Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 370 Emotional Change

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"Yes, yes, I'm at the shopping center in the new district. There's a strange creature here that interferes with the communication signals in this area. I killed it, so the signal blocking is lifted. It's that simple." Sun Hang said to the phone, "I have other things to do now, so I probably won't be here for the time being. I'll leave Yang Lian to you, my sister. Okay, I'll hang up first... Oh wait, I forgot to tell you to send a team to the entrance of the shopping center to pick someone up."

"You ask who he is? Just a scavenger." After Sun Hang said this, he hung up Yang Qi's phone.

The scavenger girl looked at Sun Hang in fear - when Sun Hang was on the phone just now, he cast his eyes on her several times. Although she was deaf, she was not a fool after all, and she could tell at a glance that Sun Hang was discussing something related to her on the phone.

Sun Hang walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder. The next second, Sun Hang's voice rang in her mind: "Someone will pick you up at the entrance of the shopping mall. Just follow them when the time comes."

With a plop, the pale-faced scavenger girl knelt down immediately and said tremblingly: "Please... please... don't hand me over to the investigation bureau... don't..."

"Uh... maybe you misunderstood. The person who came to pick you up is not from the Investigation Bureau, but from the Weird Things Research Institute."

It would have been fine if Sun Hang hadn't said this. But as soon as he mentioned the research institute, images of "slice dissection" and "live experiments" instantly popped up in the scavenger girl's head, and she started shaking even more violently.

"What I mean is, since you provided me with useful information, I can write off the fact that you shot me with a crossbow." Sun Hang also realized the ambiguity of his words just now. "As for why I asked the people from the institute to pick you up, it's because the medical conditions there can cure your ears. After your ears are cured, you are free to go wherever you want... Of course, if you are caught by the sheriff for theft or some other crime later, it will be none of my business."

Although Sun Hang could have used Yi Si Er San's ability to heal the scavenger girl's ears, he did not do so.

This girl has a more serious problem than her ears.

In other words, this is not just her problem, but a problem for the entire Tianfu City.

The attention of the top leaders is all focused on Chimera No. 17, and few people can see the struggles of these people at the bottom.

Sun Hang is not a saint, and he doesn't care much about the life and death of people who have nothing to do with him... But Sun Hang felt an extremely strong negative emotion from those people who were "assimilated" by the monsters just now, and those who were infected by the polluted water and turned into monsters.

Including these scavengers, all people struggling to make ends meet, and even those who have been trapped at home for a long time and unable to go out due to martial law, all these people will become breeding grounds for negative emotions.

It is difficult to ensure that everyone can receive the psychological counseling services provided by the government relying solely on existing policies.

Not to mention the consultation method, many people don't even know that there is such a service. What's more, even if their negative emotions are so strong that they are swallowing up their whole body, they will not think that there is something wrong with their mental state, let alone accept treatment from a psychologist. They will only vent their resentment on other things, they will resent the weird things, resent the federal government, resent their own fate... and even resent the people around them.

People like this are the ones who are most likely to suffer from "emotional abnormalities".

However, it is precisely these people who are least likely to receive psychological counseling.

This is a fatal loophole in existing policies.

Sun Hang had just seen the shadows of "fear" and "despair" behind the scavenger girl, but after he told the girl that the people from the institute came to pick her up to help her heal her ears, and also promised to return her freedom after the treatment was completed, these shadows faded away...

Sun Hang even had a feeling that he was only one step away from breaking through that dangerous "threshold".

If this problem is not handled properly, a large number of new strange creatures born out of "emotional weirdness" may emerge in Tianfu City in the future... and the most fatal thing is that once the secret of emotional weirdness spreads among the people, the panic caused may very likely lead to an extremely serious vicious cycle!
It doesn’t mean that knowing that negative emotions may lead to weirdness means that people can try to get rid of their negative emotions... If humans can easily control their emotions, the profession of psychologist will not be so popular, and all kinds of criminal cases caused by emotions can be avoided...

Sun Hang suddenly remembered a joke. It said that there was an instrument that could monitor human brain activity. A group of volunteers were invited to participate in the test of this instrument. Electrodes were attached to the brain of each of them, and the researcher conducting the test stood among them and asked them all kinds of questions.

When the researchers said, "Please don't imagine elephants in your mind, don't ever think about elephants," according to the monitoring results of the instruments, the images that emerged in almost everyone's minds were elephants.

There is only one exception.

The man came from a country in the northern frigid zone. He had no education, was illiterate, did not know how to use the Internet, and never watched TV... He did not even know what the word "elephant" meant when the researchers spoke of it.

Ignorance is bliss. Continuing to keep the secret of emotional weirdness is the best solution at the moment, but it is hard to say how long this secret can be kept.

Sun Hang took a deep breath and retracted the spreading mycelium - he had already absorbed the remaining memes in the remains of the monster, but unfortunately, these meme fragments did not bring him new abilities, they only slightly restored his severely depleted blue bar.

This monster itself is not very strong. The effect of blocking communication signals is achieved with the help of the computer room of the shopping mall. Its actual combat capability is not even as good as Tai Sui... The only interesting point is probably the "linkage effect" between it and the videotape, which is a "Type A monster".

As long as the videotape is not played to that critical point, it is almost invincible - it is like a spectator who breaks through the fourth wall, unable to interfere with this world, and will not be affected by anything from this world.

(End of this chapter)