Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 144 Hypnosis
Looking at the slightly shaking crystal pendant in Heidi's hand, Nina swallowed a little nervously - although the other party said to relax, this was the first time she had received hypnotherapy, and it was always difficult to control her reaction.

While her eyes were attracted by the crystal pendant, she also noticed that Heidi was wearing a seemingly simple stone bracelet on her wrist. The bracelet was woven with tough silk ropes and connected in series with many colorful stones. Rune-like marks can also be seen on the stone.

Noticing Nina's gaze, Heidi smiled and shook her wrist: "I am a 'student' of the Academy of Truth, and I follow and serve the God of Wisdom, Rahmu—although I can't tell from the outside, but from the practice registration, I But a priest."

The priest... not only a psychiatrist, but also a member of the Academy of Truth?
Of course Nina has heard of the Academy of Truth—although its name sounds like a school, but in fact, the real body of this "school" is one of the four Orthodox churches, and the Church of the Deep Sea, the Sect of Death, and the Fire Passers The Church jointly maintains the order of civilization in the Deep Sea Era, and the difference from the other three major churches is that the School of Truth does not have a strong sense of "theological" existence, but is more inclined to pure knowledge inheritance and the research and development and promotion of cutting-edge technologies. , and its believers also build relationships based on master-student and schools.

Other churches are based on churches and sanctuaries, spreading beliefs and organizing mass as their daily routine, but the Academy of Truth has established countless universities and laboratories in various city-states. Question, to see if your belief in the Lord has reached the score line - it can be described as a unique style of painting.

It is precisely because of the special "style" of the Academy of Truth that among the four Orthodox Churches, the number of members of the Academy of Truth is actually the smallest, and members who are eligible to wear markers on a daily basis and be registered as official clergymen are Even rarer - because the questions are really hard.

Ordinary universities may not be able to produce a few top students who are qualified to convert to Raheem every year, let alone a poor child like Nina who is studying in a public school in the lower city.

Heidi in her eyes suddenly seemed to be shrouded in a halo, and instead of relaxing her, this halo made her even more nervous.

This is the awe of highly motivated vocational high school students when they see the top graduates of top universities.

Of course, Heidi noticed the change in Nina's expression, but she didn't care about it. She just played with the pendant in her hand casually, and slowly said in a calm tone that sounded the same as before: "You can tell me Tell me about your childhood? Just now you said that your parents died in an accident, that incident may be the shadow in your heart... can you tell me about it?"

"Actually... there's nothing I can't talk about," Nina thought for a while, "I've told many people, but everyone thinks that I was too young to remember things clearly, and that I'm talking nonsense——11 Years ago, there was a leak in a factory on the Sixth Street, and there were still many cultists destroying it everywhere, and many people were arrested later, do you know about that incident?"

"Of course," Heidi nodded, "I was only in my teens back then. When the accident happened, our family happened to be staying near the cross street, and we also saw the crowds colliding..."

"Then do you remember that there was a big fire?"

"Big fire?" Heidi tilted her head slightly, she unconsciously stopped fiddling with the crystal pendant, "What big fire?"

"Look, you don't know about the fire—but in my memory, there is always a fire, and my parents died in that fire, but people say I remember it wrong..."

Heidi listened quietly to Nina's statement, nodded lightly after a long time, and asked again: "So this should be the shadow in your heart, you are afraid of a fire that only you know exists, and you are worried when This kind of weird phenomenon will appear around you again, taking people around you, and at the same time, no one can help you—no one can even notice what happened to you."

Nina nodded slightly.

"Do you have any pressure recently?" Heidi asked again, "Academic, life, these recent pressures may amplify the long-term haze in your heart..."

Nina was silent for a while, and then said hesitantly: "Maybe it's because uncle's health has been bad, and it's getting worse a while ago, which makes me very worried..."

Speaking of this, she paused, and then quickly added: "Ah, of course he is recovering now, and I feel that I have also relaxed a lot. I haven't had that strange dream in the past two days..."

