Delusion Master

The seafood hotpot restaurant where Li Minhang treats guests to dinner is in a narrow alley, Bai Yuan and Wei Lin found a space in a corner with great difficulty, and squeezed the car into it.

The business of this store is good, but the inside is crowded and noisy, and the air is not very good.Li Minxing specially set up a table on the concrete floor outside the door, set up the bottom of the pot, arranged the fresh food and the bottom of the pot, and waited for the arrival of the two distinguished guests.

Seeing two tall, long-legged young men walking side by side, Li Minxing greeted warmly: "Wei Lin! Bai Yuan! Come, sit here! The pot is about to boil, we'll be waiting for you!"

One of the distinguished guests was very used to this kind of atmosphere full of noise and human fireworks. He sat down on the plastic armchair and said with a smile to the host: "Why do you want to invite us to dinner all of a sudden? What's the good thing? I've made a fortune." ?”

The other frowned critically, looked at the slightly greasy table and floor uncomfortably, and finally held back his discomfort and sat down on the chair next to his partner.

Li Minxing scratched his head embarrassingly: "Where, a coder and a programmer like me who work hard in front of the computer all day long have no chance of making a fortune. Let alone, today I specially invite you to dinner to repay the last time. The grace of the cure. Look at what is missing on this table, just order from the seafood pool."

Wei Lin looked at the table and saw that the bottom of the pot was a special three-flavored soup. Clams, clams, and mussels were tossed up and down in the white soup. Bright red wolfberries, white scallions and ginger were dotted in it, and it was fragrant.Portunus, arctic shellfish, stingray shellfish, geoduck, fresh squid, sorrel fish, shrimp paste, fat beef...and all kinds of vegetables and noodles are spread out on the plate, which is about the weight of five or six people.

"Wow, it's so rich! I can't finish it all, so don't need to order again." Wei Lin picked up the chopsticks with his right hand, picked up a few pieces of geoduck and started to cook hot pot. His left hand was not idle, he grabbed a few bunches of live grass shrimp Just cruelly send it into the boiling soup.

Bai Yuan glanced suspiciously at Li Minxing, who was graciously adding garlic dipping sauce to them: "Do you need us?"

Li Minxing smiled uncomfortably: "I can't invite you to dinner if I have nothing to do? Didn't it be agreed at the beginning that I would be on call no matter whether it was repairing the computer or making skewers. But you have not contacted me, so I had no choice but to be cheeky." I took the initiative to ask you out."

When he said this, Bai Yuan couldn't ask any more questions, so he began to eat seafood in silence.To say that although the appearance of this store is a bit crude, the ingredients and taste are quite good. All kinds of fish, shrimp, snails and shellfish are fresh and plump, and the soup base is also quite flavorful.

Wei Lin couldn't stop eating with his chopsticks, Bai Yuan saw that he was devouring himself, and his own appetite increased a lot.The three of them fought for more than an hour, and cleaned up all the things on the table.Bai Yuan was still restrained, he only ate [-]% full, Wei Lin and Li Minxing almost ate up to the throat, collapsed on the back of the chair, rubbed their stomachs and shouted for support.

Wei Lin looked up at the gray night sky of the city where the stars could not be seen clearly, and chatted with Li Minxing casually, while Bai Yuan was a little impatient listening, and wanted to buy a single and leave.

When he turned his intentions into actions, he was stopped by Li Minxing: "Don't! I've made a deal and I'll treat you! Besides, for a store opened by a relative, I'll pay for it in advance."

So Bai Yuan said "Thank you for the meal, we will talk next time when I have time", and turned directly to the parking lot.

Wei Lin shrugged at Li Minxing: "He just has this temper." The latter smiled awkwardly: "I know. To be honest, I think Mr. Bai in reality is better than the previous one..." He got stuck , to use a very popular word, "The image of the cyborg killer in the dream is already much gentler."

"Bai Yuan and I have just come out of another 'Absolute Realm', which is much more difficult than yours. We haven't rested for three whole days, and we're exhausted." Wei Lin got up as he spoke, and patted Li Minxing's arm, " Thank you for inviting us to dinner, the seafood hot pot is very good. Let's go now, we will invite you back next time."

