The imprint of the universe and the return of all things

Section 1.

Although ex-wife Ashley was temporarily suspended, she was not idle.

Before she was suspended, she visited Kenichi Ito and Raj in the hospital. (Raj was rescued by doctors at that time and had already regained his vitality.) She learned from Ito and Raj that some changes seemed to have occurred in Hill (Galen)'s body, making the two personalities of Hill and Galen different. He alternately controls his body, instead of being completely controlled by Hill's personality like before.

Ashley has been monitoring Hill and Galen for a long time and is very familiar with their situation. She was keen and immediately noticed that this was an unusual change. She intuitively felt that this might be a useful weapon for them to deal with Hill. But due to limited information, she is not particularly sure about this. Therefore, she decided to conduct some related investigations alone during her suspension, and planned to report the situation to the FBI after she resumed work.

She first went to a famous mental hospital in Washington, where she visited an old friend. Her friend worked at the mental hospital and was an experienced psychiatrist.

She asked her psychiatrist friend many questions about DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), especially about the causes of DID, the relationship between personality status and patient behavior, and"synergistic conscious personality". , from which a lot of very useful information was obtained.

Then, she drove non-stop to a suburban town in Portland, Oregon, and stopped in front of an ordinary small house in the town.

This house belonged to Galen's ex-wife, Caterina. After Catalina divorced Galen, she left New York City and moved to Portland alone to stay away from Galen. She works in a local art museum and is still single. She seldom socializes and has lived a simple and peaceful life for many years.

Although so much time has passed, she still cannot get over the death of her daughter Laura and needs to rely on medication every day to fight depression. She chose to work in an art museum so that she could have more opportunities to come into contact with various poetic works of art, so that she could immerse herself in the illusory world constructed by those works of art and escape the pain of reality. The artworks soothed her wounded heart.

Ashley walked to the door of the house, knocked on the door gently, and called out softly:"Hello, is anyone here?"

After a while, the door opened, and a man with elegant temperament and charm remained. The middle-aged woman stuck her head out, looked at Ashley, and asked warily:"Excuse me, what can I do?"

Ashley smiled and said:"Hello, are you Caterina? Carter. Lena Lopez?"

The middle-aged woman nodded slightly and said,"Yes. Who are you? What do you want from me?"

Ashley said,"Nice to meet you, Catalina. I am I'm from the FBI. My name is Ashley. I'm here to talk to you about Galen."

When Catalina heard the name"Galen", her face darkened and she said coldly:"I'm with you. Galen has been divorced for many years and has not had any contact with her. I have nothing to say about him, so please don’t disturb me."

After that, she closed the door heavily and walked back into the house.

Ashley was rejected and had to stand outside the house and shouted:"Katrina, I understand how you don't want to mention the past, but this matter is really important. We need your help. Please, come with me." Can we have a nice chat?"

But no matter how Ashley yelled, Catalina never responded.

Ashley had no choice but to sit down on a stool next to the door and wait patiently for Catalina to change her mind.

I waited for several hours until late at night.

Ashley hadn't eaten all day and was already ravenous. But she was unwilling to leave just now, so she could only endure her hunger and continue to wait.

Catalina peeked at Ashley through the window several times. Seeing how persistent Ashley was, she was somewhat moved by Ashley's perseverance and couldn't bear to see Ashley wait any longer.

So, she opened the door and asked Ashley:"Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

Ashley stood up from the stool, looked at Catalina sincerely, and said seriously:" I want you to save Galen. I want you to save the whole world."

Catalina was stunned for a moment after hearing this, not knowing why. But she saw that Ashley didn't look like she was joking, so she sighed and greeted Ashley:"Come in and talk."

Ashley followed Catalina into the house and was taken to the dining room table. sit down. Catalina knew that Ashley must be hungry after waiting outside for so long, so she heated up a sandwich and a bottle of milk to fill Ashley's belly.

Ashley looked around the room and saw that the room was filled with many works of art, but there was no picture of Galen, Laura or even Catalina herself. She immediately understood that Catalina’s state of mind.

While eating her sandwich, Ashley asked Catalina:"I believe you have heard about what happened in Silicon Valley recently."

Catalina said casually:"Although I really don't want to hear about Galen. Any news, but once you turn on the TV news, there are overwhelming reports about him. It’s hard for me not to know."

Ashley asked:"So, what do you think?"

Catalina shook her head and said :"I don't know, and I don't want to pay attention to those things. Those things are too complicated for me. But... I feel that those things are not like what the Galen I know can do. He......He has no outstanding abilities or terrible ambitions. He is just a very kind-hearted ordinary man. He has always been kind."

Ashley said:"Your feeling is not wrong. Those things were indeed not done by Galen.. But it’s a madman who has taken over Galen’s body and used Galen’s body to do random things."

Catalina was confused after hearing this and said doubtfully:"What do you mean by"occupying the body"? I didn’t understand. Can you explain it a little more clearly?"

Ashley nodded, and then explained the matter about Hill's personality to Catalina concisely, so that Catalina could understand the ins and outs of the whole thing.

After hearing this, Catalina was quite shocked. She did not expect that Galen had experienced so many bizarre things in the past few years, nor did she expect that the impact of the incident would be so great, and that it would develop to such a dangerous point.

