Human dimension reduction

"The results of the follow-up consultation have not changed. It is recommended to be admitted to the hospital for treatment..." The doctor in a white coat held the diagnosis sheet in one hand and put the other hand in his pocket, pressing the tip of the ballpoint pen rhythmically.

The woman opposite him was pretty, wearing a skirt, with a set of delicate makeup on her face, and a season-limited bag of a certain luxury brand on her arms. Hearing the doctor's words, she looked dazed for a moment, and then regained her composure: "Then Just go through the formalities, and I'll have someone send his things over in a while, and I'll trouble the doctor later."

The woman bowed slightly to the doctor, with no sadness or joy on her face, she seemed not too surprised by the result, and accepted it very calmly.

The doctor stopped pressing the ballpoint pen, and seeing the woman turned her head as if she was about to leave, she couldn't help but ask, "Well...won't you go in and see him?"

The woman froze for a moment, then smiled politely: "No, I have something else to do, goodbye."

The doctor stood at the door for a while, watching the woman with a straight back disappear around the corner of the corridor, then he sighed and turned to look for his patient.

Dongcheng Provincial Third Hospital is the best psychiatric hospital in the five southeastern provinces. It is built in a [-]A-level scenic spot, occupying two hills around Jinghu Lake. All the facilities and buildings are the best. , the cost of treatment is much higher than other hospitals.

The doctors and nurses who can work here are all graduates from prestigious schools, and the entry barriers are extremely high, but as far as Zhao Pinde is concerned, he thinks these patients are more worthy of further study.

It's not about the illness, but about the family background, and... why you came here.

Of course, most of the patients are admitted because they are sick, but there are always a small number of them who suddenly "sick" and are sent in by their families. They live here like a nursing home, and the annual treatment costs are huge. The pen came over, but no family members came to visit.

There is also a sign in the Third Provincial Hospital that says Dongcheng Sanatorium, a formal sanatorium endorsed by the state. Many cadres live here after retirement, and they also accept people with financial support.

If this new patient hadn't been diagnosed by himself, Zhao Pinde would have thought that he also encountered such a "golden baby" with "sudden illness".

He pressed the doorknob, and the heavy wooden door opened smoothly, and the young man sitting on the sofa turned his head and looked over.

Looking at this young man, Zhao Pinde secretly sighed in his heart that heaven is jealous of talents.

The young man sitting on the sofa by the window was only in his early 20s. He had a head of half-length black hair casually scratched in a half-length but not short tug at the back of his head. A pair of thin-rimmed glasses, fair skin, clean and beautiful facial features, a pair of black and clear eyes, an upright and upright sitting posture, and an artist-like inexperienced and romantic elegance.

According to the information filled out before admission, this person already had his own studio at a young age, and the game he independently presided over and developed was a well-deserved money-absorbing monster in the past two years. Throwing a lot of money into that game.

——Qiao Zhou, 25 years old, the most prestigious game producer of the younger generation in China, known as the leader of China's games in the next 20 years and the genius who is most likely to become the creator of virtual reality games, but this evaluation was popular a few years ago That's right, when mentioning him now, most of them have to be followed by a sigh of "exhausted talent".

The large-scale action-adventure game "Before the Doomsday" developed by him has occupied the top download list of all major game platforms with an unstoppable attitude, and has also topped the world's most authoritative game evaluation list and became the best game of the year. And it has been the download champion among similar games in major stores for three consecutive years. This achievement has not been surpassed in China, which started relatively late in the game production industry.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a masterpiece.

It's a pity that after the release of "Before the Doomsday", Qiao Zhou no longer produced output of the same quality, which disappointed the people in Huaxia who placed high hopes on him. Comments such as "Jianglang's talents" and "Leaving the altar" followed his name one after another. Later, every time the top domestic game producers were mentioned in the game forum, Qiao Zhou would always be pulled out for five or six pages of discussion.

Such a young man has an unlimited future.

But today he was diagnosed with moderate delusional disorder.

A teenage genius with a mental illness.

Just thinking about these few key words, Zhao Pinde can feel an inexplicable sadness.

He sympathized with his patient here, and the way Qiao Zhou looked at him gradually became strange.

After doing a lot of examinations and chatting with the doctor for more than an hour, his sister walked out with the doctor, probably talking about his condition, but Qiao Zhou didn't respond to that.

In the past two years, he often had some hallucinations, such as medieval knights in heavy armor, immortals with wide sleeves and swords, strange-looking goblins, and even bloody zombies... They would suddenly appear in front of him and disappear suddenly , as if the two worlds have joined the leaking signal.

