Free Web NovelChapter 472: Chapter 349: Drugs!?
Lv Xiong still shook his head.
"No."
"Still no?"
Director Yang felt surprised.
Generally speaking, once a patient starts seeing hallucination-type visions, the illness is already quite serious, not to mention someone like Lv Xiong!
What was going on with Lv Xiong?
He was seeing "visions" continuously!
Based on the case details combined with his perspective, it became: after he saw the child, the hallucination replaced the child with a wild boar piglet, and then Lv Xiong chased the other party for several hundred meters before finally killing it!
Then another problem arises.
Do hallucinations in ordinary people only last for an instant!?
Once you try to verify them, the vision will quickly disappear!
But it was different with Lv Xiong.
The key point is that he "chased for several hundred meters"!
During that time his attention was extremely focused, and the time span was very long; you could say this was no longer a simple vision, but something that had already affected his cognition!
Yet even so...
"You’re sure that apart from that, you didn’t hear or see any other hallucinations?"
Director Yang asked again.
Lv Xiong’s breathing grew slightly agitated; while scratching himself he said:
"I’m sure."
"Strange..." Director Yang fell into a murmur.
After a long while, he finally came back to himself, deciding not to ask those irrelevant questions anymore, and instead said:
"Does anyone else in your family have any kind of mental illness?"
"For example, your parents, or your grandparents’ generation?"
Mental illness can be hereditary.
That’s right, diseases of the mental realm can also be inherited. It might sound a bit inexplicable, but that’s the fact.
It’s just that...
"No, my parents aren’t sick. As for my grandparents, I don’t know, I’ve never met them, but they probably weren’t either."
As he spoke, Lv Xiong scratched his neck with his right hand. One clawing swipe and bright red scratch marks appeared on his neck—this was a phenomenon caused by ruptured capillaries.
Parents don’t have it, grandparents probably don’t have it either...
Not hereditary, sleep unaffected, and he also hasn’t shown the phenomena that should appear when the illness is at an advanced stage.
After these three questions.
Director Yang began to doubt everything he had learned over his life.
"Are you sure he really has a mental illness?" Director Yang couldn’t hold back and turned his head to look at Xu Liang.
"All I can guarantee is that what he said about seeing a vision is true."
Xu Liang chose another angle to answer.
The activation of the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart let him clearly know that Lv Xiong wasn’t lying; the other party really had seen a vision at the time.
"But my diagnosis...."
Director Yang was at a loss for words.
He just didn’t notice that....
Behind the glass, Lv Xiong’s eyes were gradually turning red; the hand that was scratching itched even harder, as if ants were crawling all over his body.
Sharp fingernails scraped across his body; capillaries burst, the skin scored with bloody lines, and pain surged into his mind.
Yet the itchiness did not lessen in the slightest!
It was as if what itched wasn’t his skin, but the flesh beneath, his bone marrow!
Lv Xiong’s scratching grew more and more intense.
On Director Yang’s side, they were still discussing the issue.
"If it’s none of these three, then there are only three options left now."
"First, this might be caused by a short-term psychological issue, but the probability is very low."
"Second, I need to use professional equipment to scan his brain and discuss the images, but his language and logic give me the feeling that he’s not ill."
"Third...."
As he spoke, Director Yang paused, then suddenly asked:
"It could be post-traumatic stress disorder from war."
"From what you’ve said, Mr. Lv went to war when he was young. If it was a battlefield from more than twenty years ago, then...."
Then most likely he has killed.
And not just one person!
To be honest, in any situation, in any context, as long as someone has killed, their mind and psyche will more or less develop conditions different from ordinary people.
The greatest possibility with Lv Xiong right now is that he killed, which in turn led to a stress disorder in his psyche.
After he was discharged from the army, the stress disorder lessened somewhat, but never disappeared, and on top of that he kept hunting...
So, out on a desolate mountain, his wartime consciousness made him treat a person as "prey."
The hunter’s memories then overlaid the person with the image of a wild boar.
The two stacked on each other, and thus the subconscious began to deceive the primary conscious personality...
"Ultimately leading to the incident."
Director Yang spoke while gesturing with his hands as he explained.
"And this situation is different from ordinary hallucinations, which is why the more heightened his mental tension, the less he is able to see through the vision."
"Right now I absolutely must use professional equipment to check whether his brain has undergone any pathological changes."
Director Yang spoke.
Yes, mental illness can also be proven by objective facts.
