The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 176
  Many people have obsessive self-confidence and always feel that their approach is right.

Of course, this does not mean that other people’s things are not right, but that other people’s things are not as right as one’s own, or at least not as suitable for one’s own.

Luo Bo actually has this problem.

It's just that the things Diao Bao gave him were powerful, 'instant', and had high quality, so that when he met a big boss in the industry, he couldn't think of arguing with him, and could only bow to him, which made him right and wrong, and he wouldn't have any objections. How much doubt.

In other words, even if you question, you are questioning whether the style is suitable for you, rather than questioning the technology itself.

But he was very disdainful of the exorcism methods used by Western exorcists. He not only questioned them, but even despised them.

He feels that times are changing, and exorcism methods should also be innovated and continuously improved, rather than just the same method over and over again for thousands of years.

Regarding this issue, it involves the concept of the present being inferior to the past, or the past being inferior to the present.

Luo Bo believes that with the characteristics of human civilization, in any industry, the greater the investment, the more mature the industry will be.

Specifically, it involves external pressure, internal pressure, demand and other factors.

The ancient cow is still stronger today, the focus of the competition lies in this.

Let's talk about exorcism. If it was the Dark Ages, and exorcism was the second most important basic need (security need) after food, drink and reproduction, then no matter the princes, nobles, or slave tenants, they would have to use their brains to find a way, naturally. , stuff like "The Barefoot Doctor's Manual" and "Encyclopedia of Folk Remedies" will appear.

The whole people invested in it, regardless of the cost, and it lasted for hundreds of years.

So when calculating the general ledger, it is naturally much larger than the two or three modern kittens, or a certain company's eccentric projects, and the investment is much greater. It is not as good as it was in the past, which is very reasonable.

On the contrary, given the modern ability to mobilize materials, the quality of personnel, the advancement of methods, and the power of equipment, it would be foolish to think that ancient times could overwhelm modern times just by relying on external pressure from the environment.

What happened in the Dharma-ending era? As long as there is still a little bit of Dharma, as long as you can occasionally show your holiness and be caught by someone who is interested, driven by enough interests, you can start powerful enough actions. It may not be a dream to catch up with and surpass the so-called brainchild passed down from generation to generation by relevant practitioners in ancient times.

It is precisely because of this understanding that Luo Bo particularly looks down on the Holy See's unchanging exorcism techniques.

Of course, he also knew that his prejudices and prejudices were largely caused by the information transmitted to him by film and television before time travel. It would be stupid to take it as the truth.

Let's talk about a similar message. Various warrior kings and hero series in movies and TV shows snake around in the fire, falling and rising again and again.

In fact, the 155M caliber howitzer, such as the U.S. Army's M777, has a range of 24 kilometers for ordinary grenades and 40 kilometers for extended-range rockets. Not only can it hit far, but it can also hit accurately.

The killing radius of ordinary artillery shells can reach fifty or sixty meters, and it is not safe beyond this distance. The air waves and shock waves generated by the explosion can propagate to about 360 meters away (specifically, look at the surrounding environment of the bomb point, the default environment is wilderness and flat land).

This air shock wave, even in the second strike area, is enough to lift a 200-pound strong man away, and a large crater with a depth of two meters and a diameter of six meters will be formed in the center of the explosion.

Within this range, even wearing power armor would lead to death.

Within three meters of the center of the explosion, even light armored vehicles will be torn apart or overturned.

No bunker can provide effective protection within ten meters of the center of the explosion.

Therefore, this caliber is called a heavy artillery.

One can imagine how powerful the 200- and 300-caliber battleship guns and train guns are. It was really just bad luck that the God of War was resurrected and was gone on the spot.

Luo Bo was thinking that the power of artillery fire in movies and TV shows was far from the power of cannon fodder in reality. Although it’s hard to compare the Exorcist’s approach to that of technology, there may be the same suspicion of being spied on.

Perhaps exorcism in reality is not as stupid and weak as in movies and TV shows, which makes them worried when they look at it.

As a result, I used my Qian ability to check it out. Damn it, this time it’s not that reality is more exaggerated than the drama, but that reality is restored to a high proportion.

Of course, there are also exaggerated parts, such as horror for the sake of horror, or the theme style of the film requires humorous or satirical elements.

