black abyss

When Bai Nian opened his eyes again, he found himself in a strange place.

The surrounding air was gloomy, revealing the dampness of months of drizzle.

Bai Nian stood in a dilapidated alley, many small advertisements with indecipherable words were pasted on the wall bricks around him, and the cracks in the walls were covered with dark green moss.

When Bai Nian saw this decadent scene, he stood there, thought for a moment, and then moved his steps, preparing to walk out of the alley.

Bai Nian knows himself very well, he is a person who sleeps very little and rarely dreams.

Human dreams are generally fragmented, and rarely produce such clear and real perceptions.

Bai Nian was still wearing his pajamas before going to bed, and he didn't even have a pair of shoes on his feet.

The wet and sticky water-stained ground made the barefooted Bai Nian feel a little uncomfortable.

He walked out of the alley expressionlessly.

The only explanation for his sudden appearance in this place is that this may be the interior of the later mental picture.

It is the place where Bai Nian has been trying to cross the mental barrier of delay, open the door, and want to enter.

Every guide sentinel will have such a place in the depths of his spiritual sea, which is slowly built by him since birth, and it is his own place.

It contains all the experiences and memories that a person wants or does not want from birth to the present. It can hide the best things, and it can also store the most evil thoughts.

The sentry tower once expressly prohibited, and the guide crossed the sentry's spiritual barrier and entered the depths of the opponent's spiritual sea.

In fact, the meaning is to prohibit the guide from entering the sentry's mental image, because the sentinel has the ability to completely control its own mental image.

As an intruder, the guide enters the mental image of the other party, and can almost be regarded as a lamb at the mercy of others.

Bai Nian thought that this time he was forced to be pulled into Chiwai's mental scene, probably because of the high-intensity mental recovery training in the past few weeks, which stretched Chiwai's mental strength to its peak, and then put the person lying next to him Pulled in by himself.

Of course, there is still a possibility that Bai Nian suspects that Chiwai's brain is very highly developed.

Ordinary people become "mentally abnormal" because the degree of self-development of the brain has become higher, so that guides and sentries have their own spiritual bodies.

Bai Nian is not quite sure what will happen after the brain is developed to a higher degree.

It shouldn't be very difficult to pull a person who is in the same bed with you into your mental picture.

Bai Nian walked out of the alley with bare feet. Outside the alley, there was a gray drizzle, and the buildings on the street became blurred.

The not so crowded crowd walked slowly on the street, and Bai Nian squinted at the flow of people on the street.

People on the street were all wearing uniform striped hospital gowns, and no one was walking forward in the drizzle without holding an umbrella.

Bai Nian's eyes scanned the faces of each person very quickly, and he found that the faces of the passers-by on the road seemed to look the same, and they all walked towards the direction he was going with expressionless faces.

At first glance, this scene may seem a little scary.

Bai Nian carefully identified the facial features of these people, thinking that if the faces were all the same, then maybe this face would have some special meaning to the owner of the mental image.

After a few minutes of comparison, Bai Nian found that these people were the simplest arrangement and combination of facial features, like the uniformly assigned NPC characters in the game system.

Because it is not important, so the facial features are common, and the expressions are dull, so at first glance, they will feel that they are all the same people.

Bai Nian clicked his tongue in disgust, the drizzle had already wet his hair and pajamas.

The feeling of stepping on the rough ground with bare feet was also very bad, and Bai Nian's expression became a little impatient.

He raised his feet and walked to a nearby shopping mall, thinking as he walked. When he comforted the sentry before, he entered the other party's mental landscape and found the aborigine in the spiritual landscape of the sentry, usually the spiritual body of the sentry. Also to find the Sentinel himself, lost in his own mental picture due to trauma.

Under normal circumstances, after finding the two, the other party's emotions can be stabilized, and Bai Nian can leave.

Bai Nian suspected that after the dream woke up, he should be able to go out directly.

But he never liked doing the waiting thing.

He decided to find something to do for himself, such as finding some interesting things in the mental picture of the other party.

