Paranormal incident investigation notes

Time passed bit by bit. Lu Ming raised his wrist and stared at his watch.

At this moment, it has been ten seconds since the sacrifice ended.

He knew that it would be more difficult without the booming sound. This means that it is not possible to use pregnant animals to replace pregnant women. The root cause of this series of strange events lies in certain special characteristics that human pregnant women have but not possessed by pregnant animals. In this case, our subsequent research and verification methods will be greatly reduced.

Eleven, twelve, thirteen...

In this silence, in a trance, the banging sound suddenly sounded.

Lu Ming's heart dropped slightly.

In any case, this at least proves that it is completely feasible to use pregnant animals to perform sacrifices instead of pregnant women. It can even be said to have the same effect.

However, the rock experts and acoustic experts guarding the sarcophagus each looked at each other, and they all saw a look of horror on each other's faces.

Human ears can make mistakes, but instruments are unlikely to make mistakes. Now, the instrument has clearly captured this sound.

The sound source positioning system also clearly pointed out that the source of this banging sound was this sarcophagus.

It really came from inside this sarcophagus! But this sarcophagus is obviously solid, how could there be any sound coming from inside it?

An acoustic expert carefully looked at the data and images on the display screen. Suddenly he broke into a cold sweat and his expression was full of horror.

He seemed to have seen something extremely terrible.

But everyone did not move at this moment, waiting silently until the banging sound completely disappeared.

Lu Ming and He Wei walked over quickly.

"Professor Qian, what's wrong?"

The acoustic expert named Professor Qian pointed at the display screen, his whole body trembling slightly. After a moment, he said hoarsely: "Look at these data."

Lu Ming looked at it subconsciously, then looked back and shook his head: "I can't understand."

Professor Qian took several rapid breaths before reluctantly saying: "That's it. The sound source positioning system showed that the sound just now did come from the sarcophagus. But... it was not the sarcophagus that made the sound."

Lu Ming and He Wei were both a little puzzled.

What do you mean it was not the sarcophagus that made the sound? The sound clearly came from it.

"This is a vibration frequency detection device. Chief Lu, you should know that the essence of sound is the vibration of an object. The vibration of an object will produce sound, and the sound will also cause the object to vibrate."

Of course Lu Ming knew this. This is just junior high school knowledge.

"However, I have installed a total of 39 vibration frequency detection devices on this sarcophagus, around the sarcophagus, and in various places in the hall. And, depending on the distance, I detected that when the banging sound was made, The vibrations of the sarcophagus itself match the rate at which sound decays with distance."

"what does that mean?"

Lu Ming and He Wei still didn't understand.

"This means that the sarcophagus is not the source of the sound itself at all. The sound is not emitted by it. Like the rest of the hall, it vibrates only because it is affected by the sound. That is, not because The vibration of the sarcophagus made a sound, but it was because of the sound that the sarcophagus vibrated."

Lu Ming frowned slightly.

This result was indeed somewhat beyond his expectation.

"Then, where did the sound come from?"

"The sound source positioning system clearly shows that the sound comes from inside this sarcophagus. The sound comes from this sarcophagus!"

Two systems, both very precise and very accurate, actually gave two completely opposite conclusions at this moment.

The sound came from the sarcophagus, but it did not come from the sarcophagus.

Lu Ming looked at the rock expert next to him.

"Is there a cavity inside the sarcophagus, and is there a sound-producing device in that cavity?"

The rock expert shook his head: "It is certain that there is no cavity inside the sarcophagus."

"Okay, so there is no cavity, just a sound-producing device?"

The acoustic expert shook his head in denial: "It's also impossible. If that were the case, the vibration frequency of the sarcophagus would not be what it is now. This... object vibrates, makes a sound, and then causes another object to vibrate, which is caused by direct contact between the two objects. The vibrations have different energy loss rates. This is easy to distinguish."

He Wei considered the words: "Professor Qian, you are saying that the current situation... is that there is a sound source inside the sarcophagus. It is located inside the sarcophagus, but this sound source will not have any physical impact on the sarcophagus other than making sounds. ?”

Lu Ming shook his head subconsciously. He thought this was ridiculous.

No physical interaction with the sarcophagus other than sound? How can this be? Unless the emission of this sound does not require anything that actually exists on the physical level - because once it exists, there must be interaction.

But if this device does not exist on the physical level, how can it emit sounds that can be heard and perceived on the physical level in the real world?

This voice actually exists.

This cannot be explained at all.

But the reputation expert nodded.

"That's it. There's only...only one explanation."

His body was still shaking a little at this moment, and his face was still full of disbelief. It seems that this phenomenon has challenged his cognition and subverted his world view.

"There must be something wrong with the equipment...it must be, it must be. Let's try it again."

At this moment, the rest of the people involved in the experiment, including the senior executives of the Destiny Organization, looked at Lu Ming and He Wei with anxiety, waiting for them to make the next decision.

Lu Ming thought for a moment and signaled for people to transport away all the pregnant beasts placed in front of the sarcophagus. So a large number of people filed in, and after a while, all the hundreds of pregnant beasts were transported out.

These pregnant beasts will be temporarily stored in the club. After all the pregnant beasts have been tested, they will go back and forth from wherever they are according to the previously established experimental procedures. At the same time, the staff at those breeding farms will not know what exactly happened to these pregnant animals here. Operation Team 2 did not give them any instructions.

How we treated these pregnant beasts and the little beasts about to be born in the past is how we will treat them in the future.

In fact, in order to avoid the possibility of being treated differently by farm staff due to the fact that they were "transported away and then brought back", some of the pregnant animals that were transported would not even be tested at all. They are simply out for a trip, and they can go back just as they came.

