Overturned Tower

He decided to look at the map at the door.

The effect of yesterday's interview seemed to be better than he had imagined.After Russell got off the car, he clearly felt that almost everyone's eyes would definitely pass by him.

They were very polite, they just stared at Russell, or secretly took two photos of themselves, instead of rushing up to ask to be friends or ask for a group photo... If you want to be like those people last night, almost everyone meets you Talk to him for a few words, and Russell is about to faint.

——It is true that he cannot be regarded as a social terror, but the rate of return is too high.

After studying the map for a while, he took the No. [-] Skytrain and went to the first district where the executive department building was located according to his uncle's guidance.

Maybe it was because of his fame, maybe because he was cute and harmless, after he got in the car, people kept warmly greeting him, pulling him over and giving up his seat.Eventually he was pulled to the last row, stuck between two big sisters with horns and horse ears.

In order not to bump into the bodies of those around him, or make them think he needs more space and back away to the side, Russell can only be forced to sit up straight with his legs together, trying to occupy as little space as possible.

This made Russell even more tired.It even reminded him of the experience when he squeezed the subway in the morning rush hour.

But luckily it doesn't last long.

After Russell got off the Skytrain, the flow of people around him decreased significantly, and the atmosphere also changed and became completely different.

If we say that when we first entered the park, there was a sense of joy and relaxation mixed with gold and pink...

Then the environment in the first area is like a gray-black filter.

Reminiscent of attending someone's funeral in a fine drizzle... that feeling.

Russell looked around while walking towards the executive building.

Suddenly, he felt a shadow cast in front of him.

"—Mr. Russell?"

A voice sounded like this.

Russell looked up.

It was a man that Russell hadn't noticed before, but appeared in front of him like a shadow without warning.

The man looked about 30 years old, not counting the tall antlers on his head, he was close to 1.8 meters tall.

He was wearing a dark black slim-fit windbreaker, and his long light-blond hair hung loose behind him.He has a tall and straight figure, with a killer-like temperament, the antlers on his head are in the shape of a sika deer, and his ears are slightly pointed, which will remind people who meet him for the first time of an elf.

His expression was cold, and through the visible dark circles and pale face, one could see his tiredness.

"Make sure, Mr. Russell..."

There was no trace of flattery, flattery or admiration in the cold voice of the young man, but full of vigilance and scrutiny: "The new hero, the big celebrity who became famous yesterday... isn't it?"

"……it's me."

Russell nodded slightly.

He makes no hypocritical pleas of "I don't feel like a hero" or anything like that.

On the contrary, it will make people feel hypocritical and annoying.

"Director Dodgson asked me to pick you up for your medical examination."

The young man with antlers saluted Russell in a respectful and distant manner, and said flatly, "Please follow me."

Although he was ordered by the director, although the "hero" who came to receive the reception was admired by the people, but the back of the young man was so straight.As if nothing could shake his will.

"Excuse me... how do you call it?"

"The poor."

The young man with antlers replied briefly: "You should also adopt a code name that belongs to you, Mr. Russell. Life and work should be separated."

"Ah, I've thought about it too..."

In front of the aura of the inferior, Russell subconsciously showed a harmless and innocent smile: "It's just that I haven't figured out what kind of code name to take. After all, if there are no accidents, this code name will be with me for a lifetime."

"Then you can think slowly."

The bad ones walk ahead without looking back.

His cold and pale voice, reminiscent of snow, clearly reached Russell's ears:

"Working in the group will be very, very long, maybe for the second half of my life... maybe for the next life."

Chapter 20 Psionic Surge

"Psychic redshift intensity 2, blueshift intensity 4...The chip is intact and there is no trace of disassembly..."

The middle-aged fat cat was biting a lollipop, flipping through Russell's medical examination report, showing a distressed expression: "Ah, in this case... can't I only be assigned to the Special Operations Department?"

It was also the first time for Russell to meet his uncle... It was only just now that he learned that his name was Dodgson from the poor man.

...How should I put it, although they are both cats, their coat colors are somewhat similar.But after all, whether it is the coat color or stripes of the spiritual relatives, they are completely different.

Russell and Alice are both sand dune cat breeds, but his uncle is obviously not as light and small as Russell.

no doubt--

From the weight alone, it can be seen that he is obviously a big orange.

Dodgson always squints his eyes and has a lot of flesh on his cheeks. He has a gentle and lazy temperament, and he looks like a good-tempered old man.

He draped the coat over his shoulders, relying on the thick shoulders to keep it from slipping off.And the shirt he was wearing inside was black—although Russell didn't know the brand at all, but just by looking at it, he could tell that it was very expensive clothes.

Russell also noticed something.That is, both his and Amyrus' leather boots are pointed.

Is this some sort of directorial sartorial trait?

Uncle's bulging belly is not hard fat, but soft and elastic to the touch.After Russell accidentally touched it just now, his first reaction turned out to be "I want to touch it again".

"Although I also guessed when I read the news yesterday, you can kill a lot on the airship, probably because you have awakened psionic power."

Dodgson, the director of Tangerine Cat, sighed: "But... oh..."

"What happened to the Special Operations Department?"

Russell subconsciously asked: "Awakened psychic power, isn't it only assigned to the Special Operations Department?"

"That's the way it is. But after all, the work of the Special Operations Department is much more dangerous."

Dodgson was talking, biting the lollipop in his mouth, and his words became blurred because of this: "The general work of the executive department is to arrest criminals, arrest psychic mercenaries, and so on. But the Special Operations Department is usually responsible for dealing with dangerous people such as demons and familiars, or intelligent criminals such as psychic hackers... Oh, you should know about demons, right? I guess Amirus should have told you last night .

"With his suspicious personality, he must have given you a medical examination."

