Thought Control

30 minutes later.

Qin Yiguan finally entered the clock-shaped building.

I knocked gently on the door, and it opened automatically.

The interior was surprisingly a complete space, with all the facilities in a creamy white color, creating a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere.

Looking outwards from the inside, the clock face is a complete glass window, a full 10 meters high, through which warm sunlight streams into the room, making it very bright.

The view outside the window is also unobstructed.

Dr. House sat behind his white desk, legs crossed, smiling at the boy.

The sexy You Minglan also stood beside Dr. House.

At this moment, a primal desire crept into the way You Minglan looked at Qin Yiguan.

How did you get up the hillside?

"Dr. House asked with a smile."

I guess...

"Everyone who enters this hill will fall under your hypnosis."

Qin Yiguan pointed to the shadow cast by the second hand on the ground, "Our actions one second are normal, but the next second they are reversed. That is to say, if I am taking a step one second and taking a step back the next, we will never be able to climb up."

"Your hypnosis skills are incredibly powerful."

"It can be released or recalled in seconds."

The boy smiled. "And I used the dumbest method: using this giant clock as a reference point, I took a step every second, and then I climbed up."

Dr. House nodded in agreement, then looked at Officer Wang behind Qin Yiguan, "This man seems to be a newly appointed high-ranking official in the police station? You carried him all the way here so that he could come with you?"

Qin Yiguan nodded, then put Officer Wang on the ground. "Officer Wang helped me when I was very young; I owe him."

"Knew."

"I'll take care of it for you."

Dr. House smiled and looked at Officer Wang's face. "He has some extra thoughts in his mind, and they're like metal barbs, tightly hanging on his consciousness. He can't distinguish which thought is his own and which was implanted by someone else. This technique is like hypnosis, but more advanced."

After a pause, Dr. House continued, "This is Lu Zun's ' Absolute Hit,' and the projectile is precisely a carefully crafted idea."

Qin Yiguan's expression shifted. "You know about this ability? Then do you know what Lu Zun is doing?"

Dr. House pondered, "He's brewing a big plan, but the details are unknown. Judging from his past behavior, it's definitely not going to be anything good."

Qin Yiguan tentatively asked, "You don't intend to step in and stop it?"

"If we can't beat them, going there would just be suicide."

Dr. House shrugged. "Unless someone else is willing to lend a hand, like that guy ranked fifth—the two of us working together might be enough... but that guy is elusive and definitely wouldn't be interested in this kind of thing."

Who's 'that guy' who's ranked fifth?

Join forces?

Qin Yiguan pondered briefly.

The fact that Dr. House could make such a description indicates that Dr. House himself is ranked very high. As for that 'ranking,' it probably doesn't mean anything else but is likely a ranking of the Experimental Zone's Fusion Rate!

House is ostensibly a psychologist, but in reality, he's a top-tier tycoon.

This idea was already a tacit agreement in Qin Yiguan's mind.

There was a moment of silence.

Qin Yiguan suddenly asked, "Dr. House, can you tell if... I've had a mind implanted in me?"

For some reason, Dr. House froze for a moment, then stared at Qin Yiguan for a long time before slowly saying, "I'm sorry, I can't tell."

The boy also fell silent for a moment.

After a moment, Qin Yiguan continued, "If someone is severely injured in the Metaverse and becomes mentally impaired upon returning to reality, and I can find their memories of the battle, then... do you have a way to 'return' their memories to them and restore them to normal?"

"Theoretically feasible."

Dr. House shook his head. "But I can only hypnotize people, not manipulate their memories, especially their lost memories."

Qin Yiguan remained silent.

Officer Wang was left at Dr. House's clinic, Dr. House promised that Officer Wang would soon recover and Qin Yiguan not to worry.

Down the hillside.

A strong man is pacing in place.

"Hey young man, I'm also going to see Dr. House for treatment, but his fees are too high—either a huge sum of money or it'll cost you your life!"

Qin Yiguan was stunned. "Is this a death sentence?"

The burly man said, "Sometimes, Dr. House will ask patients to do something for him, but often, that thing can be fatal! Young man, how did you get Dr. House to examine you?"

Qin Yiguan paused for a moment, then said, "I didn't have any special methods; I just asked, Dr. House agreed."

Then he walked down the hillside on his own.

The burly man was still shouting, "How did you manage to climb this hill?! Please teach me!"

The boy shook his head.

Dr. House probably set up these barriers because he was unwilling to treat those who were incompetent.

On the way, Qin Yiguan still needed to take a step every second.

The reason he was able to decipher the mystery of the hillside so quickly was...

It was because I was reminded of the clock in Jiaolong's shop, which moved forward three seconds and backward one second.

Although he didn't know the reason, Qin Yiguan understood the mystery of this time.

God's Abandoned a news broadcast.

Metaverse the Memory Archives near 053 High School, on Core Earth the metaverse, a mysterious explosion occurred, destroying everything.

Investigators say the explosion originated from beneath the Memory Archives.

The inventor of the 'memory storage' technology, the old man Zhong Yi, was seen on camera leaning on a cane, trembling and sobbing uncontrollably.

He said he had no idea that the memory archive had an underground floor, nor did he know why the explosion had occurred there. He was deeply saddened by the loss of so much of his hard work.

Qin Yiguan shook his head. The werewolf must have sent back a message that the memory archive had been exposed, and Lu Zun would definitely destroy the evidence.

He wasn't afraid; there were many more such memory archives, enough for him to use.

But there's no need to investigate further, as the content is bound to be similar.

only...

The boy never looked into Qin Shenhu's memories.

He didn't really want to reminisce about the past.

The Experimental Zone in the distance.

The Leviathan Rift has expanded in all directions, with a total length approaching 8,000 kilometers.

However, Lu Zun deployed a large number of engineering robots to completely cover it with a metal covering that resembled a tunnel.

He took out nine small dolls from his pocket.

Eight are jet black, and one is pure white.

The next moment, he crushed dolls number 7, 8, and 4.

His brows furrowed immediately, and a surge of anger appeared in his eyes.

"Qin Yiguan, I was too lenient with you before."

"My original intention was to make you a stepping stone for Jiu Zhengxuan, but you've lived far too long!"

The next moment.

A scene appeared on the virtual screen beside it.

That was a perspective, the person in the perspective standing behind a huge glass window, in front of which a huge black second hand was passing by inch by inch.

He looked down at the hillside below, where the boy in black was slowly disappearing into the distance.

This is the perspective, taken from Officer Wang's shoulder.

After the boy left, his face remained blank, but his personal AI slowly rose up, revealing a visual detector that glowed red, unlike those of others.

"You little devil, I threw my thoughts at you, and it backfired on me."

Lu Zun stared at the virtual screen, his face gloomy. He slowly unbuttoned his Zhongshan suit, revealing a huge scar on his chest, as if a dagger had pierced through and then cut horizontally.

But the wound seemed to be a remnant from many years ago, and had long since healed.

Lu Zun gritted his teeth, "It's time to end this. Even if it costs me, I can't afford to get entangled with a nobody like you!"

immediately.

Lu Zun softly recited, "Qin Yiguan... Come, walk north, keep walking until you find a vast abyss called Leviathan... I will open the gate for you; that is your final destination, in your heart, that is your mother's embrace. Without any complicated thoughts, you jumped straight in! You must do it!"

In that instant.

A faint blue code appeared in Lu Zun's head, then suddenly accelerated, traversed hundreds of thousands of miles, and entered Qin Yiguan's mind!

The young man in black, who was walking, paused slightly and looked north!