When Old Locke and the girl surrounded by them came to the front of the convoy, they saw the "weird" traveler at a glance.
I saw the stranger wearing a black cloak and unable to see his face was squatting on the side of the road. He was holding a vertical tree trunk about one meter long in his left hand and placing it on the flat ground. His right hand is holding a few stones and placing them on the shadow of the tree trunk from time to time.
"What are you doing?"
The girl was attracted by the strange behavior of strangers. She couldn't help asking: "Is it a game? But it doesn't make sense?"
The "lethal power" of the girl's words was quite large, the strange traveler's body was slightly stiff, and even the stone in his right hand fell to the ground.
Old Locke saw the other party's embarrassment, and he quickly interrupted: "Stranger travelers, please don't care... What my niece said, she didn't have any malice."
"It's ok!"
A young voice came from under the black cloak: "I should be sorry, but it has affected everyone's itinerary!"
After hearing a polite answer, Old Locke continued: "Meeting is fate, and the caravan is very willing to accept your participation! However, please follow the rules of the caravan..."
"It's my honor!"
"Hey! You haven't answered my question yet?"
When the girl saw that the other party didn't pay attention to herself, she couldn't help but puffed up her buns and said angrily, "What are you doing?"
The stranger put down the trunk and stones, patted the dust in his hands, and stood up.
"Hehe, I'm not playing a game... I'm determining the direction."
"Determine the direction? Just use these things?"
The girl asked in an incredible tone: "Can you tell me how you determined the direction? If you can't tell, don't blame me for not allowing you to join the team!"
The black-robed man saw the apologetic look cast by Old Lock next to the girl. He smiled and explained: "This is a very simple and practical method..."
"Look, place a one-meter-long vertical tree trunk on a flat ground... Be careful, place it as vertically as possible!"
The stranger squatted down again and picked up the trunk and stones again.
"Use stones to mark the location of the top of the tree shadow. After half an hourglass, mark the new projection position of the top of the tree on the ground..."
"The line connecting the two rocks will tell you the east-west direction, and the direction perpendicular to this line is the north-south direction... At any time of the day, as long as there is sunlight, this method can be applied. In this case, you You can determine the direction you are heading..."
"Huh? What you said seems to make sense..."
The girl turned her big clever eyes, "No! I need to try this method to see if this method is true?"
After rushing around for a while, the girl found that the method the stranger said could indeed tell the direction. This fact made her more interested in the black-robed people.
"Why can you tell the direction by doing this? Do you know the principle of this method?"
Seeing the girl's curious expression, Old Locke hurriedly said in a low voice: "His Royal Highness, let's hurry up first! Wait a while, let this... well, this strange gentleman answer for you."
"Okay, okay, old Locke, you are really long-winded!" The girl reluctantly said: "I will listen to you!!"
"By the way, my name is Cecilia, what is your name?"
"It is a pleasure to be with you, Miss Cecilia! My name is... Victor, Victor Tisrael!"
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After Victor joined the Northland caravan, Cecilia, who had a lot of background, found the person to talk to. Along the way, the curious girl kept asking various questions, which made Victor feel very much. headache.
"Mr. Victor, you haven't told me..."
Through the window of the carriage, Cecilia asked Victor, who was riding a horse outside the carriage, again: "The way to tell the direction...what is the principle?"
"Well, it's also very simple! Miss Cecilia, you should know the principle of light propagation?"
"I know! In Saint Laurent College, I learned this knowledge..."
Cecilia made an endorsement, "Light travels in a straight line in a uniform medium. According to it, we can solve the imaging problem."
"Since you all know, why do you even ask me?"
"But... But the problem is, I know this conclusion, but I don't know how to apply it..."
"..."
Working hard, Victor gave the girl who "knows but not why" a good lesson.
"Wow! Mr. Victor, your knowledge is too profound! Are you a scholar?"
"Scholar? Isn't it... Haha!"
"By the way, when I was studying at Saint Laurent College, I also encountered such a problem..."
Cecilia blinked her big shining eyes, and continued to ask: "A teacher from the academy told me during the course that all the matter on the continent of Walstad is composed of five indivisible elements.' Earth, fire, water, air, and light' are composed because they are created by gods... However, in the process of learning, I discovered that light can be broken down! A beam of white light can be divided into seven different kinds Color... This is the exact opposite of what the teacher taught. Am I wrong? Or is the teacher wrong? Or is the god wrong?"
"Master Scholar, please be sure to resolve my doubts!!"
After Victor heard the question raised by Cecilia, he not only changed to sorrow for the people of Volstad, but their thoughts have been tightly bound by the Temple of Eternity in all aspects, and any one of them must first find out. Consider whether it is consistent with the doctrine...
"Miss Cecilia, before answering this question, I want to ask you... Do you know what God is?"
Victor did not directly answer Cecilia's question, but raised another question.
"What is God?"
Cecilia fell into deep thought. She murmured: "The teacher said that God is the Creator! He combines wisdom, power, and knowledge, and is omnipotent... God is a great being, and he is not what mortals like us do. I can speculate!"
"Mr. Victor, what do you think of the existence of God?"
"In my opinion, God is just a name and a belief..." Victor said in a deep voice, "For believers, God is only a kind of spiritual sustenance! For unbelievers, God It's just a more powerful type of people..."
"Cecilia, if you can abandon the influence of the gods on you in the process of learning, you will find... what we look up to is not the gods! But the endless sea of stars!!!"