Chapter 69 Hometown
"Gulugulu, Gulugulu", Vivian held a ball-shaped part that was coming to Freya in one hand and rolled around on the gentle ramp. Every time the metal sphere was thrown out of her hand, it would roll back back to her hand again. Vivian's eyes were always staring at the sphere, her eyebrows were frowning tightly, and she couldn't figure out why this phenomenon occurred.
"Did you figure it out?" Lina and Catherine looked aside for a while and lost interest. They turned around and sorted out their own things. After a while, they found that Vivian was still rolling the ball over there. They couldn't help asking: "Looking at how hard you play, it seems that you haven't figured it out yet. But I don't understand it very much. I have seen a lot of things that subvert our common sense along the way. Why are you only interested in this? Is there anything special?"
"Ah? It's nothing special, but the things we saw before also subvert common sense, but the meaning is completely different from this ramp." Vivian continued to play the game of rolling ball subconsciously and replied casually: "The ones I saw before can only be said to be rare, but they did not really subvert some basic knowledge. However, this ramp is different. The phenomenon here subverts the most basic mechanics common sense and is very research-worthy. And think about it, sister, what will happen if a large amount of water flows through here? We have tried it just now, and the water will also flow up along the ramp. So what if the amount of water is large? All the water will gather along the ramp to a high place, and the more it gathers, and in the end it will become like a water ball. This is too weird and it will not happen at all."
"Your words are contradictory." Vivian's explanation was relatively simple, and Catherine quickly understood what she meant. Her eyes looked up along the ramp: "If you imagined that water would really gather upwards... no matter what direction you think, it seems that there is a problem."
"That's why I've been thinking, but...oh." Vivian suddenly exclaimed. While speaking, she kept repeating the previous action of throwing the ball. As a result, this time she was distracted. On the way of rolling, the metal ball encountered a raised tree root and was bounced into the air by an obstacle. As a result, everyone was surprised again. The metal ball popped out to the side, and suddenly a horizontal acceleration process appeared in the air, drawing a crooked arc. Finally, it smashed Pannis's foot.
"What." Even in his sleep, Panis was still alert to the situation outside. He felt the threat in a daze. He subconsciously curled up and avoided the coming metal ball. He opened his eyes blankly and looked around, asking in confusion: "What's going on? Why did I feel like something was going to hit me just now."
"That's just an illusion, yes, an illusion." The girls looked at each other and said in unison: "There was nothing just now."
"So it's an illusion." Panis's muscles trembled, and he picked up the metal ball that stopped in a tree and threw it back to Freya: "Why do you think of playing with this kind of thing?"
"By the way, Panis. Come and see." Vivian ran over and grabbed Panis's hand, pulled her hard to the position she was standing just now, and reiterated the experiment just now with great enthusiasm, raised her head and looked at him seriously and asked, "You have much more experience than me, do you know what's going on?"
"Interesting." Panis did not touch the metal ball, but instead knelt down on the ramp. He bent down and pressed his hand on the ground, fumbled carefully bit by bit. After a while, he straightened his waist again and frowned: "It's certainly not the influence of magnetism. This behavior is a bit like a space abnormality."
"Do you twist the space?" Vivian's eyes lit up and she said excitedly: "Do you think it's a problem with space?"
"It's just a bit like, but not twisted, but overlapping." Panis said: "It should be that there are more than two spaces overlapping on this ramp. This situation happens by chance, which is not rare. However, theoretically speaking, when space overlaps, the current space will be the main one, and the rest of the space overlapping with the current space is equivalent to a phantom and will not affect the main space. But here is different. For example, suppose there are only two spaces overlapping here, the main space is the uphill we see, and the overlapping space is a lower one.
Slope. What we see and touch now is still the uphill slope of the main space, but what has a mechanical impact on us is the downhill slope of the overlapping space. If the slope angles of the two spaces are the same, I think the metal ball will be stationary in place, and the slope of the downhill is obviously higher than the uphill, so this phenomenon of east-west rolling towards the uphill direction occurs. Of course, these are all my guesses. I just sensed that the space here has signs of overlap and then made inferences based on this sign."