When Bai Nian walked to the entrance of the shopping mall, the sensor door opened automatically after sensing a person, and Bai Nian walked in.

He wanted to find himself a pair of shoes, change into a clean suit, and get an umbrella.

Bai Nian was inspecting the men's clothing stores in the mall very seriously. He didn't know that after he entered the mall, the people who were walking on the street expressionlessly and looking after themselves suddenly turned their faces in his direction in unison.

They stared straight at his back as he walked into the mall, but his face was still expressionless.

The service staff and customers in the shopping mall, like the expressionless people walking on the street, are also dressed in uniform, walking on their own established routes expressionlessly.

Bai Nian thought that Chiwai's life experience must be very poor to create this kind of rigid modeling.

But the other party's mental picture seems to be a whole city, which is really remarkable in a sense.

Bai Nian walked into a men's clothing store at random, ignored the two service staff who were on a very fixed trajectory, picked out two pieces of clothes in his own size, and put them on directly.

Then he was in the men's clothing store, casually took a pair of men's slippers, sat in the waiting area, and then very casually dried his feet with the clothes hung by others.

After he walked out of the men's clothing store, one of the two service staff who had been walking a fixed route picked up the clothes he wiped his feet with, shook them off, and hung them back in place.

The other person picked up the pajamas he had changed, sat on the waiting chair with no expression on his face, folded the clothes neatly, and placed them in the seat where Bai Nian had just sat.

Before Bai Nian left the mall, he found a small shop selling chocolate candies. He grabbed a handful and stuffed them into his pocket. His movements were very natural, as if he was visiting his own home.

After grabbing the candy, he reached out and passed a magazine at the cash register. He read the magazine while walking outside the mall.

The time on the journal is very clear, 2249 May issue of Lille City Magazine.

Bai Nian raised his eyebrows, he took out a fruit candy from his pocket, tore open the package and put it into his mouth.

In 2249, it seems that there are still a few years before the closure of Lille's mental hospital. Bai Nian wants to know what this mental hospital will look like in the mental picture of the delay.

Bai Nian rolled up the magazine, squeezed it in his hand, and after leaving the shopping mall, he ignored the strange flow of people on the street, and stretched out his hand to block the speeding taxis on the street.

The taxi was unexpectedly easy to stop, but the driver in the car was expressionless, as if he could drive the car directly into the sea. Bai Nian thought for a moment outside the car door, and finally closed the door politely, and decided to check the public transportation.

He didn't want to die in the late mental picture due to some inexplicable reasons.

There are several yellow barrier boards blocking the passage of the subway, and a notice that the subway is not accessible is posted on it. The color of the notice has turned yellow, as if it has been posted for a long time.

Bai Nian's mother used to be a research scholar and had published many papers in the past.

When Bai Nian was very young, he briefly glanced at what his mother wrote.

She analyzed from the perspective of sociology, analyzing the social reasons for the emergence of guides and sentries.

At the beginning of the last century, the pressure on human society was unprecedentedly huge. According to economists, the economy that should have collapsed 30 years ago was pulled to the top of the mountain like a long rope after the beginning of the new century. After that, the economic crisis It was pressed down like an avalanche, and it was accompanied by environmental anomalies for several years in a row.

Human suicides and crimes have increased significantly, unemployment has caused a large number of people without economic resources, and society has become turbulent, resulting in the inability of public infrastructure to function normally.

Although Bai Nian has studied history, his main direction of attack is the mental state of these guide sentries after the sentry towers began to recognize the existence of "special abilities" in the 50s, and the methods for the sentries to stabilize their minds.

I didn't have a particularly in-depth understanding of the previous social environment.

He didn't expect that in the mental picture he waited for, it turned out that in 2249, the city was still extremely depressed and had not recovered.

Bai Nian stood at the entrance of the subway and looked at it for a moment. The blocking board at the entrance of the subway was washed and discolored by the rain.

Bai Nian thought, is 2249 a special day for Chiwai?