Who still falls in love in the interstellar era?

Chapter 197: Fooling and not drafting

When Mayor Frank saw the front door of his house, he gave the order to open the door.

Everything seemed normal - then he saw a black cat nimbly slipping out of the newly opened gap.

The color of the black cat is like the night that comes alive, and the orange pupils look like the moon in the sky.

Frank thought at first that there was something wrong with his prosthetic eye, so he slapped the right cheek where the prosthetic eye was located. Then he realized that the prosthetic eye could not see anything.

The cat appeared on his original retina.

Frank was so startled upon discovering this that he even forgot to hit the brakes.

Fortunately, the car has automatic control, and it directly determines that the situation is dangerous and takes over control.

The car stopped in front of the gate, and then the gate was fully opened.

Then Frank saw the black cat that was exactly the same as before walking out of the yard in a leisurely manner and glanced at him.

The cat disappeared.

Frank immediately connected to his home network and turned on all the biological detection devices. There was no such cat on any of the devices.

"What the hell?" Frank muttered, pressing his hand on the half of his eyes that were still flesh, "Damn...psychiatrist!"

The moment he yelled like this, the manned computer had already answered Dr. Douglas's call.

The doctor's voice immediately came through the radio waves: "What's wrong?"

"Black Cat! I saw Black Cat!"

Doctor: "Have you watched any movies related to black cats recently? For example, some ancient movies."

Frank searched his memory: "I watched a movie called "The Matrix", and there was a black cat in it."

"And it is also one of the important symbols of plot advancement. Everyone who watched The Matrix 1 was deeply impressed by this black cat that appeared twice." Dr. Douglas said, "Don't worry, you just like this movie too much."

Frank rubbed his head: "But I have no impression of watching this movie at all... It's really strange. My manned computer record shows that I have finished watching this movie..."

"It's normal." Dr. Douglas comforted him. "Human beings often store memories temporarily and need external factors to stimulate them before recalling them. Didn't you think of the movie immediately after seeing the black cat?"

"No, I didn't remember it immediately. I checked the memory of the manned computer to find out that I had watched the film."

Dr. Douglas: "Are you sure?"

Frank paused as soon as he said "yes": "...No, I'm not sure. Hell, I might have actually seen this movie."

Dr. Douglas: "Now you feel like you've seen this movie again, right? Human beings are like that. Human memory is never the reality of the past. Human memory changes at any time based on your current thoughts and feelings.

“In fact, not only memory, but also human’s perception of the situation at hand is affected by mood.

"For example, when you are in a good mood, you notice a ray of sunshine shining through the dark clouds. When you are in a bad mood, this ray of sunshine does not exist for you. All you see is that it is so low that it almost falls on your head. There are dark clouds and the air feels stuffy due to high humidity.”

Frank looked at the sky and said, "All I see now is a gray sky."

Douglas: "Then you can send out drones to disperse the clouds. I show here that the medicine I sent has been signed for by your maid robot. Take some, and then have a good sleep."

Frank: "Okay doctor, thank you doctor."

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Helena immediately urged: "Where's the hallucinogen! Airdrop it to me quickly!"

"Are you mistaken? We are in a high orbit." Wang Chao's response was extremely helpless, "Even if you asked for a hallucinogen just now and we would launch it to you right away, it is still halfway there now."

Helena was speechless: "Forget it, it's really unreliable. I'll think of a solution."

As she spoke, she began to instruct the robot to assemble new gadgets.

Wang Chao: "What is this?"

"Those that stimulate dopamine secretion can also act as hallucinogens."

"Dopamine?" Wang Chao was speechless, "Isn't this something that makes people happy?"

"That's just one of its functions. Anyway, I used the sleeping pills in stock in this house to mix up the medicine prescribed by the doctor. When the mayor let down his guard, I connected him with this thing that stimulates dopamine secretion."

Nimiao teased: "You are quite capable for a psychologist."

"Please, I have someone with a computer. This level of hands-on ability is all you need to install software. When I just left school, I sold this kind of stuff."

At this time, Liefeng asked: "I don't really understand what you did just now. Why did you put the memory of watching The Matrix into the mayor's head?"

