Mayor Frank gave the order to open the door when he saw his door.

Everything seemed to be in order—and then he saw a black cat nimble out of the crack that had just opened.

The color of the black cat is like the night that comes alive, and the orange-yellow pupils look like the moon in the sky.

At first, Frank thought that there was something wrong with his prosthetic eye, and slapped the right cheek where the prosthetic eye was located, and then he realized that the prosthetic eye didn't see anything.

The cat appears on his original retina.

Frank was so shocked that he forgot to hit the brakes.

Fortunately, the car has automatic control, and it directly judges the danger of the situation and takes over the control.

The car stopped in front of the gate, and at this point the gate opened completely.

Then Frank saw the black cat identical to the one before coming out of the yard and glanced at him.

The cat is gone.

Frank immediately connected to his own network and turned on all the devices that could detect the creatures, none of which had such a cat on them.

"What the hell?" Frank muttered, holding his hand to the flesh half of his eyes, "...... Psychiatrist! ”

The moment he shouted this, the on-board computer had already connected to Dr. Douglas's phone.

The doctor's voice immediately came over the airwaves: "What's the matter?" ”

"Black cat! I saw the black cat! ”

Doctor: "Have you watched any movies related to black cats lately?" For example, some ancient films. ”

Frank retrieved his memory: "I saw a one called The Matrix, which had black cats in it. ”

"And it's also one of the important signs of plot advancement, and everyone who watched The Matrix 1 was impressed by this black cat that appeared twice." Dr. Douglas said, "Rest assured, you just love this movie too much." ”

Frank touched his head: "But I don't have the impression of watching this movie at all...... It's weird that I watched this film in my human computer records......"

"It's normal." Dr. Douglas reassures, "Humans often put memories in place and need external triggers to recall them. Didn't you think of the movie immediately after seeing the black cat? ”

"No, I didn't remember it right away, I only knew I watched this film after checking the memory of the on-board computer."

Dr. Douglas: "Are you sure?" ”

As soon as Frank's word "sure" came out, he stopped: "...... No, I'm not sure. Damn, I probably actually watched it. ”

Dr. Douglas: "Now you think you've seen the film again, don't you?" Human beings are like that, human memories are never the reality of the past, and human memories are always changing according to your present thoughts and feelings.

"Actually, not only memory, but also human perception of the situation in front of us is also affected by mood.

"For example, when you're in a good mood, the lake notices a ray of sunlight shining through the dark clouds, and when you're in a bad mood, the sun doesn't exist for you, and all you see is the dark clouds that are so low that they almost weigh down on your head, and the air is stuffy because of the high humidity."

Frank looked at the sky and said, "What I see now is a gray sky." ”

Douglas: "Then you can send out a drone to disperse the clouds." I'm here to show that the medicine I sent out has been signed off by your maid robot, eat a little, and get a good night's sleep. ”

Frank: "Okay doctor, thank you, doctor. ”

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Helena immediately urged, "Hallucinogens! Drop it for me! ”

"Are you mistaken, we're in high orbit." Wang Chao's response was super helpless, "Even if you asked for a hallucinogen, we will launch it to you immediately, it is now halfway through." ”

Helena was speechless: "Forget it, it's really unreliable." I'll figure it out. ”

As she spoke, she began to instruct the robot to assemble new gadgets.

Wang Chao: "What is this?" ”

"Stimulating dopamine secretion can also act as a hallucinogen."

"Dopamine?" Wang Chao was speechless, "Isn't this something that makes people happy?" ”

"That's just one of its roles. Anyway, I used the sleeping pills in the house to mix the medicine prescribed by the doctor, and when the town chief let down his guard, I connected this thing that stimulates dopamine secretion to him. ”

Nimeth teased, "You're a psychologist with pretty good hands-on skills. ”

"Please, I have a computer, and this level of hands-on ability can be installed with software. When I first left school, I sold these things. ”

At this time, Gale asked, "I don't really understand the series of operations you just had. Why would you pretend to be in the mayor's head that he had seen memories of the Matrix? ”

That's right, Mayor Frank hadn't seen The Matrix at all, and all his memories of watching the movie were forged by Nimeow following Helena's instructions.

