While Wenren Sheng's family enjoyed the delicacies made from the Supreme Ingredient, its provider was meeting two colleagues atop a high desert hill.
A Wall of Ice, an eye of flame.
Paired with a pig, they complemented each other perfectly.
"Can't you two take human forms when you talk?" Fat Pig complained.
"There is ice and fire among humans too," Fire Eye replied.
The ice said nothing.
"Fine. Do you think that person can bear our hopes?" Fat Pig snorted. "I sacrificed my kidneys and liver just to get this chance to test him."
"He should have seen through the Truth, yet he says nothing, just like us," Wall of Ice suddenly said.
"He says nothing because he knows that merely seeing through the Truth but finding no path forward, then shouting it aloud, would only make those awakened by the noise suffer as he does. Living in dreams and ignorance is happiness," Fire Eye said mildly, with a gaze that seemed to see through everything.
Fat Pig said nothing and merely nodded.
People always thought Disaster Anomaly Principals like them were lofty and evil, but at their level, such simple words could no longer describe them.
Their most fundamental need was existence.
To exist, they had to investigate and eliminate dangers that threatened existence itself.
They had long discovered what truly threatened their own existence.
Yet they had never found a way to solve it.
They could not even discuss it openly, because the moment they spoke of it, they would disappear.
"Enough. How do we deal with Chaos Omniscience? It's still very stubborn. I tried before, and it tortured me badly. I don't want to go through that kind of experiment again." Fat Pig swayed its body, seemingly still shaken by the experience.
"Its stubbornness comes from being