Chapter 8: Night Visit to the Fragrant Chamber (Part 1)

  Two o'clock in the morning.

  The entire castle's corridors were empty, without a single guest in sight. Normally, at this hour, the night would be in full swing, with lavish parties and balls taking place in the grand halls of the castle. But recently, something had happened that made everyone feel uneasy, so they all retired to their rooms early.

  One is to avoid suspicion, and the other is for one's own safety. Who knows if one were to wander around carelessly, wouldn't they also mysteriously die?

  This environment provided a fairly good environment for Zhang Fan's night visit to the fragrance chamber. Although there were still guards patrolling in the castle, and the monitoring system was still in operation, the probability of his actions being discovered had undoubtedly decreased a lot.

  With her own agility, it was not difficult to evade the patrolling guards. As for the surveillance system - the entrance of the countess's room had a large area that was a blind spot for the surveillance system, with no monitoring devices installed. This was easy to understand, because as a socialite, the countess's chambers would definitely receive many solitary visitors, many of whom did not want to be known.

  The countess would never have gone to such lengths - if these surveillance videos were leaked, they would often cause a sensation.

  So, without anyone noticing, Zhang Fan had already arrived at the female count's gate.

  Before taking action, Zhang Fan first stuck his ear to the door and listened carefully. If he suddenly went in and found the countess staring at him with a pair of big eyes, it wouldn't be a wonderful experience - no matter how enchanting these eyes looked.

  Very well. Except for the sound of breathing, there was no other sound coming from inside the door. The breathing was slightly rapid, but very even, indicating that the countess was asleep, only possibly not sleeping well. After experiencing such a thing, unless one's mental quality is exceptionally strong, their sleep quality will definitely be affected for a period of time.

  After determining the safety factor of the action, Zhang Fan began to carefully examine the lock on the door. At first glance, he couldn't help but feel a little cry and laugh.

  This is a very complex lock - one of the most complex locks. This lock is very famous, made from the hardest metal, and is a combination of handmade and modern electronics, with extremely high sensitivity, if there is no key, almost nobody can open it in a short time.

  Zhang Fan naturally couldn't either. If he was given enough time, he had the confidence to open it without any damage within three hours, but now such an environment was impossible.

  The cost of this lock is also astonishing. Generally speaking, even if it's a real big rich man, he won't install this kind of lock on the door of his bedroom, but apply it to some safes and filing cabinets with extremely high security levels. Installing it on the door is a waste. For ordinary iron doors or even steel doors, if this lock is installed, the solidity of the lock itself is much higher than that of the door.

  What made Zhang Fan cry and laugh at the same time was the gate of the female count. ——It was a wooden door made of walnut wood! Although the decorations on the door and the intricate and beautiful patterns let people know that this gate is absolutely worth a city, or even possibly a real antique, but a wooden door is just a wooden door!

  A wooden door is equipped with such a high-precision lock, except for showing off, it's hard to find any other reason.

  "This countess's taste is truly one of a kind, beyond expectations!" Zhang Fan shook his head and then gently placed his hand on the door. Since he knew there was a shortcut, he didn't need to rack his brains over the lock anymore. No matter how solid the wood was, it wouldn't be able to withstand him.

  As a shower of wooden chips fell silently, the entire door was dismantled by Zhang Fan! He directly turned the air into sharp blades, cutting off the hinges. This way, he could perfectly preserve this work of art and make it impossible for people to notice from the outside. —— The wooden door was very heavy, and the cut made by Zhang Fan was small, so after he slipped inside, he pushed it back to its original position, unless someone pushed hard, it wouldn't fall down.

  From pushing the wooden door to flashing in and then pushing the door back to its original position, all of this was done in a flash, taking less than one second! Moreover, what's even more remarkable is that not a single sound was made throughout the entire process!

  The ability to control the air combined with his exceptional agility made everything Zhang Fan did seem effortless.

  As soon as Zhang Fan entered the room, he quickly narrowed his eyes. The room was pitch black, and compared to the bright lights in the corridor, the huge difference made it difficult for Zhang Fan to adapt, and he suddenly fell into a state of "not being able to see five fingers when stretching out his hand". Fortunately, he had experience with this kind of environment, and after standing still with his eyes narrowed for only two seconds, he completely recovered.

  The originally pitch-black room gradually became somewhat clear.

