Poker-Face walked towards with Liu Sang on his back. He didn't have any candles on him and his footsteps were light as he ca out of the darkness.
The leather figurine woman stood between and him, and I narrowed my eyes as I suddenly ca up with a strange idea. If he couldn't see the leather figurine woman, would he pass right through it?
That would definitely be an amazing sight, because this leather figurine woman was real to and I could even touch it. But he couldnt see it at all. If it really was a ghost, then that ant the two of them would overlap when they ca into contact with each other.
If that was the case, then I was probably crazy and the dinglan ruler in my hand was definitely a hallucination. Maybe even the Poker-Face summoned by the dinglan ruler was also a fignt of my imagination. If so, that ant Liu Sang was also fake and I could kill the bastard myself.
Or maybe Poker-Face just couldnt see this leather figurine woman and would end up bumping into it when he ca over. If he really couldnt see these things, then that ant there was a difference between our eyes.
In fact, there was a more profound explanation. So people would selectively ignore certain information when encountering severe trauma. When reading newspapers and chatting with others, that persons brain wouldnt recognize and process the traumatizing information.
I rembered that there was an overseas case where a ntally ill patient never believed that she had a daughter. Although her daughter was always by her side, she never saw her. She couldn't even see anything that was related to her daughter. There was a docuntary that recorded this process in detail and I rembered it was called "The Disappearing Apple" (1). The daughter conducted a very simple experint where she would touch the apple her mother was eating. As a result of this, the apple disappeared from her mothers perception.
The mother panicked all day, thinking that there was another person in the house. Since all kinds of things suddenly disappeared, she thought she was being haunted. But it was actually her brain blocking a specific ssage.
But that kind of situation was often due to a traumatic fear of a specific concept in the subconscious, which caused the brain to take protective asures.
Later, it was revealed that she had a trauma revolving around a liver transplant when her daughter fell ill. She had been too afraid to give her liver to her daughter at the ti. Although her daughter was able to get another liver, the imnse guilt caused her to suffer a ntal illness where her brain blocked all information related to her daughter.
I didnt believe Poker-Face couldnt see these leather figurines because of guilt. If anything, I thought it was a problem that stemd from poisoning.
I was trapped in my own vicious circle of logic and couldnt seem to figure it out when I noticed Poker-Face suddenly stop right in front of the leather figurine woman and reach out. He then quickly went around it and ca up to before putting Liu Sang down by the tomb passage wall opposite Fatty.
Fuck , I said to myself. Didn't you say you couldn't see it? Are you two ssing with ?
"What's there?" He imdiately asked .
"Why are you avoiding it if you can't even see what's there?" I asked as I looked at Liu Sang. His fingernails were all torn. I didnt know where he had been trapped, but he must have been suffering a breakdown for a long ti and had been scratching the stone wall with his hands.
Poker-Face didn't look at , but went over to check Fatty's pulse. "I can't see it. I can only feel it," he said faintly.
I was just about to ask him what was going on when I suddenly saw his eyes. They were completely clouded and there was sothing covering the corneas.
"Whats that?" I asked in horror. I wanted to tear it off, but he imdiately avoided my outstretched hand.
He usually reacted very fast, but the slowness just now imdiately had coming to my senses. Just as I was about to start asking questions, I saw him approach Liu Sang's ear with the rhinoceros horn candle. As the fla got close, those little hands fell off one by one.
Just like Fatty, Liu Sang didn't respond. "It's still deep in his ears, I said to him. You have to suck it out" Poker-Face glanced at .
When I looked at him carefully, I found that the things covering his corneas were really a bunch of insects the size of sesa seeds.
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TN Notes:
(1) I think this is a fake docuntary the author made up (or he rembered the na wrong lol). I wasnt finding anything.
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