Chapter 257 Hugo's Adventures in Wonderland (Part 2)

First he was frightened by Cobert, then he was frozen by Victor, but Hugo still didn't want to give up. He thought it might be a coincidence with a very small probability. Two geniuses with unique consciousness spaces gathered together and became master and apprentice. Although this possibility was very small, it was not impossible.

In addition to these two people, the most recent person with a record of treatment was Evans Falcone.

When he saw this surname, Hugo hesitated for a moment, but decided to ask him to come over. Hugo felt that if he didn't use any radical means, just took a look, he would not offend the famous godfather.

Evans' situation was similar to Cobert. He didn't know Schiller had resigned, and he was more cooperative with the request for a follow-up visit. When he came to Hugo's clinic, just like the previous times, Hugo asked him to lie on the chair, then turned on the machine, and then put the patch on his head.

After entering Evans' consciousness space, Hugo was stunned again, because there was a big theater in Evans' consciousness space.

This is nothing, it's just the same as Cobert's situation, but the problem is that there is an old manor that is half-built next to this theater.

It's okay to have two buildings, but the building next to it is still under construction. When Hugo came in, a figure walked out of the building under construction, looked Hugo up and down and said, "Who are you? How did you get in here?"

Suddenly, his face changed and said, "Are you a killer?"

Hugo saw that the person opposite him moved his hand, but then he regained his calm. The person opposite said, "No, if he wants to kill me, he will definitely come in person..."

At this time, Hugo also saw that the person in Evans' consciousness space seemed different from him. He asked, "...Dual personality?"

"Yes, you are not a psychologist, right?"

Hugo felt some danger from this person. The man looked at Hugo and said, "My name is Alberto. Hypnosis? I have never heard of this project in Evans' treatment plan..." "I am a new psychiatrist. This is my treatment method. You don't need to be nervous. I just want to confirm that your current mental state is normal..." "Okay, then don't delay my work. My house is just half built. You can visit the building opposite." Hugo took a closer look at the half-built house and found that it was still amazingly detailed. Even the unstacked bricks and the mixed cement were clearly visible. "What are you building?"

"Build a house, or what?"

"Why build a house?"

Alberto looked at Hugo like an idiot, and said, "If I don't build a house, where will I live?"

This question really stumped Hugo. This logic makes perfect sense in reality, but he didn't know how to explain it to the person in front of him. In fact, normal people don't need to build houses in their conscious world.

Alberto waved at him impatiently and said, "The person you want to examine and treat is in the house next door. Go find him and don't bother me."

Hugo felt that his dangerous temperament was getting stronger and stronger. He didn't dare to stay for long, for fear of causing any more trouble, so he walked out of the building under construction and walked to the theater opposite.

As soon as he entered the theater, he was stunned again, because there were more than a dozen Evans rehearsing the script on the stage in the theater, and what was outrageous was that there were still many audiences in the audience.

What was even more outrageous was that Schiller was in the audience again.

Hugo hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether to go in, because he felt a great danger from the backs of these spectators.

He swallowed his saliva, stopped his steps, and quietly retreated.

He didn't even dare to press the button, and ended Evans's journey into the consciousness space. Evans got up from the chair, yawned, and stretched his body. He felt that he had a strange dream, but he couldn't remember what he dreamed about, so he said: "Thank you, doctor, is the treatment over?"

"It's over..." Hugo answered a little distractedly.

After Evans left, he was still stiff in the same place, because what happened recently was indeed beyond his expectations.

He encountered a huge challenge in the first step of his career in Gotham, because his worldview was overturned. No matter from which aspect, the possibility of three rare geniuses appearing in succession should be zero.

Hugo couldn't figure out what the problem was. All his previous theories were based on the fact that the consciousness space of ordinary people was chaotic, disordered and lacking. Therefore, he felt that he, who could manifest a complete image in the consciousness space, was superior to ordinary humans, so he could also control them.

But recently, his situation was like this: he happily moved into a new home, and then he was beaten by three big guys every time he took a step.

Hugo is indeed a professional psychology expert. He has a strong ability to adjust himself. He quickly came out of this shadow and thought about a key point, that is, the person Schiller Rodriguez appeared in the consciousness space of these three people at the same time.

Hugo now suspects that Schiller may have used a therapy he didn't know to transform the consciousness space of these three people into this. This is not impossible.

Hugo has read all of Schiller's papers and research reports overnight in recent days. He has to admit that Schiller's theory of the Palace of Thought is unlikely to be made up out of thin air, because it is impossible to make it so detailed and true.