"Ah."

Russell nodded.

Although he knew about this before graduation, there is no need to correct this kind of thing.

But... suspicious?

This is less obvious.But if you want to talk about it, if you look back at his actions, there are indeed some traces of this...

"But no matter what, you, as a spontaneously awakened psyker, still have to enter the Special Operations Department."

Dodgson frowned, squinted his eyes while thinking, and explained to Russell: "This is not asking you to do some work... I originally wanted to put you in a part-time job. For example, put you in the public relations department , you will be able to become the manager of the public relations department in two or three years."

"...The manager of the public relations department should forget it."

Russell shook his head helplessly and refused.

Don't be the manager of the PR department - he is afraid that when he dies suddenly, he will travel to the next world.

"You don't understand this... In Tianen Group, the public relations department is the core department. It belongs to the four excellent jobs that do less get off work, get off work early, make more contributions, and get promoted quickly," Dodgson said, sighing, "but the executive department can It’s hard work. The Special Operations Department is even more dangerous... But you have awakened your psychic powers, if you don’t enter the Special Operations Department, I’m afraid you will go to jail.”

"...how do you say that?"

Russell was a little dazed: "Am I breaking the law if I am not an executive officer?"

"—Because the essence of psionic power is desire."

The one who spoke at this time was the inferior who stood quietly by the side.

He said flatly: "Desire will always expand and will never stop. However, the speed of people's learning, mastering, and comprehension will become slower and slower... This means that your blue shift will never grow faster than your red shift. Of course , if through psychotherapy, or simply remove the memory, the red shift can also be reduced.

"But when the blueshift and redshift are consistent, the phenomenon of 'shifting' will occur. At this time, you will know the real name of your psionic energy and fully know everything about it. From then on, your redshift It will only go up, not down. After that, if you can't release the psionic energy, but continue to suppress it... it will probably be months or weeks before you lose control."

"That is to say, when my redshift reaches a value of four, is it the awakening of psionic power in the true sense..."

Russell murmured.

Dodgson shrugged: "Yes. If you want, you can also receive psychological treatment and give up psionic abilities... But, will you be willing?"

Give up psionics?

—Who would want to.

It's not just as simple as getting superpowers.

When Russell puts on Alice's mask, he has a special feeling inside him... an excitement that he has never felt before.

Like an actor on stage for the first time.

That immersion.

"I probably understand," Russell nodded slowly, "I will not give up psionic power. But what is release?"

"This is also one of the missions of the Special Operations Department."

The inferior replied very fluently: "Psykers who are naturally awakened are different from those fakes who are suppressed and always in a safe situation. You will inevitably have the phenomenon of 'shifting'... and in order not to move when shifting To go crazy, you need to release your desires in advance.

"Think about it. The hallucinations you saw when you awakened your psionic powers should have revealed your 'mission' - that is the manifestation of your deepest desire. Improve through the ritual way of completing the task' Redshift', instead of relying on strong emotions and desires to erupt psionic energy, it will also be permanently solidified and will not decline to the next level of psionic energy. This is actually equivalent to a "shifting surge" in advance.

"If you use this method to advance each level of psionic ability... then when the 'shifting surge' finally occurs, the mental pressure on you will be minimized.

"And after the surge, there is no way out. You must keep using your psionic power, otherwise you will continue to accumulate pressure. But if you are not in the special execution department, using psionic power indiscriminately will attract the execution department—after all, who I don’t know what your rituals, your tasks, or your psionic abilities are. I don’t even know when you will become a demon.”

In other words, do you have to use psionic energy to vent your fire from time to time...

Russell thought about it.

Indeed, when he used psionic powers, he did feel a sense of pleasure.

but.

"Mission..."

Russell murmured.

The inferior nodded, and carefully emphasized again: "You must know, ask your heart. The strongest feeling at that time was that the 'task' you needed to complete was also a necessary ritual to use the formal way to improve psionic power. "

... When it comes to the hallucinations during awakening, it should be the space full of candles and photo frames.

Speaking of which, when the face of his mother Alice was filled in one of the frames, Russell's first reaction was "Why is the other one empty? Do you have to wait until I kill my father and suck it in?"

After all, the photo frames of parents are neat and tidy when they are placed together.

——But if you think about it carefully, it is definitely impossible to ask the whole family to be neat and tidy.After all, there were too many photo frames in Russell's illusion, and his family simply didn't have enough.

And those two photo frames are actually quite far apart...about the same distance as those in the dark.

Moreover, spiritual energy comes from the deepest desire in the heart——

Russell is full of gratitude and love to Alice.That was a great mother, although it was difficult in every way, she still worked hard to bring him up, never treated him badly, and gave Russell the best she could give.She never even got angry with Russell, let alone beat or scolded him.

It's just that although Russell's memory has been sealed, he is precocious after all-seeing his mother working so hard, he himself became more diligent.

However, the father who abandoned him when he was a child, and even ran away with money, can only say... Russell didn't kill him, just because Russell promised his mother and wanted to be a person who could live in the sun.

Russell's deepest desire could not have wished for these two pictures to be placed together.

Taking a step back - this is still based on the psionic power of his previous life memory, not Russell after his memory was sealed.At that time, it was impossible for him to know his current parents.

... But Russell did have a burning desire at the time.

That is, fill the remaining frame.

Chapter 21 Delphinium

If it is said that there were only two photo frames that Russell could see clearly in that illusion at that time, it was because his current psionic level—that is, the redshift value was two.

Could it be that he fills in the second frame and then unlocks the third?

That's indeed a sense of ritual and a feeling of completing a "task"...

After all, he could see clearly at that time.In addition to those two, there is a circle of photo frames around it.

It's just that they are all hidden in the dark, like prestige items that have not been unlocked in the game.