The Japanese investigation team has arrived.

The team was led by the plenipotentiary representative of the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai, Kimasa Okamoto, and military attache Kumaguchi Aada.

He was followed by four other Japanese.

Among them, a Japanese standing next to Xiongkou Matian aroused Meng Shaoyuan's curiosity.

The man seemed to be laughing.

That's right, there was a hint of a smile on his lips all the time.

Some people are born with a festive face, and some people have a smile on the corners of their mouths and eyebrows no matter what angle they look at.

There's nothing strange about that.

But the problem is that Meng Shaoyuan can be sure that this smile is deliberately revealed.

From a psychological point of view, if a person deliberately smiles all day long, then he must be hiding his true feelings there.

Many people believe that a smile is the easiest to recognize.

Bitter smile, ridicule, skin smile and meat do not smile......

But in fact, if a person keeps the same smile for many years, he can hide most of his inner world feelings.

Meng Shaoyuan used to be most afraid of meeting this kind of person who always remained eternal and unchanging, no matter what the environment, and talked to you with a smile.

His anxiety, anger, and nervousness were all expressed in that "smile".

Who is this Japanese?

"Mr. Kumaguchi, you arrived earlier than the agreed time." Ji Zhangjian greeted him.

Kumaguchi Asada glanced at him coldly and said: "The occurrence of such a thing is a result that neither China nor Japan wants to see. Yuo Oyama and Saito went out with Kurazo after drinking without permission, disgrace Japan. Therefore, we must investigate the cause of their death as soon as possible and report it to the consulate and navy, hoping to calm down this incident as much as possible. ”

Just when the two sides began to negotiate, the Japanese with a smile walked up to Meng Shaoyuan: "You are Mr. Meng Shaoyuan?" ”

He actually recognized Meng Shaoyuan at a glance, and he was able to speak Chinese, although he was not fluent, but he could understand it.

"Yes, we've seen each other before?" Meng Shaoyuan asked calmly.

"Ah, no." The Japanese said indifferently: "However, I have some information about you in my hands, and such a serious incident has happened this time, I think that the Chinese intelligence agencies will definitely be involved in it, and you are so young, based on the information in my hands, I must be Mr. Meng Shaoyuan, who is a director of the department." ”

Meng Shaoyuan's expression was not surprised at all, although the other party's judgment was so sharp: "I don't think it's fair, you know my name, but I don't know your name." ”

"You're such an interesting person." The Japanese smiled and said, "I just came to Shanghai from Tianjin, my name is Kojiro Kawamoto." ”

Kojiro Kawamoto?

"They tortured me for several days, and I didn't say a word, and then they interrogated me with another person, and that person was Kojiro Kawamoto, and as soon as he saw me, he told me that he had studied in the United States for a few years, so he knew some tricks about interrogation."

That day, all the words that the tiger and himself had said came to Meng Shaoyuan's mind.

When Meng Shaoyuan listened to the tiger's words, he knew immediately that he was about to meet an opponent:

Kojiro Kawamoto!

He doesn't know the tortures he masters, and he doesn't know micro-expressions, but he knows the weakness of human beings, and even psychology.

And now, this man is standing in front of him.

"I'm sorry that my Chinese is not good." Kojiro Kawamoto spoke with a bit of apology in his tone: "I've only been learning Chinese for two months. ”

Meng Shaoyuan suddenly laughed as well.

Two months? This person has only been able to speak Chinese for two months, and he can already speak so well?

Kojiro Kawamoto suddenly became interested in Meng Shaoyuan: "I studied in the United States, and I once studied psychology specifically, because my father was a doctor and was also interested in psychology, of course, there are no such good teachers in Japan." In the U.S., my advisor was John Bruders Watson. ”

At this point, he suddenly paused.

Meng Shaoyuan continued to smile.

He knew that in such a short fraction of a second, Kojiro Kawamoto was observing his reaction when he heard the name John Bruders Watson.

How could he not know about this man?

President of the American Psychological Association, a well-known master of psychology, the founder of behaviorist psychology, and a master of advertising!

It was he who first proposed that the research methods of psychology should abandon the "introspective method" and replace them with the experimental and observational methods commonly used in the natural sciences.

In other words, the object of psychological research is not consciousness but behavior.

In a sense, this is the prototype of later micro-expressions.

Although people in this era are still completely unaware of what microexpressions are, it will be more than thirty years before the real microexpressions are discovered and studied by the American psychologist Paul Aikman.

