In the afternoon, Jiang Baimian's desk acquired a silver-white recording pen, old in style with many mottled spots.
"Listen now?" She looked up to inquire about Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong.
Shang Jianyao, who had already put the "Six Senses Beads" into his tactical backpack, thought for a few seconds and said:
"Wait a moment, close the door first, turn off the lights."
"Do you think this is a ghost story?" Jiang Baimian certainly wouldn't agree to such a boring request.
Long Yuehong nodded frequently, indicating his agreement.
"This is a sense of ritual." Shang Jianyao tried hard to explain.
"We're all family here, just relax." Jiang Baimian said perfunctorily, while replacing the batteries and pressing the relevant button on the recording pen.
After a buzzing electrical sound, a female voice that didn't feel particularly special rang out:
"Since birth, humans have been constantly influenced by acquired factors, gradually forgetting their original appearance. Our souls are like sponges, absorbing too many harmful things, becoming heavier and heavier, weaker and weaker, and ultimately sinking permanently in this gray world, unable to break free. 'Heartless Disease' comes from this.
"To get rid of all this, to enter the new world, humanity must return to its original and most powerful form.
"To this end, we must find our innate preferences and inclinations, abandon pretense, and return to nature...
"The Ruling Age 'Overseer' is constantly measuring whether we are doing well enough to decide whether to open the door to the new world for us...
"There is no pretense before the 'Overseer', your original heart will tell you the answer.
"Humans come naked, and should live naked, and go naked."
Jiang Baimian listened quietly and sighed:
"The ideas of these religious organizations, to some extent, can actually be self-justifying.
"But without additional power, such rhetoric violates most people's perceptions and cannot be accepted and spread immediately."
"Yeah." Long Yuehong felt that as long as a human being was not in a very difficult situation or in a state of considerable mental confusion, they would definitely not be convinced by similar statements.
Even if corresponding things happened, it was mostly because many people around the target had already joined the "Natural Faction", constantly instilling doctrines into him, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Shang Jianyao didn't speak, his expression quite heavy, as if he was thinking about the hidden problems in the words just now.
"What are you thinking about?" Jiang Baimian asked.
Shang Jianyao "hmm"ed:
"I was thinking that this sect is not suitable for the Icefield. The weather there is very lethal to people who don't like to wear clothes. Therefore, the doctrine must be improved to solve the localization problem in different regions."
Jiang Baimian laughed:
"Ah, you still read too few books.
"When you get to the Icefield, you take off your clothes and run around, and you will find a different kind of satisfaction. This is like many people in the Old World who like to swim in lakes in winter. As long as you grasp the 'degree', it can not only strengthen your body, but also provide spiritual enjoyment of breaking taboos and overcoming difficulties, which is easily exploited by religion."
*Pa*, Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and hit his left palm:
"If I have the chance, I'll let Xiao Hong try it."
"Why not yourself?" Long Yuehong immediately retorted.
Shang Jianyao "ai"ed:
"I'm strong and healthy, the effect is not obvious.
"Only you, who is only 1.75 meters tall after genetic modification, looks ordinary, and has mediocre grades..."
Long Yuehong regretted why he had bothered with this guy.
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Floor 495, Zone B, Number 196.
After listening to the "Hourly News", Shang Jianyao held the "Six Senses Beads" and the medical record restoration in one hand, and grabbed the "Angel of Life" necklace in the other, entering the "Mind Corridor".
As soon as he left the door of "131" room, he transferred the aura of the two props into it, still existing in their original appearance.
As for the medical record restoration, it was an ordinary item, so Shang Jianyao could only materialize a copy based on his memory.
Then, he put on a yellow monk's robe, draped a red kasaya, made his face turn iron-black, and made red light light up in his eyes.
This time, the "Angel of Life" necklace paralyzed his left leg, so he still used the old method, moving this leg behind his butt, and "growing" a new leg in the original position.
As for the "Six Senses Beads" which directly acted on the spirit, the price was not so easy to avoid. No matter how much Shang Jianyao, whose Buddhist name was "Pudu", struggled, the red light in his eyes was like a flame, becoming more and more blazing.
"Woman! Woman!" He roared in a low voice.
"You look very strange." Shang Jianyao then stroked his chin, "Gives me a familiar feeling."
The semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao didn't hide it at all:
"As a semi-mechanical monk, I only have Zen Master Jingfa as a reference. The price of Master Jingnian is not increased desire."
"Why learn from that pervert!" The straightforward, honest Shang Jianyao rebuked his colleague.
The semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao turned the "Six Senses Beads":
"My Buddha is merciful, anyway, there are no real women here."
"It's better not to chant Buddhist names in your current state." The honest Shang Jianyao looked down at his crotch.
The semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao said nonchalantly:
"That's simple."
In the next second, he directly mechanized that part, turning it into an electromagnetic cannon that could fire bullets.
The muzzle pierced through the fabric and stretched out, dark and gleaming with metallic luster.
