At this moment, hearing that his original disposition actually involved the life and death of the entire human civilization, Lu Ming had a feeling that it was not real enough.

Of course, the situation at that time was indeed very important to itself. But this is nothing more than the category of a eucalyptus. It's crazy to relate that situation to the survival of an entire civilization.

Even if Shu Changshan showed high credibility, this sentence still made Lu Ming feel a little unbelievable.

Seeing Lu Ming's expression, Shu Changshan sighed.

"The real plans of the monsters, I already know now. As you might have guessed, it was indeed a sacrifice. The goal is to pass on the coordinates of its own location to the Magic Eye, which is more than 100 million light-years away, so that it can teleport this thing to our Earth.

As for this thing...... If I'm not mistaken, based on what I've learned from the Lightseeker, it's supposed to be the 'Star Spirit'. ”

"Star Spirit? What is this again? ”

Shu Changshan muttered, "The Star Spirit is also a magical creature that exists in the vast starry sky. They worship the strong and are willing to be driven by magical creatures of greater strength and personality than themselves, and will never betray them.

But for the weak, the Star Spirit is extremely cruel and ruthless. They can infect the minds of living beings on a large scale, plunging them into the abyss of meanness and treachery, and eventually causing all infected beings to die in cannibalism, and their souls will be absorbed by it.

Eventually, it will return to the powerful creatures that drive it again, giving away its entire harvest to please its master. ”

"What the hell ......"

Lu Ming felt as if he was listening to some myths and legends. But the reality of the situation forced him to think carefully about this possibility.

"Mr. Shu, are you saying that the monsters passed the coordinates of the earth to the Demon Eye through a ritual, and the Demon Eye sent this star spirit to harvest the souls of the creatures on the earth?"

"For now, it should be."

"Then, Mr. Shu, why do you say that we dealt with it in time?"

He Wei was a little puzzled.

After all, even if what Shu Changshan said was true, that monster called the Star Spirit would reach the earth in a year or two years in the slow. When the time comes, won't the earthlings have to be wiped out?

For this kind of monster that exists under the Cthulhu worldview, human technology is probably really useless.

Shu Changshan said in a low voice: "Although the creature of the Star Spirit is absolutely loyal to its master, and cruel and ruthless, it has one of its biggest shortcomings. That is, one's ability to perceive the external environment is very poor and very poor. If there is no clear guidance on where to go, it is possible that even if it is only a hundred meters away from Earth, it will pass by Earth and continue its voyage to the depths of the universe. ”

Well?

Lu Mingtong's hole is miniaturized.

He roughly understood what Shu Changshan meant.

"So, Mr. Shu, what do you mean is that because we didn't make the monsters' sacrifice a complete success, there was a slight deviation in the coordinates of the Star Spirit cast by the Demon Eye to reach the Earth, causing the Star Spirit that would have been teleported to the Earth to end up more than 100 billion kilometers away from the Earth...... Really? ”

"As far as I guess, that's how it should be."

"In that case, the next move of the monsters must be to continue to find a way to provide guidance for the star spirits, so that it can accurately descend on the earth to harvest the creatures, and we will have at least one year, at most two years to find a way to stop the monsters, this is our ...... lifeline?"

"Yes."

"But...... What if we block the monsters' guidance? Even if this 'Star Spirit' might pass by the Earth, that 'Demon Eye' wouldn't be so stupid, right? Even if it thinks about it with its ass, it can know that the ultimate goal is the earth, and it directly asks the star spirit to come to the earth, what should I do? ”

Shu Changshan looked at Lu Ming: "Sergeant Lu, I want to ...... You may be underestimating the Magic Eye's place in our universe and overestimating our human value. ”

Lu Ming was stunned, and then reacted.

Don't...... The value of the entire human civilization, in the eyes of the Magic Eye, is it not even worth it to move its head slightly?

Could it be that for it, it just received a request for a sacrifice, and then sent one of its subordinates at random, delivered it to that coordinate at will, and then didn't bother to pay attention to it?

