Returning to the thirteenth headquarters building of the Planet Security Bureau again, Lu Ming and Lu Qingliang got together again.

After meeting Li Wenhua, the four of them came to the Planet Security Research Laboratory together.

After each team performs the mission, whether the mission succeeds or fails, they must come here after the mission is over, and tell the events of the incident, their own decision-making and the basis for decision-making, etc., all in their original form, and then keep it on file for study.

The details of the tasks performed between the teams are strictly confidential, and only applies to the team members, not to the researchers behind the scenes who are not directly carrying out the missions.

The four were separated, each with their own understanding, and told the researchers in the lab about the incident.

This is the first time for Lu Ming.

Previously, because he was not an official member of the second team at the time, he did not participate in this last procedure.

"At the time, I thought that there must not be ghosts in the Marina Building. Even if there are ghosts, they can't be the kind of thing that ignores the laws of physics, so I'll ......"

With the narration and conversation, Lu Ming also seemed to return to that period of time, revisited his mental journey at that time, and sorted out the fierce eucalyptus again.

It took a long time, three days, before Lu Ming told the whole story completely.

In the process, the researchers ask a lot of questions and ask the person who carries out the mission, that is, the field personnel of the operation team, from various angles to determine the situation at the time.

Lu Ming took the trouble to explain all the questions as clearly as possible in great detail. Because he knows that these questions are the most valuable first-hand information for these researchers.

On the basis of this information, they may be able to study many things, such as the most basic and important rules for field personnel, some rules of practice, and even the most secure means to deal with them under what circumstances.

This has the potential to save many lives.

The operations team can't know too much about the details of the mission so as not to interfere with their own judgment, and these researchers who are not in the field and only undertake research tasks need not worry about this. They can take a more advanced perspective and take a more holistic view of these supernatural events.

In this sorting process, Lu Ming also had many new ideas, recalled more details, and took the initiative to examine his decision, whether there were any omissions in the environment at that time, and whether he could do better.

But most of these are inconsequential details. Only a sudden inspiration made him fall into deep thought.

Sensing that Lu Ming seemed to have something in mind, Professor Ning, who came to collect information, took the initiative to close his mouth.

After thinking for a long time, Lu Mingcai said: "Professor Ning, you know, until the end of the whole case, we haven't answered what the 'Lou Shen' is. It's just that, along with the destruction of the underground cave environment, Lou Shen seems to have disappeared. Well, I mean, we've tried to organize some people to get into a state of concentration and concentration with the help of drugs, and we've tried to communicate with Lou Shen many times, but we didn't succeed. In the past, there was a precedent for this approach.

It seems that the bacteria are all dead, and the god of Lou is also dead. There should be some kind of special relationship between the two.

Now, I have a new idea. Uh, just ideas, speculations, no empirical evidence. ”

Professor Ning's face spread out wrinkles, and a smile appeared: "I'm very interested in the speculation from the front-line field, can you tell me?" ”

He turned around again and looked at the recorder next to him, "It's valuable, you can write it down." ”

Lu Ming was a little embarrassed: "It's just a guess, you also have to write it down?" Will it mislead you? ”

"Maybe your guess is true? Even if it's not true, it may be enlightening to us, so how can it be misleading? ”

Lu Ming let go of his worries: "That's what I think. Could the so-called Lou Shen actually be a completely new form of life? ”

"Oh?"

"What is our consciousness, or wisdom, thinking?"

Professor Ning was stunned.

It's a difficult question to answer.

"Can you find out where your consciousness is?"

Professor Ning shook his head.

This obviously can't. Even if a person's head is sliced in the most detailed, it is impossible to find a single tissue or cell, so that people can clearly point to it and say that it is consciousness.

But this world is materialistic, and there can be no so-called souls, ghosts, and the like.

So where exactly is the consciousness?

"My conjecture is that consciousness, or thinking, intelligence, is actually a description of the state of a whole system."

Lu Ming pondered the language and sorted out his conjectures: "Among the hundreds of billions of brain neurons, none of them are human consciousness. However, when so many brain neurons are assembled, each of them is active in different ways, and the existence of 'consciousness' is manifested as a whole.

