Chapter 702: Hogg's Wonderful Date
Song Lan felt that Lu Xiang's analysis this time was not reasonable.
He admits that both "Mouse" and Mr. Hogg have shown their own talent for comedians, though he thinks it's not his ability, maybe they're just shedding their usual masks and revealing their truest selves.
The slogans of other believers are "for the greater good" or "for the evolution of all mankind", but his "believers" have become funny artists, which makes Song Lan very faceless and does not want to accept this fact in her heart.
On the other hand, he had never thought about the effect that the interfering psionic energy might have on the subject of the interference, and his good friend, the former headmaster of the Wisteria Academy, who had not yet had time to reveal his name, had never mentioned it to him, and he thought it should be an academic issue.
"Actually......"
Lu Xiang wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end she still made up her mind, and talked about it in front of Song Lan, "I have always thought you have a talent for funny. ”
In daily life, she will always be inadvertently amused by Song Lan, you must know that when she was a student at Qiming School, she once went to the theater to watch a comedy performance, and the more than two-hour performance never made her smile, but made her sleepy.
When she heard that she had been assigned to District 17 after graduation, she thought that she might never laugh for the rest of her life.
However, in just a few months of knowing Song Lan, she has been teased more times than in the past combined, and several times in public, she almost pinched the back of her hand to bleed before she didn't laugh out loud in front of her colleagues.
"I've never been funny, and not only that, but I'm a pretty serious person!"
Song Lan tried to salvage his reputation, he believed that Lu Xiang's accusations did not correspond to the facts, and he usually did not tell jokes, nor did he perform some exaggerated theatrical performances, let alone do some nonsensical pranks.
"Well, you're the kind of serious funny, which is the rarest."
Lu Xiang said that she knew that Song Lan didn't mean it, but many of his usual behaviors happened to poke at her laughter, and if it was really consciously funny, it wouldn't work for her.
She felt that Song Lan might have passed on this talent to "Mouse" and Hogg through the interference-type psychic ability.
Just as Song Lan was thinking about how to refute the other party, Mr. Hogg stabbed him in the back again.
It had only been five minutes since the worried Hogg sent him another series of text messages:
What clothes should be worn when meeting with a stand-in person?
What should I talk about after we meet?
What taboo topics need to be avoided?
Wouldn't it be too abrupt to send flowers when we first met?
……
Mr. Hogg seems to have a lot of questions, but because Song Lan has intelligently blocked him, whenever he calls, he will get a prompt that "the phone you dialed is on call", so he can only send every question he thinks of to Song Lan through text messages.
He also transferred a 10,000-watt consulting fee to Song Lan very kindly.
"I'm an executive officer in MI7's highest operational unit, not a kindergarten teacher!"
Song Lan took the case, and he watched Mr. Hogg disappear in the direction of the comedy artist, and the other party even sent a photo, which he bought out of nowhere to hide his slightly balding image, which he had never attended to a meeting so formally as it was now.
Clearly, Hogg seems to want to make a good first impression on fellow stunt-in psychiatrists.
Lu Xiang instigated, "Do you want to go over and have a look?" ”
She was also curious about the changes that had taken place in Hogg, and by observing Mr. Hogg, she was able to come up with some theories about Song Lan's abilities, which helped her complete The Diary of the Dumb Bird Observation.
In fact, as early as a few months ago, she noticed Song Lan's influence on the people around her.
People who have been with Song Lan for a long time in the department will have more or less characteristics such as laziness and laziness, and at the same time, they will become peaceful, happy every day, and look like they are indisputable, this kind of mentality is rare for ordinary people living in this era, but it is a little wrong for law enforcers.
Lu Xiang now suspected that this might be the result of Song Lan's spiritual energy radiating to the surroundings unconsciously.
Even she inevitably changed - some time ago, every morning when she woke up, she wanted to lie under the covers for a little longer.
On the other hand, Mr. Hogg was nervous about his meeting with another double messenger.
This may be the feeling that those young people in the family describe when they meet netizens.
He rarely had such an opportunity, and as a politician, everyone he had met in the past had a purpose, even relatives and friends, and in a large family like Foster, there was hardly pure family affection, and he had been in the midst of a power struggle for as long as he could remember.
And now, he is acting for the sake of "meeting the same kind".
Hogg stood in front of the mirror, put on his wig, tidied up his appearance, and chose a decent black suit, and finally did not forget to spray himself with some men's perfume, and before long, the ordered plastic bouquet was also delivered to the door, which was specially made by a gift company affiliated with the Foster family, and it is said that it also had a fluorescent light function.
Before heading out, he glanced at his phone again.
