Chapter 35 Follow-up Plans
Just after lunch, Gogol crept into the tent of the camp again, not knowing what kind of risk he was sneaking up on.
It stands to reason that the relationship between the two can be well prevaricated by a single reason to act as a guide, and there is no need to be so mysterious.
"Last night's commotion was so loud, but the overall atmosphere of the camp today is still harmonious, and you are the best expedition team to date."
Gogol sat down calmly, and his tone was even more relaxed, without the slightest awareness of being an outsider.
In Bai Ning's view, the significance of Gogol's move is not an attempt to bring the relationship between the two closer, but more like a preconceived strong affirmation.
Based on Gogol's basic attitude of testing everyone last night, it can even be asserted that Gogol has regarded Jiang Yingxue's team as his personal property.
Very strange attitude, or rather, strange attitude from Gogol.
"Why are you always sneaky, is it because you don't have a good relationship with the village?"
It doesn't make any sense to speculate too much about Gogol's overall attitude at the beginning, it is better to take advantage of the fact that his foothold is not stable, and find out more useful information.
"You must know that you are not the first team to venture here, and many of the good deeds who preceded you have already buried their bones deep in the forest.
If I had been accompanied by a group of people every time, and I was the only one who had escaped, I would have been wondered why I had gotten because of the totemic creatures in the village. ”
Gogol's eating appearance is very casual, but the content of the answer is sharp, a bit of Jiang Yingxue's taste, but it lacks a bit of elegance and wealth.
This statement also verified some of Bai Ning's previous judgments, but it was still not credible.
The whole village is repulsive and wary of outsiders, which cannot be explained by the fact that they killed the so-called god of the forest, after all, many villagers are making wild boar meat into air-dried reserve meat without any scruples, which shows that their faith is not very strong.
The strange customs of the village as a whole are associated with the Tunguska explosion, and the strange behavior of Gogol must also be related to other deeper secrets.
"In addition to coming over for dinner and chatting, as a sincere cooperation, you have to show it a little."
For a smart person like Gogol, whether the attitude is tentative or overture, it is to further control the partner of his cooperation.
Concealing one's own intentions and trying to gradually pry open Gogol's hard shell is an excellent counter-strategy for a basic cooperative attitude.
"Since your purpose is so clear, I'm not going to hide it.
True, there is indeed a research base for the former Soviet outpost.
My grandfather worked there for a while, but was eventually laid off simply because the job didn't meet the military's expectations.
However, this outpost research base is no better than that, and has long been abandoned by the military.
I've accompanied some explorers to see it before, it's nothing to see, it's a lot dangerous, I don't know if you have any relevant interests. ”
The more Bai Ning listened to Gogol's statement, the more frightened he became, because this content was almost generated one-to-one according to Bai Ning's previous hypothetical template.
Bai Ning was shocked when he heard this, and Jiang Yingxue's eyes were even more brilliant.
What Bai Ning said before was just some dispensable reasoning, but now it has become a naked truth through the confirmation of Gogol, an outsider.
With such a dramatic scene, Jiang Yingxue was also in a trance for a while, whether this was because Bai Ning was good at reasoning, or because Bai Ning had already known a lot of secrets of the Soviet military in advance.
Jiang Yingxue feels like a treasure, which is entirely because she is just a third party who is a bystander, and can only judge the truth of things through other people's discussions.
The so-called hearts are separated from the belly, and there are only two people who have a fierce game of truth and falsehood here, Bai Ning and Gogol.
Many of Bai Ning's previous judgments were indeed based on reasoning, and what Gogol is saying now is not necessarily ironclad facts.
Gogol is very intelligent, he is good at speculating on people's hearts, and the degree to which his words are difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood is not comparable to that of an existence like Ivan.
In particular, Gogol's expectations at this time were much more complex and difficult to guess than Ivan's.
A little more simply to push back:
With the well-known nature of the Tunguska region, there is a high probability that many expeditions have been here.
Then, through interaction with these expeditions, it is easy to summarize a general expedition expectation - the former Soviet outpost research base.
From here on, it's fake, then the identity of Grandpa Gogol is even more nonsense.
In order to be able to win Bai Ning's trust, Gogol's grandfather can be any identity.
