Chatty Hollywood

As a remnant, Frances Farmer rarely thinks about the state she is in now.

Because that doesn't make sense to her.

But she knew that she was not really Frances Farmer.

The real Frances Farmer was lobotomized at Malcolm's Sanitarium in the 1940s, but she did not die.

But at that time, her remnant soul, Frances Farmer, was also born at the same time.

Therefore, she is not a ghost born after death in the general sense.

For a long time after she was born, she was confused and had no ability to think, only some animal-like instincts.

These instincts told her that she was weak.

She couldn't leave the Malcom Sanitarium or even be around some adults with stronger souls.

——The soul of the other party can cause certain interference to a remnant soul like hers, causing even her last memory and obsession to disappear.

In that case, she would really become an unconscious soul fragment.

In desperation, she had to hide in the underground of Malcolm Nursing Home.

At that time, the dragon had not been born yet, but the dragon veins already existed.

She hides in the dragon's veins and serves as the nourishment for the dragon's veins to breed the dragon. She exists without any feeling.

If there are no other changes, she will still slowly lose her last memory and obsession, and then turn into ordinary soul fragments.

At that time, she will be completely absorbed by the dragon's veins and eventually become a part of the dragon born in the future.

Just like the food eaten by people will become part of the human body.

However, I don’t know whether the dragon conceived in this dragon vein is lucky or unfortunate, but it happens to be entrenched underground in the Malcolm Sanatorium——

Dr. Malcolm Heard, who removed the white matter from Francis's brain, really liked it and was very good at this kind of surgery.

Before the operation was completely abolished, a large number of mental patients at Malcolm Sanitarium had their white matter lobotomized.

Many of them also produced weak residual souls.

Those remnant souls, just like Francis, were guided by instinct and hid underground in the Malcolm Sanatorium, and then became the nourishment for dragons.

Such a large number of artificially created residual souls has greatly accelerated the speed at which dragon veins breed dragons.

But on the other hand, these remnant souls that can also be absorbed by dragon veins are different from soul fragments that have no trace of consciousness at all. They still have a small amount of consciousness——

This makes the conceived dragon's consciousness no longer pure.

The consciousness of these remnant souls like Francis was directly mixed into the dragon's consciousness, occupying a considerable proportion.

Of course, if nothing unexpected happens later, the dragon will only sleep underground for a long time, and then Francis and others who are mixed into the dragon's consciousness will be purified sooner or later.

At that time, the dragon's consciousness was no different from that of a normal dragon.

However, before being purified, Francis and the others were able to use the dragon's eyes or abilities to detect various things happening in Malcolm's Sanatorium.

——Although it is only noticed.

At that time, these remnant souls were still confused and had no sense of what happened.

——They are like trees or mountains. Although they have witnessed everything, they are not affected at all.

However, the filming of "Red Ring" in the Malcolm Nursing Home changed everything again——

The true reproduction of her own experience at that time stimulated Frances Farmer's consciousness to a certain extent and made her wake up.

The other remnant souls absorbed by the dragon were also victims of lobotomies, and their shared experiences resonated with them.

Finally, with Francis's consciousness at the center, a new collective consciousness was born.

Although individually they are weak remnant souls, when brought together, they are powerful.

They can even use the power of the dragon to think normally with Francis as the main body.

To this extent, it is not wrong to say that they are actually Francis Farmer.

——It’s just that this Frances Farmer was the Frances when she was lobotomized, not the Ms. Farmer who finally died in 1970.

Such Francis will naturally take revenge.

So, in 1982, not long after the movie "The Red Devils" was released, Francis, who gradually mastered some of the dragon's powers, killed Dr. Malcolm Heard, who lived in Malcolm Sanitarium in his later years.

——That is, the person who removed the lobe of her brain.

At that moment, Francis was happy.

However, as many philosophers have said, being able to think is not only the essence of being human, but also the source of human suffering.

Even ghosts who can think will still face such problems.

Because of his own obsessions such as anger and hatred, Francis hopes to leave Malcolm Sanitarium for revenge.

——After all, it was not just Dr. Malcolm who caused what happened to her that year.

But because of the limitations of the dragon's power, she couldn't leave.

She could only watch the daily life of countless mental patients in Malcolm Nursing Home day after day.

Just like when she was imprisoned in a mental hospital.

Of course, after many reforms and investigations, Malcolm Sanatorium is now free of all the darkness and persecution it once had. But even so, Francis would still feel instinctively disgusted when looking at such a scene.

Even if it wasn't for revenge, she wanted to leave.

But she couldn't leave.

To the greatest extent possible, she could also take advantage of the dragon's periodic breath of mirage to allow herself and other remnant souls in the consciousness aggregate to move around on the ground like ordinary ghosts.

Most of the time, she still hides underground, enduring silently as the only sober consciousness in the collective consciousness.

At the same time, due to the ghost's instinct, she will unconsciously borrow the power of the dragon to constantly recreate her origins in the Malcolm Sanatorium.

— or “manner of death.”

Fortunately, lobotomy is not death in the true sense after all.

And the only ones she can influence are those patients who are really mentally weak and have various problems.

So there are just some more patients with severe dementia symptoms in nursing homes.

This is almost a common thing in mental hospitals, and no one cares.

But in fact, it was those patients who also had some residual souls separated by her power, so they became like dementia after lobotomy.

As for those remnant souls, they were absorbed by the dragon just like Francis and others.

——Although they still retain consciousness for a while, they will not be completely transformed.

Before meeting Charlotte, Frances had not thought about whether this was the right thing to do, it was like her instinct.

But after hearing Charlotte's reminder, Frances, who had been lobotomized, suddenly realized that she had become the person she hated before——

Just like Dr. Malcolm Heard actually turned normal people into dementia by removing the white matter of other people's brain lobes, she is now using the power of dragons to strip off part of the souls of living people and turn them into dementia.

What is the difference between this and the evil dragon that devours the souls of living people?