In this way, the possible impact of conscious differential treatment on the determination of luck index is eliminated.

At this moment, after the first batch of one hundred pregnant beasts were transported away, the second batch of pregnant beasts that had been disposed of in advance was transported in, and the second sacrificial ceremony began.

Acoustic experts are facing an enemy.

During the period before the start of the second sacrificial ceremony, the acoustic experts were busy, testing all the equipment, and conducted several more acoustic tests to confirm that all the equipment was working properly and the values ​​were accurate. Begin this second sacrificial ceremony.

It's still reciting the sacrificial inscriptions, it's still spiritual dance, and after a series of processes, the second sacrifice has been completed. As expected, the slightly weird banging sound, as if someone was tapping the sarcophagus from the inside, sounded again.

This time, the faces of acoustic experts were even worse.

Because the second test also came to the same conclusion as the first test.

The sound really came from inside the sarcophagus. But it does indeed have no physical interaction with the sarcophagus itself except for sound.

"How could this happen? How could this happen..."

Professor Qian, the leader of the team, hurriedly checked the values ​​​​of each detector. After finding that everything was normal, he used a piece of equipment as a chair and sat down.

"It's not a sound from our world. It's from another world. There's only one explanation."

Other than that, there really is no other theory to explain it.

"Well, things have gotten a little weirder now."

Lu Ming sighed in his heart. But other than writing this matter down temporarily, he had no other way to continue studying it at this moment.

Whether it is a high-dimensional universe, a parallel universe, another universe, etc., they are all things that are completely out of reach with current technological means and can neither be proven nor falsified. I can only ignore it for the time being.

After the second trial ended, the third trial began. Like the previous two, this third test also made a boom-boom sound.

However, this time, in addition to the still weird banging sound, acoustic experts made another discovery.

"This boom boom sound has become louder."

Professor Qian pointed to a few numbers, his expression full of solemnity.

"The sound value detected in the third test was about 0.015% greater than the first."

"Getting bigger?"

Lu Ming was slightly surprised. He looked at the goddess and saw that the goddess was at a loss.

"I have performed this ritual hundreds of times before, and I have never felt the sound getting louder."

The other two senior executives of the Destiny Organization who also often participated in the sacrificial ceremony also shook their heads.

Lu Ming looked at Professor Qian again.

"Did it just get louder the third time? What about the second time?"

"It actually got bigger the second time, but the amplitude was too small. I suspected it was an instrument error. But I came to the same conclusion the third time, so I'm sure. Well... an increase of 0.015% is very small. People It’s normal if the ears can’t detect it.”

What Lu Ming is thinking about now is not this question, but... is there a possibility that, with the increase in sacrifices, the size of the banging sound is actually increasing?

Not only is it increasing now, but from the Dali culture in ancient times to the Destiny Organization in modern times, each of their sacrifices has actually increased this voice?

Maybe the Dali culture in ancient times held sacrifices, and the sound was so low that you had to put your ear close to the sarcophagus to hear it. In modern times, when fate organizes sacrifices, can the sound be heard directly?

But they obviously don't use instruments and equipment to specifically measure it. Also, the increase in the sound of each sacrifice was too small, and the interval was too long, so they didn't realize that the sound would increase at all?

At a frequency of once a month, a goddess would only make 600 sacrifices in her entire career, even if it lasted 50 years. After 600 sacrifices, the increase in the entire sound may be less than 1%, so it is normal to not notice it.

This is very possible. So, if this banging sound, like someone tapping the sarcophagus from the inside, is indeed increasing... what does this mean?

Does it mean the accumulation of some kind of "energy" or progress in some aspect? If so, what will happen if this "energy" accumulates to the limit and progresses to the limit?

In the game, when the move is charged to 100%, you can launch a big move. On the dam, if the dam is damaged to the limit, it will completely collapse and cause a flood. If a person is extremely hungry, he will starve to death.

Generally speaking, accumulation and progress reaching the limit mean a certain process from quantitative change to qualitative change. So...if this is indeed the case, what will happen to this "qualitative change" of the boom?

Lu Ming had no way of knowing.

He Wei looked at Lu Ming with some worry. She was already hesitant at this moment, wondering whether she should continue the sacrifice.

Lu Ming thought for a moment and finally made a decision.

"The test continues. Professor Qian, you guys continue to monitor."

"yes."

At this moment, these experiments are the only means for us to explore the secrets of this sarcophagus. In the absence of other alternatives, we can only proceed temporarily.

The subsequent experiments continued like this.

On this first day, a total of sixteen experiments were carried out, and 1,600 fetuses in the bellies of pregnant beasts were "sacrificially sacrificed" to the God of Destiny in the sarcophagus.

Professor Qian's team has been closely monitoring the sound. The final data once again confirmed his previous conclusions.

The nature of these sounds is as always, it does come from inside the sarcophagus, but there is no physical interaction with the sarcophagus other than the sound. At the same time, the sound is indeed increasing. After a full sixteen sacrifices, the total sound increased by about 0.12%.

"Sergeant Lu, I propose to dismantle this sarcophagus and see what's inside."

Professor Qian finally gritted his teeth and made this suggestion. However, just like the last time rock experts made this suggestion, Lu Ming once again chose to refuse.

There seem to be more and more secrets on this sarcophagus. Destroying the sarcophagus and directly exploring the interior seems to be the best method. But... precisely because it has more and more secrets, Lu Ming has to be more cautious.

At this stage, you must not destroy it.

"Continue the experiment tomorrow."

After making this decision, everyone after a busy day can finally take a break for a while. On the next day, in addition to the 1,400 pregnant animals remaining in the club, a second batch of 4,000 pregnant animals will also be transported from nearby farms and pastures to prepare for participation in subsequent experiments.