Chapter 337 Physics Itself is an Anchor

"oh?!"

A gleam of brilliance flashed in Lin Yi's eyes, and he quickly looked in the direction of Lao Mo.

But at a glance, there was still fog in that direction. The floating fog constantly presented some overlapping shadows as the light and shadow changed, making it difficult to tell whether there were trees or rocks behind, or some completely unknown mysterious things.

There was some golden light in his eyes, and it seemed that "Visual Insight" was about to be used under the drive of instinct, but at this moment, Lao Mo had already pressed his shoulders and knocked him out of the way of Gui Haichao!

"boom--"

Lin Yi's vision suddenly turned white. When he came to his senses, the vast white surroundings slowly disappeared, and his vision gradually became clearer. Coupled with the soft touch and the "rustling" feeling under his feet, he reacted quickly.

"Is this... the Green Belt?"

The environment here is almost the same as that deep in the greenbelt.

Although Lin Yi had never entered the Green Forest Belt in his "real body", he had been there several times in his dreams, so he was not unfamiliar with the environment of the Green Forest Belt.

As Lao Mo pushed aside the dead vines and old trees, he asked, "Have you been here?"

"Never been here... I'm just guessing." Lin Yi shook his head.

Lao Mo nodded slightly. This was not difficult to guess. He pulled away the last handful of weeds in front of him, and a shabby abandoned lamppost was exposed. The red paint number was as shocking as blood. It seemed that it had not faded after so many years.

"Red... red paint?!" Lin Yi was stunned and shocked. His eyes fell on the scarred surface of the lamppost. From the mottled marks, he could vaguely make out the words with numbers. It seemed like, "A lamppost with red paint and numbers?!"

""...Moon Whistle...6...8...?"

"What does this 'Moon Sentinel' mean?"

Lin Yi naturally knew that this was the "Black Moon Outpost", but in order to obtain more information, he had to pretend that he knew nothing about it, so that Lao Mo would not "miss out" any knowledge points when explaining it to him.

Lao Mo said: "The characters are incomplete. The full name should be "Black Moon Outpost". The 68 at the end is a number, which is similar to the number on the lamppost."

He reached out and gently stroked the red paint number, as if he was sensing something, or as if he was recalling something.

"Black Moon Outpost? Red paint number... Lao Mo, this this this this..."

Lin Yi was incoherent, half of him was possessed by the spirit of drama, and the other half was genuinely shocked.

But he never expected that the "signpost" that allowed Lao Mo to leave Gui Haichao would actually be an abandoned lamppost with a red painted number!

“Is this the second stage in the path to the Art Building?”

"'Second stage'?" Hearing this name, Lao Mo was stunned for a moment, and then said, "If you want to understand it this way, it's not impossible."

Lin Yi asked: "As long as we find the red lamp post during the return tide, can we enter the 'second stage'?"

His expression was extremely serious and solemn, just like a good student who was listening attentively in class and couldn't wait to take out a notebook to take notes.

Lao Mo thought for a moment, then said, "Imagine that the entire campus is a large machine driven by countless high-speed gears and belts, and there are two points on two distant surfaces of the machine."

"If we walk around the shell of the machine from the gymnasium to the art building, it will take a lot of time, but if we go through the inside of the machine, we only need to walk a relatively straight distance, which can save a lot of time."

"The biggest danger inside a running machine is the moving parts. If we accidentally touch them, they will be shattered to pieces."

"But these parts are not airtight. During their operation, a lot of space will be left. As long as we can get there within a safe time and move over little by little, we can cross safely... Do you understand?"

After hearing this, Lin Yi pondered for a moment and said, "It's like there are many big pendulums along the way. If we are hit by one, we will die. But when it doesn't swing towards us, we are safe?"

"And there are many big pendulums along the way, so we need to control the 'time' and 'distance'?"

Lao Mo showed a creepy smile: "It's easy to talk to people with good understanding. Look over there..."

He pointed behind Lin Yi, which was the direction they came from.

Lin Yi looked over there, and through the fog, he could vaguely see the path leading back to the sea tide. It seemed like a path spread out in the void. If it weren't for a walking sculpture of a dead person as a reference, he would never have been able to observe it at a glance.

Just at this moment, there seemed to be a very strong wind blowing in the returning sea tide, and the body of the statue of the dead person seemed to be shattered into a lot of flying ashes.

"If we were still on the Return Sea Tide at this time, we would be blown away by this wind. Although it wouldn't kill us, it would be enough to make you and me drink half a pot of water. The most important thing is... it's a waste of time."

Lin Yi asked: "Is this 'high tide'?"

"Yes." Lao Mo said, "Just like breathing, the closer you are, the easier it is to be crushed to pieces. That's why I said that road is difficult to walk on."

While Lao Mo was talking, he seemed to have found some directions through the lamppost of the Black Moon Outpost, so he let go of his hand and said, "Follow me."

The forest was filled with fog and looked extremely dangerous, but after Lao Mo finished speaking, he rushed in without hesitation.

Lin Yi followed in real time, and then asked quietly: "How does that lamp post point the way? How far is the Black Moon Outpost... from the Art Building?"

"There is no such thing as distance." Lao Mo said as he pushed aside the weeds and trees, "'Black Moon Outpost' is the 'Art Building', or rather, it is the name of the predecessor of the Art Building." Although he was prepared, hearing Lao Mo say this still stirred up a lot of waves in his heart.

"The Art Building is actually a sentry post...?"

Lao Mo said, "You'll understand when you see the Art Building. How could that architectural style be built together with the campus in 99?"

"Oh?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. He knew clearly that S City University was established in X999.

