The Complete Suicide Manual [Rebirth]

Chapter 23 The Numbers Game

Mu Sheng is a middle-aged man who looks gentle and refined.When Hu Lu found him, he was sitting in the temporary office sorting out the materials. When Hu Lu opened the door and came in, he was surprised for a moment and then smiled. "What's up?"

"Of course, I came here specifically to find you." Hu Li closed the door with his backhand, went to the table, pulled out the chair and sat down unceremoniously. "I'm Hu Lu. The deputy chief said that you can help me grasp the black coffin, so I came to you."

In fact, Gu Dong’s original words were, “The abilities of the special department are different from those of the natural department, so I can’t give you guidance on the abilities. Although ghosts, Bai Feng, and doctors are special departments, they are not suitable for you.” As a mentor, Afeng is not suitable either. There is a person on the committee who is very suitable, he is called Musheng, and he is of an extreme special department like you, and you can ask him for advice when the supernatural beings gather."

Hu Lu propped his chin with one hand, tilted his head and looked at Mu Sheng.Compared with the data in his hand, Mu Sheng looked much younger than his actual age, with black shattered hair lying softly on his forehead, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a white coat similar to that of a researcher.If it weren't for the fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes when he smiled, it would be hard to tell that this man was over 40 years old.

Hearing Hu Lu's name, Mu Sheng was slightly surprised.He had heard of this name before. Just a few days ago, a post on the power forum received over [-] hits and over a thousand replies in just three hours, and was finally forcibly deleted by the administrator.Even so, people are still discussing the content of this post, and there are still several posts about this matter on the homepage with "hot".

The content of that post was a piece of audio. Although the name was not marked, people who knew it could recognize it as the voice of Section Chief Wei.Section Chief Wei is notoriously violent in the world of supernatural powers. Coupled with his weird supernatural power that can unimpeded in the network, almost no one dares to challenge him.But this time, the audio of him begging for help in a low voice broke out, and the ID of the poster who broke the news was the word "Hu Lu".

However, from the appearance, it is impossible to tell that the person in front of him would do that kind of sensational thing.Mu Sheng put aside the stack of materials in his hand, smiled and looked at Hu Li with an impatient expression on his face.In the eyes of people his age, Hu Li is still a child.

"Deputy Chief Gu pushed the job of guiding the newcomers to me again." Mu Sheng smiled and shook his head, but there was not much complaint on his face.The first time is a raw and the second time is familiar, he is also very familiar with the job of guiding newcomers in the special department. "Is the black coffin the name of your ability? If you don't mind, you can talk to me about what you have mastered."

All supernatural beings will discover their own abilities through the Book of the World after awakening, and the information displayed on the Book of the World is private, and will not be known to anyone except themselves and their guardians.

However, Hu Lv didn't care about this unspoken rule.Ability is not very important to him. Compared with killing power, the black coffin is more like the key for him to enter the world of the ability user. Once he enters the door, he doesn't care much about the placement of the key.

Lazily propping his face, Hu Lu raised his eyelids and looked at Mu Sheng, "The name of the ability is Black Coffin, the rating is X, and the description is, kill in three seconds..."

monitoring room.Not long after Hu Lv left, Gu Dong received a call.

"Where are you now? The lounge on the second floor? Okay, I'll go over now." Gu Dong picked up the communicator and called Afeng to come over to replace him.People in the special team like to run around when they have no missions. The brothers Bai Feng and Bai Shu disappeared early in the morning. With a reliable bald head, only Ah Feng is left.

Captain Li turned the chair next to him and sat down, and said to Gu Dong, "If you are in a hurry, I can help you look at it for a while."

Director Gu glanced at Captain Li, picked up the cold tea on the table and drank it in one gulp, leaned on the chair and stood up, "Then I will trouble you." After speaking, he turned and walked out of the monitoring room.

The person who was looking for him was a therapist, and it was exactly one and a half months before Hu Li joined the job, and exactly one month before the release of the physical examination report.And the therapist came to Gu Dong precisely because of Hu Lv's affairs.

After a few pleasantries, the therapist got down to business. "Vice Chief Gu, I think you need to take a look at this." He handed Gu Dong a copy of the booklet, which was a psychological questionnaire that Hu Lu took during his physical examination a month and a half ago.

Director Gu is no stranger to this type of psychological questionnaire.He has served as the deputy leader of the special group for nearly ten years. When the position of leader is vacant, he is almost the actual leader of the special group.The special group is different from other departments of the military. When necessary, the special group will serve as a transfer station for the military to absorb new supernatural beings, and is responsible for the final check before the supernatural beings are truly accepted as members of the military.Among them, the role played by Gu Dong is similar to that of an instructor.

Because of this responsibility, Gu Dong is very familiar with the various testing methods used by the military to recruit new members. The health check that Hu Li did a month and a half ago is one of them.According to common sense, the preliminary mental health questionnaire held by Mr. Gu should be a month ago together with the physical examination report to draw conclusions about whether Hu Li is physically and psychologically healthy or not, but the actual situation is that, The only thing Gu Dong got in his hands a month ago was the physical examination report.