Because of his arrogance, Hugo did not read these papers carefully before, but just read them roughly. After reading them carefully, he found that Schiller may have mastered some unknown psychological skills, and perhaps he used this skill to transform his patients.

Hugo suddenly felt angry. He was also doing illegal human experiments. He was discovered, hunted, and then dismissed. He could only run to Gotham to avoid disaster, while Schiller was still a world-renowned top psychology master. This is not fair at all.

Schiller obviously did the same thing as him, that is, using his professional knowledge to transform patients, but he did it more covertly and less likely to be discovered. Therefore, not only did he not pay a price for it, but he became famous and successful, which made Hugo, who had just been dismissed and expelled, very unbalanced.

For this reason, Hugo had an idea, that is, to find a way to expose Schiller.

Then, a more dangerous idea came to Hugo's mind. If he could control Schiller, all his skills, knowledge, reputation, and status would be used by him.

But Hugo also knew that they were both insiders. Hugo knew something about Schiller's research direction, and Schiller might be the same to Hugo. It was unlikely to trick Schiller like he tricked these patients. Even if he did, Hugo was not sure to hypnotize such a colleague.

Therefore, Hugo felt that he needed a careful plan and a partner.

Finally, his sight stopped at the bottom medical record, which had a name without a surname "Jack" written on it.

All weather forecasts in Gotham did not predict that it would snow in such an early autumn. Although it was a very fine snow and not too cold, it was still a strange story.

Small and crystal snowflakes slowly fell from the sky and landed on the roof of Arkham Psychiatric Hospital. After the mottled tiles on the roof of this old hospital were covered, it looked brand new.

Because the hospital was built a long time ago, its architectural structure is not that of a modern psychiatric hospital. On the contrary, it retains some special structures of psychiatric hospitals in the last era, such as the basement for dealing with some troublesome diseases.

The lights flashed violently, and the white halo spread in front of his eyes. Schiller opened his eyes and saw two figures in front of him.

"You woke up..."

Hugo was fiddling with a machine on the table opposite Schiller, and Jack was leaning on the railing next to him, picking his fingers boredly.

Hugo looked at Schiller who was tied to a chair opposite him. At this time, the professor was fixed on an old interrogation chair, his hands were clasped by iron rings, and his feet were also fixed, and he seemed to be completely unable to move.

Schiller lowered his eyes and looked at the two sharp circular saws fixed on the side of his neck. He said: "So you asked me to come to the office to hand over the work just to kidnap me?"

Hugo smiled and pressed a button on the wall. The small circular saws on both sides of Schiller's neck began to rotate rapidly, and then slowly moved towards the middle until they approached Schiller's neck, but Schiller did not react at all, just looked at Hugo and asked him: "What are you going to do?"

"Nothing, I just hope you can cooperate with me to do a hypnosis experiment."

"Oh? This is interesting..."

"I know that if it is a normal scene, you will not talk to me, let alone cooperate with me, but with this chair..."

Hugo pressed the button again, and the circular saw started to rotate again. He said: "...I am afraid that even if you don't want to cooperate, you have to cooperate."

Hugo picked up a book from the table next to him and raised it , said to Schiller: "In a paper you published here, you elaborated on the theory of the Mind Palace. You described it as a layered building in the human consciousness space, used to store different memories..."

"I don't know if you really did this, but next, we can verify it..."

"How do you want to verify it?"

"You should have asked a lot of people this question, right? Because you are sure that no one can verify this fact, and no one can enter your mind..."

Hugo showed a cruel smile and said, "...but I can."

"Next, let's wait and see, are you the biggest liar of this century, or..."

As he said, he put one patch after another on his head. Jack beside him was very quiet, but if Hugo looked up at him before closing his eyes, he could see the mocking smile on his lips.

At the moment when the brain waves merged, the long dark fall began. Hugo never thought that the process of connecting to consciousness could be so long. He didn't know how long he had been falling, but he never reached the bottom.

He felt like Alice falling into the rabbit hole. Endless and bizarre pictures flashed before his eyes, and then there was darkness and darker darkness.

In this endless fall, Hugo was almost driven crazy by the loneliness and weightlessness. Just a few seconds before he considered giving up, he finally fell to the ground.

When Hugo woke up, he looked down and saw that there was a black floor under his feet

And there were endless floors above his head.

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Ahaha! Sister thought of it! More at this point!