"I didn't expect him to be the Pope at all..." Opal whispered to Raymond across the dining table, "It doesn't look as big as Sid."
Raymond's fork twirled between his fingers, his face seemed to be thinking, and after a while he asked, "Has he arranged accommodation for you?"
Opal pointed to the distance and said, "Let me live in the Forgotten Promenade, I am alone. I asked him if he could let you come over, and he said yes, but you can only go in during the day and go back to the dormitory at night. ."
Opal and Raymond were placed in different places, and Raymond said, "Just wait and see."
Opal said: "He even asked me to call him 'Your Majesty'. I wonder if the shepherd is also in the grip of light now."
Raymond said: "When I went to go through the formalities just now, I contacted Iszur and the teacher in the Ringwind Galaxy once."
Opal said: "How do you say?"
Raymond said: "I contacted in your name. Cororin is not in the grip of the Rotary Light, and he hasn't gone back yet. The shepherd is already in the Meteorite Palace."
Opal asked again: "What is the teacher doing in Huanfeng? Didn't he originally plan to stay in Alex's administrative star province?"
Raymond said: "He went to a man named Justin Rodman..."
"Uncle!" Opal exclaimed.
Raymond nodded and said, "After the last time we were at the White Falcon Star, the empire may have been instructed by the upper echelons to let Justin enter the military system."
Opal narrowed his eyes and nodded slowly.
Raymond asked, "When will your homework start? I'll follow you?"
Opal suddenly remembered, glanced at the time, and said, "Oops, the time will come soon, hurry up."
Raymond finished lunch in two or three, and the two walked quickly through the garden. Opal slowed down when they passed the Forgotten Promenade, and came to a door.
"This is his study." Opal whispered towards Raymond.
Raymond nodded, opened the door for him, and saw Drummond sitting in a large velvet armchair, Opal said, "Sorry for keeping you waiting, Your Majesty."
Gleibini said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, tens of thousands of years have passed, not less than a few minutes. Let's start today's lecture."
Opal nodded, and Gleibney said, "You can sit as you like, be at ease, don't be too restrained. What are you doing standing there?"
Raymond bowed, consciously closed the study door, and stood outside as a guard.
Opal looked around, the study was very classically decorated, and he thought of Tifeng and the library of the Prophet he had said.
"I have a lot of questions for you, sir." Opal went to the table by the window, where there was a coffee maker and only one cup.
In the study, large and small crystal balls are suspended with anti-gravity technology, each crystal ball is filled with water, and one or more goldfish are raised in the spherical goldfish tank, reflecting the gorgeous sunlight.
"That's what I prepared for you," Gleibney said.
Opal looked up at the goldfish bowl and asked, "Can someone bring in another cup?"
Gleibney said: "No, I don't drink coffee, I'll take medicine later."
Opal's heart moved, drink medicine? Cororin also mentioned earlier that the Pope's time is running out... Will he die? But according to Lecter, the soul of this person is truly immortal, and the weakness of the body is just a matter of changing the body for him.
Gleibney yawned and said, "Draw a card, let's talk about who wins."
Opal: "… "
Opal thought this was indeed his style, so he drew a card in the past, Opal drew a king, and Gleibney drew a 2.
Opal said: "Sir, I want to ask about the wheel of time..."
Gleibney: "No, 2 is bigger than king. When playing thirteen cards, 2 is the biggest. I should ask you."
Opal didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Okay."
Gleibney said: "Did Corolin mentioned a phantom prince named Igna? What did he say?"
Opal: "!!!"
He didn't expect that Gleibney would ask such a straightforward question. After thinking for a long time, he replied: "Teacher he... thinks that Nolan is his mentor, and he exists to pursue the truth of the universe... Let me think... "
Opal details to Glebney what he said about Nolan when he lived with Coroline. The Pope just listened with his eyes closed, his frail teenage body shrunk under the blanket, the sunlight pouring in from the window and shining on him, making him look unusually thin.
"That's about it," Opal said.
Gleibney did not speak, as if asleep.
Opal: "… "
"Your Majesty?" Opal felt like he was being tricked.
Gleibney opened his eyes wearily and said, "You know less than I thought."
Opal was speechless.
Gleibney yawned and scratched his neck tediously. Just as he was about to say something, there was a knock on the door. A bishop with glasses and a golden robe came in, holding a silver bowl in his hand, saying: : "Your Majesty, take your medicine."
