Deep Sea Embers

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 told, Duncan finally figured out how the world has 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 was originally 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" Classification method of ' and 'anomaly'..."

"Is there a way to classify 'abnormalities' and 'visions'? You have already learned this?" Duncan raised his eyebrows, and he 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, recalling what she heard in class and said: "Mr. Morris taught us the simplest way to divide anomalies and visions, which is scale.

"Usually speaking, the scale of the anomaly is small, often limited to an object, 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 innocuous anomalies can even be 'exploited' in specific ways, like tools.

"The scale of the vision is much larger than the anomaly. The smallest vision is as big as a house, and the larger ones can cover the entire city-state, and even bigger than that... so big that it is unimaginable.

"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', so there is the name 'vision'.

"Unlike abnormalities, 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 because Most visions are dangerous, so what people can do is stay away from these dangerous visions, or avoid becoming the effective target of visions through specific methods...

"Fortunately, the most dangerous visions usually don't move. The pioneers helped us identify these dangers, and we can safely keep a distance from them..."

Nina spoke seriously, then seemed to suddenly recall something, and quickly added: "Oh, yes, the old man 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 sum up their experience, there will always be anomalies or anomalies that do not meet the definition suddenly appear, and sometimes anomalies and anomalies are interchanged, and there are also anomalies. It is like being interfered and eliminated by human beings.

"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', which is now sealed in the underground reliquary of the cathedral of the city-state of Lensa..."

Duncan listened intently to what Nina said, his mind was running fast, and at the same time, he concealed the ups and downs in his 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 a treasure house it is:

It is the knowledge accumulated by countless people over countless years, and has been sorted out and integrated into the most suitable structure for learning and absorption. Those books are the most exquisite "nutritional compression package" in the world. With the minimum cost of time and energy, a person who is like a blank sheet of paper can quickly become a part of society.

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

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 must be abnormalities or visions that do not conform to the laws appearing in the world'.

"This law is also known as the 'eternal zeroth' by scholars, and it is ranked first in books and papers in all related fields by default, and people have also proposed the famous 'law of permanent misalignment of anomalies and anomalies' , until today, this law has not been broken..."