I am immortal with scientific thinking

Memory, perception, matter.

Use the three laws of the soul to extend these three points, and then prove or disprove this theory, so that humans can go deeper into the realm of the soul...

This idea, this thinking, and this ability can be said to be ingenious and amazing!

If it succeeds, whether it is proved or disproven, this law may enable human beings to make a major breakthrough in theory, thus entering into areas that have never been touched before, achieving a major breakthrough in science and technology, and thus finding a chance to survive this disaster.

Not to mention that this disaster is also called a spiritual invasion. Perhaps by studying it from the perspective of the soul, we can find the direction for mankind's future progress!
"Junior brother, your theory..."

When Fang Zhengyang thought of this, his face was full of excitement, and his face turned red. He wanted to say something, but Lin Chen looked at him and said:
"I know what you mean. You want to publicize this theory and let countless scholars come to study it, so that humans can step into the realm of the soul..."

Having said this, Lin Chen paused, looked at Fang Zhengyang, and said:
"But before you do this, you have to talk to your supervisor first and then decide whether to spread this theory."

"Why? Isn't it better if this theory is spread as widely as possible..." Fang Zhengyang was a little puzzled.

“That’s true, but now supernatural events are happening frequently and the human situation is becoming more and more delicate. It’s still unclear whether this theory is suitable to be publicized or only known to specific people. So this matter must be made clear to the instructor first…” Lin Chen said lightly.

"The instructor will definitely agree to this..." Seeing this, Fang Zhengyang couldn't help but said anxiously.

But he was interrupted by Lin Chen:
“Remember, never think that you are the smartest one and can make decisions without any thinking.”

"We are just ordinary researchers and doctoral students now. Maybe from our perspective, this matter is not a problem, but from the perspective of the entire civilization, it is another matter."

"We are different from the academicians of civilization. Our status is not high enough, we don't have enough information, and we don't have enough resources... With our current capabilities, we can't decide whether to do something that can affect a civilization. So we still have to leave it to the academicians of civilization to decide. Because they are on the same page as the entire human race, both emotionally and in terms of interests, they will naturally make the most appropriate decision."

"Remember, professional matters should be left to professionals. Never make decisions based on subjective assumptions, otherwise it will lead to disaster sooner or later."

"Junior brother... you are right." After hearing this, Fang Zhengyang was silent for a while, then he sighed, "I really didn't think this matter through. I will contact my mentor as soon as possible and inform him of this matter. He and the academicians of the entire civilization will decide."

Lin Chen nodded upon hearing this.

For him, human civilization as a whole is his ally, so he naturally does not want anything to happen to this civilization.

"So what should we do next?" Fang Zhengyang was depressed for a moment, but he quickly cheered up and raised another question, "Although we already know the theory, how to study it is still a problem."

"With our current technology, we humans have no means to manipulate the soul. We can only monitor brain waves. It is too difficult to imitate and reproduce this supernatural phenomenon..."

We know the theory, but the difficulty lies in how to implement it.

First, we must observe the phenomenon of the soul, then find something that can influence the interference and conduct experiments, in the process proving or falsifying the theory, and finding new laws...

But no matter which point it is, they must have the technology or the material to interfere with the soul.

However, the existing technology and means of mankind are completely unable to achieve this.

To solve this problem, we can only rely on...

"Supernatural events."

Lin Chen slowly uttered five words.

The existence of the soul was only vaguely proven after the emergence of supernatural events, and none of these events beyond natural common sense could give them the key to step into the realm of the soul.

"But speaking of this..." Thinking of this, Lin Chen looked at Fang Zhengyang on the side, "Is there really nothing to gain from this fake human incident?"

"If it's those pseudo-humans, they are just bodies similar to humans, and there's nothing to be gained from digging them up. But if you're talking about the corpse of this monster..."

