The young man was a Caucasian with a head of brown hair, sunken eyes, and blue pupils that exuded a sense of fatigue.
He sat up on the bed, grabbed the wooden sculpture, and stroked the nine snake whiskers on its chin.
Then he shook his head: "Professor, do you want to test whether or not I have the Deep One effect? I've already touched it more than 9 times "
Mo Qiong looked at the young man in shock, then heard Professor Sang say: "But you haven't had a single nightmare, you can't even sleep"
Despite saying that, the professor still arranged for a tank of water to be placed on the other side of the bed.
The young man then walked over, sat down in the tank, and immersed himself.
Seeing that, Mo Qiong couldn't help but ask: "He's a D-class personnel?"
Dangerous experiments were usually done by D-class personnel, and this young man was being used as a test subject, so Mo Qiong naturally thought so.
But Professor Sang replied: "No, he's a preacher"
"A preacher?" Mo Qiong was surprised.
He had wanted to ask this question for a long time. Two hours ago, when Old An saw the preacher, he told him that the anomaly was a Gamma-class anomaly.
Although he didn't know how powerful a Gamma-class anomaly was, the preacher was undoubtedly a very special one, otherwise, Old An wouldn't have specifically mentioned that there was a preacher in the escort team.
On the other hand, Mo Qiong already had his own guesses about the Gamma-class because he had heard about Alpha and Beta before, and Gamma was the third Greek letter after them.
So, Mo Qiong felt that a Gamma-class anomaly could be considered a third-class anomaly.
"Hm, a member who possesses great self-control and firm conviction to hold, suppress, control, and utilize the anomaly's power. In other words, the preacher himself is the containment mechanism for one or more anomalies"
While Professor Sang was explaining, the young man jumped out of the water and shook his head, shaking off the water droplets: "I can't, I still need to breathe"
"A nightmare is a ritual, without accepting the nightmare effect, you won't receive the Deep One effect" Professor Sang explained.
"You have an anomaly that can't sleep?" Mo Qiong abruptly asked, having seen through the trick.
The young man opened his dead fish eyes wide, silently wiping away the water droplets. Professor Sang replied: "He really can't sleep"
Mo Qiong shouted: "Wouldn't this anomaly be able to save that person who's aging by sleeping for a year? That smog! Isn't this anomaly the bane of smog? "
"Perhaps you want to say that it has many side effects and unpredictable dangers, but if you don't do it, that person will soon die. I believe that no matter what the consequences are, he will be willing to accept it, right?"
When the young man heard this, he said, "Smog? I also went that time, but unfortunately, the situation was urgent, and twelve of our comrades were infected. They are now dozens of years older. "
"Is there no way to save him?" Mo Qiong pondered for a moment and understood.
If they could really be saved, it wouldn't have dragged on until now. During the containment operation, 12 people from the Lan Bai Society had been infected. If they could be saved, they wouldn't have aged so much.
The young man shook his head: "There are no anomalies that can prevent people from sleeping. Humans need to sleep, other than me … the only thing we can do is to use various technologies and medicines to prolong their lifespan"
"Then you …" Mo Qiong stared at the young man. This person had also gone, but he wasn't infected. He was still so young.
The young man looked at the camera and smiled weakly with a pair of dead fish eyes. Obviously, he also had a similar screen.
He then smiled: "I'm also infected, but I can't sleep at all. Haha, I've lived for over 20 years, but I still don't know what sleep feels like."
"This …" Mo Qiong was stunned. Over 20 years? How old is this person?
Dr. Sang explained: "Ever since David was born, he hasn't slept at all. Whether it was the strong sleeping pills or the physical effects of fainting, they were all meaningless to him. Later on, we confirmed that he has the [Mind Resistance] effect. So far, he has come into contact with over 18 anomalies with the [Mind Distortion] effect, but he hasn't been affected at all "
"He is the purest and most powerful [Mind Distortion] agent in the world right now, he can't even sleep normally … he is an extremely rare humanoid anomaly …"
"What …" as soon as he heard that, Mo Qiong understood how important a man who was immune to [Mind Distortion] was to the Lan Bai Society who suppressed anomalies.
No wonder he became a preacher at such a young age, he was practically a natural-born containment agent.
