As expected.
By the time the father and son returned home, Zheng Xia had already set the table with the food. She didn't ask anything, just smiled and called for them to eat.
At the dinner table, the family of three ate happily. If it weren't for the fact that Lin Beichen and Lin Xiangdong had already changed clothes but their hair was still damp, it would have seemed as if nothing had just happened.
"Lao Ba, Mother, I'm full. You can take your time."
After speaking, Lin Beichen got up and walked towards his bedroom. He wanted to go back to his room and savor the insight he had just gained about Thunderbolt.
Zheng Xia looked at his back with a loving and gentle smile and softly said, "Okay, you should rest well too."
She watched Lin Beichen walk into his bedroom.
Like a Sichuan opera face-changer, her expression instantly turned into one of questioning as she turned to look at Lin Xiangdong.
"Lao Lin, what's going on? I asked you to call our son back, but you went and stood in the rain with him. You didn't even say anything. If the neighbors saw..."
"His Mom, put off scolding me for a moment. I need to talk to you about Chenchen's situation."
Lin Xiangdong waved his hand, interrupting Zheng Xia's chatter, his face serious and solemn.
Seeing his expression, Zheng Xia's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly asked, "Chenchen's situation? What situation? What did you two talk about outside just now?"
"I feel like this college entrance exam was quite a blow to Chenchen."
Lin Xiangdong sighed and continued worriedly, "Just now outside, he came back to his senses and told me that he wasn't standing in the rain because he did poorly on the exam, but because he wanted to study the Thunderbolt in the sky and wanted to control Thunderbolt. What kind of talk is that? I'm wondering if I should take him to the hospital to get him checked out?"
"This... this..."
After listening, Zheng Xia was flustered for a moment, but quickly, she sorted out the jumbled thoughts in her mind. She glanced at Lin Beichen's room; the door was tightly shut, as if it were the closed door to his heart. Lowering her voice, she whispered, "Lao Lin, let's put off taking Chenchen to the hospital for a day or two. Don't provoke him; let him adjust himself first. What we need to do is keep a close eye on his every move these next few days and make sure he doesn't do anything out of line."
"Okay, I understand."
...
While the old couple outside the door were still worrying about Lin Beichen, inside the door, Lin Beichen was already sitting at his desk, sighing.
"No clue!"
Lin Beichen tried to enter that feeling again by relying on memory, but he couldn't do it at all. Moreover, it was as if he had never had that feeling before, which made him extremely distressed.
"How should I continue?"
"Could it be that this Heaven-Defying comprehension talent makes it difficult to comprehend cultivation methods?"
"But what was that feeling from before all about?"
"There must still be a problem with the approach or method!"
...
Lin Beichen's brain worked at high speed. Suddenly, as if enlightened, he found the "key point".
As the saying goes, a tall building starts from the ground!
If he wanted to create a cultivation method...
Shouldn't he start with the most basic things?
Comprehending the cultivation method step by step through accumulation?
Instead of thinking of achieving it all at once!
...
Instantly, Lin Beichen's mind opened up. When he had entered that feeling state before, what he seemed to see was the process from the origin to the dissipation of lightning. In other words, it was the life of lightning. Since that was the case, couldn't the first step be to start by understanding the essence of lightning?
He quickly opened his computer and searched for the two words "lightning".
Instantly!
Countless entries appeared on the computer screen.
【Lightning is a phenomenon of electrical discharge between clouds, between clouds and the ground, or between different parts within a cloud. Cumulonimbus clouds typically generate electrical charges, with the bottom layer being negatively charged and the top layer positively charged. Positive and negative charges attract each other, and when the two types of charges get close to a certain distance, an electrical spark appears.】
Lin Beichen nodded thoughtfully. This was largely consistent with the scene he saw before the formation of lightning in that feeling state. Looking at it this way, what he saw at the time wasn't a scene imagined out of thin air in that feeling state, but the actual cloud layers in the sky!
【When the accumulated electrical sparks reach a certain quantity, a strong electric field is formed between different parts within the cloud or between the cloud and the ground.】
Up to this point, it was still the build-up before the formation of lightning!
The scenes he saw before were like watching a silent film, only vaguely understanding the meaning. But now, by checking these materials, it was like adding interpretive subtitles to that silent film.
Understanding doubled!
【Driven by the strong electric field, the free charges in the cloud quickly move towards the ground. During the movement, electrons collide with air molecules, causing the air to become slightly ionized and emit a faint light. This is also called a discharge pulse.】
【The process of lightning appearing is actually a series of discharge pulses.】
【The intervals between these pulses are very short, only a few hundredths of a second. The pulses follow one after another, with subsequent pulses traveling along the path of the first pulse, repeating and cycling endlessly.】
【Since each pulse discharge consumes a large amount of the charge accumulated in the thunderstorm cloud, the subsequent main discharge process becomes progressively weaker until the charge reserves in the thunderstorm cloud are exhausted, at which point the pulse discharge stops, thus ending a lightning process.】
So that's how it is!
After understanding the process of lightning from formation to dissipation, Lin Beichen had a strange feeling. It wasn't like he was about to enter that feeling state from before again, but rather a feeling that he was about to figure something out.
Indescribable, unclear!
"Hmm, lightning-related news?"
At this moment, looking at the entries in 【Related Searches】, he couldn't help but click on them.
【6 lightning strikes hit the same spot near the White House, resulting in 3 deaths and 1 injury.】
【Struck by lightning seven times and survived! Roy Cleveland Sullivan was a park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in the Beautiful Country. Between 1942 and 1977, he was struck by lightning seven times. He survived all seven strikes, and people called him the "Human Lightning Rod"!】
【A man from the Corrupt Country, Samford, was struck by lightning 3 times in his life. He survived two times before death. Even his grave was not spared after his death and was tragically struck by lightning!】
【...】
Looking at these entries, Lin Beichen's strange feeling grew stronger. It was as if he was about to grasp something!
Why would multiple lightning bolts strike the same spot consecutively?
There are so many people in the world...
Why would some people be struck by lightning multiple times, and why would some people not even escape being struck by lightning after death, such an outrageous thing?
...
Lin Beichen fell into deep thought. Question marks kept swirling in his mind. He habitually wanted to cross his arms.
And just as his fingertip brushed against his clothes.
"Crackle--!"
An electrical spark, barely visible to the naked eye, flickered; static electricity was generated!
The stimulation on his fingertip made Lin Beichen jump. His groggy head instantly cleared, as if his Ren and Du meridians had been opened. The question marks in his mind shattered and reformed into two words--
Electric charge!