……

Shu Changshan said in a low voice: "The universe is so vast. I don't know how many things or existences are more valuable than the human world. The only reason we survive is because we are not valuable enough to attract the attention of those who are great. This is not a shame, but a ...... We are lucky. Our enemies are only monsters who have mutated by the Eye, not the Eye. ”

If Shu Changshan's logic is true, then ...... The enemy of humanity is indeed not the Monoculus. Because it's not worth it at all.

Lu Ming was silent, his mind was thinking about Shu Changshan's words quickly, trying to find the loopholes in them, distinguish the truth from the falsehood, and think about his own action plan if it was true.

He Wei said: "In this way, the sacrifice of monsters is the life of human beings?" But...... With the force of the monsters, where the defense is lax or even completely undefended, it is easy to bloody even a village, why is it so iron-headed as to attack our base? ”

Lu Ming's spirits perked.

This is indeed a rather unreasonable place.

The law and order in modern society is still very good. Some remote mountain villages have long been accustomed to this kind of tranquility, and they are not at all defenseless against the outside world, unlike in ancient times, when they had to form village associations, build fortresses, and train people to protect the villages.

Slaughtering a bloody village is indeed not a difficult task for monsters.

Shu Changshan said: "The person who can serve as a sacrifice for this ceremony needs to meet one condition. Either there is a delicious soul, or there is a strong body. Only in this way can it become a sacrifice, otherwise, it will only become a drag on the ritual. Well, there needs to be a certain number of both of them. ”

The strong flesh is easy to understand, then, the delicious soul......

"The soul that has a lot of knowledge is the most delicious for the evil gods."

Lu Ming's heart was slightly cold.

In modern society, which kind of person has the most knowledge? Obviously, it can only be scientists, scholars, engineers, and the like.

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However, among the temporary bases, the number of scientific research scholars is not small.

As for the strong flesh...... Which of the guards who were brought in was not muscular? Which one is not a casual one-to-five existence in the outside world?

In this way, the delicious soul and the strong body are all together. And there are a lot of them.

From this point of view, there are really not many places that meet the needs of sacrifices.

In some commercial edifice, a place full of wealthy elites, there may be enough delicious souls, but there are probably few strong bodies. Or some other hidden military bases, scientific research bases, etc., of course, those places are also eligible, but compared to the hastily formed temporary military base of their own, the alert level is too high, and I am afraid it is not as easy to start as here.

Combining the two phases, Lu Ming found that his temporary base turned out to be the most suitable target.

At the same time, he was aware of another problem.

Why did you set up this temporary military base?

It was to imprison Luo Yang.

In this case, it is necessary to mobilize enough guards with "strong flesh" to come over.

In order to study the monster mutated by Luo Yang, he must mobilize enough scientific research scholars with "delicious souls" to come over.

The root of everything lies in the monster that Luo Yang mutated into.

So...... The original monsters, why did they leave Luo Yang alone, it seems that they also have an answer.

They did deliberately leave Luo Yang behind, the purpose was to allow them to set up a temporary military base and collect enough "delicious souls" and "strong bodies" for their sacrifices!

From discovering that Zhou Tianyang's team members had mutated into monsters and fled, only Luo Yang had left, he had easily stepped into the trap of the other party, and naturally, without the slightest resistance, he followed their arrangement.

If you don't deal with it quickly on the night when the monsters gather, maybe the monsters' sacrifice will really succeed, and then the star spirits will be directly released to the earth, and then everyone will be finished!

Lu Ming felt the cold to the bone. Cold sweat oozes uncontrollably from his back.

Their calculations are so deep! Their wisdom is so high! I even subconsciously treated them as beasts before, and it was really a blessing that I didn't spoil the overall situation by them at that time.

Heaven and hell are just a thought. Take a step forward, take a step back, and the situation at this moment will be very different.

He Wei also looked scared at the moment. Even Zhang Dingshan frowned and looked solemn.

Shu Changshan sighed again: "In my opinion, letting you take the initiative to gather 'delicious souls' and 'strong bodies' is only one of the goals of the monsters. Another purpose of them is that at the time of the sacrifice, in the midst of the sacrifice, there is also a need for a person to receive the sacrifice, so that the ritual can be effective. Now it seems that it is clearly the monster you are holding behind. Well, if I'm not mistaken, on the night the monsters gathered, this monster that you were holding should have made a move, right? This ritual requires an eyeball, but depending on your state of martial law, it should not be available from the outside world, so ...... I gouged out my eyeballs, didn't I? ”

Lu Ming was taken aback again.

He couldn't help but recall that night Subject 1 had unexpectedly cut the rope that he thought it couldn't cut, gouged out his eyeballs, and bowed in the direction of the CSK-9602 galaxy.

At that time, it was determined that Subject 1 must have deliberately concealed his strength, in order to break free on this day.

But Lu Ming remembered very well that he had never told Shu Changshan about this matter! At this moment, Shu Changshan analyzed this matter on his own based on his own "theoretical system".

Zhang Dingshan nodded: "That's true." ”

He Wei said solemnly: "I still have a question. Mr. Shu, you said that the sacrifice of the monsters is to inform the Demon Eye of the coordinates of the earth, and these people in this base are the sacrifices. However, the sacrifice was not entirely successful, resulting in a deviation in the delivery of the star spirits.

However, the Star Spirit still appeared near the Earth after all. From this point of view, the sacrifice of the monsters is at least 99.9999% ......successful, so if the people in this base are sacrifices, why did our people only unfortunately sacrifice two, accounting for less than one percent of the total population of the base? ”

The solar system is up to 160 million light-years away from CSK-9602, the "magic eye" of the great creature claimed by Shu Changshan. Judging from this distance, the distance between that star spirit and the earth is more than 100 billion kilometers, not even a drop in the bucket. The ability to project directly into this range from 160 million light-years away is beyond the limits of general precision. This accuracy is even higher than shooting an arrow directly from the earth and accurately hitting a speck of dust on the moon.

In this respect, the sacrifice was largely successful.

But the total number of people at the base was hundreds, and that night, because of poisoning, only two were killed. In this respect, the sacrifice was only a small part of its success.

There is a contradiction.

Shu Changshan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "To be honest, I don't know." ”

Lu Ming said in a low voice: "It may be because of the marginal diminishing effect. ”

It's like an ordinary person who spends 100,000 yuan to buy an ordinary car, and the maximum speed can reach 260 kilometers per hour. The rich man paid 5 million for a sports car, but the maximum speed was only increased to 320 kilometers per hour.

In the early stage, ordinary people can exchange every 10,000 yuan for a speed of 26 kilometers per hour. Subsequently, the rich man needed a full 4.9 million yuan, but he could only exchange it for a speed increase of 60 kilometers per hour.

The closer you get to the limit, the more resources you need to invest in order to improve again, and the smaller the improvement you get.

This is known as the marginal diminishing effect.

Then, sacrificing two people will increase the accuracy to more than 100 billion kilometers from the earth, and sacrificing another 100 people may only improve the accuracy to 10 billion kilometers from the earth. It is not incomprehensible that everyone has to be sacrificed to increase accuracy to hit the Earth exactly.

At this moment, the last question in the hearts of several members of the second action team has also been answered. Of course, the answer is based on the so-called Cthulhu worldview. And whether this Cthulhu worldview is consistent with reality, Lu Ming is still uncertain.

Lu Ming secretly warned himself to "only take Shu Changshan's answer as a reference, not to trust it all", while saying: "So, Mr. Shu, do you think those monsters will guide the star spirit to the earth in that way in the next step?" ”

In any case, at this moment, you can only follow this set of Cthulhu worldview for the time being. Because, at this stage, apart from this set of explanations, there is really no other direction for our side.