Chapter 742 Split Personality
Chapter 742 Split Personality
Blake, "Normally, the left and right brain communicate in real-time through the corpus callosum, which allows a person to function properly. But some epilepsy patients, to save their lives, have no choice but to undergo corpus callosotomy."
"After the surgery, because the left and right brain lack the connection of the corpus callosum, they split into two independent consciousnesses."
"At this point, if you show the patient a picture of a beautiful woman and ask them to say what they see."
"When the patient sees it with their right eye, they can say it's a beautiful woman, but when they see it with their left eye, they can't say it."
"This is because information from the right eye is mainly processed by the left brain, and the left brain controls speech."
"Although the right brain can understand it's a beautiful woman, the right brain doesn't control the speaking part, so it can't say it out loud."
"Here's another example: sometimes the left hand will suddenly unbutton a shirt, and when the right hand notices, it tries to stop it. This is caused by inconsistent commands from the left and right brain."
"To outsiders, this phenomenon looks like split personality."
"Of course, what I'm talking about is on a physical level."
"In other words, for emotionally complex creatures like humans, personality splitting can happen quite easily."
"What we call self-awareness is actually an illusion created by the cooperation of the left and right brain. When this cooperation is interrupted, the personality splits into two independent selves."
Victor's breathing started to quicken. Although he tried hard to suppress his unusual reaction, he couldn't help but show it.
He knew this was probably exactly what Blake wanted to see, so he didn't want to let Blake succeed.
But Blake succeeded anyway.
Actually, these past few days, he'd been downplaying the fact that he was a secondary personality, and even wanted to kill the main personality and take its place.
It was because he couldn't accept that his existence wasn't real.
He could barely manage his emotions effectively.
When coming up from downstairs, passing the steps, Blake would lift Victor over without hesitation, lifting him by himself.
Victor couldn't help thinking that with such strength, it would be easy to dispose of a body after killing someone.
Back in the hospital room, after eating, Barbara and Blake left, and Emily lay down beside Victor to sleep.
Only then did he have time to think calmly.
Blake kept deliberately guiding him, emphasizing that he was just a secondary personality, which meant Blake had already figured out he wasn't the original personality.
And the more Blake did this, the more strange Victor felt.
Finally, he found a flaw in Blake's argument.
According to Blake's theory, it might be possible for others, but it couldn't possibly be his situation.
Because Blake's theory had a premise—that killing would produce negative emotions, but Henry was the opposite. He only felt pleasure from killing, so how could it trigger the brain's protective mechanism?
Therefore, this theory didn't apply to him!
However, thinking about this, Victor thought of that third personality.
He realized an even more frightening problem.
Who told him that Henry's personality was definitely the main personality?
Initially, he labeled the three people appearing in his dream as A, B, and C. The one running away represented his current self, Victor, as A.
The one chasing with a candlelight was Henry, as B.
Then the person who warned him to run quickly was personality C.
What if! What if Henry wasn't the main personality either?
What if the real main personality was actually C!
Then wouldn't everything Blake said make sense?
Right, why was he so quick to assume that Henry was the main personality?
Thinking about it now, Henry experienced Alice nearly dying on the spot in childhood, and even the unborn brother or sister in Alice's belly had died.
And Robert and Sophia were separated from him too. He desperately resisted, but his resistance was as ridiculous as a clown's.
Under such circumstances, if Henry couldn't bear it and split off a personality, analyzing it this way—
The split personality should be the kind that desperately wanted to find family members and save everything.
How could it turn into a serial killer like B?
Including himself, he didn't have a strong feeling of wanting to find his family either.
Thinking about this, Victor became more certain of his guess.
In this process!
Blake must have played a crucial role.
Perhaps the first personality Henry split off was influenced by him.
However, this involved a core question.
What was Blake's purpose in doing this?
What was his motive?
Victor believed Blake must have his motive, definitely!
Blake wouldn't say these things for no reason. He was a psychologist, and every sentence he said would have multiple meanings. He absolutely couldn't let his guard down.
The more Blake wanted him to change in that direction, the more he couldn't let Blake have his way!
Victor dismissed these thoughts. Since there was nothing else to do now, he might as well look at what the driver had written in his hidden diary.
He had to admit, the feeling of prying into someone else's privacy had a strange kind of pleasure.
Even Victor couldn't avoid it.
As he opened the diary and looked carefully, he found the driver wrote in his diary almost every day.
Things like how much money he made, what difficult customers he encountered, female customers, and all kinds of interesting stories.
This notebook was more like an account book than a diary.
Daily amounts made up most of it.
And there was also content about him falling in love at first sight with a woman.
The driver didn't mention this woman's name. He only wrote this passage:
"The first time I saw her, I was drawn to her eyes. Her eyes were deep, full of stories. She revealed a hint of sadness in her coldness, so captivating."
There was a lot more about his own psychological description afterward. You could tell he really did fall in love with this woman at first sight.
He continued reading. Several more entries were about how infatuated he was with this woman.
This kind of obsession made Victor guess that the driver must have stalked this woman for a while.
This also made him curious about this woman.
Flipping further back, he found the driver's content had undergone a huge change, as if he'd become a different person.
"You killed her! Damn it! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to get revenge!"
The handwriting was very deep, showing the driver was pressing hard when writing. You could see how angry he was.
He suddenly realized that several pages seemed to be missing in the middle—torn out by someone. Was it the driver?
He kept the notebook close to his body, so it should only be him, right?
But why would he tear out several pages?
What exactly was written on those pages?
Also, he wanted revenge—who was his enemy?
And why did he say the word "demon" to himself before dying?