Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Ability, the Ability Core, and the Ability Origin
"What is the path of inquiry, to put it bluntly, is to explore the origin of one's own abilities, and then through one's own understanding, to construct the way to use the ability - that is, the core of the ability." Wang Weiwei said while examining Chen Yi's body.
"Ability origin, ability core?" It is the origin of the ability and the core of the ability, Chen Yi was a little dizzy when he heard it, and Wang Weiwei had to start from the beginning.
"If you want to talk about the origin and core of the ability, you have to start with the ability." Wang Weiwei spoke very cumbersomely, but Chen Yi listened very seriously.
A long time ago, there was a clear and unambiguous definition of what a supernatural person is: a human being who has awakened the origin of supernatural abilities.
There are two key words, the first is human, and the second is the origin of supernatural abilities.
Human beings are the subject of the definition of the Alien, that is, the identity of the human being is the first element of the Alien. Psychologically not considering oneself to be human, or morphologically permanently becoming completely non-human, is considered inhuman. It's not that there are no non-humans in the world who can use their abilities, just within the secret service, there is a cat that can be invisible, if it weren't for the ability fluctuations, Chen Yi wouldn't have been able to find it at all. However, this cat is not a supernatural person, and Wang Weiwei and they call them supernatural creatures. This is not a human chauvin, but a constant reminder to the Anomalous to remain human.
It is not that those who do not have supernatural powers call themselves gods because of their overly inflated self-confidence; It's not that there are people with abilities who have permanently abandoned their human form and become half-human, half-beast because of their abilities. According to statistics, the proportion of those who have lost the ability to self-perceive human identity is more than ten times higher than that of other supernatural beings.
Modern society is not a world full of gunsmoke and war, most of the time, people enjoy peace, and the prosperity and aspects brought by modern technology. This is the same whether it is a supernatural person, a sub-capable person, or an ordinary person. Although there are many people who have lofty ambitions or the ability to kill and decide, they hope that they will be in a world where supernatural abilities and ordinary people are opposed to each other, and they will be stared at with fear and even hatred at any time, and they may even be shot at any time, but there are only a handful of such people.
No matter how chaotic people are, their purpose is to make their lives better, not worse.
Therefore, when defining the supernatural, the identity of human beings has unconsciously become a standard. The cleverness of this criterion is that the bottom line is very basic, and for people who are born human beings, they don't have to do anything at all to achieve this goal; But for those who don't take ordinary humans seriously, it's an invisible hint: although you look down on ordinary humans and treat them as ants, you are just a member of the human race.
At first, no one thought that there would be anything wrong with this kind of definition, and this level of implication was simply not painful for those who had long since lost regard to human beings.
However, as this definition has been promoted, some changes have gradually occurred.
The biggest difference between this kind of thing and science is that its roots do not come from matter, but from thought. In other words, the ability is spiritual. The way an ability works basically depends on what the ability thinks they should be capable of, and the results of the ability tend to drift in that direction.
Moreover, the so-called cognition is not just as simple as superficial cognition, but a deeper level of consciousness. For example, the bright man with tooth decay, although he has always believed that the use of power is to harm life, but what makes him make this perception is the rarity of life, so his ability will not harm health at all.
The conclusion that this cognitive effect on ability is not known at first; The time when people really discovered that the ability still had this trait was during an experiment after the definition of the ability was introduced.
It was when an organization was developing an anomaly weapon called the 'Destruction Cannon for Non-Human Creatures', and a human aderic with pure blood stood on the edge of the weapon's comet's tail, but was also killed, causing a very violent reaction: a conceptual attack weapon that was supposed to be foolproof could be accidentally injured in the case of a hundred trials?
After a long investigation, someone finally reasoned from the personality of this human powerhouse: he is a guy with eyes above the top, and he has always thought that he is superior to humans. The attack on the concept of 'non-human beings' had an effect on him, because in his heart, perhaps he was afraid that he had already left the level of human beings and gone to a higher realm.
It was only then that it was discovered that there was something hidden in the definition of the Adept, which had not been revealed. It wasn't until this time that the ability world had a statement about the core of the ability.
The origin of the supernatural, to use one of the most popular explanations lately, is the projection of the world in the soul of the supernatural. It is precisely because of the projection of the world that it can interfere with the world in turn. Every supernatural must have the origin of supernatural ability in order to be able to interfere with the world, otherwise even if they have talents beyond mortals, they can only interfere with themselves, and they can only be regarded as sub-powerful.
The origin of the ability is currently untouchable except for itself - in other words, it is the eternal forbidden place in the heart of every supernatural. When it comes to Ability Origins, there are only three ways to interfere.
Touch, understand, destroy.
Touch, is to feel what the source of one's ability is, as long as you feel the source of ability, then it is not far from awakening - because the seed of ability that has not yet awakened, and the person who has awakened the ability has the source of ability in the body, and they have also touched the source of ability, only if you have touched your own source of ability, some characteristics of the ability will gradually manifest and be different from ordinary people.
Whether or not the ability is awakened or not, in essence, is only one step behind, and that is the understanding of the origin of the ability. The ultimate goal of understanding is to create a core of supernatural abilities through which to intervene in the world. To use a computer as an analogy, the source of the ability is a computer, and the core of the ability is to make an operating system for the computer by yourself. However, unlike programming, condensing the core of an ability does not necessarily require intelligence.
In fact, almost more than 99% of the abilities of the people, their awakening, did not deliberately analyze and understand the origin of their abilities, but simply used them. Chen Yi was the same at the beginning, but after experiencing the path of conscience, his understanding of his own abilities was more in-depth.
It's also important to note that the core of an ability, in terms of use, is the operating system that rests on the source of the ability; But essentially, it should be the leaves and fruit of the tree of the origin of the ability. That's why, trying to separate the core of an ability compromises the origin of the ability.
The last way to interfere with the origin of the ability is to destroy, to violently interfere with the real world by destroying the projection of the inner world of the soul. Wang Luopu's final self-detonation is to blacken and overload all the abilities and abilities created on the scene through his understanding, so that all the abilities present can pass the virus, and they have to redo the system to be able to return to normal.
This is also why, Chen Yi and the others need to go through the path of asking their hearts and re-understand the origin of their abilities before they can recover their abilities.
Wang Weiwei finished talking about these trivial knowledge, and the examination of Chen Yi was also completed, although she was still very weak, but in all aspects, Chen Yi had recovered.
Since Nuo Nuo went to catch up on sleep, Chen Yi was not in a hurry to find her, but asked about the situation of his comrades who were fighting together.