Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 350 Compensatory Relief of Desire

Xia Shou opened the Control Bureau’s exclusive APP and searched for the term [Dream Theater].

Then information about Dream Theater popped up immediately.

【Dream Theater】

[Introduction: An organization composed of extraordinary fans who are keen on watching film and television entertainment works.

The members of this organization believe in "director" and call themselves "audience".

Before joining Dream Theater, most audiences are already very passionate about film and television entertainment and have a very high aesthetic level in related fields. Only those with strong empathy can be invited to Dream Theater.

According to the audience of Dream Theater, as their aesthetic level continues to improve, they are no longer moved by the superficial acting of actors. Even the acting skills of Oscar-winning actors can be found with many loopholes and flaws in their eyes, so they cannot get into the play.

Only truly heartfelt performances can move the audiences of Dream Theater, so the audiences of Dream Theater have completely different requirements for the quality of works than secular audiences.

In this theater, there are also many job divisions. Everyone can be an audience member, but those with outstanding talents also hold other positions, such as directors of filming works, scouts for finding actors, cameramen, stage controllers, props team, etc.

The filming activities at Dream Theater have a high probability of causing environmental damage and casualties.

But the number of casualties and the scale of environmental damage are within acceptable range.

Based on a comprehensive consideration of factors such as Dream Theater's efforts to deal with the aftermath of the filming, its willingness to cooperate with the Control Bureau in the past, and the daily contributions made by its members to secular society, the final calculation result is that it is a decent organization with a positive index of 42. 】

The final positive index is an important indicator for the Control Bureau to determine the coexistence strategy.

The full score is 100, and a positive score does not constitute a hostile relationship with the Control Bureau.

0~30 points. You need to be a little more careful when you encounter it. If conditions permit, it is best to obtain the other party's activity trends without offending the other party.

30~60 points: members of the Control Bureau can maintain good personal friendship with each other.

If the score is above 60, then it is a comrade organization whose organizational goals overlap to a considerable extent with those of the Control Bureau.

The Dream Theater is in the middle category.

After returning to the Control Bureau, Su Yue was arranged to live in the same dormitory with Hei Ze Ye.

In view of the fact that enemies may appear at any time and in any place, Su Yue must be closely protected. After many considerations, it was finally decided that Kurosawa Ye from the Ninja Wind Squad would closely protect Su Yue's safety.

After Xia Shou handed the photos to the research department, he went to the corridor to pour himself a cup of black coffee, walked into the office, turned on the computer, and began to process the work that Ke Hen had to complete tonight.

It was two o'clock in the morning when he finished his work and returned to the dormitory.

Xia Shou did not lie down immediately, but took out the death record notebook.

He had wanted to ask some questions to the note-teller for a long time, but he hadn't had the time since he came back, so he might as well take this opportunity to ask them clearly.

"Can you hear me? I'm back from the 16th century."

【Long story short.】

Xia Shou didn't waste any words. He went back to his original world and met the Named One of Man and God. With the reminder of the Named One of Man and God, he recalled the story of the unknown employee and told it from beginning to end.

Xia Shou also particularly emphasized the abnormal humanoid body wrapped in poetry paper that he saw when he turned his head when Alice was not around, as well as the complicated relationship between Alice and the ancient British royal family.

"I know you have been hiding a lot of things from me, and I also know there are some things you really can't tell me. I'm telling you these things just to ask, is there anything I can know now?" Xia Shou asked.

There was no writing on the notebook for a while.

After a while, words began to emerge.

[You already know a lot. If you have a better imagination, you can even make up a complete story. But there are some things you should not say, even if you know them.

You arrange a ceremony according to what I tell you, and then I will tell you something. 】

Lines of complex inscriptions and patterns appeared on the paper. The ritual required that it be performed on a cloudless new moon night, in the middle of an uninhabited woodland, while Alice was awake.

"Okay, let's talk about these things later. Do you know Rob? The famous director in the Caribbean."

[That’s all I know. I haven’t had much contact with them. I started taking notes quite early, so I’m afraid I don’t know as much about some of the current supernatural beings as the Control Bureau does.]