However, when Mo Qiong looked at David's dead fish eyes again, his gaze completely devoid of motivation, he couldn't help but ask: "Are you tired? You haven't slept at all, can you handle it? "
David replied dejectedly: "Ah, it's not that bad. Compared to [Mind Distortion], the lack of sleep is my true and absolute characteristic, [Mind Distortion] is only a side effect … Haha, I've also been affected by anomalies before, but nothing has ever caused me to fall asleep. My mind is always stimulated, my brain is never tired, my mind is always clear, my consciousness has never been interrupted, not even for a second … "
"Even the [Mind Distortion] effect of getting one year older every time you sleep was discovered because of me. In fact, if you don't sleep, you won't age … In other words, the smog that killed so many people didn't kill me, but instead gave me the effect of eternal youth … haha"
Dr. Sang muttered in a low voice: "David …"
David shrugged: "Don't worry, if I can sleep, then I'll sleep. If I can't, then so be it, I'm not worried about it anymore"
At first, Mo Qiong didn't know what David was suffering from, or what Dr. Sang was worried about.
But he soon understood. A person whose thoughts were never cut off was living a tiring life. Even if he didn't feel tired, a person who never stopped thinking was the same as not knowing what peace was.
When others were thinking, he was thinking. When others were resting, he was still thinking. He had a lot more time to study compared to others, but too much was as bad as not enough. His consciousness was always clear, so he couldn't even empty his mind or go into a daze.
This feeling of being mentally tired but not mentally tired was hard to imagine, and impossible to understand.
Perhaps, the only way to experience true peace was to wait until death …
No, based on the nature of anomalies, there was another possibility for David, which was that after death, he would still be able to maintain his consciousness … but at that time, he would no longer be alive, so other than thinking, he would be able to stay awake in the endless darkness of death.
With that in mind, Mo Qiong was shocked. It wasn't that this possibility didn't exist. If he could think of it, then these people must have thought of it as well.
"Mo Qiong, the fact that you can break free from the nightmare means that you yourself have the effect of mental resistance …" Dr. Sang continued the previous topic.
After listening to him, Mo Qiong finally understood why he was called here. It was because he wanted to be tested together with David to save time.
David had volunteered to participate in this experiment. He wanted to see if the wooden sculpture could make him fall asleep.
Originally, as a preacher, he wasn't allowed to come into contact with anomalies for no reason. After all, he was very important. Previously, when the smog was about to spread to a crowded area, he should have been the one to participate.
If he had nothing better to do, what if he fell for it?
However, it was known that the mental resistance effect could resist or nullify the effects of mental distortion, and as the world's strongest mental resistance user, if even he couldn't break free from the dream, then no one else could.
Not to mention, with Mo Qiong as an example of someone who managed to break free from the nightmare, the higher-ups approved David's request.
The time was set to be today. Since David happened to be escorting a Gamma-class anomaly to Meng Island, he could use this opportunity to come into contact with the wooden sculpture.
Mental distortion was a general category, including hypnosis, sensory manipulation, thought distortion, emotional manipulation, ideological distortion, etc … all effects that could affect one's personality were mental distortions.
Similarly, mental resistance was also a general category, capable of resisting one or more mental distortions.
There weren't many mental resistance users in the Lan Bai Society, but there were still quite a few of them, and most of them were caused by anomalies. Most mental resistance users only had a single effect, and the resistance effect itself wasn't their main characteristic, but rather one side of a multifaceted effect.
There was no need for the professor to explain what a multifaceted effect was, as Mo Qiong had already learned a lot about it from old An.
For example, when a person was infected with a certain effect, they would accumulate all of their anger, then only erupt on the night of the full moon, turning into a monster.
On the other hand, when it wasn't the night of the full moon, they wouldn't become angry, no matter what method they used, they wouldn't be angered, and their anger would only manifest on the night of the full moon.
This was a case of a characteristic having multiple effects, one of which could make them immune to irrational rage.
Even though he was infected with a mental distortion effect, due to certain conditions, he was able to resist the effects of other anomalies in certain aspects of his body.
Fortune came with misfortune, while misfortune came with misfortune.
This was the case for most anomalies, where what appeared to be a side effect or a cost might actually have a positive effect.
And what appeared to be a benefit might also be a danger.
Because of this, the Lan Bai Society recommended not using anomalies as much as possible, even if the results were satisfactory, there would always be a price to pay.
But when necessary, they had no choice but to use them. Because if an anomaly was used well, even if there was a price to pay, it would still be able to suppress other anomalies.
David Wumianzhe was the only known fully resistant anomaly.
Not only that, he was also an extremely rare humanoid anomaly, not because he was infected with an anomaly effect, but because he was born this way.
Because of this, the Lan Bai Society wanted to see what kind of mental resistance Mo Qiong had.
[Mo Qiong, are you willing to accept a virtual reality test?]
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