Delusion Master

Bai Yuan and Wei Lin walked side by side through the corridor at 8 am.

Today is Monday and the weather is fine.Colleagues who have no tasks in the office have not recovered from the "weekend sickness", making coffee lazily, yawning and chatting one by one.

But the two of them were not so lucky. Now they received a call from Mike Liu and were called to the supervisor's office to talk.

——Just a few days after leaving the patient's brain world, the other party committed suicide. No matter what happens, he has to investigate and investigate and give an explanation to the police and news media.

"I wrote it clearly in the task report, that's all, it's caused by Wang Yulun's own mental problems." Wei Lin sat on the reception chair opposite the desk, crossed his legs, and said to Mike Liu solemnly .

Bai Yuan added: "It's either a mental illness and committing suicide, or committing suicide in fear of crime."

Mike Liu didn't really care about the life or death of a suspect, but the incident happened in the department he was in charge of. After all, there must be a procedure, so he said in an official tone: "Okay, I understand the situation. You can write a written feedback and sign together." Give me a word."

Bai Yuan got up and went back to the office to write feedback materials. Wei Lin pulled the chair two steps closer and smiled: "Leader."

Mike Liu looked at him warily: "What are you doing? Seeing that smirk on your face, there must be nothing good."

Wei Lin pretended to be wronged: "I feel sad when I say that. When have I ever done something bad? Look at the hardest, most complicated, and various political tasks. Isn't it me and Bai Yuan who take over all kinds of political tasks?" ?”

Mike Liu had nothing to say, so he had no choice but to appease: "Your performance is outstanding, and the leaders above all see it. Otherwise, the evaluation at the end of the year will be the first, and you will write a self-recommendation for me?"

Wei Lin didn't care about that: "I'll talk about that later. I just want to ask, is that lucky star still there? The one you gave me last time, uh, disappeared."

Mike Liu didn't find it strange at all: "Has it melted? Touched water, right? I forgot to tell you before, that thing dissolves in water."

"...Why does it look like vitamin C effervescent tablets? Your 'cosmic matter extracted from meteorites' is too fake?"

Embarrassment flashed across Mike Liu's face: "Well, maybe this substance will have a chemical reaction with water, who knows."

"Why don't you give me another one to study?" Wei Lin finally got to the point.

Mike Liu sighed. "Even if I want to give it to you, it's fine. The cleaner accidentally knocked over the water glass on my table when doing sanitation last time." He pointed to the large stainless steel tea mug at his hand, "My drawer was open, All the tea was poured in, and by the time I fished out the wet bag, the contents would have melted long ago."

Wei Lin looked at the face of the other party's pancakes, the expression of pain did not seem to be fake, and he was very disappointed: he had been thinking about his sleep that suddenly disappeared for the past few days-it was already the fifth day, and he still didn't feel sleepy at all. It is getting better and better, and the brain power is getting stronger and stronger. Sometimes I even worry that the biological computer in the skull will burn out the CPU due to overload.

After thinking about it, I wonder if the problem lies in the hexagonal crystal of unknown origin that he absorbed?Unfortunately, there is no way to confirm it now.

Wei Lin got up depressed and wanted to leave. After thinking for a while, he said to Mike Liu: "You said that the crystal was taken from an old classmate of the Aviation Administration? Can you give me the contact information of the other party? I doubt... What has happened to my body."

Mike Liu didn't believe it: "Is there any effect on the body? I put it in the drawer for several months, and I didn't feel it at all. It has almost the same effect on mosquitoes. My old classmate said that he had already tested the radioactivity and toxins, and it was safe. He couldn't possibly Pit me."

Wei Lin: "Why don't you ask me again... What if I eat it?"

Mike Liu: "Okay, I'll call after get off work and ask again, and I'll get back to you tomorrow."

Wei Lin thanked him. Not long after he returned to his office, before finishing a cup of milk tea, the internal contact screen on the desktop lit up: "A-level therapist Wei Lin, your work task has been issued, please go to the corresponding office immediately. Receive it in the treatment room, task number PA1042."

