What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Joel knows that hypnosis requires channels, whether it is through visual, sound, touch, smell and other sensory influences, or directly through drugs or other substances, it has an effect and influence on the human body, no matter what ability is used To achieve the hypnotic effect, there must be a trigger, an event, and a process.

But Joel, based on his rich hypnosis experience, carefully thought about his previous series of experiences and reviewed his various sensory details, but he could not find anything unusual and could not figure out when he was hypnotized.

Even now, he is still not sure whether the little girl in the white dress he saw on the real-time surveillance screen and the advertisement he just heard are real or pure hallucinations.

If he was affected and hallucinated, he would be able to tell the difference with some certainty.

But according to his method, neither what he saw nor what he heard just now seemed to be an illusion.

Joel stood for a while longer. The video that was played in a loop on the big screen in the mall no longer played the Ping An Life Insurance advertisement. The other advertisements were not special in any way, and there were no more advertisements in English.

He hesitated for a while and did not try to confirm the video source of the advertisement on the big screen, nor did he check the direction where the woman speaking English lines in the previous advertisement was pointing - there was a travel agency there - watching the advertisement video. When he arrived, he had the feeling that the woman asked him to go to that travel agency to check.

Joel chose to leave here first. There were too many factors affecting his senses and judgment in the downtown area. He needed to find a place to think quietly and sort out his situation.

But after walking a few steps, an irritable voice suddenly sounded next to him: "Pengcheng?! Not in Pengcheng! I'm not in Pengcheng!..."

He was stunned for a moment, then turned around to look, only to see the man who had passed him by and said impatiently into his cell phone: "You must have dialed the wrong number. My surname is Wu, but I'm not in Pengcheng. I’ve never been to Pengcheng! Do you want to buy a house? Buy it! Damn it!” Then he hung up the phone bitterly and walked away cursing, as if he was being harassed by a real estate advertising call.

Joel frowned. He was just an ordinary person, and what he said probably wasn't meant for him, but why did he always feel that it meant something?

After knowing that the location of John's two stage transformations was in Pengcheng City, he had been thinking about when to go to Pengcheng. Even just now, he had thought about whether he should go to Pengcheng directly regardless of what happened to John here, regardless of the "help J" mark, regardless of the little girl in the white dress in the surveillance video. If John could be found, Naturally all questions can be answered.

The words of the passerby just now seemed to be an answer to his thoughts,

Can't keep his attention.

Joel thought for a while, made no mistake, and continued to move forward.

Almost instinctively, he paid attention to the advertisements around him, the conversations of passers-by, various movements, and various pictures.

Then two minutes later, he suddenly noticed a line of words floating across an advertising screen with horizontal bars not far ahead:

"Are you looking for a place where you can relax? Wu Shushan may be your answer."

Joel was stunned for a moment, and he had the feeling that this sentence was being spoken to him. He glanced at the store next to the billboard, which was another travel agency.

He paused at the door of the travel agency, hesitated for a moment, but still did not go in to ask.

Walking so fast, the various sounds around him always made him feel that there was a will in the dark, urging him not to go to Pengcheng, but to go to Wushu Mountain. Only in Wushu Mountain could he find the answer and find John.

But when he really paid attention to those "noises", he discovered that either he seemed to have heard something wrong or saw it wrong, or it was just ordinary and normal sounds or images.

He forcibly controlled himself and did not want to be disturbed by those "noises". He found a small park and sat on the ground in a remote and dark corner.

In this place, far away from the hustle and bustle of the downtown area and bustling commercial streets, the various "noises" were reduced a lot. His tense spirit relaxed a lot, and he was finally able to take a breath.

He is now more and more certain that he should have been hypnotized and projected some kind of psychological suggestion, so he would randomly hear some specious sounds and see some seemingly pointed images, and he felt that they were affecting him. express a certain meaning.

As for the time of impact, according to his guess, it should have started when he saw the little girl in a white dress on the real-time surveillance.

It's just that he didn't understand how the other party gave him psychological hints, and why he was asked to go to Wu Shushan? What's there?

