"I, I want to know how your brother is doing, especially his, the whole process of his illness!"
Li Yao was overjoyed and suppressed his excitement and said, "Miss, what's your surname?"
"My surname is Dong."
The person opposite seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Where should I start...
Our family is on the edge of a big mountain in the central region.
Although the family has been relatively poor since childhood, my brother showed his talent for studying at a very young age.
He is not only the pride of our family, but also the pride of our town.
He was admitted to a well-known key university with the highest score in the city.
"After graduating from college, my brother found a very good job in the provincial capital.
He was highly regarded by the leaders.
In just a few years, he became the head of the department.
He also bought a house in the provincial capital, found a girlfriend, and watched He is about to get married - what I mean by this is that my brother is on the rise of his career, and his future and love are both perfect, and there are no factors that will irritate him.
"And he has been very cheerful since he was a child.
He likes reading and sports.
He doesn't have any bad habits.
He doesn't eat, drink, go whoring, gamble or smoke.
He doesn't even smoke or drink.
In our town, he is simply a freak.
"As for our family, although we are poor, there is nothing that hinders him.
Our two brothers and sisters may have been in a poor environment when they were young, and we were relatively poor when we were studying.
But since he went to college, he has received scholarships to support himself.
My parents After two years of renting the orchard, the conditions gradually improved.
I graduated from college the year before last and found a stable job.
In short, you know, our family's life is getting better day by day, and there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
“But my brother was just crazy, and that was last year.
"In the beginning, he often called me to complain, saying that someone was following him and someone installed bugs in his office.
At that time, I thought it was a business dispute or internal strife in the office.
I had just graduated.
What can he do as a college student?
He can only ask his colleagues in his company to take care of him, but several of his close colleagues in his company say that he is the most valued middle-level cadre by the company leaders.
Who will follow him when he is proud of himself?
And bugging him?
"After a month or two of this, my brother's condition became more and more serious, and he gradually developed hallucinations and auditory hallucinations.
He called me and said that he had found the person who was following him, and it turned out to be his shadow!
He said that there were some A very mysterious power can control his shadow, and even interfere with and harm him through the shadow!
"It was only then that I realized something was wrong with my brother.
I looked through my brother's social media and his messages on the Internet, and saw those... weird articles like 'Dream Traveler'.
After contacting my brother's colleagues, there were One of my brother's best friends said that my brother has been making a hat out of kitchen tinfoil every day and covering his entire head, saying that this can isolate his brain waves from being emitted and prevent some evil beings from locking his coordinates.
"I have to say that the leader of my brother's company who valued him very much was really kind to him.
Even though something like this happened, he still didn't fire him.
But once, at a meeting to receive a certain heavyweight partner, my brother actually said He pointed at the tip of the other boss's nose and screamed, saying that he saw that the other party was a vicious murderer in his previous life, and thus messed up a big cooperation plan.
"When something like this happens, it's natural that I can't stay in the company any longer.
I should have sent my brother to a major hospital in the provincial capital for treatment.
However, in our small place, someone in the family has a mental illness.
It's really not nice to talk about it, and my parents I still have a little fantasy, thinking that my brother is under too much pressure from work and maybe he can just go home and rest for a while.
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“So, we took my brother back to our hometown from the provincial capital and let him rest at home.
"At the beginning, my brother's symptoms were indeed relieved a lot.
He no longer had those messy strange dreams, and he would no longer point at people's noses and talk about their previous lives when they saw them on the street.
We were very happy, and we thought that my brother was going to restored.
"As a result, one day my brother seemed to have seen some news on the Internet about the accidental death of a novelist or a playwright.
He fell ill again.
He put the stainless steel pot used for cooking at home on his head and kept mumbling about someone.
He couldn't understand the words, so his ten fingers twisted into a ball and made some weird gestures.
“Now, it’s impossible not to send him to the hospital.
"You said that my brother is not crazy.
Please believe that we relatives hope that he is not crazy.
But he is like this, wrapping his head in tin foil and holding a stainless steel pot on his head.
He talks about his past life to everyone he meets and is afraid of his own shadow.
This What is it if it’s not crazy?”
Li Yao turned on the speakerphone and listened to each other's conversation with Zhang Daniu.
The two looked at each other for a long time, thought for a while, and then said carefully: "Miss Dong, thank you for your candor, but many things cannot be taken at face value.
