C18 (1/2)

The first might be environmental factors, such as the building's magnetic field or resonance, which affected the people living in it, interfered with our brain waves, and finally led us to suicide in a state of delirium. But I immediately overturned this hypothesis, because this did not happen to Lina.

Another possibility, human factor. Some people deliberately design our nightmares and use them to guide us in our sleep.

The human brain is already a rather complex central processing unit, and mainstream science in the United States acknowledged 20 years ago (1960) that mind-control was possible.

Since the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, both countries, in addition to their arms and space competitions, have been working on how to develop their brain's potentialities so that thought control can emerge from the laboratory and become a simple man-to-man operation. The most famous was the ”Astral Plan”, which studied the control of ideas, remote vision, perspective, telepathy, and other uses for military purposes. Even the Ministry of Defense had once threatened to find a true 'brain-teaser' who could read combat plans in the brains of high-ranking Russian military officials thousands of kilometers away, control the brains of high-ranking Russian officials, obtain intelligence, and so on.

But these experiments began to recede from the stage of history in the 1970s. Because the biggest drawback of this approach is that no matter how you enter someone's consciousness, the brain will find and instinctively reject you.

Same as skin allergies. Allergy is a repulsive reaction that occurs under a self-protective mechanism. When people come into contact with dust, mites, gasoline, or pollen, the skin categorizes the harmless things as harmful and immediately resists them — or allergies, as we call them — even though they do not give orders to the skin, the skin instinctively protects itself.

The same goes for the brain. If someone with brain power invades someone's brain, the brain will immediately have a rejection reaction. This person will also immediately sense that his brain has been invaded. Those with strong mental powers could even set up a firewall to defend against the invasion.

If there is a brain-teaser around, he chose to do it while I was asleep, probably because the defenses of the brain are the weakest during sleep. To save energy, the brain, in its sleep, weakens the connections between nerve cells, whereas the unconscious acts as a proxy for major tasks, such as the creation of dreams.

If his brain waves were very strong, it was possible for him to bypass the defensive system and reach the subconscious realm.

The other party obviously didn't want to know what I was thinking. They only wanted to put me to death.

But not only can they control my dreams, they can also control my body movements through them. Just how strong of a brain wave was this?

In my mind, I saw Maria's expressionless, lifeless face.

Alpha's age didn't match up, and it was estimated that while Johnson was living here, Alpha had not been born yet. The only possibility was Maria.

Johnson's trust in his past life still continued, which at least proved that Johnson was still alive. Although I don't really understand why Johnson has already escaped, and is still continuing to execute this task.

I thought as I found the address the trust company had given me. The address was on the west side of Los Angeles. It would be too late to go today.

”BOOM!” Dong! Dong! ”BOOM!” I was startled.

A rhythmic knocking sound came from the corridor. As soon as he walked out of the 610, he saw the stray cat.

Someone locked the door again, and the stray cat rammed its head against the door like it was crazy.

When the stray cat saw me, it almost begged with a meow.

I sighed, pitying my parents, and so did the cat. He probably couldn't go in and feed the child, so he had to be anxious.

I helped him open the door to the utility room, and the smell of blood hit him in the face.

Inside, there was a litter of kittens, all dead and covered in blood.

The female cat jumped onto the box, wailing in pain. He lowered his head and licked his dead child.

The kitten's body was covered with claw marks and bite marks. It had been bitten to death.

However, the door was obviously locked from the inside. If a female cat couldn't even enter the room, what would cause her to die?

Suddenly, in the middle of a pile of kittens' corpses, a fur stood up.

It was the spotted kitten. It was still alive.

It was also covered in wounds. One part of its body was missing and one of its eyes was bleeding from its claw.

The kitten mewled weakly and went to find the female cat's nipple.

The female turned her belly upside down and let the kitten suckle. I looked up at the cat's belly, suddenly aware of what was going on, and gasped.

The female had only one nipple.

The female might have been injured before, the rest of her nipples had been cut off by the person who had hurt her, and there were still scars on her belly.

I looked at the injured kitten, who was gulping down milk.

This nest of kittens wasn't bitten to death by others.

Because female cats don't have enough nipples, they can't drink all of it and kill each other for the sole source of food.

And this seemingly weak kitten was the only one who could live to enjoy food after putting in all its effort to kill its brothers and sisters!

”I know Peter can do it.”

Unknowingly, Alpha was already standing behind me. ”Lina always wanted to give Peter milk to drink, but I poured that away. If you don't kill others, others will kill you. In order to survive, one must have the awareness to face this cruel world. ”

I felt sick to my stomach, sick to my stomach. I turned around and walked out.

”Can I raise Peter with Lina?” Alpha suddenly asked me.

”No.”

”Why?”

”Don't you understand?” I turned to look at Alpha: ”It killed its siblings. It's not Peter anymore. It's a monster. ”

”Monsters have no right to live? Peter just wants to live. It's not wrong. ”

I looked at Alpha, not understanding why he was so stubborn about this. ”From the moment it took the first bite of the other kittens, it could no longer be kept as a house cat. You let Lina keep it, and there will be a day it will hurt Lina and you. ”

”I will watch Peter. Don't tell Lina about this.” Alpha was silent for a moment, then said to me: ”Lina is downstairs, quickly leave.”

I looked at Alpha in disbelief.

He acted as if he knew I was sneaking back.

But I didn't have time to think about it. If Lina saw me here, she would know that I was lying.

Just as I got off the elevator and saw Lina coming in from the outside, I hurriedly hid behind the security room and watched her get on the elevator before heaving a sigh of relief.

Coming out of the Joshua Building, he saw the gypsy leading the way across the street, and with him the blonde dancing in the crowd.

The gypsy took off his felt hat and beckoned me over.

”Vadoma is dead. She told us to bring you this. ”

He turned to the blonde and spoke a few words in Romanian. The blonde wiped her eyes and took a piece of paper out of her pocket and pressed it into my hand.

It was the family photo. I put it in the sunlight and studied it. The young woman in the photo, although dressed in European upper-class clothes, had a square Asian face, with narrow eyes, prominent cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and dark skin.

At that time, I asked Vadoma if the woman in the photo was her, but she didn't answer me.