249: Chapter 47: The Situation Escalates but Remains Under Control.
249: Chapter 47: The Situation Escalates but Remains Under Control.
After realizing the severity of the issue, reinforcements from the police station quickly arrived.
“I’ve already reported to the Special Service Bureau, what is the situation now?”
Qin Xiangdong arrived at the scene and directly asked Wang Yunxiao.
“It’s temporarily under control.”
After administering sedatives to the patients, the majority of them quickly calmed down and stopped struggling and shouting.
Wang Yunxiao then had someone turn on the hospital’s broadcasting system to maximum volume, forcing the hospital director at gunpoint to read last year’s work report over the broadcast.
They had just reached the second section of the third future planning objective.
This was a little trick Nurse Liu once taught him about using sound to drive away evil spirits.
While the initial Echo Erosion was spread through contact, the secondary victims, who were the officers investigating the case, as well as doctors and nurses and patients in this hospital, were majorly affected through the transmission of “sound”.
Since the patients kept repeating phrases over and over, images began to form involuntarily in their minds.
This type of sound can be counteracted by other sounds.
Whether they were willing to listen or liked what they heard, when the sound from the speakers was loud enough, their brains would subconsciously stop thinking about the “worms” and start harboring resentment towards the dreary and lengthy speeches.
Through this dual approach, the situation was quickly brought under control.
Those patients who had been deeply affected by Echo Erosion and lost all reason were isolated, and symptoms in other patients significantly improved.
Upon returning to the hospital, Gao Shan immediately administered treatment to his subordinates.
Convinced of the effectiveness of Wang Yunxiao’s method after receiving a reasonable explanation, the hallucinations in his own mind had disappeared and had not recurred up to this point.
But this emergency method wasn’t really effective for the people under his command.
“You have to believe me…”
“I believe you, Captain, but I really do have worms in my head!”
“Listen to me…”
“Listen to me!
There really are worms!
Worms crawling in my brain!”
Faced with such stubbornness, Gao Shan was completely out of ideas, and it wasn’t just one or two cases.
If his men were like this, what about ordinary people?
“Sister Veronica, do you know what these worms originate from?”
Qin Xiangdong asked habitually, not expecting Sister Veronica to nod and say, “I know, but these aren’t worms, they are the larvae of moths.”
“Aren’t those just silkworms?”
“They are not silkworms, they are moths,”
Sister Veronica corrected, “If you are not familiar with this part of history, I would not recommend you delve into it to avoid contamination.”
Qin Xiangdong was silent for a moment, then asked, “Can this problem be solved?”
“Of course,”
Sister Veronica nodded, “The simplest way is to disseminate the teachings of the Qianjin Church, and have them embrace the Messiah.”
“You’re taking advantage of a crisis!”
“I’m just answering your question,”
Sister Veronica replied earnestly, “Spreading the faith is not my job, but you should know, most people do not like others pointing out their mistakes when they are at fault.
They just want to shake off their responsibilities as soon as possible and pretend nothing happened.”
“Their minds have already been subjected to Echo Erosion, sinking into a paranoid vicious cycle.
They don’t want to hear explanations or seek the truth.
They only want what they can understand—like blindly believing in something, making offerings, prostrating themselves, letting an all-powerful immortal solve all problems.”
“This is the purpose of religion.”
Qin Xiangdong neither agreed nor disagreed, and he nodded before asking, “Besides this simplest method, is there any other way?”
Veronica looked towards Wang Yunxiao, “Section Chief Wang’s handling method is very professional; we don’t need to do anything more.
But I’m unclear, why did you ask me to bring weapons?”
She gestured toward the travel bag she was holding in her hand.
“Just in case.”
Wang Yunxiao pointed towards his office behind him, “That director has been controlled by me, and I suspect something is wrong with him.”
“What kind of problem?”
“How would I know?
Let the experts from the Special Service Bureau handle it.”
The director’s reaction when facing the muzzle of a gun was really not like that of a normal person.
How to put it, it was like… although I know I shouldn’t do stupid things, I just can’t control myself and must do it.
From a psychological perspective, this is called obsessive-compulsive disorder.
But it could also be threats, instigation, or deceit…
The former chief of the Nantong District Police Bureau fell into such a trap.
As for whether there are wild Advisors behind this, Wang Yunxiao decided not to pursue it further.
Does everything have to be done by me?
Do you think I’m the protagonist of a novel?
How about you just give me the entire police station’s salary?
In fact, what Wang Yunxiao was truly worried about was somewhat difficult to express outright.
As Veronica had said, these patients, tormented on a mental level, will involuntarily seek spiritual comfort.
Veronica may not proselytize actively, but what about others?
Is this situation really just a coincidental accident?
Could it be that someone is deliberately pushing it from behind the scenes?
“Those terminally ill.”
Wang Yunxiao said solemnly, “Apart from the possibility of the director having issues, those terminally ill also need professionals for special care.”
Veronica smiled, “Let’s go take a look.”
All the patients with severe conditions—not just the family of seven affected by food poisoning but also an old man who took something home to make medicinal liquor—were injected with double the dose of sedatives and isolated in the hospital’s underground level.
To prevent any accidents, their mouths were stuffed with gauze to ensure they couldn’t make any noise, and their limbs were restrained on hospital beds, making them unable to struggle.
“What were you just talking about with the moth?”
Standing outside the hospital room door, Wang Yunxiao quietly asked Veronica.
“That happened decades ago, and I’ve only read about it in the Church’s archived records,” she replied.
Facing Wang Yunxiao’s inquiry, Veronica did not remain vague.
Mainly because Wang Yunxiao could withstand this level of knowledge contamination.
“At that time, it was a special period of transition between the New Gods and the Old Gods, and some tried to create a True God, but their mad experiments failed to succeed, creating only various chaotic monsters, which we call Divine Aberration.”
“Of course, for ordinary people, they couldn’t clearly tell the difference between those monsters and the True God.”
“You know, if people really need a spiritual object, they can even place pasta on an altar.”
“Most of the Divine Aberrations were useless failures, but there were a few semi-finished products among them that barely reached a god-like level, such as the ‘moth’ that originated in Tianmen City.”
“Why worship a Fluttering Moth?”
“It’s not the Fluttering Moth… The insect body is just superficial; the true meaning of ‘moth’ symbolizes the transformation of life.
It was originally a failure, and even the ‘moth’ itself failed to be successfully born.
However, due to some coincidences, or perhaps events not recorded by the Church, someone regrafted the concept of the ‘moth’ onto the concept of ‘Feathered Ascension’ from The East.”
Grafting?
Wang Yunxiao did not quite understand the meaning of the word.
Could concepts be grafted?