“Let me out! Let me out!”

Oudick shouted loudly, banging on the iron door.

He used Red River language, which he was more accustomed to and more instinctive with.

“See, he used his performance to prove my point.” The doctor in the white coat and blue mask spread his hands. “You guys can communicate. If there’s a problem, come find me in the office.”

He didn’t give any further instructions because he felt that he hadn’t given the keys to these people, and even if they didn’t want to communicate through the iron door, they wouldn’t be able to.

Laurice raised her hand and wiped her eyes, saying to Jiang Baimian and the others:

“You can question Oudick now. If you need me to leave, please let me know.”

Jiang Baimian hummed.

“Then please leave for now. Don’t worry, we’ll be done soon.”

After Laurice, wearing dark trousers and a skirt, turned into the stairwell and disappeared from the eyes of the "Old Task Force" members, Jiang Baimian turned her head to look at Shang Jianyao and sighed:

“Go, try to communicate.”

Shang Jianyao walked towards the room where Oudick was locked with a serious expression.

The iron door of the room was blue-green. There was a small hole at the height of a person, and the hole was welded with metal strips to provide isolation.

Through that hole, Oudick saw Shang Jianyao approaching. He became excited, stretched out his hands, grabbed the metal strips, and shook them vigorously:

“Let me out! Let me out!”

His face, which couldn't be called handsome but was upright enough, turned red and was quite distorted, as if he wanted to devour someone.

Shang Jianyao glanced at his incredibly fragile but not obviously shown nose, and asked seriously:

“Do you remember us?”

“Let me out! Let me out!” Oudick frantically beat on the iron door, making a bang, bang, bang sound.

“Oh, I’m sorry.” Shang Jianyao suddenly woke up and apologized politely, “We disguised ourselves. It’s normal that you can’t recognize us. Do you remember Xue Shi Yue and Zhang Qubing?”

Oudick glanced at him fiercely, his expression becoming a little dazed.

He shouted excitedly:

“One person on the left, one person on the right, with a small photo frame in the middle!

“Your one eye is big, and one eye is small. You’re not a good person. I’ll help you dig them out!”

Jiang Baimian sighed silently upon hearing this.

Judging from the previous communication, Oudick was truly crazy.

If he was pretending, Jiang Baimian could only praise him for his flawless acting skills.

Shang Jianyao sighed and then said:

“Look:

“We fought against the fake ‘Father’ together;

“We controlled the nobles of Wild Grass City together;

“So…”

At the "Mind Corridor" level, Shang Jianyao’s "Reasoning Clown" format didn’t actually need to be so rigorous anymore, but he was a person with a sense of ritual, if he remembered it.

Oudick suddenly became quiet.

He put his face in front of the hole in the door, allowing the metal bars to squeeze marks on his skin.

He smiled, lowered his voice, and said carefully:

“Let me out, let me out.”

As he spoke, he became excited again, and his voice rose again:

“If you’re a friend, let me out!”

Bang, bang, bang, he frantically beat the iron door.

Shang Jianyao listened and watched quietly, and after he calmed down, he asked:

“What did you discover in that nightmare?”

Oudick’s twisted expression relaxed, revealing a bit of confusion and a bit of dullness.

“One person on the left, one person on the right, with a small photo frame in the middle.

“Your one eye is big, and one eye is small. You’re not a good person. I’ll help you dig them out.”

He widened his slightly hollow blue eyes and repeated the previous words in a dreamy way.

Shang Jianyao stared at him, suddenly opened his arms, raised his head slightly, and closed his eyes:

“Everywhere is a dream, why be serious?”

He then turned his body and looked at Jiang Baimian:

“He can understand my words to a certain extent and can be influenced by abilities similar to ‘Reasoning Clown,’ but he cannot engage in effective communication.”

Shang Jianyao was sure that the "Reasoning Clown" had just produced an effect.

As for how effective it was, he couldn’t judge from the current feedback.

Jiang Baimian looked around and confirmed that there was no one else in the corridor, and there were no patients living in the nearby rooms. Only farther away could be heard self-talk, intermittent singing, and loud laughter and crying.

Looking at Oudick behind the iron door, Jiang Baimian thought and said:

“The two sentences he keeps repeating are the information he gleaned from his ability in the ‘nightmare’?

“One person on the left, one person on the right, with a photo frame in the middle… One eye is big, one eye is small, not a good person, wants to aggressively dig them out…

“The former is symmetrical, and the latter is asymmetrical… Is this obsessive-compulsive disorder?

“But that’s not Oudick’s price…

“Also, he’s so excited and desperately wants to get out. Why doesn’t he use his ability?”

Long Yuehong was a little confused and couldn’t help but ask:

“Team Leader, there doesn’t seem to be any necessary connection between your first sentence and the last three sentences.”

Could it be that the information Oudick gleaned was obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Jiang Baimian smiled wryly:

“The first sentence is guessing the meaning of those two paragraphs, and the latter is analyzing the information they may be hiding.”

