It won't be too uncomfortable in the dark, perhaps I already belong to a group that deviates from the sunshine. Monica didn't want to do anything, just lay on the ground in a big shape, letting time pass. At this moment, her originally chaotic emotions seemed to disappear, as she indulged her consciousness and body. She, who gave up everything, felt a different world. I really don't know if this is unfortunate or lucky, and Monica can only let herself wander in that unknown feeling.
"Monica?" A probing cry came in from the entrance of the basement. Monissa, who was sitting in front of the huge goat sink, just responded with a single tone.
The Countess, who walked in cautiously, was trying to recognize the position of the floor from the dim light. Stacks of books and notes pile up on the ground, diligently carrying out their additional tasks, hindering anyone unfamiliar with the area.
Finally walking up to Monica's side, Yanni glanced at the huge demon trapped in the amniotic fluid tank. "Still looking like this loser, this guy."
"Sorry..."
"Ah~?" I was slightly surprised by the pronunciation I just heard. Yan Ni thought for a while before asking, "Sorry for what?"
"Just now... it seemed too impolite..."
"Oh! That's it! It's not bad." Yanni waved her hand and wanted to continue saying something, but when she thought of another thing, she asked back, "What's wrong with you lately? You look restless. If you're tired, take a good rest for a while."
"It's okay! It's just that I've been thinking about things from the past a lot lately."
"Recalling past events? Hmm~I don't understand. I'm probably too young to experience this feeling."
Under the pretext of age being used as a mockery, Monica retaliated reluctantly. "Young! She's already in her thirties, and boasting about being young doesn't make her blush?"
"Haha! I'm only twenty-nine, two to nineteen. It's not even thirty yet."
"What's so amazing? My age in the tens is also two!"
"But there's still a three in front of you!"
"Even if I'm four, five, or six in front of me, I still look like this and won't change."
Yan Ni, who was still wanting to say something, suddenly shut up. Her originally sharp and sarcastic expression calmed down and turned into a gentle smile, saying, "You can still argue. It seems like there's nothing wrong."
With an unconvinced face and ready to engage in a verbal altercation, Monica was also stunned by such a sentence. The two people who looked at each other remained silent for a short period of time, and then both of them let out soft laughter.
After wiping away the tears that flowed from her smile, Yanni looked at the demon whose eyes, ears, mouth, and nose were sewn up and said, "Did you just think about this guy?"
Shaking her head, Monica also restrained the smile on her face. "No! I was really daydreaming just now."
"Why does it look like you're lost in thought?"
"It's strange to be able to distinguish."
"I have nothing to do. Is it too free? How about I introduce a good man to you?"
Looking at Yan Ni's eager expression, Monica waved her hand uninterested and said, "Thank you, I don't need it."
"Why? It feels completely different to have someone by your side."
"No, I just don't trust your judgment."
A fatal blow, Yan Ni was unable to speak for a long time. After she regained her senses, she murmured, "He... he... actually he's not bad either! It's just that... he's a bit bored..." Later on, whether Yan Ni could hear her voice was also a question.
Extending her index finger to poke the Countess's embarrassed face, Monica smiled and said, "What's going on? Surrender like this? Don't you find a way to help him find some advantages?"
"Mmm~Embarrassing me! You know it clearly." Yan Ni crossed her hands in front of her chest in displeasure, pouting and turning her head to look elsewhere.
"Mmm~" Looking into the amniotic fluid tank, the demon still maintained his huge and ugly appearance unchanged. The slightly trembling fingers and the undulating chest attracted Yan Ni's gaze. "Is he still alive?"
Watching Monica nod in agreement, Yanni pouted and said, "You're really tough."
"Actually, this guy is not weak, even more powerful than you and me in terms of magic."
"Mmm~I don't know." Yan Ni turned her head to look at Monica in confusion. "It was easy to play back then."
"Actually, even if you work together with Jess, he shouldn't just lose so easily. That's just being completely outdone by you in terms of momentum. He hasn't fully exerted his original strength. I've been playing around with him lately, how could I not know?"
"Simply put, if you're scared, you're considered a loser."
