"Mr. Pu, as you said, even if you are a demon or a monster, if you want to survive in the human world, you have to obey the laws of mankind. Why can you, as human beings, disobey the law? Even if you are a so-called demon hunter, a police officer who claims to supervise demons and aliens, then if they commit a crime, what you have to do is to catch them and bring them to justice, how can they be eliminated according to your will? According to you, 'removal' means killing in private, right? ”

Yue Peng's tone became a little more serious, and his address to Pu Yang changed from the polite "Teacher Pu" to the raw "Mr. Pu".

Seeing his attitude, Pu Yang didn't say softly or hardly: "Don't say anything else, just the case in front of you, can you find out the murderer?" You can find it, it's not a problem to face the cornices and walls, and there are even stronger demon clans, can you catch them? Take a step back and say, I helped you catch the demon, can you guard him and let him officially go to court? Can ordinary detention centers and prisons trap them? There will only be one result - just let them run away and give them a revenge to hurt more people! ”

Yue Peng still didn't believe that there were really monsters, so he felt a little hurt for this hypothesis, and immediately turned around: "The case in front of us is that we haven't caught the murderer yet, it doesn't mean that we can't catch the murderer!" It doesn't mean that the murderer is the demon you said! Whatever the murderer, we will bring him to justice! Law! ”

"Okay......" Zhang Yongchun could only come out to play a round, and he sighed: "Xiaoyue, I know that you think I am old and begin to believe in some Shinto things." Actually, I just want to tell you that there are some things that you just haven't experienced, just because they don't exist. ”

He got up and refilled the two of them with tea and motioned for them to calm down.

"Have you seen 'Zhuangzi'?" Qiushui's chapter Beihai Ruo said: 'Well frogs can't speak to the sea, and they are confined to nothingness; Summer insects can't talk to the ice, but to the time; Qu Shi can't talk to the Taoist, and he ...... to be bound to the teaching'" Quoting a few ancient texts, Zhang Yongchun himself laughed, "I dropped my bookbag again......"

This paragraph is very famous, and Pu Yang and Yue Peng have both heard of it. That is to say, it is impossible to believe that the world in which it lives is only a frog in a well, and it talks to it about the sea, because its vision is limited by the environment in which it grows. It is impossible to believe the insect that has only one summer from birth to death, and talks about ice and snow, and its vision is limited by the season; And he can't talk about the people who are shallow in their knowledge, because his vision is constrained by the education he has received......

"I'm not saying that you're shallow, but you don't have any supernatural events in the environment you live in, so you won't believe in supernatural events. In the case of frogs and summer insects at the bottom of the well, it may be too metaphorical. Let's take people as an example, in ancient times, when there were no TV and movies, and transportation was underdeveloped, you went to tropical Africans and said that there were places where there was ice and snow, and they couldn't understand that people could survive in the ice and snow; On the contrary, if you tell the Eskimos that there are places with high temperatures and extreme heat all year round, they can't understand, or can't understand that there are still people living in such a hot environment. This is the misunderstanding caused by the living environment and the climate habits......"

"And in modern times, even if you haven't been to Africa, you haven't been to the North and South Poles, you believe that those things exist, and you think it's normal. But what about widening it a little further? Because we live on the planet, humans need oxygen and water to survive. Therefore, when we look for extraterrestrial life externally, we also use this as a condition, thinking that it is impossible for a planet without water and oxygen to give birth to life. Could this be similar to the concept of primitive Africans and primitive Eskimos? If primitive people were searching for life in airplanes, Africans would probably ignore the icy and snowy places, thinking that there could be no life in that kind of place, right? Different environments breed different types of life, and maybe there are planets with life that don't need oxygen and water at all? ”

The old comrades spoke earnestly and eloquently, probably because they had left the front line, and after a long time in the provincial department, they were also accustomed to doing ideological work. "Back to youkai, it's the same. We have never seen demons and monsters in our living environment, and our education since childhood tells us that they do not exist, so we do not believe in the existence of these things. But I've seen it, so I believe it. ”

Puyang is a little embarrassed, the old comrade Zhang Yongchun has always respected him, a "little Pu teacher", I didn't expect to talk one by one, from Zhuangzi's fable and metaphor, to the primitive man in the tropical cold zone, and then to the extraterrestrial life in the universe, this is really a big leap. And aside from the inability to verify the time, from a logical point of view, what he said still makes sense.

He is still like this, and Yue Peng, as an old subordinate, is even more said to have no temper. But he still refuted: "I'm not stubborn, I don't disbelieve, but we are law enforcers, and he just said that even youkai must obey the law." So as demon hunters, should they also obey the law? ”

"Then to change the analogy, Mr. Xiaopu subdues demons and destroys demons, just like our police arrest murderers. If you encounter a heinous and extremely serious offender who endangers the lives of citizens and carries a firearm and weapon, will you choose to shoot him to death, or will you insist on arresting him and bringing him to justice? ”

This metaphor went directly to his head, causing Yue Peng to groan for a while.

