32: Chapter 32: Twelve Ways to Eat Steamed Buns 32: Chapter 32: Twelve Ways to Eat Steamed Buns Taking an overdose of gelsemium elegans could cause tremors, convulsions, breathing difficulties, even fainting, and other symptoms.
During math class, I couldn’t help but spin my pen, my mind wandering, getting startled when the teacher called my name, failing to solve the problem on the blackboard leading to social death, and then returning to my seat to continue dozing off.
Based on the similarities of the symptoms alone, saying knowledge is toxic is not an issue at all.
Yet the knowledge toxicity Nurse Liu mentioned falls under a different category.
According to Wang Yunxiao’s understanding, it’s a special form of an information cocoon.
In simple terms, the information cocoon refers to young people living in the network age, who are swept away by the big data algorithms of the internet.
At first, they can access various types of information, but eventually, all recommended information converges into their most favored categories, which in turn promotes personal opinions to become increasingly narrow and extreme.
In time, they transform into “trolls” and “haters.”
Another form of the information cocoon occurs because the volume of information in the network age is too huge, and individuals have limited capacity to receive information, so they passively accept trending topics without any self-awareness.
In time, this leads to them becoming mindless followers, without any opinions, known as “online gamers.”
Take for example what Nurse Liu just mentioned about the Twelve Laws within the Heavenly Dao and their twenty-four branches.
Wang Yunxiao instinctively understood it right away.
I know this, that’s just the twenty-two sequence engravings on the blasphemy slate, isn’t it?
Which sequence does the pancake sandwich belong to… Sorry, I got it mixed up.
This is a characteristic of a brain contaminated with knowledge, commonly known as “jumbling up knowledge.”
After briefly explaining the “Heavenly Dao,” Nurse Liu moved on to the “Moon Phase.”
“In our real world, there exists a special kind of natural disaster officially referred to as ‘spacetime tides,’ but don’t worry about the official terms, just remember the concept of ‘Moon Phase.'”
Nurse Liu emphasized the word “Moon Phase” by circling it twice: “Remember this rhyme: meat sandwich at the beginning of the month, sandwich meat in the middle.
It means that at the start of each month, when the moon disappears completely, the outer dimension erodes the real world.
And in the middle of the month when the moon is fullest, the real world swallows the outer dimension.
It’s like the tides in the sea, changing constantly with the moon phases.”
Hearing her mention this, Wang Yunxiao suddenly remembered.
The person who threatened him over the phone that day, who seemed to be Xiao Baili, had mentioned that on the fifteenth of each month, at exactly midnight, a door would open in the school, leading to another world.
“The ghoul you encountered in the cafeteria a few days ago was summoned from the outer dimension by someone taking advantage of the moon’s concealment.”
“Everyone heads up, pay attention, this is important!”
Nurse Liu banged on the blackboard.
“The dangers of the outer dimension eroding the real world can be summed up in three ways.
I know you won’t remember them, so I’ll just briefly mention them here; you’ll understand better when you experience them yourself later.”
“The first is the invasion of monsters into the real world.”
“The second type involves twisting the laws of the Real World.”
“The third type is the most dangerous, which is to instill poisonous knowledge into your minds!”
Nurse Liu wrote the word “contagious” on the blackboard.
“Don’t think that only what you hear and see is knowledge.
Some knowledge is like a virus, able to invade your brain without you noticing, twisting your thoughts and cognition.
Chen Yan, for example, is a victim of this.”
“Shen Haowen practiced a type of sorcery.
He not only used sorcery to summon evil ghosts but also controlled Chen Yan’s actions, making her run to your dorm to cause trouble.
Although he has been restrained, Chen Yan has been influenced by the sorcery.
From that day, strange voices and memories began to appear in her mind.
Without proper guidance, it won’t be long before she loses her reason and turns into what we commonly refer to as demons and spirits.”
The mentioned Chen Yan blushed with shame, her head bowed low, wishing she could bury her head in the desk.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t accept the change, but she couldn’t bear the fact that her transformation into a “bad child” was exposed in front of Wang Yunxiao and others.
It felt like the embarrassment of a head monk sneaking out to eat braised pork knuckles and being caught by Lu Zhishen at the restaurant entrance.
“You see, this is how knowledge contamination presents itself.”
Nurse Liu completely disregarded her social death and continued calmly, “Once in this state, it’s very hard to control your thoughts and emotional changes.
You might suddenly find yourself different, out of sync with the world, as if everyone is drunk except you, thinking yourself the luckiest person in the world…
These are the kinds of mental shifts.
But in reality, these are all your illusions.”
She walked over to Chen Yan and sternly said, “Once you calm down, you will realize that the Earth will still rotate without you.
Your classmates won’t mock, fear, or laugh at you over such a trivial matter.”
That might not necessarily be the case…
Wang Yunxiao thought to himself, never underestimate the evil of youth; there were plenty of badly raised brats around.
“Learning theoretical knowledge is good, but it is not as effective as practicing it firsthand.”
Nurse Liu walked back to the podium and looked towards Wang Yunxiao, “Huo Qingyang has already told me about Old Third Ding.
This time, we might as well use him as teaching material to train your practical skills.
But first, we must be clear about one thing—Wang Yunxiao, what is your goal?”
“Is it to protect the school or to eradicate this criminal gang?”
“Do you want to bring them to justice or join them in their wrongdoing?”
“Are you seeking to uncover their secrets or to profit from them?”
“Do you really know what you want?”
Faced with such heart-piercing questioning, Wang Yunxiao paused for a moment before saying soberly, “I will measure my own capabilities.
Maintaining social order is the police’s job; we don’t have such capabilities.
I just hope that my brothers and I have the abilities to protect ourselves and retaliate, to make these street dogs think twice about biting others.
I want to find a stick and knock out their teeth the moment they open their mouths, leaving them with a lifelong memory!”
“That’s a very good idea.
I hope you can keep your original intention and remain consistent,” Nurse Liu said as she lightly clapped her hands, her tone still calm, giving no hint of either approval or sarcasm.
“As for the issue of ghost marriage arrangement, let’s leave it to Chen Yan to decide.
As for the door they are looking for, let them come, and you can go in together then, offering each other some support.”