In the mysterious phenomena section of the intranet, demons and monsters are basically the most common topics of discussion. Demons and ghosts are the most frequently appearing mysterious phenomena. The number of "monsters" is small and they are basically "confidential matters". Information about "monsters" is rarely announced to the public.

However, among all the demons and monsters, "demons" are the country's key research topic.

The Third Underground Research Institute of Tianjing is located next to the Western Suburbs Prison of Tianjing, which is specially used to imprison super-powered criminals who commit crimes in the northern region of Xuan Country.

“Aaaaaaah—”

The flat-headed man on the electric shock chair screamed and roared, his eyes were bloodshot, his whole body was trembling, and he was incontinent. However, when the therapist and researcher Li Wenxin stopped the electric shock, the flat-headed man immediately spit at Li Wenxin.

The saliva was like a sharp arrow, with great force, and turned into ice in an instant. Even with the transparent tempered glass blocking it, Li Wenxin was still shocked.

There was a ding sound, and the tempered glass was fine, but the ice arrow transformed from the saliva was embedded in the glass. The power was already close to that of a small-caliber bullet.

"If you don't kill me today, I will kill you later—" the flat-headed man laughed loudly, and the hatred in his words was enough to make ordinary people shudder, "You will die like a broken rag!"

But Li Wenxin had been working here for so long that she was used to this kind of threat. She just sighed and looked at the document of the flat-headed man in front of her:

Robbery, murder, XX, abuse, intentional injury...

Li Wenxin wrote down the results of the experiment: "Experiment No. 721, No. 1841 still has not regained his normal sanity and has not succumbed to his situation. Conclusion: Demonic nature has increased."

After finishing the experiment, Li Wenxin left the experimental site and returned to the office. As soon as he entered the door, he asked, "Is the spiritual energy suppression device not turned on?"

"What happened?" asked a colleague.

"No. 1841 can even spit. It scared me. I'll have to ask someone to check the bulletproof glass later. It's so troublesome." Li Wenxin sat down and entered the experimental results into the computer.

"He directly burns his own cyclonic aura to launch the attack. Even if the aura suppression device is activated, it is useless." The colleague said helplessly, "This is how powerful the demon is. The stronger the demon nature, the stronger the ability to absorb aura. He burns his own cyclonic aura as if it were a game. Be more careful next time."

"How's the experiment going? Are there any changes at all among the three subjects you're responsible for?"

"Bullshit!"

Li Wenxin complained: "Except for becoming more and more perverted, there is no other change. I am really shocked. They used electric shock and water torture. How could they say things like 'If you don't kill me today, I will kill you later'? Do you think this is a TV drama? Can normal people be so cruel?"

"Relax, if this job was easy, we wouldn't have gotten it." A colleague consoled him, "If the demons were afraid, they would have been released to serve long ago. Our job is to find their weaknesses."

The main research project of Tianjing's Third Underground Research Institute is "Demons". The experimental subjects are all criminals who have developed demonic qualities and were transferred from the prison next door.

Demonic nature is a psychological term, which specifically means that "criminals can commit crimes calmly and without any psychological fluctuations." It can also be said to be an "antisocial personality."

But unlike antisocial personality, antisocial personality is rational and can become a social builder. As long as the official and legal power is strong enough, antisocial personality will not actively break the law and will behave honestly after weighing the pros and cons.

However, it is different for those with demonic superpowers. They are just like No. 1841 that Li Wenxin just dealt with. Although they have a certain rationality, they are more likely to "do what they want" - I want to kill you, I will say it now, and I will even do it!

This is the barrier that Tianjing Third Underground Research Institute has always wanted to break.

Those who are fearless and have no faith are the real "wastes". The means they use are nothing but pure brutality, and they act based on their inner joy and anger.

The value of a person lies in the sum of his relationships in society. For example, a person stranded on an uninhabited island is meaningless to human society, no matter what he finds or writes on the island. Unless he meets a Friday the Negro and is successfully rescued from the island, he is a "dead man" to human society.

The demons are equivalent to the "fallen ones" in human society.

The demon does not need to get anything from others, nor does he want to give anything to others. He directly plunders what he wants, and he cannot control or influence them - even if you electrocute them to the point of shitting and pissing, they still don't show any signs of softening. Who dares to let them out?

"It's been several months, but we still can't make a breakthrough on this topic, let alone the final topic..." Li Wenxin sighed, and his colleague laughed and said, "More than a dozen research institutes across the country are working on the final topic. How could we be so lucky?"

Studying the weakness of demons is the subject of Li Wenxin's research team. There are five other groups like theirs in the institute, and their goal is to find a way to restore demons back to human form.

