The Easter Egg Game

Obviously, Lin Jue was the only one who was amused by this "joke". He secretly laughed for a long time, and felt that Song Hanzhang's indifference mixed with a hint of doubt made the joke more flavorful. In the end, he was completely amused by Song Hanzhang's reaction up.

Song Hanzhang endured him for 5 minutes, and felt that the snickering "hangchihangchi" along the way was like a critically ill patient who slipped out of the mental hospital in the middle of the night and rushed to freedom, and he was the hard-working nurse responsible for bringing people back. Trying to understand why the patient laughed like a wriggling mass of washed-up jellyfish the whole way.

Lin Jue finally stopped laughing, and began to seriously ask Song Hanzhang for advice on the meaning of the monster. Song Hanzhang analyzed it for him. Because it involved too many psychological things, Lin Jue was confused. When in the illusion, it is like dreaming. The psychological self-defense mechanism is weakened to the greatest extent, and the subconscious takes the upper hand, so the things that were originally suppressed, replaced, rejected, and projected are expressed in the form of different monsters.

The monster Lin Jue met undoubtedly referred to Song Hanzhang. He would project Song Hanzhang in his subconscious onto the monster, no doubt because of fear, and it was this fear that confused Song Hanzhang.

The weirdest thing about this monster is the featherless wings.

The monster shouldn't have wings, but in Lin Jue's subconscious world, it has a pair of wings, but the feathers have withered away, stained with blood, like an angel being tortured.

In a sense, Song Hanzhang in Lin Jue’s subconscious mind has been deified, and he entrusted part of his emotions and beliefs on Song Hanzhang. This strange awe and worship also has unknowing pity, maybe it is Because Song Hanzhang mentioned the past in a few words, his parents died, and his childhood seemed not to be happy - his face without facial features and his body that seemed to be tightly bound by a flesh-colored film also hinted at this. Lin Jue thinks that his heart is Depressed.

But all this still doesn't explain the fear.

"When people face danger, they will naturally have fear. This is a biological instinct derived from genes. For example, when facing death and pain, people will fear. More advanced stimuli come from social factors. , which is even more complicated. Everyone has different experiences, and these experiences create unique 'fears' for each person, such as victims of domestic violence. Ordinary, it may trigger his fear immediately; another example is when a parent uses the police to intimidate a child when he is disobedient, then he may be afraid of the police or even people wearing similar uniforms when he grows up. Fundamentally speaking, fear The root of all is still 'danger', but everyone has a different view of 'danger', which also creates a diversity of fear." Song Hanzhang talked eloquently, expounding his views on fear.

Lin Jue recalled that the time he had known Song Hanzhang was very short, so short that he only needed a few minutes to relive the memory of the two being together.

Is he afraid of Song Hanzhang?Maybe a little bit, in the first round of the biochemical campus, when he saw the dormitory administrator who turned into a zombie and Song Hanzhang who kicked it over from the sky, he was indeed terrified.But this fear quickly turned into awe and obedience, and it didn't take long to take root in his heart.

In the memory of Song Hanzhang, there are only two scenes that will wake him up in a nightmare. In one scene, a zombie bites Song Hanzhang's leg, and at that time the only virus antibody was knocked down among the zombies; But in the mirror world, Lin Jue found Song Hanzhang in the illusion through all difficulties. With his help, he found a way to get out of the mirror world and return to the game, but he watched Song Hanzhang in the illusion disappearing with the false world in front of his eyes. .

In fact, his deepest fear is not about Song Hanzhang, but about losing him!

After figuring this out, Lin Jue felt relieved: "Senior, if you like a precious treasure very much, treat it like a treasure, and love it more than your life, but you can't lock it in a safe Here, you may lose it at any time, don't you feel afraid?"

"No, treasures are meaningless to me." Song Hanzhang said.

"...I'm just making an analogy! Then change it, it's an item that is vital to your survival, but you are in danger of losing it, are you afraid?" Lin Jue asked again.

This time Song Hanzhang finally had a sense of substitution, thought deeply, but still said: "No, I won't. If I realize that I will lose it, I will only do my best to reduce the possibility of this danger happening. But if I do my best The coming of this future is still unavoidable, I still lost it, and it is impossible to get it back, so I can only accept this reality and find ways to reduce the adverse impact of losing it on my existence.”

Lin Jue was dumbfounded, and suddenly remembered what Lu Yan said: He would only think carefully about how to go next, always look forward and never look back.

This should be a quality worth admiring. Lin Jue also knew that Song Hanzhang was such a person, so he didn't dare to ask—if he died, would Song Hanzhang feel grief for his death?Or was he sane enough to easily walk past his dead body and continue walking alone?

