46. Library

"For the medical community, the origin of modern hypnosis is in 1843, and its original meaning is the Greek word for sleep."

"The principle of hypnosis is simply to use two different levels of human thinking: conscious and subconscious."

"When people are awake, their consciousness is dominant, and vice versa. The principle of hypnosis is to let their consciousness focus on something, and then the subconscious mind will not be suppressed by the consciousness.

The subconscious mind is stimulated and enters a state where both the subconscious mind and the consciousness are open at the same time. At this time, you can communicate with the subconscious mind. Hypnosis is to communicate directly with the subconscious mind without going through the consciousness."

"There are different types of hypnosis..."

"…"

"…"

Hayashi Yoshiki has been studying hard recently.

He found a few introductory books on psychology and hypnosis and has been studying them carefully for some time.

This is indeed a profound but also somewhat boring subject.

Practically speaking, he was not interested, but he was willing to learn it just because it was useful.

However, the knowledge learned from books is still relatively superficial. His idea is to use the equipment obtained from the spider to conduct experiments after mastering a certain basic.

"There are relatively few relevant books available in bookstores. I'd better go to the library to have a look."

Hayashi Yoshiki closed the book with a snap, looked at the time, and decided to go out.

He drove out of the apartment garage.

The library usually closes at 18:00. It is now a little after five in the afternoon, so he should arrive around half past five, so there is still plenty of time.

Hayashi Yoshiki soon arrived outside the library.

The library was unexpectedly deserted today - it was clearly the time for students to get out of school, but there were not many people around.

He didn't pay much attention to it. He took the elevator directly to the third floor according to the sign indicating the book area.

The elevator door opens——

In a bright and spacious space, in front of the arranged bookshelves, a few familiar little radish heads and a big sweet potato were talking there.

They are Edogawa Conan and the others...

"You guys, are you coming over to study?"

He walked over with a friendly smile and started a conversation.

"Ah?"

"It's Big Brother!"

"Brother Yoshiki"

Hayashi Yoshiki's appearance caused several elementary school students to react differently.

Among them, Yoshida Ayumi was very surprised, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko and Edogawa Conan were polite, and KojimaGenta directly pointed at Hayashi Yoshiki and shouted, "I remember you!".

Hayashi Yoshiki glanced at him, without paying any attention, and just naturally put his hand on Yoshida Ayumi's head and touched it.

The latter was somewhat delighted and his face turned red.

"We are here to read books and write book reports, which are due tomorrow," she said.

"I see, that's great."

"Big Brother, are you coming to read a book too?"

"I came here to borrow some books to read at home." Hayashi Yoshiki said this, still looking at them with a smile on his face, "Do you know where the psychology-related books are?"

"Over there."

Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko immediately pointed his finger and said, "I just saw them all over there."

"OK, thanks."

Hayashi Yoshiki walked over and took a look.

There are many relevant books on the rows of bookshelves, and they are very complete.

Hypnosis, as a branch of psychology, can be found on the relevant bookshelf here.

"The Voice of Hypnosis Accompanies You", "The Mystery and Power of the Subconscious", "Self-Health Hypnosis", "Hypnosis Memory"...

Looking at the titles of these books, Hayashi Yoshiki was about to pick them up and flip through them, but when he saw Edogawa Conan standing nearby, he simply picked up an ordinary psychology book first.

However, his outstretched hand made Edogawa Conan notice something.

"Brother Yoshiki, are you wearing a ring?"

"Well, it was given to me by a friend. How is it? Does it look a bit too conspicuous?"

"It's not noticeable, but this ring looks a bit special."

Edogawa Conan said this, and his face immediately became serious, "Brother Yoshiki, I have something to tell you."

"Please speak." Hayashi Yoshiki pretended to listen.

"An employee of this library is missing. Officer Megure and his team just came here to look for him"

"Hey! Conan, how can you say that!"

"Yes, didn't we just agree that our Junior Detective Team would find out the truth independently?"

As soon as Edogawa Conan finished speaking, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko and Kojima Genta immediately expressed their dissatisfaction.

Hayashi Yoshiki glanced at the two of them, smiled and ignored them, and just asked Edogawa Conan: "Can you tell me what happened specifically?"

"That's right, Big Brother."

Yoshida Ayumi saw an opportunity to show off and immediately spilled the beans: "Inspector Megure said that an employee of this library named Tamada has been missing since the night before yesterday. He also said that he was a very serious person and would call home from here to tell his wife before going home every day... But he didn't do that when he disappeared the night before yesterday."

"He call home from the library every day, right?"

Hayashi Yoshiki recalled.

There are not many episodes in "Detective Conan" that left a deep impression on him, but this case that took place in the library did leave him with a deep impression because of its horror level.

"Brother Yoshiki thinks that because the employee didn't call home that day, he might have encountered something in the library, right?" Edogawa Conan said, "The police searched the library just now, but found nothing."

"So you guys are not staying here to do your homework, but to find clues, right?"

Hayashi Yoshiki looked at them and smiled.

After hearing this, some children felt proud and even raised their heads and wiped their noses.

It's really not cute at all...

Hayashi Yoshiki doesn't like naughty kids, especially those who are naughty but don't even know it.

"By the way, how are your academic performance?"

"Ayumi has good grades."

"Yeah, I'm also in front of the class."

"…What? Why are you so proud?"

Edogawa Conan didn't answer. Only Kojima Genta curled his lips when Yoshida Ayumi and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko expressed their happiness.

Hayashi Yoshiki just smiled when he saw this and continued looking for a book on the bookshelf.

Seeing that he had no reaction after listening, Edogawa Conan couldn't help asking: "Brother Yoshiki, don't you care about the missing employee?"

"It's not that I don't care. It's just that Conan, didn't you just say that the police came to search but found nothing?"

"But maybe the police missed something -"

"That's not something we should interfere with."

Hayashi Yoshiki looked at the books on the bookshelf and responded, "Police need a search warrant to search a suspect's home, and we have no evidence, so it doesn't seem appropriate to search in public places."

"Why can't you just help!"

Kojima Genta was very dissatisfied.