After hearing what Zhang Lei had said, along with some of Professor Bai's lecture, Yang Jian roughly understood Headquarters' intentions.
The emergence of paranormal incidents was abnormal in itself, but as such incidents kept occurring, more and more people learned that ghosts existed. That required a reasonable explanation for the entire country, even the entire world, to dispel most of the fear in people's hearts. Not necessarily eradicate fear completely, but at least reduce it.
To do that, they needed a set of explanations that everyone could trust and that contained no obvious flaws.
Only then could the terror and strangeness of paranormal incidents be concealed, preventing the basic order of the world from collapsing.
But to fabricate a lie that everyone could believe, they could only search through the history of the past. Everyone trusted history, and the purpose of top literary scholars like Professor Bai was to extract certain materials from that history and piece them together into an entirely new narrative.
Of course, they also had to ignore as many loopholes in the story as possible.
Perhaps this narrative could not withstand close scrutiny or consideration, but with enough publicity, most people would believe it.
Yang Jian had tried to trace the past in search of answers, but he had failed, because the answers existed only in the future. As the revival of vicious ghosts continued, the truth would gradually reveal itself. Just as he had learned the truth about the coffin nail today, he would one day learn the truth about ghosts as well. Still, he was quite interested in Professor Bai's unusual line of reasoning.
Professor Bai continued lecturing from the podium. "Looking over the history of the world, the word 'ghost' has existed alongside the development of human civilization. It is merely called by