Chapter 376: Flesh, Blood, Weakness (7) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of 9,300 thunderbolts) [VIP]
Just as Zhang Lu was about to ask something else, he heard the door open with a click.
Si Panxuan and Shi Liqun walked out of the room with the suspect.
"How is it?" she asked quickly.
"The initial assessment is that his condition is not strongly related to yesterday's alarm, which means that this person's desire to kill people is purely a brain drain," Si Panxuan said, looking up. "It will take some time to get the specific written report and CT results. For example, whether there are organic lesions in the organs, and whether the brain will change due to direct contact with certain creatures of the gravitational system."
Although it can be concluded that there is no problem with his physical and mental health, since he is a suspect of attempted murder, the police still need a formal examination report from the hospital.
These are some procedural steps. Fortunately, the hospital is used to cooperating with this kind of investigation and is familiar with the preparation process.
But the suspect himself was not so cooperative.
Maybe this man struggled too hard. After the two men took him out, they were in the exact posture of escorting a prisoner. Shi Liqun handcuffed his hands behind his back, and Si Panxuan pressed down on his shoulders. From his expression, one could tell that this posture was definitely not an easy one.
When Si Panxuan said this, he raised his head and swept his bloodshot eyes over everyone present. If it weren't for these two people stopping him, Bai Jinshu was fully confident that he would rush up and bite everyone present.
As expected, as soon as Si Panxuan finished speaking, he shouted, "Are you out of your mind? You idiots are the ones who were fooled by her!"
"What do you know? You know nothing! Don't think she'll be safe if she gets rid of me!"
"Ha, I'll come again! Just wait for her, I won't let her go!"
The man's voice was so loud that many patients around him were scared and moved away from him.
I don't know when the robot at the door of the department on this floor came over and repeated in a mechanical and stereotyped voice: "Please do not make loud noises in the medical area. The current ambient noise has exceeded 70 decibels. The medical guard will be called in five seconds."
"Five, four, three, two, one."
"Guards called."
"Go, go, go, hurry up," Si Panxuan rubbed his forehead with one free hand, saying with a headache, "Although this person's mental state has nothing to do with san check, he does have some problems with his brain."
He was almost delusional, insisting that the old woman in her eighties whom he was planning to kill was trying to drive him out.
"What about the report?" Zhang Lu looked at her empty hands. "Didn't we say we still have to wait for the report?"
"Let's send him back to the police first," Jia Li interrupted. "He's yelling here all the time. The guards will be here soon."
The patients around seemed to know that the men in black windbreakers belonged to the mobile team. Most citizens respected this team that specialized in dealing with C-type creatures but would not approach them unless necessary. Naturally, they also avoided the patient they brought with them.
This guy was shouting so arrogantly here that all the patients around him hid far away, fearing that something might happen and they would be involved.
"The doctor said the report will take at least half an hour to come out," Si Panxuan looked at his watch, "why don't we send him to the police first and come back to get it?"
That's fine.
Anyway, the most urgent thing now was to get this person who was shouting away from them. Everyone quickly reached a consensus and after getting on the aircraft, they headed towards the police station.
The police were quite experienced in dealing with this kind of situation. As soon as the man arrived at the door of the police station, a young male policeman came up and put a bracelet directly on the man's wrist.
With a "click", the shouting surrounding everyone's ears finally stopped.
It’s not that the man stopped talking after seeing the police station, but the moment the bracelet was buckled on his wrist, his voice could no longer be heard, as if there was an invisible barrier separating him from the world.
"I'm sorry," the young policeman said quickly after seeing several members of the mobile team covering their ears after bringing back the patient. "I'm in charge of this suspect. I wasn't there when you took him for an inspection this afternoon, and I forgot to give you the noise-blocking bracelet."
"Hey, it's okay," Zhang Lu waved his hand. "The hospital's preliminary judgment is that there is no correlation. The detailed report will be out in about ten minutes. Let's go get it again."
There's nothing to do this afternoon anyway.
Most people in the mobile team base were very busy because of yesterday's alarm. The lesson learned from Ming Qingrong's incident yesterday also made it difficult for everyone to harass these indigenous people with questions that seemed very "stupid" to them when everyone was so busy.
In the absence of any useful clues, running errands is no big deal, just consider it as a way to familiarize yourself with the future world.
