Chapter 6: Divination
"Hypnosis?" Liu Mengwei's face showed the same puzzled expression as Han Songlin. "Hypnotic killing? Not...... I haven't tried it and can't tell you if it works. ”
"Do you have to try this kind of thing to know!" Ling Ling was speechless and said angrily.
Unexpectedly, Liu Mengwei was extremely serious: "What you said is strange, how can you know if you don't try?" Any academic conclusion must be determined through experiments, even repeated experiments. ”
"There's no way to try it! I can't try it either! Ling Ling said angrily.
"yes." Liu Mengwei suddenly laughed mischievously: "Because there is no need at all, there is obviously a more direct and simple way, why should you go far and near?" ”
"How?" Ling Ling asked suspiciously.
Liu Meng rubbed his fingers slightly: "To a certain extent, money can also be regarded as a hypnotic medicine, it can effortlessly pry open your brain, reverse your thoughts, and influence your actions, you say, is this a kind of hypnosis?" ”
Ling Ling furrowed her brows, although what Liu Mengwei said made some sense, but perhaps because she didn't hear what she wanted to hear, she always felt a little disappointed.
"Is it really possible to pry open people's brains and implant thoughts into them?" Standing aside and not saying a word, Wen Qiao suddenly spoke at this time: "I mean the physical kind of 'prying'. ”
Not only was Ling Ling shocked by his words, but Liu Mengwei's face also showed a hint of playfulness: "Are you talking about implanting electrode chips in the human brain, just like the brain-computer interface in the movie "The Matrix"? ”
Wen Qiao is non-deniable.
Liu Mengwei thought about it and said, "This is also a feasible idea. But the thought of having to cut a hole in your skull, and then implant electrodes in it, stirring your brain, and stimulating your brain with an electric current makes me feel like my whole body hurts. She shuddered, and said pitifully, "I'm most afraid of pain." ”
Then, she changed her relaxed expression: "This way is too bloody and rude, not elegant enough." The Creator has given us many examples and inspirations, so why not learn from the greatest teachers? ”
"There is a parasitic wasp in nature that uses caterpillars as hosts, and when it is time to lay eggs and reproduce, they inject a slurry mixed with eggs into the caterpillars. This slurry is mixed with millions of viruses that invade the host cell, take over the host's DNA, and command them to make a peculiar protein that destroys their own immune system and allows these aliens to grow healthily in the host. At the same time, the host will eat non-stop, provide nourishment for the parasite, and even complete self-castration, saving energy that would otherwise be used for reproduction and serving the parasite wholeheartedly. When the parasitic wasps burst out, their mission was still not over. They spit out the silk that they had cocooned themselves and cover the larvae of these parasitic wasps. If an uninvited guest appears, they will swing their bodies, spit venom, and bite their enemies to protect the parasitic wasps' cocoons. It wasn't until they broke out of their cocoons and became a new generation of parasites that this generation of caterpillars finally completed their mission and could lie down and die. ”
At the end, Liu Mengwei finally breathed a sigh of relief, as if she had just told a fairy tale with a happy ending. Ling Ling could afford a layer of goosebumps, and there was a tingling sensation on his back, as if a parasite had crawled into his veins out of thin air.
"Really...... Perverted ......" Ling Ling frowned and said, "This kind of thing doesn't happen to people, right?" ”
"But it's also fascinating, isn't it? One can't help but wonder how they did it. Liu Mengwei's eyes flashed with a bewitching light, "As for whether it will happen to humans, I can only say that although we are the best students in nature, we only need to look at how rough and simple our current works are, and we can know the gap between us and our teachers." ”
"Maybe we've really discovered a parasite that can 'parasitize' the human brain." Wen Qiao said suddenly.
"What?" Ling Ling screamed in surprise, her heart, which had been secretly relieved just now, was lifted again, and the parasite that had just disappeared woke up again, rushing straight to her brain along her veins.
Liu Mengwei was also slightly stunned, and then quickly calmed down: "It's not surprising, there is an amoeba called Naegri Fuchoni living in some unclean waters, if you accidentally choke on water and inhale this parasite, they will rush into the brain with the help of the olfactory nerve in the nasal cavity, and multiply in it, causing meningitis." Although the disease has a high fatality rate, the probability of infection is extremely low, and it is better to worry about the disease than to worry about being struck by lightning. ”
"The victim's brain was intact, but instead it appeared to be healthy." Wen Qiao denied her claim.
This time, it was Liu Mengwei's turn to wonder: "In that case, how did you find out that Mr. Forensic was parasitized?" ”
"Because after cutting open the skull of the deceased, I saw a cranial nerve that was still beating." Wen Qiao said a creepy story with an expressionless face.
……
Half an hour later, the three of them walked out of the car, but what they saw was not the police station, but the bustling Lanting Square.
"What are you doing here? We don't have time to play with you! Ling Ling complained angrily.
