When I re-met Naoto Inoue, he was sitting in the corner of the fast-food restaurant.

It's still this sluggish fast-food restaurant, but this time there is no "Adam" anymore, just the two of us men sitting here in a bad way. I still wore my disguised face, while Naoto Inoue no longer wore sunglasses and a mask, revealing his original beautiful face, and although he looked haggard, he was not crazy, and his eyes were clear.

It seems that he has gotten rid of his madness.

This is normal, the last time he attacked the technical advisor of Beaver Pharmaceutical, there were already signs of getting rid of the madness. Although psychic mediums are a special group of people who are prone to madness, because of this, they have more means to find their sanity than ordinary people. As the saying goes, "a long illness becomes a good doctor".

"So, what's the matter with you looking for me?" I began with this sentence and asked, "Do you know that the local police are looking for your whereabouts?" ”

The local police are looking for him not because they want to hold him accountable for his last attack, but because he is now suspected of being the killer of Inoue Renta.

This brings us back to a week ago, when Inoue Renta was gouged out of his eyeballs and seriously injured, he avoided my sight, and after dragging his scarred body out of the pharmaceutical factory with great difficulty, he failed to escape and died outside the pharmaceutical factory. The cause of death was not a previous injury, and according to the results of the medical examiner's examination, his fatal injury was a penetrating wound to the heart, and it was also penetrated by someone with an arm.

In order to find out the truth, Xu Shengxing invited a psychic medium to extract the memories of Inoue Renta before his death, but failed. Because the person who killed Inoue Renta seems to be also a psychic medium, using some means to prevent the backtracking of latecomers.

As a result, Naoto Inoue, whose whereabouts are unknown, became an important suspect.

"I know." He nodded as usual, and then answered my first question, "I've spent a lot of time adjusting to my state lately, and when I'm done, I want to contact Adam, but I can't get in touch." Do you know where she is? ”

Listening to his tone, he didn't seem to have asked me anything about what had caused him to go crazy for a short time.

It is also possible that he is trying to avoid recalling the scene at that time, lest the "old wound recur". Although it sounds like covering your ears and stealing the bell, if you can really "treat it as nothing", it is no different from "really nothing".

Since he deliberately didn't mention it, then I wouldn't stab him in the scar, so I asked rhetorically about what he said, "Don't you know yet?" ”

"What?" He didn't react.

I told the truth about "Adam".

He looked shocked, and immediately hugged his head, and it took a long time before he finally accepted the reality.

Then, I asked the question I had been hiding for a long time, "Frankly, I don't understand, since you already knew that Beaver Pharmaceutical was a 'mysterious organization', why didn't you tell us directly?" ”

"Because I hope that she can collect a chain of evidence that proves that 'Beaver Pharmaceutical' is equal to a 'mysterious organization' without knowing anything, and finally expose the shady scenes of Beaver Pharmaceutical by means of a journalist, and I will act as her bodyguard in the process......" He looked at the table in front of him and said with great self-deprecation, "And if I told her the truth from the beginning, but she didn't have a chain of evidence, then she might turn to other angles and try to debunk the mysterious organization's pursuit of herself, But that wasn't necessarily the outcome I wanted...... However, I never expected that she was the one who started it......"

He suddenly looked up and stared at me, "Do you know what her real name is?" ”

"I don't know. You can continue to call her 'Adam.'" "I didn't say the nickname 'Faceless Shadow,' which was a bit of a shame for me. Because this nickname was told to me by her in the dream, and she in the dream was created by my consciousness.

In other words, the nickname "Faceless Shadow" is the equivalent of the nickname I gave her based on.

If I had told the truth, I would have been treated as a self-inflicted man. Spare me.

I'm a person who gets a lot of shame and cares about what other people think of me. In my daily life, I often think about my words and take care not to say things that irritate people's nerves.

