Extraordinary pedigree

Terra calendar 1590.12.25.

PM 2:40.

in Iberia.

University of Santos Madrid.

There are many internationally renowned institutions of higher learning in Iberia, which have significant academic reputation and influence in their respective fields.

Among all the institutions, the most famous is the Iberian National College, or what should be called its full name - the Iberian National Union College.

A joint institution is a cooperative organization composed of a number of independent higher education institutions. The purpose of these organizations is usually to promote collaboration and resource sharing among member institutions to improve the quality of education, expand the scope of research and enhance the overall strength of the institution; while the Autonomous University of Madrid, located in the "Twin Holy Capitals" of Iberia, Known as the Imperial Duo, it is regarded, together with the University of Lisbon, as the leader of the entire joint institution.

At this time, in a bright and spacious thaumatology classroom at the University of Madrid, sunlight shines through the large windows into the neat classroom, creating a warm and comfortable learning atmosphere.

The latest interactive electronic whiteboard hangs on the wall, and next to it is a neat row of bookshelves filled with various professional books and reference materials.

Students sit on modern desks and chairs, with genealogy projection boards and study supplies placed in front of them, ready to record the teacher's explanations and key points in discussions at any time.

On the podium, the experienced Professor Hansa Arnold is using multimedia teaching tools to explain.

Hansa Arnold is a professor who is unsmiling and has a serious face. His appearance is very majestic, giving people a feeling that he should not be underestimated.

Professor Hansa's hair is slightly thinning, and the silver-white hair is neatly combed, with a slight gray on the edges, showing the traces of time. His eyebrows are thick and angular, and beneath them are a pair of sharp eyes, revealing rigor and depth.

These eyes seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, making the students dare not slack off in front of him.

The students were in awe and fear of the professor on the podium. This was not only because Professor Hansa Arnold was serious and unsmiling, but also because there seemed to be something else hidden in his words and deeds that he sometimes revealed, which always made people laugh. Those who met felt a vague sense of fear and disgust.

It is a very strange feeling. If you have to describe this feeling, then students from Iberian institutions of higher learning will use a proper noun to describe this uncomfortable and abnormal feeling. This proper noun That's it - the uncanny valley effect.

The uncanny valley effect is a psychological concept that is used to explain humans' emotional reactions to robots or other human-like entities (pseudohumans), especially when these entities are very similar (but not identical) in appearance and behavior. ) in real humans, people may have a strong sense of discomfort or terror.

The uncanny valley effect can be explained as a graph: as the degree of humanization of a non-human entity (such as a robot or humanoid entity) increases, the human emotional response to the entity gradually changes from positive to negative.

At a certain point in this curve, when the entity is very close to humans but still significantly different, humans' emotional response to it will suddenly drop to the bottom, producing negative emotions such as fear and disgust; and when the appearance and behavior of the entity are close enough to real people, To the point where it becomes almost indistinguishable, this negative emotion subsides and the emotional response becomes positive again.

But in Terra, as long as it is an effect, it has to be related to the memevirus or memexin.

Those pseudo-human groups suffering from [uncanny hoof disease], [ore disease], and [alienation syndrome] have distorted the uncanny valley effect in some aspects, and they have become a special super symbol.

Yes, there is a virus in the group of pseudo-human beings that can make humans sick to the point of vomiting, or even directly to death on a physical level - [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus].

The pseudo-human group is not welcomed in Terra itself. Even if there is no uncanny valley effect, they will be squeezed out. But now with the [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus], the situation of the pseudo-human group in Terra has changed. It got worse.

And even if the pseudohumans can eliminate the [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus] by injecting the memo vaccine, the gap between them and the normal group is getting deeper and deeper. This gap is as if they can no longer interact with normal or healthy people. The equal sign is drawn.

This dark, insidious thought of terror conjures up thoughts of some distant, immeasurable gulf, and what is even more strange is that this thought is very common and lingering among the interviewers.

This is the feeling that Professor Hansa Arnold gives to his students. The students feel a strong sense of discomfort or terror, but they will not stop taking his class because of this.

Because this is the Iberian Union College, this is the University of Madrid, one of the twin holy capitals of the empire, and this is the discipline of applied thaumatology.

Is it strange for a thaumaturge to use [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus] as his [entry] or [module] component?

This is not surprising!

