United power, inside the border town prison.
A single cell with an iron door, a small window, a bed and a table. Dr. Jin Meng sat on the bed and looked down at his hands.
The warden had sent someone to temporarily install a pair of mechanical arms on him, but the existence of these mechanical arms also suppressed his psychic power, allowing him to only move with the physical capabilities of an ordinary adult man.
drop--
The electronic lock on the iron door was opened, and Fifth Mirror walked in.
"Huh? Today, instead of taking me to the interrogation room, Mr. Fifth came directly to see me. It seems that he has finally made up his mind to kill me."
Dr. Jin Meng had a sarcastic smile on his face, "It actually took me several days of energy to realize that you can't make me surrender."
In fact, considering his crime, there was no problem in killing him on the spot. The reason why he was still alive and even helped him install his arms was simply to take advantage of his research and development capabilities.
Although the information related to the crystallized virus has been sent to several cutting-edge laboratories of the coalition government, they have only developed methods to stabilize the condition of infected people and prevent them from getting worse. No one knows when they will be able to provide a complete solution. The cure.
Objectively speaking, Dr. Jin Meng was able to create a crystallized virus on his own. This kind of scientific research ability would definitely be much more efficient if he cooperated with the experimenters of the coalition government to come up with a cure.
The recent interrogations have all started from this perspective, and some technical means have also been used. Unfortunately, they have never been able to achieve satisfactory results. This Jin Meng is really too stubborn.
"I still want to give it a try."
Fifth Mirror said, "Why do you have such a hatred for psychic powers?"
Dr. Jin Meng immediately retorted: "I have no hatred towards psychic energy at all. I just think what you are doing is totally wrong."
"Psychic energy can exist in the hands of elites and can be controlled by capable researchers and courageous judges, but it should not exist among ordinary people. They are not qualified to contact psychic energy at all."
"The birth of the phenomenon of spiritual disaster is a clear evidence!"
Fifth Mirror frowned slightly, but said in a calm tone: "So, you are very familiar with the development of spiritual disasters?"
Dr. Jin Meng sneered: "Of course."
"In 2012 AD, the first spiritual disaster 'Bone Girl' occurred in Fuso, which had begun to popularize psychic chips."
"The atmosphere of folk ghosts and urban ghost stories in Fuso culture is extremely strong. When the Bone Girl was causing trouble, the media initially believed that someone might have used technical means to modify the human body and simulate ghost legends. Later, after experts squatted, captured and studied, it was discovered It was discovered that it was an incorporeal, abnormal creature derived from the emotions of ordinary people.”
"A large number of ordinary people, after encountering the stimulation of similar events, accumulated emotions over the years, and with the help of the existence of psychic chips, they were transmitted and gathered to produce spirit creatures that wantonly caused trouble."
"After the concept of spiritual disasters was formally proposed, people soon discovered similar incidents all over the world. The demon Beelzebub was born because of his long-term aversion to dirty and messy environments. The dragon turtles that are born from being overwhelmed by overtime and high-intensity work all year round, and the giant wolves from the underworld that are born from public concerns about the public security environment..."
"Spiritual disasters have been with mankind for three hundred years, causing countless losses to society in all aspects. Even more than fifty years ago, when mankind was known as the most prosperous period, the phenomenon of spiritual disasters could not be cured. On the contrary, it was still brought to the To the Martian ecosystem.”
"I originally thought that after the great catastrophe, the public did not know how to reflect, and you should also have a chance to reflect. I didn't expect that you would actually promote the popularization of psychic chips, and even continue to invest social resources in seeking the development of psychic chips. Technology upgrade.”
Jin Meng sneered again and again, with an excited look on his face. He stood up suddenly and approached the Fifth Mirror.
His height is even taller than that of the Fifth Mirror. "You disappointing bureaucrats are simply putting the people under your control on a hot pot to steam. One day this pot will explode in the future. When that happens, By the time you regret it, it will be too late.”
