Yan Xiaoyu was stunned by the question of what he wanted to change.
He looked at his slender and fair hands, which seemed to be born to play the piano, and then at his unconscious legs that were now resting on the wheelchair.
"Yeah, I'm thinking about changing something again..."
Su Xing did not continue to ask, but opened the notebook on the side and wrote in pencil "Visions of the future (déjà vu?)"
Then he wrote "I saw something strange" below and put a big question mark at the back.
My initial conclusion is that the other person's vision of the future is related to his paralyzed legs. He lost these legs for some reason, so he imagined this story in a paranoid state in order to try to avoid the tragedy.
But how to explain the strange thing? Is it really visible, or is it for some other reason.
"Mr. Yan, I would like to ask, what are your legs...?"
Su Xing spoke again, and Yan Xiaoyu only spoke calmly after losing consciousness for a while.
"Car accident."
"Car accident?"
"Well, I was in a hurry to get home that day, so I drove very fast, so fast that I didn't notice a truck that hit me sideways."
As he spoke, the corners of his mouth curved up again with difficulty, and his tone became much more relaxed after repeated calming down.
"Fortunately, in such a violent collision, only my legs were lost, and the other party was not seriously injured. And I made such a serious mistake, at least God only took away one of my legs. It seems cruel, but at least I left one. Isn’t it life?”
He seemed optimistic. On the surface, he didn't seem to be paranoid about losing his legs.
Su Xing did not go through the other party's detailed information and cases for the time being. First, as a psychiatrist, burying himself in reading the information in front of the patient would make the other party feel distrustful. Second, because this was only the first conversation, and he The problem is different from Lin Lu. That guy Lin Lu is really weird. There is nothing wrong with his mind.
During the first conversation, Su Xing wanted to find out about the other party in his own way, and then compare it with the information.
But if you read the information first, the subsequent conversation will easily be bound by inherent impressions and fall into certain thinking traps.
If it's not paralysis, then what's the reason?
"Mr. Yan should be married, right? But why did you take off your wedding ring? Is it because your wife, um... left you?"
Su Xing thought for a moment before deciding to use the word leave.
He still retains this habit, indicating that the ring was just taken off.
When he mentioned his wife, the man's eyes dimmed again, as if he remembered something sad. His ten fingers were tightly intertwined until the joints turned white and the fingers became congested and turned purple.
"What's wrong with her?" Su Xing said again. He felt that he had found the key to the problem.
"died."
After Yan Xiaoyu took a deep breath to adjust herself, her lips moved and she finally said these two words.
"Can you tell me how she died? Was it...a car accident?"
The death of the other party's wife made Su Xing naturally think of the car accident mentioned before. Is it possible that he wanted to change something because he blamed himself for his wife's death because of his driving?
Faced with further questioning, the man just shook his head, wiped his face and spoke truthfully without hiding anything.
"It was not a car accident. It was a fire. She was burned to death. The fire not only swallowed her up, but also took away our children. Our son was five years old and our daughter was just born...
I had clearly seen it a long time ago, and I was clearly aware that the fire would break out, but I didn't care at all. I thought it was just an illusion. I had a premonition of it. "
It turns out that this is the crux of the problem.
"You realize you can see into the future, whether it's before the fire or after."
"Of course it will be later, otherwise how could I believe that what I see is the future, what is about to happen that cannot be changed."
Deja vu effect.
At this moment, Su Xing was about 70% sure that the other party's so-called foreseeing the future was just a typical sight effect.
He actually didn't foresee anything, it was just that after the incident, his brain rearranged the memories in a seemingly reasonable way, causing him to think that this incident had happened before.
As for the remaining 30%, the reason why I am not 100% sure is because it is impossible for other psychiatrists to see such a simple thing. If it was so smooth, then he would not be sitting in front of me now.
"I know."
Just as Su Xing was about to speak, Yan Xiaoyu took the lead and continued.
"I know that you psychiatrists can use many scientific methods to explain things that are difficult for us ordinary people to understand. Dr. Su, you want to say the sense of déjà vu, right? Or it is called the déjà vu effect. I don't quite understand what you mean. It’s not exactly what it’s called, but I guess that’s what you want to say, right?”
Staring at those eyes, Su Xing had a strange feeling, as if this guy was more awake than anyone else, and he was the patient.
Seeing that what he was going to say had already been guessed by the other party, he didn't deny it and nodded to show that he really thought so.
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After saying that, Su Xing crossed his fingers and sat upright again.
"Of course, I'm not saying that as a psychiatrist, everything I say is necessarily correct, thereby denying everything you say. I am even more willing to believe that what you say is true. After all, this ability is considered super. Are you capable? But I hope you can have other cases to convince me. For example, can you guess what I will eat tonight? Or if I write a random number, can you tell it before you see it? "
Yan Xiaoyu pushed the wheelchair and moved closer.
"I can only see things about me. As for Dr. Su's future, you are the only one who can see it. In fact, each of us can see it, but most people have forgotten it."
This sentence means that there is no way to prove it by yourself, right?
Su Xing could probably guess it, so he stopped dwelling on this topic, because there would be no results if he continued to ask.
So after thinking about it for a while, I was ready to change the direction.
"Okay, let's go back to the beginning. You said you could see strange things. I want to know when did you start seeing them?"
Faced with the question, Yan Xiaoyu answered without thinking.
"It was after the car accident. I think it was because I walked away from the gate of hell and was considered half dead, so I could see them."
He even came up with a seemingly reasonable reason for his answer.
"Your wife and children are also dead. After you discovered that you could see things, I want to know if you ever saw them? Even once."
Car accidents, fires, seeing strange things, predicting the future.
These things must be related to each other. It is certain that he can foresee the future after the fire burned his wife and children to death, and he can see strange things after the car accident. So what is the connection between the car accident and the fire? Which one happened first?
Yan Xiaoyu suddenly fell silent, his eyes lowered and staring blankly at the patterns on the carpet.
He didn't answer, but Su Xing probably guessed it.
The answer is no, he has never seen it from beginning to end. Perhaps his so-called seeing strange things was just wishful thinking that he could see it. He hoped that his ability could see his deceased wife and children.
Looking at it this way, the explanation does make sense, but... is it really that simple?
