Lu Xinyao was slightly stunned, I stretched out my right hand to hold the ground, and stood up against the bayonet on my chest. At that moment, I could see the bayonet pass through my chest, but there was no pain in my body—I was right.

In just a moment, I suddenly turned around at Lu Xinyao's screams, pulled out the box cannon, and fired three shots at the branch that Lu Xinyao had climbed up at the beginning. The moment the bullet pierced the night sky, the sound of heavy objects falling suddenly rose in the distance.

Everything around me seemed to have been blown away by the wind, and in the blink of an eye, it was back to its original appearance. When Ito, Lu Xinyao, and Ye Xun all looked at me in horror from a distance, I didn't have time to explain anything to Ye Xun, so I jumped under the tree and dragged a man wearing a golden mask from the ground. I put my gun between the other person's skulls and shouted, "Pay attention to the neighborhood, there is a sound, don't care who it is, shoot immediately." ”

At this time, Ito Shin came to me: "Who is this?"

I grabbed the other man's collar tightly and pushed the gun in my hand into the other's flesh: "You take off his mask." ”

As soon as Ito stretched out his hand, someone in the distance said, "You'd better not touch the Golden Mask." ”

I stared at the person in my hand without blinking, and shouted, "Who's talking?"

At this time, Ye Xun had already retreated to my side: "A person wearing a golden mask, a bit like the sixth son. ”

As soon as Ye Xun's words fell, the other party said again: "As long as the golden mask is taken down, someone has to wear it." That's all it takes, how to choose, think for yourself!"

As soon as the man had finished speaking, I pressed the muzzle of my gun against the edge of the mask and lifted it off the other man's face.

"Takeo Takahashi?" Ito Shin and Lu Xinyao exclaimed at the same time, and the masked man in the distance sighed softly, "I have to say, you have made a very unwise choice. ”

I haven't looked back until now: "Is the person who spoke missing?"

Ye Xun was shocked: "How do you know?"

"Because the man never appeared. "As soon as I let go of Takeo Takahashi's collar, he fell to the ground - from the moment I removed his mask, Takahashi Takeo died, and it didn't make sense for me to hold on to his corpse.

Ye Xun stretched out his hand and touched Takeo Takahashi's corpse twice: "Wang Huan, what is going on?"

I picked up the golden mask from the ground and said, "With it, you can control other people's minds." Half of what we see is hallucination. To put it simply, everything we have experienced since entering the Ping Tian Sea is a mixed bag. ”

I slowly explained, "I don't know if you've heard of witchcraft legends from African tribes before?" Legend has it that as long as the people of that tribe are cursed by the sorcerer, they will die wherever they go, even if they hide in the church and convert to Catholicism. Later, scientists studied the cause of death of the deceased and cracked the secret of the curse, which was actually the result of psychological suggestion. ”

Ito nodded and said, "I've also heard of this legend, and the incident of using psychological suggestion to kill people has been included in criminal investigation. You mean, the core of shamanism is actually psychological suggestion?"

"It's not. I shook my head and said, "I'm just talking about what the Golden Mask does." ”

I explained, "Not long ago, I had a golden mask controlling a dead person, and the golden mask was actually a thought transmitter that could spread the wearer's mind far away to affect its own target. ”

"If the Golden Mask can control the dead, why can't it control the living?"

I looked at Ye Xun and said, "Actually, we have been plotted by the Golden Mask twice. ”

Ye Xun said: "You mean, we almost killed each other in the mountain stream, when was the second time?"

I shook my head and said, "Cannibalism in a mountain stream is the second time." Ever since we met Old Man Sun, I have been influenced by someone's thinking. Think about it for yourself, if we found out that Old Man Sun had a ghost a few days ago, would we still follow him stupidly? We should have tied him up and forced him to ask the truth, right? Why do we easily believe each other again and again? Are you thinking that we should be quiet and see what Old Man Sun is going to do?"

Ye Xun nodded subconsciously and said, "Yes." You think so, too?"

I took a deep breath and said, "I do think that way. It's just that that's not what I really think, it's just that I've been influenced by some people. ”

"What really made me feel like someone was wearing a golden mask and killing with their minds, after we entered the Pingtian Sea. Let's talk about Xiao Zhanzi first......"

I held out a finger: "We saw that stele, which was the first hint that the other party left us, implying that one of us would die from a stick piercing the heart." At that time, we were all scared, but we didn't have a clear goal. ”

"The snake that was pierced by the stick is the second hint that the other party gives us, in order to deepen our fear, and even make us think of ourselves as the black snake that is struggling in pain. At that time, did you also feel a dull pain in your stomach?"