What, your brother He said that since he accidentally drowned while swimming in the reservoir in the third grade of elementary school, he has had the ability to travel through dreams and see his past lives - did you know this before?
" "You mean the answer he posted on 'Knowledge', right?"
The other party smiled bitterly, "Do you really believe what he said?"
"I have no idea."
Li Yaodao, "So, I am asking you for confirmation - make a bold guess, be careful when asking for confirmation!"
"Fake."
The other party simply said, "It's all fake.
He made it up."
"Why are you so sure?"
Li Yaodao, "Even if your brother's current mental state is really... not very stable, we can't say that what happened to him when he was a child must be false!"
"Because, my brother has never drowned at all, do you understand?"
The other party said, "I am two years younger than my brother.
When he was in the third grade of elementary school, I happened to be in the first grade.
I have already remembered many things.
I never knew that my brother had the experience of drowning and being comatose for half a month.
"Even if I am too young and have a bad memory, my parents are both under sixty years old and have very clear minds.
It is impossible for them to forget that their son drowned and was unconscious for half a month when he was a child, right?
"Also, many of my brother's elementary school classmates are our next-door neighbors and still live in the town.
After my brother became ill, I also went to check with these neighbors.
None of my brother's elementary school classmates remembered that he drowned. things.
"The most critical piece of evidence is what my brother wrote in his answer.
He said he drowned when he went to play in the reservoir behind my grandma's house.
But my grandma passed away before we were born.
We are in a mountainous area and it's very dry. , there is no reservoir within a hundred miles!”
"this--" Li Yao was dumbfounded, "Also, is there such a thing?"
"Yes."
The other party said, "Nine out of ten people there are landlubbers, and my brother is no exception.
He can't swim at all, so what chance does he have to drown in the non-existent reservoir behind my long-dead grandmother's house?
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Li Yao was speechless and broke into a cold sweat.
"I'm sorry, Miss Dong."
He stammered, "I, I don't know.
Your brother's writing is so real and immersive.
Wait, his answer was posted not long ago, and you said it has been a year since he was ill.
In other words, he wrote this answer, including many previous articles, in a...schizophrenic state?"
"That's right."
The other party said, "He was in good spirits at that time, but we were afraid of irritating him and did not dare to take away his mobile phone, so he held the mobile phone and wrote and posted as hard as he could.
Many posts were posted at that time.
"I can't blame you for this, because to say there's nothing strange at all would be wrong - a very strange thing happened when my brother was hospitalized for the first time."
Li Yao's eyebrows were raised high: "What's weird?"
"It's what you said, about grandma's house, the reservoir, drowning, and the Dream Traveler."
The other party said, "When I first saw his answer, I thought it was nonsense, because I knew very well that my brother had never drowned.
But once I went to see him, he quietly told me that drowning was real. , but not in this life, but in the previous life.
"He told me that he lived in a small county called 'Liaojiang' in Jiangdong Province in his previous life.
There is a large reservoir not far from the county.
He also told me many unique local topography and even snacks, as well as The living habits of the locals, and he even spoke a few words in the local dialect.
The tone coming out of his mouth was completely different from the dialect in our hometown, which shocked me.
"My brother asked me to go to Jiangdong Province to find this place called 'Liaojiang' - although finding this place may not prove that he is not crazy, but at least it can at least prove something!"
Li Yao was fascinated by what he heard and couldn't help but ask: "Are you going?"
"I'm going."
The other party said, "Maybe I shouldn't go, and I shouldn't waste time because of a madman's crazy words, but he is my brother, and we have a very good relationship.
He paid for most of my college tuition.
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I'm willing to give it a try.
“I went to Jiangdong Province and didn’t find the place ‘Liaojiang’, but based on the topography described by my brother and the dialect he recorded, I found a county called ‘Liaochuan’.
"You know, the appearance of that place is very similar to what my brother described, including the reservoir to the southeast of the city, the lonely pagoda on the mountain to the west of the reservoir, and the local dialect.
I mentioned the few words my brother said The dialect was played to the locals, and they all said that this was a native of Liaochuan.
"My brother also mentioned a unique local snack.
The local specialty yellow flowers are dried and ground into powder, and then sprinkled on the physalis noodles.
It has a sweet and sour taste and a very unique taste - people all over the country eat physalis noodles.
There are many places to eat it, but this is the only one that sprinkles yellow pollen on it.
Even in neighboring towns thirty or fifty kilometers away, there is no such way of eating it.
Even further away, this way of eating has never been heard of
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