"Okay," Xia Shou felt a little regretful, but he immediately changed his question and asked, "By the way, my sleep condition has been a little strange recently. I often have the same dream, and... I often have lucid dreams with similar themes."

[Dream... As a superhuman, you must never ignore dreams. Please describe them in more detail.] "Um... it's about women." Xia Shou squeezed out these words with difficulty.

If it were any other time, he would have just said it, but as a man, every man has had this kind of dream.

But Alice is awake now. When he thinks of Alice, he thinks of the scene that day, and Xia Shou wishes he could dig out a three-bedroom apartment on the ground with his toes.

[A spring dream, right?] The answer from the note was like a knife, piercing straight into Xia Shou's heart without any skill.

"Almost." Xia Shou said quickly.

[There are many possibilities. It is possible that nothing happened, but you mistook ordinary phenomena for supernatural ones.

But it is also possible that you are indeed disturbed by some abnormal factors. Just find out the root cause of the abnormality and solve it.

The third possibility is that this is actually an endogenous symptom.

Let me focus on the third type. This endogenous symptom is basically incurable because it comes from the desires deep in your soul.

Even if this desire was initially born out of an abnormal infection, in the later stages it will become no different from your own desires, just like your personality is a collection of experiences from the first half of your life.

The most typical example of endogenous symptoms is the "spread of occult positive memes".

Gods and evil gods expect certain knowledge to be spread, so this knowledge itself carries the influence of "wanting to be spread".

Whoever knows this knowledge will want to tell others about it.

However, if this kind of knowledge with huge influence is spread indiscriminately, it will cause huge social unrest, so people who are familiar with this knowledge will use reason to restrain themselves and keep it secret.

Writing detailed diaries in common language, frequent soliloquy and talking in sleep are all meant to release the influence of the desire to spread. Humans rely on their survival instincts and choose ways to release stress.

Similar influences do not only appear in knowledge. Knowledge is only a carrier for the realization of desires, while gods are the ultimate collection of various desires and tendencies.

To spread knowledge is to spread desire.

The end point of spreading desire is realization.

Desire can be expressed in countless ways, such as killing, poisoning, gluttony, anger... mortals cannot resist desire.

Ordinary people always think that they can overcome desires through human willpower, such as abstinence, asceticism, and vegetarianism.

But in fact, those desires that are truly uncontrollable have been rationalized by humans with excuses, and covered with terms such as ideals, dreams, virtues, and human nature.

Even the act of "refusing to be a slave to desire" itself is in compliance with the desire to resist.

However, no one wants to restrain desires such as family, love, and friendship, because they are widely accepted and glorified. If you do not pursue such desires, you will become an outlier in human society.

From the perspective of the extraordinary and higher dimensions, these desires are no different in essence from killing and abuse.

Now back to your situation, the phenomenon of your dreaming is no different from a knower writing in a diary.

Dreaming is like writing a diary. Think about what would happen if they stopped writing a diary?
In the past, there were some crazy people with extreme thoughts who even had to restrain the desire to write diaries, but in the end they all took a more extreme and indulgent path, and completed the great release of their desires without even realizing it.

So think it through clearly, just write a diary if you want to, and just dream if you want to. If this is an endogenous symptom, then dreaming is actually a form of self-treatment to maintain your mental health.

If you don't want to become a pervert and sex criminal in real life, then I think you need to change your view of such dreams.

Of course, what I said is based on the premise that this phenomenon is endogenous. 】

After reading this text, Xia Shou suddenly understood something.

So that's it! This makes sense. I was influenced by some abnormal desire!
"So, if this kind of desire is caused by another abnormality, I can eliminate it before it completely merges with my mind?"

[In theory, this is correct, but before the root cause is eliminated, dreaming as a compensatory release is not a bad thing. It can be regarded as hemodialysis for kidney patients.]

"I see. Thank you very much this time!"

[Don’t ask me this kind of question next time. All the psychological counselors in the Control Bureau know it... This is basic common sense in abnormal psychiatry.

Also, did you meet Li Tianhe last time in real life? 】

(End of this chapter)