Chapter 1371 The So-Called Unsolved Mystery

Yin Luyang touched his chin and said seriously: "As far as I know, there are many professors at Miskatonic University who believe that the birth of human beings is related to the ancient ones. But then again, there are actually several professors at Miskatonic University. We have appointed ancient people as consultants, so we have also asked these ancient people related questions, but those ancient people either said that they were not clear about the matter, or they were just talking about it. In short, they were a little afraid to be straightforward about this matter. The way he said it."

"Oh, so it's really possible that we humans are related to the Ancient Ones?" Liu Xing said with a raised eyebrow.

"I think so too. It's just that for some reason, those ancients may feel that their family is in decline and they have no face to recognize the servants who are doing well now, so they keep silent about this matter."

Yin Luyang shrugged and continued: "So I later found an ancient person and drank and ate with him. After a year of doing this, my relationship with this ancient person became very good, and I almost ran away. Thank you; then I found a suitable opportunity and asked it what it thought of us humans, and it told me two words - if."

"if?"

Liu Xing and others said with surprise.

"Yes, it's the word "if", because when it said these two words, it already realized that I was fooling him, so it immediately chose to shut up, and then showed a surprising anger; "if" If I hadn't had a good relationship with it, I'm sure it would have turned back into its true form and slapped me."

Hearing what Yin Luyang said, a very strange picture appeared in Liu Xing's mind, because the ancient man's true form was really eye-catching.

"But it can be seen that the Ancient Ones are very taboo about our human relationship with them, even to an indescribable level. When they just want to mention this, they will trigger their self-protection mechanism and then forcibly cut off their Language features."

Yin Luyang couldn't help complaining: "But after this incident passed, the relationship between the ancient being and me was still good, but it warned me not to mention this matter in front of it again, otherwise it would break off our relationship with me. , and even left Miskatonic University with its friends, so I have never talked to it or other ancient ones about this matter since then."

"Well, if you put it this way, it is really possible that our ancestors worked for the Ancient One. However, the situation may not be that simple. Otherwise, the Ancient One would not be so tight-lipped and would not even dare to mention it." Liu Xing said, "By the way, Professor Yin, have you ever studied how many races the Ancient Ones created? Especially the races that continue to this day."

After Yin Luyang thought for a moment, he said seriously: "The race created by the Ancient Ones, no, in most cases the Ancient Ones did not create a race, but a mythical creature, because it is like many cars. Companies will launch various concept cars that look very high-end, but basically only one of these concept cars will be produced, and it is impossible to mass-produce them. After all, this kind of concept car will do whatever it takes to verify the latest technology and materials. They are built at a low cost... Of course, there are also some concept cars that are just to attract the public’s attention, which is equivalent to disguised advertising.”

"So the Ancient Ones have many research institutes. These research institutes are not affiliated with each other, and they also compete with each other for research funds and various materials, so they often create mythical creatures for gimmicks, but these mythical creatures The use value of the creatures is too low, and they are not as versatile and useful as the Shoggoths. Therefore, most of these mythical creatures are unique existences. If the Shoggoths had not launched a rebellion, these mythical creatures might have been imprisoned in the A lifetime in the institute.”

"So according to research from Miskatonic University, most of the monsters and monsters that appear in myths and legends in various countries today were created by the ancients, so these mythical creatures that can be said to be singles can easily disappear for various reasons. After all, in order to better control these mythical creatures, the Ancient Ones will have a necessary operation when creating them - to limit the size of the brain and increase the energy consumption of the brain."

Hearing this, Liu Xing couldn't help but slap his thigh, "I see, that's what I'm saying..."

Before Liu Xing finished speaking, Yin Luyang said with a smile: "I know you may have seen the question raised by some scientists, that is, why our ancestors suddenly couldn't think about it and put aside their precious skills to order those things. A skill that is useful for my hunting life, but I chose a skill that has a serious debuff in a short period of time - Brain Development? In fact, this problem is related to the restrictions of the Ancient One family. Didn't I just say that, the Ancient One The research institute is just like the car companies we are familiar with, and there is a big gap in their respective incomes."

"For example, the research institute that my friend worked for was ranked around 100 at the time, which was considered to be above average. As a result, the annual funding received by the research institute where it was located was less than the top 100. One percent, so there is very little that can be done with such tight funds, so some assembly line work will be outsourced to research institutes ranked lower. Yes, those research institutes ranked at the bottom are basically outsourced. The company specializes in manufacturing for other research institutes.”

"So regarding the restriction work on the brain, except for the top-ranked research institutes that do it themselves in order to train newcomers, other research institutes have all related work outsourced, that is, half-finished mythical creatures are sent to those outsourced The research institute undergoes transformation and is then brought back for the next step of work. Therefore, sometimes if these outsourcing research institutes have a large number of orders, there may be loopholes in the relevant transformation. However, because 99% of these mythical creatures undergo transformation They won't be mass-produced, so no ancient person will care about this loophole."

"So at that time, my friend would often find that the mythical creatures sent for transformation by his family, although their brains consumed a lot of energy, would also improve their intelligence due to the heavy use of their brains. However, these mythical creatures were initially They will follow their own instincts at all times and will not deliberately use their brains to think, because this will make them feel hungry quickly, and the food given to them by the research institute is timed and quantitative. At the same time, under normal circumstances, these mythical creatures They all get slightly less food than they should."

