"Hypnosis?" Liu Mengwei had the same puzzled expression as Han Songlin's face. "Hypnosis to kill? Hmm... I haven't tried it, so I can't tell you whether it's possible."
"Do you have to try something like this before you know it?" Ling Ling was speechless and said angrily.
Unexpectedly, Liu Mengwei was extremely serious: "What you said is strange. How can you know without trying? Any academic conclusion can only be determined through experiments, or even repeated experiments."
"There's no way to try this! You can't even try it!" Ling Ling said angrily.
"Yes." Liu Mengwei suddenly smiled mischievously: "Because there is no need at all. There is obviously a more direct and easy way, so why should we sacrifice the near for the far?"
"What method?" Ling Ling asked doubtfully.
Liu Mengwei rubbed his fingers: "To a certain extent, money can also be regarded as a hypnotic medicine. It can effortlessly pry open your brain, twist your thoughts, and influence your actions. You said, this Does it count as a kind of hypnosis on the ground?”
Ling Ling frowned. Although what Liu Mengwei said made some sense, perhaps he always felt a little disappointed because he didn't hear what he wanted to hear.
"Is it really possible to pry open a person's brain and implant thoughts into it?" Wen Qiao, who had been standing aside without saying a word, suddenly said: "I mean the physical kind of 'prying open'. "
Not only was Ling Ling shocked by his words, Liu Mengwei also had a hint of amusement on his face: "Are you talking about implanting electrode chips in the human brain, like the brain-computer interface in the movie "The Matrix"?"
Wen Qiao couldn't deny it.
Liu Mengwei thought for a while and said: "This is also a feasible idea. But the thought of drilling a hole in the skull, implanting wire electrodes inside, stirring your brain, and stimulating the brain with electricity makes you feel all over your body. It hurts." She shivered as she spoke, and said pitifully: "I'm most afraid of pain."
Then, she changed her expression to a relaxed one: "This method is too bloody and crude, and not elegant enough. The Creator has clearly given us many examples and inspirations, why not learn from the greatest teacher?"
"There is a kind of parasitic wasp in nature. They use caterpillars as hosts. When they need to lay eggs and reproduce, they will inject a slurry mixed with eggs into the caterpillars. This slurry is mixed with millions of viruses. These viruses It will invade the host cells, take over the host's DNA, and order them to produce a strange protein that destroys their own immune system so that these outsiders can grow healthily in the host. At the same time, the host will continue to eat and feed the parasite. Provide nutrition and even complete self-castration, saving the energy originally used for reproduction and serving the parasite wholeheartedly. After the parasitoid emerges from the body, their task is still not over. They will weave cocoons for themselves using the original material. Silk is spun out and covered with these parasitic wasp larvae. If any uninvited guests appear, they will wave their bodies, spit out venom, and bite the enemy, just to protect the cocoons of these parasitoid wasps. Until they break out of the cocoon and become new After a generation of parasites, this generation of caterpillars has finally completed its mission and can lie down and die.”
At the end of the story, Liu Mengwei finally let out a long sigh of satisfaction, as if what she just told was a fairy tale with a happy ending. However, Ling Ling felt a layer of goosebumps and a numbness on his back, as if a parasite that appeared out of thin air had crawled into his veins.
"It's really...perverted..." Ling Ling frowned and said, "This kind of thing won't happen to people, right?"
"But it's also very fascinating, isn't it? People can't help but want to explore how they achieve such an innovative feat." Liu Mengwei's eyes flashed with a coquettish light, "As for whether it will happen to humans, we can only say "Although we are the best students in nature, you only need to look at how rough and crude our current works are to know the gap between us and our teachers."
"Perhaps we have really discovered a parasite that can 'parasitize' the human brain." Wen Qiao said suddenly.
"What?" Ling Ling screamed. She had secretly breathed a sigh of relief and her heart was lifted again. The parasite that had just disappeared reawakened and rushed straight to her head along her blood vessels.
Liu Mengwei was also slightly startled, and then quickly calmed down: "This is not surprising. There is an amoeba called Naegleria fowleri living in some unclean waters. If you accidentally choke on the water, you will inhale this kind of amoeba." Parasites will use the olfactory nerves in the nasal cavity to rush into the brain and multiply there, causing meningitis. Although the fatality rate of this disease is high, the probability of infection is extremely low. Worrying about this disease is better than worrying about being infected. Lightning struck.”
"The victim's brain is intact. On the contrary, it looks very healthy." Wen Qiao denied her statement.
This time it was Liu Mengwei's turn to be confused: "In that case, how did you find out, Mr. Forensic Doctor, that he was parasitized?"
"Because after cutting open the skull of the deceased, I saw a brain nerve that was still beating." Wen Qiao told a horrifying story with an expressionless face.
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Half an hour later, the three of them stepped out of the car, but what they saw in front of them was not the police station, but the bustling Lanting Square.
"What are you doing here? We don't have time to play with you!" Ling Ling complained angrily.
