Chapter 223 Under the Starry Night

Although she has bad magic talent, poor noble cultivation, and troublesome character behavior, Rebecca is still the most favored one in the family since she was a child - after all, the Cecil family has completely declined by her generation. The elders in the family can't find any other heirs to nurture and care for.

So Rebecca has received so many gifts since she was a child that she can hardly count them.

But few of those gifts left a lasting impression on her.

Whether it is beautiful clothes or new magic books and history books, Rebecca sees nothing new. She does not like flowers and new clothes like ordinary noble ladies, and she is not interested in learning history and etiquette. But since her ancestors were unveiled, she finally found someone who could identify with her and who could always bring her freshness—an ancestor from 700 years ago, Rebecca originally thought Gao Wenhui was the most stern and serious elder in the family she had ever met, but she did not expect this ancestor to be so interesting, full of whimsy and ideas that were no weaker than her own.

Even the gifts he gave him were very interesting.

But holding this thing called "telescope", Rebecca was still a little tangled {or angry with herself}: "I don't like looking at the stars! I didn't like it since I was a child - what's the point!"

Gawain just smiled, and took this silly girl to the terrace on the top floor of the lord's mansion. Under Hetty's surprised gaze, he helped Rebecca fix the bracket of the telescope and adjust the focal length of the lens, then press Holding the iron-headed baby's head, let her put her eyes on the goggles.

After half a minute.

"Looking at the stars is so interesting!!" Rebecca said in a spineless voice.

"Ancestor, this is... the gift you said for Rebecca?" Heidi was also attracted by the movement here, and couldn't help but put down the astrolabe in her hand and came over, "There is no magic. Volatility...what is this?"

"You can give it a try," Gao Wen smiled, "Well... although it doesn't have a matching horoscope plate,

It may not be as professional as the astrolabe in your use, but if it is only used to observe distant objects, it should be easier to use than your magic props. "

Heidi made a lot of effort and finally squeezed Rebecca's head aside, then looked in front of the eyepiece, and suddenly showed a surprised expression.

In this world, the eagle eye technique and the "star-gazing disk" technique exhibited on this basis have become the main ways for people to observe the distant and the stars, respectively. Although they are limited to the circle of the caster, these two This technology still prevents people from exploring the optical research line - the basic physical rules of the world in optics are no different from what Gawain knew, but under the premise of casting a spell to see the distance, who Can you think of combining several convex and concave lenses to make a telescope?

After all, these two technical routes are too far apart.

Rebecca stared blankly at this magical metal device. She turned around it several times, but didn't see even a single rune and a piece of magic material on it, so she couldn't help scratching her head in confusion: "But why is this happening? what?"

Heidi also raised her head curiously: "Yes, why?"

Hearing their questions, the corners of Gawain's mouth couldn't help twitching upwards.

They finally learned to take the initiative to ask why - to go deep into the principle, rather than being satisfied with being able to use it. This is the idea that he has been trying to instill in the technicians of the territory, and now the efforts of this period of time have finally seen results in the two descendants. .

"This is about the propagation of light," Gawain thought for a while, and decided to give a brief explanation first, "You should at least know about magnifying glasses..."

He explained the effects of convex and concave lenses and the principle of telescopes, but he did not explain all this too deeply or with certainty. He just tried to use the attitude of answering conjectures to describe how the telescope works, which is because Necessary caution -

This weird world is so weird in terms of physical laws, who can be sure that the optical principles here must meet earth standards if the telescope works? Perhaps in the macroscopic world, the propagation and refraction of light show what he is familiar with, but one day he has studied the microscopic, and now the "light" of this world is essentially a different thing, what should we do?

He knew how much influence he would have on Heidi and Rebecca. Even if they had the skepticism of qualified researchers now, what he said would leave a deep impression on them, so he always avoided the The two used an overly positive tone when they told their conjectures about the principles of magic in front of them—unless the knowledge had been fully verified by practice, this was to avoid one day affecting their research ideas.

Rebecca was stunned when she heard it. She knew the theory of magic, as well as the theoretical knowledge of mathematics, machinery and some alchemy, but she never thought that the way the world could work from this perspective To explain, this brought her a great sense of freshness: "It turns out that the light that can be seen everywhere... 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 great interest. She imagined that the distant stars had traveled long distances, passed through the atmosphere full of magic, and finally fell into a set of lenses. She saw more and brighter stars that she had never seen as a child, and she also saw those blurry celestial structures that were originally hidden among the stars .

Due to the limited craftsmanship of the first telescope and the low magnification, it was impossible for her to see the secrets of too many stars in the lens, but even so, the starry sky that was more brilliant than she imagined was enough to make her exclaim again and again. .

