In the simple but clean lounge on the second floor of the Naturalist Society, Donner faced a large stack of publications, reading them one by one. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was the second day after he had arrived at the Guild, and he had found almost nothing but the conclusion that the development of mathematics in Middle-earth had been deliberately suppressed.

Mathematics is rarely published in these journals, and most of them are simple physics and alchemy, with some specious theology.

Downer flips through it in reverse chronological order, that is, he is more concerned with the Society's discoveries in recent years, so the further he scrolls, the more hopeless he feels.

After seeing what was in front of him, Donner got up and moved his limbs, and the staff of the association, who heard the movement outside the door, immediately came in to help him change the hot tea again.

"Lord Duke," President William walked in at the right time, and he had apparently been keeping watch at the door, "haven't found anything you care about?" he clearly judged from Donner's reading speed what he was looking for.

Donner smiled and nodded, "How many are left?"

"There's the last part left, but those are two hundred years old, and you know, the Society has only been around for two hundred years......," President William looked a little disappointed, a rare Duke who was interested in naturalism, and he was looking forward to finding what he was looking for here, whatever it was.

Donner wasn't in a very good mood either, he felt that all the hints the doctor gave him seemed to indicate that something important was waiting for him in Middle-earth, and if he couldn't find it here, he might have to try it on the continent of Caios.

"Then bring the last batch...... he commanded, taking a sip of his tea.

It didn't take long for several staff members to carefully take away all the materials in front of Donner, and another person came in with a small stack of materials and placed them on the table in front of Donner.

"That's all there is to it?" Donner didn't expect the so-called last part, which would be so few.

"When the Society was first founded, it was only possible to collect a sufficient number of articles every six months...... "President William looked apologetic, as if it were his responsibility.

"Then you go first......" Donna Yaoyao nodded, waiting until everyone had left, and then opened a pamphlet dispensably.

The booklet from 200 years ago looks a little old, and even the binding is a little different from the most recent one.

Downer casually flipped the pages, and most of the time, it only took a glance at the title to know what the content would be, and what was written two hundred years ago was not much behind compared to what it is now.

He yawned as he watched, wondering if he might take advantage of the free time before meeting Cynthia to go around the nearby continent.

Alchemy, alchemy...... Crazy people who want to turn stone into gold, or sapphire into crystals!

He shook his head, closed the book, and was about to put it aside, when suddenly his brow furrowed slightly, and he opened it again.

Not...... The content of this alchemy seems to be different from the others, the author should be a very rich guy, and his research object is actually the gold of desperation, and the title of the article is "The Elusive Mysterious Metal - The Gold of Desperation".

The title of the article is catchy enough, but the content is surprisingly short, and one paragraph reads:

"The despicable man was fortunate enough to receive a small piece of the gold of desperation. Before I got my hands on it, I had heard that it was an extremely heavy metal, and it did.

Interestingly, though, the merchant who sold me the metal told me that it gets heavier by beating it repeatedly.

Here, I'm going to debunk the tricks of this greedy businessman. After verification, I realized that what he said was wrong, or rather, he confused me with a verbal trap.

The fact is this: when the metal is beaten, it gets smaller and smaller - it's soft, so it's easy to do this, but the total weight doesn't change at all. Yes, it was only that it had become denser—but the cunning merchant insisted that he meant it by getting heavier.

......

In addition, I have found that when heated to it, this small piece of Desperate Gold quickly melts into a droplet and returns to its previous size......"

Donner frowned tightly as he read the entire article, feeling that there seemed to be some kind of information in the article, but he couldn't grasp the point.

A metal whose density changes with force or temperature seems to be beyond his common sense.

Now, he had to solve two questions: whether the article was wrong, and if it was right, what would have caused it?

"President William......" Donner shouted out the door.

As soon as he finished speaking, the president opened the door and walked in, and the expression on his face changed from frustration to surprise when he saw that Donner had opened a publication not empty-handed, but on a page.

"Sir, have you found it?" he asked eagerly.

Instead of answering his question, Donner handed him the publication and pointed to the title, "Have you read the article?"

President William was puzzled: "You know that...... These are so old......"

"It's okay, you take a look now. Donner interrupted him with a wave of his hand.

"Hmm!" William took the publication to his eyes, read it carefully, and then looked up at Donner, "Your Excellency...... Any questions?"

"Is there no error in this article?" asked Donner.

"Wrong?" William looked down again, because the article was short enough, so after a while, he looked up and said, "Hmm...... Some of the grammar seems to be under-considered......"

"That's not what I meant...... I mean, in terms of phenomena, really?" asked Donner.