I saw Ye Xun nodding before continuing: "Then, Liuzi suddenly clapped his hands and said that the dead person would be Xiao Zhanzi, because he belonged to a snake. In this way, it is equivalent to concentrating all the power of psychological suggestion on Xiao Zhanzi's body. ”

In the end, they made a group of penetrated grass snakes and picked them near the woods, and at that time, no matter which direction Xiao Zhanzi looked, all he saw was a struggling grass snake, and his psychological bottom line completely collapsed. At this time, the killer hiding nearby took advantage of the situation and gave him a strong hint, implying that he had been stabbed open in the belly by a wooden stake, and Xiao Zhanzi would inevitably die. ”

I stopped when I said this, but Ye Xun said in a low voice: "What you said is too mysterious. Can mental hints really reach that level?"

Shin Ito explains, "The human body reacts naturally when there is a strong mental suggestion. The scientific community has come to a conclusion on this. One of the classic cases is that someone accidentally touched a high-voltage power line and was electrocuted instantly. Later, it was found that the power line was not electrified, but the cause of death of the victim was a strong electric shock, and even the characteristics of the body were exactly the same as after the electric shock. Scientists have concluded that it is the body's natural response under strong psychological cues. ”

"That's right. I took the other man's words, "That's where the Golden Mask comes in. ”

I continued: "At that time, I didn't think about psychological suggestion, until I saw Li Yong who was lit with a sky lantern, and I began to doubt it. After Li Yong died, my first instinct was not to look at the body, but to touch the ground. If Li Yong's head was really on fire, the ground should be hot, but the place where his head rolled over was cold. ”

"At the time, we were together, and there was nothing nearby to suggest, so I dismissed my idea again. Later, Li Ran's words reminded me. He said that when Takahashi Takeo was drunk, he once told them about lighting people's sky lanterns, and Li Yong's biggest fear was lighting sky lanterns. ”

That is to say, Takahashi Takeo has long been using the medium of psychological suggestion, but we don't know it. ”

When I said this, Ito couldn't help but ask, "Then what happened to us being shot by ghosts, and it was also because of psychological suggestion?"

I muttered, "It should be another mask, it can control the opponent, or make the opponent hallucinate." The people who shot us that night were actually your men, and someone controlled them to put on the clothes of the Japanese army back then, and took their weapons, and opened fire on us. ”

I looked at Ito, "Your men must have learned to shoot, right?"

Ito nodded and said, "Yes." The warriors of these families were highly trained, and a considerable number of them had worked as mercenaries in Africa and had a lot of combat experience. ”

I quickly asked, "Then why can't they beat us?"

"This ......" Ito was speechless for a moment, but I said, "Taking a step back, even if the people who shot at us at that time were Japanese soldiers who had turned into ghosts, they shouldn't shoot blindly like new recruits." ”

"The Kwantung Army is the most elite unit in the Japanese army, and it has been trained for a long time and is extremely combative. But when they first fired, it was as if they were emptying their guns without a purpose, and although they were later adjusted, the deviation of the shooting was still outrageous. Is this what an elite troop should look like?"

I concluded: "The quality of their individual soldiers can only prove one thing, and that is that the people who control them can't shoot." ”

"That's right...... Ito nodded frequently, "So, what's going on with the rotation of the sun and the moon?"

I said in a deep voice, "If I'm not mistaken, we did spend a day and a night in the Hall of Justice, or rather, we were cut off from consciousness at a certain time, and when we woke up again, we saw the wonder of day and night quietly alternating between day and night. ”

Ito muttered to himself, "Is this possible? Someone can make people unconscious out of thin air......?"

Ito suddenly came to his senses and said, "You mean, that oil lamp in the hall, someone mixed some kind of medicine into the oil lamp?"

"Yes!" I nodded, "including your subordinates, who have always been around the campfire to keep you safe, and the campfire is just the right opportunity for your opponents to take advantage of. Otherwise, how could he have been able to control more than 30 well-trained soldiers at once? You must know that the willpower of soldiers is generally stronger than that of ordinary people, and without the assistance of medicine, the other party will not be able to control more than 30 people at once. ”

I looked at Ito: "Do you remember that I looked at your wrist once? You tighten the strap of your watch so tightly that if you don't take it off for a day or a night, there will definitely be a red mark on your wrist." The red mark on your wrist is enough proof that someone has adjusted the date on your watch to make us mistakenly think that the shaman is controlling the sun and the moon. ”

Ito Zhen subconsciously looked at his wrist: "Why didn't I think of it?Mr. Wang Huan, since then, you have been preparing to fight back?"