"Well... I won't bother you guys in the mobile team," the young policeman said awkwardly, "Just report and we'll get it. You guys go ahead and do your work."
They knew that the mobile team was a special team to deal with the creatures of the K-type. The city-wide alarm was sounded yesterday, and today is the busiest day for everyone.
At this time, asking a group of people to come out to help them take the suspect for a mental examination was already very disturbing, and asking them to run errands and make reports was a bit presumptuous.
"It's not a problem," everyone heard She Mochu suddenly say at this moment, "We also happen to be going to the hospital to handle related work, so it's convenient for us to bring you the report. Otherwise, why do you think we would come here for field work?"
"Besides," he raised his eyes slightly and pointed with his chin at the equally busy policemen in the police station, "You guys are just as busy."
After yesterday's city-wide alert, there must have been a lot of public security problems. The police station was very busy and we really don't have enough time to ask them to allocate a few people to collect reports.
"Oh, I see." The young policeman scratched his head. "Thank you so much."
He was indeed busy.
"You're welcome. We're all colleagues, so it's just a matter of convenience." The seemingly lazy member of the mobile team nodded slightly and suddenly said, "By the way, do you have anything else you need to pick up? We're going to pick it up as well. We just happened to be going to the medical center to get some information on level 3 contacts, so we'll bring it to you as well."
"Let me ask." The young policeman didn't expect that this man, who looked difficult to get along with, was unexpectedly kind. He turned around and went into the station to ask around, and finally brought out a few transparent boxes. "These are the materials to be taken back. Thank you for your help."
Bai Jinshu nodded, signaled the people behind him to take the box, then turned and walked towards the aircraft.
"Brother Chu?" Zhang Lu trotted over and asked in a low voice, "Are there any new clues?"
Judging from She Mochu's personality, he doesn't seem like the type who would help others bring back information.
"Yes," Bai Jinshu agreed, "I need to retrieve some information."
He wanted to know what illness the "friend" that the calm woman had brought here for treatment had.
It is unclear to what extent this sect has infiltrated this society. It would be a bit too alarming to retrieve the information of that patient alone, but if we do it while helping the police retrieve a large amount of information, it will most likely not attract other people's attention.
The reason why he was so interested in this religion was that this sect was quite different from the evil cults that Shemochu had in mind. They seemed to have no "purpose".
The reason why the cults in the K-world are called cults is that most of the "gods" they believe in are some K-world mythological creatures. In order to summon these creatures and make them come to the earth, the members of these sects often resort to methods such as sacrifice.
Putting aside whether they can summon the mythical creatures they believe in, the fact that a group of people gather together and then commit suicide, or kill others as sacrifices, is enough to be classified as a cult, causing a lot of negative impact on society.
If a religion is strong enough to make people willing to interfere with their own lives and call upon gods, its so-called doctrines must be full of deception and heresy. The believers who make this choice have either witnessed the so-called "power of gods" with their own eyes, or have been promised "benefits in the afterlife."
The former "power of God" is nothing more than someone doing something that humans cannot do, making believers believe that this power comes from the gift of "God", and then believe that the god worshipped by the sect really exists. The person who exerts the power of God is favored by the other party, and thus believes in everything the believer says.
Just talking about this, in fact, She Mochu himself can do it. It has been said more than once in the original comic that if She Mochu did not go to the University of Michigan, then with his pair of eyes and the snake-people language that he could only understand after losing his san, it would only take him a few minutes to start a cult and become the leader. As long as he wanted, he could gain countless followers.
There is even a chapter specifically about a cult follower who believed in the snake king Yig and, after meeting She Mochu, wishfully believed that the other party was the sect's holy son. In order to snatch the holy son back, he even launched a general attack on the University of Michigan.
Yes, a general attack was launched against the University of Michigan...
The subsequent ending of this sect was that it was crushed by the professors of the University of Michigan, and was jokingly called the most tragic episode by readers.
The latter "benefits in the afterlife" are actually what many sects are doing. Not only cults, but also regular religions have related descriptions.
For example, in Christianity, if you do good deeds in this life, you will go to heaven after you die.
Its essence is to guide believers to be good and maintain social peace.
But this sect is very strange.
Bai Jinshu got on the aircraft, looked at Shi Liqun who was sitting next to him, and asked casually, "If you were allowed to live in this world, you would know how you died in your previous life when you were born, and everyone would tell you that person was you. And when you die, countless people would tell you that your reincarnation is him."
