Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 291 Diminishing Margin
At this moment, Lu Ming felt unreal when he heard that his side's original handling actually involved the life and death of the entire human civilization.

Of course, the situation at that time was indeed taken seriously by our own side.But this is nothing more than the scope of a case.It's crazy to connect that situation with the life and death of an entire civilization.

Even if Shu Changshan showed high 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. As you guessed, this is indeed a sacrifice. The target is the magic eye more than 1 million light-years away, and the purpose is to destroy the monsters in the place where you are. The coordinates are passed to the magic eye so that it can transmit this thing to our earth.

As for this thing... If I'm not mistaken, according to the information I learned from the light chaser, it should be 'Protoss'. "

"Protoss? What is this?"

Shu Changshan murmured: "The protoss is also a kind of magical creature that exists in the vast starry sky. They worship the strong very much. Once they encounter a magical creature with higher strength and personality than themselves, they will be willing to be driven by them. Will not betray.

But for the weak, the Protoss is extremely cruel and ruthless.They can infect the minds of creatures on a large scale, causing them to fall into the abyss of despicability and treachery, and eventually all the infected creatures will die in the midst of cannibalism, and their souls will be completely absorbed by it.

Eventually, it will return to the powerful creature that drove it again, and give all the harvest to please the master. "

"This thing..."

Lu Ming felt as if 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 magic eye through a ceremony, and what kind of protoss did the magic eye send to harvest the souls of the creatures on the earth?"

"At present, it should be like this."

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

He Wei couldn't understand.

After all, even if what Shu Changshan said is true, that monster called Protoss will arrive on Earth in a year or two at the earliest.At that time, the people on earth will not have to be completely wiped out?
For this kind of monster that exists under the Cthulhu worldview, human technology may really be of little use.

Shu Changshan said in a low voice: "Although a creature like Protoss is absolutely loyal to its master and is cruel and ruthless, it has one of its biggest shortcomings. 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 may pass the earth even if it is only 100 meters away from the earth, and continue to sail into the depths of the universe."

Ok?
Lu Ming's pupils shrank slightly.

He roughly understood what Shu Changshan meant.

"So, what Mr. Shu means is that because we didn't make the sacrifice of the monsters a complete success, there was a slight deviation in the coordinates of the arrival of the protoss from the magic eye, which caused the protoss who would have been sent to the earth , and finally appeared at a distance of more than 1000 billion kilometers from the earth...Is it?"

"As far as I guess, it should be so."

"In that case, the monsters' next move must be to continue to find ways to provide guidance for the protoss, so that it can accurately descend on the earth to harvest life, and we have at least one year, at most two Years to find a way to stop the monsters, this is our chance...?"

"Correct."

"But... so what if we blocked the guidance of the monsters? Even if this "protoss" might pass by the earth, that "magic eye" wouldn't be so stupid, right? Knowing that the ultimate goal is the earth, it will directly let the Protoss come to the earth, what should I do?"

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

Lu Ming was startled for a moment, but then he came to his senses.

Could it be... the value of the entire human civilization, in the eyes of the magic eye, isn't even worth a little movement of its head?
Could it be that, for it, it just received a request from a certain priest, and then sent a subordinate at will, and sent it to that coordinate at will, and then didn't bother to pay attention to it?
……

Shu Changshan whispered: "The universe is so vast. I don't know how many things or existences are more valuable than the human world. The only reason we survive is that the value is not enough to attract the attention of those great beings. It is not shameful. On the contrary... our luck. Our enemies are only those monsters that are tainted and mutated by the magic eye, not the magic eye."

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

Lu Ming remained silent, thinking about Shu Changshan's words rapidly in his head, trying to find the loopholes in them, distinguishing the truth from the false words, and thinking about his own action plan if it was true.

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

Lu Ming's spirit lifted.

This is indeed a relatively unreasonable place.

The law and order in modern society is still very good.Some remote small mountain villages have long been accustomed to this kind of tranquility, and they have no defense against the outside world. It is not like in ancient times when villages and associations were formed, fortresses were built, and people were trained to protect the villages.

It is really not difficult for monsters to massacre and wash a village.

Shu Changshan said: "People who can serve as sacrifices in this ceremony need to meet one condition. Either they have a delicious soul, or they have 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 these two kinds of people.”

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

"A soul with a lot of knowledge is the most delicious to evil gods."

Lu Ming's heart was slightly cold.

In modern society, who has the most knowledge?Obviously, only scientists and 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 didn't randomly hit five in the outside world?
In this way, a delicious soul and a strong body are combined.And there are a lot of them.

