Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 290 Limited Trust

Lu Ming was slightly taken aback.

The meaning of Shu Changshan's words is very clear.

Even if the ceremony is held, he can no longer perceive the existence of the Light Chaser, and he can no longer rely on the power of this god.And in this case, it seems that it can only be because the light chaser actively cut off contact with him.

What was the reason for the disconnection?Combined with the current situation, we can only draw the only conclusion: because Shu Changshan participated in activities related to the top evil god "Magic Eye".

Lu Ming didn't know the so-called evil gods, the status, entanglement, and ranking of strength among the so-called mythical creatures.But all in all, this light chaser is unwilling to have any contact with the magic eye.

However, even the light chasers shunned, and Shu Changshan, who was just a mortal, really felt the fear.

At this moment, his mind collapsed, and his original confidence completely disappeared.

Lu Ming subconsciously began to appease and comfort her.But Shu Changshan seems to have completely collapsed.At this moment, all he knew was trembling, crying, and howling that he wanted to leave immediately, leave here immediately.It seemed that if he stayed here for a while, he would die instantly.

Faced with this situation, Lu Ming lacked some experience in dealing with it after all.He looked at Zhang Dingshan for help, and heard Zhang Dingshan's voice was still calm, but the volume was a little louder.

"Lu Ming, let him go, let him go!"

Lu Ming slowly let go of Shu Changshan.Shu Changshan collapsed to the ground, his body still trembling.

Zhang Dingshan walked over and looked at him condescendingly.Shu Changshan also raised his head, looking at Zhang Dingshan full of fear.

"Aren't you going to go? Let's go."

Shu Changshan used both hands and feet, and when he got up, he was about to rush out.None of the guards stopped him.But Shu Changshan ran a few steps, but he stopped slowly.

"Leave if you want, no one will stop you!"

Zhang Dingshan reprimanded loudly.But he saw that Shu Changshan's body was trembling, and his feet moved several times, but he didn't step out several times.In the end, he seemed to collapse again, and his body limply fell to the ground again, crying loudly.

He is not leaving.

Zhang Dingshan calmly ordered the guard: "Take him to the rest room."

"Yes."

Several guards walked over and supported Shu Changshan to the lounge.During this process, Shu Changshan just kept crying, but he didn't resist.

Lu Ming looked at Zhang Dingshan worriedly, and then heard Zhang Dingshan's words: "Let him calm down. He won't leave. We have no way out, and neither does he."

Lu Ming nodded silently.

He Wei was called, and then Lu Qingliang was called, and the video conference started again.

During the meeting, He Wei was full of displeasure.

"What bullshit curse, curse pig diarrhea? You guys didn't see it, the smell..."

He Wei was disgusted.

Lu Qingliang ignored her, but shook his head worriedly.Lu Ming sighed: "Well, we have no way of verifying whether what Shu Changshan said is true."

The authenticity cannot be ascertained from Shu Changshan's past.Now, Shu Changshan claims that the light chaser has cut off contact with him, and there is no way to verify it.

This has created such a situation: no matter whether our side chooses to trust Shu Changshan or not, it lacks a solid enough basis.

Then the question is, should we trust him, and should we let him participate in our follow-up actions?
Lu Qingliang and He Wei looked at Lu Ming.

Obviously, as the person who first contacted Shu Changshan, Lu Ming had the most say on this issue.

Lu Ming thought about it and said: "From my personal perception, Shu Changshan is probably trustworthy. But... I think, maybe we don't need to get too entangled in this issue now. It doesn't matter whether Shu Changshan is trustworthy or not. Okay, let’s watch first, let’s take a step and see.”

Zhang Dingshan tapped on the table lightly: "There is a limit to trust."

"Yes." Lu Ming nodded immediately: "We only use Shu Changshan's judgment and suggestion as a reference for our actions."

Once this general principle is established, the follow-up problems will be handled much easier.Several people discussed some follow-up action directions, and then the meeting was adjourned.