"Hmm...... That's true...... "William was a little confused, although the gold of desperation was extremely valuable, anyone who was familiar with it should know this - its density varies greatly.

"Is there any other metal other than Desperate Gold that has this property?" asked Donner again.

"Don't you know, sir?" William was even more puzzled, remembering that Duke Vane had become an honorary member of the Guild because of a paper on metals.

"What do you mean?" said Donner, puzzled.

"Every metal has this tendency to be more or less...... It's just that the density of most metals varies very little, usually the density increases after being stressed, and then returns to the smallest density when heated to a liquid state, so most alchemists try to modify the properties of metals through this phenomenon. William replied.

"Is that the same with iron?" Donner suddenly remembered the sword he had made for Richard.

"Yes, though, the change in iron is so small that it is almost negligible. ”

Donner nodded, though his mind was even more confused.

"That'...... Has anyone speculated about why?" he asked.

"Hmm...... Wait a minute...... William walked out of the lounge with Donner's permission, and after a while he retrieved a journal, flipped to a page and handed it to Donner.

"An Alchemist's Imagination", Donner glanced at the title, he confirmed that he had scanned the title, but when he saw the words alchemist and fantasy, he didn't look down closely.

But this time, he looked at it carefully in front of William.

William brought this article to Donner precisely because it answered Donner's question in detail—a conjecture about the change in the density of metals.

The usual explanation for the mystery of the change in the density of metals is that metals are like bread that can be made smaller by applying an external force, and when heated, they can be fluffed up again.

The author of the article also thinks that this is the most likely, but in addition to this, he also offers another way of thinking - the word conjecture, which is how it comes from.

This line of thinking goes like this: in this world, there is a place that people can't see (the author of the article calls it "virtual"), and after repeated force, part of the metal is squeezed into the place called "virtuality", and once heated, it retracts from the "virtuality".

As for what "void" is, the author's explanation is that "void" may be everywhere, a place where ghosts dwell, and a place where magical elements accumulate.

He explains, "The reason why the gold of desperation is able to isolate the elements of magic is because a part of the gold of desperation is always left in the place of the void - which is why it is so heavy. ”

In order to test his own practice, he repeatedly hammered a metal (soft copper) with a wide range of density changes until it was very dense, and found that this metal could also isolate some magical elements.

By the time Donner read to the end, his hands were trembling slightly, and even the words in front of him were becoming more and more blurry.

All the hints that the Doctor gave him to find the answer to him were actually in this article!

"President William...... Let me be alone for a while......" He tried to suppress his emotions, but even then, the voice did not come out like his own.

William realized that something seemed wrong with the adult in front of him, and immediately exited the lounge, ordering everyone not to enter.

In the quiet lounge, Donner sat down in a chair.

All his doubts, all the time, all the way, all the way out.

The "virtuality" that the author of that article refers to is not a conjecture, but a real existence, where Donner's sea of gods is, as are the ubiquitous elements of magic.

It's not a "void", it's a dimension other than three-dimensional space (or four-dimensional space-time)!

On Earth, physicists with superstring theory and m-theory have proved that the spatial dimension of the universe is more than three-dimensional, but they can only speculate on this theoretically, but they can't find that these dimensions are there, and on this planet, those dimensions are there!

Donner finally understands why the Doctor doesn't trust Jingwei, why he wants to escape from prison, why he is willing to erase half of his memories and be reborn on this planet.

All the reasons unfolded in front of Donner.

The doctor discovered a higher-dimensional universe on this planet, and he must have guessed that the reason why these high-dimensional dimensions could not be observed on Earth was because civilization was suppressed. That's right, there is a great possibility that the civilization that left behind the ruins of science and technology has been enslaving the earth civilization, and the method of enslavement is to reduce the earth to a low-dimensional world!

Just as the people on this planet are enslaved by the civilization of factory owners, the fate of the people of the earth is the same - the only difference is that the means of suppressing civilization are different!

Therefore, the Doctor tried every means to suppress the civilization of Middle-earth with the Magic Continent, and suppressed the civilization of the Magic Continent with the caste system and the magic model of the lonely peak, all of which was hinting to Donner at the suppression and enslavement between civilizations!

And the knight to the north and the mage to the south, contains two meanings, on the one hand, it is a hint to Donner, let the knight and the mage go away, only ordinary people who have not fallen into the trap of power can save the planet, and on the other hand, it is also to tell Donner that there is not only one enemy in Middle-earth, and there is more than one enemy of the earthlings.

That's right, if the doctor's guess is correct, then the master of the scientific and technological relics who lowered the earth to a lower dimension is the real enemy of the earthlings!

(Ask for a monthly pass!Ask for a recommended ticket!) (To be continued.) )