Next to him, Sun Gong walked away very wisely.

After Zhou Ming waited for Sun Gong to leave, he clasped his hands and apologized repeatedly with a sincere attitude.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, I was wrong."

He didn't notice at all that he had forgotten Wang Siyan. The reason was probably because he subconsciously felt that Wang Siyan was a very intimidating woman who would never be provoked by anyone, so he felt that Wang Siyan did not need his protection at all.

But he ignored that on a psychological level, the other party was also an ordinary girl who valued privacy...at least she still needed to be guarded when going to the toilet.

"Forget it, that uncle was also shocked by me. He probably didn't know I was there." Wang Siyan waved his hand, too lazy to continue talking, but he had already classified Zhou Ming as an unreliable person in his heart.

Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief and felt that this matter should be over. He thought that Wang Siyan was really easy to talk to.

"Brother Yan is generous!" Zhou Ming cupped his hands and complimented.

"If you really change your mind, next time I go to the toilet, please stay within a ten-meter radius and don't chat with anyone." Wang Siyan glanced at Zhou Ming coldly, which made him feel cold.

"Don't worry about your partner! I'm absolutely reliable!"

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Why are you standing here? Are you compassionate?"

"I just took a look. Oh, by the way, let me ask you, what is the first sign of intellectual evaporation?"

"It depends on the situation. You may experience hallucinations, hearing and smelling sounds, or being in a trance. There are various situations. Why do you ask?"

"Just asking." Zhou Ming hesitated, "I remember... the progress of intellectual evaporation is irregular, right?"

"Yeah." Wang Siyan nodded slightly, frowning slightly, and he became suspicious.

…

The sun sets in the west and darkness comes from the east.

The bonfire was raised and the atmosphere gradually opened up. After the day's exchanges, the passengers gradually became familiar with each other and began to chat with each other about some daily interesting topics. They talked about weird and anecdotes, and these contents were all banned by the "Gagging Order".

》Prohibited.

Zhou Ming sat aside and listened silently, thinking that the gag order could not suppress people's inner desire for fear. Everyone has a need for fear, just like a person walking in a dark forest, even if he knows that lighting a torch will attract terrible beasts

, but still lit the torch, just to see clearly the reality around him.

Just look at the expressions on these people's faces. You can tell that they are indeed frightened by the stories, but they are also very excited.

"Fear is a necessary emotion for human beings, just like happiness. As animals, humans subconsciously know that danger is always there, and the unknown is the biggest danger, so they would rather listen to those scary stories than know nothing.

"

Ping Xingyue's voice came again. Zhou Ming looked up and saw Ping Xingyue sitting on the big rock next to him, wearing a brown long windbreaker and a deerstalker hat often worn by detectives in novels.

Hidden in the dark, half illuminated by firelight.

In Zhou Ming's memory, Ping Xingyue often dressed up in strange ways, which was probably her only weird hobby.

He knew that the Ping Xingyue in front of him was just his hallucination, and he had a very clear understanding of the truth, but the words that the other party said were something he had never thought about.

"If you don't believe me, ask them why they still discuss these things when they know that rumors will spread weirdly." Ping Xingyue said.

Zhou Ming looked at the people chatting around the campfire, followed the suggestion of the illusion, and asked: "What if our discussion creates a monster that does not exist?"

The crowd around the bonfire was quiet for a second, and several middle-aged men among them turned to look at Zhou Ming.

Then, they said in an experienced tone: "Is this your first time outside the wall to do something?"

"That's right." Zhou Ming replied.

"That's right, listen to me, don't worry about the gag order! The relevant departments won't let us talk, and their own investigation is amazing! It's okay if it's people living in the wall. Anyway, you won't encounter monsters if you don't go out.

, but if people like us who travel around here and there don’t know anything, we will die very quickly!”

"We just need to take care of ourselves and don't have to worry about other people's life and death. Look at what the world has become now. If everyone obeyed that gag order, would there be so many monsters now? There must be someone.

Not complying is why there are so many monsters! Since others don’t comply, why should we comply?”

"When there are many monsters, if we don't know anything, won't we die in vain? We would rather know is false than not know. This is the first rule of doing business outside! Young man, do you want to drink?"

"No, thank you." Zhou Ming smiled and waved his hand to refuse, looking thoughtfully at the twisting flames in front of him, and Ping Xingyue's voice came from behind: "Someone has to do it."

He turned to look at the big rock. The flat stars and the moon sitting on the big rock had disappeared.

He felt a slight warmth on his chest, so he picked up the silver chain around his neck and pulled out the silver coin necklace Crow gave him.

The silver coin on it is no longer the original silvery white, and there is a trace of darkness at the edge. The crescent-shaped dark gray forms a sharp contrast with the bright silver in other parts, like a lunar eclipse.

The emergence of hallucinations made Zhou Ming slightly uneasy. He knew that the progress of intellectual evaporation had no rules. The first stage may develop in a few hours, while the second stage of sanity loss may last for several years or even decades.

.

It is also possible that the first and second phases lasted for several years, and then suddenly went crazy one morning. Intellectual evaporation is an area where weirdology cannot establish a systematic theory. In this area, scientists can only rely on summary to optimize the processing of reality.

method.

The Undertaker exists for this purpose. Once the phenomenon of intellectual evaporation occurs, there will be no progress in losing control. The Undertaker is a aftermath organization and a surveillance organization.

However, fortunately, hallucinations are not terminal illnesses that can lead to death in a short period of time. At least if the hallucinations can be clearly identified and easily suppressed, then these hallucinations are just similar to uncontrollable mind wandering in class and will not affect the patient's health.

work and life.

What Zhou Ming was worried about was not the hallucinations, but why he had hallucinations.

The essence of intellectual evaporation is that the accumulation of mantra power in the body exceeds the limit. Factors that promote the accumulation of mantra power in the body include excessive use of mantras in a short period of time, close contact with highly polluted forbidden objects for a long time, and weirdness.

Zhou Ming did not remember that he had been exposed to highly contaminated forbidden objects or weird things, nor did he feel that he had used spells excessively.

The only reason is that the body itself is seriously contaminated.

"Ming, what's wrong? You don't look well." Wang Siyan approached Zhou Ming and looked at his face carefully.

Zhou Ming took a few deep breaths and shook his head: "I feel a little tight in my chest. I'm going to sleep first."

"Oh, then you go to bed first."
Chapter completed!