With this in mind, he took out his mobile phone and prepared to check how far Wu Shushan was from here - this mobile phone was given to him by the lady he used to ride with. The cards on it were all from China, and so was the aAPP. Although the mobile phone he brought into the country was not unusable, after comparing the two, he found that the one the lady gave him was indeed more convenient to use.

But this time, as soon as I opened the map app, there was an opening screen advertisement:

In the background of a beautiful landscape, five beautiful splash-ink effect fonts stand out in front - "Come to Wushu Mountain!"

After 3 seconds of advertising, he entered the map aAPP interface and directly helped him locate Wu Shushan.

Joel was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously closed his eyes and shook his head. When he opened his eyes again, he found that the location on his phone had changed to where Liucheng was currently.

what happened?

Was that moment real or an illusion?

Joel's hand holding the phone subconsciously tightened, and the metal casing of the phone was bent directly, and the screen was immediately broken.

He originally thought that if he stayed away from the restaurant and got rid of all the noise in the bustling neighborhood, he would be less affected, but now it seems that it is of no use at all. The suggestion and hypnosis should have taken root in his subconscious.

Looking back now, maybe the hypnosis didn't start when he looked at the surveillance camera in the restaurant, but was already taking effect when he saw the "help J" mark.

Joel took out the torn restaurant receipt and looked at it again, as if he was worried that there was something wrong with it.

Throughout the night, Joel kept receiving various hints, telling him not to go to Pengcheng but to Wushu Mountain. But the more this happened, the more vigilant and hesitant he became.

So at three o'clock in the morning, he finally made up his mind, hypnotized a young man running Didi, and drove him to Pengcheng.

The more the "hint" prevents him from going, the more he will go; the more it guides him to go, the more he will not go.

On the way, a radio program on the car radio actually discussed Wu Shushan's travel experience, which made Joel nervous again.

But the strange thing was that he asked the driver, and what the driver heard was exactly the same as what he heard. Moreover, the driver often listened to this late-night radio program and was very familiar with the two hosts talking in it, so he did not hear anything wrong. Come.

After listening to Wu Shushan's introduction for a long time, Joel couldn't help but ask the driver to change the channel. This time it was playing music, and no more information about Wu Shushan appeared.

Just when Joel heaved a sigh of relief, a notification message came from his phone - it was his own phone.

Joel picked up his phone and looked at it, and couldn't help frowning. He received a new email in his private communication mailbox, but this mailbox was specially used by him to communicate with John, and no one else knew about it.

He opened the new email and saw that it was really from John. It said in English that he was currently in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Pengcheng City and asked "Count Joel" to find him quickly.

This email has too many questions!

First, he contacted John many times before, but John did not reply to him. He lost contact completely before he left for China; second, he and John communicated by email, and there were code words, but this email was completely direct. The content was white and no code words were used; third, the tone of the email seemed to indicate that he had arrived in China.

Was John already being controlled by someone and using this email to lure him?

Was there something ambushing him in that abandoned factory in Pengcheng?

Joel frowned and became confused again when he looked at the email on his phone. Fortunately, he paid attention to control this time and didn't explode the phone again.

He now felt as if he was being held by an invisible hand. No matter where he wanted to go, he was being controlled and his every move was being monitored.

It's just too weird.

Seeing that the car had driven off the highway exit of Pengcheng City and was about to enter the city of Pengcheng City, Joel closed his eyes, forced himself to calm down, and thought about the series of encounters after entering this oriental country, and what he had discovered so far. all leads.

Gradually a judgment came to my mind:

The person who sent him an email in the name of John, asking him to come to Pengcheng, and the person who gave him hypnotic suggestions in some unknown way, telling him to go to Wu Shushan instead of Pengcheng, may not be the same group.

John met the girl in white in Liucheng and left a "help J" mark on the front. He went to Pengcheng and underwent two stage transformations on the back. It was only after that that he lost contact with "Red Rose".

Perhaps... John did not undergo staged transformation according to his own wishes, but was the result of passivity.

