Son of the Stars

Chapter 29
At nine o'clock in the morning, the first group meeting was held at the Mount Argentario base.

Group meetings are the source of all pain in life for graduate students and doctoral students.However, such meetings are of great importance to the research organization as a whole.

Each group in a research group has its own research direction, and they are often engaged in different subsystems in the same research project.There may be huge differences between each subsystem, but they are closely related and inseparable.

In this context, it is very important to hold group meetings frequently—everyone can basically keep abreast of the progress of other team members, and can learn or learn from problems encountered in the scientific research process.

Apart from being ridiculed by the instructor in public for poor progress, and scoffed at by the senior brother for poor results, there is basically nothing bad about it.

Oh yes, and I have to reflect on myself from time to time, "Why did I waste another week and do nothing?" The grief and indignation.

Ultimately, whether group meetings are useful or painful depends largely on individual attitudes.If the fish is a bit salty, then every group meeting will be torture.If a ruthless scientific researcher like Lu Chen is holding back his strength and preparing to bring his ineffective mentor to the high position of academician, then the group meeting will become a ring for them to gear up.

"Mrs. Thomas may not be the one who took the initiative to become a bomber. This possibility is very small." Lu Chen concluded, "I venture to speculate that the group of cultists who were directly arrested may not be planning to carry out suicide attacks. They may just be It's just doing 'missionary activities'."

The way of thinking of cultists is difficult to speculate with normal logic.Lu Chen had a very clear understanding of this - the aunt who patted and bit the shoulder of the flesh and blood eldest sister of the administrator and said, "You should be happy, you and your man will meet again"... She really believed that.

"We are doing research, and we can't just analyze based on assumptions - there must be evidence." Tang Qinglong, who presided over the group meeting, neither affirmed Lu Chen's analysis, nor directly vetoed his conjecture, "Is there any evidence to support you? inference?"

Lu Chen was a little embarrassed to be asked. Last night, when he was looking at the information, he felt that he might have found an idea—an idea that could eliminate human interference factors and make the explosion a purely "natural occurrence".

Cultists are people too, and of course they find everything odd and out of the ordinary.But unlike modern people who use science to research and analyze findings, they will attribute everything to God's instructions.

So, do they regard the persistent high fever, which is useless to soak in ice water, as some kind of miracle?
Lu Chen originally thought so, but this inference lacks a key evidence.

Why would this group of cultists treat Mrs. Thomas as a miracle?If the cultists were all physicians, it would be possible to think so when they encountered a patient with a high fever that persisted for days.Cultists... They probably don't care about the rule that "fever should not exceed a certain temperature".

"Then what are the characteristics that make these cultists believe in miracles?" Lu Chen's hypothesis aroused Watanabe's curiosity, and he also took the initiative to participate in the discussion, "There is nothing special about the sect Mrs. Thomas believes in. .The Pope of this sect first put forward the teachings for the purpose of defrauding money. There is nothing special about the content of the teachings, it is simply plagiarized and mixed with other religions."

"This kind of religion was born because of the emotional emptiness brought about by the big collapse." Li Xiaohui added, "Their main slogan and argument is that death is not the end of life. As long as you believe in religion, you can reunite with your loved ones in heaven after death. .”

Lu Chen suddenly lowered his head and started to find the reports he had read. After digging and shaking the paper materials for a while, Lu Chen took a piece of crumpled paper and started to read.

"God will purify the world, which sect usually shouts the slogan?" Lu Chen asked while looking at the information, "Before those cultists were arrested, they shouted this slogan in public—I haven't been in a cult before. I saw this sentence in the religious identification manual."

"In my memory... there is no sect that uses this sentence as its main slogan." Watanabe frowned. "However, their slogans change quite quickly. Is it normal for some to be different?"

"In the past, of course I would have thought this was true." Lu Chen put down the information in his hand, rubbed his head and said, "But now even quantum mechanics has become the way infectious diseases spread, and a little bit of escape can also understand."

