Until now, no one had informed Mo Qiong about the project.
According to Old Wang, if he was not informed, it meant that he was free to do whatever he wanted. When the project was ready, he would be informed.
After breakfast, everyone went their separate ways. Mo Qiong strolled to the library alone.
With the bracelet, he could borrow three books from here. He could also sit here and read as he pleased.
Mo Qiong looked around and found that this was just an ordinary library for people to read and study. There was no secret information.
After thinking for a while, he walked into the classroom at the side.
In the classroom, a muscular man sat in front of the electronic blackboard. He was reading a book.
Mo Qiong was speechless when he saw the title of the book: The Condor Heroes.
The problem was that he was a foreigner, but he was reading it with great interest.
Mo Qiong looked around the classroom. There was no one else, so he found a seat in the middle and sat down.
Although the foreigner's eyes were fixed on the book, he knew that Mo Qiong had come in. He put down the book and stood up. "You're here, Mo Qiong. I thought you would only come in two days."
"You know me?" Mo Qiong asked. He found that the foreigner's Chinese was very good.
"My name is Andreevich. You can call me Old An. I have to read your information. I remember that you just came yesterday. I thought you would need a few days to get used to it. I didn't expect you to come to class now." The muscular man grinned.
Mo Qiong said, "I have nothing to do anyway. I've been here for a day. There's no research project."
Old An smiled. "How can it be so fast? The professors are very busy. I think they will only have time to take care of you next month."
Mo Qiong was stunned. He had to queue up for the research?
Old An seemed to see his confusion and said, "Limiters won't participate in the test right after they arrive, unless your situation is very urgent. There are too many things that need to be studied here. Things like the effect that doesn't affect our daily lives at all should be put on the back burner. There are too many things that are more urgent, and the professors have more pressing matters to consider. Some of them even involve the lives of tens of thousands of people. There is a limit to human resources. "
"I see." Mo Qiong understood.
After coming in contact with some Limiters, Mo Qiong realized that he was the only one who did not affect his daily life.
His diving ability was only useful in the water. He could not drown. There was no active, diffuse, or distorting effect.
In comparison, the only negative effect of the wooden carving was that the actress still had nightmares every day.
But having nightmares while sleeping was better than sleeping until one year older, right?
Compared to the terrifying haze, the wooden carving was simply too mild.
And this was only the anomaly that had given birth to a limiter. Aside from that, there were also anomalies that were inherently dangerous that needed to be understood.
The urgency of the Deep One effect, from the sound of it, was not even on the list.
"Such gentleness. Doesn't this prove that the Deep One effect is especially applicable to humans? Letting people come into contact with wood carvings is equivalent to humans conquering the sea, "Mo Qiong said.
Old An laughed and shook his head. "You're wrong. If we all had such thoughts, the human race would have been destroyed long ago."
Mo Qiong nodded: "I know, the Deep Ones will be constantly haunted by nightmares, but this can be seen as the price to pay for conquering the sea. A small number of determined individuals will definitely be willing to become such Deep Ones"
Old An shook his head: "It's not just a nightmare, you're underestimating anomalies too much, you know that? There was a Class D personnel with the Deep One effect, but they were killed by the water pressure.
"What?" Mo Qiong was stunned.
"The depth at which the Deep One effect can be applied is related to the depth of the nightmare. If you can dive to a depth of 1000 meters in your nightmare, then you can dive to a depth of 1000 meters in reality. But once you go past that depth, the Deep One effect will suddenly disappear and you'll die on the spot "Old An explained.
Mo Qiong opened his eyes wide. This was something that couldn't be known without trying. Only when someone died like this would they be able to deduce the cause of death.
Old An continued: "If we thought that we could use this to conquer the sea after we obtained α-531, then who knows how many people would have died. But now, this danger has been discovered by a Class D personnel who used their lives to test it out. Only now do we know that it has such a hidden danger. "
"Indeed, if we didn't know, diving to a depth that we've never seen before is the same as suicide. But since we've already tested it out, all we need to do is record the depth. Furthermore, as the nightmares continue to happen, the depth will continue to increase. Once we surpass the depth of Earth's ocean, won't we be able to wander freely in the sea? "Mo Qiong asked.
Old An smiled: "Are you sure it doesn't have any other dangers?"
"…" Mo Qiong was speechless, then suddenly regained his senses.