It's like his attitude towards Guo Tianxiang, except that he doesn't have enough "blood beasts" and "blood plants" to allow Guo Tianxiang to transform into "passive" in stages.

Thinking of this, Joel immediately became nervous. If this is really the case, then Pengcheng is a real dangerous area. Even if he is much stronger than John, he may not be able to avoid being captured and cultivated as a "blood source". After all, what really counts is that he is better than other "vampires" in some "little tricks" rather than in terms of violent ability.

Once he cannot arrange "little tricks" in advance and the other party is not affected by his hypnosis and mental intrusion, then his violent confrontation ability may not guarantee that he will escape unscathed.

Being in this mysterious Eastern country, Joel felt that it was absolutely necessary to think of his opponent as stronger.

Thinking this way, he became a little irritable again, and even had the urge to tear the driver into pieces and shower in blood!

But he knew that he couldn't do this now. Blood now, even the blood of ordinary humans, would accelerate his loss of control and even complete disintegration, because the blood of ordinary humans could no longer meet his staged transformation needs.

Only by finding a qualified "blood source" and passing this stage limit can he enjoy human blood again.

He closed his eyes, adjusted his emotions, and then continued to think along the same train of thought.

He thought that the person behind the psychological suggestion that he had unknowingly received in Liucheng and was trying to guide him to Wushu Mountain was either more harmless than him or weak in strength - otherwise, since he could do it without him noticing, Under the circumstances, he was given psychological suggestions and hypnosis, and other means could also be used to deal with and plot against him.

So after getting off the highway, Joel asked the driver to stop the car, then changed to another car, "convinced" the driver of that car, and took him to Wushu Mountain, hundreds of kilometers away.

The stage limit was approaching and the time left for him was very tight. He decided to choose the path that seemed less risky.

After riding in the car from night to morning, and from morning to evening, Joel finally arrived at Wushu Mountain.

As soon as he arrived at Wushu Mountain, various "clues" appeared around Joel, such as advertisements on small LCD screens on roadside snack carts, tourist tips that were played in loops in scenic spots, and those that occasionally appeared on his body and could not be determined. The source of the sound seems to be only heard by him, etc., "guiding" his actions.

However, this "guideline" did not take him into the Wushu Mountain Scenic Area. Instead, it took him a lot of time to enter another less visited and larger mountainous area - Chongyun Mountain.

For the mountains, Joel's worries are actually much smaller than those in the city. After all, he has a title of "Lord of the Forest", which is not called out of thin air.

Compared with cities lined with steel and concrete, the mountains and forests are actually his home field. Many of his abilities can play a greater role in the mountains and forests.

So compared to the decision of whether to go to Pengcheng or Wu Shushan, he didn't have much hesitation or consideration on whether to enter Chongyun Mountain.

Of course, Joel was still very cautious. After entering Chongyun Mountain, he would lie down at regular intervals and spit out his mouth parts, leaving a little "prosthetic tissue fluid."

At the same time, he also used his sense of smell and hearing to carefully search the area to see if there were any "blood beasts" or "blood plants".

After entering Chongyun Mountain, all the hints and clues seemed to disappear. Joel was like a headless fly, going deeper and deeper without direction.

Time passed little by little, and it was past four o'clock in the morning. Still nothing special was found, and Joel became a little irritable again.

He even had some doubts that the so-called suggestion and the so-called hypnosis were just his illusions, just the turbulence of his thoughts when he was on the verge of a stage limit?

Perhaps, no one had ever hinted him to come to Wu Shushan, let alone Chongyun Mountain?

While he was thinking this, the screen of his mobile phone in his trouser pocket suddenly turned on. In the middle of the night, he relied on his visual night vision ability without using any lighting tools, so the screen of his mobile phone in his trousers was very conspicuous.

He took out his phone, only to find that it automatically turned on the flash at him and took a selfie.

He thought it was a malfunction on his phone, and frowned as he was about to delete it, but suddenly he realized that what was photographed under the flash was not his face, but John's!

Joel's breath hitched.

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