Chapter 67: The Strange Traveler
When Old Locke and the girl in the crowd came to the convoy, they saw the traveler who was behaving "strangely" at a glance.
I saw this stranger in a black cloak with an unclear face crouching on the side of the road, holding a vertical tree trunk about a meter long in his left hand and placing it upright on the ground, while in his right hand he was holding several stones and placing them on the shadow of the trunk from time to time.
"What are you doing here?"
The girl was attracted by the strange behavior of the stranger and couldn't help asking, "Is it a game?" But that's not interesting, is it? ”
The girl's words "lethality" are still quite large, and the strange traveler's body stiffened slightly, and even the stone in his right hand fell to the ground.
Old Locke saw the embarrassment of the other party, and he hurriedly interjected: "Strange traveler, please don't care...... What my niece said, she didn't mean anything. ”
"It's okay!"
A young voice came from under the black cloak: "I should be sorry that it has affected your itinerary!" ”
After hearing the polite answer, Old Locke continued: "Encounter is fate, and the caravan is willing to accept your joining!" However, please follow the rules of the caravan during your trip......"
"It's my pleasure!"
"Hey! You haven't answered my question yet? ”
Seeing that the other party didn't pay attention to herself, the girl couldn't help but puff up her bun face and said angrily, "What are you doing here?" ”
The stranger put down the trunk and stone, patted the dust from his hands, and stood up.
"Hehe, I'm not playing a game...... It's about setting the direction. ”
"Determine the direction? Just use these things? ”
The girl asked in an incredulous tone, "Can you tell me how you got the direction?" If you can't, don't blame me for not allowing you to join the team! ”
When the black-robed man saw the apologetic glance cast by Old Locke beside the girl, he smiled and explained, "This is a very simple and practical method......
"You see, place a one-meter-long vertical tree trunk on a flat piece of land...... Be careful to place it as upright as possible! ”
The stranger sat down again, picking up the trunk and rocks again.
"Mark the location of the top of the tree with stones, wait for half an hourglass time, and then mark the new projection of the top of the trunk on the ground......"
"The line connecting the two stones will tell you the east-west direction, and the direction perpendicular to the line segment is the north-south direction...... At any time of the day, as long as there is sunlight, this method will work. That way, you'll be able to determine where you're headed......"
"Huh? What you say seems to make a lot of sense......"
The girl rolled her large, witty eyes, "No! I need to try this method and see if this method is real? ”
After a bit of scrambling, the girl discovered that the strange traveler's method could indeed discern directions, which only made her more and more interested in the black-robed man.
"Why do you know where you can do it? Do you know how this method works? ”
Seeing the curious expression on the girl's face, Old Locke hurriedly whispered, "Your Highness, let's hurry first!" Wait a minute, in making this ...... Well, this strange gentleman has you covered. ”
"Okay, okay, old Locke, you're really verbose!" The girl said reluctantly: "Listen to you!!" ”
"By the way, my name is Cecilia, what's your name?"
"It's a pleasure to walk with you, Miss Cecilia! My name is ...... Victor, Victor Tisrael! ”
……
After Victor joined the Northland caravan, Cecilia, who had a lot of background, could be regarded as having found someone to talk to, and along the way, the curious girl kept asking various questions, which made Victor feel a lot of headaches.
"Mr. Victor, you haven't told me yet......"
Through the window of the carriage, Cecilia asked again to Victor, who was riding a horse outside the carriage, "What is the way to find the way...... What exactly does it work for? ”
"Well, that's pretty simple, too! Miss Cecilia, you know how light travels, right? ”
"I know! I learned this at Yves Saint Laurent......"
Cecilia made an endorsement, "Light travels in a straight line in a homogeneous medium, and according to it we can solve the problem of imaging. ”
"Why are you asking me when you know that?"
"Yes...... But the problem is, I know this conclusion, but I don't know how to apply it......"
“……”
With great effort, Victor taught this girl who "knows it but doesn't know why" a good lesson.
"Wow! Mr. Victor, you are too knowledgeable! Are you an academic? ”
"Scholars? Sort of...... Hehe! ”
"By the way, when I was studying at Yves Saint Laurent, I also encountered such a problem......
Cecilia blinked her big sparkling eyes and continued to ask, "A teacher from the academy told us during his lecture that all matter on the Vorsted continent is made up of five inseparable elements 'earth, fire, water, air, and light', as they were created by the gods...... However, in the process of learning, I found that light can be broken down! A beam of white light can be divided into seven different colors...... This is the opposite of what the teacher taught, am I wrong? Or is the teacher wrong? Or is the god wrong? ”
"Scholar, please clear my doubts!!"
After hearing Cecilia's question, Victor not only changed his sorrow for the people of the Vorsted Continent, but their minds had been tightly bound by the Temple of Eternity in all aspects, and any discovery had to consider whether it was consistent with the teachings first......
"Miss Cecilia, before answering this question, I would like to ask you...... Do you know what God is? ”
Victor did not directly answer Cecilia's question, but asked another question.
"What is God?"
Cecilia fell into deep thought, and she muttered, "The teacher said that God is the Creator!" He combines wisdom, strength, and knowledge to do anything...... God is a great being, and He is not something that we mortals can speculate! ”
"Mr. Victor, what do you think of the existence of God?"
"In my opinion, God is nothing but a name, a kind of faith...... "Victor said in a deep voice, "for believers, God is nothing but a spiritual sustenance!" For the unbelievers, God is nothing more than a more powerful class......"
"Cecilia, if you can discard the influence of the gods on you as you learn, you will find ...... We don't look to the gods! It's the boundless sea of stars!! ”