Brain Control

"Your body?"

The most vicious snake opened its fangs and injected venom into his body, causing him pain, weakness, and suffocation.

The mind was disturbed, the brain cells were filled with incomprehension and doubts, and the train of thought was blocked.The sense of repulsion made him refuse to accept it, but his rationality did not allow him to escape from reality. Zhong Liyu just stood there in a daze, listening to the truth he didn't want to accept being told again.

"Yes. My body, I am the real Doomsday White Star." The tone of contempt for all living beings made a terrifying announcement.

"The brain doesn't match the body, you returned to your own body—where's Ye Ling?!" Fear made him blurt out.

"She (he)..." Aaron put away his arrogance and returned to calm: "...of course she (he) is where she (he) should be. Don't worry, she's still alive."

His life was confirmed, half of his flustered and high-hanging heart was put down instantly, and his sanity returned.Regretting that the tea poisoned his internal organs, his beating heart knew better than his thinking how much he cared about her.calm down!Zhong Liyu kept telling himself that the matter had just begun, so he had to cheer up.

Seeing him cheer up again, Aaron sighed amusedly: "Jane, it must be very disappointing to see you like this."

Another name that made Zhong Liyu's heart tremble with fear.

"You, know my grandfather?"

"It's not too much to say that a politician and a scientist overlap."

But there is a problem with such intimacy.

"Curious? Do you want to know about me and Jane, or about Chen Xi?"

The successive blows made Zhong Liyu tired of their teasing attitude.A succinct announcement: "All."

"Greedy brat."

"With Yi Xinxin, I have already made a choice, and it's up to you to fulfill your promise."

"It's true, although your answer is watery, I have to give you something in return."

"Are you going to tell me everything?"

"The part that touches my interests, of course I can't tell the enemy."

Zhong Liyu couldn't refute this reason.If it were him, he would not confess to the enemy.It's just that he has never worked so hard to get information from people.It is impossible to use the ability, and it is unrealistic to subdue it by force.Not to mention that their brain-controlling abilities will restrict his actions, the body Aaron uses alone cannot be subdued by him.The enemy is strong and we are weak—forbearance! Take out the resilience in the officialdom and adapt to the situation.

"Please tell me what you can say." Zhong Liyu slowed down his tone neither humble nor overbearing.

"I say you listen, or you ask me to answer?"

"You speak first."

"Alright." Aaron raised the diary in his hand.Zhong Liyu had long recognized that it was an invisible note made by himself.He was reading the diary just now, but he didn't wear eyes, so he could see invisible text?

Aaron raised his hand, and the diary turned into blue smoke and condensed into a huge paper in the air, hanging in the air like a heavenly book.The scene also changed accordingly, the terrace disappeared, the earth was no longer there, and they were in the vast universe.A blue planet surrounded by white clouds appeared between the two of them.That is the home planet of the pupated people, Earth.

Illusion, Zhong Liyu knows very well that this ability combines fiction and reality to make it difficult to distinguish between real and fake.So it's not surprising how the physical diary turned into a heavenly book.What concerned him was that what Aaron wanted to explain went back to the earth, and he felt uneasy.

The part of the diary that records the suspicious points of the case is enlarged into the air.

The first paragraph: In 2049, a meteor shower appeared over the Earth's Asian continent. When it passed through the atmosphere, the meteorite disintegrated in the form of dust and scattered to the surface.People and animals who inhale these dusts will experience varying degrees of oxygen production in their lungs within a year.In this regard, a new race has appeared: people with self-oxygen lungs.

The illusion vividly reproduces this evolutionary history, making people feel as if they were there.There must be hidden secrets in such a mind-consuming imagery.Zhongliyu waited for the answer with bated breath, for fear of missing something.

Aaron also became serious, and said solemnly: "This part has nothing to do with me."

"..."

In the deathly silence, Zhong Liyu seemed to see a hint of ridicule from Aaron's serious face.Being tricked again, he pursed his lips tightly, complaining silently, I don't appreciate your humor.

"You wrote it." Aaron said innocently, as if Zhong Liyu was at fault.

Zhong Liyu was patient and reiterated: "Please start with the part that has something to do with you."

"Young man, you are so impatient."

Zhong Liyu frowned, not out of displeasure, but out of curiosity, Aaron raised his eyebrows twice.He wasn't even a few years older than he was when he was Boulanger.A little doubt, pressed in the bottom of my heart, without words.

The scene returns from the Oxygen society to the silent space, the earth and the huge text.

The second paragraph: In 2569, in order to solve the loss caused by the civil war, the human regime was unified into one, named: Yonghe.

