Lei Yue, 18 years old, was an art student in the recent college entrance examination and failed.
She experienced a fire when she was a child, her parents died, she was disfigured, and she suffered from the rare mental disorder "Cotard Syndrome". Her dependent grandmother died on the day of the Shotgun Man murder...
The fire is in front, the crows are gathering in the back, and the bullying follows...
Lin Hongyun looked at the archive documents in her hands and could vaguely grasp the connection.
Now it seems, mental disorder?
Does that have anything to do with idiosyncratic influence?
She needs to make sure of this.
In previous investigations, they had consulted multiple psychiatrists who had treated Lei Yue.
Because delusions such as Cotard's syndrome are very rare, doctors have an impression of Lei Yue.
At that time, Lin Hongyun also talked with Professor Wang Ruifu, who first treated Lei Yue, and also looked through some medical records that were originally private to the patient, but found no abnormalities.
Every medical record and what the doctors said is that Lei Yue is strong, has been taking medicine for many years, and his condition is stable.
only……
"I have to call Professor Wang and ask."
In order to keep the clues secret, Lin Hongyun took out her personal mobile phone. The more she thought about it, the more sullen she became.
Perhaps at the beginning more than ten years ago, Lei Yue's condition was not so simple.
It's just that some details are hidden in the few descriptions of symptoms such as "accompanied by auditory hallucinations and visual hallucinations" in the medical records.
And because too much time has passed, the elderly Professor Wang did not recall enough details, especially the important details for the investigation.
Neither she nor the other investigators of the team paid enough attention to Lei Yue at that time.
Under the attention of all her colleagues, Lin Hongyun didn't care whether it was early in the morning or not, and called Professor Wang.
Professor Wang, who is over eighty years old, was the director of the Department of Psychiatry at Dongshu University Hospital and a tenured professor at the School of Psychiatry at Dongshu University.
Due to old age and poor health, he has retired for many years and retired to live a rural life.
It's almost one o'clock in the morning now, Professor Wang should have rested long ago.
Therefore, the mobile phone beeped to be connected, and for a while, the other party did not get through.
The atmosphere in the office became increasingly anxious, and everyone looked at each other.
"Lei Yue?" The big man scratched his head and muttered, how could he have imagined it.
It was at Fu Rong Market before that he had seen the rotten-faced boy, only about ten steps away, and he was standing there...
Could it be that the incident where the shotgun man's graffiti appeared that day was also related?
"..." Lin Hongyun waited anxiously, held the mouse and clicked a few times, watching the video play on the computer screen again, hoping to find more clues from it.
The little boy who was bullied by a group of children looked like he was smiling, crying, and expressionless. He wanted to leave but was blocked. He was very helpless.
Suddenly, the phone was connected, and Professor Wang's old voice came out, breaking the weird air in the office:
"Hello, Agent Lin?"
"Hello, Professor Wang. I'm disturbing you so late. It's about a case."
Lin Hongyun said quickly, Professor Wang over there made a few oohs and she said again:
"We are pressed for time here, so I asked directly about the patient Lei Yue!
"Does his medical history include crows? Anything crow-related."
Everyone listened in silence to the call outside, and Professor Wang over there seemed to be thinking hard:
"Let me think about it, Lei Yue? Is it a crow? It's been many years. I've forgotten things in my old age. It seems that I don't have any impression, right?"
Lin Hongyun's heart suddenly sank, but she was not surprised.
If this were not the case, Professor Wang would not have mentioned it before.
"Professor Wang, this matter is very important, please think clearly!" She could only ask this, looked at the video on the computer screen, and immediately said:
"By the way, I have a nursery rhyme here: The crow flies home and sees the house on fire..."
She read the forgotten nursery rhyme again, "This is a nursery rhyme made up by children from the same village to bully Lei Yue. Is there any impact of this incident in his medical history?"
"Crow, crow..." Professor Wang murmured a few words thoughtfully. Suddenly, some memories seemed to be evoked by the nursery rhyme, and Professor Wang said oh!
The old man, who had forgotten everything, said: "This thing... Yes, I remembered it, there are crows!"
