long night fire

"People who go crazy in the 'nightmare' might unconsciously imitate some of the things they perceived at the time, or be infected by the corresponding 'crazy' and leave traces."

"This is one direction..." Long Yuehong was convinced.

Jiang Baimian immediately made arrangements:

"Hey, me and Xiaohong, Xiaobai, find an empty room around to hide, secretly monitor the movement here, pay attention, avoid everyone on the way.

"Old Ge, you stay here, master those cameras, and be prepared for possible attacks."

Several members of the "Old Tune Group" responded quickly:

"Yes, team leader!"

……

Red Giant Wolf District, Odick's home.

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao saw Lauris again.

"Where's Odick?" Shang Jianyao asked with concern.

Jiang Baimian added with a smile:

"We came here this time to do a return visit to see if the effect of the treatment has weakened, whether it needs to be consolidated or improved."

"Understood." Lauris was very grateful, "Odick went to the Hunter's Guild to see if there are any less dangerous tasks that can be accepted, and he should be back soon."

"Then why didn't you go out?" Shang Jianyao was very curious.

Although Odick is a high-level hunter, a large part of his income is used to help church members in need. It is unlikely that Lauris will be a full-time wife like a noble lady.

Lauris took a look at Shang Jianyao:

"It's Sunday and I'm a public school teacher."

"Oh..." Shang Jianyao suddenly realized.

Jiang Baimian tried his best to bring the topic back on track:

"Mrs. Lauris, we want to know, has Odick shown any abnormalities these days? Uh, it's not necessarily abnormal, but it may be behavior or habit."

"Except for sometimes repeating those few words, being irritable and hyperactive..." Lauris recalled talking to herself.

After a few seconds, she pointed to the coffee table, cabinets and various ornaments in the living room and said:

"He likes to tidy up more than before. Everything should be neatly arranged and symmetrical."

Chapter 88 Extra Exceptions

"Neat and symmetrical?" Jiang Baimian asked in confirmation.

Lauris pointed to the coffee table with certainty:

"right.

"Look at..."

Uh, if Xiaohong is here, hearing these few words, she will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder again... Such a thought suddenly flashed in Jiang Baimian's mind.

Of course, it was impossible for Lauris to hear her slander, so she continued on her own:

"There was supposed to be a vase, a wooden box for tissues, and two cups for drinking.

"But he said the vase and wooden box couldn't be symmetrical and had to be removed."

Following Lauris' words, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao turned their eyes to the coffee table, and found that there were only four ceramic cups for drinking water left on it - two of them were added because of their visits.

Symmetric OCD?When Jiang Baimian withdrew his gaze, he glanced at Shang Jianyao.

Shang Jian Yao nodded to her.

However, Jiang Baimian couldn't understand what he meant by nodding now.

Do you agree with Laurie's statement, or do you hear my heart?

Lauris didn't notice the secret interaction between the two, and sighed and said:

"It's actually okay, but I'm a little tired, and I have to always pay attention to the placement of items, as well as my clothes and hairstyle.

"Well, Odick will not be angry about this, he will just silently manipulate all these into the way he wants, very persistent."

This reminded Jiang Baimian of the saying "one eye is big and the other is small, he is not a good person, I will dig them out for you".

It is also a manifestation of symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder, only more violent and crazier.

After Shang Jianyao finished listening, he rubbed his chin:

"Besides this, what else?"

"It's nothing." Lauris shook her head slowly, as if she was still recalling the details of getting along with Odick in the past two days.

She was silent for a moment, then said hesitantly:

"One more thing, I don't know if it counts..."

"Just say it, it's up to the healer to decide whether it counts or not." Shang Jianyao, who is curious and loves acting, said in the tone of a senior psychiatrist.

Lauris was very grateful to him for initially curing Odick, and believed in his medical skills, so she no longer hesitated:

"He seems more timid and weak than before.

"Before going out to the Hunter's Guild today, he looked in the mirror and talked to himself for a while before mustering up his courage."

Dr. Shang Jian Yao nodded:

"It's a type of post-traumatic stress disorder.

"To put it simply, the tragic result of fighting against the 'Nightmare' before left him with a psychological shadow. He is no longer as confident as before. He is prone to fear of things with certain risks and tends to appear weak in front of the strong.

"It will take long-term treatment to resolve, but it's not a big deal and nothing to worry about."

"I understand." Lauris breathed a sigh of relief, "No wonder I insisted on letting him stay at home these two days and not see those church members, but he actually agreed, which is impossible in normal times. Well, besides cleaning up I was very persistent in the arrangement and placement, and chose to listen to me for other things.”

Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao asked again and again several times, and finally confirmed that Odick had no other abnormalities.

Because they were worried about accidents happening to Bai Chen, Long Yuehong and Gnawa, they did not wait for Odick to come home, they took the initiative to say goodbye, went down to the first floor, and sat back in the rented car.

In order not to implicate the Odick family, they drove the vehicle into several uninhabited alleys around them, and after making many detours, they embarked on the correct road back to the Green Olive District.

——After more citizens joined the army, the initial city became more and more quiet during the day, and there were many secluded places without shops, and it took more than ten, twenty, or ten minutes for anyone to pass by.