Lin Jue patted himself on the forehead, trying to wake up, and he resented himself for worrying about gain and loss again.Obviously in the second round, Song Hanzhang risked his life to enter the mirror world to guide him in the right direction, which meant that he had already risked his life and tried his best for him, so why would he want more?

Whether Song Hanzhang will feel angry, fearful and sad because of losing him, this is something that will happen after losing him. Lin Jue hopes that he will never know, and he will never know—because at that time he already dead.Instead of entangled in things that will not have an answer in life or death, it is better to live in the present moment.

The two did not continue this topic. Song Hanzhang had already obtained the answer from Lin Jue's hypothesis, and Lin Jue had also settled his mind and stopped entangled in this matter. After all, there are still many dangers they have to face now.

The roof of the school's tallest administrative building.

After the mutated night, there was a slight smell of blood in the wind. From the top of the building, the entire campus was shrouded in street lamps far and near. This kind of dim light added to the campus invaded by strange forces. Kind of scary.

Overlooking the earth full of rust, iron and blood from the top of the building, they seem to be in the body of a demon. Every piece of mottled earth is like a wriggling wall of flesh. The man-made water system of black liquid is the blood vessel bubbling.

The strange thing is that there are always a few strange shadow areas between the dotted street lamps, where there seems to be a black hole that swallows all the surrounding light sources.

"What are those dark things?" Lin Jue asked strangely.

"I don't know." Song Hanzhang said.

Lin Jue seldom heard Song Hanzhang say he didn't know, so he became more curious: "There are times when you don't know?"

"Of course. How would I know something I haven't tried?" Song Hanzhang replied.

"Shouldn't you come up with a bunch of guesses at this time?" Lin Jue already knew Song Hanzhang very well.

Song Hanzhang pursed his lips: "Well, if you want to hear it. These dark places are obviously tempting us to explore. I guess once we walk in there, it will trigger the illusion like the beginning of the game, which will be generated by our subconscious mind. Different monsters. These dark areas are likely to be constantly changing, otherwise we can go to 'spawn' an infinite number of times, or avoid it, it will not allow us to do so."

"Then let's go now?" Lin Jue eagerly asked, holding the spear in his hand.

Song Hanzhang memorized several nearby dark areas, and led Lin Jue to the nearest one.

What are these black holes?When looking down from a high place, they look like groups of lightless areas, but when they really approach from the ground, Lin Jue feels even more strange.

Obviously, the street light is just a few meters away, but the world suddenly darkens when it crosses an invisible boundary.He could still see the street lights a few meters away, but it seemed to be separated by a layer of light-shielding glass, which made the dim street lights cold and distant.The range of vision became even darker. Lin Jue had already taken out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight for lighting, but the darkness here seemed to be a sticky gelatinous substance, which made people feel uncomfortable all over.

"Senior?" Lin Jue called out habitually.

Song Hanzhang was beside him, holding the dagger he got in the first round, walking forward without looking sideways.

The ground is sticky, as if coated with a layer of glue, but it is also dark red. This ominous color makes people suspiciously think of half-dried blood, and from time to time there will be one or two squirming lumps of flesh and blood, like It's a mouse that has peeled off its skin, quickly jumping into the deeper darkness.

Lin Jue was a little hairy, the darkness ahead seemed endless, the smell of blood was getting stronger and more stench, Lin Jue's stomach was churning with acid, making a convulsive sound of "gurgling".This kind of darkness reminded him of many things. When he was alone at home when he was a child, he watched the sun set and the fear of night falling. The fear of riding a bicycle through a deserted alley alone after class at night, and waking up in the middle of the night to open the room in the dark. The fear of walking to the bathroom door...

This fear of the dark is inherent.

Finally, the last light in front of his eyes disappeared, and the light on the phone went out instantly. Lin Jue froze all over, and his hand holding the spear trembled, but the darkness in front of him suddenly became bright again.

A little dim light came from the wall lamp in the deepest part of this windowless airtight room.

On a small piece of ground illuminated by a wall lamp, there is a table and chairs, and a strange human figure, with its arms folded on its chest, covered from head to toe in a restraint jacket, and only a few pokes were made at the mouth and nose. The air hole, more than a dozen criss-cross restraint belts are tightly fastened to its body, so that it cannot move its hands and feet, and can only lean upright against the corner of the wall, like a mummy.

Where is this sealed room?Lin Jue has never seen it before, and he doesn't know what this monster, which is tightly covered by restraint clothes, is.

But Song Hanzhang knew.

He never forgot this place.

PS: A little bit of psychology is mentioned, but since Freud’s "Introduction to Psychoanalysis" and "The Interpretation of Dreams" were read by the author about ten years ago, I have almost forgotten about them except for a few nouns, and Freud Some of Lloyd's opinions are indeed outdated, so just take a look and don't care :-D