Chapter 79 Four Letters

In addition to the pistol, there are some other things.

Following Karina's memory, Yao Yan took out some letters from the drawer that looked like they had been written but not yet sent.

He directly opened the envelope of a letter that was the oldest one year ago, and Yao Yan read the contents inside:

[Dear Mrs. Ergon:]

[Good morning or good evening, I'm not sure when I should greet you, but I have come to this manor town according to your order. ]

[It is just as you described, a very boring town. Although there are bars, there are not as many fish and fine wines as in the city of Ship. ]

[It's too boring here, but I promise, ma'am, I will be able to find what you want according to your order. ]

The first letter seemed to be just a letter of determination, and the content was not long.

After confirming that there was no special information, Yao Yan put it back into the envelope and opened the second one.

[Dear Mrs. Ergon:]

[Good morning, even though it's morning, I'm still very excited. You won't believe what I found? ]

[This town really has magical power. ]

[Although I have used guns to open the brains of several priests, and their holy Lord did not save them, I can guarantee that the things found in this town will be considered as demons by them. ]

[But, I am sorry, I don’t have enough accurate and wonderful words to describe that thing. Maybe it should be said that it is a cat? ]

[Really! Madam! I swear, I really saw that strange thing. ]

[The ring you are looking for may be related to them! ]

[But, I am sorry, I am alone, and I can’t get rid of these dirty mud guys quickly to find what you want. They are too annoying, because I am a foreigner and they will keep staring at me. ]

[For the sake of that incredible strange cat, I let them go. ]

[But I swear, I will find it! ]

The second letter contains a lot of useful information.

Compared with the relatively easy-to-detect but useless shallow information such as Mosenke has killed people, does not believe in religion, and admires the upper class and despises the lower class, the more obvious description is that Yao Yan is more concerned about the "cat" and the ring.

The latter is that what Mrs. Ergon is looking for is a ring.

The former, the text in the specific letter describes that there are incredible things in this town, and describes it in the image of a "cat", and says that the priests who died under his gun will regard this thing as a demon.

Since realizing that the essence of his ability is "rumor", Yao Yan will occasionally discover various related things from his memory that may lead to the generation and spread of rumors.

The "comparison" mechanism rooted in human recognition ability is the core rumor maker.

After certain features are "same" or "similar" in some form, humans will match the two sides.

For example, a person who has never seen other four-legged mammals except cats will say "a creature that looks like a cat" when seeing a dog.

By comparing the characteristics of "both walk on four legs, have tails, and ears on top of the head", the two are compared.

Then, by describing "cats have whiskers, this animal does not, and is larger than cats", the communicators can roughly understand the similarities.

Can humans clearly and quantitatively realize how many details are different between cats and dogs?

If he asked in his lifetime, the answer would basically be "yes", and he would just compare them one by one.

However, the problem is not here.

The problem is that the human recognition mechanism will judge as "similar" when the number of similarities reaches a certain level.

What is the difference between "same" and "exactly the same" in the general sense?

If a person judges A and B as similar because of 50% similarities, then when he tells this news to the second person, if this person's judgment on the similarity is "60% the same", then what information does he get?

A and B are 60% similar.

However, what's worse is that this person cannot clearly realize where the 60% similarity is.

If the weight of his judgment is "the overall body shape is the same", while the weight of the former's judgment is "the various features are the same".

For example, the "similarities" of the former do not include feet, and the latter does not clearly get this information, then there will be a situation where the feet are judged as the same element.

In the communication, his description may cause the object to inadvertently bias the part he values.

Then, when he retells it again.

Before actually confirming the target, Yao Yan is quite taboo about descriptions such as "like a cat".

Even he cannot avoid such descriptions.

Because his language, his communication words, his conceptual expressions, generation, function, change, and his logical thinking are all based on this comparison mechanism.

The most common and most common means of explanation for humans is to use metaphors.

The easiest and most common place for rumors to be born is also to use metaphors.

If this Mosenke focuses on certain features, such as color, then this "cat-like" thing is a similar color.

Even more, some people will accidentally substitute the characteristics of a cat, unconsciously equate this thing with a cat, and then suffer a big loss or even die.

Having deeply thought about the birth and spread mechanism of "rumors" closely related to himself, Yao Yan could not fail to notice the potential risks here.

For example.

If others see and hear his previous thinking, what information will be obtained, and what information will be missed?

Do others understand what he wants to express?

What he did not express, what is different from his meaning, is it generated by someone in his thinking?

At least, in his consciousness, the generation of rumors is already a very common "gray rhino" that he often finds, but cannot be completely prevented at all times.

I can only hope that I won't suffer from myself.

Yao Yan suffered from rumors?

This is not a strange thing.

Before he was alive, before the great disaster, one rumor was defeated by another rumor, and there were many cases where one poison eliminated another poison.

After sealing the second letter and stuffing it back into the envelope, Yao Yan took out the third letter, skillfully opened it, and pulled out:

[Dear Mrs. Ergon:]

[Good evening. ]

[I seem to have provoked a guy who is not kind. ]

[It's not a cat. ]

[Cats don't eat people. ]

No, cats eat people, and many of them eat their owner's corpse.

Yao Yan moved his eyes down indifferently:

[Someone has been eaten. ]

[I, I'm also being targeted! ]

[No, I don't want to die! ]

It's like a short sentence like a poem, but the content is not beautiful.

Yao Yan seemed to have thought of something, reached out and took out the last letter and opened it.

[Dear Mrs. Ergon:]

[Good morning, William was eaten.]

[I am being eaten.]

The very short sentence, without an exclamation mark, seemed very calm, and the sentence that was difficult to connect directly from a grammatical point of view made Yao Yan think of a question:

"Shouldn't your brain be eaten when you write a letter?"