long night fire

"The man's nickname may have been 'Dumb' or something else.

"Do you still remember that someone once told you that from now on, you will be a 'priest'?

"Uh, something like that."

The pupils of the fake "priest" dilated accordingly, and a layer of cold sweat soaked his forehead.

After a few seconds, he let out a roar like a beast, raised his hands, and covered his face.

Then he stood up with a frightened expression on his face.

"Yes, yes, yes!" He said three "yes" in a row, and his voice became louder and louder.

Phew... Jiang Baimian breathed out silently:

"Now you know who you are?"

The false "priest" whose false pride had been completely shattered could no longer organize his psychological defense, and sat down as if exhausted:

"Guo Zheng, my name is Guo Zheng.

"I am a follower of the 'Anti-Wisdom Cult'. I was chosen to bathe in the grace of God and become an awakened one."

Jiang Baimian immediately interrupted Guo Zheng:

"Are you awakened by the people who hold the end of the year?"

This is the question that deserves the most attention.

Guo Zheng gasped and said:

"Yes, we were selected and entered a dark cave. According to the instructions, we each found a place to lie down and fall asleep.

"Not long after I fell asleep, I saw the 'Hall of Stars'."

Jiang Baimian asked:

"How many people were selected in total, and how many people awakened?"

"There are a lot of people who were selected. I don't have a specific number. There are hundreds." Guo Zheng recalled, "Four or five were awakened in the end..."

As he spoke, he frowned, as if he was suffering some kind of pain.

"What are the sequelae of people who have not awakened?" Jiang Baimian asked thoughtfully.

Guo Zheng thought for a while:

"Some went crazy, some died on the spot, and some didn't happen at all. This is the majority."

Jiang Baimian glanced sideways at Shang Jianyao, smiled and asked:

"How can you be sure that people who seem to be okay or crazy are not awakened?"

Guo Zheng showed obvious fear:

"At that time, there was an elder of the sect presiding over it.

"He can flip through everyone's memories on a large scale."

Sure enough, the strength of "Anti-Intellectual Education" is in the field of memory and hypnosis... Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao looked at each other, both a little excited.

This is the excitement of slowly figuring out something.

"Elder? How are the ranks within your sect divided?" Jiang Baimian continued to ask.

Guo Zheng took a breath and exhaled slowly:

"The leader of the sect is the Pope, but I have never seen it. It is said that he has gone to the New World, where he serves the Lord and is responsible for guiding the chosen ones.

"Below the Pope is the 'Conclave of Eight', a total of eight elders who govern different regions.

"Below the elders is the bishop, who is responsible for various specific affairs, and under the bishop is the pastor, who is the executor of the plan and the disseminator of the doctrine."

Jiang Baimian nodded slightly:

"Which layer does 'Father' belong to?"

"I'm the bishop, he... I don't know." Guo Zheng recalled with a bit of pain.

Jiang Baimian took the opportunity to ask:

"Do you remember who 'hypnotized' you? Do you remember what he looked like?"

Guo Zheng frowned again:

"He, he, he's a man, no, he's a woman, no, he's handsome, no, he has a shaved head..."

"No, no..." Guo Zheng's lips moved, and he screamed frantically and fearfully, "He tampered with my memory!"

Chapter 63 "The Shepherd" Bouillon

"Tampering memory?" Jiang Baimian looked sideways at Shang Jianyao and repeated the key words.

Guo Zheng's hysterical screams made her feel a little terrified.

This is not only because of the performance and voice of the other party, but also because memory is the most private and precious thing of a person. If it is also tampered with, it will be impossible to distinguish what is real and what is false.

At that time, maybe you can only take the initiative to join the monk order, and recite "the four things are empty", "dream bubbles" and "all appearances are illusory" every day.

Seeing Yao showing no fear, Shang nodded seriously and said:

"'Father' has all the abilities."

"Indeed..." Jiang Baimian came back to his senses and exhaled.

Judging from the current information, the three awakened abilities of the true "priest" are:

The one that hypnotizes; tampers with memory; creates a shared illusion.

Compared with the fake "priest", this does not involve manipulation of the body, does not improve fighting ability, but it is more terrifying, mysterious and terrifying.

At this time, the fake "priest" Guo Zheng, who had finished screaming, slowed down and sat there, gasping for breath.

Shang Jianyao looked at him on the screen, and suddenly smiled and said:

"Then the question is, since the real 'priest' can tamper with other people's memories, why not just let you remember that you are the real 'priest'? In this way, you don't have to worry about being destroyed by someone. "

The words that broke the psychological defense and pierced the false cognition just now will not have any effect.

Guo Zheng fell silent, and after more than ten seconds, he said:

"Maybe it's because he doesn't allow the fake 'priest' to become the real 'priest'. Even if it's just the real 'priest' in his memory, it doesn't work.

"There can only be one true 'priest', and it can only be him."

When a person remembers that he is a real "priest", no matter what kind of torture he endures, he is a real "priest".

Just as Jiang Baimian wanted to say that this line of thinking was a bit dangerous and crazy, Shang Jianyao agreed with it and said:

"I accept this reason."

"..." Jiang Baimian quietly rolled his eyes.

She turned to ask:

"Apart from the 'tampered' memories, can you still recall other details related to the real 'priest'? For example, what price did he pay?"

Guo Zheng shook his head:

"The only certainty is that we should be awakened in the same batch."

For similar questions, Jiang Baimian believes that Odick should have used the influence of dreams to find the answer. Since he didn't remind his good brother Shang Jianyao to pay attention to it, it means that the memories related to the fake "priest" Guo Zheng either never existed. , or something went wrong.

