Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 46 Anomalies and Visions

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 said, Duncan finally roughly understood what kind of earth-shattering changes had occurred in this world, and also realized that this world was not as weird and dangerous as it is now -

if according to historical records, the world before the Great Annihilation was a prosperous and safe paradise.

At that time, the ocean was not yet an "infinite sea", at that time the limited sea water did not occupy more than 95% of the surface of the world as it does today, and at that time, humans still lived on vast and safe land, and even in the ocean, there were no dangerous visions such as the spiritual world, the depths, 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 will look back at the ancient era when there was no "anomaly" with amazement and incredulity, but for Duncan, the current appearance of the world is completely wrong.

Although the archaeological community has been making efforts in this regard, there have always been great differences between various city-states and ethnic groups regarding ancient history, and no one knows how the so-called Great Annihilation occurred, nor does it know what the main body of that disaster was - huge chaos and fog shrouded the upheaval, and after the fog, It is already the current deep-sea era.

The sea water from nowhere submerged more than 90% of the land, the survivors of the remaining civilization established city-states and fleets on the remaining archipelago and small land masses, and the boundless sea and sea fog brought strange things called "anomalies" and "visions" that still threaten the survival of civilization today.

Nina didn't know that there was a ghost captain from a foreign land in front of her, drawing knowledge from her words, she only thought that this was her uncle testing her homework—her uncle hadn't been in such a good mood for a long time, she only felt happy, and even felt that this moment was particularly precious, because she was worried that at some point Uncle Duncan would become the same person again...... And based on past experience, this is almost inevitable.

As soon as the spirits lose their effect, or the painkillers are consumed, the uncle becomes extremely irritable, irritable, and hysterical.

So before Uncle Duncan fell ill again, she wanted to show him all her progress—perhaps this might make his good mood last a few more days.

“…… Old Mr. Morris, who is very interested in the history of the Cretan kingdom, is an expert in this field, and he told us that although the ancient kingdom of Crete only lasted for a hundred years, it was the first civilization to rise from the ruins after the advent of the deep sea era to fight against anomalies and anomalies, and they used a hundred years of experience to guide most people in the world to this day - the most important of which is their classification of 'anomalies' and 'visions' ......."

"How to classify 'anomalies' and 'visions'? Have you learned this? Duncan raised his eyebrows, and did not forget to guide him in his words.

He had been very concerned since he listened just now, and then he became more and more convinced that in the eyes of ordinary people in this world, those things that were unreasonable should have a strict set of distinctions, some things were called "abnormal", and even numbered, but some other things...... It seems to be called a "vision" separately, rather than being classified as an "anomaly" in general terms as he had in his previous impression.

He had never heard the details of this from Goat's Head on the Lost Homeland before, and now what Nina had learned in school could finally make up for his common sense shortcomings in this area.

Nina nodded, recalling what she heard in class, and said, "Old Mr. Morris taught us the simplest way to divide between anomalies and visions, which is scale.

"Generally speaking, the scale of anomalies is small, often limited to an item, an animal, or even a 'person';

"Most anomalies can be artificially moved, and their scope of influence is limited, many anomalies even affect only one target at the same time, and with a specific method, most anomalies can also be safely sealed or isolated—— Some of these more harmless anomalies can even be 'exploited' in specific ways like tools.

"The scale of the vision is far greater than the abnormal, the smallest vision is as big as a house, and the larger one can cover the entire city-state, or even bigger than that...... It's unimaginably big.

"A considerable part of the visions cannot be moved artificially, they are either fixed in one place, or they are operating according to their own will, and their ability to influence far exceeds that of abnormalities. Normally, visions can affect an infinite number of targets within their range of effect, so much so that they can almost be equated with 'natural phenomena', hence the name 'vision'.

"Follow the differenceSince most visions are dangerous, all people can do is stay away from these dangerous visions, or avoid becoming the effective target of the vision through specific methods......

"Fortunately, the most dangerous visions usually don't move, and the pioneers helped us identify these dangers, and we were able to safely distance ourselves from them......"

Nina said very 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 valid' - anomalies and visions are irrational things, so no matter how people summarize their experiences, there will always be anomalies or visions that do not fit the definition suddenly, and even sometimes anomalies and anomalies will be interchanged, and there are also cases where visions are interfered with and eliminated by manpower.

"For example, in 1830 in the New City-State calendar, there was an anomaly called 'mycelium' that was out of control, and the local church guards banished this out-of-control anomaly to a nearby island at a great cost, and that island was recognized as a vision in 1835, which was later the Fungus Island - but in 1844, the great saint Palatine contained Fungus Island in his urn at the cost of his life, so the vision 'Fungi Island' was delisted in the same year, and it became an 'anomaly' again, known as 'Palatine's Mushroom Bottle', and is now sealed in the underground reliquary of the cathedral in the city-state of Lenza......"

Duncan listened intently to all this that Nina had narrated, his mind racing at a rapid pace, and at the same time hiding the ups and downs in his heart with a calm expression.

In this short breakfast, the information he had collected had exceeded the sum of his past days on the Lost Home!

Establishing communication with the land and setting up an outpost in the surface city-state is indeed the right idea - a civilized society is the summary of most intelligence in the world!

He subconsciously looked at the girl who was still talking in front of him, and he felt quite a bit in his heart.

A civilization that normally develops to the industrial stage will definitely find ways to compress and summarize the basic knowledge of social functioning into its own education system, and it may be difficult for a child living in this system to realize what kind of treasure house the textbooks they come into contact with on a daily basis:

It is the knowledge accumulated by countless people over countless years, and through years of combing and integration, it has become the most suitable structure for learning and absorption.

This is something that even Nina, who usually loves to learn, cannot realize - only Duncan, a "foreigner", can realize how valuable 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 had said in class——

“…… So Mr. Morris told us at the end of the last lesson, he said that people have summarized countless laws in the process of dealing with 'anomalies' and 'visions', but only one law is truly and forever valid, that is, 'no matter how many laws we have summarized, there will definitely be anomalies or visions that do not conform to the laws in the world'.

"This law, also known as the 'eternal zero' by scholars, is ranked at the top of all books and papers in all related fields by default, and the famous 'Law of Perpetual Inaccuracy of Anomalies and Visions' has been proposed accordingly, which has not been broken to this day......"