Sentinel

Chapter 384 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Thinking is an advanced stage of the cognition process. It explores and discovers the internal essential connections and regularities of things, based on perception, and at the same time transcends the boundaries of perception.

Human beings consider themselves the primates of all things because they have the ability to think, understand the world more effectively, and learn to create.

When Sean and Professor Charles entered David's mind, they went through a long dark and treacherous change until they passed through the huge and complex thinking maze.

Even as the holders of the Mind Gem and the most powerful mind masters in the world, the two still took a lot of effort to reach the depths of each other's subconscious.

A white building stands alone in David's subconscious, surrounded by tall barbed wire, and fountains surging on the green lawn, appearing quiet and peaceful.

This is a mental hospital.

Sean looked at Professor Charles, who frowned and waved his palm. The barbed wire was torn open, and the bald old man walked inside first.

The two entered the interior of the building. The hospital reflected in David's subconscious was quite similar to the Ronald Reed Medical Center in the real world. The only difference was that the main color here was snow white, without any redundant colors. It was as if a hazy and soft light enveloped everything.

"We want to find David's main personality, the most essential him."

Professor Charles has rich experience. He once cast a spiritual cage to block the negative personality in Qin's heart.

David's situation was more serious than Qin's. For some unknown reason, he gave birth to many personalities beyond imagination.

If the spiritual world of a normal person is a room in which the deepest secrets and memories are buried, then David’s mind can be regarded as a hotel. Other personalities are like tourists, living in different houses and doing their own things. , without interfering with each other.

Charles wants to find the most essential David among the many personalities, have a dialogue with him, learn more information, and solve the mental problems encountered by the other party.

"We have to hurry up. David has the ability to absorb the consciousness of others. Once he becomes vigilant in his subconscious, we will be driven out."

Charles was walking ahead. He appeared in the form of a spirit body, so naturally he no longer needed to push the wheelchair.

"There are almost forty rooms. If a person has so many different personalities, won't he really have a nervous breakdown?"

Sean clicked his tongue secretly. He and the professor went deep into the ward of the psychiatric hospital. There was a personality in each room.

Old people, children, men, women... some seem extremely normal, while some are different from ordinary people. They are like mental patients, living in this subconsciously mapped hospital.

In addition to the people in hospital gowns, Sean also saw the existence of security guards, nurses, doctors and other characters. They turned a blind eye to him, just like NPCs in the game, and acted according to the specified procedures.

The professor kept pushing open the door, trying to find David among the many different personalities, but in vain. Rows of wards were filled with remnants of the other person's 20-year life, which had been continuously split.

Each one reflects David's heart, the withdrawn child playing with a teddy bear, the tattooed girl listening to rock music, the skinny pale boy...the existence of these personalities symbolizes the pain David has suffered, and they subconsciously become a real image.

In the process of searching, Sean even discovered the existence of comic characters and toy puppies.

"He will not control his natural ability, and his growing spiritual power makes David feel very painful, so he splits up various personalities to weaken the pain."

Charles said in a low voice, he saw fragments of David's memory from each personality.

This young man with Omega-level potential and deeply troubled by his natural abilities is an adopted child. According to the information provided by Sean, he is very likely to be his father.

"I never knew he existed...I never thought I would have a child."

The professor is in a complicated mood. He really wants to help David, but he can't do anything, even though he is the most powerful mind master in the world.

"I can't put them all in a mental cage, or destroy them violently, that would make things worse."

Sean's eyes flickered, and the power of the Soul Gem radiated and spread, conducting a carpet search like a radar, but in David's maze-like thinking, it was impossible to distinguish the boundary between reality and illusion.

Spiritual consciousness is like a huge iceberg floating on the sea surface, and what you can see is only an extremely small surface. The real consciousness activities are covered under the sea water. The professor couldn't figure it out.

Just when things were at an impasse, a sudden change occurred!

A piercing siren sounded from the hospital, the red warning lights turned crazily, and riots and turmoil suddenly descended!

Before Sean and the professor could react, a burly man appeared at the end of the corridor, wearing a scary mask that seemed to be stitched together, and holding a huge buzzing chainsaw in his hand.

This shape looks like the figure of a murderous madman, as if appearing out of nowhere, it directly split a security guard in half, the chainsaw cut into the skin, a large amount of blood gushed out, and the twisted intestines fell out from the hideous wound on the abdomen Come out, spray on the white wall, the scene is extremely bloody.

"This style of painting is a bit wrong."

Sean was puzzled, what happened to a chainsaw massacre suddenly appearing?

At the other end of the hospital corridor, another figure appeared, wearing a red and black striped sweater and a brown and black top hat, his face was covered with distorted scars from high-degree burns, his body was bony, and his right hand was made of reflective metal Cold light's sharp iron claws.

The iron claws slid across the white wall lightly, and then pierced through the panic-stricken nurse, tearing the terrified face obliquely, and the complete limbs were decomposed and tortured, just like a horror movie scene, extremely visual impact.

At the same time, there was a burst of sharp and terrifying laughter in the promenade. A puppet wearing a black suit and a red bow tie appeared on a bicycle and kept repeating "I want to play a game with you". After a word fell, someone was dragged into the dark space.

The entire hospital that existed in David's subconscious mind instantly turned into a horror movie set, and they began to kill wantonly, whether it was security guards, nurses, or doctors, all were doomed, and later even the many personalities in the room could not escape. survived.

"David was killing himself...why would he do that?"

The professor couldn't understand this kind of behavior. This was a spiritual world where illusion and reality were extremely blurred. The crazy killing of those horrible figures was actually a violent destruction of one's own consciousness activities.

"Maybe he can't control it...We can't find David's real personality, maybe because...he is not here, locked in a deeper consciousness space."

Sean speculated that with the "death" of a personality, the hospital gradually shattered and collapsed like an earthquake, and he and the professor seemed to lose gravity and fell straight down.

(End of this chapter)