"How many people won't be scared when they see you and Jess looking like they're going to eat people?"
"Still talking about you! I don't even think about how you look. Otherwise, let's go out and ask those present that day to see who they think is more terrifying."
"Stop making trouble!"
"Ah~" "Ah~" The two of them sighed together.
"By the way!" Monica looked up at Yanni and asked, "How did you feel when Qiqi, who was resurrected, used the Heroic Sword on the side? Say it again, okay?"
"Mmm~" Yan Ni tilted her head and thought for a moment. "It's not just the feeling of two people fighting together, but also a little bit more. Constraints, spells, and even emotions. The pressure, power, and intuition of two people are like having an outsider intervene in the battle."
"Outsider? Who?" Monica squinted her eyes, pondering the feelings behind it.
"The battle is like a hero's sword in battle, and Qiqi, as an outsider, guides the power of the hero's sword. Looking at the entire battle as an outsider, it feels like someone is sitting in a special class seat watching the battle, grabbing their own weaknesses. Once something goes wrong, they will be corrected by the opponent's combat posture at the fastest speed, and then attack. Actually, asking Jess should be clearer. I haven't fought head-on with Qiqi before, and the feeling she gave me when she took action is probably like this."
Biting her thumb nail, Monica stared at the amniotic fluid tank in front of her and whispered, "Hmm~that's exactly the feeling. That method should be correct..."
"Ah~What?"
"No! We're still researching. I'll let you know the results together."
"Oh!" Yan Ni casually flipped through a few pages of notes placed aside, frowning at the strange symbols and saying, "Are these strange things necessary for learning alchemy? Why haven't I even read them? It doesn't seem like that in my impression."
"Hmm~? Oh! No, that's not it. That's a special symbol text used by my teacher, which is quite different from some alchemy knowledge outside. But after some comparison and transformation, it is still similar. It just means that the things the teacher uses can be explained in a simpler way and can also explain more things. So I habitually use the teacher's set."
"Really? I remember your teacher was called 'Aofang'. What was the first time you met?"
Suddenly asked, Monica almost got knocked down. Striving to recall the past hundreds of years ago, the hidden memories did not fade away due to time. They appeared vividly in front of me, just like floating on the surface of the water.
Monica walked weakly on the road connecting cities, the pale sky as if telling others that dawn was coming. Wearing ordinary clothes, Monica is almost like dying in such a situation. When the first ray of dawn enters her pupils, it is the end of her life, but no one knows whether she doesn't care or is not conscious of worrying about such things now.
Passengers have been traveling back and forth on the commercial road, while Monica just walked aimlessly until someone bumped into her.
"Stinky old man, dare you provoke us? Are you living impatiently?" A group of armed adventurers cursed.
The people around began to avoid it, after all, it was not a wise choice to provoke an armed adventure group.
An old man stood up from the ground and patted the dust off his body, without looking at the other person at all.
"Damn it! You don't even know how to say an apology. It's fortunate that you live so old, you don't even understand this basic courtesy. Go to hell, old man!" The adventurers cursed in a threatening tone.
The old man finally had some reaction. "Little girl, help me pick up the spell book on the ground and give it to me."
Standing next to the old man who knocked her down, Monica didn't know if she was watching what had just happened, but she just instinctively stopped. She paused for a while before realizing that the old man was calling her. Bending down, he picked up the book that had fallen to the ground and flipped it over, then handed it over to the old man in its unfolded form.
The old man didn't even turn the pages, so he started singing the spells recorded on the unfolded pages of the book. At this moment, the group of adventurers who noticed that they wanted to stop the old man had already regretted not taking early action.
"Qisha Qisha Medis Marinaya, the blazing fire hidden in the depths of hell, summons you to appear in the world today and obey my commands to teach the enemies in front of you. Level 6 Black Magic, 'Dark Storm'!"
The black flame vortex like attack of the wide-ranging attack swallowed up all the rude group of people. The old man was stunned for a moment before touching his back and laughing, "Hahaha! I didn't expect to recite the magic of the wide-ranging attack. Fortunately, they were not close to him."