"What would you do in this situation?"
This seems to be the tradition of zone 08. People believe that the dead will be reborn, and after rebirth, the people around him will naturally treat him as the previous dead person, and the new person himself also agrees with this.
For example, Xuan Chang,
She is no longer the same Xuan Chang, but she recognizes her identity in her previous life, and her relatives also recognize that she is the deceased.
So if the whole world had this atmosphere, it's obvious what would happen.
Shi Liqun thought seriously for a long time and said solemnly: "I am not afraid of death."
Bai Jinshu drooped his eyelids slightly, his fingers unconsciously rubbing over the documents in his hands.
Yes, this is normal. When you believe that you are not really dead after death, but will inherit everything you once had and return to this world again, most people will not be afraid of death.
Because death is nothing to them at this time. There may even be people who are too old to move, or who suffer from terminal illnesses or congenital deficiencies, who will actively choose death and then welcome a new life.
For every custom to emerge and spread, there must be a deeper underlying logic behind it. Fundamentally, the fundamental purpose of this theory is to make everyone not afraid of death.
In the K-series world, humans are mere consumables when facing mythical creatures. Back then in the University of Michigan, in addition to some investigators who held on to lofty ideals and were willing to die for them, there were also quite a few who believed that death was not the end and that everyone would eventually meet in heaven.
Zone 08 is a marginal area of underground human settlements, so it is not surprising that the people are indoctrinated with such ideas, but this sect...
"What if you believe in reincarnation after death, and I tell you that everyone is born to suffer?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyes.
Being stared at by that eye, Shi Liqun shrank his neck like a cat and said briefly: "There is no meaning in living."
Since death is not real death, but the beginning of the next life, and people live only to suffer, doesn't it mean endless pain and endless disasters?
This conclusion will make most people feel that life has no meaning, and even death cannot end everything. This is a painful journey with no end, and thus they become confused.
"That's the problem." Bai Jinshu let out a sigh.
He couldn't imagine how this sect attracted followers.
After firmly believing that their life is endless, how can anyone be willing to believe that their endless life is endless suffering?
No wonder the calm woman said both times they met that if they needed anything, they could go to that place to find her.
Bai Jinshu held the business card between two fingers and his eyes fell on the address again.
After finding out what the girl's situation is, he will find an opportunity to meet her.
*
The aircraft stopped at the entrance of the clinic. Si Panxuan went upstairs to get the report on the suspect who broke into the house with a knife in the middle of the night, while the rest of the people went to retrieve the information needed by the police.
When retrieving the information, Bai Jinshu also retrieved the list of all patients who had received treatment in the same area in the afternoon, using the excuse that he had forgotten the name on the file, and successfully found the "friend" of the calm woman.
——Yang Lifeng.
If the archival photo next to it didn't show the girl's face, Bai Jinshu would never have thought that this was a female name.
The following consultation session shows that she came here today for regular counseling for cognitive impairment, and this is the seventh time. The counseling effect has been greatly improved this time, and the patient is recovering well.
After making a copy of Yang Lifeng's file, Bai Jinshu walked out of the archive room and met several people coming down from upstairs.
"Brother Chu, have you found what you want?" Zhang Lu asked. After getting Bai Jinshu's affirmative nod, he consciously took the information from the other party.
In this world, it seems to be a fixed step that suspects need to undergo a psychiatric examination before being convicted. During the sentencing stage and subsequent processing, staff in related links will also refer to whether the suspect has been affected by the san check.
After all, if the suspect fails the san check after facing a creature of the anti-type, and deducts too many sans at once, causing him to enter temporary madness and then start hacking people everywhere, then the suspect has no ability to act independently during this process and he himself is also a victim.
However, the middle-aged man that everyone brought here today is obviously not among them.
Bai Jinshu casually picked up a report that they had taken down and took a look at it. He couldn't understand the large amount of data and various organ scans on it, but he could understand the words on it, [The subject had no induced organ lesions, normal thinking ability, and stable mental threshold].
This probably means that he did not go through a san check yesterday, so his actions had nothing to do with the Crimson creatures, and everything came from his own heart.
