Terra Calendar 1590.12.25.

PM 2:40。

Within Iberia.

Universidad Twin Santo de Madrid.

Iberia is home to a number of internationally renowned institutions of higher learning that have significant academic reputations and influences in their respective fields.

Of all the universities, the most famous is the Iberian National Institute, or as it should be called, the Iberian National Union.

The Associated Colleges is a cooperative organization of independent higher education institutions. These organizations are usually established to promote collaboration and resource sharing among member institutions in order to improve the quality of education, expand the scope of research and enhance the overall strength of the institution; The Autonomous University of Madrid, located in the "twin holy capitals" of Iberia, is known as the Imperial Duo and, together with the University of Lisbon, is considered the leader of the entire consortium.

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

The walls are hung with the latest interactive whiteboards, and next to them is a neat row of bookshelves filled with a variety of professional books and reference materials.

Students sit in modern desks and chairs, with pedigree panels and school supplies in front of them, ready to record the main points of the teacher's explanations and discussions.

On the podium, the experienced professor Hanseam Arnaud is using multimedia teaching tools to explain.

Hanseatic Arnaud was an unsmiling, stern-faced professor with a majestic appearance that should not be taken lightly.

Professor Hansea's hair had thinned slightly, and the silver-white strands were neatly combed, with a slight grayish edge, showing signs of age. His eyebrows are thick and angular, and below him are a pair of sharp eyes that reveal a rigorous and deep glow.

These eyes seem to be able to perceive people's hearts, so that the students dare not slack off in front of him.

The students were in awe and fear of the professors on the podium, not only because of the seriousness and unsmiling nature of Professor Hanseatic Arnaud, but also because there seemed to be something else hidden in his words and deeds at times, which always made the interlocutors feel vague fear and disgust.

It's a strange feeling, and if you had to describe it, the students of Iberian universities would use a term to describe the feeling that makes them uncomfortable, and that term is the uncanny valley effect.

The uncanny valley effect is a psychological concept that is primarily used to explain the emotional response of humans to robots or other human-like entities (pseudo-humans), especially when these entities are very similar in appearance and behavior to real humans (but not identical) and people may experience intense feelings of discomfort or terror.

The uncanny valley effect can be explained by a graph: as a non-human entity (such as a robot or humanoid entity) becomes more humanized, the human emotional response to that entity gradually changes from positive to negative.

At some point in this curve, when the entity is very close to a human but still has a significant difference, the human emotional response to it will suddenly fall to the bottom, resulting in negative emotions such as fear and disgust; When the entity's appearance and behavior are close enough to that it is almost indistinguishable from a real person, this negative emotion wanes and the emotional response becomes positive again.

In Terra, as long as it is an effect, it has to be related to the mimavirus or mimatoxin.

The pseudo-human groups suffering from [Odd Hoof], [Ore Disease], and [Alienation] have in some ways distorted the uncanny valley effect, and they have become a special super symbol.

Yes, there is a virus in the pseudo-human group that can make humans so sick that they want to vomit, and even directly nauseate to death on a physiological level - [Uncanny Valley Effect Mimomvirus].

The puppet community is not welcomed in Terra itself, and even if there is no uncanny valley effect, they will be sidelined, and now with the addition of the [uncanny valley effect mimavirus], the situation of the puppet community in Terra is even worse.

And even if the pseudo-humans can eliminate the [uncanny valley effect mimavirus] by injecting the mi-mother vaccine, the gap between them and the normal group is getting deeper and deeper, and this estrangement is as if they can no longer be equated with normal or healthy.

This dark, lurking horror reminds one of some kind of distant, immeasurable chasm, and what is even more strange is that it is very common and haunted among those who meet.

Professor Hanseatic Arnaud gives his students the impression that they feel a strong sense of discomfort or horror, but that does not prevent them from attending his lessons.

Because, here is the Iberian Union, here is the University of Madrid, one of the two holy capitals of the empire, here is the applied thaumaturgical discipline.

Is it strange for a thaumaturgist to use [Uncanny Valley Effect Mimmon Virus] as his [entry] or [mod] component?

This is not surprising!

Is it strange that a professor at a world-renowned institution of higher thaumaturgy uses the Mi mother virus to deter students from attending classes honestly?

This is not surprising!