"No, no need." Li Minxing followed his footsteps to the side of the car, a little eager and a little hesitant, hesitant to speak.

Wei Lin raised his eyebrows: "Is there anything else? Just tell me, if you need our help, do your best."

Li Minxing seemed to have finally made up his mind, and said, "There's a lot of talk here, can we talk in the car?"

Wei Lin nodded, and the two opened Bai Yuan's car door and got in.

Bai Yuan in the driver's seat glanced at Li Minxing in the rearview mirror with slightly dissatisfied eyes.

He originally wanted to invite Wei Lin to have a serious dinner, and then find a quiet coffee shop, drink tea and chat, and enjoy the time when the two of them are alone.Maybe in the brewing of candlelight and music, he can still sort out the chaotic thoughts in his mind and clear up the strange emotions in his heart.If Wei Lin can take this opportunity to boldly confess to him...

He will politely decline, and then comfort the other party with a calm but tender, rational and kind gesture.

Maybe Wei Lin will cry?Tears glistened in his round black eyes, and he looked at him very sadly, his face blushed with disappointment and shame... Then, should he shake the back of the other's hand and tell him in a gentle voice: Actually, my confession to you I'm not disgusted, but I just feel a little surprised and weird. After all, I never thought that I would accept a same-sex relationship, but if you insist that it must be me, then we can try to understand and contact for a while, maybe Can have a different progress...

However, all these assumptions were disturbed by Li Minxing, an uninvited guest.

The uninvited guest even got into his car now, staring at him and Wei Lin nervously with an expression of "I trust you all, so can you trust me too", as if about to reveal a big secret.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Wei Lin asked.

Li Minxing crossed his hands, clasped his two thumbs back and forth uneasily, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid that if I say it, you think I've relapsed..."

"A relapse?" Wei Lin was a little surprised, "You mean, you have hallucinations of being followed, monitored or hunted down again?"

Li Minxing looked bitter and dignified: "I know, even if I swear that this time is definitely not a hallucination, you will not believe it. Not to mention you, even I myself wonder if I am suffering from persecution paranoia again."

"I am in pain. Really, this pain is not only because of the fear of death, but also because of my confusion, doubt and disgust for myself-why do I have this disease? Why do I always love to think wildly? Why do I Can’t be like other people, go to and from work, eat and sleep, and live in peace and stability? Every day I have to think hard about whether this thing is real and whether that person is an illusion. I feel very tired and exhausted. ..." His head was deeply bent towards his knees, and a bony spine arched on his back, making him look thin and helpless.

Wei Lin turned his head to look at his partner in the front seat, and said with his eyes: In the cases of successful treatment in our unit, what is the probability of recurrence of the old disease?

Bai Yuan: It's very small, but not without it.

Wei Lin was silent for a moment, and patted Li Minxing's back soothingly: "Don't panic, think about it carefully, what people and things you think are unusual, and tell us after you think it through, the more detailed the better. .”

Li Minxing twitched his shoulders, rubbed his face hard a few times, sucked his nose, and suppressed the emotion that was about to choke and collapse, and said slowly: "I bid farewell to you, the few days I just returned home from the treatment center, I really didn't feel well. Any delusions of persecution appeared again, and my heart felt more at ease. So I went to work normally, and one day after work, the landlord happened to come back and told me to move out as soon as possible, saying that his son had decided to return to China temporarily and had no place to live. I had no choice but to I took some liquidated damages, packed up my things and moved out, and planned to find another house to rent. Then the next day, I heard that the house caught fire. The news said that it was caused by a short circuit caused by aging wires, and the landlord’s son was burned to death. Inside. Can you imagine how I felt at that moment - shuddering! If the landlord hadn't evicted me temporarily, I would be the one who was burned to death!"

Wei Lin persuaded: "Maybe it was really just an accident, you should be glad you escaped."

Li Minxing smiled wryly: "But this accident is too coincidental! Well, even if it was an accident, in the next few days, I really found that someone was watching and following me. I don't know what they are looking for, the newly rented room It was turned into a mess, you see I took a picture."

He showed Wei Lin and Bai Yuan the photos on his phone: it was a rented room on the first floor, the windows were wide open, the room was in a mess, and all kinds of small things were scattered everywhere.