"This is related to me. But the time has to be pushed forward to 2489." Aaron said while admiring Zhong Liyu's focused expression and the subtle changes in his heart.

"Oxygen lungs have accelerated the progress of human exploration of the universe. In 2489, a spacecraft from a certain country caught a huge meteorite with vital signs during space exploration. A very magical life was stripped from it. A low-pressure space will Expansion of dead unknown organisms. Therefore, the researchers put it in a high-pressure space and successfully separated the living organisms. The next step is how to feed it and study it. They tried many methods and spent a long time making it from the high-pressure environment Adapt to the low-pressure environment. There are many twists and turns in this process, because they discovered that this unknown creature can affect the consciousness of people close to him."

"This is the origin of the brain-controlling ability!" Zhong Liyu sighed to himself, and he knew that this ability must be traceable.Now he finally found the source, but this unreserved history made Zhong Liyu stare at the narrator in front of him with deep worry.Follow up: "And then?"

"Then..." Aaron said with a sneering smile: "The more dangerous and mysterious things are, the more fascinating they are. The research has been intermittent, and several waves of researchers have been changed. After decades, there is finally a qualitative breakthrough. They can and it Consciousness communication. This is not only the result of human efforts, but also its strong desire to survive and its ambition."

The pride did not escape Zhong Liyu's eyes, and the previous premonition was slowly verified.Looking at the quiet lump of white object in the huge ring-shaped glass cover made by the illusion, he asked worriedly: "You, are you that space creature?!"

"It's forced, and your heart is telling me, and you want me to deny it. Unfortunately, you guessed it."

Unfortunately, it is bad news for everyone, and countless cognitions have been subverted.Zhong Liyu complained that he lived too rationally and realistically.Never used the plot in the science fiction drama as a reference.

Aaron watched his body shaken by the truth with cold eyes.Anxiety, nervousness and other negative emotions make the throat dry up and down.Aaron beckoned and asked the domestic machine to bring water and chairs.Zhong Liyu took the water and drank it all in one gulp, but he didn't sit down and asked him to continue talking.

The illusion was frozen in the laboratory without any change, only Aaron's eloquent monologue remained.

"For you, the ability to control the brain is a rare and dangerous special function, but for me, it is just a way of communication. The original me has no vision, hearing, or speech functions. My companions and I can only communicate with consciousness. Consciousness perceives the world. This ability is very coincidental, and it can be used on you. But across planets and species, my consciousness information is definitely different from what you think. Human languages ​​and vocabulary are too complicated, and I am in a half-dead state , learn your language, and finally understand each other's intentions. You want to study my ability, and I need you to do something for me."

"what's up?"

"You can see that I need a body. I don't know what happened to my planet. My companions and I were sprayed into space by a huge energy. The low-pressure environment will kill us, so we must hug each other. The discarded part is used as a pressure barrier to protect the important core. That is the part you will dissect out in the future."

"You lost your body?"

"It can't be said to be lost, but it is not suitable for the environment at that time. Like the brain-machine man, I only have a brain without a body, so I am not safe and cannot move freely. Of course, I can also use the fuselage like a hippocampus, but I After all, I am a creature, and I still prefer to stay in a body of flesh and blood. It is a pity that the earth creature is not suitable for my boarding, and it is difficult to guarantee my basic diet, let alone my body."

"Since you can't guarantee food, how did you survive?"

"Like me wandering in space, I live by cannibalism. It's hard to understand. I'm different from you. People eat people, and the person who gets eaten doesn't live in the body of the person who eats him, but we can .Consciousness allows information to be shared, and if you gnaw away the shared information, you can live for a longer period of time. Of course, this time is definitely different from the calculation method of your three meals a day. Otherwise, I would have starved to death in space."

It is really a rare species, tenacious and peculiar, Zhong Liyu can understand why those biologists are crazy about it. "You are an integration!"

"It can be understood in this way. I have adapted to the earth's environment and made a living to keep myself alive, but this is not a long-term solution. So I want to borrow your power to find my home planet for me, but I have no idea about the location of my own planet. And You are always fighting civil wars, seriously affecting the progress of space exploration."

"So, you used your abilities to unify the human race!"

"Yes. This is your wish too. The researchers who are in charge of me always complain to me that international political conflicts hinder them. A unified regime is beneficial to both parties. This is called mutual benefit."

How sad!The peaceful unification of the Oxygens is not the consciousness of human beings themselves, but comes from the manipulation of an alien creature.Sad and reasonable.Zhong Liyu thought of Neihuaxing, and asked, "Neihuaxing doesn't have creatures like you..."