Seeing several adventurers lose their lives in an instant, the other travelers present were frightened and fled, except for one person whose behavior was different.
"Hey! Little girl!" The old man called out to Monica as she slowly walked away. "Hey! It's almost sunrise, and the feeling of dying is very unpleasant."
Upon hearing the old man's insightful words, Monica stopped in her tracks. She turned to look at the elderly gentleman wearing a black suit and a big cloak, with countless questions on her face.
The old man took off his cloak and threw it onto Monica. "If there's nowhere to go, just follow me!" After speaking, he bent down to pick up what he had just dropped. And Monica just pulled her cloak to cover her expression.
An old man named Aofang who exists in pursuit of countless knowledge in the world. This is the old man's self introduction.
On the first floor of a strange six story ancient pagoda, there are countless books and medicines piled up inside. Monica walked in for the first time, her previously confused mood swept away by the pile of debris, as if she didn't believe there were such people in the world. The accompanying cleaning and tidying up leaves no time for troubles to appear, and I can't figure out why I'm doing this, probably to avoid certain things I don't want to face. So, a vampire with nowhere to go stayed by the side of a strange old man.
A period of time has passed. During these times, it took Monica ten days to organize the house into a visible and accessible road. It took another thirty days to roughly categorize everything, and the reason it took thirty days was that the newly arranged items were immediately messed up.
For the next five days, Monica fell ill and couldn't move in bed. When the Austrian side found it on the fourth day, he went out to pick a flower and taught Monissa how to absorb flower essence, which made Monissa return to normal.
According to Aofang's explanation, "Vampires have a vampire lifestyle, and it's not impossible if you don't want to live a vampire's life, but you need to understand other knowledge to live like other types of people. A vampire not only requires energy, but also the supply of essence. The former can be obtained from food starch, protein, etc. The latter, most people think that only the path of vampire can be taken, but it's just a shortcut. In fact, all things in nature can provide it, not just human blood. Perhaps in terms of quality or quantity, blood is much better than most things, because the components of nature basically come from the same thing.".
The primitive elements composed of nature are believed by people in the East to be five types: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, while people in the West believe they are four types: wind, fire, water, and earth. Recently, people in the world of magic believe that there are also elements such as light, dark, air, and thunder, and even say which one is orthodox, or what the correct basic element composition should be. These irrelevant small questions are constantly being talked about. In fact, all are correct, or it can be said that all are wrong.
Before existence begins, there is' nothingness', and then there is time. 'nothingness' is a negative existence. Afterwards, yin and yang were divided into their respective poles, giving birth to the four phenomena. Then, in order to achieve a more stable state, it was added to the Eight Trigrams, Sixteen, Thirty Two... gradually forming the current "color density" state. From some perspectives, color density can be said to be an element, but it can also be said that it forms an element. The current universe is composed of elements, which is nature. Everyone is pursuing the most exquisite things, but I don't know if they are endless, small and small, big and even bigger.
It seems a bit contradictory, but in fact, it's not because 'nothing' cannot be used for any comparison. Therefore, before 'nothing', people can still find tangible things, which is exactly the principle of 'small and smaller'. Just like in the past, people thought that a person was just an individual, but in fact, people can still be separated into various systems, such as the digestive system, circulatory system, etc.
Under the system, there are also organizations, cells, chromosomes, genes, and infinite microscopic things such as ribonucleic acids, molecules, atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, and quarks. Moreover, the addition of the element of 'time' will make everything more complex' There is no need to explain the reason why there is still something bigger.
The only one that can be requested and considered relatively correct among all theories is the binary system, with and without, which is the 01 classification. All things in nature can belong to 1, relative to 0 of 1, which means nothing. Of course, this principle can be applied elsewhere. So what are we supposed to do? Good question.
The path we should take is to pursue what we can use, and the reason why anything appears is that it is useful. For whom is it useful? It is useful for those who use it. Because we need to use it, that's why we use it. In this case, as long as it can be used, it doesn't matter how it is used or even what it is used. When it is necessary to use it, then pursue its principles and identify any factors that may affect it. If it's not necessary, then you don't have to worry about it at all, it's just a waste of your time and patience in pursuing other things. Moreover, there is not only one way to reach a goal. You can laugh at anyone who believes that it is the only way, but don't laugh too loudly to avoid getting beaten up.
