375 Declare War(1/2)
March 20, 2016, 7:00 am. The next day.
When she saw the two guards standing at the door, Song Qiang felt that this was not as simple as before he came.
"Wang Feng," Song Qiang smiled at one of them, "Long time no see."
Wang Feng just glanced at him, nodded, then stretched out a hand to stop him in front of him, his tone was a little cold: "Routine examination."
It was said to be a routine inspection, but when he performed it, he was as cautious and careful as the anti-drug police were treating drug traffickers. Metal inspections, close-fitting searches, mobile phones, wallets, keychains, cigarettes, and lighters were not allowed to be brought in.
After the inspection, Wang Feng and another guard looked at each other and opened the door for him.
This is a room separated by one-way glass in the middle, which is a bit similar to the interrogation room that the public security bureau often uses. On the other side, you can see the other side on the glass side, but the other side is not the usual interrogation room, but the hall with thick carpets and many sofas and coffee tables. It looks like the news, those banquet halls meeting state guests, most of the people sitting on the sofa look cold, with earphones on their ears, just like the people sitting in the room - some of them are also known to Song Qiang, who are several colleagues in their anti-magic office. The only one I don't know is an old man wearing a rag strip. He is holding a spoon and a bowl of porridge. It seems that he is the legendary emperor envoy.
"How is the conversation?" Song Qiang sat down and asked a colleague who was listening with headphones in one hand. His face told him that there seemed to be no good result, "What, it seems that it is not going well?"
"Talk?" The colleague shook his head, turned his head and looked at Song Qiang, "The other party has no intention of talking at all."
"What did he do?" Song Qiang asked. Just as he was talking, the old man suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction he was, as if the glass across them did not exist at all.
Song Qiang was a little surprised, and then thought about it carefully - this is indeed not much different from that of non-existence.
"Come on declaring war, that's that simple," the colleague sneered, then stood up and tapped the glass in front of him with his fingers. "It's certain that he has magic, but it's not a mage... This is similar to what Carmel told us... Don't look at me like this. There is no secret in front of this old man. There is actually no difference between pretending or not. Not only are we talking here, but also what we are thinking in our minds now, he knows clearly. So you see, the negotiations are all the stand-in and the real decision-making characters are..."
Song Qiang stopped when he noticed that the old man was drinking porridge.
"Everyone is in the highest level of confidentiality, contact it with radio waves," then he smiled proudly at the old man, as if these words were said to him, "What Carmel told us is right. This is the only way to 'confidential' in front of magic... Everyone here doesn't know, don't waste your time looking for it."
"It's useless," Song Qiang heard the voice coming from his head, "In the face of His Majesty's will, your so-called conspiracies and means are as ridiculous as children's lies."
Song Qiang didn't say anything, but just reached out to grab the tablet on the desktop, which showed all the conversation records to this day in real time. At the same time, he began to secretly recall that Wang Ming once asked to teach him how to defend against "consciousness detection" to keep his mind blank, try to think about some details that he doesn't want to close, so that the real thinking can be carried out intentionally or unintentionally, and make himself feel that lies are real.
He once proposed to let every staff member of the anti-magic department master this kind of anti-magic training, but then because of the tight magic quota and the government's imaginary enemy, Carmel has always been Carmel. Even if Carmel does not use conscious detection, the anti-magic part of the action cannot be hidden, so it will be left unresolved. I heard his son Song Chengyun mentioned before that this method has become a habit that people subconsciously cultivate in the consciousness network - so there may also be deception in the consciousness network, but the difficulty is much higher than talking and lying.
Song Qiang tried five years ago, but he still couldn't do it. Even if he did it, he didn't know whether it could be done. However, within these five years, Zhao Zhenxue helped him with the corresponding "training", and he knew that this method was still useful.
