"Psychological pollution, psychological mutation?"

Lu Xin sat quietly in his seat, his face showing a mixture of surprise and confusion. Having grown up in the city, he was well aware that the world under the red moon was vastly different from the past. He often heard colleagues or others talk about various mysterious and unpredictable events, such as encounters with ghosts, madmen who had lost their minds outside the city, and the fierce and lawless Wild Knights. However, in his view, most of these stories were rumors, and life, though oppressive, was still stable. Although he had the company of 'family' around him, it didn't seem quite normal. Although his sister often crawled around like a ghost, bringing him strange occurrences, he had never imagined that the world had become so abnormal, to the extent that even the mind could be contaminated and spread like a disease. Observing Lu Xin's expression, Chen Jing gave him some time to digest the information. Among all the people she had met, this young man was undoubtedly the calmest and most normal. Although she had already witnessed the madness beneath his calm exterior, she had seen many such individuals. As long as one could maintain reason during normal interactions and when facing mental monsters, that was already very good. 'In the previous tests, although we had already assessed you in advance and were confident that your mental strength would protect you from a primary source of contamination, we still prepared emergency response measures. Someone would have helped you solve the problem when you couldn't hold on any longer. However, you didn't wait for our people to take action and resolved the contamination incident at the street corner café by yourself!'

"Your performance has exceeded our expectations!" "We now need someone like you to help resolve the pollution incident between Qinggang Main City and its five satellite cities..." After explaining, Chen Jing leaned back slightly, her chest expanding, and looked at Lu Xin with a calm and appreciative posture. "And this is the reason I am sitting here, ready to recruit you." "..." Her movement made Lu Xin glance at her subconsciously, thinking to himself: "She has a big chest." Chen Jing noticed the change in Lu Xin's gaze and made an assessment in her mind: "Has lustful thoughts, danger index decreased by ten percent." "Just because I dealt with the monster in the café, they've decided to recruit me? Do they have other criteria? Moreover, is the pollution she mentioned the cause of the problem I'm facing now? Does that mean they can help me?" Thinking carefully, Lu Xin asked cautiously, "What is the standard for your assessment?" ... Chen Jing didn't expect Lu Xin to have so many questions; she was just a recruiter and didn't plan to talk to him so much. But since he asked, she still answered: "It's to see if you can control yourself." "It has been confirmed that there is a certain connection between mental mutants, mental monsters, and even the wandering madmen outside the city, and it can be confirmed that the source of this connection is the red moon in the sky. Since there is a connection, we must be careful about it. Therefore, our assessment is to see how well you can control your abilities. Only those who can control them will be recruited!"

Lu Xin thought for a moment and then hurriedly asked, 'But what if it gets out of control?' Chen Jing was silent for a while, looking at Lu Xin and said, 'Then you will become a new source of pollution!' Lu Xin was a bit frightened. Chen Jing quietly observed the young man in front of her, inadvertently capturing every expression of his. This should be a very suitable recruit... His initial potential was not the strongest, but judging from the outcome of the café incident, he was the one who used his abilities the best. As a spider-type, he even managed to deal with a psychic monster on his own without any help. Although it seemed somewhat bizarre to lure the psychic monster when he was about to escape, weren't the others the same? And most importantly, he seemed very interested in these matters, which meant that it would be easy to persuade him. 'I'm actually quite curious about what you're talking about...' 'And I've indeed been looking for a part-time job...' It was at this moment that Lu Xin, who had been deep in thought, slowly shook his head and said, 'But there's one thing I have to tell you...' 'Actually, I don't have any abilities...' '...' Chen Jing couldn't help but frown. To deny it at this stage indicated that this person was not as honest as he seemed, and was somewhat troublesome... Then she listened as Lu Xin continued, 'Actually, my ability was lent to me by my sister.' Chen Jing's gaze became slightly stern, and after a moment of silence, she gently tapped the table and asked, 'Who is your sister?'

Lu Xin also looked at Chen Jing and slowly replied, 'It was my sister who helped me escape just now; she has always been with me.' Chen Jing seemed a bit taken aback, her face showing a hint of gravity. 'Not just my sister...' Lu Xin continued, adding earnestly, 'And my dad, my mom, we have always been living together!' Chen Jing's hair stood on end slightly. At this moment, inside the small metal silver piece in her left earlobe, an anxious voice was sounding: 'Colonel Chen, you must make a final assessment of him. If he truly has severe symptoms of dissociative identity disorder, it means he may have been on the verge of losing control all along. We should not only refrain from recruiting him or guiding him, but we must also eliminate him as soon as possible to prevent him from causing too great a disaster!'

... Chen Jing's face remained expressionless for a long time. Yet no one knew that every muscle in her body was tensed, and even her hands subconsciously rested on her gun. She had long been aware that Lu Xin harbored many secrets. In her bag, there was an old-fashioned digital camera that had captured many scenes from the subway stations. Thus, she understood all too well the kind of madness hidden within this seemingly harmless young man... Moreover, even backstage, the assessment of this young man was not optimistic. During the incident at the café, he only displayed the ability to precisely control his body with his mind when facing the contaminated, without the "psychokinesis" that had been observed before. This could be a deliberate concealment on his part, or perhaps he had not yet mastered it. Most importantly, there had been a very bizarre incident in the previous observations of Lu Xin. A dream architect had entered Lu Xin's dreams, attempting to make a reasonable assessment of his psyche. But that dream architect never woke up. He turned into a corpse in his deep sleep, with no trace of mental residue detectable. Based on past experience, even if he had been killed upon entering Lu Xin's dreams, some mental residue should have been detected. However, he had vanished too cleanly, to the extent that even Professor Bai could not determine whether the dream architect's death was related to this seemingly harmless young man. After all, research on the abilities of mental mutants was not yet profound, and accidents were common occurrences. But no matter what, due to these issues, the assessment of Lu Xin's danger level was very high. Furthermore, he had shown tendencies of multiple personality disorder? However... Having finally discovered such a promising "mental mutant," Chen Jing found it hard to justify eliminating him immediately. Yet, she also understood that the greater the potential, the greater the disaster when things got out of control. So, after a long silence, she merely adjusted her sitting posture slightly. Her gaze seemed somewhat sharper at that moment. Taking a deep breath, she suddenly looked at Lu Xin calmly and said, "Do you know that I've seen your records and observed you? After the Moon Orphanage was destroyed, you've been living alone. Your father, mother, and sister do not exist; they are just fabrications of your imagination. Not just them, but even the old building you live in, you are the only one who lives there!"

As she finished speaking, she felt a slight nervousness, her pupils faintly reddening, trending towards turning into red moons. To directly burst some of his delusions could very likely lead to serious problems. She knew that people at risk of losing control are most dangerous when the truth is exposed, with eighty percent likely to lose control as a result. She was prepared for this. However, to her surprise, Lu Xin sat there calmly, without a hint of nervousness or surprise. 'I know,' he said. Faced with this question, Lu Xin simply replied calmly: 'I've long noticed that others can't see them.' Chen Jing's expression became somewhat strange. But then Lu Xin suddenly smiled and said, 'But just because you can't see them, it doesn't mean I can't. Not only can I see them, but I can also talk to them, communicate with them, and even touch them. When I'm alone, we have meals together, watch TV together. When danger arises, they also appear to protect me. So, can you say that such family members do not exist?' Chen Jing opened her mouth, but with her rich experience, she didn't know how to respond.