"Are you worried about your family's health..."

Heidi said softly thoughtfully. She heard the girl across from her whispering softly as if she was dreaming, and watched Nina leaning against the bed in a half-dream and half-awake state, and put down the crystal pendant casually.

As a "psychiatrist" who has studied in the Academy of Truth and needs to deal with the superhuman realm, she doesn't need to perform hypnotherapy by shaking pendants or igniting medicinal mist at all-just say a few words.

The only function of this pendant is to attract Nina's attention, make her relax and reduce her resistance to "words".

The psychiatrist let out a sigh of relief, looked gently at Nina who had completely relaxed, and watched her gradually fall into a deeper sleep.

"It can be seen that you live a very hard life... All the tension and anxiety are buried in your heart, and you have become accustomed to this way of life. You hope that this will make the people around you relax, but you ignore yourself— — but just relax now, get a good night's sleep, and leave all your stress in a dream that will dissipate, and when you wake up, those anxieties will have nothing to do with you."

In a half-dream and half-awake state, Nina's voice sounded softly: "...Thank you..."

Heidi smiled, and in order to further let Nina enter a deeper state of relaxation, she asked casually, "By the way, was your uncle in poor health before? What's wrong with him? I just saw Mr Duncan appears to be in good health."

Nina was silent for a longer time this time before she spoke softly: "It's just that he's weak. He's now... he's completely recovered..."

However, Heidi could no longer hear Nina's response.

The moment she asked the last question, she was lying at the end of Nina's bed, falling into a deeper dream than her own patient.

And on Heidi's right wrist, a string of hand-woven stone bracelets is shining slightly-this is one of the symbols often worn by believers in the Academy of Truth, which represents that the wearer is a person who has undergone rigorous training and received wisdom. The monk who is favored by the god Lahmu and firmly resists the crazy power of heresy, every rune stone on it represents a favor of Lahm.

After a few seconds of flickering, a red agate in the string of stone bracelets suddenly made a slight cracking sound, and then quickly disintegrated into dust and disappeared with the wind.

In the shop on the first floor, Fanna asked Duncan a few more questions. On the one hand, she wanted to learn more about whether there were any missing details in the museum fire. On the other hand, she used this to confirm whether Duncan and others were affected by sun debris. .

During the conversation, the unfamiliarity and embarrassment of the first meeting gradually disappeared, and the atmosphere on the scene became friendly and familiar.

Duncan could feel that this "judge" who held a high position in the church was really concerned about the safety of the survivors of the fire that day - not just to fight heresy or investigate clues, her attitude was sincere and sincere.

He didn't know whether the young judge cared so much for everyone in the city-state, or just cared about the few people in this antique shop because of Heidi's relationship, but the sincerity Fana showed at the moment was enough for him to Make some good impressions.

"Speaking of which, Miss Heidi and Nina have been going up for a while, right?"

During the conversation, Duncan thought of his niece, and subconsciously looked up at the stairs leading to the second floor.

"Indeed." After being reminded like this, Fan Na also reacted, she frowned slightly, "Usually Heidi's treatment process is very fast..."

"...I don't think you can use Miss Heidi's usual treatment mode as a standard. Physical hypnosis and kinetic anesthesia are very fast on anyone," Duncan's mouth trembled, "But the two of them took too long It's been a long time... nothing will happen, right?"

Fan Na shook her head: "No, Heidi is a professional who has received strict training from the Academy of Truth, so she wouldn't mess up things during an ordinary hypnotherapy session. It's probably because she chatted with Nina, she sometimes It's going to be like this - too much dealing with bigoted cultists, it's like a holiday for her to chat with a normal person every once in a while. Shall we go up and see?"

"Go up and have a look."

Duncan and Fanna got up and went up to the second floor. They came to the door of Nina's room one after the other, but before they opened the door, they heard the movement in the room at the same time——

Two grunts one after another.

(End of this chapter)