Chapter 468: Squirming Vortex

The interrogator fell silent for a moment before they said, “Looks like you have some misunderstandings toward the relationship between superhumans and normal people.

“You were deceived. Who told you these things?”

“I wasn’t deceived! That’s the truth!” the robber shouted out.

“You superhumans declare that you’re protecting Dragon City and fight for humans, but you’re just standing on the normal people’s shoulders and stealing everything from us! Yet we don’t have any power to fight back against your rule! We can only be controlled by you!

“We let you do whatever you want with us! Let you stuff us into spaces that are only fit for dogs and pigs! We eat synthesized food made of earthworm meat and monster poop! We can never see hope of becoming successful! We even have to be grateful when you save us!

“But things are better now! With the Deification Capsules, normal people can obtain power equal to that of superhumans! We don’t need to rely on you anymore! We can protect ourselves and our homes!

“A grand, new era is about to descend upon us! We no longer need superhumans! Dragon City no longer needs superhumans! Human civilization no longer needs superhumans!”

“You will die.” The interrogator had gradually gotten used to the robber’s disorderly logic and calmly pointed out the truth. “If you take the Deification Capsule for a long time, the chances of death will continue piling up, and you will be unable to continue draining yourself. If this continues, you will die from every bit of energy being squeezed out of you.”

“No, I won’t! As long as I have enough cultivation resources, the Deification Capsules will release the greatest potential in my human body! It’s absolutely stable and safe!” the robber screeched. “But we’ll die if you superhumans monopolize everything and are unwilling to give us cultivation resources! That’s right, you’re scared of normal people awakening to supernatural abilities and threatening your rule! That’s why you hid away all the cultivation resources!

“You’re scared of us! You’re the ones who want to stand by and watch us die!”

The robber’s eyes moved faster and faster. His skin turned redder, and smoke came out of his orifices.

He could not move, but he used the back of his head to knock against the metal headboard violently, which created loud banging sounds. It sent chills down Meng Chao’s spine.

But the man did not seem to have noticed it. Instead, he let out strange cackles. There was a crazed, longing look on his face, as if he could see the arrival of the new era in his hallucinations.

Based on the skyrocketing figures on the monitor, Meng Chao could tell that the robbers’ organs and cells were all vibrating madly. Very soon, he would reach the border for human combustion.

The interrogator could only increase the dose of tranquilizers.

But even after increasing the dosage until it was five times greater than the maximum amount a normal person could endure, it was still not enough to make the robber fall into deep sleep. It could only make him calm down a little, and from shouting hysterically he went to mumbling in broken fragments.

The video ended at that point.

“Meng Chao, what are your thoughts?” Shen Yupeng asked.

“There’s something off about what he said.” Meng Chao thought carefully about it. “‘Human civilization no longer needs superhumans.’ These eloquent words shouldn’t come out of a normal robber’s mouth. It’s like the words seen in books. Someone must have taught him these things or even used a psychological skill to repeatedly inject these words into his head.”

Shen Yupeng looked at Zhou Chong.

“That’s right. What the robber said isn’t the main point. In any case, all robbers have their own circular logic.”

Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong opened a few brain scans on his tablet. “During the interrogation, we observed the robber’s brain closely, and we noticed that his brain is different from a normal person’s.”

For comparison, Zhou Chong brought out a normal person’s brain scan and tapped open a superhuman’s brain scan.

Even if Meng Chao had zero knowledge regarding brains, he could still tell 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.

But the butterfly wings of the robber’s brain scan were in fragments. The colors in certain regions were too bright, while others were really dark. They were like black dots scattered all over his brain.

“Once we made comparisons of the robber’s brain scan with the pathology database, we found that the robber seems to be under some really advanced hypnosis,” Zhou Chong said.

“It’s not the normal hypnosis, where the person is in a muddled state and can be controlled however the other party likes. The robber has a clear sense of self, logic, and deduction abilities. He knew who he was, and he believed that everything he did came from his own heart.

“But a small ‘idea’ was implanted in his mind. ‘Superhumans stole all our resources, so I must retrieve everything that belongs to me.’”

Meng Chao immediately remembered the Demonic Abyss Eye.

Since the monster civilization could create one Demonic Abyss Eye, it would not be hard for them to create a second Demonic Abyss Eye.

“We also noticed that some of the robber’s brain tissues are about the same as those of an addict,” Zhou Chong continued. “His central nervous system and certain brain tissues have been corroded. That’s why he’s heavily dependent on the Deification Capsules.”

Meng Chao’s pupils shrank swiftly. “Senior Zhou, are you saying that the Deification Capsules are addictive?”

