Shen Fei and a group of sentinels led Lin Yuan to the treatment room, which was a room specially prepared for injured sentinels.
In order to prevent the mentally fragile injured from being affected during treatment, all walls of the treatment room are covered with thick sound insulation materials to ensure that the mental world of the injured in the room will no longer be affected by external noise.
Lin Yuan stood in front of the multi-layered glass window outside the house, looking at the treatment room.
The treatment room was lit with soft lights, and a bunch of medical equipment were connected in a tangled mess. On the only bed, a sentry was tied tightly.
The sentry looked very quiet at this moment, with long golden hair and handsome features, his eyes staring blankly, looking at the roof silently.
His hands were crossed and folded over his shoulders, tied tightly from head to toe with thick straps, with heavy iron locks on his neck and feet, and a cylindrical gag tied around his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue.
I don't know what kind of fierce struggle has taken place here that requires such strict precautions against the patient.
"How is it?"
Shen Fei and the sentries outside the house looked at Lin Yuan nervously, as if Lin Yuan could determine someone's life or death with just one look through the glass. He could immediately give them a reassurance or a death notice.
"I want to know some details, what his spiritual body is, and what its current condition is. It would be best if I could know what he encountered in the contaminated area." Lin Yuan said.
Shen Fei's face turned ugly.
"You know, the contaminated area is like a weird nightmare. Each contaminated area is completely different. The mutants in it are also different." He explained, "Some of them crave human flesh and blood, while some like to pollute the human spiritual world. There are also some, as long as you don't touch their boundaries, they can even live in peace with humans. The mutant who caught Rachel wanted to turn him into his own kind."
Lin Yuan said she didn't know much about it. When she was studying in the White Tower, she had watched many promotional videos of humans fighting against mutants. The monsters in the videos were all ferocious and bloodthirsty. Killing was their instinct. They fought fiercely and irrationally with the heroes.
In the contaminated area that she had just passed through, human-headed monsters chased after human blood, and their sharp mouthparts took the lives of many people.
Of course, if we talk about mutants that are different from others, Lin Yuan does know one, and that guy has been secretly hiding in her home.
"Those you are talking about are the lowest level mutants." Shen Fei said, "They mostly appear in the newly formed polluted areas. In fact, in the polluted areas, the powerful mutants are not just simple beasts. They are cunning, with different personalities, and each has its own quirks and habits."
"There is a mutant in Contaminated Area No. 5. It particularly likes powerful Sentinels. It never kills any Sentinel that falls into its hands. It only imprisons and tortures them repeatedly. Until it breaks through the Sentinel's barrier and pollutes the spiritual world. Until people completely collapse, go berserk, and become the same mutant species as them, and stay in the world of monsters forever."
"I've always had a feeling..." Shen Fei pondered for a while, "It just likes to keep people in there, turn them into monsters, and live in the polluted area from then on."
"What happened in the contaminated area..." Shen Fei showed a painful expression, as if he remembered something he didn't want to recall. He wiped his face, but continued to speak.
"When we arrived, the monster had put Xiao Lei on a high platform and was torturing him. The worst thing was that its spores created a lot of dummies, the kind that look very much like real people. Among those people were me, these brothers, and some of Xiao Lei's relatives. In short, they were all the people closest to him in his memory. They gathered together with our faces, watching him being tortured bit by bit, and still laughing beside him."
He pounded his fist against the wall. "When I arrived, I beat the guy with my face to a pulp. But it was no use. Rachel was tortured there for three days. When we picked him up, he didn't recognize anyone."
The atmosphere outside the treatment room was solemn. The sentinels all had red eyes and gritted their teeth in silence. It was obvious that each of them had participated in the rescue and had an unforgettable anger in their hearts.
In the whole audience, perhaps only Lin Yuan could still maintain her iconic expressionless face.
She touched her chin, hummed, and said, "Okay, I'll go in and try it."
After saying this, she turned around, pushed the door and went in.
The sentries crowded around the glass observation window outside the house, looking nervously at the inside of the house.
They held their breath and watched the young female guide enter the house.
The guide calmly washed his hands in the sink, folded his sleeves, and found a chair next to the bed to sit down.
Rachel, who was tied to the bed, did not react at all, and stared at the ceiling indifferently. He did not seem to care who sat next to him, or what was going to be done to him.
The personal terminal worn on Lin Yuan's left wrist lit up, and several virtual screens popped up, connecting to the vital monitor of the sentinel on the bed.
She looked at the various physical data for a while, stretched out her right hand, and firmly pressed the sentinel's eyebrows, covering his azure eyes.
