Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

The moon climbed higher in the sky.

At this moment, under the tree, by the lake.

Zhou Qian lay on the ground.Li Xuehai stood opposite him, with a condescending attitude.

One person stands, one person lies down, one person is in a very high state, and the other person is covered in injuries...

Both of them have dilated pupils and are motionless because they are in a dream.

Even so, seeing this situation, anyone can think that Li Xuehai has a solid chance of winning, and Zhou Qian will lose in the next second.

What the two of them didn't know at this moment was that there was someone confronting each other beside them——

Those were Yuan Bing and Shao Chuan.

Yuan Bing knew exactly who Shao Chuan was.

He is the person who opened the game, the person who made the game public, the person who has experienced the game the longest, and the person with the strongest attributes in his life, and the person who killed Xie Huai.

Even though Shao Chuan was only a spirit body at this time, Yuan Bing really didn't dare to take it lightly.

In addition, he also came up with a strange idea. A person like him was just a gambler who lived silently under the aura of players before.

But it is such an inconspicuous person like him, who now faces Shao Chuan and Zhou Qian at the same time.Even if he really died, it would be considered worthwhile.

Shaking his head and putting aside those messy thoughts in his mind, Yuan Bing took out a konghou.

The harp fell to the ground, and the moonlight sprinkled on it, like ripples flowing on it.

With his finger on the harp, Yuan Bing looked at Shao Chuan nervously, speculating about every possible move he might make.

"I have always trained Li Xuehai as a confidant, but I didn't expect him to follow Xie Huai long ago."

Shao Chuan suddenly opened his mouth and said to Yuan Bing, "Although I didn't expect his final choice, I generally know him very well. In fact, I once suspected that he had some mental and psychological problems. I let my last Trusted assistants went and tested him, he passed, and I didn't take it seriously.

"Unexpectedly... Li Xuehai really has the ability. With the knowledge he has learned, he can perfectly avoid all the options that may lead to his mental illness. He has deceived everyone, and he may even have deceived himself."

Yuan Bing took a step back subconsciously, his eyes full of defense. "Why are you telling me this?"

"I'm just saying that Li Xuehai may have deceived himself, so he can deceive other people." Shao Chuan smiled and said, "Of course, from another perspective, he is indeed very good at this aspect .

"He once lied to my most powerful assistant. That is a senior doctor of psychology. Li Xuehai has gone through various tests, even hypnosis, and the results show that there is no problem. Then he has enough confidence to think that he is an expert in this field expert.

"With such self-confidence, what he said to Zhou Qian just now was not a lie."

The original soldier didn't say a word.He knew that Shao Chuan was right.

Li Xuehai can tamper with memory through hypnosis, and has a very strong ability to manipulate dreams, subconscious illusions, etc.He might even have fooled himself, making him seem like a normal person the whole time.

In terms of dream manipulation, Li Xuehai is confident that he will be the strongest, so when he decided to start a life-and-death battle with Zhou Qian, he really ruled out the option that Zhou Qian would use [Bone Nightmare].

Even if Zhou Qian has some skills in manipulating people's hearts, how can he fight against a senior expert?

Using one's own weaknesses to confront the opponent's strengths is really a taboo on the battlefield.

In this way, excluding the Nightmare of the Bone, Zhou Qian's bargaining chip is nothing more than Shao Chuan in his divine bone, his ultimate move, and his time manipulation skills.

For Zhou Qian's big move, for Shao Chuan, Li Xuehai has a way to deal with it.

After [Life and Death Chess Game], it is enough to keep Zhou Qian's blood line at a low blood line, but not lower than 10%.In this case, with many props, he and Yuan Bing are more than enough to deal with Zhou Qian and Shao Chuan.

The only thing that Li Xuehai is worried about is Zhou Qian's ability to manipulate time.

If he stops time and stands outside time with his divine bone, he can easily hurt Li Xuehai.

So Li Xuehai specially trained Yuan Bing in this aspect, his harp can pierce time and lift Zhou Qian's taboo.

