Paranormal incident investigation notes

At this moment, Lu Ming had an unreal feeling when he heard that his original treatment actually affected the life and death of the entire human civilization.

Of course, we did attach great importance to the situation at that time. But this is nothing more than the scope of a case. To connect that situation to the life and death of an entire civilization is crazy.

Even if Shu Changshan showed a high degree of credibility, this sentence still made Lu Ming feel a little unbelievable.

Seeing Lu Ming's expression, Shu Changshan sighed.

"I already know the real plan of the monsters at this moment. Just as you guessed, this is indeed a sacrifice. The target is the evil eye that is more than 100 million light-years away, and the purpose is to destroy the place where we are. The coordinates are passed to the Demonic Eye so that it can transmit this thing to our earth.

As for this thing... If I am not mistaken, based on the information I learned from the Light Chaser, it should be a 'star spirit'. "

"Star Spirit? What is this?"

Shu Changshan murmured: "Star spirits are also a kind of magical creatures that exist in the vast starry sky. They worship the strong very much. Once they encounter magical creatures with higher strength and status than themselves, they will be willing to be driven by them, forever. Will not betray.

But towards the weak, the protoss is extremely cruel and callous. They can infect the minds of living beings on a large scale, causing them to fall into the abyss of despicability and treachery. Eventually, all the infected living beings will die from killing each other, and their souls will be absorbed by it.

Eventually, it will return to the powerful creature that drove it and give away all the harvest in order to please its master. "

"This thing..."

Lu Ming felt like he was listening to some myths and legends. But the reality forced him to think carefully about this possibility.

"Mr. Shu, are you saying that the monsters passed the coordinates of the earth to the Demon Eye through rituals, and the Demon Eye sent this kind of star spirit to harvest the souls of the creatures on the earth?"

"At present, it should be like this."

"Then, Mr. Shu, why do you say we handled it in a timely manner?"

He Wei couldn't understand.

After all, even if everything Shu Changshan said is true, that monster called a star spirit will reach the earth in as soon as one year or as slowly as two years. By then, won’t all the people on earth have to be wiped out?

For this kind of monster that exists under the world view of Cthulhu, human technology is probably of little use.

Shu Changshan whispered: "Although a creature like the star spirit is absolutely loyal to its master and cruel and cruel, it has one biggest shortcoming. That is, its ability to perceive the external environment is very poor. If there is no clear guidance, Tell it where the destination is, then it is possible that even if it is only a hundred meters away from the earth, it will pass by the earth and continue its voyage into the depths of the universe."

Um?

Lu Ming's pupils narrowed.

He roughly understood what Shu Changshan meant.

"So, what Mr. Shu means is that because we did not make the sacrifice of the monsters a complete success, there was a slight deviation in the coordinates of the star spirits that were sent to the earth by the magic eye, resulting in the star spirits that were originally sent to the earth. , and finally appeared in a place more than 100 billion kilometers away from the earth... right?"

"According to my guess, that should be the case."

"In that case, the monsters' next move must be to continue to find ways to provide guidance to the star spirits, so that they can accurately come to the earth to harvest creatures, and we will have at least one year, and as many as two years. Years to find a way to stop the monsters, this is our glimmer of hope...?"

"right."

"But... so what if we block the guidance of the monsters? Even if this 'celestial spirit' may pass by the earth, that 'magic eye' won't be so stupid, right? Even if it thinks about it with its butt, What should we do if we know that the ultimate target is the Earth and it directly allows the protoss to come to the Earth?"

Shu Changshan looked at Lu Ming: "Chief Lu, I think... you may have underestimated the role of the magic eye in our universe, and overestimated the value of us humans."

Lu Ming was startled and then reacted.

Could it be that... the value of the entire human civilization, in the eyes of the Demon Eye, is not even worth the slightest movement of its head?

Could it be that, for it, it just received a request from a certain priest, and then randomly sent a subordinate to the coordinates, and then didn't bother to pay attention to it?

…

Shu Changshan whispered: "The universe is so vast. There are countless things or beings with higher value than the human world. Our only reason for survival is that it is not valuable enough to attract the attention of those great beings. This is not shameful, On the contrary... we are lucky. Our enemies are only those monsters that have been mutated by the evil eye, not the evil eye."

If Shu Changshan's logic is true, then... the enemy of mankind is indeed not the magic eye. Because it's not worthy at all.

Lu Ming remained silent, thinking rapidly about Shu Changshan's words, trying to find loopholes in them, distinguishing whether the words were true or false, and thinking about his own action plan if they were true.

He Wei said: "In this case, the sacrifices of the monsters are human lives? But... with the force of the monsters, in places where the defense is lax or even completely undefended, it is easy to bloodbath even a village. Why? Are you so stubborn that you want to attack our base?"

Lu Ming perked up.

This is indeed a rather unreasonable place.

Public security in modern society is still very good. Some remote mountain villages have long been accustomed to this kind of tranquility and have no defense against the outside world. It is not like in ancient times when they had to form villages and associations, build forts, and organize people to protect the villages.

It is indeed not difficult for the monsters to slaughter a village with blood.

Shu Changshan said: "Those who can serve as sacrifices in this ceremony need to meet a condition. Either they have a delicious soul or a strong body. Only in this way can they become sacrifices, otherwise they will only become a drag on the ceremony. . And, there needs to be a certain number of both types of people.”

A strong body is easy to understand, but a delicious soul...

"The soul that masters a lot of knowledge is the most delicious to the evil god."

Lu Ming felt slightly cold in his heart.

In modern society, who has the most knowledge? Obviously, it can only be scientists, scholars, engineers and the like.

However, there are not many scientific researchers in the temporary base.

As for the strong body... among the guards who were transferred, which one is not a muscular man? Which one is not a person who casually fights five in the outside world?

