Soul Trigger

Chapter 32: Abnormal Situation (I)

The psychopath Ji Li is back.

The news spread throughout the school almost instantly. During the morning classes, students were using their cell phones to send messages to each other to inform each other of the news.

The moment Ji Li walked into Class 2-B, the entire classroom fell silent, staring blankly at the person at the door.

Even the short-haired head teacher standing on the podium, who was originally scolding the students, had a frozen expression on her face.

"Teacher Cui Ying?"

It was not until the driver standing outside the door reminded her that the short-haired young lady came to her senses and hurried over, carefully passing by Ji Li on the way.

After whispering a few words to the driver, the head teacher's expression became strange.

"Hello, teacher." Ji Li smiled at the other party.

The teacher called "Cui Ying" forced a stiff smile and continued talking to the driver. It seemed that after repeated confirmation, he took Ji Li to the podium.

"Everyone... this is Ji Li, who hasn't been to school for a while due to some complicated reasons."

"Now we are back to class with the approval of the principal... well, it's the direct approval of the principal."

The driver did not tell Teacher Cui Ying the real reason why Ji Li came here. Instead, he mentioned the principal's name and emphasized that the principal would guarantee his return to the classroom. He did not say anything else.

Ji Li glanced at the kids below curiously.

White vest and blue top with the school emblem embroidered on the chest. The boys wear trousers and the girls wear pleated skirts.

The young children stared at me on the stage with different expressions, and I could see all kinds of emotions in their eyes——

Disgust, fear, sarcasm, alienation, absolutely none of them are welcome.

Teacher Cui Ying also saw these emotions and did not say anything polite like welcoming everyone.

After coughing twice, he pointed to an old table by the window in the corner, indicating that was Ji Li's seat.

The table was not actually old, but there were a lot of scratches on the tabletop, and some graffiti written in pencil. When I got closer, I saw that it was full of swear words. It was obvious that this guy was hated by his classmates.

As Ji Li sat in his seat, except for some people who still glanced at him from time to time, after the principal's driver said goodbye, Teacher Cui Ying on the stage was able to continue the class.

In addition to one morning class, this school has four regular classes in the morning, with a ten-minute break between classes. It is currently morning class time.

Glancing at the young students around him, each of them would quickly look away the moment their eyes met Ji Li's. However, what Ji Li was thinking about now was not what evil things his predecessor had done in this school.

He was thinking about the cognitive index.

The triggering of the curse just now gave him a new guess about how to obtain the cognitive index.

Previously, he believed that deep recognition from others could be regarded by the curse as a situation of deepening the connection with the world, so it was given a cognitive index.

But now it seems that deep disgust and fear, or negative emotions, from others can also give cognitive points.

Based on this point and combined with the previous times of obtaining cognitive index, Ji Li made a bold guess:

As long as your behavior causes other people to experience drastic emotional fluctuations, you can obtain a cognitive index.

How intense will it be?
Ji Li guessed that this might be related to spiritual essence. You know, whether a person is awakened or not, they all have spiritual essence, but the awakened can control their spiritual essence to transform into power, and the amount is far greater than that of ordinary people.

When you cause emotional fluctuations in others that are so severe that it affects their spiritual essence, you can obtain the cognitive index.

This is also in line with the statement of "deepening the connection with the world". Human beings are part of this world. If one's behavior triggers a strong emotional reaction in the other party, doesn't that deepen the impression of oneself in the other party's mind?

Although this cannot explain why Faceless Bone and Odin were able to obtain the cognitive index twice, it seems that Jin Misha's situation that time and this time can basically explain Ji Li's guess last time.

It is not a simple matter to be able to cause a person's spiritual essence to react. You have to know that if positive emotions reach a threshold, people will awaken.

When negative emotions reach the threshold, people will directly enter the corruption process.

However, these emotions did not bring too much cognitive index to Ji Li. You must know that the hint of the curse is "human spirit cluster". The cognitive index brought to Ji Li by a group of ordinary people is not as much as that brought to Ji Li by Bunny Girl alone.

It is also possible that the emotional fluctuations of these people are not that strong, and they all have some emotions, and it is the accumulation of these that led to the 10 points.

But in a sense, the existence of the predecessor itself can actually trigger negative emotions in teachers and students on an entire floor... Even if it's not much, it can be considered a skill.

In summary, it is undoubtedly wise to choose to come to the school. There is a certain order in this place, and the crowds are dense. I naturally have a certain degree of attention. If the conjecture is true, I may be able to get a lot of cognitive index from these people...

Finally, these conjectures still require some practice, so take your time.

Probably having figured all this out, Ji Li sat there for a while, then before the end of his morning class, he ran downstairs and tore down his missing person notice.

The paper has a certain toughness and the printed colors are very clear. It is obvious that the school is still concerned about the disappearance of the original owner and at least did not save on material costs.

The missing person notice was filled with all kinds of swear words and graffiti. Someone also painted two lines around his eyes, making it look like a photo of a dead person.

As Ji Li pulled the trigger of his soul, he instantly felt the unusual spiritual essence on the missing person notice.

"There is indeed a problem. It should have been contaminated by evil..." Ji Li frowned.

During this period, Ji Li made up for some small knowledge about evil:
If a physical object is exposed to abnormal spiritual energy for a long time, it will gradually be contaminated and turned into an evil derivative.

So where does the abnormal spiritual essence come from? Of course, it comes from the evil.

In other words, if physical objects exist in the vicinity of evil for a long time, they will become evil derivatives.

If the pollution is serious, it may even become part of the evil.

In this case, there may not be a physical connection between it and the evil, but there is a spiritual connection, and the evil can also use this connection to accomplish things that the original body cannot do, or expand its abilities.

The missing person notice in Ji Li's hand is a derivative of evil, but its degree of contamination is not deep, so it has not grown together with the evil.

For items like this, according to the cases Ji Li is aware of, being stared at by the people in such photos for a long time will trigger gradually increasing negative emotions and may lead to alienation psychology.

At the same time, some strange things will happen to this photo in the eyes of an awakened person or an ordinary person with talent. For example, Ji Li felt that this photo was smiling at him before.

"I didn't expect that it was my own photos that were contaminated. I'm really upset."

Ji Li was just about to roll up the missing person notice and take it away, but he felt something passing by the corner of his eye.

He turned around and saw a figure falling from the sky. With a loud bang of flesh falling to the ground and bones breaking, a corpse fell in front of him with its neck twisted into the shape of a fishhook.

(End of this chapter)