Because the old man does not understand the language of the earth, the conversation needs to be translated - let the old man's meaning pass through magic, through the brain of the "translator", and then speak it out from his mouth, because it is easy to deviate from subjective attitude during the communication of consciousness (this is the conclusion of Carmel's magic research). In order to ensure accuracy, two translators were set up, and each sentence of the old man had to repeat twice.
This process is a bit cumbersome, and in order to allow the old man to completely relax and obtain more information, the conversation process was not fast, and it took more than an hour to be only a few pages.
The old man: "I am the pioneer of Your Majesty. I came here to tell everyone here a message. Your Majesty's will will come to this world. Make preparations in your way."
This is the first sentence, which the old man took the initiative, and it is also the sentence with the most repeated times in the conversation record.
Question 1: "Who is your Majesty you are talking about?"
Forerunner: "The Lord of all wills, the God who dominates the world."
The questioner changed his questioning method: "Is he a human?"
The pioneer: "He has a human body, but a god's soul."
Question 1.1: "You mean, is he a wizard?"
Forerunner: "Master...Is that what you call me here?...Yes."
After this question was asked several times from different angles, the answer I got was yes - that is to say, the old man mentioned His Majesty does have the identity of a mage, which is completely consistent with the information provided by Carmel, which strengthens the credibility of other information on Carmel's side.
Question 2: "We don't understand that Your Majesty's will has come to this world very much. Can you say it more specifically?"
This time the old man did not cooperate as much as before: "You don't need to understand, you just need to accept it."
Question 2.1: "Do you mean...if we don't want to, you will use coercive means against us?"
Forerunner: "You will be willing."
Question 2.2: "What if there is someone who doesn't want to? Will you force them to accept it?"
Forerunner: "Yes."
Question 2.3: "Your method of coercion is very efficient?"
Forerunner: "Efficiency? I like the word, yes, very high."
Question 2.4: "But there will still be failures?"
Forerunner: "Yes."
I went here to record and a note on the analysis: He has always cooperated very well during the question. Although this cooperation is very passive and only answers are answered if there is a question, the quality of the answers is very high. It seems that we don’t care about letting us understand these things. I don’t know if it is because of pride or there is no hidden psychology at all. This can be used.
Question 2.5: "What do you usually do for those who fail to force?"
The pioneer: "That is a cancer in the consciousness network, and His Majesty's will will purify him."
Question 2.6: "Purification?"
Forerunner: "His will be destroyed, but his body can remain."
All the questioners thought of a word that was mentioned by the Carmel government many times before, but no one took it seriously, because this magic is difficult to be directly displayed.
Question 2.7: "Is the purification you mentioned the same thing as the duel of consciousness that we understand?"
Forerunner: "Yes."
Another doubt was confirmed, indicating that the information provided by Carmel is of good credibility. If such things are replaced by other countries, they will be kept as "military secrets".
Question 2.8: “As far as we know, consciousness duels are not omnipotent.”
The pioneer: "There are indeed people like this, but most of them are rats - the mages you call them. We will destroy them from the top of these most thorough resisters."
There are mice in that world, and they are similar to mice on Earth. This is originally valuable, but it is not surprising to think that humans still exist in that world.
Question 2.9: "That is, if the existence is finally considered impossible to obey your emperor's life, will you destroy him?"
Forerunner: "Yes."
Question 2.10: "Why?"
The forerunner: "The purity of His Majesty's will cannot be blasphemed."
Question 2.11: "Is there any way to avoid this? We don't want to see war."
Foreward: "I don't want to do it either. You can choose to surrender voluntarily."
2.12 (Song Qiang guessed that this should be the original words of the senior management, so he is very rude): "But we are never afraid. You will only encounter painful failures here. I hope you can consider this issue more carefully. You are facing an unyielding nation. We also have a certain understanding of magic and have a way to deal with it. If necessary, we can unite with Carmel, which is also a country with magic."
The pioneer: "Is that so? But that doesn't matter."
2.13: "Are you threatening?"
Foreward: "Just state the facts, if you think it is a threat, then it is, and we don't deny it."
