"What is it?" Sun Hang followed up.
"Before that, could you listen to a story?" Lin Lun asked with a sincere expression.
"Are you trying to stall for time?" Sun Hang tried to use mind reading on Lin Lun, only to find that the other man's will was exceptionally firm. Mind reading could glean very little, and as for his memories, they were sealed shut like a solid lump of iron without a single seam.
There were two kinds of people who were especially resistant to mind reading. One was lunatics with utterly chaotic thoughts or idiots with completely blank minds. The other was people like Lin Lun, who could precisely "control" their own brains as if controlling a computer's storage.
The definition of this "control" was extremely advanced. To ordinary people, being able to control their own brains might seem as simple as eating or drinking, but in reality, most of the brain's "operating processes" were not governed by human conscious will at all.
That brought things back around to the topic of "don't picture an elephant."
The man before Sun Hang possessed such precise control over his own brain that he could confine his thoughts to an extremely small range and use a form of "false forgetting" to seal away memories he did not want others to pry into...
Sun Hang even suspected that he could commit suicide by commanding his brain to forcibly stop functioning... For more than 99.99 percent of carbon-based lifeforms, that was simply impossible.
Suicide was not difficult, but killing oneself through pure thought was more than merely defying a creature's survival instinct. Such a person's control over his own brain was strong enough to bypass all manner of bodily self-protection mechanisms and pull down, with perfect precision, that "switch" plastered with danger warnings.