Turning over the psychological questionnaire filled out by Hu Law Firm, Gu Dong frowned.Most of the questionnaires are in the form of multiple-choice questions, each question has four to eight options, there are single-choice and multiple-choice.On the right side of each question is marked an Arabic numeral, which corresponds to the checkmark drawn by Hu Li on the question options. A is marked as 0, B is marked as 1, and so on.Connect the numbers on the right side of all the questions to see that it is a series of irregular numbers.

But it is clear that the numbers that are deliberately marked cannot be meaningless.Before Gu Dong could ask questions, the therapist handed over a piece of A4 paper again, which was a printed contact number of a department member, and a number was added at the bottom with a ballpoint pen.

The contact numbers in the form are all private mobile phone numbers, arranged neatly like a guideline, the neat number "1" in the first column is crossed out, and the rest of the numbers are scattered in small circles with a pen, and numbers 1 to 5 are marked next to them.The handwritten number at the bottom is separated by a slash every two digits. After comparing the upper and lower digits, Mr. Gu quickly discovered that, except for the last digit 3 of the handwritten number, if the remaining five groups of digits use the first digit as the number of lines, the second The digits are column numbers, which correspond exactly in order to the numbers outlined in the number guide above.This string of numbers is 79068.

Gu Dong rubbed the back of the paper with his fingertips, and found that there was a rough powder on it, as if it had been torn off from the wall. "Can you explain?"

"What you have in your hand is the contact number that was pasted on the wall of the examination room at that time. This is actually a digital game." The therapist turned on the laptop, turned the screen upwards, quickly entered the number 79068, and then cubed it, and the result was A string of fourteen digits: 494313260202, converted to octal, is 7142727342252. "Is this string of numbers familiar?" The therapist smiled wryly.

Gu Dong looked down at the string of numbers marked on the right side of the title, which was indeed familiar.If the above string of [-]-digit numbers is arranged in order, and some numbers are removed in inappropriate places and circulated, what is obtained is the string of irregular numbers on the right side of the title.

For example, the first question is four options, single choice.The first number 7 is skipped and the second number 1 is selected, which is option B.The second question is also a single choice of four options, and the third digit 4 is also unqualified, so skip it and choose the third digit 2, which is option C.and so on.

Multiple choices add another conversion.For example, question No.11 is a multiple choice of six options. The number that is your turn is 7, skip it, and the next number is 3. Multiply 3 by 6 to get 18. Together with the previous number 3, there will be 3, 1, 8 three numbers, where the number 8 is crossed out, choose 1 (option B) and 3 (option D).

Multiple-choice questions with indeterminate items are processed according to the question number of the turn, odd-numbered questions are handled according to the rules of single-choice questions, and even-numbered questions are handled according to the rules of multiple-choice questions.

As the therapist said, Hu Li's psychological questionnaire is actually just a numbers game.But it was such a small number game that caused the therapist and his medical team to delay the submission date of the psychological report for a whole month.

"Actually, I didn't realize that there was something wrong with this questionnaire at first. What made me feel strange was after the psychoanalysis was completed. But we didn't find out the rules of this game until a few days ago." The therapist He took out a thin report from his pocket and placed it in front of Gu Dong. "In the beginning, according to Hu Li's answers to a total of 239 multiple-choice questions, it was concluded that Hu Li had a strong fear of guns."

Gu Dong's mouth twitched unnaturally.Hu Li has a gun phobia, which is the biggest joke of this century.

The therapist continued, "Fortunately, before I gave you this report, I met Hu Li on the shooting range." The therapist paused, and added with a difficult tone, "His marksmanship is very good. "

"Afterwards, I checked the questionnaire again and found something." The therapist picked up the questionnaire and turned it over. On the back cover was a series of numbers: 357/599/463/227/396. "The first number is the page number, the second number is the line number, and the third number indicates the number of the line. The corresponding translation is 'I like guns'."

"Four words?" Gu Dong raised his eyebrows and asked.

The therapist twitched the corner of his mouth, "No, the last one is an exclamation point."

Director Gu threw the A4 paper with the contact number of the department in his hand on the table with a little helplessness and a little amusement, and leaned against the wall with his arms folded, "Then, this is the end of Hu Lu's psychological evaluation?"

The psychological assessment at the time of entry is only the most basic part. For newcomers, there will be corresponding psychological assessment and psychological counseling at the stages of contact with guns, first mission, first casualty, etc., so as to avoid psychological problems.But if all psychological assessments could be easily seen through and even manipulated, then the assessments would be meaningless.

The therapist smiled wryly, "I'm afraid that's the case. At least I don't have the ability to evaluate Hu Li. After all, my expertise is not here. Deputy team leader Gu, I suggest you contact other therapists who are good at the psychological field."

"Okay. Thank you for your hard work. Hu Lu, I will have a good talk with him." Gu Dong stretched out his hand to shake hands with the therapist, but the communicator on his waist suddenly rang.Pressing the button, a bald-headed anxious voice came out. "Deputy Chief! Hu Lu severely injured Mu Sheng!"

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