Liu Mengwei's eyes rolled, and he said mysteriously: "Aren't you investigating the case?" There may be a clue here. ”
Ling Ling glanced at her disdainfully: "We didn't say what the case was, so you can know where the clues are?" ”
Liu Mengwei pretended to be surprised: "You don't believe it? Then you might as well wait here, and Mr. Forensic and I will come as soon as we go. ”
Wen Qiaomian sank into the water, didn't say to go, and didn't say not to go. Ling Ling immediately stopped doing it, and shouted, "Go and go, I still don't believe that you can be a prophet!" ”
They walked through the square to a remote corner, where there was a small amusement park, but the facilities inside looked simple and old, and most of the shops were still closed, so there were hardly people to be seen, and it seemed desolate and silent. They followed her to a small shop with a sign that read "Dream Like a Dream Tarot Divination Society".
Ling Ling looked at this crookedly written signboard with a complicated expression, as if asking, "This is the clue you said?" Liu Mengwei pretended not to see it, and pulled the two of them in without saying anything.
The room was dimly lit, with a few flickering colored strips of light hanging on the walls, a few unintelligible paintings, and a woman in a peacock blue robe with exaggerated smoky makeup and a beaded curtain veil resembling a gypsy girl sitting in front of a table covered with red velvet.
"I'm Ruyue, you're like a dream." The woman asked Liu Mengwei.
"So, what about these two?" The woman looked at Ling Ling and Wen Qiao, "Please tell me your names." Before entering the door, Liu Mengwei told them the rules of the female soothsayer, and the soothsayer had to give himself a code name of "Ruso" before he could perform divination.
The corners of Ling Ling's mouth twitched, feeling that everything was absurd and child's play, and he couldn't wait to leave immediately.
"Like a look." Wen Qiao's thin lips started lightly, slowly highlighting the two words. Ling Ling turned her head to look at him in surprise, if it weren't for the fact that there was a Liu Mengwei in the middle, she would have wanted to rush up and shake his head to see if there was water inside.
Only Ling Ling didn't speak, and the three of them all looked at her in unison. "I ...... I am like ice. Ling Ling could only bite the bullet and say.
"Like a dream, like a look, like ice." The woman who couldn't see her face clearly motioned to the three of them with her eyes: "Please choose a card that you like best." ”
"What...... What do you mean? Ling Ling asked puzzled, she didn't know anything about this kind of game, after all, tarot cards are also considered a world-renowned culture, even if you don't believe it, it doesn't prevent everyone from playing it as a pastime game. Therefore, when I was in school before, there was a burst of tarot divination in the class, and Ling Ling also joined in the fun. But isn't the usual tarot divination drawn immediately? Now all the cards are face up, no secrets, and unreservedly presented to the trio.
No one answered her questions. Liu Mengwei took the lead and chose the "Strength" card, which depicted a woman with the "infinity" symbol floating on her head comforting a lion with a wide open mouth. Then, Wen Qiao also made a choice, he chose the "Judgment" card, the upper part of the card is an angel playing a horn hanging the red cross flag, and the lower part is people looking up and opening their arms.
Seeing that the two of them had already taken action, Ling Ling sighed helplessly, stepped forward, and scanned the 22 ordinary cards from beginning to end, and finally could only choose a card based on intuition: "Temperance", on the card was painted an angel emitting holy light, holding a cup in each hand, pouring water for each other, one foot in the water and one foot on the shore.
"Alright." Seeing that all three had made their choices, the soothsayer waved his hand above the table covered with cards, as if stirring something of the invisible void. Then he pinched the "power" card and held it up in front of Liu Mengwei, and asked, "So like a dream, what do you want to divination?" ”
Liu Mengwei looked at the lion and the priestess on the cards, and said quietly: "I have a green-eyed black cat, which has been with me for twenty years and has always been inseparable from me. But one day, when I came home, I didn't see it, and I searched all the places I could, but I couldn't find it. Can you tell me where it went? ”
The woman peeked out from behind the card with her heavily painted eyes, and she was peering at the person in front of her through the "power" card.
The scented candle on the table emitted a strange fragrance, and the woman's voice was as flickering as this breath: "Do you want to get it back?" Didn't it get rid of it by you? If you really want it back, just relax your 'power'. When your 'power' wanes, it will naturally come back to you. ”
Liu Mengwei's face changed imperceptibly.
"Ruxiang, it's your turn." She held up the "Judgment" card.
"When will judgment come?" Wen Qiao asked coldly.
"Judgment will come," the woman said, "when a meteor will pass from west to east in the night sky, and when the corpses that have sunk to the bottom of the river will resurface. ”
Ling Ling scoffed at this, and he didn't know how many times he rolled his eyes in his heart. When it was her turn, Ling Ling snorted lightly: "A few days ago, there was a homicide case in the development building, and it spread widely, so you should know about it." So, I want to know, where is the murderer in this case? Ling Ling asked a question that had already been answered, and a smile hung on the corner of her mouth, today, she was going to be a magic trickster with bad intentions.
"The person you're looking for is in a place with stars, fire, and plum blossoms."