Chapter 262: Hugo's Wonderland (Part 3)

First scared by Cobblepot, then frozen by Victor, but Hugo still didn't want to give up. He felt that this might also be a coincidence with a very small probability, two geniuses with unique conscious spaces gathered together and became master and apprentice. Although this possibility is very small, it is not impossible to happen.

Besides these two, the one who had treatment records recently was Yin Wensi Falcone.

Seeing this surname, Hugo hesitated, but still decided to invite him over. Hugo felt that if he didn't adopt any radical means, just take a look, it should not provoke that famous Godfather.

Yin Wensi's situation was similar to Cobblepot's. He didn't know about Shiler's resignation, and he was relatively cooperative with the request for follow-up. When he came to Hugo's clinic, it was the same as the previous few times. Hugo let him lie on the chair, then started the machine, and then pasted the patches on his head.

After entering Yin Wensi's conscious space, Hugo was stunned again, because there was a grand theater in Yin Wensi's conscious space.

This was nothing, it was just the same as Cobblepot's situation, but the problem was, beside this theater, there was also an old manor built halfway.

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

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

Hugo saw that the person opposite moved his hand, but then returned to calmness. The person opposite said, "No, if he wanted to kill me, he would definitely come personally..."

At this time, Hugo also saw that this person existing in Yin Wensi's conscious space seemed different from him. He asked, "... Dual personality?"

"That's right, you shouldn't be a psychologist, right?"

Hugo felt some dangerous traits from this person, so he said as calmly as possible, "That's right, I am giving you hypnosis treatment. What is your name?"

That person looked Hugo up and down and said, "My name is Alberto. Hypnosis treatment? I have never heard that Yin Wensi's treatment plan has this project..."

"I am a new psychologist. My treatment method is like this. You don't need to feel nervous. I am just confirming whether your current psychological state is normal..."

"Alright, then don't delay my work. My house is just half-built. You go to the building opposite to visit."

Hugo looked carefully at this house built halfway. He discovered that this was still shockingly detailed, even the bricks that hadn't been stacked up and the cement mixed into a ball were clearly visible.

"What are you building?"

"Building a house, otherwise?"

"Why build a house?"

Alberto looked at Hugo's eyes like looking at an idiot. He said, "If I don't build a house, where am I supposed to live?"

This question really stumped Hugo. This logic is completely logical in reality, but he didn't know how to explain to the person in front of him that normal people's conscious world doesn't need to build houses.

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

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

Just after entering the theater, he was stunned again, because there were more than a dozen Yin Wensis rehearsing scripts on the stage in the theater, and what was outrageous was that there were quite a few audiences in the auditorium.

What was even more outrageous was that there was Shiler among the audience.

Hugo hesitated, not knowing whether he should walk in, because he felt a kind of great danger from the backs of these audiences.

He swallowed, still stopped his forward steps, and retreated silently.

He didn't even dare to press that button, so he ended this trip to Yin Wensi's conscious space. Yin Wensi, who got up from the chair, yawned, then stretched, feeling that he had a strange dream, but couldn't remember what he dreamed about, so he said, "Thanks, doctor, is the treatment over?"

"Over..." Hugo answered somewhat distractedly.

After Yin Wensi left, he was still stiff in place, because the things that happened recently were indeed beyond his expectations.

The first step of his career in Cat Getan was met with a huge challenge, because his worldview was overturned. No matter from which aspect, the possibility of three rare geniuses appearing in a row should be zero.

Hugo didn't understand where the problem was. All his theories were based on the foundation that ordinary people's conscious space is chaotic, disorderly, and poor. Therefore, he felt that he who could manifest a complete image of himself in conscious space was originally higher than ordinary humans, so he could also manipulate them.

But recently his situation belonged to, happily moving into a new home, and then getting three big slaps in the face after one step.

"Control Guard Here"

Hugo is also a professional psychology expert after all. His self-adjustment ability is very strong. He soon walked out of this shadow and thought of a key point, that is, the person who appeared in the conscious space of these three people at the same time—Shiler Rodriguez.

Hugo now suspects that Shiler might have used a therapy he didn't know to transform the conscious space of these three people into this, which is not impossible.

