Before leaving the Public Security Bureau, I went upstairs to take a look at Fu Yuxin, his complexion and state were much better than when he investigated the "Hand of God" case before, and there was an unconscious smile on the corner of his mouth, as if his whole life had been cleared and seen the light of day.

He asked me what I had been checking in the past few days and I had found no one to be found, and I pouted and said I had nothing to say. He treated me like a little girl, shook his head and said "You, you, don't step on the thunder." I said phew, I wasn't born to be cannon fodder.

After chatting a few words casually, I said goodbye and went out, drove to the wholesale market, found a few shops that sold bells, and specially selected the bells that were about the same size and shape as the curtains of Peng Liang's house and bought several kinds, but unfortunately I didn't look carefully at the time, so I could only estimate and buy, all of them added up to about three hundred, wrapped them and put them in the car, and then called to ask where Xiaohai was, and if he could spare time to go home with me. She replied unequivocally that she could, and asked me to pick her up from the hospital.

I picked up Xiaohai and went home, and asked her to hang the bell on the curtain leading to the balcony in the study on the second floor.

Since the incident at Peng Liang's house made me realize that my memories before I was a teenager were probably deliberately sealed, I should use all possible methods to stimulate them to see if there were any other things in my childhood that could be useful for the investigation of the incident, besides the Temple of Eternal Life, the Valley of the Hidden River, and the massacre.

I wish I could recall Chen Jin Ziyu.

Ever since Chang Kun showed me a photo of Chen Jinziyu, I often suddenly think of a familiar picture, such as Chen Jinziyu sitting on the edge of an old carved bed with her head down and embroidering flowers, such as her standing under a begonia tree washing her long waterfall-like hair, such as her babbling and dancing under the flowers, and so on, which is between the real and the unreal. I don't know why, from a rational point of view, I don't have the slightest impression of Chen Jinziyu as a person, but those pictures that suddenly popped up made me feel that we were very familiar with each other, had lived together, and I don't know why, I felt that she seemed to have a warm, deep, almost maternal affection for me.

I had to know why, or she would keep crying in my dreams as if I owed her a debt for life.

I thought it could be easy, but it turned out to be ridiculously wrong.

More than a dozen bells, more than a dozen sounds, although they are still different from Peng Liang's family, two of them are quite close, but they don't work at all.

Xiaohai and I kept hanging bells on the curtains like fools, taking them off, hanging them again with another one, taking them off again, and hanging them again. After finding out that it was wrong, I thought it might be a problem with the quantity, and then changed the number of hanging, and finally mixed the types of hanging, and then finally hung more than 300 of them all, the sound was messy, and it still didn't have the slightest effect on my brain, tossed for a day and a night, tired and sweaty, and finally sat on the ground and looked up at the two curtains that were tossed and about to fall apart, and I was so confused that I was dying, I don't know what was wrong, and my head hurt.

It wasn't until many days later that I realized that this was really the stupidest, funniest, and most boring thing I'd ever done in my life.

After the bell gave up, we fell asleep for more than ten hours, then washed our hair and bathed, sorted out the backpacks for going out and left home, first sent Xiaohai back to the hospital to take care of the old man and Li Xu, and I went to find Zhuang Jing again. All the way, I was thinking about why Zhuang Jing was avoiding me, and I couldn't think of a reason to convince myself, so I gritted my teeth with more and more hatred.

I went to Zhuang Jing's unit, went to Zhuang Jing's house, visited all of Zhuang Jing's colleagues and friends, even her patients, but still found nothing.

In desperation, I decided to go to Meicheng to find Lu Bingliang.

Lu Bingliang is the expert who was invited by the bureau to do a psychological profile of the murderer when he investigated the "Hand of God" serial case, Liu Yimin said at the time that he and Zhuang Jing went out of the same house, and he himself revealed to me that he and Zhuang Jing were friends, and later helped inquire about Zhuang Jing's whereabouts and learned the news that she went abroad. So I thought that even if Mr. Lu didn't know Zhuang Jing's whereabouts after returning to China, I could talk to him about my situation, since they were from the same school, their abilities should be equal, and I would ask about the situation I wanted to know.

Lu Bingliang's psychological clinic is in Meicheng, I called to get the detailed address from Liu Yimin, called first, and asked Mr. Lu if he could meet him. I asked him to help me in a very gentle tone, telling him that I had a serious problem that needed to be consulted.

When Mr. Lu came to the bureau last time to do a profile, because it was very consistent with my description of the murderer, he was very impressed by me, and as soon as he reported his name, he remembered who I was, and he made an appointment to meet very happily.

