The first floor of the Three Cats Hotel is a fully connected building, except that there is an area under the stairs, which is one step higher than the normal ground. The second floor of the Three Cats Hotel is like a patio. There are tables around the second floor, and you can directly see the first floor when you lie on the railing. This is so that people on the second floor can also see the bard on the first floor. performance.
The hotel was still the same as before. The female shopkeeper Mrs. Sang Mei warmly entertained the two of them. The doctor took Xia De to the second floor and sat down in a remote corner on the second floor.
In the afternoon, Tobesk is still covered with fog. After all, the steam pipe heating will start in the city next Monday. Recently, the factory has produced much more exhaust gas than normal. In addition, the weather was not good today, so although it was still afternoon, the Three Cats Hotel still turned on the gas lamp. But in order to save gas costs, the light is not very strong.
The doctor first went to the third floor to call down his patient, Mr. Jims, and asked Shad to sit there and wait. Since the doctor had already ordered drinks from the scantily clad waitress, Shad didn't need to do anything else.
After the doctor left, he sat there and looked at the guests around him. In order for Mr. Jims to calm down a bit, Dr. Schneider chose the southeast corner of the second floor. In addition, there were not many customers on Friday afternoon, so when Xia De looked around, he could only see a middle-aged woman with her back to him on the other side of the wall on the second floor opposite the patio, holding a Wine glass for drinking.
"A woman drinking alone in a hotel on Friday afternoon?"
Xia De smelled "the smell of a story", but he was not a writer like Dorothy, so although he was curious, he didn't have the idea to investigate.
Before Dr. Schneider came back, the drinks they ordered were delivered, and it was Mrs. Sangmei, the hotel owner, who walked up the stairs with the tray.
"Ms. Sangmei, you didn't drive away the waiters in the store because there was no business in the afternoon, did you save money?"
Xia De asked with a smile. The female shopkeeper wore an apron and put the wine glasses on the table one by one:
"Oh, Detective, it's for Hamilton's sake that I brought you drinks myself?"
Mrs. Sangmei also said with a smile. After putting the wine glass on the table, she brought another plate of fried beans and put it in the center of the table:
"Is this for you?"
"Why?"
Shad blinked.
"I've heard people mention 'the detective's penny question' these days, and whenever people in town talk about it, they mention us."
Madam Sammy said:
"It's a thank you, Detective, for making us more famous."
Xia De reached out and pinched a bean and threw it into his mouth:
"Isn't it a little too stingy to send only one plate of beans?"
Soon after Mrs. Summer left, Dr. Schneider returned with Mr. Jims. Contrary to what Shad imagined, although Mr. Jims was thin and tall, he did not show "nervousness" or abnormal behavior.
Mr. Jims is a middle-aged man in his thirties. He has already learned about Shad's identity from Dr. Schneider, and he also took the initiative to extend his hand to him politely.
When the three of them were seated, Dr. Schneider was sitting with his back to the wall, Shad was sitting opposite the doctor, and Mr. Jims was on the doctor's left and Shad's right.
Dr. Schneider didn't need Schade to intervene in his psychological consultation, so he sat aside and listened to the doctor ask Mr. Jims about his itinerary this week and the problems he had encountered in the past few days.
Shade learned from the conversation between the two that Mr. James's "paranoia of being persecuted" is not because he feels that someone is always trying to kill him, but because he feels that there are accidents around him, and any disturbance may lead to a fatal accident. crisis.
When you see someone playing with a dagger, you think the dagger will stab him; when you see a banana peel in front of you, you think you will step on it and slip to your death; would think that these wild animals would hurt him.
Of course, although the patient himself believed that he might die at any moment, in fact, in the three months since he had this "illusion", he has not been injured by any accident except for a few weeks of slight colds. However, as time went by, Mr. James's "crisis perception" became more and more intense. Now, he is not even willing to go to such a strange place as Dr. Schneider's clinic.
Dr. Schneider tried to analyze Mr. Jims' mental state from various angles, and prescribed some calming and sleep-aiding drugs for him in the past few weeks. This method can indeed relieve tension, but it does not have much effect on Mr. Jims' "deadly crisis sense".
The conversation between the two lasted for more than half an hour. Dr. Schneider had a preliminary understanding of his patient's psychological changes this week, so he signaled that it was Xia De's turn.
Xia De didn't think he could play a big role, but since he had already arrived, he took this as a detective investigation:
"Mr. Jims, before you suddenly had this strange idea three months ago, did you encounter any special things?"
he asked carefully.
"Dr. Schneider has already dissected with me the past that may have affected my mentality."
Mr. Jims shook his head slightly.
"No no, I mean, have you ever been to a cemetery, an abandoned country church, a strange shop in an alley, or bought a strange pendant, eerie statue, or an old book with a leather cover?"
Xia De asked with a serious expression, and Mr. Jims thought for a while before he understood what he meant:
"Detective ~www.mtlnovel.com~ You mean..."
"It's just a possibility. Although I am not in favor of introducing theology into the study of spiritual science, sometimes we have to consider various reasons."
Xia De said, and Dr. Schneider on the side also nodded:
"That's why I brought the detective. Of course, you don't have to pay the detective extra for it."
Mr. Jims was relieved at this, and he recalled:
"Sorry, I don't think I've ever been exposed to weird things."
"That's it..."
Xia De thought for a while and came up with another idea:
"Since you feel that you are always surrounded by a fatal crisis, are you trying to really put yourself in danger? Maybe when you do escape from death, the strange psychological feeling will disappear, which is a bit like using poison to relieve another An antidote to poison."
"Is there such a detoxification method?"
Mr. Jims asked curiously, but nodded immediately:
"It does sound reasonable, but how do you put yourself in danger?"
"This is easy."
Xia De put his hand into his coat, looked left and right, and then took out the [Gun of Kindness] in the gun bag, took it out and patted it on the table in the astonishment of Mr. Jims:
"use this."
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