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Chapter 777 People and Night

Fear of darkness is an innate human instinct.

Before the appearance of light, human ancestors were always on guard against various powerful predators, which were particularly active at night. Therefore, darkness meant danger to human ancestors.

Or maybe those who were no longer afraid of the night died, leaving only those who were afraid of the night and left behind their descendants.

"The brave man sacrificed himself, but it was the coward who left behind his offspring. Isn't that ironic?"

Seeking profit and avoiding harm, what remains are a bunch of cowards.

And human beings are the descendants of a group of cowards.

Maybe those coward genes were left over when humans were still a group of rats.

Generation after generation of cowards are afraid to face the night, resulting in increasingly poor night vision, and future generations are even more afraid to face the night.

On the contrary, it is the weak creatures that dare to face the darkness.

Although their ending was not very good...

But who can say that cowards are bad?

In the evolution of life, there is never right or wrong. Being timid is also a choice.

Human beings have chosen light and rejected darkness. Even though technology has developed to the point where it can drive away darkness, those coward genes are still at work, causing unnecessary panic to humans.

Whereas avoiding darkness once brought safety, now it only brings fear.

What was once an advantage has now become a burden.

The price is beginning to show.

Therefore, the cowards now began to admire those brave men who were not afraid of darkness, but they forgot that those brave men had long been eliminated by "Darwin" and died in the shadow of history, with no remains left...

……

Li Luo strolled in the deserted eternal night and could still hear his own rapid heartbeat.

Fear is inevitable.

Even wearing night vision goggles, it is impossible to eliminate the influence of the coward gene.

She tried to take a few deep breaths, but the cool night breeze and the smell of sand made her even more nervous. A chill penetrated her whole body from head to toe, and her body began to tremble inexplicably.

Li Luo adjusted the parameters of the night vision goggles, making the scene in front of her a little clearer, but this could only give her a little psychological comfort.

Li Luo and Lan Xin had learned about this special night vision goggles before. They came from a relic.

Normal night vision goggles require infrared detection and are divided into active and passive types.

The former uses an infrared searchlight to illuminate the target and receives the reflected infrared radiation to form an image, while the latter does not emit infrared rays and relies on the target's own infrared radiation to form a thermal image, so it is also called a "thermal imager."

Both of these methods require the use of "infrared". Unfortunately, infrared will be interfered with in the eternal night.

Of course, Li Luo and Lan Xin didn't know that this phenomenon is called "dark erosion". As a type of light, infrared is of course not immune to dark erosion.

All they knew was that normal night vision goggles would be interfered with.

But the night vision goggles made from that relic will not be interfered with.

That relic is called "forged certificate".

……

[Relic: Forged Certificate]

[Price: Bind after carrying. Any items made by the carrier will be considered fake and only have 1/2 the effect of the real thing]

[Ability: The carrier will know how to fake any item when seeing it] [Discovery location: Earth]

[Discovered by: Hidden]

……

The forged certificate is a very powerful relic, but also a very dangerous relic. A researcher once carried this relic, thinking it would not affect her life.

Until one day, she got pregnant...

Anything, anything, nothing can escape the price.

These night vision goggles used in the eternal night are made in this way. They are indeed only half as effective as the real ones, the images are blurry, and there are many problems. They look like shoddy imitations.

But these night vision goggles can be used in eternal night.

The function of genuine night vision goggles is "night vision". Even if 1/2 is cut off, the function is still "night vision". If the night vision function is 0, it does not meet the "1/2" requirement.

This relic is so domineering that its function is forcibly fixed at "1/2" and will not be disturbed by the eternal night.

No matter how dark the night is, it is always 1/2 effective, and the interference of eternal night does not count, because the functions of these night vision devices are not achieved by infrared, but by the ability to forge certificates.

After knowing the origin of these night vision goggles, Li Luo was also very shocked.

Now, even if these "fakes" are not easy to use, she will not dislike them.

Sometimes, "being usable" is more important than "being easy to use".

But this barely usable night vision goggles also made Li Luo even more nervous. In the blurry picture, there would often be some phantoms that he couldn't tell whether they were equipment failures or real. Some of those phantoms looked like living creatures, and some even looked like human outlines.

When these phantoms appeared, some strange noises were also heard, as if those phantoms were really walking in front of him. They would also stop and stare at Li Luo with strange eyes, and then disappear after a while.

Li Luo became increasingly uneasy due to these phantoms that appeared from time to time, and his pace of advancement became very slow.

However, the fact that Cube had been following her made her feel more at ease.

The cube appeared as a void in the night vision goggles. It was very obvious and kept floating behind him. It was also a little cold, but this cold feeling relieved Li Luo's anxiety a lot.

Although the movement speed was very slow and Li Luo often stopped to watch, he still walked a long distance as time went by.

Although those terrifying phantoms continued to appear, Li Luo gradually adapted to them.

She found that these phantoms seemed to have no effect other than scaring her.

Everything was normal. With the protection of the cube, she shouldn't be afraid of anything. After figuring this out, Li Luo's speed of advancement also increased a lot...

……

Today's human beings carry the coward gene since birth.

Young humans would not dare to sleep alone and would only hide in the comfortable bed, not even daring to go to the toilet.

When these young cowards realize that darkness cannot harm them, they will gradually get rid of their fear of the darkness.

But in fact, the coward genes of their ancestors are still deeply buried in their bodies.

They simply ignored the darkness temporarily, masking their attention to it with their knowledge of their familiar surroundings.

They ignored the swaying outlines in the darkness, ignored the rustling sounds in the darkness, and ignored all kinds of information coming from the darkness.

Rather than conquering the darkness, cowards flee from it and turn their attention elsewhere.

And when the real danger in the darkness comes, these cowards will be eaten up immediately because they ignored the information from the darkness, and they will not have time to react at all...

As Li Luo was walking, the cube suddenly dropped in front of her and stopped her.

(End of this chapter)