"Specters kill people very quickly. If there are no rules and restrictions, perhaps the most ordinary specter can kill a street in an hour... Why are there restrictions?
"The existence of specters is almost incomprehensible.
"We can only deduce the reason from some of the rules they show.
"The author analyzed 8,729 mysterious incidents and finally came to a conclusion...
"For the Specters, killing is not the goal, and neither is torturing. They could have been more efficient, but they chose the lowest method. Their real goal is to use terror and horror to permanently lower a person's rationality and harvest rationality."
"They don't need such low-level things like flesh, blood, and souls. Strictly speaking, human blood and flesh are a bunch of compounds. In essence, they are no different from beef and mutton. The Eccentrics will not treat them differently … But there are still some good things about humans."
"The real difference between humans and animals is that we can think, have wisdom and rationality! Many combinations of rationality and wisdom form civilization! This is what humans are most proud of, and our crown of rationality is also what the specters really covet! They frighten us, torture us, and use death to harvest our crown!
"... And humans are helpless. No technology can observe or explain the existence of the specters.
"In summary, we can come to a terrifying conclusion...
"Our world is actually a huge ranch, and all humans are lambs. The ordinary 'specters' are shepherd dogs, and the 'big specters' are shepherds... This is the only way to explain everything... The author speculates that there should be a terrifying existence above the 'big specters', perhaps we can call it the 'rancher'...
"The lambs are not the property of the shepherd, but belong to the rancher, so they and the shepherd dogs can only eat one or two occasionally. This is a welfare allowed by the rancher, but not a large-scale slaughter... because the lambs are the rancher's property, not theirs. So although the specters exist, the number of people they kill is not worth mentioning compared to the huge population. And the various so-called killing rules are just a way to cook and force rationality out … "
"If the above inference is true, it can explain a lot of things, and there is an even more terrifying conclusion...
"That is, one day the rancher will come and harvest all human rationality and civilization... I call that day — 'Judgment Day'. It is an eternal despair, and I hope it will never come!"
...
Chung Shen-soo flipped a page and saw the author — Ming D. Tantai!
"Professor Tantai Ming?"
"That's an interesting guess."
Chung Shen-soo nodded solemnly.
This conjecture was very close to some of his research.
If the Ranch Master really existed, he would at least be at the Dharmakaya level.
Perhaps the other party had encountered the same situation as him, so he used this method to alleviate his own madness?
Needless to say, this possibility was very high.
"Lambs, shepherd dogs, shepherds, ranchers … What an ingenious reasoning. It can explain many things …"
He put down the teacup and rubbed his eyebrows.
Angel's voice was filled with sadness. "We suspect that Sly and Great Sly also need a certain level of rationality to maintain themselves. This is one of the main reasons why they keep killing people, and we tacitly allow and maintain observation."
"Once this balance is broken, it will lead to terrifying consequences! For example, the Mysterious City incident! "
Chung Shen-soo flipped to the front, found the incident codenamed Mysterious City, and browsed through the relevant introduction.
Before the shepherds could come up with any inferences, the foundation had completely figured out the pattern of action of a Great Sly.
It was an ancient city where people would occasionally disappear.
Therefore, they completely sealed off the area, forbidding any tourists and researchers from entering. They even used Crafty Approach to block all news of the other party, forming a complete seal.
This measure was indeed effective in the beginning. The Great Sly did not make any unusual movements for a full 49 years.
At that time, many of the higher-ups of the foundation celebrated, celebrating that they had completely sealed a Great Sly.
Then, a great horror happened!
The Mysterious City completely abandoned its previous regularity and began to move as a whole, killing people indiscriminately.
The foundation used almost all their military force, a large number of armed personnel, armored vehicles, missiles … All technological weapons had no effect on the city that was between reality and illusion.
Then, the Mysterious City directly broke through the seal and merged with City Z, plunging the city with a population of more than a million people into death and terror.
"That incident was the most disastrous loss in the history of the foundation. Humans permanently lost a city. Then, hundreds of Arcane Tricksters paid the price of staying in a mental hospital forever. However, they did not seal the Great Sly. They only made it normal and resumed its previous regular activities, no longer killing people crazily …"
Angel's mouth was filled with bitterness. "After our analysis, it was because it had been sealed for too long. Due to not being able to harvest its rationality for a long time, it went crazy and went on a rampage. It completely abandoned the procedures set by the rancher and began to move and kill people indiscriminately, becoming a natural disaster.
"The shepherds in the past might still have been rational and would follow the rancher's rules, but the mad shepherds would no longer have any scruples … After all, you can't expect a madman to still follow the rules …
"The more ironic thing is that the end of the Mysterious City incident was not because we defeated the Great Sly. Instead, after harvesting enough rationality, it returned to 'normal' … and began to carry out its previous regular activities of killing people …
"The shepherds fell into madness and harvested a large amount of rationality. Then, they would recover … This is a very strange phenomenon, as if the rancher had set up a protection for us. Without this' protection ', a mad Great Sly could destroy the entire world …
"But it was not out of benevolence. It was only to protect its' property '…"
…
Chung Shen-soo listened to everything in silence. "Therefore, after the Mysterious City incident, you guys set up a new rule. Keep observing the Sly and do not deal with them if they do not exceed a certain limit. Keep the number of dead people within a certain limit … especially for the Great Sly, for example, going to the delivery company everywhere …"
Angel said, "This is a compromise, a helpless compromise. Humans can only try their best to delay it … and then wait for the arrival of Judgment Day …"
It was useless to guess the truth.
Because there was no way to resist.
What he could obtain was also eternal despair!
"Absolute Sage Abandons Wisdom, Great Thief Stops …"
Chung Shen-soo sighed. He felt that if he understood it from another angle, it was very appropriate to the situation in this world.
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