64 : Identify disorder

 "Dr. Zhao, there's a fluctuation!"

Upon hearing this in the research lab, Zhao Qing immediately put down the equipment in his hands and followed the researchers who had entered, turning into the adjacent ward.

Apart from the beeping sounds of various instruments, there was no other sound in the ward, all focused on the boy on the bed.

"The instruments are beeping, but he hasn't woken up yet." The person next to him was worried. "Doctor, will something go wrong?"

"No."

Zhao Qing walked to the bedside, looking at the boy lying there. Although his face was mostly obscured by various instruments, it was still clear from the exposed skin that the boy was handsome.

"The bug has been fixed, and he's back. The only remaining issue is the time gate." After saying this, Zhao Qing instructed the person next to him, "You're in charge of that."

"I'll wait here for him to wake up."

*

Head spinning.

When he woke up, all he saw was a white ceiling.

After a moment of stunned silence, he tried to get up and found that his limbs and head were covered with numerous electrode pads.

"You're awake."

A voice came from inside the room. Yin Luo looked towards the source and saw a scholar with gray hair and black-rimmed glasses. He was wearing a white lab coat and looked concerned. "How are you feeling?"

Yin Luo opened his mouth. "...A little thirsty."

The other man immediately poured a glass of water. After Yin Luo finished drinking it, he slowly said, "We encountered a bug this time, but we've fixed it. Don't worry about it causing any problems."

"Luckily, you're alright. In short, the responsibility lies with us. As for Duan Muze, we'll find a way to stabilize his condition as soon as possible."

Hearing this name, Yin Luo was stunned. He looked at the other man incredulously. "You...you know Duan Muze too?"

"Of course, he's my best student, but—" Sensing that something was wrong with Yin Luo, Zhao Qing didn't continue. He tentatively asked, "Do you remember who you are?"

"Yin Luo."

"Then do you know me?"

"..." He shook his head.

Zhao Qing frowned.

He considered that perhaps the electrodes were temporarily affecting Yin Luo's memory. After a moment's thought, he told him, "My name is Zhao Qing. I contacted you a month ago because of Duan Muze."

"Duan Muze is my student. He suddenly fell into a coma a month ago. Later, it was discovered that

he suffers from severe schizophrenia."

Yin Luo was stunned: "Schizophrenia?"

"That's right." Zhao Qing continued, "He usually seems very normal, so when he first fell into a coma, we thought it was just common overwork. We were all very surprised after the diagnosis."

"At first, we thought that he could just go to the hospital for psychological treatment, but later his condition worsened, and the differentiation of his personalities became more and more obvious."

Several personalities? Yin Luo paused for a moment: "...Are there three personalities?"

Zhao Qing looked at him and nodded: "Yes."

Yin Luo understood.

It seemed that besides Duan Muze himself, the other two personalities were Shang Chengnin and Lu Ran.

No wonder he always smelled a similar scent on the three of them.

“These personalities all have typical self-awareness and want to be the master of this body. So, later on, Duan Muze lost consciousness and fell into a complete coma.” Zhao Qing pressed his temples; he did look like he hadn’t rested for a while. “Later, we found the cause.”

“It’s you, Yin Luo.”

Yin Luo’s eyes widened: “Is it… me?”

“We’re not entirely sure what happened, but we tried to find many people to enter his mental world to investigate, but he resisted.”

“Only you completely entered his mental world.”

Zhao Qing looked at Yin Luo’s somewhat bewildered expression and sighed: “It might be the resonance affecting your memory. You should rest first.”

After saying that, he left the room, leaving the boy to rest alone.

Yin Luo was stunned for a long time before tentatively calling out in his mind: [All?]

No one responded.

Feeling empty inside, Yin Luo lay down. Beside the bed were electrodes with tangled wires; these things had been attached to his skin and head.

Whether it was because of the quiet or physical exhaustion, he soon fell asleep again.

*

This time he slept very soundly.

When Yin Luo woke up again, his mind was incredibly clear, and all his memories had returned.

Indeed, as Dr. Zhao Qing had said, he hadn't transmigrated into a book, but rather entered Duan Muze's mental world.

A month ago, Dr. Zhao had approached him and told him about Duan Muze.

Yin Luo was surprised to hear this. He had only recently met Duan Muze at his high school's anniversary celebration

. At that time, Duan Muze, as a successful businessman, had attracted much attention for donating a building to the school. Yin Luo was only a freshman then and thought he had simply met a successful senior, unaware that Duan Muze also knew him.

Yin Luo had a good impression of Duan Muze, so when he heard that the senior was in a deep coma and might not wake up at any time, he readily agreed to help with the treatment.

Modern medicine is advanced, and Dr. Zhao Qing said he would use brain resonance to allow him to enter Duan Muze's mental world, like a holographic game.

The main task in entering Duan Muze's mental world was to find the causes of the other two alternate personalities, cure them at their root, and make them disappear automatically, thus curing Duan Muze's schizophrenia.

