strategic fantasy

Chapter 1 Fantasies

Qingshan, Abnormal Human Research Center.

After the taxi stopped, the driver looked at the passenger who was getting off the bus with a hesitant expression. Seeing that the passenger was about to leave, he finally couldn't help but ask.

"Excuse me, are you Liu Yifei?"

Bai Xiuchu stopped, turned around, politely took off his sunglasses and replied, "I'm not."

The driver who saw Bai Xiuchu's true appearance was sure that the person was not Liu Yifei. She was too young - no matter how naturally beautiful she is and how to take care of her, she is not 46 years old, she still looks like 20 years old.

But he didn't feel disappointed, on the contrary, he was even happier.

Because it’s really beautiful.

"Do you still want to use the car? I'll wait for you here."

"No thanks."

Bai Xiuchu put on her sunglasses again, turned around and was about to walk in, when she stopped again - she had seen such things many times, and knew that the driver would not leave easily.

So he turned around helplessly and said, "I'm here to see a doctor and I want to be hospitalized."

"what?"

While the driver was dumbfounded, Bai Xiuchu was already walking with heavy steps towards the place officially known as the 'Abnormal Human Research Center', commonly known as the 'mental hospital'.

She was not sick and came here to work, but she felt that she would soon get sick - if you are close to red, you will be red and if you are close to ink, you will be black.
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"Hello."

"Hi, who are you?"

"My name is Bai Xiuchu, I was transferred from the Security Bureau. Here are my information and certificates."

"Oh, it's you, no need to read the information."

"kindness?"

The other party looked at her face and said with a smile: "You are so beautiful, everything you say is right."

"……thanks."

"Come with me, I'll take you through the 'Guardian' entry procedures and arrange your dormitory."

"OK, thanks."

The relevant procedures were quickly completed, but Bai Xiuchu refused during one day's break and instead proposed to start work directly.

In this regard, her direct leader, Sister Chen, is very supportive.

"As expected of someone who came from the Safety Management Bureau, his professionalism and discipline are very high."

After Sister Chen took Bai Xiuchu to familiarize herself with the environment of the research center, she took her to the inpatient department.

This is one of the highest security areas in the entire research center. The six-story building looks more like a prison building from the outside because the building has no windows.

Outside the building is a small square with a wide view. There are security personnel patrolling in groups with live ammunition, as well as multiple equipment like small excavators.

It's just that there are no shovels and cabs on these devices, only machine gun muzzles that look very ferocious.

Bai Xiuchu could tell at a glance that it was a self-propelled combat robot developed and manufactured by a research institute in Longguo three years ago, numbered 'Tianbing 2023'.

The caliber of machine gun bullets used under normal circumstances is 12.7 mm, and the ammunition magazine can hold 1600 rounds of bullets.

Combined with the world's most advanced automatic aiming and shooting system, this self-propelled combat robot can even use its machine gun as a sniper rifle.

"Don't be afraid."

Sister Chen noticed Bai Xiuchu's eyes, smiled and felt relieved.

“Although we have strong security here, there have been no accidents for several years.

Because all the abnormal humans here use third-generation gene locks.

All their superpowers are banned. "

Bai Xiuchu nodded and said: "The third generation gene lock is indeed very easy to use. We are safe... My previous unit never had any accidents after changing its equipment."

"Both the first and second generations don't work. They occasionally malfunction. We've had several accidents in the past, all because the gene lock failed."

"I also encountered one once, using a second-generation gene lock. The superpower criminal injured more than a dozen of our colleagues."

When Sister Chen heard Bai Xiuchu mention the matter of the Security Bureau, she actually wanted to ask him why he came here.

But the adult world cannot be so direct, so I held back and continued talking about work matters.

"The abnormal humans we house here, that is, people with super powers, mainly have some mental problems. Therefore, you must pay attention to this in the future work process. Well..."

Sister Chen pondered for a moment, and then said in a serious tone: "Don't be deceived by their normal behavior and language. You must firmly believe that each of them is mentally ill."

"Okay." After Bai Xiuchu responded, he asked curiously: "Do mentally ill patients also have normal behavior and language?"

"Haha."

