Chapter 72: Dissociative Identity Disorder, The Slumbering Personality

Chapter 72: Dissociative Identity Disorder, The Slumbering Personality

Instinctive survival instincts made Ji Yan quicken his speech.

By the time he finished speaking, he clearly felt the Specter Power that had nearly consumed him begin to loosen its grip.

If not for the additional hundred points of Specter Power he had gained earlier, he would have already been crushed into dried meat.

He secretly exhaled in relief—the fact that he hadn’t been killed immediately meant Gu Meng was starting to believe his words.

To believe his lie…

The eerie traces of Blackening on Gu Meng’s gaunt, delicate face gradually faded.

"Begin your proof now."

"You only have one chance. I’m tired of the smooth talk from quacks like you!"

Though the idea of dissociative identity disorder sounded even more absurd to Gu Meng, Ji Yan’s earnest and confident tone inexplicably gave her a sliver of hope.

What if it was true…

Ji Yan stretched his limbs, easing the soreness in his body.

He continued spinning his fabricated tale: "Your alternate personality—your lover—only emerges when you fall asleep at night."

"However, your lover also believes you’ve gone missing in this hospital. His emotions are far more volatile, which is why we often administer medication to reduce your sleep and prevent him from surfacing."

Gu Meng’s face remained icy, as if she were trying with all her might to expose the flaws in Ji Yan’s feeble explanation.

"If that’s the case, why didn’t you just say so earlier?"

"Why didn’t the other doctors dare to speak up, but you do?"

"If my lover truly exists within me, why has my child never seen him?"

"Goat Doctor, your story is full of holes."

Ji Yan shrugged. "They have professional ethics. I don’t."

"They were afraid you wouldn’t be able to accept the reality of dissociative identity disorder, that it might trigger something uncontrollable."

"The anesthetic in my hand will put you to sleep."

"As for proof, all you need to do is hand me that Drawing Paper."

Gu Meng sneered. "Anesthetic… What if you run away after I fall asleep?"

Ji Yan glanced at the empty ceiling. "Your child is here. If I try to run, you can order it to devour me immediately."

"Besides, your child is my best witness, isn’t it?"

Gu Meng fell silent.

She made a gesture to her child.

Ji Yan felt the chilling aura of death above him, like a guillotine hovering over his head.

"Begin, Goat Doctor."

"As long as you stick to your treatment honestly, my child won’t harm you."

Ji Yan nodded, thinking to himself—Your child is just a figment of your delusion. What do I have to fear?

He then retrieved the so-called anesthetic from his medical kit.

"Miss Gu, my anesthetic takes effect slowly. Just relax your body. Within five minutes at most, you’ll fall asleep."

As he spoke, he inserted the needle into her pale skin, slowly injecting the liquid into her body.

"Miss Gu, how do you feel?" A flicker of tension flashed in Ji Yan’s eyes.

After a moment of contemplation, Gu Meng replied softly, "I… feel a little drowsy…"

Hearing that it was working, Ji Yan’s expression visibly shifted, his heart surging with triumph.

In truth, there was no anesthetic—what he had injected was nothing but glucose!

Ji Yan's reason for deceiving her by claiming it was an anesthetic was to verify whether Gu Meng had truly fallen into the trap of his lie.

If she believed his words and thought it was an anesthetic, then under psychological suggestion, she would soon fall asleep.

If she remained awake, it would mean his lie had failed to deceive her.

That would be disastrous...

Fortunately, under Ji Yan's repeated psychological suggestions, Gu Meng tilted her head back, her slender eyes slowly closing.

Soon, the sound of steady breathing could be heard.

"Miss Gu, time to wake up."

Ji Yan tested with a question but received no response.

"Whew, the setup worked."

Ji Yan let out a long sigh of relief. In truth, if he ran now, he could survive—but the shackles of the mission would remain unshaken.

Today was the final day of his probation, and he had to complete it.

Besides, the Goat Supernatural Doctor was still watching him closely!

At that moment, Ji Yan heard a squelching, gurgling sound from the ceiling.

The next second, he saw large amounts of transparent mucus dripping from above—splat—a black object crashed onto the floor.

Upon closer inspection, it was a person.

The Pig Player, who had also taken on the A44 Ward patient.

"Still alive?"

Ji Yan was momentarily stunned but quickly realized it was likely because Gu Meng had fallen asleep, causing her supernatural abilities to vanish, allowing the Pig Player to crawl back from the brink of death.

In a way, he had inadvertently saved this pig...

"Huff—Where am I? Is this the next Instance?"

The Pig Player's face was smeared with mucus, his mind still in a daze.

"Unfortunately, you're not dead. How do you plan to thank me?"

Ji Yan spoke while walking over to the Drawing Board, removing Gu Meng's previous Drawing Papers and flipping through them.

The papers were filled with drawings of family portraits.

And in each one, Gu Meng's lover looked completely different.

Some were normal, while others were terrifying, monstrous Supernatural Entities!

In other words, once her alternate personality emerged, the form her lover took depended entirely on how the sleeping Gu Meng imagined him in her dreams.

The Pig Player stared at Ji Yan, then at the deeply sleeping Gu Meng.

The eerie scene left his mind flooded with questions...

"So... we're still in the A44 Ward? What did you do to that insane Supernatural Patient?"

Ji Yan: "She just fell asleep. She’ll wake up soon."

"Then why are we still standing here? Let’s run!"

"Why run? My treatment is only just beginning."

Ji Yan set down the Drawing Papers and put on sterile gloves.

"Treatment? This Female Supernatural Entity has Delusional Disorder—we’re supposed to find the lover she hallucinated. If we don’t, we die. How do you plan to treat that?"

Clearly, the Pig Player had already figured out Gu Meng’s condition and knew it was a death trap.

In his view, abandoning the mission and enduring some Punishment was better than losing his life.

Ji Yan shook his head. "But according to my report, she doesn’t have Delusional Disorder—she has Dissociative Identity Disorder."

"Her husband does exist. He’s just hidden in her alternate personality."

The Pig Player’s face went blank.

Staring at Ji Yan’s serious tone, he couldn’t tell whose information was wrong.

The highest level of deception is when even the deceiver believes it.

As long as Ji Yan remained convinced, Gu Meng now had Dissociative Identity Disorder.

"Idiot, I don't know where you heard about Dissociative Identity Disorder, but stay here if you want."

"Once that woman wakes up, you won't even have a chance to run!"

Delusional Disorder—this diagnosis was given to the Pig Player by the game panel. Could the game system possibly be lying to him?

After throwing out those words, he was ready to bolt.

Ji Yan ignored him, carefully examining the lie he had written on the parchment.

"Patient A44 suffers from Delusional Disorder, to be replaced with Dissociative Identity Disorder through deception."

"If the target believes the lie, the privilege activates, canceling Patient A44's Delusional Disorder setting!"

In short, once the lie becomes reality, Ji Yan would create a new NPC—and it would likely be an unimaginable monster!

Gurgle, gurgle.

At that moment, Ji Yan heard an eerie noise.

A pungent, supernatural stench filled his nostrils, but when he looked up, he saw Gu Meng's graceful figure now densely covered in black mucus, her slender frame gradually swelling...

A terrifying Supernatural Aura permeated the ward!

Ji Yan took a deep breath. "It's happening."

The Pig Player was also startled by the sight before him.

"What... what's happening to her?"

Ji Yan turned to him, his tone grave. "Didn't I tell you? The patient has Dissociative Identity Disorder."

"Now... her other personality has awakened."