I started by submitting to the Douluo Continent, and the nation helped me become a god.

Lin An stood next to the hibernation pod with a serious expression, holding a tablet computer in his hands, his brows furrowed so deeply they could trap a fly.

"Comrade, you're finally awake."

Li Fulan propped herself up on the edge of the hibernation pod, her head still spinning.

"I...I don't know what happened..."

"Don't rush."

Lin An sat down in the chair next to him and adjusted the tablet so that Li Fulan could see the screen.

"We retrieved the last recording from the miniature camera on you. Take a look at this first."

He tapped the screen a few times, and a video started playing.

The scene shows Li Fulan's office, where the afterglow of the setting sun shines through the window, bathing the entire room in a warm orange hue.

"This is footage from about ten minutes before you lost consciousness."

Lin An pointed at the screen and said.

In the video, the office door is pushed open.

A little girl with long braids poked her head in, looked left and right, and then skipped in.

Li Fulan stared at the screen, trying hard to recall.

"I remember she came to see me, I think she wanted to ask about the personal disciple..."

The video continues to play.

Xiao Wu walked to the desk, opened and closed her mouth, and said something.

Then, her eyes suddenly changed.

Even through the screen, Li Fulan could see something moving in those eyes. Pink, swirling in circles, like a vortex.

The person in the video, "Li Fulan," froze, her eyes becoming vacant, as if she had been acupunctured.

Then I saw his mouth moving, nodding, nodding, nodding...

Like a puppet.

"Holy crap..."

Li Fulan looked at her own silly face on the screen and turned green.

Xiao Wu said a few words, then skipped away, turning back to make a face before leaving.

Meanwhile, "Li Fulan" in the picture remained in that blank pose for several minutes.

Then he started rubbing his temples, staggered to his feet, walked to the bed in the corner, and collapsed.

The video ends here.

"Judging from this video..."

Lin An turned off the video, his expression grave.

"She said something to you after she came in, and then you fainted. The whole thing took less than five minutes. Brother Li, do you remember what she said? What happened?"

Li Fulan rubbed her temples hard, trying to retrieve her memories from that chaotic void.

"I don't know either……"

He shook his head helplessly.

"I just remember her eyes changed, becoming pink and spinning. Then my mind went blank, like someone had stuffed a wad of cotton in my head, and I couldn't remember anything."

"Pink? Spinning around?"

Lin An frowned and quickly took notes on the tablet.

"It sounds like some kind of mental ability..."

He looked up at Li Fulan.

"Brother Li, how are you feeling right now? Is there anything uncomfortable? Headache? Nausea? Or any strange thoughts?"

"I feel a little dizzy, but otherwise I'm fine..."

After thinking for a moment, Li Fulan added.

"I always feel like something's missing in my head, a kind of emptiness."

"This is not normal."

Lin An stood up, his expression becoming increasingly serious.

"Brother Li, I suggest you have a full neurological examination. The ability that girl used on you was likely some kind of psychological attack. We need to check if anything has been implanted in your brain."

"Implanting something?"

Li Fulan was stunned for a moment.

"What do you mean?"

"It's like...hypnotic suggestion or something."

Lin An explained.

"Some mental abilities can implant commands in the target's subconscious. You won't feel them normally, but once the triggering conditions are met, you will involuntarily execute that command."

He paused, then lowered his voice.

"The worst-case scenario is that you might become her puppet without even realizing it."

Li Fulan felt a chill run down her spine.

He shuddered as he recalled his puppet-like expression in the image.

"Then what are we waiting for? Investigate now!"

"This way, please."

Lin An gestured towards the door.

"Professor Wu is already waiting for you. He is our base's chief neuroscientist and an expert in this field."

"This was indeed a bit... careless."

Li Fulan stared at the surveillance footage playing back on the holographic screen, her lips twitching involuntarily.

In the scene, the usually shrewd and calculating "Teacher Li" is completely bewitched by Xiao Wu's pink eyes, acting like a complete idiot. He nods like crazy, even agreeing to the extravagant "unlimited supply" clause without hesitation.

That expression, that tone, that wooden reaction...

Even he got goosebumps just looking at it.

"I was bewitched by a rabbit..."

