Too Normal

"Normal..."

Everyone in the office wore strange expressions after hearing the psychologist's analysis.

Seeing their reactions, the psychologist sighed and explained, "After the Crimson Moon incident, everyone was confined to High Wall City. The oppressive environment and desperate living conditions have caused psychological issues in everyone to varying degrees... including myself. However, after talking with him for half an hour, I found him to be remarkably normal."

"Normal... to the point of being abnormal!"

After a slight pause, she continued, "Because Professor Bai had already warned me, I didn't delve too deeply into the matter of the Crimson Moon orphanage explosion. Instead, I focused on his childhood at the orphanage, as well as his education and work experience after leaving. He answered all my questions cooperatively. Towards the end, I even directly asked about his family..."

As she said this, she turned to look at Chen Jing and added, "He didn't resist my questions at all. He talked in detail about his interactions and relationship patterns with his family, discussing the boundaries between fantasy and reality. He even seriously debated with me the difference between mental and personality disorders, and the possibility of whether these family members were truly real..."

"Honestly, I almost felt like he was one of my students..."

"..."

As the psychologist spoke, the subject seemed to become more and more normal, yet everyone in the office felt a chill run down their spines.

There was an indescribable strangeness.

"He can't possibly be that normal..."

After a moment, someone asked, "Is it possible he was lying?"

The psychologist shook her head. "If he were lying, I wouldn't have been able to tell."

"It's precisely because he wasn't lying that he's abnormal!"

She paused briefly before letting out a soft breath. Placing the conversation notes on the desk, she took off her glasses and rubbed the small indentations on either side of her nose. "I tried to discuss as many things as possible with him. In the end, I found that apart from having some fuzzy memories and his 'description' of his family being difficult for ordinary people to accept..."

"This young man is optimistic, cheerful, positive, kind..."

She even gave a wry smile as she said this. "I find myself wondering how someone like him could be a mental anomaly?"

"Optimistic, cheerful, positive, kind..."

Silence fell over the office for a while. Then, the bald, bespectacled Professor Chen spoke, "Just hearing you say those words makes him seem abnormal to me... How could a child who grew up after the Crimson Moon incident be like this..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but everyone in the office clearly understood.

The psychologist, wearing her white coat, put her glasses back on. "I discussed this with him. I found that he is deeply influenced by someone – the former director of the Crimson Moon orphanage. From his description, it's clear that this director was someone who maintained clarity, rationality, and their own principles throughout those crazy, confusing, and chaotic years."

"It was this person who protected several orphans, including him, at the orphanage, taught them knowledge, told them about life, work, and dreams before the Crimson Moon incident, and introduced them to literature and art. These things had a profound impact on him..."

"..."

"Someone like that as a director..."

This statement caused everyone in the office to fall silent.

They all knew how difficult it was to maintain such rationality during the years following the Crimson Moon incident.

Chen Jing broke the silence. "What did the other professors find?"

"To him, his family exists!"

A balding old professor raised the pen in his hand and spoke, "I observed several minor eye movements during the examination. Based on his micro-expressions, it was as if he was looking at someone who wasn't there, even discussing something with them. Although he was subconsciously trying to conceal these actions, it's certain that he truly believes such a person exists!"

"And this ties into one of our previous speculations!"

The balding old professor twirled his pen and said to the group, "Since he has three family members, if the Spider-type ability comes from his 'sister,' we can reasonably speculate that he possesses two other abilities..."

The psychologist then gently raised her pen and added, "I also discussed this with him. I followed his line of thought and asked, if his sister can lend him one ability, can his other family members also lend him abilities?"

"And his answer was that he wasn't sure..."

"Please note, he said he wasn't sure, not that he denied it!"

"..."

The balding old professor nodded. "Perhaps for him, it's just that he can't easily use those two abilities?"

Chen Jing remained silent, nodding slightly, and made a checkmark on the file in front of her.

"Two other abilities... it sounds incredible, but it's not entirely unreasonable!"

Another researcher, wearing a wig, spoke up. "Because his mental level is indeed very high!"

"Normally, when we measure mental levels, we use the 'three-point estimation method'!"

"It's too dangerous to have these mental anomalies fully activate their abilities. Such stress tests could greatly increase their risk of losing control. That's why Professor Bai developed this testing method, which involves having them use only a portion of their psionic power as accurately as possible, and then calculating their overall psionic power index based on their performance to estimate their true mental level!"

"I prepared an apple for him at the time, but he didn't cooperate with that particular test!"

"..."

Upon hearing this, everyone in the office stopped their work and listened intently.

This researcher was responsible for the rough estimation of mental levels, but everyone knew his test had failed. Lu Xin hadn't cooperated, so how could he obtain a numerical value?

"My wig is crooked!"

Facing everyone's gaze, the researcher said solemnly, "I definitely put it on straight when I left home. I even went into the restroom after getting off the plane to adjust it specifically. Furthermore, due to my personal habits, none of you would come over and touch my wig."

"From then on, I maintained a distance of at least five meters from him."

"Yet, at a certain point, he used a method I didn't detect to move my wig!"

"If we use this to make an estimation, his mental level should be at least... over four hundred!"

He paused slightly after saying this, then added, "The four hundred I'm talking about is just the minimum, and the upper limit... it's hard to say!"

Seeing some of his colleagues looking confused, his expression became a little excited.

"Think about it..."

He vigorously rubbed his wig, revealing half of his bald head, his expression even seeming a bit fanatical. "After all, this wig is custom-made, and it's worn so tightly that you have to pull hard to move it. Yet, he could secretly tug it without me noticing..."

"This is practically harder than moving an apple..."

"With such power, does that mean he could even directly rip off my head, or just crush it?"

As he spoke, he gestured with his own head. "How strong would a psionic power have to be to splatter brains everywhere?"

"..."

The atmosphere around them became somewhat quiet.

Everyone quietly watched his excited state, silently imagining that scene.

Only Chen Jing sat in silence, sighing softly:

"If the explosion at the Crimson Moon orphanage is confirmed to be related to him, then it wouldn't just be a matter of brains splattering everywhere!"

"It might be the entire person splattering everywhere..."