257. Tacitus Trap

"Not in ...... Realistic ...... Plan? Yan Xiuze repeated in a low voice what Hei Xing had said, looking a little lost.

"But I'm very surprised that when I concocted that unwarranted evil plan in front of you, you believed it so easily without much questioning?" Blackstar said in a mocking tone, "That's right, I did give you a copy of the 'top secret' that seems to be highly credible to corroborate your lies...... Your ingenuity, as well as your brains that have been modified by secret medicines, will definitely find some of these vulnerabilities if you really investigate them carefully......"

"But you don't."

"I wonder if you haven't even carefully analyzed the information I gave you?"

For Heixing's questioning, Yan Xiuze could only be silent, he was right, after learning the "truth" two years ago, he only took a cursory look at the "top-secret information" left by Heixing that night, and the next day he angrily went to the base of Tiandu Metro Line 1 to ask for guilt.

And it is precisely because of this that so many twists and turns have happened after that......

"But I don't blame you, since I can make up such a lie, I naturally have the confidence not to be seen through by you." Blackstar asked, not without obscurity, "Do you know the 'Tacitus Trap'?" ”

The term "Tacitus trap" may not be familiar to ordinary people, but Yan Xiuze knows something about it because of the elective courses in college.

The "Tacitus Trap" is named after the Roman historian Tacitus. This concept originally came from Tacitus's History of Tacitus, in which Tacitus said of a Roman emperor: "Once the emperor is the object of hatred, the good and bad things he does arouse disgust with him." Later, it was extended by Chinese scholars to become a modern social phenomenon, which refers to when a government department or an organization loses credibility, whether it is telling the truth or not, doing good or bad things, it will be regarded as telling lies and doing bad things. (Excerpt from XX Encyclopedia)

When Hei Xing saw Yan Xiuze's ugly face in front of him, he knew that he was no stranger to this concept, and couldn't help but smile slightly: "He is worthy of being a top student in the field of humanities and social sciences, but I have explained it with some words." ”

"Do you know where the most ridiculous part of the whole thing is?"

"The most ridiculous thing is that not only you, but the 'victims' of the lies I weave easily believed what I said, and even the 'perpetrators' who belonged to the Huaxia government easily believed it when they heard about this evil plan, and they didn't even think to ask a higher level to verify whether it was really true!"

"Look, whether it's Zheng Zhu or Wang Zheng...... Even Inspector Su Shaoqing, these insiders of the Chinese government, almost without any evidence, believed that the Chinese government had committed such atrocities. ”

"It's like a patient in a mental hospital who suddenly dies one day, and all the other mentally ill people point at a security guard and yell: You killed him!"

"And the first thought that popped into the security guard's mind was not to defend himself, but to say, 'I didn't kill this man, but my accomplices must have done it.'"

"Ridiculous? But so what? The world has always been ridiculous. ”

"Do you know what's wrong with you? Whether it's you, Zheng Zhu, Wang Zheng, or Inspector Tiandu...... Or ordinary people, all the people who easily believe this lie. ”

"It's not about how clever my plan is, or how flawless this lie is...... One of the fatal mistakes you make is to easily see an organization, a group, or even a country as an individual. ”

Yan Xiuze was stunned.

"Look, those who oppose the government and the country on weekdays, what do they call the objects they oppose on weekdays?"

"'Evil', 'dark', 'disgusting'......"

"It's really disgusting for me to look at them." Black Star said coldly: "What kind of naΓ―ve, stupid, and unthinking person would use such a stupid adjective to describe an organization or group with many factions, a large number of people, and countless conflicting opinions?" ”

"In their brains, which are comparable to single-celled organisms, they may only be able to quantify all the conflicts in the world into the simplest binary opposition, and barely make their brains like a ball of to justify themselves."

"Is it really possible for all people in a government to be good or bad? When it comes to any group, can it really be summed up in a few simple adjectives? ”

"When the vast majority of people are victimized by this stereotype in their own group, they always stand up and defend their group, calling for everyone not to generalize...... But once he judged other unfamiliar groups, he picked up this stereotype that he hated a second ago, and walked into his grave with this stereotype. ”

At this moment, a cloud slowly drifted from a distance, which happened to cover the sun that was still shining in the last second, and the open-air balcony that was originally bathed in sunlight instantly darkened, and even Yan Xiuze's face dimmed a little.

Hei Xing and the rock soldiers behind him just stood there motionless, staring at Yan Xiuze in front of him with a cold gaze, and in the end, Hei Xing still slowly spoke: "Your birthday is coming soon, right?" ”

"This is a birthday gift for you."

The pattern on Black Star's face suddenly changed to a smiling face at this moment: "Happy birthday." ”

Above the sky, the clouds that obscured the sunlight finally drifted by, and the open-air balcony became bright again, but by this time, the place where the rock soldiers and the black star had stood was empty, as if the two of them had never been here.

The sunlight became a little dazzling, Yan Xiuze, who had been standing still, came back to his senses, turned his head and rubbed his eyes without pupils, he turned his head stiffly, but found that at the transparent glass sliding door connected to the living room, Xiao Mo, Ju Yiting and others were silently looking at him.

Originally, the hearing of the superpower was far beyond that of ordinary people, and when the black star came, he didn't hide his tracks at all, so he was naturally discovered by the people in the living room for the first time, and they also heard the conversation between them clearly through the glass just now.

Yan Xiuze pursed his lips and didn't speak, just opened the glass sliding door, lowered his head, passed the people who were also silent, and staggered back to his bedroom......

"I say......" Xiao Mo hesitated for a while, but finally broke the strange silence in the living room: "Let's ......"

"Can't you eat this meal......