Li Fulan silently complained to himself, feeling that his career had suffered a major setback.

"If word gets out, what will become of my reputation as a 'pioneer'? The first batch of transmigrators from the Seventh Base, a key figure in the nation's development program, and I was hypnotized by a little girl."

The more he thought about it, the more ashamed he felt, wishing he could disappear into a crack in the ground.

Lin An stood by the bed, holding a tablet computer, his face serious.

"Data analysis from the miniature camera on your body shows that Xiao Wu's soul power fluctuations exhibited an abnormal peak after entering the office."

He pulled up a waveform image and pointed to the clearly protruding part.

"Although her soul power level wasn't high, this kind of mental suggestion was extremely subtle and highly efficient. You were completely unprepared and caught off guard."

"We'd like to understand the specifics of what happened back then." Lin An looked up and asked with concern, "What do you remember?"

Li Fulan shook her head helplessly, rubbing her still throbbing temples.

"I don't know either. I just felt a buzzing in my head, everything went pink, I felt dizzy, and then... my memory went blank. When I woke up again, I was here."

He paused, then added.

"It was like I blacked out; I can't remember anything from the middle part."

"That's right."

An elderly man with white hair, who had been silent until now, spoke up, his voice neither hurried nor slow.

He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and stepped forward. The old man was wearing a neat white lab coat, with a nameplate on his chest that read "Chief Neuroscientist: Professor Wu".

"We just performed a deep brainwave scan on you."

Professor Wu pointed to the unusually active waveform on the screen, his tone as calm as if he were analyzing lab mice.

"The examination revealed that a strong psychological suggestion has been implanted in your subconscious."

"Psychological suggestion?"

Li Fulan frowned.

"What exactly is the content?"

The core instruction is—

Professor Wu cleared his throat and began to read.

"When selecting personal disciples, Xiao Wu was chosen unconditionally and with priority." This was accompanied by an emotional bond of "extreme affection and trust for Xiao Wu."

Li Fulan chuckled dryly upon hearing this.

"Actually, even without this hint, I would have chosen her anyway."

He shrugged, trying to ease the awkwardness.

"After all, that's a 100,000-year-old Soft-Boned Rabbit, such a rare species. Taking it as a disciple and raising it would be incredibly rewarding."

"That's your subjective will, and it's completely different from the implanted instructions."

Professor Wu interrupted him noncommittally, his voice conveying an undeniable professionalism.

"You can change your subjective will at any time. You might want to choose her today, but you don't have to tomorrow. But psychological suggestion is coercive; it's etched into your subconscious, and you're completely unaware of its existence."

"So... what do we do now?"

He sat up straight, his tone becoming serious.

"Can this stuff be removed?"

"It's very simple. The book I got from Yu Xiaogang also contains a section on spiritual entities."

Professor Wu turned around and operated a piece of futuristic-looking equipment for a few moments.

The device didn't look cheap; it was entirely silver-white, covered with a dense array of buttons and indicator lights, and had a semi-transparent helmet-shaped device in the center.

"I will remove this psychological suggestion and erase all the nonsense she implanted."

Professor Wu explained as he operated the device.

"By the way, considering the unique nature of your world—especially the existence of mental-type soul skills—I will conduct a deep hypnotic enhancement on you. This will build a 'psychological defense' in your subconscious, so you won't be so easily affected by similar mental attacks in the future."

"It sounds like you're installing antivirus software on a computer."

Li Fulan joked.

"You can understand it that way."

Professor Wu pressed a button, and the semi-transparent helmet slowly descended from above the hibernation pod, covering Li Fulan's head.

"You might feel a little dizzy during the process, so please bear with it. Don't move around too much."

"Okay."

Li Fulan lay down and closed her eyes.

hum-

As the instrument was activated, a soft blue light instantly filled his field of vision.

He felt as if countless tiny electric currents were drilling into his brain. The sensation wasn't painful; instead, it was cool and refreshing. It was like taking a big gulp of ice-cold Sprite on a sweltering summer day, the coolness spreading from his throat all the way to his stomach—an indescribable feeling of comfort.

