Chapter 216: Lucas's Hypnosis Technique
The hypnosis session for Jiang Ran was conducted in a room on the top floor of this building.
The top floor was sparsely populated, with only a young female nurse wearing a pink nurse uniform sitting on a chair, idly playing with her phone.
Suddenly hearing the elevator sound, she saw over a dozen people pouring out of the elevator and hurriedly put away her phone, forcing a smile onto her pretty face.
She quickly walked over.
"Is Hypnosis Room 99 currently in use?"
Bai Xiaoliang looked at the young female nurse approaching quickly and asked.
The young nurse promptly replied: "No, it's not."
Bai Xiaoliang: "Good."
Next, Bai Xiaoliang and his group all proceeded to Hypnosis Room 99.
After they had gone some distance, this young nurse's face became somewhat flushed.
She touched her burning hot cheeks and secretly thought to herself:
"Doctor Bai is really so handsome... and so talented too. If only I could marry him!"
......
"Senior brother, it seems you have quite the romantic luck in this hospital. Did you notice that young nurse just now? When she spoke to you, her face turned red so quickly, and she kept avoiding eye contact—seems like she might be interested in you?"
Meanwhile, on their way to Hypnosis Room 99,
Lucas teased Bai Xiaoliang.
Bai Xiaoliang glanced at him and said: "Having many admirers isn't necessarily a good thing. If you can't handle it properly, it can become a disaster."
"Remember that news from a few years back?"
"There was this male psychologist who was so handsome that all the female nurses, doctors, and especially female patients developed feelings for him. He couldn't control himself either and ended up falling from grace. Eventually he was exposed for dating multiple women simultaneously, completely ruining his reputation."
Lucas smiled and said: "That's nothing special. The hospital circle has always been messy. Those people see life and death so often that they become desensitized. Doctors with doctors, doctors with nurses."
"And besides the medical field, there's also the entertainment industry, finance sector—all equally chaotic."
"But no matter how messy it gets, it's just that trivial stuff between men and women."
"So boring. I completely fail to understand what pleasure people find in obsessing over those male-female matters."
Lucas gave a cold laugh.
Bai Xiaoliang glanced at him.
He was 30 years old this year, unmarried but currently dating a woman—his first love actually.
As for Lucas, now 28 years old, just two years younger than him.
But Bai Xiaoliang had never seen Lucas interact closely with any women or be in a relationship.
He thought Lucas might prefer men, but this guy didn't have any intimate contact with men either.
He seemed completely devoted to his professional work.
Bai Xiaoliang considered himself quite dedicated, but felt somewhat inferior compared to his junior brother.
Their conversation was naturally overheard by the male doctors following behind them.
As they listened, these doctors of varying ages all showed expressions of varying degrees of embarrassment to some extent.
Hypnosis Room 99.
After pushing the door open and entering,
they found the hypnosis room was quite spacious.
Additionally, the decoration style leaned toward light and refreshing green tones.
Before entering this hypnosis room, Jiang Ran and the others used the shoe cover dispenser at the entrance to put disposable shoe covers over their respective shoes.
Only then did they enter the hypnosis room.
After entering, Bai Xiaoliang had Jiang Ran lie down on clean light cyan bedding placed on the left side of the room.
Jiang Ran removed his shoes and lay down completely on the bedding.
Once lying down, Jiang Ran noticed many devices and props around him.
Probably all used for hypnosis purposes.
At this moment,
Bai Xiaoliang spoke: "Jiang Ran, the hypnosis is about to begin. Everything from now on will be handled by my junior brother Lucas."
Immediately, Jiang Ran saw Bai Xiaoliang and the others all retreat to the sides of the hypnosis room.
Then they put sound-blocking earplugs in their ears.
"Why are they wearing earplugs?"
Jiang Ran frowned, asking Lucas suspiciously.
But then he noticed Lucas wasn't beside him—instead, he was taking six incense candles from a metal cabinet on the right side.
These incense candles looked no different from ordinary ones at first glance.
If anything stood out, it was that these candles were very thin and very long.
Also, their color was somewhat unusual.
They were pure black.
Lucas placed the six incense candles—three on each side—in small incense holders arranged around where Jiang Ran lay.
He began lighting them.
Once lit, these six incense candles strangely emitted red smoke.
Jiang Ran instinctively wanted to cover his nose and mouth because subconsciously, such candles should smell terrible.
But to his great surprise, these incense candles actually smelled pleasant.
Like perfume on a woman.
refreshing and delightful.
So he didn't cover his nose after all.
"Jiang Ran, we're about to begin the hypnosis now."
Lucas now took a wooden box from his jacket pocket.
This wooden box looked quite ordinary.
It was golden yellow with dense patterns covering its surface.
After taking out the golden nanmu box, Lucas opened the lid.
From inside, he took out an exquisite and beautiful pocket watch.
Inside was a large clock face with three smaller clock faces.
At the starting point of the hour and minute hands on the main clock face, underneath was a light golden-blue circle.
Within this circle, blue served as the background with golden accents.
These accents resembled stars in the sky or meridians in the human body,
all connected together.
A golden chain linked this golden pocket watch to Lucas's hand.
"Jiang Ran, now relax and focus on watching this pocket watch."
Lucas was preparing to begin the hypnosis.
But Jiang Ran interrupted: "Hey, first answer me—why are Doctor Bai and the others wearing earplugs?"
Lucas directly replied: "This pocket watch of mine is rather special."
"Each time it swings, it produces a certain sound."
"Of course, this sound can't be detected by human ears, but it genuinely exists."
"So they need earplugs to block the sound, preventing themselves from also falling into hypnosis."
"Really? Then why aren't you wearing them? Aren't you afraid of being hypnotized too? After all, you can hear this sound too, right?"
Jiang Ran asked curiously.
Lucas simply smiled without answering Jiang Ran's question and began swinging the pocket watch.
Jiang Ran thought Lucas's explanation seemed contradictory.
But just as this thought formed, for some reason, even without really watching the pocket watch,
he felt an overwhelming drowsiness assault his brain and then his entire body.
He felt so sleepy, so incredibly sleepy.
Within three seconds of the pocket watch starting to swing, he entered a half-asleep, half-awake state.
Though Jiang Ran had fallen into hypnosis, Lucas didn't stop swinging the pocket watch.
He sat beside Jiang Ran's head, continuing to rhythmically swing the pocket watch in his hand.
Gradually, he too slowly closed his eyes.
Finally, his lips moved, leaving behind these words:
"Let me see what's inside your inner world."