"I understand now … there are good and bad anomalies in nature, and no one knows how many hidden dangers they have. On the surface, they seem to be beneficial to humanity, but perhaps they're hiding hidden dangers that no one knows about?" Mo Qiong asked.
Old An smiled: "I didn't think you'd figure it out yourself. That's right, humanity's greatest understanding of anomalies is our ignorance of them. "
"All peripheral personnel, including official members, must have the consciousness of being an anomaly. When I teach restricted personnel like you who are willing to become peripheral personnel, I always have to correct a certain mindset: whenever you discover a power that surpasses common sense, you'll always think about how it benefits you. "
Mo Qiong was surprised. Indeed, who wouldn't think that?
The effects of anomalies might be strange, but they were also very powerful. Aside from the ones that were particularly bad, many of them could be directly understood as superpowers.
Old An smiled: "Many people have this mindset. Since the beginning of time, who knows how much damage and influence they've brought to the world"
"Why are anomalies called anomalies? They are unnatural products of the world, we can't use common sense to understand them. There are too many unknowns about them, as well as many hidden dangers. Without them, humanity would still be able to advance, because we could still study the laws of nature. But with them, we would have to identify their characteristics, suppress their dangers, and expend a large amount of effort, manpower, and resources to prepare appropriate containment measures.
"When discovering an anomaly, we must first consider what kind of dangers it might bring to humanity, whether or not it has hidden dangers. Can its power truly benefit humanity? Instead of first thinking about how to use the anomaly's seemingly beneficial characteristics.
"Without correcting this mindset, we can't become peripheral personnel, but to become an official member, we must have a firmer consciousness of being an anomaly.
"Containing anomalies, controlling dangers, and protecting humanity. Even if we do use it, it won't be used for all of humanity, but only under special circumstances, using anomalies to control anomalies.
Mo Qiong took a deep breath and thought about a lot of things.
This was indeed a problem of thinking. Anomalies weren't Daoist spells or magic, nor were they superpowers. They were fundamentally different.
Only by maintaining this mindset would one be able to ensure that using anomalies that were beneficial to humanity wouldn't bring about catastrophic consequences.
First contain them, then find their dangers, then don't stop even if you find one. There are too many unknowns.
Exploring them was only to avoid disaster, it couldn't become a sustainable path for humanity.
"Are there no anomalies that are completely beneficial to humanity?" Mo Qiong asked.
"There are, but there are too few. Furthermore, we need time to test everything, a long period of exploration to confirm. We can't let down our guard against other anomalies just because a few of them are relatively friendly. We've already learned this lesson many times since the founding of our society. Control, the key is control, if we can't guarantee that we can control it, we'd rather not use it at all "old An replied.
Mo Qiong looked at him and silently thought. His own absolute destiny had appeared out of nowhere, so in terms of nature, he himself was an anomaly.
Up until now, he had been trying to control his abilities as much as possible, only knowing what he already knew could be controlled. The reason why he researched [Exploration] was because he didn't want to cause any trouble.
However, he only cared about himself, while the Blue and White Society was responsible for all anomalies.
"Earlier, you said that anomalies have existed since the beginning of time, and that they've caused a lot of damage to the world? Do you have anomalies that can topple the entire world? "Mo Qiong asked. He really wanted to know just how powerful anomalies could be from the Blue and White Society's experience.
Old An was surprised, as no Limiter had ever asked this question before.
He smiled bitterly: "There are over 50 anomalies that can destroy humanity. You should know that anomalies can topple the natural order, with humanity's intelligence, even a nuclear bomb can destroy itself, let alone anomalies"
"10 of them can destroy humanity on their own, some of them we don't even have proper containment measures. I can only say that humanity is still safe up until now"
"What …" Mo Qiong abruptly stood up. He understood what Old An was trying to say, that the human world could be destroyed at any moment due to an anomaly that went out of control.
"You don't need to ask so much, some anomalies only become more terrifying the more people know about them. Even I only know a bit about them, but I don't know the details. As for world-destroying anomalies, I've only seen two that have been processed "Old An told him.
Obviously, he couldn't tell Mo Qiong everything, as he himself only knew about two of them.
"I'm telling you this in hopes that you'll become an outside member and join the containment team. Of course, you can refuse, but if you don't want to, you'll be allowed to return home as soon as your restriction is lifted. You'll become one of our surveillance targets"
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