Overturned Tower

"It looks like a demon..."

After listening to Russell's explanation, the pink-haired girl looked thoughtful: "That should be the person who has been in contact with me recently, right?"

"And just ordinary contact will not cause abnormal indicator values."

Russell added: “You have been infiltrated by contaminated psychic energy.

"That is to say, he has either used psychic powers on you, or he has contacted you in a dream."

"No, little Russell. The word [pollution] is actually not quite right."

Huachu shook his head and corrected: "The company uses this term because they innately define demons as uncontrollable and dangerous existences, but this statement is wrong.

"Have you also communicated with your demon?

"——Since you have been in contact with your own demon, why haven't you become a suspected demon?"

Hearing this, Russell was also startled.

He really hadn't considered this issue before.

"So...is it a problem with red shift?"

Russell asked: "I remember that the definition of this pollution trace is 'a psychic trace whose red shift significantly exceeds the blue shift level'."

"It's not..."

Hua Chu explained seriously: "I know your company's 'happiness test', you don't need to explain it to me so clearly. When you set up this system, you also asked me for my opinion - the reason why this test is suspected of being demonic This method is only used by your happy island because it is not accurate enough.

"Actually, what it actually retrieves is the traces of damage to the spiritual body. You can understand it as... the blood stains of the soul.

"It doesn't have to be that you use spiritual energy to touch me or transform me into a familiar to leave blood stains... Have you ever considered that doctors will also leave blood stains when they treat patients' wounds or dissect corpses?"

"...the blood stain of the soul?"

"Yes. Because the devil knows some things that the host doesn't know...but memories are left in the brain, not stored in the soul. But the devil exists in the soul.

"When the devil controls the body, these non-existent memories are roughly written from the spirit body to the brain. This process will definitely damage the spirit body and the brain at the same time. It is like passing a higher voltage to a home appliance. It may burn down home appliances... Oh, sorry. I forgot that the voltage of the air island is uniform.

"...But in short, once you lose control once, it will become easier and easier to lose control after that, just like a habitual dislocation. Once the red shift exceeds the blue shift once, it is basically impossible for the blue shift to catch up with the red shift in the future. .

"If you have seen real demons and tested their red and blue shift intensity, you will find that the demon's blue shift intensity has dropped to level one or zero."

"Ah, I have indeed seen it!"

Russell nodded repeatedly: "I have seen demons in the reconstruction agency, it is indeed like this!"

He had seen this situation before when he was at the reconstruction agency.

He also thought that the blue shift was not used for too long, which caused the decline, or that the demon itself was a crazy creature, so there was no blue shift...

"But that's not actually the red-blue shift of the devil. Because this detection is based on the brain, and the devil is an information creature. So what the instrument detects is always the red-blue shift of the host..."

Huachu stretched out his hand to support his cheek and said with a smile: "Even if the psyker is completely out of control and the devil's egg has hatched... it is still not a pure devil.

"Demons are like viruses. They must have some kind of carrier and cannot exist independently. Once the virus leaves the host cell, you can even understand it as a kind of 'intelligence' or 'information'.

"——Similarly, demons are also a kind of information body. They cannot exist alone. Therefore, even demons transformed by the same spiritual energy must carry the memory of the host and have the personality characteristics of the host itself.

"If the devil knows something that the host of this generation does not know, then at most it is something that the host of the previous generation knew... If the host does not know and the previous host also does not know, then even the devil will never know. They do not have any memory of the 'Devil Realm' or the 'Sea of ​​Dream Realm'. If any demon has the memory of the Dream Realm, its previous host must have also entered the Dream Realm.

"To take a step back, even if the demon is fully hatched, the demon still uses a material body. It still has to eat, drink, and defecate, and it will still suffer from birth, old age, illness, and death. They still use the body of the host.

“The brain is still the same brain, the body is still the same body, nothing has changed.

"It is impossible for a person to be originally very smart and turn into a fool and a devil; or for a big fool to become a devil and then suddenly become a genius with a very useful brain - even if a fool with a smooth brain turns into a devil, he will still be the same fool.

"Aside from psychic strength and behavioral patterns, what changes is just the 'personality'. Just like a host cell infected by a virus, whatever you were afraid of before will still be afraid of."

Having said this, the pink-haired girl looked at Russell and seemed to have something to say: "If there is still a 'first-generation demon' in this world, then what this demon knows must be 100% coincident with his host. There will be no If there is any lack, there will be nothing more.

"It can even be said that the devil is the 'other me'. It is impossible to lose control.

"The reason why other people's bodies were taken away by demons is because the demons have 'other memories'. That demon is not entirely them.