Is it strange that a professor at a world-renowned institution of higher thaumaturgy uses the Meme virus to intimidate students into attending classes honestly?

This is not surprising!

Therefore, some things that are full of weirdness and contradictions are always rationalized in such weird ways, and the basis behind this rationalization is well researched.

"There was an island on which in 533 there were some Wudu people, Frenchmen and Berliners. There were no thaumaturges, no genealogy network, and no telegraphs could be sent or sent on the island. Every cruise ship that came to this island It only comes once every sixty days.

And you have to know that at that time, the Youyang plate was still in a situation of hegemony among the heroes, and the prototype of the alliance had not yet been formed. Many countries in the territory were vying to become the overlord of Youyang, trying to create an alliance comparable to Oletin and Daeva. The unified country of the empire.

In September of this year, the cruise ship had not yet arrived on the island, and the island residents were still talking about the news in the last newspaper issue they saw about Mrs. Caillaux's upcoming trial for shooting Calmet, the editor of "France's First Gazette". Therefore, when the cruise ship finally arrived in mid-September, people all rushed to the dock impatiently, wanting to hear the captain say how the court would rule on the case.

However, the news they heard was that in the past six weeks, the Wudu and the French had formed an alliance according to the previous agreement to jointly go to war against Berlin.

In this way, these six weeks have become a bit awkward: the residents of the island still get along as friends, but in fact they have become enemies. "

In the classroom, Professor Hanse Arnold was lecturing to his students. One by one, Terra syllables were "pumped" out of each other's mouths. Yes, they were pumped out like a water pump. It was obviously not stiff, but it gave people a sense of joy. A weird feeling.

Now, the professor is giving a compound lesson to the students.

This is a public opinion class, this is a political class, this is a media communication class, this is a thaumaturgy message class...

At this moment, Professor Hansa Arnold's lecture was still continuing, and the students on the podium were each taking notes. The students made different objective records of the same thing in their own notes.

After some people marked it with conspicuous symbols, they wrote rationally: Mass communication affects people's cognition and behavior - the alliance between Fog City and France, and the news of the joint war against Berlin, made the island People's positions have changed, and the three parties, who are all smiling, have instantly changed their positions due to the spread of the message, and each other has immediately become an abyss of enemies.

Someone wrote from the perspective of analyzing their stance: They were implicated in a national identity label and objectively became enemies of different camps.

Some people wrote concisely and comprehensively: Information changes cognition.

Some wrote after thinking about the distance between time and space: the asymmetry between time and space, differences in status, and the lag in information dissemination.

Some wrote after thinking from the perspective of public opinion: People are controlled by information, influenced by public opinion, and will can change again, as long as the variables are large enough, and the existence of public opinion is large enough, or even authoritative enough—— If authoritarianism covers public opinion, can free will really survive under authoritarianism?

The students were thinking, while the professor's allusion like a hell joke continued:

"Looking at the above examples from a macro perspective, the situation of these islanders is similar to that of most people in Youyang - the islanders learned the news of the war six weeks later than the actual time of the war. People in other countries also "know it later", but the delay time is shorter, only six days or six hours.

Since delay is inevitable, it also means that there must be a moment when ordinary people are still going about their daily lives step by step, unaware of the imminent war that is about to upend their lives, and they are trying to adapt to The environment is no more.

Until the moment the war started, people all over the world were still producing goods that were destined to be impossible to ship, and were still buying goods that were destined not to be imported; ordinary people were planning their careers, companies were planning to become bigger and stronger, and society was full of Hope and expectation, everyone firmly believes that the world in front of them is the original appearance of the world.

Others describe the world through books or even nascent genealogy networks, and they firmly believe in the picture of the world in their minds.

More than four years later, on a Thursday morning, news of the armistice came, and people finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, while they felt indescribable relief at the end of the massacre, they did not know that thousands of young people would still die on the battlefield in the five days before the real armistice came. Before that, people had celebrated the end of the war. "

Professor Hansa Arnold still spoke in neither sad nor happy terms, and after the students thought for a moment, they deeply understood how hellish the story described by Professor Hansa Arnold was.

Real and magical, like a joke from hell.

Why they fight and why they stop is not up to them.

The lagging effect makes the world confusing.

There is always an information gap.

Even though the genealogical network spread across Terra, even with so much information available today.

Intermediaries, information differences, information fees, intellectual property rights, information property rights, patents, markets, real estate...

The huge information chain creates countless cocoons.

“Our understanding of the environment in which we find ourselves is far from straightforward. Information about the external environment comes quickly or slowly, but once we recognize that the picture in our mind is real, we will equate that picture with The external environment itself.

It is difficult for us to reflect on the beliefs that have been imposed on our own minds and influence our behaviors, but we always self-righteously laugh at how absurd the superstitious world pictures of other peoples or people of other times are.

Influenced by this sense of superiority, we insist that the world "they" need to know is often very different from the world "they" already know. We can also see that when "they" govern the imaginary world, or carry out struggles, transactions, and changes in it, "their" behavior may have a substantial impact on the real world, or it may just be a mirror image. "

When Professor Hansa Arnold said this, he paused involuntarily. For some reason, he began to feel a strange palpitation in his heart. This kind of palpitation was very inexplicable.

Professor Hansa Arnold frowned, and the discomfort coming from his body seemed to indicate something. His intuition told him that he should leave here immediately.

His sudden silence attracted the attention of the students. The academics raised their heads and stared at him with concern.

Perhaps it was because he had been in this body for almost forty years, or because of the students' gazes, or perhaps he had realized that his true destiny was today.

Therefore, instead of following his inner intuition, he stayed and finished today's lesson.

"Public opinion, information gap, the external world and the image in the mind, sometimes just like the most famous [cave allegory] in philosophy, there is a cave wall between information and the spread of information. People in the cave think that the firelight projected on the wall The shadow is everything in the world. When the prisoners in the cave were liberated and looked back to see clearly the 'truth' composed of torches and puppets behind them, most of them believed that the 'truth' was an illusion and refused to accept the truth."

Dong dong dong——

Professor Hanse Arnold felt that the sensation coming from his body was getting stronger and stronger. He felt an unbearable headache and had a completely unfamiliar and strange feeling, as if someone else was trying to occupy this body again. Thought.

"...We live in such an environment, and it is easy to regard the surrounding environment or the environment that others want us to understand as the real environment; just like the simulated environment created by the media in reality, it is just the information environment they provide subjectively, It is not the world we actually live in, so... we will generate wrong signals for the real world; when our worldview, values, and the world formed in our minds have basically taken shape, it is even more difficult to break and change it again. Difficult things.”

Professor Hansa Arnold used his vocal cords awkwardly, fumbling to pronounce syllables one by one, and his wording also seemed very strange and stiff, as if he had learned Terran entirely from books. This kind of stupidity It felt like he only appeared when he first took over the real Professor Hansa Arnold, and now, he appeared again.

Dong dong dong——

Who is watching, the shadow of the night?

Who is persecuting, the fear in your heart?

The beast has no chains, and free will begins to stir!

The "Professor" raised his head with difficulty and found that the students were looking at him with frightened eyes, or in other words, behind him...

He turned around and looked back, and then saw the black priest's robe and the amber eyes.

Then he saw an amber moon, a bulging moon with a fungus-like color that gradually set in the west.

The amber moon is as psychedelic as the moon in the mirror.

Involuntarily, he fell into a nightmare.

Golden shackles and jade locks, a gorgeous cage,

The world is silent and the fire is burning,

Who is cooking me, this silent world?

He looked down at his body in embarrassment, which was covered with scratches and blood.

He laughed bitterly.

"This...is...fate...fate..."

Subsequently.

The skin and flesh gradually peel off,

Even the bones are exposed, the naked lie of red and white.

"ah--"

The students were stunned and couldn't believe what they were seeing.

Blood seeped out of the cracks in the professor's body and dripped onto the floor, making a gurgling sound.

They looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief, and the man in black priest's robe raised his head and looked at the students with his amber eyes.

Some students screamed and tried to escape, but their steps seemed to be stuck with fear, slow and awkward.

The minds of these young people were permanently imprinted with unspeakable fear. They witnessed the boundaries of human reason being torn apart, and how the unfathomable darkness swallowed up all light.

And this is just the beginning. The bloody terror brought by the number one sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven spreads throughout Iberia at this moment.

This is the darkness brought about by miracles in the world, and the entire Iberia will be shrouded in this bloody terror.

At this moment, a sense of absurdity enveloped the hearts of the students. They seemed to be in the hell accident the "professor" just talked about, ignorant and full of fear.