amaotonovel Chapter 3393 Miraculous Doctor (37)
Chapter 3393 Miraculous Doctor (37)
Chapter 3393 Miraculous Doctor (Thirty-Seven)
Schiller thought of the woman he had seen in the hallucination from the boy's perspective. He walked in a dark tunnel, calling Henry's name. The flames spread to the ground and walls. He vaguely saw a dried corpse in the firelight. When he died, there were faint shadows of gears and pointers behind him, which looked like he was inside a clock tower.
Schiller was very clear that this might not be a real memory, it might be an illusion, or more likely a memory distorted by illusions and subjective impressions.
It was not surprising that Pride could see something from this. After all, he had not been a good doctor since he entered the hospital, and must have spent all his time studying the plot.
The content of the dream he saw was more complete than Schiller's, so he got more clues and could infer more things.
Although Schiller did not spend his energy on this aspect, after a little thought, he roughly understood the arrogant thinking.
The clock is a key image, which does not mean that the woman really died in the clock tower, but that the time of death is crucial. Something that indicates time leaves a deep impression on the owner of the memory.
Henry had a very special temperament, which made Schiller realize that he should not be fooled by his performance. He might have told the truth, but he concealed the most important part.
These people are born liars. When they lie, they don't feel guilty or ashamed at all. They are calm and composed when they conceal the truth. Their innate lack of moral sense gives them a great advantage in this regard.
"Let me think about it," Pride said. "You want her to die at a time you design, and this time is very important. When is it?"
Henry looked at Arrogant, and his expression slowly changed. He was no longer the innocent expression he had before, but became a little indifferent.
"You were not abused by your mother. In fact, she was the kind of mother that everyone thought was good. You couldn't slander her. You must have tried, but failed. So you could only use her love for you to kill her."
"You set the house on fire and pretended you were still inside. She was so worried about you that she went back to look for you and burned to death in the house. It should have been a perfect plan. But if that was the case, you wouldn't be a ghost now."
"You didn't see her being burned to death with your own eyes. The hallucination I saw was just your fantasy of your mother's death after doing this. But in this fantasy, there was something that shouldn't have appeared, that was the charred corpse."
"Out of an escapist mentality, you imagined that your mother was burned to death by an evil spirit. People often do this. When they do something they cannot accept or make an irreparable mistake, they imagine a thing that does not exist at all and blame the mistakes on it to alleviate their guilt."
"But you imagined an evil spirit not because you felt guilty about your mother's death, but because something went wrong, causing your plan to not only fail, but also kill yourself."
"You're trying to escape from the fact that you made a stupid decision that killed yourself, not the fact that your mother died."
"So what stupid decision did you make? Did you have an accident after your mother left you alone? No, if that were the case, you would have blamed the person who caused the accident, instead of inventing a ghost in your imagination and thinking that he was the source of the tragedy."
"When you put all the blame on the ghost, it means that you can't find anyone else to take responsibility, which means that this is entirely your own fault and has nothing to do with others. It is your stupidity that ruined everything."
"What kind of stupid idea did you come up with? Kill your mother and then go to an orphanage to be taken care of, or be adopted by someone. Is it possible that the person who adopted you abused you?"
"No, no one can abuse you. Because you are a born bad guy, you have plenty of ways to deal with those who treat you badly. It is because of your confidence that you dare to kill your mother who took care of and protected you."
"Then it seems that the problem lies with your mother. Your act of killing her has implicated you. Perhaps she has become an evil spirit?"
"That's not right. In your imagination, she didn't hate you at the last moment of her life, but was always worried about you. She didn't know who killed her. Even if she really turned into an evil spirit, she wouldn't kill you."
"We're back to square one." Pride looked at Henry and said, "Why did you kill him at a specific time? Is this some kind of sacrificial ritual?"
"I don't know what you are talking about. My mother died in an accident. I also died in an accident." Henry looked at Pride and said, "I'm just a kid. Why would I kill my mother?"
"You are indeed a child, but you are not an ordinary child. An ordinary child would not cover up important information with a partial truth. This makes you look too smart. Being too smart may lead to mistakes."
Arrogant sighed softly and said, "Your mother did die in an accident. The fact that she died by accident doesn't mean that the death itself was not premeditated. You did die in an accident, but that doesn't mean that the accident was not caused by you."
"You are telling the truth, and even a polygraph expert can't tell you a single lie. But this method can only fool stupid people. In other words, you can only fool people who are willing to believe you, such as your mother."