"I always wanted to throw a big fireball into the sky and blow those stars down," Rebecca raised her head and blinked, "but they are so far away..."

"Actually, do you know that most of the stars in the sky are essentially burning fireballs," Gawain said with a smile, but quickly added the second half of the sentence, "Of course, this is just my conjecture."

"The stars are also burning fireballs?" Rebecca looked at Gawain in surprise, "Then what do they use as fuel? How can they burn for so many years?"

There is hydrogen in my hometown, but God knows what the stars are burning here...

However, Gawain couldn't answer this directly, he could only smile awkwardly: "I don't know either."

"Master Ancestor, aren't you lying to me?" Rebecca looked at Gawain suspiciously, "How could the stars in the sky be big fireballs!"

"You can't talk to the ancestors like this!" Hetty immediately gave Rebecca a serious look, but Gawain was just half moved, and she said the second half, "The ancestors were hanging in the sky, he must have seen it with his own eyes. How did those stars burn—right ancestor?"

Gawain: "... um... yes, yes..."

"Oh, that's amazing!" Rebecca sighed exaggeratedly, then touched her chin and fell into thought, "Then you say, if I hold the fireball very big and hit it very, very far away, Can it also become a star?"

"...That's probably impossible," Gawain spread his hands in disbelief, "The real size of the stars is much bigger than you think. Of course, this is also my guess."

Heidi showed a thoughtful expression: "Ancestor, did you say that 'Ao' is also a burning fireball?"

"Oh...probably the same."

Gawain folded his arms and looked up at the brightest star in the night sky.

Of course he knew what it was, or rather, he could probably guess what it was.

That's the "sun" that this planetary system actually orbits.

The planet under my feet {currently assumed to be a planet} is not a standard planet, but is most likely just a satellite orbiting a gas giant planet, which is what people usually call "the sun. "But this gas giant planet is also revolving around another celestial body. According to the current information, the latter's positive body is most likely to be "Ao", which is the brightest star in the night sky. The mysterious lone star, which can also be seen during the day, is the "ultimate mysterious star" that holds a special place in the minds of magicians and specialized astrologers.

Mortals have various interpretations of "O", but no matter who they are, they seem to agree that it has a special role in the field of occultism: it is the reference point for almost all astrological observations, and it is also the most common point for magicians to meditate. The "spiritual focus" used, even in some religious legends, "O" is also related to the abode of the gods: it is the beacon that leads the way to the abode of the gods.

Rebecca looked at the sky and suddenly realized: "Speaking of which... Today's 'Ao' seems to be brighter than before."

"After the winter, the brightness of Ao will increase, don't you know? This is common sense in astrology!" Hetty glanced at Rebecca helplessly, "I really don't know where you left all the things you learned when you were a child. "

Rebecca clenched her neck: "I know this, but the brightness of 'Ao' seems to be brighter than in previous years on the starry day this winter!"

"Really..." Heidi looked at the sky suspiciously. 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 dubious. Get up, "Maybe there is a change... Speaking of which, I remember seeing in some relatively unpopular magic books, when the stars are in the correct position, the connection between the ultimate mysterious star 'Ao' and the world will change. If it is too strong, the gates of the realm of the gods and the human world will become loose, and the year in which the stars are in the correct position in the prophecy seems to be the last few years."

Listening to Hetty's sudden remarks, Gawain inexplicably had a sense of sight.

The stars are in the right place...how does that sound so ominous?

And just when he was thinking about whether this "the stars are in the correct position" is a wild talk or some kind of magical phenomenon, the door of the terrace was suddenly pushed open, and the panicked cry of the lady siren followed. : "Oops, it's done, it's done, it's done!!"

"What's the end?!" Gawain had never seen Tyre screaming in such a panic. This seafood, who was always in hibernation, was lazy no matter what he did, which shocked him all of a sudden. , "Someone wants to stew you?"

"The position of the stars! The position of the stars!" Tyr used his fish tail vigorously to jump up in front of Gawain, and gesturingly gestured, "Today is the time for the stars to return to their positions! Once the stars reach the correct position, the Big squid... big squid..."

Gawain was just thinking about the little things about the stars and the evil god of the deep sea. At this time, when he heard Tyr, the deep sea creature, mentioning the suspected ancient god in such a panic, he suddenly broke out in cold sweat: "You Speak clearly! What happens to the 'big squid' in the deep sea when the stars are in the correct position?"

"The big squid will be unlimited!" Tyre was so anxious that tears almost fell, "I missed the meal!"

Gawain: "...what?!"

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