Sister Chen laughed twice: "Of course they are. They are different from many people's stereotypes. In fact, in many cases, they look more normal than normal people."

"That's it. I watched a few movies before coming here, and I felt that the mental illness in them was crazy."

"Film and television dramas must be appropriately exaggerated. Otherwise, it will be difficult to let the audience know that a certain character is mentally ill in the first place."

"Makes sense."

As they spoke, the two walked across the small square and entered the building under the watchful eyes of security personnel.

The four-fold identification of face, fingerprints, pupils and work permit once again explained to Bai Xiuchu the danger of this work.

"You have just arrived, so I will assign you a patient who is easier to monitor. You have to remember that although your job is still to be the guardian of superpowers, here...

The Guardian's main task is to watch over, not protect. "

When Sister Chen went upstairs with Bai Xiuchu who expressed her gratitude, she introduced it in detail.

"Ji Tianqi, male, 33 years old, individual soldier-level superpower.

He has two superpowers, one is physical enhancement and the other is energy release.

He is a very severe hallucination patient. He not only has the most common auditory hallucinations among hallucination patients, but also very severe visual hallucinations and other sensory hallucinations.

But you don’t need to worry too much. When he is not sick, he is almost the same as a normal person. "

Bai Xiuchu asked curiously: "Is hallucination a type of schizophrenia?"

"It can be said that paranoia, fantasy, and paranoia can all be regarded as a type of schizophrenia."

Sister Chen said with a smile: "You don't actually need to understand this. We guardians only need to watch them one-on-one. Generally, we don't need to participate in their treatment. There is a professional medical team."

"That would be a lot easier. What is his fantasy?"

"He imagined that his super power was time travel, and he would often travel to a different world, a world of high martial arts that he called Daxuan."

"what?"

"He does not recognize the two superpowers that we have determined through research. Instead, he believes that the enhanced physical fitness and energy release he possesses come from the martial arts he learned and practiced in another world."

"I really haven't heard of anyone having the ability to travel through time."

Bai Xiuchu recalled: "Of the nearly one million known superpowers, none of them really involve superpowers from other worlds or other times in our world."

"It would be great if he had it. It would be even better if his super power is time travel."

Sister Chen's tone was a little sad.

"Then the martial arts and other things he learned in another world can be practiced by us, and the monsters and super-powered criminals will no longer be a threat to us."

"He told the martial arts secrets he learned in another world?"

"I said it, I said it from the beginning. It's a pity that no one can practice it except him."

As soon as Sister Chen finished speaking, she realized something was wrong and quickly corrected it.

"Ah, no, he hasn't mastered it himself. His physical improvement and the internal strength he mentioned all come from his real superpower." Bai Xiuchu suddenly said: "Because no one can master it, so Determine him as a delusional patient?"

"This is only one of the basis for judgment, there are many others. For example, he said that he physically traveled through the past, but in fact, he has always been in our world.

For example, he said he did so and so in another world, but in fact, he did so and so in our world. "

"what?"

Bai Xiuchu was a little hard to understand for a moment.

By chance, the two of them had already taken the stairs to the third floor, and Sister Chen stopped at the door of a ward very close to the stairwell.

The door to the ward is all metal, with a small window on it, but it is closed at this time.

Sister Chen pressed her hand on a screen next to the door frame. After identifying the permissions with her palm print, the relevant operating functions appeared.

She chose 'Visit', and the scene in the ward appeared on the screen.

After receiving the signal, Bai Xiuchu walked forward and saw a ward that looked like a hotel-style apartment.

It looks clean and tidy inside, with very few personal belongings.

On the ground in front of the bed, there was a man in ancient costume sitting cross-legged, with his hands on his knees, palms facing up.

He has a resolute face, regular features, and long hair shawl.Although he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, his back was straight.

A very handsome middle-aged uncle - for 22-year-old Bai Xiuchu, 33-year-old Ji Tianqi is indeed an uncle.

When Bai Xiuchu was thinking this, he heard Sister Chen's voice.

"He thought he was meditating and practicing internal strength."

"Ah? If he does this, will his energy release superpowers become more powerful?"

"Yes, but it is a very normal growth level, similar to that of similar superpowers."