"Do you think my companions were extinct in a disaster like dinosaurs?"

"Isn't it?"

"Of course not. Although they are all high-pressure environments, Neihua Star is not my home star. As I said just now, I have no vision, so I don't know the environment and species appearance of my home star. I rely on the images sent back by satellites. The data can’t tell the difference between it and my home planet. It wasn’t until I arrived at Nevastar with the scientific expedition team that I realized something was wrong. I can extract food that meets my needs. Moreover, by combining some of my cells with the earth's organisms, I can reproduce a more powerful body."

"Wan Rongji. The scientific research team claimed that the rare factor discovered on Neva was originally from you. In order to hide the source, you made future generations think that it was an extinct fungus extract."

"That's right. If you want to live safely, you have to know how to hide your strength and bide your time..."

"Not even known."

"That's right." Aaron seemed to have found a confidant, but Zhong Liyu was unmoved.

"In other words, the chrysalis is a three-star hybrid. And you, in order to have a suitable body, created a chrysalis!"

"Don't say it as if I'm the only one who benefits. Aren't you also pursuing immortality and supernatural powers. I realized the interests of both parties."

"You've killed countless people, too."

"Reformation always requires sacrifice. When you studied me, how many of my companions were killed, and I didn't ask you to settle accounts."

"How to explain the Doomsday White Star incident?"

"That..." Aaron hesitated to speak, and Zhong Liyu could see the subtle emotional changes. He was reminiscing about a very important past event, but it was hard to see his state of mind.

"It's a long story. When I created a body that met my needs, I didn't stop looking for the mother star. In fact, at that time, I didn't even know if it still existed, and the search became a kind of spiritual sustenance. The age of pupation It’s not like the self-oxygen era. The fission of your regime has greatly affected space exploration. Although I secretly kept Yonghe, the general trend cannot hypnotize everyone. Therefore, under that background, it is not easy to allocate resources to find my home planet. Even if In this way, in 3462 (the year 3510 of the Doomsday White Star Disaster), my home planet was miraculously discovered by the exploration machine." Aaron's tone revealed the pride of having gone through hardships and getting what he wanted.

This kind of mentality Zhong Liyu has experienced many times from many people who panicked, rescued themselves tenaciously, and returned.Understanding is understanding, but its atrocities cannot be tolerated.Zhong Liyu abandoned his sympathy and asked indifferently: "And then?"

"What do you think will happen?"

"You...can't go back. When you adapt to the living environment outside, it is impossible to adapt to the original life." This is the most reasonable result that Zhongliyu can think of based on Aaron's previous narration.

"That's right." Aaron affirmed frankly: "Not only my body, but also my cognition is contaminated with human emotions and ideas. Such me, I was regarded as a different kind by my companions and rejected. For those who want to go back to For me in my hometown, what a tragedy this is, and the pupated people in the early stages of this feeling can understand it best."

Although Zhong Liyu has not experienced the age of pupation and migration of the National People's Congress, he can feel the homesickness of his ancestors who cannot return to the earth and the sadness of being rejected by his own race from many literary works.

The pupation crisis did not turn all self-oxygenated people into pupated people.It is the one percent of the population that survived the disaster and has grown again after thousands of years.They reject pupated humans, and believe that hybrids with animals are not worthy of being called humans.Discrimination from the home planet, and the objective reasons for not being able to live without the Neva star, made it impossible for them to return to Earth.

Sympathizing with each other should be sympathetic, but: "You blamed humans for this reason?"

"You can't use mind reading, and your brain will be ridiculous."

The sharp criticism made Zhong Liyu feel ashamed.Taking a breath, he thought about changing his words: "You are very patient and know how to judge the situation. You are smart, you should have expected that you would not be able to integrate into the ethnic group, and you must be mentally prepared."

"go on."

"You who have traveled the stars and broadened your horizons will not stick to your hometown and be a frog in the bottom of the well. Going home is only the motivation for your survival. You will not change yourself but change them. You want to make them as you can do whatever you want A partner in interstellar life. However, you also said that change comes with sacrifice. There is a problem with your improvement of the same kind."

After expressing his opinion in one breath, Zhongliyu waited with bated breath.

Aaron raised his hand to applaud him: "Well said. That's the truth."

Zhongliyu didn't act as a detective just to get his praise.

"What happened?" He couldn't guess the details.This question is very important, it concerns the safety of Yonghe and even the entire pupated people, he is afraid that it will not say anything, so he asks it dignifiedly and anxiously.