Chapter 4: Mana

The baby's time passed quickly, immersed in the fantasy of the self, and in the blink of an eye, six years passed.

Before I was a year old, I was mostly lying in bed or being held, and I could only sort through the knowledge and memories I already had in my head, and of course more often than not, I spent it thinking wildly. Most of them are analyzing this society...... and mana.

It was discovered not long after I was born, and my parents could ingest something in the air many times, even levitating hundreds of pounds of home and stones, or making a cold stove and fireplace instantly heat up to burn.

The two of them possess the ability to manipulate any matter like gods, and they call this ability mana.

What is mana?

I can't understand it, but I can probably connect it to superpowers from memory. In other words, otherworldly power, which even technology cannot do.

After realizing that I had the extraordinary power of mana, I thought I might have traveled to another world, confirming the scientific speculation of a parallel world in the multiverse. But soon I found out that I was wrong, here...... It's still the Earth.

Based on the information I unintentionally revealed from my parents, I summarized and refined it based on my own speculation, and finally came to a conclusion; More than a thousand years have passed since the 21st century, and human beings are still living on the earth, neither extinct nor able to break through the cosmic colonization technology and become a cosmic-level civilization.

Not up or down. Well, maybe it can indeed be described as incomprehensible. In the 21st century, scientists discovered the first case of a new human woman with superpowers, and many years later, the awakening of superpowers gradually spread, and eventually the number of people with superpowers reached 0.3% of the earth's population.

In other words, among the seven or eight billion people on the earth, there are more than 3,000 or even 40 million superpowers, and their power has gradually become stronger, causing great damage to the original social order. Later, the outbreak of superpower crime became the fuse for the subversion of social order, and the superpower divided the world with uncontrollable power, and eventually became the dominant force of the world.

In this future world, scientific and technological civilization has been completely abandoned, and people use mana as the core of production to survive. Everything is done by mana, and humans without mana are not even qualified to survive.

It's a cruel world.

I sighed in my heart, but I wasn't going to do anything about it. What I am praying for is nothing more than an ordinary life, the process from birth to death, which is the desire of a past life and this life.

But is it really that simple?

I began to worry about whether I would be able to successfully awaken the mana, even though the genes of the new humans had been completely changed after a thousand years, and the children born basically had the constitution to awaken the mana. However, there are still children who are unable to awaken the power of mana in each generation, and these children are said to be "disposed of" by the Board of Education, and the purpose and method of dealing with them are not clear.

After all, I have an adult mindset and understand that it is useless to worry about many things, and I can only take one step at a time.

Then I began to wonder about the strange power of mana, and it stands to reason that the meagre calories that humans get from food are not enough to support the movement of mana. However, the reality is that mana can easily drive tons of matter, and the cost to humans is negligible.

This is completely contrary to the law of conservation of matter, and there is absolutely no possibility for the human body to contain such a large amount of energy.

I had no way of knowing what other people were doing on the source of mana energy, so I analyzed several results in my brain.

They are the theory of dark energy, the theory of vacuum zero, the theory of photosynthesis, the theory of material decomposition, and even the theory of nuclear reactions. Actually, there are many more, but I've picked out a few that are more likely.

The theory of dark energy assumes that the mana mobilized by a person comes from dark matter that is unobservable to the naked eye, but may exist. The vacuum zero-point theory is that the brain of the new human has the hypothesis of extracting the vacuum zero-point energy in the universe; Photosynthesis, needless to say, humans do not have chlorophyll, so it is not very reliable.

More important are the theory of material decomposition and nuclear reaction.

The theory of matter decomposition is that some kind of wave is generated in the human brain, which is accepted by the controlled matter, and then the chemical bonds of the matter itself are broken, and the energy is released to complete the movement in the way that the human requirement.

There are two kinds of nuclear reaction theory, one is that human beings have become small nuclear reactors, and the food they eat emit huge energy after the nuclear reaction. Maybe it's fusion, maybe it's fission.

The other is to directly borrow the energy from the extracorporeal nuclear reactor and transmit the energy in some way. The largest ready-made reactor is undoubtedly the sun overhead, which means that humans are borrowing the power of the sun – not the sunlight emitted by the sun, but the energy obtained directly from solar fusion. Obtained through some unknown energy channel, without delay.

In the end, I adopted a synthetic hypothesis, which is the theory of external energy. I believe that the human body does not have the energy to change the state of matter, but mobilizes external energy through some kind of brain waves, and its main sources are varied, perhaps related to the agent. But most of them are from the ** controlled substance ontology.

When a brain wave called mana falls on a substance, the substance itself emits energy, either through a chemical reaction, an electronic transition, or particle annihilation. In short, the energy of mana comes from the specified object itself, and there is a certain amount of energy escape after the mana is activated.

I occasionally get evidence of this from the accidental collision of the mana of the two parents, once the different mana between the two people collides, the mana will radiate a rainbow of colors when it interferes with each other, and the air will also produce visible ripples, which should be caused by the escape of energy to expel the air.

In simple terms, it may be due to the transition of electrons from a higher energy level to a lower energy level that emits photons, thus forming a rainbow of colors. Of course, it is also possible that hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the air combine water molecules to form water vapor, and light is refracted by water vapor to form rainbow colors.

Of course, the annihilation of particles with greater emitting energy will also emit photons, and it is possible to produce a rainbow phenomenon.

All in all, to determine which one it is, you only need to find a dark room and do a two-person experiment to draw conclusions.

So in the first year of my life, I spent all kinds of hypotheses and speculations, and occasionally I would come up with the idea of writing down some plot of a novel. I couldn't do it because it would be horrifying, but I thought I might be able to write a novel when I'm older.

After a year, I was able to start trying to walk, first crawling on all fours and then slowly standing. It's actually very easy, but what is not easy is that adults have to give the impression that "I am practicing, I have learned to walk through practice, this is a normal child".

So it still tested my acting skills, and I think I have a very high acting skills without a teacher.

When you learn to walk, it's a babbling process. Repeat what parents and adults say, whether it's a father, or a mother, or a sister, uncle, or aunt. Then there are tables, chairs, toys, food, water.

I showed a little flair for language, but it didn't get the attention of others. After all, the process by which babies learn to speak varies from person to person, and there is no standard.

At the age of three, I finally got the freedom to go out, but not too far from home. At the same time, parents and adults occasionally tell stories such as children who return late will be tricked into being eaten by cats, children who leave the Bading mark encircled by the rope will be killed by evil spirits, and children with unsociable personalities will accumulate "karma" and eventually degenerate into karmic demons.

It all sounds like a trick used by adults in the 21st world to scare children, but in fact I understand that these stories have a basis for facts, and the actions described in the stories can have very serious consequences.

It is also at this time that I occasionally find that some adults will observe children from a distance, especially those who do not fit in, and children who are irritable, like to fight, and bully others.

One day, one of the children living in the neighborhood disappeared. It was a mischievous child who liked to fight and bully other children, and even snatch things from others. Afterwards, I casually mentioned his name in front of the children with whom I had played, but the children had a very weak impression of him, and almost did not know such a person.

I don't know if this was due to an adult's handling or a child's natural forgetfulness, but the child's disappearance was almost uneventful, and the village remained as calm as stagnant water. This kind of appearance makes my heart a little blocked, not because I am sad about it, but just a feeling of sadness for things and the death of a rabbit and a fox.

After understanding that adults will somehow screen out unqualified children, I began to show my acting skills again, trying to catch up with the neighborhood children's circle, and often playing some games with them to show that I am normal and qualified, and there is no sign of being unsociable and withdrawn.

In this way, I spent another three years and celebrated my sixth birthday since I was born.