She no longer entangled with this matter, and began to ask other questions:

"Do you know how many elders of the 'Anti-Intellectual Cult'?"

Under the Pope, the elders of the "Council of Eight".

"I only had contact with one person, the one who presided over our awakening ceremony, and he was the one who gave me orders later." When the topic no longer involved the real "priest", Guo Zheng's condition improved a lot, "He is Honghe The person, named Bouillon, is in charge of the Primordial City area, um, not the entire 'Primary City' sphere of influence, but that city and its surrounding areas."

The capital of the "Primal City" faction, Primordial City is currently recognized as the most prosperous city on the gray soil, also known as "City of Desire".

"What does he look like, and what abilities does he have as an awakener? The large-scale review of other people's memories should be just an application of one of the abilities." Jiang Baimian's eyes lit up.

This is a big fish.

Of course, it doesn't look like their "old-tune group" can deal with it. According to Du Heng, they may all be awakened people who have entered the "spiritual corridor", whether it is the scope of ability or the ability to influence The number of targets is exaggerated enough.

"Do you think I can remember his appearance?" Guo Zheng laughed at himself, "His nickname is 'Shepherd', and his voice always makes people feel a little uncomfortable, similar to a throat injury that has never healed. "

Jiang Baimian's thoughts turned, and he found a possible problem:

"Since 'Shepherd' Bouyong is in charge of the Primordial City, why were you sent to Weed City just for the task of assassinating Xu Liyan?" (Note 1)

"Wild Grass City is an area not covered by sects. Whoever preaches first will be in charge." Guo Zheng explained simply, "Anyway, if you want to come here to assassinate Xu Liyan, it's better to pass on the teachings along the way."

Jiang Baimian asked who were the pastors under Guo Zheng, how many believers he had developed, and where he obtained the usual supplies. Guo Zheng just smiled:

"Odick should have known the corresponding situation through the dream, you can just ask Xu Liyan to report it, why do you have to repeat it?"

"This is the process." It was not Jiang Baimian who spoke, but Shang Jianyao, who assisted her in dubbing.

Not bad... Jiang Baimian nodded slightly, silently praising.

After the fake "priest" Guo Zheng finished answering, Shang Jianyao took the opportunity to ask:

"What do you know about 'Psychic Corridors'?

"What happened to the pope entering the new world? Where is the new world?"

Guo Zheng laughed and said:

"This is a secret among secrets, not to mention me, even the real 'priest' may not know it.

"I only have a vague impression: Elder Bouillon has some miraculous little items, which he says are a gift from Jusui.

"Hehe, I'm still facing those inner fears in the 'Sea of ​​Origin', and I'm still a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the 'Soul Corridor'."

Having said this, Guo Zheng was stunned suddenly, and muttered to himself:

"No wonder... no wonder I have never been able to cross that island... People who are 'hypnotized' can never succeed..."

Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully, and asked another important point:

"When did you know that Lei Yunsong and the others were 'Pangu creatures'? And where did you learn about the price Odick paid? Kristina, the vice president of the Hunter's Guild?"

"It's not her, it's the 'dumb', hehe, maybe it's the real 'priest', give me information." Guo Zheng shook his head and said, "At first I just wanted to find a few 'helpers' who had nothing to do with the sect and could be discarded at any time, who knows 'Dumb' directly gave me the information on such a group of people, and then I had a plan to frame the blame and stir up disputes."

The real "priest" was because Lei Yunsong and the others wanted to visit Xu Liyan, so they went through their memories, checked their backgrounds, and then "set" the time so that they couldn't avoid the fake "priest"?Jiang Baimian made further guesses in his heart.

At the end of the interrogation, Shang Jianyao asked enthusiastically:

"How do you 'anti-intellectualism' pray and salute?"

This is a light topic, Guo Zheng exhaled, rubbed his temples and said:

"Prayer is to shake your head before eating. It doesn't matter how many times. It means don't think. Salutation is to cover your eyes with both hands from both sides, which means you don't see or don't notice. Sometimes they say, 'Please believe in God with all your heart', and when they preach, they mainly talk about 'doubt everything, there is no truth', 'Thinking is a trap, knowledge is poison'..."

Shang Jianyao took out a small notebook at some point and wrote it down:

"The symbol is a person without five senses? What does the mass look like?"

"Yes, people without facial features." Guo Zhenghou leaned back in his chair and said, "Our mass is very simple. We preach first, listen to the disadvantages of knowledge and thinking, and then follow the pastor to shout slogans. What to shout and how much to use The sound, depending on the situation at the time, can also be replaced by applause."

Hearing this, Jiang Baimian asked curiously:

"How did you preach? How did those people really believe in it?"

Guo Zheng looked at the screen in front of him and said not too angrily:

"In the beginning, we used food as a temptation, and then we got to know the difficulties of believers deeply, and helped them solve some of them, and finally made them completely depend on us and give up thinking completely."

"The first half is quite normal, but the latter part..." Jiang Baimian pouted, "I thought you were just using the ability of 'hypnosis' to preach."

"It's not necessary, just during the mass, I will make some arrangements to improve the effect." Guo Zheng said with a slightly complicated smile, "For the vast majority of people in the dust, living is a very hard thing. If we can help them think and arrange for them so that they can get a more stable life, then even if they know that there are problems with the teachings, they will deceive themselves and choose to believe.”

Phew... Jiang Baimian exhaled and closed his notebook.

……

On the second floor of "A Fu Gun Shop", in the damp and dark corridor, Long Yuehong put her hands in her pockets and walked towards the stairs step by step.

As he passed a house, he sniffed and smelled the aroma of food.

The uncle who was cooking with a coal stove at the door saw him and greeted him warmly: