Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 46

[Chapter 46 Anomalies and Visions]

The Great Annihilation is a turning point in all the history of this world, and it is also the beginning of the so-called “Deep Sea Age”.

According to what Nina said, Duncan finally figured out how the world had undergone tremendous changes, 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 This is a prosperous and safe paradise.

The ocean at that time 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 still lived on vast and safe land, and even In the ocean, there are no dangerous visions such as the spirit world, the abyss, and the subspace.

The “Era of Order” recorded in the history books gave Duncan a feeling more like the world he was familiar with—although modern people would look back at the ancient times when there were no “abnormalities” with surprise and inconceivable eyes, but For Duncan, the world is simply not right the way it is today.

There is no detailed explanation of the key event of “Great Annihilation” in the history books. Although the archaeological community has been making efforts in this regard, there are always great differences between various city-states and various ethnic groups on ancient history. No one knows the so-called How did the Great Annihilation happen, and what was the essence of that disaster? Huge chaos and fog shrouded the upheaval, and after the fog, it was already the age of the deep sea.

The sea water 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 “anomaly” and “vision” are still threatening the existence of civilization.

But Nina didn’t know that there was a ghost captain from a foreign land in front of her who was absorbing knowledge from her words. She only thought it was her uncle testing her homework—it had been a long time since her uncle had such a good mood. She just felt very happy, and even felt that this moment was extremely precious, because she was worried that Uncle Duncan would change back to the way he was before at some point… and based on past experience, it was almost inevitable.

As soon as the hard liquor wears off, or the painkillers run out, my uncle becomes extra irritable, irritable, and hysterical.

So before Uncle Duncan got sick again, she wanted to show him all her progress—maybe it could make his good mood last for another day or two.

“…Mr. Morris is very interested in the history of the Kingdom of Crete. He is an expert in this field. He told us that although the ancient Kingdom of Crete lasted only a hundred years, it was the first time after the advent of the deep sea era. A civilization that stood up from the ruins to fight against anomalies and visions. The experience they have explored for a hundred years is still guiding most people in the world today—the most important thing is their understanding of “abnormalities” The classification method of ‘ and ‘anomaly’…”

“The classification method of ‘abnormal’ and ‘anomaly’? You have already learned this?” Duncan raised his eyebrows, and did not forget to guide in his words.

He had been paying attention to it when he was listening to it just now, and it was only then that he became more and more convinced that in the eyes of ordinary people in this world, there should be a strict distinction between those unreasonable things, some things are called “abnormal”, and even There are also numbers, but some other things… seem to be called “visions” alone, instead of being classified as “abnormalities” in general as he had previously imagined.

He had never heard the details of this from Goat Head on the Lost Country before, and now what Nina learned in school could finally make up for his lack of general knowledge in this area.

Nina nodded, and said while recalling what she heard in class: “Mr. Morris taught us the simplest way to divide anomalies and visions, which is scale.” Generally speaking, anomalies are relatively small in scale

. , often limited to an item, an animal, or even a ‘person’;

“Most anomalies can be moved artificially, and their range of influence is also limited. Many anomalies even only affect one target at a time. With specific methods in hand, most anomalies can also be safely sealed or isolated—among them Some relatively harmless anomalies can even be ‘utilized’ through specific methods like tools.

” The scale of anomalies is much larger than anomalies. The smallest anomalies are as big as a house, while larger ones can cover an entire city-state , even bigger than that…unbelievably big.

“A considerable number of visions cannot be moved artificially. They are either fixed in one place, or they operate according to their own will, and their ability to influence far exceeds that of abnormalities. Usually, visions can affect infinitely within their effective range. There are so many targets that they can almost be equated with ‘natural phenomena’, which is why they are called ‘anomalies’.

” Unlike abnormalities, almost all ‘anomalies’ cannot be sealed or controlled, they are It exists in the world like a natural phenomenon, operates without external interference, and naturally affects all eligible targets within the range, and since most visions are dangerous, all people can do is stay away from these dangerous visions , or prevent yourself from becoming the effective target of visions through specific methods…

“Fortunately, the most dangerous visions usually do not move. The pioneers helped us identify these dangers, and we can safely keep them Distance…”

Nina said seriously, then she seemed to think of something suddenly, and quickly added: “Oh, yes, the old man also specifically mentioned to us, saying that these judgment methods and characteristics are just ‘usually Effective’—anomalies and anomalies are unreasonable things, so no matter how people sum up experience, there will always be anomalies or anomalies that do not meet the definition pop up, and sometimes anomalies and anomalies will be interchanged , There are also situations where visions are interfered and eliminated by manpower.

“For example, in 1830 in the new city-state calendar, there was an out-of-control anomaly called ‘hyphae’ in the city-state of Lunsa. The local church guards exiled this out-of-control anomaly to a nearby island at a high price, and In 1835, that island was recognized as a vision, which was later called Fungi Island—but in 1844, the great saint Palatine took the Fungus Island into his own urn at the cost of his life, so the vision’ fungus Island’ was delisted in the same year, and it became an ‘anomaly’ again, known as the ‘Palatin’s Mushroom Bottle’, and is now sealed in the underground reliquary of the cathedral in the city-state of Lunsa…” Duncan listened intently to

Ni All that Na said, her mind was running fast, and at the same time, she concealed the ups and downs in her heart with a calm expression.

In this short breakfast, the information he collected has already surpassed the sum of all the days he spent on the Lost Home!

Establishing communication with the land and setting up an outpost in the surface city-state is indeed the right idea-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 has normally developed to the industrial stage will definitely find ways to compress the basic knowledge of social operation into 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 a daily basis What kind of treasure trove is it:

it is the knowledge accumulated by countless people over countless years, and after years of sorting out, it has been integrated into the most suitable structure for learning and absorption. What is built in those books is the world’s most exquisite “nutritional compression package”, The purpose is to make a blank sheet of paper quickly become a part of social operation within the minimum cost of time and energy.

This point, even Nina, who loves to learn, can’t realize it—only Duncan, a “outsider”, can realize how precious this knowledge is and how easy it is to absorb.

Nina didn’t notice what Duncan was thinking, she just remembered what her respectable history teacher once said in class——

“…So Mr. Morris told us at the end of the last class. He said that people have summed up countless laws in the process of dealing with ‘abnormalities’ and ‘visions’, but only one law 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 called the “eternal zeroth article” by scholars , was defaulted to the top of all books and papers in related fields, and people also proposed the famous ‘law of permanent misalignment of anomalies and anomalies’. Until today, this law has not been broken…” (End of this

chapter )