"I'll go, it's really..."
Following the direction Troublemaker Kid pointed, everyone saw two hostages in the grass.
Both of them were tied up like rice dumplings, with a ball of weed stuffed in their mouths, and they had already passed out.
Everyone has a bump on their forehead, and it looks like they were hit hard.
One looked about thirty years old, and the other looked to be in his sixties. One was wearing a down jacket, and the other was wearing a women's mink vest. They were just two women's vests sewn together. Even so, they couldn't cover his belly.
Judging from his body weight, he must indeed be the leader of the gathering point.
All of a sudden, everyone including Lu Xin looked at Troublemaker Kid in surprise.
Lu Xin felt a little lucky. This Troublemaker Kid seemed unreliable, but he and the Goddess had investigated so many things in such a short period of time, and even kidnapped two leaders of the armed forces. They seemed to be quite good at it!
Fortunately, I don't have the habit of showing off my leadership style as soon as I get started.
"Wake them up."
Chen Jing got ready to work immediately and said casually.
There were five people next to him, Lu Xin, Gecko, the drunkard, Troublemaker Kid, and Kid who was standing aside and waiting very obediently.
Troublemaker Kid didn't even turn around and was still playing the game seriously. Kid just stood aside as the background. So Lu Xin, Gecko, and the drunkard looked at each other. There was no doubt that they were the only three left who could work.
Thinking like this, the eyes of Lu Xin and the drunkard were focused on Gecko's face.
Gecko couldn't see the two of them alone, so he muttered, "Am I the one to do it again?"
Chen Jing also raised his head at this time, glanced at Gecko dissatisfied, and said, "What are you waiting for?"
Gecko had no choice but to step forward and muttered, "Speaking of which, in this team, my level is not low."
"Where is Deputy Captain..."
"..."
Although he talked a lot, it didn't affect his work. He lowered his head and pinched the noses of these two people, but saw no reaction from them.
Gecko When angry, he would stand up and take off his belt on the spot.
Under Chen Jing's murderous gaze, he still put down his hand that was about to untie his belt and said to the drunkard, "Uncle, please borrow some wine..."
The drunkard smiled and handed it over, "Save it, don't waste it."
Gecko agreed, unscrewed the lid and took a sip, then spit it on the two people's faces.
Seeing that they didn't seem to respond, Gecko smiled evilly and took out the lighter.
"Woooo... what's wrong?"
Fortunately, at this time, the person on the left wearing a women's mink vest woke up and opened his eyes in a daze.
After looking around, I saw that he was a gangster in the wilderness and could become the leader of a gathering point. He immediately reacted and cursed, "Where is that bastard? Where is that bastard who kicked me in the back while I was going to the toilet?"
Not far away, Troublemaker Kid, who was playing a game, picked his ears and shrugged.
"Tell me..."
Chen Jing didn't want to be polite to him. He squatted down and looked directly into his eyes. "Why did you come here?"
Because the other party is just an ordinary person, and the person who needs to be affected is an individual, Chen Jing doesn't even use simple sentences.
Just ask.
Looking at the red pupils in Chen Jing's eyes, this man with a fierce face couldn't help but feel confused and murmured:
"Why do you need to ask when you come here? Of course I am here to grab the treasure..."
"..."
Chen Jing frowned, his voice slowed down, and he whispered, "What kind of treasure is it?"
The other party didn't answer, but looked very confused. He stared blankly at Chen Jing's face, and slowly smiled:
"You are so beautiful. When I grab the treasure, I can..."
"... I'll give you a look."
"..."
"This pollution is quite deep..."
Gecko looked on from the side and murmured in a low voice, "In their fantasy, even if they find a treasure, they are only willing to show it to the team leader."
Chen Jing frowned, obviously aware of this problem.
Her voice slowed down slightly, and she whispered again, "Tell me first, who told you that there is a treasure here?"
The man's face was a little confused. After listening to Chen Jing's words, he seemed to have gone through a slight psychological struggle. However, this struggle did not last long. His face suddenly turned ferocious, and there was a heavy sound in his throat, and he shouted fiercely:
"What are you asking for? Do you want to steal my treasure?"