Liu Mengwei rolled his eyes and said mysteriously: "Aren't you investigating the case? There may be clues here."
Ling Ling gave her a disdainful look: "We didn't even say what the case was, so you know where the clues are?"
Liu Mengwei pretended to be surprised: "You don't believe it? Why don't you wait here, Mr. Forensic Medical Examiner and I will come as soon as we go."
Wen Qiao's face sank into the water, and he didn't say either to go or not to go. Ling Ling immediately stopped and shouted, "Just go, I still don't believe you can predict the future!"
They crossed the square and came to a remote corner. There was a small amusement park here, but the facilities inside looked simple and old, and most of the shops were still closed, so there were almost no people in sight, and it looked desolate and silent. They followed her to a small shop with a signboard that read "Dreamful Tarot Divination Club".
Ling Ling looked at the crooked sign with a complicated expression, as if asking: "Is this the clue you mentioned?" Liu Mengwei pretended not to see it and pulled the two of them in without any explanation.
The room was dimly lit, with several flickering colored light strips hanging on the walls and several incomprehensible paintings. Sitting in front of a table covered with red velvet was a woman wearing a peacock blue robe. , she wore exaggerated smoky makeup and a beaded veil, looking like a gypsy girl.
"I am Ruyue, and you are Rumeng, right?" the woman asked Liu Mengwei.
"So, where are these two?" The woman looked at Ling Ling and Wen Qiao: "Please tell me your names." Before entering, Liu Mengwei told them the rules of the female fortune teller. The fortune teller must choose one for herself. Only if you have a code name such as "someone" can you perform divination.
The corner of Ling Ling's mouth twitched, feeling that everything was ridiculous and childish, and he wanted to throw away his hands and leave immediately.
"Ruxiang." Wen Qiao's thin lips opened slightly and slowly highlighted two words. Ling Ling turned to look at him in surprise. If there wasn't Liu Mengwei in the middle, she would have wanted to rush up and shake his head to see if there was water inside.
Ling Ling was the only one who remained silent, and the three people all looked at her. "I...I am Ru Bing." Ling Ling could only say bravely.
"Like a dream, like a picture, like ice." The woman whose face could not be seen clearly signaled the three of them with her eyes: "Please choose a card that you like the most."
"What...what do you mean?" Ling Ling asked in confusion. It was not that she knew nothing about this game. After all, Tarot cards can be regarded as a world-famous culture. Even if you don't believe it, it doesn't stop everyone from taking it as a Play recreational games. Therefore, when I was in school, tarot divination became popular in the class for a while, and Ling Ling also joined in the fun. But isn’t the usual tarot card divination done at random? Now all the cards are face up, with no secrets and unreservedly presented in front of the three people.
No one answered her question. Liu Mengwei took the lead and chose the "Strength" card. The card showed a woman with an "infinity" symbol floating on her head comforting a male lion with its mouth wide open. Then, Wen Qiao also made a choice. He chose the "Judgment" card. The upper part of the card showed an angel blowing a trumpet with a red cross flag, and the lower part showed people looking up and spreading their arms.
Seeing that both of them had already taken action, Ling Ling sighed helplessly, took a step forward, and scanned the 22 ordinary cards from beginning to end. In the end, he could only choose one card based on intuition: " "Temperance", the card shows an angel radiating holy light, holding a cup in each hand, pouring water to each other, one foot in the water, one foot on the shore.
"Okay." Seeing that the three of them had completed their choices, the fortune teller waved his hand above the table covered with cards, as if he was stirring something invisible in the void. Then he picked up the "Power" card and held it up in front of Liu Mengwei, asking: "So Rumeng, what do you want to divination?"
Liu Mengwei looked at the lion and the priestess on the card, and said quietly: "I raised a black cat with green eyes. It has been with me for twenty years and has been inseparable from me. But one day, I came home and didn't see it. I've searched all possible places but couldn't find it. Can you tell me where it went?"
The woman revealed her heavily made-up eyes from behind the cards, and she was peeping at the person in front of her through the "Power" card.
The scented candles on the table exuded a strange fragrance, and the woman's voice was as erratic as this breath: "Do you want to get it back? Wasn't it driven away by you? If you really want it to come back, Just relax your 'power'. When your 'power' weakens, it will naturally come back to you."
Liu Mengwei's expression changed imperceptibly.
"Ruxiang, it's your turn." She raised the "Judgment" card.
"When will the judgment come?" Wen Qiao asked coldly.
The woman said: "The judgment will eventually come, when a meteor streaks across the night sky from west to east, and when the corpses that sank at the bottom of the river resurface."
Ling Ling sneered at this and rolled her eyes countless times. When it was her turn, Ling Ling snorted: "A murder occurred in the development building a few days ago. It spread widely, and I think you should know about it. So, I want to know who the murderer of this case is. Where?" Ling Ling asked a question that already had an answer, with a smile on her lips. Today, she was going to be a magic revealer with malicious intentions.
"The person you are looking for is in a place with stars, firelight and the scent of plum blossoms."
