Same as last time, Tesla still talked a lot about the sanity value test.
Tesla signaled Lu Li to touch the dark branch again, and when his fingertips touched it, his inspiration entered the void with the homologous object. The cold and malicious surroundings appeared for a moment, but disappeared again when Lu Li retracted his palm.
rustle--
Suddenly there was a sound like blowing leaves around the dining table. Under the gaze of the two people at the table and the alliance personnel cleaning glasses behind the bar not far away, scratches suddenly appeared on the surface of the dark branches, which were more scarred than last time.
After a few seconds, the sound of blowing leaves disappeared, and there were no more new scratches on the dark branches. The pitted branches were even more miserable than the one chewed by Hades.
"Your problem has become more serious..." Even though he was prepared, Tesla still frowned tightly when he actually saw it, and his eyes fell on Lu Li: "But you seem to be fine."
"Except for the more frequent hallucinations, I don't feel any other changes." Lu Li replied, looking down at the milk but not moving.
What Tesla sensed: “There’s something wrong with the milk?”
"If you saw an intestine with moving villi swimming around in milk, you wouldn't want to drink it."
"I can imagine." Tesla's brows gradually relaxed, and Lu Li's calmness infected him. He picked up the coffee cup that was no longer scalding hot, and when he brought it to his mouth, he suddenly stopped, raised his head and asked, "Is there an illusion in my coffee?
?”
Although invisible, drinking a cup of illusion still makes people feel a little uncomfortable.
"No."
Tesla took a sip with relief.
“Where am I roughly in phase one?”
Just as he put down his coffee cup, he heard Lu Li ask.
Tesla looked at the dark branches on the dining table that no longer released breath and had turned into ordinary tattered branches, and replied: "The degree of transition from the middle stage to the late stage."
After digitization, it will be between 70 and 80. If it is lower than 70, it will change to the second stage.
A large factor in the decrease in sanity was related to the Return of the Souls ship. Although his sanity decreased slowly while on the ship, he stayed there all night.
Tesla's warning suddenly came from the other side: "You must pay attention to your sanity. It is very dangerous now. I will apply to the committee later. Before your sanity recovers-"
The voice stopped suddenly, and he suddenly thought that all Lu Li had lost was his true sanity points, which could not be recovered.
"You can pretend you don't know anything." Lu Li said calmly, looking into Tesla's brown eyes.
"I'm the Belfast area manager."
Saying this, Tesla felt hesitant in his heart.
There is no doubt that as the regional director, Tesla is responsible for all investigators in the region. When an investigator's physical and mental condition is no longer suitable for the job, he must make arrangements for the investigator.
But as an "elder" who was optimistic about Lu Li, Tesla knew clearly that Lu Li was doing something very important to him, and even ignored his own sanity.
Just like Lu Li's confusion when faced with strangeness, Tesla now feels the same confusion - he doesn't know which choice will harm Lu Li.
Or both.
"I understand that the group of illusions in the second stage of sanity will see me, is that right?"
Lu Li's question sounded, and the topic changed abruptly. Tesla was relieved that he didn't have to make a decision, and reminded: "Yes, but the word 'illusion' is no longer rigorous, and another word is more suitable."
Describe them: 'projection'."
Projection, generally speaking, is to project the appearance of a certain existence. Compared with illusion, it undoubtedly appears more real.
"Is it because they are more real to me?" Lu Li asked.
"Yes, you can even 'interact' with monsters in the other world."
The interaction here is by no means a beautiful word.
"Will they hurt me?" Lu Li asked again.
Tesla thought for a while and answered: "If someone else were asking this question, I would say yes. Although the projections of the other world cannot directly harm us, their permeated atmosphere and indescribable shapes will make us
People are close to collapse. Especially the former. Most of the countless outstanding investigators who have ever died did not die in the incident, but the aura released by the phantom projection of the other world after the sanity value was reduced."
This is an unsolvable problem. Just like becoming a resentful spirit will inevitably lead to becoming an evil spirit, the sanity value will inevitably continue to decline due to the breath of the other world when it reaches the first stage.
Usually at this time, people waiting for the exorcism have only two choices: the real sanity value will not drop much, and the sanity value will return to normal due to rest, and then continue to work or retire; the real sanity value will drop a lot, and it will not recover even after rest.
Normal, watching in despair as the sanity value decreases day by day, the illusions become real day by day, and finally falls into madness and dies miserably.
No matter how determined the exorcist is, he cannot resist the invasion of true sanity.
Too many good exorcists have lost their lives due to sanity.
"But you are different. You can't sense those breaths, and you can't feel the most terrifying scene caused by the decrease in sanity. But I'm not sure whether you are still immune to these in the second stage?"
Lu Li was thinking about other questions: "If I enter the second stage, will the beings in the other world surround me because they see me?"
He imagined a scene surrounded by layers of dark and strange shadows. If this was the case, it would be difficult for him to do his own thing.
"It's not that exaggerated."
Tesla, who seemed to understand what Lu Li was thinking, said: "The inner world is not a layer, it is an overlapping space composed of countless weird worlds. They do not coincide with the human world at all times, but will intersect with each other like a radio station.
You often come into contact with homologous objects, and you should have noticed that sometimes there is a lot of malice in the void around you, sometimes there is very little, sometimes new ones appear, and sometimes they disappear."
Lu Li nodded. The illusions he was seeing now were close to this. They appeared suddenly from time to time, existed briefly for a while, and then disappeared.
After clearing up his doubts, Lu Li prepared to leave the base.
"What are you going to do next?" Tesla said, looking up at Lu Li who was standing up.
"make money."
Tesla was silent for a moment, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Although I don't know what you want so much money for, I wish you can achieve your wish as soon as possible."
"Thanks."
Lu Li nodded to him, walked around the dining table, and walked towards the pipeline behind Tesla.
Tesla let out a subtle sigh, picked up the coffee cup and took a sip.
At this time, the distant footsteps suddenly returned.
Tesla tilted his head, watching Lu leave and come back strangely, picked up his glass of milk, drank it down, and then left again.