On the minister's side, he was slightly flustered by Ryota's sudden phone call.
After listening to Ryota's words, he didn't answer right away, but fell silent.
It's like weighing the pros and cons.
It was only when Ryota was about to hang up the phone impatiently that he said:
"The news I conveyed last time, apart from the timing of the ghost's existence, there was no omission or other mistake. I hope you don't misunderstand us because of this."
"Then why did you report the ghost's whereabouts wrong?"
Faced with this question, the minister did not answer immediately. Instead, he asked:
"Ryota, you should know about the [Red Advent] phenomenon, right?"
"Of course."
"The version you know, is [Red Advent] random, no rules?"
"... Is not it?"
As soon as Ryota heard the other party's tone, he suspected something was hidden.
All the information comes from Hayasaka, and the information comes from Shinomiya Oko's computer.
In the final analysis, it was only superficial information that was officially released.
"No, we didn't lie in the announcement of this matter, but we didn't tell the whole story."
The minister started by explaining:
"Other than the way [Red Advent]'s random events and events are set in motion by [Meme] level ghosts, there is actually a certain probability of artificial triggers. That is to induce its arrival through the extreme resonance of the emotion of hatred, turning those who resonate with the emotion into a spirit of hatred."
"You mean... ghosts can be man-made?"
"It's not man-made, it's only with the ghost level [Rule]'s help, and the chance of succeeding is extremely low. It often takes a lot of sacrifices to make it."
The minister started telling detailed information about [Red Advent].
The spiritual body infected by [Red Advent] will not only gain strength.
It was also filled with extreme killing intent and malice towards other beings in this world.
Ghosts consider it their duty to eliminate all life forms, and not only living people, if ghosts meet ghosts, they will also kill each other.
In the end only one will survive.
It seems that the [Red Adventists] gave them the wish that "all existence other than themselves must be destroyed".
After deducing the laws of this phenomenon, some people started thinking about torturing the living beforehand to be filled with hatred and killing intent towards this world. Then kill her and let her die with extreme emotions cursing everything.
Relying on an emotional resonance similar to [Red Advent], can it be used as a medium to actively encourage the emergence of [Red Advent]?
Finally, the experiment was successful.
This behavior works. However, the chances of success were extremely low.
"But no matter how low, once there is a copycat, it will cause social chaos."
The minister sighed and said the key contradiction:
"The characteristics of ghost abilities are related to certain emotional states before death. People with psionic potential will gain one of their characteristics after absorbing a key a ghost drops after death, as their first-stage, and second-stage abilities. So apart from cultists, other psykers tend to specifically create ghosts to eliminate them in order to gain certain ability keys. Human greed is endless, which psyker doesn't want good abilities? If there are many imitators because of this, society will be in chaos. "
Hearing this, Ryota understood why the authorities were withholding information.
Although there is no way to completely hide it. But as long as most psykers didn't find out about it, it would be considered a success.
The Minister would choose to tell him, in a way, because he was a solo, and he had become a psyker himself, so he didn't need a key.
On the other hand, because of his talent he was promoted to the second stage at the age of 17, and he was given special attention.
"It means..."
Ryota confirmed word by word: "Is that girl in the hotel an artificial ghost created by a cultist?"
"Yes. She disappeared a week ago. I'm afraid she was caught then and started to be tortured. Moreover, she isn't the only young girl who disappeared some time ago."
The minister said in a somewhat heavy tone: "Girls' emotions are the easiest to stimulate, and they are more likely to experience certain extreme emotions than others. Among missing persons over the years, nearly half of those involving young women were committed by cultists."
"..."
Hearing this, Ryota's eyes became redder.
He couldn't help himself for a moment, and loudly blew up his cell phone.
The minister immediately heard the busy signal.
"Shiro-chan...?"
Hayasaka, who was standing beside Ryota, immediately noticed something strange.
The harsh look in Ryota's eyes surprised her a bit.
"I'm fine," Ryota shook his head and said, "Hayasaka, please lend me your cell phone."
"Really okay?"
Hayasaka asked and handed over her cell phone.
"Don't worry."
After Ryota took it, he nodded and called the minister again.
He specially memorized important people's phone numbers, and with his current memory, it was quite difficult to forget them.
After the call was connected, Ryota immediately said:
"It's me. I accidentally squeezed my phone and blew it up. I used someone else's phone to call you."
Minister: "😐"
"Does this phenomenon occur often?" Ryota asked, "Cultors activities happen often?"
"Yes, this is more often than you can imagine! In fact, you can see this from Nightmare's various activities."
"Why are the people from the cult so crazy?"
Ryota frowned tightly.
"If the world goes into chaos, what good will it do them? What are they looking for? Status? Benefit? Or dominate mankind?"
"It seems that you have a fundamental understanding of cultists."
"What does it mean?"
"You know Zoroastrianism, right?"
Before Ryota could answer, the minister continued:
"Zoroastrianism is also called Zoroastrianism. It was a cult that divided absolute good and evil based on dualism. The evil gods we define are similar to the evil gods in Zoroastrianism. Their malice towards this world was born. It is absurd, and this trait also extends to their believers."
The minister started explaining the basic situation of the evil god and cultist to Ryota.
In this world, there has never been a shortage of evil. But most of these crimes are unnatural.
Some are hysterical for revenge. Some people are oppressed by the cruelty and injustice of the world, will degenerate and go mad.
There are also people who have to compromise and be ruthless and heartless in order to reach the truth.
It was as if they were filled with an oppressive sense of oppression, so that people were frightened.
But if you cut through the layer of camouflage and peer into his heart, all you see is pathetic, bitter, and helpless.
Bad luck causes some people to commit crimes and start to avenge society.
But this evil is weak and lowly. Even as long as the conditions are sufficient to tear down the reasons supporting the evil, this evil will disappear in an instant.
For those who aren't too involved, it might be fine to clean up.
But not a devotee.
Those who fell into the arms of the evil god didn't think about logical things like money, status, and trust.
So they will not be threatened, bought, cajoled, negotiated.
Just like innocent children, they often catch bugs, crush bodies, tear off legs, or simply tie up with needles for fun.
"Beautiful, willful, brutal and innocent killing, this is cult."
The minister's tone was very serious, as if warning:
"It's unreasonable to talk to them, so whenever you encounter them, you must kill them immediately! You can't hold anything back."
"Are these people innate? Or influenced by an evil god?" Ryota asked.
"There are two aspects. The thoughts and characters of most cultists are fundamentally chaotic, and then they are bewitched by the evil god... In short, it is impossible for anyone who falls into the evil god's arms to return, and it is different from ghosts. They embrace madness while maintaining their sanity, and killing people is a kind of fun and a joke to them."
"What a group of madmen!"
Ryota frowned and scolded.
Anger made his muscles tense up, and he used a bit of strength involuntarily.
Explosion!
Phone squeezed again.
Minister:"..."
Hayasaka Ai: "..."
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