Chapter 261: Hugo's Wonderland (Part 2)

Based on Hugo's experience of entering ordinary people's minds many times, generally speaking, human conscious space presents a kind of void darkness state, and there will be many very strange things circling here, which are generally what people have been thinking about recently.

The surface conscious space will be relatively empty, mostly some daily fragments. If you want to use a concrete scene to describe it, it is probably a square with many fragments and wonderful items floating, and under the floor of the square is the deep consciousness of humans.

In general, the conscious structure of humans is not complex. Besides these two layers, there might be some floating small rooms. The attributes of these small rooms are different. Some people have many, some people don't have any. At least among the countless patients Hugo has seen, they are all like this.

But today, this conscious space is different, because the first time Hugo landed, he saw a restaurant standing on the square.

That is a very Gotham-style restaurant, with a high and narrow building body. Several big characters are hung on the doorplate, writing "Bingshan Restaurant", but the difference is that there is indeed an ice layer around it, and several small icebergs, like guards arching over the entrance of the restaurant.

At this time, a thin and small figure walked out of the restaurant. Seeing Hugo, he was stunned and asked him, "Who are you?"

Hugo was also stunned, because he had never seen a living thing in human conscious space.

If humans are compared to a peach, then conscious space is the peach pit in the middle. The peach pit itself is a part of the peach, and there won't be any peach that has a complete peach inside the peach pit.

Conscious space itself is a manifestation of personality, so no one will create another self in their own conscious space, at least in the vast majority of cases.

But now, Hugo witnessed this wonderful state. He saw a complete peach inside the peach pit. Not only complete, but complete a bit too much.

The Cobblepot in front of him was dressed completely differently from the real space. He was now in a suit and leather shoes, his hair was combed very smoothly, he was wearing shiny leather shoes on his feet, and he was carrying a smooth smile that didn't belong to his age.

Hugo had seen many people depict a more perfect self in their conscious space, but that is usually not expressed through the image of a complete person. Generally, it will be some key items or keywords.

For example, people with a lack of academic qualifications hope that they can have a better academic qualification, then there will be some things representing exams, scores, admission notices, or degree certificates in their conscious space, or a separate small room to represent this beautiful hope of theirs.

The brain of ordinary people is not enough to materialize imagination to such a detailed degree, and it is even more impossible to maintain this detailed fantasy in a relaxed state of being hypnotized.

Hugo was also seeing for the first time that someone imagined another self in their brain, and at the same time imagined it so detailed, specifically as if it had a soul.

"Is it you?" Cobblepot looked at Hugo a bit puzzled and said, "Is this the hypnosis you mentioned? You can actually come in here."

Hugo looked at him and the building called Bingshan Restaurant behind him and was a bit stunned, but Cobblepot maintained that kind of smile and said, "Since you are here, why don't you go inside and sit down."

Hugo followed Cobblepot into the interior of the Bingshan Restaurant. Even more surprising things happened. All the things inside were as detailed as reality.

This is almost impossible. It is as if a person is dreaming. Although he feels that he has seen some concrete things in his dream, if a second person enters his dream, he will find that most of the things appearing in the dream are very general and hazy, and extremely incoherent.

This is the normal state of the human brain in a relaxed state, ignoring many unimportant details and only conveying some main concepts.

But this Bingshan Restaurant in the depths of Cobblepot's consciousness is not like this. From the decoration, layout, and structure of the entire restaurant, to the wood grain on the bar counter, and the light reflected on the bar chair, it can be said that if this restaurant appeared in reality, it could open for business directly without any trimming.

This is completely beyond Hugo's expectations. Even an interior design designer, if he wants to materialize the pictures in his brain into a design work, he needs to go through countless modifications and adjustments. If an interior designer can materialize his imagination to such a detailed degree, he will absolutely be the most successful designer in the world, none of them.

Before Hugo finished being surprised, the restaurant door rang, and an adult male wearing a suit walked in. Cobblepot greeted him, "Professor Fries, here so early today?"

"Oh, Cobblepot, you're here. How is your course today? Have you learned the newly taught knowledge?"

"I'll go review it in a while..."

Watching the smooth dialogue between the two, although Hugo was still immersed in shock, he couldn't help but start analyzing. This Professor Fries in Cobblepot's consciousness might represent the role of urging studies. Whenever Cobblepot wants to start reviewing and taking stock of his learning gains, Professor Fries will appear.

Hugo walked down, continuing to stare at Victor who walked in, seemingly wanting to find some uncoordinated places on him, but he didn't find any at all. Although he hadn't seen this Professor Fries, he could already see from the image in Cobblepot's brain that he was a wise, learned, and elegant professor.

Before he could think of an answer, the door rang again, and a man wearing a long trench coat and holding an umbrella walked in. Hugo said somewhat surprisingly, "Shiler?"

"How is it, Mr. Cobblepot, has your condition improved? How is your mood recently? Don't you plan to move yet?"

Hugo could see that Shiler seemed to play the role of a gentle doctor in Cobblepot's heart.

