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After all the information was played, there was silence in the conference room, and everyone looked serious.

After a while, a voice rang out. It was a middle-aged man in military uniform with a straight back sitting not far from Zhou Zhiqing: "I would like to ask about the previous video. The earliest time was in the 36th year of Chenghe. , November 2015, 11 in the Western calendar, which is about two months from today. So, were there similar incidents earlier?"

After finishing the question, the soldier stared at Wang Yunzhou quietly, waiting for his answer.Except for him, everyone else in the conference room also looked at Wang Yunzhou. In fact, this was exactly what they wanted to ask.

That is...are some departments really hiding secrets that cannot be touched even by their status and rank?

"The answer I can give to that question is, at least within the purview of the Special Crime Branch, we can't know for sure."

Wang Yunzhou's answer was obviously beyond everyone's expectations, and there was a burst of whispering in the conference room.

"Wang's remarks were not made out of thin air," Wang Yunzhou further explained after seeing everyone's reaction: "As early as early December, after our bureau became aware of the particularity of these incidents, we set up an independent team to follow up. To this end, , we specifically traced the secret files within the bureau that may be related to this.

You should know that the Special Crime Investigation Bureau was established 93 years ago. Its predecessor was adapted from some of the Black Guards affiliated with the royal family. Since its establishment, due to the special nature of its work, the Bureau has always been highly confidential.Because of this, some of the internal files of the Investigation Bureau can even be traced back to the secret files of the former Ouchi government.

There are more than a million files of various types, including files that may involve strange people, strange things, or even suspenseful cases. After preliminary sorting, there are more than 7 files. Some of them involve eyewitness reports, and many are hearsay. However, Contrary to what some colleagues imagine, the biggest difficulty we face is not that there are too few files, but that there are too many files from past dynasties..."

After Wang Yunzhou finished speaking, the discussion in the conference room started again. Everyone present was a smart person, and they probably understood what Wang Yunzhou meant.

"In the official history of the previous dynasty alone, there are bizarre records including rats eating suburban cattle, ginseng shouting at night, raindrops from the sky, dragons and horses mating, resurrection of the dead, etc..."

"In this dynasty, there have been endless records like this for the past 600 years. For example: In the eighth year of Zhaofeng, there was a great disaster in the southeast and the seawall burst. According to the secret records at that time, some people claimed to have seen two dragons chasing each other on the sea, and the red dragon In front, Qinglong behind, passing through Linzhou, dozens of houses collapsed one after another."

"Due to the lack of image recording means, many of these files are vague and inaccurate, which has caused many difficulties in our sorting work."

"What we can confirm so far is that before this, the whole situation did not seem to have developed to such a bad level now, at least in the past hundred years." Wang Yunzhou said this, considered it for a moment, and then continued:

"Everyone has watched the video material just now. In these incidents, we are faced with, without exception, existences that we currently do not understand. And what we can be sure of at present is that at least in the past hundred years or so, , for unknown reasons, these existences that we don’t understand either never existed at all, or existed but disappeared, or... were suppressed by some kind of force. In short, they do not have a large scale. appears in our field of vision.”

Chapter 171 Black Swan

Wang Yunzhou glanced around and nodded: "That's the situation. According to our meeting process, let's let each department talk about their views on the current situation."

There was silence for a while, then an officer in police uniform cleared his throat and spoke: "Colleagues, to be honest, with the current situation, our police are under greater pressure and have made the most sacrifices. "

"After many such incidents occurred in various places and many police officers were sacrificed, what makes our police most embarrassed is actually not just such cases involving unknown phenomena, but our work in ordinary cases and public security situations. Problems arose in its handling."

Glancing at everyone in the conference room, the official continued: "I want to propose a concept here, and that is 'certainty'."

"Some colleagues who know something about the economy may know that the capital market likes certainty, because with certainty, investors can easily predict future returns. They don't like uncertainty and call it a black swan."

"Actually, the same is true for our police. I am a veteran criminal investigator. In previous cases, there are usually traces of the case, especially now that we can use various advanced instruments, such traces are more likely to be traced. Capture. No matter how cunning the criminal is, it is impossible to violate the known laws of physics, and this is the premise for the police to reason about the case, which is what I call certainty."