The pink mist that had been lingering deep in his mind, leaving him feeling confused and uncertain, quickly dissipated and disintegrated under the impact of this electric current.

It's like the sun came out, the fog dissipated, and the world suddenly became clear.

Immediately following was a feeling of heaviness and solidity.

Li Fulan seemed to see towering steel walls rising around his sea of ​​consciousness. These walls were tall and thick, inscribed with strange runes, and radiating a cold metallic luster.

Any mental disturbance attempting to intrude without permission will be repelled mercilessly by this defensive line.

It's like installing a firewall for your brain.

"Clearance complete. Psychological defenses established."

Professor Wu's voice rang out again, this time sounding exceptionally clear.

The helmet slowly rose, and Li Fulan opened her eyes.

I felt refreshed and my mind was sharper than ever before. Although those messy thoughts from before were still there, the blind impulse of "I can't live without her" and "I must obey her" had completely disappeared.

He sat up, stretched his neck, and made a cracking sound.

"How are you feeling?"

Lin An asked.

"Excellent."

Professor Wu took a small box from the cabinet next to him and handed it to Li Fulan.

"Psychological defenses are only passive; they can block most mental attacks, but they are not omnipotent. Against truly powerful mental attackers, they can still be breached."

Li Fulan took the box and opened it.

Inside lay a metal plate the size of a fingernail, as thin as paper, one side silver and the other covered with a sticky substance.

"What is this thing?"

"Neural interference device."

Professor Wu explained.

"Apply it to the back of the target's cervical spine, specifically the medulla oblongata. This is the hub of the human nervous system, and applying it will achieve two functions."

He held up one finger.

"First, make the target completely immune to psychological attacks, including hypnosis, charm, hallucinations, etc."

Then he raised his second finger.

"Secondly, it can send reverse mental signals to provide targeted suggestions to the target."

"Directed suggestion?"

Li Fulan raised an eyebrow.

"To put it bluntly, it's about stuffing ideas into her head, right?"

"That's one way to understand it."

Professor Wu nodded.

"The human brain is like a movie playing in the background. The principle of hypnosis is actually sending comments into this movie. As long as these comments match the target's original personality and thought patterns, they will be mistaken for their own thoughts."

He pointed to the metal patch.

"This device functions like a bullet screen display. You can subtly implant ideas into her without her knowing."

Li Fulan fiddled with the small sticker, seemingly lost in thought.

"So, I can use this thing to control that little rabbit?"

"Theoretically, yes."

Professor Wu adjusted his glasses.

"But we must be careful to proceed with caution. The implanted idea must align with the target's personality traits; otherwise, it will trigger a rejection reaction. Furthermore, the device needs to remain attached to the target to be effective; once it's removed after being discovered, the effect disappears."

"Understood."

Li Fulan carefully put the patch away and tucked it into her pocket.

"This thing is really good; we need to find a chance to use it."

He stood up and stretched.

"Okay, I feel much better now."

Lin An looked at the data in his hand.

"I suggest you rest for a while and recharge before going back."

"Alright."

Li Fulan nodded and walked towards the door.

Halfway there, he suddenly stopped and looked back at Professor Wu.

"By the way, Professor Wu."

"Um?"

"That rabbit's alluring abilities..."

Li Fulan narrowed her eyes, a meaningful smile playing on her lips.

"Do you think she's deliberately targeting me, or is she just trying to get the pills for free?"

Professor Wu thought for a moment and gave a rigorous answer.

"Judging from the hints she implanted, her core desires are 'to become a direct disciple' and 'to obtain an unlimited supply of elixirs.' No other deeper motives were mentioned."

"So, most likely he just wants to take advantage?"

"That's one way to understand it."

Upon hearing this, Li Fulan couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Interesting. A 100,000-year-old soul beast, transforming into human form and sneaking into the academy, just to get a few pills for free? That's a really small-minded approach."

He shook his head, pushed open the door, and walked out.

He could be heard talking to himself behind him.

"But that's fine too, smaller-minded opponents are easier to deal with..."

The door closed.

Lin An and Professor Wu exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of worry in each other's eyes.

"That kid, Li Fulan..."

Professor Wu sighed.

"Hopefully he doesn't go too far. That world isn't a joke."