Helena replied angrily, "It's to make it all rational." ”

"But our ultimate goal is to brainwash the mayor and make him our pawn, why should we make the sight of the black cat reasonable? Shouldn't he continue to be suspicious? Gale continued.

Helena: "It's about creating contrast, everything makes sense, but Frank always feels that something is wrong, and this contradiction can put enough pressure on him. Look at the current Mayor Frank, who has turned on all the means that can detect black cats.

He believed Dr. Douglas's explanation, and accepted it, but he just felt that something was wrong — because in fact there was something wrong.

"The cat is actually projected by the maid robot with a holographic projector, and he hasn't seen "The Matrix" either, everything is fake.

"The mayor, as an experienced adult male, instinctively knew that something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong. The unknown is the scariest thing. ”

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Mayor Frank knew something must be wrong.

He turned on all his detection equipment and searched for the black cat in his manor and the entire four square kilometers around the manor.

As a result, not to mention the black cat, not even a live cat was found.

Frank asks the faithful maid robot to bring the medicine prescribed by Dr. Douglas.

After the maid robot named Nina left, he lay down on the couch in the living room: "Fuck, what the hell. ”

**

Helena looked at the box that had just been printed out of the printer with satisfaction.

On the box is a pharmaceutical company forged by Nimeow, and the company's logo is a black cat.

Of course, Helena didn't really let Mayor Mare's take the medicine from the box, in fact, there were only counterweights in the box, and there was no medicine at all.

Once the mayor notices the box, Helena will create an opportunity for the maid robot to swap the fake pill box for the real thing.

Yes, this is another "hallucination" of the mayor, except that this hallucination is actually real.

Nimeow watched Helena prepare all this, and commented sharply, "Why do I think you don't have superpowers to play this mayor around?" ”

Wang Chao: "Have you forgotten how she communicated to let Guiyi kill a boatload of people?" People are professional, and superpowers are the icing on the cake. ”

Helena: "That's not the case, when you get to that kind of core star area, you really can only rely on superpowers, and now I can do this because of the situation in this colony, as long as they live closer, I can't do this." ”

After saying that, Helena put the checked fake medicine box on the tray of Nina, the maid robot.

"Go ahead."

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Frank was thinking about it, but when he heard Nina open the door and entered, he followed the sound.

This look almost didn't scare his soul away.

On the tray in Nina's hand, there is a black cat squatting!

At the moment when the pupils of half of his flesh eyes dilated, Helena activated her superpowers, causing Frank to hear a cat meow.

Frank immediately turned his head and looked in the direction of the cat's meow.

The maid robot grabbed this gap to complete the exchange of the pillbox.

At the same time, Nimeow also completed the memory tampering of Frank's human-borne computer, and in the new memory, Nina brought out this pillbox at the beginning, and there was no black cat at all.

Nimeow also complained: "Why do I think I have contributed the most to this scam!" ”

"That's right," Wang Chao teased, "If it weren't for the fact that this mayor is still half human, where can Helena be used, you will be done with him." ”

Nimeow stopped talking immediately, and she was incarnate.

Frank didn't notice the cat here, he stared in the direction where the cat's meow came from for a long time, and only turned his head after making sure there were no cats, and then he was stunned.

"What about cats?" He asked.

Nina: "What cat?" ”

"Cat on the pillbox!" Frank yelled hysterically, "Don't lie to me, there must be!" ”

Maid: "I'm sorry, I didn't see that. Do I need to change my memory? ”

Frank breathed heavily, as if to calm his mind in this way.

He quickly checked the records of the manned computer, and it turned out that there was no black cat at all.

- Misread again?

How can it be!

Frank's breathing is getting shorter and shorter, something must be wrong! The robot can't be trusted, and neither can Dr. Douglas on the phone! Nothing can be trusted!

Absolutely, definitely something terrible has found me!

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Helena observes Frank's expression closely, and as a psychologist, and a licensed clinical psychologist, her interpretation of human emotions is unusually accurate.

She suddenly realized that the follow-up pressurization plan was no longer needed, and now the pressure on the town elder was terrifying.

