Imperial Treasure-Chapter 964 - 580: Psychology, Pathology
During silence, time is the clearest and slowest, then it turns blurry.
Finally...
Many people saw a super beauty’s face reveal a very subtle, yet distinctly unsettling smile.
Then...
Suddenly! The screen was torn apart by bloodied hands, a head crawled out behind her, long hair cascading down, a pale decaying mouth aiming to swallow her head...
Ah~!
The whole audience was startled, nearly everyone jumped in fright, some slumped into their seats, some embraced the person next to them, and some...
This is quite a classic ghost horror scene.
Human fear and stress response exposed completely at this moment.
If time stood still, they’d be like this for a second, but the next second.
The ghostly head reminiscent of Sadako was suddenly replaced, hair gone, revealing a chubby, adorable cartoon panda hugging her from behind.
The panda’s paws wrapped around her upper body.
Like a 3D effect.
Quite dimensional.
But in the end, just light and shadow.
Many people; (#‵′)!!
Fake?
Anger, astonishment, or joy all shifted within a second.
Before they could start bustling.
This woman had already raised her refined eyebrows, smiling: "Fear stimulates terror, terror awakens timidity, timidity triggers dependence, dependence fosters closeness, closeness induces emotion. This is deduction, also psychology. What I want to tell you today is that psychology is actually just morbid reasoning, either 0 or 1 knowledge."
"By the way, let me introduce myself, I am Amanda."
"Also, guys holding girls can let go now, don’t use this as an opportunity to take advantage, because that constitutes harassment. However, girls holding guys can continue, as per the global generational reproduction situation, your initiative helps save the world."
The whole audience burst into laughter.
This lesson thus uniquely began.
After the laughter, the beauty crossed her arms, sat with legs crossed on the chair, saying: "Was that Sadako earlier? Unfortunately, that image was created by someone with decent internet skills but rather vulgar taste. I originally just wanted him to scare you a bit, but he conjured up such a female ghost... seems like you were indeed frightened?"
Nonsense!
The crowd responded laughingly.
"It’s good you were scared, otherwise I won’t pay him 10 USD."
"Fear manifests through your senses and physical reactions. Now, those who jumped up shouldn’t feel embarrassed, because most people here are like you. Due to the stress response of the cerebral cortex and irresistible factors, your body involuntarily reacted by jumping up. From any academic discipline or era, we generally consider mass as truth. Many jumping up indicates you’re normal, while those who didn’t, are categorized in two types. One, frightened causing limbs to weaken, meaning scared stiff, and the second type..."
Her gaze hovered over the limited number of people still keeping calm in the room.
"They are pathological."
Pathological? Sui Yi and Ye Zixu and others tacitly took the hit,
Are we sick?
"Psychology is the discipline formed by normal thought guiding behavioral displays, dubbed deduction by outsiders, either 0 or 1. So-called 1 is pathological psychology. Saying this, someone should raise their hand to protest about whether I’m insulting them as sick right now."
Sure enough, someone raised their hand.
Amanda curled the corners of her lips coldly, "Pathological doesn’t refer to specific illnesses but a kind of abnormal human psychology. Everyone is the same, starting naive from birth, not knowing what fear is. Frequent exposure develops rich mental emotions, leading to fear and timidity. Why don’t two or three-month-old infants fear mice, but at 25 they could jump onto the toilet upon seeing one? Yet at 45, they can directly take off a shoe to kill mice... This is growth, a sustainable yet phased change, a normal development pattern. If abnormal, then it’s pathological. Pathology splits into two types, malignant and benign. First, malignant: A child at three can play with mice, stabbing them dead with pencils, then throwing them into bowls to scare others. Or at seven, dissecting mice with knives... At twelve, burning mice alive, at fifteen, setting a neighboring house on fire to eat mouse meat because it feels good roasted, believing there’ll be plenty of mouse meat. At eighteen, no longer wanting mouse meat, raising a group of mice to feed cats, occasionally catching mice on the street, watching people... At twenty-four, wondering why mice always eat garbage, why they must eat humans’ leftover trash. Thus, brought meat for mice, human meat, dead human meat. At twenty-eight, finding dead human meat too stinky and digging pits too troublesome, decided to catch living humans. Streets are full of living humans, aren’t they? At thirty, he ate his first bite of human flesh thereafter."