Therefore, some things that are full of oddities and contradictions are always rationalized in this way, and the basis behind this rationalization is exquisite.

"There was an island on which in 533 were inhabited by some of the Mistus, the Franks, and the Berliners. There were no thaumaturgists, no genealogy networks, no way to send and receive telegrams, and cruise ships to the island only came once every sixty days.

And you must know that at that time, the Youyang plate was still in a situation of competing for hegemony, the rudiments of the alliance had not yet been formed, and many countries in the territory were vying to become the hegemon of Youyang, trying to create a unified country comparable to Oretin and the Daevite Empire.

In September of that year, before the cruise ship arrived on the island, the islanders were still talking about the news in the last issue of the newspaper they had seen that Madame Cailliaud was about to be tried for the shooting of Carmet, editor of the French First Bulletin. So when the ship finally arrived in mid-September, people rushed to the docks in a state of impatience to hear from the captain about how the court would decide the case.

However, they heard the news that in the past six weeks the Wudu and the Franks had allied themselves to wage war against Berlin in accordance with the previous Entente.

In this way, the six weeks have become a bit awkward: the inhabitants of the island still get along like friends, but in reality they have become enemies. ”

In class, Professor Hanseatic Arnaud was lecturing to his students, and one by one Terra syllables were "pumped" out of each other's mouths, yes, like a water pump, obviously not stiff, but giving people a sense of weirdness.

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

This is a lesson in public opinion, this is a lesson in politics, this is a lesson in media communication, this is a lesson in thaumaturgical information······

At this moment, the voice of Professor Hanseatic Arnaud's lecture continues, while the students on the podium are taking their own notes, and the students make different objective records of the same thing in their own notes.

After some people marked it through conspicuous symbols, they wrote down rationally: Mass communication affects people's cognition and behavior - the alliance between Wudu and Fran, and the news of the joint war against Berlin has changed the position of the people on this island, and the three parties who are smiling and happy, because of the spread of information, their positions have changed instantly, and each other has immediately become enemies.

Someone writes from the point of view of the analytical position: they are implicated by a national identity label and objectively become enemies of different camps.

Some people write concisely: information changes cognition.

Some write after thinking about the distance of time and space: the asymmetry of time and space, the difference in identity and status, and the lag of information dissemination.

Some people write after thinking about it from the aspect of public opinion: people are manipulated by information, influenced by public opinion, and the will can change again, as long as the variables are large enough, and the existence of public opinion is large enough, or even enough... Authoritarianism – If authoritarianism covers public opinion, can free will really survive in authoritarianism?

The students pondered, and the professor's hellish joke continued:

Continuing to look at the above examples, the situation of these islanders is much the same as that of most people in the territory of Yuyang, who learned of the start of the war six weeks later than the actual start of the war, and those in the countries were just as "late aware," albeit with a shorter delay, six days or six hours.

Since delays are inevitable, it means that there must be a moment when ordinary people are still going about their daily lives, ignorant of the imminent war that is about to turn their lives upside down, and the environment to which they are trying to adapt no longer exists.

Up to the moment of war, people all over the world were still producing goods that were destined to be impossible to ship, and were still buying goods that were not destined to be imported; Ordinary people are planning their careers, enterprises are planning to become bigger and stronger, the society is full of hope and expectations, and everyone firmly believes that the world in front of them is the original face of the world.

There are also people who paint the world through books and even nascent genealogical networks, and they firmly believe in the picture of the world in their minds.

More than four years later, in the early hours of a Thursday morning, the news of the truce came and people breathed a sigh of relief.

However, when they felt inexplicable comfort from the end of the slaughter, they did not know that thousands of young people had died in the five days before the actual truce. Before that, the end of the war had been celebrated. ”

Professor Hanseatic Arnaud still speaks in terms of neither sadness nor joy, and after a moment of reflection, the students understand what hell the story of Professor Hanseatic Arnaud is.

Real and magical, like a hell's joke.

It's up to them to decide why they fight, why they stop.

The lag effect makes the world confusing.

There will always be information gaps.

Even if the genealogical network is all over Terra, even if today's information is so developed.

Intermediary, information poor, information cost, intellectual property, information property rights, patents, markets, real estate·······

The huge chain of information constructs countless cocoons.

