After finishing the mission and returning to the team center, Qu Xiao locked himself in the bedroom.

As a person living in peaceful times, the bloody scene just now really had a big impact on his soul.

Although his resistance to various things has increased after coming to this different world, he still found it a bit difficult to accept seeing a living person's head explode in front of his eyes.

This is not a physical problem, but a mental gap.

Different from the previous scuffle, this time he felt like he was the executioner.

Watching those guys in white clothes killing people, he stood by but could do nothing. Qu Xiao really hated being such a bystander. If he had known this, he might as well not have participated in this mission.

The little girl is also miserable. As a shelter object, she is treated as a research object by the company and tortured in various ways. Methods such as "electric shock" are probably just the beginning. In the future, the company will probably also use those in white clothes.

Artificial human hands are used to conduct more inhuman research methods.

As for the purpose of these studies, Qu Xiao is still unclear, but what he knows is that if he doesn't find a way to escape, his spirit may gradually be assimilated into the same indifference as the people around him.

Thinking of this, Qu Xiao couldn't help but feel a chill. There is a saying that "the dragon slayer will eventually become the evil dragon", but he didn't hope that he would become what he hated most at the moment.

Those guys have completely lost their humanity. If he becomes like that, how will he face his identity when he returns to the real world?

Although Qu Xiao doesn't expect that he can always be a good person in this life, he also doesn't expect that one day he will become that kind of monster that loses humanity. Time travel is obviously a channel for him to change the situation in the real world, but now, the situation has changed somewhat.

Already.

His body and mind were unknowingly affected by the bad conditions of this world.

I have to adjust my mentality.

Qu Xiao kept taking deep breaths to warn himself.

I have not been brainwashed, I am different from them, I am not a monster...

The living environment will unconsciously affect a person's personality. Now Qu Xiao has personally experienced the situation mentioned in this sentence. Whether he admits it in his heart or not, he can feel that his sympathy for the outside world is declining.

, this change toward indifference is not necessarily a bad thing, but for Qu Xiao, it is a bad thing.

Because of what he saw in the world here, he became less and less like himself.

This black stone is deliberately changing me.

Qu Xiao was suddenly reminded of the source of the problem.

Powerful power, cruel knowledge... The opportunity for time travel provided by the Black Stone was not in vain. After entering his head, this thing had begun to slowly reverse some of his deep-seated consciousness concepts.

For example, when he was just watching, Qu Xiao found that he was inexplicably worried about gains and losses.

I was obviously not like this before...

Thinking back to himself when he was on an overseas assignment some time ago, Qu Xiao felt that his subconscious mind had indeed changed a lot. If he had put it in the past, he would have given all the consequences to save his own life.

in the back of my head, but now...

He obviously can't.

He began to think about the consequences and the possibility of everything he did. He gradually became more rational. This was not his Qu Xiao character at all!

"Made, you can't even try to change me!"

Slamming his fist on the wall, Qu Xiao roared at the black stone in his mind: "If you really have something to ask me, we can have a good chat. There is no need for you to use such despicable means to control me."

Thought!"

But the black stone didn't respond to him, and it didn't even use the trick of sending back pain. It seemed unwilling to respond to Qu Xiao's call. Perhaps in its view, such a weak creature had no qualifications to take the initiative to talk to it.

Qu Xiao was about to try again, but suddenly, someone knocked on the door from outside. Qu Xiao thought it was Mu Yu who came to talk to him, but to his surprise, it was Xiao Lan who came to see him.

Looking at the short baby face in front of him, Qu Xiao was slightly stunned: "Xiaolan? What do you want from me?"

"9527..." Xiaolan glanced behind him to make sure there was no one around, then he continued in a low voice: "Can you let me in for a while? I have something I want to talk to you about."

Naturally, Qu Xiao had no excuse to refuse, so he opened the door and let Xiaolan walk in. However, Xiaolan immediately closed the door for him as soon as he entered the room, and in the end, he was very cautious and locked the door again.

Qu Xiao became even more puzzled when he saw this: "What are you..."

"I'm afraid that what I want to talk about next is not easy for others to know. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it is necessary to take some measures."

"So what exactly is going on?"

