MTL - Overturned Tower-Chapter 17 Psykers and Demons

Before dinner, Amirus brought Russell to a research company affiliated with "Thoth Spiritual Energy" and helped Russell treat the wound.

Although Russell's injury is really not serious, it's just a flesh injury...

But Amirus still sent three white coats to give Russell a full body check.

Unexpectedly, I found out something...

"There are two levels of psionic load. With this level of load, the pressure on the internal organs and brain is not too high."

A doctor with horns and ears, with a thick and deep voice, handed the report to Russell: "Redshift 2, blueshift 4, it's still safe now...but after that, I have to remember the physical examination every month."

This value represents the awakening level of psionic energy. There are only two values, red and blue, from one to ten, from weak to strong.

The red shift value represents desire and obsession, and also the strength of psionic energy; the blue shift value represents the manifested rationality and morality, and also represents the degree of restraint of the psyker on his own psionic power. Only when the blueshift value is greater than or equal to the redshift value, the psyker is controllable.

Otherwise, the psyker will degenerate into a "demon". Their memories will be preserved, but their original personalities will disappear completely. Instead, there is a demon whose desire is infinitely strengthened, depraved and crazy.

The greatest danger of demons is that they will gradually pull the people close to them into their dreams in their dreams. If ordinary people cannot resist this call with willpower and sink into dreams, they will gradually be brainwashed, artificially created false memories, or forget something or someone.

These people will eventually become "familiars". Even if the demon is killed and the familiar is rescued, it is impossible to change back the damaged memory and distorted personality.

These demons will hide among the crowd, and absorb the desires and obsessions of the same attribute in their dreams to grow. Just like the eggs gradually hatch, the psionic energy will become stronger and stronger, and eventually it will become a real twisted monster. Even if a demon is killed by someone, it will never be considered a crime of homicide... because the person hiding in that body is no longer a person.

This is not the knowledge taught by the university, but the secret knowledge revealed to Russell by his mentor.

It was also because of work issues that Russell had to touch downtown. In order to ensure Russell's safety, his mentor told Russell these common senses in advance.

— On the surface, Sogo Island is using artificial intelligence to catch criminals, but this is just an excuse for the public to hear.

It actually relies on this analysis function to analyze everyone's behavior. If a person's behavior deviates from what he usually knows, does, and feels, and suddenly makes strange actions or words and deeds for no reason, then he will be closely monitored.

For example, a person who used to have a good temper suddenly becomes angry, or a girl who was originally clean and self-sufficient suddenly has a relationship with someone who is not so good... This abnormal situation will be suspected as a "familiar phenomenon".

Unless you take it to a professional company to test the strength of the psionic energy, as Russell is doing now, and find that the red shift has exceeded the blue shift. Otherwise the demon is undetectable and unidentifiable by any means.

If you want to find the devil, you can only use multiple "familiars" to triangulate at the social level.

"It seems that the mind protection chip still has a dead end."

Amirus commented seriously: "In recent years, more and more people have bypassed the mind protection chip to awaken psionic energy."

The white coats next to him nodded in agreement.

"what?"

Russell asked with some doubts.

Amirus turned around and explained to Russell without hesitation: "Do you know the meaning of that chip? People wearing the chip cannot awaken psionic power."

"...I have heard of this urban legend. But because there is no evidence, and I can't find it in the book, so I can't be sure."

"Then you can be sure now," Amirus replied, "because I invented the chip.

"Its second-generation version, the main user demand is to 'faint people through electric shock'. As long as emotional overload is detected, it will immediately send out a micro-electric shock that does not harm the body but is enough to make people faint. And shock."

"What is the meaning of this?"

"Because of the awakening of psychic energy—the redshift changes from one to two, and the ceremony of breaking through the Bechymos wall is a sufficiently intense emotion and a sufficiently single obsession."

The old elf said slowly: "As long as you don't become a psyker, you won't become a demon. In other words, all demons are born from out-of-control psykers.