It's just that when I'm playing as a Faceling, I'm going to go to the other pole. Because in this case, I am mostly dealing with criminals and scumbags, and when I talk to these people, I don't have to mind if the other party is upset by my spicy words. I just like to see these people look twisted and angry because of my words. Over time, once you switch to "Faceling Mode", you will be unforgiving to everyone.

The same is true for her. At first, getting along with such a good-looking woman as her, it must be a lie to say that there is no reverie. Especially if the drone said something like that to me, even more so.

But knowing about her evil deeds, I just want to punch her in the face at full speed, and if I can knock her brains out, it will be even more painful. And it just so happens that I also hate twisting and pinching, so I feel refreshed. When I think about her like this, I inexplicably feel that she is much more pleasing to the eye, and there are such good-looking and comfortable women in the world.

But in this way, wouldn't I have to talk easily to the person I wanted to kill? This creates a new problem.

"It's a pity that she finally took away the psionic awakening potion." Inoue sighed, "It's really ...... that this kind of person can get what he wants in the end."

"You can rest assured that she can't become a psyker."

"Why?" He was stunned.

"Do you know the Magic Sealing Needle?" I asked.

Actually, what happened was very simple. Just as she looked down on me at that time and used the Living Dead sigil in advance, I didn't underestimate her, and at the same time I hit her with my fist, I punched the sealing needle into her body. My thoughts weren't complicated at the time - I thought, since she's so cunning, it's not impossible to escape from my punches. Therefore, if she is really dead, I will only take out the sealing needle afterwards; And if she hadn't died, the Sealing Needle would have worked.

As a result, she did escape, and the sealing needle inside her body would wring her psionic potential into pieces, along with her dreams.

She killed Chloe. DiCaprio made so many horrific human experiments possible, but she ultimately failed.

Deserved it—if I had the chance, I would have sent those two words to her face with my fist.

After listening to my explanation, Naoto Inoue had a look of disability on his face.

After talking and talking, I finally got to the point.

"Did you kill Inoue Renta?" I asked.

He fell silent and mumbled.

"Didn't you just want to expose him in the first place?"

"Then I changed my mind." "The technical advisor I attacked, he was also involved in human experiments," he said. I used psychic technology to read memories of human experiments from his head...... Perhaps you also understand that reading memories is also risky for psychic mediums, and it is easy to affect their own personality, but at that time I lost my mind......"

"And then you saw the images with your own eyes and heard the screams."

"Yes." He nodded gloomily, "But that's just one of the reasons to change your mind." There is also the second reason, which is the most important reason. ”

"The second is?"

"My father, Inoue Renta, used mind control to implant a coercive program into his own mind." "That is, I hypnotized myself so that I would not be shaken by guilt in the process of advancing the plan." ”

"So, do you think he can't change his ways, and you can only stop him by killing him?" I asked.

He nodded and said, "He's always hated the fact that people's minds change, that's why he did it to himself." ”

"But I remember that he also advocated that hypnosis was only a palliative treatment." I say.

"It's because there is no means to cure the root cause that he would rather treat the symptoms first."

"The reason why he pursued the psionic awakening pill was also to become a psionic person and be able to study a cure for the root cause?"

"It's not." He shook his head, "He did it to save my mother, and to save himself." ”

Then I remembered that he also had a mother who had been reduced to a vegetative state due to forbidden knowledge and was now living in a hospital for treatment.

He told me what had happened that day.

*

That afternoon, the factory was caught in flames, and the police team invaded the factory, and inside the factory, a number of mysterious organizations exchanged fire with them.

Inoue escaped from the reception room with his scarred body, and then climbed out of a window to evacuate the pharmaceutical factory, but when he came to the open space outside, he met Naoto Inoue, who had tracked down the pharmaceutical factory with psychic and divination techniques. The latter, although not yet completely free from madness, was able to maintain his sanity for a short time.

