Joel knows that hypnosis needs a way, whether it is to carry out sensory influences such as vision, sound, touch, smell, etc., or directly through drugs or other substances, to produce an effect in the human body, to have an effect, no matter what ability is used to achieve the hypnotic effect, there must be a trigger, an event, and a process.

But Joel carefully thought about his previous experiences and retraced the details of his various senses according to his rich hypnosis experience, but he didn't find anything abnormal and didn't understand when he was hypnotized.

Even now, he can't be sure whether the little girl in the white dress he saw on the real-time monitoring screen and the advertising sound he just heard is real or a pure hallucination.

If he was affected and hallucinated, he could tell with some certainty.

But according to his method, what he saw and heard just now did not seem to be hallucinating.

Joel stood for a while, and the video looping on the big screen in the mall did not play the Ping An Life advertisement, and the other advertisements did not have anything special, and there was not even an all-English advertising slogan.

He hesitated for a moment, didn't try to confirm the video source of the ad on the big screen, and didn't check the direction pointed by the woman who read the English lines in the previous ad - there was a travel agency there - and when he watched the video of the ad, he had the feeling that the woman had asked him to go to the travel agency to check.

Joel chose to leave here first, there are too many factors that affect his senses and judgment in the downtown area, and he needs to find a place to think quietly and tidy up his state.

But after taking a few steps, a violent voice suddenly sounded next to him: "Pengcheng?! Not in Pengcheng! I'm not in Pengcheng......"

He was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, but saw the man who had already staggered past him, and said impatiently into the mobile phone: "You made a mistake, my surname is Wu, but I am not in Pengcheng, and I have never been to Pengcheng!

Joel frowned, it was just an ordinary person, and what he said shouldn't have been said to himself, but why did he always feel that it meant something?

After knowing that the location of John's two phased transformations was in Pengcheng, he had been thinking about when he would go to Pengcheng. Even just now, he had thought about whether to go directly to Pengcheng regardless of what happened to John here, regardless of the nick of "help J", and the little girl in the white dress in the surveillance video.

And the words of the passer-by just now seemed to be answering his thoughts, and he couldn't help but pay attention.

Joel thought about it, didn't make any mistakes, and continued to move on.

Almost instinctively, he paid a little attention to the advertisements around him, the conversations of passers-by, all kinds of movements, and all kinds of pictures.

Then, two minutes later, he suddenly noticed a line of words floating by on a horizontal bar display screen not far in front of him:

"Are you looking for a place where you can relax? Wu Shushan may be your answer. ”

Joel was stunned for a moment, he had the feeling that he was saying this to him, and he glanced at the shop next to the billboard, which was another travel agency.

He paused at the door of the travel agency, hesitated for a moment, but still did not walk in to ask.

Walking so fast, the various sounds around him along the way always made him feel that there was a will in the dark, persuading him not to go to Pengcheng, but to go to Wushushan, where he could find the answer and find John.

But when he really paid attention to those "noises", he found that either he seemed to have heard something wrong or read it wrong, or it was an ordinary and normal sound or image.

He forcibly controlled himself from the "noise", found a small park, and sat on the ground in a remote and dimly lit corner.

In this place, away from the hustle and bustle of the downtown area and the bustling commercial street, there are many fewer of those various "noises", and his tense spirit has relaxed a lot, and he can finally take a breath.

He is now more and more sure that he should have been hypnotized by someone, projected some kind of psychological suggestion, so he will casually hear some plausible sounds, see some images that seem to be referential, and feel that he is influencing himself and expressing a specific meaning.

And the timing of that impact, according to his guess, should have started when he saw the little girl in the white dress in real-time monitoring.

It's just that he didn't understand how the other party gave him psychological hints, and why did he let him go to Wushushan?

Thinking so, he took out his mobile phone, ready to check how far Wu Shushan was from here - this mobile phone was given to him by the lady who rubbed the car before, and the cards on it were all Chinese, and so was aPP. Although the mobile phone he brought into the country was not unusable, after comparing the two, he found that it was indeed more convenient for the lady to give him to use.