"But if this is the case, what if there is a flood?" Vivian repeated the question he had just discussed with Catherine: "Will an overground lake form on the top of the slope?"
"It shouldn't be. Judging from the speed of the metal ball rolling, the slope of the overlapping space downward is not very steep." Panis shook his head and said, "Water gathers upwards and reaches a certain volume, because its own weight is too large..."
"I understand, the mechanics problem." Vivian suddenly interrupted Panis's commentary, took out his notebook and started recording, completely ignoring everything outside. Panis was blocked as soon as he said a word, coughed a few times, and shook his head helplessly with a wry smile.
"I don't understand the space problem very much." Seeing Pannis' pitiful look, Catherine covered her mouth and chuckled: "However, Vivian had just studied it for half an hour but couldn't figure it out, but you seemed to understand it just after a glance."
"If you have a friend who is so enthusiastic about space knowledge that he will do anything, and once you get excited, you will explain it to others in part of the time and place, then you will understand it at a glance." Panis said with a wry smile: "If it is another problem, maybe I can't see anything now, but if it is a space problem, I still..."
"What's wrong with you?" Panis said halfway, his body suddenly stiffened, and he stood still, his expression became very strange. His performance scared Catherine, thinking that he had been attacked by something, and he didn't even have time to take the shield. The charge of the support was activated instantly. His figure flashed and had appeared behind Panis, blocking his back with his body and fighting shield.
"I'm fine, I'm fine, don't be nervous." Catherine's actions made Pannis feel inexplicably moved, but he forced the touch back to his heart and whispered: "I just suddenly thought of something, and I was a little distracted."
"You can't be so scary even if you are distracted." Catherine gave him a dissatisfied look: "What surprised you so much?"
Panis did not speak, but turned his gaze toward Vivian and turned his eyes. So, Catherine immediately repeated Panis's previous performance, his body was stiff and his body was still motionless, his lips were trembling slightly and unable to make a sound, but he just looked at Panis's eyes with an inquiring gaze. Panis nodded and whispered: "I probably understand how those goblins hide their secrets. I really didn't expect them to do this. Maybe we did something very stupid, well, maybe not, the stupidest behavior is just like this."
"Tell me clearly." Catherine said anxiously: "Where are they hiding? And, what stupid things are we doing?"
"Wait for me to sort out my thoughts." Panis shook his head and said, "It should be right this time."
"Shh, you guys are quiet first." Lina didn't know when she was standing beside the two of them, pointed outside the woods, and lowered her voice: "Did you see that thing?"
After being interrupted by Lina, the two of them looked in the direction she pointed. The temperature outside seemed to drop a little, and many powerful predators emerged from their shaded nests and searched for prey on the open cave grass. Just then, several monsters came outside the woods where the adventure group was located.
Lina's surprise makes sense, because everyone is familiar with the monsters that appear outside the woods. It is not accurate to say that they are familiar with each other, because no one of the girls has seen the true face of this monster, but each of them grew up listening to the legend of this monster. They remember the appearance and characteristics of this monster very clearly, and they would never make a mistake.
This is a very special group of monsters, and only seven or eight together form a community. Their appearance is very similar to lions and their living habits are very close. The males have a very powerful long mane and are strong in their bodies, while the females are relatively thin and flexible, and consciously surround the males. Although they look like lions, no one will regard them as lions because they have a pair of wide wings stretching out on their ribs. Moreover, their tails are not the tail of the lions, but are reversed and upturned like shoes. The tip of the tail extends out a sharp and swaying barb in the air in the breeze.
"Scorpion tail lion?" Catherine covered her mouth and exclaimed: "One of the heroes a hundred years ago was the Scorpion tail lion. How did they appear here? Legend has it that Scorpion tail lions should live in another world."
Chapter completed!