"From a behavioral logic standpoint, it completely defies biological behavior!"
At this moment, Yu Yuheng stood up and said unceremoniously, "In nature, the primary behavioral logic of any creature is survival and reproduction. Our current research has already discovered a hierarchy among these Dark Creatures, and this hierarchical difference even involves certain command forms. This is enough to suggest that there is some form of communication ability among Dark Creatures, and it doesn’t require [humans] as a medium to propagate."
"Your comparison results are merely based on the periodic death data of the Survivor Caravan. This clearly lacks any reference value. In the current environment, everyone knows that each time a Dark Tide occurs, it’s an immense survival challenge, and the death rate is increasingly high. This is nothing out of the ordinary!"
"But this doesn’t explain the logic of these creatures’ appearances!!" Professor Guo argued with him again in public: "Why, when a single target gets attacked, do they get attacked by different creatures in different areas after escaping? Elementary math taught us to find the invariant in the variables. Humans are the invariant here!"
Yu Yuheng immediately refuted, "The appearances of Dark Creatures are inherently uncertain. It is, in essence, a problem with the darkness, not with the humans. Nobody knows what kind of monsters will appear in the same area after darkness falls."
Yu Yuheng grew increasingly anxious as he spoke, then turned to Lin Xian and said, "Captain Lin, isn’t our encounter at the Trakama Ice Valley the best example? High-level Abnormal Bodies can drive those Snow Demon Snow Demon to besiege us, attracting all the Snow Demons in the surrounding area away. How do you explain this discrepancy with the ’bonfire’ theory?!"
"So you’re implying that encountering an Abnormal Body in the darkness is all up to luck?" Another middle-aged professor from the research group spoke up.
"At the very least, we can’t see the behavior patterns of Dark Creatures during the day. That’s the issue!" someone from the Emperor Group also stood up to say.
Professor Guo tapped his palm with his finger: "The invariant in the variables! The invariant in the variables! Let’s focus on this most fundamental issue and not inflate it!"
"If Dark Creatures can see us during the day and communicate in the darkness, doesn’t that explain it well enough?" Yu Yuheng argued too.
"Oh right, the monster in Yu Bei City called the monster in the Wei River, telling them our support team was going there, so that’s why they were immediately ambushed after entering the night, right?!!" Another elderly member of the research team retorted, unwilling to be outdone.
In no time, the two groups began a heated argument due to a disagreement.
Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan felt bewildered at this scene, and Wei Kexue walked out with a troubled expression, saying to Lin Xian, "They were arguing just now, and they’ve been arguing all night already."
"What are they arguing about?"
Wei Kexue said, "Because the Emperor Group happened to submit their research deductions to Supervisor Zhao, which might change the Xi Lan Phoenix Society’s upcoming action decisions. That’s why this issue suddenly sparked a debate."
Lin Xian asked in confusion, "Why would the Emperor Group interfere with this topic?"
"It’s not interference." Wei Kexue took a deep breath, looking at Lin Xian, "The behavioral logic of Dark Creatures isn’t just a research problem for the Nightwalkers or the Emperor Group. It’s a universal problem for all of humanity. Due to this issue, debates between research groups have been common. Now that Cold Dark Basic Particles have emerged, we all feel we should soon be able to uncover the communication logic of Dark Creatures. So both my teacher’s research group and Group Leader Yu’s team have relevant content in their secret missions this time."
"Simply put, Group Leader Yu’s team believes that my teacher’s ’bonfire’ theory doesn’t hold water at all."
Chen Sixuan watched as the two groups argued ever more fiercely and couldn’t help but say, "Why are they so on edge?"
Wei Kexue said helplessly, "I support my teacher’s theory, but I can actually understand both sides. You participated in the Trakama Ice Valley rescue and should also know that the Emperor Group sacrificed many people this time. They certainly don’t agree that the reason their team suffered mass casualties and besiegement by the Monster Tide was because of ’risks’ left by conducting experiments against S-Class Abnormal Bodies elsewhere."
Hearing this, Lin Xian nodded: "But that’s exactly what happened. From Yaze Lake to the Trakama Ice Valley, all Abnormal Bodies were attracted there, even two giant Abyss Worms. If not for the S-Class Abnormal Body’s marked signal, it would be difficult to find another explanation."
Chen Sixuan frowned slightly: "So you called us overnight, hoping we could provide an answer?"
"Actually, the ’bonfire’ theory really is one of the more counter-intuitive hypotheses among all the mainstream speculations. But by chance, your provided data this time includes very accurate observational data. Our entire team, including my teacher, was very surprised because although his ’bonfire’ theory can be matched with many experimental control group results, the process cannot be observed. Because we don’t know what that ’bonfire’ really is, so even though support for my teacher’s theory is growing, it’s not mainstream and is even called divination science by many, solely outcome-based. After all, the death rate in the Survivor Caravan was already high, and the survival rate of survivors who have experienced S-Class Monsters and Monster Tides is even lower. So some people say his theory is feasting on blood buns..."