Chapter 108 The Sleepless
The young man was a Caucasian with brown hair, deep eye sockets, and blue pupils that exuded a tired look. He was idle and listless.
He sat up from the bed, grabbed the wooden sculpture, and stroked the nine snake whiskers on its chin.
Then he shook his head and said, "Doctor, do you want to test whether I have the Deep Diver effect? I have touched it more than nine times."
Mo Qiong looked at the young man in astonishment, and heard Dr. Sang say, "But you didn't have a nightmare, and you couldn't even fall asleep."
Despite saying so, the doctor still arranged a tank of water on the other side of the bed.
The young man walked over, sat in the big tank, and immersed himself.
Mo Qiong couldn't help but say, "Is he a D-level personnel?"
Dangerous experiments are done by D-level personnel, and this young man is being used as an experiment at this moment, so Mo Qiong naturally thinks so.
However, Dr. Sang said, "No, he is a Taoist."
"Taoist?" Mo Qiong was surprised.
He wanted to ask before. Two hours ago, Lao An saw the Elucidator, and said that the containment was a gamma-class containment.
Although he didn't know how powerful the gamma-class containment was, the Elucidator was undoubtedly very special, otherwise Lao An would not have mentioned that there was an Elucidator in the escort team.
In addition, Mo Qiong had already guessed about the gamma-class, because he had heard of Alpha and Beta, and gamma was the third Greek letter after them.
So Mo Qiong felt that the gamma-class containment could be understood as the third-level containment.
"Well, the members who hold, suppress, control, and use the power of the containment with strong self-control and firm belief, in other words, the Elucidator himself, is the containment measure for one or more containments."
As Dr. Sang was talking, he saw the young man rushing out of the water, shaking his head, shaking the water droplets and said, "No, I still have to breathe."
"Nightmare is a ritual. If you don't accept the nightmare effect, you won't get the Deep Diver effect." Dr. Sang said.
"Do you have a containment that can't fall asleep?" Mo Qiong said suddenly, he saw the door.
The young man stared with dead fish eyes, silently wiping the water droplets, and Dr. Sang said: "He really can't fall asleep."
Mo Qiong shouted: "With this containment, the person who ages a year after sleeping a day can be saved, right? That smog! Isn't this containment specially designed to overcome smog?"
"Maybe you want to say that it has many side effects and unpredictable harms, but if you don't do this, the person will die soon. I think he is willing to accept any consequences, right?"
The young man listened and said: "Smog? I went there that time, but unfortunately the situation was urgent and twelve comrades were still infected. They are now decades older."
"Can't be saved?" Mo Qiong understood after a little thought.
If it could be saved, it wouldn't have dragged on until now. Twelve people in the Blue and White Society were infected in that containment operation. If they could be saved, they wouldn't have aged by dozens of years.
The young man shook his head and said, "There is no containment that can't make people sleep. People must sleep, except for me... The only thing we can do is to use various technologies and drugs to extend their lifespan."
"Then you..." Mo Qiong stared at the young man. This person also went, but he was not infected. He is still so young.
The young man smiled at the camera with dead eyes. Obviously, there was such a screen on his side.
Then he smiled and said, "I was infected too, but I couldn't sleep at all. Haha, I have lived for more than 20 years, and I still don't know what sleep feels like."
"This..." Mo Qiong was stunned. More than 20 years? How old is this person?
Dr. Sang said: "David has never slept since he was born. Whether it is a strong sleeping pill or physical dizziness, it is meaningless to him. Later we determined that he has a mind resistance effect. So far, he has come into contact with more than 18 containment objects with mind-distorting effects, but he has not been affected at all."
"He is the most pure and strongest mind resister in the world today. He doesn't even have normal sleep... He is an extremely rare humanoid containment object..."
"What..." Mo Qiong knew how important a man who is immune to mind distortion is to the Blue and White Society that suppresses containment objects.
No wonder he became an expounder at such a young age. He is simply a natural containment officer.
However, when Mo Qiong looked at David's dead fish eyes again, he couldn't help asking: "Are you tired? You've never slept before, can you bear it?"