So she activated her superpowers, which would be more accurate: by having the superego raise its hand and make a gesture as if casting a spell, she realized self-suggestion and activated the superpower.

Frank, who had been gradually calming down, suddenly shivered, and then craned his neck in horror.

In the communication, Nimeow asked suspiciously, "What did you do?" What did he see and be scared like this? ”

Helena: "That's a good question. But we've been pretending to be hallucinations with actual images because the hallucinations generated by my superpowers are out of my control—or rather, not entirely under my control.

"So I don't know what he saw, I speculate it's a cat."

Wang Chao: "It could also be the goddess Basteto in ancient Egypt." The image of the goddess and her avatar were cats - just black cats. ”

Helena shrugged her shoulders as she entered Frank's living room from the next room and observed Frank's condition with her own eyes.

At this time, the water stain on the crotch of the townman's pants gradually spread.

Wang Chao: "Pee in your pants, warm under your crotch." ”

Nia: "Poof. ”

Gale: "No! You eat such a bad joke Nia! ”

Nimeow ignored the commotion on the ship's side, after all, she was now the closest member of the X Organization to the scene other than Helena, so she was a little more responsible than the guys on the ship.

Nimeow: "So, what's next?" ”

Helena snapped her fingers directly, so the robot maid took out the holographic projector she had just used to project the cat, and projected a three-dimensional black cat in front of Frank.

Frank screamed, like a frightened child, and raised his hands between the cat and himself.

Helena took out her headphones and put them on Frank's ear.

Of course, all the cameras in the room at this point are all headphones that Frank himself wears - these are all fake images of Nimeow.

Helena: "Hello, Mayor Frank. If the way we greet you scares you, allow us to apologize. ”

The moment he heard the human language, Frank's tremor lessened a lot, and he even opened his eyes and began to look around.

Nimeow: "He looked at the camera in the room. ”

Helena: "That's a good thing, I'm worried he won't check it out." I don't want to create another crazy dictator, no, that's too uncontrollable. The 'Mayor Mare' is in a good state, and it would be better for him to be afraid of our 'power' while trying to take advantage of himself with his cleverness. ”

Nimeow: "And even this little cleverness is in our plan, right?" ”

"Yes."

Wang Chao's admiration came from the tracks: "Cow, my professor Helena, psychology is really slippery." ”

At this time, Frank asked tremblingly, "Who are you?" Why Black Cats? ”

Helena was about to answer, but Wang Chao said, "Let me come." ”

Helena was about to refuse the captain's intervention, but Nimeow had already handed over control of the robot, holograms, and headset broadcasting equipment to Wang Chao.

The psychology professor could only stagger, once again realizing who had absolute power on this ship.

Wang Chao didn't care about her careful thinking at all, and said directly through the female voice of digital synthesis: "I chose the black cat because we have studied your culture, and this image is the most suitable for us." ”

Frank: "The best fit?" ”

Wang Chao: "That's right, in many ancient human cultures, the black cat is the embodiment of the gods who rule the underworld and death. So black cats are a good fit for us, aren't they? ”

Frank snorted and raised his voice: "Stop your tricks!" Get this damn pussy away! ”

These words directly silenced Wang Chao and their side.

Can you still see cat hallucinations?

Helena first came out to clarify: "I didn't do it, you see my superego didn't raise my hand, I have stopped doing it!" ”

Nia: "Do you mean...... Really when the other party was panicked and on the verge of collapse, he gave the other party a thought seal? This situation does look a lot like that of a dictator. ”

Wang Chao did not participate in the discussion, but directly said in a synthetic female voice: "This cat will always be with you, it is the steel seal we leave in your consciousness, no matter how many psychiatrists you find, you can't get rid of it."

"If you want to get rid of it, there is only one way, and that is to ascend into a mechoid race. But even if you ascend to the Mechoid Race, we have a way to control you.

"In fact, it is far easier to control the backward silicon-based life form of the robot man than the carbon-based life."

Frank's face turned pale.

What he didn't know was that Helena, who was also in the room, was also dumbfounded and muttered: "You guy, you really don't make drafts!" ”

(End of chapter)