Chapter 25: Psykers and Monsters
After Shen Chong visited the training area, mission area, living area, cultivation area and many other areas open to the outside world, Chen Biao took him to the office of the 33rd Squadron.
On the road, the two of them turned around again, God knows how many rooms they passed through, Shen Chong had a deep understanding of the scale of this underground base, it was definitely bigger than a football field, and it was divided into three floors.
Now the office is empty, with nearly twenty partition desks, each with a monitor, resembling an ordinary office cubicle.
This made Shen Chong very uncomfortable, and the layout here gave him a strong feeling of office worker.
He hadn't felt 9 to 5 in his previous life when he was an ordinary person, so he couldn't have had abilities in this life, and he still lived like this, right?
Next, the two went to the small conference room next to them and chatted briefly for an hour, and Chen Biao and Shen Chong talked a lot about everything.
The two talked about the birth of abilities and monsters, the current current situation, and finally talked about the difference between official members of demon slaying and supernumeraries.
Since ancient times, strange things that ordinary people cannot understand are collectively called demons.
At first, the demon was a general concept, including both the transformation of living beings into anthropomorphic beings after enlightening their minds, and the ability of people to obtain beyond common sense.
Until recent decades, with the development of scientific level, and with the increasing number of demons and demons who have become demons, the research theories on this aspect have finally started from scratch, and gradually comprehensively and systematically refined, and finally reached a universally recognized conclusion.
The reason why people awaken their abilities is because they have a spiritual source born in their bodies.
This spiritual source is formless, colorless, substantial, and weightless, but it is universally recognized as objectively existing in the human body.
A super self-healing ability like Shen Chong's is a kind of external appearance that is born from the urging of the spiritual source.
The human beings with spiritual sources were collectively referred to as psionic beings, not the supernatural ones that Shen Chong thought he had at first.
So far, no two identical sources have been found, just as there are no two identical leaves in the world.
The two spiritual sources may be infinitely similar, but there must be subtle differences.
According to a large amount of collected information, some bigwigs have made a general classification of the psykers in the world according to the way their abilities are manifested.
For the specific classification method and reason, Chen Biao asked Shen Chong to go back and check the information by himself.
Corresponding to humans, the creatures that have opened up their minds, whether they are animals or plants, are collectively called youkai.
Humans are inherently enlightened, and after having a spiritual source, they get abilities, while monsters are slightly different.
Monsters first get a demon element similar to the spirit source but slightly different, and then open the spirit intelligence, and then obtain different natural abilities according to their own species and life trajectory.
The demon element of the monster is similar to the spiritual source of the human being, but the name is different, but the effect is similar.
The abilities brought by the demon yuan are also slightly different, even if they are of the same clan, family, and order, they will not be exactly the same.
Whether it is a psyker or a youkai, there is a difference between innate and acquired.
Congenital refers to those who are born as monsters or psionics, and usually have family and bloodline inheritance, such as the Tianhu clan, or the Chen family where Chen Biao himself is located.
The acquired refers to the fact that there is nothing special about this life when it is first born, but after growing up to a certain age, it happens to encounter something by chance, which stimulates the spirit source or demon element that was originally in an inactive state.
For example, Shen Chong himself came back from the dead after experiencing gas poisoning, even if another soul from a parallel world is now living in this body, the event can be understood as the adventure of "Shen Chong" in essence.
It's a pity that his adventure is too tragic and the price is too heavy.
If the predecessor of the spring has knowledge, he must just want to scold the street, especially I only awaken the ability when I die, and there is an egg!
Of course, it is said that there are people who sneezed and rushed too hard to make their eyes glow, and then awakened the spiritual source.
Whether it is a psionic person or a monster, what level can be reached in the end is often determined by the level of their own understanding, the quality of their talents, the level of cultivation methods, the experience of fighting and fighting, and willpower.
In terms of cultivation alone, monsters are easier than humans.
Monster cultivation demon yuan relies on talent, there is no fixed way, natural growth under the urging of talent, of course, it can also be improved by devouring heavenly treasures or pills, and it can also break through in daily meditation and combat fighting.
