Chapter 223： Under the stars

Although it has a bad magical talent, a bad aristocratic cultivation, and a headache for character behavior, Rebecca is still the most favored one in the family since childhood. After all, the Cecil family has completely declined in her generation, the elders at home. There are no other heirs to cultivate and care for.

Therefore, Rebecca received a lot of gifts from small to large, and it was difficult for her to count.

But few of those gifts can impress her.

Whether it is beautiful clothes, or new magic books and history books, it seems nothing new in Rebecca. She does not like flowers and new clothes like ordinary aristocratic ladies, and is not interested in history and etiquette learning. But since her ancestors began to emerge, she finally found a person who can identify with herself and always bring her freshness. A ancestor from 700 years ago, Rebecca originally thought that Gao Wenhui was The oldest and most serious elders she has ever seen, but did not expect the ancestors to be so interesting, the whimsy of the mind is not weaker than themselves.

Even the gifts he gave him were interesting.

But holding this thing called a "telescope", Rebecca is still a bit tangled (or mad at himself): "I don't like to watch the stars! I don't like to have any meaning since I was young!"

Gao Wen just smiled and took the stupid girl to the terrace on the top floor of the lord's house. In Herti's surprised gaze, he helped Rebecca fix the telescope's bracket and adjust the focal length of the lens, then press The head of the Iron Head allowed her to put her eyes on the eyepiece.

After half a minute.

"It’s fun to watch the stars!!" Rebecca made a soundless voice.

"The ancestor, this is... the gift you gave to Rebecca?" Herti was also attracted by the movement here. She couldn’t help but let go of the star-watching disk in her hand. "There is no magic." Fluctuation... What is this?"

"You can give it a try," Gao Wen said with a smile. "Well... although it doesn't have a matching star chart, it may not be as professional as the star-watch disk, but if it is only used to observe distant objects, it should It will be easier to use than your magic items."

Herti made a great effort and finally pushed Rebecca's head to the side, then took a look at the eyepiece and suddenly showed a surprised expression.

In this world, eagle eye surgery and the "gazing disk" technology developed on this basis have become the main ways people use to observe distant and observe stars, although they are confined to the caster's circle, but these two The technology still curbs the exploration of the optical research route. The basic physical rules of optics in the world are no different from what Gao Wen knows. However, whoever can cast a spell can observe the distance, who can Think of combining a few convex and concave lenses to make a telescope?

After all, the difference between the two technical routes is too far.

Rebecca looked at this magical metal device. She turned around it for a few laps. She didn't see that there was even a rune and a piece of magic material on it. She couldn't help but scratch her hair: "But why? So?"

Hetty also looked up curiously: "Yes, why?"

When they heard their problems, Gao Wen’s mouth couldn’t help but tilt up.

They finally learned to take the initiative to ask why they had studied the principle, rather than being satisfied with the ability to use it. This is the idea that he has been trying to instill in the territory of the technical staff. Now the efforts of this period have finally seen the effect on the two descendants.

"It's about talking about the spread of light," Gao Wen thought for a moment, and decided to explain it briefly. "You should know at least the magnifying glass..."

He explained the effect of the convex and concave lenses and the principle of the telescope, but he did not explain it too deeply and too surely. He just tried to explain the telescope with the attitude of answering the guess, and this is because Necessary caution

This strange world is so weird in the laws of physics. Who is sure that the telescopes used here will meet the Earth standard? Perhaps in the macroscopic world, the spread and refraction of light show what he is familiar with, but one day it is studied microscopically. What should be done when the "light" of the world is essentially another thing?

He knows how much he will influence Herti and Rebecca, even if they have the skepticism of qualified researchers, and they will leave too much impression on their minds, so he always avoids The two used to say that they were too sure about the conjecture of the magic principle. Unless the knowledge has been fully certified by practice, this is to avoid one day affecting their own research ideas.

Rebecca listened to the glimpse of the theory of magic, she also knows the theory of mathematics, mechanics and some alchemy, but she never thought that the way the world works can still be from this perspective. To explain, this brought her a great sense of freshness: "The light that is everywhere can be seen... Is there such an interesting place?"

As she spoke, she put her eyes in front of the telescope and looked at the stars in the sky with enthusiasm. She imagined that the distant stars had gone through a long journey, passing through the atmosphere full of magic, and finally falling into a group of lenses. Between, and between the lenses become a clearer, more magnified image, she saw more and brighter stars that she had never seen before, and also saw the vague celestial structures that were hidden in the stars. .

Due to the limited process of the first telescope, the magnification is not very high. She can't see too many secrets of the stars in the lens, but even then, the starry sky that is more brilliant than imagined is enough to make her exclaim. It is.