During this process, several people did not discuss what to do if Shu Changshan refused to cooperate with their side.Few people seem to think this is a problem.

Sure enough, the next day, after a night of rest - or a night of torment, a night of tossing and weighing, Shu Changshan came to Lu Ming again on his own initiative.

He gritted his teeth, his face was full of sternness and determination, and he seemed to have let go of all fetters, so he had the courageous temperament of a bachelor who "will be a hero again after 18 years".

He didn't look at Lu Ming, but looked at Zhang Dingshan next to Lu Ming: "Leader, I, I want to confirm. Sergeant Lu, he agreed to my conditions, can you...can you guarantee it?"

Zhang Dingshan said calmly, "What Lu Ming means is what I mean."

"Leader, I want to make it clear in advance. Now, the gods have abandoned me, and I don't have any special abilities anymore. I only have some knowledge in the field of mysticism, but I can't guarantee how effective these things will be. .”

"I don't need guarantees. It works best, if it doesn't work, our commitment remains valid."

"Okay, do it! If you die, you will die! Anyway, I don't have much meaning to live now!"

"You are welcome to join us."

After temporarily absorbing Shu Changshan as a non-staff member of the second operation team, the relevant information was finally released to Shu Changshan.

According to Shu Changshan's request, the three first took him to the place where Luo Yang was being held.

This is the core of the base, with strict guards, three steps, one post and five steps, one sentry, and the guards are all armed with live ammunition.

As soon as he approached here, Shu Changshan's expression became a little strange.He seemed a little nervous, his lips were dry, and he kept swallowing saliva.Lu Ming looked at him, and he forced a smile.

"I, I feel the breath of the evil god. Very, very strong."

Lu Ming was noncommittal about this.

Before finally arriving at the metal room, Shu Changshan felt a little unsteady before the door was opened.His body was weak, and a guard helped him to barely stand still, like a death row prisoner who was about to be taken out of the prison to be executed.

When the metal gate was opened and the figure of the monster was clearly shown in front of him through the double-layer tempered glass, Shu Changshan's body was as soft as mud, and he needed two guards to help him barely stand up.His face was pale, big drops of sweat dripped down his forehead, his lips trembled, and he couldn't speak a word.

At this moment, Experimental Subject No. [-], who was always very peaceful in the past and basically had no movement except being tortured, seemed to feel something.It turned its head very hard, and its two small eyes—one of which was newly grown, it seems that this kind of life has a very strong ability to restore the body—looked at him strangely, and at the same time, Some slurred syllables were uttered.

Shu Changshan looked at Lu Ming begging for help.Lu Ming waved his hand, and the group left the room.After the metal door was closed and several people left for a certain distance, Shu Changshan finally recovered a bit.

"It's laughing at me, the thing is laughing at me."

Shu Changshan sat on the bench, wiped off his cold sweat, and after a while, forced a smile, and said, "It's unmistakable, it's the breath of the evil god, very strong, very powerful breath of the evil god..."

Regarding this, Lu Ming was still noncommittal.

This so-called "evil god's breath" is after all something that cannot be quantified and cannot be clearly displayed by physical indicators.Shu Changshan said he could feel it, but there was no evidence.Lu Ming could only follow the principles set before, that is, limited trust, and only take Shu Changshan's words as a reference.

"I know what the monsters are planning."

Lu Ming immediately became serious.

To this day, this problem has always been an unsolved mystery for the second action team, and it has caused great passivity for its own actions.

Our side has discussed this issue many times, tried and explored many times, but failed to figure it out.

"But I still need to find something before I can finally confirm it."

After a short rest, Shu Changshan seemed to have finally calmed down and stood up reluctantly: "Take me to the place where you found the monsters gathered to have a look."

Zhang Dingshan, He Wei, Lu Ming and more than a dozen armed guards led Shu Changshan out of the temporary base and came to the forest.

At this moment, after the passage of time, the traces of monsters left here have disappeared.But investigators still flagged information such as the approximate range.

Shu Changshan walked here and there with a solemn expression, checking various details.After a long time, he asked again: "The altar you saw at the beginning, are you sure it is at this location?"

