After a brief silence.
The resurrected corpse squeezed out a sound from its throat and spoke hoarsely.
"The Essence of Human Origin."
Be concise and to the point.
Nature? origin?
Lin An frowned slightly, simply pulled over an unoccupied chair, and sat opposite each other.
The words spoken by the resuscitator were too general.
This was the first time he used the resuscitation skill to communicate with the deceased. It seemed that the other party had indeed recovered his memory.
It's just that under the strange scene, the conversation between them can't help but feel weird.
"Detailed description."
"What research directions have you done?"
"Origin? Are you trying to find the ancestral species that originated from humans? For example, some kind of ape, or earlier mammals?"
He left the question about the crystal skull until the end to prevent the resuscitator from having another accident.
Thinking of the zombies seen in the picture, Lin An couldn't help but feel a faint sense of uneasiness.
But where the uneasiness came from, he didn't know.
After the order was issued, he looked straight at the pale face, the big hole on the researcher's forehead, and even the back of the chair behind his head.
After a moment of silence, the expression on that lifeless face remained unchanged, and he replied stiffly:
"neither."
"We have looked at the alleged origin before but found out it was wrong."
"What we are studying now is the real differences between humans and other species."
"And the biggest difference is emotion."
"Emotions, sorrows, fears."
Um?
As soon as the words fell, Xiao Moling listened carefully, with a trace of suspicion on his face.
"mood?"
"Isn't the biggest difference... just the physical structure?"
"Flies have wings, elephants have trunks, turtles and prawns have shells..."
"Humans belong to the primates. Class, phylum, class. This difference in classifying species is the biggest difference between us, right?"
Lin An didn't speak, but turned his head slightly and glanced at Xiao Mo Ling.
Yes, although Mo Ling didn't make it clear, strictly speaking, the so-called emotions, feelings, and intelligence...
They are all formed by different brain neural structures, or brain volumes.
Emotions are not their true essence, but their appearance.
Just like mineral water costing two yuan and Coke costing three yuan can quench thirst, but it is not the price of two yuan or five yuan that quenches thirst, but the water itself.
Emotions, thinking, reason, IQ, and differences between species are all phenomena caused by different body structures.
For example, bats have no eyes. The biggest difference between them and humans is the addition of sonar detection.
Emotional intelligence, etc., are also due to differences in brain volume and structure, resulting in the lack of emotions such as joy, anger, fear, etc. in some arthropods and soft-bodied creatures.
Just like fear in human emotions, it essentially comes from the amygdala of the brain and the cognition of specific things.
If a bug had a human-like brain structure, it would also be able to think and have feelings.
It can even add vocal organs, vocal cords, etc., and it can say a grateful thank you to you after receiving education.
It is putting the cart before the horse to think that animals lack some emotions and therefore are different from humans.
In fact, as long as the "amygdala" in the brain area is stimulated with electric shock, people can fall into extreme panic for no reason.
To study the metaphysical existence of emotions is to stay on the surface.
This is a very "childish" way of thinking.
Just like the ancient people with backward technology, their simple world view believed that the biggest difference between humans and other animals lies in their emotions and souls.
Animals have no feelings, or lack some kind of feelings, so they are not humans.
Less than 0.1 seconds later, Lin An was equally confused after thinking about this.
It stands to reason that just the underground research center he saw proved that the technological means of this world cannot be too backward.
Even elementary school students know the truth, and there is no reason why the other party doesn’t know it.
Ask the past:
"Why do you think the biggest difference between humans and animals is emotional? Not physical structure?"
"What does this have to do with nature and the origin of humankind?"
"mistake."
The dead researcher answered fluently with a blank look in his eyes. Apparently he had answered this question many times during his lifetime.
"Our mainstream science also believed that the difference between humans and other species was their different body structures."
"Even the origin of early humans can be traced back to hundreds of millions or even billions of years ago. Maybe our ancestor was a fish that landed on the beach, or maybe it was an insect."
"All living things are carbon-based life forms. Different environments evolve different species, and humans are the most successful ones in evolution."
"To this end, in order to prove this theory, we have almost dissected, synthesized, and induced distortions of most species in nature, trying to find the evolutionary route."
Lin An became even more confused after hearing half of it.
What are you doing?
How come the civilization of this regional world is still repeating what was accomplished in the real world as early as the 19th century?
Prokaryotic cells - eukaryotic cells - flatworms...
Jawless (he) fish - Jawfish...
Amphibians - reptiles - mammals...
Ape-Ape-Man.
