This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 182 New member?
After taking only a few steps out the door, Nie Weiyang stopped smiling and turned to enter the secret room next door.

Inside the secret room sat two neat rows of psychological experts, each with a notebook and pen in front of them, meticulously recording the conversation between the three of them. They searched for different entry points from the details, combining various perspectives with known information to analyze Fu Nian's psychology and delve into the hidden content within.

Even with the existence of mind-reading abilities, psychoanalysis remains a necessary field.

After all, mind reading cannot resolve psychological trauma, much less expose people who can even deceive themselves—no, rather, self-deception is the norm for humans. If a mind reader were to accept all the thoughts they hear, they would surely meet a terrible end.

Moreover, the 'discernment' skills are not exactly desirable, meaning that only a very small number of people can possess them in the long term. Not every interrogation process can be conducted with a mentally stable mind reader working alongside you.

At that moment, the senior psychologist leading the group greeted Nie Weiyang.

Nie Weiyang responded briefly, then pulled up a chair and sat down.

“I’m listening to her,” he said.

Psychologists believe that a sound mind is one that can distinguish right from wrong and hear right from wrong.

At this moment, Nie Weiyang could hear that at least 80% of the nearly thirty psychological experts in these two rows were pondering his personality and questioning his excessive stability. Of course, they were even more suspicious that he might already be insane, just pretending well, waiting for the day he would turn into a bombshell and give everyone a hard time.

Nie Weiyang didn't care about their thoughts, nor was he bothered to analyze himself with others. He simply took the notebook Han Jiangxue handed him and opened the ballpoint pen.

Fu Nian knew exactly what she was doing, just as she knew exactly how important Ping Xingdou was to Gu Shi.

Old classmate, or old friend?
No.

A traitor is a traitor.

……

Two hours later, Yi Jian, who had been waiting outside, had been chatting with people for five rounds when he finally saw Nie Weiyang emerge with Han Jiangxue. The former's expression was as usual, but the latter's brows were unusually furrowed.

"What's wrong?" he asked in a low voice.

“I heard something disgusting,” Nie Weiyang said. “You know her, she has a kind of mental fastidiousness.”

Yi Jian, on the other hand, has a good understanding of herself: "Among the three of us, is there anyone who isn't a bit of a germaphobe?"

Nie Weiyang: “…”

Okay, actually no.

However, he did glean some interesting information from Yi Jian's thoughts...

"Have you found someone new?" he asked.

“Yes,” Yi Jian said, but he was actually speaking to Han Jiangxue: “Mayor Liang had someone tell me that two more people from the list you gave him have been found. One is ‘Phantom Dreamer’ and the other is ‘Nature Caller.’ They say one is a summoner who can act as a messenger and the other is a singer who can act as a healer?”

These two professions piqued Nie Weiyang's interest, and Han Jiangxue also looked up, asking curiously, "Where are they?"

“In the conference room,” Yi Jian said. Their loosely organized little group, which still has no name, was destined to have no base or headquarters.

But a team always needs a place to meet, so they simply set up their meeting place temporarily in that separate conference room.

As the three walked past the back door of the Water Resources Bureau, they heard the sound of a group of water conservancy scholars banging on the table inside the small building—they were arguing about how to renovate the river channel.

Yi Jian recounted the news he had just heard, still telling it to Han Jiangxue.

"The Nature Caller is said to be in Pingdu, while that 'Phantom Dreamer' is in Gushi. Her name is Xu Fu, not Xu Fu, but Xu Fu. It is said that her ability is very interesting, similar to a fantasy magician in the fairy tale category. She was originally a kindergarten teacher..."

Yi Jian paused for a moment, her expression somewhat strange: "Her profession should be very popular in various communities, since there are children everywhere who need to be taken care of."

"But for some reason, after the blood moon rose, Xu Fu began to wander around without stopping at any settlement. This morning, she passed through the territory of the old city and had just entered the city to rest when she was spotted by one of the other mind readers who was passing by. Soon, Mayor Liang invited her to the conference room."

Nie Weiyang nodded slightly.

Xu Fu, female, a dreamer of phantoms.

This is a hidden summoning class. The job requirements are 'having a childlike heart and dreams,' 'loving life and nature,' and 'being skilled in the details of fantasy scenes.' The summoning method is 'the spiritual incarnation of all things in fantasy.'

These 'spirits' created by energy usually appear as brightly colored, cute little elves or plants and animals. It is worth mentioning that they do have their own 'personality' and 'self-awareness', even if it is just a temporary illusion.

Last week, some scholars researched this profession, concluding that its skills are similar to those of those with mental specialization abilities, both stemming from pure mental and psychological power. There are many speculations about the origins of these professions, with the main theory being that they originated from pre-civilizational mental experiments, but the facts have never been definitively established.

It's worth mentioning that, like all fairytale-themed professions, this one is extremely rare.

However, there were five Dreamers in the later Cult of Life, but when the Cult of All Beings split off, these people also left.

The most famous person in this profession is Xu Fu, who established a mobile shelter in the middle of last week's loop, which only took in children.

She nurtured and taught the children, and when they grew up and became independent, she would send them out of the shelter to face the world on their own.

The shelter collapsed in the 14th year of the Dark Ages. At that time, Xu Fu was temporarily away from the shelter on business. The more than one hundred children still in the shelter were attacked by traitors, two of whom were children she had raised. For the next six months, Xu Fu disappeared without a trace, and the traitors and attackers died one after another. On a sunny day, the twenty surviving children appeared near the old city. They had lost all memory of Xu Fu, and Xu Fu never appeared again.

After recalling the information about this person, Nie Weiyang and the two others went to the conference room. From a distance, he could hear a strange thought swirling in the room. Liang Zhenduan and the others were not there, as they were too busy.

Two peculiar little animals were playing in front of the door: a teardrop-shaped blue fish and a green turtle with plants growing on its shell. Both were semi-transparent spirits made of energy. When the three approached, the fish flipped the turtle over with its tail, and then the plants on the turtle's back grew, turning it over.

Nie Weiyang squatted down and looked at the two small animals.

"Hello," he said, raising his hand in greeting.

The two little animals looked up at the same time.

A moment later, the wooden door opened from the inside.

(End of this chapter)