In fact, there are infinite ways to achieve something, but it's just a matter of time perspective that you're used to, you know which ones to use in meetings, and which ones are easier to use. A person who believes that there is only one way to reach and that the object follows this path regardless of the situation is a foolish remark made by someone who lacks intelligence. Not to mention arrogant individuals who think they are right but both predecessors and newcomers are wrong. Because under the tide of time, the so-called truth is nothing but a fallacy. What you believe is correct now does not mean it will also be correct a hundred years later. It may be due to the influence of time that it has changed, or it may be because more thorough knowledge has been studied, resulting in it no longer being trusted and respected as it used to be.
For example, if you want to use water to make ice, you can use temperature control to condense the water into ice, which is the practice of most people and is relatively easy to implement. You can also use pressure to compress liquid water into solid ice, but this is related to the factor of gravity, and people who simply live on the continent or only focus on the continent cannot understand its greater power. You can also use the form of light to freely dissipate the energy of water, slowing down the movement of water molecules and turning their outer phase into solid ice. This is a microscopic theory in pioneering pseudology, but the theory of attributing theory to theory is not impossible to apply in magic, just how do you apply it? Do you have that intelligence to think of how to apply it? And the question of whether it can be successful. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean that others can't do it either, and not doing it now doesn't mean you can't do it in the future. Knowledge is just that.
Among so much knowledge in the world, it can be roughly divided into two types. One of the characteristics of this discipline is that it is based on mathematics as the foundation for false learning. The emphasis on evidence is the characteristic of this discipline, and because it is represented by specific numbers, ease of learning is one of its characteristics. The second one is the study of magic based on alchemy, which cannot make a clear conclusion due to its unique characteristics compared to another discipline, and therefore emphasizes experimentation. Because all knowledge comes from firsthand experience, different people may have different outcomes and are more likely to produce different effects at different times. Therefore, without certain abilities and luck, learning is impossible.
That's right, having a fairly sensitive mind is also an important ability to determine which method to use in the current environment. But what does this kind of classification seem to have lost? Yes! Well said, it is willpower. Exchange the power of gods, elves, and demons through prayer or other programs. Although their usage methods cannot be completely separated from what I have said on a large scale, in comparison, their usage methods are different for us. Because that can be considered borrowing the power of others, not oneself. However, there are countless beings in nature who are more powerful than us, or those that we can easily utilize. In a certain way, if we choose an easier path and only pay a small price, why not do it. Nature is so wonderful, you can gain power through other things, or you can overflow the various powers that nature possesses on your own.
Is this classification absolute? Of course not! There are many things that span across the first two categories or possess characteristics of one category, but people classify them in another category, such as medicine. Although it cannot be easily explained using numerical quantification, because the accumulation of experience in medicine aligns with the experience of most people, it is classified as a leading pseudoscience. This example only explains that the difference between the two major fields is not so obvious, and there are many shared truths among them. As a good researcher, there are only two paths you need to take: either devote your entire life to studying a particular subject, or have a comprehensive understanding of everything.
Because concepts in one field can be applied to other fields, this is a common occurrence in academia. But delving into a subject is not just about having an eye on it, but about finding the relationship between anything related to it in the process of seeking it. You can collaborate with others and search for things on your own, but once you find what you need, you no longer focus on non target objects. Only by focusing on your main goal can you gain deeper knowledge. To give another opposite example, it belongs to the magic crystal in professional unions. In an unexpected discovery in the past, people discovered that empirical values can be quantified digitally, which can provide a relatively easy way for most people to distinguish between high and low values. After this discovery, more and more vocational skill experience values are available for quantification, leading to an increasing number of occupational distinctions.
