Staring at the face with a little stunned expression on the phone screen for a long time, Joel's thinking was a little confused for a while, he looked back to the side, then at the phone, and then at the side.

Judging from the scene and angle on the photo, it was just taken, and there is nothing wrong with this position, but what is going on with that face?

Joel subconsciously touched his face, and for a moment, he even forgot what he looked like, could it be that in his own cognition, he actually looked like John?

Or, in fact, the John he had always thought was himself?

But it was only a momentary confusion, and he immediately cleared his mind again, looked at the picture again, and made sure that it was John, not himself.

What's going on?

In the current environment, with the faint moonlight above his head, he could clearly see his surroundings, and he could also tell if there were other creatures nearby by sounds and smells.

He was sure that there was nothing unusual around him, not even a bird around but himself.

Another hallucination?

Joel closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then turned on his phone again, and the photo he saw was still John's face.

So he turned on the video mode of his phone, turned on the fill light, and then took the recording of his face, and turned it over to view the video after recording.

Seeing the "John's face" on the video doing the actions he had just squinted, turned his head, and nodded, Joel almost missed and blew up his phone.

Joel tried several more times, whether it was taking pictures and videos with the front camera, or looking for a front camera to frame with the moonlight, all he saw was John's face, and his expressions, movements, clothes, and background could all correspond.

This made Joel's cognition confused again, could it be that before he unknowingly, his face changed to when he was young, and his appearance when he was young was actually the same as John's?

Or was John's appearance in his memory actually deviated all along, remembering his own appearance?

For his own memory, Joel hesitated and uncertain again, but this is not entirely the influence of the mobile phone photos and videos at this time, all the time, he has been sorting out and recalling his memories, and there is often some confusion, which is also the disadvantage of living too long and often sleeping for a long time. Sometimes, when he wakes up after a slumber of months or even years, he will even forget the memories of one of the stages directly, or mix up the order in which they occurred, and it will take some time to recover.

But just when he found a reason for himself, he looked at his phone again, and found that in the photos and videos taken, his own appearance returned to the appearance of the elegant old man.

Joel froze, feeling a little cold inexplicably.

The hypnotic suggestion I received would have such a big impact and such a big effect?

He suddenly thought of seeing the little girl in the white dress who was not recorded on the real-time surveillance screen in the restaurant in Liucheng, and the situation that Wu Shushan was inexplicably located when he opened the mobile phone map.

Perhaps along the way, he has seen a lot of such hallucinations, and many of the sounds and images that he thought were ordinary and normal were all deceived by his own brain, which were fakes and illusions.

Have you been hypnotized to such a deep level?

In this case, what you see and hear is true?

Could the surrounding mountains and forests also be fake?

Normally, when the consciousness itself is hypnotized and knows which are hallucinations and hallucinations, it should be able to get out of the hypnotic state to a certain extent, why does he still continue to produce this kind of deep hallucinations that make him unable to judge the truth or falsehood?

As his thoughts grew more and more confused, his emotions became more and more tense, and his bloodlust and mania could not be suppressed, Joel suddenly fell to the ground and buried his face deep in the dirt and weeds on the ground.

He sensed the "prosthetic tissue fluid" left in advance by himself all the way into the mountain, and relied on the "prosthetics" parasitic on various plants to make an overall judgment on the creatures of this mountain forest, and once again determined that there were no "blood clans", "blood beasts" or "blood plants" here.

The "prosthesis" produced by his "prosthetic tissue fluid" does not give him the most intuitive sensory feedback, but it can give him an "intuitive" judgment.

He believed that this "intuition" could not be wrong and would not be influenced by hypnosis and suggestion.

This judgment made him a little relieved.

Then he turned his attention to himself again, and he no longer delved into when and how he was hypnotized and hinted, but instead thought about how to deal with it and what the other person wanted to do.

In his original understanding, as soon as he arrived in Wushu Mountain, there should be a related "blood clan" or "blood lineage", and at the worst he was also a person who knew the inside story, and then it would be seen whether he wanted to deal with himself or have friendly exchanges, in short, there should be a result.

But what he didn't expect was that he finally rushed to Wushu Mountain, and was "led" from Wushu Mountain to Chongyun Mountain, and after entering the mountain overnight, he was still like in the fog, and he didn't find the answer to any questions.

Joel thought of the hallucination he had just had, if the hypnosis and suggestion he received was to let him come to Wushu Mountain and Chongyun Mountain, then when he was here, what was the hallucination of taking pictures of himself as John on his mobile phone?

He thought of the thought that had come to him before he noticed his phone.

Could it be that this illusion is also reminding myself that I have found the wrong place, in fact, I am not here in Chongyun Mountain, but still in Wushu Mountain?

“SHIT！”

“FUCK！”

Joel couldn't help but curse twice, grabbed the blonde hair hard, forcibly controlled his mania, took a few deep breaths, and prepared to walk out of the mountain.

