with tears in her eyes:
"You...are you my grandson too?!"
"Ruffian boss!!"
"Grandson!"
"Ruffian boss!!"
"Hey grandson, grandma is here!"
"… "
The two people who witnessed everything on the second floor...
Lin Qiye: (?)
Li Yifei: (????)
"I think I probably know where his illness is..." Lin Qiye watched this scene silently and said quietly.
"How should I put it..." Li Yifei scratched his head, "It looks a bit inexplicably touching..."
Lin Qiye pushed up the flat glasses on the bridge of his nose and said in a doctor's tone:
"During the long process of exploration, the 'real world' has become Merlin's inner demon. In order to find it, Merlin used prophecies and magic countless times, and finally created some strange magic circle that connected the so-called' real world' and sent his consciousness to the past...
Whether that world was the 'real world', I don't know, but there is no doubt that it had some strange effect on his mental consciousness, which ultimately led to insanity. "
"Then what should we do?" Li Yifei felt a little headache.
"...I don't know." Lin Qiye shook his head. After all, he was not a real psychiatrist. Although he could roughly deduce what happened, he really didn't know how to treat it.
Do you want to go to Sunshine Mental Hospital again and do the same thing again? But now that it’s the Chinese New Year, the doctors in the psychiatry department will probably be on holiday, right
Lin Qiye looked at the lively Merlin below and sighed slowly.
"Before he mentioned the real world, he was relatively normal. Now this is probably just a short-term symptom... Anyway, let's inject him with some sedatives first and see if he can return to his original state first. This is too much trouble."
"Who's going?"
"What do you think?"
"… "
A humble nurse who was exploited by a sinister boss sighed and walked toward the medical room alone.
After a while, Li Yifei held a big syringe and chased Patrick Merlin all over the ground. Nicks followed closely behind, shouting:
"Xiao Fei! That's your brother, you can't be so cruel!"
The three of them chased each other in the yard for a while. In the end, Li Yifei succeeded in injecting the tranquilizer into Merlin's body. Merlin immediately calmed down, turned back into his human form, wandered on the road for a while, and then sat down on the ground with a thud.
Li Yifei sat on the ground equally tired, breathing heavily.
"This job... is so tiring!"
Lin Qiye stepped forward, checked Merlin's condition, and found that his consciousness was just a little blurry. It should be the sequelae of the confusion just now, and there was nothing serious.
Although Merlin's illness is serious, it will not last for a long time. At least when the real world is not mentioned, he can still communicate normally, so there is no need to worry too much. The main problem now is to think of a treatment first.
He patted Li Yifei on the shoulder and said, "Take care of them. I'll leave first."
Then, in Li Yifei's resentful eyes, Lin Qiye disappeared behind the door of the hospital.
…
early morning.
Lin Qiye woke up from the bed, raised his eyes and looked out the window. Unknown to him, the window was already covered in silver.
"Did it snow so hard last night?" Lin Qiye muttered, walked to the window, and stopped to look into the distance.
The streets outside were already completely white, and large snowflakes were slowly falling from the sky, condensing on the edges of the windows, and gradually melting.
In Cangnan, such heavy snow is rare.
Just as Lin Qiye was about to wash up, he suddenly stopped, looked back at the corner of the house, and let out a light sigh.
I saw a little gray mouse lying there quietly in the corner, motionless.