Embers Ad Infinitum

Underground building, 3rd floor, where Shang Jianyao met the psychiatrist before.

This time, he did not go to the right along the corridor outside the door. Instead, after being inspected by four security personnel wearing bionic lizard armor, he passed through the opposite metal door and entered the real research area.

Soon, he came to a small room with white walls.

There was only a table, four chairs and a strange-looking machine with red and green lights.

There was a man sitting across the table. He looked less than thirty years old. He wore heavy-looking black-rimmed glasses and looked quite serious.

He pointed to the opposite side and said:

"sit."

After speaking, he simply introduced himself:

"Liu Shiyan."

"Good morning." Others can be rude, but Shang Jianyao cannot live without it.

After he sat down, Liu Shiyan pointed to the multiple data lines extending from the instrument on the table and the various sensors at their ends:

"Here are the polygraphs, put them on and we're good to go."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao's eyes instantly lit up.

He played with the lie detector with great interest.

Liu Shiyan did not stop him, observed his behavior, and took some notes from time to time.

Finally, Shang Jianyao put the different sensing devices on the correct parts.

Liu Shiyan looked at him and asked according to the planned plan:

“Have your mental problems worsened recently?

"To put it in layman's terms, has your brain twitching situation gotten more serious?"

Shang Jianyao stared at the lie detector and answered truthfully:

"It's about the same as before, no worse, no better."

The lie detector showed no reaction to this.

Liu Shiyan did not completely rely on the instrument and asked:

"you sure?"

"We've been chatting for a while, haven't you noticed anything unusual?" Shang Jianyao was still staring at the lie detector.

Liu Shiyan frowned slightly:

"Why do you keep looking at it and not in my eyes?"

Shang Jianyao glanced at Liu Shiyan with a mental illness look:

"You're not a lie detector."

Liu Shiyan opened his mouth and found that he didn't know how to refute this sentence.

He took a breath and slowly exhaled:

"Other than this, have you noticed anything about yourself that is different from other people?"

"Yes." Shang Jianyao answered simply.

Then he stood up and began to unbuckle his belt.

"What are you doing?" Liu Shiyan was startled.

"Let me show you what's different from others." Shang Jianyao replied seriously, "You can also take off your pants and compare with me."

Liu Shiyan felt a rush of blood rush to his forehead, and he finally resisted the urge to roar.

He calmed down and said:

"I mean, something that you have that other people don't have, or that other people have and you don't have."

Shang Jianyao regretfully fastened his belt and sat down again:

"Obviously, I don't have any aberrations."

Liu Shiyan glanced at the lie detector and saw that it had no reaction, so he lowered his head and recorded this.

"What changes do you think have happened to you in the past few months?" he continued to ask.

Shang Jianyao began to recall:

"My weight has increased by almost 5 kilograms, and the growth is mainly muscle...

"My skin has tanned a lot, and my strength has also increased...

"The appetite is almost one-third larger than before, and the poop is even more..."

Liu Shiyan heard the blood vessels in his forehead twitch slightly, but he still did not interrupt Shang Jianyao's story. He dutifully observed the reaction and data of the polygraph and took detailed notes.

"I have happily accepted my current state. When I am calm, my thinking ability seems to have been improved. When I am impulsive, my courage has been significantly strengthened..." Shang Jianyao said seriously about his changes, "To put it simply It’s just that I’m stronger.”

Who will hesitate and lack courage when they are impulsive? That wouldn’t be called impulsive! Who is better able to analyze the pros and cons and look for patterns when they are calm? Liu Shiyan felt that most of what Shang Jianyao said was nonsense.

And the bullshit is unquestionably true.

After a few seconds of silence, Liu Shiyan turned to ask:

"Have you acquired any abnormal abilities beyond the human realm?"

"It depends on your definition of human beings." Shang Jianyao began to argue with the other party, "If you regard abnormal people and intelligent people as human beings, then what I have is within a reasonable range."