The country has allocated a lot of funds and power to the research of demons. This can be seen from the fact that the research institute can directly use demon prisoners. Although the research institute will definitely not kill people, necessary injury tests are still required.

But Li Wenxin knew that not only Xuan Country, but also the Federation, Europe and other places were using various means to study demons. News about demons was almost never seen in newspapers, and no human rights organizations would cause trouble. There were even many multinational consortiums in the world that took the initiative to donate funds in order to speed up the research progress.

As for why all the forces and organizations are so concerned, researchers like Li Wenxin know it all: the awakened son of the rich man turned into a demon and was locked up in the basement without seeing the sun; the awakened relative of the president turned into a demon, causing a terrible incident with a huge impact, causing the president to step down...

As long as one is awakened, there is the possibility of becoming a demon.

Demonic madness is not only a bomb hidden in the hearts of the awakened, but also a shackle: even those who know about demonic madness, when they hurt their compatriots and commit crimes, they cannot avoid losing themselves and turning into bloodless and tearless killing monsters.

Currently, there is only one way to avoid demonic madness, and it is only theoretical: believe from the bottom of your heart that your actions are as clear as a mirror, not for personal gain but for justice. In simple terms, if you have beliefs and responsibilities that override personal interests, then even if you do things that hurt and kill, you can avoid demonic madness.

Judging from the current situation, the awakened monks of the countermeasures system and the soldiers of the Yellow River and Yangtze River monk troops have no symptoms of demonization, which can be regarded as effective evidence.

However, research on the treatment and prevention of demonization still has great practical significance: the combat power of demonized people far exceeds that of their peers. If a corresponding psychological observation mechanism can be established to detect the signs of demonization in advance, treatment and interrogation can be carried out in advance to avoid more bloodshed.

For example, Li Wenxin had seen the strong man sitting among the scattered spirits. She couldn't imagine what would happen if he fell into demonization...

When Li Wenxin opened the intranet, the intranet automatically pushed her five posts. As a level 3 researcher, Li Wenxin set the discussion areas she was interested in, and the latest and most popular related discussions would be automatically pushed to her when she opened the intranet.

The first post was nothing new. The poster counted which area had the most demons, and in the end the entire discussion thread turned into a map-cannon area.

The second post was titled "Can Eating Shit Save the Demonized Person?" Li Wenxin wondered if this person had a grudge against the demonized person.

However, after she read the post carefully, she fell into deep thought.

She pulled up No. 1841's file and asked, "Has No. 1841 ever been subjected to any emotional testing?"

The colleague looked through the information and said, "Yes, his old father came once, but it didn't have any effect."

"Any information about his childhood?"

"Why do you ask that?"

“Hmm…” Li Wenxin said, “I saw a post saying, ‘People spend their whole lives pursuing what they desired in childhood, and fearing what they feared in childhood.’ Knowing what his childhood was like might be helpful.”

"That sounds reasonable." The colleague spent a few minutes and said, "I've sent you the statement from neighbor No. 1841."

"Thank you."

Li Wenxin spent half an hour reading it carefully, then pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "Do you have any porn movies on your computer? The kind that features strong attack and weak defense."

My colleague was stunned and immediately said, "No. Why? Are you interested? Aren't you a lesbian?"

"It worked. Come over here right away. If possible, try to photoshop the face of the victim into the shape of No. 1841."

"What do you want to do?"

Li Wenxin said: "His profile shows that No. 1841 was very strong when he was young and liked to bully others, especially girls. When he was in junior high school, he asked a girl to have an abortion for him."

"So, he probably never thought about being 'bullied' by other men, and he has never seen such videos. This must be a completely different experience for him."

My colleague felt a little puzzled, but he didn't object: "Is it really useful? I can't do this, I have to hand it over to the technical department. If it doesn't work, the technical department will probably scold you to death - the technical department is full of men."

"Fighting poison with poison, let's try it." Li Wenxin said, "Demons are not afraid of anything, because the devil is rooted deep in their personality, not in their body, let alone their memories. What we have to deal with is their personality."

"If a tough guy is tough, make him become a girl; if a neat guy is neat, make him dirty; if a guy likes to pee standing up, make him pee lying down; if a guy hates group life, make dozens of them live together; if a guy likes to sleep, wake him up every 45 minutes..."

"We were obsessed with physical stimulation and verbal persuasion before, but we were thinking in the wrong direction. Demons are not obsessed with the past, nor are they afraid of physical harm. The only thing left is their 'habits' as human beings. We should destroy their habits, awaken their humanity, and make them cry and say 'I want to be a human again'!"