Splash Damage

"Sea Wave, sea..."

This was a conceptual cue with real-world significance. In this marvelous way, Ronan seized the first fragment with rational meaning from the chaotic intuitive information.

The Electronic Pen paused slightly, then spun around Ronan's fingertips. In the time it took for that turn, beneath the global sensory network, the area of five hundred million square kilometers shrank by a third, while the streams of information supplied by ten billion humans and a hundred billion living creatures were cut off by at least half.

Of course, what remained was still a supermassive amount of information, dazzling and turbid, with no meaningful details that could be described. Yet Ronan's choice still gave it a certain "direction." No longer was it a vast, murky ocean; it began to flow, taking on general tendencies and trajectories.

At this stage, information gathered directly from the Material Layer of reality naturally receded into a supporting role, while subjective information processed through the perceptions and thoughts of humans and other living creatures formed a surging torrent of muddy water.

The muddy current was not flowing east, south, west, or north, nor was it roiling up and down. Instead, following the special dimension of human hearts, it surged forward amid relatively constrained external conditions.

At this stage, too, the rules of the Void Brain system offered Ronan less guidance. The Demon Rune from the depths of the void spontaneously emerged and swam freely through the muddy current of human hearts.

Ronan's brow twitched slightly. Four months ago, no matter how much the Demon Rune hopped around, he would not have frowned. But after discovering the Abyss Sun Wheel, every spontaneous action of the Demon Rune inevitably gave Ronan an extra layer of concern.

Then again, no amount of concern would help. Could Ronan block out