Chapter 268: Hypnosis?? Cornett is always suspicious
Connit's rage could no longer be contained. From being ambushed to the bad news that followed his return, and finally the theft of the five dimensional crystals, he was completely ignited.
Each dimensional crystal is a precious treasure of their organization, of extraordinary value, and is also a weapon.
Now, five coins have been stolen at once. How can he calm down?
Pierre's face was pale, and he was repeatedly forced back by the aura that erupted from Connet. He was also stunned, but for some reason, he felt relieved.
Even the dimensional crystal was stolen?
Then the problem with the main gun doesn’t seem to be too big.
It’s not a question of value, but the security levels of the two are too different.
Ted, who was standing aside, broke out in a cold sweat. After a brief shock, he was filled with uncontrollable fear.
In the Torch Organization base, he is the only one who frequently goes in and out of the warehouse where dimensional crystals are stored.
It was like the three main guns were swapped, and the ones who would be suspected would definitely be Peel and his men.
"The dimensional crystals were actually stolen." Fernand's face turned pale and he felt ashamed.
He was not sure when these things were stolen. If they were stolen after he transferred Deyes to the main base, then he would be guilty of a serious crime.
"Our proud main base is practically a sieve." Kevis sneered. "Even the power of the Eternal Realm can't stop him. It's truly chilling."
Cornett restrained his breath and seemed to have calmed down, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that beneath his gloomy face was a raging rage.
He glanced at Ted, but said nothing more. He said in a deep voice, "Kevis, you come and search Zog and Hector's memories."
Zog and the other man were pale and trembling. They had heard of the tragic consequences of having their memories searched before.
Nerve tissue is damaged, and large areas of brain cells die, leading to hemiplegia, paralysis of the lower limbs, and other sequelae...
"Me?" Keweisi frowned. "Do I need to take action? Leia should still be inside the organization, right?"
Searching memories is a delicate job. The brain structure of living organisms is extremely complex. A slight carelessness may cause a chain reaction. The person may die before the memory is searched.
Keweisi's injuries have not healed yet, and he doesn't want to do this strenuous work.
"Chief... Chief," Zog said stiffly, "We are the direct responsible persons. If anything goes wrong, we should be held responsible."
"But we are just ordinary staff members. We can only follow the established testing procedures. If the truth is found to have nothing to do with us, then we..."
Dedication to the organization is one of the Torch's tenets. Zog clearly didn't have this awareness, but Cornett didn't use such polite words to suppress him. He just said coldly:
"Don't worry, Kevis will do it himself. He's an A-level life form, and his control over mental power is beyond imagination. You two aren't even C-level life forms. As long as he controls it better, there won't be any sequelae."
Zog was shocked when he heard this, and even Pierre looked at Cornett with a complicated expression.
With such a big incident, it wouldn't be a big deal even if the leader directly executed Zog and the other two.
But the leader still considered the possibility that Zog and the others were innocent.
He couldn't help but feel an urge in his heart to tell everything, but in the end reason stopped him.
"Chief..." Zog was also stunned, his eyes blank, then red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Come on, this is the only way to prove my innocence."
"Tsk..." Kovis sneered inexplicably, but under the gloomy gaze of Cornett, he shrugged and walked in front of Zog.
The palm of his hand was placed on his forehead, and then Keweisi's eyes moved, reflecting a picture, the picture in which was moving rapidly.
Zog rolled his eyes and his whole body was shaking. Purple energy was faintly gathering around him, creating ripples like a tide.
But under the purple crystal that Fernand took out, it gradually dissipated. Balzacs seemed to extremely hate psychic power.
"Corvis!" Cornett shouted.
Although there was no movement, the speed of the images slowed down significantly, and Zog's twitching gradually stopped.
"...After hearing the snap, you have completed the inspection of the Sunburst Star..."
"...Isn't it normal for Sunshine Rift Star to have this kind of problem..."
The picture was shaking continuously, and the only sound that could be heard was the processed sound.
Everyone's eyes were filled with wonder, their brows were furrowed, and Pierre's throat was moving.
