Chapter 12: Soul Lock

Next, Zuoqiuyue introduced the various departments in the lower hospital to Xu Nian in detail. Xu Nian listened with great interest and had a preliminary understanding of his future part-time unit.

First of all, Sunset Psychiatric Hospital is the "relevant department" circulated on the Internet. Not only does it have a powerful background, but it also has great power. In Zuoqiuyue's words, there is no place within the city wall that the hospital cannot go to, and there is nothing that the hospital cannot do.

It is said that the eldest lady can directly mobilize the city defense force responsible for guarding the wall area of ​​Rongcheng without asking the general hospital for instructions, which shows how powerful the hospital is.

"Xu Nian, the following is the key point I want to tell you. When I report to the hospital and the hospital arranges a formal test for you, it will be useful to you."

Xu Nian blinked, but in his heart he was thinking whether Zuoqiuyue's detailed description was really his duty, or was there another purpose?

Zuo Qiuyue naturally didn't know what Xu Nian was thinking. She coughed lightly and said seriously, "Let me ask you a question first. Do you know what your ability is?"

Xu Nian was startled, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

Zuo Qiuyue was confused for a moment and asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

Xu Nian smiled, took a sip from the teacup, and said with a smile, "If I tell the truth, I actually don't have any ability, and if I tell a lie, it means that I know my ability but don't want to tell you."

Zuo Qiuyue: "."

As if she was digesting the information in Xu Nian's words, she also picked up the teacup.

Xu Nian knew that Zuo Qiuyue was a little confused, so he explained, "In fact, how should I put it, I don't have any ability, but my wife and son have the ability."

"Puff!"

Zuo Qiuyue, who had just taken a sip of tea, sprayed it out directly.

Xu Nian couldn't dodge in time, and a large area of ​​his upper chest was wet.

Zuo Qiuyue hurriedly took the paper and ran over to wipe it, saying in a hurried tone: "Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean it!"

Xu Nian shook his head, picked up the paper and motioned for him to do it, while wiping, he said: "I know you don't believe it, but this is the fact, look here, my son is sitting here looking at you."

As he said, he pointed to his right shoulder.

Zuo Qiuyue subconsciously looked over, but naturally saw nothing. She opened her mouth and said with a complicated look: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."

She had seen some news on the Internet before. Because women have too high a status in the city wall, some selfish women use this special status to oppress their boyfriends or husbands, causing some introverted men to fear real women, and even mental illness. They began to like some virtual women, and some even married these virtual women and had children in the spiritual level.

This is also called avoidant delusion in medicine.

In her opinion, Xu Nian looks normal on the surface, but in fact he is probably a mental patient, and judging from his condition, his illness seems to be not light.

"Uh, why are you looking at me like that? I'm telling the truth. I don't have any ability. My ability belongs to my wife and son."

Xu Nian actually hated others looking at him with such sympathetic eyes, but he also knew that others would definitely misunderstand, so he could only smile helplessly.

"I know, I know." Zuo Qiuyue felt even more sympathetic in his heart. Not wanting to irritate Xu Nian, he smiled and stretched out his hand to Xu Nian's empty right shoulder, "Little guy, nice to meet you, what's your name?"

The son snorted, muttered "vixen", and then folded his arms and turned his head away.

Xu Nian patted his head awkwardly, picked up the rattle beside him and said, "His name is Xu Wu, because I don't know why others can't see him, it's as if he is shrouded in a cloud of fog, so the word fog came up."

"Also, this is where he lives on weekdays. It's a little small, but I heard that it has everything and is very comfortable."

As he said, he pinched his son's nose and said with a doting face: "Son, Aunt Zuo was talking to you just now. What did your mother teach you? Even if you are not a human, you must be polite!"

The son pouted and stuck out his tongue at Zuo Qiuyue.

Xu Nian shook his head helplessly, looking like he couldn't do anything to you.

Zuo Qiuyue stared blankly at Xu Nian, who was sitting on the sofa and talking to himself and making various movements, and the hair on her body stood up.

Although she knew that Xu Nian was most likely a serious mental patient, she still felt creepy when she saw Xu Nian talking so seriously.

It was as if Xu Nian was not sick, but she was sick.

This illusion was too absurd.

She didn't know what to say for a moment.

But soon, as Xu Nian's eyes returned to her, her body trembled, as if she thought of something, and hurriedly said: "Are you sure about your ability? Is your son's place this rattle?"

Xu Nian nodded, wondering: "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Zuo Qiuyue's face flushed with excitement, and she said excitedly: "That's right, you are an obsession system, you must be."

"What?"

Xu Nian's eyes flashed.

Zuo Qiuyue took a deep breath, suppressed the joy in her heart, and said happily: "Xu Nian, this is the point I wanted to say just now, the classification of pioneer abilities."

Xu Nian's eyes lit up, and he asked curiously: "Tell me about it."

"Well, it's like this, you know the 'Devil's Call' incident?"

Zuo Qiuyue now looks at Xu Nian as if he is looking at a treasure.

Xu Nian nodded and said, "I know. On July 15, 2021, a demonic whisper suddenly appeared on the earth. With this whisper, a mysterious energy swept the earth, and the creatures on the earth suddenly began to evolve rapidly. Except for the more disgusting creatures such as rats and flies, basically all creatures on the earth became very terrifying and full of strong desire to attack humans. As a result, humans lost more than seven layers of population in less than a month."

"Yes, it is this mysterious energy. It not only opened the way for the creatures on the earth to evolve, but also caused special changes in us humans." Zuo Qiuyue looked solemn.

Xu Nian nodded.

He had thought about this before, and now it seems that this is indeed the case. The so-called pioneers are some humans who have opened the way to evolution.

"Xu Nian, but humans are different from those creatures." Zuo Qiuyue sighed, "At first, we also thought that humans had started the road to evolution, but as we found that only a small number of humans had special abilities, and some would fail and turn into various deformed monsters, we knew that this mysterious energy was completely different for humans and other creatures."

Xu Nian's face changed and he frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Soul." Zuo Qiuyue's expression became serious, "Or should I say spirit? After the research of the institute, we found that this mysterious energy did not promote the evolution of our genes, but produced an incomprehensible liberation of our souls, that is, spirits."

"Liberation?"

Xu Nian looked at Zuo Qiuyue in astonishment. He didn't expect to hear such a word.

"Yes, it is liberation." Zuo Qiuyue hesitated for a moment and explained, "Let me put it this way. In the eyes of those people in the institute, the human soul, that is, our spirit, is locked and imprisoned, and this mysterious energy is like a key to open these locks."