When Lu Xinyao was slightly startled, I stretched out my right hand to press the ground, and stood up with the bayonet on my chest. At that moment, I clearly saw the bayonet piercing through my chest, but I felt no pain at all - I was right.
In just an instant, I turned around suddenly amid Lu Xinyao's screams, pulled out the box cannon, and fired three shots at the branch that Lu Xinyao first climbed. The moment the bullet pierced the night sky, the sound of heavy objects falling suddenly sounded in the distance.
Everything around me seemed to have been blown away by the wind, and returned to its original appearance in the blink of an eye. When Ito Zhen, Lu Xinyao, and Ye Xun all looked at me in horror from a distance, I didn't have time to explain anything to Ye Xun, so I jumped under the tree and pulled up a man wearing a gold mask from the ground. I put the gun between the opponent's heads and shouted loudly: "Pay attention to the vicinity. If there is a noise, don't care who it is, shoot immediately."
At this moment, Ito Makoto came over to me: "Who is this?"
I grabbed the other person's collar tightly and pushed the gun in my hand hard into the other person's flesh: "Take off his mask."
Just as Ito Zhen stretched out his hand, someone in the distance said: "You'd better not touch the golden mask."
I stared at the person in my hand without blinking, and shouted sharply: "Who is talking?"
At this time, Ye Xun had already retreated to my side: "A man wearing a golden mask, a bit like Liu Zi."
As soon as Ye Xun finished speaking, the other party said again: "As long as the golden mask is taken off, someone has to put it on. Having said that, you can decide for yourself how to choose!"
As soon as the man finished speaking, I pressed the edge of the mask with the muzzle of my gun and pulled the mask off the other person's face.
"Takahashi Takeo?" As Ito Makoto and Lu Xinyao exclaimed at the same time, the masked man in the distance sighed softly: "I have to say, you made a very unwise choice."
I haven't looked back until now: "Is the person who spoke missing?"
Ye Xun was shocked: "How do you know?"
"Because that person has never appeared." After I let go of Takeo Takahashi's collar, he fell to the ground. After I took off his mask, Takeo Takahashi died, and I grabbed him again. The body also means nothing.
Ye Xun reached out and touched Takahashi Takeo's body twice: "Wang Huan, what on earth is going on?"
I picked up the golden mask from the ground and said, "With it, you can control other people's thoughts. Half of what we saw originally were illusions. To put it simply, everything we experienced after entering Pingtian Sea was true and false. Mixed.”
I slowly explained: "I wonder if you have heard of the witchcraft legends of African tribes before? Legend has it that as long as people in that tribe are cursed by wizards, they will die violently no matter where they go, even if they hide in a church and convert to Catholicism. There was no way to escape death. Later, after scientists studied the cause of death of the deceased, they cracked the secret of the curse. Those people actually died from psychological suggestion."
Ito Zhen nodded and said: "I have also heard of this legend. The use of psychological suggestion to kill people has been included in criminal investigation. Are you saying that the core of shamanism is actually psychological suggestion?"
"No." I shook my head, "I was just talking about the function of the golden mask."
I explained: "Not long ago, I experienced an incident where a golden mask controlled a dead person. That golden mask was actually equivalent to a thought transmitter. It could spread the wearer's thoughts to far away places to affect his own. Target."
"If the Golden Mask can control the dead, why can't it control the living?"
I looked at Ye Xundao: "Actually, we have been plotted twice by the Golden Mask."
Ye Xundao: "You mean, we almost killed each other in the mountain stream? When was the second time?"
I shook my head and said: "This is the second time we killed each other in the mountain stream. Ever since we met Old Man Sun, I have been influenced by someone's thinking. Think about it for yourself, a few days ago, we found Old Man Sun If there is a ghost, would you still foolishly follow him? We should have tied him up long ago and forced him to find out the truth? Why do we believe each other so easily over and over again? Are you thinking that we should remain calm? , let’s see what Old Man Sun plans to do?”
Ye Xun nodded subconsciously and said, "Yes. Do you think so too?"
I took a deep breath and said, "I do think that too. It's just that it's not my real idea, but it's influenced by some people."
"What really made me think that someone was wearing a golden mask and killing people with their thoughts was after we entered the Pingtian Sea. Let's talk about Xiao Zhanzi first... "
I stretched out a finger: "The stone monument we saw was the first hint left by the other party, suggesting that someone would die from a stick piercing the heart. At that time, we were all afraid, but there was no clear reason. Target."
"The snake penetrated by the wooden stick was the second hint given to us by the other party in order to deepen our fear and even make us think of ourselves as the painfully struggling black snake. At that time, were you Do you also feel a slight pain in your stomach?"