Consciousness, or wisdom, is only an outward manifestation of the collective activity of many neurons. If we look at it as a whole, and judge its activities and movements as a whole, it will look like wisdom. But if it is viewed separately and separately, then consciousness does not exist at all. ”

Professor Ning smiled and nodded: "Very interesting conjecture." Lu Ming, do you have a background in brain science? ”

"Nope." Lu Ming shook his head: "It's just my own imagination." You may not know it, but I used to be a science fiction writer......"

"Hehe, your conjecture is, in essence, somewhat similar to some cutting-edge theories. However, there are a lot of conjectures of this nature. But most of them can neither be verified nor falsified. ”

"Yes, I've heard of it." Lu Ming said: "My conjecture about Lou Shen comes from this conjecture. My idea is that Lou Shen is just the collective consciousness of hundreds of millions of phobic bacteria under the collective activities and movements. Uh, that is, the god itself does not exist, just like our human consciousness. ”

Professor Ning smiled: "You mean that a single phobia is like a single neuron in our human brains?" Countless phobic bacteria are gathered, and they have consciousness, wisdom, and the spirit of the building? ”

"Yes."

"Very interesting conjecture. What are you based on? ”

"There is no hard evidence, only some evidence that I don't know if it counts as evidence. The first point is the physiological structure of the phobia itself, you should have read the data, the survival of the phobia must rely on a certain weak bioelectric electric field created by the collective, and this electric field comes from the contribution of each phobic bacteria. ”

"Bioelectric ......"

Professor Ning nodded slowly and muttered: "From this point of view, any change in a single phobic bacterium can have a certain impact on this 'collective electric field', and as long as it is within the coverage of this collective electric field, even another phobic bacterium thousands of meters away can instantly sense this change." At least from the point of view of mutual communication, there are no barriers to what constitutes 'collective intelligence'. ”

"Yes. There are hundreds of billions of phobic bacteria, and each phobic bacteria are affecting and being affected by this electric field. Each phobic bacterium is influencing the rest of the phobic bacteria, and it is also being affected by all the remaining phobic bacteria. The complexity of this change in the collective electric field, I think, should meet the requirements for the birth of a collective intelligence. ”

"So, this kind of 'collective electric field' is Loushen?"

"That's what I guessed. The second basis is that Lou Shen can command phobic bacteria. However, phobia is just a simple single-celled life. I can't think of any other way to command this single-celled life than this collective intelligence, or collective electric field. ”

This thing doesn't even have a brain, how can it be possible to accept orders and obey commands?

"You mean that individual phobs receive instructions from this collective electric field?"

"Yes. Such instructions should be so simple that they can be understood and executed by instinct alone. For example, when the electric field changes to a certain extent, the phobic bacteria secrete phonotoxins, and when the electric field changes to another extent, they secrete corrosive objects, or move forward or backward. ”

"A large number of very simple individuals, taken together, become a consciousness with a higher level of intelligence? It's really amazing. ”

Lu Ming smiled: "It's not magical. The computers in our human world, some of the more advanced artificial intelligence, can even pretend to be human beings. But no matter how complex a program is, isn't it still just 0 and 1 in nature? For something as holistic as this, it's the combinatorial logic that is complex, not the individual ones.

The computer program acts as this logic, combining simple 0 and 1 into a complex artificial intelligence program, and the collective electric field of the phobic bacteria also acts as this logic, allowing the simple phobic bacteria to be combined into a complex Loushen. ”

"It's a miraculous life."

Professor Ning sighed, and then said, "Do you have any conjectures or speculations about that fungus king stone wither?" ”

Lu Ming was silent for a long time before he said uncertainly: "I don't know." But if Lou Shen is really the collective wisdom of the fear of bacteria, then I guess, Lou Shen ...... I'm afraid that they will also have their own worldview, right? ”

"Worldview?"

"Yes. It is similar to the worldview of ancient human beings, like the heavens are round and the earth is carried by a giant turtle or so on. ”

Explaining the current environment, explaining the world, and understanding the world are the basic needs of intelligent life.

"The worldview gave birth to primitive religions, and the ancients of the Obscurantist Age tried to explain some phenomena in the world in a mythological way, such as the god of thunder, the god of rain, the god of fire, and so on. Then, as an intelligent life, Loushen should also have its own world view and its own primitive religious worship. ”

"You mean, that fungus king stone carving may be the object of religious worship of Lou Shen? It uses the image of the dinosaur as the image of the deity, directs the dinophobic to 'carve' the statue, and then worships it as a god? Because of this, your teammate He Wei at that time, after destroying the Fungus King Stone Wither, Lou Shen was so angry? ”

Statues of gods of faith and worship are destroyed and placed on human beings, and they are still angry.