Perhaps in the future, farmers and fishermen will be graded to distinguish. Of course, there are pros and cons to this, but the benefit is that everyone should not waste their breath over who is stronger. The downside is that it can only judge experience, but it negates the genius and some innate conditions. For example, the skin of the dragon race is already relatively thick, and no matter how hard humans try, the skin cannot be thicker than that of the dragon race. We just use various types of armor to make up for this deficiency. "However, the key point of the example just now is that some skills are still ranked first in talent, although diligence can make up for weakness..." At this point, the Austrian side stopped to look at Monica's puzzled expression sitting on the bed with a glass of water and asked, "Do you understand?"
Monica shook her head seriously, while Orfang laughed nonchalantly and said, "Hahaha! I seem to have too much nonsense. It's okay! You have a lot of time to slowly understand." Amidst the laughter, Orfang left his position and returned to his experimental site.
Shaking the cup, I watched the vortex of water appearing in the cup and then regained calmness. She looked up at the back of the old man conducting the experiment, and apart from his already white hair, there was no sense of aging.
After staring at this figure for a long time, Monica finally asked, "Oh... um~Teacher, why am I here?"
"Because I am currently short of manpower to help, and it seems that you can help me for a longer period of time than others."
"Am I useful?"
"Instead of asking that nonsense, why don't you bring me the empty beaker over there? I happen to have an urgent moment here, so I don't have time to chat with you."
Monica was startled by the old gentleman's rude words. But the face that had been sorrowful for a long time finally disappeared today, and a feeling of relaxation appeared on Monica's face. "Oh! Alright." Monica just got out of bed when she heard an explosion.
"Cough cough! Damn it! It exploded again!"
"Mmm~" Listening to Monica's story, Yanni was lost in her past memories. "Monica!"
"What's going on?"
"Can you say that big paragraph again just now?"
"Which section is it?"
"That's the part! That part or something!"
"Oh~Oh!" After thinking through the paragraph that Yanni was referring to, Monica showed an ugly expression. "Do you really want it?"
"It's better to explain."
"Stop making a fuss!" Monica weakly shook her hand. "I still haven't understood most of the content of that paragraph. And I'm just repeating it based on impressions. If I had to say it again, the content might have been different. Not to mention explaining it."
"Is that right?" Yan Ni looked disappointed. Monica could only helplessly say, "That part really doesn't work. Let's not discuss it, okay?"
"Huh~?" Yan Ni asked as if recalling something else, "So after that, will you stay by Teacher Aofang's side as an assistant?"
"Mmm! That's right," Monica nodded. Yan Ni immediately asked, "What about now? If you leave, isn't there anyone to help him?"
"No! The teacher now has a magical artificial doll, and Wei'er is helping him."
"Magical artificial doll?" Yan Ni tried to imagine it, but didn't give up immediately. Continuing to ask, "Is that magical doll before or after you?"
"Wei'er? She was made by me and the teacher together, don't you think?" Monica smiled.
"Speak up, speak up!" Yanni grabbed Monica's hand and shook it.
"What are you saying?"
"Of course, why did it need to be done? How did it start? After the production process, did some of these things happen?"
"Hmph!" Monica smiled and began, "Do you remember that day..."
Days pass like flowing water, but the phrase 'gradually aging' is not suitable for these two people. A white haired old gentleman and a beautiful vampire, a mismatched combination! But the parties involved are not very concerned about such issues, in short, this combination has spent countless winters together. I don't know if this situation will continue into the future, but what they can know is that their statement about this situation must be like this: "Leave the future to the future to solve!"
The previous experiment had just come to an end, and Monica took out some strange books to read, while Orphan was still selecting from his pile of unfinished experiments. Countless materials and files, endless texts, the old gentleman is struggling with distress. Everyone is very interested in doing it, but each one lacks a little introduction.
Just as the Austrian side was preparing to shoot darts to decide on the next experiment, Monica spoke out, "Teacher."
"Ah~What's going on?"
"What does hell look like?"
"There are mellow wines, beautiful women, fragrant meat, forests, and all kinds of beautiful things in the world..."
The more she listened to the old gentleman's description, the more Monica felt something was wrong. "Teacher, I'm asking about hell, right?"
Looking up from the pile of data, Aofang looked at Monica and asked in confusion, "What did I just say?"