Liu Shiyan felt dizzy after hearing this:

"Only ordinary humans."

"Yes." Shang Jianyao answered extremely firmly, "In the field of fighting, I can challenge two of you, or even more."

Liu Shiyan felt that there was a fire in his heart that he could no longer suppress, so he had to pick up the cup in front of him and took a sip:

"I mean superpowers, superpowers that ordinary humans don't have."

"No." Shang Jianyao looked at the lie detector and answered very briskly.

There were no changes to the polygraph test.

Upon seeing this, Liu Shiyan turned to ask about other situations.

About ten minutes later, he put down the pen in his hand and said to Shang Jianyao:

"This concludes the Q\u0026A section, followed by a physical examination."

"Is my condition very stable? Do I still need to see Dr. Lin for regular check-ups in the future?" Shang Jianyao asked expectantly while taking off the various sensors he was wearing.

After hearing these two questions, Liu Shiyan originally wanted to say that if he could still maintain his current state in the future, he could cancel the regular mental evaluation and just do it once a year.

But he suddenly thought of a certain record in the information, so he asked tentatively:

"Why did you apply to perform missions on the surface?"

"To find my missing father." Shang Jianyao answered calmly.

It's normal... Liu Shiyan breathed a sigh of relief and asked casually:

"anything else?"

Shang Jianyao's expression suddenly became serious, and his voice became lower:

"To save all mankind!"

"..." Liu Shiyan looked at him and said nothing for a long time.

After a while, he raised his hand and pinched his forehead and said:

"I recommend doing it regularly, at least once a month."

"Okay..." Shang Jianyao was quite disappointed.

Then, he stood up, shook hands with Liu Shiyan and said goodbye, and was led into an unusually spacious room by a researcher in a white coat.

Here is the latest CT machine from the old world.

There were a series of examination instruments in other nearby rooms, including but not limited to nuclear magnetic resonance machines, most of which Shang Jianyao did not recognize.

He followed the arrangement and examined different parts of the body in sequence.

…………

Underground building, 3rd floor, in a room where you can see all inspection scenes of Shang Jianyao.

Mei Shouan, who wore gold-rimmed glasses and had a gentle temperament, grabbed the black hair on the side of his head and shouted towards the door:

"Please come in."

Liu Shiyan then pushed the door open with a stack of documents.

He said with respect:

"Mei Suo, here are the interview notes and observations just now, as well as the previous situation records of Volunteer No. 32."

In the "C-14" project, Shang Jianyao's number is "32".

"Let it go." Mei Shouan looked at the inspection data and corresponding images sent back in real time on the screen, thought for a while, and said, "Compile the experience of volunteer No. 32 in the past six months and print it into a file for me."

"Okay, Mei Suo." Liu Shiyan turned on a nearby computer and got busy.

It didn't take long for him to download and sort out the tasks that Shang Jianyao had performed and the rewards he had received after joining the "Old Tune Team".

Mei Shouan took the information and read it carefully for a while.

After an unknown amount of time, he chuckled and said to himself:

"Have you encountered too many things?

"There shouldn't be any type of awakening ability that can control luck... Whether luck itself exists or not remains to be verified...

"To be able to survive and gain enough after encountering so many things shows that their team is very strong, much stronger than the predicted 'model'..."

At this point in his soliloquy, Mei Shouan put pen to paper on the surface of the document and wrote one sentence:

"There is a reasonable suspicion that there is an awakened person in this team, and the most likely candidate is Volunteer No. 32."

He looked through Shang Jianyao's experimental records and follow-up situations again. After the various inspections were completed, he wrote thoughtfully:

"Volunteer No. 32's logic is intermittently confused, and his thinking shows a certain jump. If we assume that this is the price paid, and it is related to the awakening ability, then it is quite possible that he is in the field of 'Zhuang Sheng'."

PS: Ask for monthly tickets during the double period~