Chapter 437: The First Lesson
Yang Jian listened to what Zhang Lei said and, coupled with some of the content of Professor Bai's lecture, roughly understood the intentions of the headquarters.
The emergence of supernatural events was itself abnormal, but as these events continued to occur and more and more people became aware of the existence of ghosts, a reasonable explanation was needed for the entire nation, and even the global community, to alleviate most of their fears. If not to completely overcome the fear, at least to reduce it.
Therefore, a set of arguments that everyone could trust and that had no flaws was needed.
Only in this way would the terror and strangeness of supernatural events be obscured, and the basic global order not collapse.
But to construct a set of lies that everyone could believe, which was undoubtedly a challenge, one could only search from the past, because all people believe in history. Top scholars like Professor Bai aimed to extract portions of this history, then piece them together to form a whole new narrative.
Of course, they also needed to ignore any holes in these stories as much as possible.
Perhaps this narrative would not withstand close scrutiny and consideration, but as long as the propaganda was sufficient, the vast majority of people would come to believe it.
Yang Jian tried to trace back to the past in search of answers but failed, because the answers only existed in the future. As the resurgence of Evil Ghosts continued, the truth would emerge, one revelation at a time, just as today he had learned the truth about the Coffin Nail. Sooner or later, he would understand the truth about ghosts as well. However, he was still quite interested in Professor Bai's unconventional discourse.
Professor Bai continued to lecture from the podium, "Looking at the history of the globe, the term 'ghost' has almost always existed alongside the history of human development. It's just that the name differs slightly in the literature and historical records of various countries. This entity can be called a ghost, a spirit, or an evil spirit, among other such names."