After repeating what the Austrian side had just said, Monica only saw the Austrian side confidently bury her head back in the pile of materials and then transmit from the pile of books, "That's right, the place that will make people's hearts infinitely corrupt is not what hell is."
Putting the book in her hand aside, Monica walked slowly to the table to clear a space and sat down. She looked at the troubled old gentleman and asked, "What does heaven look like?"
"That's it here."
Wrinkling his brows, he turned around to look at the chaotic surroundings. Monica held great interest in every word spoken by the Austrian side, and this time it was the same. "But... in that case, what's wrong with hell?" she asked after her
After hearing Monica's words, Aufang looked up seriously. "Of course it's not good. Just think about it, a place can have no worries about food or clothing, and it's all about the unchanging scenery. Living there, as long as you just mix food and drink all day, how terrifying it is! You don't even know what to do, you don't have any desires, let alone anger!"
Watching the old gentleman react fiercely, Monica felt a bit hesitant and scared, but continued to ask. "But everything satisfies one's own desires, and there's no need to put in effort to get angry. What's wrong with that?"
"Wrong, wrong! Anger is necessary, and desire is also necessary. Without these things, happiness cannot be considered at all. Without desire, how can you experience the feeling of satisfaction. Without anger, how can you understand the feeling of happiness. When everything becomes perfect, you don't even understand the goodness of perfection. Moreover, there is no perfect or absolute in the world, and in such illusions, you will lose all willpower. Losing willpower is the terrifying part of hell."
"In that case, as long as you have desire, it's okay. There's no need to be angry. That's not a very annoying feeling, isn't it? The feeling of being angry about something."
"Wrong again! Anger is the power that drives desire." As he spoke, Alfonso stood up from his chair, clenched his fists and shouted up to the sky, "Why can't I do it!" Then he immediately lowered his head and looked at Monica. "It's this feeling that drives you towards the direction you want. You have to be angry, angry about things you haven't done before, in order to want to do and complete them. Anger at the person who angers you drives you to progress, defeat, and solve them. That's right! Anger, anger, anger."
Watching Aofang's angry roar, Monica was a bit scared. The Austrian side continued to roar towards the sky, "Angry! Why is there so much knowledge in this world that I don't know! Why can creators create such a beautiful life! Why... why... why... why..." The Austrian side's voice weakened and became intermittent. According to Monica's understanding, this situation usually occurs when Austrian thoughts are pulled to the other side, while he is contemplating this sudden idea.
"Hello! Little girl!"
"Ah! What's up, teacher?" Monica paused as she looked at the wrinkled face suddenly approaching her.
"Let's be good people."
At this point, Monica suddenly stopped talking. Yan Ni hurriedly asked, "What's next?"
Monica blushed and remained silent. Yanni is still desperately clinging to Monica. "Speak up! Speak up!"
"Anyway, let's start making Wei'er like this!"
A perfunctory answer could not satisfy Yan Ni's curiosity at all, and the childlike Countess was still entangled on the side. But Monica turned her head and looked elsewhere, recalling the events that followed that day on her own
"Do... be a person..." Aufang's strange words made Monica blush and lower her head, unsure of what to do. "I'm not ready yet... not very good, right?"
Listening to the sound of flipping around and the Austrian side's words, "It's strange. I remember there were reference materials left behind before. Where did they go?"
"Also... there are reference materials, don't they?" Monica lowered her head even lower.
"Ah! I found it, that's great! Let's use the props left over from the previous experiment, but we still need to make a few new ones."
"What! We still need props..." This turn was so low that it couldn't be any lower.
"Hey! Little girl, go find the necessary materials listed above!"
"Also... there's a list!" Monica reluctantly moved her head to the paper spread out on the table, only to hear Aufang continue, "I've been planning to make an artificial person to play with since a long time ago. Today, let's take advantage of this anger and implement the plan! Hahaha!"
"You won't go find it yourself! Stinky old man!"
Suddenly scolded, Aofangling stood in place watching Monica stomping away from her back. "It's strange, what's wrong with her?"