1 Chapter 1: Digging a hole to bury yourself.

In 1973, Professor Rosenhain of the Department of Psychology at Stanford University had done a daring experiment ... after pretending to be a psychiatric patient, he managed to blend into a notorious psychiatric hospital in New York and easily concealed from the resident physicians of that psychiatric hospital.

Soon after, however, when he tried to prove that he was not mentally ill, he found that he was unable to prove himself.

On the other hand, the treatment medication the hospital mandated had considerable side effects, leaving him in a deteriorating mental state, seemingly no different from a true psychopath.

If his wife hadn't arrived in time to save him as planned, he might have really become mentally ill.

This is the famous 'Rosenhain Experiment'!

The 'Rosenhain Experiment' tells us one thing - even a psychologist like Professor Rosenhain is likely to be unable to prove to himself that he is not mentally ill, so how do you expect me to prove it?

"Dr. Beth, I think you are making things difficult for me Ramon!"

　　[Clockworks Psychiatric Hospital], inside a consultation room.

A young man dressed in a blue and white striped hospital gown, looking in his early thirtie, said. From a glance, it can be seen that he was asian-white mixed as he wore a helpless face expression.

Sitting across from him was a white female doctor in a standard white lab coat with blonde hair and a small silver nameplate on the left side of her chest with her name written on it.

Dr. Caitlin Beth.

When the young man of mixed race, that is, Raymond in the eloquent talk, Dr. Beth just maintained a calm face while listening, and from time to time, she also used the pen in front of the medical record to record something.

Until Raymond finished his words, she put down the pen in her hand and looked up at Ramon: "Logically, you are a good doctor."

"Logically speaking, there is nothing wrong with your performance, and that speech you just made was quite wonderful, I dare say the majority of normal people are not as eloquent as you are ..."

　　"But?"

　　Ramon knew that after these words, there must be a but next.

　　"... But, you clearly told me just yesterday that you were from China, a reputable private detective, and somehow you woke up here, right?" Dr. Beth turned the medical record in her hand, reading a page, and asked while looking at the records on the medical record.

Raymond looked slightly stiff and was speechless for a moment.

Because these words a were indeed his own words, so he can not refute.

There are security cameras in this clinic, and if he argued unreasonably, Dr. Beth could take out the security footage and smack him in the face in a minute.

But at that time, he did not realize that he had actually crossed over .....

Although the term "crossover" has long been familiar to him as an old online bookworm, but anyone who woke up and found himself in a mental hospital, the first reaction can not be to guess that he had actually crossed over, right?

Not to mention that there is no mirror or anything in the ward, he was in a state of shock and anger and did not even realize that his body was no longer his original body, he just wanted to get out of this hellhole.

It was only after the first exchange with Dr. Beth that he discovered the truth of the matter.

That night, in his mind, some fragments of memories belonging to the original body owner appeared, knowing his current situation, as well as the identity and experience of the original body owner and so on.

But that was already after his first meeting with Dr. Beth.

Even if he wanted to change his mind, it was too late.

Therefore, in Dr. Beth's eyes, today's him should be a sub-personality that imagines himself as a famous private detective from China.

To be honest, Raymond was not surprised that Dr. Beth would make such a judgment, who knew that the reason why the original owner of the body was sent to this psychiatric hospital was schizophrenia?

　　Besides, for people like Dr. Beth who deal with psychiatric patients all day long, a sub-personality that brainstorms itself as a private detective or something like that was really not that strange.

Compared to those who call themselves God, Satan, aliens ... psychiatric patients, what could just a private detective from China be counted for?

But this led to Raymond now having no way to gain Dr. Beth's trust, and could not make Dr. Beth believe that he has really 'recovered'.

After all, he can't really say straight that he is a crossover.

Not to mention whether he could make Dr. Beth believe it or not, to take a step back, even if he really could, he definitely wouldn't dare to do so.

From the memory fragments of the original owner of the body, this world he is in now is most likely the 'Marvel world' that he knew in his previous life!

Although he is not sure which version of the Marvel world he knows is the world he is in.

But no matter which version, one thing is certain - this world has superhuman powers!

Once he foolishly said that he was a traveler from outside this world, and if he let people believe this, God knows how many explicit and implicit transcendent forces would come to beat him up.

Therefore, this is absolutely unworkable and does not need to be considered at all.

Instead of that, he would rather stay in the psychiatric hospital first, rather than being used as a guinea pig.