"There's another task, I can't be free for a moment." Wei Lin muttered, and went to the office next door to find his partner Bai Yuan.

Bai Yuan was not in his seat, and he didn't know where he had gone.Wei Lin guessed that he would be back soon, so he just nestled in the swivel chair and fiddled with the small objects on his desk.

At this moment, Bai Yuan was answering the phone in a secluded corner outside the building.

"...Don't say it, I won't go back. I have signed an agreement to renounce all inheritance rights. If he wants alimony, I can pay it every month." He pinched his phone expressionlessly.

"What disease? He has a whole private medical team, even if I go there, I can't help.

"Are you sure that when he sees me, he will cheer up instead of getting sicker in a fit of anger?"

"Bai Yuan, if you still have a little affection for me, don't force me." Bai Yuan finished the last sentence and hung up the call.

He stood where he was, took a deep breath, put his phone back in his pocket, and walked towards the office.

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At 5:[-] in the evening, Qin Hengyun left the house again and went to the museum.

He just had a big night's work, and it stands to reason that he can rest for 24 hours and come back to work the next day.But the night shift colleague called him that night, saying that his child was sick and needed to be taken care of, and wanted to change shifts with him.

Qin Hengyun agreed without saying a word, and returned to the unit after a hasty dinner.

The opening hours of the museum are from 8:6 to [-]:[-] in the evening every day. At this moment, the museum is close to closing, the flow of people gradually dispersed, and the administrators and security guards began to clear the site.

Qin Hengyun carried a somewhat old satchel, walked into the exhibition hall, and looked at the ancient mirror that had always been in his heart.

A tall man walked past him.He felt that the braids hanging on the side of his face looked familiar, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances, and recognized that it was the tourist standing in front of the bronze mirror in the morning, knocking on the glass cabinet and cursing.

Qin Hengyun looked at his watch, quite puzzled: From 8:[-] in the morning until now, for ten hours, he stayed in the exhibition hall?What kind of exhibition can last so long? Even if you took [-] photos of each cultural relic, it would have been finished long ago, okay?

He couldn't help but followed up, walked to the west area of ​​the exhibition hall, and saw the man standing in front of a showcase in the corner, pressing his hand on the tempered glass, watching intently.

Inside the showcase is a piece of jade border.This piece of edge Zhang is about [-] centimeters long. It is flat and long. The front end is truncated obliquely, and there is a small hole at the end. It looks like a jade knife at first glance.It is clean and crystal-clear all over, greenish in color, with flames and bird-shaped decorations on both sides of the surface. Experts have verified that it is a legendary fire bird called "Chiwu", which is also called "Liberation" in "Shan Hai Jing". Zhu.

So the official name of this jade is "Flame Pattern Li Zhu Yu Bian Zhang".

The man watched with great concentration, until the exhibition hall was empty, and the security guard came over to urge him, and then he turned and left.

When Qin Hengyun saw him walking towards his direction, his heart beat wildly for some reason, and he hid behind a pillar.

When all the people left, he asked the security guard, "The guy who left last stayed in the exhibition hall all day?"

The security guard replied: "Not all day. I went out for more than an hour at noon. I guess I went to eat."

That's no different than the whole day.Qin Hengyun thought and walked towards the duty room.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, he entered the exhibition hall with a flashlight as usual, walked around inside and outside, and found nothing unusual.

He held the flashlight under his arm and was locking the door of the exhibition hall when he was hit hard on the back of the head and lost consciousness instantly.

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Qin Hengyun found himself standing on the bank of that turbulent river again.

The surface of the river was turbulent and surging, and in the uproar of the water, nine huge black snake heads protruded, each of which was half the size of a car.Looking carefully, the nine snakes all had identical human faces on their heads, and they were smiling slyly at him.

Qin Hengyun was so frightened that his legs went limp and he fell to the ground.

One hand grabbed his back collar and lifted him up. "Why are you still so useless?" Gong Gong scolded behind him.

Qin Hengyun almost cried: "I, I'm afraid of snakes..."

Gonggong's dissatisfied expression was somewhat helpless: "His name is Xiangliu, and he is my subordinate."