When everyone was sending the information to the police station, they also asked about what the sentence would be for this person. The young policeman flipped through the information and said with some regret: "He will probably be expelled from zone 08."
"Expel?" Zhang Lu had never heard of this word before and repeated it.
"You also think expulsion is a bit too harsh, right?" The young policeman misunderstood her meaning and shrugged awkwardly. "I thought so too, but my master told me that this person's soul is inherently unstable. He has done similar things several times before. He would directly take action when encountering a little disagreement, and he also thought that others were rejecting him. He even almost killed two reincarnations of old teachers who had many students all over the world, causing widespread dissatisfaction among their students..."
"Someone suggested expulsion at the time, but in the end, because no one was actually killed, the sentence was not so severe," the young policeman said sincerely, "So this time he tried to kill someone because of these trivial things. Referring to the files of the previous reincarnations, this kind of person is no longer suitable to live in zone 08. For the stability of zone 08 and the safety of other citizens, if there are no accidents in this judgment, he may be expelled from zone 08 this weekend and become a vagrant."
[Was the poet that the Lord found earlier also expelled? ]
[It seems that the poet's mother was expelled. The poet was born outside.]
【Oh, oh, I misremembered it. 】
[In the K-world, expulsion is almost equivalent to a death sentence, right? Without anyone to protect you and without these protective measures, you will definitely die quickly outside. ]
[It’s more serious than the death penalty, don’t they believe in rebirth after death? ]
[That's not necessarily true. It's just a little more dangerous. Otherwise, how could the poet and his mother live outside for so long?]
[That’s right.]
While the discussion was going on in the barrage, the exploration team members were also thinking.
Although everyone except She Mochu was hearing about this punishment for the first time, just by hearing the name, one could tell that this punishment was even more severe than the death penalty.
In other words, in a place where people believe that they will be reborn after death, death is no longer a serious punishment, but expulsion is.
"If he had committed suicide outside, wouldn't he have been reborn in the city?" Wei Ye asked curiously, "He always said that he would not let that neighbor go."
Since he can be reincarnated, won’t he commit suicide?
"Hey?" The young policeman looked at them strangely, "Aren't you from zone 08?"
"Oh, we are from zone 02," Ming Qingrong said, "We are an exploration team that came here to learn investigation."
"From zone 02, it's a safer big city," the young policeman blinked his eyes with longing, "My master hasn't been found for eighty years. We all guessed that he was reincarnated to another area, maybe in zone 02."
After learning that they were not locals of Znoe 08 but a mobile team from Zone 02, the young policeman enthusiastically introduced the common sense of Zone 08.
For example, the heaviest punishment, expulsion,
The heaviest punishment here is to expel serious criminals from the city-state and let them live in the wilderness without any protection. In the beginning, many people who were expelled chose to commit suicide directly after finding out that they had lost the protection of the city-state and were likely to die at the hands of the C-type creatures, hoping to be reborn in the city.
As the number of such incidents increased, a separate set of punishment measures was developed for criminals who committed suicide directly, and these were even more severe and cruel.
If the expelled criminal commits suicide and is reincarnated in the city, he will be thrown out of the city after being discovered, and will be thrown back and forth until the sentence he was sentenced to expire.
As parents of newborns, most people would choose to agree to this approach after learning that their child has committed a crime that is enough to be "expelled" from zone 08.
This is another very strange situation.
Everyone looked at each other. It seemed that the young policeman admired and yearned for zone 02. Zhang Lu took the lead and the other few people cooperated. Everyone talked at once. Some said, "I'm new here and don't know much about zone 08, but I'm embarrassed to ask my colleagues." So after the young policeman got off work, they invited him to give everyone a quick review of local knowledge and also treated him to a meal.
The young policeman was very embarrassed at first, but Wei Ye and Jia Li were worthy of being the outdoor anchor and auctioneer respectively. They treated each other like brothers and tried to retreat in order to advance. Finally, they succeeded in fooling the inexperienced young policeman out.
During this deception, the young policeman also revealed a lot of information about himself.
For example, he was actually a policeman in his previous life, and later died in a C-type biological invasion.
"He said that his current master was actually his partner in his previous life," Wei Ye said as he recalled, "That incident caused many police officers to die in the line of duty. After reincarnation, most of the police officers learned that they were martyrs who died heroically, so they chose to become police officers again. He and his partner were the same, but he was born seven or eight years later than his partner. By the time he joined the force, his partner was already an experienced police officer. The two of them were both teachers and friends."
