"Sir, borrow a fire."
A feeble voice came from overhead, the light was dim, Lin Chen looked at the leather boots stepping on the ground, took out a box of matches from his pocket, and handed it up.
"You don't smoke, do you?"
Xing Conglian's voice sounded a little surprised, so the borrowing fire just now was more like a joke or teasing.
"The match from the hotel, I took it when I went out."
"Why do you go out with a match?"
"Just do it."
"I thought it was specially given to me." Xing Conglian mumbled casually and sat down on the steps beside him, "I don't know, can I light it..."
After finishing speaking, the man swiped the match to the phosphor bar on the side, and with a stab, the flames and the green smoke floated together.
"Can I still count as a transfer?" Xing Conglian asked him, staring at the flames.
"Your luck has always been too good." With a warm atmosphere around him, Lin Chen said almost helplessly.
"Eh?"
"Thanks to the heavy rain, the students were hesitant when they rushed out of the classroom, so they just bought some time." Lin Chen thought about it and asked, "What did you find on the stairs?"
"You really didn't sneak to the scene?" Xing Conglian turned his head slightly and asked in a suspicious tone.
"No, I have always listened to the leader's words." Lin Chen replied.
"Tsk..." At the last moment of the match, Xing Conglian finally lit his cigarette. He took a deep breath of tobacco and spoke slowly, "Plastic beads, glass, tacks..."
There was not much emotion in Xing Conglian's voice. At this time, the sound of rain was so small that it was almost inaudible.
"That's what it should be."
Lin Chen didn't feel any surprise at all. If he incited students to riot and wanted to create a stampede accident, then sprinkle some gadgets on the stairs, it would be a perfect choice. The unstoppable emergencies over the past few days have completely stretched their nerves to the limit. After they suddenly relaxed, they didn't even have the strength to be afraid, and they were only full of fatigue.
This state is not good, and the time is tight, and even breathing time has become a luxury. Even so, he did not continue talking, but quietly waited for Xing Conglian to finish smoking a cigarette.
"Tell me, what is collective unconsciousness?" Xing Cong put out the cigarette butts and turned to look at him.
"Why do you have such a good memory?" Lin Chen looked at the pitch-black night sky, there was no half a ray of starlight there, it was extremely dark, but it seemed more vast and far-reaching. If the ground wasn't too wet, he almost wanted to lie down on the steps.
"I remember a lot of what you said."
Xing Conglian's tone was too natural, Lin Chen smiled lowly, and simply lay down on the steps, he rested his head with his hands, and said, "For example, under normal circumstances, students would resist the school's arrangements, Yelling loudly and wanting to rush out of the classroom while the chaos is happening?"
"of course not."
"Then have you ever thought about what caused them to suddenly become like that?"
"Isn't it because it was dark, and someone deliberately incited them to take advantage of the chaos?"
"In fact, fans of rock concerts during the day will also riot, and fans are prone to riots after the team loses. This has nothing to do with time, environment, or place, but only about people. Let's explore in depth. , the question becomes this - why do humans become so easily provoked by little things into extreme actions?"
"Consultant Lin~" Xing Conglian said, and lay down suddenly, his voice rose a little, and he sounded very lazy, "Don't ask questions, you say, I'm listening."
"It's a matter of mass psychology, and we often find that in a crowded group, people dare to do a lot of things that they wouldn't do when they were alone. There is no sense of law...because at that time, they lost their ego..."
After Lin Chen finished speaking, he paused deliberately, waiting for Xing Conglian to follow his words.
But this time, the situation was not the same as before. Beside him, Xing Conglian breathed evenly, his eyes closed lightly, as if he had fallen asleep.
The night was quiet, and the rain stopped unknowingly.
Lin Chen had the illusion of being used as a hypnotic device, he raised his eyebrows, sat up, put his hands on his lap, turned his head, quietly looked at Xing Conglian, and said slowly, "If you didn't fall asleep, you probably would. Said, um, losing oneself, this seems to be somewhat similar to Wang Shishi, Xu Haozhen, Jiang Liu..."
"Actually, the fact is, collective unconsciousness is a very scary and real psychological phenomenon. Usually, people are rational and know how to think, but once rational human beings enter a group, their Personality will be quickly disintegrated, reason and self-control will be gone, and the natural impulses of people will be released. Most of the tragedies of genocide stem from this. If you have to find a term related to hypnosis, this is group sex Hypnotized."
"So, how similar is Wang Shishi's suicide to what happened tonight?"
Suddenly, Lin Chen saw Xing Conglian slightly moved his lips and said in a low voice.