From this point of view, there are really not many places that meet the needs of sacrifices.

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

Combining the two phases, 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 detain Luo Yang.

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

In order to study the monster that Luo Yang mutated into, the side must call in enough scientific researchers with "delicious souls".

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

So... Why did the monsters leave Luo Yang alone? Seems to have an answer.

They did keep Luo Yang on purpose, and the purpose was to let their side set up a temporary military base and collect enough "delicious souls" and "strong bodies" for their own sacrifices!
After discovering that the members of Zhou Tianyang's team mutated into monsters and escaped, only Luo Yang stayed behind, he stepped into the opponent's trap, and naturally, followed their arrangement without any resistance.

If your side didn't deal with it quickly on the night when the monsters gathered, maybe the monsters' sacrifice might really succeed, and then the protoss would be thrown directly onto the earth, and everyone would be finished!

Lu Ming felt the bone-chilling cold.Cold sweat dripped down his back uncontrollably.

Their calculations are so deep!Their intelligence is so high!Before, our own side even subconsciously treated them as beasts. It was a kind of luck that they didn't spoil the overall situation at that time.

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

He Wei was also full of fear at the moment.Even Zhang Dingshan frowned with a solemn expression.

Shu Changshan sighed again: "In my opinion, it is only one of the goals of the monsters to gather 'delicious souls' and 'strong bodies' on your own initiative. Their other purpose is, during the sacrifice, between sacrifices In the process, there needs to be a sacrificial leader, so that the ceremony can be effective. Now it seems that it is obviously the monster that you imprisoned. Well, if I guessed correctly, on the night when the monsters gathered, you were imprisoned. The imprisoned monster should do something, right? This ritual needs an eyeball, but judging by the state of your martial law, it shouldn’t be able to get it from the outside world, so...you poached your own eyeball, right?”

Lu Ming was taken aback again.

He couldn't help but recall that during that night, Experimental No. 9602 unexpectedly cut the rope that he thought it couldn't cut, gouged out his eyeballs, and knelt down in the direction of the CSK-[-] galaxy.

At that time, it was convenient to ascertain that Experimental No. [-] must have deliberately concealed his own strength, and the purpose was to break free from the shackles on this day.

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

Zhang Dingshan nodded: "Indeed."

He Wei said solemnly: "I have another question. Mr. Shu, you said that the priests of the monsters are telling 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 the Protoss's delivery to deviate.

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

The solar system is as far as 9602 million light-years away from CSK-1.6, the great creature "magic eye" claimed by Shu Changshan.Judging from this distance, the distance between the protoss and the earth is more than 1000 billion kilometers, which is not even a drop in the bucket.It can be directly projected to this range from 1.6 million light-years away, which can no longer be described with general precision.This accuracy is simply higher than the accuracy of shooting an arrow directly from the earth and hitting a grain of dust on the moon.

From this point of view, the sacrifice was largely successful.

But the total number of people in the base was hundreds of people. On that night, only two died because of poisoning.From this point of view, the sacrifice was only a small part of success.

Herein lies the contradiction.

Shu Changshan shook his head with a wry smile: "To be honest, I don't know."

Lu Ming said in a low voice, "It may be because of the diminishing marginal effect."

Just like, ordinary people spend 10 yuan to buy an ordinary car, which can run at a top speed of 260 kilometers per hour.The rich man spent 500 million to buy a sports car, but the top speed was only increased to 320 kilometers per hour.

In the early stage, ordinary people can exchange 1 yuan for a speed of 26 kilometers per hour.In the follow-up, the rich man needs a full 490 million yuan, but he can only exchange for a speed increase of 60 kilometers per hour.

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

This is the diminishing marginal effect.

Then, sacrificing two people will increase the accuracy to a distance of more than 1000 billion kilometers from the earth, and sacrificing another hundred people may only increase the accuracy to a distance of 100 billion kilometers from the earth.It is not incomprehensible to sacrifice everyone in order to increase the accuracy to just hit the earth.

At this moment, the last question in the hearts of the members of the second action team was also answered.Of course, it is an answer based on the so-called Cthulhu worldview.And whether this Cthulhu world view is in line with reality, Lu Ming is still not sure.

Lu Ming secretly warned himself to "only take Shu Changshan's answer as a reference, and don't trust it completely", and said, "Then, Mr. Shu, do you think the monsters will guide the protoss to the earth in that way next? "

In any case, at this moment, our own side can only temporarily follow this set of Cthulhu worldview.Because, apart from this set of explanations at the current stage, our side really has no other direction.

(End of this chapter)