"Looks like you've misunderstood the relationship between superhumans and normal people."
The interrogator was silent for a while before he said, "You were deceived. Who told you this?"
"I wasn't deceived. Isn't this the obvious truth?"
The robber roared. "You superhumans say that you're protecting Dragon City and fighting for humans, but in truth, you're riding on normal people's necks and snatching away everything that belongs to us. We can't fight against the superhumans' rule at all. We can only be controlled by you and let you stuff us into kennels and pigsty so that we can eat food made from earthworm meat and monster feces. We can never see the hope of becoming outstanding, and we have to wait for you to save us so that we'll be grateful to you!
"Now, things are good. With the Deification Capsules, normal people can also have power equivalent to superhumans. We don't need to rely on you. We can protect ourselves and our homes!
"A mighty new era is about to arrive. We don't need superhumans anymore. Dragon City doesn't need superhumans anymore. Human civilization doesn't need superhumans anymore!"
"You'll die."
The interrogator gradually got used to the robber's chaotic logic and calmly pointed out a fact. "If you take the Deification Capsules for a long period of time, the chances of you dying will keep accumulating. You can't always be drained of energy. If this continues, your body will wither up and you'll die."
"No, that won't happen. As long as we have enough cultivation resources, the Deification Capsules can release the greatest potential in the human body. It's absolutely stable and safe!"
The robber screamed. "Unless you superhumans who monopolize everything aren't willing to give us cultivation resources! That's right, you're afraid that normal people will awaken to supernatural abilities and threaten your rule. That's why you hid all the cultivation resources!
"You're the ones who are afraid of us and want to watch us die!"
The robber's eyes moved faster, and his skin turned redder. Wisps of white smoke came out of his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.
He could not move his body, but he used the back of his head to knock against the metal bed. Banging sounds came out of his head, and it was a bone-chilling sound.
But he did not notice it. Instead, he let out strange, crazed laughter. His face was filled with madness and longing, as if he was hallucinating the arrival of a new era.
Based on the numbers on the surveillance device, the interrogator could tell that his organs and cells were trembling madly. Soon, he was on the verge of spontaneous combustion.
The interrogator could only increase the dosage of the sedative.
However, even when the pressure was increased to five times the endurance limit of a normal person, it still could not make the robber fall asleep. It only slightly soothed his agitation and turned his hysterical roars into broken ravings.
The video ended there.
"Meng Chao, what do you think?" Shen Yupeng asked.
"There's something wrong with this guy's words."
Meng Chao thought about it. "'Human civilization no longer needs superhumans.' That's so genteel. It doesn't sound like something a normal robber would say. It's more like some sort of written language. Someone must have taught it to him or even used a secret mind technique to repeatedly plant it in his head."
Shen Yupeng looked at Zhou Chong.
"That's right. What the robbers say isn't the point. Anyway, robbers have their own set of self-justifying robber logic."
Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong brought up a few brain scans from his tablet. "However, during the interrogation, we monitored the robber's brain closely, and we discovered that his brain is clearly different from a normal person's."
As a comparison, Zhou Chong brought up a normal person's brain scan as well as a superhuman's brain scan.
Even if Meng Chao knew nothing about brain surgery, he could still see the difference between the three scans.
A normal person's brain scan was like a rather dim butterfly.
A superhuman's brain scan was like a colorful butterfly.
The robber's brain scan showed that the butterfly's wings were broken. Some of the areas were too bright, and some of the areas were really dark. They looked like black dots scattered all over.
"Once we compared the robber's brain scan data with the pathology database, we discovered two things. First, the robber seems to have been hypnotized," Zhou Chong said.
Zhou Chong said, "It's not the usual kind of hypnosis where one is muddle-headed and at the mercy of others. The robber has a clear sense of self and logical judgment. He knows who he is and believes that everything he does comes from his heart.
"But someone planted a small 'thought' in the depths of his heart. The superhumans stole all his resources, so he must take back what belongs to him."
Meng Chao immediately remembered the Demonic Abyss Eye.
Since the monster civilization could create one Demonic Abyss Eye, it would not be difficult for them to create a second one.
"Second, we discovered that part of the robber's brain is similar to the brain structure of a drug addict," Zhou Chong continued.
"His central nervous system and part of his brain are riddled with holes, and he's highly reliant on the Deification Capsules."
Meng Chao's pupils shrank. "Senior Zhou, are you saying that the Deification Capsules are addictive?"
"Based on the results of the experiments we analyzed through the night, that might be the case," Zhou Chong said.