His voice was very deep, like a plucked cello string, plucking through the night.
Lin Chen's heart trembled, for no reason at all, he felt like he was caught doing something bad, he rubbed his forehead, and then said, "Tragedies like this are largely similar, because people have habit of thinking, even criminals. , will repeatedly choose the same method to commit crimes. In fact, we should really be thankful that we have resisted this wave, and we also got a lot of clues... "
"Wang Shishi and the others are in a certain group. That group is controlled by others, so that all the students in the group have lost their ego?" Xing Conglian concluded.
"Sounds like a fantasy novel, doesn't it?" Lin Chen said, stood up from the steps, and continued: "If this is a group of students violence against another group of students, it's like the violence of a foreign fraternity or sorority, then it's very It's easy to see that this is an atrocity caused by the collective unconscious, but they chose to commit suicide, which can only mean..."
"Um?"
"The beliefs and cohesion of their group are far beyond our imagination, and we don't know anything about those things."
"It's a horror novel."
Xing Conglian seriously corrected him.
Lin Chen sighed, stood up from the steps, and asked, "Are you really not going to sleep for a while?"
"Didn't you sleep too?" Xing Cong Lian Lai on the steps and asked back with a smile.
"But you've overworked your brain today."
"Consultant Lin, are you feeling bad for me?"
In the dark, the surroundings were silent without any sound.
Xing Conglian was soaked all over, and the lights in the corridor only covered him with a thin layer, so light that Lin Chen could hardly see his face, but his voice and breath were too clear.
"Yes." Lin Chen answered seriously.
"Hey, I also feel sorry for Consultant Lin, but we seem to have to stay all night today."
Xing Conglian said, reaching out to him.
He pulled him up, then watched him carelessly rubbed his face with his hands and said, "The failure to lure students to riot tonight is more like a whim than a carefully planned operation. There are no student casualties today. This leads to two situations tomorrow, first, they give up the original plan and go dormant; second, something big happens tomorrow... Which situation do you think is more likely to happen?"
"We can't afford to gamble." Lin Chen shook his head, "There are less than 40 hours left, and every second after that, there may be an accident."
"It's really miserable..." Xing Conglian put his hands in his pockets and walked in front of him, "The only hope in a haystack has been destroyed. Is there any way to find members of that group?"
"Actually, it didn't fail completely." Lin Chen raised his head, the teaching building in the distance was still lit up, it was the computer testing group that Xing Conglian had specially arranged before, "Did you forget, we still have two classes now. data is available.”
"I didn't forget, I mentioned it specially, waiting for you to praise me."
Xing Conglian said, took out his phone and shook it: "Professor Fu just sent a text message saying that the test is over."
Lin Chen frowned, quickly took out his mobile phone, and wanted to make a call.
But Xing Conglian moved faster than that. He pressed the call button and handed over the phone.
"Old Xing, did something happen to you? I just heard such a big movement."
"It's me." Lin Chen said into the phone.
"Senior brother! Are you alright? I heard that there is a power outage in the teaching building, and there are still students making trouble? What about Lao Xing, what's wrong with Lao Xing?"
On the other end of the phone, Fu Hao could hardly stand the conversation again.
He interrupted the conversation immediately: "I'm fine, he's fine too, is the result out?"
There was a rustling voice coming from the receiver, as if someone had snatched the phone, and after a while, the brisk voice of the dynasty rang: "Achen, I have processed the data according to the conditions you gave before, the only one that meets the requirements. In your screening criteria, there is only one girl, her surname is Jin, her name is Xiao An, and her name is quite cute."
"Jin Xiaoan... Does he have any social connection with the deceased in this case?"
"There is no obvious connection. After all, the departments are too far apart. Jin Xiaoan, who is studying medicine, has never participated in any school clubs."
"Medical school?" Lin Chen thought for a while and said, "When I was in college, our psychology department and medical students took public classes together. For example, we took ideological and political classes together. You can check the class schedule."
"Okay, give me thirty seconds!"
After the crackling keyboard sound, Lin Chen heard Wang Chao take a sharp breath.
"Come on, Jin Xiaoan and Jiang Liu went to Politics 2 together. What is Politics 2, Ah Chen?"
"A course that can easily cultivate friendship among classmates and reading ability outside of class." Lin Chen patted Xing Conglian, and the two stood under the street lamp, "Which dormitory does Jin Xiaoan live in?"
"201, Building 7."
"My boss and I are in the open space downstairs in the computer room. Come down with Fu Hao..."
"Are we going to play in the girls' dormitory? That's great!" Chao said happily.