"Well …"
Frowning, Li Yao watched the beast-like man attack ferociously in the test room. Caught unprepared, the researcher could only dodge, only to be hit by the man's metal chair. He then glanced at the scan in Zhuge Jinglun's hand and asked, "What does it mean?"
"Look at this. He's really good at hiding, but he still exposed himself in the last few questions."
Zhuge Jinglun pointed at the mottled light spots on the tomography and compared them with the tomography of normal people. "Have you found anything different?"
He was so gloating that he did not seem to be talking to the powerful Black Wind King, but more like a teacher talking to an ignorant kid.
"The spots on the brain of normal people are dense, but the spots on the scan are scattered, and there's a clear boundary in the middle."
Thankfully, Li Yao did not care about the rules. He studied the scan for a long time and replied dutifully, "Then? What does it mean?"
"Medically speaking, we divide the brain into three parts, namely the cerebral nucleus, the limbic system, and the cerebral cortex. The cerebral nucleus is responsible for breathing, heartbeat, awakening, movement, sleep, balance, and other basic physiological parameters. It maintains the animal instincts of human beings.
"The limbic system, on the other hand, is responsible for the emotions, memories, glands, and so on.
"The cerebral cortex, which is the outer layer of the brain where people usually see the ravines, is the area responsible for rational thinking and high-level perception.
"When a normal person's brain is active, the three areas, especially the limbic system and the cerebral cortex, are closely connected. Black Wind King, please take a look. This is the scan of a normal person's brain when he burst into fury. Do you see it? The limbic system and the cerebral cortex are almost the same brightness, and there's no obvious boundary in the middle. It's safe to say that his whole brain is on fire.
"Let's look at the scans we just got. Look, the spots on the limbic system are relatively dim, and the spots on the cerebral cortex are dazzling. They're far apart from each other, and there's a clear boundary in the middle. It's like …"
"It's as if his limbic system and cerebral cortex have been separated, each forming an isolated system."
Li Yao said, "When this person thinks and acts, he mostly uses the cerebral cortex, which is the rational thinking, but he rarely uses the limbic system, which is the emotional thinking."
"That's right, that's it!"
Zhuge Jinglun grimaced. "We've encountered some unfortunate patients who suffered severe brain trauma and had to separate the right and left halves of their brains for treatment. Do you know that even if all the nerves between the two halves of their brains are cut off, they won't die, and their ability to live a normal life will not be affected. Instead, they'll be better at math or art, but their personalities will be very … weird.
"It's the same for those people. You can simply understand it as a minor surgery between the limbic system and the cerebral cortex that cut off most of the neural connections between them and the pathways between feelings and rationality.
"There are only two kinds of people who would have this kind of brain condition. One is a cold-blooded killer with no humanity, and the other is a member of the Holy League. Do you know what kind of consequences this kind of brain mutation will cause?"
Li Yao asked, "What consequences?"
"Lack of empathy."
Zhuge Jinglun said, "Empathy is almost everybody's natural instinct. I'm a human being, and so are you. I don't want to be hurt, so I don't want to hurt you. Everybody has a childhood and children. We want to protect our children at all costs, so we love other people's children. We even want to protect kittens and puppies, and we can't bear to kill those animals.
"The closer a species is to us and the more similar they are to us, the stronger our empathy will be. Such instincts are the foundation for intelligent lives to establish a society and cannot be erased by training. Therefore, even the strong Immortal Cultivators will feel empathy and 'pity' when they are faced with the ordinary people who are too weak to do anything.
"Why do the Immortal Cultivators propagate that ordinary people are just 'hominoids', an inferior 'subspecies of human beings', and human-shaped pigs who are born to be shameless, lazy, useless, and even evil? It is exactly because the Immortal Cultivators have the ability of empathy deep down in their hearts, too, that they will feel pity and guilt when they attack their own kind. That is why we have to label the ordinary people as' hominoids' or even 'inhuman' so that we can slaughter them more or less peacefully.
"In other words, even for the coldest Immortal Cultivators, killing their own kind will touch their heart.
"However, for those who lack empathy, they don't care at all.
"They don't care about other people's feelings, the life of an innocent girl, their family, or even their own lives.
"That's exactly what a lot of serial killers are. They often kill people for a few bucks or even for no good reason. They don't feel guilty or scared. They don't care what will happen to them after they are caught at all. Life is just an item in their eyes, including themselves.