"However, as you just saw on the video, in the current incidents involving unknown phenomena, we have encountered some phenomena that cannot be explained by the knowledge obtained by the existing education system. For example, some In the past, we recognized very different 'creatures', which I will call 'creatures'; some special force fields that can shield the transmission of traditional electromagnetic waves. Of course, whether this is a force field requires further confirmation by relevant experts. I will only talk about the phenomenon. expressions; some behaviors that violate our known physical common sense; even...some people who go beyond the physical limits of ordinary humans; situations like this..."

"After many cases involving unknown phenomena occurred, our previous certainties have been challenged. So, our General Administration now needs to study the inclusion of this unknown phenomenon into case considerations. So for case detection, it is There are many more uncontrollable variables than before.”

"So, for our police, we very much hope that scholars in related fields can use our known knowledge to explain why we analyze such incidents. We urgently need to understand what exactly we are facing? And how to face them? "

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"Deputy Director Li's views are indeed very insightful. Here, let me say a few points." A soldier with gray hair and a major general epaulette then began to speak.

"Our Southeast Military District Homeland Defense Force has previously participated in some operations related to such incidents at the request of local governments. It can be said that it is the most experienced in this type of incident in the empire's military sequence. After the incident, we also organized to participate in the operation The officers and soldiers conducted some reviews and discussions on the monsters encountered during the operation. Here, I will also share it with my colleagues."

"Although so far, we have not captured the entity of any monster in the operation, and judging from what we have encountered so far, these monsters are obviously more than one type. It is also unclear whether they have the same physical characteristics. We need to make accurate judgments, but based on the experience of some previous operations, we have summarized some experiences that will help us deal with such incidents."

"For example, we found that pure kinetic energy firearms have limited ability to resist most of the monsters. In several battles, we found that some monsters were hit multiple times but could still move freely. This situation is also extremely easy. It caused the soldiers to feel helpless on the spot, which was the source of the sacrifices of many soldiers before."

"We also found that the effect of energy strikes, such as explosions, burning and other attacks, is much better than the strike effect of kinetic energy bullets, and can cause considerable damage to most monsters."

"In addition, so far, the monsters we have encountered have left no remains after being destroyed, which makes further analysis impossible. However, we have reason to wonder whether the existence of such monsters is different from ordinary creatures? "

"I remember that the academic community has always had some conjectures and discussions about extraterrestrial civilizations. One of the topics is how to define life? Is there only one evolutionary path for life, carbon-based life? Now it seems that in this direction, There are indeed many issues worthy of further study.”

"Of course, academic issues should still be left to professionals. From a purely military perspective, we believe that in subsequent responses to such incidents, the recommendations for weapon selection should be more targeted. At the same time, when necessary, Under this situation, it is necessary to carry out specialized research and development of light weapons."

"In addition, as a professional soldier, I personally didn't do much research on those things with strange powers and chaos. However, through the information we have obtained so far, it is obvious that some of the events here are similar to those in our country's myths and legends. Certain images. For example, the shapes and places of origin of certain monsters seem to be somewhat similar to legendary ghosts. In the recent incident at Haiyun Tower in Gangneung, our on-site commander encountered a suspected Xuanmen He is a special Taoist person, and according to what he said, the incident was caused by demons. This video was also played just now, and I believe everyone here is deeply impressed by it."

"We don't care whether what he said is true or not, but what we can be sure of is that the abilities he masters far exceed our understanding of the physical limits of ordinary humans."

"According to our internal evaluation, the attack power it displayed in battle can at least destroy a heavily armed destroyer head-on under certain conditions. To be honest, if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, we really couldn't imagine that this was a human being The power that can be possessed.

"According to the situation at that time, the ability he displayed seems to be somewhat similar to the image of the 'Sword Immortal' in Xuanmen legends. However, we are soldiers after all and have no experience in this area. I wonder if any of my colleagues have learned from this Have you investigated the angle?" After saying that, the major general turned his attention to Wang Yunzhou and Zhang Tao, the deputy director of the Imperial Religious Affairs Administration.Obviously, he knew that these people in the Investigation Bureau could not let go of such an obvious breakthrough.And on such an occasion, inviting people from the Religious Affairs Administration to come over just illustrates this point.

"General Wang's speech was very insightful and gave us some valuable experience in handling such incidents." Wang Yunzhou nodded politely to the other party, and then said: "As for the last question you mentioned, we do have Relevant work has already begun.”

