Zhu Lin did not answer, but said to everyone: "I believe you have studied these monsters thoroughly enough, but just don't know the reason. I'm not going to play guessing games. This kind of monster originates from a word: collective karma, as the name suggests, everything everyone does creates karmic obstacles... You can understand it as negative energy. Such negative energy accumulates, and the ultimate evil consequence reacts back on everyone."
"Don't rush to refute," Zhu Lin interrupted their eagerness to ask questions. "This may not be superstition, it's just that it cannot be explained by current science, just like every new thing before. I'll give you time to understand and accept it."
As for how the monsters came about, they had countless ways to verify it. A simple DNA test could tell them that the monsters were originally human.
But how did they become monsters?
Humans turning into monsters, into demons, was superstition, but it was something they had personally verified countless times. They couldn't convince themselves.
The elder suppressed the restless hearts of the others and said, "Miss Gu, please continue."
"This is also related to your long-term beliefs. In life, we compare some cold-blooded and heartless people to snakes, timid people to mice, and mischievous people to monkeys, and so on. Let's assume there is a power in this world that has no specific form. The power of an individual is very slight, but when everyone is trying to achieve one thing, it might become a reality. Imagine the scene of people gathering to pray for rain in ancient times. Those might not all be legends, they are just temporarily unexplainable by science and have been attributed to legends."
The laboratory was silent.
After a moment, Uncle Sheng was the first to ask, "The power that Miss Gu speaks of refers to consciousness... the power of the spiritual level, right?"
"Mhm."
007 had said that some people in the future world could use psychic abilities.
This showed that such power indeed existed, but people nowadays had not yet acquired it.
"Although it's a bit absurd, it's a good explanation. Miss Gu, please continue."
Zhu Lin nodded: "The accumulation of negative energy gives people the ability to mutate. Some people with unstable minds or who have suffered severe harm are likely to be affected by negative energy and turn into monsters. Because everyone's personality is different, they become different monsters. There are monkeys, rabbits, dogs, cats, pigs, and also wolves, lions, tigers... Their appearances deviate from real animals, which is also due to personality differences. This is the origin of the monsters."
She waited for a while, letting them digest it, and then continued: "Having understood their origin, we need to know how to find them. Since mutated monsters are caused by too much negative energy in the human body, if we can detect negative energy, we can determine if a person will turn into a monster."
"Is this the detection instrument?"
Someone looked at the... black stone on the box.
After Zhu Lin took it away, the black stone slowly turned back into white jade.
"This is a simplified version."
"Where did this thing come from? How is it made?"
"Can it be mass-produced?"
"How fast is its detection? Is the success rate guaranteed?"
"..."
A group of people started talking at once, and only quieted down when the old researcher stopped them again.
"Everything in the world is opposite to each other. Since there is negative energy, there is naturally positive energy. Positive energy can absorb negative energy. We can make something to absorb negative energy, and then materialize its form, and thus this stone was created."
It became completely smooth and transparent.
The excitement of those people gradually subsided.
"This is all the speculation I have made. If you have different opinions, you can bring them up. We can improve each other. You have also seen that my speculation currently has basis and experimental data."
"We will discuss it further, Miss Gu. Thank you for sharing. Then, can you tell us about the protective shield next?"
Most people adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards her remarks, as they were too fantastical, almost breaking and rebuilding their established worldview. Many people couldn't break through themselves, and this would take a long time.
"Of course."
The protective shield was relatively easier to explain, as they had done similar research, such as magnetic fields, and numerous tangible things like shields. They had made great achievements in the research of energy or structure.
The protective shield proposed by Zhu Lin was still based on magnetic fields. Its more ingenious aspect was that through different molecular structures, many small magnetic fields were used to construct a huge magnetic field, large enough to protect the entire country or even the planet, while also being able to "leave a door open."
She used a lot of knowledge from the system's world, and sometimes people couldn't understand what she said, so she had to explain it again.
It took them more than an hour of stumbling explanations to barely make them understand.
Finally, Zhu Lin urged: "I believe that identification and isolation are more important than the protective shield, because if they suddenly increase explosively, there might be monsters inside the shield as well. This method is not safe."
The crowd was silent.
Ultimately, they were still finding it difficult to accept the concept of positive and negative energy, or karma and merit.
Zhu Lin didn't explain further: "I have other things to attend to, so I'll take my leave. Thank you for your hard work."
The elder stopped his thoughts, stood up to thank her, and then escorted her out with Sheng Jiangchen.
Sheng Jiangchen first sent the elder back, then said to Zhu Lin: "I'm sorry, this matter is of great importance, and it's too fantastical. They probably can't accept it for a while."
"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry."
Uncle Sheng vaguely felt that she had another sentence: "It's you who are in a hurry."
Illusion.
"I believe in your point of view very much, and I will try to persuade them. I will explain your matter with Xiao Chen to my father. If possible in the future, I hope we can cooperate again."
"No problem."
If business had such a solid backing, it could solve a lot of trouble.
At the same time, if she wanted to defeat monsters with technology, she still had to rely on these people to achieve maximum profit.
Both money and merit.
This was a win-win cooperation.
"Then please take care, have a safe journey."
Zhu Lin felt like laughing, bid farewell, got in the car, and left the research institute.
She had been at the research institute for more than three hours, and it was not yet three o'clock. Zhu Lin thought about it, gave up the idea of going home to sleep, and decided to go to Sheng Jiangchen's company first to discuss cooperation, and then pick up Zhu Chongyan from the film crew later.
Soon, her car stopped at the entrance of Sheng Jiangchen's company.
The receptionist asked if she had an appointment. Zhu Lin said yes.
Then the receptionist called the president's office to verify, and Zhu Lin was embarrassed.
In a strange atmosphere, she felt like the female lead in a romance drama, calling Sheng Jiangchen to come down and pick her up.
Sheng Jiangchen came down to pick her up, and also mentioned to the receptionist: "Don't stop her from coming here in the future."
Zhu Lin: "..."
It felt strange, but she couldn't say why.
pass: mini-theater
Zhu Lin: Something feels wrong.
Sheng Jiangchen: Does it?
Author: Yes, you've gone to the wrong set, this is the brainstorm group!