Chapter 566: Smiling wildly
As he said that, Zhuge Yu drew a simple schematic diagram on the blackboard.
“[Supernatural] ghosts can be roughly divided into four types.”
"The first type, called Shunling, is generally referred to as Ling. It is generally a soul that cannot dissipate after death because of regrets during his lifetime or because of some abnormal power. Strictly speaking, this cannot be considered a ghost, because they still retain their personality and appearance during their lifetime, and their spiritual power is generally low and can only have an extremely limited impact on reality. Generally speaking, spirits are considered harmless. As long as the obsession during his lifetime is completed, it will dissipate. Even if it is left alone, it will become weaker and weaker over time and eventually disappear."
"As for the second type, it is a ghost in the conventional sense. This kind of spirit body is generally the incarnation of the dead with resentment. They have a certain distortion due to negative emotions. Although they still maintain the basic form of life, their personality has been destroyed. Apart from strong resentment, they have almost no memories of life. Without reason, their appearance will look even more terrifying. Ghosts are full of resentment towards humans. Their spiritual power is stronger than ordinary spirits, and they can have a considerable impact on the real world. As long as conditions allow, they will try to harm people. Even if they do not have subjective intention to harm, just wandering around someone will cause physical discomfort."
"The third type, called the evil ghost, is a variant of ghosts. Generally speaking, it is transformed by people with great resentment after death, or is eventually formed by ordinary ghosts. It is a ghost with stronger power and greater resentment, and its form is more distorted and terrifying. The reason why it is distinguished from ordinary ghosts is that most ordinary ghosts are like wild beasts, relying only on resentment and instinctive actions. However, evil ghosts are not only stronger, but also have intelligence that is not inferior to humans. They can even retain most of their memories during their lifetime, which are more cunning and more difficult to predict."
Speaking of this, Zhuge Yu drew a big circle on the blackboard and framed the three ghosts together.
"The above three are all spirit-like ghosts. No matter their abilities or shapes, they are not visible under normal circumstances. And these spirits also have a common characteristic, that is, they cannot actively exert damage to those who have not observed them."
"Why is this?" a student asked on the spot.
"This is not yet finalized." Zhuge Yu shook his head: "The more likely speculation is that if the spirits in the [Supernatural] world need to have a direct impact on organisms, they need to establish a certain connection, and the key to the connection is to make the organism detect the existence of the spirit."
"Using this rule, the easiest and most useful way to deal with the above three spirit-like ghosts is to ignore them." Zhuge Su said: "When there is no need, no matter how terrible ghosts are wandering around, you must pretend that you have not seen..."
"Will you just turn off the vital energy vision?" another student asked.
"I suggest you don''t try this kind of thing." Zhuge Yu shook his head: "First of all, because the strengthening of physical functions by the solidarity realm, the perception of practitioners is far stronger than that of ordinary people. Even if the vital energy vision is turned off, the existence of ghosts can be detected to a certain extent. If a connection is established in this unclear state and the conditions for ghost attacks are met, it will be even more dangerous."
"Secondly, turn off the vital energy vision and hide for a while, but can''t hide for a lifetime. If you can''t see ghosts and suddenly turn on the vital energy vision, you may be frightened and reveal your flaws because of your discomfort. If you happen to be surrounded by many ghosts, you will be attacked by groups..."
"Also, there are not only spirit-like ghosts in [Spirituals], but also polluters. If you do not open your vital energy vision, you may be attacked by polluters."
"In addition, in addition to the above three types, there is also a fourth type of ghost in [Spirituals]. To deal with them, it still requires the vital energy vision to distinguish them."
As he said that, Zhuge Yu wrote down the words "Soul and Physical Body" on the blackboard, and then drew a circle to frame it in it.
"A normal life must be composed of two parts: physical body and soul." Zhuge Yu said: "The lack of the soul''s body is just a corpse, and without the body, the soul cannot even exist alone."
"Even under the special world rules of [Spiritual], ghosts turned into souls and resentment will not be able to exert full power because they lack the support of their physical body. Therefore, although the first three spirit ghosts are troublesome, they do not pose a great threat to veteran explorers. The fourth one is really threatening!"
As he said that, Zhuge Yu wrote the word "entity" on the blackboard.
"There are some ghosts who have physical bodies as carriers for various reasons." Zhuge Yu introduced: "Some are possessed, some are fusion, and some even use dead objects as their basis... No matter what the reason, ghosts who have obtained physical bodies have lost their ability to nothingness, but their influence on reality has been qualitatively improved. This kind of monster is collectively called "entity" by us."
"In addition, only a strong enough spiritual body can forcefully occupy the body, so the power of the ''entity'' monsters is far greater than that of ordinary ghosts, and it poses the greatest threat to us! Moreover, their methods are extremely cruel. The explorers who die in their hands will end up miserably..."
After hearing what he said, all the students who had never been to [Supernatural] couldn''t help but swallow. Some people look at the students of Mount Phu, and these local top students have basically gone to the [Supernatural] internship and should be more experienced.
"Don''t look at us!" Zhugelan admitted generously: "The entity is indeed very cruel, and we don''t have any good ways to deal with it, but there are very few monsters like this, and we shouldn''t have encountered them."
"Of course?" Ouyang Yu frowned and said, "This is too vague. What if I encounter it?"
"Why, can you still pee your pants when you meet you?" Zhugelan didn''t give any face: "We are determined to be explorers. We risk our lives to face monsters in another world. Isn''t this common? Young Master Ouyang wouldn''t think that just like ordinary jobs, you can complete the work by sitting in the office, right?"
Ouyang Yu''s face turned red by her, but she didn''t know how to refute it. She could only open her mouth and keep opening and closing without making a sound, looking like a goldfish jumping out of the fish tank...
"Xiaolan, pay attention to your attitude!" Zhuge Su scolded, and then Zhuge Lan restrained: "I know the third brother..."
"I''ve said it many times. Don''t call me third brother at work!"
"Okay... I know Professor Zhuge..."
Zhuge Su''s face relaxed a little and looked at the others: "Don''t worry too much. Although physical monsters are powerful, they can be seen by ordinary people, so they usually cause considerable riots before we discover them. When we face physical monsters, we are prepared in advance, and the casualties are not that big..."
"Compared with this rare monster, I think everyone should pay more attention to those evil ghosts." Zhuge Yu smiled and said, "Although we call ghosts, these spiritual monsters are not exactly the same as the ghosts we usually understand."
"Most of them are indeed more conventional, just terrifying spirit monsters, but some are also extremely hidden and even have the ability to escape the detection of vital energy vision. They appear in the form of some strange phenomenon, making people unable to defend themselves. This is the difficult problem we often encounter in our daily work."
As he said that, Zhuge Yu picked up a piece of information: "For example, the final stage of this exchange meeting."
"Laughing wildly!" "Our Price University is located in the western suburbs of Zhonghuangquan City in the [Supernatural] world. ''Laughing wildly'' is a strange phenomenon that suddenly appeared not long ago, and is currently only spreading in Huangquan City."
"The specific manifestation is that someone will suddenly laugh. Due to violent laughter, the corners of his mouth will be cracked, the lungs and trachea will be damaged, the spine will be broken, the ribs will be broken, and the end will die in pain in the laughter."
"Most of those who have witnessed this phenomenon will suddenly laugh and die within seven days. According to our current survey, those who have witnessed the crazy laughing but have not yet occurred will subconsciously believe that if they laugh, they will definitely die in their crazy laughter and become extremely afraid of it, so they dare not laugh again."
"But no matter how you control it, these people will laugh less and lower within seven days, and eventually laugh for some inexplicable reasons. As they are worried, once they laugh, they will trigger a crazy laugh state and eventually die in pain."
"Professor Zhuge, you just said most of it..." Lao Miaomiao raised his hand and said, "What about the rest?"
"The rest, because I couldn''t stand the fear of laughing wildly, I committed suicide in advance." Zhuge Suo said.
"Then what attitude do the government and police in this world have towards such unusual events?" a student raised his hand and asked.
"This is a world with supernatural powers after all. The government here also knows the existence of spirits and ghosts. The official has a special organization and will also train cultivators to investigate and deal with related incidents." Zhuge Suo explained: "But just like 99% of the cultivators in the [Martial Arts] are martial arts sects, almost all the cultivators of the [Supernatural] are illusion sects and spell sects, specifically for dealing with spirits."
"Of course, official institutions are unable to cope with the endless emergence of supernatural events, so the government often seeks help from some non-governmental organizations to help solve the problem." Zhuge Suo explained: "Our Phu University has a special spiritual research center and is also an official private paranormal research organization. It often receives commissions from the government. The compensation for solving the commission is also one of the sources of funding for the Yuanshu Association to operate here."
"We received a commission to assist the official organization in solving the incident in this crazy laughing incident. After research, we did not observe abnormal spiritual reactions in the witness of the crazy laughing phenomenon. As for the time when the crazy laughing phenomenon occurs, in order to ensure the safety of the explorers, we did not arrange for people to observe directly, but observed through instruments. As a result, no abnormal reactions were detected. It is speculated that it was caused by a special ghost with extremely hidden nature."
"What if all those who may be infected with the crazy laughter are isolated?" Luo Jun proposed a plan: "Let them die of laughter while alone, so that there are no witnesses, will this phenomenon not be able to continue to spread?"
Zhuge Yu nodded: "We are also implementing this plan, because so far, the phenomenon of crazy laughter has been spreading in a small atmosphere, with no more than five witnesses, so the scope of transmission is not wide. There are less than 200 infected people after statistics, and we quickly cooperated with the official to control all infected people. The effect is also good at present. As one infected person laughs wildly in isolation, there are indeed no new witnesses."
"But the phenomenon of crazy laughter has been around for more than a month, and coupled with its strong concealment, I can be sure that there are more witnesses hiding in the city. Therefore, the ultimate topic of this exchange meeting is to find hidden crazy laughter witnesses and take them back to Phu University."
"The assessment period is seven days, because the opening time of the Supernatural Gate is only seven days. The time point for the assessment is set one hour before the Supernatural Gate is closed. From now on, it should be only six days and seventeen hours. The final assessment results are determined based on the number of witnesses brought back by each team. We will send the information to each team later, including information about all currently infected people, which can facilitate everyone to screen for possible infected people."
"What else do you have? You can ask now."
A student raised his hand and asked, "You just said that the crazy laughter is extremely hidden. How do we discover infected people hiding in the city?"
Zhuge Yu nodded: "At present, we really cannot detect the phenomenon of crazy laughing and spiritual fluctuations, but the infected people will have obvious abnormalities in their mental state due to subconscious fear. After research, we found the unique emotional fluctuations of the infected people who are crazy laughing and can detect this fluctuation through instruments to distinguish infected people from ordinary people."
"Also, we will install monitoring equipment on the instrument to record your task process throughout the process. If you find that you deliberately make the laughter increase the infected person, you will get the score directly cancelled."
Another student asked: "If we accidentally witnessed the roaring incident during the investigation and were infected, are there any remedial measures?"
"At present, there is no precedent for explorers to be infected." Zhuge Yu shook his head: "But as far as I know, a cultivator from the official organization of the [Supernatural] world was infected while performing a mission, and eventually died of laughter."
Hearing that he said, the students all showed concern.
"Of course, this infected cultivator has no strong realm and strength, and is only an intermediate agent in the organization. If he has stronger cultivation, he may be able to withstand the curse of laughter."
According to common sense, as long as you have a deep enough cultivation, you can really ignore all monsters and monsters. But the question is how deep it is? At least at present, there is a precedent for practitioners to die from infection. Which student dares to use his own life to try to challenge?
"I have another question!" Luo Jun raised his hand: "If someone triggers the crazy laughter, before he dies because of the crazy laughter, can he stop the spread of the crazy laughter?"
"We have tried this." Zhuge Yu shook his head: "So it was found that the moment when the crazy laughter was triggered, the spread had already begun. Even if he was killed in advance, the person who had witnessed it would still be infected. But this can indeed shorten the process of crazy laughter and reduce witnesses indirectly."
"What is the standard for sighting?" Luo Jun continued to ask, "You must see it with your own eyes? If you see it through surveillance, live broadcast, video, etc., does it count?"
"The standard of sighting is to see it with your own eyes on the scene. You will not be infected by watching it through video, live broadcast, etc. Even if you are on the scene, if you only hear laughter and don''t see it with your own eyes, there will be no trouble."
Luo Jun nodded after hearing this: "In this way, at least it can be guaranteed that there will be no large-scale spread through electronic devices..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhuge Yu''s phone rang. After he picked it up and answered, he was suddenly shocked: "How could it be? What''s going on now...good...I understand..."
After hanging up the phone, he frowned and looked at the students below:
"I just got the news that an isolated person controlled by an official agency accidentally fled and was found in a bustling downtown area, laughing wildly under the gaze of thousands of people..."
(This chapter ends)