In this way, a delicious soul and a strong body come together. And there are a lot of them.

From this aspect, there are really not many places that meet the needs of sacrifice.

In some commercial buildings, places full of wealthy elites, there may be enough fresh souls, but there may not be many strong bodies. Or some other hidden military bases, scientific research bases, etc. Of course, those places also meet the conditions, but compared to our hastily established temporary military base, the alert level is too high, and I am afraid it is not as easy to attack as here.

Combining the two aspects, Lu Ming found that his temporary base turned out to be the most suitable target.

At the same time, he also realized another problem.

Why did our side set up this temporary military base?

It was to imprison Luo Yang.

In this way, enough guards with "strong bodies" must be mobilized.

In order to study Luo Yang's mutated monster, we must mobilize enough scientific researchers with "delicious souls" to come over.

The root of everything lies in the monster Luo Yang mutated into.

So...it seems that there is an answer to why the monsters left Luo Yang alone.

They indeed intentionally left Luo Yang behind, with the purpose of setting up a temporary military base and collecting enough "delicious souls" and "strong bodies" for their own sacrifices!

After discovering that the members of Zhou Tianyang's team had mutated into monsters and escaped, with only Luo Yang staying, he had conveniently stepped into the opponent's trap, and naturally followed their arrangements without any resistance.

If we didn't deal with it quickly on the night when the monsters gathered, maybe the sacrifice of the monsters might really be successful, and then the star spirits would be directly released to the earth, and then everyone would be finished!

Lu Ming felt a bone-chilling cold. Cold sweat broke out uncontrollably on my back.

Their calculations are so deep! Their wisdom is so high! Our own side even subconsciously treated them as wild beasts before. It was really lucky that they didn't ruin the overall situation at that time.

Heaven and hell are just a thought away. One step forward, one step back, and the situation at the moment is completely different.

He Wei also looked scared at this moment. Even Zhang Dingshan frowned and looked solemn.

Shu Changshan sighed again: "In my opinion, letting you take the initiative to gather 'delicious souls' and 'strong bodies' is just one of the monsters' goals. Their other purpose is to, during the sacrifice, before the sacrifice, , a sacrifice leader is needed, so that the ritual can work. Now it seems that it is obviously the monster imprisoned by you. Well, if I guess correctly, on the night when the monsters gathered, you were The imprisoned monster should do something, right? This ritual requires an eyeball, but judging from your state of martial law, it shouldn't be able to get it from the outside world, so... it dug out its own eyeball, right? "

Lu Ming was surprised again.

He couldn't help but recall that night, Experimental Subject No. 1 unexpectedly cut the rope that he thought it could not cut, dug out his own eyeballs, and knelt down in the direction of the CSK-9602 galaxy.

At that time, it was easy to determine that Experimental Subject No. 1 must have deliberately concealed his strength in order to break free on this day.

But Lu Ming remembered clearly that he had never told Shu Changshan about this matter! At this moment, Shu Changshan analyzed this matter on his own based on his own "theoretical system".

Zhang Dingshan nodded solemnly: "That's true."

He Wei solemnly said: "I still have a question. Mr. Shu, you said that the monsters' sacrifices are reporting the coordinates of the earth to the magic eye, and these people in this base are the sacrifices. But the sacrifices are not It was not completely successful, causing deviations in the delivery of the protoss.

However, the protoss still appeared near the earth after all. From this point of view, the sacrifices of the monsters are at least 99.9999% successful... Then, if the people in this base are sacrifices, why did our people only unfortunately sacrifice two of them and only occupy the base? Less than one percent of the total population? "

The solar system is 160 million light-years away from CSK-9602, the great creature claimed by Shu Changshan as the "Magic Eye." Judging from this distance, the more than 100 billion kilometers between that star spirit and the earth is not even a drop in the bucket. Being able to directly deliver it to this range from 160 million light-years away cannot be described with general accuracy. This accuracy is simply higher than the accuracy of shooting an arrow directly from the earth and accurately hitting a dust particle on the moon.

From this aspect, the sacrifice was largely successful.

But there were hundreds of people in the base, and only two died that night due to poisoning. From this perspective, the sacrifice was only partially successful.

There is a contradiction here.

Shu Changshan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "To be honest, I don't know."

Lu Ming whispered: "Maybe it's because of the diminishing marginal effect."

Just like, ordinary people spend 100,000 yuan to buy an ordinary car, which can run at a top speed of 260 kilometers per hour. A rich man spent five million to buy a sports car, but the top speed was only increased to 320 kilometers per hour.

In the early days, ordinary people could get a speed of 26 kilometers per hour for every 10,000 yuan. Later, the rich man needed a full 4.9 million yuan, but he could only get a speed increase of 60 kilometers per hour.

The closer to the limit, the more resources you need to invest if you want to improve again, but the smaller the improvement you get in exchange.

This is the diminishing marginal effect.

So, sacrificing two people would increase the accuracy to more than 100 billion kilometers away from the earth. Sacrifice another 100 people, but it might only increase the accuracy to 10 billion kilometers away from the earth. It is not incomprehensible that everyone must be sacrificed in order to increase the accuracy to hit the earth.

At this moment, the last question in the minds of the members of the Second Operation Team was answered. Of course, it is an answer based on the so-called Cthulhu worldview. Lu Ming is still not sure whether this Cthulhu worldview is consistent with reality.

Lu Ming secretly warned himself to "only take Shu Changshan's answer as a reference, and don't trust it entirely", and said at the same time: "So, Mr. Shu, do you think those monsters will use that method to guide the protoss to the earth in the next step? "

In any case, at this moment, we can only follow this Cthulhu worldview for the time being. Because, at the current stage, apart from this set of explanations, we really have no other direction.