Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 273 Spiritual Pollution
Lu Ming's words disappointed several people.But when you think about it, it makes sense.

It is impossible for there to be a clue that can point directly to the core and the truth. Once it is brought up, it will immediately make everyone suddenly enlightened, suddenly enlightened, and then find out the case like a broken bamboo. Wait here for Lu Ming to find out.

If there were such clues, the previous task force must have discovered it long ago.After all, when it comes to IQ, my side is no higher than those in the task force.The advantage of our own side is only that we have a wider vision, more resources available, more experience in such supernatural cases, and more unlimited thinking.

"But that doesn't mean we can't do anything."

Lu Ming changed the topic: "At the current stage, we may have some way to confirm whether the way that star map affects human beings is a known method or an unknown method."

If it is a known method, it is the one investigated by the task force before, such as psychological suggestion, image hypnosis and so on.If it is finally found that it does fall into these categories, then the "supernatural" factor can be ruled out.

If the method is unknown, then it belongs to the supernatural category.Just like the so-called "spiritual pollution" and "psychological erosion".

At the current stage, the experts of Luo Yang's team believe that the extremely high probability does not belong to the category of known means.Our side also dispatched psychological experts from other places to jointly demonstrate.But from this aspect, there is a high probability that no clues can be found, and this matter cannot be truly determined.

"How to check?"

"Do animal experiments."

Lu Ming said a few words.

Lu Qingliang patted himself on the head subconsciously: "Why did I forget this?"

As soon as this method was proposed, several people immediately realized its feasibility.

Frankly speaking, this method is actually not very clever.The task force did not propose this method before, and it cannot be said that they are stupid.Lu Ming knew that it was just that his side had a wider vision and got used to breaking away from the restrictions of conventional methods.

After all, in broad daylight, everyone is used to doing things within the framework of science, and is used to talking about evidence and logic.But sometimes, in the face of some cases suspected of supernatural factors, we can't just talk about evidence and logic.

This is also one of the advantages of the second action team.

Zhang Dingshan nodded slightly, accepted Lu Ming's suggestion, and then looked at Lu Qingliang: "Among the animals, you get a batch of animals with higher IQs. Well, let's get some animals with lower IQs as a comparison. Let's take The birds are fine."

"it is good."

Of all life on Earth, mammals have the highest IQs.The tallest among them is of course human beings. Other than humans, there are dolphins, orangutans, monkeys and the like.Even pigs, horses, cows, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals commonly seen by ordinary people have not low IQs.

After finalizing the plan, Lu Qingliang immediately contacted various farms, pharmaceutical factories, animal research centers, etc., and found pigs, cows, sheep, and monkeys, four animals with high IQs, a total of [-] animals.Another batch of poultry, such as chickens, ducks, and geese, was brought in from the farm, and the number was also a hundred.

He Wei temporarily requisitioned an abandoned factory building, contacted the manufacturer of that ultra-high-definition projector, and installed one directly in the factory building. In this way, the test site was completed.

Before the actual experiment, a group of animal researchers were also called in to conduct a test on the animals that were going to participate in the experiment.The content of the test includes behavioral cognition, IQ, spatial perception, etc., to ensure that all animals in this group are "online in IQ", at least have the average IQ level of their species, and have no cognitive defects.

At this moment, this batch of animals is packed in various cages and placed outside the factory building.So Lu Ming's ears were filled with the humming of pigs, the bleating of sheep, the clucking and quacking of chickens, ducks and geese.

After everything was ready, Zhang Dingshan gave an order, and immediately many staff members transported the batch of animals into the factory building.Some staff members came in and wrapped up a part of the eyes of each of the seven animals so that they could not see anything outside.

After that, the factory door slowly closed.Guards with live ammunition guarded every direction of the factory building, and no one was allowed to enter.

After everything was ready, Zhang Dingshan pressed the start button.In an instant, a colorful "eye" appeared on the monitor screen, which was originally pitch black and without the slightest light.

Yes, surveillance cameras were installed in this factory building, and Zhang Dingshan and the others watched everything inside through the surveillance cameras without any cover.

He wasn't worried that his side would be "infected" by looking directly into that eye.The reason is simple, no matter how clear and how high the resolution of that eye is displayed on the projection screen, the clarity of the monitoring probe is always limited.After this change of hands, the clarity will immediately decrease a lot, and even the picture quality taken by some telescopes in the past is not as good as that. Of course, there is no need to worry about the problem of infection.

At this moment, the attention of the four members of the second operation team was all focused on the monitoring screen.

Before the eye appeared, the animals were all restless.The factory building is as noisy as a vegetable market, and the sound is not only transmitted through the monitoring system, but people can also hear it directly even at a distance.

But now, the moment that eye appeared, its noise immediately decreased to a level that could be clearly discerned by the ear.

Lu Ming clearly saw that the monkey, which was jumping around in the cage, grabbed the iron railing at this moment, tried to lean its head forward, and looked at the eye carefully, without moving its body.The fat pig who had been humming incessantly, at this moment, seemed to have been immobilized, and stopped humming or moving.

On the contrary, chickens, ducks, geese and three kinds of poultry do not seem to be affected.Also, the blindfolded animals were not affected, and were still humming restlessly.

Next to it, a group of animal research experts were busy recording relevant data while watching the video.

The test lasted half an hour in total.Compared with the human standard, which is "a person should not look directly at the star map for more than 10 minutes", this time undoubtedly greatly exceeds the safety line.

At the beginning, Li Hu, the captain of the Nancheng Public Security Bureau, only watched it for less than a minute, and he had a certain "addiction" in his heart.If this star map can really affect animals, then these test products are undoubtedly "deeply poisoned".