"I'll bite you to death..."
"..."
While yelling, he stood up so hard that he actually wanted to bite Chen Jing on the face.
With a "pop", Chen Jing clenched his fist and hit him in the face, knocking him unconscious again.
Then she frowned and stood up, saying, "A defensive psychological mechanism was set up."
"In his eyes, this 'treasure' is the most precious thing in the world."
"No matter who it is, and no matter what method is used, as long as they want to inquire about the secrets in this area, they will arouse his strong hostility."
"With my abilities, I can forcibly break through this psychological mechanism. However, he is an ordinary person after all, and his will is too fragile. When I forcibly break through this psychological mechanism of his, it is very likely to cause his sanity to collapse prematurely, but I still can't ask."
"..."
"This at least shows that he is indeed affected by the ability user. Troublemaker Kid's guess is reliable. When he just became excited, I can indeed feel that the fluctuations in his mental power are becoming intense and even tending to radiate outward."
"This shows that someone implanted a strong spiritual power in his heart."
"This kind of spiritual power is using his body to affect other people..."
"If it weren't for the fact that we are all ability users, we might have been influenced by him and become part of the pursuit of treasures."
"..."
"Tsk tsk..."
Gecko couldn't help but interjected. "The staff investigating the treasure incident also joined the pursuit of the treasure, which is quite touching..."
"Haha."
The drunkard smiled kindly and said to Chen Jing, "Can you see what kind of influence he has received?"
Chen Jing shook his head and said, "I can't see it."
As he said that, he glanced at Lu Xin.
Lu Xin understood what Chen Jing meant, and shook his head, saying, "There is no Mental Monster in him."
After studying Seven Steps Theory, Lu Xin now understands some of the previously doubtful issues.
In fact, whether a person has been affected by Mental Pollution can be verified from many aspects.
Perception, emotion, desire, knowledge, instinct, memory, self.
All the influence of ability users or the pollution of Pollution Source are nothing more than acting from these seven directions.
The more obvious it is, the easier it is to find.
When some people are contaminated, their strange emotions and behaviors can be seen at a glance.
But there are also some deep-seated influences that we can only make judgments about but cannot accurately find out.
I saw the same difference in Mental Monster's ability.
If he is controlled and attached to a certain Mental Monster, then he can see it at a glance.
But if Mental Monster is hidden in his memory, or the impact on him is just a distortion of his inner desires or emotions, then he can't tell it. After all, whether it is distorted or not, it is his own idea.
"The problem now is not complicated, but it is troublesome."
Chen Jing glanced down the mountain and could see far away in the direction of Happy Town. There were dark figures gathering together, shrouded in a light white mist, giving people the feeling of a busy ant colony. He whispered, "No matter what Technological Church's idea is, the presence of so many people around Happy Town will have an impact on our mission."
"Conflicts and battles between ability users will be very troublesome once ordinary people are involved."
"..."
Lu Xin understands what Chen Jing means.
When the Beginning was recruited by the Special Purity Department, there was this passage in the code:
When cleaning up special contamination, crowds should be avoided as much as possible.
First, it is too easy to hurt innocent people, and second, the crowd can easily cause great variables to the cleanup.
Now facing Technological Church, this is even more true.
Don't talk about anything else, just talk about the kind of spiritual bomb that Qin Ran and the others detonated in Qinggang Satellite City No. 2, which relies on absorbing the spiritual power of the people around them as the magnitude of the explosion. If such a bomb is detonated in an empty and uninhabited place, the effect will be minimal.
But if it explodes in a crowd, it will instantly produce a huge amount of lethality.
Now looking at Chen Jing frowning and thinking, Lu Xin also considered whether to help.
He actually wanted to tell Chen Jing that he was quite good at interrogation.
But it doesn't seem right to expose this in front of colleagues.
"Whoever they are, why don't you just rush over to them?"
Gecko interjected. "No matter how you say these three plans, which one is the most important, right?"
"And with the abilities of us people, they shouldn't be able to stop us."