"She, she, she's already done it!" The big tiger outside the window almost jumped up, was glared at by seven or eight people, and quickly covered his mouth with his hands as big as a palm fan.
Although the soundproofing here was very good and no one could hear anything happening outside, they were still very careful not to disturb Lin Yuan's treatment.
"Is it starting now?" He covered his mouth and whispered to the short-haired female sentry beside him, gesturing with his hands, "Little Bird, I heard that we need to change clothes, burn incense, and play music before the counseling?"
The female sentry with the nickname "Little Bird" stared at the house nervously and shook her head.
She didn't understand either. This was her first time seeing Director Xiang's psychiatric treatment, and it was really different from the fancy scenes she saw on TV dramas.
"She rushed all the way and didn't even have a sip of water before going in. No matter what the result is, we should thank her." Xiaoniao said, "After all, Captain Lei has already..."
She swallowed the unlucky second half of the sentence and said, "No matter what, once the counseling begins, it cannot be disturbed. What we need to do now is to remain quiet, guard this door, and not let anyone interfere with what's going on inside."
Through the glass, the girl sitting beside the bed closed her eyes. The dim light from the virtual screen shone on her calm and indifferent face, inexplicably giving people a sense of security.
…
Lin Yuan opened his eyes and found himself standing in a room that was mostly collapsed.
Is this Rachel's mental picture?
She looked up and looked around. The small room should have been a warm place. There were striped wallpapers, beautiful wall lamps, and a small wooden bed. There was a pot of green plants and several photo frames on the bedside table.
Lin Yuan took a look at the photos, most of which were group photos. The sentries in the photos were arm in arm with each other, with bright smiles on their faces.
Looking carefully, there are several faces that Lin Yuan, the owner, recognizes, including Xu Fei, Da Hu, Xiao Niao... those who are guarding outside the treatment room, basically all appear in the photos.
This is the warmest and safest place in Rachel's heart, and it holds the image of the person he cares most about.
The cozy house was now mostly collapsed, with most of the walls and roof collapsed, leaving only this small corner. The cracks in the floor were very uneven, and a black liquid like asphalt was constantly oozing out, dripping down.
Lin Yuan walked to the edge of the cracked floor and looked down. There were layers of broken rooms and houses downstairs, so deep that there was no bottom in sight.
Perhaps this place was once a huge and solid castle. Now, only countless incomplete houses are left floating in the air.
Looking up, you can see the blood-red sky. Huge eyes hang above the red sky, weird and disgusting. Those eyes stare coldly at the collapsing world.
Looking down, there was no end in sight. Broken walls, floors, stairs and various furniture were floating everywhere. Fragments kept falling, and black liquid was flowing everywhere, like endless black blood.
In the real world, beside the bed, a red alarm symbol appeared on the virtual screen of the terminal in Lin Yuan's hand.
"Alert, alert, patient? The mental picture is collapsing. Please withdraw from treatment immediately."
"Danger, danger, please withdraw from treatment immediately."
Looking out the window, the female sentry bird jumped up and said, "What happened? Why did the red exclamation mark appear?"
Da Hu, who was cowering at the side, tried to pull her back, gestured to her to keep quiet, and tried to persuade her in a low voice, "Calm down, Xiao Niao, calm down. It was you who said that you should trust the guide and guard this door well."
They all looked at Lin Yuan eagerly.
Lin Yuan, who was standing beside the bed, had his eyes closed and his expression motionless.
The red light of the virtual screen alarm flashed on that handsome face.
