latent syndrome

Chapter 3 3. The Eve
The location was chosen in a place that Ke Lin didn't expect. I thought it would be in the police station or other more rigorous office space.

Unexpectedly, I chose a tavern nearby.

Perhaps because of the economic depression, there are too many down-and-outs in Los Angeles. This kind of TV shows sports channels, and low-consumption places purely for drinking and playing poker are becoming more and more popular.

Due to the rain, there are only a few scattered people in the tavern. The industrial style decoration, exposed exhaust pipes and retro bricks make this tavern look a bit rough.

Colin thought that women would choose fruit wine or non-alcoholic cold drinks when they came to this kind of place.

When the waiter asked,

"Bourbon, bourbon."

Gray put the suitcase on the table, and she only sat halfway on the bench, sitting in an extremely standard posture, like a sergeant after rigorous training.

The waiter was not surprised when he heard this rather tough guy's answer. He had never seen such a oppressive woman. If he made her unhappy, it would definitely end badly. She did exude such an aura.

On the contrary, Colin drank before going to the police station, and now he is a bit over the top, so he only needs a large glass of draft beer.

"You must find it very bizarre. I guess you have searched for reports about the female corpse, but found nothing."

Gray opened the suitcase, which contained some document bags and disassembled large gun components, but Colin didn't recognize them, and these metal parts couldn't be seen to have anything to do with guns.

After she took out a document, she closed the suitcase.

"Of course, no one can go through that kind of thing and still be calm, like a B-movie."

Colin tried to use a search engine to retrieve all the key words, but he still couldn't see any news. It must be that the news was blocked. There was some secret in it.

"What I'm about to say next may sound like fantasy, but it's very helpful in your situation."

"Listen carefully because this is a bit complicated and somewhat subversive."

"The cause of the female corpse's death was determined to be submerged disease, which is a mental illness, or a... supernatural curse."

"Have you read Jacques Clan?"

Gray drank no less than [-] milliliters of bourbon in one gulp, without making a fuss, as if he just drank a glass of water.

Whether it was Gray's drinking capacity or the so-called submerged disease, Colin was confused.

"No, I haven't even heard the name."

Colin took out a cigarette, held it in his mouth, and lit it with a cheap disposable plastic lighter.

"He is a relatively influential scholar, and some of his claims will be involved in the pathology of submerged disease."

"In these arguments, man is simultaneously in three worlds, the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real."

"In fact, people cannot recognize the real world. All sensory experience is just the feedback of the nerves, the independent supplement of the brain, not the things themselves. People can't determine whether the objects match their own observations, or even perceive their reality. They can never witness things. The whole picture, or the exaggeration of things, this world filtered by personal consciousness, the world that is unknown to outsiders, is called the imaginary world."

"As for the symbolic world, you can first understand it as Jung's collective subconsciousness, which is the universal human spirit accumulated in the deepest psychological layer by countless experiences of the same type retained by heredity, but it is also different, and it also combines the universal values ​​​​of the current era , common sense, and authority. Everyone has been transitioning from the imaginary world to the symbolic world since they were babies. Different transitional environments have created all kinds of people. Think that there are too many defects in the symbolic world, or dissatisfaction with it, and need to change it, so as to lead the times, or become a marginalized person isolated by society."

Gray said that she was a little thirsty, so she ordered another glass of bourbon and drank it down.

"Then what is the real world?"

Ke Lin felt that it was unbelievable to hear two people running the train with their mouths full of mouth in one day. This girl, who is tougher than a tough guy, is both civil and military.

"The real world is... the real world. Kant called it the thing-in-itself. Language is powerless in front of this world. It is something beyond matter and spirit. Even if I try to explain it to you, it is just a kind of Self-righteous, I named and defined the names and definitions based on my experience in the world of imagination. Each name has its own naming rules. It is meaningless to apply the rules to the infinite. Sulu-style indescribable nature, our understanding can only fall into endless confusion when confronted with this nature without want."

Gray looked solemn, and the information in his hand was Colin's investigation report.

"I probably understand it. It's an interesting point of view, but I don't understand how it has anything to do with the female corpse and the submerged disease she was infected with."

Colin finished smoking a cigarette, lit another, and began to doubt the real purpose of Grey's trip. Her behavior didn't look like she was investigating a case, but her target was herself.

This made Colin a little apprehensive, not knowing what she wanted from him.

"As I said, this will exceed your cognition. Lacuna disease is a kind of...mysterious power, and we don't know its source and treatment method."

"This is not something that can be explained clearly in a few words, but we have learned about its susceptible population and certain principles."

"If personal thoughts are derailed from the symbolic world, the immunity to submerged disease will decline."

"People who merge with the Symbolic, these individual individuals are deeply embedded in civilization and cannot be easily invaded."

"But people who are derailed from the mainstream world have weak defenses and are prone to infection."

"Abyssalism is a mental illness that causes people to fall into the real world, penetrate and enter the indescribable real world, just like slowly falling into the abyss, so it is named so. Due to differences in individual spiritual quality, Most people who contract phrenopathy die."

"Just like your female neighbor, she couldn't bear the impact of the unknowable, she was mentally confused, and died suddenly after a mutation."

Gray looked at Colin indifferently, staring at Colin a little hairy.

"What are you telling me this for?"

Ke Lin didn't want to make any more detours, and went straight to the point.

"Have you been experiencing headaches, confusion, and increased appetite lately?"

