"Yes... it is indeed possible for people with special abilities to transform into realm masters under certain conditions."
The window was open and the curtains were lifted.
In the quiet conference room, the wind became a little noisy.
Under everyone's nervous gaze, Ana Shen walked to the window, grabbed the handle of the window, and closed it firmly.
"The realm masters, realms, and people with special abilities all appeared after the rift appeared."
Shen Yan said slowly: "The realm owner has supernatural powers that can be manifested by spiritual energy, and the same goes for people with special abilities. From this point of view, people with special abilities and realm owners are like two different forms of the same species."
"But there are still obvious differences between the two..."
"What's the difference?"
Hearing this, everyone pricked up their ears. They know that what follows is the key to today's meeting.
"The difference is - erosion!"
"Everyone knows one thing after dealing with the realm master in the past few months, that is, the realm master is releasing spiritual energy through the realm all the time, corroding and assimilating the people who enter the realm. But those with special abilities will not."
Jiang Yingtai frowned and retorted: "Maybe they just have too low a spiritual energy concentration to be able to do this?"
Ana Shen: “It’s not that I can’t, but that I don’t want to.”
Bai Ye raised his head: "How to prove it?"
"This involves what the nature of 'erosion' is. To explain it I need to do a small experiment for everyone."
As Ana Shen spoke, she looked at Professor Qin and asked for permission: "Is it okay?"
Professor Qin smiled and nodded: "Don't worry."
"Everyone, please wait a moment."
Ana Shen recalled what she had read in the old notebook, and walked to the water dispenser in the conference room to get a glass of water.
Under everyone's doubtful eyes, Ana Shen held up a glass filled with water and walked up to Jiang Yingtai.
"Do you think this glass of water is drinkable, Minister Jiang?"
Jiang Yingtai looked up at Ana Shen and frowned slightly. Everyone watched the process of Ana Shen receiving the water, and he didn't do any tricks inside.
Jiang Yingtai also believed that even if he really had evil intentions, he would not be able to blatantly harm himself at this time.
After thinking about it, Jiang Yingtai took the water glass, raised his head and drank it.
Jiang Yingtai handed the empty water glass to Ana Shen: "Drink it, what next?"
Ana Shen didn't say anything. After taking the water glass, he filled it up and came to Jiang Yingtai again.
But this time, he took out a handful of black particles the size of rice grains from his pocket.
"You...why do you carry this thing with you..."
Bai Ye couldn't help but screamed, causing everyone in the conference room to look at her.
Chen Yun was beside Bai Ye, touched her with her elbow, and asked, "What is it? It surprises you so much."
Bai Ye looked at everyone and found that everyone was looking at him, so he could only say reluctantly: "Grey... gray leaf rat's feces... feces..."
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
The gray leaf rat is a type of muskrat and is usually used for research and pharmaceutical purposes, but even so, it is still rat droppings.
Carrying rat droppings with him...doesn't this guy have any special quirks?
Bai Ye was also confused. Shen Yan had asked her to collect some gray leaf rat feces before. She thought it would be used to clean up the realm, but she didn't expect that he actually took it with him and brought it to the conference room.
However, the next scene truly shattered everyone's perceptions.
Shen Yan was seen throwing black mouse droppings the size of rice grains into the water glass, and then shaking it vigorously a few times.
Soon, the clear drinking water was dyed coffee color.
Ana Shen held the water glass without changing his expression and continued to ask Jiang Yingtai: "Does Minister Jiang think this glass of water is still drinkable?"
Jiang Yingtai's face instantly turned green.
What do you mean, let me drink*? Have you *****ed him? !
Jiang Yingtai felt that he had already performed his elegance to the fullest without putting the glass of wine directly on Ana Shen's face!
He suppressed his anger: "What do you mean, Dr. Shen?"
Ana Shen did not reply, but drank the glass of water in his hand amidst the shocked, disgusted, and other indescribable looks of everyone.
Jiang Yingtai was the closest to Ana Shen. He watched helplessly as Ana Shen's throat continued to surge, the brown liquid in the quilt gradually decreased, and his face turned pale.
Ana Shen clicked her tongue: "The taste of instant coffee is indeed not as good as hand-ground coffee."
"Coffee...coffee?"
"What you are drinking is not the feces of the gray leaf rat..."
Everyone looked at him in disbelief, especially Jiang Yingtai, who almost got up from his seat and ran away.
Ana Shen shook his head: "I never said this was the feces of gray leaf rats. This is just a portable instant coffee."
Ana Shen opened his palms to show everyone the black particles in his palms, and said, "Do you want to try it?"
Everyone shook their heads quickly.
Seeing this, Ana Shen smiled.
He looked at everyone with a relaxed expression: "You see, erosion is just that simple."
"What...what do you mean? We were eroded? When did it happen?"
After hearing Ana Shen's words, everyone almost fell into panic.
What's more, people like Chen Yun have already taken out the psychic detector they carry with them and started testing themselves.
