The tent immediately erupted in an uproar.
"Professor... are you saying that the enemy we'll be facing this time..." a hunter asked in a trembling voice, "is a Primal Anomaly?"
"That is highly possible." Professor Li nodded.
"Professor, this isn't funny at all." Another hunter spoke with rapid breaths. "If the enemy really is a Primal Anomaly, we don't stand a chance in this battle... We might as well cut our losses and abandon Shu Province while we still can."
Although not many people in the meeting voiced their agreement, the expressions on everyone's faces made it clear that most did not oppose the suggestion.
"Are there any records in human history of successfully exterminating—or even repelling—a Primal Anomaly?" Sun Hang turned to Yang Qi and asked quietly.
She shook her head. "Forget repelling one. There aren't even any eyewitness records... Primal Anomalies exist only as a 'concept.'"
"A concept?"
"By reverse-calculating memetic frequencies, we can determine that there must be an anomaly possessing the original memes of every anomaly of the same type. That is a Primal Anomaly," Yang Qi explained. "Though we have never seen a Primal Anomaly, we possess extensive evidence proving that it must exist."
"Then what about the Decayed Mother Tree deep within the Amazon rainforest?" Sun Hang continued.
"Even the Anglo-Saxons who once lived across the ocean never saw the Decayed Mother Tree with their own eyes... Humans cannot even approach the area where it resides," Yang Qi said. "It is like a black hole in the universe. It cannot be observed through conventional means, nor can it be contacted by conventional methods, yet nothing around it can ignore its existence... At present, the most reliable detection method is probably to monitor changes in memetic frequencies in distant regions, then infer the approximate location