At nine o'clock in the morning, the first group meeting was held at the Argentario Mountain Base.
Group meetings are the source of all pain in life for graduate students and doctoral students. However, for the entire research organization, such meetings are of great significance.
Each group in a research group has its own research direction, and they are often engaged in different subsystems of the same research project. Each subsystem may be very different, but they are closely related and inseparable.
In this context, it is very important to hold frequent group meetings - everyone can basically keep track of the progress of other team members at all times, and can learn from or take lessons from problems encountered during the scientific research process.
Apart from being ridiculed by the instructor in public for poor progress, and being scorned by the senior brother for poor results, there is basically nothing wrong with it.
Oh yes, and I have to reflect on myself from time to time, "Why did I waste another week without doing anything?"
In the final analysis, whether group meetings are useful or painful mainly depends on personal attitude. If you are a little lazy, then every group meeting will be torture. If you are like Lu Chen, who is holding back his energy and preparing to bring his incompetent mentor to the high position of academician
For those who are ruthless in scientific research, that group meeting has become an arena for them to gear up.
"Mrs. Thomas may not have taken the initiative to become a suicide bomber. This possibility is very small." Lu Chen concluded, "I would venture to speculate that the group of cultists who were directly arrested may not be preparing to carry out suicide attacks. They may just be
It's just a 'preaching activity'."
The way of thinking of cultists is difficult to speculate with normal logic. Lu Chen has a very clear understanding of this - the aunt who patted and bit the administrator's flesh and blood elder sister on the shoulder and said, "You should be happy, you and your man are going to meet again."
...She really believes that.
"We are engaged in research and cannot conduct analysis based on assumptions alone - there must be evidence." Tang Qinglong, who chaired the group meeting, neither affirmed Lu Chen's analysis nor directly rejected his conjecture. "What evidence can support you?"
What about the inference?"
Lu Chen was a little embarrassed by the question. Last night, when he was reading the information, he felt that he might have found an idea - an idea that could eliminate human interference factors and allow the explosion to be regarded as a purely "natural occurrence".
Cultists are also human beings, and of course they will find all strange and unconventional conditions. But unlike modern people who use science to research and analyze, they will attribute everything to God's instructions.
So, will they regard the continuous high fever that even soaking in ice water as some kind of miracle?
Lu Chen originally thought so, but this inference was missing a key piece of evidence.
Why do these cultists regard Mrs. Thomas as a manifestation of a miracle? If the cultists are all physicians, then it is still possible for them to think so when they encounter a patient with a high fever that persists for several days. The cultists...
…They probably don’t care about the rule that “heat should not exceed a certain temperature”.
"Then what characteristics allow these cultists to identify miracles?" Lu Chen's hypothesis aroused Watanabe's curiosity, and he also actively participated in the discussion, "There is nothing too special about the sect that Mrs. Thomas believes in.
.The pope of this sect first proposed the doctrine in order to defraud money. There is nothing special about the content of the doctrine. It is just plagiarism and fusion of the contents of other religions."
"This kind of religion was born because of the emotional emptiness caused by the great collapse." Li Xiaohui added, "Their main slogan and argument is that death is not the end of life. As long as you believe in religion, you can reunite with your loved ones in heaven after death.
."
Lu Chen suddenly lowered his head and started to look for the report he had read. After sifting through the paper materials, Lu Chen took a piece of wrinkled paper and started reading.
"What sect usually shouts the slogan that God will purify the world?" Lu Chen asked while looking at the information, "Before those cultists were arrested, they shouted this slogan in public - I have never been in a cult before.
I’ve seen this sentence in the Christian Identification Manual.”
"In my memory... there is no sect that uses this sentence as its main slogan." Watanabe frowned, "But their slogans change quite quickly, so it's normal to have something different, right?"
"In the past, of course I would have thought this was reasonable." Lu Chen put down the information in his hand and rubbed his head and said, "But now even quantum mechanics has become a way of spreading infectious diseases. A little more deviance can help
Understand."
