Chapter 144: Hypnosis

Chapter 144: Hypnosis
Looking at the crystal pendant shaking slightly in Heidi’s hand, Nina gulped slightly nervously – although the other party had said to relax, this was her first hypnotherapy session, and it was always difficult to control her reaction.

And while her eyes were drawn to the crystal pendant, she also noticed that Heidi was wearing a plain-looking stone string on her wrist, which was woven with a tough silk rope and strung with many colorful stones, several of which had rune-like markings visible on them.

Noticing Nina’s gaze, Heidi smiled and waved her wrist, “I’m a ‘student’ of the Academy of Truth, following and serving Rahm, the God of Wisdom – although it’s not obvious from the outside, I’m an acolyte from the registration of my practice! Oh.”

An Acolyte …… was not only a psychiatrist, but also a member of the Truth Academy?
Of course Nina had heard of the Academy of Truth – even though its name sounded like an academy, in reality, this “academy” was one of the four main churches of God, which together with the Church of the Deep, the Death Cult, and the Church of the Firebringer maintained the civilization order of the Deep Sea Era. Unlike the other three churches, the Academy of Truth does not have a strong sense of “theological” existence, but is more inclined to the pure transmission of knowledge and the development and promotion of cutting-edge technology, and its followers are also based on the relationship between masters and disciples, and schools of thought.

While other churches have churches and sanctuaries as their foundation, spreading faith and organizing mass as their daily routine, the Academy of Truth has set up countless universities and laboratories in various city-states, and the daily routine of the superior magi meeting the inferior magi is to throw over a big question to see if your faith in the Lord has reached the score line – it can be said that the style of the painting is clear and strange.

It was also due to the special “style” of the Truth Academy that the number of members of the Truth Academy was actually the smallest among the four main churches of the God of Truth, and the number of members who were qualified to wear the symbols on a daily basis and be registered as a full-fledged priesthood holder was even rarer – because the questions were really hard. It’s really hard.

There weren’t always a few top-notch students who were qualified to convert to Rahm each year in the more common universities, let alone poor kids like Nina who were studying in the public schools in the downtown area.

Heidi’s eyes suddenly seemed to glow with an aura, and instead of relaxing her, it made her even more nervous.

It was the awe of a motivated vocational high school student seeing the top graduates of a top university.

Of course Heidi noticed the change in Nina’s expression, but she didn’t care about it, she just fiddled with the pendant in her hand as if she didn’t care about it, and slowly spoke in a calm tone that sounded the same as just now, “Can you tell me about your childhood? Just now you said that your parents died in an accident, that incident may be the shadow of your heart …… Can you tell me about it?”

“Actually …… there’s nothing I can’t tell you,” Nina thought for a moment, “I’ve told many people about it, only that everyone thought I was too young to remember things back then, and thought I was talking nonsense — Eleven years ago, there was a leak at a factory in the sixth neighborhood, and there were many cultists going around destroying it at the time, and a lot of arrests were made later, do you know about that?”

“Of course,” Heidi nodded, “I was only a teenager back then, and my family happened to be hanging around the Crossroads neighborhood at the time of the accident, and saw the rushing crowds as well ……”

“And do you remember there being a fire?”

“A big fire?” Heidi cocked her head slightly as she unconsciously stopped fiddling with her crystal pendant, “What kind of fire?”

“Look, you don’t know about the fire either- but there’s always been a fire in my memory, the one my parents died in, but everyone says I’m remembering it wrong ……”

Heidi listened quietly to Nina’s statement, nodded gently for a long time, and asked again, “So that would be the shadow in your mind, you fear a fire that only you know exists, and worry that at some point this weird phenomenon will reappear around you again and take away the people around you, and at the same time there’s no one who can come and help you- -No one can even notice what is happening to you.”

Nina nodded softly.

“Have you been under any stress lately?” Heidi asked again, “Academic ones, life ones, these stresses that have come up recently may have amplified the long-lasting gloom in your heart ……”

Nina was silent for a moment before speaking somewhat hesitantly, “Maybe it’s because my uncle’s health hasn’t been good, and it’s gotten worse a while ago, which worries me ……”

Saying this she paused and added quickly, “Ah, of course now that his health is getting better, I feel myself relaxing a lot along with it, and I haven’t had that weird dream for the past two days ……”

“Worried about your family’s health? ……”

Heidi whispered thoughtfully as she listened to the girl across the room murmur softly as if she were dreaming, and watched as Nina leaned half-asleep against the end of the bed, casually dropping the crystal pendant.

