There is one thing that Naoto Inoue may know, or maybe he doesn't know.

It is true that Inoue Hito has never hypnotized himself, but almost all the people except him who have participated in human experiments have been subjected to varying degrees of hypnosis.

However, this collective hypnosis was not what he did. According to the information Xu Shengxing secretly revealed to me, the whole incident seemed to have intervened by another force, and collective hypnosis was the way this force intervened.

The statement "collective hypnosis" sounds quite far-fetched, but it is actually somewhat convincing.

Because Inoue Hitota himself may have a motivation to start human experiments, but his subordinates may not have it. Even if he has it, it may not be as strong as "even if he participates in the murder experiment." Nowadays, it is not ancient times, and the superiors and subordinates of the company are not so loyal. If the superiors do things too much, the subordinates will resign and run away. If it really doesn't work, they can report it to the relevant departments. Pure money interests can indeed make many people beat their bottom line, but they will never let so many researchers break the bottom line and feed their conscience to dogs. Inoue Hitota is even less powerful and has to find another group of evil researchers to serve him.

During the investigation, the local police also discovered that many realistic things that could support this statement. According to all researchers who have participated in human experiments, they have shown that their thoughts are distorted by external forces. They participated in the inhuman experiments with weak motivations such as "disobedience will be fired from the company by Inoue Hitoshi". They obviously participated in the experimental activities throughout the whole process, but they could not recall the technical details of the experiment afterwards; the superiors never mentioned what to do after the experiment was successful, and no one had asked the subordinates; the experimental site never left key record documents, but no one thought this was a strange thing... Such things were all confirmed that they were not lying, but were all truth.

It seems that they just had a dream of participating in human experiments. After waking up, they only remembered that they had done it, but they couldn't remember more specific things.

*

Not long after, I met Xu Shengxing secretly again in private. It was night and the location was a cafe where I didn't see the name when I entered the door.

Although he once said that he would "do things according to the rules" to deal with me after the incident ended, the current situation does not seem to be the end of the incident. In his words, this is just the beginning.

"So, although I was unhappy, I really need your help." He said to me.

"If you need my help with investigation, then, unfortunately, this is not my priority," I said, "but I can help you pay attention to it."

"Okay." He nodded.

"In addition, you have to tell me everything you know." My assistance is naturally not free.

As a witness to this incident, I naturally paid great attention to its follow-up. Moreover, my original purpose was to investigate the details of the experimental details of the Spirit Transformation Medicine, but the result was a waste. This is definitely not something that can be said helplessly, "It's really a pity" and then just forget it.

"No problem." He nodded again, "What do you want to know?"

I picked the part I care about the most, "You said there was a 'other force' in this incident. Is there any specific evidence?"

Hearing this, he first planned the words and replied: "First of all, Inoue Hitota does not have the ability to launch large-scale hypnosis against his subordinates, so someone must be helping him."

I don't agree and wait for his next sentence.

"Secondly, you told me before that the woman who pretended to be an "Information Merchant Adam" had signed a high-level psychic contract with Inoue Hito when she handed over the taboo knowledge to Inoue Hito. Inoue Hito neither could crack it himself nor could she find someone who could crack it in her network of relationships." He continued, "Unless that kind of person comes to him with some purpose."

"I am very fortunate, your 'first' and 'second' are a bit far-fetched," I said.

"Finally," he continued to do his own thing, "Do you still remember that bodyguard?"

"That super psychic who can control the black wind?" I asked back, thinking about it, and at the same time, the bodyguard seemed to have no respect for the employer Inoue Hito. Could it be that this is not because of being arrogant, but because of another reason?

Xu Shengxing took out a few tissues from the side, spread them, overlapped them, placed them on the table, then stretched out his fingers and slowly stroked the surface of the stack of tissues.

His fingers released high temperatures, causing the surface of the tissue to burn and melt quickly, but not burn. Finally, under his intentional stroke, a strange pattern with black and red edges was formed.

The pattern is quite simple. First draw a large vertical oval, then draw a small horizontal oval inside, and finally draw a short vertical line in the center where the two ovals overlap. After completing the pattern, the appearance looks like a strange eye.

