Meng Nan did not dare to sleep, and he stood stubbornly in the middle of the room. He maintained the strange posture, and it felt like his head was about to be pressed down from his shoulders.
"I keep feeling like there's something pressing down on his head." Chen Ge was afraid of agitating Meng Nan, so he kept his voice low. "It's not something that comes out of one's imagination; it's something real."
Doctor Gao waved his hands lightly. Accompanying Meng Nan, he took out his phone like he was texting someone.
Seeing that Doctor Gao did not reply, Chen Ge started to search the other rooms in the room.
The room was only about thirty square meters, but even though it was small, it had everything. It had a bedroom, a living room, and a private bathroom.
"From the looks of it, this is just a normal rented room." Chen Ge did not find any blind spots, so there was no chance of a body being hidden.
He exited the living room and pushed open the wooden door to the bathroom. To his surprise, there was a half-length mirror hanging on the wall opposite the door.
"The mirror is facing the door?" Due to the first Nightmare Mission, Chen Ge was very sensitive to mirrors.
He walked to the mirror silently and looked at himself in it. "This is a rare setup. Once I open the door, I'll see myself in the mirror. It must be weird."
The surface of the mirror was very clean, like it had been cleaned often. There was not a single stain.
Moving his eyes away, he saw that there was a sink under the mirror. In Meng Nan's nightmare, he had been standing there to wash his hair.
Chen Ge mimicked Meng Nan's posture. He leaned against the sink and bent his body ninety-five degrees so that his head could reach under the faucet.
"From this angle, I can see the scene outside the room. The scene in his dream could be real." If he was lying under the faucet and could not see the scene in the living room, or his vision was blocked by other things, then Chen Ge would not be afraid, which meant that this was just a dream.
However, after experimenting with it himself, he found that even in reality, it was entirely possible.
Poking her head into the sink, the world upside down reflected in her eyes.
"Meng Nan said that every time he dreams, the man will get closer to him. This place is very suspicious. Why doesn't the man just walk over to kill him? Why did you have to torture him bit by bit? Is there any deep hatred between the two of you? " Chen Ge was deep in thought when he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck. He immediately straightened up and touched his neck.
"A drop of water? Where did it come from? " Chen Ge raised his head to look at the ceiling. There were no signs of water seeping through the ceiling. The drop of water had appeared out of nowhere.
"Is it a mirror?" He couldn't help but imagine himself washing his hair in front of the sink. His reflection in the mirror stretched out half of his body and grabbed his neck.
"According to the black phone, this Trial Mission is called A Room for Three. The mission name itself is a kind of hidden hint." Chen Ge looked at his reflection in the mirror and felt like something had dawned on him. "There are three 'people' in the room. Meng Nan is one of them, and the man who keeps getting closer in the dream is the other. Now, there is a third 'person' in the room. Could this third person be hiding inside the mirror?"
Chen Ge placed his hands on the sink and looked around. He noticed two empty shampoo bottles inside the toilet bin.
"Meng Nan has only moved into this apartment for a short period of time, and he has already used up two bottles of shampoo? If he is washing his hair in the dream, why would he have used so little shampoo in real life? Could it be that the boy has a habit of sleepwalking? Would he wash his hair alone at night? " Chen Ge thought about it and thought that it was unlikely. When he communicated with Dr. Gao, the latter had mentioned this before. To rule out the possibility of the apartment itself, Dr. Gao had brought Meng Nan home, but Meng Nan's nightmare did not stop.
"Temporarily, I can rule out the possibility of sleepwalking, but if Meng Nan used up two bottles of shampoo in a short period of time when he was awake, then that would be even weirder. Why would he wash his hair so crazily?"
Even the cleanest person would wash their hair once a day, but Meng Nan had used up two bottles of shampoo in such a short period of time, and the third shampoo bottle next to the sink only had half a bottle left.
"Under what circumstances would a person keep washing their hair? Itchy head? Dirty hair? Or feeling something in their hair? " Chen Ge leaned against the wall to think. "Meng Nan fought with people twice at school. The first time was because he noticed the animal pattern on the curtain was not symmetrical, and the second time was because he could not count the sesame seeds on the pie. This person should suffer from serious OCD."
For a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, they would try their best to correct anything that was slightly wrong. If they couldn't correct it, they would feel uncomfortable all over. Chen Ge believed this was the reason why Meng Nan washed his hair crazily.
"Only Meng Nan knows the answer to this question. He probably hid something important from Dr. Gao." Chen Ge was speculating when his phone vibrated. He took it out and saw it was a message from Dr. Gao.
"Meng Nan's family background is a bit complicated, and it is different from the result of my previous investigation. After I told his family about Meng Nan's illness, his family's reaction was very cold. They only said that they would transfer enough money into Meng Nan's bank account, and they did not plan to come to Jiujiang to visit him. I can't let Meng Nan know about this, so I can only send you a message. "
"His own son is sick? As his parent, he doesn't want to accompany him? "
"I didn't expect that either. When I asked Meng Nan and his classmates, everyone said that Meng Nan came from a very harmonious family. I even purposely looked through his social media, and there were many articles about family appreciation."
Meng Nan presented himself as a well-educated, open-minded, and professional student who lived in a warm family, but in reality, all of that was just a facade.
After reading the message, Chen Ge told Dr. Gao about his discovery.
Not long after that, Dr. Gao replied with a few messages.
"OCD can be roughly divided into four categories: worry, ritual, cleanliness, and perfectionism. Based on my observation, Meng Nan's illness does not belong to any of the four categories. He only washed his hair because he needed it.
"In my opinion, Men Nan's behavior is more like another kind of mental illness — traumatic stress disorder. For example, after an earthquake, individual survivors will be in a state of high alert for a long period of time. It's very difficult for them to get rid of the trauma brought about by the earthquake. Their brains will feed them false information, as if the earthquake will happen again at any time."
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