"For example, let's say a demon's previous host was a love saint, and his new host is a lovelorn king. Then after its demon sees his high blood pressure operation, the probability of losing control will be much higher... You should be able to understand Right?"

"……I understand."

Russell thought it was: "It's like seeing a novice operating it and wanting to take his controller away and show him a demonstration."

"Yes. Strictly speaking, many demons don't actually have any malicious intentions except that they have different perceptions from humans.

"But if the demon forcibly controls the host's body, it will permanently damage the host's spiritual integrity. This forced control may be an active invasion, or it may be that the blue shift is too weak, causing the demon to be squeezed out uncontrollably. . And this injury is what really drives them crazy and makes them lose their personality."

Huachu smiled and said a dirty joke: "It's like if you force it in without any lubrication, both parties will be injured... Speaking of which, have you tried it, little Russell?"

"...To put it simply, a person like that will suddenly turn into a lover when he loses control, right?"

Russell's face turned a little red and he changed the topic.

Huachu did not continue to pursue, but responded happily: "Yes, Sogo Island's detection of suspected demons is based on this standard. This is the most accurate detection standard.

"This standard is based on the 'Barttal Principle': a person's cognition determines his behavior. If a person knows something he did not know before, his behavior pattern will definitely be skewed.

"It's like a person, if he suddenly hears shocking black information about a good friend, and the evidence is conclusive, then the way they get along with each other will definitely change. Even if you tell yourself ten times, 'It doesn't matter', 'It doesn't matter. "our relationship", but before forgetting this memory, no matter how you disguise it, the way the two get along will definitely change. And this change can be easily detected by big data, just like 'login from another place' or 'unfamiliar device' Login' same.

"As long as you do a red and blue shift test, you can know whether it is a demon. This detection method is mature and fast. Abnormal data will appear when the psyker just loses control. Before the incubation is completed, it can almost 100% arrest all Devil. He even had time to wash away his spiritual energy and save the other party.

"But Happy Island deliberately did not use this mature detection method, but went in a circle... Why do you think it is because of this?"

"...Besides Happy Island, which island in the sky doesn't use this technology?"

Russell paused and asked.

Hearing this, Hua Chu laughed happily.

"In addition to the Tian'en Group, there are Thoth psychic powers and ampoule creatures."

She sighed: "You are really perceptive...are you aware of it?"

"Yeah. In fact, when I saw the reconstruction mechanism, I thought it was possible...I didn't fully realize it until you explained it to me."

Russell said slowly: "The Tianen Group is raising high-level demons, right.

"The key is not what detection method is used, but the anxiety that the 'happiness detection' itself brings to people. And the extremely long interval of one month leaves the devil with development time... As long as the devil continues to lose control, they will You can imprison and imprison demons according to the will of the people. There is no need to treat them."

"I think this can't be considered livestock farming, it can only be considered herding. If there are so many illegal psychics in the lower city, one or two demons will be born every month if left alone. And even if high-level demons are hatched, it's not You also have your special execution department to clean up the mess."

Huachu narrowed his eyes, showed a cute and innocent smile, but said something malicious: "The 'memory weapon' of the Tianen Group is a very popular thing on other islands... If there were no demons who continued to do evil. , this kind of production organization that uses human-made consumables will definitely be opposed by the public, right?

"In the twenty-six years you have been on Sogo Island, your impression of demons should not be as deep as the four months since you came to Happy Island, right?"

After hearing her words, Russell confirmed his vague speculation before.

He suddenly said: "You have said so much...actually you already know who the devil is, right?

"You're not a psyker at all, so you can't be a demon. But you ramble on, just don't cooperate with my investigation and don't want to tell me who the demon is. And you keep explaining this detection method to me. Wrongly, constantly emphasizing the harmlessness of the devil...

"That guy is your patient, right. And I don't know him, or maybe I have ill intentions towards him. So you're vaccinating me?"

Looking at Hua Chu's expression that had not changed at all, Russell raised his eyebrows and completed further cognitive assimilation: "No... you know he is a devil?

"You are actively looking for the devil... What do you want to do, try to cure him? No... you mentioned the reconstruction mechanism. So you are..."

"——I prefer to call it 'research'. That is a great research, much more important than the research on reconstructing the mechanism."

Finally, Hua Chu did not wait for Russell to continue the analysis, but took the initiative to speak out: "What I said is all the truth, and not a single word is to deceive you. This is all to give you some suitable foreshadowing~"

The innocent and lovely smile on her face did not change at all: "Just wait for me for a week, Russell, please~ During this period, I will keep an eye on him and prevent him from losing control.

"I will hand him over to you later...but not now."

The update is complete!

The cat rice served today at noon and evening is Xiaolongbao, plain (shaking head and head)