"In fact, based on our interpretation of the currently collected information, we have found that the monsters that appear in many Category [-] events are suspected to be related to some widely circulated myths and legends, especially ghosts and monsters. To this end, we are currently forming an expert team involving some well-known folklorists and religious figures to study and judge this."

"Just like the example of demons causing trouble just mentioned by General Wang. I'm afraid everyone is familiar with the term 'demon'. There have been various legends circulating in our country since ancient times. However, we have not been able to collect definite information before. Case. And this time, if what the person in the video said is true, then the mere existence itself is worth studying."

"Since demons do exist, then it is worth considering whether the myths and stories passed down by our people for thousands of years should just be classified as folk customs..."

"Of course, to integrate resources from all aspects to conduct these studies, a higher level of authorization and coordination is needed. At present, we are only conducting preliminary research on some solutions."

"In addition, we have noticed that in the cases collected so far, humans with special abilities have appeared in at least four different types of incidents. Among them, the humans who appeared in at least three incidents have interacted with ordinary people present to a certain extent. of interaction."

"After analyzing and judging the behavioral logic of these people, we have initially determined that this type of people have not shown any hostility towards other humans or the existing system so far. This is directly reflected in the fact that in several incidents, their The logic of behavior is to help solve problems rather than create them.”

"In addition, we cautiously judge that this type of people may not be an exception, but a special group with certain internal rules."

"In addition, these people are communicable. Their behavioral logic, clothing, words and deeds are currently suspected to be related to Taoism or certain traditional religious schools."

"However, judging from the limited contact cases so far, these people are generally unwilling to have in-depth communication with people with official backgrounds, and their behavioral logic shows characteristics such as 'escaping from the world' and 'hiding' to varying degrees. And this characteristic , is indeed consistent with certain cognitions and religious concepts in traditional culture, and we have reason to doubt whether there is some kind of creed related to it."

Having said this, Wang Yunzhou turned his attention to Zhang Taochu, the deputy director of the Imperial Religious Affairs Administration on the other side, and said with a smile: "After all, we are not professionals in the research of religion and related directions. We are scratching the surface and may not be able to achieve the actual results. So. , this time we specially invited colleagues from the Imperial Religious Affairs Administration to attend the meeting. The Religious Affairs Administration is the leading religious coordination and management agency within the empire. It also has extensive contacts and exchanges with various people from major religions. Presumably, we can There’s a deeper perspective on that.”

Chapter 172 The man rising into the sky

After Wang Yunzhou said these words, all eyes in the conference room turned to Zhang Tao, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Relatively speaking, Zhang Tao, deputy director of the Imperial Religious Affairs Administration, who may be the one who knows the most "inside information" in the eyes of many people, seems a little confused at this time.

His mood at this time, to use a popular Internet phrase, is:

who I am?where am i?what am i doing?

As a standard bench unit in the empire's administrative hierarchy, the Imperial Administration of Religious Affairs is a place without any sense of existence in the eyes of many people. It does not appear a few times in various media in the empire throughout the year.

Basically, as long as there is no big event, such as a suicide attack by religious extremists... or a large-scale ritual held by Taoism or Buddha to invite officials to watch the ceremony... then the Imperial Religious Affairs Administration will not be remembered.

Although in theory, it has the function of coordinating and managing all religions within the empire, theory is theory and practice is practice.This function is more reflected in cooperating with the police and the Special Crime Investigation Bureau to combat emerging cults and religious extremists.

For those top-level beings of orthodox religions, such as Xuanmen Tianshi Mansion, Buddha Sect Zen Temple, White Horse Temple, etc... These religious figures have had close relationships with nobles from all walks of life, political and business leaders, and even members of the royal family. Secret, the Imperial Religious Affairs Administration is also unwilling to provoke this easily, and more of them are just a group of friendly hello, me, hello, everyone.

As for the special crime investigation bureau's invitation to the joint meeting, due to the good confidentiality work, the Religious Affairs Administration did not obtain much information before this. They only knew that they would send officers to a higher-level confidentiality meeting. The joint meeting will be attended by people from the military and police.

Therefore, the Administration of Religious Affairs naturally believed that incidents related to religious extremists probably occurred or might occur somewhere, so based on past experience, they dispatched a team led by Deputy Director Zhang Tao.As a result, Zhang Tao didn't realize until the meeting started that everything was completely different from what he imagined. If the participants were not all powerful and official departments, he would even wonder if they had joined forces to deceive him.

