The title of the book "The Evil Hypnotist" tells readers that these two cases are related to hypnosis.
Duan Qiao ran to the bookstore early in the morning and bought a copy of "The Evil Hypnotist".
Duan Qiao was Zhang Zhong's editor-in-chief when he was still publishing his works on Guild Literature Online. Every time Zhang Zhong had a new book, Duan Qiao could preview it first.
Later, Zhang Zhong's works were only released exclusively on the 001 Chinese website, and Duan Qiao lost this benefit.
But now, every time Zhang Zhong releases a new book, he will rush to the bookstore to buy one as soon as possible.
Since he has a day off today, Duan Qiao has enough time to spend on this book.
After reading the previous two cases, Duan Qiao felt a little surprised, because this novel was very different from Zhang Zhong's previous detective novels.
In Zhang Zhong's previous detective novels, the plots were very real, and the cases were all very normal killing techniques.
But in this novel, it seems very magical. When reading the first case, Duan Qiao felt like he was reading some kind of supernatural novel.
Will there be any mysterious power in the novel?
After seeing two cases, Duan Qiao still couldn't determine this matter.
Because in his impression, hypnosis should not be able to achieve this effect, at least he has never seen any hypnotist who is so powerful.
In addition to these cases, there are many descriptions of hypnosis in the book.
For example, when Luo Fei and the others went to find a very powerful local hypnotist, a young detective was very distrustful of the hypnotist. He didn't even believe in hypnosis.
In fact, Duan Qiao felt that the young detective said what he wanted to say, and he did not believe that the hypnotist could do those miraculous things.
But soon, the young detective's view changed 180 degrees.
The hypnotist they visited hypnotized the detective with just one movement.
This hypnosis does not mean making the detective fall asleep, nor does it control his mind, but makes him forget his name through an action.
This is a very miraculous thing, but when Duan Qiao saw this paragraph, he began to believe it.
Because this paragraph is quite real, sometimes he himself will suddenly forget some important things, such as his own name.
He remembered that one time when he was reviewing a manuscript, a colleague came over and asked him to go out for dinner and asked him to think about what he wanted to eat.
Just when he was thinking about what to eat, another colleague came over and suddenly asked him what his name was. It took him more than ten seconds without remembering his name.
At that time, the colleague was also surprised and thought Duan Qiao was teasing him on purpose.
In fact, in that incident, Duan Qiao was not the only one who was confused. The person who asked his name was also a little confused, because his colleague was familiar with him and of course knew his name.
But because the company had to fill in some information, he came over and asked Duan Qiao's name in a daze.
Later, when Duan Qiao recalled this incident, he also analyzed it. There were two reasons why he couldn't remember his name at that time.
The first reason was that his previous colleague invited him out for dinner, and his mind was full of thinking about what he was going to eat for a while, and his attention was focused on the food.
The second reason is that the colleague who asked his name was very familiar with him, so it was impossible for the colleague to ask his name under normal circumstances, and he did not react for a while.
Later, he also teased his girlfriend. He suddenly asked his girlfriend's name, which made her think about it for a while before she remembered it.
Of course, that incident also made his girlfriend complain about him for a long time.
Because of these things, Duan Qiao felt very sympathetic to the plot described in the book. He understood the feeling of suddenly not being able to remember his own name.
There is also a small easter egg in this book. Duan Qiao was surprised and happy when he saw the easter egg.
When Luo Fei and the others went to visit a psychological counselor, they unexpectedly met another detective who was also investigating the case, and this detective's name was Qin Lang.
As a fan of Zhang Zhong, I will never forget the name Qin Lang.
"Blindspot 2" was released not long ago, and Duan Qiao can still remember the plot of "Blindspot 2".
When reading "Blindspot 2" before, readers were still talking about the appearance of Yukawa Manabu and Langdon in the book. Unexpectedly, Qin Lang actually made a cameo in the new book "Evil Hypnotist".
It is a pity that Qin Lang's role in the new book is very small. There is only a simple meeting. Luo Fei and Qin Lang briefly chatted for a few words, and then Luo Fei talked about Qin Lang to his subordinates.
However, from the chat between Luo Fei and Qin Lang and the conversation between Luo Fei and his subordinates, we can see the general storyline. At this time, Qin Lang had just solved the Zhou Yuan case, and the subsequent cult case had not yet happened.
It's a pity. It would definitely be interesting if Qin Lang could investigate the case with Luo Fei.
As the story develops, the grievances and grudges between several hypnotists gradually surface. Until Bai Yaxing's death, Duan Qiao even thought the story was over for a while.
But it turns out that things are not that simple, and the mastermind behind the scenes still has not appeared.
Later, Luo Fei became suspicious of Ling Mingding, and Duan Qiao also had some doubts about him.
Then the story took a big turn, and Xia Mengyao, who originally seemed harmless to humans and animals, turned out to be the mastermind behind the scenes.
At this time, Xia Mengyao was preparing for a program where she was going to perform a hypnosis performance.
If this performance is successful, it will have an audience of up to 100 million people.
After the performance was over, when Luo Fei found Ling Mingding with a recording, Duan Qiao was shocked by what Luo Fei said next.
It turns out that the reason why Xia Mengyao did this performance was not because she wanted to become famous, but because she wanted to use this performance to conduct a group hypnosis and induce those unhappy people to commit suicide.
"Let everyone who lives be happy."
This is Xia Mengyao's wish.
At first glance, there seems to be nothing wrong with this sentence, just like wishing lovers to get married eventually.
But if you think about it carefully, you can make everyone who is alive happy, or you can make everyone who is unhappy die.
This is the method Xia Mengyao adopted.
She hopes that through hypnosis, people who are disappointed with life can commit suicide, so that they can escape from pain, realize reincarnation, and move toward a new beginning.
If she succeeded, 10 million people might commit suicide.
Such a terrifying plan caused Duan Qiao, who was reading a book, to break into a cold sweat.
He really couldn't connect such a murder plan with the beautiful and friendly Xia Mengyao, especially the sentence "let all living people be happy" which originally sounded so warm, turned out to be so terrifying.