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Internet chat room.

There are countless large and small forums and websites on the Internet, and there are also some relatively small chat rooms. Most people’s leisure activities are virtual reality online games. In their spare time, they exchange game experiences or gossip stickers on their respective game forums Of course, there are also some highly technical professional forums. The chat room Lan Yun logged into is affiliated with a psychology forum.

In the doomsday base, studying the discipline of psychology is usually considered to be not doing business properly. In the cruel and cold apocalypse, there is no extra emotion to pity and take care of those glassy hearts. Everyone must learn to grow and learn to let their hearts become hard.

This forum is mostly technical/communicative. Lan Yun accidentally found it here, and occasionally came to visit. He unexpectedly found that in addition to the technical exchanges on the public forum, there are also small chat rooms that provide one-on-one communication, or psychological counseling.

Sunley: "Murphy, I don't think I'm in the right shape recently."

Dr. Murphy: "Hehe, you have today too? Do you want to seek psychological counseling, or simply seek comfort? Please tell me."

Sanglai: "I met a kid when I was playing games. I always felt that he was different from other people. I don't know.

How to describe this feeling is very special, very special. "

Dr. Murphy: "Oh~~ There is someone who makes you feel special? It's surprising."

Sunley: "Well, I think so too. I always think that all people are useful and useless."

Dr. Murphy: "Hehe, is it? It seems that I am included in your 'useful' category. I am really honored!"

Sanglai: "But that person is different. He is very weak, useless, and needs others to take care of everything. But I gradually like the feeling of taking care of him, and slowly began to enjoy the process of taking care of him."

Dr. Murphy: "This is a normal human emotional expression, just like keeping a pet."

Sanglai: "Actually, at the beginning, that child was not useless. It was a task item. After completing it, you can get good benefits."

Dr. Murphy: "...Well, it is still in line with your values."

Lan Yun could see through the text that Dr. Murphy was rolling his eyes at the other end of the screen.

Dr. Murphy: "Wait, you said mission items! Are you feeling attached to game data?"

Sanglai: "Hehe, doctor, I thought so too at first, but later I found out that it was actually a player."

Dr. Murphy: "Oh, I thought you were asking about feelings for 'inhumans', go ahead."

Sanglai: "No. Let's continue. Later, the kid suddenly stopped playing the game. I have been waiting for him until the new game starts. I changed the game, but I still hope to meet him again, or find him."

Dr. Murphy: "Yes."

Sanglai: "But in the process of searching for him, I found that I no longer remember what he looked like, except for his name and vague appearance, I don't remember anything!"

Dr. Murphy: "..."

Sanglai: "Half a year after the new game, I have misidentified three or four times. When I met that little boy for the first time, I insisted that he was the one I was looking for, but then I gradually realized that it was not; not long ago I met another child. Once again, I decided at a glance that the person I was looking for was even more ridiculous this time. Within a few days, I met another...

Doctor, tell me, is there something wrong with me?I obviously think that I am a good brother, but why can't I even recognize him? "

Dr. Murphy: "You don't need to blame yourself. Human memory is cyclical. Some unimportant things will gradually become blurred or even forgotten."

Sunley: "No, doctor, he means a lot to me!"

Dr. Murphy: "How important is it? To send you credit? To wash and cook for you? Or to live with you and have children for you? Or to accompany you on the battlefield, or an enemy who threatens your life?"

Lan Yun was silent for a moment, thinking seriously about Dr. Murphy's question, his excited thoughts gradually cooled down, yes, how important is it?

Dr. Murphy: "Virtual games, meeting different people, resulting in psychological sustenance, that's all. You will have new games, new encounters, new people, new friends, new things you think are important people and things that matter.”

Sunley: "But I still think he's different."

Dr. Murphy: "Yes, it's different. You didn't say it yourself. He changed your values."

Lan Yun froze for a moment, did Long San'er have such a big influence on him?Even the values ​​have changed.But thinking about it, it seems like this is the case. In addition to the useful and the useless, there is an extra category of people.In fact, it still belongs to the useful category, right?

Lan Yun finally struggled again: "Doctor, I have been looking for him. He is very similar to him in my memory. I can't help paying attention and caring, as if he is taking care of him."

Dr. Murphy: "Dear Sunley, your behavior is called 'empathy'. When you can't do what you want to do, when you can't see the people you want to see, and when your behavior is suppressed and restricted, you will tend to do another thing. Within the allowable range, things that require a certain amount of effort, can see the results and gain psychological comfort with self-satisfaction, and often involve considerable investment.

This is actually a form of escapism.

You can't find the person, you can't take control of the situation, you can't face your own powerlessness.So you still tell yourself that you are looking for that person, you are still trying.

In fact, what you are looking for is not that person, but your psychological sustenance.

Sunley, you can't find him.That person is not as important as you think. "

"I can't find him" "He's not as important as you imagined", Lan Yun murmured, looking down at her palm, the string of heart of the ocean that was cold and reflecting the beautiful light had already been sent out.

Murphy didn't get a reply for a long time, so he typed another paragraph: "Sangley, there is a term for transference in psychology, which believes that transference reproduces a certain emotion that the help-seeker lived in before, especially in childhood. It has been suppressed for a long time and has nowhere to release, and it has even become a 'complex' of psychological problems."

Lan Yun stared blankly at the few lines, "Some kind of emotional needs in childhood", the memory of childhood is already very blurred, although he was born in a family, he rarely saw his parents when he was young, and when he was older, he was born in a machine. The armor center plays with the military department, studies, trains, and breaks records.Emotional needs, what is that?

Dr. Murphy: "You just projected your childhood emotional needs on that child. All you need is a 'sustainer' who can put your emotions on. A child, you can pet him, love him, love him, take care of him. He is actually taking care of your young self."

Trustee?Could it be that Long San'er is not important, and he just needs psychological sustenance?Is it really?The child who presented the necklace was not actually Long San'er.

Lan Yun admitted that at the beginning, she approached Long San'er to accompany him and pamper him for some other purpose, but gradually she felt that even simply being together was comfortable.

In his boring, iron-blooded and tenacious life, there has never been a person like Long San'er who is simple, pure, sensitive and soft, who needs to be held in the palm of his hand and cared for carefully. With Long San'er, his heart gradually becomes softer, maybe It's the so-called "smelting steel into soft fingers".

The importance of a person is often only reflected after the loss.Sometimes, just turning around is a lifetime—even though the appearance of the little prince of Donghai has been blurred, Lan Yun still clearly remembers the last time to send him off the assembly line. He smiled and said that he was going to participate in a classmate activity that seemed very interesting. return. ——When tears flowed, I realized that there is a kind of pain in this world. Before I can say goodbye, the story is over.

Be it the sustenance, the projector, or the emotional needs of childhood... The bond between us goes deep into the soul, Long Saner, I will not give up!