[...He sometimes falls into a state of stress, losing his orientation and judgment, and perceiving those around him as extremely terrifying monsters, which may trigger a series of manic behaviors. Restraint is recommended.]
In the interstellar era, people with mental illnesses are generally not imprisoned unless they commit serious acts of violence.
The protagonist was still able to control the situation at the time, so he was taken home and slowly controlled with medication.
But unexpectedly, it was just a night with a power outage, and the atmosphere was only slightly gloomy.
He and his wife had a minor argument during their conversation, which suddenly triggered his paranoia.
This wasn't recorded in the medical records, so there might be another clue to follow later.
But Zhou Liye already had a general idea of what happened next, and said, "Sigh, this is what happened at the very beginning of the game."
His wife, standing behind him, suddenly transformed into a terrifying monster in his eyes, posing a constant threat to his life.
The man ran away without thinking, prompting his wife to chase after him with concern.
Then tragedy struck: the man grabbed a crowbar and struck his wife, knocking her to the ground. Their youngest daughter, hiding in the bedroom, witnessed the entire event.
During the argument, the man knocked over a candle used for lighting on the table, which caused a subsequent fire.
The wife, who had collapsed, struggled to the table and dialed the police, but died from excessive bleeding.
After receiving the call, the Queens Police Department did not answer, but soon dispatched officers because the fire alarm sounded. They rescued the girl who was hiding in the bedroom and the protagonist who had suffered severe burns.
The information about this place came from case records found in the prison.
—The protagonist is eventually classified as a mentally ill criminal, and the case file is locked in the archives.
Mentally ill offenders who pose a serious threat to society can only be imprisoned in special prisons, where they can be tested and treated by psychologists at any time.
This is the source of this medical record.
Zhou Liye recounted everything in detail, and then the viewers in the live chat raised questions.
Why are these medical records scattered everywhere? Who tore them up?
How did the protagonist get out of prison?
Is this world real, or just my daughter's dream?
A barrage of questions came crashing down on me.
Zhou Liye hurriedly said, "Don't rush, don't rush, we haven't even reached the ending yet!!"
At this point, attentive viewers explained the endings of the first two playthroughs to the other viewers.
The simplest ending in the first playthrough is that the real world is full of monsters, and the protagonist escapes with his daughter.
The second playthrough reveals that this world is unreal, a dream the daughter with PTSD had during therapy in 2019. She imagined a father protecting her, rescuing her from the fire of 1999—this fictional father is our game's protagonist. The dream ends, and the therapy concludes. However, the daughter suffers from amnesia due to PTSD, and from her memories, we learn that the fire was actually caused by her real father. It's a chilling truth upon closer examination.
[This is the third playthrough, and we still don't know the world's background. It's so illogical, it's definitely not the real world. But we've already seen that the man who killed his wife and set the fire was actually mentally ill; he saw normal people as monsters, which is why he did it. And he was in prison from 1999 until possibly 2019.]
As he explained, Zhou Liye had already ventured deeper into the prison.
Just like in the villa, the scenes here are more terrifying than the last. When you get to the deepest part of the prison, there is only a passageway made of flesh and blood.
Zhou Liye practically hopped forward, because he simply couldn't bear to experience the feeling of stepping on something that would leave a bloody mess and make a "crunching" sound.
Inside the prison, a monster dressed as a nurse appeared.
Its legs are thin and long, its face is distorted and covered in blood and flesh, and its two dark, hollow eyes stare at the protagonist. It also carries two thin, rusty scalpels in its hands at all times.
They were patrolling around, and it was clear that the protagonist would be doomed if they were discovered.
Zhou Liye was running headlong into the chaos, relying solely on his lucky bloodline to find a way out.
Zhou Liye: "Hahahahahahahahaha!" quq
Live comments: [Holy crap, we were scared to death, but the young lady actually laughed until tears streamed down her face! What a tough guy!]
Deep inside the prison, they found the man's ward.
He was held in solitary confinement in a very simple cell.
There was a mirror in front of his bed, a very familiar mirror, exactly the same as the one in the villa.
Under his pillow, there was his last medical record and a visitation application.
Through the last two thin pages, Zhou Liye quickly found out the whole truth.
The tragedies that occurred in 1999 were all real.
After committing the tragedy, the man returned to prison for treatment and quickly realized the enormity of his mistake during his lucid moments.
His paranoia worsened as a result, and it was beyond the scope of treatment.
He began refusing to talk to psychologists or other people, spending his days staring at himself in the mirror, looking at the severe burn scars on his body.
In his eyes, everyone else was a twisted monster, and these monsters all had burned skin.
The prison psychologist was very dedicated and professional. While doing his best to treat the man, he also arranged for the man's only relative, his daughter Junjun, to visit him in prison.
However, even though the prison visitation application was approved, on that day, the man was unusually sober and excitedly waited for his daughter to appear.
But Junjun didn't come.
She suffers from severe PTSD because she witnessed everything that happened back then.