After the experiment, Zhang Dingshan turned off the projector and turned on the light.Under the bright light, Lu Ming saw from the surveillance that the animals that had originally behaved abnormally began to become extremely irritable after the "eyes" disappeared.

The originally motionless pig began to bump against the railing crazily, the monkey squeaked like crazy, and a cow kept turning in circles, pawing the ground, looking very irritable.

Even the crowing of chickens, ducks and geese seemed to be a little louder.

The guards opened the gate of the factory building and transported the animals out one by one.Immediately, the animal experts moved forward and began testing the animals again for behavioral and cognitive abilities.

The specific data will probably not come out until tomorrow.But at this moment, just looking at the appearance of these animals, Lu Ming already had the answer in his heart.

This star map can indeed affect animals.And, it really affects the animals after seeing them through their eyes.Because in comparison, those blindfolded animals looked very normal, without any abnormality.

The data on the second day undoubtedly proved Lu Ming's guess.

"Behavioral and cognitive tests showed that the blindfolded animals all showed some degree of cognitive decline. Some of them began not to recognize their companions, and some lost the previously trained 'press button'. Some of their ability to obtain food could no longer pass the mirror test. Moreover, their behavior began to have a tendency to become "crazy", such as violence, self-mutilation, attacking companions, and illogical behavior.

Specific data analysis shows that animals with higher IQ have greater cognitive decline.Among the several animals involved in the experiment, monkeys are the smartest.Their cognitive abilities declined by about 36 percent on average, followed by pigs at about 29 percent.The least affected were chickens, with cognitive declines of only about 9%. "

After getting this data, the four members of the second action team held a meeting again.

"This experiment has three conclusions.

One, the way that the star map exerts influence on the living body and makes it crazy is achieved by seeing through the eyes of the living body.It can be deduced from this that creatures without eyes and unable to receive light information are not affected by star maps.

Second, the higher the intelligence, the greater the degree of influence by the star map.For example, monkeys are affected much more than birds.

Third, and most importantly. "

When he said this, Lu Ming paused for a moment, and then slowly said: "The method used by the star map to make living organisms crazy has nothing to do with psychological and spiritual factors. It is not psychological suggestion, nor is it hypnosis."

Psychologists can't draw [-]% conclusions, but this experiment can clearly deduce this conclusion.

the reason is simple.The psychological mechanisms of humans are obviously different from those of pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese—the physiological structures are different, how can the psychological mechanisms be the same?

It is difficult to imagine that there exists a method of psychological suggestion that can have the same effect on so many different psychological mechanisms at the same time.Instead of insisting on assuming that there is such a method, we might as well abandon this assumption directly and think that it is achieved by means other than psychological suggestion.

This is the logic behind Lu Ming's complete denial of the possibility of psychological suggestion.

but……

In this case, after negating the psychological and spiritual methods, what methods are left?
I am afraid that the only thing left is the so-called supernatural means, such as "spiritual pollution" and other mysterious things that only exist in Cthulhu's worldview.

The possibility of psychological suggestion and hypnosis was denied by Lu Ming himself.But at the same time, he can't accept the so-called "spiritual pollution" and other rhetoric.

Lu Ming frowned, thinking hard.

"Let's dissect those animals first."

Zhang Dingshan finally made a decision.

Among the "crazy" animals, three of each species were pulled into the laboratory and subjected to dissection research to find out what kind of changes occurred in their brains.The rest of the animals are still here to continue the experiment.

The researchers are trying to refine the ability of that star map to cause the "insanity" of organisms.For example, for a certain animal, the relationship between the time spent watching the star map and its madness, the relationship between its intelligence level and its madness, and so on.

In the laboratory, the researchers directly opened the heads of those animals, took out their brain tissue, and began to conduct research and verification of various methods.

The results appear after about a few days.The report that was finally presented to the four members of the second action team was once again beyond people's expectations.

"...Through the research of the above thirteen techniques in total, we have come to the following conclusion: This is the brain tissue of a healthy pig. We have not found any macro-level lesions, hyperplasia, defects, poisoning and other damage in the brain .”

This is the conclusion of the study of pig brain tissue.For the rest, the same is true for the research on monkeys, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese.

It was completely normal, and no traces of lesions were found.

You must know that in order to ensure that the research process is not disturbed by any external factors, each animal is sent to three different research institutions with corresponding capabilities, and these three research institutions do not know the special characteristics of these animals in advance. place.

So many research institutions have given completely consistent answers, which almost unmistakably proves the credibility of their conclusions.

"However, these animals have clearly exhibited cognitive decline and a tendency to go berserk. How could there be nothing wrong with their brains?"

He Wei felt somewhat unacceptable to this conclusion.

Lu Qingliang murmured: "Don't forget, the brain scans of those in Zhou Tianyang's team, Luo Yang, and Li Hu also showed that there was no abnormality in their brains."

Of course, it is impossible for the second operation team to directly open a person's head and take out the brain tissue for research.Regarding the previous scan conclusions of "there is no abnormality in the brain" of these people, several people are more inclined to think that it is a defect in the scanning technology, and they tend to think that once they can open their heads and study directly, they will be able to find the abnormality.No one expected that the animal's head was opened at this moment, and there was no abnormality in the result.

"Could it be... really some spiritual pollution?"

There is no abnormality in the brains of animals after going berserk, and it is not psychological suggestion or hypnosis that leads to berserk.The combination of these two rules almost eliminates all possibilities other than the so-called "spiritual pollution".

But Lu Ming really couldn't accept the absurd explanation of "spiritual pollution".

If the possibility of "spiritual pollution" is established, then almost the entire scientific system of the human world can be overthrown.

Lu Ming murmured, "I'll think about it again."

(End of this chapter)