Is there such a secret behind these seemingly harmonious religious figures? !

Didn't see it!

In fact, Zhang Tao and even other senior officials in the Religious Affairs Administration have the same attitude towards religion, that is, they are conciliatory but disbelieving.

Although they usually appear to be friendly towards people in the religious circles, in fact, they don’t believe in these things from the bottom of their hearts. In their eyes, these are just some fools who deceive people, and their theories have long been proven by modern science. It's full of holes and there's no way to explain it.

And this is actually a prerequisite for the Religious Affairs Administration to select and employ people. They themselves cannot be believers of any religion.After all, otherwise, the independence and fairness of the department cannot be guaranteed.

Even if the "Song Tianshi Appearance" incident was said to have occurred in Linzhou City, Jiangdong Province, in Zhang Tao's view, it was nothing more than a farce directed and performed by some Taoist people. After all, who benefited the most from this incident? You can tell at a glance.

He is used to the faces of these magicians...

However, since the meeting started, the videos he had seen clearly told him that it seemed that the belief he had always insisted on was wrong, and it was so wrong...

However, no matter how confused and contradictory his mood is, he must say something at this moment. After all, in the eyes of many people, he is obviously a "professional".

Fortunately, after all, he came from a major and is an academic bureaucrat, so let's get over it first...

After making a haha, Zhang Tao quickly turned his brain and said carefully: "To be honest, these videos just now really shocked me. Here, I first want to pay tribute to my colleagues in the disciplinary forces. It is your presence and dedication that protect the long-term peace and stability of the empire."

"As for religion, I do have some knowledge... As we all know, in the traditional Eastern culture, there is a strong 'hermit' culture, especially some masters recorded in legends who are often compared to dragons. , there is a saying that one sees the beginning but not the end.”

Zhang Tao picked up the tea cup in front of him and took a sip, and then said in a leisurely manner: "As the saying goes, a dragon can be big or small, it can rise or disappear; if it is big, it can stir up clouds and spit out mist; if it is small, it can hide and hide its form; if it rises, it can soar in the universe. In between, the hidden is lurking within the waves.”

"As we all know, among the religions in our country, Taoism is the only religion originating from the local area. If its establishment is calculated based on its clear organizational system, it is now generally accepted that it can be traced back to 1900 years ago. summer."

After saying that, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Zhang Tao took a look around and saw that everyone was listening to him attentively, so he gradually calmed down and continued: "However, this statement is actually controversial. According to the views of other experts, the real Taoist thought originated from the "Yi" in ancient times and some shamanistic sacrifice cultures in older times, and its origins can be traced back to the early days of our civilization."

"What is more intriguing is that the ideological core of some Taoist classics we have seen so far all have the core of 'becoming an immortal and attaining the Tao'."

"Xian, this is a knowing and phonetic character. I wonder if you have noticed the character "Xian" in seal script. Its composition is very interesting..."

"As we all know, Eastern characters have the characteristics of pictographic interpretation, and their origins generally come from specific patterns. For the ancients, when creating characters, they rarely created characters for things that did not exist. However, some scholars believe that Sometimes there are exceptions, such as the word 'immortal'."

At this point, a character was projected on the video on the side. It was the staff who had found the word "仙" in the seal script.

Zhang Tao then pointed to the video on the side: "Please look at the composition of this character. One side is four hands lifting things, and the other side is a human figure sitting. When the two characters are combined, it can be understood as: people see When something rises, it can also be understood as a person rising into the sky..."

At this point, even Zhang Tao himself couldn't help but swallow. Although he just took a sip of tea, his mouth still felt a little dry.

Not only him, but everyone at the venue couldn't help but think of the figure of Hagoromo standing in the sky out of thin air that he saw in the video just now.

Fairy? !

Do the legends that have been circulating among the Xia people for thousands of years really exist? !

There was a burst of discussion in the field. Zhang Tao licked his lips. When the discussion gradually subsided, he continued: "The "Jie Wen" said: 'The Immortal, the Immortal of Immortality has gone.' The "Shuo Ming" says:' Immortal, move, move into the mountains.'"

"It can be seen that immortals have several characteristics in the ancient people's understanding. One is ascension, which my personal understanding can be extended to have power beyond the ordinary; the second is immortality; the third is escaping from the world, going into the mountains to avoid the influence of people. land."