Most people in zone 08 firmly believe that the person in their previous life was themselves, and after getting along with their relatives in the previous life and reading the content of their previous life, they chose the same path as in the previous life.
Instead of stopping them, their parents in this life will encourage them to contact their relatives in the previous life. People believe that they can learn about things in their previous life when they are born again in this world because they have an unfinished bond with their relatives in the previous life. Many people also make the same choices as in their previous life after learning about what they did in their previous life.
"Take today's suspect for example," the young policeman thought for a moment, "he has been fighting with others over quarrels for five or six consecutive lives, and he almost killed someone many times."
He himself has been a policeman for eight lifetimes, and once served in the mobile squad.
"Look!" The young policeman proudly showed off one of his brooches. "This is the relic left behind after I died on the job. After I was reborn, they returned it to me. After that, I worked as a policeman twice more. This time, it was my master who handed me the bear brooch."
That is, his previous partner.
"Then why didn't you continue to be a member of the mobile team after that?" Zhang Lu asked curiously.
“Ah…” The young policeman scratched his head awkwardly. “I’m not afraid of you laughing at me if I tell you this, but I died a tragic death that time.”
"Is the death too tragic?" Wei Ye poked his head out.
"Well, the follow-up team was delayed by other things, resulting in our vanguard team having no backup. In the end, not even a complete body was left in the team," the young policeman nodded seriously. "It is said that anyone who saw our bodies at that time had to go through a san check. The team that came to collect the bodies could not bring back the remaining parts of our bodies. They could only bring back our equipment in a piece of flesh and blood, which is this thing."
The young policeman displayed a brooch that looked like some kind of symbol.
It is indeed an old item and looks very old at first glance, but it is well protected and you can see the owner's care.
"Although I can understand my choice at that time, I think being a policeman might be more suitable for me," the young policeman shrugged. "But I don't know whether I will join the mobile team in the future. After all, I have made this choice before, so it's not surprising to make the same choice in the future."
The people here truly believe that those who died in the past were "themselves".
Bai Jinshu's eyes fell on the brooch and his heart jumped slightly.
He probably knew why this policeman died so tragically in his previous life.
Because in his opinion, this brooch is also useless.
However, the young policeman's next sentence immediately caught his attention.
"After all, this brooch is really useful," the young policeman boasted to everyone, "Although I can't use it now, it has saved my life several times before."
According to him, in his previous lives, he was spared by the creatures of the restraint system at critical moments several times.
He originally thought it was just luck, but after getting the brooch this time, he realized that it was most likely the brooch's effect.
This brooch, inherited from himself when he was a member of the mobile squad, saved his life several times.
Bai Jinshu frowned slightly.
[Si Panxuan: Brother Chu, is this thing useful?] Si Panxuan lowered his head and typed on the watch.
【She Mochu: No. 】
【Zhang Lu: Huh? Then why was he able to narrowly escape death several times with this?】
【She Mochu: ...There is a problem.】
The audience on the barrage also frowned:
[So one of the Lord and this little brother is lying? ]
[Why would the Lord lie? If there is no truth, there is no truth. There must be something wrong with this guy. ]
[But there is nothing to lie about, we are all strangers, just casual acquaintances.]
[That's not necessarily true. You don't brag at the dinner table? ]
"Can I take a look?" She Mochu suddenly spoke on the screen.
"Sure, take a look." Although this stunningly beautiful member of the mobile team did not say a word from beginning to end, the police handed it over generously.
Bai Jinshu took the brooch and looked at it carefully.
This thing is really useless to the Cthulhu creatures, otherwise he should feel disgusted.
But why... can it expel the Crimson creatures in this world?
Was it his fault, was it his mistake, or was it the so-called "anti-anti-biotic equipment" and "anti-biotic equipment" in this world that had problems?
The author has something to say:
My friend said that my title yesterday was like some mysterious clues in the world of K-series. Curious people would search for it and pass the SC, while those who were not curious would ignore it and continue to live a peaceful life.
Those who know what it is can never go back, and those who don't know what it is will never see this thing in their world if I don't mention it. What a hearty Cthulhu simulation social experiment.
Me: ...Hmm? It seems so.
So those who know what living evil is should give it a SC!
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