Lao Mo continued, "Rather than saying that S City University was established in 99, it is better to say that its construction plan was established in 99. With the suburbs of S City as the surface layer, through the connection between the layers, it radiates and connects many areas... "Black Moon Outpost" is one of the areas, and it is also the most important area."

"Radiate and connect..." Lin Yi pondered.

After a while, as if he had explored the surrounding environment, Lao Mo led Lin Yi back and returned to the lamppost.

Lao Mo loosened his hands from the lamppost, grabbed two messy branches, and slowly moved them closer.

"Look, just like these two branches, the places where I hold my hands represent S City and Black Moon Outpost respectively. These small branches extending out are the 'paths' radiating from each other. The group of architects at the beginning of the school connected the branches that were close and similar on the map level, forming some empty paths on the map level."

Lin Yi looked at the twisted and complicated branches and was shocked: "This... If this is the case, then the Art Building is like the campus, existing on the surface of a city?"

The art building on the inner layer of the campus is the surface of another place?

But for that place, the campus is actually the inner layer?

So that’s why there is the saying of round trip?
For art students, no, weird art students, the campus where the cafeteria is located is actually the inner layer, so it is very dangerous to eat in the inner layer. Conversely, for them, the sports students and security guards living in the inner layer are the real terrifying beasts?

The so-called definitions of "safety" and "danger" all form different relative effects based on their own positioning!
Lao Mo was very satisfied with Lin Yi's understanding, so he explained: "Indeed, and the location of the Black Moon Outpost is not within the Chinese territory."

"You will see the Art Building in a moment. Its exterior is a castle with a very strong Gothic style. As you know, there are no castles in China."

"Even later architects, when building other 'dark areas' within the territory of China, tried their best to follow the local Chinese architectural style, especially the Tang Dynasty style."

"The Black Moon Outpost was originally located near the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, on a coastline in the area of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden... There is even a saying that the area originated from Greenland."

"Only archaeologists know about things that are too far away. I am not very clear about it. Anyway, the first batch of scholars or other people discovered traces of extraordinary power, and then they spent a lot of manpower and resources to build a castle in order to observe this fluctuation."

"Then as time went on, they also realized that 'pollution' was far more destructive to society and the world than plasticity, so in order to prevent that kind of fluctuation from causing a greater impact, they established the initial observation and defense fortifications... that is, the 'outposts'."

"This is the origin of the word 'outpost' in 'Black Moon Outpost', and the group of people who established the Black Moon Outpost also called themselves 'Apostles'."

"Since then, in the unknown history of the world, there have been a large number of people who have studied supernatural powers, as well as a group of people who have tried to prevent the spread of supernatural powers and thus limit the development of world civilization to a relatively 'stable' 'layer'."

"That group of people had many names, and as history progressed, they were still active in civilizations and legends around the world... For example, 'alchemists', 'qi-refining practitioners', 'priests', 'wizards'..."

"Of course, the most active group of people at present are called 'physicists'."

Lin Yi staggered: "No, Lao Mo, wait a minute... Physics?! What does this have to do with physics?!"

Lao Mo twitched his facial muscles with a forced smile: "Do you know what 'physics' is?"

"Uh... Now that you ask me that, I'm a little confused about what to say. Physics seems to be a discipline that studies the laws of motion and the basic structure of matter, and then explores the laws of nature and analyzes its phenomena, exploring and analyzing the causes and processes of its formation... right?"

"Discover, observe, explore, summarize... and compile them into systematic theoretical knowledge, and even apply their laws to life." Lao Mo said, "Is there any difference between this and what those 'Apostles' did to the 'supernatural power'?"

"Huh...?" Lin Yi was confused and could only shake his head slightly, signaling Lao Mo to continue "lecturing".

Lao Mo said: "The so-called physics is actually an entire anchor point in itself."

"The 'Apostles' were never able to break through the mysterious map unfolded by the veins of extraordinary power, so they summarized the limited rules into widely known 'laws' and spread them as 'physics'..."

"Just like the students anchoring themselves based on their student ID cards... this world is a broken cage, already riddled with holes due to the erosion of supernatural power."

"The outside world is like a larger S City University. All those who have received this physics education are people holding student ID cards. They use the anchor of 'physics' to anchor this world in a relatively 'scientific' layer."

"You can think of it as follows... that the global technology tree is actually locked within a limited range by the 'Apostles', just like an experiencer walking through a land full of pollution and gray fog. Once you cross the threshold, you will be doomed."

"It's just that, as time goes by and pollution gets worse, the necessary technological fields will be unlocked... This is not a 'breakthrough', but a 'relaxation', because the anchor of our world is out of balance again, so we need to reinforce the anchor and anchor it deeper into the soil to prevent the ship from losing control."

"During the last world war, the fluctuations of the flames of war made the shaky world even more dangerous. Einstein proposed the theory of relativity and re-strengthened the anchor of physics..."

"The existence of the theory of relativity is like when you are exposed to pollution, you will soon become a pseudo-human, but your homeroom teacher gives you a hand and gives you the opportunity to continue living as a 'human' as an art student or a sports student."

Lin Yi thought for a moment, "You mean, the world is going to be destroyed, so physicists have intentionally relaxed some...the standards of knowledge?"

"The scale of knowledge is difficult to control. One point more will cause irreparable pollution, and one point less will have no effect at all... Physicists are a group of guys who have mastered the lever."

"And the architect built and reinforced the lever."

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, his face solemn: "So the deeper you explore physics, the closer you get to... the "root"? Is this why Newton spent his later years studying theology?"

(End of this chapter)

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