She said to Ashley at a loss:"So, what do you want me to do? These are big events that affect the whole world. I can't help at all. I'm just a very ordinary woman. I I can't even save my own daughter's life, let alone save others. Are you sure you didn't find the wrong person?"

Ashley said firmly:"I didn't find the wrong person. I believe you are the key to saving the world. Because Galen's other personality, Hill, is very smart. We have tried all kinds of methods, but we can't deal with him. And in this world, the only one who can deal with Hill is Galen. Only Only by regaining his body can Galen prevent Hill from doing more crazy things and prevent the world from suffering a catastrophe. But it is not easy for Galen to regain his body, and he needs your help."

Catalina He said in confusion:"What else can I do to help Galen? We have been divorced for so many years."

Ashley slowly explained:"The reason why Galen suffers from the mental illness of split personality is caused by objective factors on the one hand - a very rare mutation in his brain, and on the other hand, it is caused by The influence of subjective factors. Since Laura's death, Galen has been very guilty and self-blame. Like you, he lives in pain every day and is always depressed. He feels that his life has lost its meaning and he has lost hope for the future. , life became bleak. Although he worked hard every day and tried to communicate normally with the people around him, he was lonely, helpless, empty and confused deep in his heart. Therefore, under the action of the psychological self-protection mechanism, A firm and powerful personality, Hill, naturally emerged in his consciousness to protect him, find meaning for his life, and help him complete his self-salvation.

This was not a bad thing originally. It's a pity that Hill's personality has such a weak mind. It was so active that it gradually deviated from its original intention and became the guest, firmly occupying Galen's body. Hill always believed that his birth was the result of some mysterious power, and constructed a set of grand scientific theories. To support this idea. From a scientific point of view, that theory does have a certain truth and cannot be falsified, but it is just a dream after all. From a psychological point of view, it is obvious that Hill He is just a madman who forcibly seeks the meaning of life for himself.

Nowadays, the person who unties the bell still needs to tie the bell. If you want to help Galen defeat Hill and regain his body, you must first let Galen rekindle the hope of life and inspire His will to survive. And only you can do this. Because after Laura's death, the only person he cares about in this world is you. I believe that he still loves you. If you are willing to reconnect with him Once we get back together, he will definitely be inspired and will use the greatest determination to overcome all difficulties."

After Catalina listened, she was silent for a while and then said sadly:"Well, I probably understand what you mean. But. I'm sorry, I really can't do what you want me to do. I can't face Galen again. Whenever I see Galen, I... I can't help but think of the scene when Laura died, thinking of......Thinking of the scene where the lovely Laura fell off the horse, with a bloody head and wounds all over her body, dying and looking at me helplessly...I really...really……"As she spoke, she choked up unconsciously, tears streaming down her face.

Seeing this, Ashley quickly stretched out her warm hand to hold the back of Catalina's hand, and said warmly:"I know this is not easy. This is not a psychological barrier that can be overcome overnight. But the problem is, you hate Galen Do you still have feelings for Galen?"

Catalina covered her face with her hands, shook her head and said,"Maybe I still hate you, maybe you still love me, I don't know, I really don't know. I really I don’t want to think about these problems anymore, these problems make me very uncomfortable."

Ashley took out a thick stack of photos from her pocket, slowly placed them in front of Catalina, and whispered to Catalina:"Okay, Catalina, let's not talk about your relationship with Galen first. Please take a look at these photos first."

Catalina heard this, wiped her tears, and slowly picked up the stack of photos. Look through them one by one. All the photos showed scenes of children dying tragically. Some were shot to death, some were poisoned, and some were burned. The pictures were shocking and extremely tragic. The more Katerina looked, the more shocked she became, and the more she looked, the more saddened she became.

Halfway through, she couldn't stand it any longer. She put down the photo with trembling hands, looked at Ashley with some emotion, and said loudly:"Why are you showing me these? You think my sadness is not enough, why are you showing me this?" Do you want to add more to me?"

Ashley said calmly:"Please calm down and listen to me, Catalina. These are the children who died innocently and tragically due to the war in Silicon Valley that just happened. In a few days Before, they were still a group of lively, lovely and energetic children, but now they have turned into pitiful corpses. Can you imagine how sad their parents would be. The reason why I show you this is to tell you You, in this world, are not the only one who has encountered tragedy, there are many people who have the same experience. Moreover, such tragedies are likely to continue to happen in the future. Your tragedy has become a foregone conclusion, no matter what you do, Luo Radu will not come back. But now, there is an opportunity in front of you to prevent more tragedies from happening and avoid more unfortunate parents like you. Why don't you give it a try. Even if it's not for Galen, For the sake of those poor children and those poor parents, it's worth a try, isn't it?"

Catalina was noncommittal, just silently picking up the stack of photos again and looking through them one by one. This time, she looked at it very seriously and shed tears while watching it. When I saw the end, I couldn't help but burst into tears and burst into tears. I cried heartbreakingly and was heartbroken. Ashley comforted her quietly.

After crying loudly, Catalina stretched out her hand, took Ashley's arm, and said slightly:"Okay, I'll give it a try. No matter how difficult it is, I will give it a try. For the sake of those poor children, I will give it a try." This is what should be done."

Ashley looked at Catalina with gratitude and said softly:"Thank you. Thank you for your bravery, thank you for your compassion."

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