Tesla could only sigh in his heart that Lu Li was really suitable to be an exorcist. If Lu Li's sanity did not deviate too far from the passing line... Tesla planned to give Lu Li a chance.
"Touch the tree branch with your hand. It will change after you touch it. The degree of change depends on your sanity level."
Lu Li nodded, raised his palm towards the dark branches on the table, and touched the rough surface of the branches with his fingertips.
An indescribable and obscure aura penetrated into his mind along his fingertips, and in a trance, a strange vision appeared in his mind. It was a huge banyan tree with lush branches and leaves, a crown like an umbrella canopy, and thick layers of ice piled up.
The trunk is as dark as ink. Not only the trunk, but also the branches and leaves are also pitch black, making up this huge pitch black banyan tree. Far away from the edge of the picture, there are faint human structures.
The illusion existed briefly for a few seconds and then burst like a bubble. Tesla across from him stared blankly at the table.
Lu Li followed his gaze and saw a branch-shaped piece of ashes left on the table.
It rained today too, but there was no wind, so the ashes were not blown away by the wind like yesterday.
Lu Li noticed something from Tesla's expression: "Very bad?"
"Not so bad."
Tesla shook his head and rubbed the silver ring on his index finger.
"It's very bad."
…
The sky was overcast, drizzle fell, the umbrella made a subtle popping sound, and half of the face was revealed under the edge.
Lu Li held the brown paper bag and walked back to Sailor Street.
He was walking on the roadside near the drainage ditch, his pace was not fast, which showed that he was thinking.
Lu Li still remembered the shock on Tesla's face after he frankly said that he had entered the hallucination stage.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"You didn't ask."
Both sides got one thing wrong.
After the first failure, Lu Li thought that the Tesla organization had realized the stage of his sanity, while Tesla thought that Lu Li's situation was not serious.
After all, he is too normal.
Patients whose sanity reaches the hallucination stage will have symptoms: madness, sensitivity, disbelief in everything, and questioning everything.
Except for the last one, the others have never appeared on Lu Li.
Tesla couldn't help but asked curiously: "Do you see those things, hear those things, and perceive those things now?"
"Yeah." Lu Li's eyes moved slightly and he asked, "Can you tell me in detail?"
After the sanity value is reduced to the hallucination stage, projections of existence in the other world will appear around you, as well as murmurs and whispers echoing in your ears.
Most people become neurotic in this situation.
But exorcists are not included. Most exorcists who deal with weirdness are not afraid of hallucinations. Like Lu Li, they know that these are projections and cannot harm themselves. Except for occasionally causing some trouble, such as being difficult to distinguish during combat, or
The noise made me sleepless.
But that's not all.
When those projections and sounds appear, they will bring their own aura. That is not a dark aura that humans can bear. Even if only one percent of that aura is brought out by the projection, it is enough to make people go crazy.
This aura will infect the person and cause his sanity value to continue to decline until the person cannot bear the pressure and goes crazy, or perhaps survives this stage and the sanity value drops to a more terrifying stage...
This is the reason why the demon slayers suffered huge losses in the early days before the sanity value was realized.
Nowadays, people can judge their own status through sanity test, rest and recuperate, and get themselves out of the illusion period.
It can be said that breath is the real reason for the horror in the illusion period——
But this has never happened to Lu Li.
All Lu Li experienced were hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. The dark aura they brought could not be sensed by Lu Li at all.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you are not from this world?
Lu Li was thoughtful.
"I will send this matter to the regional branch along with your document. Frankly, if you didn't look really normal, this document would probably be rejected here. I appreciate you, so I will be more
I need you to survive."
"Will I be unable to join the investigators?"
"The chance is great. You know that the negative effects of reduced sanity have been bothering us for hundreds of years. Your situation is a very important discovery. If it can be popularized, we will no longer be completely suppressed by weirdness."
"But the branch might send someone to ask you questions, which is a bit cumbersome."
"no problem."
Lu Li couldn't think of any disadvantages in it.
You can gain knowledge, you can be paid, you can be protected by investigators, and you can make the world a safer place.
"Will my sanity continue to be tested?"
"Yes...probably in the next few days. We have to first figure out what state you are in at this time."
"What should I use next time to get close to that banyan tree?"
"It's a branch...wait a minute, how do you know it's a banyan tree?"
"When I touched the branch, I saw it."
"Outstanding supernatural perception ability..."
"What is psychic perception?"
"This is internal information. We can't tell you now. We won't tell you until you join us."
Lu Li did not ask any further questions, but instead asked: "Senger who appeared in my room yesterday, is he one of the investigators?"
"An investigator who passed by Belfast made a friendly guest appearance. He had a good impression of you when he came back, so I came in person for this test."
"I'm fine."
Lu Li stopped and didn't ask any more questions.
Tesla glanced at the counter. His coffee hadn't come yet. He turned back and looked at Lu Li, who was about to leave: "Don't leave in a hurry, you have something on you."
He leaned forward, holding a piece of parchment filled with complicated words as a handkerchief, and wiped Lu Li's sleeves.
It's clean there.
In the dark, Lu Li suddenly felt that the light around him suddenly dimmed, and vicious whispers echoed around him. But in just a moment, the hell disappeared and the light returned to normal.
It's like nothing happened just now.
"Okay." Tesla sat back down and folded the piece of parchment.
Lu Li asked: "What is that?"
"The mark of the Swamp Mother. You don't think that the evil god's territory is your own garden and you can come and go at will."
Tesla's words reminded Lu Li of what he said at the beginning: You are decisive, lucky, and bold. A person dares to enter the territory of the evil god, and actually returns "almost" safe and sound.
Is this why he said almost?
"I don't have a garden." Lu Li said.
He has no money.
"That's not the point... Forget it, next time you enter the evil god's territory, even if you just pass by, remember to come back and remove the mark, otherwise it will be very troublesome. They all rely on this method to leave marks on people passing by the territory, and then bewitch them.
.”
Snap——
The sole of the shoe stepped into a puddle, causing a splash of water.
Some of them fell on his trouser legs, feeling the coldness. Lu Li came back to his senses, looked up at the familiar streets, and walked towards the long house ahead.