Real exorcism is basically like what is shown in movies and TV shows, but it is not as thrilling as in movies and TV shows. It looks more like giving medicine to a mentally ill person. When the medicine takes effect and calms down, the exorcist announces Successful, or temporarily successful.

Unable to bear reading, Luo Bo said to himself after reading the relevant information sold at a high price: "No wonder the management personnel of the Vatican who are extremely competitive and intelligent do not believe it. In the eyes of these people, this is clearly a clumsy little thing concocted for merit. The video, just looking at the surface, is simply rubbing someone else’s IQ on the ground!”

In fact, to a large extent, people believe what they want to believe.

The content of these audio-visual materials is really eye-catching. The acting is not online at all, and there is no thrilling or ups and downs in the plot. It is flat and dry from beginning to end. Many times it feels not that the exorcism has been successful, but that the person involved feels that this Ji Peng Ke was too weak. He just tried his best to act alone, but the effect was not good, and he was tired of acting, so he stopped making trouble.

Some people may say that movies and TV dramas are all exaggerated, deliberately repeated in various ways to heighten the atmosphere and attract people's attention. How can it be possible in reality to fight against San Lily at every turn, and still have no peeing throughout the whole process, which is thrilling?
  Yes, everyone understands the truth, but it still feels like being fed and praised for how delicious it is. More or less, some phenomena that cannot be explained by science, just some magic shots that can fool most people.

No, not at all.

This kind of explanation belongs to me, and it all depends on blowing out the fake tricks with one mouth, which is very low-level. If you are really not mentally retarded, you will refuse to believe it.

The problem is, this is undoubtedly the Conjuring universe, and the male and female protagonists are the anchors to ensure that there is really something weird in this world.

Then Luo Bo can only say that the Holy See is not doing enough, there are too few real things and too many fake tricks.

Even its so-called exclusive research institute is probably overstaffed.

He understands this very well. Just like those official institutions that are in the sunset, there are many people who are just trying to climb up. In order to climb up, they play the trick of "not doing well" at critical moments. Instead of solving the problem, they cover the lid, delay time, and leave it to future generations.

As a result, it is not surprising that technology has not developed but has regressed.

It’s a pity that we are not in the 21st century. Although the Internet has already emerged in Ugly Country, from the perspective of future generations, this wave is a retreat stage that promotes the concept of beep-selling, defrauds investors and speculates on the atmosphere, and finally attracts many profit-seeking middle and low-level people to invest and high-level takeovers. , not much useful information.

Otherwise, he would have to use the Internet to select a group of smart people, innovate wildly on exorcism technology, and then spend money to hire some real warriors who have nothing but their lives to conduct practical tests. Most of them can accumulate some Practical and technical.

Now, two groups of people have been assigned to engage in related research and development.

The first wave can be called a technology group. As the sponsor, Luo Bo starts projects and makes requests, while the people in this group implement them.

The technology team used the connections of the Green family, Marianne personally arranged it, and finally brought together several very powerful scientists.

As the saying goes, learn martial arts and sell your goods to the emperor's family.

In a world where capital is prevalent, being rich is equivalent to an emperor in many situations.

Therefore, scientists who need to be looked up to in the eyes of ordinary people are nothing more than advanced tools in the eyes of capital. Not so respectable and awe-inspiring, unclear and powerful.

Generally speaking, for a famous scientist, like a big brand, such as a Swiss Army knife, as long as it is genuine, the upper limit may not be high, but the lower limit is generally not low.

But Luobo pays more attention to cost performance. I also know that some entrepreneurs are arrogant, resorting to fraud to get funding for projects, and their methods of exploiting assistants and students.

Therefore, he could not trust the so-called well-known professors.

The top ones have no shortage of funds and projects, and he can't afford them.

So the focus fell on middle-aged and young scientists who were capable but not famous.

He told Marianne: "The idea of ​​​​finding qualified candidates is that they have participated in large projects, signed on key papers, are not ranked high, have no connections in the family, and have no money to ensure that they are not gold-plated. They have an eccentric personality and average popularity. Relationships are simple…”

Maintaining interpersonal relationships requires time, money, and even enough energy.

If you want to be popular and always make others happy, you have to use a lot of emotional intelligence.

All the time and energy are spent on this, how much is left for professionals?

vice versa.