But aside from this solution, he really couldn't think of any good ideas for a while, he could only rack his brains to fight with Dr. Beth, trying to muddle through!

However, unfortunately, Dr. Beth was much more difficult to deal with than he expected ...

"I can explain what happened yesterday ..." Hearing Dr. Beth mention what happened yesterday, Raymond also had to harden his head, ready to take out a not-so-brilliant excuse that he had thought of in advance to deal with it.

But he didn't think that Dr. Beth wouldn't wait for him to finish his words, as she interrupted: "Then let's not mention yesterday's matter."

Hearing this from Dr. Beth, Raymond not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but his heart became more alert, because he had a feeling that Dr. Beth would embarrass him even more next.

Sure enough, he soon learned that he hadn't overthought it and things were going just as he thought they would.

"I know that you, Dr. Raymond, was a great expert in the field of psychology yourself before you fell ill, and your degree of expertise in psychology is far above mine ... I won't hide from you that I have read many of the articles you have published, and have always admired you, and even regarded you as my idol. "

"But that doesn't mean you can insult my professionalism with impunity."

Dr. Beth pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose and said with a serious face, "I got both my bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from Stanford University, and if there really was such a Rosenhain professor in the psychology department of Stanford University once, and also did a well-known experiment as you said.

I could not have been unaware of it."

"Therefore, even though your words, Dr. Raymond, sound as if they are logical and clear and without any problems, they do not prove that you have really recovered, sorry-"

......

There is actually no 'Rosenhain experiment' in this world?!

At this moment, Raymond only felt his head buzzing, and his heart could not calm down for a long time.

This is not digging a hole to bury himself?

In his previous life, although he was not like the original owner of the body, a psychology field big shot, but as a qualified private detective, he had also taught himself psychology for a period of time.

Therefore, what he said before 'Rosenhain experiment' is not something he made up himself, but there really is such a very famous experiment in the field of psychology.

This is also the reason why he would be so confident to run to start a second battle of wits with Dr. Beth.

But he never thought that this world actually does not have a Professor Rosenhain!

Then naturally, there is no 'Rosenhain experiment' that he mentioned.

His language logic was normal and his mind was sharp, but it couldn't change this iron-clad fact.

"This is the end ..."

Like a walking corpse, Raymond left the consultation room, as he suddenly felt that his future life is a gray.

It is foreseeable that the next Dr. Beth will be even more defensive of him, especially after seeing his serious 'nonsense', and it is even more difficult to win her trust.

But can he be blamed for this?

From the original body's memory fragments, the general development of this world is clearly the same as in the previous life, even the current North American president is the same as in the previous life.

Who knew that there were so many differences in the details?

The 'Rosenhain experiment', which is so well known in the field of psychology in the previous life, actually did not even happen in this world, so who can he talk to?

"Hey, Raymond, are you okay, why do you look so bad?" Just when Raymond's heart was ashen and he wanted to give himself two slaps, a young voice suddenly came from not far away, interrupting his thoughts.

When he subconsciously looked in the direction where the voice came from, he only saw a short-haired, blue-eyed white youth waving his hand at him.

"David?"

Raymond almost subconsciously called out the name.

Once the words were out, he was dismayed to find that he actually 'knew' this blue-eyed youth whom he had obviously never met, and his knowledge of this blue-eyed youth seemed to come from the very fragments of memory he had received from the original owner of the body.

The original body owner's memories have actually been mostly absorbed by him, but the fusion of such memories is not something that happens overnight, and requires a certain amount of time to adapt.

Therefore, at this stage, those memory fragments from the original body, only appear when he sees specific people and things.

Just like the blue-eyed youth David who greeted him at this time, before that he was completely unimpressed.

But when he saw the real person, immediately, memories emerged in his mind.

From these memories he learnt that the blue-eyed youth David's full name should be David Haller, and the original body owner was sent to the hospital because of schizophrenia, the two are also considered the same disease.

Unlike other types of psychiatric patients, schizophrenics are still relatively normal most of the time when they do not switch to a secondary personality, and are no different from normal people.

Therefore, in this psychiatric hospital, the original owner and David were among the few patients who could communicate normally.

One thing led to another, and the two have become friends.

"No, wait!"

When Raymond figured out the identity of the blue-eyed youth David from the memory fragments, his body stiffened abruptly!

David Haller?

Fuck, it can't be that David Haller, right?!