Fifth Mirror nodded: "I understand, it turns out you consider yourself a hero."
Jin Meng stared at him: "I don't want the false reputation of a hero, but... I am saving mankind!"
Fifth Mirror let out a long sigh, his voice full of sadness, and murmured: "How could this happen?"
Seeing his appearance, Jin Meng was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Stop being pretentious and pretentious. You can't possibly sway me. Do you want to say that you are sad for my talent? I can think of it." Your rhetoric.”
Fifth Mirror closed his eyes: "I am sad for myself, I am breaking the law again."
boom!
Jin Meng suddenly knelt on the ground, and was suddenly much shorter than the Fifth Mirror. His knees hit the ground hard, causing severe pain, and his whole body trembled.
The Fifth Mirror's palm slapped his head, and his fingers were clasped on top of his head, pulling his hair and forcing his face upward.
"No, it's useless!"
Even though the pain was so painful that he shed tears of reason, Jin Meng still had a mocking look on his face, and said through gritted teeth, "No torture, no technology, can change the original intention of a fourth-level psyker."
That's right, even if the most advanced technical means can barely control the spirit of a fourth-level psyker and hypnotize them, it will only be a state like sleepwalking. Without the ability to research and develop, anyone can see it at a glance It was concluded that his expression was abnormal.
For a long time, there has been a saying in the practice of psykers, "After entering the fourth level, the determination of psykers is the strongest thing in the world."
The Fifth Mirror lowered its head and said in a soft voice: "Vajra can be destroyed, Bodhisattva can also retreat, how can it be like a mass of evil obstacles?"
His eyes were still closed and his tone was calm, but suddenly a horizontal line opened in the middle of his forehead, and a horizontal eye opened.
The moment Jin Meng saw those eyes, he suddenly had a splitting headache, as if his brain was rolling, and something was gradually drilling out from inside his head.
That round little thing, which originally existed in the structure of the human head, is now squeezing forward, squeezing out everything that blocks the way, whether dry or wet, painful or numb, soft or hard.
Until the last thin layer of obstruction is torn apart.
"ah!
! "
As Jin Meng screamed, a small hole opened in the skin of his forehead, and the wound opened up and down, revealing the black eyes inside.
The third eye.
Even in this severe pain, Jin Meng felt that his field of vision suddenly increased.
The eye on his forehead faced the third eye of the Fifth Mirror.
In this moment, all the pain disappeared. Jin Meng felt that his spirit was sublimated and separated from his body at this moment, and plunged into the vast and unknown heights.
Everything around him was changing, and he was no longer in the cell.
Suddenly opening his eyes, Jin Meng heard his own cry in his ears, and saw a huge figure in front of him.
The giant's face was very terrifying, with only one pair of eyes, and the lower half of the face was bare and glowing blue.
No, that's not right, that's just an ordinary adult, a nurse wearing a mask.
He just became a baby himself.
He was born in the border town hospital of the coalition government, and when he grew up, he also became a doctor here.
His psychic potential is not very advanced, but his first-level psychic ability is enough to give people a strong memory and he is capable of many tasks.
Compared with the long time ago when there were no psychic powers, their generation with strong memory can save a lot of energy in repeated reading and rote memorization just in the process of going to school, whether it is history, law, chemistry and other subjects. They all seemed very relaxed.
After graduation, he successfully became an ordinary doctor, earned a fairly good income, and fell in love.
That day, he was preparing for a date in the evening. Suddenly, there was a strange noise coming from behind the hospital.
It seemed like something exploded on the signal tower, and the virus spread along with the noise.
He saw the colleague beside him suddenly falling down in panic. His knee joints were swollen, blue-purple crystals were forming, and his trouser legs were bursting.
He stood up in fear and called the police? Raising the hospital alarm? Call your parents? To my girlfriend?
His chaotic thoughts suddenly made his head feel heavy, and the back of his head felt swollen and uneasy. When he reached out to touch it, he felt a hard crystal on the back of his head.