At this moment, in Rachel's mental picture,
林苑正站在破碎的屋子邊緣，看着腳下層層疊疊淩亂漂浮的碎片。
在下方，離她大概四五層樓高度的地?方，一年幼的小男孩從一道?破損的牆壁後，露出半張臉，悄悄地?偷看她。
那男孩和病床上的雷歇爾一樣，有?着金色的頭發和一雙湛藍的眼睛。
“警告，警告，建議立刻終止治療。”終端傳來的警告聲響在林苑耳邊。
林苑沒有?搭理，縱身一躍，直接向?下跳了下去。
小男孩看見林苑向?着他的方向?跳下來，有?一點驚慌。他飛快縮回臉，小小的身影一閃，不知道?躲到那個?地?方去了。
林苑踩上那個?男孩剛剛出現的踏板，舉目尋找。男孩不見了，只有?一只金色的，毛茸茸的小東西在遠方一閃而過。
“他的精神體?的是什?麽？”
“雷歇爾的精神體?是一只威風凜凜的黃金獅子，非常雄俊，可惜把他救回來之後，他的精神體?就再沒有?出現過。”
林苑想起?自己進來之前，和沈飛詢問的對話。
威風凜凜的黃金獅子？這不還是一只小貓嗎？
林苑想着，向?那只毛發稀稀落落的小獅子追去。
她腳下每一塊底板，在她的腳踩過之後随即崩塌，前行沒有?回頭路。
她頭也不回，追着已經幼年化的小小精神體?一路飛奔。
在她的身邊，不時有?巨大的碎塊掉落，濃稠的黑液像瀑布一樣從四面八方垂挂，流淌得?到處都是。
觸手們一只只在林苑的身後出現，陪伴着她浮動在陰影中。
【有?點危險。】
【前方空間出現扭曲】
【太髒了，到處都是黑泥】
【好臭，我不喜歡這個?地?方】
林苑一腳踩空，驟然?從半空中墜落。
不斷下墜的過程中她隐約看見一個?金發的哨兵。哨兵站在虛空的樓臺邊緣，按着劍，滿臉是血，一臉悲傷的看着她。
不知道?落下了多少層，觸手搭到一塊廢墟，林苑伸手爬上去。
擡起?手一看，滿手都是又濃又稠，黏糊糊的黑泥。腳底也異常黏膩，每走一步都十分艱難。
擡頭已經看不見天空。
那只小小的獅子出現在一個?高臺上，它稀稀松松的毛發被那些黑色的淤泥污染，擡起?小小的腿想要甩脫，粘稠的污泥中伸出一種?細長而古怪的黑色的手，那手抓住獅子的四肢和身體?，把它拖進淤泥中。
林苑向?那高臺跑去，到了近前，高臺上瘦弱的幼獅不見了蹤跡。只躺着一個?有?着金色頭發，湛藍色眼睛的哨兵。正是這個?精神圖景的主人，雷歇爾。
哨兵的四肢被墨黑的手掌鎖住，腹部被人剖開，血流得?滿地?都是，人卻還活着，紅色的鮮血沿着平臺的四面往下流。
高臺的四面八方卻圍着無數的人，那些人有?着過于誇張的長脖子，一個?個?滿臉堆笑，仿佛看着多麽欣喜高興的事一樣，扭着脖子盯着臺上受折磨的哨兵議論紛紛。
林苑站直身體?，舉起?一只手，說?：“驅逐。”
巨大的觸手們沖破淤泥從地?底出現，橫沖直撞瞬間就清除了詭異的圍觀者?。
一個?個?腦袋從長長的脖子上掉了下來，失去了活人一樣鮮活的表情，變成由白色黏絲構成的假人，滾進淤泥中沉沒了下去。
林苑走近那座高臺，白色的假人和黑色的怪手都不見了。躺在高臺上的哨兵睜着雙眼，目光潰散，已經死去多時的模樣。
這裏?本是精神的世界，這一切都是哨兵的記憶生成的幻像。
林苑向?遠處看去，虛空之中漂浮着無數這樣的平臺。
每一個?平臺上都有?一個?金色頭發的雷歇爾被反複拖上去，捆在上面，承受着漫長的折磨，
他最信賴的親人和戰友們圍在四周，伸長脖子，滿臉歡笑地?欣賞着他的屈辱和痛苦。
這裏?是雷歇爾精神圖景的深處。
他的身體?已經被從污染區解救回來。
但精神卻還陷在那樣極端的痛苦之中，依舊在自己的圖景內反複地?承受着非人的虐待，一遍遍地?死去。
已經來不及了嗎？
林苑站在哨兵慘不忍睹的屍體?邊。
哨兵精神圖景中溫馨的城堡已成廢墟，泥沼一般厚積的淤泥沉積得?到處都是，黑色的黑水瀑布似從空中不斷墜落。
哨兵自己沉浸在被反複虐待的噩夢之中。
要有?多細致的向?導，花多漫長的時間，才能把這樣的世界清理幹淨恢複原狀？
而且已經沒有?時間了。
世界已開始崩塌，精神體?幻化的野獸趨于幼态，是消亡的征兆。
一旦精神體?徹底死去。也就意味着哨兵将陷入永夜不醒。
在這樣一籌莫展的時候，林苑的腦海中莫名?想起?了一片蔚藍的大海。
想起?那海浪輕輕撫慰着一切，仿佛遲早能夠消融世間萬千苦痛。
林苑凝神想了片刻，伸出了一只手，
