The projection screen shows a black-and-white image of a woman in a long skirt standing expressionlessly next to a staircase in the interior of a Western-style house.

"Captain Gu, you can start deciphering this picture."

It was still the empty and concise review room, and Gu Jun was still sitting on a chair looking at the projection screen.

But it was already past six o'clock in the evening, and the previous Rorschach inkblot test had already ended for more than half an hour.

I did it for more than two hours in total, and in addition to the ten regular pictures, the ten regular pictures inside the Tianji Bureau, and ten more specially designed pictures.

Gu Jun didn't calculate what kind of score he would get, he had always cooperated with the test, but after thirty pictures, nine times out of ten, the things he saw could involve dark things. There is no doubt that there is a lot of gloom in his heart, but it is difficult to avoid the accumulation of his kind of work, which does not mean that he has been swallowed by darkness, but shrouded in shadows.

After the Rorschach inkblot test, he took a ten-minute break, went to the bathroom, and when he came back, he started the next test.

The Thematic Synesthesia Test, which is a projective personality test developed back in the 30s by Citigroup Harvard psychologists Henry Murray and Christiana Morgan. It shows the participants a series of ambiguous images that evoke negative emotions, and the participants are asked to tell a story about each picture.

The story should include the following:

What caused the incident to occur

What's happening right now

The feelings and thoughts of the characters

What is the end of the story

Like other psychometric tests, the reliability and validity of the Thematic Synesthesia Test is controversial, but it also has a complex scoring system that evaluates and analyzes aspects from the duration and frequency of narration to the length, completeness, complexity, and content of the story, and can even be broken down into each sentence spoken by the participant.

However, it is precisely because this scoring system is very time-consuming to use that it is not widely used.

Therefore, experienced psychologists will rely on their own clinical intuition to draw some conclusions.

But in this current test, every sentence of each story that Gu Jun said to each picture will be completely recorded and analyzed and evaluated in detail.

The full version of the Thematic Synesthesia Test contains 32 images, including male figures, female figures, both male and female characters, gender ambiguous, adults, children, and no human figures, and one card that is completely blank.

Although these cards were originally designed to cover all groups, any card can later be used with any participant.

Founder Murray recommends using 20 cards in one test, but the average practitioner only selects 8-12 cards.

Gu Jun didn't know how many pictures he was going to make, probably all or more, he also knew all the regular 32 picture cards well, but this test had been done for more than half an hour, and he had made 7 pictures, and he hadn't seen any familiar pictures appear, these seemed to be all new designs.

But he was a little puzzled that a mature set of psychological tests had only matured from the initial design after a long period of large amounts of clinical data. Each old picture relies on a large number of cases to show the mechanism of existence, and the uncertainty brought by the new picture cannot be clarified at once.

This time there is such a big battle for his review, if you want to test it clearly, it is not suitable to directly test it with something new.

Originally, there was no time limit for the subject to tell the story, because the duration was also a scoring factor, and he now only had 5 minutes to interpret each picture.

A change in the scoring system can cause a lot of variability in the whole system.

Now it's not just the thematic synesthesia test, it's the Rorschach inkblot test, and there's something else......

Unless these are not exactly new, unless...... The Occult Bureau is also involved.

Gu Jun naturally had an understanding of the psychology and psychiatry of the Mysterious World, but those involving the secret techniques of the Mysterious Bureau did not fully understand it. Even with the Tianxuan General Administration, the technical exchanges between the Tianji Bureau and the Xuanwu Bureau are not directly shared, far from all.

Gu Jun's heart was inexplicably chaotic, if the organization really pulled the Mystery Bureau in to interrogate him, then the level of trust in him ......

It's not just about believing it or not, it's about believing it or not......

"Captain Gu?" Zhai Minghui over there asked again, "You still have 4 minutes." Another judge on the right picked up a glass and took a sip of water.

This test is a mental test for the participants, but it is also not easy for the judges.

Even though these are the most senior judges, they are facing people who are known as the heroes of the heavenly machine.

"Hmm......" Gu Jun responded, looking at the expressionless woman in the picture, the time limit may be to reduce his disguise, but he didn't intend to disguise at all, and said: "This woman is waiting for her husband to come home, it's raining heavily outside, it's very dark, and the thunder is loud......"

As he said this, in his eyes, the picture seemed to come to life, and the rumbling thunder seemed to be in his ears.

"It's past seven o'clock in the evening, and the rain is getting heavier, but her husband hasn't come back yet, and he usually gets home on time at six o'clock...... There were no cell phones and no phones in those days, and she couldn't contact her husband right away, and she started to get a little worried.

The woman began to pray to the gods she sincerely believed in, that nothing would happen to her husband.

They have just been married for less than a year, they love each other, they live a sweet life, they are planning to have a child, and many plans have been made.

Not long after the woman finished praying, the doorbell suddenly rang, and she couldn't wait to run over to open the door, is it her husband? She thought.

She opened the door ......"

Speaking of this, Gu Jun paused and slowly took a deep breath.

There are two kinds of story trends in the mind, one is the original idea from the bottom of the heart, and the other is the well-intentioned modification of consciousness.

In the end, he chose the more intense kind of tumbling, faithful to the test, and said: "There was nothing on the porch, and the woman only saw the storm outside, and she didn't know if she had just heard it wrong, or if the doorbell had been struck by the debris blown away by the strong wind."

The storm lasted until the next morning, and her husband did not return home until dawn.

The woman saw her husband again in the coroner's room at the local police station that afternoon.

Her husband died, and last night on his way home, he was hit by a large tree that was overturned by a storm, and died on the spot, his flesh and blood blurred. ”