MTL - Deep Sea Embers-Chapter 46 anomalies and anomalies
The Great Annihilation was a turning point in all the history of this world and the beginning of what is now called the "Deep Sea Age".
According to what Nina told, Duncan finally roughly understood what the earth-shattering changes had happened in this world, and also realized that the world was not as weird and dangerous as it is today——
According to historical records, the world before the Great Annihilation was a prosperous and safe paradise.
At that time, the ocean was not "the boundless sea". At that time, the limited sea water did not occupy more than 95% of the world's surface as it does today. At that time, human beings lived on vast and safe land, and even In the ocean, there are no dangerous visions such as the spiritual world, the deep, and the warp.
The "Era of Order" recorded in the history books gave Duncan a feeling more like the world he was familiar with-although modern people will look back at that ancient era with no "abnormal" eyes with wonder and wonder, but To Duncan, what the world looks like today is utterly wrong.
There is no detailed explanation of the key event of the "Great Annihilation" in the history books. Although the archaeological community has been making efforts in this regard, great differences between various city-states and various ethnic groups on ancient history have always existed. No one knows the so-called How did the Great Annihilation happen, and I don't know what the body of the disaster was - a huge chaos and fog shrouded the upheaval, and after the fog, it is now the deep sea era.
The sea water that came from nowhere submerged more than 90% of the land, and the survivors of the remaining civilization established city-states and fleets on the remaining islands and small pieces of land. The strange things of "abnormal" and "vision" are still threatening the existence of civilization to this day.
But Nina didn't know that there was a ghost captain from an exotic land who was absorbing knowledge from her words. She only thought that it was her uncle testing her homework. Uncle hadn't been in such a good mood for a long time. She just felt very happy, and even felt that this moment was especially precious, because she was very worried that Uncle Duncan would change back to what he was before... and based on past experience, this is almost inevitable.
As soon as the booze lost its effect, or the painkillers ran out, the uncle would become extra irritable, irritable, and hysterical.
So before Uncle Duncan gets sick again, she wants to show him all her progress - which might keep him in a good mood for another day or two.
"...Mr. Morris is very interested in the history of the Crete Kingdom. He is an expert in this field. He told us that although the ancient Crete Kingdom has only lasted for a hundred years, it is the first time since the advent of the Deep Sea Age. A civilization that has risen from the ruins against anomalies and anomalies, and their experience of a hundred years is still guiding most people in the world to this day - the most important of which is their understanding of 'abnormalities'. ' and 'vision' classification method..."
"What is the classification method of 'abnormal' and 'vision'? You have already learned this?" Duncan raised his eyebrows, not forgetting the guidance in his words.
He has been very concerned since listening to it just now, and now he is more and more convinced that in the eyes of ordinary people in this world, there should be a set of strict distinctions between those unreasonable things, some things are called "abnormal", even There are also numbers, but some other things... seem to be called "visions" individually, instead of being generally classified as "abnormalities" as he had imagined before.
He'd never heard that detail from Goathead on the Homeless before, and now what Nina had learned at school could finally make up for his lack of common sense.
Nina nodded, recalling what she heard in class and said, "Mr. Morris taught us that the easiest way to distinguish between anomalies and visions is scale.
"Usually, anomalies are small in scale, often confined to an item, an animal, or even a 'person';
"Most anomalies can be moved by humans and have a limited range of influence, many affecting only one target at a time, and with specific methods, most anomalies can also be safely sealed or isolated - which Some of the more harmless exceptions can even be 'exploited' in specific ways as tools.
"The scale of the vision is much larger than that of the anomaly. The smallest vision is the size of a house, and the larger one can cover the entire city-state, and even bigger than that... It's unimaginable.
"A considerable number of visions cannot be moved artificially. They are either fixed in one place or run according to their own will, and their influence is far greater than that of anomalies. Usually, visions can affect infinitely within their own effective range. There are so many goals that they can almost be equated with 'natural phenomena', hence the name 'vision'.
"Unlike anomalies, almost all 'visions' cannot be sealed or controlled. They exist in the world like natural phenomena, operate without external interference, and naturally affect all eligible targets within the range. Most visions are dangerous, so the only thing people can do is stay away from these dangerous visions, or use specific methods to prevent themselves from becoming the effective target of the vision...
"Fortunately, the most dangerous visions don't usually move, and the pioneers helped us identify them so we could safely keep our distance..."
Nina spoke seriously, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, and quickly added: "Ah, by the way, the old gentleman also specifically mentioned to us that these judgment methods and characteristics are only 'usually effective'—— Anomalies and anomalies are unreasonable things, so no matter how people summarize their experience, there will always be anomalies or anomalies that do not meet the definition, and even sometimes anomalies and anomalies will be interchanged. Like being interfered with and eliminated by manpower.
"For example, in 1830 of the new city-state calendar, there was an anomaly called 'mycelium' out of control in the city-state of Rensa. The local church guards spent a lot of money to exile this out-of-control anomaly to a nearby island, and That island was identified in 1835 as a visionary, later Fungal Island - but in 1844 the great Saint Palatine took the Fungus Island into his own urn at the cost of his life, and the visionary 'fungus' The island' was delisted in the same year, and it became an 'anomaly' again, known as the 'Palladium's Mushroom Bottle', and is now sealed in the underground reliquary of the cathedral in the city-state of Lensa..."
Duncan listened intently to all of what Nina had to say, his mind racing, and at the same time concealing the ups and downs of his heart with a calm expression.
In this short breakfast, the intelligence he collected has exceeded the sum total of his past days on the Lost Country!
Establishing communication with the land and setting up an outpost in the surface city-state is indeed the correct way of thinking-civilized society is the summary of most information in the world!
He subconsciously looked at the girl who was still talking in front of him, feeling quite enlightened in his heart.
A civilization that normally develops to the industrial stage will definitely try to compress and summarize the basic knowledge of social operation in its own education system. It may be difficult for a child living in this system to realize that the textbooks they come into contact with on weekdays What a treasure trove:
That is the knowledge accumulated by countless people over countless years, and through years of combing and integration into the most suitable structure for learning and absorption, those books build the most exquisite "nutrition compression package" in the world. With the minimum cost of time and energy, a person who is like a blank paper can quickly become a part of the operation of society.
This is something that even Nina, who usually loves learning, can't realize it - only Duncan, a "foreigner", can realize how precious and how easy this knowledge is to absorb.
Nina didn't notice what Duncan was thinking, she just remembered what her venerable history teacher had said in class--
"...So Mr. Morris told us at the end of the last class, he said that in the process of dealing with 'anomalies' and 'visions', people have summed up countless laws, but there is only one law that is true It is always valid, that is 'no matter how many laws we have concluded, there will always be anomalies or visions that do not conform to the laws in the world'.
"This law is also referred to by scholars as the 'permanent rule zero' and is by default ranked at the top of the books and papers in all related fields, and people also put forward the famous 'law of permanent misalignment of anomalies and anomalies' ', until today, this law has not been broken..."