Naturally, the two didn't have much good to say, and Inoue Renta could neither fight his son, who was a psyker, nor had the strength to escape, so he could only say coldly: "Are you sure you want to stop me?" ”

"I have been taught by you since I was a child that you should be upright, and even if you become a psychic, you should not persecute the innocent." Naoto Inoue's voice was equally cold, "And when you see the strong persecuting the weak, you must stand up and draw your sword to help." ”

"Your mother...... Light, she has been in a coma for three years. Inoue said, "Only the psychic awakening medicine can strongly stimulate her soul and revive her." ”

"So you've killed so many innocent people?" Inoue Naoto snapped.

"You know what? When I was a child, my parents had a good relationship, but as time went on, they gradually became discordant and even quarreled over trivial things in life. It's not due to something special happening, nothing happens. It's just that people's hearts change, and they are tired of each other. "When I entered high school and saw my father hack my cheating mother to death with an axe, I thought that I would never be like them in the future." ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Naoto Inoue stared at him intensely.

"What I want to say is...... I love the light, but the light has been in a coma for three years. Inoue clenched his fists tightly, as if his dream was in his fist, and as soon as he let go, he would let her run away, "I often go and turn her over, wipe her gradually out of shape, watch her slowly turn ugly face, handle her urine and urine, and then run around looking for a reliable doctor...... I'd love to say I'll love her forever, but I'm gradually becoming the kind of person I hate the most. ”

"You ......," Inoue stopped talking.

"I have to get her eyes to open again, I have to hear her again!" Inoue Renta's expression was faintly crazy, "Then everything will be back on track." Naoto, don't stop me! ”

Inoue closed his lips tightly, then looked at him, and after two seconds, he said, "I refuse." ”

"Don't you want to save your mother?" Inoue ranted.

"I am so grateful that she gave birth to me. So, if in the future I wake her up by killing innocents, and she will spit on me, then now I will follow her wishes. "But if she would be grateful to me for it, then even if she was my mother, I wouldn't save her." ”

"By the way, you just don't want to save her, do you?" Inoue asked coldly.

"I'll try to save her, but not in this way. Even if it takes another ten or twenty years, I won't give up. Inoue said, "And you, it's not actually her who you want to save, it's just yourself, right?" ”

"Very well-" Inoue Renta jerked out his pistol, "Then you go and die!" ”

Naoto Inoue drives psionic energy and quickly strikes at the other party.

However, in any case, it was his own father, should he really do it?

At this moment, he even had an indescribable expectation that someone would better kill his father for him. For example, like in the comics, a mysterious character suddenly appeared, and at a speed that he couldn't react to, he pierced his father's chest from behind and walked away. It doesn't matter why the mysterious figure came. The important thing is that he will definitely be angry and want to kill the mysterious person, but he will definitely be relieved so that he will not have to decide whether to kill his father with his own hands.

But he had to do it himself.

Not by others, or by what convenient "mystery figures", but by themselves.

Inoue Renta must die here today, and he is his executioner. This is a responsibility that only you can bear.

*

"Then, I killed him." Inoue said with a blank face.

"And leave the means to stop the other mediums from backtracking?" I asked.

"Because I was quite confused afterwards, I didn't want anyone else to know that I killed him...... But that's wrong. Isn't it funny? I dare to kill my own father, but I dare not take responsibility for what I have done. Even if it's only for a moment, I'm ......," he looked at his hands, "and now that I've told you this, I'm feeling a lot better." I'm going to turn myself in to the police later. ”

"Until then, I had a question." I say.

"What's the problem?" He asked, confused.

"You said he hypnotized himself, and you made up your mind to kill him."

"Yes."

"Did he tell you personally?"

"Yes."

"But it's weird."

"What's strange?" He looked suspicious.

"Although the psychic medium on the police side can't go back to the scene of you killing him, they can still check a lot of things from the corpse. For example, whether he hypnotized himself before his death can also be checked. I said, "But he didn't." ”

"No......" He was dazed for a moment, as if he couldn't grasp the meaning.

"I mean, he lied to you." I said, "He didn't hypnotize himself." ”

It took a while for him to understand, and seemed to think of more, his face shocked and glazed.

I think he should need some alone time to digest it.

I got up and left here.