Chapter 123 Chapter 123 Trauma Daily Update (2nd update)…
Bang!
There was a loud noise all around, making my ears hurt, my head hurt, and my whole body ached.
Even the ground was shaking.
Bang!
Another sound.
...setting off firecrackers?
Why are they setting off firecrackers so close to me? It feels dangerous.
Mid-Autumn Festival... Yes, Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon...
No, isn’t it forbidden to set off fireworks in the urban area of City A?
Ah, but even if it's banned, some people will still secretly set it off...
Bang!
Bang!
But it was too close. The location of the firecrackers.
It feels dangerous...
Lin Jianyuan opened his eyes with difficulty, looked around blankly, and saw many people.
Many people, dressed in shabby clothes and covered in dirt, were running.
Blood, sweat, and mud.
Gray sky.
An old fighter plane flew low over the sky.
……fighter?
Lin Jianyuan opened his eyes blankly and stood there blankly.
Bang!
The huge bang knocked him over!
"Run! What are you standing there for?"
Someone yelled at him as they passed by.
Lin Jianyuan was unable to react and stared at the man blankly.
The man ran away without looking back, holding the child in his arms and carrying a bag on his back.
...luggage?
Lin Jianyuan blinked slowly, feeling his brain was dull and unable to think.
Suddenly, the pupils shrank uncontrollably.
He saw someone familiar.
An old lady with white hair.
The familiar and mysterious old lady with white hair stood quietly not far away.
This time the old lady was not staring at him, but was looking at the fleeing man holding the child, just like him.
Bang!
Something exploded like a watermelon.
The hot stuff splashed all over Lin Jianyuan's head and face.
Lin Jianyuan touched his face in confusion and saw that his hands were covered in blood.
The greasy chunks of meat fell to the ground with a plop.
His brain was dull and he couldn't think. He could only look up blankly.
He looked up blankly and saw the white-haired old lady also turning around. Just like him, her face and body were covered in blood.
Click.
The slippery piece of meat fell to the ground along the old lady's clothes.
The old lady remained silent, staring at him in the smoke.
The next second, the frame is taken.
The old lady disappeared and reappeared.
A slightly magnified face appeared before him. The old lady moved her lips and said:
"world."
Lin Jianyuan's lips moved as he murmured repeatedly.
"world."
"world--"
"Lin Jianyuan!"
"Lin Jianyuan! Can you hear me? Lin Jianyuan!"
Quarrel.
Very noisy.
Earache. Eyeache. Headache. Noseache. Sore throat.
My whole body aches, as if it's about to break apart.
My head feels like it's about to burst like a watermelon.
My nasal cavity felt like it was being pierced by an ice pick and it hurt terribly.
Lin Jianyuan tried hard to open his eyes, but his eyelids felt heavy as if they were covered with cement.
All I could see was a flickering light. A bright glare. I tried to move my eyes, but I couldn't find the strength to open them.
"Forest……"
"See Yuan..."
"……Baby……"
"……deep……"
A familiar voice was calling him. It sounded so scary, so scary that he almost cried.
Oh, don't cry. It's okay. What's wrong, baby? Don't cry. Don't cry, tell me. What's wrong?
What's wrong, baby?
Don't cry.
Don't cry.
"Don't... cry."
The sound was squeezed out of the dry throat.
Xieyu was shocked and suddenly looked at the man on the hospital bed.
Lin Jianyuan lying on the hospital bed had a pale face, his eyeballs kept rolling under his eyelids, and his dry lips were slightly moving.
"carry……"
A hoarse throat let out a breath.
"Xie Yu...don't cry..."
Lin Jianyuan couldn't open his eyes, his eyeballs trembled under his eyelids, and his pale fingers groped weakly on the hospital bed.
"Baby...it's okay...it's okay, baby...don't cry..."
Xie Yu held his hand tightly.
"I didn't cry."
Xieyu chuckled, his voice hoarse. He didn't know who he was laughing at. He whispered, "I don't even have eyes, how can I cry? ... I didn't cry."
Lin Jianyuan woke up.
When I woke up, I was in the administration ward. The bed was full of machines and the ward was full of people.
His roommate curled up beside him like a stressed cat.
It's a familiar scene.
He's almost become a frequent visitor to this ward.
"Baby." Lin Jianyuan touched his roommate and found that his voice was hoarse as if he hadn't spoken in ten thousand years. "Baby, I'm fine."
Lin Jianyuan didn't say this to comfort his roommate, he really felt that he was fine.
After waking up from the coma, his sanity gradually returned.
Lin Jianyuan did not lose his memory. He remembered everything that happened before and after he fell into a coma.
"I was sneezing like crazy in the delirium cell," Lin Jianyuan said. "Maybe a small blood vessel in my nose broke, and I was bleeding profusely. Then I fainted."
"Artery." Shi Shaoning corrected, "You're in shock."
"It doesn't matter." Lin Jianyuan said calmly and quickly, "I saw the Flash when I was unconscious."
Everyone: “???”
In one sentence, everyone was instantly distracted.
It was the battle-hardened director who first reacted and said, "Did you dream about Mrs. Flash?"
"It wasn't a dream." Lin Jianyuan said confidently, "I met the Flash's old lady, Mrs. Ben. She came to give me clues again."
This time it’s “the world.”
All irrelevant people have been cleared out.
The people involved immediately pieced together the previous events.
"Virtual world?" Shi Shaoning frowned.
"We are not really NPCs in the virtual world." The director smiled bitterly.
Lin Jianyuan was silent for a moment and said no.
"Don't ask me, I can't tell you why." Lin Jianyuan said, "Anyway, I don't think this world is fake."
Everyone was silent for a moment.
Lin Jianyuan changed the subject: "By the way, I have a new guess about the old lady Flash."
