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After a short period of silence.

The resurrected corpse squeezed out a sound from its throat and spoke hoarsely.

"The Essence of Human Origin."

The meaning is simply terrifying.

Essence? Origin?

Lin An frowned slightly, simply pulled over an unoccupied chair, and sat facing each other.

The words spoken by the resuscitator were too general.

This was the first time he used the resuscitation skill to communicate with the deceased. It seemed that the other party had indeed recovered his memory.

It's just that under the strange scene, the conversation between them can't help but feel weird.

"Details."

"What research directions have you done?"

"Origin? Are you trying to find the ancestral species that originated from humans? For example, some kind of ape, or earlier mammals?"

He put the question about the crystal skull at the end to prevent the resuscitator from having another accident.

Thinking of the zombies he saw in the picture, Lin An couldn't help but feel a faint sense of uneasiness.

But he didn't know where the uneasiness came from.

After the order was issued, he looked straight at the pale face, the big hole on the researcher's forehead, and even the back of the chair behind his head.

After a moment of silence, the expression on that lifeless face remained unchanged, and he answered stiffly:

"None of that."

"We have studied the so-called origin before, but later found out that it was wrong."

"What we are studying now is the real difference between humans and other species."

"And the biggest difference is emotion."

"Joy, anger, sorrow, fear."

Um?

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Moling listened carefully, with a trace of suspicion on his face.

"mood?"

"Isn't the biggest difference just the body structure?"

"Flies have wings, elephants have trunks, turtles and prawns have shells."

"Humans belong to the primates. Class, phylum, and class. The difference in classifying species is the biggest difference between us, right?"

Lin An did not speak, but turned his head slightly and glanced at Little Mo Ling.

Yes, although Mo Ling didn't make it clear, strictly speaking, the so-called emotions, feelings, and intelligence

They are all formed by different brain neural structures, or brain volumes.

Emotions are not their true essence, but their appearance.

Just like mineral water costing two yuan and Coke costing three yuan can quench thirst, but it is not the price of two yuan or five yuan that quenches thirst, but the water itself.

Emotions, thinking, reason, IQ, and differences between species are all phenomena caused by different body structures.

For example, bats have no eyes. The biggest difference between them and humans is that they have sonar detection.

Emotional intelligence, etc., are also due to differences in brain volume and structure, resulting in some arthropods and soft-bodied creatures lacking emotions such as joy, anger, fear, etc.

Just like fear in human emotions, it essentially comes from the amygdala of the brain and the cognition of specific things.

If a bug had the same brain structure as a human, it would also be able to think and have feelings.

Even adding vocal organs, vocal cords, etc., it can say a grateful thank you to you after receiving education.

It is putting the cart before the horse to think that animals lack some emotions and therefore are different from humans.

In fact, as long as electric shock is used to stimulate the "amygdala" in the brain area, people can fall into extreme panic for no reason.

To study the metaphysical existence of emotions is to stay on the surface.

This is a very "childish" way of thinking.

Just like the ancient people with backward technology, their simple world view believed that the biggest difference between humans and other animals lies in their different emotions and souls.

Animals have no emotions, or lack certain emotions, so they are not humans.

In less than a second, Lin An was equally confused after thinking about this.

It stands to reason that just the underground research center he saw proved that the technological means of this world cannot be too backward.

Even elementary school students know the truth, and there is no reason why the other party doesn’t know it.

Ask the past:

"Why do you think the biggest difference between humans and animals is in their emotions? Not in their physical structure?"

"What does this have to do with nature and the origin of human beings?"

"mistake."

The dead researcher answered fluently with a blank look in his eyes. Apparently he had answered this question many times during his lifetime.

"Our mainstream science also believed that the difference between humans and other species was their different body structures."

"Even the origin of early humans can be traced back to hundreds of millions or even billions of years ago. Maybe our ancestor was a fish that landed on the beach, or maybe it was an insect."

"All living things are carbon-based life forms. Different environments evolve different species, and humans are the most successful ones in evolution."

"To this end, in order to prove this theory, we have almost dissected, synthesized, and induced distortions of most species in nature, trying to find an evolutionary path."

After hearing half of it, Lin An became even more confused.

What are you doing?

How come the civilization of this regional world is still repeating what was accomplished in the real world as early as the 19th century?

Prokaryotic cells-Eukaryotic cells-Flatworms

Jawless (he) fish - Jawfish

Amphibians-Reptiles-Mammals

Ape-Ape-Man.