"In 1141, there was a demon code-named 'Mamen', which devoured one-third of the staff of Shenzhi Heavy Industry, and ate the memories and feelings of five thousand people in Tongshen Island, causing the 'Pale White Incident'. From After that, Shenzhi Heavy Industry commissioned us to develop a second-generation new chip that can terminate the awakening of psionic energy.

"It was also after that that the chip was attached with a unique 'registration code'. This is actually encouraging...or, forcing all newborns to install a mind protection chip. It was after that that there were 'uncoded people' this particular group."

…No wonder.

Russell suddenly realized.

That's why Amirus called it the "mind protection chip".

It is not external forces that are protected, but internal—

As long as this chip is installed, the psionic power will not be awakened.

"Tell me about this kind of thing... is it okay?"

Russell hesitated.

Wouldn't it be a secret that if one knew about it, one would have to add Thoth's psychic power?

Amirus shook his head: "It's okay, you will know when you enter Tianen Group.

"Since you have awakened your psychic powers, no matter where you would go to work, you will eventually be transferred to the Special Operations Department."

"why?"

"Because only in this way, you will not become an [illegal psyker]."

Amirus replied: "Based on the protection of the soul by the chip, generally speaking, if you want to become a psychic, you must remove the chip. And because the chip is bound to the registration code, this also means that you will become an 'uncoded person', Lose all citizenship rights. If you want to permanently advance your psychic power level, you must complete some "desire tasks" and complete the corresponding rituals in your dreams...but with enough intense emotions and desires, you can also obtain the next level in advance, or even go further. The next level of psionic power.

"Therefore, all illegal psykers will be monitored. As long as they are found by the executive officer, they can be arrested immediately, regardless of whether the other party is guilty or not - after all, if left unattended, sooner or later, illegal psykers will become demons.

"But for the company, this common sense is not common. All executives in the executive department are psykers. And they are all 'safe and legal' psykers under restraint.

"According to their blue shift value, their chips will open different levels of permissions. Only when the blue shift value increases and does not decrease after three months of observation, can they apply for an increase in restriction rights. They have to undergo a monthly physical examination, Observe whether the blue shift value drops, and determine whether to lower the constraint level. Considering the safety threshold, only when the blue shift value is 4, can the third-level authority be opened, and if the blue shift value is 3, it can only be opened to two levels, that is, just awakened degree of psychic power.

"This means that almost all official psykers have been suppressed by one or two levels, UU reading www.uukanshu.com to ensure that they will not degenerate into demons."

With that said, Amirus took a deep look at Russell: "But you are different.

"If you have completed the awakening of psychic energy before the permission is released, it means that the chip cannot restrain your psychic energy. Then you will be incorporated into the special executive department, and the head of the executive department will be responsible for teaching, task scheduling and psychological treatment. Under the condition of ensuring that it does not lose control, it exerts greater power.

"One of the biggest advantages of entering the Special Operations Department is that you don't have to be called easily—ordinary executive officers, as long as they are managers above R5, can be temporarily transferred to help them complete a series of tasks such as security and escort. The executive department only belongs to the board of directors of the head office... This means that your job will be relatively more leisurely and your salary will be higher."

—the risk will also be higher.

Russell added in his heart.

But judging from his calm expression when he saw his medical report, Amirus probably guessed that he had awakened his psychic powers when Russell was fighting the mercenary. The psychic weapon named "Saint Beheading" was just to cover up his identity as a psychic.

If there is no accident, Russell will be assigned to the Special Operations Department after the entry medical examination is over.

But on one point, Amirus still guessed wrong.

— Russell's psychic awakening did not bypass the protection of the chip.

When he graduated from graduate school, Russell's physical examination results were red shift 1 and blue shift 2, which are standard normal values.

It was on the airship, after recovering the memory of the previous life... Russell's redshift and blueshift values ​​improved significantly.

This was originally the psionic energy he had awakened before he was born—the psionic energy condensed from the memories, desires, obsessions, and personality of his previous life!