“Based on our test results, which we obtained after a whole night of analysis, mind you, it seems like it,” Zhou Chong said. “In truth, spirit energy itself has certain addictive properties. When we inhale and exhale spirit energy, we cleanse our bone marrows, bones, and brains, and that peerless pleasure is something no enjoyment can ever replace.

“Many superhumans cast aside a life of luxury and enjoyment and throw themselves completely into training. They even go to places filled with the dead to kill just so that they can continuously experience this increasingly powerful pleasure.

“But superhumans slowly upgrade this pleasure during their long years of cultivation. The most important lesson in the path of cultivation is to subjugate our desire for spirit energy and learn how to control it.

“Most of the users of the Deification Capsules are normal people. Only a handful of them are broken-star superhumans or one-star superhumans.

“The Deification Capsules can stimulate their brain cells so that they can taste the pleasure that can only be obtained by Heaven Realm superhumans or even Deity Realm superhumans within a short period of time. After this, there’s no way they will not end up as the slaves of these Deification Capsules.”

Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng looked at each other.

They also remembered what Ning Lang had said.

The Other World was a place where the strong ruled and feasted on the weak. The desire among normal people for strength was one hundred times greater than on Earth.

And with the highly addictive properties, the Deification Capsules were basically the most terrifying stimulants.

“This means that there is indeed a mastermind behind these robbers?” Shen Yupeng scowled. “Did you manage to find how this person managed to hypnotize the robbers? We obtained a testimony from another robber. The mastermind should not have met with the robbers.”

“There’s no need for them to meet. An email will do.”

Zhou Chong brought out a screenshot of an email.

The contents of the email were very simple. It was the number of a storage box in a supermarket located in a downtown area, where a lot of people went.

The email had to have asked the robbers to go there to retrieve the Deification Capsules or weapons.

However, there was a vortex watermark on the email.

At first glance, it looked like the scribbles of an elementary school student. The lines in the circle varied in terms of breadth and were entangled with each other in a mess.

But if they stared at it, the vortex gained a strange, attractive nature, as if it could suck in a person’s soul.

Even Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng instinctively drew closer to the tablet, wanting to take a closer look.

When they realized it, both of them broke into cold sweat.

“What a powerful picture. What is it?” Meng Chao gasped in amazement.

“This is an email the other party sent to the robber’s mailbox in the deep web. Our technician recovered it. Unfortunately, the deep web’s mail boxes all have multiple email shredders. We can’t recover more data,” Zhou Chong said. “As for the vortex-like shading, based on our research, it should be some sort of ancient runic symbol. It can subtly hypnotize a person and implant certain thoughts in them.”

“Implanting thoughts through a picture?” Meng Chao was in disbelief. “Isn’t that a bit far-fetched?”

“It’s not far-fetched at all. In truth, there are plenty of examples in life when people implanted thoughts in others through pictures,” Zhou Chong said. “If you let a normal person see the picture of a skeleton or rotting corpse, I can guarantee you that he will have shivers down his spine. He might even experience a few days’ worth of nightmares.

“But if you show a man a picture of a beautiful lady, not only will you implant thoughts in him, you might even cause a certain organ on his body to change. Besides, there are advertisements all over the streets. Their goals are to control people’s thoughts.

“These vortices are the same. It’s just that they’re even more advanced than the pictures and advertisements we usually see.

“It might look simple and appear to be a child’s scribbles, but in truth, the information contained in each vortex is one hundred times higher than in super high-definition pictures and videos!”

While Zhou Chong spoke, he continued magnifying the screenshot.

In the beginning, Meng Chao did not notice anything unusual. He just thought that the strokes that formed the vortex were uneven and rough. They gave off a furry feeling.

Then, when Zhou Chong magnified the picture ten times, Meng Chao finally saw that the strokes forming the vortex were actually made of multiple tiny vortices.

They were less than 1 mm and packed densely together to form a huge vortex.

It was clearly a still screenshot, but the tiny vortices seemed to possess life. They appeared to be squirming and releasing wisps of black smoke.

Meng Chao even began to suspect that the vortices that could only be measured in the millimeters were formed by countless other even smaller vortices that could only be measured in the nanometers.

Meng Chao felt numbing electricity flow in his cerebral cortex.

It was as if an innumerable number of squirming vortices had appeared in his brain.

Suddenly, Kindling popped up before his eyes, and a row of faint golden words showed up.

[Increase progress for the Mystery of the Supernatural Entities by 1%. Current Progress: 47%]

‘This is...’

Meng Chao’s mind raced. He immediately understood. He was right. A new Supernatural Entity had appeared.

It had to be a brand new Supernatural Entity that wrote the emails, created the Deification Capsules, and controlled the humans to steal. It was something even more terrifying than the Demonic Abyss Eye!