I remembered something the Seventh Master had told me.
There was a form of hypnosis called Implantation Hypnosis.
Once someone entered a hypnotic state, a false memory was implanted in their mind. After waking up, they would mistakenly believe that memory had actually happened.
The principle exploited the human subconscious.
When someone entered a hypnotic state, their conscious mind became less active, while their subconscious became far more active.
Things or people that someone needed to recall were actually stored in their subconscious.
Sometimes people could recall the memories hidden in their subconscious, and sometimes they couldn't. The purpose of hypnosis was to help them recall those things.
Implanting false memories meant forcibly inserting artificially manipulated information into the subconscious.
When Qingyuan had hypnotized Brother Liu before, this was the method he had used.
This form of hypnosis also had another manifestation: Awakening Hypnosis, also called Command Hypnosis.
With this kind of hypnosis, a delayed thought or idea was implanted in someone's mind after they entered a hypnotic state.
After they woke up, encountering the corresponding trigger the hypnotist had implanted would activate that thought.
I hypothesized that Hua Wenfeng had been hypnotized, and someone had implanted the thought of "inducing people born on Lunar April 15 to commit suicide."
And when would that thought activate in Hua Wenfeng's mind?
It would activate automatically when he was about to induce someone to commit suicide.
That was why he only induced people born on Lunar April 15 to commit suicide, and why, when I asked him, he had no idea why he wanted to induce people born on that day to kill themselves.
Because the thought wasn't his own at all. Someone else had implanted it in him, and he was merely carrying out a command.
And that command came from