Kojiro Kawamoto used a smile to hide himself, and Meng Shaoyuan kept smiling as if he were treating others in the same way.

It's just two smiles, which don't make people feel happy at all, but have a terrifying feeling.

Kojiro Kawamoto didn't gain anything on Meng Shaoyuan's face: "My teacher told me that when a person is talking, the other party suddenly smiles, one is that he thinks what you say is funny, and the other is that he deliberately hides something there. However, I don't think there's anything funny about what I just said. ”

"What do you mean, what am I hiding?" Meng Shaoyuan smiled frankly: "Look, let's get straight to the point, Mr. Kumaguchi Asada is the head of the secret service of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and you are probably a spy by his side, right?" And me? Needless to say, everyone knows that I am a spy, and since I am a spy, I will always hide my inner feelings. ”

"You're such a person who is willing to tell the truth." Kojiro Kawamoto nodded: "That's right, I'm also a spy, transferred to Shanghai to assist Mr. Kumaguchi, I studied psychology, and I have done a lot of hard work, I think I can see through whether you are lying to me......"

Are you provoking me?

Meng Shaoyuan smiled.

Don't lie to me.

Are you provoking me, as the unique and absolute authority of this industry in this era?

Did you really decide to do it?

John Bruders Watson once put forward a theory that when one psychologist commits a crime and another psychologist is responsible for interrogating and observing, the interrogator must have the absolute upper hand and suppress the other party.

Psychologists have a strong psychological quality, but once the psychological defenses are breached, all cases of patients in the past will surface, and the speed and degree of their collapse will be more complete than that of ordinary people.

"I've seen some of your cases, but they're not particularly comprehensive, after all, we don't have such a large number of channels to get all the information." Kojiro Kawamoto said slowly: "Some people say that you always seem to be able to see through what the other person is thinking, and you seem to have magic, but I know that this is not magic, this is just simple psychology.

You were laughing just now, you were hiding your emotions, and lo and behold, Mr. Kumaguchi was having a heated discussion with Mr. Yoshisho Jian, but you didn't look there from beginning to end, because you didn't care, you know the whole incident, the most critical person on the Chinese side is you, what are you going to do? It's here to help them cover up their crimes. ”

It's good, it's pretty good to be able to have that level.

"Very observant." Meng Shaoyuan smiled even brighter: "You are a soldier, but you identify more in your heart as a scholar, a scholar who is very obsessed with psychology." But I'm afraid you're going astray, you're psychologically dark, and you like to take the greatest pleasure in torturing your research subjects......

You do not belong to the secret service of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and you do not respect Kumaguchi Asada very much, so you are the protagonist of the Japanese side in the investigation of this incident. Well, you were always scolded by your father when you were a child, and you were scared of your father. The reason for the darkness in your heart began in your father's time. By the way, you need to treat your severe athlete's foot. ”

Kojiro Kawamoto is still laughing.

However, no matter how he disguised it, his fear could no longer be concealed from Meng Shaoyuan.

How the hell did this man know this?

He was absolutely right, and there was not the slightest deviation.

It's not exactly psychology anymore.

This is...... The devil can do it!

Are you scared?

Meng Shaoyuan smiled very happily.

When you mention the name "John Bruders Watson", there is always a special emphasis on it, intentionally or unintentionally, which shows that you respect him and worship him.

And when you say the word "father", the tone is a little low, and there is even a slight stutter, your father brought a big shadow to you in your childhood.

As for the time when you said that you were "transferred to Shanghai to assist Mr. Kumaguchi in his work", you obviously had a hint of carelessness, because you didn't take Kumaguchi Matian seriously at all.

The identity of a soldier is too easy to understand, the tiger once talked to the young master about you.

Dermatophytosis?

You probably didn't notice that your right foot was moving quietly while you were talking, and combined with the sweltering heat of Shanghai in August, you were wearing leather shoes again, and your toes were itching now, right?

However, these things that Meng Shao could easily observe were simply miracles for Kawamoto Kojiro.

But what made him most painful was that he didn't know how Meng Shaoyuan could observe this.

Some psychologists take the greatest pride in seeing through others, but now, when they seem to be stripped naked and appear in front of their opponents, what kind of mood will they feel?

Hopelessness, helplessness, collapse.

The previous feeling of arrogance and grasping the overall situation has disappeared without a trace.

"Don't lie to me." This time it was Meng Shaoyuan's turn to say this: "I have not met Mr. John Bruders Watson, let alone been guided by him, but this does not mean that I cannot see through you. ”