Bai Chen thought for a while and said:

“Maybe Oudick is just simply describing the scene he saw in that nightmare before he went crazy:

“One person on the left, one person on the right, with a photo frame in the middle, and one of them has one big eye and one small eye.

“‘Doesn’t seem like a good person’ and ‘Help dig them out,’ I think Oudick added them himself after he went crazy. They are interference information and need to be excluded.”

“That makes sense.” Jiang Baimian agreed.

Then, she shook her head with a smile:

“After Oudick went crazy, he also developed obsessive-compulsive disorder?

“When we contacted him before, he shouldn’t have had this problem.”

Jiang Baimian’s smile was obviously bitter.

“The most important thing is the question you just mentioned. An Awakened who has gone mad cannot be imprisoned so easily.” Shang Jianyao rubbed his chin. “Could it be that he subconsciously doesn’t want to hurt innocent people?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Oudick, who had been muttering "one person on the left, one person on the right," became furious again, shaking the metal bars at the hole and shouting loudly:

“Let me out! Let me out!”

After this "High-Ranking Hunter" calmed down a little, Jiang Baimian sighed and said:

“Unfortunately, the ‘Destiny Bead’ has already been used up.

“And I didn’t choose the abilities of the ‘Doomsday Survivor’ domain.”

Otherwise, she could directly look through Oudick’s memories now and look for clues.

After a short silence, Long Yuehong asked:

“What do we do now?”

“Oudick has ‘Dawnstar’ behind him, and they will definitely investigate.” Jiang Baimian regained her composure. “Even if we want to intervene and do something to avenge him and prevent more people from dying or going crazy, it’s best to cooperate with the ‘True Self Sect.’”

They had a basis for cooperation with the "True Self Sect," while they had hardly dealt with "Dawnstar"—their cooperation with Oudick stemmed from the Hunter’s Guild.

Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Genuva agreed with the team leader's suggestion.

Shang Jianyao glanced at the doctor’s office near the stairwell:

“I want to ask if Oudick can be cured.”

“Yes.” Jiang Baimian didn’t object.

Shang Jianyao had always been a man of action. He directly knocked on the doctor’s office and found the person from before.

He had already taken off his mask, revealing a slightly slender face.

After listening to Shang Jianyao’s question, the doctor said with a serious expression:

“Your friend’s condition is quite serious.

“If he was just emotionally excited, irritable, and violent, a little unable to control himself, that would be simple. It could be controlled with medication, but it’s obvious that he has already regarded fantasy as reality, living in his own world, constantly repeating some words that we can’t understand, and unable to engage in effective communication.

“The extent to which he can be cured needs long-term observation and constant adjustments to the plan.”

Doesn’t that mean it’s very difficult to cure? Long Yuehong muttered in his heart.

And on the Greylands, people who can’t be cured within a certain period of time will definitely be abandoned unless they have a really thick family fortune, so as not to waste resources.

Shang Jianyao didn’t say much and nodded calmly:

“I understand.”

The group of five left the doctor’s office and walked towards the stairwell.

Jiang Baimian saw Laurice, Oudick’s wife, squatting in the shadows at the corner, burying her face in her arms resting on her knees.

Noticing the movement, Laurice stood up abruptly.

Perhaps because the movement was too fast, she swayed and almost didn’t stand still.

“Is it done? What did you gain?” she asked eagerly, her eyes red.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

“The words he repeats may be clues, but further investigation and confirmation are needed.”

At this moment, Shang Jianyao suddenly stepped forward and said:

“I can alleviate Oudick’s condition. Do you want to try?”

Ah? Jiang Baimian glanced at Shang Jianyao in surprise and found that his expression was serious and his eyes were stern.

“Really?” Laurice became excited.

Shang Jianyao nodded sincerely:

“I have sufficient experience in treating mental illnesses and unique methods.

“However, this cannot cure Oudick’s problem. He will still show abnormalities from time to time and needs long-term observation and treatment, but most of the time, he will still be your original husband.”

If Shang Jianyao promised to cure him completely, Laurice would not dare to believe it, but after hearing him say that it would only alleviate the condition, Laurice couldn’t help but ignite hope:

“I have no problem. I can give it a try.”

Anyway, it couldn’t be worse.

Shang Jianyao raised the corners of his mouth, revealing an unspeakable smile:

“My treatment plan is quite special. I need you to tell me in detail what kind of person Oudick is.

“The more details you tell me, the greater the hope of alleviating the condition.”

Hearing this, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong were still at a loss, but Jiang Baimian had a certain guess and showed undisguised sorrow in her eyes.

Laurice didn’t notice her expression. Looking at Shang Jianyao, she said excitedly:

“Do you want to gradually awaken him through the details of Oudick’s daily life?

“Okay, I’ll tell you!”

She then looked around and said with an apologetic smile:

“This may be a lot. We, we should find a place where we can sit down and chat.”

ps: Asking for guaranteed monthly tickets at the beginning of the month~