Trickster Hunter

Chapter 357 Beautiful Soap Bubbles

The sheriff standing behind Sun Hang immediately pulled out his pistol and said nervously: "Strange, strange, strange...strange?!"

"Don't be nervous, it's not a strange thing." Sun Hang waved his hand, motioning him to put down the gun, "It's just a specimen of a baby's body."

"Just a body... specimen?" The sheriff put down the gun doubtfully.

"The strange meme detection equipment has no response." The investigator holding a shield nodded to him, "The hunter is right, this thing is indeed not a strange thing."

Sun Hang walked forward and carefully took the glass jar out of the wall.

The glass jar was not sealed very tightly, but fortunately the gap at the mouth of the bottle was not large, and there was a layer of wall outside as a barrier, so the solution in the bottle only evaporated below the bottleneck, and the entire body specimen was still immersed in the solution, and there was no serious decay.

"Give me the law enforcement recorder." Sun Hang turned to the sheriff and said.

"Oh...Oh! OK!" The sheriff immediately took off the law enforcement recorder hanging on his shoulder and handed it to Sun Hang.

Sun Hang took out his mobile phone and called Song Yarong.

"Are you watching the real-time picture sent back by the law enforcement recorder?" Sun Hang asked.

"I've been watching it." Song Yarong's voice came from the headset.

"If I'm not mistaken, the body specimen in this jar is Zhao Ming's daughter, Zhao Xuan." Sun Hang said.

"Looking at the size of the specimen, this baby seems to be only two or three years old... In other words, Zhao Xuan actually died when she was very young." Song Yarong continued, "But Zhao Ming forged the fact that Zhao Xuan is still alive and growing up little by little... No wonder, no wonder every time he shows us photos of his daughter, there are only photos of her infancy."

"For Zhao Ming, his daughter Zhao Xuan has never died." Sun Hang said.

"But if that's the case... Zhao Ming will not pass the routine psychological status review... Those psychologists should be aware of these problems..." Song Yarong muttered softly.

"What if he is completely immersed in his fantasy world, so perfect that even the psychologists can't see the flaws?" Sun Hang asked back.

"This..."

"There is a saying that goes, if you want to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself... I think Zhao Ming really believes that his daughter is still alive. He believes that his daughter is growing up year after year. Just yesterday, he just celebrated his daughter's ninth birthday. Under his gaze, his daughter blew out the birthday candles on the cake..."

"No, it's still wrong!" Song Yarong suddenly said, "If he believes that his daughter is still alive, then why did he go to the school to ask for a long vacation with a fabricated reason after completing the admission procedures for Zhao Xuan? Could it be that people would unconsciously make up one lie after another, and the logic is consistent with each other? I don't think this is something that a person who has been immersed in fantasy for a long time can do!"

"No, it can be done." Sun Hang rejected Song Yarong's opinion, "He believes that Zhao Xuan is still alive, but Zhao Xuan is dead, so when Zhao Ming finds evidence that Zhao Xuan is no longer alive, he will think that these things are contrary to his cognition and belong to the bug of this world... But he can't To remove this irreversible BUG, ​​he can only try his best to fake it. After the BUG is perfectly faked, he will immerse himself in the original fantasy again... It's similar to schizophrenia. One personality is a normal person, with a loving father and filial son, and a happy life... while the other person is a walking corpse without independent thinking ability, and exists simply to maintain that fantasy world. "

"If it is schizophrenia, some clues should be revealed during the psychological examination..."

"Then if his other personality is buried very deep, and only appears when he realizes that Zhao Xuan is really dead, are you sure that the psychological examination will definitely reveal this personality? Could it be that you will ask him questions like "What would you do if you found out that your daughter is dead" during the psychological examination? If so, it is a miracle that the group of psychologists in charge of the examination were not put in sacks and dragged to the alley to be beaten after work. "

"..."Song Yarong fell silent.

