"To be precise...there are three normal people left."
The inferior man's tired eyes with dark circles became as dark as an abyss: "I remember when the minister first joined four years ago... there were still five of us, right?"
"The most is six."
Delphinium corrected.
"Traitors cannot be counted as human beings."
The man with a pair of sika antlers crossed his arms over his chest and snorted coldly: "Not counting the traitor, two people have been sacrificed in the past four years. Looking at the bright side, at least the sacrifice rate is much lower than that of the execution department.
"In addition, there is another one who is also our former colleague...or rather, the former minister. He is still alive, and you may be able to see him in the future."
"...He got promoted?"
Russell asked with a sense of luck.
"He turned into a demon. Of course, I think it was because he was under too much mental pressure... and the company's final report was that he abused his psychic powers."
The inferior reached out and took out a box of cigarettes from his arms, but Delphinium glared at him and stuffed the cigarette box back angrily: "That guy is now imprisoned in the research institute and provides us with psychic chips for treatment. He
He used to be a good person, but after he became a devil, he was no longer that person.
"If I have a chance later, I can show you what the devil is like... I won't say anything anymore. Let's change the topic. You, take this."
As he said that, the bad guy took out a chip box the size of a USB flash drive and threw it directly to Russell.
After Russell took it, he pushed it out and looked at it.
"What's this?"
He asked while checking.
There are four chips inside, namely red, yellow, blue and green.
Judging from the shape, it is similar to the chip used on the airship in the bad days.
"You definitely don't know this, because this is a technology that only the executive department has access to."
The inferior said, rolling up the sleeve of his left hand, revealing the forearm with the joint.
Only then did Russell realize that the inferior's prosthetic body was on his left arm.
I saw the bad guy inserting a blue-labeled chip into the slot on his left arm - his unruly and indifferent temperament suddenly became much calmer.
"For example, this is the psychic chip burned into the minister's psychic power. As long as this chip is inserted, I can use the minister's psychic power."
After saying that, the bad guy took out the chip intact.
The chip still has a green light and does not emit red light. This means that it has not been consumed.
"If you had used it just now, I would have to say something to you."
Delphinium on the side smiled and seemed not angry, just joking.
But the inferior one lowered his head and replied seriously: "I understand, Minister. I won't be so wasteful anymore."
"...how are psychic powers burned?"
Russell couldn't help but ask.
"The essence of psychic energy is memory and emotion. If you are willing...or you are forcibly imprisoned, you can copy the memory of the moment when you awaken your psychic energy, along with the emotions at that moment, and give it to others to use."
The inferior said seriously: "But remember, you must only use the chips issued by the head office, and you can only use one psychic chip at the same time. Do not pick up the chips of those mercenaries and use them."
"Why is this?"
"Just like those psychics in the execution department. The chips issued by the company are also securely processed, and that part of the memory and emotions will be deleted after you use it. This is to protect personal privacy on the one hand, and on the other hand
In order not to cause personality disorder.
"The technology in Xiacheng District is not that good, but it is also cost-effective. They manufacture a semi-permanent chip. After the chip is inserted, it can be used continuously for several hours or even days. However, the remaining memory will not be deleted, and
It will stay deeply in my mind, even stronger than my own memory.
"You have to know that things like memory can be easily deceived. That kind of memory is mixed with your own memory, and it is very easy to confuse it with your own memory and create a false memory that does not exist. Basically, as long as you use it once, it will be
It will cause negative effects, and you will go crazy if you use it a few times.
"Considering human rights and privacy issues, it's up to you to make your own psychic chips and who to distribute them to. But demons don't have human rights - our ability to capture demons can become our power. So capturing demons
There is a bonus, but there is no reward for killing. But if you can't capture him alive, you still have to kill him, or at least you can't let him go.
"But even if these chips can be reimbursed, you cannot use the same chip continuously within 24 hours, otherwise it may still cause memory confusion or inappropriate emotions. In serious cases, it may even lower the blue value."
As he said that, the bad guy shook his chip box: "Therefore, you usually only carry one type of each chip. Your four chips are the standard first-level psychic chips for every executive. According to red, yellow, blue and green
The order is 'Juli', 'Detection Camera', 'Protective Light Bullet',
'Quick healing'. If you still need it, you can apply for a second-level chip. However, psychic chips exceeding level three must be purchased at a discount from internal channels...but note that they must not be sold to outsiders. Unused chips
Above, there is an application batch number, which is very simple to check.
"The used chips can be thrown away or recycled. The data and batch number inside have been destroyed when exiting. So you don't have to worry about being picked up and doing bad things."
Hearing this, Russell became more and more curious.
Although he didn't know whether he could ask this question...but after struggling for a long time, he still asked it.
"So," he asked, "what are the Minister's psychic powers?"
Hearing this, the surroundings were silent for a moment.
"Don't call me Minister, call me Delphinium."
Delphinium sighed: "My spiritual power... can be used in many ways.
"But the memory that I made into a chip has only one effect. That is, when the blue value is below level six, it can temporarily increase the blue value by one level. This means that as long as the emotion is appropriate, you can safely explode to a higher level.
First level psychic power."
She had a slightly fake smile on her face that was similar to Bad Day's: "This is one of the reasons why I was pushed to the position of 'executive director'. In this case, I have to voluntarily serve my subordinates.
We have provided the chip."
"...Is making chips a painful process?"
"No. To be precise, apart from recalling that memory, there is not even any burden."
Delphinium shook her head: "But just like my code name, using this chip has negative effects..."
"What negative effects?"
"It will be poisonous."
Delphinium whispered softly: "Using it to 'safely' temporarily enhance spiritual power is equivalent to ingesting a poison that puts a heavy burden on the heart. But because this poison is not actually ingested, it is
Antidotes cannot be used to neutralize the toxins, and can only directly treat the symptoms of poisoning. As the time of using it increases, the poison will gradually begin to cause irreversible damage to the heart. For people who use prosthetic hearts, there may be
Asthma, convulsions, vomiting, fainting and other types of poisoning symptoms.
"But the most dangerous thing about it is that... it will break the subconscious constraints of experienced psykers on psychic powers. Just like people will instinctively not use all their power to avoid the reaction force from hurting themselves. The blue shift level shows
The wall of reason will suppress the expansion and restlessness of psychic energy.
"But if you use it too many times and become accustomed to a higher level of psychic power, it may make your brain think that 'your blue shift is one level higher than the real level'. In an already dangerous situation,
In the shifting state, even without using a chip, it is possible to subconsciously burst out with stronger psychic energy. But this completes the over-limit - the moment the red shift exceeds the blue shift, it will lead to the disintegration of the original personality. Then
Irreversible and extremely rapid demonization will occur."
"That's why... I named myself Delphinium. That was the name I changed to myself after I became the head of the execution department."
——It is a poisonous flower, a relative of the same family as Aconitum.
"You just asked me what my psychic power is... When I completed the transfer ceremony and obtained the true name and detailed abilities of my psychic power, it was actually a little late.
"I didn't know until then that its name was [Lethal Amount of Love]. It was a poisonous psychic energy that had side effects that could kill anyone."
As she said this, an almost gorgeous, but not bright, and even sad smile appeared on her face.