"So for these mythical creatures, when using the brain, they will get strong negative feedback at the first time, while positive feedback will only be reflected after dozens or hundreds of negative feedbacks. Therefore, there is no need for these creatures to begin with. For mythical creatures with brains, they will choose to give up using their brains for thinking after a few times; this is also reflected in today's humans, the most obvious of which is learning and exercise, because learning and exercise are essentially It’s the negative feedback that directly fills the gap, so without anyone’s supervision, most people will choose to give up studying and exercising.”

Liu Xing strongly agrees with this point.

When he was in college, one of Liu Xing's teachers once asked the students present how many of them were forced to study in various ways by their parents in high school or even junior high school, and for a long time, they basically never stopped. As a result, everyone here raised their hands.

Then the teacher talked about how he had just graduated and was a class teacher in a vocational high school. He had asked his students the same question. As a result, those students said that their parents didn't care much for various reasons. own studies. . . So over time, they began to give up studying, because using their study time to read novels and play games was really very enjoyable.

After all, for students whose minds are not yet mature, they will definitely choose a lifestyle that is "beneficial" to them when they lose their restraints, and the restraints here come not only from their parents, but also from their teachers.

Therefore, the so-called "happy education" advocated by European and American countries is to allow the children of ordinary people to naturally choose a "happy campus life" without the constraints of teachers, and spend their time in school on their own interests and hobbies. Finally, after graduating at noon, I joined the society and worked in the most basic jobs. . . In this way, in addition to Asians who attach great importance to academic performance, especially Chinese parents, they can also exercise final restraint so that their children can enter better schools.

This is also an important reason why Asians currently have the highest proportion of college entrance examinations in Europe and the United States.

No pain No gain.

This sentence is not said casually, because it is very consistent with the laws of human evolution.

Learning is like this, and exercise is even more so, because the various equipment in today's gyms were a variety of torture tools in the past. For example, the earliest treadmills were used to consume prisoners' physical strength to prevent these prisoners from causing trouble.

So you apply for a fitness card, then go there a few times and then choose to stay at home and eat fried chicken. This is actually a very normal thing, and it also proves that you are a normal human being.

In a sense, those who can insist on going to the gym every day, except those who take a shower, are not normal people, because there may be some "problems" in their brains.

"So now I have an idea, that is, our human ancestors were indeed created by the ancients, and there were some loopholes in the brain modification, but the ancients directly ignored this, which caused our ancestors to After leaving the control of the ancient ones, one day we broke through the original limitations because of those loopholes, and our development of the brain was activated from then on; and our ancestors should still be in a certain research institute at that time, so there was no need to worry about eating and drinking. Problem, so the development of the brain can go so smoothly. After all, if it were in the wild, our ancestors would have been finished if they dared to evolve like this."

"And you should also have heard that some science fiction products like aliens and flying saucers appear on the murals painted by early humans. This may be the first batch of humans who left the institute to find their habitat again. After that, he drew what he had seen and heard in the past, which left all kinds of unsolved mysteries for us descendants. As for those messy monster graffiti, they were other fellow sufferers in the institute, even the so-called dinosaurs back then. We live next door to our ancestors. After all, those dinosaurs are just a group of mythical creatures in our eyes."

Yin Luyang, who was talking eloquently, couldn't help laughing when he said this: "You may not know that there is actually a hidden subject in our Miskatonic University - Restoration Department. The students in this subject all major in archeology. , drawn from majors such as occultology and paleontology, with the goal of resurrecting some ancient creatures, and currently some creatures that have disappeared in modern times have been successfully resurrected, such as passenger pigeons and great auks... Having said that, I have to It is said that those barbarians in Europe and the United States really have no martial ethics. After wiping out certain species, they still forget to forge a reason to cover up their sins."

The great auk sounds like a flying bird similar to a seagull, but it is actually a penguin living in the Arctic! In other words, they are the real penguins, and their relatives in Antarctica took the name penguin from them.

As for why the great auk became extinct, the reason is simply that fleets from Europe caught them for food or sold their fur. . . The most ironic thing is that the last batch of great auks were all made into specimens, because many museums purchased auk carcasses from the outside world to make specimens in order to promote the protection of great auks, so some people went to wave the auks in their last habitat. The big stick was raised.

Then, after the great auk was determined to be extinct, some people began to promote that the great auk was not a real species, but a legendary creature among some indigenous people. At the same time, when they discovered relatives in Antarctica that looked almost exactly like the great auk, , in order to prevent others from connecting the two, they named the "great auk" in Antarctica penguins.

By the way, the mystery of the Moai statues that is widely circulated today may not be a secret at all, but an unsolved mystery artificially created by some people in order to hide the truth, because according to the sailing records of some early navigators , they had contact with the aboriginal people on Easter Island a long time ago, and determined that there were not many residents on Easter Island, and there were also a large number of stones on the island. This means that the aboriginal people on Easter Island were You can build your own Moai statues.

However, due to some ulterior reasons, the number of indigenous people on Easter Island gradually decreased. . .