"Regardless, if he really could tug at your wig without you noticing at all, that would not only mean that his mental magnitude was extremely powerful, but also that he had very strong control over the precise use of Telekinesis. This..."
"His mental magnitude is really high. It must be over four hundred, and it might even..."
At a previous meeting of the Guard Department, when someone reasonably guessed that Lu Xin's mental magnitude was above three hundred, the response had been a chorus of astonishment. But now, in this office, more than half the people looked excited.
"Why do I feel like he might even exceed five hundred?"
"However you look at it, that's extraordinarily high. With such an initial mental magnitude, wouldn't one or two more enhancements..."
"Possibly let him enter the second stage directly?"
"..."
"..."
Amid the astonishment around her, Chen Jing silently recorded it in the file, then looked up and asked, "What about the others?"
Hearing her question, the other professors also expressed their opinions one after another.
Some praised Lu Xin's talent.
Some affirmed the stability with which he used his abilities.
Others expressed a certain degree of regret over his refusal to use firearms.
Finally, everyone turned their eyes toward a dignified middle-aged woman with permed hair.
Throughout the examination, she had not participated at all. She had not even approached Lu Xin.
In terms of temperament, she was also somewhat different from the other professors and researchers.
Those professors were all somewhat fanatical, while she seemed relatively calm...
"I conduct research on Crimson Moon mysticism!"
When she saw everyone's eyes turn toward her, she spoke softly. "Actually, my main purpose in coming here this time was to confirm one fact. Both Doctor Zhou Qin's conversations with him and Professor Chen's observations showed that there really was an invisible 'family member' by his side. To some extent, this did resemble multiple personality disorder."
After a slight pause, she said, "And my purpose in coming here was to determine what if this isn't dissociative identity disorder?"
"What if he really has several invisible mental entities beside him, and they can grant him abilities?"
"..."
These words left the other professors and researchers slightly stunned.
As researchers who believed in facts and data, they more or less felt that they were not on the same path as this woman.
She seemed more like a witch than a scientific researcher!
At this point, the female professor who called herself a Crimson Moon mysticism researcher shifted slightly and took a small black box-shaped instrument from her person, placing it on the table. Its sensitivity reading had already been adjusted to the maximum.
The female professor said, "So I have been conducting tests all along, trying to determine whether there is another mental entity beside him."
"I placed ten instruments like this here, at different angles and in different positions."
"Unfortunately, even using the most advanced detector manufactured by the Eclipse Research Institute at its most sensitive setting, I still failed to capture any mental-force fluctuations that did not match his personal movements. In theory, if there were another mental entity beside him, then no matter how synchronized it was with his movements, we should still have observed some discordant traces..."
"Besides, he himself once said that his 'family members' were not especially obedient!"
"..."
At this point, she sounded slightly regretful. "So I can only admit that those family members were products of his imagination!"
The surrounding group of professors all breathed sighs of relief.
But the curly-haired woman continued, "Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that the instruments aren't sensitive enough..."
As she spoke, she lightly licked her lips. Her eyes shone faintly, and she seemed to grow younger all over.
"If we could open up his brain..."
"..."
The expressions of the other professors turned strange again.
Professor Chen knocked on the table and said, "There's one more issue: the Dream Maker's death..."
As he spoke, he looked toward the psychologist.
The psychologist shook her head slightly. "This is one of the questions Professor Bai said must not be asked directly. But I made arrangements as well. On the wall behind me, in a place Lu Xin could see when he raised his head, I put up a photograph of that Dream Maker. If he had ever seen the Dream Maker, he would certainly have shown an appropriate reaction. But he acted extremely unfamiliar with the Dream Maker."
"..."
"So, what we can determine now is..."
The balding professor surnamed Chen gave his final summary: "He has tremendous potential, sound values, and clear thinking. As for his split personalities... he understands them quite clearly too?"
Everyone around the table nodded in agreement.
"At the same time, this also proves that he is dangerous to some extent?"
"Of course. Definitely dangerous..."
Professor Chen turned his head and looked toward Chen Jing.
During their discussion, Chen Jing had recorded every one of their statements. Now, seeing everyone looking at her, she closed the file and subconsciously spun the black ballpoint pen in her hand. After considering for a moment, she said:
"That leaves the most important question. What do you professors think about guiding him?"
The professors exchanged glances. Professor Chen was the first to raise his hand. "I agree!"
Seeing this, the others also raised their hands to vote. "Agree!"
"Agree!"
"Undecided!"
"With potential this good, of course we should guide him!"
"Strongly agree!"
The last person to raise her hand was the female Occult Expert. She slowly raised her hand, then calmly said:
"Additionally, I recommend assigning him more missions, so that we can obtain the relevant data!"
Her words immediately triggered another chorus of "Agree" and "Support."
"This..."
The initial result left Chen Jing hesitant for a moment.
Actually, based on what she knew of Lu Xin, she had been quite confident that the six professors would recommend guiding him this time. What she had not expected was that the six professors' opinions would be so extraordinarily unified. The only person who had said "undecided" had done so because they needed time to analyze Lu Xin's blood sample and therefore could not give him a final answer immediately.
Moreover, according to Qinggang City's regulations, once three of the six professors gave affirmative opinions, the result was already decided.
That was because the seventh professor was Professor Bai, and he had agreed from the beginning.
"Little Chen Jing, do you know why we support guiding him even though we know there are many strange things about him?"
As if he had seen Chen Jing's confusion, the professor surnamed Chen smiled and said, "Most of us have experienced the initial panic of the Crimson Moon incident, the confusion during the reconstruction of civilization, and the helplessness when Mental Pollution incidents first appeared. So we gradually came to understand that when facing those distorted and bizarre things, hiding and avoiding them is useless!"
"Face the difficulties, figure them out, and then make use of them. That is the true solution!"
"And this young man has a good nature and tremendous potential, yet he also happens to have certain states we can't explain..."
"Tell me, who could be more suitable for our research than him?"
"..."
"Uh..."
Chen Jing suddenly understood. Looking at the professors who had barely any hair on their heads—and even the two female Occult Experts and the psychologist, whose expressions held anticipation and even concealed fanaticism—she felt somewhat helpless.
"No wonder even Mental Mutants like to call them monsters..."
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