Chapter 024: Sanity Returns to Zero



【Sanity: 0】

Good job.

When Lu Ban saw these attributes, he exclaimed, "Wow!"

My sanity became zero in just one night.

According to the understanding of attributes, if sanity returns to zero, it means that Lu Ban no longer has any sanity.

Reason, logic, thinking, the things that make humans human, will all be gone.

In other words, if his sanity value became zero, Lu Ban would immediately fall into madness from which he could never recover. How could he still be in his current state?

Is there something wrong here?

Lu Ban feels that he is currently very healthy, both physically and mentally.

In fact, due to last night's experience, Lu Ban thought that his mental state was better than ever before. After all, being able to sleep for a few hours without being disturbed was of great help in restoring energy.

"Go see a psychiatrist later."

Lu Ban thought.

It was already past six o'clock and almost noon. Lu Ban took one last look at the dilapidated Jiangcheng Grand Theater, packed up his things, and walked out the door.

After taking the bus and then the subway back to the city, Lu Ban did not rush home, but went to Jiangcheng People's Hospital first.

After putting the backpack and crowbar in the public locker, Lu Ban registered and sat on the hospital bench waiting for the doctor to call his name.

"Uncle, this is not good. Smoking is prohibited in the hospital."

Lu Ban saw the old man sitting next to him holding a homemade cigarette and lighting it, so he quickly put it out with his fingers.

The old man glanced at Lu Ban, his eyes were empty and lifeless, and dark red blood vessels were bulging under his pale skin.

Lu Ban noticed that a mother with a silent child not far away was looking at him in horror, and turned the child's head away so that the child could not look at Lu Ban. He smiled.

"Please come to the second clinic, Lu Ban. Please come to the second clinic, Lu Ban."

Hearing his name, Lu Ban straightened his clothes and came to the clinic.

Opposite me was a male doctor in a white coat, about forty years old, wearing frameless square glasses, and looked very kind.

"Hello, my last name is Hao, you can call me Doctor Hao."

He introduced himself and shook hands with Lu Ban.

"Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere in your heart or have any emotional problems?"

Doctor Hao held a clipboard and a pen in his hand, with the medical record book that Lu Ban had just received at hand, and asked in a gentle tone.

After hearing what Dr. Hao said, Lu Ban thought for a moment before speaking calmly.

“I think I might be crazy.”

"?"

Doctor Hao was stunned.

He looked Lu Ban up and down and adjusted his glasses.

"You mean, you think you have mental problems?"

"right."

Lu Ban nodded.

“Are there any symptoms?”

Dr. Hao has been treating patients for many years and has seen all kinds of mental patients.

There are those who become depressed because of practicing knife skills they saw on the Internet, big bosses who always feel that there are villains trying to harm them, and those who pretend a potted plant is a "killer" wearing sunglasses late at night.

After most mental patients sit down, their first words when faced with Dr. Hao’s questions are usually: I’m not sick.

There are very few people who start their conversation by saying "I'm crazy" like Lu Ban.

Of course, it's not completely absent.

For example, there was a rich kid who hit and killed someone with his car and then ran over the person repeatedly. Finally, he went to the psychiatric department and strongly requested that he be diagnosed with mental illness in order to escape punishment. Of course, Dr. Hao was pragmatic and watched him being sent to prison.

"I have encountered ghosts one after another recently. They want to kill me and torture me. I also saw monsters in the starry sky. As long as they open their eyes, mankind will perish."

In response to the doctor's questions, Lu Ban told the truth.

"ghost?"

Doctor Hao patiently followed Lu Ban's questions and wrote a few words on his clipboard.

Paranoia, ghost direction.

"Yes, there are at least two ghosts in my house."

Lu Ban nodded.

"Do you think they'll hurt you?"

"One will, and one may not."

"oh."

Dr. Hao wrote a few more words on the clipboard.

Paranoia, mild, with suspected schizophrenia tendencies.

"I see you seem very calm, aren't you afraid that those ghosts will harm you?"

"I can smash them with a crowbar, and I can play the suona to ward off evil spirits."

"Suona?"

Doctor Hao paused.

The suona can exorcise evil spirits, and it feels like there are many problems, but also like there is nothing wrong.

"Yes, I have a suona. If I play it, I can see a dark yellow planet in the universe. On that planet, a great being is dormant. He has not yet awakened, but he can influence humans and drive them crazy just by talking in dreams..."

Lu Ban described in detail what he had seen.

The system of the Silent Land has no confidentiality principle, and even gave Lu Ban a special mission video, obviously not caring about confidentiality.

But unless a normal person has experienced it personally, they would definitely not believe what Lu Ban said.

While listening to Lu Ban's story, Dr. Hao wrote a sentence on the paper.

The patient has a very serious delusion disorder and has formed his own theory of the world. It is recommended to take an X-ray for observation, as organic lesions may have occurred.

The illness is quite serious.

"I saw you wanted to say something just now, and you kept glancing at me. Is there something wrong?"

Doctor Hao asked again.

"No."

Lu Ban answered immediately, then turned his eyes away from the doll with a funny smiley face on Dr. Hao's shoulder.

"...Okay, I already understand your situation."

After Dr. Hao finished taking notes, he continued.

"I think your condition may be caused by too much stress, or it may stem from your childhood experiences, or it may be due to some recent stimulation. You'd better keep a normal attitude and look at these things."

"For example, ghosts. Of course there are no ghosts in this world. The reason you think there are ghosts is probably because of excessive delusion."

When mentioning this, Dr. Hao recalled what the nurses were chatting about this morning. It seemed to be some supernatural video.

"Many of the ghosts you think of are actually just special effects. I heard that there are some popular supernatural videos on the Internet that claim to have ghosts. In fact, these videos look fake at first glance and can be seen to be special effects. Why don't you go and find a few to take a look? I'll look... I got it."

Dr. Hao took out his mobile phone, did a rough search, and quickly found the video that had been viewed over six million times. He handed the phone to Lu Ban.

Lu Ban took the phone and saw the video titled [Don’t open it at night!!!], saw his own room in the video, and saw himself lying down.

"But the doctor..."

Lu Ban's expression remained unchanged as he pointed at the video on his phone.

“The person inside is me.”

"???"

A question mark popped up over Dr. Hao’s head.

He hurriedly pulled the video progress bar, and then he saw that the man lying on the bed with dark handprints on his body and struggling with his eyes closed was really Lu Ban.

"How about this...you go get a CT scan and we'll see if there's any lesion then."

He wrote a note and handed it to Lu Ban, watching this kind and ordinary man leave the room. He did not rush to call the next patient, but watched the six-minute video in its entirety first.

After a long time, Doctor Hao, who almost dropped his phone, touched his shoulder, picked up the pen again, and circled and dotted his conclusions on the board recording Lu Ban's condition, turning it into a diagnosis and treatment result.

Severe paranoia, persecution mania, schizophrenia, a complete and self-consistent worldview system has been formed, the delusional behavior has been projected into reality, and there is a tendency towards mild self-harm and self-abuse. Long-term observation is recommended.

After writing, Dr. Hao recorded the contents in Lu Ban’s file in the hospital’s internal system, and made a brief note on the system linked to the police.

The remarks are only four words.

[Very dangerous! ]


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