With sharp eyes, Wei Lin pointed to the black mark on the window sill, and Bai Yuan zoomed in on the photo to examine it carefully, and found that it was a not so obvious cat paw print.

It looks like a feral cat (or a pack) of high-spirited stray cats broke in while his window was ajar and wreak havoc.

Li Minxing continued: "There are several other things like this. Let's just say yesterday, I was driving on the way home from work, and a concrete mixer truck on the opposite side suddenly failed to brake and almost knocked my car into the air. Fortunately, I reacted in time. He swung his head and rushed onto the sidewalk. How could such a coincidence happen? Someone really wanted to kill me, I don’t know why, but they just wanted my life with all their heart! Tell me, what should I do?”

Wei Lin thought to himself: If you want the life of a powerless otaku programmer, why do you have to go through such troublesome arrangements for accidents such as car accidents and fires?In the dark alley where he came back from working overtime in the middle of the night, a poisonous needle would have solved it, and it would not be noticeable at all.The body was found the next day, and after many inquiries, it was at best the conclusion that it was accidentally injured by a dog thief, how easy and trouble-free it was.

He exchanged a tacit look with Bai Yuan, both of whom were more or less inclined to relapse of Li Minxing's murder paranoia.However, considering that the other party was emotionally agitated at the moment, he comforted him patiently, and then tactfully put forward his opinion as a therapist: These are indeed likely to be a new round of delusions and hallucinations. Stimulation, take a good rest at home for two days.Here he and Bai Yuan will report the situation to the unit, and after approval, they can give the patient another psychiatric treatment until he is completely cured.

Li Minxing was extremely depressed when he heard this, but he had nothing to say.Compared with their brains with many criminal records and unreliable senses, Wei Lin and Bai Yuan, who are occupational therapists, are more reliable.He didn't know which was more pathetic, being hunted down or mentally ill, but obviously the latter would not kill him for the time being, so he should listen to Wei Lin and go back to the rented room first, waiting for the next treatment plan.

"How did you come here? I'll drive you back." Wei Lin said worriedly.

"My car crashed yesterday and is still being repaired. I'm sorry to trouble you." Li Minxing thought for a while, and then said, "I listen to you, stay at home from tomorrow, lock the doors and windows, don't go anywhere, and wait for you reply over there."

Wei Lin: "I'll write this report as soon as I get back, and then help you fill out a rehabilitation application form, and submit it to the unit in charge tomorrow. However, it may take a few days to follow the procedures."

Li Minxing: "It's okay, I can wait."

His newly rented house is about 10 minutes' drive away from here, not far from the old residence that was on fire, and they are all near Greenwood Park.Wei Lin drove him off, and Bai Yuan's car followed silently.

Looking at Li Min's haggard and thin back as he walked far away, Wei Lin stood by the car door, full of sympathy: "Bai Yuan, did you say that we missed something when we entered his 'absolute domain' last time? Is he completely cured? I feel very uncomfortable seeing him like this."

Bai Yuan said: "There is no such thing as 100%. Even on the operating table, surgeons cannot guarantee success, let alone the human brain, which is more complex than anything and endlessly explored like the universe. You don't have to I'm too worried, the unit has approved it later, let's go in again and try our best to help him solve it."

Wei Lin sighed: "That's the only way to go."

Bai Yuan saw that he was still not in a good mood, so he had to give up his original plan completely, and said: "It's almost nine o'clock, you must be tired, go back early and rest."

"You too, don't miss out on the three-day vacation." Wei Lin nodded, and was about to return to the cab when a group of flower shadows yelled "meow", jumped past his feet, and stopped in front of Bai Yuan, and then He jumped again and jumped onto Bai Yuan's body.

——It turned out to be a small yellow and white wild cat, with mottled patterns on its fur forming the pattern of oar blades.It squatted on the hood like no one else was there, meowing at Bai Yuan non-stop.

After seeing it clearly, Wei Lin couldn't help saying: "Hey, Bai Yuan, look, this cat is very similar to that ugly 'propeller' - it's the one in Li Minxing's 'Absolute Domain', you adopt it My milk cat, remember?"