False evidence

Chapter 80 Hypnosis (Part 2)

Tong Xiangnan paused for a moment, then shook his head. "I admit defeat. I really can't imagine what the third scenario would be like."

"Tsk! The lighting!" I looked at him with disdain again. "Such a big, long train, and only one light in each carriage. What can you see? Even if you were 'Boss Blackie,' with the best eyesight, you could only see that there's a woman in the toilet, right? Tell me, what would he do next if he saw a woman in the toilet?"

Tong Xiangnan shrugged as if giving up: "I really couldn't have guessed."

"He must have leaned his head in close and peered inside!"

I was getting impatient, so I started gesturing as I spoke: "He bent over and leaned his head forward. I grabbed the kerosene lamp he was carrying with one hand and pushed the back of his head with the other."

Jiawen saw him stick his head inside; she definitely didn't intend to stab him with a knife, her first instinct was to close the door. She pulled from the inside, and I kicked from the outside—'snap!' The thug's neck was instantly snapped!

Tong Xiangnan remained silent for a while, only staring intently at me.

He suddenly turned his face to the side and asked loudly, "Are you still protecting the preserved egg?"

I instantly felt incredibly irritated and slammed my hand on the table: "I told you, stop bringing up preserved eggs! Stop bringing up the people I care about!"

……

The room was eerily quiet.

The only sound was a person's heavy breathing.

Tong Xiangnan slumped in the chair, his face covered in cold sweat, as if he had been washed with water.

I have a feeling of being somewhere between dreaming and waking up.

Turning to look to the side, Bai Jing and Gao He stood side by side, both looking terrified, not daring to even breathe loudly.

All three of them reacted strangely, but looking back, I didn't think anything unusual had happened.

Finally, I turned to Tong Xiangnan and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tong Xiangnan stared at me for a while, then gave a wry smile.

But gradually, the smile became more cheerful, and finally it turned into a somewhat manic laugh.

Gao He walked over, tapped the table with his hand, and asked him, "Did you just hypnotize Sanqi?"

Tong Xiangnan laughed so hard he could barely breathe, and after a long while, he finally nodded:

"Hehe, that's right, it's hypnosis. But... ha... it doesn't seem to have been very successful."

Gao He frowned: "Are you crazy? What are you laughing at if you didn't succeed?"

Tong Xiangnan laughed and said, "I laughed because I already felt like I had no will to live. To be honest, I've had enough of being here all this time. Being locked up with those prisoners, all I feel is darkness. I've said it before, people who study psychology have narrower minds. I really can't take it anymore. I plan to end my life tonight. I've even worn down my toothbrush."

Gao He's face changed color: "You're being irresponsible to yourself!"

Tong Xiangnan waved his hand: "You don't need to worry about me committing suicide now, otherwise I wouldn't have said it, right?"

Gao He breathed a sigh of relief: "What made you change your mind?"

“The only thing that can make a desperate doctor give up the idea of ​​suicide is a patient.” Tong Xiangnan pointed at me: “It’s him. I’ve never seen a more special patient than him. I plan to cure him, which is definitely a challenge for me. I will never think about dying again until I see him fully recovered.”

I finally realized, "You just hypnotized me?"

"Yes. The method I used on you was a gradual, induced hypnosis technique."

Tong Xiangnan sat up straight. "Last time I noticed that you pay close attention to people's facial expressions. So, I kept making various small movements around the facial features until your attention was completely diverted, and then I cut into a point to put your consciousness into a hypnotic state."

"Your starting point is preserved eggs." I said, somewhat angrily.

Tong Xiangnan smiled and said, "You shouldn't be angry. Although I haven't been able to help you yet, I've at least confirmed Pidan's place in your heart. It seems this is the first time you've liked a girl, and you're really invested. Otherwise, I would have failed from the very beginning."

He suddenly sighed, "In the end, we still failed."

“I think it was a great success.” Gao He looked at me with a strange expression. “Just now, he seemed like a completely different person. A possessive, cold-blooded, highly intelligent bastard!”

"If he were truly the kind of criminal you described, do you think he would reveal his methods to others? Don't you think he was just putting himself in the criminal's shoes, trying his best to reconstruct what happened?"

Tong Xiangnan turned to Bai Jing: "Don't tell me that everything he just said was told to him by you."

Bai Jing shook her head: "I only told him the general outline, and only mentioned that the train broke down and four people were missing the next day."

"That's it."

Tong Xiangnan sat up straight. "First of all, it needs to be clarified that to verify whether a person has been hypnotized, you only need to ask the person himself."

He asked me, "Do you remember what just happened?"

"We've been discussing what happened on that train."

Tong Xiangnan shrugged: "See? He can remember it, which means he wasn't hypnotized."

Bai Jing said, "No! Even if what he just said was all deduction, I remember clearly that he mentioned Zhao Boqing's wife's name—Jiawen. The old ancestor always seemed to be very reluctant to mention this woman, and he never told me her name. How could he possibly know?"

Tong Xiangnan smiled, but there was an eerie quality to his smile: "Do you remember the little boy you brought to see me last time? A twelve-year-old boy whose intelligence, according to tests, was higher than that of an average adult. The sophistication in his speech and mannerisms was completely like that of someone who had lived for decades. What's even stranger is that the dialect he spoke, the words he used, and the things he described were not from this era."

Gao He raised an eyebrow: "Such a strange thing?"

Bai Jing's eyes flickered slightly: "That child was always an idiot."

Tong Xiangnan said, "There's something I've never told you. You were away for a while, and during that time, I hypnotized that child, and I succeeded."

He must have had an extremely severe split personality. One of his personalities, as you said, was a child with intellectual disabilities. And the other was actually a man nearing fifty years old from a small town in Yanbian more than a hundred years ago.

Of course, this is based on a scientific perspective. But the truth is, I myself find this argument quite far-fetched. Because a child living in modern times couldn't possibly talk about so many things that don't belong to this era.

Moreover, during my hypnosis of him, I received a terrifying message—he had actually killed someone!

"Wait, wait!" Gao He simply sat down. "According to you, this is too bizarre. If it's really like this, then it's not a split personality, but..."

"Possessed by a ghost!" Tong Xiangnan interjected, nodding slightly at me.

(End of this chapter)