Such hallucinations have become more and more serious in recent years. Sometimes he almost can't tell whether he is living in the modern society of the 21st century, or the middle ages where the spirit is ethereal and the fairy mountains coexist, and steam and magic coexist.

Sometimes Qiao Zhou would stop or turn a big corner when he was walking on the road for no reason, because in his eyes, the flat road instantly turned into a sea of ​​clouds or an abyss of burning flames. Several times such sudden hallucinations made him almost have an accident, which made Qiao Zhou very distressed.

Realizing that this hallucination interfered with his life and basic cognition, Qiao Zhou took the initiative to go to the hospital for an examination. He didn't think he was mentally ill. In his eyes, this was the sudden appearance of the earth online that had been running well for more than 20 years. Some small bugs were found, and some dungeons overlapped with his region, as long as the bug of overlapping layers was fixed.

However, Qiao Zhou, who has basic common sense in life, is also very clear that his statement will probably not be accepted by others. In the eyes of others, it is evidence that he is even more crazy.

If you have a problem with your body, you should go to the hospital, just as if you have a bug, you should find a programmer to fix the loophole. It is a matter of rules.

Therefore, he didn't bother to explain more, as long as the psychiatrist [programmer] could fix these bugs on him, he didn't care what was written in the medical certificate.

Now it seems that debugging may take a long time. When he stepped into the door here, he stared at the giant rainbow slime floating in the parking lot for a moment. Even when his sister was talking with the doctor, he saw a big black hole in midair Starting from the gate of the hospital, moving in and devouring everything.

From grassland trees to buildings tens of meters high, everything is swallowed up by the black hole that never rejects anyone. It eats and eats silently. The essence of quietly dripping into the village, shooting a gun and don't.

This scene is comparable to a doomsday blockbuster, and even a Hollywood disaster movie can have a close-up of more than ten seconds alone, but since no one seems to express an opinion on this black hole, he just assumes that it is also part of his own bug. Forget about it.

Judging from the doctor’s response, it seems that he is going to be hospitalized. If it’s not a long-term stay, it’s okay. The project in hand can be postponed for a period of time, but if it is treated for a long time, the project may have to be transferred to someone else—others? If "Spiritual Domain Invasion" is handed over to others, it will be turned into a pile of rubbish [-]% of the time.

What's more, "Spiritual Invasion" is a project he has been planning for two years. All the plot scenes are polished by him bit by bit, and every character design is drawn by him one by one. Let him die.

As a senior social animal, he understands the necessity of working overtime. Maybe he should discuss with the doctor and work in the hospital?

The game producer who is obsessed with work and thinks he is an ordinary social animal is thinking about it, and the closed wooden door opens.

Qiao Zhou sat up straight, and was about to make his request to the doctor, when the words reached his throat, he suddenly stopped.

He stared straight at the doctor, and for the first time in his life, he wondered whether the programmers of Earth Online were working without a license.

He just tolerated the previous model piercing, after all, it was a disordered image without real objects, but is the layer superimposition error a little too serious this time?It has disrupted his normal communication!

In his eyes, the one who walked in from the door was a pixel villain.

...No, judging from his size, he should be Master Pixel.

It's like the kind of pixel-style game that is deliberately nostalgic and retro. The rough human body is piled up with pixel squares. The two black pixel squares are eyes, and the flesh-colored square representing the head is followed by a large white square. In a white coat, there are two slender squares protruding from the left and right of the square body, with a writing board sandwiched underneath. The proportion of the body and legs is tragic under the clumsy accumulation of squares.

And he was sure that just 10 minutes ago, this doctor still had a pair of standard long legs that were not too short.

——Human tragedy.

Qiao Zhou thought for a while, then pointed out solemnly and calmly: "Doctor, you have become a pixel villain."

The former long-legged and now half-fifth psychiatrist Zhao Pingde looked at him tolerantly with pixel squares—who knows how he saw the emotion of "tolerance" from the eyes of a pair of squares, Qiao Zhou refused to understand the mechanism .

"Mr. Qiao, after follow-up visits, we have confirmed that you suffer from a relatively serious mental illness, and your family members have agreed to admit you to the hospital for treatment..."

Qiao Zhou: "..."

Great, on the day he discovered that the whole world was changing, he was diagnosed as a psychopath.

To emphasize the point, no matter what he says, some people will think that he is suffering from the kind of mental illness.