It is not easy to do this.

For this, not only did Yuan Bing himself put in a lot of effort, but Li Xuehai also paid a lot of money. He even made a wish himself, and finally polished a weapon specifically for dealing with Zhou Qian.

It can be said that Lixue Kelp brought the original soldiers here to counter Zhou Qian's time skills.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Qian didn't use time skills at all.

He actually used [Bone Nightmare] which was first ruled out by Li Xuehai!

Thinking of this, Yuan Bing felt a little cold.

—— Zhou Qian used this skill on Situ Qing once in "The Bucket List".Who knows how far it has grown?

No no no.Yuan Bing quickly shook his head to persuade himself to be quiet.

In any case, Li Xuehai is an expert in this field, who can pry into his true heart and find the flaws?impossible!

Yuan Bing took a deep breath, and after regaining his composure, he looked at Shao Chuan again. He had already touched the harp with his fingers, trying to wake up Li Xuehai.

Unexpectedly, Shao Chuan did not move, a hole had been cut in his finger, and the blood instantly stained the harp, revealing a thin layer of red gauze dyed with silver under the moonlight.

Shao Chuan's spirit body sat beside Zhou Qian casually, looking at Yuan Bing calmly. "The sole purpose of Lixuehai bringing you here is to fight against Zhou Qian's time skill. He didn't expect you to be helpful in other areas. Now that Zhou Qian doesn't use this skill, you are meaningless.

"So kid, take a break and fight with me, you won't get any benefits."

"So what?" Yuan Bing said with a sullen face, "Master Priest has no flaws! Zhou Qian will never win against him in the dream!"

When he first started speaking, Yuan Bing was aggressive, but later on his arrogance weakened.

For some reason, he felt that the person in front of him seemed to be the most compassionate and benevolent fairy.

Seeing his eyes that accommodate everything and his demeanor like a lonely moon in the sky, Yuan Bing couldn't say a single serious word.

"Then let me tell you one more thing. In order to deal with Lixuehai, Zhou Qian did another thing before entering this dungeon. He found the doctor who helped me test Lixuehai back then. The two of them worked together for a long time. Communication." Shao Chuan said, "Li Xuehai kept it a secret back then, but this time...not necessarily."

·

At this moment, Zhou Qian could feel that he was sweating a little.

His physical strength was draining very quickly, and his real body also brought him a lot of pain.

He knew he couldn't sustain the dream for long.

At the same time, he has to concentrate on controlling his emotions to prevent himself from being backlashed by dreams.

He worked so hard that even the soil under his body was soaked with sweat again.

Zhou Qian knew that he needed to find the answer as soon as possible, otherwise he wouldn't be able to maintain this dream for too long.

However, the sea of ​​learning is obviously hidden too deep.

Zhou Qian not only couldn't see any of his past, but he could only see a part of the dream that was barely peeked at now.

A young man with a heart problem was admitted to the hospital and thanked Li Xuehai; every morning during the ward rounds, he smiled at Li Xuehai, and inevitably showed a frightened expression. At this time, he was always encouraged by Li Xuehai.

Before entering the operation, the young man grabbed Li Xuehai's hand and begged him to save himself. Li Xuehai's encouragement made him bravely accept anesthesia and close his eyes...

In the end, he died on the operating table. At that moment, the bird fell and the sky was full of sunrise.

That's what the dream is all about.

Zhou Qian tried his best, but he just made this dream repeat three times.

Several times on the way, when Li Xuehai pushed the door to enter the ward, Zhou Qian forced him to open the medical records, or go to the office to open the computer to review the young man's medical records.

But Zhou Qian couldn't do it at all. Every time he forced Li Xuehai to do something halfway, he would be interrupted by various reasons.

He didn't even know what kind of illness the young man was suffering from, he just roughly knew that the young man had undergone heart replacement surgery.

In the third attempt, Zhou Qian forcibly created a family member who suspected that the doctor killed the patient in his dream—that was the young man's father.

