The first two chapters of Micro-Domain Convergence Basic Guidance were indeed dull. Even Luo Wen could tell that if Lu Chi practiced strictly by the book, he would not last three days before getting restless. But it broke down "external sensory input—main-line capture—noise recovery—secondary calibration" in extreme detail, which truly suited that kid who wanted to pounce the moment he saw something move, giving him a proper foundation.
Chromatographic Meditation Introductory Level was more delicate than he had expected. It did not simply teach people to sit quietly, smell, and observe. Instead, it divided every kind of perception into five steps: "initial encounter, temporary storage, naming, comparison, delayed judgment." It was practically forcing someone like Ning Xiaohe not to rush into slapping labels onto familiar things.
As for Basic Table for Dual-Person Sensory Cross-Calibration, it was so plain it had no tricks at all: observe the same object, record the same matter, one person first describing form and situation, the other then describing layers and nature, before finally exchanging perspectives and writing down what the other had missed. But the plainer it was, the more it showed that it had been ground out of many clumsy methods. That, in turn, made it useful.
After Luo Wen finished reading, he reached out and dragged the files into two separate folders, then casually added a few notes of his own. In the boy's version, he deleted half a page of dry theory from the first two sections of the guidance and changed it to "use it on the road first, then sit down and write." In the girl's version, he separately picked out several "unfamiliar input disruption exercises," preparing to use himself as a sample for her later.
He had only organized half of it when a very soft knock came from