Everyone had a desire for perfection; when something was imperfect, they wanted to correct it.
Ronan's thoughts moved back and forth across the "Mirror Image," comparing its different versions against one another. It was more or less like looking into a mirror. The more carefully he inspected and corrected it, the more numerous the detailed discrepancies revealed by the "Mirror Image" became.
That was hardly surprising.
This was an accumulation of the images, emotions, and calculations in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people. Thanks to modern imaging technology, few people would mistake him; at the very least, they had a basic impression of his appearance, ensuring the "Mirror Image" had fundamental recognizability.
Yet beneath those converging outward impressions, everyone held their own understanding of Ronan. As the saying went, different people saw different things—most were fixed impressions shaped by various media, but more or less, they also contained personal opinions.
There was praise, prejudice, vilification... and through modern, convenient channels of information, these impressions were rapidly exchanged, interconnected, influenced, and overwritten.
As a result, the corresponding "accumulated image" became increasingly cumbersome, redundant, complex, contradictory, and, most importantly, distorted. This distortion gave Ronan a fulcrum from which to pry at human hearts, but it was also precisely this distortion that converged upon the "Mirror Image" through the Altar Spiderweb. Its surface appeared calm, yet inside, conflicts and collisions churned endlessly, ready to collapse at any moment.
The reason it had not yet fallen apart was that the "Mirror Image" already contained the basic core Ronan had established.
It was a finished product built upon Format Theory, refined through the Traditional Martial Arts philosophy of Nine Orifices Six Roots, deepened through Coupling Theory, and steeped in Configuration concepts such as the Water Condensation Ring.
With this, Ronan had constructed a