At this moment, Fang Zhengyang stepped forward and clicked on an imperceptible corner of the safety container. Suddenly, a mechanism started to move in front of him, and the entire container flipped over, revealing a special box hidden underground.

This is a special way to preserve treasures.

Put the monster's body out in the open and provide heavy protection, so that most invaders will subconsciously focus on the safe container and ignore what is hidden underground.

When the box was opened, Lin Chen saw a...

Human brain.

It was half dead, most of it had turned black, but there was still a small part of the human brain that was moving slightly.

"This is the only active thing we found on the monster's corpse, but we don't quite know how to use it. We can only seal it in a special box to prevent it from doing harm," Fang Zhengyang explained.

"Is that so..." Lin Chen's eyes moved, "This thing can definitely have an effect on the soul, but we must find something that can interact with it, otherwise there is no way to conduct research..."

It's like in a world where only evil spirits are supernatural, and only ghosts can influence other ghosts, any research on evil spirits must use supernatural powers, otherwise it won't work at all. They must be able to find the same supernatural things that work on the soul realm as your brain before they can start research in this area.

"Indeed, this matter is extremely important and has something to do with the new direction of civilization." Fang Zhengyang nodded and said solemnly, "Brother, come with me. Let's go to the archives first, and then go to the place where this branch stores supernatural objects to see if we can find anything related."

"Okay, let's go." Lin Chen nodded.

Accompanied by the sound of machines and various electronic sounds, the two left one after another.

Soon, they arrived at a branch of the research institute.

Under the huge electronic screen, various staff members were entering information about various supernatural events in Tianhai City and dozens of surrounding cities under its jurisdiction into their computers.

After being uploaded to the central brain, countless sheets of information were printed out through a printer, making one top-secret file after another and storing them in the archives room.

Everyone in the team knows that many event files are not only stored on computers, but are also converted into paper files and sealed.

This is even more true for supernatural events. Computers are only tools used to search for the location of files. The real information must be viewed in paper form to prevent any horror from crawling through the network.

Lin Chen and Fang Zhengyang were looking for what they wanted in those files that could not completely characterize the incident.

[The corpse of a woman in a mountain village], [The disappeared family members], [The missing records of the mental hospital], [The corpse swamp]... one after another, these extremely bizarre and creepy incidents are recorded in these sealed files, hiding the horror that has never been exposed to the sun.

Perhaps after the disaster is over, after endless years have passed, the things recorded in these archives will be regarded by future generations as some bizarre and strange stories.

But today, the names of the dead recorded on this paper are actually lives that have already passed away.

Just like the record in history that "people eat each other" is recorded at the end of every dynasty. In the eyes of later generations, it is just a description, but in the eyes of the people at that time, they are fresh lives...

"Brother, look at this."

Fang Zhengyang, who was constantly searching through files on supernatural events, suddenly changed his expression and quickly handed over a file.

This file seemed to have been entered not long ago, it was very new, and there were many signs of being opened by humans, but in the end the file was still left here, indicating that the incident has not been resolved yet.

Either that or the harm caused by this incident was relatively minor, and due to the shortage of staff at the Tianhai City Supernatural Research Institute branch, no special personnel were assigned to handle it.

Or, the strangeness of this incident exceeded the original estimation and was extremely difficult to handle, so it was temporarily shelved.

Lin Chen thought of these two points instantly, but judging from Fang Zhengyang's emphasis, the situation of this file was obviously the latter.

Thoughts flashed through his mind at this moment, and Lin Chen looked at the contents of the file.

"Unknown death incident in Yuncang City."

Yuncang City is a city that is somewhat remote from Tianhai City. Although it is not as big as Tianhai City, it can also be regarded as a prefecture-level city with a population of millions.

Logically speaking, the location is somewhat remote, and it has a large population, so it can be said to be an area where supernatural events frequently occur.

However, for five years, no supernatural incidents occurred in this city, until...

"Three months ago, when I first came to Tianhai City..."

When Lin Chen saw the time point September, his expression changed.

