Director Xu would never joke about such a thing.
Lin Mo understood immediately.
"Okay, let's go check it out."
Director Xu holds a high position, and a major incident like the one in Lvyuan Community just happened recently in the area he is in charge of. It is definitely impossible to say that he knew nothing about it.
I know some of the rumors.
In this case, he wanted to drag Lin Mo along. Obviously, the matter might be linked to the matters that the Security Bureau was responsible for.
Lin Mo is a candidate expert for the Security Bureau, so he definitely can't just walk away from this kind of thing.
The two men went down to the first floor.
This place has been surrounded by police on duty and no one is allowed to enter or leave at the moment.
Seeing Director Xu coming down, the police made way for him and a man came out and began to report.
"Director Xu, this is Xiao Lu from our technical department. There was an encrypted video on the computer of the deceased in yesterday's mysterious death case. Xiao Lu was responsible for decrypting it. He worked all night. Just now, someone went over and found that Xiao Lu was in trouble."
Director Xu nodded with a heavy expression.
The policeman who had just spoken noticed Lin Mo behind him and a look of confusion appeared on his face.
"This is Expert Lin from the Special Security Bureau." Director Xu introduced him.
The policeman was stunned.
Apparently he had heard of the Special Security Service, so no nonsense.
Several people walked into the technical department together.
In a small office, there are several work desks piled with various documents.
On a seat near the inside, a young man in police uniform was lying down.
Several policemen were taking pictures at this moment.
Lin Mo approached and saw that the young policeman lying on the table was already dead with his eyes open. The expression of fear and disbelief on his face was extremely obvious.
On the table was a half-drunk cup of coffee, a notebook, and a pen. It was obvious that the other person was working before he died.
A video is playing on the computer screen.
Lin Mo just took a look and pushed Director Xu, who was about to come over, away.
Director Xu was almost pushed to the ground.
"What are you doing?" a policeman nearby shouted.
"Everyone, don't move." Lin Mo's voice became louder.
This immediately stunned everyone.
Director Xu was well-informed and knew that Xu Xian would not do this for no reason, so he said, "Listen to Expert Lin, everyone, don't move."
As a result, no one in the room dared to move, and they all kept doing the same movements they had just made. The scene was very strange.
Most people don't understand what this is about.
Only Director Xu began to sweat on his forehead.
Because he saw that Lin Mo's face looked very unhappy.
Thinking of Lin Mo's identity, Director Xu's heart sank.
"Everyone, look at your feet now and don't look up." Lin Mo's expression was solemn. This time, everyone did as Director Xu had already spoken.
"Next, I'll ask questions and you'll answer them. Remember, no one is allowed to lie." Lin Mo glanced at the people in the office and said, "Who looked at the computer screen just now? Raise your hand."
Several policemen lowered their heads and looked at their feet, feeling puzzled, but a few of them still raised their hands.
Including the section chief standing next to Director Xu.
"Those who raised their hands stay, and everyone else go out." Lin Mo continued.
No one moved, and everyone looked at Director Xu.
"Execute the order." Director Xu was not vague at all. He realized at this time why Lin Mo suddenly pushed him just now.
Probably because he didn't want to look at the computer screen.
Why
Director Xu didn't know, but he knew in his heart that he shouldn't ask anything at this time and just listen to Lin Mo's arrangements.
At that moment, everyone else retreated and Lin Mo walked over and closed the door.
Now, there are six people in the office, including him.
Five boys and one girl.
"Let me confirm one more thing with you. Did you watch the video on the screen just now? You can close your eyes and think about it. If you can't remember what you watched, you can leave now." Lin Mo said again.
This time, no one moved.
But the other five people all had strange expressions on their faces.
They did as Lin Mo asked, but the strange thing was that they really remembered what was played on the screen video.
Actually, that video is pretty weird.
It is a very complex geometric figure.
There are a few poisonous insects crawling on it, and the whole image is in black and white, with some snowflakes flashing occasionally.
"Take your pens and draw the patterns in your minds." Seeing that no one spoke, Lin Mo thought for a while and gave instructions for the next step.
After saying that, Lin Mo walked over, not afraid of the corpse on the table, reached out to control the mouse, and turned off the strange video on the screen.
From this video, Lin Mo felt the breath of a nightmare world.
It was that kind of gloomy and terrifying atmosphere, with a hint of despair and a slight stench.
This feeling is very strange. It is not smelled by the sense of smell, but more like a spiritual influence.
It's just like an ordinary person who has seen an extremely decayed corpse. Even if several days have passed, if someone says the word "meat", he will immediately feel uncomfortable and nauseous.
Because he was so familiar with this smell, Lin Mo immediately realized that this was most likely a "pollutant". And because he had this feeling after seeing the video, Lin Mo made these judgments in the first place.
If the video is the pollutant, then the triggering requirement is seeing it.
The five policemen in the room followed Lin Mo's request, found paper and pen, and began to draw the pattern in their minds.
The scene was very quiet and Lin Mo did not disturb them.
He took advantage of this time to call Chen Bing and Team Leader Liu.
Since such a big thing happened here, of course he has to report it to the Security Bureau.
A few minutes later, Lin Mo hung up the phone and looked at the five policemen.
The fastest one among them has already finished drawing.
Moreover, the painting is so lifelike that it is exactly the same as the complex pattern in the video just now.
"Have you learned sketching?" Lin Mo was curious.
"I am the head of the technical department. Sketching is our basic skill." The policeman said truthfully.
Of course, it is just lifelike, and the patterns in the painting do not have the "disgusting" mental impact that the video shows.
Soon, others finished their paintings.
I took them and compared them, they were all the same.
"Strange, I just took a quick glance at it, but I didn't expect you to remember it so clearly?" a policeman said jokingly.
"Yeah, I don't remember when my memory became so good." Another policeman also nodded.
Lin Mo shook his head: "I'm afraid it has nothing to do with your memory, but this pattern has actively invaded your spiritual consciousness."
Lin Mo had read many confidential files and research reports in the Security Bureau. According to the Security Bureau's Academy of Sciences, nightmare marks were a kind of mental influence.
A 'virus' will automatically be born in the body of the affected person.
Nightmare virus.
This is the only way to verify whether a person has been marked as Nightmare.
It is said that this virus is actually normal cells in the human body that have mutated for unknown reasons.
This aspect involves a lot of highly professional knowledge, and Lin Mo only knows a general idea.
Now we need to wait for the security bureau to come and test these five people for the virus.
Lin Mo naturally hoped that his previous inference was wrong.
Otherwise, these five people would have suffered a tragic end.
At this moment, something happened that Lin Mo could not have expected.
The pattern in the video suddenly appeared in his mind.
It feels like when you are watching TV normally and suddenly a commercial comes in. It catches you off guard and there is nothing you can do about it.
The pattern began to distort, as if it came alive. In the ears, one could hear the sound of poisonous insects crawling on it, rustling and creepy.
Lin Mo shook his head and felt a sudden burst of sleepiness.
At the same time, the other five policemen in the room had already fallen to the ground.
"Is it the mental influence of that mysterious pattern? Unexpectedly, it also has a hypnotic effect?" Lin Mo was a little confused. He glanced at the policeman who was already lying on the ground. An idea came to his mind. He did not resist this mental influence, but let this mental power move.
Then, Lin Mo sat on the chair next to him and closed his eyes.