"No, you should understand my character. Precisely because I never believe in any supernatural witchcraft and magic, when I encounter this kind of magical phenomenon, I will do my best to use science to analyze and explain it - and control it.
." Troy spread his hands and said with a smile.
"You...you concocted that nerve poison?" Zhang Ke suddenly reacted.
"Yeah, but the recipe is actually quite different." Troy seemed to be proud to show off, "Undersea priests generally use dried lizard skins, dried worms and toad eggs, as well as several special plants growing locally, such as
Itchy peas and dark green cassava, and, above all else, the skulls of dead infants, which they believed contained the magic power of this powder.”
"Ugh..." Yuan Mengmeng is a girl after all, so she felt a little nauseous when she heard this recipe.
"However, according to my pharmacological and chemical analysis of those suspended animation powders, I found that most of the raw materials are unnecessary or can be replaced, and many are even redundant - for example, the baby's skull is just calcium carbonate. What's the use?
?It’s better to add shells. What really works are those seemingly inconspicuous plants.”
"Is that pea cassava?" Zhang Ke asked.
"Yes, cassava plants are inherently toxic. Even if this dark green cassava is cooked and eaten, it can make people feel trance and hallucinate. The raw venom can naturally suppress people's nerves. And that itching
Pea can reduce the metabolic efficiency of the circulatory system, but it must be added in large amounts and concentrated to effectively put people into a state of suspended animation. Combined with the remaining plants that also contain nerve or heart inhibitors, theoretically it can indeed put people into a state of suspended animation."
Troy explained in great detail and seemed not afraid of revealing secrets at all, or that he didn't care at all about others hearing.
"But... after all, I am not one of those priests who has been preparing the drug to fake death for a lifetime, so I spent a lot of time purifying and experimenting with the formula, and got the semi-finished product that is barely effective now - even so, there are still three out of three of these experimental products
One of the people could not withstand the poison and died on the spot."
"Are they those people who are foaming at the mouth? They have not turned into zombies and been manipulated by you, and the blood from the wounds has stopped flowing out." Zhang Ke immediately thought of this phenomenon.
"As for how to control them, I analyzed the spells used by Haitian wizards and found that they were songs that were closer to music than words, and these zombies were not controlled by spells as soon as they woke up.
It takes wizards to patiently teach or brainwash them before they know what music to listen to and what farm work to do." Troy said:
"In fact, it is essentially a method similar to hypnosis and implanting psychological imprints. Because the spirits of these half-dead people are under strong suppression, it is easy to implant concepts. Moreover, each wizard's spell songs are different, because
The important thing is not the spell itself, but teaching the spell to the voodoo zombies and making them familiar with the operation process - this is my job."
"Yes, for you, who majored in brain science and minored in psychology, spiritual suggestion and hypnosis are your strengths." Yuan Mengmeng said.
"Chanting spells was too tiring, so I found a cloud flute, a local folk instrument under the sea, and implanted psychological hints into these people in advance, so that after they hear a certain tune, they will subconsciously want to do something - of course
, Under normal circumstances, they have clear self-awareness and will not be manipulated, but after being severely injured by Tan Xin and poisoned with fake death drugs, they are naturally only controlled by Le Sheng."
"I'm afraid Tan Xin's murderous behavior was also instigated by you. In order to test the effect of the fake death drug, you must have a large number of experimental subjects, but this will expose your flaws. And by using Tan Xin to kill these experimental subjects
If you die, you can hardly be discovered, and the blame will be on her anyway." Zhang Ke pointed out this point clearly.
"Yeah, I can't hide anything from you, but it's a pity that you still..." Troy looked at Yuan Mengmeng next to Zhang Ke, suddenly swayed, and came to them before either of them could react.
"What are you going to do..." Before Yuan Mengmeng could finish her words, Troy grabbed her arm, pulled her towards her, and then disappeared together from Zhang Ke's eyes inexplicably.
"What...what's going on? Mengmeng, where are you!" Zhang Ke hurried forward, but suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he saw Troy behind him.
"The memory started to get messed up from here. Forget it, you should wake up now." He sighed, and he seemed to be much older than before, and even his clothes were different.
He pushed lightly towards Zhang Ke, and Zhang Ke felt his body fly out uncontrollably at high speed, as if he had passed through a long corridor, and suddenly fell into the elevator at the end.
As the elevator door suddenly closed, Zhang Ke felt his body falling at high speed to the ground. He raised his head and glanced at the buttons in front of him. There were only twelve buttons at the highest level, and none of the buttons above seemed to have existed.
Unable to calm down and think, the elevator fell faster and faster, almost like a free fall. A strong sense of despair and fear enveloped Zhang Ke's heart, and his body became somewhat confused due to the surge of blood.
BANG!!!!
With a loud noise, Zhang Ke felt the earth shattering, but after a moment he opened his eyes and found that he seemed to be unscathed, and the elevator opened normally without any damage.
Was it all an illusion just now? Just when Zhang Ke was thinking this, he found that the dial had returned to its previous slender strip, and he could press it all the way to the 25th floor, indicating that the time had returned to the present again?
But what shocked him even more was the person who walked into the elevator - the heroic Ye Suling.
"Ye Suling??? You, why are you here?" When Zhang Ke saw the other party for the first time, he almost didn't react.
"Do you know me?" Ye Suling was suddenly stunned when she saw Zhang Ke's face, and then fell into a somewhat confused state. After a moment, she said, "I really want to see you somewhere... but I can't remember it at all.
what's your name?"
"Zhang Ke—by the way, what are you doing here?"
"Someone called me and said that there was an old acquaintance here who wanted to see me in an emergency and asked me to go to the 25th floor..." Ye Suling said, "Because the other person sounded very anxious, I didn't know how I got here by accident."
"The 25th floor? That's not..." Before Zhang Ke could figure it out, the elevator door suddenly closed on its own, and then he slowly headed upstairs.
"Officer Ye Suling, when you get to the 25th floor, please leave the gun on your waist in the elevator, and then go with Zhang Ke to the third sword room on the left side of the door. If you don't do it, I will kill the hostage Yuan Meng directly.
Cute.”
Tan Xin's voice suddenly came from the elevator's emergency microphone, and Zhang Ke's expression changed drastically and he blurted out: "Why is Mengmeng in your hands? What are you going to do?"
However, the other party didn't answer at all. Not only did he not hear it, he also deliberately ignored it.
"Anyway, your friend was kidnapped by a lunatic. I'm afraid that lunatic is the same as the person who called me over. That's the situation." Ye Suling quickly accepted the situation and threw the pistol on the ground.
, said to Zhang Ke:
"Although I don't know why, I feel like we are very compatible, and it is also the police's responsibility to protect citizens - don't worry, I will help you rescue your friend."
"Okay, please."
The elevator door opened. Zhang Ke and Ye Suling followed Tan Xin's instructions and opened the door. They saw her sitting at the other end of the room, pointing a fire ax at Yuan Mengmeng's neck.