But this time, as soon as I opened the map aPP, there was an open screen ad:

In the background of a beautiful landscape, five beautiful splash ink effect fonts stand out in front - "Come to Wushu Mountain!"

After 3 seconds of advertising, he entered the map aPP interface and directly helped him locate Wu Shushan.

Joel was stunned for a moment, subconsciously closed his eyes and shook his head, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that the location on the mobile phone had changed to the direction where Liu Cheng was currently located.

What's going on?

Was that moment real or hallucinatory?

Joel's hand holding the phone subconsciously exerted himself, and the metal shell of the phone was directly pinched and bent, and the screen was immediately spent.

He originally thought that he would be less affected by staying away from that restaurant and getting rid of all kinds of noise in the downtown area, but now that he looks at it, it seems to be useless at all, and that kind of suggestion and hypnosis should have taken root in his subconscious.

In retrospect, maybe the hypnosis didn't start with the cafeteria watching the surveillance, but was already working when he saw the nick on "help J".

Joel took out the tattered restaurant ticket and looked at it again, as if he was worried that there was something wrong with it.

Throughout the night, Joel kept receiving all kinds of hints telling him not to go to Pengcheng, but to Wushushan. But the more this happened, the more wary and hesitant he became.

So at three o'clock in the morning, he finally made up his mind, hypnotized a young man who ran Didi, and drove him to Pengcheng.

The more the "hint" doesn't let him go, the more he wants to go, and the more he leads him to go, the more he doesn't go.

On the way, a radio program on the car's radio was actually discussing Wu Shushan's travel experience, which made Joel's nerves tense again.

But strangely, he asked the driver, and the driver heard exactly the same thing as he heard, and the driver often listened to this late-night radio program, and was very familiar with the two hosts who spoke in it, and did not hear anything wrong.

After listening to Wu Shushan's introduction for a long time, Joel couldn't help but ask the driver to change the channel, this time it was a song, and there was no more information about Wu Shushan.

Just when Joel breathed a sigh of relief, a message came from his phone - it was his own mobile phone.

Joel picked up his phone and looked at it, he couldn't help frowning, he received a new email in his private mailbox, but this email address was specially used by him to contact John, and the others didn't know about it.

When he opened the new email, he saw that it was really John, who wrote in English that he was now in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Pengcheng, and asked "Earl Joel" to hurry to find him.

There are so many problems with this email!

First, he contacted John many times before, but John did not reply to him, because he had completely lost contact, and he set off for China; second, he communicated with John by e-mail, and there were also code words, but this email was completely straightforward and did not use any code words; third, the tone of this e-mail seemed to know that he had arrived in China.

Was John already being controlled and luring him with this email?

In that abandoned factory in Pengcheng, there are some beings ambushing him?

Joel, who looked at the email on his phone, frowned and became entangled again, but fortunately this time he paid attention to the control and did not blow up the phone again.

He now felt as if he was being held by an invisible hand, no matter where he wanted to go, he was being controlled by someone, and his every move was under surveillance.

It's just weird.

Seeing that the car had already driven off the highway exit of Pengcheng City and was about to enter the downtown area of Pengcheng, Joel closed his eyes and forced himself to calm down, thinking about the series of encounters after entering this eastern country, as well as all the clues he had found so far.

I gradually made a judgment in my heart:

The person who sent an email to himself in the name of John and asked him to come to Pengcheng may not be the same as the person who gave him a hypnotic hint in some way and asked him to go to Wushushan instead of Pengcheng.

John met the girl in white in Liucheng, left the "help J" mark in front of him, went to Pengcheng and underwent two phased transformations, and he also lost contact with "Red Rose" after that.

Maybe...... John did not make a phased transformation according to his own will, but was the result of a passive one.

