The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2731 Star Core Rescue (7)

Chapter 2731 Star Core Rescue (XVII)

Parker showed a somewhat regretful expression and said: "You might think that I would suddenly come to my senses and beat them up, but in fact I can't. I just feel very painful, but there is nothing I can do."

"But you didn't sacrifice others."

"Yes, I know I can't do this." Parker shook his head and said, "I don't know what others are like, but if I frame others for my own pain, I will definitely have trouble sleeping and eating for the rest of my life. It's better to endure it now."

"But this obviously affected my academic performance," Parker sighed. "I could have gone to a pretty good high school, but ended up attending a technical school in the community."

"But that's how life is. There are always blessings in disguise in inexplicable places." Parker laughed again and said, "Because of the bullying I have experienced, I am very sensitive to whether a group truly accepts me."

Natasha suddenly realized something. She said, “So you sense the bully temperament in this group of scientists.”

Parker nodded and said, "In their team, I am always in a weak position and need to pay emotional value to please them, because it is obvious that even if I am the chief engineer of the power department, I am just a technical worker."

"But the scientists who can come to this research station need not say much about graduation from prestigious universities. Most of those who can obtain such academic qualifications are children of elites or wealthy families. They are not from the same world as me."

"The outside world gave me the same evaluation of my joining this group. They probably said that the electrician was so lucky to be able to hang out with so many doctors and professors."

Natasha shrugged and said, "After the Soviet Union left, the status of you skilled workers has declined significantly. I still remember that last century you promoted the idea that a blue-collar worker could support a whole family, and you were proud of it."

Parker smiled and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. Times are always progressing, and even in that era, no one would say that workers are definitely superior to scientists."

"In short, I am actually playing the role of a clown in this group. They like to listen to me complain about trivial things in life, and then show sympathy. In fact, they don't really sympathize with me, but are just glad that they don't have to experience such trivialities in life."

Parker thought for a moment and then said, "I originally thought they were just making fun of me like the bullies, but after the space station disaster, their various behaviors made me feel something was wrong, as if everything that had happened before was leading up to this moment."

Natasha knew the point was coming, so she said, "I thought it was a bit coincidental before. The people in that room were talking to each other, as if they were trying to guide others to think in a certain direction."

Parker thought and spoke slowly: "There may be some problems with our previous thinking. The mastermind behind this disaster may not be one person, but a group of people."

"But we still don't understand their purpose." Natasha said: "They already have such ability, so it's not impossible for them to just drop the space station. But they chose to burn the energy device and destroy half of the space station. This is totally illogical."

"That proves that their goals are opposite." Parker always speaks slowly, but his logic is clear, which proves that he does not have a very high IQ, but he always stays sober.

"What?" Natasha didn't react for a moment.

"Who destroyed the space station?" Parker asked.

"Uh, the mastermind."

"Will he be sentenced?"

"Of course, I guess I'll have to spend hundreds of years in prison."

"That's the criminal, what about the one who saved the station?"

"Hero...wait, that's not what you mean?" Natasha said with wide eyes, "You mean someone staged such a disaster just to be a hero???"

"It's hard for us old-fashioned people to imagine, right?" Parker smiled and sighed, "But if you deal with young people more often, well, Peter is not young anymore, to be more precise, the younger Spider-Mans, you will understand how popular the hero complex is among them. There are even many Spider-Mans who were fooled by the hero complex to become superheroes."

“But isn’t this too outrageous?”

"That's the nature of human beings," Parker said, standing up and looking around the room. "They are not afraid to turn any situation into a personal stage as long as it benefits them. They don't care how big the mess is, as long as it's loud enough to attract more attention."

"Fuck extreme liberalism!" Natasha couldn't help cursing, but finally said: "But there are still many things that don't make sense, such as Oaks. Do you think Oaks is one of them?"

Parker shook his head and said doubtfully, "I don't think Oaks is that kind of person, but I'm not completely sure. After all, we can only know a person by his appearance. We still have to see what he does."

At this time, Natasha had already sutured the wound. The strange thing was that the fat man was full of energy from beginning to end, and did not look like he had lost too much blood at all. Every time Natasha gave him an injection, he would wail loudly, and the subcutaneous fat seemed to be gushing out. Natasha was so angry that she knocked him out with one punch.

By this time, the wound had been stitched up, and Natasha had found a way to wake him up. He observed the state of his pupils and said, "This guy might have been drugged. It's hard to say whether it was painkillers or drugs. In any case, he's a little abnormally excited."

After Lehman woke up, he lay on the ground, hugged Parker's thighs and began to cry, repeating the same few words over and over again: Oaks kidnapped him, Oaks was scary, Oaks was going to kill him, and he should come and save him quickly.

Parker had indeed never seen such a scene before. Natasha signaled him to stay calm and began to question him. Agents have plenty of ways to confirm whether someone is really talking nonsense or using nonsense as a means to evade interrogation, as long as they look at the details.

"You said Oaks kidnapped you, so where did you see him?"

"Office, he rushed into my office!"

"Okay, so what did he say to you when he rushed in?"

"He said, he said it wasn't him." Lehmann shook his head and said, "I told him it was Balke, it was Balke who said he could put the blame on his subordinates, that's what I said..."

"Who is Balk?"

