The shrike's voice came from behind Xie Zhi. The voice was calm and gentle, sounding gentle and humble.
"What? You don't even dare to turn around when you hear my voice?"
The voice enunciated the words clearly and the tone was steady, as if he was the calm protagonist of a drama, and he had everything in mind.
Xie Zhi swallowed and clenched his fists subconsciously, wanting to turn on the blue fire mode and summon the crazy scissors to come out and fight to the death.
But as soon as this idea appeared, it was strangled in the cradle by the people behind him.
A cold touch touched Xie Zhi's right wrist from his back.
Xie Zhi immediately realized that it was a scalpel.
"I have no malice, but if you show any malice, I will cut off your right hand as soon as possible."
Xie Zhi could only stop where he was, his palms were sweating, but there was nothing he could do.
"Shrike, what do you want to do?"
Xie Zhi considered his words.
"Me? I want to come and make friends with you."
Xie Zhi felt a hand reaching out from the left and right sides of his head, and grabbed the back of his head with two hands, one on the left and one on the right.
But at the same time, the cold feeling on his right hand did not disappear.
Xie Zhi lowered his eyes and looked down. The cold white scalpel was placed flat on his wrist, and the tail of the scalpel was gently held by a hand with white gloves.
Could it be that the shrike who was behind him now had three hands?
Xie Zhi was deeply shocked, and at the same time he felt some force on his neck.
The shrike's two hands were grabbing his head and pushing him back.
"But first, you have to turn around and see my face clearly."
Xie Zhi could only follow the movements of those two hands and turn his head.
What came into view were two translucent hands of nothingness.
Looking up from the empty hand, Xie Zhi saw the familiar blood-stained apron.
The translucent shadow of the butcher was suspended behind the visitor. Two big hands stretched out from the butcher's body and grabbed his head.
Xie Zhi saw the butcher's shadow smiling at him.
It's said to be a smile, but it's actually just the sides of the bird's beak rising slightly.
Yes, that's a bird-headed butcher with a shrike's mask on his head.
Xie Zhi remembered that the previous butchers did not have masks on their heads.
The bird's head mask should be worn on the head of the person who summoned the Butcher's shadow.
Xie Zhi's eyes shifted from the butcher's shadow. This time, he finally saw the shrike's true identity.
Gold-rimmed glasses were placed on the bridge of his nose, and a faint smile hung on his lips.
The visitor's cheeks were sharp and angular, and his face was thin.
Xie Zhi remembered what Qi Xi said to him in the good mood hotel room.
"The shrike is Sima Xi."
"It's really you."
Xie Zhi sighed. The person in front of him was wearing a black tuxedo. Although he was not wearing a mask, from the shadow of the butcher behind him, Xie Zhi could confirm that he was the shrike.
And his true identity is indeed what Qi Xi said.
"Sima Xi, a well-known physician from the Third Hospital."
"It's funny, that's just one of my identities."
Sima Xi bowed slightly, and then showed that vague smile,
"In addition to being a physician at the Third Hospital, I am also one of the well-known psychiatrists at the Emotional Center."
"Why didn't the mediators arrest you?"
Xie Zhi's eyes twitched a little. When he heard the news that Sima Xi was the Shrike at the Good Mood Hotel, Xie Zhi subconsciously thought that at this moment, the Shrike must have been arrested and thrown into prison.
But he didn't expect that it was just his imagination of the current situation of the Shrike. The real Sima Xi had been following his group secretly, waiting until he was alone before suddenly appearing.
"How do you know the mediator didn't arrest me?"
The smile on Sima Xi's lips became more obvious,
"They caught me. Not only that, I am indeed under guard at this moment."
"But what does it have to do with them arresting me and me coming to you now?"
"..."
Xie Zhi fell into a brief silence.
There is no connection between being caught and coming to me?
What kind of logical paradox is this?
Since you were arrested, you must be in jail now. How can you be in jail and on the 24th floor of the Emotional Confession Center at the same time?
But in this case, it is absolutely impossible for Xie Zhi to say it at this moment.
He could only continue to organize his words and ask new questions without offending Sima Xi.
"So, why did you come to me?"
"I'm here to make friends with you."
Sima Xi once again said the words "make friends" and then added to this sentence.
"If you think you're not qualified to be friends with me, you can just pretend that I'm here to be my student."
"Make a...student?"
Xie Zhi had a puzzled expression in his eyes.
But amid his doubts, he relaxed his vigilance somewhat, because he noticed that Sima Xi really didn't seem to be here to kill him.
He seemed, indeed, as he said, to have good intentions.
But Xie Zhi still couldn't believe that the member of the desperate organization who tried to drag the entire hospital into emotional pollution at the Third Hospital really had any good intentions.
Most likely, he just had a whim.
"Why should I believe you?"
Xie Zhi's doubtful eyes gradually became wary again.
"It's really troublesome. Do all time travelers doubt everything like you?"