My eyes were suddenly firmly grasped by this pattern.

"I burned his clothes while fighting that bodyguard," he said, "and on his exposed skin... almost on the shoulder, I saw this pattern. Do you recognize this pattern, too?"

"Recognize it," I said, "this is the emblem of the 'Central Church'."

"Yes, it's the infamous evil religion, a madman organization full of thoughts, a terrorist group that wants to blow up this planet to pieces." He sneered in disgust. "I suspect they are the 'other force' of this incident. I'm afraid they don't know what way they discovered that Beaver Pharmaceutical is studying psychic awakening medicine, and then intervened. And Inoue Hito might be helpless, perhaps thinking that this is some opportunity... in short, he secretly cooperated with them."

"So that's it." I still stared at the emblem.

"Events involving the Earth Center Church should not be underestimated, and this time it also involves the Psychic Awakening Medicine. Now there are combat experts from the Demon Subduing Bureau participating in the investigation." He continued, "The Demon Subduing Bureau is the top official psychic group in the alliance. It is not only good at dealing with undeads and monsters, but also good at dealing with psychic criminals. So I suggest you be more at ease recently. Even if you are, you should not want to be enemies with the 'Demon Subduing Expert', right?"

"I know."

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not worried about your life safety, but you are my collaborator now, no, informant... so I don't want you to die suddenly in any corner, do you understand?"

"Um."

"Are you listening to me?"

"Um."

Although I was listening, most of my attention was on the emblem of this earth-centered church, and images of the past appeared in my mind.

This is not the first time I have seen this heraldic emblem.

In the incident where my ex-partner "betrayed" me last year, the super psychic who led people to surround me also had a completely consistent heraldry.

*

In order to illustrate the organization of the "Geocentric Church", we must start with the "soul" of this world.

In my hometown world, all religions always have to arrange a place for the soul, either heaven and hell, or the six realms of reincarnation. I don’t know if these places really exist, and now there is no chance to look back and explore. But at least in this world, heaven and hell, or the six realms of reincarnation, it is nothing. After a person dies, the soul cannot go anywhere, and can only disintegrate itself as his life disappears.

After the soul disintegrates, death will be produced.

The essence of death energy is the residual spiritual energy after the soul disintegration.

At the same time, it is also a spiritual energy full of despair.

No matter how brave a person is, he is afraid of death. This is not a matter of willpower, it is purely the instinct of life. Especially when death that cannot be avoided comes, fear will turn into despair. Even if he lives very happily before his death, he will always be unable to help but have pessimistic and negative thoughts before his death. After death, this "last thought" will infect spiritual energy and turn it into death energy.

Death energy is a very stubborn energy that is easy to appear and difficult to disappear. It cannot be separated from heaven and earth, and it increases with the increase of death.

If the density of dead air in an area reaches a certain limit, undead will be produced.

Then, next is where the beginning is

This world is not only humans have souls. All life, even microorganisms, have souls, and will produce death energy after death.

Like my hometown world, this world has been born billions of years ago and has experienced many species extinctions. As many astronomical lives have been born and died in this process. The death energy that has increased due to human history is completely insignificant compared with the death energy accumulated due to the history of life.

On the other hand, the dead energy is also bound by the gravity of the planet and will hardly disperse into the universe, and will only increase the density in the atmosphere.

Logically speaking, under such extremely harsh conditions, not to mention human society, even the existence of human beings itself cannot be established. No life can be born in the overwhelming ocean of death. The earth should have long since become a slums.

The reason why this has not become the case is because the dead energy has another attribute, that is, it is "not obstructed by matter".

This means that the dead air will sink below the surface of the earth due to gravity, and even penetrate the earth's crust, reaching the mantle and the center, and it will continue to accumulate inside the planet. Even if hundreds of billions of undead spirits are born from it, they cannot cross the thick mantle and crust to the surface, and can only continue to be almost forever in the underground world. From this perspective, this world has hell, and it is even physically connected to the surface world, but it is definitely not the place for the soul.
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