Xie Zhi and Wang Dazai were running on the escalator towards the fifth floor. At the same time, they heard another scream, like an eagle demonstrating against another ferocious beast that had broken into its territory.
"Shrike has found the infected person. This sound is the desperate entity in the infected person's body demonstrating to the intruder."
"The man with the bird mask, I mean the shrike, what is he going to do?"
"He wants to catalyze the infection process of the pollution source and hold the switch of the emotional bomb in his own hands. Balance's usual method is to use psychological suggestion to fine-tune the concepts of the hopelessly infected person before the pollution source is completely formed."
"Fine-tuning?"
"Yes, just like tuning a guitar, the emotion of despair can be adjusted. Despair is like the refraction of light. You only need to fine-tune the incident angle and refraction surface to accurately adjust the exit angle of the light."
"Speak in human terms, stop using metaphors."
"Those like you who can't understand the beauty of metaphors... well, forget it, I don't care about being a person with amnesia. To put it in human terms, if the person infected with despair is desperate because of the small family environment around him, then through Psychological suggestion allows him to expand his despair about the small family environment to the entire social environment. If the other person is desperate because of an extreme individual, then psychological suggestion can be used to make him despair about a certain group to which this individual belongs. "
"Is this... a slippery slope fallacy?"
"Hey! That's right! You have learned the theoretical basics very well. Can you still remember the secondary personality after the original personality disappears?"
While Wang Dazhuang was praising him, he turned around and looked at Xie Zhi in surprise. But at the same time, his feet were not idle. After turning his head, he turned around and ran to the new escalator, running upstairs.
Xie Zhi was embarrassed to say that this was a theory he had read in idle books in his previous life, and the reason for reading these idle books was to understand the mentality of the trolls on the Internet.
After scratching his head, Xie Zhi followed Wang Daduo's movements and quietly changed the topic.
"You know, according to your theory, Xie Zhi built a whole social environment for me to grow and learn in it. It is normal to be able to learn such theoretical terms. Let's continue to talk about psychological hints. This kind of psychological hints are very important for despair. Is it really useful for infected people?”
"That's so useful...Oh, I've tried it every time but it never works."
Wang DaZhui couldn't help but sigh, and even climbing the stairs slowed down a bit.
"The Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Public Security have conducted countless joint drills by the All Dayu Alliance in the past few decades. Slippery slope fallacies, concept substitution, assuming cause and effect, and resorting to illogic are all discussed in every social drill, but the source of pollution should be infected. Infections will still occur, contaminated sites should be leaked or leaked, and the number of emotional explosions cannot be reduced at all every year."
“It’s still too difficult for ordinary people to expect them to understand logical fallacies.”
"No, it actually has an effect. Just like when we were young, we studied classical Chinese and ancient poetry. Do you understand these things after learning them? In fact, not many people understand them. But when things really happen, eh, those things just come from the brain On the surface, cramming education seems to be useless, but as long as you cram things into your mind, there is always the possibility that it can be used."
"Hmm..." Xie Zhi fell into thinking, "Isn't it inconsistent for you to say so? Popular science drills are conducted every year, but the number of hopeless pollution sites has not decreased..."
"The biggest success is the lack of large-scale increase, brother! The purpose of science popularization work is not to make everyone become advanced intellectuals, but to improve the overall social cognitive level so that everyone can do their work better. Expand. Although the joint drills have not reduced the number of infection cases, in every contaminated site incident, the time that desperate infected people can survive is generally longer and longer."
"Does the time it can sustain mean the time it takes to change from an infection state to a pollution source state and start a pollution site?"
"We have to go one step further, after it turns into a contaminated site, and then when the contaminated site collapses and triggers an emotional explosion. From the infection of despair to the spread of pollution, and then to the final emotional explosion, the time we have to clean up the contaminated site is unprecedented. Come more..."
Wang Dazhuo said as he continued to run up.
Xie Zhi followed Wang Dashui and listened carefully. These common sense contents about the huge moon world were priceless treasures to him.
But halfway through, Xie Zhi suddenly realized something was wrong, because before Wang Dazhuo finished speaking, his whole body seemed to be stuck in his shell. Halfway through the words, he suddenly stopped.
"Why don't you speak?"
Xie Zhi only listened to Wang DaZhuo's common sense and did not pay attention to the road. He directly bumped into Wang DaZhui who had stopped in front.
After being hit, Xie Zhi subconsciously raised his head and looked forward, but it didn't matter if he didn't look. This sight shocked him!
Wang Dashu's back, from his clothes to his exposed skin, to his waving hands, all turned into wood at some point!
Those dark wood textures grew out of clothes and people's bodies in circles. They seemed to appear out of thin air, blooming more and more. In just an instant, they spread from the soles of Wang Dazhuo's feet to the top of his head, even the ends of his hair. , all turned into wood!
"Show off!"
Xie Zhi was suddenly startled and shouted subconsciously.
