Puppeteer [Interstellar]

Al's murder of the academy teacher sure enough sparked a riot.

Because Al was the one who killed directly outside the door of the communication room, the monitoring at the entrance recorded this horrible and bloody scene completely, and someone in the monitoring room immediately notified him, and soon the senior management of the college responded, many soldiers He and the guards rushed to the scene, along with Principal Gaia, several high-level officials, teachers and student representatives.

After Al killed Anthony, he didn't run away. He still obediently stood still. He seemed to have a pain in his head, and he kept standing there rubbing his temples.When a group of people rushed over, soldiers and some puppets surrounded him, Al was also indifferent, still holding his head in pain.

Al's puppet, Caesar, stood stiffly next to Anthony's body, covered in the blood of the deceased, lowered his head, and also stood motionless.

When Principal Gaia came over, he scanned the whole situation, and his eyes stayed on everyone for a while. Finally, his eyes were on Anthony's miserable corpse on the ground. Gaia asked loudly: " what's going on?"

"Principal." A teacher from a college next to Gaia responded. This teacher is the instructor in charge of the tactical guidance courses for senior students, and he is also a person close to the principal Gaia in this college. He answered Gaia at this moment. "The kid's golem seemed to have gone berserk and killed Mr. Anthony," said Ya.

"Manic? Why?" Gaia frowned, a little irritable in her heart, now surrounded by circles of Zergs, and the terrible crisis is clearly close at hand. What is wrong with the students, every time they have to make all kinds of troubles.

The tactical instructor said: "I don't know either, I watched the surveillance, Al and Anthony...they seemed to have a quarrel, and then Al's puppet started to attack."

"But he's not mad now." Gaia took a careful look at Caesar, who was stiff and immobile. Caesar looked very peaceful, his eyes were calm and his expression was empty, like a very obedient ordinary puppet. Standing motionless right next to the dead body, even though beneath his feet was the poor victim he had just killed.

The tactical instructor looked at Caesar and then Al, and replied to Gaia, "He is indeed very quiet now, but in the surveillance video just now, this puppet did show signs of mania... It's just that he will become violent now." This calmness may have something to do with his master's mental outlook."

Gaia understood something from the tactical instructor's words, and turned to look at Al.

The puppet's mania is a vicious trend that can hardly be stopped. In the past, many young puppet masters have failed at this point. They could not appease the manic puppet, so they were killed by the puppet.

But the puppet is not so easy to become manic, except during the formal bonding process between the puppet master and the puppet, in addition to the excessive insectization caused by the puppet master, and the puppet will also cause mania when the puppet master dies, other time periods , puppets are very calm species, the possibility of them becoming manic at this stage is extremely low, but it is not impossible.

In previous years, there was such a student in the Puppeteer Academy. After he successfully and formally owned a puppet, he survived the mania of forming a bond with the puppet, and the different degrees of mania that would be caused when the puppet transformed into an insect. In the end, he didn't survive his own test.

The puppet master's strict system and cruel survival rules put many students in the college under tremendous pressure. This pressure is not only on the physical level, but also mentally. This kind of huge mental pressure often It will cause human beings to have various abnormal behaviors, and even depression will cause students to have various mental illnesses, such as depression, schizophrenia and even direct madness.

Puppet masters are mentally tougher than ordinary people because of their high mental power, but this does not mean that they will not go crazy.

The madness of the puppet master and the mania of the puppet have the same principle. Once they become mentally unstable or even fall into a hysterical state and cannot extricate themselves, their puppet will also go crazy with them.

But this form of madness has a chance to be alleviated, as long as the puppeteer's spirit is not so bad that it cannot be recovered, as long as the puppeteer themselves calm down, their puppets will also return to their original state.

Al in front of him seems to be a typical example of this. Perhaps at that moment, Al's mental power exploded like boiling hot water, unable to be suppressed, which directly caused his puppet to become manic with him. , so the manic puppet immediately chose the target he was trying to kill, which was poor Anthony.

And the reason why the puppet has calmed down now is probably because his master Al has also gradually calmed down.