The father brought a group of people to the hospital to make trouble, and strongly demanded an autopsy to find out if there was anything strange about the cause of the young man's death.

But Li Xuehai obviously has extremely heavy defenses in his consciousness.

He probably sensed the intrusion of external forces, so, even though Zhou Qian managed to interpret the plot to the moment when the police accepted the case and planned to arrange for a forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy, a fire broke out in the hospital morgue, and the young man's body was burnt beyond recognition.

This dream ended again, and the consciousness sea of ​​Lixuehai returned to darkness.

In this way, Zhou Qian never made any progress regarding Li Xuehai's dream and the issue with that young man.

But he didn't get nothing.

This incident shows that Li Xuehai has a strong attachment to the protection of the corpse, and it also shows that Zhou Qian's guess is right, and his attempt is in the right direction - the death of the young man is indeed strange.

When the same story was repeated for the fourth time, watching the young man on the hospital bed slowly open his eyes, Zhou Qian made a very bold move—he completely attached his consciousness to the young man.

This time, in the dream, he became the young man with heart disease.

When he opened his eyes and saw Li Xuehai walking towards him from the perspective of a young man, Zhou Qian knew that he had succeeded.

·

Time went back to the moment when Zhou Qian talked with Shao Chuan's doctor of psychology.

Zhou Qian looked at the doctor on the phone, and said, "So... Li Xuehai likes to help the weak and the weak very much? Especially he prefers to help good-looking young males who are dying?"

"Yes. At that time, Shao Shuai felt that Lixuehai was strange mainly through one incident. It was that he rarely took everyone to brush a very difficult dungeon together.

"During the period, we all experienced a very dangerous scene together. At that time, everyone was in a very bad situation. Over Li Xuehai, no matter how powerful he was, he could only save one of the two people.

"These two people, one of them is a very powerful swordsman, a god-level player that Shao Chuan is very fond of, his swordsmanship will be very useful for subsequent customs clearance; the other is a relatively ordinary person, and he was seriously injured, Both legs are disabled, even if he is rescued here, he will not survive.

"Who do you think Li Xuehai saved?"

"From a purely rational analysis, Swordsman is useful for the follow-up. He is not physically injured, and he is still a god-level player. From the perspective of the future development of the team and the follow-up clearance, he should be saved.

"Although it's a bit cruel to say that, there's nothing you can do about it at that moment, not to mention that you said that that ordinary person was seriously injured, and even if he survived that level, he couldn't make it to the final level."

Zhou Qian said, "But since you ask me that, does it mean that Li Xuehai saved that ordinary person instead?"

"Yes. Everyone finds it very strange. After all, Li Xuehai has always been the most rational person who can weigh the pros and cons and analyze the situation. Besides, Li Xuehai has no friendship with that ordinary person. Even his relationship with the swordsman is not that good. Better."

The doctor said, "In this regard, Li Xuehai's explanation is that the swordsman is used to being powerful, and he has always given the impression that he is very strong, so he has always protected everyone, not everyone protecting him. So at the critical moment, Li Xuehai Xuehai didn't have time to think about it, but he subconsciously felt that the strong could save himself, so he saved the weaker one."

Zhou Qian: "This explanation is reasonable."

The doctor said: "Indeed, none of us thought there was a problem at the time. On the contrary, Shao Shuai thought about it a little bit more, reviewed his experience, and even watched the video of him copying the book, and found that it was not the first time he did this. Kind of thing. He really likes saving beautiful men who are vulnerable, even dying.

"At that time, Shao Shuai's thoughts were not complicated. He just thought that Li Xuehai might have had a certain gay person, of course, it could also be a brother or younger brother... In short, that person should be very important to Li Xuehai. He might lose He lost this important person. When that person was dying, he failed to save him, so that he regretted in his heart, and wanted to make up for it every time he saw the same person.

"Shao Shuai didn't think there was anything wrong with him. He was just worried that he had trauma in his heart, which might affect his mission and even bring him danger. He hoped that I could help him treat it."