But how could he think he was transmigrating into a book? And he had absolutely no recollection of the name Duan Muze.

Yin Luo got up and went to find Zhao Qing in the next room. Seeing that he remembered everything, Zhao Qing said, "There was a bug in the program during the resonance. The transmigration system overwrote the original mission and erased your memories of Duan Muze."

"But later I checked, and apart from the mission being different, the world structure and the three personalities are still the same."

Yin Luo pursed his lips.

So, even without the bug, those three people would still do those things to him.

They're still... perverts.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Qing noticed that the boy's ears had suddenly turned pink. "Are you feeling unwell?"

Yin Luo shook his head.

He couldn't bring himself to talk about what those people had done to him.

Zhao Qing asked a few questions, and after seeing that he was alright, he talked about the bug in the transmigration system. Yin Luo listened carefully for a few minutes, but didn't quite understand. Then, as if he had thought of something, he asked nervously, "Then what happened to me in Duan Muze's mental world, will... will people outside see it?"

Zhao Qing pondered, "Unless you hypnotize me, we won't be able to see it."

“However, since you’re also in his mental world, we won’t hypnotize you to avoid causing any problems.”

Yin Luo breathed a sigh of relief: “So, how is Duan Muze now?”

Zhao Qing: “He’s still unconscious and doesn’t seem to be waking up yet.”

That’s true, even with the bug so badly, he couldn’t even remember Duan Muze, let alone find the cause of Duan Muze’s illness. Yin Luo rested in the ward for a few hours, underwent a comprehensive examination, and was then sent home by Dr. Zhao Qing.

“Thank you for

helping us. If Duan Muze wakes up later, we will notify you first.”

Yin Luo left the hospital, stood at the door, and opened his phone.

He discovered that only four days had passed since he started helping with Duan Muze’s treatment.

One day in reality is a year in the mental world.

Yin Luo suddenly felt a sense of unreality. This time, he hadn’t helped at all; instead, he had injured several personalities in his mental world.

He wondered if those points would be of any use.

The sun was scorching outside, so Yin Luo didn’t linger and hailed a taxi to leave.

*

Yin Luo’s home was in a villa area some distance from the city center.

The housekeeper was trimming the flowers in the yard. Seeing him return, she was surprised and happy: "Weren't you going on a week-long trip? Why are you back so soon?"

Yin Luo hadn't told anyone about helping Duan Muze with his treatment. His mother had been busy developing her career abroad for the past few years and couldn't take care of him much.

Besides his mother, he had no other relatives.

So he only told the housekeeper he was going on a trip for a while. It was normal for college students to go on vacation, so the housekeeper naturally didn't suspect anything.

"I felt a little tired, so I came back." Yin Luo paused. His yard was mostly planted with roses, which required careful cultivation.

The young man did look tired, so the housekeeper didn't ask any further questions and instead helped him cook some porridge.

After eating, Yin Luo took a shower before returning to his room.

Perhaps something was on his mind, he lay there for a long time without falling asleep, then picked up his phone and searched for Duan Muze's information.

Duan Muze's information was easy to find—he had worked in the entertainment industry, and his life story could be easily found with a simple Baidu search.

Yin Luo flipped through the files and found that the experiences of Duan Muze in the real world and Duan Muze in the spiritual world were almost identical—first in the entertainment industry, then winning the Best Actor award before returning to inherit the family business.

As for whether he was an illegitimate child, the information didn't show it,

but it was highly likely .

So, as Dr. Zhao said, even with the bug, most of Duan Muze's background in the spiritual world remained consistent with reality.

As for himself… Yin Luo's character in Duan Muze's spiritual world was a carefree young master, with caring parents and a brother, a privileged family background, and a prestigious university education.

Almost everything went smoothly for him.

But he wasn't.

Yin Luo's growth wasn't smooth sailing.

In high school, that was true; he had good grades and was good-looking, so his classmates and teachers liked him.

But after entering high school, when his gender characteristics became more pronounced, some people started saying he looked like a girl, and some even stopped him in the bathroom wanting to pull down his pants to check.

More and more people said this, and coupled with Yin Luo's sensitive constitution, his relationships with the group became distant.

Later, his father passed away, and his mother took over the company. Yinluo transferred schools as well.

Because of her busy work schedule, his mother didn't have much time to spend with him, but Yinluo didn't blame him, nor did he become gloomy. Apart from being a little more temperamental, he grew up in a positive direction.

Therefore, in Duan Muze's imagination, Yinluo was the kind of young master who should be pampered and grown up.

Yinluo put down his phone and looked around at his bedroom door.

It was completely different from the bedroom door in his spiritual world.

But the exterior of the villa, the garden, and the living room were very similar.

It was as if... Duan Muze had been to his house but hadn't entered his bedroom. Thinking about this, Yinluo became even more curious about Duan Muze.

He got up and rummaged through the drawer for photos and yearbooks from high school, but he and Duan Muze weren't in the same grade, so Duan Muze wasn't in the graduation photos.

