Donald frowned.

"Not found yet." He repeated what Elon had just said, "In other words, maybe there are ruins in the cluster's zone of control?" The problem is that the core region has basically been explored, and the non-core region cluster is basically not controlled, and it's- I mean it's useless to control the star cluster by the X organization. ”

Elon: "Or maybe it's for the fleet and industrial resources, the star cluster has just broken out a large-scale rebellion, they have been relying on artificial intelligence to manage society, after the rebellion ended they dismantled all the AI, and now the entire production order is in chaos. ”

Donald: "Rebellion? Is the AI finally rebelling? ”

Elon: "It's an anti-AI rebellion. ”

"But it sounds like the anti-AI faction won in the end?" Donald shook his head, "You idiot, the one who loses is the one who rebels, and the one who wins is called counterinsurgency." ”

Elon immediately nodded: "You're right. ”

"Continue reporting." Donald waved his hand.

Elon: "Organization X controls everyone through a large-scale memetic contamination, the first to be controlled is the current leader of the star cluster, the dictator, and the superpowers of Organization X implant their own doppelgangers into the dictator consciousness through memetic contamination. ”

"Wait a minute!" Donald raised his right hand, "What do you mean?" Can't you just put it simply? ”

Elon: "It was the dictator who saw the hallucination, but the hallucination was actually a superpower...... projection. Psychic people can monitor the dictator's every move through this illusion. ”

Donald was shocked: "Can it still be like this?" I like this ability. ”

The scientific officer, who had not spoken, finally spoke: "Director-General, this ability is very dangerous, we think it is likely that we will be contaminated by seeing information with memes attached, and this is how Organization X controls hundreds of millions of people on the home planet of the cluster. ”

Donald: "Can you do that?" Is this an ability elicited from a psychologist? What do you think of the psychology department? ”

At this time, in the observation room next to the experimental field, the newly recruited psychologists of the Adventure Club gathered.

The Adventure Club used to treat superpowers as a purely scientific issue, and the allocation of psychologists was mainly to maintain the mental health of the research team.

They basically don't have psychologists who are biased towards theoretical research, all of them are psychiatrists who are licensed to practice medicine, and the entire department is also a branch of the medical system under the logistics of the star cluster, and it belongs to the third level of the department in terms of organizational structure.

Now the Adventure Club has set up a psychology department alongside the science department, and has found the top psychology professors in New Eden.

After Donald asked, the boss of the new psychology department replied on the loudspeaker: "Actually, there is nothing outrageous, and now the advertising departments of various companies are using similar technology to artificially create memes to make them go viral." ”

Donald waved his hand repeatedly: "No, no, no one knows the business side of the company better than me. I'm asking if it's possible to implant one's own doppelganger into another person's consciousness through a meme? ”

There was silence over there.

Donald: "Hello? ”

"We don't know." The megaphone rang again.

Donald snapped his fingers, "Then give it a try." Do we still have the Word? Find a volunteer from a psychologist. What is the background of the agents of the X organization who did this? ”

Elon: "The agents on the other side of the cluster believe that this was done by a former psychologist named Helena. ”

Donald: "Before? What do you mean? Can a psychologist's skills still be rusty? Can you? ”

Before Elon could answer, the voice of the boss of the psychology department came over the loudspeaker: "Helena Frost? Then it is not surprising that she is a guru in the psychology of fraud. ”

"Fraud psychologist?"

"The scientific name is inducing psychology, which is a sub-discipline that studies how to induce people to think."

Donald: "I guess there are some of you who are masters of this sub-discipline. If not, hire one right away. ”

"We have."

Donald clapped his hands: "That's great, arrange the experiment right away." Don't be afraid, it's not as dangerous to get superpowers as it used to be, at least people don't waste. ”

Elon: "Experiment now?" ”

"Of course! Aren't you an outreach officer? Hurry up and do you want to do your thing, or do you want to try your hand at becoming a superpower? ”

Elon said with regret: "I tried, but I didn't wake up, and now I'm undergoing psychological treatment." ”

"That's a shame." Donald snapped his fingers, and his superego punched the molten iron, which had largely solidified, and the molten iron in the position of the punch turned red again.

**

Donald's order was swiftly executed.

A total of 20 psychologists "voluntarily" signed up for the test, and only one of them produced a superego.

Donald: "Which female star is your superego?" ”

The psychologist who awakened his superpowers shrugged his shoulders: "I have read Jung's books, and although Jung's doctrine has lagged behind for modern psychology, some of the statements are interesting.

"I think the superego should be everyone's dream lover, and women in reality will trigger love at first sight as long as they meet some conditions."

Donald looked at his superego: a cowboy hunk who had been herding on the ranch planet for years, who usually tinkered with his own ship by hand, and who was adept at wielding all kinds of firearms.

Donald: "Are you sure?" ”

Elon: "Put the superego aside and try your superpowers." ”

Donald looked at the observation room on the wall of the experimental field, "How do you test your superpowers in psychology?" ”

Megaphone: "Subject 18 can draw a random picture, or a word, to see if any memetic contamination occurs." ”

Donald immediately gestured to Subject Eighteen, "Hurry." ”

The psychologist immediately sat down at the table, picked up a pen and drew something casually, and showed it to Donald.

Donald: "What's the matter?" I didn't see hallucinations, did I? Wait a minute, could it be because I've seen your superego? Try it for someone who doesn't have superpowers! ”

He shouted into the window pane of the observation room.

Over the next few hours, the scientific and psychological teams conducted a large number of tests, and finally determined that Subject Eighteen's ability to awaken could modify other people's perceptions to some extent, such as making people unable to remember his face.

After reading the experimental report, Donald concluded: "In other words, it can indeed change other people's perceptions, but only a little? So how did the X organization do that kind of thing? ”

Elon: "This ability is a good fit for a spy, and I'm proposing to assign him to my department and strengthen it into a standard field team." Anyway, there is no way for us to take back the Tao. ”

Donald patted the table: "No, no, no, it's all secondary, the main question is, how did Organization X do it?" ”

Elon: "After all, it's Organization X, and they must have a way of guidance that we don't know about, and they can completely stimulate their abilities."

"There have been reports before that the Galactic Song Singer Lily was very weak when she first awakened her ability, and the whole meaning of her ability is unknown.

"But just a few hours after leaving, Lily's abilities evolved, demonstrating a very strong crowd control ability on the Doyle space station.

Then, a few days later, on Caesar, the capital of the United Star Cluster, Lily's abilities had evolved to counter the AI and stop the Mechons.

"Our intelligence analysts believe that if we look at the initial crowd control as a distraction from the machine, that is, the prosthetic, then Lily's abilities are in the same vein, and there is a clear strengthening vein."

Donald was speechless: "This is very reasonable, I am also a superpower, my ability was only 1000 degrees Fahrenheit at the beginning, and now it has increased to 8000." If I had used the X tissue culture method, I would have been able to artificially produce tens of thousands of degrees Fahrenheit! ”

Elon: "Maybe. ”

Donald sat on the boss's chair, lying backwards, looking at the ceiling: "Organization X, it's terrifying." ”

(End of chapter)