Opal saw the dark green potion in the bowl, just like the body fluid of the acid beast, Gleibney held the bowl with one hand, and his eyes signaled Opal to draw cards.
"It's my time to ask." Opal had a queen, and the Pope had a seven.
The Pope drank the medicine, handed the silver bowl to the bishop, and nodded.
I don't know why, Opal glanced at the bishop and changed his question. He originally wanted to ask about his father, but there were others around him. He didn't want to discuss in front of others, and said: "Pastor Same last name as you?"
"Yes." Gleibney nodded with admiration in his eyes: "In a sense, he is my adopted son, or in other words, he would have become another me, but the timing was not right, and when he met There was another incident that forced me to walk away without occupying his body, so I ended up adopting him."
Opal nodded slowly. He remembered that Rector said that Pope Drummond's life is continued in different bodies. According to his understanding, this continuation should be to cultivate a fetus and enter the body of the fetus...
The archbishop bowed and said goodbye. After leaving, Opal recalled the question just now and said, "The teacher didn't tell me anything, he knows a lot."
Gleibini touched a cube of sugar and put it in his mouth, and said, "Cololin? I suspect that he knows almost nothing about what he is about to do, and only insists on using force, sabotage and other means to solve all problems. …”
Opal said: "No no, Your Majesty, I think the teacher's belief is stronger than anyone else..."
Gleibney said: "Faith is something of the Star Knights, only Rector believes in this thing, even Igna, the founder of the Star Knights, never mentioned the word 'faith', it is only a five-dimensional The soul in the world is just a projection in our branch universe, are you sure that this thing really exists in the world?"
Opal: "Yes... well, I don't understand what you're talking about."
Gleibney said: "Forget it, if you have it, you can. Next question."
Opal said: "Wait, can you explain in more detail?"
Gleibney said, "Wait, I'll answer your questions when it's your turn."
The two drew cards, and Opal asked.
He raised the most important question of the trip.
"My father's name is Logan." Opal said, "Your Majesty, I don't know if you still remember him. He is related to the Wheel of Time."
"I remember." Gleibney said, "I may forget other things, but I always remember about the wheel of time. You are Logan's son, and Cororin sent someone to deliver it to me in five years. A letter. It mentioned your background. I think it should be a very interesting story why you were discovered by Cororin."
Opal said: "The teacher also wants to ask this question, where is the Wheel of Time now?"
Glebney shook his head.
Opal asked again: "What mission did it set off with? Is it just exploration?"
Gleibney closed his eyes and said after a long time, "So to speak, explore the origin and meaning of our world's existence."
Opal said: "I know that it brought back the phantom people when it returned for the first time. What does this have to do with the Knights of the Stars? Everything the teacher did did not tell me, is it related to the phantom people? They are from the fifth dimension. space?"
"Yes." Gleibney said: "Strictly speaking, the world where the phantom star is located was originally a four-dimensional universe almost the same as ours. It is one of many parallel universes. You can assume that in In another mirror universe, there are some people just like us, their time flies faster than this universe, their history is longer, they evolve slowly, and finally they become phantoms without a body but only a soul."
Opal narrowed his eyes and asked, "Then what? How much do you know about the wheel of time and the migration of the phantom people?"
Gleibney snapped his fingers and said, "Then, these intelligent beings began to explore the five-dimensional world, and some changes occurred in the process. They wandered in the gap between the fourth and fifth dimensions, and were found by the wheel of time and brought with them. back to our universe."
Opal nodded, keenly feeling that his father's third exploration must be related to this matter, and asked, "What happened?"
Gleibney suddenly fell silent and winked at Opal.
Opal: "?"
Is someone eavesdropping
There were only the two of them in the study, and Raymond was standing outside. Opal's heart was pounding, and he felt that Gleibney's move seemed to have some deep meaning.
However, before he could think about it, Gleibini said: "I will give you a homework, there are three questions in it, take it back and think about it, of course, you can also ask your guard for help, when you get these three questions I think you'll understand a lot of things when you answer that question."
Opal knew that there must be some kind of eavesdropping mechanism here, and it is not convenient for even Gleibney to say more, but who can install eavesdropping devices in the Pope's study? Has it gotten so serious
He nodded thoughtfully, and Gleibney said: "The first question, there is a group of monkeys living in a greenhouse with special restrictions..."
Opal: "?"
Glebney: "?"
Opal heard a term he had never encountered before and asked, "What is a monkey?"