Yang Weimin raised his head and asked, "So? What did you understand?"

Lu Chen didn't answer directly. He took out his mobile phone and asked Baozi to start playing the scene recorded by the medical recorder of Dr. Saval, an infectious disease expert.

【Dr. Salva looked up at the ceiling, then walked quickly to the wall, opened the panel on the wall, and observed the status of the ultraviolet light switch. 】

Lu Chen paused the video, looked at the UV lamp that was turned off, then turned his head and said, "I may know what they mean by 'purifying the world'."
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At Lu Chen's insistence, Watanabe re-applied to come to Dongyang Special City on the day of the explosion, all the surveillance videos that captured the cultists.And start the analysis AI to compare and analyze the screen.

"In the surveillance video, have the clothes worn by the analysis targets faded? If so, to what extent?" Lu Chen asked the analysis AI, "Are there any other changes that can prove that this group of people has been continuously exposed to strong ultraviolet rays?" ?”

AI gave the analysis results in 30 seconds, "Among the twelve videos, there are 17754 video key frames available for analysis of color density. Within one hour and 42 minutes, the color density of the target clothing dropped by 45%. According to the data analysis, Among the residents near the place where the group stayed, seven people were registered and admitted to the hospital on the same day, and all seven people were diagnosed with electro-optic conjunctivitis."

At this point in the AI ​​analysis, any fool can see that Lu Chen's guess is right.But even a smart person like Watanabe really couldn't figure out what Lu Chen had guessed.

"The answer is actually in the video of Dr. Salva's medical recorder." Lu Chen pointed to the video and said, "As an experienced clinician, Dr. Salva quickly judged that his eyes were burned by ultraviolet rays."

"Because he had been indoors all the time, Dr. Salva directly locked his suspicion on the two wards he had been to before—and the ward where Jeanna was. After confirming that the ultraviolet disinfection lamp in Jeanna's ward was not turned on, He thinks that the ultraviolet sterilizing lamps may have been turned on by mistake in the previous two rooms." Lu Chen said slowly, "The fading clothes of the cultists and the seven surrounding residents who were diagnosed with electro-optic conjunctivitis jointly proved one point —there was a very intense ultraviolet light source active at the time.”

"Do you think Thomas's wife...she can emit light?" Tang Qinglong, who had been listening in, was shocked. "This...the human body heats up, and at most it emits a little far-infrared rays. It emits short-wave ultraviolet rays? How is this possible?"

"I also think it's unlikely, but there is no other explanation other than this." Lu Chen tapped the report in front of him and affirmed, "This disease should also have a symptom of 'the patient will release ultraviolet light'. Those evil Congregants have observed significant fading in the clothing and other modern dyed items placed around Mrs Thomas."

"They don't have the ability to predict the time of the explosion, but they think that Mrs. Thomas who is releasing ultraviolet rays is a miracle through observation." Watanabe suddenly realized, "Maybe each of them has electro-optic conjunctivitis, but they put this Think of it as the result of constant tears while watching miracles!"

"From this we can conclude that at least five of the eight explosions that have occurred so far are interrelated and verifiable 'disease explosions'. The mechanism of the explosion is still unclear, but the law is as follows-before the explosion, the patient will Sustained, uncontrolled high fever; the patient will release ultraviolet rays, and opisthotonus will occur. About 30 seconds after the patient's skin is chapped all over the body, the explosion will occur." Lu Chen nodded, "With these characteristics, want to It will be much easier to distinguish and prevent. At least check the febrile patients to make sure they are not exposed to ultraviolet light."

Everyone seemed very happy, and there seemed to be some hope that this problem that troubled everyone could be solved.

At this time, Mu Zhiran suddenly asked, "Then... what if the patient emits ultraviolet light? Is there any way to help them?"

She looked up at Tang Qinglong and the others and asked, "We...can't pick out all these patients and let them stay away from the crowd and explode, right?"

(End of this chapter)