Because in the picture, Zog obeyed the voice-over's orders.
Obviously, he really betrayed.
"Interesting..." Ke Weisi suddenly said, "What kind of trick did this guy use to actually think he had completed the test?"
"It's not the power of the mind, it seems to be..."
Keweisi didn't finish his words, but everyone's eyes were slightly confused.
Cornett was puzzled, "What do you mean? They didn't betray?"
"No, or rather, in their own perception, there isn't." Keweisi shook his head, and then the picture changed, and finally a silver-white mechanical watch emerged.
Keep flashing by.
"It's actually...hypnosis?" Ke Weisi said in surprise. "What a surprise."
Pierre looked at the silver pocket watch that kept flashing on the screen, and for some reason his face looked a little dazed.
Ted's mind moved slightly, staring at the pocket watch, and suddenly said, "I remember that when we searched Deyes's room, we did find such a pocket watch."
He reacted quickly and asked someone to get it. At this moment, Kovis had put down Zog and came to Hector.
Soon, Keweisi withdrew his palm and said in a deep voice: "It's almost exactly the same as Zog's situation."
Zog and the other man collapsed on the ground, twitching from time to time.
"They were exploited through hypnosis, and psychological suggestions were planted in them," Koves explained. "They thought they had completed the main gun inspection."
"From this aspect, we can infer that these three main guns were replaced a long time ago."
"Hypnosis?" Cornett frowned. "Can it reach this level?"
"I'm surprised too. Logically speaking, this kind of psychological hypnosis can only work on ordinary life forms. Any life form with a slightly strong mind can resist it, not to mention genetically evolved ones." Kevis was also puzzled.
Pierre had come back to his senses and listened to what Corvis said with a gloomy expression.
"This is it." Ted took a metal box from his men, opened it, and took out an exquisite silver-white mechanical pocket watch.
"Let me see..." Keweisi took it and looked at the mechanical pocket watch in detail, staring at its hands, scales, and even the shell, his face becoming more and more surprised.
"Unbelievable... How on earth did he do it? This thing... is too..." Ke Weiss couldn't find any words to describe it.
He randomly pulled a soldier over, asked him to take off his helmet, and then waved the pocket watch in front of his eyes. After just two or three times, the soldier fell into a trance.
"What's your name?"
"Bater..." the other party responded numbly.
Fernando was surprised. "You can control a person with just two shakes?"
"Controlling a person isn't surprising. Psychic power can easily do this. The real purpose of this thing is just to hide." Kevis sighed.
"It's really amazing! It would be impossible to produce it if there were less than ten hypnotists involved in its production."
He even felt that such a thing should be impossible to manufacture.
Because the essence of hypnosis is to make people fall into a special state that is extremely easy to manipulate. The inducements that make everyone fall into this state are different, and there is no uniform standard.
"Besides, it's not that effective." As he said that, Kovis took the thing and waved it in front of Pierre, but it had no effect.
Fernand speculated: "This is the method of manipulating the grassroots. Deyes must have used this method to obtain a large amount of fragmented information and then unravel it."
"It's really scary that the other party can come and go here freely."
Cornett remained silent, then ordered: "Pierre..."
There was no response to his first call, so Cornett emphasized his tone: "Pierre!"
"Here!" Pierre shuddered and responded hastily, his voice sounding vague.
Cornett didn't pursue the matter, but simply ordered, "Go check where Deyes was during the time period when the sound appeared in the footage."
After a pause, he added: "And everyone else's timeline."
"You still have doubts?" Keweisi couldn't help but look at him.
"It's not suspicion, it's certainty." Cornett shook his head. "If it's really him, everything should fit together."
"There's also Brot. This guy stays in his room all day and has plenty of time," added Kovis.
"Brot..." Cornett mused, "Brot shouldn't have this ability to disappear into thin air."
Keweisi disagreed: "We can't just look at appearances. Among them, Theo is the most proficient in hiding."
Cornett frowned. It was not that he was overly suspicious, but the loss this time was too great and too strange. He wanted to investigate it thoroughly without leaving any doubts.