"If we bring this glass jar to Zhao Ming, we might be able to induce his hidden personality, but unfortunately, there is no such opportunity now."

"...Speaking of which, you didn't find anything related to strange things in Zhao Ming's residence, right?"

"No, Zhao Xuan died very early, and Zhao Ming's nine-year-old daughter only exists in his fantasy." Sun Hang said in his heart at the same time - the girl with a weird smile also didn't exist, and everything was just Zhao Ming's fantasy.

It's just...his fantasy seemed to be manipulated by "people".

"The cause of Zhao Ming's strange transformation...?"

"It's emotions, sudden bursts of emotions." Sun Hang glanced at the two people behind him with the corner of his eyes and whispered.

Zhao Ming is not a lurker, and the cake he ate is also a real cake made of eggs, flour and cream, not some rotten meat with tentacles.

Except for the hidden personality that grew out of the loss of his beloved daughter, he was normal before the transformation—both physically and mentally.

The reason why Sun Hang could not see his negative emotions was that Zhao Ming, who was immersed in the fantasy world, did not have any negative emotions—although the work was hard, as long as he thought of going home to see his well-behaved and lovely daughter, he would feel extremely happy and satisfied, and all the negative emotions would disappear...

Although all this was fantasy, it was these fantasies that restored his spiritual world after the collapse.

As for the hidden personality, it was just some "residues" scattered after the mental collapse.

But the problem lies in this fantasy.

Zhao Ming firmly believed that Zhao Xuan was still alive, which was almost as solid as the stamp of his thoughts...But not long ago, this solid stamp of thoughts was easily shattered by "people" like popping a soap bubble.

Shattering illusions, cutting off hopes, distorting cognition... plus some tricks, a "normal person" degenerates into a desperate weirdo in an instant.

He is very sad and pitiful, but even if Sun Hang knew all this in advance, he would not hesitate to kill Zhao Ming after he became a weirdo.

He would even take the initiative before Zhao Ming became a weirdo.

In a case like Zhao Ming, weirdo is almost inevitable, his cognitive distortion is irreversible, and psychological counseling is completely useless - there are only two choices left for him, one is to try his best to maintain the beautiful soap bubble, and the other is to burst the soap bubble and tear the bloody reality apart for him to see.

A lie needs to be covered up with more lies, and the soap bubble will be burst sooner or later.

Even if it is not today, at some point in the future, he will still become a weirdo.

It's just that a certain existence has noticed Zhao Ming's problem and used it in advance.

As for whether this existence is Chimera No. 17, it's hard to say.

Sun Hang is more inclined to believe that it is - otherwise, Zhao Ming would not have targeted Song Yarong.

If he wanted to hinder the development of PFDA, he could attack any engineer, and it would be easier to succeed, but he chose Song Yarong, who was the second most difficult to kill besides Sun Hang, which was very suspicious.

Chimera No. 17 probably eavesdropped on the conversation between Sun Hang and others through this guy, and learned that there was such a secret that only a few people knew about - and the only people who knew about it were Sun Hang and Song Yarong (Tang Jing, disguised by Fukada Miki, was ignored), so his only choice was Song Yarong.

The only doubt is how Chimera 17 controlled Zhao Ming...

Sun Hang suddenly thought of the girl with a weird smile that he saw in Zhao Ming's memory...

Suppose Chimera 17 used its ability to slightly modify Zhao Ming's cognition and memory and turned herself into Zhao Xuan...Then given Zhao Ming's doting on his daughter, I'm afraid he would unconditionally agree to any unreasonable request from his daughter...

"Damn, the case is solved." Sun Hang muttered softly.

"What did you say?" Song Yarong asked on the other end of the phone.

"I said, the clue is broken." Sun Hang said, "Zhao Ming is a mental patient, and his daughter Zhao Xuan is a baby girl who died young. It's a pitiful family. The whole thing has no direct connection with other weird things... It's just that he suddenly realized that his daughter was really dead, couldn't stand the stimulation, fell into madness, and then became weird... It's just that in the later process, Chimera No. 17 took advantage of it..."