People with mental illness often have brain lesions that differ from ordinary people, such as some tissues secreting more or less than normal, or a shadow appearing in some part of the brain.
Mental illness being hereditary is also caused by genes that construct this kind of brain.
"If the instruments can detect a problem."
In other words...
Could it be caused by a stress syndrome?
Xu Liang frowned.
This... does it fit? To be honest, he felt it didn’t really fit.
It’s just....
Just as Xu Liang was about to speak, a sudden voice cut off their discussion.
"Bang."
They only heard a sound suddenly come from the landline at hand, snapping everyone out of their thoughts.
Everyone froze, turned their heads, and saw Lv Xiong behind the glass, at this moment....
At this moment he had collapsed to the ground, his whole body lying on his side on the floor, his expression looking a bit ferocious, both hands constantly scratching at his body.
"It itches! It itches, it itches...."
Lv Xiong’s face twisted hideously; he had gouged several bloody marks into his own chest, yet it did nothing to relieve that maggot-clinging-to-bone kind of itch.
It was just like... ants crawling along his spine!
"It itches, it itches!"
A series of heart‑rending screams rang out.
This sudden accident instantly startled the surrounding officers, their faces showing they were caught completely off guard.
What’s going on!?
Wasn’t he fine just a moment ago!?
"Doctor!? Doctor, get the doctor!!!"
Two officers cried out in alarm; one immediately ran to find the detention center’s doctor, while the other stayed to control the scene, preventing Lv Xiong from sustaining secondary injuries.
And Xu Liang, Director Yang, as well as Su Yu and Yang Ruoxi were standing at the glass, looking at Lv Xiong with bewilderment on their faces.
What... what’s happening?
The commotion drew a group of officers; seeing this scene, they were all shaken.
"What did you do!?"
The director of the detention center saw Lv Xiong collapsed on the ground, scratching himself in pain, and his pupils tightened slightly.
Director Yang’s face darkened; he hadn’t done anything, yet this mess had landed in his lap....
The director, however, had no time to pursue responsibility; he immediately started giving orders.
"Out! Everyone, seal the area immediately!"
"Lawyer Xu, Dr. Yang, don’t leave yet, wait for me in the lobby!"
"Officer Zhang, have the doctor stabilize his condition first—whether it works or not, he must be sent to the hospital immediately. Li, get a vehicle ready in advance!"
As these orders fell one after another.
The whole detention center erupted into noisy activity; every officer on scene knew exactly what they needed to do.
Because of this sudden accident, Xu Liang and the others had no choice but to end the interrogation, calm themselves, and walk out.
Meanwhile, Lv Xiong’s face remained twisted and feral; he could hear nothing anyone said, curled up on the ground, his hands constantly clawing, his chest already shredded and bloody, yet he seemed to feel no pain, as if he wished he could cut his own heart out!
"It itches... it itches!!!"
His anguished cries came through the landline.
Xu Liang took a deep breath, stepped out of the reception room, and sat down on a chair in the lobby.
The officers ignored them, hurrying back and forth; in no time, Lv Xiong was bound and lifted onto a stretcher, several officers drenched in cold sweat pushing him toward the vehicle, which immediately drove off toward the hospital.
Hallucinations... itching... an accident....
Director Yang, who had been standing beside him, watched this scene, wanting to speak yet holding back, holding back yet wanting to speak.
After a long moment, he finally drew a deep breath, looked at Xu Liang, and said in a low voice:
"Lawyer Xu... I don’t think Mr. Lv... has a disorder in the mental realm, he...."
As he spoke, Director Yang broke off, his lips working for a long time, yet no words would come out.
Xu Liang knew what he wanted to say, and suddenly spoke.
"It’s drugs, isn’t it."
Drugs....
As the three words fell, the surroundings fell silent; Su Yu and Yang Ruoxi stared at him in fright.
Yes.
The way Lv Xiong was acting looked almost no different from a junkie!
But that raised a problem.
"Sanma Village is a lawless backwater, backward and closed off, they don’t even have television. A place like that....."
Xu Liang took a deep breath, looked in the direction where Lv Xiong had disappeared, narrowed his eyes slightly, and murmured:
"If it’s that stuff..."
"Then where did the drugs come from?"
He didn’t know, but Xu Liang knew that whether or not Lv Xiong had taken drugs could be found out just by going to the hospital!
The hospital would definitely run a urine test!
Thinking of this, Xu Liang’s gaze hardened.
"Let’s go."
"To the hospital!"