Even more daringly, with so many expeditions, perhaps spanning decades, Gogol may be the descendant of the researchers involved, or just the descendants of many explorers.
All of this is just a one-sided statement by Gogol, and if you want to see the truth or falsehood, you need to be further probed.
"That's great, we're very interested in some of the Soviet research in the Tunguska region, can you tell us a little bit about your grandfather's research?
Maybe in the follow-up adventure, we can help your grandfather realize his dream. ”
Quickly suppressing the impetuousness in his heart, Bai Ning tried to follow the topic of Gogol in a calculated manner.
Regardless of whether Gogol is actually a descendant of the researcher, the content of his research is useful and valuable for interacting with the relevant topics of sleep deprivation experiments.
"There are many hypotheses about the Tunguska explosion, and my grandfather is a staunch supporter of the meteorite theory.
For the exploration of meteorite theory, the former Soviet Union has made great efforts to drain the suspected crater, but no meteorite fragments have been found in it.
Because of this, my grandfather was invited out of the research team after continuing his research for a while. ”
Gogol responded very casually, as if it really were, but it was clear that he was not telling the truth.
If Gogol's grandfather was just a staunch supporter of the meteorite theory, this little obsession could not have lasted for three generations.
Moreover, the study of spirits, such as the sleep deprivation experiment, was already on track, and his grandfather would never have been obsessed with it for decades.
What's more, with Gogol's intelligence, he would not be able to waste his precious time here because of some personal misunderstandings of his grandfather.
Still going around in circles, hiding some unknown motives?
It's really interesting.
"The Ivan I told you last night has also studied Tunguska-related topics for three generations, and his grandfather discovered the secrets of spirits in the Tunguska region, and obtained rich research results on this basis.
You should be more or less aware of a well-known topic like sleep deprivation experiments, and wonder what unique views you have on these things? ”
Bai Ning didn't directly expose Gogol's lies, but just used Ivan as a shield, wanting to see Gogol's reaction.
Unexpectedly, Gogol's psychological quality was extremely good, and there was no uncomfortable micro-expression feedback, but he laughed heartily because he learned more effective information, and smiled very naturally.
"When I heard you talk about Ivan's past last night, I thought it was just some temporary excuse, but I didn't expect it to be true.
I can tell you very clearly that the research area in the outpost research base is very chaotic, and the study of spirit phenomena may only be a very side research project.
It's just that this project is very beneficial to the military, so it will be taken seriously, and even an independent research laboratory has been developed. ”
After a little acceptance, Gogol directly started a long speech, and there was no rehearsal in the slightest.
"The study of the Tunguska region is still a mystery, whether it is Tsarist Russia or the former Soviet Union, most of their related research laboratories have been abandoned.
In addition to the great risk factor of some studies, the most important point of this phenomenon is that the research direction is too disorganized.
In the overall research process, there are not only orthodox schools of scientific research, but also some supernatural schools of research.
As you should know, the former Soviet Union once had a unit dedicated to the study of paranormal phenomena, and this atmosphere was not special.
The sleep deprivation experiment you're talking about is likely led by members of the Occult Research Society.
My grandfather was from the orthodox school of science, and the so-called meteorite theory is just a very general concept, which represents the impact and explosion of a highly polymerized energy body.
This high-polymerization energy body can be a meteorite or something else, but this hypothesis is not well received by the military.
I think you should know that the sleep deprivation experiment arose in 1940, and the first successful atomic bomb test was in 1945. ”
Originally, he just thought that Gogol was talking nonsense, but he didn't expect what he said to be so powerful, and in his logical line, he actually thought that the explosion in the Tunguska region was a sudden collapse process of a high-energy body.
This high-energy explosion could be a nuclear bomb or the collapse of other super-energy bodies.
It was the realization of the existence of a nuclear explosion that the former Soviet Union stopped supporting sleep deprivation experiments and began to work on the atomic bomb in full.
Therefore, the sleep deprivation experiment was not finally abandoned because of the spirit riot, which may have been just a trigger, a trigger that made the military feel unstable.
Come to think of it, if you have a controllable weapon of mass destruction, why would you try to control a spirit weapon with uncontrollable risks?
When it comes to this in the dialogue, it seems that many things have been self-justified, but this good self-justification still makes Bai Ning feel uneasy.
It went so well!
Everything went so smoothly!