So everyone knows who the King of Invention Edison is.

It’s not that he doesn’t have his own things, he has transformed himself from a scientist into a typical capitalist. In the middle and later stages, he played the trick of selling his personality and exploiting others.

The ivory tower is not clean, and the holy land of science can still be littered with urine and urine. Luo Bo feels that the choice is to choose someone who is still exchanging dry goods for primitive accumulation, instead of giving lectures and selling courses after becoming famous.

Marianne has a bit of a love brain due to her years of abnormal love that has fulfilled her wish. In addition, there is nothing wrong with Rob's guidelines, so she is willing to appear submissive.

The same is true for Longguo's investment. Hu Tianhei was tired. After resting, Luo Bo worked hard to do ideological work for Marianne.

Then what he said was consistent with the survey results, and Marianne agreed to invest heavily in technology + money.

After all, looking at the past from an chronological perspective, the Ugly Country is now the only superpower. Under the leadership of the scandalous president, the national treasury is abundant, instead of being in debt of 30 trillion, the leader of civilization, the Lighthouse Country, was called out during this period.     In this context, investing in one's own business and doing business rather than making a living is the choice of most capital. On the other hand, investing in the Dragon Kingdom is a waste of money.

In particular, the period of industrial hollowing out has just begun. After all, it has only been five years since the old bear died. Big-haired shock therapy, vulture feasts, eating meat are a joy, workers are well paid, and they benefit from supplements, so they are not particularly painful.

We have to wait a little longer before we take drastic measures in the Rust Belt and move industries to the outside where labor is cheap enough. Anyway, I am the only one in the world. Except for myself, who is from the city, everyone is a bumpkin. If I give you soup, it is to give you face. No one should nod and bow. Thanks for the grace?

Luo Bo cited the following truths: "It is easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to provide help in times of need", "People of the Dragon Kingdom regard hard work and pragmatism as their virtue", "The advantages of the official dictatorship of the Dragon Kingdom", "The establishment of an international image and the need for a rich man's bones" and so on.

He convinced Marianne that in the future, no one would have greater advantages than Dragon Kingdom in the industry. Since its official decision to integrate with the world, there will definitely be a world-class factory.

The beauty trap and pillow style led to the launch of a series of successful projects.

Therefore, if you have money, you have money, but if you want to use big money, you must follow Newton's third law and give up something in order to move forward.

In addition to the research on artifacts with fire, electricity, and light as core elements composed of chemical experts and weapons experts, there is also a team of theoretical exorcists.

Just like the black instructor in the movie {Devil's Light}, he talks in a very professional class and explains cases to the future exorcists trained by the Holy See.

But once it happened, his performance on the spot was a mess. He was neither calm nor able to adapt to changes. He was just like an inexperienced rookie who was easily defeated and embarrassed.

The devils are all brave enough to think and act, and have rich experience in actual combat. Even if they are not big players, they can still easily win over the talkative party by changing the soup without changing the medicine.

But Luo Bo felt that talking heads also had their uses. Being erudite and memorizing, and quoting scriptures were a major feature of this kind of people. It would be more suitable for them to use mobile libraries and movable dictionaries.

Therefore, Luo Bo invited several good talkers who dug out the true knowledge in the sea of ​​books and documents to serve as assistants to the Warrens.

For example, take a representative exorcism case, the Warrens, to explain the process, including the various situations at the time and the coping methods.

These gossips are then responsible for providing written interpretations of these situations and methods.

It focuses on combining theory with practice.

Because the Warrens are actually wild people.

Although I have also gone through specialized training, this kind of training is like the anti-war morale. A supplementary class for frontline commanders is indeed useful, but it is not as good as systematic study and graduation from a professional class.

Therefore, many times, the two couples only know what is happening and do not know why.

Know what works, but not why.

And Luo Bo not only wanted to know why it worked, but also wanted to know how many effective methods there were, what their essence was, and whether it could be replaced.

This actually involves many fundamental issues.

For example, devils are a special species, and they are all different.

For example, people, no matter what their skin color or nationality, all have basic human characteristics.

But if it is an animal, is it the difference between donkeys, horses, and mules, or the difference between pigs, cattle, and sheep, or simply the difference between land and sea creatures.