"It's awareness."
Professor Qin, who had always been relatively quiet, suddenly spoke up and said: "This is cognitive erosion, or should be said to be 'pollution'."
Ana Shen nodded: "Yes."
He held up the instant coffee grains in his hand and said, "When Bai Ye said 'grey leaf rat excrement', it changed your perception of the coffee grains in my hand."
"Later, a series of my actions caused you to have a disgusting physiological reaction to this misunderstanding. This will leave extremely deep traces in your hearts."
"After that, even if I clarify and tell everyone the truth, you won't have a good impression of it, let alone drink it."
Ana Shen picked up a coffee grain and showed it to everyone: "Because your knowledge of it has been contaminated."
"Actually, this kind of erosion is very common in daily life. For example, if I tell you a story about a ghost under the bed, then when a certain element in my story appears in reality, some people will subconsciously worry about whether there is a ghost under the bed. There really are ghosts. Even if your reason tells you that ghosts don't exist, your subconscious mind will still worry you."
The middle-aged lady in formal attire stroked the frame of the mirror and asked aloud: "Doctor Shen, I roughly understand the erosion you are talking about, but it is still very different from the erosion of the Realm Lord. At least this is the understanding you are talking about. Knowing that pollution will not turn us into monsters.”
Ana Shen smiled and asked: "What if this kind of cognitive pollution can affect reality?"
“Perception affects reality?”
Ana Shen nodded and said seriously: "As a person with special abilities, I can tell you responsibly that the abilities of all people with special abilities are achieved through the transformation of the real world!"
Ana Shen recalled a passage about the rift recorded in the diary.
That was something recorded by 'himself' in another state. He didn't know where this information came from, but the description of the rift should be the closest to the truth.
"That rift in the sky does not directly give us any power, but gives us an additional ability to perceive and interact with the world."
"How to describe it..." Ana Shen thought for a moment and said, "It's like a cat that can only distinguish between blue and green sees a colorful world, or a bat that can only rely on sound waves for positioning has the eyes of an eagle."
"Some people see the world as a sea of fire, so they can easily ignite anything. Others see the world as a twisted maze. If you step casually, you may appear in a strange corner dozens of kilometers away."
"The erosion of the Realm Master is to forcefully inject this upgraded knowledge into the target's body, destroying your original understanding of the world, and twisting your spirit into his appearance."
As Ana Shen finished speaking, the conference room fell into silence again.
Everyone lowered their heads and frowned.
Ana Shen's words almost overturned all their previous guesses about realm owners and ability users.
After a while, Jiang Yingtai seemed to have figured out something and asked, "Then according to what you said, isn't it the same as creating new ability users when the Realm Master erodes others?"
Ana Shen shook his head and said: "It's best not to do this, unless you want to become a lunatic without self-will."
When Jiang Yingtai heard this, he frowned and sat back without saying a word.
Ignoring Jiang Yingtai's reaction, Ana Shen glanced at everyone and continued: "The purpose of telling everyone this is to tell everyone that there is essentially no difference between realm masters and ability users."
"We all have a certain understanding of the world that has been upgraded by chance. The difference is that those who did not resist the reshaping of the world view and fell into madness became realm masters."
"And us normal ability users are fighting against new cognitions every day."
People with abilities, or should they be called awakened ones, are actually on the verge of degenerating into realm masters.
Just imagine, when you wake up one day and find that everything you see is like a burning flame, and a random action of yours can really ignite it, no matter whether it is a person or an object.
I'm afraid many people won't be able to hold on for long and will go crazy.
Throughout the meeting, Professor Qin spoke very rarely. He seemed to have chewed Ana Shen's words over and over again and digested them completely before he came back to his senses.
"It is indeed a brand new angle, and it can be considered a clear explanation of the relationship between realm owners and ability users."
Professor Qin knocked on the table: "Then let's start the voting. Regarding the 'white blood cell plan' proposed by Ana Shen, those who agree raise their hands."
Five of the six people in the meeting, except Shen Yan, raised their hands in unison.
Only Jiang Yingtai was still silent.
Bai Ye glanced at Jiang Yingtai and said, "Five votes are in favor. Even if Minister Jiang votes against it, the white blood cell plan will continue to be implemented."
Jiang Yingtai ignored Bai Ye's words. He just looked at Ana Shen seriously and asked, "Is there a way to stabilize the ability user from this dangerous state?"
"Sorry, not at the moment."
Ana Shen shook his head: "We have gained power that ordinary people cannot have, but at the same time, the world in our eyes is also filled with this power. This may be a certain price."
"I have one last question," Jiang Yingtai looked at Shen Yan and asked dullly: "I want to know, Doctor Shen, what kind of world do you see?"
Ana Shen said nothing.
He raised his head and glanced at everyone. In his sight, everyone's heads were smooth.
Only Jiang Yingtai's head was surrounded by a twisted little boy carved in ice.
