Chapter 173 Things That Fear You

That day, Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying read many stories.

Late at night, the light in Mu Zhengguang's bedroom was always on.

In the early morning, he was still awake. He walked around the room, and the darkness outside made him feel uneasy, so he turned on all the lights on the second floor of the villa.

In the morning, Mu Zhengguang did not intend to stay in the first-class event laboratory to read the story as originally planned. Reading the story was simple and convenient, but after reading the story, the lingering pressure and fear, curiosity and doubt made it difficult for him to fall asleep and made him dare not stay awake.

These emotions not only affected Mu Zhengguang's life, but also made Xu Yingze worried.

Their villas were adjacent to each other, and the lights in the neighboring houses were brightly lit at night, so she could certainly see them. But she went to bed late, not because she was afraid, but because she wanted to see when the lights would go out.

In Xu Yingze's impression, Guang never had the habit of sleeping with the light on. This only happened to him occasionally, a few times a year, or in some special circumstances, that's all. On the first day of coming to the Academy of Sciences, you slept with the light on. Did you do the same on the second day? And on the third day?

On August 8, during the day, Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying were both in the second type of ability laboratory.

Although the communication between staff and experimental subjects is always filled with problems of all sizes, these problems are visible to people and often occur in daily life. Compared with those strange and inconclusive problems, these problems are easier to solve.

At night, the two came to the first type of event laboratory, and Xu Ying asked her assistant to find all the documents they had read yesterday, and then they took the documents home.

Xu Ying placed the documents one by one on the table in the living room: "Although the documents you and I are looking at are not exactly the same, the mysteries contained in the documents may be the same. Let's take a look at the documents that the other party has read. If you have any questions, please feel free to tell me."

Mu Zhengguang recalled how he felt when he read the document yesterday: the more he read, the more scared he became, and the more he wanted to read it.

Nervousness, excitement, curiosity, and a sense of peace of mind from having his classmates around led him to read dozens of documents in one night.

If his classmates hadn't reminded him, he might have stayed in the lab all night.

After parting with my classmates, the curiosity and fear that had accumulated while reading the documents could no longer be suppressed.

He turned off the light, then turned it on again to confirm that there were no "strange creatures" in the bedroom.

He opened his eyes and closed them again, still feeling a little uncertain.

He opened the asymptotic domain, he retracted the asymptotic domain, and he knew that the "strange creatures" were not in the outside world, but in his heart.

Therefore, he didn't sleep all night.

Therefore, he didn't want to look at the documents anymore.

However, Ying has only read part of the documents and has an impression of them, so it doesn't hurt to take another look at them.

Xu Ying picked up file A97, which should have been returned, but she borrowed it back in her name.

There is nothing particularly strange in the file, just a lot of pictures. These pictures have little to do with the pictures broadcast on TV. They are pictures drawn by witnesses or pictures drawn based on the descriptions of witnesses.

As for what the witnesses said and the miserable state they were in after being affected, these are not scary. After all, Document A97 is not a true horror story. It is written to record facts, not to scare people.

Xu Ying read Document A97 three times, and in the process she gained many new insights.

For example, if you don't look closely at some pictures, but just glance at them, you might think they look like works of art or abstract paintings. But if you stare at them for a while, you will think of them as deformed animals. When you think about why these animals are deformed, boundless fear will surge up.

In addition, if you stare at the picture intently, you seem to enter the world in the picture and wonder about the principles of this world. The sense of trance and horror you feel at this time is difficult to describe in words.

The trance and shock only lasted for a moment. She turned the page and continued to read. From the perspective of the style of the pictures, they have similarities. "Aliens" is a very broad concept, but human descriptions of aliens always have some commonalities. In other words, human imagination has limits. Using this limited imagination to imagine things that have never been seen, they still have a familiar taste.

Xu Ying found the cause of fear and also found a way to resolve it.

Maybe the previous step can be omitted, she can ask the classmate to talk about why he is afraid and the strange thoughts in his head that make him terrified. In this way, the cause is known. However, in order to empathize more, she read the document several times carefully.

Xu Ying pointed to a blue picture and asked him, "Little classmate, do you think this picture is scary?"

The picture is dotted with twisted, slender shadows. They are made up of hundreds of small circles. Circles of different angles and sizes are combined together to form a body, a face, an expression, and a look.

Watch, form.

The human spirit could not bear such a gaze, so they shifted their gaze. In the moment when their gaze shifted, what they saw was shattered, leaving only the rough, dark, oppressive, chaotic, vast, and empty dark shadows.

Mu Zhengguang replied: "Yes."

"If these creatures suddenly appeared around humans, what impact would they have on human life?"

The question asked by Ying has been bothering him for a long time. He has been thinking about this question since last night, but he still can't come up with an answer that makes him feel at ease. The more he thinks about it, the more he feels that the future is long and bleak.

"I don't know. It might trigger a war." Mu Zhengguang's basis is that the images broadcast on TV can interfere with people's minds. If the creatures in the images come to this planet, their impact on humans may be more than just "interference". War is inevitable.

"So, who wins the war, humans or aliens?"

"Yes... it's human." Mu Zhengguang officially confirmed the answer to this question at this moment. He realized that he had overlooked a key factor before, which could determine the outcome of the war.

Xu Ying breathed a sigh of relief: Since you can give the correct answer, it means that aliens are not so scary in your heart, at least they are not invincible.

"That's what I think. Humans have asymptotes and asymptotic regions. Perhaps in the eyes of aliens, we are the more terrifying creatures."

Mu Zhengguang's fear of aliens was reduced by half. He wanted to hug Ying and let her know his gratitude.

"The universe is so vast and boundless. Everything outside the planet seems so far away. All questions related to aliens seem to have no answers. We are not sure if they will come or when they will come. Because of the unknown, there is fear, right?"

"Correct."

"To them, we are also unknown. The fate of aliens is also predetermined."

Mu Zhengguang suddenly realized and felt relieved.

After finishing reading one file, there is the next one.

That night, the lights on the second floor of the villa were all on, and Xu Ying talked to him a lot.

Amidst his care and passion, Mu Zhengguang is deeply attached to the one he loves most.

In the morning, they caught up on some sleep in their respective villas.

In the afternoon, they came to the laboratory to work.

That night, Mu Zhengguang no longer slept with the lights on.

(End of this chapter)