A Wizard's Survival Guide to the 20th Century

Chapter 74 19. Shepherd Hypothesis

"By the way, team leader, where is the water ghost head we brought back yesterday?"

After Levi sat down, he turned around and asked.

"Leave it to Dr. Worden at the hospital. They have already extracted the cerebrospinal fluid and said the results will be available tomorrow," Cruz said.

The common people are unaware of the existence of wizards and witchcraft - or they once knew it, but now their knowledge in this regard has been wiped out.

In the Middle Ages, the existence of magic and witchcraft was still a common consensus among everyone. Wizards were still an important force relied on by the nobles. They often held important positions such as knights and priests.

But after the Industrial Revolution, the productivity of steel machine tools surpassed the miracles in the hands of wizards, and the firepower coverage of the army group crushed the individual fights of low-level wizards.

As a result, this group of supermen who had special threats and were full of unstable factors that could not be exploited were regarded as impurities wandering among the state machinery. The top management began to consciously bind wizards to superstition and feudalism, and gradually reduced people's understanding of wizards. cognition of techniques.

In fact, it's quite effective. The emergence of wizards is related to people's strong desire for miracles. As people's piety gradually disappeared, the number of wizards also decreased rapidly during this period.

Until now, a big city can only have fifty or sixty wizards.

As for the collective stupidity policy for wizards, BOI has implemented a confidentiality hierarchy, divided into five levels from 1 to 5. Most of the knowledge in the wizarding world is limited to the first three levels to ensure that newly born wizards are not exposed to the common sense of the wizarding world and are ignorant enough.

BOI believes that if they don’t even know that killing other wizards can improve their abilities, they will fall into intoxication and satisfaction with the fact that they have superpowers. In this way, they will be trapped in E-level for a long time and will be unable to cause major damage. .

However, as time goes by, there are always some wizards who can sum up these most basic common sense, and then become stronger, form gangs, and become a threat to the country.

This is an act that crosses the line, and BOI, which has overwhelming power, will quickly move out to carry out a large-scale purge.

As a member of the BOI, Levi's confidentiality level is 3, while Dr. Worden at the hospital is 4, and a task force of the Central Police Station is also 4. The difference between these two levels is actually not big. Both can know the highest quality, event threat level classification and part of the history of witchcraft. The difference is only in the details.

For example, the information on the history of witchcraft that Levi is currently studying was actually borrowed from the Central Police Station, and there are many parts blackened out for confidentiality.

The position of the Robbins family is very embarrassing. They were recruited or surrendered on their own initiative. Many members of the family are members of the Republican Party, and their confidentiality level is between 3 and 5.

"So... what will happen to the brains of those water ghosts?" Levi asked a little embarrassed.

This was the issue he was most concerned about. Two of the pieces in the Water Ghost suit were made from "Water Ghost Brain". In this era when the rarity of monsters was comparable to that of nationally protected animals, it was obviously not possible to find another Water Ghost. It's simple.

"You want it? Oh yes, you must have a formula that requires water ghost brain." Cruise said with a smile.

"But don't worry, the Kelpie brain belongs to us. We just asked the hospital to remove the brain for us after extracting the cerebrospinal fluid and preserve it. Field will bring it back later."

Field's original task was to pick up Martha after she was discharged from the hospital.

"Okay, okay." Levi then smiled.

"By the way, if there are unnecessary trophies, we can choose to sell them to the headquarters, and the BOI headquarters will pay to acquire these things. For example, a water ghost head is worth 20 Philippine dollars."

Reese added.

As soon as he said this, Levi suddenly remembered what happened when he was in Bridgewick. At that time, I seemed to have gone to a shaman gathering, where the water ghost brains were thirty pesos each.

Oh, wouldn't it be possible to make more money by selling it to wild wizards?

Levi told Cruise and Reese about this, and the latter two immediately looked at him strangely.

Li Wei was startled and suddenly remembered that they seemed to be attacking this. Wasn't he committing the crime against the wind?

He quickly explained: "Of course, I was just joking..."

"No, it's not because of this." Reese said, and then said to Cruise, "It seems that the superior's stupidity policy is really successful. I thought he was already a smarter wizard, but he didn't know this." .”

Levi looked at him with some confusion.

"Haha... Completely blocking the channels for wizards to obtain knowledge will be a humane approach at some times. But at other times, the asymmetry of information will cause greater consequences..." Cruise shook his head and looked at To the confused Levi.

"How many times have you attended such gatherings among wizards?"

Levi recalled briefly and said: "Twice, once a year ago, and the other time after being targeted by a gang."

Cruise and the others also knew about this, and Levi told everything that happened in Bridgewick.

"Well..." Cruise nodded, thoughtfully, then raised his head and said.

"First of all, you have to understand one thing. For all wizards, especially wild wizards, other people are untrustworthy."

"So, if you want to bring strangers together and have a party, what would it take?"

Levi immediately thought of the answer: "A promise from a powerful person?"

"That's right." Cruise nodded, "You will not get any benefits by killing a wizard with a rating lower than yourself. Only by killing a wizard with the same rating or higher as yourself can you improve your rating. We generally call this ' Wool's Law'."

"That is to say, high-rated people must raise low-rated people to the same level as themselves before they can hunt them and obtain benefits. Before reaching the hunting standard, they have no competitive relationship. This is what we call 'herding' principle'."

"In a relatively stable area, there will definitely be a wizard or wizard organization that crushes other forces, and the remaining wizards will be under the complete management of the wizard or organization. This is called the 'sheepfold effect' .”

"The combination of these three forms the basis for the stable existence of the wizarding world. This is the 'Shepherd Hypothesis' that describes the wizarding world."

Cruise said thoughtfully: "Then, now you should think about a problem. A wizard's party held by a third party may cause low-rated wizards to have their own secrets. This is like an unknown blind spot in the sheepfold. This could easily push low-rated wizards beyond the Shepherd's control, and the Shepherd doesn't want to see that happen."

Levi listened and thought, and then gradually realized something, and his face suddenly became enlightened.

"The only people who raise sheep are shepherds." Levi said, "Those parties were originally organized by gangs?"

"That's right." Cruise said with a smile, "There is another point, parties, and only parties can help wizards improve, so they will definitely be attracted. You should know why you were discovered to be a wizard. Bar?"

Levi suddenly understood: "You mean... this is like a trough they put in the sheep pen? The function of the party... is not only to feed the wizards, but also to let the gang know how many sheep are in the sheep pen?" "

(End of this chapter)