Lyman mumbled something unclear, but Parker said, "He's the head of the software engineering department, a very good computer scientist. He designed the software security system of the entire space station."

"When did he tell you that?"

"It's just... one time when I was drinking..."

"When did you drink?"

"Two, three months ago? I was scolded by those bastards at the ground contact base. Balk told me that it was not my responsibility, I just couldn't speak. I should have tried to explain and told them that it was the idiots below who couldn't do their job well..."

Parker couldn't help it, so he walked over, grabbed his collar and punched him. Natasha looked at him in surprise and said, "You can hit people?"

"I didn't know how to do it originally, but Peter taught me two tricks." Parker frowned and said, "You damn bastard, Lehman, that power failure was entirely your fault, and you actually want to put the blame on other people?!"

"And you want to put the entire blame on Aux for this accident? So it was you who spread the news that Aux damaged the photovoltaic integrated device?"

"He is just like this! An incompetent bastard!" Lehmann suddenly fell into extreme excitement, spitting out some saliva foam from his mouth and said: "He has been absent-minded in recent months and has not worked properly at all. Several failures were caused by him, and he also sleepwalked and yelled in the middle of the night..."

Natasha noted this useful information and then steered the conversation back on track, saying, "How did he subdue you?"

"He... he's very strong..." Lehman suddenly retracted his neck and said, "It was really hell, he was like an elephant, I couldn't resist him at all, he threw me into the corner and banged my head against the wall..."

"Ox is indeed very strong." Parker said: "Even though he lost a lot of weight due to his bad mental state after arriving at the space station, he is still much stronger than Lyman. It is not surprising that he can subdue him."

"And then what? How did he get you here? What did he do? What did he say? Tell me every word." Natasha adopted an interrogative attitude.

"He, he lit a cigarette and was about to leave, but suddenly turned back..."

"Wait a minute!" Parker interrupted Lehman and said, "Who lit a cigarette? You?"

"Ox! It's Ox! He took my cigarette and lit one..."

"Something's wrong." Parker looked at Natasha and said, "Ox doesn't smoke at all. I told you he's a good husband. He doesn't smoke, drink, or stay up late. His hobbies are fitness and studying Slovak cuisine. His biggest bad habits are crying and having a loud voice. Other than that, he has no shortcomings."

Suddenly Natasha had an idea and she said, "Lyman might be hypnotized, just like Oaks was hypnotized."

Parker immediately squatted down again and came closer. Natasha flipped Lehman's eyelids and said, "This fat guy has obvious signs of drug use in his body. I've heard from professional psychologists that in most cases, hypnosis requires the patient's cooperation. If the patient doesn't cooperate, hypnosis will never succeed. Of course, this is within the legal range."

"And if we broaden the scope a little bit, there is another possibility that forced hypnosis can be successful, and that is the use of drugs. Most tranquilizers, or simply drugs, can quickly destroy a person's psychological defenses."

Parker took a deep breath and said, "There was a rumor in our department before that Oaks's sudden weight loss and poor mental state were due to drug abuse. Are you saying that to some extent, he might have taken drugs?"

"It's not impossible." Natasha said thoughtfully.

"But there are no withdrawal symptoms." Parker immediately pointed out the problem. "I've seen a lot of drug-addicted homeless people in Queens. They make a lot of noise when they have drug addiction attacks. If Oaks really took drugs, his roommates would have seen him have drug addiction attacks."

“Maybe it’s not a traditional drug.” Natasha said, “There are too many strange drugs in this world. Maybe it’s some kind of nerve agent we haven’t seen before.”

"How was the poison administered?"

"This is worth discussing." Natasha scratched her head lightly, and then said: "Anyway, based on my experience in poisoning, poisoning food and drink is the easiest to be discovered. Unless you are only doing a one-time deal and intend to poison someone to death at once, inhaled gas is more suitable for long-term poisoning."

"Could it be on something he touches often?" Parker seemed to have thought of something.

"If it were me, I would do this, and it would be best to make sure that the other person needs to breathe heavily when using this item." Natasha touched her chin and recalled: "I have previously put poison on the fitness headphones that a rich man wore when running, and the effect was quite good."

Parker glanced at her, decided to ignore her last sentence, and then said, "Then I guess it might be Oaks' personal communication terminal, because he makes video calls to his wife for more than an hour almost every day."

"Is his wife in bad shape?"

"It's pretty bad, almost crazy," Parker said. "I've seen them chatting a few times, and Oaks was almost crying the whole time. Maybe he also meets the condition of heavy breathing you mentioned."

"That's a high probability." Natasha continued, "But I've also heard from psychiatrists that it's difficult to change a person's nature through hypnosis. For example, even if you're hypnotized, you won't kill anyone. It's very difficult to do that, and it's very likely that you'll wake up halfway through."

"So I have been saying that Oaks did not damage the photovoltaic integrated device." Parker gritted his teeth and said, "He is a person who cherishes things very much. It is impossible for him to not bring a safety rope, and it is even more impossible for him to destroy public property just because he did not bring a safety rope..."

"There's a missing link here." Natasha frowned and said, "Even the best psychologist I know can't hypnotize a good person to do bad things, so there must be something between AUX and the destruction of the photovoltaic integrated device. What could it be?"