If Anna was more than just traumatized, then no matter how many medicines she took, it wouldn't be effective.
Therefore, Ariah told her directly, "If you want to save yourself, tell me what happened in the waste factory that day. What did Kevin do to you?"
For a moment, Anna hesitated.
"You don't want to tell me?" At that moment, Ariah didn't have the energy to coax her, "Then go ahead and let your condition worsen. I'm leaving."
With that said, she got up and left.
"Wait, wait a minute!"
Immediately, Anna called her.
Therefore, Ariah turned around.
"Do you really have a way to help me?" In Anna's eyes were both disbelief and hope.
At the moment, Ariah was like a life-saving straw to Anna, and she could only hold on tightly to her.
"I'm not sure." Straightforwardly, Ariah answered, "I only saw that there was something wrong with your expression just now, so I want to know what happened to you that day. Just like how a surgeon needs to know where your wound is to operate you."
After Anna took a deep breath, she closed her eyes and slowly recalled what had happened that day.
"That night, when I asked you out to show you Jimmy's old photos, you didn't believe that it was Jimmy, so you turned around and left. After you left, I also planned to leave, but I bumped into someone as soon as I turned around. A moment after my gaze met the person's eyes, I lost consciousness... and when I woke up, I realized I was locked in a room."
Calmly, Ariah told her, "You've been hypnotized."
"Hypnotized?"
"Yes, some hypnotists can hypnotize a person in a few seconds. After being hypnotized, you won't remember what happened."
For a moment, Anna was stunned.
While Ariah looked at her, she asked, "Continue the story. What happened after that?"
"After that... When I woke up, I saw Kevin. At first, I didn't recognize him, but he said I should have died eight years ago and that he had let me live for so long, so it was time for him to take my life. Only then did I realize that he returned!"
As she spoke, tears started to fall from her eyes, and her face was ghastly pale. Clearly, the memories that she had to recall were extremely traumatizing.
"When I knew it was him, I was terrified, and I thought he would kill me, but he didn't."
"He forced me to drink something, but I didn't know what it was. Soon, I started to lose my consciousness, but I vaguely remembered something, and I knew that he had been whispering some words in my ear."
With a frown, Ariah asked, "What did he say?"
"He was... constantly repeating the events of the past. At that moment, he was saying that all my family members have died, and I am not supposed to be alive in this world, that I should have died back then as well..."
In the end, Anna covered her face with her hands and could not continue the story.
After a long time, Anna raised her head, with her eyes filled with confusion. "I... when will I get slightly better? I don't dare to sleep because I have nightmares, and I would dream of my family members asking me to accompany them... and when I wake up, I have the urge to die..."
In fact, she wanted to listen to the words of her dead family members in her dreams, and she wanted to die to be with them.
When would such this horrible thing come to an
end?
Slowly, Ariah took a deep breath, "Anna, if I'm not mistaken, Kevin must have forced you into having the thoughts of killing yourself."
"Huh?"
In disbelief, Anna's eyes widened.
"The human brain is very complicated. It's very strong but also very fragile. If you constantly instill the brain with something, then you will be convinced that it's true. After a long time, you will then accept the signals sent out by the brain."
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