"In my personal opinion, I don't know whether to live forever or not, but the characteristics of ascension and escaping from the world seem to correspond to some of Wang Zhu's descriptions just now. Can we think that such people have existed since ancient times?"

"From this perspective, there are endless legends about immortals in books throughout the dynasties. Even from the royal family to the people, the search for immortals is not uncommon. In the past, our academic circles generally regarded it as the foolish nonsense of the ancients. Talk, but now it seems that the groundless rumors may not be without reason. Can a doctrine or a sect really survive for thousands of years on the basis of an obvious nonsense?"

"The above is just my personal opinion. I hope it can be helpful to everyone." When the words fell, they were sparse at first, and soon became more numerous. Finally, there was a round of applause in the venue.

"Deputy Director Zhang's speech is really thought-provoking. He is worthy of being a professional." Zhou Zhiqing applauded and said in person: "In your opinion, what can you say about the behavior of escaping from the world?"

Zhang Tao was a little helpless. He was just improvising on the spot to support the scene. He was not really an expert. But now, he could only scratch his head.After thinking about it for a while, he said: "In my personal opinion, there seems to be something worth discussing here."

"Oh? Please feel free to teach me."

"When I was in college, I took courses on Eastern culture and religious folklore. After graduation, due to my position, I personally came into contact with many religious classics. Regarding the theory of escaping from the world, I have some personal thoughts. , share it with everyone here.”

"I personally believe that the so-called escaping from the world may not just be due to a low-key personality or purely cultural factors, but it is very likely that there are some kind of mandatory restrictions."

"There are many immortals recorded in history. Many of them were Taoist Taoist priests who became immortals. Before they became immortals, they had their own disciples and other people who were relatively close to them. So from a common sense point of view, even if they become immortals, Immortal, if it is purely out of a low-key personality and other considerations, you should still maintain some contact with your former disciples, after all, this is human nature."

"However, the fact is that except for a few records of dreams, most people no longer have any contact with their former disciples after becoming immortals. It seems that there is a boundary between immortals and mortals that cannot be easily crossed."

"So, my personal guess is that maybe there is some kind of commandment among them, which is mandatory, or it is their way of existence that they cannot contact ordinary people too frequently."

"If it's as you said, which possibility would you prefer?" Zhou Zhiqing asked thoughtfully.

Chapter 173 Winter Sunshine

"I personally prefer the first one. The reason is very simple. You should all know the 'Eight Immortals', which is one of the most famous immortal images in ancient times. According to records, the Eight Immortals often transformed into mortals such as beggars, traffickers and lackeys. In games In the human world. In addition, in many records, there are also records of mortals meeting immortals, but most of them are based on the premise that the immortals hide their identities."

"In this regard, I agree with Mr. Wang's opinion just now. It is important to suggest that relevant departments need to strengthen the re-excavation of some folk customs, traditional myths and religious classics. Maybe we can find some clues."

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"As of now, we have sent officers to conduct searches and investigations in this area. In this regard, we will also need colleagues from the Religious Affairs Administration to communicate with us." Wang Yunzhou said, politely turning to Zhang Tao nodded in his direction.

"At present, we haven't made much progress. However, we propose that it is necessary for all departments to reach a common preliminary position on how to deal with such special people again in the future..."

There was a buzz of discussion again in the venue, and people from all departments were whispering to each other.

Wang Yunzhou waited for a while, and when the discussion gradually subsided, he spoke again: "Then, I would like to ask you all to share your opinions on this without hesitation."

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"I am a soldier, so I would like to talk about my views purely from a military perspective. As far as some of the situations we are currently exposed to, these people have a lot of abilities and technologies that we currently do not have. To be honest, the military has We are very curious. Frankly speaking, if we can obtain the cooperation of the other party, we are expected to achieve a major breakthrough in our existing military technology."

"Of course, similarly, if foreign countries master similar technologies or capabilities, they will also put greater pressure on our country."

"Therefore, we suggest that we need to be cautious about this kind of contact, and we must not let this kind of force invest in a camp other than ours without full assurance."

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"Since many previous incidents were reported and collected by local police departments, we have had many discussions within the police about such incidents. It should be said that in many incidents, the presence of these people has played a vital role in the final analysis of the police. Controlling the situation is of greater help, and from this perspective, we define its behavior as a positive factor that helps maintain order."