Mental Illness Evolution Manual - Chapter 106

Lanfu Town in Yuecheng.

The deputy didn’t choose this town on a whim, but after careful research.

Lanfu Town was not small. It was a tourist town, not too far from Yuecheng, with a large influx of outsiders. No one would notice them among the daily flow of people.

Airships took off and landed. He switched to a new airship halfway through, to prevent being tracked. After arriving in Lanfu Town, the deputy went to the floor he had rented in advance and began his life as a shut-in.

He didn’t go out. The secondary reason was to avoid being tracked, but the main reason was to activate what he had taken from the castle’s basement.

It was the blood of an ability user, her last remaining thing in this world.

This person was secretly captured by Azberto.

At first, there was a small-scale rumor circulating online, saying that several people had the same dream. This even sparked a wave of soul mate and telepathic tests.

No one took it seriously.

But the intelligence officer in charge of collecting information felt something was off. It wasn’t just three or two people saying this, but many. But because it didn’t have any heat, it didn’t make any waves online.

It was this intelligence officer who followed the telepathic thing and discovered the anomaly.

The key point of this incident was that the people who claimed to have had the same dream were all in one area.

The intelligence officer reported this phenomenon, and Azberto sent people to investigate. They finally found a girl.

She was the source of the dream incident. She had awakened an ability.

It was an ability called Mind Stream. It could synchronize the consciousness of those around her. She activated this ability in her sleep, which caused a circle of people to have the same dream as her.

Because she knew about this, she was afraid and hadn’t slept for two days. When she was caught, she was so sleepy that her consciousness was blurry, her eyelids couldn’t even open.

At that time, she didn’t even know what her ability was. She thought it was making people dream. She was taken back to the lab, and after repeated tests, she understood her ability.

It was a potent ability, akin to Gestalt consciousness—the whole is me, and I am the whole. When activated, nearby humans became extensions of her mind, their thoughts mirroring her own.

If she felt sleepy, everyone would feel sleepy. If she wanted to drink water, everyone would drink water. If she wanted to commit suicide, everyone would commit suicide.

But she refused to serve Azberto.

The researchers conducted various experiments and discovered that if her body tissue was consumed by someone, even without using her ability, that person would become a captive of her consciousness, similar to parasitism and assimilation.

That makes things easier.

Her formidable mental strength, a consequence of her ability, made her immune to control or hypnosis. However, when unconscious, severed tissue cells exhibited a degree of independent awareness, almost like offspring, reacting to external stimuli as discovered through experimentation.

The deputy’s task now was to brainwash this tube of blood.

It sounds a bit absurd, but abilities are just that bizarre.

It wasn’t simply blood, it was more like a living thing. After being thawed, it moved slowly in the test tube, like thick fruit pulp.

It couldn’t receive very complex instructions, so the deputy only instilled one concept in it—kill the Yan family.

This would take some time, so he wouldn’t go out during this period.

There were only a few hundred thousand people left in the legion. Only a handful had escaped from the front lines. Most of them were soldiers who had been sent out earlier to carry out extermination missions.

They were scattered in major cities. Some of them hadn’t acted yet, so they were still alive.

The number was more than the deputy had expected. After receiving the statistics, he withdrew the order he had issued earlier and told these people to stand by for now. He would contact them in batches.

Lanfu Town didn’t have many tourists from other places now. If too many people came in at once, it would arouse suspicion.

It would take about a month to activate the trump card. If these soldiers who were scattered outside returned every day, it wouldn’t attract anyone’s attention.

They lived peacefully for a few days. Suddenly, the deputy received a message from his subordinate, saying that he had seen Javier, the brother of General Polov, in Nanjin City.

The person in charge of collecting intelligence was familiar with his appearance, because he was from the Polov family, so he reported this intelligence.

Nanjin City?

Why would he go to Nanjin City? Was there something special about it?

He had some impressions of this city. It was a large city with a strong entertainment atmosphere, and it was famous for the Holy Healing Church. Not long ago, the church was bombed, and it made the news for a while. But because of the war, it didn’t get much attention.

Could it be that Javier was from the church?

The deputy narrowed his eyes and ordered the captain in charge of Nanjin City to investigate him.

Javier hadn’t hidden his whereabouts. His information was easy to collect. Soon, all his movements in the past few days were sent to the deputy.

For the first few days after arriving in Nanjin City, he went to find a celebrity named Lu Mingqiu. After several days, he suddenly stopped going.

The deputy never paid attention to entertainment news, nor did he engage in any relaxing activities. He knew about this person, and he knew that the commander’s sister, Inola, was also a minor celebrity in the entertainment industry. But he only matched Inola and Lu Mingqiu after seeing their faces.

What was Javier looking for her for? Was she also a church spy?

The deputy was a typical alpha. He didn’t care about omegas, and he didn’t think much of Javier, a weakling who hadn’t achieved anything.