"Our understanding of the environment in which we find ourselves is far from straightforward. Information about the external environment comes more or less quickly, but as long as we recognize that the picture in our minds is true, we will definitely equate the picture with the external environment itself.

It is difficult for us to reflect on the beliefs that have been imposed on our minds and influenced our own behaviour, yet how absurd it is to always self-righteously laugh at the superstitious picture of the world in which people of other peoples or other times have prevailed.

Under the influence of this sense of superiority, we insist that the world that "they" need to know is often at odds with the world that "they" already know. We can also see that when "they" govern the imaginary world, or fight, trade, and change in it, "their" actions may have a real impact on the real world, or they may only be a flash in the pan. ”

Professor Hanseasa Arnaud paused involuntarily when he said this, and for some reason, a strange palpitation began to come from his heart, which was very inexplicable.

Professor Hanseatic Arnaud frowned, the discomfort coming from his body seemed to foreshadow something, and his instincts told him that he should get out of here immediately.

His sudden silence caught the attention of the students, and the academics raised their heads and looked at him with concern.

Xu had been in this body for more than forty years, either because of the watchful eyes of his students, or because he had realized that his true destiny was today.

So, instead of following his inner instincts, he stayed and finished today's lesson.

"Public opinion, poor information, the outside world and the image in the mind, sometimes as the most famous philosophical [cave fable], there is a cave wall between information and the transmission of information, and the people in the cave think that the shadow cast by the fire on the wall is the whole of the world, and when the prisoners in the cave are liberated and look back at the 'truth' composed of torches and puppets behind them, most of them think that the 'truth' is an illusion, and thus refuse to accept the truth."

Knock Knock Knock –

Professor Hanseatic Arnaud felt the sensations coming from his body getting stronger and stronger, and he felt a headache unbearable, and he had a strange feeling that was completely unfamiliar, as if someone else was trying to take possession of the body again.

"......, we live in such an environment that it is easy to take the environment around us or the environment that others want us to know as if it were true; It's like the mimicry environment created by the media in reality, but it is only the information environment they subjectively provide, not the world we really live in, so ...... We can generate false signals about the real world; When our worldview, values, and the world we have formed in our minds have basically taken shape, it is even more difficult to break and change it again. ”

Professor Hanseasa Arnaud used his vocal cords awkwardly, fumbling with syllables and sounding them, and his words seemed very strange and stiff, as if he had learned Terra entirely from books, a stupidity that he had only seen when he had first taken away the real Professor Hanseatic Arnaud, and now he had reappeared.

Knock Knock Knock –

Who's watching, the shadows of the night?

Who is persecuting, the fear in the heart?

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

The "Professor" looked up with difficulty, and saw that the students were looking at him, or rather, behind him, with terrified eyes......

He turned to look back, and then saw the black clergyman's robes, and the amber eyes.

Then he saw an amber moon, swollen like a fungus, and it was sinking in the west.

The amber moon is as psychedelic as a mirror.

Involuntarily, he fell into the maelstrom of nightmares.

Golden shackles, gorgeous cages,

The world is silent, the flames are burning,

Who's cooking me, Silent World?

He looked down at his body in embarrassment, covered in abrasions and blood.

He laughed bitterly.

"This ...... Be...... Lodge...... Destiny ......"

Subsequently.

The flesh and blood of the skin are gradually peeling off,

Even the bones are bare, red and white nude.

"Ahh

The students were dumbfounded, unable to believe what was happening before them.

Blood seeped through cracks in the Professor's body and dripped onto the floor with a gurgling sound.

They stared in disbelief as the black-robed man lifted his head and looked at the students with amber eyes.

Some of the students screamed and tried to flee, but their steps were slow and clumsy, as if they were stuck in fear.

This group of young minds is permanently branded with unspeakable fear. They have witnessed the tearing of the boundaries of human sanity and how the unfathomable darkness swallows up all light.

And this is only the beginning, the bloody terror brought by the first sword-wielder of the heavenly kingdom is spreading throughout Iberia at this moment.

It is the darkness of the miracle on earth, and the whole of Iberia will be enveloped in this bloody terror.

At this moment, a sense of absurdity enveloped the hearts of the students, as if they were in the hell accident that the "professor" had just talked about, dazed and full of fear.