"If the murderer did not carry a lethal weapon and would not have killed innocent people indiscriminately, then you should be able to arrest him calmly; It's like a demon hunter's subduing demon. What would you do if he was violent and would kill innocents indiscriminately at any time, and he had the ability to kill innocents indiscriminately on a large scale, and you wanted to arrest him for trial, and the possible result would be to pay more innocent lives? Zhang Yongchun asked again.

Yue Peng smiled bitterly: "Zhang, I understand what you mean." Just like the SWAT team against terrorists, for the safety of the public, the front line can decide to kill the target directly......"

He was also upright, he was dissatisfied with Puyang before and said it directly, but now he was persuaded by Zhang Yongchun's theory, and immediately apologized: "Teacher Pu, I'm sorry, my attitude is a bit problematic, I'm mainly ......"

Pu Yang nodded: "It's okay, your insistence is right, it's just a special treatment in special circumstances." Well, back to the case. I've only found the motive now, but there's no direct evidence that the Sea Clan Water Demon did it! ”

Yue Peng and Zhang Yongchun exchanged glances, and then hurriedly asked, "Can you find the Sea Clan Water Demon?" ”

Pu Yang spread his hands: "The police want to talk about evidence, and we are the same." There was no evidence, so people could only be brought back to assist in the investigation, and their actions did not leave evidence that could be recorded by normal means. Even if I go to the door privately, it can only be an open and honest showdown, and if the other party doesn't admit it, I can't force it. ”

The two were immediately discouraged, and finally Puyang found the direction, but it was such a result. Without evidence, you can't even arrest people, let alone eliminate them.

Pu Yang is also a little discouraged, he will have such an investigation direction, in fact, according to the current situation of the demon clan that Qin Yao said, first assume that the big demon He Hai in the sea clan water demon is the mastermind behind the scenes, then to find its motive, it is very likely that Qiao Benfa ate it, or his restaurant got Hehai's sea clan water demon relatives and friends, so he will be the killer.

The information he got now can only be regarded as a general proof for him, but there is no direct evidence that He Hai did it.

"This Qiao Benfa is too, what is good to eat, I have to eat an old turtle!" Yue Peng couldn't help but complain.

Zhang Yongchun smiled bitterly and shook his head, "This is caused by the concept of Chinese people's tonic......" and then he talked eloquently.

In ancient times, there was a scarcity of materials, there was no large-scale animal husbandry, and meat food was still relatively luxurious for ordinary civilians, and civilians were basically working people, and they consumed a lot of physical energy, so there would have been some lack of nutrients. It is easy to get weak and sick, so it is good to make up for it with chicken soup or the like. The rich and noble people are pursuing a rarity, and they have the concept of eating form and complementing form, thinking that eating deer antler velvet can be as hard as antlers, and eating tiger whips can be as fierce as tigers.

In terms of modern nutrition concepts, the nutrients required by the human body are basically several categories: water, carbohydrates (sugar), proteins (amino acids), lipids, vitamins and minerals and other trace elements. Putting aside the psychological impact of some mysterious theories, those tonic holy products are just a little more amino acids and trace elements. Of course, there are a few that contain ingredients that are not found in ordinary items, such as caffeine in coffee and ginsenosides in ginseng.

"In fact, there are some foods and medicines that really have more ingredients, but they are not so mysterious, and without inspection and analysis, they may not be suitable for each physique. For example, some people eat people and have nosebleeds, saying that they are overdone, but in fact, the ginseng from the field has excessive heavy metals, resulting in slight poisoning that the body cannot metabolize. ”

"Zhang, how do you know everything?" Pu Yang couldn't help but praise it.

Zhang Yongchun smiled and sighed: "I'm also old!" When you get older, you are more afraid of death, and you will pay more attention to health and the like. At one time, I also believed in some traditional medicine and traditional concepts, and I was fooled by many packaged miracle doctors. Later, I put aside the prejudices of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, read more books and materials, and looked at it dialectically and compared it. Don't criticize it for nothing, and don't deify it mysteriously. There is a reasonable and valuable admiration, and some dross that is limited to the age and research technology must still be discarded, and those that cannot be fully demonstrated should not be drawn to conclusions. ”

Pu Yang's inferences have been opened, human beings have this deified tonic psychology, do demons and monsters also have tonic psychology? As far as the modern life of the demon clan is concerned, as Qin Yao said, most of the demon clan can survive by relying on the food that the Anthropocene Realm can provide, and they also practice the same. But there are also people like wolf demons who like to eat people's hearts, and maybe people's hearts also have a certain nutritional value, but they may not be able to improve the demon's intelligence and skills. It's not a taste preference, it's just a kind of tonic psychology similar to deification.

Seeing that the two of them chatted about the theory of health preservation and tonic because of his emotion, Yue Peng was helpless for a while, "Two, this is 'a bloody case caused by a bowl of soup', but we should pay attention to the bloody case, not the soup!" ”

These words made Pu Yang and Zhang Yongchun laugh, and then Pu Yang said seriously: "Help me check the address of a man named He Hai, I'll go to the door to meet him first!" ”