On the chair, the researcher sitting upright seemed to be stuck, his dull eyes staring blankly ahead.
This question seems to have touched upon the cause of his death.
Just as Lin An was considering whether to inject more spiritual energy, the researcher spoke hoarsely:
"Yes."
“After we first became aware of the uncanny valley effect, we quickly identified zombies as the object of human fear.”
"Zombies have appeared so repeatedly in history that we have a deep fear of them deep in our genes."
"They are highly human-like, yet easily identifiable in their behavior, and are widely circulated in legends and records around the world."
"Assuming they actually exist."
"When we started researching how to 'prevent' the next possible zombie outbreak, the unexpected happened."
"The conclusion of fear of zombies has been overturned..."
As he spoke, Lin An raised his eyebrows.
prevention?
He seemed to "see" how shocked the humans in this world were before realizing the previous conclusion.
So much so that I started thinking about what to do next time zombies appear.
This place is so similar to reality, but I don’t know if this is done in the real world...
Did studying rabies virus lead to the appearance of the zombie in the memory fragment?
"Why overthrow?"
Without moving his expression, Lin An pressed to ask.
The resuscitation ability is indeed useful, but information about the deceased can only be obtained through dialogue, which is still too slow.
If he could directly read the other party's thoughts, I believe it would be much simpler.
"The reason for the overthrow is..."
"We discovered new problems when studying prion viruses."
The researcher replied numbly, pointing his right hand directly at the display screen:
"Prions were studied incidentally when studying rabies virus."
"At first we thought that prions were produced by humans to resist "predation" among humans."
"In other words, it is caused by organisms to prevent similar species from eating each other."
"But under the uncanny valley theory, prions are actually a branch of suspected zombie viruses."
"Like rabies, prions will quickly attack the brain after entering the human body, causing neurodegeneration and limb disorders, making humans extremely aggressive and relying on vision to track targets, eventually leading to death."
"Its behavior and effects are very similar to rabies. The only difference is that rabies patients are afraid of water, but prions are not."
"Rabies rely on hearing to track targets, but prions rely on sight."
"Many researchers believe that if zombies do appear in the future, they will most likely be a combination of prions and rabies viruses."
"Of course, maybe OrganEx, a biological resurrection technology, is involved."
"Lin An, what is O and what is X..."
Little Mo Ling felt a little embarrassed as she listened to more and more nouns. She just felt that although what the researcher said was hard to understand, it contained key information.
She also wanted to find out. This kind of secret related to the truth of the world really made her too curious.
Calmly, Lin An quickly called up the memory fragments given by the second will and answered briefly:
"About ten years ago, in 2022, a "resurrection technology" discovered by the American Yale University research team."
"They successfully resurrected a pig that had been dead for an hour. The body could move, but the brain remained close to death."
"There was no subsequent research, or in other words, no relevant information was released."
With his eyes flashing, Lin An subconsciously glanced at the surrounding environment, feeling more and more uneasy in his heart.
An almost absurd guess came to mind.
Like...so similar.
At first, he thought this was a world similar to a copy, but when the information coming out of the researcher's mouth became more and more consistent with the real world, he couldn't help but wonder, couldn't this be the world 10 years ago?
A world without zombies "creates" zombies.
In reality, the virus waters that appeared before the apocalypse broke out...the female spider in Cambodia...
Involuntarily, he suddenly remembered that Chu An had mentioned the existence of the survivors, and that the military had discovered it twelve years ago.
That... electromagnetic gun with psychic nodes!
Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Lin An resisted the thought of flying back to ask Chu An now, and controlled the researcher to continue speaking.
"In follow-up research, we found that there is actually a problem with prions."
"That is, the infectivity of prions comes from the highly virus-rich head."
"In other words, eating the body will not lead to prion infection."
"Whether it is rabies virus or prion virus, if they are really the precursors of zombie viruses, why are they so infective? And they will cause the death of the host in a short period of time."
"This does not conform to the principle of transmission. On the contrary, it seems that the infection group can be controlled and will not grow larger."
"But if it doesn't appear on a large scale, how can it scare all mankind?"
"We have come up with new speculations about this."
"Is it possible that in the uncanny valley effect, what we are afraid of is not zombies, but another unknown, highly human-like existence?"
"This hypothesis is too bold. We have to start with two virus characteristics to verify this point of view."
"For example, if rabies and prions are like a puzzle, they are just one piece of a zombie virus."
"The former wants the infected to escape from the water, become extremely aggressive, and strengthen their hearing."
"The latter makes the brain full of prions and makes them inedible, which enhances vision, but worsens body coordination, causing humans to be able to recognize it at a glance."
"The two characteristics are added together, and they become a strange but logical existence."
"The infected person, with two characteristics, becomes a biological weapon that cannot be "eaten" and has enhanced vision and hearing."
"After all, if we assume that there is something else that wants to eat us, then the principle of prions is the only way to explain it."
The more he listened, the more surprised he became. Lin An did not expect that humans in this regional world would guess zombies from this angle.
It has to be said that after assuming that there is a kind of humanoid existence, their hypothesis about zombies is tenable.
Taking a deep breath, Lin An's mind moved. He sensed that a large number of infected people were approaching.
Of course, the first one to arrive was the zombie holding the skull.
"So, after you discovered the crystal skull, you realized that zombies couldn't have such skulls."
"Therefore, it is more confirmed that there are still highly human-like "they" exist!"
"How did you find the skull? What happened next?"
Staring at the researcher closely, Lin An was ready to interrupt the psychic output at any time.
The most critical issue, and the one that touches the crystal skull, is here.
In the laboratory, the researcher nodded numbly:
"Yes. That crystal skull cannot be that of a zombie. That must mean that there are highly humanoid creatures."
"They are more terrifying than zombies, so we speculate that humans are forced to become zombies to avoid being preyed upon by them."
"The skull was found...no, it just appeared out of nowhere."
"And then, what happened..."
"crunch"
Suddenly shaking, in the dim laboratory, the researcher was obviously dead, but when he was telling the information about the skull, he should have lost all pain, his face was distorted, and his whole body began to twitch violently.
"us.."
"us..."
With a crazy look on his face, under the power of the resuscitation skill, he suddenly propped himself up on the chair, and the bullet hole in the center of his forehead continued to ooze red and white liquid while shaking.
It's like touching the unknown, the fear beyond death.
As if he was about to disintegrate, the researcher, under Lin An's forced control, suddenly roared and shouted:
"I... saw him! I knew who he was! I saw the truth of the world!"
Fully alert, Lin An instantly drew his sword, and the spiritual energy connecting the two was ready to be interrupted at any time.
"What truth!?"
"who is he!?"
A sharp shout.
Under the shock, Lin An stared at the trembling researcher, the uneasiness in his heart almost reaching its peak.
The psychic energy explodes without hesitation, even if it bursts the opponent's body, Lin An still wants to know what the answer is.
"Fake...all fake!"
Under resuscitation control, the researcher's expression switched back and forth between fear and calm, shouting in pain.
A second later, the almost distorted face suddenly froze and stared at Lin An.
Like flashbacks, the researcher seemed to squeeze out those words from the depths of his throat:
"We are one.."
"he is.."
"boom!!"
In an instant, a dark red ray suddenly shot from behind Lin An.
("Get away!!")
Almost at the same time as the ray approached, the second will, which had been silent all this time, suddenly changed its expression.
Cold hair stands on end.
Feeling this death light containing the ultimate destructive power, Lin An felt the uneasiness in his heart explode instantly.
On the system panel, the final countdown suddenly returned to zero.