"How is it? I have always been a supporter of the doctrine of superior firepower." The semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao asked his colleagues a little triumphantly, "My Buddha is merciful, superior firepower saves the world."
"I knew you were an unruly monk." The honest Shang Jianyao sighed.
In the end, Zen Master Pudu was not a monk who truly believed in Bodhi. No matter which personality Shang Jianyao had, he had no devout belief.
The essence of the semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao was the fusion of a man's love for the romantic side of mechanics with compassion and a state of calm.
When the negative price of the "Six Senses Beads" caused the latter two to decline sharply, the former was fully highlighted.
Adding a cannon had almost no impact on the semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao. He dragged the leg behind his butt and walked steadily to find the "522" room and walked in.
With previous experience, Shang Jianyao arrived at the "Tieshan City Second Food Company" smoothly, with very little mental exhaustion.
He abandoned the first floor that he had already explored, and with his electromagnetic cannon erect, he stepped up to the second floor.
On the way, he once again felt that inexplicable gaze from an unknown source.
If the one currently controlling the "body" was Zen Master "Pudu", and it was replaced by the one who loved novelty, loved to sing and dance, Shang Jianyao would definitely give the hidden gazer a dance and invite him to join.
Perhaps because he arrived on the second floor much earlier than last time, Shang Jianyao shook the flashlight vigorously, but did not find the female figure at the end of the corridor.
He could only check the multiple rooms here step by step, and found that they were mainly offices, with a lot of old files and materials.
Unfortunately, the owner of the "522" room didn't look at the relevant content at the time. After Shang Jianyao picked it up, he found that the documents were either nonsensical or directly a mess of garbled characters.
When he came to the end of the corridor, Shang Jianyao heard slight footsteps.
The red light in his eyes flickered a few times, and he turned off the flashlight in his hand.
Then, even the red light went out.
Shang Jianyao shrank into the darkness like this, squatted down, and quietly pressed his back against the wall.
He was as skilled as when he played hide-and-seek as a child.
Before long, a figure came down from another set of stairs at the end of the corridor and entered the room in front of Shang Jianyao's side.
Then, from the window of that room facing the street, there was a constant rustling sound.
Shang Jianyao patiently waited until all kinds of sounds stopped before slowly getting up and approaching the place.
Seeing that the destination was within reach, he suddenly darted over, raised his left palm holding the "Six Senses Beads" and flashlight, and pushed the switch.
The yellowish beam of light shone inside, reflecting multiple figures.
Sitting cross-legged on the middle guest sofa was the "professional woman" Shang Jianyao had met last time.
Her clothes and dress hadn't changed. At first glance, she was only in her early twenties, but on closer inspection, she was already in her thirties.
At this time, she sat in a lotus position, her eyes half-closed, her hands resting on her knees, looking quite solemn.
Around her, four or five ragged humans sat in the same posture, with several rats and a pile of cockroaches quietly surrounding them, seemingly also immersed in the peaceful atmosphere of the room.
As Shang Jianyao's flashlight shone in, the woman opened her eyes and "ah"ed.
Then, she got up at an extremely fast speed and ran to the window, jumped out, and climbed up.
Her movements were as agile as an ape, but her eyes were not muddy, but just had a lot of bloodshot.
At the same time, the humans sitting cross-legged around her also reacted. They either jumped up directly or pounced to the side, showing good physical fitness and reaction speed.
With the light of the flashlight, Shang Jianyao found that each of their expressions was twisted, their eyes were muddy, their mouths were half-open, and there was a lot of flesh and blood in their teeth.
"Heartless Ones"!
All the humans who had been sitting quietly were "Heartless Ones"!
Amidst the running rats and cockroaches, Shang Jianyao used "Loss of Limb Movement".
*Plop plop plop*, the "Heartless Ones" fell to the ground one by one.
"It seems that there are 'Heartless Ones' here, but why don't the ones outside come in?" The semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao walked to the window and glanced outside.
In the next second, he was surprised to find that he was on the third floor, not the original second floor!
Shang Jianyao stroked his chin, looking for the reason for his colleagues:
"The owner of the room, like me last time, met that woman on the second floor, scared her away, and then, ran into her again on the third floor and saw such a scene?
"Because I chose to hide this time and didn't scare away the woman, the subsequent events are no longer in the owner of the room's experience, and his subconscious had to change the floor and fill it with the scenes he saw?"
"Most likely." The cowardly and timid Shang Jianyao agreed before his colleague who loved to refute could.
The semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao then looked around and found an employee introduction column on the wall near the door, with photos posted on it.
He raised his flashlight and examined them one by one, and found a photo of the woman just now.
In the photo, the other party was at the peak of her youth, with exquisite looks.
"Liu Lu, sales manager, Tieshan City native..." Shang Jianyao quickly read the introduction and didn't find anything worth paying attention to.
His gaze moved again.
Suddenly, the semi-mechanical monk Shang Jianyao "eh"ed.
In the corner of the employee introduction column, a photo was missing.
ps: Asking for double monthly tickets at the end of the month~