This is the evolutionary route that has been verified countless times in the real world and in the map of human origins.

Whether it is found from the embryonic stage that human hands and feet match the fins of fish, or in the human body structure, the ears have holes similar to fish gills.

A large amount of fossil evidence proves that the origin of human beings is the continuous evolution of a certain species over billions of years.

Could it be that this world has no fossils? Or lacks historical records, so that they need to find the route by dissecting existing species?

As soon as the idea came up, the researcher paused for a moment and then continued:

"Our fossil evidence proved this theory correct, but four months ago we discovered an unexplained loophole."

"This vulnerability is serious enough to destroy all evidence chains proving the origin of humankind."

Hmm? Is there a fossil record?

Lin An was slightly startled. It seemed that this place was the same as reality.

"What loophole?"

Ask subconsciously.

Vaguely, he felt as if he had come into contact with a terrible answer.

The researcher remained sitting stiffly and responded quickly like a robot:

"It's emotion."

"In human thinking, or instinct, there is an emotion that should not appear."

"This emotion should not appear in us, and it is even said that it cannot appear in all human evolutionary paths. This emotion does not conform to the logic of biological evolution."

"What emotion? Is it fear?!"

Little Mo Ling asked subconsciously, with even more confusion in her big eyes.

She glanced at the horrified corpse next to her and thought of this without thinking.

"That's right."

The researcher nodded mechanically, and a red-white fluid flowed from the bullet hole in the center of his forehead, dripping onto his body.

Frowning her brows, Mo Ling couldn't help but retort:

"Isn't it right? Why can't fear appear in humans?"

"Most animals have fear. This is the most primitive "expression" of life resisting death, or genes avoiding genetic interruption."

"Human beings don't have problems, right?"

"You said arrogance is just about right. This kind of complex and advanced emotion has no meaning for the reproduction of life."

"crunch"

The researcher suddenly turned his head stiffly and looked blankly at Mo Ling who was rebutting him.

Suddenly, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"No, it's not the fear of death."

"It's humans who fear humans."

"In other words, we will be extremely afraid of human beings who look like humans."

"This fearful emotion is almost engraved in our instinctive genes, so much so that it forms a brand."

"This kind of emotion only appears in humans. It is obviously unreasonable and does not conform to the logic of biological evolution."

"What's the meaning!?"

After blurting out the words, Lin An suddenly felt a strong uneasiness. If his spiritual power had not been interrupted, he could clearly feel that the other party was under his control.

He even felt that the resurrected researcher had lost control.

In an instant, the Second Will suddenly spoke in a deep voice, his tone full of solemnity and surprise:

("What did he want to say!?")

(“Uncanny Valley Effect!?”)

As if he could hear the words in his mind, the revived researcher turned his neck again and looked at Lin An as if he had received instructions:

"That's right."

"In the uncanny valley effect, we will not be afraid of cartoons and semi-anthropomorphic existences in animation, but will find them cute."

"But I am afraid of beings whose appearance resembles that of humans to a certain extent."

"Like incredibly realistic puppets, spiders, snakes or other creatures with human faces."

"As long as the similarity of existence exceeds a critical point, we will feel fear."

Blinking her eyes, Mo Ling could no longer understand what the researcher wanted to say. She subconsciously looked at Lin An, only to find that Lin An's face was getting more and more ugly.

Before she could speak, Lin An stared at her:

"Keep talking!"

Following the order, the dead researcher continued to speak numbly:

"Based on the above theory, in our subsequent research, we boldly guessed a terrible truth."

"Why are we afraid? Why are we afraid of beings who look very much like us? Why can we easily recognize that they are not human?"

"There is only one answer."

"People who look like us will behave inhumanely toward us after encountering humans."

"Simply put."

"In human civilization, for a long time, we were "killed" by people who had the same appearance as us but were not human beings!"

"This kind of "killing" method must be extremely cruel, so cruel that we can easily tell that the other person is not a human being."

""They" have faces that are almost the same as ours, but they are our enemies, so much so that we are so afraid that this fear is deeply engraved in our genes."

"Under the uncanny valley effect, we have created a large number of film and television culture, novels, records, and stone sculptures based on this fear."

"Although we have forgotten who "they" are, we instinctively want to describe the existence of "them""

After that, everything was quiet in the laboratory.

Taking a deep breath, Lin An took a deep look at the researcher.

He understood what exactly this regional world had discovered.

they found out

Zombies have long appeared in human history.

And, not just once.

But here, there is obviously no doomsday game.