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She looked a little embarrassed when she said, “Hypnosis”

“Brainwashing? Really?”

“I told you these ideas were out there, but I’ence services have experis to iestion and subliain, I didn’t find any hint of drugs in the systems, so it’s far-fetched, but I can’t rule it out”

Max tried not to roll his eyes “Anything else?”

Julia took a breath “Auditory psychosis”

Max frowned at her “What’s that?”

“In ests high-volume auditory stimuli at certain frequencies can cause the vestibular syste resonance in the neural pathways”

Max gave her a look that said You’re going to need to dumb that down for me

“We get our sense of balance and gravity froans can be thrown out of whack by high-intensity sounds, even if they’re ultrasonic or infrasonic—high and low frequencies that are out of the range of hearing for humans Sonic warfare dates back to World War One And the Nazis developed a parabolic dish to emit extremely loud noises as a battlefield weapon, but it was never put to use”

Max nodded “I’ve heard of soe Acoustic Device It eo and passenger ships arethem on deck to use as a nonlethal way to repel pirates”

“Right And remember the incidents in the US e all kinds of ill effects that were later attributed to being boh-frequency noise”

“Hoould the crew in the Gator be affected by so like that?”

“They earing headsets I asked Mark Murphy to inspect all of the software to see if sonal directly into their ears In thestrangely, remove it immediately”

Max nodded “I’ll send out an alert to the crew to be aware of that possibility”

Max’s phone went off It was Hali