What sound?
Conquest target?
Who?
Me?
Gao Gusheng quickly looked around and found that, besides himself, it seemed no one heard this voice.
He withdrew his gaze and looked at the stunned Sun Langgan, slightly narrowing his eyes.
This was on campus, where problems couldn’t be solved with violence, but he would remember this person.
He lowered his head and dialed the campus security, “Hello? Security? Someone is causing trouble at the school entrance! I’ve been attacked!”
As soon as he spoke, everyone seemed to wake up from a dream. Whispers erupted like heavy rain after thunder, but no one dared to speak loudly, as if afraid that if their voice was too loud, the beautiful mirage-like young man before them would disappear like a bubble in the sunlight.
Sun Langgan took two seconds to realize what Gao Gusheng had done. He said angrily, “You—”
With a crisp slapping sound, the second half of his sentence was forcibly interrupted.
The Sun parents, who had originally surrounded Jia Qi, had left at some point.
Father Sun had silently approached the unaware Sun Langgan and slapped him.
“Dad?”
Sun Langgan looked at his father who had backstabbed him in disbelief, his gaze shocked, as if seeing a lurking assassin.
Mother Sun walked toward Gao Gusheng.
Her gaze was only on Sun Jun behind Gao Gusheng.
Gao Gusheng frowned and instinctively stepped back.
This step seemed to pierce Mother Sun’s heart, and she suddenly stopped.
Sun Jun raised his head from Gao Gusheng’s shoulder, his eyes seemed covered with a layer of mist, gray and without light.
Gao Gusheng watched her warily, his attitude polite yet distant, “Mrs. Sun, I need to take Sun Jun to the medical office now.”
Mrs. Sun said urgently, “Let me…”
Gao Gusheng gently interrupted her, “Sorry, ma’am.”
He looked at her, “Where were you just now?”
Where was she when Sun Jun was dizzy and vomiting?
Where was she when Sun Langgan was cursing at Sun Jun?
She was by her precious son Jia Qi’s side, not even sparing a glance for Sun Jun.
Now she acted so urgently, the transition was too abrupt, wasn’t it?
Actually, Gao Gusheng’s tone was very gentle. He didn’t say much; he was just curious why Mrs. Sun, who had treated Sun Jun like something dirty moments ago, now suddenly cared about him.
But Mrs. Sun’s face lost all color at this softly spoken question.
Gao Gusheng’s gaze swept over Father Sun and mother.
These two people were very strange.
They clearly just acted as if they couldn’t live without Jia Qi, but now they were standing up for Sun Jun.
It was too abrupt.
So abrupt it was as if some hand had forcibly erased their recent memories.
The surrounding students also didn’t know what to do. Everything unfolding before them was like an absurd and nonsensical farce, with transitions that were jarring and ridiculous.
But after all, these were Sun Jun’s parents. If Sun Jun was willing, it would be reasonable for him to go with them. So Gao Gusheng turned his head and asked Sun Jun quietly, “Do you want to go with your mother, or should I take you to see a doctor first?”
Mrs. Sun looked eagerly at Sun Jun, her eyes full of hope.
Sun Jun slowly blinked. The world twisted slightly before his eyes. He couldn’t stop feeling nauseous, as if something was struggling inside his stomach.
He suddenly felt so tired.
So he buried his face in the young man’s warm neck, his voice slightly bitter.
“Take me away.”
***
“Conquest target?”
Gao Gusheng was chattering on the phone, “Yes, Dad! Although I don’t know why I can hear strange voices, my years of reading novels tell me that this thing is a system!”
“Dad, I’m an SSS-level conquest target~”
The sound was quite pleasing.
Gao Shi deflated him, “Also an SSS-level victim.”
Gao Gusheng asked, “Dad, do you think the Sun family has all been conquered, which is why they’re acting so strangely? I remember a month ago, Sun Jun’s parents still doted on him.”
