Chapter 12: Memory Fraud
Ding Cong, a former member of the Redeemer Alliance, invested in ETFs during the Alliance's civil war, and became a member of the ETF "search team" after the war. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The ETF "Search Squad", formed after the Redeemer League's civil war, is tasked with dealing with the "Energy Burst Incident", searching for and apprehending the fleeing Redeemer.
Jia Xing, Ding Cong's teammate, had a similar experience to Ding Cong, a little later than Ding Cong joined the "search team".
At this moment, Ding Cong and Jia Xing were standing on the street in front of Tang Tu's house, approaching the small building of Tang Tu's house step by step.
"Night Lai Sheng" was about to close, the guests left one after another, and singer Li Cheng finished the last song and pushed the door out with a guitar on his back.
After singing for two or three hours, when he came out and came into contact with the cold air, Li Cheng felt his throat itch and couldn't help coughing, just two people passed by him, and one of them couldn't help but glance at him.
In the rainy season, the weather changes like an adolescent girl, just wet and stuffy, and in the blink of an eye, a thick fog spreads on the streets.
Ding Cong and Jia Xing took a few steps forward, Ding Cong suddenly stopped and looked around vigilantly, and Jia Xing also stopped.
"Is there a situation?" Jia Xing asked.
"Doesn't it feel a little wrong, don't you think the fog is a little too thick?" Ding Cong said.
Jia Xing looked around and found that the visibility had dropped to a very low level, the shops on both sides of the street had disappeared into the fog, and the small building of their destination was no longer visible.
Jia Xing waved his hands, and a "gun" appeared in his hand, this "gun" was the embodiment of his ability, firing not bullets, but energy cards.
Ding Cong also had a "gun" in his hand, his "gun" was bigger than Jia Xing's, and it was double-barreled. It is precisely because the two people's abilities are embodied as "guns" that they became teammates.
The two people are back-to-back, all-round vigilance without dead ends, and the teamwork is tacit, and they are long-term teammates at a glance.
"We've entered the other party's illusion, is it an ordinary energy burst event or an 'old friend'?" Jia Xing asked.
Ding Cong is more experienced than Jia Xing, and after observing the surrounding environment, he said, "I can't be 100% sure, but I prefer 'old friends'..."
"Old friends" are more troublesome than dealing with "energy burst incidents", and the two of them can't help but be more vigilant.
Ding Jia and the two glanced at each other, Ding Cong nodded, Jia Xing relaxed his posture a little, and shouted into the distance, "Friend, don't you come out to meet, what's the point of hiding your head and showing your tail?" ”
Ding Cong also relaxed his posture and shouted loudly, "Brother, there are things that everyone can open up and say, ETF is not to kill everyone, as long as the brothers cooperate, the group will not do anything to everyone." ”
Jia Xing continued, "Yes, you can also join the 'search team' like the two of us, you used to work for the alliance, and now you work for the group, in other words, the alliance also belonged to the group before, and there is actually no difference from now, why bother with it?" ”
Ding Cong seemed to have discovered something, glanced at Jia Xian, and the two of them quietly approached in one direction.
Suddenly, Ding Cong and Jia Xing couldn't move, and the two of them maintained a posture of marching forward with guns, as if they were petrified and fixed there, however, they themselves could feel the difference, this was not a petrified energy card.
There is indeed an energy card called "Petrification", and the effect is to turn people into stone statues, but the effect only lasts for a few seconds before it dissolves on its own, and the petrification effect is a physical effect.
And now, Ding Jia and the others can't move, not because their bodies have lost their functions, but because they feel some kind of great threat, which is so great that they can't help but fear, and the fear is that they have lost control of their bodies mentally.
Coercion, the aura from the strong, suppresses the weak from the momentum. Ding Jia and the others are now under the coercion of others, and the coercion of the other party is so strong that they can't control themselves, and as the saying goes, "I can't move with fear".
Ding Cong's scalp was numb, and the fear that had not appeared for many years surged up from the bottom of his heart, and there was a sense of familiarity in his state at this moment, which made him think of a certain day and a terrible person.
That person... Before Ding Cong could remember the appearance of that person, a figure appeared behind the two people.
This person appeared quietly, did not speak, raised his hand and put it on the back of Ding Jia's head, and the dazzling white light floated out of the palms of his hands, slowly submerging into the brains of Ding Jia and the others.
After a while, Ding Cong and Jia Xing seemed to wake up suddenly, they glanced at each other, and both of them had some inexplicable feelings, but that feeling flashed away, making them forget in an instant.
There is an energy card called "memory fraud" that can be implanted in the target brain to rewrite part of the memory, this rewriting is not permanent, and the length of time depends on the amount of energy implanted.