But this is also normal, Hugo thought. In the records of Cobblepot's treatment, Hugo didn't see any radical therapy, all were some conservative psychological counseling and talks. No wonder Cobblepot would feel that Shiler was a good doctor, but Hugo felt that this conservative therapy was completely Shiler's inaction.

At this time, Hugo in reality frowned, exploring in Cobblepot's conscious world while saying in a low voice, "Come on, let me see what you fear most..."

Saying that, he pressed a button on the machine. The machine made two sharp alarms, and then Cobblepot's conscious world appeared with violent shaking.

A fierce howl came from the broken space. Hugo saw that the figure of an old woman covered in blood and holding a sharp knife was incomparably huge, one finger was bigger than the entire Bingshan Restaurant, she was covered in blood, waving a dagger, and cut Cobblepot's conscious space to pieces in an instant.

Hugo, who was connected to the machine, also let out a scream, and then woke up, sitting on the ground panting for a long time.

Hugo stood up holding his forehead. He said in a low voice, "I should have thought of it earlier... Fear will also be materialized more vividly, with more destructive power..."

Cobblepot just woke up from the chair like having a nightmare. Hugo, who was pale, had to force himself to say, "The result is not bad, it's just that your willpower is a bit fragile, and you might be interfered with by some images you fear..."

"I know." Cobblepot said very calmly, "Because I often have nightmares."

He saw Hugo who seemed exhausted, feeling a bit disdainful. He didn't feel that this hypnosis treatment had any improvement on his condition, but this doctor seemed to be very tired.

He shook his head. Before leaving, he thought, it's better to come next time when Dr. Shiler is here. This substitute doctor is really not very good.

Encountering setbacks from Cobblepot didn't make Hugo give up. He felt that this might just be a coincidence. Cobblepot is that one-in-a-million genius child, so he is very concrete about the materialization of details, but he still believes that this doesn't reach the level of the Palace of Thought, it's just imagining his dreams and expectations relatively exquisitely.

Another name that had a record in the medical records made Hugo somewhat familiar, and that was Victor Fries.

Hugo had heard Cobblepot call him "Professor Fries" in Cobblepot's conscious space.

This medical record wrote that Victor suffers from mild anxiety, the symptoms were written very generally, there was a record of one drug treatment, seemingly recovered very quickly, but Hugo was still very curious about this. He wanted to see if Victor was the same as in Cobblepot's conscious world, so he called Victor again.

As Shiler's colleague, Victor of course knew he had resigned, but this time the reason Hugo used was that there was a problem with the drug invoice, hoping Victor could come over to communicate in person.

Issues with invoices, tax payments, and insurance are very valued. Victor didn't feel anything wrong, because he had come here once before because of invoice issues.

Entering the clinic, when Hugo proposed to conduct a simple follow-up, Victor didn't think much either. He thought this might be Hugo confirming whether the previous doctor had abused drugs, so he cooperated very well and lay on the chair.

Hugo entered Victor's consciousness in the same way, and then, the moment he went in, he was blown to the ground by a violent cold wind.

What he faced was a vast ice field of extreme cold. Hugo looked around confusedly, discovering that there seemed to be no end here.

It was mentioned before that the surface consciousness of humans is like a square. The reason why it is said to be a square, not a plain, is because the size of human conscious space is limited. Most people's conscious space boundaries lie in the limits of imagination and thinking, but Hugo walked for a long, long time in this vast snowfield, and didn't see the boundary at all.

There are only three things here: ice, snow, and snow turning into ice. Perhaps even the wind doesn't exist, because Hugo didn't hear any sound of wind. This is an extremely quiet space.

But quiet is not a good thing, which makes it colder here. Hugo only had one feeling from beginning to end, and that was cold, incomparably cold.

Hugo gritted his teeth, held his breath, wanting to crack the secret of this conscious space, but no matter which direction he walked, how long he walked, what posture he made, what words he shouted, the response to him was only continuous heavy snow and boundless ice fields.

No abstract concepts, no memory fragments, no everything that should be in the human brain, only ice and snow, only cold.

Just when Hugo was desperate to the point of almost giving up, finally, he saw a trace of flame appear at the end of the ice field. He tried hard to approach that direction, and didn't know how long he walked. When he walked until his consciousness was frozen numb, he finally saw a pile of small campfires.

baimengshu.

Around the campfire were several figures, respectively Cobblepot squatting and warming his hands, Victor standing beside and reading a book, and Shiler adding firewood to the campfire...

Why is it Shiler again? Hugo thought, why is he everywhere?

But besides this, there was nothing else. Looking at the endless snowfield around, Hugo's heart was already numb, but he still dutifully pressed the button on the machine, wanting to see what Victor feared most.

Then, he heard a faint "crack" sound from the conscious space, like the sound of something shattering, followed by louder and louder, louder and louder...

In an instant, a terrifying storm swept everything.

When Hugo's consciousness returned to his body, he couldn't help but hug his arms and shiver all over, his teeth were chattering.

In the office with sufficient heating and a burning fireplace, he felt the extreme cold he had never felt in his life. ===== CHAPTER 262 =====