"Then is there a possibility that the internal strength he practiced is actually effective? I mean, it is only effective for him."

Sister Chen was not surprised to hear that Bai Xiuchu had doubts.

Because there are so many known types of superpowers in the world. There are nearly a million types of superpowers, which can be said to be all kinds of strange.

"Then do you know what the internal strength he practices is called?"

"what is it call?"

"Nine Yang Gong."

Bai Xiuchu was stunned for a moment.

Sister Chen asked with a smile: "Isn't it amazing that other worlds have martial arts like those in martial arts novels in our world?"

"This is also one of the basis for determining that he has mental illness."

"Yes, and it's more than that." Sister Chen asked again: "Do you know how he said he obtained the Nine Yang Gong?"

"How did you get it?"

"He fell off a cliff in another world. Even if he didn't fall to death, he also found the secret book of Nine Yang Gong in the belly of a cow's body."

"..." Bai Xiuchu was a little confused: "This is more like the plot of a novel."

"correct."

"This……"

Bai Xiuchu looked at Ji Tianqi's attractive appearance and sighed.

"The writing and theory of another world cannot be the same as ours."

"That's right. Not to mention that his story sounds too familiar, but if another world really exists, how could it be the same as our text? These are all the basis for judging him as mentally ill."

Sister Chen said with a smile.

"He can be said to be the safest patient here. As long as he is not sick, he is always practicing.

His reason is that the protagonist in the novel has such a good foundation. After obtaining the Nine Yang Gong, he still practiced it for five years in Kunlun Mountain before he mastered the Nine Yang Gong.

He has no foundation, and he started practicing at the age of 27. If he wants to master Jiuyang Gong, it will take him 50 to [-] years no matter what. "

Bai Xiuchu was stunned for a moment.

"You mean he knew his experience was the stuff of a novel?"

"Yes, he knows everything we know. He knows more about these martial arts novels than we do."

"Then he..."

"He believes that the different world he traveled to is the comprehensive world of the Infinite Stream online novel."

"???this……"

Bai Xiuchu suddenly laughed.

"Then the opportunity he grabbed was a bit too bad. It's the same as falling off a cliff, but Beiming Kung Fu is much better than Jiu Yang Kung Fu. At least that's how I feel. You don't have to practice hard on your own and can directly absorb other people's internal energy."

Sister Chen's eyes suddenly became strange. She looked at Bai Xiuchu and said, "He is indeed going to find Beiming Gong."

"what?"

"But we didn't let him go before."

"kindness???"

"I told you just now, he thinks he has physically traveled to another world, but in fact he is still in our world.

Therefore, if he wanted to go from Kunlun Mountain in another world to Wuliang Mountain, he would have to walk at least more than 1400 kilometers in our world. "

"At least?"

"Yes, the straight-line distance is more than 1400 kilometers. In ancient times, there were no highways. If you travel through mountains and rivers, you can only travel [-] kilometers."

Bai Xiuchu said thoughtfully: "You just said that you didn't let him go before?"

Sister Chen nodded and said, "Yes, it's a coincidence that you came here. Today we need to deliver a treadmill to him."

"Treadmill?"

"Yes, the medical team said they want to try letting him walk thousands of miles to see if he will think he has reached his destination and learn some Lingbo Steps and Beiming Gong."

"What's the point of doing this?"

"I have been undergoing treatment for seven years. I want to see if his disease is more serious and there is no cure. He can still recognize the reality and return to normal."

"I understand." Bai Xiuchu asked again: "Then how can we make him run on the treadmill but think that he is running in a different world?"

Sister Chen laughed.

"Look, you forgot again, he is mentally ill."

"kindness?"

"Don't worry about it, he will make up his own hallucinations about the other world."

"That is to say, he will go running on the treadmill by himself and then think that he is rushing in a different world?"

"Based on previous experience, this is the case."

Bai Xiuchu suddenly thought of a question: "What about his eating, drinking and diarrhea?"

Sister Chen did not answer, but nodded with a strange expression.

A picture appeared in Bai Xiuchu's mind, and he suddenly realized something disgusting.

It is indeed a mental illness.

(End of this chapter)