Too Normal

"Normal..."

Everyone in the office looked a little strange after hearing the psychologist's analysis.

Seeing the expressions around him, the psychologist sighed and explained, "After the Crimson Moon incident, everyone moved into High Wall City. The oppressive environment and desperate life caused everyone to develop more or less some psychological problems... including me. But after talking with him for half an hour, I found that he was extremely normal."

"Normal... almost unnaturally normal!"

After a brief pause, he continued, "Because Professor Bai had already warned me, I didn't ask him in depth about the Crimson Moon Orphanage explosion. I focused instead on his childhood life at the orphanage, as well as his studies and work after leaving it. He answered all my questions very cooperatively. In the end, I even directly asked him about his family..."

At this point, he turned to Chen Jing and said, "He didn't resist the questions I raised, either. He went into detail about how he interacted with his family and the situations they were in, discussed the boundaries between fantasy and reality, and even seriously explored with me the differences between mental illness and multiple personalities, as well as the possibility that these family members truly existed..."

"To be honest, I almost felt like he was one of the students under my supervision..."

"..."

The more they listened to the psychologist, the more normal Lu Xin sounded, yet everyone in the office felt a little creeped out.

There was an indescribable strangeness to it.

"He couldn't possibly be too normal..."

After a while, someone said, "Could he have been lying?"

The psychologist shook her head. "If he had been lying, he couldn't have fooled me."

"That's precisely why it's abnormal that he wasn't lying!"

She paused briefly, then slowly exhaled. Placing the conversation record on the table, she removed her glasses and rubbed the hollows beside the bridge of her nose. "I tried to discuss as many things with him as possible. In the end, I found that aside from some vague memories, and the fact that the family he 'described' was somewhat difficult for ordinary people to accept..."

"This young man was optimistic, cheerful, positive, and kind..."

As she spoke, she gave a bitter smile. "I even wondered how someone like him could be a Mental Mutant."

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

The office fell silent for quite some time before Professor Chen, the bald man with glasses, finally said, "Just hearing you mention those words makes me feel that he's abnormal. How could a child who grew up after the Crimson Moon incident possibly be so..."

He did not finish, but everyone in the office clearly understood.

The psychologist in the white coat put her glasses back on and said, "I talked with him about this. I found that he had been deeply influenced by one person—the former director of the Crimson Moon Orphanage. From his description, it was clear that the director had remained clear-headed, rational, and true to his principles throughout those mad, bewildering, and chaotic years."

"This person protected several orphans, including him, inside the orphanage. He taught them knowledge, told them about life, work, and dreams from before the Crimson Moon incident, and introduced them to literary and artistic works. All of this had a tremendous influence on him..."

"..."

"Such a director..."

Those words left everyone in the office silent.

They all knew how difficult it had been to maintain such rationality during the years after the Crimson Moon incident...

Chen Jing broke the silence. "What about the other professors? Did they discover anything?"

"For him, his family members exist!"

A bald old professor raised the pen in his hand and spoke. "I noticed several tiny shifts in his gaze during the examination. Judging from his microexpressions, he seemed to be looking at someone who didn't exist, even discussing something with them. Although he unconsciously tried to conceal these actions, we can confirm that he truly believed such a person existed!"

"And this relates to one of our previous hypotheses!"

The bald old professor twirled the pen in his hand and said to everyone, "Since he has three family members, if the Spider-type ability came from his 'Sister,' then we can reasonably speculate that he possesses two other abilities..."

The psychologist raised her pen slightly and added, "I discussed this with him, too. Following his line of thought, if Sister could lend him one ability, then could his other family members lend him abilities as well?"

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

"Please note that he said he wasn't sure. He didn't deny it!"

"..."

The bald old professor nodded. "Perhaps, for him, it's simply impossible to use those two abilities freely?"

Chen Jing remained silent and nodded lightly, making a mark on the document before her.

"There are two other abilities. It sounds rather incredible, but it isn't unreasonable!"

Another researcher wearing a wig spoke up. "After all, his mental level is indeed extremely high!"

"Normally, we use the 'Three-point estimation method' to test mental levels!"

"After all, it's too dangerous to have these Mental Mutants use their mental abilities with all their strength. Such a stress test could very likely increase the risk of them losing control. That was why Professor Bai developed this testing method: to have them use only part of their Telekinesis as accurately as possible, then calculate a rough overall Telekinesis index from their performance and estimate their true mental level!"

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

"..."

At this, everyone in the office stopped what they were doing and listened attentively.

This researcher was responsible for evaluating rough mental-level indices, but everyone knew that his test had failed.

Lu Xin had not cooperated with him. If he had not cooperated, how could the researcher have obtained a numerical result?

"My wig was crooked!"

Under everyone's gaze, the researcher said solemnly, "I definitely put it on straight when I left. After getting off the plane just now, I even went into the restroom specifically to adjust it. Besides, because of my personal habits, none of you would come over and touch my wig."

"After that, I stayed more than five meters away from him the entire time."

"But at some point, he still used a method I didn't notice to move my wig!"

"Based on this, his mental level should be at least... over four hundred!"

At this point, he paused, then added, "The four hundred I mentioned is only the lower limit. As for the upper limit... it's hard to say!"

Seeing the confusion on his colleagues' faces, his expression grew excited.

"Think about it..."

He vigorously rubbed his wig, revealing half of his bald head. His expression even seemed a little feverish. "After all, this wig of mine is specially made. It's fastened so tightly that you have to pull hard to move it, yet he managed to tug it secretly without me noticing..."

"That's practically harder than moving an apple..."

"With that kind of power, could he even have ripped my head off directly, or crushed it?"

As he spoke, he gestured at his own head. "How powerful would the Telekinesis have to be to make brains splatter all over the ground?"

"..."

The atmosphere around them grew quiet.

Everyone silently watched his excited expression and imagined that scene.

Only Chen Jing sat there in silence and let out a soft sigh:

"If the Crimson Moon Orphanage explosion is confirmed to be related to him, then it probably wouldn't just be a matter of brains splattering all over the ground!"

"It might be the entire person splattering all over the ground..."