"When I mentioned the sacrificial ceremony just now, your mood changed a little. It seems that I guessed it right. You want to use your mother to complete a sacrificial ceremony. The ceremony has requirements for the method of death and the time, so flames and clocks appear in your memory."
"If there were any other options, you would not choose to sacrifice your mother, which proves that she must be very special. You discovered her specialness, and this specialness can bring you great benefits, even if no one will take care of you from now on."
"What else? Oh, your father. You said you came from a wealthy merchant family, right? Then can you tell me what this is?"
Schiller saw that Arrogant was holding a blue gem as big as a fingertip in his hand. The gem was inlaid with vine patterns around it. It was a very delicate and beautiful cufflink.
The reason why they are cufflinks is that the backs of ordinary gem buttons or brooches are flat-cut, that is, a flat surface is cut with a knife and then inlaid on a metal base.
However, cufflinks are buckled on the cuffs. Because they are convenient for hand movement, they cannot be too heavy. In order to reduce the weight of gemstones, concave cutting is usually adopted, that is, the convex surface of the gemstone is dug down to make an arc-shaped cover, and then it is inlaid on the base.
The cufflinks are made delicately enough, with only a very thin layer of gemstones and an even more delicate metal hollowing process, so they are almost weightless in the hand.
"It's a button," Henry answered. "A blue crystal button."
Before Arrogance could say anything, Schiller sighed and said, "Do your homework before you pretend to be rich next time, kid. This is a cufflink."
"Aren't they still buttons?" Henry said.
Schiller was too lazy to explain to him, so he also walked to the window and sat down. He took the cufflink from Arrogant's hand and fiddled with it, then said, "That's the problem. In your opinion, all buttons are buttons. But in the eyes of the rich, if buttons are not divided into ten or eight categories and hundreds of new processes are not adopted, how can people like you who want to pretend to be rich be kept out?"
"What did you say?!" Henry stared at Schiller coldly and said, "My father is a wealthy businessman in this town. I just didn't see it clearly just now! These are indeed blue topaz cufflinks..."
Arrogance did not argue with him, but just put his hands on the table and said: "People always like to imagine what they lack. Since you imagine your father to be a respectable and wealthy businessman, I am afraid that his status is not very high, and his job is not very respectable. Perhaps he is a manual laborer."
"Of course, he should have died a long time ago. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given you so much room for imagination. Or maybe you've never even seen him. Since you can remember, your mother is your only relative."
"Your financial situation is not that good either. This has never been the life you wanted. Your mother couldn't let you live the good life you wanted. So you think she owed you this. It was only natural to use her life in exchange for your ideal life, and you sacrificed her without hesitation."
"But unfortunately, you didn't succeed. Something went wrong. The sacrificial ritual failed. Not only did you fail to become a superior person, you couldn't even be a human being."
"You can't accept the failure of your perfect plan, nor can you accept that you, who are so smart and can often fool others, have become the miserable situation you are today. So you blame everything on the evil spirit."
"The image of the evil spirit that destroyed everything in your memory is not imagined out of thin air. You have seen such a charred corpse before, and even learned about the sacrificial ritual from him, which is why you wanted to try it."
"The ritual failed. You feel that you should not have listened to the evil spirit, otherwise it would not have killed your mother and yourself. You regard it as the source of all tragedies, and you also think that it killed you and your mother."
"This charred corpse looks familiar. It seems to be the little girl you mentioned who was murdered in the village many years ago."
Schiller remembered the charred corpse that suddenly appeared in the middle of the room. It seemed to be exactly the same as the evil spirit that appeared in front of the woman in the little boy's dream.
"Oh, I see." Schiller smiled and said, "You didn't listen to the evil spirit's lies, sacrificed your mother, and killed yourself. You came here unwillingly to cause trouble for the evil spirit, right?"
Looking at Henry's distorted expression, Schiller knew that he was right, mainly because of his arrogance. His speculation about Henry's life experience should be almost correct. The faces of people like this are always the same when they are broken.
Henry screamed, and a layer of blue mist spurted out of his mouth and flew towards Pride. But suddenly, a ray of fire appeared in front of Pride, and the mist dissipated in an instant.
"Manny!! Why are you stopping me again?! These two outsiders have made a mess of the hospital! I'm going to kill them!" Henry screamed.
Arrogance showed an obviously bored expression. Schiller knew that this was because Henry's psychological quality was too poor, and he fell down before Arrogance started to exert force.
Schiller, who knew Arrogance very well, knew that the speculations Arrogance was talking about were just appetizers, because he had not yet mentioned what exactly was going on with Dr. Foster, who appeared in the boy's dream as a villain.