This is the real world. In the human origin map, the evolutionary route has been verified countless times.
Whether it is found from the embryonic stage that human hands and feet match the fins of fish, or in the human body structure, the ears have holes similar to fish gills.
A large amount of fossil evidence proves that the origin of human beings is the continuous evolution of a certain species over billions of years.
Could it be that there are no fossils in this world? Or was there such a lack of historical records that they needed to find their way through dissection of existing species?
As soon as the thought came up, the researcher paused for a moment and then continued:
"We had fossil evidence that proved this theory correct, but four months ago we discovered an unexplained loophole."
"This flaw is serious enough to destroy all evidence chains proving the origin of humankind."
Um? Is there a fossil record?
Lin An was slightly stunned. It seemed like this place was the same as reality.
"What loophole?"
Ask subconsciously.
Vaguely, he felt as if he had come into contact with a terrible answer.
The researcher sat stiffly and responded quickly like a robot:
"It's emotion."
"In human thinking, or instinct, there is an emotion that should not occur."
"This emotion should not appear in us, and it is even said that it cannot appear in all human evolutionary paths. This emotion does not conform to the logic of biological evolution."
"What emotion? Is it...fear?!"
Little Mo Ling asked subconsciously, her big eyes filled with even more confusion.
She glanced at the horrified corpse next to her and figured this out without thinking.
"That's right."
The researcher nodded mechanically, and a red-white fluid flowed from the bullet hole in the center of his forehead, dripping onto his body.
Frowning her brows, Mo Ling couldn't help but retort:
"Isn't it right? Why can't fear appear in humans?"
"Most animals have fear. This is the most primitive "expression" of life resisting death, or genes avoiding genetic interruption."
"Humans don't have it, so that's the problem, right?"
"You said arrogance is just about right. This complex and advanced emotion is meaningless to the reproduction of life..."
"crunch"
The researcher suddenly turned his head stiffly and looked blankly at Mo Ling who was rebutting him.
Suddenly, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"No, not fear of death."
"It's humans who fear humans."
"In other words, we will be extremely afraid of humans who are like humans."
"This fearful emotion is almost engraved in our instinctive genes, so much so that it forms a brand."
"This kind of emotion only appears in humans. It is obviously unreasonable and does not conform to the logic of biological evolution."
"What's the meaning!?"
After blurting out, Lin An suddenly felt a strong uneasiness. If his spiritual power had not been interrupted, he could clearly feel that the other party was under his control.
He even felt that the resurrected researcher had lost control.
In an instant, the Second Will suddenly spoke in a deep voice, his tone full of solemnity and surprise:
("What did he want to say!?")
("Uncanny Valley Effect!?")
As if he could hear the words in his mind, the revived researcher turned his neck again and looked at Lin An as if he had received instructions:
"That's right."
“In the uncanny valley effect, we will not be afraid of the semi-anthropomorphic existence in cartoons and animations, but will find them cute.”
"But I am afraid of beings that have a certain level of resemblance to...human beings."
"Like incredibly realistic puppets, spiders, snakes... or other creatures with human faces."
“Whenever that existential similarity exceeds a critical point, we become fearful.”
Blinking her eyes, Mo Ling could no longer understand what the researcher wanted to say. She subconsciously looked at Lin An, only to find that Lin An's face was getting more and more ugly.
Before she could speak, Lin An stared at her:
"Keep talking!"
Following the order, the dead researcher continued to speak numbly:
"Based on the above theory, in our subsequent research, we boldly guessed a terrible truth."
"Why are we afraid? Why are we afraid of beings who look very much like us? Why can we easily recognize that they are not human beings?"
"There is only one answer."
"People who look like us will behave inhumanely towards us after encountering humans."
"simply put."
"In human civilization, for a long time, we were "killed" by people who had the same appearance as us but were not human beings!"
"This kind of 'killing' method must be extremely cruel, so cruel that we can easily tell that the other party is not a human being."
""They" have faces that are almost the same as ours, but they are our enemies, so much so that we are so afraid that this fear is deeply engraved in our genes."
"Under the uncanny valley effect, we have created a large number of film and television culture, novels, records, and stone sculptures based on this fear..."
"Although we have forgotten who "they" are, we instinctively want to describe "their" existence..."
After that, everything was quiet in the laboratory.
Taking a deep breath, Lin An took a deep look at the researcher.
He understood what exactly this regional world had discovered.
They found out...
Zombies have long appeared in human history.
And, not just once.
But here, there is obviously no doomsday game.