"That's what I guessed. But what the truth is, we may never know. ”

Professor Ning smiled, "Yes." Hmm, is there anything else you'd like to add? ”

"Not yet."

"Well, thank you. Hopefully, after the next mission, you'll be able to sit here and tell me how you've managed to solve another problem. ”

"Thank you."

The two shook hands, and then Lu Ming got up and left.

Returning to the exclusive conference room of the second action team, before Lu Ming could tell Lu Qingliang, He Wei, and Zhang Dingshan about his new conjecture, Zhang Dingshan announced an important news.

"There is a new discovery in the miniature version of the Zhenlong Pile Experimental Base."

"Oh?"

Several people immediately lifted their spirits.

"They found a difference in the environment between inside and outside the dragon pile formation. They found that because of the special building structure laid out according to the Zhenlong pile formation, a relatively rare friction phenomenon occurs when the air flow through the outer layer of the building. This imparts a very weak electrostatic field to the building. It is not yet known whether this is the kind of 'greenhouse effect' that allows phobic bacteria to survive, but they are conducting further research on it. ”

"Electrostatic field?"

Lu Ming was stunned.

"I think this possibility should not be small."

Lu Ming told his conjecture about collective intelligence and collective electric field. The combination of the two, people suddenly feel that this is really a certain possibility.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the existence of this electrostatic field that the "collective electric field" of the phobic bacteria can exist, which in turn leads to the "collective intelligence", that is, the existence of Loushen?

What the specific truth is, it is impossible to explore at this moment. At this moment, all people can do is speculate and conjecture with some clues.

But no matter what others do, at least Lu Ming has accepted this speculation at the moment.

"It's supposed to be a coincidence, right? Well...... It must be a coincidence. I really can't imagine that this so-called dragon pile formation constructed from the ancient inheritance and based on the principle of the illusory thing such as feng shui gossip can happen to be related to a strange microorganism that has been separated from the mainstream biosphere since hundreds of millions of years ago and evolved alone in a closed environment to the present day. The wonder of creation in the world is nothing more than that. ”

Lu Ming's heart was full of emotion.

It was this coincidence that triggered a series of subsequent events. It not only caused Wu Qingfu to become rich, but also caused his bankruptcy and tragic death, and also caused his daughter Wu Xiuzhu and some others to die innocently in the Binhai Building.

The underground caves, where the phobic bacteria and Lou gods have multiplied for generations, have also been completely destroyed by garbage and sewage from the human world.

- If the phonophobic toxin secreted by the phobic bacteria does not happen to react with the human body, causing extreme fear in humans, maybe Lou Shen will not be discovered even if he survives until now.

A chemical that is highly toxic to one life may be delicious to another.

Just like chocolate, it's a delicacy for humans and highly toxic for dogs.

If the phobic toxin is a substance that can stimulate creativity and boost the spirit for the human body, then this incident in Yangyuan City may be a completely different story. Maybe everyone involved in this incident will have a completely different fate.

But something has already happened, and it can never be changed. For all this, Lu Ming could only sigh.

This incident is completely over. Next, a few people will have a rather long vacation. But unexpectedly, Li Wenhua called Zhang Dingshan to the office again.

When Zhang Dingshan arrived, he was surprised to see that Wang Zheng, the captain of the 16th team of the operation, was also there.

Li Wenhua's expression was a little unkind: "Wang Zheng, you told Dingshan that you wanted to make a bet?" The bet is on the treatment of your sixteen teams for a month as the only first-class team? Now that Joyama's second team has successfully completed the mission, what do you think? ”

Wang Zheng's face was full of smiles: "But Li Chu, Team Zhang didn't agree to bet with me at the beginning." ”

"I'll just agree."

Li Wenhua sank his face: "From now on, the treatment of your sixteenth team will be deprived of one month and given to the second team." ”

Wang Zheng's face was bitter, and a little smile appeared on Zhang Dingshan's face.

He didn't care about the deep meaning behind Li Wenhua's move, he only knew that in this month, a few of his people could finally enjoy themselves.

The second volume of the Notes on the Investigation of Paranormal Events, "The Murderous House", ends.

The third volume of "Prophecy" is admirable.