Chapter 42: Reality Hume

As soon as the site-wide announcement was issued, the system found that its administrator was doing something again.

It read the highly targeted article once, and then grabbed the sofa spot in the comment section with a reaction speed far beyond others, and expressed strong approval of this behavior.

O5-1: "The Administrator is right!"

The people who came a step late were indignant at this.

"Holy, my throne!"

"What about your majesty as an O5?"

"Hey 682. ”

"I don't know what was written, but ...... The administrator is right!"

"One by one, I didn't read the announcement and ran to grab the front row, look at the text, the administrator is very faceless. ”

"How do I think this article is about the future?"

"Nonsense! I haven't even said a word in the future, probably because of the recent TW series submission. ”

"Eh, has anyone written it? The more I looked at the document, the more I didn't dare to write it, I felt like I knew too little. ”

"I'm afraid the administrator is not angry with the post...... In other words, the current submission is reviewed by the administrator himself?"

"Blind student, you have discovered Huadian. ”

"What kind of style does the administrator like? ”

"How can such an inconsequential trifle be done by the sole administrator of our Foundation?Are the O5s all dead?!"

The system that temporarily replaced O5-1 and was responsible for camouflaging other O5s: I'm sorry that "......" is not alive.

The people who poured in were either ridiculed or pursued, and none of the real contributors came forward.

Or maybe you didn't see it?

Anyway, after refreshing the interface dozens of times, Guan Li still didn't get the reply he expected.

- If you want to scare anyone, you can't catch anyone who can scare you.

Let's go to the forums and see if there's anything interesting.

The hot posts that were pinned before were still on top, and in the replies that followed, half of the reminders asked about the progress and half of the people watching the excitement.

Nothing to look at.

The few new posts that have just been posted have raised a number of questions that people are concerned about.

Reality bender's classification......

The classification problem is very simple, and the GOC's playbook contains different stages of reality benders and how to deal with them.

It should be just this future...... Huh? The poster is the future?

Guan Li, who was going to send the file directly, stopped, pondered for half a second, and decided to open the background and recreate an account.

If you use your own administrator account to reply, you will definitely be entangled!

Definitely!

And now that there are more and more people, he can't be too ...... as the "highest authority administrator" and the absolute leader of the foundation Too down-to-earth, right?

O5 is more rigorous and cold than the other, and the higher-level administrators are messing around the forum all day long, blowing water with people, and this style of painting is a little intoxicating no matter how you think about it.

Let's open a trumpet.

The kind that can wave as much as you want.

You don't need to have a high status, just a PhD with A-level clearance, and Level 5 security clearance is barely enough.

And then there's the name –

Divine Wings...... No, divine will.

It was just perfect!

After the account is created, the administrator account has the permission in the background.

Soon, a brand new "Doctor of Divine Will" was released.

Guan Li boarded the trumpet to give people popular science knowledge.

The system has scanned all the submissions that are not too many, and divided them according to their own ideas, just waiting for further confirmation from the administrator.

It silently watched Guan Li's black-box operation to get a trumpet with the top authority, and also took the name of such a middle two.

No wonder they have a common language with 001's secondary two disease.

However, Secondary 2 is not a problem, and the administrator is happy to have fun.

"System, give me the FAQ that says Hume. Just as I was thinking about it, I heard that Guan Li habitually looked for foreign help to ease his workload.

System: "Okay. ”

Guan Li can probably remember some of the concepts and explanations in this part, but they are not very clear.

Popular science, it's better to be as accurate as possible.

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions, called Q&A system in Chinese.

Or more colloquially, this stuff is what is known as an "FAQ".

A lot of Guan Li's knowledge in this area comes from this "FAQ;

So what exactly is Hume?

If you use a search engine to search, you will most likely only be able to find one person's name.

Hume is a famous Scottish agnostic philosopher, economist, and historian, but the Hume index mentioned here has no substantial connection with him.

The Hume Index is the SCP Foundation's own physical unit, a unit that measures the intensity of reality in a given area.

Yes, in the world of the Foundation, reality has intensity.

When the intensity of reality is at the baseline, the world that is represented is similar to the real world of our science.

And the lower the intensity of reality, all kinds of anti-science and anti-logic anomalies begin to emerge.

A better metaphor for how to measure reality is this: Imagine that everything in the universe is covered with a thin layer of sand, which is the basic reality - a unit of Hume.

If this sand is removed somehow, there will be a relatively small amount of sand here, and here the level of reality will drop.

And if you fill in more sand, the reality will be "more".

This explanation is still extremely brief, but at least it can give a visual overview of the content.

So, to use this metaphor, Hume is the unit that measures the amount of sand in an area, you see?

In this sense, reality distortion is the various supernatural phenomena and effects that occur when the Hume index is abnormally reduced.

Those who can change the reality around them by their will are called reality benders.

Reality benders aren't all aware of their abilities, but Hume measurements can clearly distinguish them from the crowd —

First, the reality around these people is generally "less" than normal.

Second, their own personal Hume readings will be higher than normal.

The greater the deviation between oneself and the surrounding reality, the greater the ability of the person to distort reality.

For example, SCP-343-"God" has a very high Hume reading, with an average of 860 after seven different tests.

Another powerful reality bender, SCP-239-Witch Girl, has a staggering 30/500 Hume level in her surroundings.

This means that it can do almost everything within its sphere of influence, almost omnipotent, with the only limit being thinking and imagination.

In the face of such a formidable enemy, the Foundation is not powerless to resist.

One of the most well-known weapons is the Scranton Reality Anchor, or SRA for short.

This mechanism, developed by Dr. Scranton, forcibly stabilizes the Hume index within the range to a single value.

SCP-3001-Red Reality is the prototype of Dr. Scranton and the Reality Anchor.

The working principle of such devices is technical, but we can use the analogy as before: they absorb sand from other, unimportant universes to keep our side stable.

Of course, this act of withdrawing reality from other universes will bring a basket of side effects to those who are unlucky enough to do so.

This includes, but is not limited to: widespread reality collapse, high incidence of anomalous phenomena, increased transparency of reality, increase in temporal non-linearization, ensuing anomalies, partial self-discovery collapses, and a bunch of unexpected items.

There is a theory that the emergence of a large number of anomalies in the Foundation universe is caused by the cascading collapse of reality caused by several universes pumping "sand" from each other.

However, not to mention that this theory cannot be applied to all anomalies, and even if the multiverse does collapse, what can the Foundation do?

Is it possible to turn off SRAs that have been placed in critical locations?

Then the world will definitely be killed by various reality-bending effects first.

So let's keep smoking, and if you can stay for a while, you'll continue to smoke, as for the other universes......

them!

Although the Foundation is at the forefront of saving the world, it is not a virgin.

On the contrary, this group is more ruthless than anyone else.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to survive in such a cruel world.

Speaking of the setting itself, compared to the various superpowers that are common in various supernatural themes and forcibly explained by unknown principles, the reality distortion that has created a physical system and described in detail from the principle of birth to the mode of influence is particularly prominent.

Well, it's a good material for secondary creation.