  Zhang Fan was a superpower holder, but his visual structure was almost the same as that of ordinary people. However, he had undergone rigorous training, and as long as he concentrated, his vision would be much higher than that of ordinary people - he had been asked to find a blackened coin in a pitch-black dark room, where there were traps everywhere, and only a small red glow from a incense stick provided illumination, until finally even the incense stick was gone: anyone who trained for three hours every day under such conditions for three years would definitely develop eyes sharper than those of a cat if they didn't collapse.

  So, although there were only a few buttons in the viscountess's room that emitted a faint cold light (for convenience in finding the position in the dark, now almost all switches can emit a faint cold light at night, even in ordinary people's homes), for Zhang Fan, it was already enough. —— He could even see the expression on the viscountess's face clearly.

  He came to the Countess's bedside as silently and unobstructed as a ghostly cat.

  Just as he had expected, the countess was already asleep. Compared to her overbearing attitude during the day, she now looked a bit weak, with her eyes tightly closed and occasionally twitching at the corners, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, looking not very happy.

  Looking at her like this, Zhang Fan couldn't help but feel a little guilty. If she was still in the daytime with an icy expression, he might have been able to take action without hesitation, but what appeared before him now was just a fragile woman under great mental pressure! Using his superpower to steal secrets from such a woman's mind really made Zhang Fan somewhat unable to bring himself to do it.

  "Whatever!" Zhang Fan gritted his teeth and threw away the messy thoughts in his head. The countess was now the only clue he had, if he didn't start with her, he really wouldn't be able to find a direction. If something happened to Professor Ouyang later, it would be too late for regrets! "Anyway, I'll just guide her to reveal the secret, and I won't touch anything else that's not my business!"

  What is called induction is a way for Zhang Fan to explore the information in other people's brains by himself. The amount of information stored in the human brain can be described as infinite, and except for the person themselves, it is extremely difficult for anyone to find specific information. There was once a time when Zhang Fan spent two whole days and nights, only to dig out the information he wanted from someone's brain, leaving him exhausted.

  Later, he groped out a method that allowed objects to find specific information on their own. The human nervous system is quite special, although the information in the brain is vast and boundless, as long as you want to think about something, you can recall it instantly. Zhang Fan took advantage of this point, first guiding the object to think about what he wanted him to think about, and then quickly perceiving the other party's instant information. This method allowed Zhang Fan to easily obtain information and also maximally avoid offending the other party's privacy - as long as he didn't think about it, Zhang Fan couldn't feel it.

  Of course, this method also has its drawbacks. When you're completely at a loss, you don't know what to make the other person think - but that's not the case now.

  With a determined look, Zhang Fan sat down directly in front of the countess's bed and slowly enhanced his mind-reading ability, trying to start communicating with the countess's brain waves. ——Just like two wireless radios that don't know each other's frequency, wanting to communicate with each other requires slowly adjusting and finding the same wavelength.

  Unlike wireless telegraphy, both machines of wireless telegraphy can tune frequency, while the brain wave frequency of ordinary people cannot be converted.

  What Zhang Fan called the superpower of knowing people's minds was actually the ability to freely convert his own brain wave frequency. Zhang Fan even suspected that if ordinary people could have this ability to freely convert their brain wave frequencies, then everyone would be able to know what others were thinking in their hearts.

  However, the frequency band of human brain waves is much narrower than that of radio waves. Soon, Zhang Fan found the brain wave frequency of the countess and quickly cut in!

  It's clear that the countess is now in a state that's very suitable for Zhang Fan's actions. So Zhang Fan didn't even bother with hypnotic steps and directly emitted inducing electric waves into her brain.

  Induction, as the name suggests, needs to be carried out step by step. The first thing to do is to figure out what kind of information is currently active in Ekaterina's mind.

  "How strange!" Zhang Fan slightly furrowed his brow. Judging from the current expression of the female countess, she should be in a state of mild brain activity, not yet having entered deep sleep - at this time, if the brain's cortical activity is very strong, people will dream, and if it's weak, people will have some slight unconscious reactions.

  The countess's eyebrows were slightly furrowed, a subconscious reaction, so Zhang Fan anticipated that the countess's mind should have some fragmented pieces of information. Of course, these facts that had once been active could not let the countess know, because their intensity was not enough to trigger dreams or enter memories.

  It was precisely because of such preconceived notions that Zhang Fan couldn't help but be shocked when he sensed the brain waves of the female count.

  The countess's mind was a complete blank!