Earlier, after recovering from the sudden "impulse" to hide, Bai Chen had already stood up, opened the window, and prepared to cooperate with Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao to deal with that "Advanced Mindless," so she saw the actions of Zhou Yue, the master of the Nan Ke Temple.
Jiang Baimian was not surprised at all by Bai Chen's answer, and instead asked:
"Why do you think so?"
Bai Chen briefly explained her analysis:
"At that time, Master Zhou only did three things: one was to throw away the flashlight, which doesn't need to be considered; two was to smash the bottle containing, um, should be Talisman Water; and three was to use the Bagua Mirror to shine on that 'Advanced Mindless'."
To be honest, hearing the terms Talisman Water and Bagua Mirror, Long Yuehong always felt that this was unscientific.
And what was even more unscientific was that they actually worked!
It was like a plot from a story had entered reality, and the beginning of that story specifically wrote, "Purely imaginary, not real."
In this daze, Long Yuehong heard Bai Chen continue:
"If what that 'Advanced Mindless' was afraid of was Talisman Water, then after he concealed and dodged, he wouldn't need to run away at all, because Master Zhou only seemed to bring one bottle of water."
Moreover, the Talisman Water inside the plastic bottle had been spilled all over the ground, leaving only a little, which was not worth worrying about.
After eliminating the two answers of flashlight and Talisman Water, Bai Chen's conclusion was very clear.
Jiang Baimian first "hmm"ed, indicating her agreement, and then commented:
"There's a problem with that. You equated the intelligence of that 'Advanced Mindless' with that of humans.
"We can clearly see that he's different from those 'Advanced Mindless' in the Marsh No. 1 Ruins, and more like a beast than a person.
"In a hurry, a beast can't think about whether the enemy has more Talisman Water. He will only act according to instinct and stay away from danger."
Those "Advanced Mindless" in the Marsh No. 1 Ruins were obviously trained by Little Chong, or rather influenced by him, so they behaved more like humans.
Bai Chen thought for a while, recalling her many years of experience dealing with beasts and ordinary "Mindless," and nodded, saying:
"Indeed.
"He's too powerful. I subconsciously treated him as a person."
She didn't feel ashamed or annoyed because she made a mistake in analyzing the problem and didn't want to admit it.
On the one hand, in the life of a wasteland wanderer, making mistakes often means danger. Someone pointing out your mistakes is saving you. On the other hand, in similar retrospectives, the "Old Task Force" advocates an atmosphere of daring to criticize and self-criticize, even Jiang Baimian herself, has times when she is not considerate and is reminded.
Jiang Baimian turned to look at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:
"What are your thoughts?"
"I still think this, this is too mystical," Long Yuehong considered his words.
Shang Jianyao followed by nodding:
"Because he's a ghost..."
He dragged out the word "ghost" very long, deliberately showing a gloomy feeling.
Jiang Baimian rolled her eyes at him:
"Speak human language!"
"Those things restrain him." Shang Jianyao's expression straightened, becoming a professional. "Human awakening has a price, and 'Advanced Mindless' should also have one. The 'Mirage Dragon Sect' worships the 'God of Illusions.' It's normal to know what the potential price and weaknesses of this domain are."
Is this the professional and serious Shang Jianyao? Jiang Baimian muttered to herself, not daring to say the question out loud.
Hearing this, Long Yuehong slowly woke up and accepted the fact that Zhou Yue used priest-like objects to scare away the "Advanced Mindless."
It may be because when he encountered those Awakened Ones before, he either didn't participate at all, or didn't know or didn't use the price they paid, so he didn't have a deep impression in this regard, and the things he encountered wouldn't directly go to the corresponding point to think.
"Not bad." Jiang Baimian responded to Shang Jianyao's analysis, and a smile gradually appeared on her face.
She smiled like a fox that had stolen a little hen:
"Starting from this point, the things that Master Zhou prepared reveal very important information.
"Possible weaknesses of those Awakened in the Illusion domain are:
"Afraid of water, afraid of light, afraid of mirrors, and also, face blindness.
"Hmm... What does the sack behind her represent?"
Fear of water was interpreted from the bottled Talisman Water, fear of light came from the flashlight, fear of mirrors goes without saying, it was naturally the Bagua Mirror, and face blindness was Zhou Yue's own performance.
This... Long Yuehong listened in a daze, inexplicably feeling that he might have inadvertently revealed a secret during normal times, which the team leader saw but didn't say.
Master Zhou didn't do anything, and she was analyzed to one, two, three, four, five!
Clap clap clap, Shang Jianyao applauded.
And for the meaning of the sack, he also sincerely answered:
"Afraid of being bagged and beaten."
"Who isn't?" Jiang Baimian replied unhappily, and then said, "Fear of light can be excluded. Master Zhou saw that 'Advanced Mindless' standing under the street light and immediately threw away the flashlight, which means she thought so too. Face blindness is not a reason to be scared away, so it can also be excluded. Afraid of water, um, you should also have noticed that the corpse thrown into the bar had obvious bite marks on its neck, and a lot of blood flowed out. That's also water, and that 'Advanced Mindless' is obviously not afraid."