Luo Bo naturally hopes that as described in the novel, there will be no big type separation between evil creatures. Eastern methods are equally effective on Western devils. Even the moon in foreign countries is particularly round, and Western devils lack adaptive resistance to Eastern methods. Sex, especially useful.

If this is the case, then whether it is the East or the West, directly pointing to the essence and refining the essence is the right path in his eyes.

Just like the rituals in the East and the West, quite a few are designed to enhance the atmosphere and put people into a state of mind.

After all, it is very difficult for ordinary people without professional training to achieve what is described in professional terms as a mind free of distracting thoughts, a calm mind, or even the presence or absence of higher-level thoughts, and a state of concentration.

This requires additional equipment and ritual aids, such as pendulum beats that facilitate hypnosis.

Luo Bo analyzed it this way. If such an exorcist with a fixed mind, lack of flexibility, and no idea why, regards the preparation part used to enter the state as an indispensable part of the dharma, wouldn't it mean that there will be a big problem? Pile of lengthy content?

A truly trained professional can collect his or her mind in one or two breaths or even blink of an eye, enter the state, and go straight to the practical stuff. This is the right way to go.

There was a fight over there, but here we were still doing foreplay, it was too low.

Therefore, based on the practice of the Warrens, we find corresponding theoretical interpretations, and then try to extract the essence.

This is the compulsory subject that Luo Bo takes every day after moving into the mansion.

And considering that the Warrens are indeed old.

Luo Bo did not need to give lectures in pairs, he just took out the selected exorcism records and conducted a retrospective interpretation of the process.

The Warrens listened and pointed out any discrepancies.

The most important thing is the interpretation of the gossip and Luo Bo's questions.

When the question is raised, the Warrens recall more relevant details in a complex manner, and the talkative party is responsible for citing scriptures and analyzing it.

In this way, not only Robb benefits, but the talkative party also learns about the discrepancies between practice and theory, and the Warrens often gain enlightenment.

After taking down a few examples, patterns slowly began to emerge.

Sure enough, there were many small mistakes that made the Warrens make mistakes, suffer mistakes, and increase the risk. If they changed to their current understanding, it would be much smoother.

But this still does not satisfy Robbo.

What Luo Bo wants is the essence, the original power behind those spells.

Why is it that when the devil's name is called out, it causes them to lose their power and even have to go back to hell?

Why prayer to the Lord is torture to the devil.

Strength from the Lord?

Come on.

There is a famous line in the movie "The Ceremony" starring veteran actor Hopkins: "I admit that there is a devil, so I also firmly believe that there is God."

Luo Bo doesn't believe this, he believes in the power of faith.

Even modern medicine has proven that anger is a major factor in disease, and people who have been depressed for a long time are not in good health. This is the power of emotions. Faith is also an emotion, a stubborn emotion.

The difference between belief and faith is that the latter places special emphasis on the sustenance, which can be God, the Holy Light, or money.

God is divine worship, Holy Light is source worship, and money is material worship.

It can also be self-worship. Of course, it is a bit difficult for people with normal IQs to deceive themselves into being the best in a certain category, let alone being omnipotent.

The extraordinary world exists if you believe in it.

Just like the church in Silent Hill, a group of people firmly believe that the church can protect them and the devil cannot enter. However, the education they have received cannot allow them to believe that their actions are innocent, and they cannot ignore the consequences of causing the whole town to be burned down. They were responsible for the accident that resulted in uncounted deaths and injuries, so they were weak and had loopholes that the devil could take advantage of to chop up melons and vegetables.

Just like an exorcist before exorcising a demon, he must repent of his sins and complete self-reconciliation so that the devil will not take advantage of him.

What is God? He is the sustenance of the soul and the representative of good hope. He is always bright, always shining, and always ahead.

With this anchor point of consciousness and cognition, it is easier to strengthen our beliefs, face problems, and solve problems.

Therefore, the devil has proven that God may not exist.

Of course, this kind of cognition based on disrespecting strange gods is too deviant for typical Westerners who have been influenced by the culture of atonement since childhood, and Luo Bo will not put it in the open.

His main theme is to keep pace with the times and bring out the new, and exorcism should do the same.

Time passed, and two months passed in the blink of an eye. A light snow officially announced the arrival of winter.

The next day, trouble came to the door...

(End of this chapter)