Hugo read all of Shiler's papers and research reports overnight recently. He had to admit that Shiler's theory of the Palace of Thought was unlikely to be fabricated out of thin air, because fabrication out of thin air couldn't be so detailed and real.

Because of arrogance before, Hugo didn't read these papers carefully, just looked at a general idea, and after reading carefully, he discovered that Shiler might really have mastered some unknown psychological techniques, perhaps he was using this technique to transform his patients.

Hugo suddenly had a feeling of resentment. It was also conducting illegal human experiments. He was discovered, hunted down, and then fired, and could only run to Cat Getan to avoid disaster, while Shiler was still a world-renowned top master of psychology. This was completely unfair.

Shiler clearly did the same thing as him, that is, using his professional knowledge to transform patients, but he did it more covertly and was not easy to be discovered, so not only did he not pay the price for this, but instead became famous. This made Hugo, who had just been fired and expelled, very unbalanced.

For this reason, Hugo raised an idea, that is, to find a way to expose Shiler.

Then, a more dangerous idea appeared in Hugo's mind. If he could control Shiler, then all his techniques, knowledge, fame, and status would be used by him.

But Hugo also knew very well that they were both insiders. Hugo had some understanding of Shiler's research direction, and Shiler might be the same about Hugo. Wanting to trick Shiler over like tricking these patients was impossible. Even if tricked over, Hugo didn't have the confidence to hypnotize such a peer.

So, Hugo felt that he needed a meticulous plan and a partner.

Finally, his sight stayed on the medical record at the bottom, on which was written a name without a surname—"Jack".

None of Cat Getan's weather forecasts predicted that in such an early autumn, Cat Getan really snowed. Although it was very fine light snow and not too cold, this was still a strange event.

Fine and crystal snowflakes drifted down slowly from the sky, falling on the roof of Arkham Mental Hospital. After the mottled tiles on the roof of this somewhat old hospital were covered, it instead looked brand new.

Because this hospital was built a long time ago, its architectural structure is not the structure of a modern mental hospital. On the contrary, it retains some special structures of mental hospitals in the last era, such as the basement for handling some troublesome conditions.

With a violent flicker of light, a white halo bloomed before his eyes. Shiler opened his eyes to see two figures standing before him.

"You're awake..."

Hugo was fiddling with a machine on the table opposite Shiler, and Jack was leaning on the railing beside, picking his fingers in boredom.

Hugo looked at Shiler who was tied to the chair opposite. At this time, this professor was being fixed on a somewhat old interrogation chair, his hands were buckled by iron rings, and his feet were also fixed, looking completely unable to move.

Shiler lowered his eyes, looked at the two sharp circular saws fixed beside his neck, and said, "So you asked me to come to the office to hand over work, just to kidnap me?"

Hugo smiled, pressed a button on the wall, the small circular saws on both sides of Shiler's neck started to rotate rapidly, and then slowly moved toward the middle, until they approached Shiler's neck, but Shiler didn't have any reaction, just looked at Hugo and asked him, "What exactly do you want to do?"

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

"Oh? This is interesting..."

"I know, if it were in a normal scene, you wouldn't talk to me, let alone cooperate with me. However, with this chair..."

Hugo pressed the button again, the circular saw rotated again, and he said, "... I'm afraid, even if you don't want to cooperate, you have to cooperate."

Hugo picked up a book from the table beside him and held it up, saying to Shiler, "In a paper you published on this, you elaborated in detail on the theory of the Palace of Thought, you depicted it as a layered building in human conscious space, used to store different memories..."

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

"How are you going to verify it?"

"You should have asked this question to many people, right? Because you are sure no one can verify this fact, no one can enter your brain..."

Hugo revealed a somewhat cruel smile and said, "... But I can."

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

Saying that, he pasted one patch after another on his head. Jack on the side 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 blended, a long dark fall began. Hugo never thought that the process of connecting into consciousness could be so long. He didn't know how long he had been falling, but he never reached the bottom.

He felt that he was like Alice who fell into the rabbit hole, infinite bizarre pictures flashed before his eyes, and then darkness and darker darkness.

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

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

And above his head were infinite floors. ===== CHAPTER 263 =====

---Author's Note---

Aha! Didn't expect that, did you? An update at this hour!