Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 317 The Church Did It Too

What is the nature of "magic"?
Kraft had some fragmentary and unsystematic preliminary thoughts on this.

In the past, he believed that all abnormal phenomena were abstract, manifestations of the unpredictable side of deep chaos, and that people's poor use of them was like picking up shells on the beach and testing the relatively stable fringe areas. Their own limitations meant that they would never be able to truly understand them.

After personally experiencing how a special abnormal phenomenon occurs, my thinking has become more profound.

Just like the early research on biology, due to limited knowledge, we were often confused by various complex phenomena, dazzled and confused, and finally constructed a set of complex systems out of thin air to piece them together.

But in fact, it can be explained from a mechanical perspective, directly breaking it down into several simple modules:
【Center, signal, effector】

Just like the brain commands the arm to lift, it is achieved by three parts: the motor center, peripheral nerves, and muscles.

The effector is the part that realizes a specific effect. The celestial debris known so far is the most typical one. It achieves a series of effects through oscillating waves that can only be perceived by spiritual bodies, including manipulating biological tissues and level changes.

The specific effects expressed by the effector can be regulated and depend on the signals given by the central nervous system.

The spirit plays a central role in this process and is the source of regulatory signals. Simple directional movement is a signal, and conceptualized pain is also a signal.

But there are also differences between signals. Simply moving the moon debris in a certain direction can achieve the most basic level of depth change, just like artificial electrical stimulation of muscles can produce basic contraction reactions.

To achieve a specific action, the signals required are much more complex. Take the balance reflex as an example. When the body is unbalanced, it will simultaneously command the abdominal and back muscles to adjust the trunk posture, the lower limb muscles to change the leg force, the soles of the feet to grip the ground to provide a fulcrum, and the upper limbs to swing to adjust the center of gravity.

All signals are released in an instant, involving the entire body, and are extremely complicated when examined in detail. The corresponding muscle groups must contract or relax to just the right degree to form a seemingly simple and natural balance reaction.

Just as the human body instinctively mobilizes muscles to maintain balance when in an unbalanced state, the creatures created by the Moon's remains also instinctively want to escape from the present world and return to where they came from. Complex signal instructions are generated in the pain, turning the simple ability of deep change into a complex layer tearing.

This is an innate, natural reaction for it, similar to the human balance reflex.

But it is different for the "pseudo-deep creatures" that are "formed after birth". They cannot even fully integrate the spiritual body, physical body, and lunar remains, and remain at the level of "electrical signals triggering muscle contraction".

Just like when you slip, because there is no innate preset signal coding, you must actively coordinate and send the following instructions: slight contraction of the rectus abdominis and transverse abdominal muscles, contraction of the erector spinae, strong contraction of the quadriceps femoris, slight relaxation of the biceps femoris...

It is basically impossible to organize such a complex signal by yourself.

Even Kraft, who had some insight, only stopped at the technique of actively releasing restrictions when shuttling between the starting levels in order to achieve level confusion within a certain range around the body, and the controllability was very low.

He once suspected that the pagans' deep research was far behind his own. Otherwise, how could someone whose mind was not so clear be able to manipulate the level to express such a special and directional tearing effect.

Now it seems that things are not that complicated. It is just "copying homework", and it is passive copying at that.

The existence active at the bottom of the lake naturally has a tendency to spread its own will and attract aggregation, and the conceptualized pain is transmitted to any consciousness that comes into contact with it as the connection is established.

The efficiency is so high and the binding is so close that it is reminiscent of the transfection ability of certain viruses, which directly introduce foreign gene coding into the host's genome through contact, becoming a part of it and causing the cells to express traits that only pathogens have.

For ordinary minds, it is impossible to truly understand and effectively bear these things. It is nothing more than an unbearable painful experience and the subsequent subtle psychological impact.

For the "acquired deep creatures" that have special spiritual bodies and are embedded in the moon's remains, the missing signal link in the three elements is completed. The following logic is very simple. From a phenomenal point of view, as long as a person who has been implanted in the moon's remains and has a deeply changed spiritual body frequently or closely contacts the existence in the lake, there is a probability that he will gain similar abilities.

Of course, obtaining and controlling are two completely different things.

Most people would lose self-control under the drive of pain, and would uncontrollably impact and tear the real world apart, creating smooth, narrow, messy cutting marks, and finally causing themselves to be misaligned and overlapped with the surrounding physical matter in the disorder of levels.

Before the end of his life, his completely devoured consciousness left the deepest impression in his mind - a series of hexagons rising from the lake bed.

The embedding body then extracts the biomass from the remains and constructs a new organism.

There will always be a few people who survive because of luck or individual characteristics, but that pain will be forever engraved in their spirit.

They were aware of the smallness and crowdedness of the world, and that the celestial body hanging high in the depths was always calling for a part of it there.

Just as Kraft felt now, the claustrophobic feeling, the pain of confinement and compression followed every turning thought.

In the past, these discomforts should have faded away over time after the spiritual senses were disconnected, but this time they no longer subsided after a certain level. Just like the tides that used to rise and fall in an orderly manner, now at least they would submerge the ankles.

This required a certain amount of willpower for him to organize complete logical thinking, and it was also difficult for him to deal with the several gazes fixed on him.

Although it was not very clear, I could tell from their standing postures that the rest of the team members had already formed two lines in front and behind, ready to attack, but due to the width of the ship, they were unable to form an encirclement.

As for why they didn't act immediately, it was probably because on the one hand they had just been rescued, and given the high moral standards of those present who had been taught by God for a long time, they couldn't save face; on the other hand they were not sure whether the professor had the ability to replicate it.

There was no room to dodge in such a small area. Once a conflict broke out, it would likely be impossible to resolve it. The entire team would be destroyed, sinking into the lake and merging with that thing.

Kraft was not much better. He knew very well that even a pistol would not be much faster than a sword at this distance, not to mention that it was a multi-to-one situation.

Green and the monks are by no means the mob they have faced in the past. They have the ability and mental preparation to defeat them even at a heavy price.

I have to immediately come up with a statement that can convince the other party and at least temporarily ease the relationship, but given my current mental state, this is a bit difficult.

Time was limited, so he sorted out a simple idea based on past experience. To illustrate the safety of something, several key points must be reflected: a long history of use, a large number of use cases, examples must be information that both parties agree on, and it is best to think from the other party's perspective.

Fortunately, my memory was still clear, and I submitted the relevant content in time. Without much scrutiny, I organized my chaotic thoughts into sentences and blurted them out:

“The church did it, too.”

Something seemed to be wrong. The atmosphere had relaxed a little, but not in the way I expected.

Among the crowd, there was a particularly sharp gaze coming from Father Green. It was the kind of gaze that seemed like someone wanted to strangle someone to death but had no way to do so.

This month I was assigned to a particularly busy department, and I am also writing bids and processing returned papers. I hope next month will be better.

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