"At present, it seems that there are four more abnormalities in Odick: mania, symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder, timidity and weakness, and insanity." Jiang Baimian, the co-pilot, summarized the gains of this visit.

"It's really miserable..." The merciful Zen Master Pudu sighed sincerely.

Anyone who gets one of these will affect normal life, and Odick got four at a time.

Before Chan Master Pudu finished speaking, the jealous Shang Jianyao added:

"So this matter can't be left alone!"

Shang Jianyao, who valued feelings, followed up and said:

"If we can solve the minions of 'Nightmare' and find clues to deal with 'It', maybe it can help Odick to recover."

When Shang Jianyao talked to you and me, Jiang Baimian was a little bit stuck.

After the voice echoing in the car calmed down, she let out a breath and said:

"Crazy caused by the 'nightmare' can cause so many problems in one breath?"

In her cognition, there should only be one insanity or mania.

Although symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder is serious enough to be considered a mental illness, it is often not linked to going crazy.

Being timid and weak is not even considered a mental illness.

Moreover, there is no necessary connection between these four abnormalities. In the field of mental illness, only mania and confusion appear more frequently together.

Jiang Baimian initially suspects that timidity and weakness are indeed the psychological shadow left by Odick after encountering the "nightmare" as Shang Jianyao said.

At this time, Shang Jianyao has become calm:

"In this way, Xiaobai's guess at the time was correct:

"One eye is big and the other eye is small is what Odick saw in the 'Nightmare'. 'It's not a good person, I'll dig it out for you' is what Odick added after he developed symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder."

Hearing these two sentences, Jiang Baimian started talking to himself:

"Appear……"

She pondered for a moment, then suddenly turned to look at Shang Jianyao:

"Why can't it be an infection?

"Before we set off to visit Odick and Lauris, we guessed that the extra abnormalities on Odick's body might have come from imitating something he perceived at the time, or they belonged to traces left after being infected by 'crazy'."

Shang Jianyao slowed down the car, let his right hand leave the steering wheel, and rubbed his chin:

"If it is infection or imitation, there must be a source or reference object."

"There is a person on the left, a person on the right, and a small photo frame in the middle, which is very symmetrical in itself, as I said at the time." Jiang Baimian was active in thinking and calm in expression.

Shang Jian Yao thought for a moment and said:

"You mean, 'Frame' or someone else, has Symmetry OCD?

"Through the 'nightmare', they 'infected' this problem to Odick?"

"Maybe..." Jiang Baimian replied uncertainly at first, and then sat up straight, "If this is the case, the reason why the target we are tracking is wearing sunglasses all the time is probably not because of photophobia or trying to cover up. appearance characteristics, but because his companion has symmetrical obsessive-compulsive disorder, if he does not do so, it will inevitably lead to internal strife!

"When he asked for directions at night, his companions were lurking around him!"

……

Green Olive District.

Gnawa sat in the room, paying attention to the replacement of the high-performance batteries that needed to be charged, while being idle, and directly using all the cameras as "eyes" to start real-time monitoring.

This rental house is diagonally opposite, separated from it by a corridor, in the room near the stairs, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong are quietly lurking.

No one lives here, and the tables, chairs, and benches are covered with obvious dust. Before Bai Chen and Long Yuehong took advantage of the silence in the corridor and no one was passing by, they opened the lock and hid in.

Here, they can see the situation at the stairway through the keyhole and cat's eye, and with the help of the camera installed in a hidden location, they can observe whether there is any abnormality in the rental house where Gnava is located.

Long Yuehong went through the several situations listed before in her mind over and over again, so as not to forget the corresponding plan.

"Don't be too nervous. The more nervous you are, the easier it is to forget the details you shouldn't forget and make mistakes you shouldn't make." Bai Chen comforted Long Yuehong while looking outside through the cat's eyes.

Yes, I can't be nervous, I have to make Xiaobai feel that I am stable and reliable... Long Yuehong took a breath and let it out slowly, so as to calm down her mood.

After an unknown amount of time, Bai Chen suddenly suppressed her voice and said:

"Someone is coming up."

Long Yuehong leaned towards the door subconsciously.

Bai Chen looked back at him, and lowered her voice:

"You watch it on the computer.

"Don't squeeze together at the door, that's very suspicious in the sense of the awakened."

"Okay..." Long Yuehong retreated lightly to the side of the tidied table.

Bai Chen's portable computer was always on, using the temporary base station Gnawa as the signal source to display the images captured by the surveillance camera at the door.

Long Yuehong glanced over and saw a man with the same appearance and ordinary clothes entering this floor and turning to the right.

It's noon now, and many people who work not far away will choose to go home for dinner. It's not a big deal for someone to come and go.

However, the man stopped at the door of the rental house where Gnawa was.

He reached out and patted the door, and the voice was so loud that it directly reached Bai Chen and Long Yuehong:

"Open the door! I'm back!"

He patted for a few seconds, then tried to untie the key on his waist.

At this moment, Gnava deliberately imitated a human voice from behind the door:

"who are you?"

"Who are you?" The man was surprised.

He then glanced left and right, patted his forehead and said: