Invade the World

   Chapter 383 The Brain and the Other World

"How is this going?"

   After playing the video several times, Lin Mingyuan, who was always silent, finally spoke up.

   "What is this experiment about?"

   "I think Brother, you should know what you know." Meng Zheng chuckled, "Because Brother Robert took over your original job. Remember?"

  “…”

"The last paper my brother wrote was 'Effects of singular circuit functional stimulation on the unsynchronized release pattern of post-field excitatory synaptic potentials', which was a side record of the experimental results. And the ultimate goal of the whole project, It's about finding a link between the neural activity of the human brain and the distant world—or, more simply, exploring the origins of this special, unimaginable group of people who are psychics."

"Hehe, it is indeed a great goal, full of ambition. When other psychic organizations in the world only want to expand their personnel and use their superpowers to gain social status and economic benefits; Only a small number of people are sober-minded, but their ideas are nothing more than protecting real people from distant places and haunted houses. Only the teacher is different, his Ideals point directly to the root core of all the chaotic phenomena caused by supernatural factors in this world, this kind of exploration spirit, just listening to it makes people blood surging..."

"Junior Brother - can I call you that?" Before Meng Zheng's words were finished, Lin Mingyuan couldn't help interrupting him, "Let me be blunt, I have been saying this every day since the moment I entered the laboratory. I can hear it from other people's mouths, and I have no cold at all, so let's save it."

"I understand what Senior Brother means, you think the group of people in Jianfeng have been brainwashed by the teacher, right?" Meng Zheng shook his head, "I don't refute this, but there are still a group of people among us, more or less. One thing is clear: those 'great' and 'sublime' dreams, once implemented in reality, often lead to brutal, brutal endings."

"I don't know if my brother chose to join the laboratory because, like me, he wanted to follow the teacher's ideals, but I can almost confirm one thing: you must be aware of this conflict between ideals and reality. He will choose to leave, but the teacher is different, in the face of these, he will never choose to back down."

   "So, what kind of person do you think he is? A saint with lofty ideals, or an ambitious lunatic? Or..."

   "There is no doubt that I think the teacher has both. And the different opinions of others on him are nothing more than which side they care more about."

Meng Zheng didn't say it clearly, but what the two of them actually knew was - "exploring the origin of psychic mediums", this reason seems to be high-sounding, but if such an experimental project really has significant results, from another aspect it is equivalent to Mastered the method of artificially making psychic mediums.

   So far, every medium has been born randomly, and all one can do is find them, or gather them together. Of course, a powerful divine medium like the president of the Stargazing Society has a method of granting others the power of a medium, but that is still the role of superpowers and cannot be replicated on a large scale.

It seems that there is no artificially controllable way to increase the probability of the birth of a psychic other than throwing people into a haunted house. Going in is far from full, and even an insane organization cannot attempt such a behavior with a negligible chance of return.

The original purpose of Jianfeng Laboratory was to break this normality: once the principle mechanism of the connection between the human brain and the distant realm is revealed in a modern scientific way, it will not be far from the time for large-scale psychic mediumization. The superpowers who occupy the positions of a few people will come to the forefront one after another, and human society is destined to usher in earth-shaking changes.

   "I've been out of the lab for six or seven years, and they're still going on with it?"

   "Yes. But in the past few years, the progress of the core projects of the Pinnacle Lab has not been smooth, and the teacher is very dissatisfied with this. Perhaps because of this, Brother Robert, who is under great pressure, will take risks."

  Lin Mingyuan frowned and stopped the video on the player at a certain moment. He tapped the bald man on the TV screen who was locked behind the shop window.

   "When you say 'take the risk', you mean him, right?"

   "As expected of the senior brother who once presided over the experiment, he is very clear in this regard." Meng Zheng grinned, "The problem really lies with this experimental subject."

"...Why do you think I left the laboratory? You said that the person who has a 'saint' side is just your guess. Anyone can say that Hitler was very good at speeches," Lin Mingyuan couldn't smile like him So happy, he kept rubbing his eyebrows with two fingers, and sighed a little tiredly, "But the crazy side of this person is what I saw with my own eyes."

   "Senior brother is right..." The smile on Meng Zheng's face did not change, "'Human experiment'?"

  Lin Mingyuan stopped.

"…you know?"

   "Well, I saw it with my own eyes. But the subjects I saw were felons who were said to be transferred from Alcatraz Prison. I don't know if there were any innocent victims."

   "Maybe there is, maybe it's not the time yet." The man's expression became more and more ugly, and it seemed that he remembered bad memories. "But no matter who it is, when you watch them twitch with their helmets strapped to their chairs countless times until they foam at the mouth and become incontinent, they end up with giggling dementia, or watching them in complete darkness. A little bit of despair and madness fell into the closed room of the dead, and even the brain will be taken out and placed in a petri dish after death, and you will... I feel like I was like an evil alien driving a flying saucer to catch people, which is fundamental Not what I want to do."

"Everyone hates criminals, and I'm not a psychic. I wish all the people who abuse psychic powers in this world would die. But it's completely different from forcing others to see how they are being delayed a little bit. The latter is placed on In modern society, people can only think that the guy who gave this order has a sick brain, do you understand?"

Halfway through Lin Mingyuan's words, he saw that Meng Zheng didn't say anything about his smile, and there was no fluctuation in his eyes. At this time, he had already realized that this guy looked young and had a good temper, but in essence he was probably the same as he used to be. Just like the teacher, he is the kind of person with abnormal nerves.

   Even if someone reveals that the subjects of cruel human experiments are not only criminals, but even innocent ordinary people, the other party will feel that they are contributing to the cause of science.

   In addition, Lin Mingyuan knew that there were more than one or two guys in the lab with such crazy values. This feeling of being out of place might be the reason why he thought he had to leave.

  The man shook his head helplessly, and brought the topic back.

   "Forget it, let's not talk about that. Tell me, what's so special about this bald man?"

   "He was caught by the teacher himself."

   "Oh, so he's a very strong medium?"

"That's right, this guy first made a scene on the Mexican border, and later he joined the gangs in the United States along the drug trade. In just a few years, he established a criminal empire with a net worth of billions of dollars. The FBI couldn't do anything about him. The National Guard sent nearly 1,000 people, including two A-level psychics as consultants. They wanted to trap him and his men in a small town and cooperate with armored vehicles and helicopters to encircle and suppress them. As a result, he killed half of them in one breath, and the psychic team participating in the battle was wiped out. This strength has approached the top psychic medium, but the teacher has other guesses. "

  Meng Zheng paused for a moment, and said in a serious tone:

   "...Teacher believes that this person is a 'suspected divine mediator'."

"what?"

   "It's a potential divine match who hasn't grown up yet and hasn't fully awakened. Of course, this is just speculation, and the teacher admits that he doesn't rule out the possibility of making a mistake."

"You...take a **** matchmaker for an experiment?" Lin Mingyuan was quite surprised, "This is putting the entire laboratory... no, the entire city and country on the crater! Moreover, even if he is not a real **** matchmaker, he experimented with spikes. The security measures in the room can't keep a top psychic medium, right? We can't let that person stay there all the time."

"Yeah. As for the star-gazing party. There are plenty of people there, but the teacher has always been worried that they will interfere in the tasks involving the core secrets of the laboratory. Considering factors such as expanding international influence, today's star-gazing party has already mixed too much. A person came in. But when this person was sent to the laboratory, he had already lost his psychic abilities."

   Meng Zheng explained.

   "He underwent a destructive lobotomy operation arranged by the US government while in prison, and his consciousness was paralyzed and could not be recovered. He was not a medium at all."

   "You can only deceive yourself." Lin Mingyuan scoffed, "If he really loses his qualifications to be a psychic medium, then Robert would never use him as a test from the very beginning."

"…Yes, you are right. Brother Robert believes that the neural activity mechanism that determines the connection between the human brain and the distant world is not located in any currently known functional area, but is hidden in a deeper and more hidden part of the brain. So , even if the subject becomes a demented fool, it will not hinder the results, unless the whole brain is burned out and useless."

"There are actually many similar examples. We know that some babies with immature brains will also awaken their psychic abilities, and some people in the academic world believe that those who are born with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses are more likely to be distant The higher the probability of being born in this group, the higher the probability of being born in this group. After all, spiritual mediums are a minority group relative to ordinary people, and such patients are also a minority group in society. If the two are regular Sexual overlap is not something incredible."

"Then?"

   "Then... there was an accident."

   Meng Zheng spread his hands.

"It turns out that Brother Robert's judgment is accurate on at least one point: even if the brain is destroyed and the psychic loses its normal conscious function, it still has the ability to communicate with distant realms. And from the records of the surveillance video, the spike experiment The moment before the fall of the room, the scale of the psychic medium ability displayed by the experimental subject far exceeded the value he originally recorded. That is to say, if the teacher's judgment is not wrong, this person really has the potential to become a spiritual medium, then A series of experiments carried out by Brother Robert have played a role in promoting his awakening from the results."

"Unfortunately, the test subject himself died. We couldn't find any corpses at the scene. Everyone was involved in the sea of ​​blood from another world and disappeared... Therefore, there is no one more person in the world that can decide the international situation. The **** of the pattern is coming.”

  In the narrow and dimly lit basement, there was a long silence. Two men sitting opposite each other, their shadows cast on the dirty concrete floor and walls under the light of the only light bulb, swaying in the seemingly non-existent light.

"…and then?"

"Then, the teacher asked me to investigate the scene after the 'unknown supernatural force' devastated the Pinnacle Lab. The hand and tail who dealt with this incident also asked me to adopt a 'ghost baby' from him and officially become a Psychic, so that we can detect deeper and more hidden things during the investigation process."

   "After that, I'll come to you, brother."

"why?"

"Although I have never met you before, the name of 'Lin Mingyuan' is very familiar to me. During this investigation, I am even more deeply aware that even after you left for many years, the person who was promoted to second-in-command Robert still hasn't taken your place."

   Meng Zheng's fingers tapped lightly on the table unconsciously.

"Considering that the teacher's energy is limited, in addition to managing the stargazing club, he has more than one laboratory. In fact, the real leader of the psychic research project is you, brother, you are the soul of the entire 'Jianfeng', many experiments The arrangement of the project is to continue the path that you have arranged before - including everything they did with that subject."

  “…”

"Since I have made such a big discovery, how could I not be curious about you, brother? I want to know about your past, all your achievements, all the things you have done, and the most important thing is why you left" peak'."

"I said…"

"No, don't lie to me. For the sake of your family? This kind of reason seems ridiculous. I can see very clearly in the past few days that your wife and you are not from the same world at all, including your other family and friends, from your parents. Brothers and sisters, and the people you met during school, before and after you went abroad, they don't know you. Whether you leave or stay, you make the choice. Disagreement? I believe this may be one of the reasons. But that doesn't explain why you are willing to give up all your honor and status and stay in this remote country. Brother, you are only forty years old this year, and you are a promising young man in the academic world. With your talent, you shouldn't be silent. "

   "...you investigate me?"

   "Yes, I have investigated you carefully. I don't want to miss any clues. I even took the initiative to go to the teacher to confirm. That's why I came to you."

The sound of    finger tapping on the table stopped, as if to indicate that the conversation between the brothers and sisters would come to an end.

   "Senior brother, I know the opportunity for you to leave the laboratory. In fact, the experiment of artificially connecting the brains of ordinary people to the distant realm - you have succeeded, right?"

   (end of this chapter)