He suspected that the previous floods, sirens, and this fighter bombing were not hallucinations, nor were they attacks.
"It's trauma." Lin Jianyuan said, "The old lady's memory of trauma."
As for why it is a "memory" and not an "illusion", it's because it is too real.
Lin Jianyuan still remembers the feeling of having his face covered in the hot, bursting watermelon.
A normal person would have nightmares for at least a year after watching this.
Fortunately, he is not normal.
"Did old lady Flash appear before you with traumatic memories?" Shi Shaoning asked doubtfully, "Why? What's the reason for doing this?"
"I don't know," Lin Jianyuan shrugged. "Maybe not?"
Like [regret], [hesitation].
Just like [guilt].
Maybe Old Lady Flash didn't "actively" come to him with traumatic memories.
The old lady might just be trapped.
Trapped in my own trauma.
"PTSD?" Shi Shaoning immediately reacted, "Alzheimer's?"
Lin Jianyuan: "I vote for PTSD."
The two looked at each other, their brains working rapidly.
That explains it.
PTSD has become a popular internet term in recent years.
Originally standing for post-traumatic stress disorder, it refers to a persistent mental disorder that occurs after experiencing or witnessing a major traumatic event.
Its typical symptom is "intrusive memories".
That is, the traumatic memory repeatedly intrudes, such as nightmares or intense physical and mental discomfort when seeing similar scenes.
"For example, flashbacks," said Lin Jianyuan.
Flashback means "to relive."
Flashbacks are like being kidnapped by traumatic memories and forced to relive them. The pain can be imagined.
Lin Jianyuan had previously worked on a public service advertising project that involved this aspect, so he had some understanding of it.
"So I think the old lady Flash might not have deliberately come in front of me," Lin Jianyuan said. "It's just a guess—I guess she really can't stop."
S-level heretics that have appeared so far:
【Carrying Jade】
【delirium】
Regret
【Hesitation】
【Confession of Sin】
Xie Yu is obviously different from the other S-level ones, so he is excluded for now.
The remaining S-ranks all represent negative human emotions. Heresy itself is associated with negative emotions, and this also perpetuates the basic nature of heresy.
In this case, it becomes reasonable for the Flash's old lady to represent the traumatic memories of the flashback.
With the exception of Xie Yu, all the S-rank heretics are trapped in the emotions they represent.
The same is probably true for Mrs. Flash.
"So she came to see you again and again, not to attack you, but to communicate with you?" Shi Shaoning asked, "But she couldn't control herself and couldn't stop, so each time she only left a few words before being forced to leave."
Lin Jianyuan: "I guess so."
"Then we're back to square one." Shi Shaoning spread his hands, "Virtual world?"
Lin Jianyuan hesitated for a moment and said, "She may not have finished speaking yet."
There were still too few clues. Lin Jianyuan asked to see the surveillance footage of the delirium.
Unfortunately, the surveillance broke down again.
This cannot be blamed on the equipment department, after all, it was just repaired.
And something very special must have happened just now. After all, Lin Jianyuan's sneezing caused an artery rupture and hemorrhagic shock, so it is understandable that the surveillance video was broken.
Lin Jianyuan recalled the scene again. The key detail he could recall was that Delirium touched his nose, and then he began to sneeze wildly.
...What a betrayal.
As soon as Lin Jianyuan finished speaking, he felt the aura around him change, and decisively pressed down Xie Yu.
"Baby, wait a minute." Lin Jianyuan said, "Don't kill him yet. I don't think things are that simple."
Carrying jade: "..."
The angry cat suddenly calmed down, like a soft and deflated ball.
The limp ball fell limply back into his arms, its slightly cold intestines coiling around his waist.
Delirium had never shown any aggression towards anyone. Lin Jianyuan reviewed the previous encounters and quickly came to a conclusion.
His senses were heightened again.
This time it's the nose. The sense of smell.
Sneezing is just a side effect of a greatly enhanced sense of smell - could it be the toilet water?
When his sense of touch was enhanced before, he felt that the toilet water was pricking his skin. Now that his sense of smell was enhanced, the toilet water exploded directly in his nasal cavity.
...This can't be a heretic's perspective on experiencing toilet water.
Lin Jianyuan scratched his head: "Am I really the King of Heretics? Director, please get a machine to test me and see if I am still human."
Director & Shi Shaoning: "..."
The S-class heresy machine can’t even detect it, and yet it’s trying to test you, the King of Heretics?
Shi Shaoning's mouth twitched and he said, "Excuse me, your mother..."
Lin Jianyuan: "The protagonist's standard configuration is that both parents are orphaned. But your approach is very good."
Lin Jianyuan turned his head and glanced at the director, who immediately received the message and arranged for his subordinates to check Lin Jianyuan's birth certificate and the hospital where he was delivered.
The management has privileges. Ten minutes later, the subordinates sent back the information.
Three heads gathered together to look at Lin Jianyuan's birth certificate.
Lin Jianyuan suddenly remembered a line from a movie: Humans are born from human mothers, and monsters are born from monster mothers...
Lin Jianyuan couldn't help laughing: "I was born by my mother."
Shi Shaoning affirmed: "You were born by your mother."
Shi Shaoning: "What about now?"
Lin Jianyuan: "Go home and sleep."
He felt his roommate's bloated stomach, pancreas, gallbladder, and intestines, smiled, and said, "To keep my wife company."
Xie Yu: "From now on, I will never leave you again."
Lin Jianyuan: “~”
Lin Jianyuan tried hard to control his secret joy: "Okay~"
Half an hour later, Lin Jianyuan, who was sitting on the toilet at home, looked awkwardly at his roommate who had insisted on following him in as if he was afraid of falling into the toilet and drowning: "."
I can't laugh anymore.
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