The two of them looked around, it was still the street in front of Tang Tu's house, there was no thick fog, and there were no mysterious people, in fact, they didn't remember any dense fog and the mysterious person who released the coercion.
Jia Xing scratched his head and complained, "I didn't find anything, and I ran for nothing." ”
Ding Cong was also dissatisfied, "Most of them are false alarms of the instrument again, and this month is the third time." ”
The instrument in Ding Cong's mouth is the emotional energy detector developed by the ETF Research Institute.
The ETF Institute also provided this instrument to the Redeemer Alliance, because the detector was scoped, so the members of the alliance were distributed all over the world, and each group had its own area of responsibility.
However, the number of personnel of the "search team" is far less than that of the Redeemer Alliance back then, and it is impossible to disperse the personnel to too many places, and can only send people where to find fluctuations.
The technology of the detector has improved in recent years, and the range has expanded much compared to that year, but there are still limitations, and the best detector can only cover the distance of three cities.
Because of the limited range of the detector, it is possible for the fugitive redeemers to hide. In addition, due to the excessive pursuit of range expansion, the sensitivity of the detector is reduced, and false alarms often occur.
Ding Jia and the others complained as they turned to leave.
“... There are so many cities in Shanghai and a large population, so it should be equipped with a special detector. ”
"Well, I will propose in the report that Shanghai be equipped with a detector and send a long-term search team member."
"I think it's good to be in Shanghai, it's a good job to be here permanently, why don't we two apply for it?"
"You can consider it, the two of us have been here for four missions, which is considered to be more in the team, and we should be considered first, but the housing prices in Shanghai are not cheap..."
"House prices... Hey, housing prices in big cities are going to die when they are expensive... Fortunately, the team reimburses the rent..."
The two of them walked as they talked, they walked very fast, passing a passerby in front of them, only this time because they were distracted, no one noticed the person.
Li Cheng walked very slowly with the guitar on his back, and Ding Jia and the others passed by him when they came, and passed by when they left.
Looking at the backs of the two people in front of him, Li Cheng rubbed his nose, as if he was a little uncomfortable with the too humid air.
When the figures of Ding Jia and the others disappeared completely, Li Cheng stopped, he looked back at the small building of the Tang Tu family, and a smile of unknown meaning appeared on his face.
Suddenly, his figure disappeared in place, and the next moment, he appeared on the balcony on the third floor of Tang Tu's house.
Tang Tu had already slept, so the sliding door on the balcony was locked, but Li Cheng raised his index finger and lightly touched the lock, and then pushed the door open.
Li Cheng walked into the room, looked around the living room for a while, then went to the bathroom and kitchen to study it, and finally came to Tang Tu's bedroom. Of course, the bedroom door was also locked, but it still couldn't escape one of Li Cheng's fingers.
Li Cheng stood at the head of the bed and watched Tang Tu, who seemed to be having a nightmare, his brows furrowed, and his forehead was covered with sweat.
Li Cheng's pair of sword eyebrows furrowed, and he raised his head to release a soft white light, which submerged into Tang Tu's body. After a while, Tang Tu's eyebrows and eyes stretched out, as if there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, he must be dreaming.
Seeing Tang Tu laughing, Li Cheng also smiled, and his facial features changed in the smile...
If there is a third person present at this time, that person will definitely find that Li Cheng and Tang Tu are very similar, just like a pair of twins, but the difference in body is relatively large, Li Cheng is obviously stronger, while Tang Tu is weak.
After a while, Li Cheng seemed to remember something, tilted his head and stood at the head of the bed and thought for a while, and then the figure disappeared again.
Reappeared, Li Cheng came behind Ding Jia and the others again, not close or far, within his ability, and would not be noticed by Ding Jia and the others.
Raising his two hands at the same time, his fingers swiped in the air, and the spirit in the air was driven by his fingers, showing two "eyes", and with Li Cheng's movements, the two "eyes" flew to the back of Ding Jia and the others and slowly submerged into their bodies.
Surveillance Eye, a type of energy card, enters the target's body and lurks after release, without causing any damage or impact to the target, the user can have the target's vision, consumable ability, and the duration depends on the amount of implanted energy.
Obviously, Li Cheng is also a "stranger" who can use emotional energy, but the way he uses emotional energy is different from that of Li Wei and the others.
Abilities like Li Wei and the others need to use their abilities as a ready-made item to store their energy cards, and this prop is also a medium for them to "seal" and "release" energy cards.
But Li Cheng didn't use any props, he could manipulate emotional energy with his bare hands, or maybe his ability was invisible or transparent, and outsiders couldn't see it?
This time, Li Cheng seems to have protected Tang Tu from being discovered by Ding Jia and the others.
So, who is Li Cheng? Why did he protect Tang Tu?