The oldest and most intense emotion of human beings is fear.

And the oldest and most intense fear is the unknown.

As long as you accept your sins calmly, travel through the black abyss, what awaits you will be eternal magic and glory.

——Excerpt from: Howard Philip Lovecraft

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Friday, May 15, 18:08 pm.

North Brook District, psychological counseling clinic.

The sharpened pencil is held by a slender hand and stays on the paper form.

Du Wei looked up at the pale and haggard white woman sitting opposite her face.

"Ms. Elsa, now you can continue talking."

"Okay... OK, Dr. Du Wei."

Elsa closed her eyes and fell into memories: "You know, my job is programming, and I have to deal with some work even after get off work, so I recently commissioned an agent to find a relatively remote and quiet house."

"Half a month ago, the agent told me that there is a suitable house to live in, and the price is relatively low. It has no disadvantages except that it seems a bit dilapidated because it has not been inhabited for too long."

“I had a lot of expenses, so I signed the contract quickly.”

"But after moving in for a week, I found something was wrong with the house."

"Every twelve o'clock at night, the lights will become strangely dimmed, and the faces will be almost impossible to see clearly in the house."

"The faucets in the bathroom are often turned on inexplicably."

"The TV will also jump off the stage suddenly, and I can't even watch my favorite wilderness survival series."

"And yesterday, these problems became even worse."

...

"Dr. Du Wei? Are you listening?"

"Hmm? Yes, I'm listening."

Du Wei nodded and told the other party to continue talking while writing words [suspected auditory hallucinations, signs of schizophrenia] on the table.

At the same time, he took his eyes back from Aisha's hair.

Well...the hair volume is indeed not much.

Elsa was a little nervous, paused for a moment before speaking again: "I think there may be some... something in my room."

When she talked about something, her tone was very entangled, as if she was afraid, and as if she was resisting something.

"Doctor Du Wei, do you believe there are ghosts in this world? Well... or evil spirits?"

Du Wei stopped writing, looked at Elsa calmly, and asked back, "Ms. Elsa, do you know why there is light in this world?"

"Uh...why?"

"Because the sun is mainly composed of hydrogen, which accounts for more than 70% of the mass. Under high temperature and pressure conditions inside the sun, hydrogen atoms will undergo a "thermonuclear reaction" and radiate a large amount of light and heat."

Elsa:???

...

"I'm a psychiatrist, and I'll just tell you that this may be a disease."

"This is so bad, Doctor Duwei, you don't know what happened to me. You can't deny my experience. I definitely encountered an evil spirit."

"Okay, then let's say that the lights will become dimmed, maybe because the weather has been very hot recently and the voltage caused by the air conditioner of nearby residents turning on the air conditioner is unstable."

"The bathroom faucet was turned on for no reason. Maybe you forgot to turn it off. After all, you are a programmer and you work overtime until two or three o'clock and are in a trance. This is normal."

"As for the problem of TV jumping, you can use the after-sales repair phone number to solve it, or use our Oriental methods to slap the TV hard and try it. If this is useless, then I suggest you change it directly."

Du Wei put down the pencil, spread his hands, and looked at Elsa calmly.

The other party obviously could not accept this result and said angrily: "Doctor Du Wei, this is not the answer I want. I know that many people cannot believe my experience, so I only told you one person!"

Du Wei glanced at her and said lightly: "If you persist, then you may be more acceptable to this answer."

As he said that, he tore off the paper and handed it over.

The table on the paper says the following:

Name: Elsa Kriman

Age: 26 years old

Gender: Female

Occupation: Programmer

Condition: Audit hallucinations and uncontrollable hallucinations caused by schizophrenia

Coping drugs: risperidone, olanzapine, quitiapine

Suggestion: Increase the dosage

...

Obviously, Elsa couldn't accept this result.

She whispered with a haggard face with her paper in her face: "I shouldn't have looked for you. You are just a psychologist and have no personal experience. You don't know what I've experienced. There is definitely something special in that house. Maybe I should go to the church."

Du Wei nodded in agreement: "I think so too, I am just a psychiatrist. Even if there are really ghosts and evil spirits in this world, you should go to the priest, and I will only advise you to rest on time and take more medicine."

Elsa is gone...

After Du Wei saw her away, it was already dark. According to previous experience, no guests would come, so he closed the door of the psychological counseling clinic and returned to the room upstairs.

The house he rented is the most suitable nearby, with reasonable space and large flow of people.

The first floor was converted into a clinic, while the second floor was a place to rest.

Take out a thick medical record from the bookcase, and Du Wei fills out Elsa's information and symptoms on the latest page.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion. Since opening this psychological counseling clinic, people who come to consult or see a doctor have some strange things.

Everyone feels that they have encountered something unclean, or ghosts, or evil spirits, or ghosts.

For Westerners, should this be the same thing?

As he finished filling out Ella's symptoms and was about to close the medical record, he seemed to have thought of something, so he turned the paper to the first page again.

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Sunday, January 12, 10:12 am.

Name: Mia

Age: 25 years old

…(Skip to gender occupation)

Symptom: Persecution paranoia caused by fear of the doll, and a tendency to abuse itself - specifically manifested as a doll named Annabelle was found at home, which could not be discarded or eliminated, and would be subjected to mental and physical torture every night. At the same time, accompanied by the family, he showed the palm-shaped bruises of his lower limbs.

Countermeasures: Not prescribed

Suggestion: Be hospitalized immediately

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Friday, February 17, 13:23 pm.

Name: Reagan

Age: 12 years old

Condition: Severe personality schizophrenia - specifically manifested as feeling that she is a man named Hoddy. Under the story of her parents, Hoddy is the imaginary partner of the little girl after completing the game of spiritual enlightenment.

Coping medicine:risperidone

Suggestion: Parents spend more time with their children and give left-behind children more care.

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Tuesday, February 28, 14:09 pm.

Name: Billy

Age: 16 years old

Condition: Clown phobia - specifically manifested in that after his younger brother disappeared, he felt that he was eaten by a clown-like monster and was immersed in fear and anxiety for a long time.

Coping drugs: nitrostatin

Suggestion: Call the police directly

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Chapter completed!