"Thanks……"
Wang Dazhuang's eyes tilted in the direction of Xie Zhi, but just this time, he couldn't even move his eyes, because his pupils turned into wood, and his whole person transformed from a living being in less than a second. People turned into woodcarvings!
What the hell happened? Is this... a pollution site?
Xie Zhi was shocked. At this time, he had followed Wang Dazhuo to the entrance near the fifth floor of the hospital. As soon as Wang Dazhuo stepped into the fifth floor area, half of Wang Dazhuo's feet turned into wood. After looking around, Xie Zhi I also saw that all the passers-by on the entire floor who were supposed to be moving had turned into wood!
They are like... dark wood carvings...
The entire floor is like a wood carving exhibition room!
Xie Zhi suddenly felt a little scared. He subconsciously took two steps back to stay away from the fifth floor, but the next second he felt itchy on his body.
not good! This pollution field will spread! He spread to me!
Xie Zhi felt that the blood in his limbs instantly flowed backwards, and he quickly retreated. However, his retreating speed was obviously not as fast as the pollution field spread. The itching feeling was only in the arms at first, but within just a few breaths, it spread from the arms to the chest, and then even the heels and scalp felt itchy!
It feels like...trees growing! Rebirth!
Xie Zhi looked at his hands in horror. The same wood grain as Wang Dazhuo's body had appeared on his arms, and as time passed, the color of the wood grain quickly became darker.
They are invading my pores and invading my flesh and blood from my skin!
what do I do……
Xie Zhi's brain was running rapidly, but this operation was also becoming slower and slower.
The body...the brain...began to turn into wood...
Xie Zhi felt like his mind was sinking, like a drowning person, falling deeper and deeper into the mire.
Can't just give up...
Xie Zhi's eyes began to spin, and he suddenly realized something was wrong.
Yes, what's wrong is that the difference between my own changes and Wang Dazhuo's changes lies in the time of lignification!
The time it takes to turn into a wooden person is obviously longer than that of Wang Dazhui!
The reason...what is the reason?
Damn it, Xie Zhi, think about it! Think about it! There must be a reason!
Xie Zhi kept urging his mind, while on the edge of life and death, regretting that the new life he had just started might end here.
Sinking, sinking…
The invisible swamp is getting deeper and deeper...
etc!
new life!
Xie Zhi's eyes lit up instantly.
"I understand! The answer is emotion incarnation! I summoned the crazy scissors when I was eating before, and until Shrike dropped the emotion detonator in the hospital, my crazy scissors were open! At the same time, I was A rare symptom of spirit entanglement, so every time I summon an avatar, part of my body will be assimilated by the avatar!"
"So! Now, I still have a small amount of Crazy Scissors' spiritual particles in my body! This is the reason why I didn't turn into a wood sculpture immediately!"
"I understand! The way to break the situation is to summon the Avatar!"
Xie Zhi opened his mouth and planned to shout out the name.
But the pollution had eroded his internal organs, and he felt like every cell in his body, from his pores to his blood, was turning into wood!
He slowly opened his mouth, but no sound came out!
"Damn... I can't make a sound..."
Xie Zhi felt a sense of despair in his heart.
But the next moment, he felt something in his still weakly beating heart responded to this despair!
That thing quickly spread from his heart to his...back!
Xie Zhi felt his five senses again, and as soon as his five senses recovered, he felt the cold phantom figure on his back pressing against his skin!
The crisis of lignification was lifted. Xie Zhi felt that the color of his limbs gradually changed from dark wood grain to lighter, and his clothes quickly became softer.
"I can move!"
Xie Zhi felt relieved, his hands and feet could move again, and his mouth could make sounds again. He was so close to dying within a second...
I'm really going to die...
Xie Zhi swallowed, the feeling of falling from the light into a bottomless swamp, the feeling of slowly drowning in the darkness...
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and opened them again.
"No, we can't relax, it's not over yet, the pollution site has just begun..."
Xie Zhi looked at Wang Dazhuo, who had turned into a dark wood sculpture in front of him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"That's what I said, but now my crazy scissors are lying behind me like a corpse. What can I do alone?"
Xie Zhi patted his face and looked around.
The entire fifth floor has been transformed into wood carvings, like a museum exhibition hall displaying dark brown humanoid wood carvings. The passers-by on the fourth floor have also been partially transformed into wood carvings, with dark wood grains spreading rapidly downward from their heads...
etc!
A flash of lightning suddenly flashed in Xie Zhi's mind.
Maybe there's still hope!
If everything in front of us is caused by the pollution field of negative emotions, then all the people who become woodcarvings are infected by emotional diseases in the pollution field. Although they lost consciousness and became completely immobile wooden sculptures, this does not necessarily mean that these people are dead...
He took a deep breath again, crossed his arms, and picked up Wang Dabao, who had completely turned into a wood carving, with his legs in his arms!
"Brother, whether we can survive or not depends on you! You must spread faster than the pollution field!"
Xie Zhi shouted violently, lifted up Wang Dazhuo, and threw him down from the escalator near the fifth floor!