David said angrily: "Ah, it's okay. Compared with mental resistance, not sleeping is my real absolute characteristic, mental resistance is just incidental...Haha, I have also been affected by some containment objects, but nothing has ever made me fall asleep. My spirit is always excited, my brain is never tired, my mind is always clear, and my consciousness has never been interrupted for even a second..."
"Even the effect of being infected with one year older after sleeping, because of my special case, it was discovered that if it doesn't sleep, it won't age...In other words, the smog that killed many people not only didn't kill me, but made me gain the effect of possibly keeping young forever...Hehe."
Dr. Sang said in a low voice: "David..."
David shrugged and said: "Don't worry, sleep if you can, forget it if you can't, I'm not entangled anymore."
Mo Qiong didn't know what David was uncomfortable with at first, and what Dr. Sang was worried about.
But he soon figured it out. A person who never stops thinking lives too hard. Even if he doesn't feel tired, a life that never stops thinking is equivalent to not knowing what peace is.
When others are thinking, he is thinking. When others are resting, he is still thinking. He can have more time to study than others, but too much is as bad as too little. He is always awake, and I am afraid that he can't even empty himself or be in a daze.
It is hard to imagine and experience the feeling of being tired in the heart but not in the spirit.
Perhaps, if you want to experience true peace, you have to wait until death...
No, according to the nature of the containment, David has another possibility, that is, he can still stay awake after death... But by then he has no life, and can do nothing but think, and stay awake in the endless darkness and silence.
Thinking of this, Mo Qiong was shocked. This possibility is not impossible. If he can think of it, these people can definitely think of it.
"Mo Qiong, you can get rid of the nightmare entanglement, which means that you have the effect of mental resistance..." Dr. Sang continued the previous topic.
After listening to him, Mo Qiong finally knew why he was called here now, because he happened to be testing with David to save time.
David took the initiative to apply for this experiment. He wanted to try whether the wood carving could make him fall asleep.
Originally, as an expounder, he was not allowed to touch the containment object unnecessarily. After all, he was very important. It was his turn to appear in the situation where the smog could spread to crowded places at any time.
This kind of idleness came to deliberately get an effect. What if it was a failure?
However, it is known that the mind resistance effect can resist or be immune to the effects of mind distortion. As David is the strongest mind resister in the world today, if even he can't get rid of the dream, then there is probably no one else.
What's more, with Mo Qiong's example of successfully getting rid of nightmares, the superiors still approved David's application.
The time was arranged today, because David happened to lead a team to escort a gamma-level containment object to Meng Island, and he could touch the wood carving by the way.
Mind distortion is a large category, hypnosis, sensory manipulation, thought distortion, emotional influence, concept reversal, etc. ... All effects that affect personality consciousness belong to mind distortion.
Similarly, mental resistance is also a large category, which can resist one or more mental distortions.
There are not many mental resisters in the Blue and White Society, but there are also many, and they are all caused by the containment. Most mental resisters have a single effect, and the resistance effect itself is not the main characteristic, but often one side of the multi-faceted effect.
What is multi-faceted, there is no need for the doctor to explain, Mo Qiong learned a lot about the urine of the containment from Lao An.
For example, if a person is infected with a certain effect, he will accumulate all his anger, and then only explode on the night of the full moon, turning into a monster or something like that.
On the other hand, when it is not the night of the full moon, this person will not be angry, and no means can make him angry, and all anger will only appear on the night of the full moon.
This is a characteristic with multiple effects, one of which may exempt him from irrational rage.
Obviously, he was infected with a mind distortion effect, but because of some specific conditions, he can resist the influence of other containments on him in some aspects.
Blessings and disasters depend on each other, and disasters and blessings lie in each other.
Most containments are like this, sometimes it seems to be a side effect, a place of cost, but it has a positive effect.
The seemingly favorable side may be full of dangers.
Therefore, the Blue and White Society advocates not to use containment as much as possible. Even if satisfactory results are obtained, a price must be paid.
But when necessary, it must be used, because if the containment is used well, even if it costs a price, it can at least suppress other containments.
David the Sleepless is the only known fully resistant type.
Not only that, he is also an extremely rare humanoid containment. It is not because he is infected with the effects of some containment, but he is born like this.
Therefore, the Blue and White Society wants to see what Mo Qiong's mental resistance is like.
"Mo Qiong, are you willing to accept the virtual reality experiment?"
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