Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 299
At this moment, several hours have passed since the last time the monster inhaled isobutene gas.During this time, experts saw the monster was clearly in a state of restlessness.

Analogous to human beings, its state at the moment can probably be regarded as a drug addiction.

If it is a human being who enjoys the feeling that comes from the devil and surpasses the physical limit, then the only goal for the rest of his life will only be to pursue this feeling, and nothing else is important anymore.They will no longer pay attention to morality, propriety, righteousness, integrity, past aspirations and ideals, relatives and friends, or even their own corruption.

Even if the next moment is death, let me take a sip at this moment before talking.

In order to raise money for drugs, sons hacked their parents to death, husbands hacked their wives to death, and mothers sold their sons. There are countless human tragedies.

Now, the hood filled with isobutylene gas is next to it, as long as it yields, the hood can immediately cover its head, allowing it to inhale the extremely comfortable gas.And if it doesn't give in, then high-purity oxygen and electric shocks, coupled with its own inner desire, will make it more painful than falling into hell.

In this case, as a human being, even a person whose willpower is ten times stronger than the strongest person will immediately succumb.But this monster...

"It's trying to kill itself!"

An expert screamed.Zhang Dingshan frowned slightly, immediately several armed soldiers broke into the room, and installed more fixtures for it.

"You can't even die without my consent. Answer my questions or suffer. Your choice."

The monster still didn't show any sign of surrender.Only the constant twitching and the slight creaking sound of the twisted bones showed the enormous pain it was enduring.

Zhang Dingshan shook his head and left here without wasting any more time.

Attempts to open a breach from the monster ultimately failed.

At this moment, time is running out.In the human hospital, Shu Changshan was still in a coma, without any sign of waking up.

At this moment, Lu Qingliang sent a request for a temporary meeting.Lu Ming's spirit lifted.

If there is no emergency, Lu Qingliang usually would not do this.And now that he has done so, does that mean he has discovered something?
The four gathered again in the virtual meeting room.Sure enough, Lu Qingliang quickly said: "The data analysis of the folklore and customs surveys in the Aliya Mountains and Luogu Plains where the Neroite Cult once existed, has a clue. I think it may be useful for the curse on Shu Changshan at this moment. .”

Lu Qingliang paused and spit out two words: "Exchange blood."

"For... blood?"

"Here's the relevant information, take a look."

Lu Qingliang uploaded a file.Several people downloaded it and started to look at it.

Lu Ming saw that this document was a folktale.And this story is taken from the dictation of an old man in a village in the Alia Mountains.The old man said that this story was told by his parents when he was a child.

At the same time, several other elderly people in the village also said that they had heard this story when they were young.

And, this story is also recorded in an ancient book obtained from a folklore research scholar in Luogu Plain.

Thus, the simultaneous availability of this story through several different sources suggests that, at least at some point, the story was indeed widespread.

This means that it has a certain value.

This story is like this.

In ancient times—the exact age is unknown, there was a monster outside the village.The body of this monster is translucent, with a huge head and sharp claws.It always holds a drum in one hand and a stick made of a human leg bone in the other. Once it sees people approaching, it will beat the drum.And the person who heard the voice will be hooked away by it and become its slave from then on.

Woodcutters collecting firewood, hunters hunting, farmers farming, merchants selling goods, and even passers-by who lost their way in the mountains and forests were all taken away by it.

For a while, people in the village were panicked, and they didn't even dare to go out of the village.

Some people were so hungry that they wanted to go into the mountains to hunt and pick fruits, but they never returned.People in the village were even more frightened. Someone organized middle-aged men to go into the mountain to kill the monster, but none of them came back.Even the people who tried to leave the village and flee to the foot of the mountain were hooked away by monsters when they just left the village.

Several people in the village starved to death, and when people were desperately waiting to die, a group of knights patrolling the territory came to the village.One of the most heroic, handsome, and tallest of them was the son of Lord Viscount.He is also the captain of this cavalier team.

