Chapter 451 - Chapter 451: Chapter 451: Urban Legends of Myitkyina (Part 2) (1/2)

Chapter 451: Chapter 451: Urban Legends of Myitkyina (Part 2)

In the wake of the sudden riot in Myitkyina, Mao Ting said that the police’s attention was all on the opposing big shots and their gathered subordinates, leaving them unable to handle what the “others” were doing.

However, in reality, after detecting today that all powers might react aggressively, the police advanced their plans and called in three police mobile units from the province to rush to Myitkyina in the afternoon.

Despite the outbreak of the riot, the police were still short-handed under conditions of multitasking, unable to curb the riot in time. But Myitkyina’s official decision was very timely, immediately mobilizing several armed police battle groups (equivalent to armed police) to enter the city, and the nearby garrison was also ready to maintain order at any time.

Normally, this riot would soon dissipate. After all, for Burma and the Myitkyina officials, who have been committed to developing tourism and attracting investment in recent years, such a malicious event is a strong blow to policy implementation and economic development and must be forcefully halted before it results in worse outcomes.

Of course, even if Myitkyina officials actively work to quell the riot, it’s inevitably, albeit reluctantly, a step too late. By the time the riot was suppressed, it would be very late at night at the earliest, by which time many people would have already suffered injury.

Those who died cannot be resurrected, and the injuries suffered will be permanently etched in memory, many people’s fates will change.

However, while the official “thunder” did not arrive in time, Xiang Kun’s “thunder” had already come in advance.

The emotional projection of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving”, with an unprecedented influence, swept over several blocks of Myitkyina where the riot took place, preventing many tragedies that were about to happen.

In order to control the “super-connected objects” at the best distance and spread the emotional projection’s influence through the “super-connected object” matrix, Xiang Kun did not stay in one place, but moved seven times to enter the “super sensory state” and mobilized the emotional projection.

Although the area affected by the emotional projection of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving” compared to the whole of Myitkyina is not very large, and its total duration is not long, its impact is persistent and contagious.

Like Mao Qiang, who could have become a rioter in a confused state, local youths, after being affected, not only stopped their violent behavior but also saved Ye Zijun’s family of three and escorted them back to the hotel.

Similar events happened everywhere. The fearful emotions brought by the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving” were not simply panic and fear, but had deeper and longer-lasting impacts.

Therefore, the actual impact area of the emotional projection that Xiang Kun evoked was much larger than the range where people could see the illusion of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed monster”.

Based on past experience, the fear projection of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving” would initially give people the most direct impact of fear, basically capable of interrupting all of their actions, followed by letting them feel the most primal and authentic fear deep in their psyche.

The direct impact of fear is a momentary one, with everyone more or less affected in the same way. But the subsequent ongoing impact is unique to each person.

Xiang Kun classified the prolonged effects of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving” fear projection on people into three categories:

The first category accepts their true fears, obeys their hearts, and then finds a way out. Most people fall into this category. After all, seeing their true fears is akin to seeing their actual needs. Their avoidance of fear aligns with the satisfaction of their desires, providing a great spiritual comfort, thereby helping them recognize themselves better and establish cognition. Simply put, to “obey” their hearts would make their lives better.

The second category doesn’t receive much lasting impact and only consider the fear unforgettable and shocking, as they’re already very clear about what they’re truly afraid of. The things they feared before are still frightening now, such as simple fears of heights, darkness, sharp objects, certain scary images, claustrophobia, etc. This category has fewer people, mostly children or those who think simply.

The third category draws fear into a vortex, causing continuous self-doubt, shocking themselves, and scaring themselves, unwilling to accept their fears, leading to a mental breakdown in the face of persistent fear. There have been several such individuals encountered by Xiang Kun in the process of calling upon the fear projection of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving,” such as the car thief who ran to the police station with a kitchen knife saying someone wanted to kill him, and “Brother Kui” who kidnapped Xia Tianhuo. This group of people is actually the rarest, extremely difficult to come across.

