In a modern city indistinguishable from our own, a revival is quietly spreading.
My name is Lin Mo. I am a philosophy graduate with little to show for it, a proofreader at a small publishing house, and an avid reader with an insatiable curiosity.
People generally feel an inexplicable anxiety, emptiness, and information overload, which they blame on the pressures of life.
Cognition is reality: the world's stability depends on a collective unconscious “consensus of perception.” Certain forbidden forms of knowledge, beyond ordinary understanding (“illicit thought”), can shake this consensus and trigger localized distortions of reality.
Fast food culture, fragmented information, and algorithmic filter bubbles have made humanity's overall “cognitive foundations” shallow. Like buildings with weak foundations, people are more vulnerable to the impact of “abnormal cognition.”
“Flesh aberration” is the ultimate manifestation of cognitive collapse in an individual. When someone cannot process the abnormal information they receive, their subconscious understanding of their own body becomes distorted, causing physical hysterical mutations or informational cancers.
And to understand how it all began, we must start here...
It's rare to see a long narrative, the more you read it, the more interesting it becomes, just like an old girl, the older she gets, the mellower she becomes~