After all, current research into the abilities of psychic mutants is still insufficient, so unexpected incidents are quite common.

But in any case, because of these issues, the risk level in the assessment of Brian Carter is very high.

What’s more, he’s also shown signs of multiple personality disorder?

It’s just that...

It was so difficult to discover such a promising “psychic mutant.” To eliminate him immediately, Grace Brooks really couldn’t bear it. However, she also understood that the greater the potential, the greater the disaster if he loses control.

So, after a long silence, she just slightly adjusted her sitting posture.

At this moment, her gaze seemed a bit sharp.

Taking a deep breath, she suddenly looked frankly at Brian Carter and said, “Do you know, I’ve read your file and observed you. Ever since the Moon Orphanage was destroyed, you’ve been living alone. Your father, mother, and sister don’t exist at all—they’re just your imagination. Not only them, but even that old building you live in, you’re the only one living there!”

After saying this, she was a little nervous, her pupils faintly red, with a tendency to turn into a red moon.

Directly exposing some of his delusions could very likely cause serious problems.

She knew that people with a risk of losing control are most dangerous when their truth is exposed—eighty percent will lose control because of it.

She was prepared.

But, to her surprise, Brian Carter just sat there quietly, without a trace of nervousness or surprise.

“I know.”

Facing this question, Brian Carter simply replied calmly, “I realized long ago that others can’t see them.”

Grace Brooks’s expression became a bit odd.

But Brian Carter suddenly smiled and said, “But you can’t see them, while I can. Not only can I see them, I can talk to them, communicate with them, even touch them. When I’m alone, we eat together, watch TV together, and when I’m in danger, they appear to protect me. So, tell me, can you really say that such family members don’t exist?”

Grace Brooks opened her mouth, but even with all her experience, she didn’t know how to respond.

Chapter 8: Red Moon Elementary School

When you can see and hear people that others can’t, can talk and interact with them, even touch them, and they protect you—should these people be considered to exist, or not?

Grace Brooks had seen many psychic mutants and handled many cases.

No matter how crazy or bizarre, she was used to it, but at this moment, she still felt it was strange.

She just felt that Brian Carter, who said these things, seemed very serious and very clear-headed.

Calmness and madness, normality and strangeness—completely different feelings—actually appeared in one person at the same time.

A voice urged in her earpiece: “Chief Brooks, the armed team is ready. You should make your final assessment for him as soon as possible!”

Grace Brooks was silent, and Brian Carter, sitting across from her, was also silent.

Both seemed to be thinking about many things.

Grace Brooks quickly made up her mind. She had seen many psychic mutants and handled many similar incidents of mental breakdown, so she was very experienced. After thinking seriously for a while, she looked at Brian Carter and said, “I have only one question. If all your abilities come from your family members, can you guarantee that they won’t influence you at will?”

She didn’t deny Brian Carter’s claim about the existence of “family members,” she just asked whether these “family members” would influence him.

Brian Carter looked up at her and said, “You’re worried they might take control of my body, right?”

Grace Brooks didn’t deny it.

To her, the most dangerous thing about the person in front of her was that no one knew if he would suddenly become someone else.

As for this question, Brian Carter thought about it seriously.

Actually, he understood his current state very well. When these symptoms first appeared, he spent a long time in the library.

He read all the books related to “mental illness.”

It was from these books that he learned there were so many problems with the human mind—things like body identity disorder, Capgras delusion, happy puppet syndrome, Alice in Wonderland syndrome, claustrophobia, and so on. Some he could understand literally, others he had no idea what they meant, but he carefully analyzed the symptoms.

Based on what he learned, he diagnosed himself.

Were his family members split personalities of himself?

It did seem a bit like that, but Brian Carter vaguely felt he wasn’t an ordinary case of dissociation.

He had always wanted to figure out what exactly was going on with himself, and whether his symptoms could be cured.

So, when he first saw this woman and heard her talk about things like “psychic mutation,” he was actually quite hopeful. Maybe they had the ability to cure him, or maybe, in their eyes, his condition was explainable—not insanity, but another kind of normal. But seeing her reaction...