As a “psychiatrist” who had studied at the Academy of Truth and had to deal with the transcendent realm, she didn’t need to shake the pendant or light a fog or anything like that to hypnotize her – just say a few words.

The only purpose of the pendant was to attract Nina’s attention, relax her and lower her resistance to “words”. The psychiatrist breathed a soft sigh of relief, and looked gently at Nina, who had completely relaxed, and watched as she drifted into a deeper and deeper sleep.

“I can see that you’ve lived a hard life …… with all the tensions and anxieties buried in your heart, and you’ve gotten so used to this way of life that you expect it to make things easier for those around you, but you’ve neglected your own– But relax now, get a good night’s sleep, leave all that stress in a phantom dream that will soon dissipate, and when you wake up, all that anxiety will be none of your business.”

In a half-sleep, Nina’s voice rang out softly, “…… Thank you ……”

Heidi smiled, and in order to further put Nina into a deeper state of relaxation, she casually asked again as if she didn’t think about it, “By the way, your uncle wasn’t well before was he? What kind of illness did he have? I just saw that Mr. Duncan seemed to be in good health.”

Nina was silent for longer this time before she spoke softly, “It’s just a weak body, he’s …… completely fine now ……”

Yet Heidi could no longer hear Nina’s response.

The moment she asked the last question, she had flopped down on the end of Nina’s bed and fallen into a deeper dream than her own patient.

And on Heidi’s right wrist, a string of hand-woven stones was faintly emitting light – this was one of the identifiers that the followers of the Truth Academy wore from time to time, representing that the wearer was a highly trained monk favored by the God of Wisdom, Rahm, and steadfastly confronted with the maddening power of the heretics, and each of the runic stones on it Each runic stone on it represents a favor from Rahm.

After a few seconds of flickering, one of the red onyxes in the string of stones suddenly emitted a slight cracking sound, followed by a rapid disintegration into dust, which passed away with the wind.

In the store on the first floor, Vanna asked Duncan a few more questions, partly to learn more about whether there were any more details missing from the museum fire, and partly as a way of confirming whether Duncan and the others had been affected by the sun shard.

During the conversation, the rustiness and awkwardness of the first meeting gradually dissolved, and the atmosphere of the scene became friendly and familiar.

Duncan could feel that this “Inquisitor” in a high position in the Church was really concerned about the safety of the survivors of the fire – not only to combat heresy or investigate clues, her attitude was sincere from the bottom of her heart.

He didn’t know whether this young judge could care so much about everyone in the entire city-state, or just cared about the people in this antique store out of a layer of Heidi’s relationship, but the sincerity that Fannah was showing at the moment was enough to leave him with some good impressions.

“Speaking of which, Miss Heidi and Nina have been up there for a while now, haven’t they?”

In the midst of the conversation, Duncan remembered his niece and subconsciously glanced up at the stairs leading to the second floor.

“Indeed,” Vanna responded when reminded of this, frowning slightly, “Usually Heidi’s healing process is pretty swift ……”

“…… I don’t think you can use Miss Heidi’s usual mode of treatment as a standard, physical hypnosis and kinetic anesthesia are swift on anyone,” Duncan’s mouth quivered a little, “but it’s true that they both took too long… …… Nothing’s going to happen, is it?”

Vanna shook her head, “No, Heidi’s a highly trained professional from the Truth Academy, not enough to screw things up in a run-of-the-mill hypnotherapy session, most likely talking to Nina, she gets like that sometimes – too many dealings with paranoid cultists, the occasional chat with a normal person is like a holiday for her. Talking to a normal person is like a holiday for her. Why don’t we go up and check it out?”

“Go up and see.”

With that, Duncan and Vanna got up and went up to the second floor, and both of them came to the door of Nina’s room, one after the other, only to hear movement in the room at the same time before they could push the door open–a

Two rising and falling grunts.

(End of chapter)