stonecrandall Chapter 337 Effective First Aid as Prescribed by Doctor
Chapter 337 Effective First Aid as Prescribed by Doctor
"Is it really okay to leave Miss Mia in Dr. Makomo's Dream Lab like this?"
On the train heading to the Alliance headquarters, Azure asked Hugo with some concern.
At this moment, the train was about to arrive at the station, and during the time on the train, she learned from the detective about the Akromma poisoning incident and the details of the Voodoo poisoning case.
While clearly sensing the severity of this series of poisoning cases, Azure couldn't help but start to worry about Miss Mia, who was caught in the vortex.
"That is, after all, Mia's own dream. If the thing that invaded her mind harbors malice towards Miss Mia, then even if we stay by her side every step of the way, we cannot guarantee that she will be completely unharmed. In this regard, Dr. Makomo and the others are more capable of helping Miss Mia."
Hugo's gaze remained fixed on the tablet screen in his hand.
From the moment he began recounting the case to Azure, he was constantly distracted by reading the photographs of evidence sent by the Alliance police—the strange manuscript Akromar left in the Alliance meeting room before being knocked out by the nameless poison.
"To put it more optimistically, that entity has been residing in Mia's mind for a year, yet it has not caused any direct harm to the host. I think this shows the goodwill in the other party's logic."
"But it did trigger Mia's suicidal impulses after all."
The detective's assistant, sitting opposite him in the first-class carriage, retorted—
"Even if the incident of luring Miss Mia to the beach was a misunderstanding, the suicidal impulses that Mia felt as soon as the dream appeared were real. Moreover, the kind of thing that hides in the human mind for a long time and causes strange dreams is very dangerous no matter how you look at it. If Miss Mia's mind were any more fragile, or if she did not receive help from others in time, her mental state might really have problems."
"Miss Mia went to the hospital for a checkup not long after she started having strange dreams. If she really has serious mental problems, the doctors in Feiyun City will naturally not stand idly by. If the hospital can't solve it either, they will help her contact a skilled psychic or a superpowered person. In short, although the process will be a bit more difficult than it is now, the problem can most likely be solved."
The detective made a casual comment, then began to discuss it seriously.
"Of course, I don't deny that the existence that infiltrates Miss Mia's dream is somewhat dangerous. But the danger is not great enough to warrant advising Miss Mia to avoid communicating with it."
Hugo continued to stare intently at the equations on the tablet, his expression deep, while explaining them to Azure—
“The suicidal impulses that Miss Mia sensed were not intentionally transmitted by the dream visitor. I believe they originated from the emotions of that being itself—this is the conclusion I drew based on your dream connection report from this morning.”
"How so?" Azure asked, intrigued.
"Judging from the toxins and oppression you felt in your dream, the other party seems to have undergone some kind of mutation in the dark depths of the sea, thus beginning to cause damage and pollution to the surrounding environment. Therefore, it believes that its existence is a mistake, and while spreading warnings to the outside world, it prays for its own death in its heart—this is the truth behind that suicidal impulse."
"Is it that purple smoke from my dream? Although I can't remember the details of the dream now, I did feel a sense of crisis, like my heart was stopping. So the source of this anomaly is that discolored stone tablet?" Azure asked.
The detective in the white coat nodded: "Yes. And according to my guess, the shift from the overhead view to Miss Mia's perspective is the situation when the fragment of the dream visitor's consciousness transferred from the sea to Mia."
The chestnut-haired girl nodded repeatedly: "I see, that explains all the scenes in the dream... But wait, the timeline doesn't match up, there's a whole year difference. The last scene I saw in my dream, Mia crying on the beach, wasn't that the scene of her meeting you, Hugo?"
“It’s understandable that you don’t know this, Azure, since it’s something only I, the eyewitness, know. Actually, although Miss Mia looked haggard when I saw her at the beach, she wasn’t crying, so I’m confident that it was probably something that happened in the past,” Hugo replied without changing his expression, giving an eyewitness account that Azure was previously unaware of.
"Is it really okay to take the details of a dream so seriously? A haggard expression and tear stains on the face are probably just differences within the margin of error, right?" The assistant asked, based on her own impression of the dream.
Hugo shook his head—
"That's not an ordinary dream, but a dream space created through Dr. Makomo's dream connection device. Under the influence of the smoke secreted by Dream Erosion, when two consciousnesses exist simultaneously in that space, the images appearing in the dream will basically break free from the influence of subjective factors and instead be presented in an objective form that is relatively close to reality. Therefore, the details within it are worth exploring in depth."
"Furthermore, the fact that Miss Mia was led to the beach yesterday actually suggests that this area has a different meaning for her than other beaches."
"Due to the enclosed land management of several high-end beachfront hotels, there aren't many sections of the western coast of Feiyun City that are freely accessible to tourists, so it's sparsely populated. Miss Mia's home isn't even nearby, so the fact that she unconsciously found this place suggests that she had been to this beach area before. Therefore, I guess she probably came to this beach for a walk about a year ago due to stress, and then found this place where she could release her emotions, crying there several times. It was around that time that the dream visitor entered her heart through the seawater."
"Have you confirmed this with Mia?" Azure asked.
"Not yet, after all, this is Miss Mia's personal privacy. However, it's probably not worth confirming now," the detective said calmly.
“That’s true.” The detective’s assistant sighed, relaxed, and leaned back in his car seat.
"After all, Miss Mia and Dr. Makomo are going to investigate the truth of that dream tomorrow. Instead of me making aimless guesses here, Miss Mia only needs to find a place to sleep in the sea and receive more mental fragments from that dream visitor, and she will naturally find out the other party's identity."
"I suggested they find a quiet beach. With a dream expert overseeing them, there shouldn't be anything to worry about. It's only because Miss Mia just had a dream connection experiment today and needs to rest and recover. Otherwise, we would have known the message that the being in the dream wanted to convey tonight."
Hugo looked away from the screen, glanced at the electronic clock on the ceiling of the carriage, and then reluctantly closed the tablet.
"However, as you said earlier, there is still a risk in accepting information from an unknown entity rashly. But since Miss Mia, based on her understanding of the level of risk, believes that she should communicate with that entity according to her own will, we should respect her idea."
The train gradually slowed down, and the headquarters of the United Alliance, nestled at the foot of the mountain, became clearly visible.
"Just as every trainer encounters a certain degree of risk when communicating with wild Pokémon, if we worry about this and fear that, humanity will only be able to isolate itself in a self-centered island, and that distant building will never be built."
Standing up from his seat, the newly crowned champion of the United States League spoke with an air of self-righteousness—
"Only by taking a step forward and bravely responding to the call from afar can the worlds of humans and Pokémon be truly connected. From this perspective, although Miss Mia is timid and introverted, and has even released her only Pokémon in the past, she may also be a very competent trainer."