But after taking a few steps, there was a sudden movement of grass being trampled behind him, and he turned back sharply to find a white shadow flashing through the forest.

Joel perked up and subconsciously said: "WAIT......"

His physical functions were stretched to the limit, and he ran wildly in the direction where the white shadow appeared.

In a few seconds, he had already run to the location where the white shadow had appeared, and looked around, but he didn't find the whereabouts of the white shadow.

He took a deep sniff of the air around him, and was stunned again, he couldn't smell the smell of anyone or beasts, let alone the smell of "blood clan" or "blood beast".

What's going on?

Another hallucination?

Joel lay down, and looked closely at the place where he saw the white shadow appear, and found that there were indeed faint traces of stampede, judging from the traces, it was a pair of very small flat leather shoes, as if they were worn by children?

He immediately corresponded the white shadow with the little girl in the white dress that he had seen in the surveillance video and real-time monitoring of the restaurant in Liucheng.

He rubbed his eyes vigorously, looked at the mark again, and it was still there.

However, it did not leave any smell, but it still made him wonder if it was a trace of reality or a hallucination he had generated.

There weren't a few footprints, and it seemed that except for the flash he saw, the white figure disappeared directly.

After checking around for a while in a dozen square meters nearby, Joel, who found nothing, was a little confused and confused.

Originally, he finally straightened out his thoughts and determined a strategy, to ignore the hallucinatory effect of John's photo on the mobile phone, and return to Wu Shushan to check, but now this situation has completely confused his thinking.

If the white shadow just now was the illusion of the little girl in the white dress that Liu Cheng saw, it proved that he was implied to Wushu Mountain and Chongyun Village all the way, and it was related to the little girl.

But after thinking back and forth, he is now unsure again, because he doubts that the white shadow he saw, the traces on the ground, and the illusion on the mobile phone will be just the result of his constant entanglement in his heart after being hypnotized by the hypnotic suggestion - seeing himself on the phone become John, it is because he came here to find the reason why John lost contact, and to find a way to find John, solve the "blood source" problem, and see the white shadow because he subconsciously thought that the little girl in the white dress was behind it.

His mind kept hitting the wall like a ghost, and then he couldn't help but curse loudly around him.

This time it was not only English, but also in Spanish, German, French, and even in Chinese and Cantonese.

Obviously, he is already on the verge of losing control and going berserk, and he can't suppress the manic emotions caused by the stage limit.

But just when he made up his mind to leave Chongyun Mountain regardless of everything, and go to Pengcheng City directly regardless of it.

The little girl in the white dress reappeared, this time, standing directly by a tree ten meters in front of him, tilting her head, holding a scalpel in her hand, looking at him in a daze.

The moonlight sprinkled through the gaps in the branches and leaves overhead, covering the little girl's fair and delicate face with a layer of cold mottled silver, which looked incomparably real, but also incomparably eerie and weird.

Joel felt his breathing stop again, and before he could react, the little girl in the white dress flashed behind the tree and disappeared again.

He hurried to catch up, and as expected, there was no figure of the little girl in the white dress again, as if she had disappeared out of thin air, there was no smell, no sound and movement.

"Ah——h

......

A few hours ago, when Joel was guided by all kinds of plausible information into the Chongyun Mountains.

In the small courtyard that Xiang Kun in Chongyun Village often used to drink blood and sleep in the name of "retreat", he and Xia Libing were sitting in a room filled with multiple monitors, looking at the surveillance screen on one of the screens, discussing something.

"Lao Xia is still powerful, and sure enough, he used the 'reverse operation' to lure him over, hey, I knew that I would give him a hint to go to Pengcheng at the beginning, arouse his vigilance, and then let him find out in an appropriate way that John was actually in Chongyun Mountain. Xiang Kun looked at Joel, who was heading towards Chongyun Mountain, and touched his chin and said.

Xia Libing shook his head: "If this is the case, the effect may not be good." ”

Xiang Kun thought for a while and nodded: "That's right, in fact, the best way is to hide the clues in various details, let him dig it himself, and find out little by little, he is sure that he wants to come to Chongyun Mountain, this is the best." It's a pity that the time is still too tight to make all the arrangements, so I can only 'lead' him in this somewhat forcible way. ”

At this time, Alice's voice came from the speaker: "Everything is in Alice's control!"

Xiang Kun nodded perfunctorily: "I know, I know, you are the best, this time it is all up to you." ”

Although his tone was perfunctory, he was indeed very satisfied with Alice's performance, and it could even be said to be a surprise.

Since the beginning of May, the large-scale launch, layout, and association plan of "Superlink" has been carried out, and with the assistance of Alice, the progress can be said to be rapid and very fast.