When the viscount's son heard about this, he was very angry, and led his knights to kill the monster.But I didn't expect that those people whose souls were taken away by the monster before, would risk their lives to protect the monster at this moment. The knights couldn't bear to kill these people, so they had to retreat.

At night, the resourceful captain set off again, and when there were few people around the monster to protect him, he suddenly jumped up from the ground and pierced the monster's heart with a sword.The monster screamed and fell to the ground to die, and the souls of the people who were taken away returned to their bodies and regained consciousness.Only the knight captain was cursed by the monster for killing the monster, and fell into a coma.

The knights escorted the captain, left the village amidst the villagers' thanks, and returned to Lord Viscount's castle.Seeing his only son in a coma, the viscount was very sad, so he invited a wizard to treat him.

With just one look, the wizard recognized that the knight captain was cursed.But he was in trouble.

He said that a person who was born in the same year, the same month, and the same day as the knight captain needs to sacrifice himself voluntarily and exchange blood with the knight captain, that is, transfuse his own blood into the knight captain's body, and transfuse the knight captain's blood into his own body, so that Once this happens, the curse can be transferred from the captain of the knight to another person, and the captain of the knight can survive.

As for the person who bears the curse, there is no other way but to die.

The kind-hearted Lord Viscount couldn't bear it, and couldn't bear to use this method.So he issued an announcement in the territory, soliciting other ways to treat his son.

But other wizards and doctors have nothing to do.The knight captain was dying, about to die.The hair of the kind-hearted Lord Viscount also turned white.

At this time, someone in the village that was infested by monsters also heard about it.A young man in the village discovered that he happened to be born in the same year, the same month, and the same day as the knight captain.So he decided to go to the castle and save the life of the knight captain with his own blood.

His parents tried to stop him but were severely reprimanded by him.He said that the entire village was saved by the knight captain, who was about to die because of us. As a person with a conscience, how could he just live by idling?
The parents bowed their heads in shame.The people in the village collected some money and food and handed them over to him, and he set off to Lord Viscount's castle.

The kind Lord Viscount couldn't bear to see him die and rejected him.But the young man was determined, claiming that if he did not, he would crash and die on the castle.In desperation, Lord Viscount and the wizard could only agree to him.

The wizard first prayed to the gods and got help from the gods. Then, when performing the ceremony, the wizard first drew a little blood from the two people, and smoked them with the smoke of a kind of grass to see if the two bloods could blend.

After realizing that the blood of the two could fuse together, the wizard used a thin hollow bone to connect the blood vessel of the knight captain flowing with bright red blood and the blood vessel of the young man flowing with dark red blood, and used another thin bone to connect the two. The veins of the knight captain flowed with dark red blood and the veins of the young man flowed with bright red blood.

The blood of the two began to meet each other.Your blood has flowed into my body, and my blood has flowed into your body.

After going on like this for a while, the wizard observed the two and confirmed that the blood exchange had been completed, then took away the thin bones and stopped the bleeding for the two.At this time, the knight captain's complexion has improved a lot, and the young man is already very weak.

The kind Lord Viscount ordered the servants to give the young man the best treatment and brought the best food and wine.The youth refused.He said that in order to protect the people in the territory, the lord even sacrificed his own son.It is only right for me to dedicate my life to save the Cavalier Captain. This is my duty and responsibility.Those food and wine do not belong to me.

The Viscount, the wizard, the servants, and the commoners were all moved to tears by the youth.At this moment, a ray of light suddenly descended from the sky and enveloped the young man.

Under the rays of light, the young man's face became ruddy visible to the naked eye, and his originally weak body also began to become stronger.Afterwards the light faded and the young man regained his health.

The viscount, wizard, servant, commoner and others all knelt on the ground.Afterwards, the wizard announced that it was the young man's loyalty that moved the gods, who used their divine power to lift the curse that had been transferred to the young man and restore him to health.

