Petru indeed didn't sense anything; he simply received a very ordinary coral branch. He stood there in astonishment, staring at the Soul of Fire in his hand.
Su Huilan was the only person besides Situ and Qingmu to have handled all three scepters. She clearly remembered the feeling of holding the scepters in her hands: the Soul of Stone was heavy, as if she were holding a boulder; the Soul of Fire was scorching, like a red-hot branding iron; the lightest was the Soul of Wood in Qingmu's hand, which, apart from a power emanating from it that made her feel taller, was nothing special.
She could also control the island's Mental Power Field through these things, but she was clearly not as adept as Situ and Qingmu, and the range and energy she could control were also very limited. She thought it was because her Mental Power was inherently inferior to theirs, which was nothing to be ashamed of. But now she understood that controlling the Sacred Staff did not entirely depend on strength and skill; it also required certain matching settings, such as genes, if the mind and consciousness also had genes.
"Perhaps it really has found its owner," Su Huilan said.
"Master? You mean... me?" Petru still looked bewildered.
Mrs. Larry said, "In many parts of Northern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea coast, there's a saying that people with red hair are chosen ones, born for a great mission. Scientists haven't been able to find the source of the red hair gene mutation biologically, and I now suspect that this gene comes from this thing in your hand, or from the place you once protected. Perhaps the slight radiation from these strange objects can cause gene mutations, resulting in phenotypic changes, such as red curly hair, or a messy black hairstyle..."
She glanced at Qingmu, and at the bird above his head.
The Crow cawed in dissatisfaction, "Let me correct you, it's not a chicken coop, it's a bird's nest! To be precise, it's a crow's nest. Caw, scientists should be precise when they speak!"
Mrs. Larry smiled, a rare occurrence, and then looked at Situ. She wanted to find something unique about Situ, but suddenly realized that this man was unique in every way, leaving her with nothing to say. If she had to say something, it would be that he was perfect, too perfect! If this were a kind of genetic mutation, then all she could say was that he was incredibly lucky.
Petru snapped out of his daze, accepting the fact that he was the chosen one. He lightly waved the Soul of Fire twice and asked, "How do I use this thing? Wouldn't it be too sturdy to use as a stick?"
Situ said, "It's a pity that the Mental Power Field here seems to be blocked by something, otherwise you could try using the Soul of Fire to control the surrounding Mental Power."
"Why is the Mental Power Field here isolated?" Petru asked.
Su Huilan also found it strange. "Yes, could it be that Mental Power Field cannot penetrate a metal hull?"
Situ shook his head. "Logically speaking, no. I did experiments when I was researching the Tapu Formation. Mental Power is not affected by ordinary matter, but it does interact with electromagnetic fields to some extent, though very weakly."
A sudden thought flashed through Qingmu's mind, but a headache followed. Without thinking too much about it, he said, "Could Earth's Mental Power Field be related to Earth's magnetic field?"
Situ said, "I've thought about that too, but I can't prove it, because Earth's Mental Power Field has long since disappeared, while the magnetic field has always been there. Without the magnetic field, Earth couldn't withstand Sun storms, and life wouldn't exist."
"So you're saying that Earth Mental Power Field once existed? Then what Cohen said is true?" Su Huilan asked.
Situ said, "I can't prove everything either, just like Petru, I can only prove a part. How the Awakeners' Alliance was originally formed is long gone. Everything in the Alliance is not written down, but transmitted only through dreams. The memories of the Awakened are deeply rooted, more reliable than those recorded on a disk. So when World War II ended, the Alliance disbanded, and the last Alliance Chairman Master Nanke, disappeared, the secrets held only by the Alliance leaders naturally Annihilation with it."
He looked at Su Huilan, " Professor Su's father was once Master Nanke's personal attendant. Even he didn't know the origin of the Alliance, so I don't think anyone else would know. As for how this Cohen knows, I have no way of guessing, and that's also suspicious."
"So you didn't know anything?" Su Huilan said. "At that time, you were already the most outstanding Awakened among the younger generation of the Alliance. Master Nanke regarded you as his successor. Didn't he tell you anything?"
Situ was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "I was young then, younger than all of you are now. If you were Master Nanke, would you have told a conceited, arrogant, and somewhat rebellious teenager a secret concerning the fate of the Alliance and even humanity?"
Su Huilan thought for a moment and said, "No."
Situ said, "As you all know, the world experienced tremendous upheaval from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century. It can be said that many revolutionary things emerged during that era. That era was also the most glorious era for science, especially in the field of theoretical physics, where an explosive revolution occurred. The depth and breadth of the revolution were unprecedented, and countless extraordinary figures emerged, shining like brilliant stars in the night sky, dispelling the dark clouds hanging over physics."
Besides the names we are all familiar with, there are some names you may not have heard of, including Master Nanke. Of course, his real-life identity is not Nanke; Nanke is his code name in the Alliance.
At that time, besides the two dark clouds, there was another law that caused despair: the second law of thermodynamics. The heat death theory of the universe, which was born from this law, was highly controversial, but no one could deny it. However, it was too far removed from us, so it did not cause scientists as much panic as the two dark clouds.
Planck and Einstein solved two dark clouds, but the problems of entropy increase and heat death remain. If these problems remain unsolved, it means the universe is doomed, and life is meaningless. According to Boltzmann's theory, we are merely small, thinking beings that randomly appear amidst the fluctuations of entropy. Of course, if Ronald Cohen is telling the truth, then there might be something even larger than us— Gaia!
Many scientists have been studying the heat death theory of the universe. Some oppose it, while others propose that life arose to combat this heat death. In short, everyone wants to understand the meaning of life. Without understanding this, humanity will lose its faith, and life and death will become meaningless.
It was at that time that Master Nanke proposed the Multilayer Dream Entropy Equilibrium Theory.
We now know that the concept of 'information entropy' was proposed by Shannon in 1948. But in fact, as early as the beginning of the 20th century, Master Nanke had already proposed the concept of information entropy, but it was not a hot topic at the time, and he did not publish a paper, so few people knew about it.
Master Nanke visited Bell Labs in the 1940s, and Shannon was also at Bell Labs at that time, so I don't know if they had any exchanges. However, Shannon's concept of information entropy at most borrowed the concept of thermodynamic entropy, while Master Nanke's concept of information as entropy truly treats information as energy.
His Multilayer Dream Entropy Equilibrium Theory posits that human memory is information, which becomes chaotic and difficult to recall over time, eventually leading to complete forgetting. This is the heat death process of information. However, in dreams, the subconscious can organize memories, thus maintaining a low entropy value in our brain and consciousness.
The Crow on the Qingmu suddenly cawed, " Guagua, caw! So you've lost your mind, haven't you!"