"Impossible... absolutely impossible!"
Master Wang rushed to the one-way glass in a daze, pressing both hands hard against its cold surface as though he wanted to reach through it to confirm something.
He stared fixedly at "Stone Buddha," whose expression was as vacant as a puppet's inside the interrogation room, muttering the same disjointed words over and over.
"His mind was stripped away in an instant... his will was utterly destroyed... this isn't Hypnosis! Hypnosis works through guidance and suggestion. How could it achieve this level of... annihilation!"
Professor Zhang, a towering authority in psychology, was hardly faring any better.
He barely managed to steady himself against the edge of the table rather than collapse to the floor. As he watched the young man holding a cat behind the glass, the last trace of scholarly scrutiny in his eyes shattered completely, leaving only the bewilderment and awe of a mortal gazing upon a god.
Amid an atmosphere so suffocating that no one could think straight, Chen Lin's slightly impatient voice came clearly through the microphone.
"What are you standing around for?"
"Aren't you going to interrogate him?"
"My time is valuable."
His voice struck like a thunderclap, instantly jolting everyone frozen in the monitoring room awake.
Jin Yuansheng reacted first. He pinched his thigh hard, and the sharp pain confirmed that the surreal scene before him was no absurd dream.
He snatched the microphone from in front of the interrogator. His voice trembled violently with excitement, even cracking.
"St... start the interrogation! Now! Ask... ask the key questions!"
The interrogator was also in a profound daze. Upon hearing the order, he began asking questions mechanically, relying almost entirely on professional instincts ingrained in his bones.
"Name, affiliation, mission!"
In the interrogation chair, the man codenamed "Stone Buddha" answered every question