"determine."

"Okay. Take me to see that altar."

The group of people then came to the evidence place, carefully inspected the altar and its top through the tempered glass. Although it had been treated with anti-corrosion, the original eyeballs, internal organs, etc. were almost indistinguishable.

Shu Changshan nodded, as if he understood something.After that, he took people out of the base and came to another place.

The place where the monsters gathered was located in the southeast of the temporary base.But this time, Shu Changshan led the people to the northwest of the base.

This is a wasteland.In the past, a large pit was left for unknown reasons, and it was not backfilled, so that it was used by nearby villagers as a place to dump garbage.It was not until the temporary base was built and the surrounding area was under martial law that no one came to take out the garbage.

Weeds are overgrown here, sewage flows horizontally, and the smell is pungent.Shu Changshan looked dignified, observing the terrain repeatedly, and seemed to be silently calculating something.After a long time, he chose a place and said, "Dig."

Lu Ming waved his hand, and several guards stepped forward immediately.After digging for a while, I saw nothing but dirt.

"continue."

After digging for a long time, Lu Ming suddenly saw that the soil below had turned black and became moist.The guards turned to dig around, and finally confirmed that the mass of black soil was about tens of centimeters in diameter.And the center is the heaviest black, and the periphery is lighter, which seems to spread from the periphery to the side.

A rotten stench emanated from the mass of black soil.

"Take it and examine it. If I'm not wrong, it should be left after the animal's internal organs have completely decayed. The internal organs should be wild boar's tongue, fox's heart, hare's intestines, field mouse's blood, and crow's stomach."

Shu Changshan seems to be very sure.Lu Ming couldn't help but feel a little more convinced when he looked at him.

The guards quickly transported the lump of soil to the base for inspection.Shu Changshan led the people to the northeast of the base, surveyed repeatedly, and finally determined another place to dig again.Sure enough, some more things were dug up.

But this time it wasn't corrupted viscera, but something horny.

"This should be boar's teeth, rabbit's teeth, and fox's claws."

After that, they came to the southwest again, and several animal skulls were dug out again.

The flesh and blood on those skulls had rotted away, leaving only the bones.But by looking at their appearance, Lu Ming could roughly recognize what kind of bones they were.

Wild boar head, rabbit head, bird head and so on.

A group of people returned to the base. At this time, the test results were also presented in front of several people.However, the result was exactly as Shu Changshan said before.

At this moment, even Lu Ming had to attach great importance to Shu Changshan.

In any case, Shu Changshan predicted exactly what his side didn't know before.This can only mean one thing: Shu Changshan has his own logical system based on the Cthulhu system, or worldview.He relied on this system, or theory, to analyze and predict the situation in the real world.And his analysis and predictions are all in line with the real world.

This is quite astonishing.You know, why is the scientific system considered correct?It is because in this system, the results of analyzing and predicting the real world situation according to the logic of science are correct.

Like, through scientific theoretical calculations, it is believed that uranium-235 can undergo a chain reaction in a suitable environment and trigger a nuclear explosion.Then, according to the theoretical prediction, people really produced an atomic bomb, which proved the correctness of the theoretical prediction.

Time and time again, the nearly infinite number of theoretical predictions that match reality confirm the unshakable status of the scientific system.But now, Shu Changshan has also made a prediction based on the Cthulhu system, and his prediction has been proved to be correct by the actual situation.

Although the internal connections and principles of this system have not yet been understood, it can still be considered based on this that the credibility of Shu Changshan's words has been greatly improved.

"Let me see what you observed, the star in the direction of the magic eye galaxy."

Lu Ming fetched relevant data.

In the photo, it's just a faint bright spot.

Lu Ming explained to Shu Changshan the special features of this bright spot, such as speed and brightness.

Shu Changshan was silent for a moment, and said solemnly: "If you hadn't dealt with them quickly when the monsters gathered, we might all be dead by now. We... still have a chance."

(End of this chapter)