On the contrary, human beings still need various methods to strengthen the spiritual source, but if they are allowed to grow naturally, they will not grow much until death.
In ancient times, whether it was the awakening of the spiritual source or the catalysis of the demon element, it was mainly based on the inheritance of the innate bloodline of the family, and it was rarely born.
Because of the scarcity of numbers and the restrictions of the rules in the underworld, even the families of the bloodline inheritance are rarely born to influence the overall situation of the world.
During the flood period in ancient times, when civilization was at the beginning, when mortals lived a life of slash-and-burn farming, there were extremely powerful psionic beings such as Xuanyuan, Shennong, and Chiyou who were active in the world, promoting the evolution of civilization through wars and fighting, driving all ethnic groups to improve their tools, and developing agriculture and animal husbandry.
However, with the prosperity of humanity and the gradual stabilization of the general trend of the world, the bloodline inheritance of psionics and demons has been virtually weakened.
During the Yin Shang period, the Tianhu clan Daji was born against the trend, and it once led to a factional dispute between the psionics and monsters at that time, and the world was in chaos, and the people were killed or injured.
The major psionic forces and demon clans have all suffered great losses because of this, and they have been even more secretive about their birth since then.
In the thousands of years since, although there have been occasional people who have been astonished and brilliant have awakened, due to the spread of the unsystematic cultivation method, these geniuses have no talent but are unable to get started.
For example, Li Bing, Zu Chongzhi, Lu Bu, Yue Fei, or some saints of the Western Regions, these people either have the strongest force in the world for a while, or they have the intelligence to create earth-shattering causes, and they can always show their strength in one way or another far beyond their contemporaries.
But unfortunately, because the spiritual source and the demon yuan are not systematic, and there is no one to guide them, many psionic people may not know that their own strength is actually caused by the spiritual source, but they are only talented.
Of course, there are also people who know that they are different from ordinary people, but they will also choose to lie dormant and keep a low profile for fear of being killed as demons and monsters, and regard it as their biggest secret, and their loved ones dare not tell them frankly.
For example, the reason why Zhuge Wuhou, who was scheming and shocking, chose to be buried in secret, and it is still impossible to verify where he was buried, and the demon slayer unanimously recognized that Zhuge Wuhou was actually a spiritual person who was blessed by the spiritual source in his mind and had a certain ability to predict.
He knew that he was not very human, especially afraid that after his death, he would be dug up and dissected, and the secret in his mind would be discovered, and he would be mistaken for the entire Zhuge clan as a stranger, so he would suffer from the Zhuge clan, so he simply chose a secret burial.
By the way, it also explained why after Wuhou, the Zhuge family no longer had talents.
He obtained the spiritual source for the day after tomorrow, but he failed to cultivate strong enough to form a bloodline inheritance.
In addition, although the two world cultural works are very different, they both have "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" and "Dongtian Collection", and Chen Biao even deliberately mentioned these two books with Shen Chong.
The fox demon mentioned in "Liao Zhai" and the spitting Zhongshan wolf mentioned in "Dongtian Collection" are thought to be stories of gods and monsters or fictional fables, but they think that this should be a small number of enlightened monsters who get the demon yuan the day after tomorrow.
Finally, with the development of the times, humanity has flourished to a considerable extent in recent decades, but the shackles of heavenly punishment that originally shrouded the heads of various inheritance clans and demon clans have gradually weakened, and the number of awakened psionics and monsters has continued to grow slowly.
After a brief period of chaos in the early days, within China, marked by the birth of the demon, chaos quickly returned to order.
The founders of the early days of slaying demons are all human beings with common intentions, and the demons to be slashed are not only monsters, but also the scum of those who do evil.
In the past ten years, more and more good monsters have also chosen to join the demon slayer, on the one hand, to find a safe and steady place to stay, on the other hand, they can also obtain a legal identity and slowly integrate into human society in another way.
With the continuous efforts of slaying demons, what finally appeared in front of Shen Chong was the situation of harmonious coexistence between people and demons in the base.