"They are not necessarily all 'ignorant beasts'. In fact, many serial killers are highly educated, respectable, and successful people in the upper class. They have very high EQ and IQ, and they don't need to kill people at all! But they still take the risk and send themselves to the execution ground. However, the moment when the bullets open their skulls, they still do not feel the slightest fear. They don't care. They just don't care!
"Therefore, we have designed a series of questions. Leaving aside the fake questions that are highly disturbing and confusing, the real question is to examine what the testees care about.
"The simplest example is that when a normal person discovers that a wasp is stinging their hand, they will dodge or drive it away immediately because they care about their body and do not want to be hurt. Who cares about the color of the wasp?
"By the same logic, whether they are in a desert, whether their mother is fatally wounded, or whether the whole world is beyond recognition … How can a normal person be indifferent to the tests when their own life is threatened, their family, their home, and even the whole world is threatened?
"However, you've seen the brain scans of our tester, haven't you? Whether he is dying of thirst on a desert planet, his mother is dying in a pool of blood, or the whole world is about to be destroyed by the Smart Machines' rebellion, and even his basic understanding as a human being has been subverted, he doesn't care at all. He doesn't care at all.
"Agitation. When his cerebral cortex is active, which means that he is thinking actively, his limbic system only shows' agitation '. He is indifferent to everything, even if he is a' Wiseware 'with a crystal processor inside his skull. It is the most typical manifestation of the extreme lack of empathy."
"That explains a lot. I finally get it."
Li Yao took a long breath in relief. "So, Director Zhuge, you can conclude that he's from the Holy League!"
Zhuge Jinglun stared at Li Yao for a long time and smiled mysteriously.
"No, he's not from the Holy League. He's just a ruthless murderer."
Zhuge Jinglun smiled like a meat bun that had been flattened. "Although he didn't seem to care about all the previous questions, the last question still touched the deepest pain in his heart and made him more or less empathic. In the end, he was finally more or less like a human being!"
Li Yao was stunned, not knowing what Zhuge Jinglun meant. "The last question? It's just that … this is his subconscious world, and he's actually a poor girl who was sold to a shabby alley by her cruel parents … Is there anything special about the question? "
"Of course there is. Our question isn't made up. The poor girl who was sold by her father is indeed his daughter."
Zhuge Jinglun retrieved the tester's profile. In the photo, the tester looked gentle and graceful. "Look at him. He's not bad, right? He was a popular middle school teacher."
"Ah …"
Li Yao looked at the photo and then at the beast who was pressed to the ground by a couple of muscular men. He couldn't have been more different from the guy.
However, when he thought about it carefully, although the words used by this man were crude, his logical thinking was quite meticulous. He did seem to have received a higher education.
How could such a person sell his own daughter?!
"Before the age of forty, the tester had always been an ordinary, dutiful middle school teacher. He was no different from a normal person. But unfortunately, he was brought to a casino by a friend and became addicted to gambling. He lost all his property and even owed a lot of money to loan sharks."
Zhuge Jinglun said expressionlessly, "Since then, the guy's ruthless personality was awakened. He sold his own daughter to a gang to repay the loan sharks, and after his wife and mother found out, he brutally murdered two of his beloved women. He even dismembered them calmly and faked the crime scene, pretending that he was a gang member who failed to extort the debt. Oh, he even insured his mother and wife with a lot of accident insurance so that he could continue gambling.
"He is such an inhumane scumbag, a demon who is worse than an animal. Even when it comes to the issue of his mother lying in a pool of blood, he is not touched at all.
"However, it's a pity that he's just a demon and not a member of the Holy League. Deep down in his heart, he still felt guilty about his daughter. So, he collapsed when he was hit by the last question.
"The brain scans and the brainwaves are all on the surface. He really collapsed, not just for show."
Li Yao was lost for words. He simply felt that the guy who came up with the Ring-Tu Test was a lunatic!
"If he's not a member of the Holy League …" Long Yangjun suddenly said.
Long Yangjun suddenly asked, "What did Director Zhuge mean by 'you've been caught' just now?"
At this moment, a door was opened, and a researcher covered in wounds walked out cursing. He was slightly stunned to see Zhuge Jinglun and the rest of them. Then, he complained loudly, "Director, our security measures should be upgraded. We should at least change to a sturdier chair. Those lunatics are all too strong!
"How unlucky. The Holy League guy hasn't been caught yet, and I've been beaten up for nothing. Hiss!"
The researcher grimaced in fury.
"Alright, when we interrogate you later …"
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