Yang Weimin raised his head and asked, "So? What did you understand?"
Lu Chen did not answer directly. He took out his mobile phone and asked Baozi to play the scene again that was captured by the medical recorder of Dr. Saval, an infectious disease expert.
[Dr. Salva raised his head and looked at the ceiling, then quickly walked to the wall, opened the panel on the wall, and observed the UV light switch.]
Lu Chen paused the video, looked at the turned-off ultraviolet light, and then turned around and said, "I may know what they mean by 'purifying the world.'"
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At Lu Chen's insistence, Watanabe reapplied to come to Dongyang Special City to get all the surveillance videos that captured the cultists on the day of the explosion. He also started the analysis AI to compare and analyze the images.
"In the surveillance video, are the clothes worn by these analysis targets fading? If so, what is the degree of fading?" Lu Chen asked the analysis AI, "Are there any other changes that can prove that this group of people has been continuously exposed to strong ultraviolet radiation?
?"
It took AI thirty seconds to give the analysis results, "In the twelve videos, there are a total of video key frames that can be used to analyze the color density. Within one hour and forty-two minutes, the color density of the target clothing dropped by 45%. According to the data
According to the analysis, seven residents near the group stay were admitted to the hospital on the same day, and all seven were diagnosed with electro-optical conjunctivitis."
At this stage of AI analysis, even a fool can see that Lu Chen guessed correctly. But even a smart person like Watanabe really can't figure out what Lu Chen guessed.
"The answer actually lies in Dr. Salva's medical recorder video." Lu Chen pointed to the video and said, "As an experienced clinician, Dr. Salva quickly determined that his eyes were burned by ultraviolet rays."<
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"Since he had been indoors all the time before, Dr. Salva directly focused his suspicion on the two wards he had visited before - and the ward where Jeanna was. After confirming that the ultraviolet disinfection lamp in Jeanna's ward was not turned on,
He thinks that the ultraviolet sterilizing lamps may have been turned on by mistake in the two previous rooms." Lu Chen said slowly, "The faded clothes of the cultists and the seven surrounding residents who were diagnosed with electro-optical conjunctivitis together proved this point.
——There was a very strong ultraviolet light source active at that time.”
"Do you think Thomas' wife... she can glow?" Tang Qinglong, who had been listening in, was shocked, "This... the human body heats up, at most it emits a little far-infrared rays and emits short-wave ultraviolet rays? How is this possible?"
"I also think it's unlikely, but there is no other explanation other than this." Lu Chen knocked on the report in front of him and affirmed, "This disease should also have a symptom of 'the patient will release ultraviolet rays'. Those evil spirits
The believers discovered that the clothing and other modern dyed products placed around Mrs. Thomas had obvious fading."
"They did not have the ability to predict the time of the explosion, but through observation, they believed that Mrs. Thomas who was releasing ultraviolet rays was a miracle." Watanabe suddenly realized, "Maybe each of them has electro-optical conjunctivitis, but they thought this was a miracle."
Think of it as the result of crying constantly as you watch the miracle!”
"From this we can believe that at least five of the eight explosions that have occurred so far are interrelated and can be confirmed as 'disease explosions'. The mechanism of the explosion is still unclear, but the rules are as follows - before the explosion, the patient will
Continuous and uncontrollable high fever occurs; the patient releases ultraviolet rays and develops opisthotonus. Approximately 30 seconds after the patient develops skin chapped all over the body, the explosion occurs." Lu Chen nodded, "With these characteristics, I want to
It will be much easier to distinguish and prevent. At least check the fever patients to make sure they are not exposed to ultraviolet light."
Everyone seemed very happy, and this problem that was troubling everyone seemed to have some hope of being solved.
At this time, Mu Zhiran suddenly asked, "Then... what if the patient emits ultraviolet light? Is there any way to help them?"
She looked up at Tang Qinglong and others and asked, "We...can't just single out all these patients and then let them explode away from the crowd, right?"