The topic came to the point of gunpowder, and it was not concealed. This is probably the reason. The people sitting on the sofa now looked bad and were having an intermission break. What should we do next? Should we continue to ask questions or use other methods, and we have to wait for the real decision makers to talk about it.
"The other party is too confident," said a negotiating expert named Yang sitting next to him. "The so-called brave people are not afraid of anything. People who are not afraid of anything are like terrorists who are determined to seek death. No matter how they talk, they are useless."
"Also, the possibility of mischief or Carmel sent to do the show is basically ruled out," another colleague pulled out a report from the computer. "When he arrived last night, we found a way to get the fibers of clothing from him and sent them to the relevant units for analysis. Now the analysis results have come out--weaving is made of pure hand-woven, and the source of the fiber does not belong to any known plant on the earth."
"But one thing is certain that the place he came must be very warm and comfortable now, so he didn't wear much. He was trembling when he first came here. One thing is worth noting that he didn't have the concept of a cold in his mind - when we reminded him that this is a common disease that people on earth suffer from, he just said that we deserve it - he hated a lot of our culture."
"Then he must have known from your head that people on earth will use diseases as weapons. Maybe they are infected by themselves, but he is still indifferent - he is not afraid of anything," the expert named Yang frowned and said, "But people always have motivations for doing things. He is willing to work so hard for that Majesty. What is the motivation? Moral loyalty? Or interests?"
"It's faith," Song Qiang raised his head and replied, "You see the meanings he expressed, gods, purity, and purity, and cannot be blasphemed. These are standard religious languages, and only religion can make a person so thoroughly devoted."
"Is there any good way for you negotiating experts to deal with a person of faith?"
"If it is on earth, dealing with extreme religious terrorists may also allow some religious people to influence, because they only obey the will of ‘God’, and many people have the right to interpret the will of God, but they are used on him..." Mr. Yang shook his head, "With the consciousness network, his God is always with him, and this relationship is unbreakable."
The superior's decision was conveyed soon, meaning that it would continue to talk and find a breakthrough, which would affect the attitude. If not, try to obtain as much information as possible.
The old man had finished drinking the porridge, and the conversation record also updated one: "The food here is delicious."
"Do you want to do a little more?"
"No need, start your problem." Everyone's thinking is transparent to him, and no details can be hidden from him. This feeling makes everyone feel indescribable, but this also has certain benefits. The so-called speaking skills can be omitted, and there is no need for both parties to go around in circles at all.
Question 3: "You mentioned just now that your Majesty's will is coming to this whole world, that is, your goal is the entire earth, not just a country?"
Forerunner: "Yes."
Question 3.1: "Is there a difference between...?"
The pioneer laughed: "The specific tactics are not decided by me. Of course, even if I know, I will not tell you. I am willing to tell you something, but it does not mean that I have no bottom line... One thing I can tell you is that when I die, or when I go back, the next time that appears here will be the army of the empire, and they will not talk to you like me."
"You misunderstood... Ask this question just to tell you that if you are ready to conquer the entire earth, you may have to spend more time here because there are hundreds of countries on the earth at present."
The pioneer: "I knew this before I got here, and it was indeed a problem... Maybe you can help me."
Question 3.2: "Why!?"
Song Qiang noticed that the two translators who were typing changed their faces. This sentence was the translator's subconscious answer and was not within the plan, but the conversation was not interrupted.
Forerunner: "If you don't want to... forget it, I have already completed my duties and choose to surrender when the army arrives, and we will accept it."
Question 3.3: "When are you going back?"
The pioneer: "Anytime, maybe just after you ask questions, I honestly don't like your world very much."
Question 3.4: "Why?"
The pioneer: "This world is too complicated, and your thoughts are even more so."
Everyone in both rooms looked at each other, and this reason was really irrefutable.
Question 3.5: "What should we do now if we are willing to surrender?"
To be continued...