Starting from the Red Moon
Chapter 64

Mental Modification

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Soon, two support team members wearing heavy protective clothing and wearing a mask connected to three or four special plastic pipes brought over a transparent glass box. In that box, there was a human head-shaped object.

Lu Xin glanced over and saw that it was the man he had seen before.

His face was covered with beards and he looked very ordinary, and there was even an expression of shock on his face.

The cross-section of the neck was jagged stubble of flesh, which looked like it had been pulled out.

In a way, it's like a broken stake.

Looking at this head, Lu Xin suddenly felt a little horrified.

He didn't know whether it was his slow reaction or something else. He had seen the headless corpse suddenly come to life, climb over the wall, and ride on a motorcycle to run wildly. He didn't think there was anything weird. After Chen Jing came over, he kept talking to her about the strange man he met. He didn't care about being surprised. It wasn't until he saw the head in the glass box that he realized it.

"You can still run without your head, it's so scary..."

Chen Jing glanced at him and said, "From a time perspective, your reaction is too slow!"

"This..."

Lu Xin could only continue to look at the head and said, "This is very unreasonable. Although I didn't study much, I went to school and my grades were pretty good at the time... Human consciousness and thinking come from the head. All actions and reactions of the entire body are also connections and feedback with the brain. How did he... since he didn't even have a head, how did he continue to escape?"

Chen Jing glanced at his somewhat dull face, as if trying to find the matching surprise and panic.

There are, but really not many.

So she turned her head, continued to look into the glass box, and suddenly said, "Do the three basic tests!"

The two support team members nodded, one held the box, and the other took out a finger-long laser pointer and flashed it twice in the direction of the head's eyes, but the laser shone on his gray eyes and there was no reaction.

Then, he put away the laser pointer, took out a small metal hammer, and tapped on the outside of the box.

The reverberation of the metal collision dispersed, passed through the box, and reached the head's ears, but there was still no response.

The two support team members looked at each other, then opened the glass cover, turned around, and faced the direction of Chen Jing.

Chen Jing stared at the head and whispered, "You should blink!"

Her voice seemed a little different from usual, with a strange deepness.

The sound seemed much thicker and more penetrating.

As if talking to a person, persuading the head to blink.

Immediately afterwards, a scene appeared that made Lu Xin a little creepy.

The seemingly lifeless head suddenly trembled, and the eyelids squirmed as if they wanted to open.

However, in the end, due to lack of strength, he only opened it slightly and then stopped moving.

"She can actually communicate with a head?"

Lu Xin was already looking at Chen Jing with a strange look.

"You should tell me, who are you?"

Chen Jing ignored Lu Xin's eyes and just continued to ask in the same tone as before.

Lu Xin glanced at Chen Jing subconsciously, and saw that her pupils had turned red at some point.

Even I, listening to her words, had a vague urge to tell her who I was, who my sister was, who Mom was, who my father was, where my home address was, etc., but this was just a thought, and it disappeared after a while.

Chen Jing naturally didn't care about others at this time. When she said these words, she kept looking at the box carefully. This was just a head and could not make a sound, so she tried to tell something through the squirming shape of the head's lips.

Unfortunately, the movement of this head was minimal. It only trembled and then stopped moving.

"Failed!"

Chen Jing seemed unmoved. This reaction was what she had expected.

She raised her hand to put her sunglasses back on the bridge of her nose, and then said to the support team staff, "Cut it open!"

The two members of the support team were not surprised. When they squatted down, one placed the glass box on the ground and assembled a set of four lamps that could provide three-dimensional lighting without shadows within a certain range.

The other one took out a complete set of surgical equipment from his bag.

There are saws, knives, pliers, hooks, spoons, pregnancy test paper...

Lu Xin suddenly felt a little weird. "Why does this support team seem to have everything?"

In his surprise, saws, scalpels, pliers and hooks all came into action, and a corner of his head had been opened.

Through the light source, Lu Xin can see what's underneath the skull.

It was grey, somewhat shriveled, and had a lifeless air, like moldy jelly.

One of the support team members also poked lightly with his finger wearing an iron fiberglass glove.

There is no flexibility at all.

Lu Xin was suddenly a little surprised. "Is this Pollution Source?"

Although he did not go to college at Main City, he also knew that a normal person's brain would never become like this.

"This is a spiritually transformed person!"

Chen Jing calmly answered Lu Xin: "I told you before that there are many systems for ability users. Spider-type's ability is the easiest to understand, because it affects more of oneself. But there are also many different ability systems that can affect others. A person who has lost his head should really stop acting, but in some special circumstances, it doesn't matter."

As she spoke, she looked at Lu Xin and said, "Have you ever seen a puppet?"

Lu Xin faced this question and had no choice but to nod.

Chen Jing said, "If a person loses his head, he can no longer act, but if a puppet loses his head, will there be any impact?"

Lu Xin listened, looking a little surprised. "Do you still have such ability?"

Although he has started training now, he has only been exposed to knowledge such as Pollution Source, and has not yet fully come into contact with ability users of various different systems. Therefore, the surprising performance he showed at this time is really surprising.

"Of course!"

Regarding Lu Xin's answer, Chen Jing said calmly, "My ability is somewhat similar to this."

"It's just that this one is more exaggerated. He transformed people into a tool that can be controlled through the mind. If my guess is correct, this should be the work of a Puppet-type ability user, and this ability user should be quite powerful!"

Puppet-type...

Lu Xin felt a strange feeling in his heart.

A living person who looks like he can laugh and talk is actually just a puppet...

... He suddenly felt that this world was so crazy.

"Depending on the direction of the mutation, there are many systems of abilities."

Seemingly seeing what Lu Xin was thinking, Chen Jing frowned and said, "As time goes by, new abilities are being discovered all the time. According to the latest report released by the alliance Research Institute, there are currently nine known ability systems, and puppets are one of them. Even you, there are professors over at Main City who have raised doubts, that is, the bald one..."

"He suspects that you do not belong to Spider-type, but a type of ability discovered for the first time."

"He also suggested changing the ability category on your file to He Jia Huan..."

"..."

Lu Xin didn't know what to say, and the professors were all bald, so he didn't know which one Chen Jing was talking about.

Looking at his expression, Chen Jing said expressionlessly, "Don't worry, it has been rejected."

Lu Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, send the evidence to Research Institute for further exploration to see if we can find more valuable clues."

"Come with me!"

Chen Jing said something to the two support team members, and then took Lu Xin to the jeep on the side. She didn't know who drove this car. She got directly into the car, sat in the driving position, the key in the car was still there, and started the ignition.

"No matter what, this incident must be taken seriously."

"The disaster that Technological Church brought to Satellite City No. 4 four years ago cannot be repeated again..."

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