Gao Shi looked at the video of the commotion at the school gate that had been circulating, sliding to the part where Sun Jun’s parents appeared, and pressed pause.
“Not likely.”
He slowed it to 0.5x speed, replaying the segment where Sun’s parents went from surrounding Jia Qi to rushing toward Sun Jun, and finally paused at one frame.
Gao Shi slowly enlarged this image.
The entire computer screen was filled with Mrs. Sun’s eyes.
These were vacant, lifeless eyes, as if her soul had been extracted, leaving only a physical shell.
Found it.
Gao Shi said quietly into the microphone, “Jia Qi should be able to control others. If I’m not mistaken, Sun Jun’s parents were probably being controlled.”
“Control?!” Gao Gusheng couldn’t believe it. “Isn’t that too dangerous? Does this mean he doesn’t even need to rob a bank – the bank director would just welcome him at the door, and after he leaves, the director would clean up everything for him?”
Gao Shi’s serious mood was disrupted by Gao Gusheng’s outburst, making him both amused and exasperated. “It’s not that serious. More accurately, this effect is more like hypnosis, requiring specific conditions. It’s not that supernatural.”
Saying this, Gao Shi suddenly remembered the psychologist who had been dragged away earlier while shouting “I am your dog.”
At that time, he had wanted to hypnotize Lele, but for some reason, he himself had ended up in that state instead.
That psychologist was quite impressive, single-handedly disturbing the peace of the entire detention center, shouting everything from ‘Student Gao, I am your dog!’ to ‘Student Gao, you are my god!’ Anyone who didn’t know better might think ‘Student Gao’ was the legendary dog deity.
Gao Shi pulled the progress bar back to the moment of Sun’s parents’ sudden transformation, then played it backward bit by bit.
All the changes seemed to begin when Gao Gusheng’s face was revealed.
“Hello? Dad, are you listening?”
Gao Shi leaned back against the chair, rubbing his brow, “I’m here.”
Gao Gusheng said, “Dad, I want to go see… Hm? Hello.”
It seemed like Lele was talking to someone.
Thinking this, Gao Gusheng pressed the receiver, and the voice from the other side came through the earpiece.
“Yes, I am Gao Gusheng, who are you?”
“It’s like this, Student Gao, our boss would like to meet with you.”
“Who is your boss?”
“You’ll find out when you get there, please.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Student Gao, not everyone gets such an opportunity, please reconsider.”
“No need to reconsider. If you want to meet, then meet openly. When you’re not revealing any information to me like this, it’s hard for me not to suspect you have some plan.”
Gao Shi frowned.
Was Lele being bothered again?
“This is my business card. If you make up your mind, you can call me anytime.”
After a series of footsteps, Gao Gusheng’s voice reappeared in the receiver, “Dad.”
“What’s wrong, who were those people just now?”
“I don’t know, they looked like secretaries or something, hiding their identities, obviously not good people.”
Secretary…
Gao Shi recalled two pieces of information he had obtained earlier.
Contract.
Canary.
Could it be that the [Contractor] has made a move?
Gao Shi’s voice was low, “They won’t dare to make a move at school. I’ll have A-Lian follow you.”
Gao Gusheng said, “Sister A-Lian is very capable, but after all, Sister A-Lian is a girl. Dad, can you assign me a male bodyguard?”
Gao Shi sighed and hinted, “Haven’t you noticed? All those who have made moves against you recently are male. It’s precisely because A-Lian is a girl that I sent her.”
“What??”
The other end of the phone went quiet for a moment, then Gao Gusheng let out a miserable cry, “No way! What kind of unfortunate physique is this!”
Gao Shi rubbed his brow, “We’ve gone off topic. First, about Jia Qi’s matter—you have a certain resistance to hypnotic things, so Jia Qi’s control methods won’t work on you, but the targets he conquers are different from those who are hypnotized.”
“Sun Langgan should be one of his conquest targets.” After a pause, Gao Shi added, “One of them.”