"Seal yourself in the common sense and rules of the original world, and then suffer cognitive blows in the huge moon world again and again, until the whole person falls into the psychedelic despair of introspection."
"Psychedelic...desperate...?"
Xie Zhi chewed on this phrase. He knew both words separately, but when they were put together, he didn't know the meaning.
But Xie Zhi vaguely thought of his previous escape from death in front of the emotional counseling machine through this phrase.
Could it be that the white light that still vaguely left an impression on him after his memory was deleted was the "psychedelic despair" that Sima Xi said?
"Look, you're still thinking."
Sima Xi crossed his arms, showing quite helplessness.
"If you fall into a psychedelic state again this time, there will be no Mediator No. 5 to save you."
Xie Zhi was shocked when he heard this.
"how do you know……"
"Ah, this."
Sima Xi pointed to Xie Zhi's left chest, where was Xie Zhi's heart.
"Remember the memory illusion you saw in the hospital?"
"At the end of the illusion, the little girl's malice turned into butterflies flying in the sky."
"Ah, looking at this expression, you must have remembered it."
"That's my mental ability, the blinding butterfly."
"Thanks to these butterflies, I can see what your eyes see."
"Of course, don't expect me to tell you what happened the second Mediator No. 5 was eliminated. At that second, my memory was also erased."
"What do I want to do? This is the third time you have asked this question. If you continue to ask this question, within a week, you will definitely fall into psychedelic despair again. In the end, when the mediator of your system rushes to Before coming, it becomes the center of a collapsing emotional explosion.”
"I'm here to save you."
"Why should I save you?"
Speaking of this, Sima Xi suddenly sighed,
"You have too many whys."
He slowly took off the gold-rimmed glasses from the bridge of his nose, took out a silk handkerchief from the pocket of his tuxedo, and slowly wiped away the non-existent stains on the gold-rimmed glasses.
"Did anyone tell you that?"
"say what?"
Xie Zhi subconsciously asked the question again.
"Don't ask so many whys."
Sima Xi slowly put the gold-rimmed glasses back on the bridge of his nose.
"See with your eyes, listen with your ears, don't think."
The sound of breaking wind came from Xie Zhi's ears.
In the eyes, the shadow of the butcher behind Sima Xi slowly retracted his hands, but at the same time, a right hand from Sima Xi himself hit Xie Zhi's chest.
Xie Zhi felt light and airy all over.
At this moment, he flew out upside down.
At the same time, he saw another version of himself.
The self was looking at the slap that Sima Xi had slapped on him with dull eyes.
And when he flew out, his body was transparent.
It was as transparent as the butcher's shadow behind Sima Xi.
The surrounding scenery is constantly changing, from the corridor on the 24th floor of the Emotional Center to an endless darkness. The darkness is still getting farther and farther, and only a small dot of white light is left in the distance.
It's this space again.
Xie Zhi immediately realized that such a scene had also appeared in the Third Hospital.
Then the white light spot became bigger and bigger, and entered the old man's memory.
Is this... turns out to be Sima Xi's ability?
Mental ability, blinding butterfly.
What is mental ability...
Xie Zhi's thinking is getting slower and slower.
Just when his thinking was about to completely stop, the small white dot that kept getting smaller finally expanded rapidly again, as if Xie Zhi was thrown into the sky and fell quickly when he reached the highest point.
coming soon……
Xie Zhi looked at the white light that was constantly approaching him.
In the white light, there is... the water surface reflecting the moonlight.
"Boom!"
There was a loud bang.
Xie Zhi woke up instantly.
He was soaked.
Xie Zhi fell into the water.
At the same time, Sima Xi's voice came to Xie Zhi's ears.
The voice was distant and long, as if it were an ethereal voice drifting from tens of thousands of light years away.
After each syllable, there is a long sound for several seconds.
Moreover, as the number of syllables increases, the duration of long sounds also becomes longer and longer.
"This is a psychological fantasy I constructed specifically for you..."
"Find the truth...and you will find the exit..."
"Come on... prove yourself to me once again..."
"Prove that you have what it takes... to be..."
"World number one……"
Sima Xi's voice disappeared.
Xie Zhi, who kept falling in the water, finally sank to the bottom.
The broken moon pieced together and spread out before Xie Zhi's eyes.
That's water.
The water is only a nose away from him.
"drink--"
Xie Zhi stood up from the bottom of the water with a "squeak" sound.
Only then did he realize that the water surface was only up to his waist.
At the same time, a warm feeling comes from the part below the water surface, and the part of the body above the water surface feels cold when the breeze blows.
"At this time...an open-air hot spring..."
The huge moon hung high in the sky, and I was naked in the hot spring.
The early spring evening breeze blew through Xie Zhi's body.
The moisture on the surface of the skin evaporated on Xie Zhi's body, making him cold.
Xie Zhi subconsciously wrapped his arms around himself and got back into the hot spring.
But it didn't matter if he didn't hug him. Under this hug, Xie Zhi's mind exploded with a buzzing sound.
I...became...
a woman...