Gray put his hand on his waist, ready to draw out his pistol at any time to give Colin a fatal blow. The police station is a relatively sacred place, subject to the spirit of Montesquieu's theory of law, and killing people at will will tarnish its essence, so there is no Choose to talk there.

If he chooses a remote place, it will definitely arouse Colin's vigilance and suspicion.

But it is different here. It can be explained that the police detectives lead out perverted child molesters and kill them due to self-defense. All customers and clerks in the tavern are witnesses, because they hold their own certificates and have the final right of interpretation.

"how do you know?"

Colin did have these feelings, and they were getting worse.

"We found something very interesting when we investigated the identity background of your neighbor and the source of infection."

"She is a serial killer on the run. She will choose people with simple interpersonal relationships to commit crimes. People who live in bachelor apartments and have no friends are good targets, such as you."

"She snooped on your life pattern through that borehole in order to start. She didn't expect to see you in a small way, and met you, Colin."

"She was infected when she came into contact with you. You infected her and let her die suddenly. You are the dangerous element."

"Generally speaking, people who are infected with submerged disease will die within a short period of time, but those who are mentally strong and survive can gain supernatural special abilities."

"After these people gain abilities, their temperaments often change drastically. They are manipulated by their own subconscious mind and invisible obsessions in the imaginary world, and they choose to commit crimes because they go against the mainstream society."

Gray's face was expressionless, and his expression became more and more cold.

At the same time, Colin also saw her unzip the jacket, calmly took out an exaggerated large-caliber pistol from her waist, hid the pistol in her clothes, and pointed the muzzle at Colin's head.

"Next, I'm going to do some tests on you and ask some questions to determine your controllability. You have to answer seriously, and I can blow your head off at any time."

Gray unbolted and loaded the gun, not joking at all.

The crisp sound pierced Colin's body like a thunderbolt.

"You must be mistaken..."

Colin had never been pointed at with a gun before. A drop of cold sweat overflowed his forehead. The strong sense of crisis and the intense tension of life and death made his blood surge.

Controllability?If you answer wrong, you will be killed.

But answer the question?Is there a right answer for that kind of thing?

I will die here.

This psychological suggestion is transmitted to the depths of the subconscious mind.

Suddenly, life is threatened, and the neural network is like being dropped into a bomb, which stimulates a certain potential in him.

He only felt a strong electric current quickly spread throughout his body, and his body was out of control, being controlled by another kind of consciousness, the subconscious that burst out from the depths of his heart.

cack cack...

The bones of Ke Lin's whole body made a crackling sound like frying beans, and his limbs began to twist in an extremely weird posture. The skeleton of his body was growing rapidly. It seemed that there was some monster in his body that was about to burst out of the shell, and the skin was stretched open , piercing out the terrifying white bones, and exaggerated plasma overflowing.

Gray's one-eyed flashed a cold light, and he knew that things would not go so smoothly. It would be very difficult for the infected to deal with the infected. If it was not for the lack of comprehensive strength, he would not have made such a bad move.

She didn't care whether she was exposed or not, she took out the pistol and shot three times in a row at Colin's head. The caliber of this pistol was comparable to that of a rifle, and ordinary people simply couldn't bear such a huge recoil.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Deadly tongues of flame burst out from the pitch-black muzzle, and all three bullets hit accurately. The power was terrifying, directly blasting Colin's head into pieces, and red and white things splashed.

"Everyone leave quickly, if you don't want to die."

Gray's stern face was still untouched.

However, under such a terrifying battle, without Gray's reminder, the people in the tavern ran away, leaving from the fire escape or the tavern entrance.

Strangely enough.

Colin, who has no head, can still move. His body and consciousness transcend the material and spiritual worlds, which cannot be imagined by common sense. Patients with submerged disease are extremely difficult to kill, precisely because they have no vital points, and they must be completely bombarded to the scum before they can be killed. destroy it.

Plasma was splashed on the neck of Colin who ran away violently, and the bones in one hand deformed and proliferated into a scythe that shone with cold light.

This kind of scene can scare any mature adult to tears, and now the image of Colin is completely the horror monster in the plasma film.

Unmoved, Gray opened the suitcase and quickly assembled the large firearms. The speed was incredible, and the assembly was completed in almost two seconds.

Colin had already rushed over at this time. He went mad and chopped all the tables and chairs along the way to pieces. The sharp sickle could cut a person in half in an instant.

Gray moved faster, a special ammunition was loaded into the sniper, and then the trigger was pulled.

lb!
There was a loud bang, the sound alone shattered all the glass in the tavern,

Ke Lin was directly blown away by this terrifying power, half of his body exploded into a blood mist, and the other half flew backwards, slammed into the wall and embedded in it, burning with raging blue flames.

This kind of flame is extremely strange, after being burned, it does not turn into coke, but turns Colin into ashes that disperse at the touch of a touch.

The chest of Ke Lin's monster body let out an extremely shrill cry, mixed with the hoarse screams of wild beasts.

The flames reflected Grey's expressionless face. This kind of movement seemed to be commonplace to her, and she just added a few shots to prevent Colin from cheating.

After burning for nearly half a minute, Ke Lin didn't even have scum left, and he couldn't die anymore.

With a blank expression on her face, Gray took out her mobile phone, pointed her fingers quickly, and typed and sent text messages.

[Number S-2 has been killed. 】

(End of this chapter)