He was so frightened that he ran out of the office and collapsed at the door of the hospital. At the last second of his consciousness, he saw two men and a woman walking past on the road outside the hospital.
A tall man in sportswear, a woman wearing a white peaked cap, and a man wearing glasses in the middle.
The bespectacled man is confident, laid-back, even elegant, with outstanding temperament, and seems to have a sense of mission to save all sentient beings as he strolls around.
For some reason, he stared at the man in the middle and suddenly knew where the crystallized virus was emanating from.
'I don't know him... Why, why do you want to harm us? '
The young doctor's face was on the ground, he was covered in filth, he couldn't even squeeze out the strength to say a word, and he died.
He opened his eyes again and was born in the province of Indra.
He grew up here in a relatively wealthy family. He has been influenced by it since he was a child and has been working hard, hoping to be qualified as a psychic before he is eighteen years old.
His intelligence is not much superior to others, but with the encouragement of his parents and the expectations of his elders, he reads two hours more than others every day, does five more papers, and only sleeps four hours a day. He was given the task when he was seventeen years old, but in just two months, he would be qualified to undergo "baptism" and obtain a psychic chip.
But at this time, the war broke out.
Lord Sukara, commanding an army of 100,000 monks and 300,000 intelligent mechanical troops, crossed the Burmese Mountains and launched an overwhelming offensive towards the coalition government in the north of the Burmese Mountains.
The coalition regime was retreating steadily, and the news programs were full of good news from the front line and an interview with a great hero every day.
That Dr. Jin Meng contributed his "Bodhi Crystal" technology, allowing Bayeyuan to produce it on a large scale.
Under the coalition government, there were sinners who were not qualified for baptism but had stolen spiritual powers. When they encountered the Bodhi Crystal, countless people cried bitterly and died of illness. The remaining ones who were not infected were also panicked and spawned many spiritual beings. disaster.
Sukara took advantage of the chaos to raise troops and advance vigorously. The other three mountain lords entered the war one after another. The eldest lord Nichiren Yukikai has been confronting the leaders of the coalition regime for a long time. All places require massive war resources.
At the age of seventeen, he received a psychic chip. From then on, as long as he sat at home, turned the prayer wheel, and uploaded it to the psychic network, it would be twenty-three hours a day. If he slacked off even a little bit, he would be recorded by military law and await punishment.
He didn't know the final results of the big men on the front line, because he died suddenly in the fourth month of the war.
I remember that at that time, the media was still promoting Dr. Jin Meng’s newly developed technology, Kang made a speech.
"When new technologies are put into use, it is conceivable that the Eight Leaves will unify the world, and we will bring a new era to mankind..."
He opened his eyes again. The day he was born was 2012 AD...
The Fifth Mirror is watching all this, watching all this with its "eyes of great compassion and unstained flags."
He brought hundreds of new lives to Jin Meng, and watched as the old arrogant and delusional thoughts were twisted from a solid human form covered in glory, screaming with pain and resentment, until they were crushed into a pile of ashes.
New thoughts are born from the ashes, inheriting everything from the past, but different from the past.
Jin Meng's trembling body calmed down at some point. The third eye on his forehead moved a little and gradually closed.
The Fifth Mirror retracted its hand, closed its eyes, and opened its original eyes.
Jin Meng clasped his hands together and shed two lines of tears.
Everything I have experienced before is so vivid in my memory, whether it is people or things, it seems like a real reincarnation.
But after returning to this cell, a series of data and insights first came to Jin Meng's mind.
The birth of spiritual disasters is that the people have been subjected to similar persecution. The fault is not the victims in the first place. Even spiritual disasters such as dragon turtles, except for making the actions of everyone and things become sluggish and sleepy, do not do anything at all. There were no casualties.
And precisely because of the existence of spiritual disasters, the development plans of all political parties before the catastrophe were more focused on taking into account people's livelihood.