Zhou Qian nodded again: "Shao Shuai's speculation is reasonable. What's the result?"

"As a result, I went through various examinations and found no similar trauma. Either, his trauma has been healed; or the trauma does not exist. Hmm..."

The doctor said, "Now that I heard the performance of Li Xuehai you mentioned, things may not be that simple. There is a third possibility...that is, I was completely deceived by him back then."

"Well, although I don't know what his problem is, but the crux should be related to the weak and beautiful man who is dying. It can't be wrong." Zhou Qian said.

The doctor's tone became serious. "If you want to defeat him in a dream by manipulating consciousness... I don't think it can be done. When I treated him, I had been studying hypnosis for more than [-] years. But I didn't find any problems. I just know now, I All the pictures I saw at that time were what he wanted me to see.

"I thought I had hypnotized him, manipulating and guiding his consciousness. But it turned out that I was manipulated by him in reverse. I was even counter-hypnotized by him, so I thought he was completely fine."

"But if I can become the dying young man in his dream, can I completely make him let go of his guard and see his problems?" Zhou Qian asked.

The doctor was surprised: "How do you become that young man? Zhou Qian, this is too difficult. Let me tell you again, first of all, you may not be able to enter his dream at all...

"Secondly, even if you entered his dream, it was a dream that was covered up by him with many lies. You can't see the truth in the dream at all. All the actions you do in the dream will trigger the defense deep in his subconscious. , he will use everything to prevent you from finding the truth!"

Regarding this point, Zhou Qian thought he had already verified it.

He set up the plot and wanted to do an autopsy.

The Sea of ​​Consciousness defense mechanism of the Lixue Sea was activated, and a fire was immediately set off to destroy the corpses and traces.

Zhou Qian knew that he was now in a conscious confrontation with a very strong person.

At the end of the conversation, what he said to the doctor was: "Then, this time, I'm afraid I will really die and be reborn."

"What do you want to do?" When the doctor asked him, his hands shook violently.

——What Zhou Qian meant, could it be...

"I am a vigorous and active person. When I enter his consciousness in this state, it will stimulate his high-intensity defense. As you said, if I am in a normal state, I am afraid that even his dreams will be disturbed." If I can't get in, I will be counter-manipulated by him from the very beginning.

"Normal me is completely unable to deceive him and pretend to be the dying young man in his crux."

As if he didn't care about what would happen to him, Zhou Qian said indifferently, "So, how can he subconsciously believe that I am the one who is dying? Of course, let this scene actually happen in reality. Especially ——

"Especially when my near-death was caused by him, that's even better.

"Every time he cuts me, every time he hits me with a whip, he will deepen an impression in his subconscious - the person in front of him is indeed about to die. This is done by him himself, and it cannot be faked."

"This is too, this is too dangerous! Can you guarantee to control his dreams under the condition of excessive blood loss?"

"Try it." Zhou Qian smiled meaninglessly, "You just need to do me a favor."

"Well, what's the matter?"

"Don't tell Bai Zhou my plan."

"Ah? Is it also a strategy?"

"That's not true. It's just to save him from feeling bad."

PhD:"…………"

Zhou Qian: "Thank you."

·

Time goes back to this moment.

Although he was obstructed in the process of finding the truth, Li Xuehai's conscious confrontation proved one thing, that Zhou Qian had indeed successfully entered his dream.

And Zhou Qian is in an absolute dominant position.

He led a series of incidents such as "family troubles" and "autopsy". Li Xuehai's "arson" was actually a passive defense.

Zhou Qian believes that this means that his strategy is effective.

Li Xuehai tortured himself to the point of death.

Relying on this state, I was able to successfully enter his dream.

Now...it should be useful for him to pretend to be the young man with heart disease by relying on this state.

Sure enough, this time, Zhou Qian heard a completely different conversation.

The morning glow shines into the ward from the window, warming Li Xuehai's cold facial features.

Zhou Qian felt himself smiling at him.

"Doctor...have I seen you somewhere?"