Not only Chongyun Village, Chongyun Mountain, Tongshi Town, border towns, mountainous areas, and villages, basically most of Jianzhou City, and most of the urban areas of Jiantong City have been deployed and associated with a large number of "super-alliances", becoming the de facto "home of super-alliances", and even some other places, such as Pengcheng City, Yangcheng City, Shenhai City and other areas where Xiang Kun and his friends often move, have also arranged and associated enough "super-alliances".

Even in the southwest, northwest and other land borders, southeast and other areas that may be smuggled into the country, Xiang Kundu and Alice through the remote deployment of "love objects" with "super-unions" to carry out a large number of long-range "super-connections" association, so that Xiang Kun does not need to go to the border to walk around, and most of the basic border must pass through the places, included in his "super-union monitoring network" - there is Alice 24 hours a day without rest and no interval through super-sensing information monitoring, even if it is a bug, as long as it is a "mutated creature" , passing through the area full of "super-co-organisms", she can also spot it immediately.

The reason why he paid so much attention to the border area was that he knew the illegal entry methods of John Cavendish as a European "vampire", and on the other hand, most of those places were inaccessible and were one of the ways for beastly "mutant creatures" to enter human settlements, so that he could "monitor" possible "mutated creatures" and find research targets.

It's just that I didn't expect that the first "mutant creature" that Alice discovered through the border "super-linked monitoring network" turned out to be the "Count Joel" of the same organization as John.

As for why Xiang Kun knew that it was "Count Joel", it had to be said more than a month ago.

After Alice found out that John at the bottom of the Shouwang Mansion was once again locked up with other "mutant creatures" to fight to the death and informed him, he conducted real-time monitoring in the "super sensing state", and observed the whole process of a "mutant creature" being killed, body tissues disintegrating and dissipating, and blood being seized by another "mutant creature" to change cognitive information.

This fight was even more tragic than the last time John fought with the "mutant serpent", but it was still John who survived in the end.

Xiang Kun perceived John's dream again this time, and this time, it was no longer the illusory allegorical dream with the appearance of an eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, but there were many pictures of John in Europe and in the "Red Rose" organization, among which the most appeared was Count Joel.

Xiang Kun not only knew Count Joel's appearance, personality, and some habits, but also knew that Guo Tianxiang was the "bloodline" he raised and the "blood" he prepared for himself. And the reason why John came to China is also because Count Joel has reached the stage limit, and if there is no qualified "blood source", the body will disintegrate and die - of course, according to the rules of the "Red Rose", before he dies, before confirming that he cannot break through the limit, he will contribute his blood in a special way to become the nutrients for other "blood clans" to survive the long sleep period.

However, it seems that Joel did not intend to play according to tradition, and instead of pinning all his hopes on John's timely return, he came to China himself.

Xiang Kun knew from John's dream that these old European "blood clans" were all ferocious and inhumane monsters, and the lives of each of them were more than three digits.

Compared with the "mutant creatures" that Xiang Kun had come into contact with before, John, Joel, and even Guo Tianxiang were much more threatening to humans than "giant owls" and "mutant spiders".

Even if they still look like they are still human, and they haven't changed much, but in terms of behavior, they are not as good as insects.

So naturally, Xiang Kun took Joel to do an "experiment", and there was no psychological burden.

However, the "experiment" he wanted to do was not to lock Joel up and conduct various tests or observations.

Joel is now in a very special state - he has reached the so-called "stage limit", and needs the blood of other "mutated creatures" to break through this limit.

Xiang Kun has now observed the changes in the cognitive information of the body tissues of the "mutant creatures" after being killed in the "super sensory state", and has also observed the changes in the cognitive information of the body mutations after the "mutant creatures" grabbed the blood of other "mutant creatures", but he has not observed the changes in the cognitive information of the "mutant creatures" that collapse by themselves after reaching the stage limit.

Now, Joel is an excellent "observable target".

What he had to do was to put Joel into a state and environment suitable for his observation, and then naturally enter the process of collapse that reached the limit of the stage.

There is no doubt that the depths of the Chongyun Mountains, which are already full of "super-co-organisms", are usually not manned, and a large area around them are under the control of him and Alice, and can carry out various "improvisation" operations, is the best place.

So from the moment Joel thought he had quietly sneaked into the country, Xiang Kun, Alice, and Lao Xia had already started to hold a "round table" discussion on how to let Joel come to Chongyun Mountain by himself.

Including the stone bump marks of "HELP J", the restaurant ticket below, and the surveillance video of John following Alice, the little girl in the white dress, leaving the restaurant, they all arranged it in advance.

In fact, the various clue "packages" they prepared for Joel were far more than that, and if he went to Pengcheng City, or started his investigation from other possible clues, there would be a series of other information waiting for him to "discover".

Eventually, no matter what, he would be led to Wushu Mountain, and then to Chongyun Mountain.