"Who is Al's mentor?" Gaia looked at Al, he saw that the child was still holding his head against the wall, and Al didn't make any sound, except for the movement of holding his head, he really was Stiff as a statue, motionless.

Someone stood up in the crowd. All the second graders had a unified tutor to manage them. This second grade tutor was named "Lance Christie". Like Gaia, Lance had been in the Puppeteer Academy a long time ago. A student who successfully graduated is now returning to the academy as a second-year tutor.

"Have you ever paid attention to Al's mental state?" Gaia asked Lance seriously.

Lance nodded, and answered the principal seriously: "All the students under my command have to undergo regular mental examination and care. They are all very stable, including Al."

Gaia frowned: "Then why did he go crazy?"

Lance said: "Maybe it's because of what Anthony said to him, you know...Anthony is also a member of their family."

Lance's words reminded Gaia a bit. Thinking that Anthony was indeed a teacher inserted by the Hawk family, Al's madness might also be related to the internal affairs of their family. Since it is related, then this kind of thing is not Gaia can intervene, so Gaia finally announced the result, he said: "Drag the body away, clean up... Lance, you take Al for spiritual care, put his golem on the chains, and the rest People continue to stick to their posts.”

Now that the matter has come to a conclusion, everyone no longer besieged in this long and narrow corridor, but left one after another, and Principal Gaia also turned around and left. After he left, only cleaning was left in the corridor. A group of cleaning staff for the corpse, as well as Lance Christie, his puppet and his subordinates.

According to the order given by the principal Gaia before leaving, Lance had to take Al to the psychiatric clinic for mental maintenance, and put a restraint chain on his doll.

The so-called bondage chain, in a simple description, can be imagined as a dog cage mouth on the dog's mouth, which is specially used to prevent dogs from biting and hurting people. When applied to the golem, it is to completely restrain the golem and make it unable to move again. Wormish stuff.

But this thing is actually a bit cruel to the puppet.

First of all, this thing is pierced into the flesh and blood, pierced into the puppet's mouth, neck, luteal bone, elbows, wrists, waist and abdomen, etc. If you want to restrict walking, then the lower body will also be pierced in various parts. , the sharp part has barbs, and the barbs will hang on the flesh and bones of the puppet, making it impossible for the puppet to move easily, because as long as it moves a little, the blood will bleed and the pain will be unbearable.

Although the puppet generally does not feel pain, hanging this kind of thing on him will not only make it difficult for him to move his body, but will also continue to consume his physical strength and experience.Moreover, there is a special structure in the bondage chain, which can inhibit the worms of the golem and weaken the self-healing ability of the golem.So, after putting this thing on the puppet, the puppet will become dying and always in a weak state.

If this thing is used for a long time, it will even lead to the death of the puppet.

But it is the most effective tool for binding golems, and since it was designed and put into use, no other tool can be compared.

Although it is so cruel.

Lance, as one of the students who graduated from this academy, has long been aware of the normal state of the Puppet Master Academy. When Lance was still in school, the competition and cruelty of the Puppet Master Academy was far greater than it is now. What's more, he will not feel cruel, because he is used to cruelty.

Lance didn't move Al's puppet Caesar, but called someone to come over and carry Al away directly. As long as Al moved, his puppet would naturally follow.

When he took Al to the psychiatric consultation room, Al suddenly spoke and called out to Lance, "Mentor."

Unexpectedly, Lance is a very serious person. He treats work, students, and even his own puppet very seriously.So when he heard Al calling him, Lance looked down and said to Al, "What's wrong?"

"My puppet didn't follow." Al said naturally.

When he said this, Langston immediately looked back. The long passage they walked all the way was empty, and Al's puppet did not follow. This is simply unbelievable. All puppet will not abandon their master Leave alone, unless it is the master's order, otherwise they will surround the master at all times.

But Al hasn't signed the final contract with his puppet, and he doesn't have the authority to order the puppet now, so the fact that the puppet didn't follow is abnormal and a phenomenon that makes people feel astonished.

But Al seemed very calm. He said to Lance: "Teacher, can you let your puppet pick up my Caesar? I think he got lost."