猩紅的天空驟然?不見了，萬千星辰出現在蒼穹，巨大的明月緩緩升起?，高懸在天空之中。
月光從高空照下，穿過一切濃稠的黑暗，照在了林苑身上。
站在月光下的林苑開口，她說?，“起?風。”
四周就刮起?了風。微微的風拂走空氣裏?厚積的濃臭腥味。帶來了撫慰人心的芳香。
林苑又說?：“下雨。”
于是天空就下起?了雨，瓢潑的大雨從天而降，沖着粘着整個?世界角角落落頑固的淤泥。
最後林苑閉了一下眼，她睜開雙目，眸中有?光，開口說?道?：“洪水。”
海浪的聲音從四面響起?，不知從何而來的海水漫漫湧上大地?。
海水湧過之處，淹沒了遍地?淤泥遍布，沖走了污黑頹敗。
最溫柔也最強大的水淹沒了萬物萬景。
廢墟，刑臺，屍體?，假人……所有?的一切都被鋪天蓋地?的洪水淹沒。
樓臺萬千的巨大城堡攜着那些詭異痛苦，不堪回首的記憶，沉沒在席卷大地?的滔滔海浪之中。
現實中的治療室內，病床上安靜躺着的哨兵突然?間睜大了眼睛，崩緊身體?。
他瞪大的雙目中出現紅色的熒光，被封住口的喉嚨裏?發出沉重?的嘶吼。
哨兵強大的身軀在床上拼命掙紮，一層又一層裹住的束縛帶發出了崩裂的聲音，鎖着他脖頸和雙腿的鐵鏈被撞動得?乒乓亂響。令人心驚肉跳，甚至開始懷疑這樣堅固的捆綁也有?可能困不住他。
“怎麽了？”
“雷歇爾！”
“是狂化，雷歇爾要狂化了。”
“不，不可能。”
“不要，雷隊。你堅持住。”
窗外的戰士一個?個?站起?來。
他們緊貼着玻璃，攥緊拳頭。想沖起?來，又生怕在最關鍵的時候誤了事。
只能一個?個?強忍着生生咬住牙。
治療室內，坐在病床邊的向?導依然?沉穩如初，她閉着雙目，面色平靜。
不論病榻上的人怎樣打挺掙紮，她按住哨兵眉眼的那只手依舊穩穩的，絲毫不為所動。
在這樣煎熬一般磨人的時刻，她那張永遠淡然?平靜的面孔，反而令人生出一點點安心的感覺。
仿佛不論遇到什?麽樣兇險的困難，她都盡在掌握，能夠解決。讓人忍不住想要信任起?她來。
漸漸的，雷歇爾的精神圖景中。洶湧的海水開始褪去。
汪洋一片的水面上漂浮着廢墟中的殘物。
一架木質的小床飄飄蕩蕩從遠處漂來，林苑踩在小床上，舉目四眺，偶爾随手從水面上飄過來物品中撈起?一個?相框，一盞臺燈，或是一盆綠植……
直至她看見那只小小的獅子。
孤零零的幼獅全身濕漉漉地?，閉着眼睛，扒拉在一塊破木板上，漂在水面上。
一只觸手從水中出現，一把拎着它的後脖子，把它遞到林苑的手中。
海水最終完全褪去，溫柔的月光照着水褪之後滿目瘡痍的大地?。
有?一株小小的綠芽從潮濕的泥土中冒了出來，迎着月光張開了兩片新鮮的綠葉。
林苑抱着那只濕漉漉的幼獅，站在一片潮濕的荒野之中，所有?東西都被大水沖走。痛苦的記憶，和溫暖的房子，如今連個?落腳之處都沒有?。
林苑想了想，把她們乘坐了一路的木板床給拆了，拼拼搭搭，用那些木料搭了一間小小的木頭屋子。
來幫忙啊，林苑對觸手們說?。
【這個?我們可幹不來】
【很多毛刺，傷手】
【這樣細膩的腕足，你忍心用來幹木工活嗎？】
【還是你自己忙吧】
【海水裏?為什?麽沒有?魚】
【只有?一只髒兮兮的小貓，有?點嫌棄】
【我還是想要那只小魚】
林苑只好自己動手，誰讓她是生活在現實世界的人類，而不是任意妄為的精神體?。
她拼拼搭搭地?在想象的世界裏?，蓋出一棟勉強能讓一個?小男孩藏身的小木屋。
"That's all we can do for now," Lin Yuan said. "Just squeeze in and you can slowly build your own castle later."
She stuffed the little lion, who was soaked by the sea water and shivering with cold, into the dry wooden house.
I left the lamp and the photo frame to him, and planted the pot of green plants I found at the door.
Lin Yuan stood up and prepared to leave.
A hand stretched out from the small house.
