Deep Sea Embers 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 told, Duncan finally roughly understood how the world had undergone tremendous changes, and 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 still lived on a 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 made Duncan feel more like the world he was familiar with - although modern people will look back at the ancient times with no "abnormal" eyes with wonder and wonder Times, but to Duncan, the way the world looks today is downright wrong.

History books do not give a detailed explanation of the key event of the "Great Annihilation". 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, and no one has I know how the so-called Great Annihilation happened, and I don’t know what the actual 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 archipelagos and small pieces of land. Strange things called "anomalies" and "visions" are still threatening the survival of civilization to this day.

Nina didn't know that there was an exotic ghost captain who was absorbing knowledge from her words. She only thought that this was her uncle testing her homework - uncle has not had such a good mood for a long time. Now, she just felt very happy, and even felt that this moment was especially precious, because she was 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 became extra grumpy, irritable, and hysterical.

So before Uncle Duncan gets sick again, she wants to show him 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 lasted only a hundred years, it was in the deep sea age. After the advent, the first civilization to stand up from the ruins to fight against anomalies and visions, they have used the experience they have explored for a hundred years, and they are still guiding most people in the world to this day - the most important of which is them. The classification of 'anomalous' and 'anomaly'..."

"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 he listened to it just now, and only then did he become more convinced that in the eyes of ordinary people in this world, there should be a set of strict distinctions between those unreasonable things, and some things are called "abnormal" ", and even have 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 the details from Goathead on the Homeless before, and now Nina's schooling has finally made up for his lack of common sense.

Nina nodded, recalling what she had heard in class and said, "Mr. Morris taught us that the easiest way to distinguish between anomalies and visions is scale.

"Generally speaking, 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 effects. Many anomalies only affect one target at a time, and with specific methods, most anomalies can also be safely sealed or isolated. - Some of these more innocuous exceptions can even be 'exploited' in specific ways like 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 an entire city-state, or even bigger than that... unimaginably big.

"A considerable part of the 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 the anomalies. Usually, visions are within their own effective range. Can affect an infinite number of targets, so 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 just like natural phenomena, operate without external interference, and naturally affect all eligible targets within the range. , and since most visions are dangerous, the only thing people can do is to stay away from these dangerous visions, or to prevent themselves from becoming the effective target of visions through specific methods...

"Fortunately, the most dangerous visions usually don't move, and the pioneers helped us identify them so we could safely keep our distance from them..."

Nina spoke very seriously, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, and quickly added: "Ah yes, the old gentleman also specifically mentioned to us that these judgment methods and characteristics are only 'usually effective' '—Anomalies and visions are unreasonable things, so no matter how people summarize their experience, there will always be anomalies or visions that do not meet the definition, and sometimes even anomalies and visions will be interchanged. There are also cases where visions are interfered with and eliminated by manpower.

"For example, in 1830 of the New City-State Calendar, there was an out-of-control anomaly called 'mycelium' in the city-state of Rensa, and the local church guards spent a lot of money to exile this out-of-control anomaly to a nearby island On the island, and that island was considered to be promoted to a vision in 1835, which is the fungus island after that - but in 1844, the great saint Palatine contained the fungus island in his own urn at the cost of his life, so the alien Like the 'Fungus Island', it was delisted in the same year, and it became an 'anomaly' again, known as the 'Paladin's Mushroom Bottle', and is now sealed in the underground reliquary of the Cathedral of the city-state of Lensa..."

Duncan listened intently to all of Nina's remarks, his mind racing, while his calm expression concealed the ups and downs of his heart.

In this short breakfast, he has collected more information than he has collected on the Lost Homes for so many days in the past!

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

He subconsciously looked at the girl who was still talking in front of him~IndoMTL.com~ and felt quite enlightened.

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. A child living in this system may find it difficult to realize that they are exposed to the What a treasure trove of textbooks you have arrived:

That is the knowledge accumulated by countless people in countless years, and through years of combing and integration into the most suitable structure for learning and absorption, those books are the most exquisite "nutrition compression package" in the world. It is to ensure that a person like a blank paper can quickly become a part of the operation of society within the minimum cost of time and energy.

This is something that even Nina, who usually loves to learn, can't realize it - 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 venerable history teacher once said in class-

"...So Mr. Morris told us at the end of the last class, he said that people have concluded countless laws in the process of dealing with 'abnormal' and 'vision', but there is only one The law is truly and always valid, that is, 'no matter how many laws we have concluded, there will always be anomalies or anomalies that do not conform to the laws'.

"This law is also called the 'permanent zeroth rule' by scholars, and is ranked at the top of the books and papers in all related fields by default. The quasi-law', until today, this law has not been broken..."


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