He only respected his superior, he respected Azberto, he didn’t have any feelings for the Polov family.

So he directly ordered someone to arrest Javier and interrogate him to see what he was doing there.

Javier was completely unaware of this. He had lost all memory related to Lu Mingqiu. He thought he had come to Nanjin City to relax. The city’s atmosphere was also very much to his taste.

The war was over, and the city was starting to celebrate.

Javier considered himself an artist. He liked this eager, passionate environment, he liked bold and romantic men and women, and he didn’t mind having a fling with them.

He was often drunk. After saying goodbye to the girl he had met today, he was walking home when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. He passed out.

When he woke up again, he found himself in a warehouse-like place, tied to a chair. He struggled, but the ropes were tied too tightly, cutting into his wrists. He couldn’t move at all.

The people who had kidnapped him didn’t make him wait long. They appeared soon.

Two people wearing masks, he couldn’t see their faces. They didn’t say anything, they just punched him twice.

Javier had been pampered his whole life. He had never been beaten before. He immediately vomited up two mouthfuls of sour water, his features twisted in pain, he couldn’t speak.

“What… what are you doing!”

These two were experienced interrogators. Dealing with Javier was a piece of cake. It didn’t take long before he confessed everything.

When asked about the church, he said that religion was very interesting. He didn’t believe in God, but he felt that religion was necessary. People with faith, their humanity was different from those without faith. It was worth observing.

But he didn’t believe in religion.

When it came to Lu Mingqiu, what he said was absurd. He actually denied going to Lu Mingqiu’s house, saying he didn’t know her. The two of them didn’t believe him, but Javier was already in a miserable state. He wasn’t the kind of person who was trained. He should have broken down long ago.

If they tortured him any further, he wouldn’t survive.

There was no choice but to report this absurd intelligence.

The deputy received the video. He didn’t think he was lying. There was only one fact—he had forgotten. His memories and perceptions had been altered.

It was obvious who had done this. It must have been Inola.

Javier was useless. It didn’t matter if he lived or died. Anyway, he was close to death now. It was better to send him on his way.

As for Inola.

She might be an ability user, or she might be a master hypnotist. This omega, whom he had always ignored, actually had some skills.

The deputy searched for her latest news. Her latest news was that she had shot a new magazine, which would be sold online soon. She had released a few preview pictures and behind-the-scenes videos.

She had married into the Yan family. The woman named Yan Xianchuan had suddenly been given a lot of responsibility by the family recently. That was also something worth pondering.

But the deputy had carefully looked at Lu Mingqiu’s schedule. He felt that she shouldn’t have anything to do with the church. There was nothing special about her. Maybe she just had some abilities, which wouldn’t affect his future actions, and she wasn’t within his range of revenge.

Since that was the case, he didn’t need to worry about her.

The church was elusive. The deputy also had ideas. He wanted to take action against them, because he suspected that the commander’s information had been leaked by the church. After all, they had a history of doing this.

He just couldn’t find them.

Javier’s death didn’t cause any ripples. He had only been in Nanjin City for a few days. He wasn’t using the Polov name either. Not many people knew him, and no one cared if he lived or died.

After dealing with this interlude, the deputy continued to focus on his own business.

On the other side, Yan Xianchuan was also doing her own business. She was seizing territory with great enthusiasm, she was full of energy, she was riding high.

She was even more eager than Qi Ziyang.

She had never done anything like this before. She was super excited. She learned from the movies she had seen, like a gangster or a bandit. She got herself a black outfit, Martin boots, a punk necklace, fingerless gloves. She originally wanted to make her hair more individual, she excitedly sat down in the barbershop, she was about to use the scissors, but then she suddenly thought about whether this would affect her looks, so she ran away.

But a baseball bat, a must-have for thugs, was a must! It was an important prop.

Yan Xianchuan also bought spray paint and manually modified it. She sprayed the coffee table in the living room black and white.

Lu Mingqiu watched her; she resembled a child with a beloved new toy, unable to part with it, lost in her own joy, yet unsure how to fully express her happiness.

The base color of the bat was black. She sprayed it with red flames and added a white outline. It was both cool and childish. After she finished, Yan Xianchuan eagerly showed it off to Lu Mingqiu, she said proudly, “Isn’t it beautiful!”

Lu Mingqiu nodded helplessly, “It’s very cool. You’re really good at this.”

When she went out at night, she was dressed neatly. She was wearing a skull-printed mask, she had several earrings and ear clips on her ears, they were jingling. She had even specially asked someone to put makeup on her, she wanted a “very imposing, very cool” villainous smoky eye look.

To be honest, it didn’t look like a thug, it looked like she was roleplaying.

Lu Mingqiu was tempted to ask her what movie she had been watching. It was really a bit too exaggerated.