Mr. Rob Lucci finally wrote back.
There are no particular taboos about communication between stand-in messengers, but there is a strange connection between them, so much so that they can recognize each other at a glance in the middle of nowhere.
This calmed him down a bit.
Hogg arrived at the café downstairs a quarter of an hour earlier than the agreed time—in the past, as an important figure at various gatherings, he tended to be the finale, and rarely attended early.
A few minutes later, a psychiatrist in a coat and a pair of sunglasses walked in the door.
When they met, they both froze at the same time, and after a moment, there was a hint of joy in Hogg's eyes—Mr. Lucci was not deceiving him, and he recognized his own kind at the first time.
Of course, this also had to do with the fact that he was the only customer in the café at that time except for the staff.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Hogg, and I'm Lucy."
Lucy hesitated for a long time at the door of the café before she made up her mind to walk over.
Hogg's mental state was very different from what she had imagined, and unlike any mentally ill person she knew of, and judging by Jock's description and the content of their last call, she easily made up for an old man who was sluggish and looked extremely scruffy.
But now Hogg looked full of energy, and seemed to have carefully groomed before going out, and she was a little flattered by the thought that the person in front of her was the current ruler of the Foster family.
It seems that Mr. Hogg also made a special trip to prepare a meeting gift for her.
This made Lucy wonder about her previous diagnosis.
The reason why she asked Hogg out was very simple, Jock hoped that she could cure Hogg's mental illness, but no matter how good a psychiatrist was, she could not treat a patient who refused to cooperate, so before the treatment began, she had to go into Hogg's heart and become a ...... Stand-in messenger.
She specially checked a lot of relevant information in the hospital, but she couldn't find any information related to the stand-in messenger, and she still couldn't figure out what kind of people the stand-in messenger was.
She would rather Hogg think of himself as a mushroom or a pine tree.
Now, she must quickly figure out what the stand-in messenger really means, "Mr. Hogg......
"You don't have to be so angry, you can call me Hogg."
"Okay, Hogg, how did you find out about your status as a stand-in?"
"Because there is an 'evil spirit' around me."
And this "evil spirit" happened to appear as his sworn enemy, which made Hogg subconsciously think that the other party was here to persecute him.
However, Mr. Ludge's explanation for this is that the stand-ins are projections of human mental power, and their images are related to the ability to be born and the will of the ontology, and because he is always thinking about the "zealous citizens", he awakens a stand-in that is similar to his image and has the same type of ability.
"What kind of 'evil spirit' is it?"
Lucy continued.
Hogg seemed glad she asked, and he stood up from his chair and waved his right hand, "That's right, let you see my double!" ”
Lucy held her breath, and even the café staff cast a strange look at the table.
More than ten seconds passed, and Hogg still maintained the position he had just had, unfortunately nothing happened, which made him a little embarrassed, and explained, "I have just become a stand-in ability, and I haven't been able to fully master this ability. ”
This scene was also clearly seen by Song Lan and Lu Xiang across the street.
Song Lan covered his face in pain, even he felt embarrassed for Mr. Hogg from the bottom of his heart, this kind of embarrassment of posing a wonderful pose but nothing happened inexplicably made him empathize, just like the setting of his "Universe Invincible Series" was seen by Lu Xiang.
Fortunately, for him, such a thing would never happen.
Lu Xiang next to him showed an expression of "sure enough" - now Hogg has begun to try his performance as a comedy artist, and the performance effect is as embarrassing as the troupe that came to Qiming Academy before.
The call for a double fails, leaving Hogg and Lucy silent.
After about a minute, Hogg suddenly thought of something and pulled out his pistol in front of Lucy.
This is a tactic that Mr. Lucci has tailored for him - due to his own limited physical strength, two seconds is too short for him, and he can only use his firearms to surprise the enemy while time has stopped.
And now, he thought of a means to prove his identity.
Under Lucy's shocked gaze, he loaded and pointed the muzzle of his gun at his head.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Hogg!"
Lucy was so frightened that she quickly pressed the muzzle of the gun with her hand, "No need to do this, I know you are a stand-in messenger...... The stand-ins can sense each other's identities, and you don't need to prove that! ”
While speaking, she saw the clerk who was ready to call the police at any time, and she had a plan and said, "It's better to keep our affairs secret, and don't involve ordinary people." ”
"You're right."
Hogg was stunned, as if persuaded by her.
Seeing that he finally put down the gun in his hand, Lucy breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, she was convinced.
Mr. Hogg is so ill that he has even developed strong suicidal tendencies.
Jock must be informed of this as soon as possible.
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(End of chapter)