It's like his attitude towards Guo Tianxiang, but he doesn't have enough "blood beasts" and "blood plants" to make Guo Tianxiang "passive" for a phased transformation.

Thinking about it like this, Joel immediately became nervous, if this is really the case, then Pengcheng is a real danger area, even if he is much stronger than John, he may not be able to be captured and cultivated as a "blood source". After all, what he is stronger than other "blood clans" is some "small means", not the ability to violence.

Once he can't arrange "small means" in advance, and the other party is not affected by his hypnosis and mental invasion, then his violent confrontation ability may not be able to guarantee that he will get out of the way.

In this mysterious eastern country, Joel feels that it is perfectly appropriate to think of his opponent as strong.

Thinking like this, he became a little irritable again, and even had the urge to tear the driver to shreds and shower in blood!

But he knew that he couldn't do this now, and now getting blood, even if it was just the blood of an ordinary human, would accelerate his loss of control and even completely disintegrate, because the blood of ordinary humans could no longer meet his needs for stage transformation.

Only by finding a qualified "blood source" and passing the limit of this stage can he once again enjoy human blood.

He closed his eyes, adjusted his emotions for a moment, and continued to think along the lines he had just had.

He pondered that the person behind the scenes who made him unconsciously receive psychological hints in Liucheng and wanted to guide him to Wushushan was either more of him without malicious intent, or weaker - otherwise, since he could give him psychological hints and hypnosis without him noticing, he should also be able to deal with and plot against him through other means.

So after getting off the highway, Joel asked the driver to stop the car, and then changed cars, "convinced" the driver of the car to take him to Wushu Mountain, which was hundreds of kilometers away.

The stage limit was approaching, and the time left for him was very short, and he decided to choose the path that seemed less risky.

From the evening to the morning, and from the morning to the evening, Joel finally arrived at Wushu Mountain.

As soon as he arrived at Wushu Mountain, there were all kinds of "clues" around Joel, such as advertisements on the small LCD screens on the roadside snack cars, such as tourist tips looping in the scenic spots, such as the occasional voice that appeared on his body, and the sound source that could not be determined seemed to be heard by him alone, etc., "guided" his actions.

And this "guide" did not take him into the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area, but instead allowed him to spend a lot of time and enter another less visited and larger mountainous area - Chongyun Mountain.

Joel is actually much less worried about the mountains than the city, after all, he has a title of "Lord of the Forest", which is not called out of thin air.

Compared with the city lined with steel and concrete, the deep mountain and old forest are actually his home field, and many of his abilities can play a greater role in the mountains and forests.

Therefore, compared to the decision to go to Pengcheng or Wu Shushan, he did not have too much hesitation and consideration on the question of whether to enter Chongyun Mountain.

Of course, Joel was still very cautious, and after entering Chongyun Mountain, every other distance, he would lie down and spit out his mouthparts, leaving a little "prosthetic tissue fluid".

At the same time, he also used his sense of smell and hearing to his advantage, carefully searching the vicinity to see if there were any "blood beasts" or "blood plants".

After entering Chongyun Mountain, all the hints and clues seemed to disappear, and Joel continued to go deeper and test like a headless fly.

Time passed little by little, and by four o'clock in the morning, nothing special had been found, and Joel became a little irritable.

He even had some doubts, could the so-called suggestion, the so-called hypnosis, just his delusion, just the turbulence of his thoughts when he was on the verge of the limit of the stage?

Perhaps, no one has ever hinted that he came to Wushu Mountain, and no one has hinted that he came to Chongyun Mountain?

When he thought so, the mobile phone he put in his trouser pocket suddenly lit up by itself, and in the middle of the night, he relied on his visual night vision ability without using any lighting tools, so the mobile phone screen in his pants was very conspicuous.

He took out his phone, only to find that it automatically flashed at himself and took a selfie.

He thought it was a malfunction of the mobile phone, frowned and was about to delete it, but suddenly found that it was not his face that was photographed under the flash, but John!

Joel's breath choked.