That's right, Mayor Frank has never seen The Matrix at all, and all his memories of watching the movie were fabricated by Nemiao according to Helena's instructions.

Helena replied angrily: "It's to rationalize it all."

"But our ultimate goal is to brainwash the mayor and make him our pawn. Why should we make the sight of the black cat reasonable? Shouldn't he continue to be suspicious?" Liefeng continued to ask.

Helena: "This is to create a contrast. Everything is reasonable, but Frank always feels that something is wrong. This kind of contradiction can give him enough pressure. Look at the current Mayor Frank, all the things that can be detected Black Cat's methods are all open.

“He believed Dr. Douglas’s explanation and accepted it, but he just felt that something was wrong—because in fact, something was wrong.

"The cat is actually projected by a maid robot using a holographic projector. He has never watched "The Matrix", so everything is fake.

"As an experienced adult male, the mayor instinctively realized that something went wrong, but he didn't know what went wrong. The unknown is the scariest thing."

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Mayor Frank knew something was wrong.

He turned on all the detection equipment and searched for black cats in his manor and the entire four square kilometers around the manor.

As a result, let alone black cats, not even a living cat was found.

Frank asked his loyal maid robot to bring over the medicine prescribed by Dr. Douglas.

After the maid robot called Nina left, he lay down on the sofa in the living room: "Fuck, what a hell."

**

Helena looked at the packaging box just printed out from the printer with satisfaction.

On the box is a pharmaceutical company that Ni Miao forged. The company's LOGO is a black cat.

Of course, Helena would not really let the mayor take the medicine from this box. In fact, there were only weights in the box and no medicine at all.

After the mayor notices the box, Helena will create an opportunity for the maid robot to switch the fake pill box into a real one.

Yes, this is another "hallucination" of the mayor, but this hallucination is actually real.

Nimiao watched Helena prepare all this and commented sharply: "Why do I think you can fool this mayor without superpowers?"

Wang Chao: "Have you forgotten how she killed a whole bunch of people from Guiyi Cult with just one communication? She is a professional, and superpowers are the icing on the cake."

Helena: "That's not true. When you get to that kind of core star area, you really have to rely on superpowers. The reason why you can do this now is because of the situation in this colony. As long as they live closer, I can't do this. .”

After speaking, Helena put the checked fake pill box on the tray of the maid robot Nina.

"Go."

———— Frank was thinking about it when he heard the sound of Nina opening the door and walking in.

This sight almost scared him out of his wits.

On the tray in Nina's hand, there was a black cat squatting impressively!

At the moment when the pupils of the physical half of his eyes dilated, Helena activated her superpower, causing Frank to hear a cat meow.

Frank immediately turned his head and looked in the direction of the cat's meow.

The maid robot took this opportunity to complete the replacement of the pill box.

At the same time, Nimiao also completed the memory tampering of Frank's manned computer. In the new memory, it was the pill box that Nina brought out at the beginning, and there was no black cat at all.

Nimiao also complained: "Why do I feel that I contributed the most to this scam!"

"That's right," Wang Chao said jokingly, "If the mayor wasn't half human, Helena would be the one to take action. Just hack him and that would be it."

Nimiao immediately stopped talking. She was physically defeated.

Frank didn't notice anything fishy here at all. He stared at the direction of the cat's meow for a long time. After confirming that there was no cat, he turned around and froze.

"Where's the cat?" he asked.

Nina: "What cat?"

"The cat on the pill box!" Frank yelled hysterically, "Don't lie to me, there must be one!"

Maid: "Sorry, I didn't see it. Do you need me to modify my memory?"

Frank took big breaths, seeming to be calming down in this way.

He quickly checked the records on the manned computer and found that there was no black cat at all.

——Mistaken again?

How can it be!

Frank's breathing was getting faster and faster, something must be wrong! The robot can no longer be trusted, and neither can Dr. Douglas on the phone! Nothing is believable!

Absolutely, absolutely something terrible is coming to me!

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Helena observed Frank's expression carefully. As a psychologist and a clinical psychologist with a medical license, her interpretation of human emotions is extremely accurate.