The so-called psionic energy occupies the mainstream of scientific and technological research and development, because psionic energy is the existing path most likely to solve problems quickly in the field of human science and technology.
Without psychic powers, even today, all aspects of human society, such as education, social security, and elderly care, would probably only be able to advance at a slow pace, or even regress from time to time.
On the contrary, people are very enthusiastic about war technology even without psychic powers. The existence of intelligent mechanical troops is the best example.
If all spiritual energy disappeared from the earth, the power of intelligent machines would be enough to kill humans on the surface several times.
As for the coalition government, they have specialized in genetic technology for the past fifty years and have upgraded their psychic chips to optimize genes.
Ordinary people have stronger control over their own psychic powers with each generation. The phenomenon of "spiritual disasters" within the jurisdiction of the United Government has actually been greatly reduced.
There is a problem with technology, and improvement is the right way. If we just stop eating because of choking, then it will not be enough for mankind to return to the age of primitive people. After all, primitive people can still throw spears, which is a terrifying technology that is far superior to that of any other species in the same period.
I'm afraid that I have to return to a paramecium-like appearance to be sure that I don't have the ability to kill myself.
These things are all things that the old Jin Meng knew, but he had already made his own choices and found excuses for utilitarianism. The excuses gave birth to obsessions, half-truths and half-falsehoods. All realistic factors, even if they are heard, cannot be heard. It will enter the heart.
"I made a big mistake..."
Jin Meng bowed to the Fifth Mirror and cried bitterly, "I wish I could die!"
Fifth Mirror helped him up: "If you die now, will it be considered repentant?"
Jin Meng suddenly realized: "I should study how to crack it and save everyone."
Fifth Mirror nodded, took him out of the cell, and asked someone to send him for collaborative research.
Outside the prison gate, Yan Zhen walked over, clasped his hands together, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Master Mingjing, for clearing away the sins of another person."
Yan Zhen stood next to the Fifth Mirror, looked at the aircraft that sent Jin Meng away, and said: "It is wonderful to be untainted by great compassion. If you want to destroy the mind or change the personality, I can do it, but in that case, it will definitely be damaged. A little memory, affecting inspiration, destroying the foundation of spiritual energy, like him, it seems that he has really repented, and other aspects are not affected at all, but only you can do it."
Fifth Mirror sighed: "I broke the precept again. I should not drink or eat, sleep or speak, and face the wall for three days. Please ask Mr. Yan to send someone to supervise me."
Yan Zhen said: "Why is this necessary? The World Honored One went into the snow-capped mountains ascetically, holding a bowl to trap Lord Shiva. Once he broke the purple gold bowl and jumped out of the green-necked Avalokitesvara, you killed sins and accomplished good deeds. This is a good thing and should not be regarded as such. Guilt.”
Fifth Mirror also smiled: "Mr. Yan has read the three religions thoroughly and jumped out of the three religions. He has no worries and no fear. I am a layman, and the precepts should still be used to restrain myself. It would be fine if I just kill a bad person, but tampering with it like this The mind is really like a devil, if it opens up, I'm afraid it will sink one day."
Yan Zhen waved his hand and said: "Then go ahead. When my genetic information becomes more advanced, I will definitely invite Gautama to come and chat with you one day."
"Will the Awakened One really come to persuade me? If he comes to persuade me, then he is just the Tathagata body of Mr. Yan."
Fifth Mirror flicked the rosary, put his hands behind his back, and left slowly.
"By the way, Mr. Yan, Mr. Guan will ask for your more attention in these three days."
Yan Zhen thought: "Within three days, he won't be in such a hurry. If it can be a little later, after Jin Meng cures the infected person, maybe we can get the crystallized virus and try to study it in the direction I mentioned."
Yan Zhen has no taboos about using technology that was still a threat to his own company before.
"Changing with the times is the right way. If the situation here changes slightly, our plans will also change. I just don't know if Brother Guan will have any new plans other than assassination after he gets there?"