He opened the yearbook, thinking that maybe there was one.

However, when he opened the first page, he found that the self-introduction he had filled out on the first page of the yearbook had been torn out.

Yinluo stared at it for a while.

Could it be… Duan Muze who tore it up?

Recalling her entire high school years, Yin Luo had absolutely no recollection of Duan Muze, not even having heard of his name. Logically, someone as outstanding as Duan Muze should have been a prominent figure in high school.

She should have heard some rumors about him.

Dr. Zhao Qing's words echoed in her ears again—"We asked many people for help, including his relatives and friends, but he only allows you into his mental world."

Even if Yin Luo was slow-witted, she understood the reason.

Duan Muze not only knew her long ago, but also had feelings for her.

In other words, Duan Muze might have had a crush on her for a long time.

Yin Luo's ears began to burn.

No wonder, no wonder he tried so hard to play the villain, yet Duan Muze, Shang Chengnin, and Lu Ran still confessed to her.

But now Duan Muze was a business tycoon,

possessing , so why did he still have a mental illness? What caused the other two personalities to emerge?

At this moment, Yin Luo desperately hoped for Duan Muze's recovery.

*

It was three days later when Yin Luo received Zhao Qing's call.

Dr. Zhao's tone was very serious on the phone, and Yin Luo guessed the situation was bad, so he immediately took a taxi to the hospital.

He was restless the whole way.

Upon entering the hospital, Dr. Zhao Qing was waiting in the lobby on the first floor, seemingly waiting for him. Yin Luo approached, and upon seeing him, the doctor led him directly to a room on the third floor.

Inside the room was a computer with a large screen.

"We've waited for several days, but he still shows no signs of waking up, and his body is getting weaker and weaker." In just a few days, Zhao Qing's hair seemed to have turned quite white, clearly showing his concern. "We tried hypnosis and found that neither of his personalities had the will to live."

Yin Luo paused, his voice urgent: "How are they now? Can we see them?"

Zhao Qing clicked the mouse, and images immediately appeared on the screen—a visualization of Duan Muze's mental world after being hypnotized.

Yin Luo glanced at the screen.

There were three small images.

"The person in the upper right corner is his third personality, as you know, named Lu Ran. After you left, he continued to stay in the entertainment industry, taking on countless gigs every day, becoming a work machine."

Yin Luo glanced at the small screen showing Lu Ran. Lu Ran was shooting for a magazine, a makeup artist touching up his makeup. He was expressionless, letting the artist manipulate him like a robot.

But Lu Ran had once been the most vibrant and sunny one.

Yin Luo's eyelids twitched.

"On the left is his first personality, Shang Chengnin. He relinquished his position as heir and has been staying in his room in the villa for years, never leaving."

The scene was dark; the curtains were drawn, making the room feel particularly oppressive. Shang Chengnin sat in a chair, eyes lowered, his face expressionless.

He looked like a pale, gloomy vampire from the Middle Ages.

"Finally, there's Duan Muze's main personality. His company shares are temporarily managed by others, and he gave up everything he had worked for and returned to the house from his childhood."

A large patch of vibrant roses appeared in the screen. Beside him, Duan Muze, dressed loosely, squatted, weeding the roses.

Occasionally, he would look up, as if waiting for

someone.

Yin Luo's heart clenched tightly.

Duan Muze remembered what he had said—"If the yard were full of flowers, I would like it."

Yin Luo's eyes slowly reddened: "...How could this happen?"

Zhao Qing: "Right now, the three of them don't seem to be trying to take over the body. If we delay a few more days, Duan Muze might..."

Yin Luo's lips turned pale: "What will happen to him..."

"The chances of him becoming a vegetable are very high." Zhao Qing took off his glasses and said wearily, "Or, he might become brain dead."

Yin Luo's breath caught in her throat for a moment.

Seeing that Yin Luo was about to cry, Zhao Qing immediately comforted her softly: "The hypnotist and I will continue to try to find a way. Right now, the main thing is to make the other two personalities disappear and let the main personality return to the body."

"However, he is very resistant to other people, so it will take some time, or we need to find other treatment methods."

Dr. Zhao's words were very tactful, but Yin Luo understood.

The best way now is for him to re-enter Duan Muze's mental world and find the cause of the personality split.

He has been here for three days, but Duan Muze has been trapped in his mental world for three years.

Three years after he left.

They have completely changed.

Yin Luo thought they would be angry, forget, or turn evil.

But it was completely different.

They became dejected, gloomy, and inhuman.

Perhaps the points he gave them could heal their physical wounds, but the emotional trauma was incurable.

They must have felt abandoned. Perhaps they

were even treated as outcasts by those around them because of the missing memories, because they had forgotten someone.

Yin Luo felt so sad he wanted to cry; he could feel their helplessness over the years since he left through the images.

After a moment,

the boy sniffed and rallied his spirits.

"I'll go." "I'll find the reason and wake him up!"

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