Lin Hongyun raised her eyebrows and looked at each other a few times with the big guy, Le Zai, Xiao Zhi, and Wen Nu.
Everyone's eyes widened slightly, their expressions became excited, and their hearts were raised.
Everyone knows that we caught a big fish this time.
"I told you last time that Cotard's syndrome is very complicated and current medical research still cannot understand it."
Professor Wang was thinking back, organizing his words, and slowly told:
"This disease is like a death curse. Many patients will commit suicide due to depression and fear that others cannot understand.
"The reason for their emotional feelings is that the body's illusion of death is constantly tormenting them.
"Some people also have other visual and auditory hallucinations.
"You have reminded me now. I remember that the patient Lei Yue said at that time that he would see a crow following him."
Lin Hongyun's eyes became sharper and sharper, she found it, she really found it.
"What is your medical diagnosis?" she asked.
"As for the child Lei Yue, his behavior was very strange when he was first admitted to the hospital. He was not very scared and would often be in a daze."
Professor Wang continued:
"As soon as I saw it, I knew that this child had hidden the fear caused by the fire deep into his subconscious. This was the function of his psychological self-protection mechanism, otherwise he might have schizophrenia.
"Agent Lin, I've told you before, schizophrenia and paranoia are actually two different things.
“What we generally recognize as ‘crazy’ is schizophrenia, where the mind is completely unclear and the whole brain is devoid of logic.
"But paranoia is different. Except for the content related to the theme of the delusion, their sanity is completely normal. They just firmly believe in the content of their delusions, but they are often very logical and everything makes sense."
Lin Hongyun listened and already knew about this, so she couldn't help but feel a little anxious: "That crow?"
The big guy also opened his head, as if he wanted to see Professor Wang's expression on the other end of the phone.
"The child's psychological self-protection mechanism knows that if he cannot face that fear, he will not be able to bear it. Once faced, he will only develop into schizophrenia, so he dealt with it this way and hid it deeply first."
Professor Wang, who didn’t know the inside story, spoke calmly:
"But if this fear is not dealt with, it will appear in other forms, namely auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations and other hallucinations.
"The nursery rhyme you just mentioned has increased Lei Yue's fear for a period of time, and his hallucinations have become more serious.
"At that time, the child became aggressive for a time. If it hadn't been for his grandmother, he wouldn't have been able to handle it."
Lin Hongyun understood this and asked: "You mean, the crow is the embodiment of his fear?"
"No, no, that's his friend, the friend who protects him."
The more Professor Wang spoke, the more he thought about it, and his voice became louder:
“When children fantasize about having an animal friend to protect them, the most common ones are pets like cats and dogs, followed by beasts like lions and tigers.
"But Lei Yue's situation is different. He thinks he is dead, and the friends he needs are different.
"Ravens can predict good and bad luck, which can be found in civilizations all over the world. In addition, ravens will bring the dead back to life.
"The crow is both a happy bird and a dangerous bird. It has long had a deep position in the collective subconscious of mankind. It is an archetypal image.
"So the crow he saw was an imaginary friend generated by the self-protection mechanism. It was powerful and helped him face fears and other uncertain and risky challenges."
Lin Hongyun listened to this, took a few steps, and her colleagues with solemn expressions all understood.
Aliens can invade people's thinking. When a person's thoughts are too strong, coupled with other characteristics and factors, a certain resonance can be achieved. This is how alien resonance occurs.
They didn't know anything about Lei Yue's current state. Just think about how big a blow Lei Yue's grandmother's death would have on him...
How did the current resonance of Fulong Village come about?
It was that rotten-faced boy who triggered the resonance in another dimension, whether it was the arrival of the crowd of crows back then or the door to the world that is about to open now.
He wants to change, and the whole world changes.
"Where's the fear?" Lin Hongyun thought about this and felt a little chilly in her heart. If that boy really caused this level of resonance...
That boy will scare many people.
She asked Professor Wang on the other end of the phone in a deep voice:
"Has Lei Yue's unprocessed fear manifested itself in hallucinations?"
"Yes, there is." Professor Wang suddenly sighed, "That's really a big trouble."