Qin Hengyun: "Can he, can he turn his body into a human?"

Gonggong ignored his pleading, and forced to ask, "Do you know how to use water?"

Qin Hengyun muttered and couldn't answer.

Gonggong grabbed him by the collar and threw him into the river.Qin Hengyun let out a scream and flew into the air. Seeing that Xiang Liu's huge snake head was getting closer and closer—the snake head opened its mouth like a demonstration, revealing its jagged fangs—then he rolled his eyes and passed out. .

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Qin Hengyun suddenly opened his eyes, woke up, and found himself lying face down on the cold and hard floor at the entrance of the exhibition hall.The back of his head was in severe pain, and there was a puddle of blood on the floor. He touched it with trembling hands, and found a big gash on the scalp near his neck.

The sound of footsteps came from the exhibition hall, Qin Hengyun raised his upper body subconsciously to look, and met a man face to face.

It was the man with long braids that he cared about during the day.

At this time, the man was walking out, putting a piece of jade into a waterproof plastic bag and stuffing it into his backpack. He raised his eyes and saw the museum administrator who had woken up on the floor. He didn't show any panic, but said sarcastically: "Look. It’s just that big, your physique is better than I thought, I underestimated you.”

Qin Hengyun was dizzy, and reluctantly shouted: "You steal cultural relics, this is a crime!"

"Then call the police!" The man stepped forward, stepping on his left hand that was supporting the floor with the sole of his shoe, "Come on, call 110, I'll watch you call."

Qin Hengyun was trembling with anger from his arrogance. He couldn't even care about the pain in his fingers. He took out the mobile phone in his pocket with his right hand and called the police.

The man whistled playfully and snapped his fingers.

The phone between Qin Hengyun's fingers suddenly burst into flames, starting from the casing.He was so scared that he threw the phone far away, and the phone hit the floor, and the battery exploded with a bang.

He looked at the man in front of him in disbelief.

The man leaned down and patted his cheek warningly: "Wipe the blood off the floor, little administrator. You are sleeping in the duty room tonight, and you don't know anything. If you dare to leak my information to the police— It’s not just a mobile phone that burns, you know?”

Qin Hengyun shook his head at a loss: "I can't lie to the police, it's a crime of covering up... Who are you? Why did you use fire?"

When he subconsciously said the word "use fire", his heart suddenly trembled.Gonggong’s words rang in his ears: “You have to learn to use water first.”

Water...how to use it, where to find it...he was at a loss.

The man got impatient and pestered him again, and said, "If you dare to say something you shouldn't say, buy the cemetery in advance." Then he turned and left.

"--stop!"

Qin Hengyun felt that he was really crazy. Facing such a vicious gangster, he actually told him to "stop"?These two words were not uttered by him out of his own will, but some weird and powerful force in his brain forced him to make a sound... It was Gonggong, and Gonggong's will strongly influenced him.

The man turned his head angrily: "Do you really want to die?"

Qin Hengyun wanted to cry but couldn't, he covered his mouth with one blood-stained hand, pressed the floor with the other hand in a panic and got up, ready to run away in the next second.

Suddenly, the pool of blood on the floor stirred slightly under his palm.Immediately afterwards, like an organism with life and consciousness, the blood twisted and changed, condensed into a dozen scarlet short sharp arrows, and shot towards the man.

A look of astonishment flashed across the man's face, and he shook out a ball of fire, which collided head-on with the sharp arrow, and immediately sparks and blood splashed everywhere.Qin Hengyun was thrown back by the shock wave of the explosion, and slid two or three meters away on the floor.

When he looked up again, the figure of the man had disappeared into the empty corridor.

Qin Hengyun covered the wound with his hands and got up with difficulty, walked to the alarm device by the wall, pressed the red button, and a rapid and sharp alarm sounded from the security room of the museum.

Afraid that he would lose too much blood, he couldn't wait for his colleagues to take him to the hospital, so he staggered to the duty room and called an ambulance by landline.

At the same time, the man easily climbed over the fence and walked towards the vehicle parked in the dark.Putting the backpack on the passenger seat, he started the ignition and quickly left the history museum.