"It's just...about some strange feeling that I had in my heart some time ago."

Qu Xiao was startled when he heard this, and his thoughts quickly reorganized. He felt as if he already knew what Xiaolan wanted to say next.

"you mean……"

"I feel like my mind is being controlled by something."

Xiaolan said directly, and then he saw a shocked look on Qu Xiao's face opposite him.

"Very good, your reaction tells me that my guess is right."

"Why...why?!" Qu Xiao didn't understand Xiaolan's thinking circuit for a while, but his extremely strong sense of self-protection told him that he couldn't continue talking directly yet, so he quickly organized his words and said in defense: "

Your idea is really ridiculous, I just think it’s outrageous..."

"You don't have to lie to me anymore." Xiaolan shook her head and replied, "Your expression is not a normal shock at all. It is mixed with a heavy emotion of surprise. For ordinary people, these two emotions are very different.

There may not be any difference, but I have studied professional micro-expression knowledge, so I can see the difference between the two."

"The reason why you show such complicated emotions is because you have actually known about this for a long time. You have been trying hard to show that you don't know, so in addition to being 'surprised', you also deliberately covered it up with a look of shock.

Look, you want to lie to me because you think I am testing you. I think the purpose of my visit this time is to find out your details, but it is not the case. The reason I came here this time is to have a serious chat with you.

Let’s talk about this matter, so you don’t have to act, let’s just open the skylight and talk openly.”

A barrage of speeches instantly shocked Qu Xiao. Before, Xiaolan gave him the impression that he was just a very smart little man, but now, Qu Xiao knew that he was wrong. The baby-faced boy in front of him was simply

A genius, a genius among artificial humans.

Seeing Qu Xiao's look at him gradually return to normal, Xiaolan understood that the former had accepted this fact. He had already expected this. Based on his belief in his words, he felt that this should really be Qu Xiao's role as a smart man.

Normal human reaction.

Accepting and then calming down, Qu Xiao made the most correct mentality change that reason told him. Since Xiao Lan had already said this, it would be very stupid for him to continue acting.

"All right."

Sighing, Qu Xiao continued, "You're right, I just wanted to lie to you, I'm sorry."

"You don't need to apologize to me. If it were me, I would have the same reaction as you." Xiaolan replied, "However, from your performance so far, I can infer that this brainwashing phenomenon is not

It doesn’t exist just for me, right? All of us in the Eye Blood Team have actually been tricked?”

"You're right." Qu Xiao nodded, "But I'm still curious, how did you sense this situation?"

"If you really want to say it, this is still your credit."

Xiaolan sat on the bed, "Do you still remember the night you came back from punishment some time ago?"

"Remember." Qu Xiao nodded.

"You asked me at that time, are the company's interests really above all else? From that time on, I have already noticed that inexplicable feeling in my heart."

After a pause, Xiaolan continued: "I thought about it afterwards and found that the question you asked is particularly interesting. It's not that the meaning of the question itself is so obscure. The main interesting point is... I actually only

I can think of the answer but I can’t think of an explanation.”

"Can you understand this feeling? It's like... I'm doing a very complex mathematical problem. Although I don't know the solution to the problem itself, I can tell what the answer is just at a glance."

"So you begin to suspect that your mind is being controlled?"

"So I have a little bit of relevant conjecture." Xiaolan responded and continued, "After that, I wanted to continue thinking about this matter, but in my heart I was inexplicably not interested in it, which made me feel

It’s even weirder, it’s obviously my own idea, but it always feels different from my usual thoughts.”

"I can sense that there is a contradiction in my thinking. It is very inconspicuous, but it always exists, so I began to doubt whether my thinking was affected by something, but I have never had this problem.

Find the answer until... when we go on an overseas assignment."

Speaking of this, Xiaolan suddenly stopped, his eyes suddenly became fierce, but the next second, his expression returned to normal.

Qu Xiao, who was standing next to him, was shocked when he saw this. It was like a face-changing scene in Sichuan Opera happening right in front of his eyes, which made him a little at a loss.

"you……"

"Feel sorry."

Xiaolan raised his hands and rubbed his face. He seemed to be adjusting his emotions and forcibly restraining some impulse in his heart.
Chapter completed!