The passersby of Ninghai, upon hearing his Cantonese-Mandarin hybrid that sounded understandable yet incomprehensible, eyed him with the same look reserved for a madman, scrutinizing this half-man, half-ghost Western devil.
In Wei at that time, the ancient celestial belief of "the sky is round, the earth is square" still occupied an absolutely mainstream and unquestionably correct position.
Any celestial view that contradicted "the sky is round, the earth is square" would be met with ridicule and attacks from all social strata of Wei.
Yang Ge ignored their sneers and continued to shout, "The sun is actually a fireball many times larger than the spherical world we live on. Our sphere rotates on its axis and also orbits around the sun. A single rotation is a day, and orbiting the sun once is a year..."
"That is to say, when it's dark in Wei, the other half of this sphere is in daylight."
