Chapter 168 Curiosity Is the Best Bait

Yao Yan's words, descriptions, and actions all touched Danian the Scorpion Man.

She certainly knows history.

The development of art is of course inseparable from history.

In art, the roughest classification is "art for art's sake" and "art for life's sake".

Early art was for life, and most of it was practical. After losing this purpose, when these purposeful details in life were not displayed for this purpose, it became suspended art.

If people who study art do not study art history, then there will be some deviations in their knowledge reserves and the formation of artistic thinking -

They do not understand the reasons for the creation, do not understand its structural foundation, and display for the sake of display, and express for the sake of expression.

In this era, there are very few people who create art for simple purposes such as practicality.

In this era, creation, the vast majority of creators, are creating for the sake of creation, and expressing for the sake of expression.

Naturally, they all have a purpose, and they all want to express something and express and create art.

Danian certainly knew this, so she was aware of the problem when the other party described the "Pen Man".

"Pen Man", originally she thought that he had nothing to do with her, but was a person that only technology developers needed to pay attention to. At this moment, he was somewhat related to her.

At this time, she heard the other party's voice again:

"Paradise Age, Dark Age, Sacred Age, Ghost Age, Revival Age."

"The era when consciousness transfer technology began to be applied on a small scale was the Ghost Age. Only a small number of people could transfer between different bodies like ghosts."

"However, it can be traced back to the era when countless humanoid and non-human races were born. In that era, there was a creature called "ghoul."

Yao Yan gave full play to his imagination in the element of "eating corpses", combining the "ghoul-eating" that had disappeared in history, or it was unknown whether it really existed. On the "ghost" race:

"Initially, the 'ghoul' race could gain memory by eating the corpses of humans or other races."

He said, turning to the corpse again, reaching out to touch the head of the harpy, guiding the other's sight:

"According to what I know, ghouls can gain memory by eating the brain."

"But, at this time, some situations appeared-"

He turned his sight back to the scorpion man Danian:

"Some dead people have been 'resurrected'."

"Resurrection?"

The fixed, immobile pure black eyes on the head of the scorpion man Danian stared straight at Yao Yan.

Looking at the claws of the other party on the head of the corpse, she seemed to understand what the other party meant.

"The dead people have been resurrected in the body of the 'ghoul'."

Yao Yan's tone was calm, but his words made the scorpion man Danian unable to calm down.

And for this, Yao Yan naturally had no apology at all. He did not stop the pace of spreading rumors for the stories he added and fabricated with fragmented historical fragments, but stared at the scorpion man.

Needless to say, at this point, no matter how stupid, simple, or indifferent you are, you will unconsciously apply the same experience to yourself.

Am I a "ghoul"?

Scorpion Danian unconsciously raised his pair of large pincers, and his eight eyes cast their gazes on the pincers.

And Yao Yan continued to make up stories, creating a network of rumors that could justify himself:

"The predecessor of the 'Bone Church', a group of humanoid races that often come into contact with corpses, discovered the existence of 'ghouls' and discovered that after they devoured the corpses of others, they would be invaded by the memories of the dead and regard themselves as dead."

"The original Skeleton Church recorded all of this and told these things to future generations or close relatives in written or oral ways."

Yao Yan quietly patched up the reason why he knew these things, but he also knew that such things should not be too deliberate and needed to be immediately diverted with other topics.

As for how to divert attention, Yao Yan had already prepared a plan:

"However, in the Ghost Age, the matter of ghouls has become a thing of the past."

"More and more races are able to perform 'consciousness transfer', and there is no need to transfer consciousness by being devoured by corpses. The destruction of family and parent-child relationships has caused the natural trust relationship of family affection to disappear, and the matter of ghouls has almost disappeared."

"In the Holy Age, the establishment of the Holy Church, the era when all churches were forced to disintegrate, the technology of consciousness transfer was completely controlled by the Holy Church, and the matter of ghouls was labeled as heresy and blasphemy, and was said to be slander and malicious slander."

Positioning oneself as a victim first is a panacea defense method.

Even the biggest and most effective restraint for rumors - evidence, can be dealt with.

No evidence?

Because the evidence was destroyed, because of suppression.

In the category of "rumors", the structure of "conspiracy theory" itself allows it to fight against the natural defect of rumors that require evidence.

It sounds reasonable, right?

Yao Yan looked at the scorpion man Danian without changing his expression, and when he saw that the other party was silent and dazed, he was ready to stop his narration.

After finishing the last paragraph.

"Just treat this as a story. Ghouls are just ancient legends. No one can prove whether they really exist. Even if they do exist, it is meaningless."

"We are not writers. We can only follow the rules, but we cannot dominate the rules."

Yao Yan used the last two techniques.

Self-denial desensitization and sense of threat.

There is a large category of rumors, called caring rumors.

Taking advantage of the human instinct of self-protection, the reaction of believing it rather than not believing it will make them seek benefits and avoid harm on their own.

Under the judgment mechanism of standard ambiguity, once it happens, once they encounter a suspicious situation, they will put this matter on it.

Moreover, because of the social attributes of humans, they will describe and spread this threat to those close to them, and spread these rumors of crisis safety in the form of caring reminders.

I hope this Scorpio can become a sufficiently qualified source of rumor infection, so that people from all walks of life in this society can find a "'writer' who can dominate the rules" for him.

Afterwards, he did not continue these topics, but talked about the school in a disjointed way. Even when the Scorpion lady mentioned the ghouls, Yao Yan avoided and diverted the topic in a somewhat obvious way to attract the other party's attention.

"He is hiding something, he is avoiding something."

Curiosity is the best bait.