At this time, the knight captain also woke up.Knowing what had happened, he took the young man into his knight order, made him a noble knight, and found him a beautiful wife.

When the parents of the young man heard about this incident, they were ashamed and committed suicide by jumping into the river.The young man stayed in the castle, followed the knight captain, and began to fight to protect the territory.Later, because of his outstanding performance, he also won the title, became a noble baron, and had his own territory.Their family lived happily ever after.

The story ends here.

Lu Ming frowned into a word "Sichuan".

Frankly speaking, this story is not very good.It's not about its story, but the metaphors and symbols behind the story, which really made Lu Ming, who has received a modern education, feel uncomfortable.

In this story, the viscount is kind, the captain of the knight is heroic, the wizard is wise, the villagers are weak and ignorant and can only accept protection, the young man is loyal, and the parents who try to dissuade him from being loyal to the lord are despicable and even despicable. Yu committed suicide by jumping into the river out of shame.The young man was rewarded by the gods for his loyalty and the curse was lifted.

In this way, the true meaning of this politically charged story is very clear. It is nothing more than telling the common people and poor people to keep their own place, be loyal to the lord, and be ready to sacrifice their lives for the lord at any time. Only in this way can they be rewarded by the gods, otherwise it will be bad. It's vile, it's damned.

Lu Ming didn't have the heart to criticize the values ​​in this story.He only noticed one detail in the story.

By exchanging blood, it is possible to transfer the curse from one person to another.

The cultural background of this story is the Aliya Mountains and Luogu Plain, where the Cthulhu culture is relatively strong.The formation of local culture has the deep participation of Nero specialism.

It was precisely because Shu Changshan saw the classics of the Nero special religion that he knew that the mysterious existence he dreamed of was the "Light Chaser", and communicated with the Light Chaser later.At the same time, according to the knowledge obtained from the light chaser, they accurately found the place where the monsters held the ceremony.

From this point of view, exchanging blood may really be a method worth trying.

only……

There was silence in the temporary meeting room.

The four of them realized a problem at the same time.

In doing so, there is a great moral hazard.

After all, even if the story is true and the exchange of blood is really effective, then while saving Shu Changshan, it will also lead to the death of another person.And it is impossible for one's own side to expect that there will be gods who will come out at that time to lift the curse and usher in a best-of-both-world ending.

Even if you search for death row prisoners who have been sentenced to death after a legal trial—assuming that there are such death row prisoners, the moral hazard still cannot be eliminated.

The values ​​that humans live by do not allow such a thing to exist.

After a moment of silence, Zhang Dingshan resolutely said: "There is no need to consider the moral risk involved in this matter. The meaning of the existence of morality is to ensure the existence of a better civilization. If it is because of morality that damages civilization, it is to discard the root and chase the end. Civilization is higher than Morality.

At the current stage, at least from the existing clues, Shu Changshan is extremely important.We need to make sure he wakes up as soon as possible.

At this moment, all we need to consider is whether this approach is really effective. "

Lu Ming said: "Whether it is effective or not, we cannot be sure. But now we can know whether this method is harmful."

It's very simple, just let the doctors in the human hospital evaluate it.

The results of the evaluation by the team of doctors came quickly.As Lu Ming expected before, the conclusion is that this move will not cause Shu Changshan's physical condition to deteriorate, but it will not improve either.

Within the scientific system, in the eyes of doctors, it makes no sense to do so.

But in the view of the Cthulhu system, doing so may make the situation better.

That being the case, how to choose is very simple.

Give it a try.

It's best if it works, and if it doesn't work, we have nothing to lose.

but……

Lu Qingliang seemed to hesitate at the moment.

He whispered: "The intelligence support team reminded me that we must pay attention to the possibility that Shu Changshan is an 'undercover agent' on the side of the monster."

There was a moment of silence in the video conference room, and the next moment, Zhang Dingshan, Lu Ming, and He Wei all looked at him strangely.

(End of this chapter)