"Took advantage of it? What do you mean?"

"If there is no Chimera No. 17, Zhao Ming will attack all living things he sees indiscriminately after he becomes weird." Sun Hang said, "But Chimera No. 17 used Zhao Ming... Why do you think Zhao Ming suddenly fell into madness at that time? There was nothing around that could prompt him to think of his daughter who died young. "

"You mean, Chimera 17 shattered his fantasy?"

"Yes, Zhao Ming in this state will become a weird thing sooner or later, but Chimera 17 brought this time forward, and also used the weird Zhao Ming to attack you." Sun Hang said, "In addition, I suspect that Chimera 17 has been eyeing Zhao Ming for a long time, and used him to eavesdrop on our conversation. "

"Hiss..." Song Yarong couldn't help but take a breath.

"I know it's hard to prevent, but we should try to prevent it as much as possible, strengthen personnel review and confidentiality, and try not to say anything when it's not work... After all, there was the first Zhao Ming, and there will be the second and third..." At this point, Sun Hang suddenly paused, "Tsk, it's disgusting."

"What's disgusting?"

"I suddenly realized that Chimera 17 is a two-birds-with-one-stone strategy, and even another purpose is its main purpose... And this is an open conspiracy, a conspiracy that we can't see through even if we see through it." Sun Hang frowned.

"What do you want to say is... the crisis of trust between people?"

"Yes... When everyone starts to be wary of their colleagues, how much do you think the progress of the insecticide plan will be slowed down?"

"Then... then should we still make this public?"

"You can figure it out, right? Maybe ask the old guys from Tianshu Tower how to solve it... They should be quite experienced in this aspect." Sun Hang returned the law enforcement recorder to the police officer, " I'm tired, I'm going home from get off work to rest."

"Okay...I'll contact Tianshu Tower right away." After Song Yarong finished speaking, she simply hung up the phone.

Sun Hang turned back and looked at the sheriff and another investigator standing in the room.

The two looked at each other in shock. After a few seconds, they shook their heads in unison: "We just pretend we didn't hear anything. We don't know anything."

"Logically speaking, I should ask you to sign a confidentiality agreement, but that thing is very troublesome, and it may not be useful... Oh, don't get me wrong, it's not that I think you can't keep your mouth shut, but there is something , you don’t need to volunteer to dig out the memories from your brain... So, the safest way is..."

There was a hint of panic in the eyes of the two of them.

"Crack."

Sun Hang snapped his fingers, and the panic in their eyes quickly turned into confusion.

Sun Hang handed the glass jar in his hand to the sheriff and said: "It's time to collect evidence and record it. After that, go to the incineration station to burn the specimen and find a cleaner place to bury it."

"Okay, okay." The Sheriff took the glass jar blankly, "Then, do we still want to continue investigating Zhao Ming's residence?"

"For me, this matter is over. But if you still have some procedural matters to do, then you can do it yourself." After Sun Hang said that, he put his hands in his pockets and walked towards the door. .

He was a little confused. Ever since the Chen Hongjuan incident, he had been thinking about a question - why do humans turn into monsters because of some "negative emotions" that don't seem to affect the real world at all?

What are the conditions for the transformation of monsters? What is the nature of strange things?

Old Man Pei told Sun Hang about the evil thoughts of human beings last time, but it seemed as if he had not said those words... Luo Liba talked a lot, but did not explain at all how these evil thoughts turn people into monsters...

Evil thoughts can make people commit crimes and do all kinds of things that break the moral bottom line and violate ethics... But how do evil thoughts make a tongue with fangs grow in a person's throat?

Damn it, even the species has changed, right?

Sun Hang was stunned, and he suddenly thought of his own abilities.

May all your wishes come true?

Those people think all kinds of ugly things, so they turn into ugly monsters?

Um? ?