"..."
"It's not that simple."
Chen Jing rubbed the center of his eyebrows and said, "Be careful when dealing with Mental Pollution. Technological Church started the layout very early, laid out such a large area, and attracted almost all the surrounding gathering point armed forces here. They must have their intentions."
"If we ignore these people and directly enter Happy Town, it seems that we will save trouble."
"But in the end, it is very likely that we will fall into the siege of our opponents and face more unnecessary troubles."
"..."
Gecko glanced at Lu Xin secretly and said, "Are we still worried about trouble?"
"But we can't play with the lives of people in these gathering points..."
Chen Jing turned his head, glanced down the mountain, and said in a deep voice:
"According to Technological Church's habits, it must be very dangerous for these people to stay around the S-level restricted area."
"Even if we have two S-level ability users on guard and are not afraid of this danger, the people in these gathering points may be seriously contaminated at any time, or even die. They may not be good birds, but they are all human beings, contaminated people."
"Our Special Purity Department responsibility is to clean up the pollution and save as many people as possible. This must never be forgotten."
"..."
When she said these words, she turned her head and glanced at Gecko.
Gecko immediately shrank his neck to avoid it, but he quickly realized it. Chen Jing seemed to be not just scolding him this time, but actually hinting at something to him. Looking around, he immediately reacted, feeling slightly startled.
Or because of Lu Xin and Kid.
The stronger the ability is, the more unstable it is and the easier it is to lose control.
Special Purity Department has been paying attention to this since he recruited Lu Xin.
At the beginning of the cleanup task, because they were worried that certain actions would have a bad impact on Lu Xin during the cleanup process, even a secondary Pollution Source who appeared in the image of a little girl, they did not dare to let Lu Xin directly kill to clean up.
Now that we have known each other for a long time, Lu Xin's performance has always been very stable, and he gradually feels relieved, but he ignores this problem.
These armed forces below are all living people!
If we really need to fight them head-on, even if we can win, how many deaths will we have to face, or even send them to death with our own hands?
Murder has always been a particularly serious emotional impact on oneself.
Not everyone can kill people like crazy but still maintain a sane mind. Many veterans on the battlefield will have a psychological breakdown.
For people with abilities, psychological collapse is a loss of control.
After pondering for a moment, Chen Jing discussed with the drunkard. "There is no other way now. I can only take the risk and take a look. The most important thing is to find the general Pollution Source who affects the armed forces of these gathering points and disperse these people."
"There are too many people down there, and they all have strong firepower. It may be dangerous, but we..."
"..."
Lu Xin didn't take into account Chen Jing's worries at this time. He just listened to Chen Jing's discussion with the drunkard and had some different opinions.
After all, this mission seems to be led by myself, so I can't be lazy all the time.
So after thinking for a while, he raised his head and smiled at Chen Jing, "This investigation is not an option."
"I have a better idea..."
"..."
Chen Jing was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Lu Xin and asked, "What?"
Others were also a little surprised and looked at Lu Xin.
Lu Xin's face was sincere and serious, and he said, "No matter what influence they were under, they were all lured here by Technological Church. We don't know what Technological Church arranged for them to do here, and we don't need to know. We only know that they gathered here because they were affected by a kind of fanaticism. They may even be waiting for us to investigate."
"In that case, why should we go there to investigate?"
"Of course you have to find the right way to do your job."
"The team leader said before that the best way to combat large-scale pollution is to cover it with another kind of pollution, right?"
"..."
Chen Jing listened to his words, suddenly worried, and said hurriedly, "What do you want to do?"
"It's not me..."
Lu Xin stepped aside, allowing everyone to see Kid waiting obediently next to him.
Then he slowly said with a smile, "How long has it been since you saw her completely letting go of her influence?"
Old Ghost had a toothache before, so I didn't pay much attention to the data. It wasn't until someone told me that I knew I had another silver alliance. Thank you so much, boss [mustlin]. To express my gratitude, I must add more updates.
I'll add one update today, and there will be two updates left, so I'll make them up as soon as possible.