Gleibney: "…"
"Monkeys are..." Gleibney was a little hard to say, and then changed his words: "There is a group of Pom."
"Oh," Opal said.
Gleibney said: "Forget it, let's use monkeys. There is a group of monkeys living in a greenhouse. They can eat the food produced in the greenhouse every day. It is not too rich, but it can barely survive."
Opal nodded slowly, Gleibney said: "And the rules of this greenhouse are: you can only go out, you can't enter. After leaving the greenhouse, the outside world may be a desert, or it may be a more abundant food and a wider orchard, Of course there may be nothing, the monkeys don't know what's out there, and occasionally monkeys leave the greenhouse, but without exception, they never come back."
Opal asked, "Do the monkeys know this rule?"
"Very good..." Gleibney said, with a hypnotic murmur in his voice, "they don't know any rules of the greenhouse area itself, or even why the boundaries of the greenhouse exist, except for one thing - the The companions are gone."
Opal hummed, and Gleibney added: "This is the monkey's point of view, but from our, the experimenter's point of view, there is a wider living space outside, and there is no need to worry about any danger. Suppose you are a monkey. One of you, you know this from a certain way, what do you need to do to make the monkeys live a better and happier life? Is it necessary to do this? And the motivation for doing it. This is first question."
Opal: "… "
"Second question," Gleibney asked. "Do you believe that humans have souls?"
Opal nodded and said, "I believe."
Gleibney said: "What is the soul, answer me now, don't use what Cororin taught you, tell me with your own understanding."
Opal thought for a while and said, "The soul is formed from birth and gradually... A sign that distinguishes a person from another individual, I think it is like this, it is the spirit of human beings' independent existence."
Gleibney said, "So do you think animals have souls? For example, a monkey."
Opal said: "I still don't know what a monkey is."
Glebney: "That doesn't matter, like a pom?"
Opal said, "Should... have? Yes."
Gleibney said again: "Then a bird?"
Opal: "Yes, of course birds do."
Gleibney: "Does an earthworm have a soul? Or an ant, an insect?"
Opal: "… "
"It seems... yes," Opal said. "Do ants have brains? They can think, they can move things, and yes, what about earthworms? I don't know, Your Majesty."
Opal remembered the earthworm that had attacked him and Raymond. The earthworm seemed to know something. There was always a difference between an earthworm and another earthworm. If you duplicate two earthworms, then the duplicates are equal to two Ontology? impossible.
He simply defined the soul, saying, "Whatever has life has a soul."
"What about microbes?" asked Gleibney.
Opal was stunned.
Gleibney said: "What about the virus?"
Opal: "… "
Gleibney said: "It's gone too far, now I ask you the second question - when does a person have his own soul?"
Opal also knows a little about the formation of life from the knowledge he has learned before. However, this problem seems to be more complicated. Is it the first second that the newborn leaves the mother's body and comes to this world? So what about the babies in the pods? The first moment when you open your eyes and see the world? It doesn't seem right either.
Is it the moment when a sperm and an egg fuse to become a fertilized egg
No, the fertilized egg was not conscious at that time.
"The third question." Gleibney put his hands and fingers apart and pressed each other in front of him, thinking thoughtfully: "Human life is made of carbon."
Opal said: "Yes, I know this, carbon-based life is the most common life form in the universe."
Glebney moved his fingers slightly and asked, "Why is it carbon-based that gives us the wisdom to think about it all, and nothing else?"
Opal said: "This...because the number of electrons on the periphery of carbon...only four? It can interact with many elements..."
Gleibney interrupted Opal's explanation and asked, "Why does carbon have four electrons on the periphery?"
Opal said: "When the universe was formed... it was created."
Gleibney added: "Atoms, electrons, molecules, photons, they all have their own characteristics and laws."
Opal said: "That's right, the law!"
Gleibney: "Why is there such a complex law that the world just started like this and evolved like this, and finally reproduced life as complex as humans?"
Opal: "!!!"
Gleibney said: "Where do the laws come from? They exist in the world from the beginning? Four fundamental forces constrain the operation of all particles. These rules are naturally generated? Sociology, economics, Physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc... Why do these complex laws exist?"
Opal said: "The rules are actually summed up by people."
"But even if no one tries to sum it up, these patterns still exist," Gleibney said.
Opal: "… "
"Yes." Opal suddenly felt a little scalp tingling.
"Three questions, take it back and think." Gleibini said, "I believe you will soon know what your father thought."