The researcher sitting upright in the chair seemed to have frozen, his dull eyes staring blankly straight ahead.
This question seemed to have touched upon the cause of his death.
Just as Lin An considered whether to pour in another surge of spiritual energy, the researcher rasped:
"Yes."
"After we first became aware of the Uncanny Valley Effect, we quickly identified zombies as the object of human fear."
"Zombies have appeared repeatedly throughout history, to the point that we deeply fear them at the genetic level."
"They are highly humanoid, yet their behavior is easy for us to identify, and they are widely documented in legends and records around the world."
"After assuming they truly existed,"
"we began researching how to 'prevent' the next possible zombie outbreak. Then an accident occurred."
"The conclusion that people feared zombies was overturned."
As he spoke, Lin An raised an eyebrow.
Prevent?
He seemed to have "seen" how shocked the people of this world had been before realizing the truth behind the previous conclusion.
So shocked that they had begun considering what to do if zombies appeared again.
This place was so similar to reality. He just didn't know whether the real world had done the same.
Had research into Rabies Virus caused the zombie in the fragments of his memories to appear?
"Why was it overturned?"
Without changing expression, Lin An pressed him for an answer.
The revival ability was indeed useful, but being able to obtain information from the dead only through conversation was still too inefficient.
If he could read the other party's thoughts directly, things would surely be much simpler.
"The reason it was overturned was..."
"While researching Ruan Virus, we discovered a new problem."
The researcher answered woodenly, his right hand pointing directly at the display screen:
"Ruan Virus