Overturned Tower

"Psychic redshift intensity 2, blueshift intensity 4...The chip is intact and there are no signs of disassembly..."

The middle-aged fat cat was biting a lollipop, flipping through Russell's medical examination report, showing a distressed expression: "Ah, in this case... can't I only be assigned to the Special Operations Department?"

It was also the first time for Russell to meet his uncle... It was only just now that he learned that his name was Dodgson from the poor man.

...how should I put it, even though they are both cats, their coat colors are somewhat similar. But after all, whether it is the coat color or stripes of the spiritual relatives, they are completely different.

Russell and Alice are both sand dune cat breeds, but his uncle is obviously not as light and small as Russell.

no doubt-

From the weight alone, it can be seen that he is obviously a big orange.

Dodgson always squints his eyes and has a lot of flesh on his cheeks. He has a gentle and lazy temperament, and he looks like a good-tempered old man.

He draped the coat over his shoulders, relying on the thick shoulders to keep it from slipping off. And the shirt he was wearing inside was black—although Russell didn't know the brand at all, but just by looking at it, he could tell that it was very expensive clothes.

Russell also noticed something. That is, both his and Amyrus' leather boots are pointed.

Is this some sort of directorial sartorial trait?

Uncle's bulging belly is not hard fat, but soft and elastic to the touch. After Russell accidentally touched it just now, his first reaction turned out to be "I want to touch it again".

"Although I also guessed when I read the news yesterday, you can kill a lot on the airship, probably because you have awakened psionic power."

Dodgson, the director of Tangerine Cat, sighed: "But... oh..."

"What happened to the Special Operations Department?"

Russell subconsciously asked: "Awakened psychic power, isn't it only assigned to the Special Operations Department?"

"That's the way it is. But after all, the work of the Special Operations Department is much more dangerous."

Dodgson was talking, biting the lollipop in his mouth, and his words became blurred because of this: "The general work of the executive department is to arrest criminals, arrest psychic mercenaries, and so on. But the Special Operations Department is usually responsible for dealing with dangerous people like demons and familiars, or intelligent criminals like psionic hackers... Oh, you should know about demons, right? I guess Amirus should have told you last night.

"With his suspicious personality, he must have given you a medical examination."

"Um."

Russell nodded.

Although he knew about this before graduation, there is no need to correct this kind of thing.

But... suspicious?

This is less obvious. But if you want to talk about it, if you push back his actions, there are indeed some traces of this...

"But no matter what, you, as a spontaneously awakened psyker, still have to enter the Special Operations Department."

Dodgson frowned, squinted his eyes while thinking, and explained to Russell: "This is not asking you to do some work... I originally wanted to put you in a part-time job. For example, put you in the public relations department, In two or three years, you will be able to become a manager of the public relations department."

"...The manager of the public relations department should forget it."

Russell shook his head helplessly and refused.

Don't be the manager of the public relations department anymore - he is afraid that when he dies suddenly, he will travel to the next world.

"You don't understand this... In Tianen Group, the public relations department is the core department. It belongs to the four excellent jobs that do less get off work, get off work early, make more contributions, and get promoted quickly," Dodgson said, sighing, "but the executive department is Hard work. The Special Operations Department is even more dangerous... But you have awakened your psychic powers, if you don’t enter the Special Operations Department, I’m afraid you will go to jail.”

"...how do you say that?"

Russell was a little dazed: "Am I breaking the law if I am not an executive officer?"

"—Because the essence of psychic power is desire."

The one who spoke at this time was the inferior who stood quietly by the side.

He said plainly: "Desire will always expand and will never stop. However, the speed of people's learning, mastering, and comprehension will become slower and slower... This means that your blue shift will never grow faster than your red shift. Of course, If through psychotherapy, or simply remove the memory, the red shift can also be reduced.

"But when the blueshift and redshift are consistent, the phenomenon of 'shifting' will occur. At this time, you will know the real name of your psionic energy and fully know everything about it. From then on, your redshift It will only go up, not down. After that, if you can't release your psionic energy, but continue to suppress it... it will probably be months or weeks before you lose control."

"That is to say, when my redshift reaches a value of four, is it the real awakening of psionic power..."

Russell murmured.

Dodgson shrugged: "Yes. If you want, you can also receive psychological treatment and give up psionic abilities... But, will you be willing?"

Give up psionics?

—Who would want to.

It's not just as simple as getting superpowers.

When Russell puts on Alice's mask, he has a special feeling inside him... It's a kind of excitement that he has never felt before.

Like an actor on stage for the first time.

That immersion.

"I probably understand," Russell nodded slowly, "I will not give up psionic power. But what is release?"

"This is also one of the missions of the Special Operations Department."

The inferior replied very fluently: "Psykers who are naturally awakened are different from those fakes who are suppressed and always in a safe situation. You will inevitably have the phenomenon of 'shifting'... and in order not to go crazy when shifting , You need to release your desires in advance.

"Think about it. The hallucinations you saw when you awakened your psionic powers should have revealed your 'task'—that is the manifestation of your deepest desire. By completing the task, which is a ritualistic way to improve the 'red Instead of relying on strong emotions and desires to erupt psionic energy, the next level of psionic energy will also be permanently solidified and will not decline. This is actually equivalent to a "shifting surge" in advance.

"If you advance in this way for every level of psionic ability... then when the 'shifting surge' finally occurs, the mental pressure on you will be minimized.

"And after the surge, there is no way out. You must keep using your psionic power, otherwise you will continue to accumulate pressure. But if you are not in the special execution department, using psionic power indiscriminately will attract the execution department—after all, no one can I don’t know what your ritual, your mission, or your psionic power is. I don’t even know when you will become a demon.”

In other words, do you have to use psionic energy to vent your fire from time to time...

Russell thought about it.

Indeed, when he used psionic powers, he did feel a sense of pleasure.

but.

"Mission..."

Russell murmured.

The inferior nodded, and carefully emphasized again: "You must know, ask your heart. The strongest feeling at that time was that the 'task' you needed to complete was also a necessary ritual to use the formal way to improve psionic power. UU reading www.uukanshu.com”

…When it comes to the hallucinations during awakening, it should be the space full of candles and photo frames.

Speaking of which, when the face of his mother Alice was filled in one of the frames, Russell's first reaction was "Why is the other one empty? Do you have to wait until I kill my father and **** it in?"

After all, the photo frames of parents are neat and tidy when they are placed together.

— But if you think about it carefully, it is definitely impossible to ask the whole family to be neat and tidy. After all, there were too many photo frames in Russell's illusion, and his family simply didn't have enough.

And those two photo frames are actually quite far apart...about the same distance as the ones in the dark.

And, psychic power comes from a deep-seated desire—

Russell is full of gratitude and love to Alice. That was a great mother, although it was difficult in every way, she still worked hard to bring him up, never treated him badly, and gave Russell the best she could give. She never even got angry with Russell, let alone beat or scolded him.

It's just that although Russell's memory has been sealed, he is precocious after all-seeing his mother working so hard, he himself became more diligent.

However, the father who abandoned him when he was a child, and even ran away with money, can only say... Russell didn't kill him, it was only because Russell promised his mother that he wanted to be a person who could live in the sun.

Russell's deepest desire could not have wished for these two pictures to be placed together.

To take a step back—this is still based on the psionic power of his previous life memory, not Russell after his memory was sealed. At that time, it was impossible for him to know his current parents.

…However, Russell did have a burning desire at the time.

That is, fill the remaining frame.