She suddenly realized that the follow-up pressure plan was no longer needed, and the pressure on the mayor was already terrible.

So she activated her superpower. To put it more accurately, she realized autosuggestion and activated her superpower by asking her superego to raise her hand and make an action as if casting a spell.

Frank, who had gradually calmed down, suddenly trembled, and then shrank his neck in horror.

In the communication, Nimiao asked doubtfully: "What did you do? What did he see that scared him like this?"

Helena: "That's a good question. But we keep using actual images to pass off as hallucinations, just because the hallucinations produced by my superpowers are not under my control - or, in other words, not completely under my control.

"So I don't know what he saw, I presume it was a cat."

Wang Chao: "It could also be the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastetto. The image of the goddess and her incarnation are both cats - and they happen to be black cats."

Helena shrugged. She entered Frank's living room directly from the next room and directly observed Frank's condition with her own eyes.

At this time, water stains gradually spread on the mayor's crotch.

Wang Chao: "Pee in your pants and keep it warm under your crotch."

Nia: "Pfft."

Liefeng: "No way! You should also eat such a bad joke, Nia!"

Nimiao ignored the noise on the other side of the spaceship. After all, she was now the member of Organization X closest to the scene besides Helena, so she was slightly more responsible than the guys on the spaceship.

Nimiao: "So, what should we do next?"

Helena simply snapped her fingers, so the robot maid took out the holographic projector she had just used to project the cat, and projected a three-dimensional black cat in front of Frank.

Frank screamed, like a frightened child, and put his hands between the cat and himself.

Helena took out the headphones and put them on Frank's ears.

Of course, the images captured by all the cameras in the room at this time were the headphones that Frank put on himself - these were all fake images of Nimiao.

Helena: "Hello, Mayor Frank. Please allow us to apologize if the way we greeted you scared you."

The moment he heard human language, Frank's trembling eased a lot. He even opened his eyes and began to observe his surroundings.

Nimiao: "He checked the recording of the room camera."

Helena: "This is a good thing. I'm worried that he won't check it. I don't want to create another crazy dictator. No, it's too uncontrollable. The 'mayor' is in the right state. He'd better be afraid of us. 'power', and at the same time trying to use cleverness to take advantage of himself."

Nimiao: "In fact, even this little cleverness is part of our plan, right?"

"Correct."

Wang Chao's admiration came from the orbit: "Awesome, my Professor Helena is really good at psychology."

At this time, Frank asked tremblingly: "Who are you? Why the black cat?"

Just as Helena was about to answer, Wang Chao said, "Let me do it."

Just when Helena was about to refuse the captain's intervention, Nimiao had already handed over control of the robot, holographic image and headphone broadcasting equipment to Wang Chao.

The psychology professor could only gasp, realizing once again who had absolute power on this ship.

Wang Chao didn't care about her little thoughts at all, and said directly through a digitally synthesized female voice: "We chose the black cat because we have studied your culture, and this image fits us best."

Frank: "Best fit?"

Wang Chao: "Yes, in many ancient human cultures, black cats are the incarnations of gods in charge of the underworld and death. So black cats are very suitable for us, aren't they?"

Frank snorted and raised his voice: "Stop your tricks! Get this damn cat away!"

These words directly silenced Wang Chao and the others.

Can you still see hallucinations of cats?

Helena came out first to clarify: "I didn't do it. Look, my superego didn't even raise its hand. I've stopped exerting my power!"

Nia: "Could it be that... you really gave the other party a mental seal when he was panicking and on the verge of collapse? This situation does look very similar to that of a dictator."

Wang Chao did not participate in the discussion, but directly said in a synthesized female voice: "This cat will be with you forever. It is the stamp we left in your consciousness. No matter how many psychiatrists you seek, it cannot be removed.

"There is only one way to get rid of it, which is to ascend to the cyborg race. But even if you ascend to the cyborg race, we still have ways to control you.

"It's actually much easier to control backward silicon-based life forms like robots than it is to control carbon-based life forms."

Frank's face turned livid.

What he didn't know was that Helena, who was also in the room, also muttered in stunned silence: "You guys are really fooling around and not drafting!"

(End of this chapter)