So I immediately called Xiaohai and told her that she was going to go out, and she would come back in a day or two, or four or five days at the longest. She asked me who I was going to meet. I told her. Then she asked me for the address again. I told her again. After finishing speaking, he yelled at her, are you checking my post? She replied sullenly and faintly with something that almost choked me to death.

She said, "If you die there, I know where to collect the body." ”

I really don't like to hear this kind of bad talk, but she always likes to talk about it.

Then I called the old lazy again and said the same thing. He was anxious to go with me, and I said that I was just going to see a psychologist, and if something happens, you have to continue to follow Shi Yan. He said no, it's okay if you want to be in the urban area of Qianzhou, in case there is any situation, someone can take care of it. When you go out of the city, you may not be able to catch up if you want to, have you forgotten how Li Xu was injured? I said you, Li Xu's incident has nothing to do with the city and outside the city, it's all her own distraction, I don't make that low-level mistake. He said you wait, wait for me to learn this to Li Xu, and see how she cuts you.

After a few words of relief, he finally gave up his plan to go with me, but asked me to tell him the password and account name of the phone, so that if something happened, he could locate my location from the phone. After I finished reporting the information he wanted, I scolded: "You people, have you all taken the wrong medicine one by one, are you hoping that something will happen to me?" ”

He didn't speak for a while.

I hurriedly smiled and diverted the topic and said, "Meicheng has a specialty, Yunni Cinnamon Cake Eight Treasures Duck Yellow Wine, I will bring you a copy of everything." ”

I finally set off, drove five hours to Meicheng, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, casually found a hotel and stayed overnight, the next day stepped on the appointed time to walk into Lu Bingliang's very simple but very magnificent psychological clinic, reported the name, led to the office by the front desk assistant, met, shook hands very happily, sat down in the sofa, and chatted a few polite words.

I asked Zhuang Jing.

Lu Bingliang said that he hadn't seen Zhuang Jing for several years, and since Teacher Yao's accident, she had cut off contact with all her brothers and sisters.

So I naturally inquired about the situation of "Teacher Yao" he said, and I knew very well in my heart that it was the Yao Kechen on the old group photo of the seventeen people.

Mr. Lu said very honestly that Mr. Yao was the tutor of their university, and later did some research together, and was involved in several fraud cases in the United States a few years ago, and was arrested, he really didn't know what the specific situation was, and there was nowhere to inquire, this incident hit Zhuang Jing very hard, she was depressed for a while, quit her job here and went to develop elsewhere.

Zhuang Jing is Yao Kechen's wife.

Lu Bingliang said that they fell in love when Zhuang Jing was in college, and as soon as she graduated, the two immediately received a marriage certificate.

This would explain why Zhuang Jing would also wade into this pool of troubled water.

Yao Kechen is a member of the "Concubine" organization, a survivor of the Immortal Palace Massacre, and a participant in the "parasitic" experiment in Chen Jiawu.

Just like Xia Dongyi's daughter, Xia Xiaoyu has always played a role in these incidents.

I didn't want Lu Bingliang to think that I was inquiring into Zhuang Jing's privacy, or to make him wonder if Zhuang Jing was involved in any case, so after chatting for a while, I returned to the real purpose of my trip, consulting what kind of results hypnosis can have on human memory, or what kind of consequences can it have on human memory.

Lu Bingliang's answer was: There are countless kinds.

He introduced to me the various international and domestic situations of "hypnosis", some believe and some do not, some support and some oppose, some are cold and some are fanatical, and you can refer to the views of different people on alien civilizations or artificial intelligence, etc., and you always know that hypnosis is also a controversial science, although some people call it "pseudoscience".

The two most extreme attitudes towards hypnosis are: the first is that hypnosis is another form of programming of the category of psychology that can do anything; The second attitude is that hypnosis is nonsense, strange and confusing. The controversy between the two factions has now developed into hostilities.

Lu Bingliang retains the former view, but takes a wait-and-see attitude and does not participate in any academic debates and factional struggles.

He simply used the metaphor of "programming" to explain the omnipotence of hypnosis.

In a sense, hypnotists and programmers are the same in nature, but the objects are different, hypnotists target the human brain, and programmers target various application software and artificial intelligence. A powerful hypnotist can implant various opinions, judgments, and ideas into human consciousness, and can temporarily manipulate a person's actions and even manipulate his behavior patterns throughout his life.

The simplest and most common mode of hypnosis is what we usually call "brainwashing".

Everyone who is good at brainwashing must know a certain amount of psychology, know how to arouse the anger, fanaticism, sympathy of others, etc., and also know how to guide them to follow their own steps. From this point of analysis, hypnosis is absolutely scientifically reasonable, but it is not easy to grasp.