Chapter 195

After becoming a Gridder and coming into deep contact with some past events of the strange world, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe has always had this feeling:

——In recent years, the frequency and intensity of strange events occurring all over the country seem to be far higher than in past decades.

This is just a feeling, a speculation based on existing information, or one could say it's just a wild guess, but Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe has always had this feeling.

Until today, he seems to have found the reason for this.

"Assuming the point in the paper that 'the more people who know about the existence of the strange, the more frequent strange events will be' is indeed true, then the increasingly frequent strange events in recent years can be explained."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe folded the papers printed with the paper one by one, put them back into the document bag, and gave his conclusion:

"——Because of the information explosion."

The popularization of the Internet has brought the driving force for an era to constantly move forward, and has also provided unprecedented convenience for communication between people.

In the past, information dissemination channels were very scarce. Even if the most skilled rider rode the best horse, cooperating with post stations along the way to change horses when tired, traveling day and night, and sending an 800-li urgent dispatch, by the time the lychees from the south were delivered to the capital, the leaves would have already withered.

In modern times, even though telegraphs and post offices raised the speed of information dissemination to a new height, people working in coastal cities who wanted to send a letter to their relatives in their hometown still needed to carefully weigh every word—telegraphs in some places were charged by the word, and it was not cheap.

It was not until the 21st century that the Internet became popular in thousands of households, and the four simple words 'communicating with people' truly became something within reach of every ordinary person.

An ordinary housewife can casually film a short video of cooking and get millions of views on a short video platform; even excluding the fluff, there are tens of thousands of real views.

A high school teacher's advanced mathematics course filmed 5 years ago still had hundreds of people watching it late into the night yesterday.

A rural farmer live-streaming this year's spring plowing with his own account can be seen from a first-person perspective by people far away in the capital.

The extremely cheap communication costs and the extremely convenient information acquisition channels, things that people in the past dared not even imagine, together constitute the proper noun for this new era of the Internet—the information explosion.

"The information explosion brought about by the Internet not only provides convenience for disseminating knowledge and sharing life, but one other thing also enjoys this convenience."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe sighed and whispered: "That is 'rumors'."

The Internet is an excellent information-sharing platform, and the platform is neutral. Knowledge is shared here, and rumors are also spread here.

In the past, if a ghost haunted a certain place, it could only cause a temporary sensation in a small area. The original course of events would also be distorted and lost as it was passed on by word of mouth over time, losing its persuasiveness and turning into a story.

But in the Internet age, a post published by someone who allegedly photographed a ghost can still attract hundreds of thousands of netizens to dig up the grave and like it even 20 years later, exclaiming "Damn, awesome, 666."

The education level of today's society is far from reaching the level of 985 per capita. Once rumors spread, there will be no lack of people who truly believe them, especially strange anecdotes involving supernatural powers.

Not to mention the distant ones, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's own grandmother was once scared by a short video on a short video platform that added a Buddha light effect to a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and she immediately offered her mobile phone on the altar, burning incense and kneeling in worship.

"The popularization of the Internet makes the spread of rumors easy, and the difficulty of the government's information blockade on strange events has also risen sharply, especially information and discussions related to strange events that are already very eye-catching. Once published, it is easy to trigger viral spread, and even if someone wants to manage it, they are powerless."

With more people believing in the existence of the strange, the probability of the strange appearing in real life has also increased.

Isn't this a self-fulfilling prophecy of rumors?

But what can the government do? Cut off the Internet and streaming media directly? But the lessons of the past are not far away, and backwardness means being beaten... You ask me why haunting has become more frequent since modern times? Because the Internet age has arrived... Damn, what kind of bullshit theory, it even made me laugh.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head, pried open the two small hands of the sleeping Yin Lishang that were tightly hugging his waist, and bent over to walk out of the tent.

There was no moon tonight, only stars all over the sky, scattered like rice grains on the night plate, shining brightly.

Although the night was beautiful, someone was destined to be unable to sleep tonight, because after walking out of the tent and wanting to find Seeing Lan Shiwen to chat, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe could not find him. After asking the staff in the camp, the answer he got was:

"He went to kill someone."

Kill whom? The one surnamed Liu.

Specifically, it was the elderly man surnamed Liu who had been arranged in the ward next to Yin Lishang and was lingering on by hanging around the Plague God. Through exchanges with Seeing Lan Shiwen's subordinates, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe roughly understood the course of events:

Yesterday, when the fire in Yanglao Village spread to the highway, Seeing Lan Shiwen advocated inviting the Plague God out of Yundu and sending him to Yanglao as soon as possible, hoping to calm the situation, but the children of the elderly man surnamed Liu did not think so.

Anyway, with a monster like Seeing Lan Shiwen who can predict the future, strange events will not easily get out of control; it is nothing more than the expansion of the impact.

If civilians die, they die; it's nothing more than an extra line of numbers in tomorrow's news report. But if Old Man Liu dies, these descendants of their Liu family will lose most of the interpersonal connections accumulated by the old man in his first half of life in the officialdom.

So Old Man Liu's children tried their best to stop Seeing Lan Shiwen from taking the Plague God away and stated that they could be responsible for the corresponding consequences. Let the people suffer, and the Liu family will bear the infamy.

Seeing Lan Shiwen's answer was that I would kill your entire Liu family.

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"Starting from Old Man Liu himself, there are 3,527 people within the five degrees of mourning in the Liu family. Seeing Lan Shiwen decided to kill them all."

"The vast majority of them are innocent. Only a few direct descendants led by Old Man Liu's own children are qualified to come into contact with power, but in Seeing Lan Shiwen's view, this is meaningless."

In the traditional culture of the Han people, there has always been a saying that "disaster does not reach the family."

But in Seeing Lan Shiwen's view, the premise that disaster does not reach the family is that good fortune does not cover the descendants.

Do the in-laws of the Liu family dare to say that they have not enjoyed any special treatment brought by family members at the center of power?

They dare not.

There is no reason in the world to only enjoy without paying. Since the Liu family members have enjoyed the benefits brought by the power held by family members, then when they are liquidated, don't think about shouting that they are innocent.

When the emperor commits a crime, the nine generations are implicated.

When an official commits a crime, the five degrees of mourning are slaughtered.

This is Seeing Lan Shiwen's philosophy, very extreme, very radical. Even if his girlfriend's father personally came forward to dissuade him, it did not shake his decision to kill everyone in the Liu family at all.

Once a Gridder of his level goes crazy, no one can stop him.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought for a while and decided to go for a late-night snack:

"I heard Bai Zhi say before that there are many delicious things in the old city of Yundu..."

(End of chapter)