Speculations on the Principles Behind Ancient Pharaoh Curses. "The Pharaoh Country's aftereffects have arrived."
"Someone died?"
"Not yet, but their symptoms are getting worse and worse."
"Oh?"
"That guy whose head was bitten off by the black panther has headaches day and night now. Painkillers and even morphine are useless."
"The one whose body was drilled into by scarabs is itching all over. He's been restrained head to toe now, because he'll scratch himself until he's a bloody mess."
"And those several people the mummy strangled to death with its burial wrappings can only stay alive through pumped-in oxygen now, because their tracheas are narrowing and are about to stop functioning."
"Tut, tut. I didn't expect this Heart Nightmare Curse to be so powerful."
At that moment, Lu Zheng was lying on the living room sofa watching television. Lin Wan sat beside him, telling him the news she had gotten from the International Criminal Police intranet.
"According to the conclusions drawn from the examinations, these symptoms were actually all caused by self-imposed psychological suggestion," Lin Wan said. "Even those whose tracheas are narrowing are suffering from endocrine disorders, and those endocrine disorders are also related to mental illness."
"So modern instruments really can't detect curse spells." Lu Zheng said solemnly, "They can only detect the results, but can't find the cause of the endocrine disorders."
"But that makes it even more suspicious. Many people have practically confirmed that the curse is real." Lin Wan spread her hands.
"No one suspects hypnosis? That's also a kind of psychological suggestion," Lu Zheng asked.
"Of course, some people suspect that, but curses and hypnosis aren't mutually exclusive, are they?"
Lin Wan said, "Some people suspect that the ancient pharaohs' curse was actually a kind of hypnotic curse. It makes people develop psychological suggestions,