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Chapter 730 - 336 Physics Itself Is an Anchor Point_2

Chapter 730: Chapter 336 Physics Itself Is an Anchor Point_2

As Old Mo spoke, it seemed as though he found some orientation through the lamppost of the Black Moon Outpost and then released his hand, saying, "Follow me."

The mists in the forest surged, looking perilously dangerous, but after speaking, Old Mo didn’t hesitate and plunged right into it.

Lin Yi followed in real time and then quietly asked, "How does that lamppost point the way? How far is it from the Black Moon Outpost to the Art Building?"

"There’s no such thing as ’how far the distance is.’" Old Mo stripped away the wild grass and random branches and said, "’Black Moon Outpost’ is the ’Art Building’, or rather, it’s what the Art Building used to be called."

Despite being prepared, Lin Yi’s heart still stirred greatly upon hearing Old Mo’s words.

"The Art Building is actually the outpost...?"

Old Mo said, "Once you see the Art Building, you’ll understand; that kind of architectural style, how could it be built in ’99 along with the rest of the campus?"

"Oh?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. He knew full well that S City University was established in the year X999.

Old Mo continued, "Rather than saying S City University was established in ’99, it’s better to say its construction plan was affirmed in ’99, with the outskirts of S City as the surface layer, connecting many regions through the links between layers... ’Black Moon Outpost’ is one of those regions, and also the most important one."

"Radiating and connecting...?" Lin Yi mused.

Old Mo let go of the lamppost, casually pulled two branches with intertwined twigs, then slowly brought them closer together.

"Look, like these two twigs, where I’m holding represents S City and the Black Moon Outpost; these smaller branches extending out are the ’paths’ they each radiate. The architects from the founding of the school connected the similar branches from both sides at the layer level, forming some pathways of nihility at the layer level."

Lin Yi, looking at the twisted and complex branches, was shocked: "If that’s the case, wouldn’t the Art Building exist on the surface layer of some city, just like the campus?"

The Art Building in the inner layer of the campus, is it the surface of another place?

And for that place, is the campus instead the inner layer?

Is this why they talk about going back and forth?

For the Art Students, no, the peculiar Art Students, is the campus with the cafeteria in the inner layer dangerous for dining? Conversely, for them, the Sports Students and Security Guards who live in the inner layer are the truly terrifying beasts?

The definitions of "safety" and "danger" are all relative effects formed based on one’s own positioning!

Pleased with Lin Yi’s insight, Old Mo explained, "Indeed. Moreover, the location of the Black Moon Outpost is not within the Huaxia region."

"You’ll see the Art Building soon. Its exterior is a castle with a very strong Gothic style, and you know that castles are not found within Huaxia."

"Even later architects, when constructing other ’Dark Zones’ within the territorial range of Huaxia, tried to adhere to the local architectural styles, particularly those of the Tang Dynasty."

"And the Black Moon Outpost, its original location is near the ’Scandinavia’ peninsula of Northern Europe, off the coastlines of areas like Norway, Denmark, Sweden... there’s even a theory claiming that this region originated from Greenland."

"Such remote things are only known by those archaeologists; I’m not very clear either. Anyway, the traces of supernatural powers were discovered by the initial scholars or people with other statuses, and then they spent a tremendous amount of manpower and resources to build the castle."

"Then, as time went on, they also realized that ’contamination’ had a far more devastating impact on society and the world than its malleability, and thus to prevent that kind of fluctuation from causing greater effects, they established the initial observatories and defense works... that is, ’The Outposts’."

"And that’s where the word ’Outpost’ in ’Black Moon Outpost’ comes from, and the group that established the Black Moon Outpost also called themselves ’Angel Envoys’."

"Since then, in a global history unknown to the public, there have been a significant number of entities researching supernatural powers, and to prevent the spread of these powers, they have limited the development of world civilization within a ’layer’ that is relatively ’stable’."

"These people have had many names, and with the evolution of history, they are still active in civilizations and legends around the world... such as ’Fangshi’, ’Qi Refiners’, ’Priests’, ’Wizards’..."

"Of course, the most active group today is called ’Physicists’."

Lin Yi stumbled: "Wait a second, Old Mo... Physics?! What does this have to do with physics?!"

Old Mo smirked, his facial muscles twitching: "Do you even know what ’physics’ is?"

"Uh... when you ask like that, I can’t really explain, it seems physics is about studying the laws of material movement and basic structure, then exploring the laws of nature, analyzing phenomena, exploring and analyzing their causes and processes... a field of study, right?"

"Discovering, observing, exploring, summarizing... and developing systemic theoretical knowledge, even applying its laws to life." Old Mo said, "Isn’t this the same as what those ’Angel Envoys’ did originally with ’supernatural powers’?"

"Uh...?" Lin Yi was confused and could only nod slightly, indicating for Old Mo to continue his "lecture".

Old Mo continued: "So-called physics is actually a complete anchor point."

"The ’Angel Envoys’ unable to break through the mystic atlas expanded by the threads of supernatural powers, have summarized limited laws into well-known ’laws’, spreading them as ’physics’..."

"Just like Experience Students anchoring themselves with their Student ID cards... this world is a broken cage, already riddled with holes due to the erosion of supernatural powers."

"The outside world is like a bigger S University, everyone who has received this education in physics holds a Student ID card, using the anchor of ’physics’ to anchor this world in a ’scientific’ layer."

"You could think that... the global technology tree is actually locked within a limited scope by the ’Angel Envoys’, just like an Experience Student walking through a land filled with contamination and Grey Mist, once crossing the threshold, they would be beyond salvation."

"However, as time flows and contamination deepens, necessary technological fields will be unlocked... It’s not a ’breakthrough’ but a ’relaxation,’ because the ’World’s Anchor’ has again become imbalanced, so it needs to be reinforced deeper within the earth, to prevent the ship from going adrift."

"In the recent world war, the fluctuations of war made the already shaky world more dangerous, and Einstein proposed the ’Theory of Relativity’, strengthening the anchor of physics once more..."

"The existence of the Theory of Relativity is like if you have been contaminated, you will soon become a Pseudo-Human, but the Homeroom teacher pulls you back, giving you a chance to continue living as a ’person’, as an Art Student or a Sports Student."

Lin Yi pondered: "Do you mean the world is on the brink of destruction, so physicists have deliberately loosened some... scales of knowledge?"

"The scale of knowledge is hard to control, one bit more can cause irreversible contamination, one bit less and it has no effect... Physicists are a group with leverage in their hands."

"And Architects, they build and reinforce the leverage."

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, his expression grave: "So the deeper the exploration into physics, the closer we get to... the ’Root’? Is that the reason Newton spent his later years studying theology?"