This large-scale use of emotional projection in Myitkyina confirmed Xiang Kun’s earlier predictions and estimates regarding the effects of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving” fear emotional projection.

However, what he failed to anticipate, or rather infer, was that during this unprecedented large-scale emotional projection, he too gathered plenty of new information – as the projection continued, both the range and intensity of the emotional projection kept expanding. This wasn’t because he had altered the way he invoked Emotion Infused Objects, or improved his application of Super-connected Objects, but rather a “strengthening” of the emotional projection itself.

It wasn’t as if the fear of the world “nourished” the emotional projection; the projection was merely a “capability” that Xiang Kun devised by combining “Emotional Assimilation” with the “Super Sensory Item System”. Its strength lies solely in Xiang Kun himself.

Only today did Xiang Kun truly realize that, for the emotional projection, a consistent emotion that has gone through homogenization could serve as a medium for influencing its surroundings.

Using an analogy, the emotional projection that Xiang Kun summons through a certain quantity of Super-connected Objects whilst in a Super Sensory State is like the air blown out by a fan which operates at a constant power.

At first, only a few scattered droplets were picked up by the wind, making it look like slanting rain. But as the environment changed, with droplets turning into widespread water bodies, although the fan maintained the same power, it was now stirring up tidal waves.

Everyone’s emotion became a part of the wave after assimilation, in turn, augmenting its influence.

That is why the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed monster” seen by others grows remarkably, not because Kun intentionally did so, but naturally, as the homogeneous sense of fear in the surrounding became more intense with time.

This is something Kun didn’t notice when he had previously invoked the Emotional Infused Eight-eyed wood carving multiple times.

Moreover, the usage of large-scale emotional projection this time helped him discover certain other information in the Super Sensory State.

All those affected by the emotional projection could be instantaneously identified by Xiang Kun through their cognitive information. This shows that the affected emotions, in a Super Sensory State, can transform into cognitive information which he can instantly distinguish.

According to Xiang Kun, this is the decoding effect of the Emotional Projection carried out by the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Woodcarving, a type of Emotion Infused Object. The cognitive information was “tagged” via the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving; he discovered, interpreted and comprehended this cognitive information through the “plugin” Emotional Projection.

In a sense, this emotional effect on others by Emotional Projection of Emotion Infused Objects, is also equivalent to establishing a “connection” between him and the affected individuals.

This “connection”, however, is unlike the deep relationship he shares with Super-connected Objects and Emotion Infused Objects. It’s more of a superficial, dynamic connection that serves as a “tag”.

As the emotions of the affected individuals continue to ferment, this connection may continue to change.

He knows that this kind of connection may not only be established when invoking Emotion Infused Objects to carry out Emotional Projection. Even while carrying out “Emotional Assimilation” or “Mental Deterrence”, a subtle special connection – that only surfaces in the Super Sensory State – is established with the affected organisms.

However, previously when he used “Emotional Assimilation” or “Mental Deterrence”, he had to maintain focus and wasn’t able to enter a Super Sensory State to observe. He couldn’t see the overall cognitive information change when the emotions being influenced changed, hence he never made the discovery before.

Of course, during the Spring Festival break, while he was influencing the emotions of the three car thieves in the abandoned factory, he also did not notice any anomalies in the Super Sensory State. This proves that the tagging and distinguishing of cognitive information were partly due to his recent evolution and mutation, and partly due to the large-scale impact of emotional projection, leading to a qualitative change from quantitative change.

From what we can see at the moment, referring to this kind of connection as a “tag” seems most apt, since he can only observe it in a “Super Sensory State”, but has yet to find a way to influence through this connection.

At the most, in the Super Sensory State, he can instantly determine if a person has been affected by the emotional projection of the “Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving”, as well as derive a way to judge other people’s emotions in the Super Sensory State.

However, this discovery brings more benefits to Xiang Kun than meets the eye.

In the Super Sensory State, human emotions and even thoughts can present themselves as cognitive information and by using emotions projection from Emotion Infused Objects, it provides him with a shortcut to “decode”.