"I used to want to throw a big fireball into the sky and blow up the stars," Rebecka raised his head and blinked. "But they are so far..."

"In fact, you know, most of the stars in the sky are essentially burning fireballs," Gao Wen said with a smile, but quickly added the latter sentence. "Of course, this is just my guess."

"The stars are also burning fireballs?" Rebecca looked at Gao Wen with surprise. "What do they use as fuel? How can they burn for so many years?"

In the hometown is hydrogen, but God knows that the stars are burning here...

However, Gao Wen couldn't answer this directly. He could only smile slyly: "I don't know."

"You are not lie to me, ancestors?" Rebecca looked suspiciously at Gao Wen. "How could the stars in the sky be a big fireball!"

"Can't talk to the ancestors like this!" Hetty immediately looked at Rebecca seriously, but Gao Wengang was moved halfway. She said the latter half of the story. "The ancestor was hanging in the sky at first, he must have seen it with his own eyes." How do those stars burn right?"

Gao Wen: "...the amount...right, right..."

"Oh, great!" Rebecca exclaimed with exaggeration, and then he touched his chin and fell into thought. "Then you said, if I put the fireball very big, then I hit it very far away. Can it also become a star?"

"...that is probably impossible," Gao Wen said with a smile. "The true size of the stars is much larger than you think. Of course, this is my guess."

Herti showed a thoughtful expression: "The ancestor, then you said that 'Ao' is also a burning fireball?"

"Oh... probably too."

Gao Wen embraced his chest with both hands and looked up at the brightest star in the night sky.

He certainly knows what it is, or he can probably guess what it is.

That is the "sun" that this planetary system is really running around.

The planet at its own feet (currently assumed to be a planet) is not a standard planet, but it is most likely a satellite that orbits a gas giant. The gas giant is what people call the sun. "But this gaseous giant planet is also running around another celestial body. According to the information currently available, the latter's body is most likely to be "Olympic", which is the brightest star in the night sky, occasionally The mysterious lone star that can be seen during the day is the "ultimate mysterious star" with special status in the minds of magicians and specialized astrologers.

The extraordinary people have a wide variety of explanations for "Olympic", but no matter who they are, it seems to agree that it has a special role in the field of occult: it is the benchmark for almost all observations of the astrology, and the most common for the magicians to meditate. The “spiritual focus” used, even in some religious legends, “Ao” is also related to the residence of the gods: it is the guiding lighthouse to the rest of the gods.

Rebecca looked at the sky and suddenly found out: "Speak up... Today's 'Olympic' seems to be brighter than in the past."

"After the winter, the brightness of Austria will increase, you don't know? This is the common sense of astrology!" Herti looked at Rebecca with helplessness. "I really don't know what you learned when you were young." ”

Rebecca stalked her neck: "I know this, but the brightness of the ‘Oh’ seems to be brighter than in previous years on the stars of the stars this winter!”

"Yes..." Heti looked suspiciously at the sky. She couldn't judge such subtle changes with the naked eye, but she knew that Rebecca did have amazing sensitivity in these inexplicable details, so she was also skeptical. Get up, "Maybe there is a change... Speaking, I remember seeing it in some of the less popular magic books. When the stars are in the right position, the connection between the ultimate mysterious star 'Ao' and the world will change. Strongly, the gates of the gods and the human world will become loose, and the year in which the stars in the prophecy are correct is like the last few years."

Listening to the words of God, which Hedi suddenly said, Gao Wen inexplicably produced a sense of sight.

The stars are in the right position... How does this sound so unlucky?

And just as he wondered if the "right position of the stars" was a wilderness or some kind of magical phenomenon, the door of the terrace was suddenly pushed open, and the cry of the Miss Siren’s panic came. : "Oh, it’s finished, it’s finished!!"

"What is finished?!" Gao Wenke never saw that Tyre would be so flustered. This seafood, which is often hibernated, is lazy and distracted. This can scare him. "Someone wants to stew you?"

"Stars position! Star position!" Tyre slammed into the front of Gao Wen with his fish tail, and danced and danced. "Today is when the stars return home! Once the stars arrive at the right position, the deep sea Big squid... big squid..."

Gao Wen just thought about the broken things of the stars and the deep sea evil spirits. At this time, I heard that the deep sea creature of Tyre was so panicked that he raised the suspected ancient god, and suddenly his cold sweat came out: "You Say it clearly! What happens to the 'big squid' in the deep sea when the stars are in the right position?"

"The big squid will be unlimited!" Tyre was so anxious that his tears were coming down. "I missed the meal!"

Gao Wen: "...啥?!"