I saw Ye Xun nod before continuing: "Then, Liu Zi suddenly clapped his hands and said that the person who died would be Xiao Zhanzi because he was born in the year of Snake. In this way, he was concentrating all the power of psychological suggestion on Xiao Zhanzi. On the child’s body.”
"In the end, they brought out a group of penetrated grass snakes and picked them near the woods. At that time, no matter which direction Xiao Zhanzi looked, all he saw were painful and struggling grass snakes. His bottom line of psychological endurance completely collapsed. . At this time, the killer hiding nearby took advantage of the situation and gave him strong hints, suggesting that he had been stabbed open in the belly by a wooden stake, and Xiao Zhanzi would definitely die a violent death."
I stopped here, but Ye Xun whispered: "What you said is too mysterious. Can the hint in your heart really reach that level?"
Ito explained: "Under strong psychological suggestion, the human body will react naturally. The scientific community has come to the conclusion on this point. One of the classic cases is: someone accidentally touched his hand on a high-voltage wire He was electrocuted to death on the spot. Afterwards, it was discovered that the wire was not energized, but the cause of death of the victim was a strong electric shock. Even the characteristics of the corpse were exactly the same as after being shocked. Scientists concluded that it was the human body that was under strong electric shock. A natural reaction under psychological suggestion.”
"That's right." I took over the other person's words, "This is the function of the golden mask."
I continued: "At that time, I had not thought about psychological suggestion. It was not until I saw Li Yong with a sky lantern lit that I began to doubt it. After Li Yong died, my first reaction was not to go and see Instead of touching the body, he touched the ground. If Li Yong's head was really on fire, the ground should be hot, but the place where his head rolled over was cold."
"At that time, we were together and there was nothing nearby that could suggest anything, so I rejected my idea. Later, Li Ran's words reminded me. He said that when Takeo Takahashi was drunk, I once told them about lighting human sky lanterns, and Li Yong was most afraid of lighting sky lanterns."
"This means that Takeo Takahashi has long been using his psychology to plant the medium of psychological suggestion, but we don't know it."
When I said this, Ito couldn't help but ask: "Then what happened when we were shot by ghosts? Is it also because of psychological suggestions?"
I said solemnly: "That should be another mask. It can control the opponent or cause the opponent to hallucinate. The people who shot us that night were actually your men. Someone controlled them and put on the uniforms of the Japanese army. Take their weapons and open fire on us."
I looked at Ito Shindao: "All of your men should have learned how to shoot, right?"
Ito Zhen nodded and said: "Yes. These family warriors have undergone rigorous training, and quite a few of them have served as mercenaries in Africa and have rich combat experience."
I quickly asked: "Then why can't they hit us?"
"This..." Ito Shin was speechless for a moment, but I continued: "Taking a step back, even if the people who shot at us at that time were Japanese soldiers who turned into ghosts, they should not shoot blindly like new recruits."
"The Kwantung Army is the leading elite force among the Japanese army. It has received long-term training and is extremely powerful in combat. However, when they first opened fire, it was like they were firing blank guns without any purpose. Although they were adjusted later, the shooting deviation was still shocking. Point out. Is this what an elite military force should look like?"
I finally said: "The quality of their individual soldiers can only prove one thing, that is, the people who control them don't know how to shoot."
"You're right..." Ito Zhen nodded frequently, "So, what's going on with the rotation of the sun and the moon?"
I said in a deep voice: "If I am not mistaken, we did spend a whole day and night in the Juyi Hall, or in other words, we were cut off from consciousness during a certain period of time. When we woke up again , what you see is the wonder of day and night quietly alternating.”
Ito Zhen murmured to himself: "Is this possible? Someone can make people lose consciousness out of thin air? In this case... "
Ito suddenly woke up and said, "You mean, that oil lamp in the Juyi Hall? Someone mixed some kind of drug in the oil lamp?"
"Yes!" I nodded, "Including your subordinates, your subordinates have always been around the bonfire to guard your safety. The bonfire just gave the opponent an opportunity. Otherwise, how could he control thirty Multiple well-trained soldiers? You know, the willpower of soldiers is generally stronger than ordinary people. Without the assistance of drugs, the opponent cannot control more than thirty people at once."
I looked at Ito Makoto: "Do you remember that I saw your wrist once, right? You tightened the watch strap very tightly for the convenience of movement. If you don't take off your watch all day and night, there will definitely be spots on your wrist. Leave a red mark. The red mark on your wrist is enough proof that someone adjusted the date on your watch to make us think that the shaman is controlling the sun and moon."
Ito looked at his wrist subconsciously: "Why didn't I think of it? Mr. Wang Huan, have you been preparing to fight back since then?"