Chapter 2148 Chapter 2148 Soul Shock
Nicholas watched John Nash sitting on a chair blankly, holding his son in his arms. At this time, the child was crying bitterly, but John was indifferent, just staring at a certain angle stupidly, dumb and stiff. Inexplicably, Nicholas felt choked up, and all his emotions were stuck in his throat, unable to vent at all.
On the surface, John's life has returned to normal, but in fact everything is no longer normal.
Alicia became extremely sensitive. As long as she heard John talking to herself, she would suspect that his hallucinations appeared again. It was later proved that it was just her own cranky imagination. It was a dumb smile; in the long night, Alicia was eager to get John's hug, and even respond to her physical needs, but John had no choice but to give her a back view indifferently...
The huge pressure completely broke Alicia, and she could only get angry in the bathroom in front of the mirror and at herself. Angry rants couldn't give her a solution. The confusion and oppression of life made her feel overwhelmed and exhausted . But so what? Waking up the next day, Alicia still had to go to work, and even had to work overtime in order to support the family. At the same time, John had no way to take care of the child. She had to send the child to her mother to ensure a full day's sleep. Work without distractions.
John stood at the door, his lonely figure became smaller and smaller, he looked like an unnecessary burden, he could not provide any help, but was still a drag on the family; he was like a walking dead, the whole world stopped Without turning around, he can't do anything except take out the trash, and the mathematical ability he was once proud of has turned into a pool of stagnant water.
John paused his medication. Although Alicia reminded him that he should take the medicine every time, he would secretly put the medicine away, which made his brain slowly start to work again, and he could see the things hidden in the The code behind the text was gone, and he saw...William Pacher again.
William establishes a secret base in the woods behind his home, and enlists John to rejoin him in cracking the code. John began to tell himself that Dr. Rosen was right and that William was just his illusion... But William managed to convince John—or in the depths of John's heart, he always hoped that William existed, "I'm so scared You're not real." John let out a long breath with relief in his watery eyes.
For the next year, Alicia didn't notice any abnormality until one stormy day, she went outside to collect clothes, and John took her son upstairs to help him take a bath. Although Alicia was a little worried, but John said The outstanding performance over the past year has convinced her.
After putting away the clothes, Alicia heard the unidentifiable sound of the radio in the storm, and followed the sound to find it all the way, and then she saw John's secret cabin, with countless newspapers, magazines, and numbers hanging on the walls. The whole house was covered densely, which made Alicia fall into endless fear and ran back to the house.
John was closing the window, but the child was nowhere to be seen. Alicia ran to the bathroom and found the child left alone in the bathtub. The hot water almost drowned him and drowned him. Alicia picked up the baby like crazy. John, who realized something was wrong, came over and said blankly, "Charles is here, he's fine."
"There's no one here!" Alicia roared frantically and angrily, "There's no one here!"
Alicia ignored John's remarks that "he had been injected with the invisible serum", ran downstairs quickly, and called Rosen. John followed quickly, he was at a loss when he saw Alicia's actions, and then William appeared, and William tried to warn John that Alicia's actions would endanger countless lives, and she knew too much, so Her life must be ended.
Watching William walk towards Alicia with his gun raised, John in despair rushed up, but he didn't want to but knocked Alicia into the corner, and the child in his arms cried loudly. John looked at Alicia at a loss, trying to explain his behavior, but Alicia was completely shocked. She pushed John away, left the house as if fleeing for her life, and rushed to her car against the storm.
John stood there in a daze, William appeared, Charles appeared, and Marcie also appeared. They all kept urging John to solve Alicia, and William even started to force John to act with a pistol. Countless memory fragments poured into John's mind, almost causing John's brain to explode. He just felt that he was about to suffocate, and the words and memories of the three people kept echoing in his ears, as if they were everywhere, and the whole world was completely trapped. chaos.
John rushed out of the heavy rain, stopped Alicia's car, looked into his wife's eyes through the rain, and said desperately and mixedly, "She never grew up. Marcy can't be real , she has never grown up." That kind of shock and fragility mixed together, rippling in the depths of those amber eyes, is unbearable.
"John, why did you stop taking the medicine?" Rosen came to the house and sat down face to face with Alicia and John.