Yuncang City is his hometown in this life.

There is not much description involved in this supernatural event.

It was only after a three-month population inspection starting in June that it was discovered that the number of floating population in Yuncang City had decreased significantly since an unknown period of time. This attracted the attention of local law enforcement agencies, and they sent personnel to investigate.

As a result, after repeated investigations, the shocking discovery was that many families had people missing, and even entire families disappeared quietly.

The most bizarre thing is that despite such an obvious disappearance, none of their relatives and friends cared about it, let alone reporting it to the police, and they didn’t even have the mind to look for them.

No one knows how long this has been going on, and no one knows when it started, so there is still no exact number of how many people have gone missing.

Therefore, this incident quickly attracted the attention of local law enforcement agencies, and even a special task force was set up and the most elite investigators were sent to carry out the matter.

But what was beyond everyone's imagination was that three teams of investigators were sent out in succession, most of whom disappeared silently, and only one person inexplicably appeared at the door of the police station, covered in blood and unconscious.

After much difficulty in waking him up, he was already unconscious, gesticulating and extremely excited, sometimes shouting and sometimes talking nonsense. Unfortunately, his speech was unclear at the time and we had no idea what he was saying.

Later, he was held down and given a large dose of sedative, and he became a little calmer.

But late one night, the nurse on duty found that he suddenly woke up, but his eyes were staring at the ceiling, unlike a normal person, and he had lost his sense of the outside world.
When the nurse called the doctor over, she saw a strange smile on his face. After seeing someone coming over, he spoke clearly for the first time:

It turns out that we were already dead.

Then...

"The human body spontaneously combusted and turned into ashes?!"

Lin Chen was holding a photo, which showed a body that was almost burned to ashes.

This is archival material that records supernatural events in Yuncang City. There is not much specific information about the events, only some simple descriptions and some on-site photos.

"Is it the wick effect?" Lin Chen took a look at the corpse and asked Fang Zhengyang without raising his head.

The wick effect is a relatively universally accepted explanation of the human body's nature in academia.

The clothes worn by a drunk or unconscious person are ignited by fire, the skin is burned off, the subcutaneous fat melts and flows out, and the clothes are soaked with liquefied fat and become "wicks". The fat in the body is like "wax", continuously providing fuel for combustion. So the corpse burns slowly like a candle until all the fat is burned out.

"I've checked it out, and it's not likely. It's more likely to be related to a supernatural event." Fang Zhengyang said, "Let's not talk about the spontaneous combustion of the human body. Just look at the people who disappeared inexplicably, but no one noticed. The people who went to investigate disappeared inexplicably under the surveillance of the Skynet system, and they were still half crazy after they came back... I speculate that this supernatural event is very likely to involve the soul."

"That's right. Most supernatural outbreaks are very obvious. This kind of silent spread of impact is first-rate in terms of both harm and hidden dangers... Didn't the branch send anyone to investigate?" Lin Chen asked.

"The branch has already sent a lot of people to investigate, but they all disappeared as well." Fang Zhengyang sighed softly, "And now supernatural events are happening frequently in various places. We can't possibly protect everyone, and we are already obviously short of manpower. Not to mention that most of the army and front-line teams have already gathered in big cities like Tianhai City. It is inevitable that the forces in these small cities will be neglected..."

"Then what kind of help can we get if we deal with this incident?" Lin Chen asked. This is the most crucial point.

"We can at least mobilize a special team, and we can also use the supernatural objects stored in the branch..." Fang Zhengyang hesitated for a moment when he said this, "Junior brother, I will show you the details later."

"also……"

Lin Chen responded casually, then looked at the file in front of him again, his expression slightly changed.

People who disappeared without a trace, existence forgotten by everyone, strange spontaneous combustion of human bodies, and that sentence:
It turns out that we were already dead.

Yuncang City, the hometown of my current life.

It seems that some very interesting things happened... (End of this chapter)