She paused and added:
"Uh, it's not excluded that he's afraid of certain types of water, but unfortunately Master Zhou and Gernava were both there at the time, so I couldn't collect a little back for research, but well, this possibility is still relatively small.
"The sack was never used, but it cannot be ruled out that it had a deterrent effect.
"In short, the biggest possibility is that 'Advanced Mindless' is afraid of mirrors."
Bai Chen echoed thoughtfully:
"If this assumption is valid, then it can explain why that 'Advanced Mindless' didn't enter the bar.
"With the lights on inside, the glass windows are like mirrors."
Hearing this, Jiang Baimian smiled and said to Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao:
"Look, look, this is called learning by analogy, making bold assumptions, and carefully verifying them."
Bai Chen felt a little uncomfortable being praised.
After praising Bai Chen, Jiang Baimian said to Long Yuehong:
"You also have to prepare a mirror that you can carry with you."
Long Yuehong was the only one in the entire team who didn't have one.
--As women, as snipers, Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen both had makeup mirrors. Shang Jianyao also had them, not just one, in order to make his abilities effective on himself.
"I'll go change it at dawn!" In matters of life and death, Long Yuehong was not embarrassed at all.
He had previously discovered that some stalls in Tarnan could trade makeup mirrors.
This was obviously from the ruins of old world cities.
As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Jianyao said lightly and gloomily:
"Maybe it was used by some dead person, and her ghost is living inside..."
"Don't scare Little Hong, let's talk about business." Jiang Baimian interrupted Shang Jianyao's ghost story.
Am I afraid of this? Long Yuehong thought about it and decided to choose a relatively new makeup mirror.
At this time, Jiang Baimian began to self-criticize:
"This time I made a mistake.
"Because Tarnan has good security, is not small in size, and is protected by robot guards, I subconsciously thought that the 'Advanced Mindless' would not attack here, and I didn't generate enough vigilance."
"Mindless" attacking smaller human settlements to obtain food is a common thing on the greylands.
"I also made a mistake." Shang Jianyao followed and said, "When the wind first started to blow and someone was banging on the door, I didn't go out and play hide-and-seek with him, to see who could find who first."
"In most cases, these are children's pranks." Bai Chen gave her opinion. "We certainly can't relax our vigilance, but there's no need to be suspicious because of it. Human energy has its limits."
So I'm not human? The thought suddenly flashed through Jiang Baimian's mind.
She thought Shang Jianyao would respond like this, but Shang Jianyao just nodded:
"Being a child doesn't affect hide-and-seek."
This time, the two's brainwaves didn't match.
After each person had finished their self-criticism and summarized their experiences and lessons, Jiang Baimian turned and said:
"The range of this 'Advanced Mindless' abilities is a bit large, and the effect is also very strong. I suspect that he has either reached the end of the 'Sea of Origins' and found himself, but because he has lost his intelligence, he has always been unable to win, or he entered the 'Corridor of the Mind' before suffering from 'Mindless Disease'.
"Fortunately, a strong person without intelligence is much, much weaker than a normal one."
Jiang Baimian always believed that the "Advanced Mindless" could not pass the final level of the "Sea of Origins" -- that was the confrontation with the self, and it was difficult to complete without a clear consciousness and sufficient wisdom.
Hearing this, Long Yuehong subconsciously said:
"'Advanced Mindless' may not rely on awakening, it may also be that the brain and other organs have mutated, producing similar abilities..."
This would eliminate the question of whether or not to pass the "Sea of Origins".
As he spoke, Long Yuehong fell silent, because he found that the "Advanced Mindless", at least the one he encountered now, was still very similar to the Awakened in some ways:
They all have certain weaknesses or costs.
"Hmm." Jiang Baimian did not directly deny it, after all, there was a lack of sufficient samples and evidence.
She thought and said:
"Let's assume that this 'Advanced Mindless' is of the awakened type, and the cost is the fear of mirrors. Then what are his three abilities?"
"Creating illusions!" Long Yuehong answered quickly.
Jiang Baimian nodded slightly and added a modifier:
"An illusion ability that currently doesn't seem to have any shortcomings."
"And also that ability that always makes us choose the wrong thing." Shang Jianyao struck a detective pose, just short of smoking a pipe. "I feel like this is targeting our conditioned reflexes."
Only he and Jiang Baimian had experienced this ability just now.
"Yes." Jiang Baimian agreed. "It should be misleading our conditioned reflexes or instincts, so that we can't make the correct response to external stimuli."
At the time, she was clearly able to control her body, but she always made choices that she shouldn't have.
"Sounds a little scary." Long Yuehong couldn't help but sigh. "How should we deal with this?"
"Wear a suit inlaid with broken mirrors, so that he doesn't even dare to look at you." Shang Jianyao provided a solution.
He then began to sing:
"You are the brightest..."
Before Jiang Baimian could glare at him, Shang Jianyao restrained his expression and said seriously:
"You can change your conditioned reflexes.
"For example, when you encounter an enemy, the first reaction is not to draw your gun, but to dance.
"When that ability affects you again, two negatives make a positive."
Long Yuehong first thought that this made a lot of sense, but then he realized the problem:
What if the enemy you encountered was not this "Advanced Mindless", but another enemy or beast?
Dance for them?
ps: Asking for monthly tickets at the beginning of the month~