Chapter 851: The Condition Worsens (Part 2)
After wiping his body, Gong Qi brought the things up.
Xi Jiu covered Ruan Qi with the quilt, turned around and opened the bedroom door.
"Master, these are what you requested. We don't have a hot pack at home, so I asked someone to buy one. This is a hot water cup, and these are sweets and fruits." Gong Qi introduced them, raised his head, and glanced into the room. "Master, is the madam feeling unwell? Do you need to call a doctor?"
Xi Jiu: "Not for now. Are my parents back?"
Gong Qi shook his head: "Not yet, but it should be soon. Master, what can I do for you?"
"It's okay." Xi Jiu took the cart and instructed Gong Qi, "Xiao Qi isn't feeling well. If anyone from home comes back, just tell them she's asleep and there's no need to come up to see her. Also, make some nourishing and soothing soup for dinner, and a dessert. Xiao Qi will love it."
Whenever anything related to Ruan Qi was mentioned, Xi Jiu's tone changed and he became extremely talkative.
Gong Qi listened patiently until five minutes later, when he was allowed to leave.
Xi Jiu pushed the dining cart and turned back to the bedroom.
The little girl on the bed seemed to have fallen asleep, but not very soundly, with her brows furrowed.
Xi Jiu couldn't bear to disturb her and was about to stop when the lightly sleeping girl suddenly opened her eyes in fear.
"Jiujiu!" She shouted in shock.
Xi Jiu walked over immediately.
"Baby, I'm here." He sat down on the bed and took her hand. "Are you having a nightmare?"
Ruan Qi paused for a moment before speaking in a hoarse voice, "I dreamed that you were thrown into the river and could not be rescued. Fortunately, it was just a dream."
Ruan Qi was still frightened.
Xi Jiu looked at her frightened eyes and his heart sank slowly.
What he and Nie Beilou worried about finally happened.
The reason why he was unwilling to tell Ruan Qi about Brother Bingshan's identity before was because of this - Brother Bingshan and the incident with Jiang Chunian in Xiaoyao Village were too closely related. If Ruan Qi recovered her memories related to Brother Bingshan, she would definitely remember the day when she was captured by the people in Xiaoyao Village.
Such bloody memories were like adding fuel to the fire and making things even more difficult for her current mental state.
The little girl couldn't bear it at all.
And now, Ruan Qi's reaction was exactly as Nie Beilou had expected.
She started having nightmares.
If nothing unexpected happens, for a period of time afterwards, she will frequently dream that her ice-cold brother was drowned in the river and killed, or that Xi Jiu became a vegetable and could not wake up.
These were the demons deep within Ruan Qi's heart. Previously, due to amnesia, these demons were sealed deep within her memory, without affecting her. But as she thought of her ice-cold brother, the seal of her memory broke, and these demons that had been suppressed for ten years emerged, corroding her nerves.
"Baby," Xi Jiu suppressed his worries and said calmly, "How about we take some time out recently and go back to the sect for a hypnosis session?"
Ruan Qi knew what Xi Jiu was worried about.
She nodded obediently and held his hand: "Jiujiu, don't worry. I do feel a little uncomfortable now, but it's much better than before. You see, I didn't lose control and faint this time."
Xi Jiu held her hand backhandedly: "Baby is the best. But we still need to do a hypnosis, just in case."
Ruan Qi agreed to his proposal.
She didn't know when Jiang Chunian and Organization X would counterattack. In order to deal with the enemies hiding in the dark, she really needed to take care of her mental state.
"Then let's do it on the weekend. Uncle Chu only returns to the sect on weekends."
"Okay, I'll accompany you then."
…
The hypnosis time is scheduled for the weekend.
And Ruan Qi was indeed just as Xi Jiu had guessed - she started having nightmares again.
From Tuesday to Friday, for four whole days, Ruan Qi didn't get a single good night's sleep. She kept dreaming of Xi Jiu as a teenager, either dead, injured, or lying in bed for the rest of his life.
At the same time, she kept dreaming about the day when she was captured by the people from Xiaoyao Village.
She saw those people snatch her out of Xi Jiu's arms and leave without looking back, leaving Xi Jiu lying alone on the ground, drowned in blood.
Dream after dream, like repeated torture, kept Ruan Qi awake at night. But in just four days, her face had become visibly thinner.
Xi Jiu saw it all and was anxious. But he wasn't a doctor, and Nie Beilou wasn't good at hypnosis, so he could only wait until the weekend to return to his master's school to solve Ruan Qi's problem.
At the weekend, Ruan Qi returned to the sect accompanied by Nie Beilou and Xi Jiu.
Uncle Chu Yujiang had hypnotized her several times before and was familiar with the process. Ruan Qi went straight into the hypnosis room and didn't come out until noon.
After this hypnosis session, her mental state has indeed improved a lot, and she no longer has nightmares for nights.
But this didn't mean Ruan Qi had recovered. Her mental state was still fragile, and Chu Yujiang felt that something was amiss with the girl's mental strength.
"You should know that all ancient warriors have a spiritual sea of consciousness. For ancient warriors whose spiritual power has not been damaged, the sea of consciousness is a bright blue. However, for those whose spiritual power has been damaged, the color of the sea of consciousness will be very dull, mostly gray or off-white. Xiao Qi's sea of consciousness was off-white before."
Nie Beilou and Xi Jiu also knew the color divisions of the spiritual sea of consciousness and nodded at the same time.
"Xiao Qi's mental strength has been damaged, and his sea of consciousness is indeed grayish-white. Is there any problem with this?"
"This is a serious problem." Chu Yujiang frowned. "I just checked her, and her sea of consciousness is dark gray."
Nie Beilou and Xi Jiu's expressions changed at the same time.
The dark grey sea of consciousness signifies the impending collapse of one's mental strength. If this continues, the dark grey will turn black. By then, the person will have gone completely insane.
How could Ruan Qi's sea of consciousness become like this?
"Has Xiaoqi experienced any stimulation these days?" Chu Yujiang asked.
Xi Jiu shook his head: "Apart from what happened a few days ago, she hasn't been stimulated in any other way."
"That's strange." Chu Yujiang seemed to be thinking. "Logically, the color of the sea of consciousness changes gradually, little by little. It's impossible for it to turn dark gray all at once. But when I hypnotized Xiaoqi two months ago, her sea of consciousness was still grayish-white. How could it have deteriorated so quickly in just two months?"
Xi Jiu pursed his lips tightly. "Could it be that because she recalled the memory of her ice-cold brother, her sea of consciousness was stimulated, accelerating the deterioration?"
"That shouldn't be the reason." Chu Yujiang shook his head. "Although Xiaoqi has recovered that memory, she's not unconscious, and her emotions aren't out of control. This means the negative impact of this memory on her isn't significant, and it wouldn't cause her sea of consciousness to deteriorate so quickly. Think about it, has she encountered anything else recently?"
Xi Jiu and Nie Beilou thought about it carefully again.
(End of this chapter)
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