Zhou Chong said. "In truth, spirit energy itself has a certain level of addiction. When we inhale and exhale spirit energy to cleanse our marrow, meridians, and brains, that incomparable pleasure is something that no other form of enjoyment can replace.
"Many superhumans give up on living lavish lives and cultivate madly. Some of them even go to mountains of corpses to fight in seas of blood so that they can taste the increasingly stronger pleasure.
"But superhumans slowly increase this pleasure through a long period of cultivation. One of the most important topics in the path of cultivation is to subdue our desire for spirit energy. We have to learn how to enjoy and control this pleasure.
"Most of the users of the Deification Capsules are normal people. A handful of them are broken-star superhumans or low-grade one-star superhumans.
"The Deification Capsules can stimulate their brain cells madly and allow them to taste the pleasure that only Heaven Realm or Deity Realm superhumans can get within a short period of time. There's no way they wouldn't end up as slaves to the Deification Capsules."
Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng looked at each other.
At the same time, they remembered Ning Lang's confession.
The Other World was a place where the strong preyed on the weak and the victors were kings. The normal people's desire for power was one hundred times greater than on Earth.
Besides, it was highly addictive, so the Deification Capsule was basically the most terrifying stimulant.
"This means that there is indeed a mastermind behind these robbers?"
Shen Yupeng asked with a frown. "Can you find out what method the mastermind used to hypnotize the robbers? Based on the other robber's confession, the mastermind and the robbers shouldn't have met each other before. "
"There's no need for them to meet. We can just use an email."
Zhou Chong brought out a screenshot of an email.
The contents of the email were very simple. It was the number of a locker in a supermarket located in a downtown area with a lot of people.
It should be for the robbers to get Deification Capsules or weapons there.
However, the background lines of the email were vortexes.
At first glance, they looked like elementary school students' scribbles. Circles of uneven thickness were tangled together.
When Meng Chao looked closely, he found that the vortexes had a strange suction force. It was as if they wanted to suck in a person's soul.
Even Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng instinctively drew closer to the tablet to see it clearly.
When they registered what was going on, they could not help but break out in cold sweat.
'What a powerful picture. What is it?' Meng Chao gasped in amazement.
"This is an email that our technicians recovered from the robber's email in the deep web. It was sent to him by the robber. Unfortunately, the deep web has multiple shattering mechanisms, so we can't recover more data," Zhou Chong said.
"As for the vortexes, based on our research, they should be some sort of ancient runic symbol. They can subtly hypnotize humans and implant certain thoughts in them."
"Implant thoughts through pictures?"
Meng Chao could not believe it. "Isn't that a little too much?"
"It's not at all. In truth, there are plenty of examples of people implanting thoughts through pictures," Zhou Chong said.
"If you show a normal person a picture of a skeleton or a rotting corpse, they will definitely have creepy thoughts. They might even have nightmares for a few days. If you show them a picture of a beautiful woman, not only will you implant thoughts in them, it will even cause a certain organ in them to change. Besides, there are advertisements everywhere in the streets, and their goal is to control people's thoughts.
"These vortexes are the same. They're just more advanced compared to the pictures and advertisements we usually see.
"They might look simple and look like elementary school students' scribbles, but in truth, the information contained in each vortex is one hundred times more than in super high-resolution pictures and videos!"
As Zhou Chong spoke, he kept enlarging the screenshot.
In the beginning, Meng Chao did not notice anything strange. He only felt that the strokes that formed the vortexes were uneven and not smooth. Instead, they felt furry.
When Zhou Chong enlarged the screenshot ten times, he could somewhat see that the strokes that formed the vortexes were actually formed by small vortexes.
Countless small vortexes that were no more than 1mm in diameter were packed closely together to form a huge vortex.
Even though it was a still screenshot, the small vortexes seemed to be alive. They squirmed and even released wisps of black smoke.
Meng Chao even suspected that the millimeter-sized vortexes were formed by countless smaller vortexes that were nano-sized.
Meng Chao felt a numbing electric current surge through his cerebral cortex.
Countless squirming vortexes appeared in the depths of his brain as well.
Kindling suddenly appeared in front of him, and a row of faint golden notifications popped up.
[Increased progress for the Mystery of the Supernatural Entities by 1%. Current progress: 47%.]
'This is …'
Meng Chao's mind raced, and he immediately understood that his guess was correct. A new Supernatural Entity had appeared.
The one who wrote the emails, created the Deification Capsules, and controlled the humans to rob them had to be a brand new Supernatural Entity. It was someone even more terrifying than the Demonic Abyss Eye!
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