“During this time, stay alert and observe who Jia Qi is close to. Be wary of anyone who is close to him.”
“Sun Langgan is willing to turn against his parents for him, bearing the reputation of being unfilial that everyone in their circle knows about. There’s no guarantee someone won’t make a move against you for his sake.”
“Also, the ‘system’ on Jia Qi is different from the high-tech creations in novels. This should be a living entity that originated in this world.”
…
After hanging up the phone, Gao Shi fell into deep thought.
Obviously, Lele had some immunity to methods like “hypnosis” and “control,” and even possessed the ability to break and counter-control them.
What were the trigger conditions?
Seeing Lele’s face? Or perhaps smelling the fragrance on Lele’s body?
If Lele had counterattack abilities, then why in the dream would he…
Gao Shi recalled the terrible scenes, and his expression became gloomy.
In the dream, Gao Gusheng was timid and easily trusting of others, easily deceived by Wen Liang, so that psychologist didn’t appear until later.
It was probably in the early-middle stage of the “plot.”
Gao Gusheng, who was haunted by ghosts, could sometimes see things that others couldn’t see, and suspected that he had mental problems.
Coincidentally, Chang Zai, as a top psychologist, came to Gao Gusheng’s city to give lectures on mental health education.
They met.
Gao Gusheng “luckily” drew a spot for Chang Zai’s psychological consultation.
That was the beginning of a nightmare.
Chang Zai had improper thoughts about Gao Gusheng, hypnotized him, and made him completely lose himself.
When Gao Gusheng was unconscious, Chang Zai made him perform various indecent actions and took photos and videos.
He also felt that an unconscious Gao Gusheng lacked some interest and charm, so he would occasionally let Gao Gusheng wake up and watch him break down at the sight of photos covering the walls and videos playing on loop on screens.
He wouldn’t let Gao Gusheng die.
Although, perhaps Gao Gusheng would rather have died on that rainy night.
…
Gao Shi snapped out of his memories, unwrapped a lollipop and put it in his mouth, crunching it up, then took another one and crunched it up again.
Chang Yang, who was nearby, carefully approached and said, “Captain, don’t bite anymore, be careful of your teeth.”
Gao Shi took the special lollipop that Chang Yang handed over. This kind of lollipop had a high density, was very hard, and was said to last a very long time.
Gao Shi put it in his mouth, grinding it with his canine teeth, but at least he wasn’t biting it anymore.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Gao Shi asked, “How’s the Chang Zai case going?”
Ran Qiu pulled out the file, “He and Wen Liang will be in court in three days.”
Gao Shi made a sound of acknowledgment, got up, and said, “Old Huang, Xiao Zhuang, Chang Yang, come with me to a place.”
Chang Yang jumped up from his chair, “Is there another case?”
Gao Shi, with the lollipop in his mouth, spoke somewhat unclearly, but with a chilling coldness. He smiled and said, “Not really, just a hunch that might get those two scumbags a few more years in prison.”
Chang Yang jumped up from his chair, “Is there another case?”
Gao Shi, with the lollipop in his mouth, spoke somewhat unclearly, but with a chilling coldness. He smiled and said, “Not really, just a hunch that might get those two scumbags a few more years in prison.”
In the dream, the things Chang Zai did to Gao Gusheng seemed far too practiced.
Moreover, Gao Gusheng was locked in a dark room.
It couldn’t be that Chang Zai impulsively took Gao Gusheng away and then impulsively dug out a “fully equipped” dark room within just an hour, could it?
Therefore, Gao Shi concluded that Gao Gusheng was not the only victim.
…
Three days later, the court opened for trial.
Chang Zai was sentenced to death for rape, attempted rape, molestation, and distributing obscene materials.
However, Wen Liang, who was supposed to be tried together with Chang Zai, had his trial postponed.
Because the Wen family claimed that the person arrested wasn’t Wen Liang, but his twin brother, Wen Yan.
But Gao Shi remembered that Wen Liang was supposed to be an only child.
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