John looked at Rosen, then looked up at Alicia, and out of the corner of his eye, he could see Charles and Marcie staring at him, "Because I can't work, I can't help with childcare...I can't respond to my wife's words." needs." Shock slowly spread in Alicia's eyes, "Do you think that's better than being crazy?"
Rosen said that John needs to accept more powerful materials, but this time John shook his head and refused, firmly and persistently, "No, there must be another way. It's just a 'problem', nothing more, one that is currently still looking for There is no solution to the problem, and I am best at solving problems."
"It's not mathematics. You can't invent a formula and change the world's thinking."
"I'll just use my brain!" John insisted, but Rosen was still trying to contradict him, causing John to cry out angrily, "Why? Why not?"
"Because your brain is the root of the problem." Rosen didn't back down.
John still didn't waver, "I can solve it, as long as you give me time, I can solve it." But even at this moment, Marcy's laughter still echoed in John's ears, and the illusion seemed to never disappear .
Alicia decided to send John back to the mental hospital, but John sat in the room, refusing to pack, holding the handkerchief that Alicia had stuffed into his suit pocket on his first date with Alicia, his face covered with tears. Stubborn and dazed. "Are you ready? Rosen is waiting for you outside," Alicia's voice made John look up, and he looked at his wife sadly, "I can't go back to the hospital." Both of them fell into silence, " Once you go, you can’t come back.”
Every word Alicia said became extremely difficult, "He said that if what you said happened, he had a power of attorney for me to sign."
"Can you not sign?" Alicia was stunned by John's pleading voice, "As long as you give me more time, I will definitely find a solution. No matter what you decide, Rosen is right about one thing, You can't stay here. I'm not safe anymore."
Alicia looked at the lonely John, "Are you really going to hurt me?"
Faced with this question, John's eyes were red and full of anxiety. He could still see Marcie running from behind Alicia, and he shook his head in pain and struggle, "I don't know either. Maybe you'd better call Rosen will send you to your mother's house." This answer made Alicia's shoulders extremely fragile, and she slowly turned away and walked downstairs.
John tried to pack his luggage again, but there was nothing he could do. He just sat on the edge of the bed anxiously, at a loss. But then, he heard the sound of the engine starting - Rosen left, and when he saw Alicia going upstairs again, John's eyes were filled with a layer of clear mist, and he looked at his wife blankly, " Rosen said, if you want to kill me, call him immediately." This sentence made the smile on the corner of John's mouth slightly pulled up, so difficult, but so happy.
Alicia walked up to John, knelt down on her knees, and kept her eyes parallel to John, "Do you know what is real?" Then she gently stroked John's cheek with her right hand, "This. This made John close his eyes slowly, showing a peaceful expression, and then she held John's right hand and placed it on her cheek, "This", and finally stopped on her chest, "This .”
Feeling Alicia's steady and powerful heartbeat, John said, "This is the truth." His amber eyes were flickering slightly, looking intently at the woman in front of him, "Maybe it will wake you up from your dream Maybe it's not in my head, but here." Alicia put her right hand on John's chest, feeling the heartbeat that settled her.
The tears in John's eyes slowly overflowed, and the mixed emotions rippling in the water light made his heart tremble slightly.
"Huh", Nicholas breathed heavily suddenly, because he stopped breathing for too long, so that his brain began to lack oxygen, tears fell down like this, and his cheeks became hot. He finally understood what that strangeness was, and he finally understood how to deal with the cold and isolated cruelty of the mental hospital.
It's love, it's trust, it's care, it's companionship.
When seeing Alicia risking her life and choosing to stand by John's side, the two decided to work together to tide over the difficulties; when watching Alicia and John put their right hands on each other's hearts, John's eyes shone with touching And the fragile light; when looking at John's haggard and crazy, lonely and sad, helpless and bewildered expression... Nicholas knew that he was not crazy, he was just sick, no difference from normal people, just sick That's all. No one needs to avoid him, no one needs to treat him in a cold and cruel way, no one needs to use strange eyes to make his life more difficult.
What he needs is simply not to be "different".
The shock that went deep into the soul completely overturned the world that Nicholas was familiar with. Neuropathy was no longer neuropathy, and a lunatic was no longer a lunatic. He was just a patient who needed company.