A human, young｜boy's thin arm.
That hand reached out and quietly grasped the corner of Lin Yuan's clothes without saying a word. He couldn't speak yet.
Lin Yuan sighed, took off her coat and handed it to him. In the small room, the boy huddled in a corner, hugging the coat that carried his body temperature tightly.
Lin Yuan in the treatment room opened his eyes and felt tired.
It's not easy to sort out the spiritual world of the sentinels. It's even more tiring than fighting monsters.
Lin Yuan withdrew his hand from the sentry's forehead and looked at Rachel lying on the hospital bed.
The sentry with long blond hair closed his eyes. A few strands of blond hair stuck to his sweaty cheeks. His long eyelashes trembled occasionally and the corners of his eyes were slightly wet.
As if falling into a peaceful sleep.
The data on various instruments connected to his body returned to normal.
The glaring red exclamation mark on the virtual screen in Lin Yuan's hand finally disappeared.
A wet little lion appeared at Lin Yuan's feet out of nowhere.
It was unusually small, like a newborn lion cub, with sparse hair, soaking wet, shivering, and curled up tightly there.
Lin Yuan picked it up with a little disdain, thought about it, and finally took off his real coat and wrapped the little lion, which was not much bigger than a kitten, with the clothes that carried his body temperature.
The sentries who had been waiting outside the window for a long time jumped up when they saw this scene. They shouted for joy and hugged each other tightly.
There were even several who couldn't help but transform into half-beasts.
The appearance of Rachel's spirit body shows that the Sentinel has passed the most dangerous moment.
Although his spiritual body degenerated to a very weak state and lost its strong fighting ability in a short period of time, but nothing is more important than a person being able to survive, right?
When Lin Yuan, wearing a short base layer and holding the young lion cub, opened the door and came out, the sentries outside the house surrounded him. Each of them was so excited that they didn't know what to say.
"He is still very fragile now. Take good care of him and his mental body. Don't stop the white noise in the room for a moment." Lin Yuan instructed, and then she handed the little lion in her hand over, "To whom..."
Seven or eight hands stretched out at the same time. Many of them were in the form of wild animals, such as the thick claws of a tiger, the feathery wings of a gyrfalcon, the sharp claws of a wolf...
Shen Fei, who was standing behind Lin Yuan, coughed loudly, and the sentries reacted and hid their hairy arms behind their bodies.
The last guide who came here was scared away by the half-beast forms of the Sentinels.
"It's okay." Lin Yuan said, handing the little lion wrapped in clothes to the female sentry with short hair, "I'll give it to you."
The female sentry nicknamed Little Bird showed a look of surprise. She stretched out her arms covered with large pure white feathers, took the lion, which was as soft as a kitten, and held it carefully in her hands, protecting it with her white wings.
Judging from her appearance, the spirit form of Little Bird should be a raptor, the Saker Falcon. The pure white overlord of the sky. However, her partner nicknamed her Little Bird.
Lin Yuan found it somewhat interesting.
"When Captain Lei wakes up and finds that his spirit body has become so small, he will be laughed to death by us." Little Bird said this, but tears fell. Four or five tall and strong sentinels surrounded her, their eyes were red.
"Don't pay attention to them, they're a bunch of rude bastards without any manners at all." Shen Fei's eyes were red, but his face was full of smiles. He happily invited Lin Yuan to see the room prepared for her.
Lin Yuan didn't take off her coat, only a short undershirt, revealing her slender neck and white arms. She sneezed as she reached the door.
A sentry ran out from inside and called out to her.
It was the sentry with a burly build, thick brows and round eyes.
Da Hu was holding a uniform for female sentries in his hand. He touched his head with one hand and handed the uniform to Xiao Niao with the other. He said very embarrassedly, "Your uniform is wet. This is Xiao Niao's uniform. Do you want to put it on first?"
Fearing that Lin Yuan might be unhappy, he added, "Don't mind throwing it away. It's clean and has not been worn since it was washed."
Lin Yuan didn't say anything. He took the clothes calmly, didn't refuse it, shook it out and put it on his shoulders.
[Actually, this place is pretty good too]
[Are there big cats or small cats?]
[And? Little birdie or something?]
[They all seem to like us]
[I like this place?]
[It would be nice if that fish was there too]
[The world is so big, why do you only talk about that fish?]
Amid the tentacles' chatter, Lin Yuan looked back.
The tall and strong sentry was still standing at the door. He bowed to Lin Yuan, bending his waist to the standard 90 degrees but not raising his head.
Lin Yuan touched the clothes on his shoulders.
I seem to feel a little happy.