"The most important thing is how he disappeared. This is the coverage area of the Eternal Realm..." he murmured.
"Chief..." Pierre suddenly spoke, lowering his head and speaking carefully to avoid the blood oozing from his bitten tongue. "You, you may have fallen into a mental trap."
"Deyes's departure may not be due to his own strength."
"Hmm?" Cornett looked over, and Pierre explained with difficulty: "Others may also gain strange powers by sacrificing dimensional creatures."
"Dimensional creature!" Connit's eyes lit up. Yes, there is indeed such a possibility.
Sacrificing dimensional creatures is not their patent; they just happened to have this method and are still exploring it.
"Power from other dimensions would cause a stronger reaction from Balzacs." Fernand disagreed.
"What if he's good at hiding?" Pierre whispered.
Fernand stopped talking. The creatures in the dimension were all kinds of strange and had all kinds of abilities. They were bizarre and beyond imagination.
"There is indeed such a possibility." Cornett nodded, finally feeling a little comforted.
Peel is pretty good. Whether it is deciphering the code or coming up with a sudden idea and thinking about the problem from another angle, he always provides ideas to break the deadlock.
"Deyes's whereabouts are unknown, and we can't confirm whether the base's coordinates have been leaked. Regardless, we must temporarily evacuate."
Cornett let out a long sigh, suppressing the pain and helplessness in his heart.
The loss of three main ship-class gun turrets disrupted a considerable part of their plans.
After the fleet with three main ships as the core was formed, although it was still impossible to compete head-on with the Combined Fleet, it could still serve as a surprise attack at certain times.
At worst, a purely self-destructive interception can delay a considerable amount of time.
But now, the main method of attack is gone, and the threat is greatly reduced.
"Leave the base?" Fernand didn't expect Connit to be so decisive. He couldn't help but say, "If Deyes really knew the base's coordinates, then Asmara wouldn't have ambushed you."
"I understand, but we have to be on guard," Cornett said firmly. "Besides, there's only a month left until the Red River Star Stream tidal period, so we can just wait there."
"If we want to evacuate here, we will lose the means to suppress those A-level life forms." Keweisi reminded.
Cornett remained silent and turned to ask Fernand: "Do they know about Deyes's situation?"
Fernand shook his head. "They probably don't know the specifics, but Deyes hasn't been to the core lab for a long time. They can probably guess something's wrong."
"It's good that I don't know the specific situation. Go and try them." Cornett's face was cold. The figures of several people passed by his eyes, but he could not freeze them.
"I've been wanting to take action against them for a long time." Keweisi's mouth curled up.
………
In the core lab, the three remaining master mechanics were present, and Benny looked rather worried as he watched the red exclamation mark pop up on the screen.
He sighed, took down the red energy crystal, and whispered:
"Wrong again. The coefficient is wrong. It can't bear the diversion of the energy spectrum."
"What on earth has Deyes been doing? He hasn't been to the core lab in such a long time, and the Torch Organization is being vague and non-committal."
"The overall manufacturing progress is close to 80%. This is the last core node. As long as we solve the energy focusing crystal coefficient and particle actuator, we can quickly complete the sublimator."
Since Deyes stopped coming, their production progress has visibly declined.
Jessiah's face was cold. "That's the last bit left. Can't the three of us master mechanics handle it? You can't say that without Deyes, we can't do anything, right?"
"That's not what I meant. The whole thing is almost done, and only the finishing touches are left. We can polish it out, but it will take too long." Benny sighed repeatedly.
"I estimate that it will be difficult to complete it in less than half a year."
After saying this, he glanced at Li Ming, who was working with his head down, and said a few more words, "Sir Qinglong, at this point, don't be secretive. If you have any conditions, just put them forward directly to the Torch Organization."
"What do you mean?" Li Ming looked up, a little surprised. "Why do you act like I have a solution?"
"You don't have any?"
"Do I have it?"
Benny looked even more helpless, as if he wanted to expose the truth but couldn't say it.
(End of this chapter)
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