Chapter 147 Huai Mountain Seeking Knowledge (16)
These few sounds were too faint; Liu Sheng thought she had misheard.
But facts proved her hearing was fine.
Because Senior Sister Nangong also leaned closer to the small room in her hand and softly replied to the behemoth.
“You're welcome.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a tear seemed to slowly drop from the behemoth's squeezed eye corner.
However, before Liu Sheng could see clearly, Senior Sister Nangong tossed her hand, throwing the phantom back into the physical entity, integrating it within.
“Let's go,” Nangong Wan said to Liu Sheng.
“Ah? Oh, okay.” Liu Sheng obediently followed her pace.
Although she didn't know Senior Sister Nangong's purpose, she was also curious about what else was in this Weird Domain that wasn't mentioned in the analysis.
The Universe also said she hoped she could explore more, perhaps discovering traces of a high dimension.
“That was already a manifestation of a high-dimensional trace just now,” the Universe said in a deep voice.
“So, can we high-dimensionally analyze that convenience store?”
“Yes, but now isn't a good time.”
...
Senior Sister Nangong didn't take Liu Sheng to an unfamiliar place; the next stop was still familiar.
At this moment, they were standing outside the back door of Class Two, Grade Three, looking inside through the small window on the door, their faces almost pressed against it.
Class Two, Grade Three, was dark and unlit, but it was filled with dark figures.
It wasn't empty as it had been when they entered earlier in the day.
Or rather, it was empty now, but every seat was occupied by small weird objects.
Liu Sheng even saw Ling Xiaoshu sitting among them, at the very back, clearly a temporarily added seat.
She tilted her head in confusion towards Nangong Wan, asking with her eyes what was going on, and when Ling Xiaoshu came here?
“You forgot about her...”
“Do you remember when she stopped appearing?”
But Nangong Wan didn't answer, perhaps she simply didn't grasp so much meaning from Liu Sheng's pale, unexpressive eyes, only smiling and gesturing with her eyes for her to keep watching.
In this eye-straining environment where no lights were on, all the “children” were intently listening to the “teacher” lecturing on the podium.
The “teacher” had dull eyes and a pale complexion, similar to the “children” below, evidently also a weird object.
Based on the “teacher's” dry explanation and the “teacher's” blackboard writing, Liu Sheng judged this should be a natural science class, seemingly discussing the origin of species.
Although the “teacher's” voice was hoarse like a leaking bellows, and the explanation was flat and uninteresting, all the Xuezis, including Ling Xiaoshu, listened very attentively, completely unaware that someone was standing at the back door peeking.
“This should be every Xuezis's nightmare during their school days; looking back, it's terrifying.”
“It's the first time I've seen Xiao Shu so serious; it seems she's actually a studious good child, it's just that her mental age wasn't considered before, and now this Elementary School teaching is suitable for her.”
“Almost delayed the child from going to college.”
“...Imagine if we put many different colored little rabbits in a large forest, and there are many green bushes in the forest,” the “teacher” on the stage rambled on.
“After a long time, you'll find that those green little rabbits are safer because they are not easily discovered by predators in the green bushes, so they can live longer and give birth to more little rabbits.”
“And those brightly colored little rabbits are more easily seen by predators, and gradually they become fewer and fewer...”
What the “teacher” was saying now, Liu Sheng had read in “A Million Whys.” In Professor Tang's Universe, it should be the “Natural Selection” theory proposed by a scholar named Ferrari.
Liu Sheng also found herself listening intently, when Nangong Wan suddenly whispered to her, “I don't like listening to this, wait while I change it.”
What did that mean?
What did “change it” mean?
Nangong Wan's lips curved into a mischievous smile, and then Liu Sheng watched her repeat the trick.
With one hand, she pulled out the phantom of Class Two, Grade Three, then swiftly manipulated her fingers to erase the content on the tiny blackboard, and one by one, quickly flipped all the students' textbooks in the class to a certain page further back.
Finally, she made the same adjustment to the “teacher's” textbook, then flicked her finger, restoring the phantom to its physical form.
Just as the virtual and real combined, the “teacher” on the podium clearly froze for a moment, then looked down at the textbook in her hand, seemingly a little confused.
“That's strange... Did I talk about this just now?”
The “students” below also felt confused but started discussing animatedly.
“Alright, quiet down, sit up straight!”
The “teacher” knocked on the podium with the book in her hand and yelled a few times, but her voice was so flat that no anger could be detected.
Fortunately, the “students” still listened to her, quieting down one after another, obediently placing their arms folded on their desks, close to their chests, and raising their stiff little faces, waiting.
Liu Sheng turned her head to look and saw Nangong Wan also waiting with focused attention for the course she had selected to begin.
“Alright, we just talked about the origin of the Universe...” A bland, uninteresting voice began, starting the lecture.
“Dear Xuezis, do you know how the Universe came into being?” She began the topic with a playful question in a lifeless tone.
“No—we—don't!” The audience was very cooperative, including Nangong Wan.
“Long, long ago, even earlier than you can imagine, there were no stars, no moon in the Universe, and no planets like ours; nothing we can see existed.”
“At that time, the Universe was like a super tiny dot, and this dot was very, very hot and dense.”
“Suddenly one day, something miraculous happened to this little dot—it exploded with a ‘bang’! This wasn't an explosion like fireworks, but a Big Bang that caused the entire Universe to start expanding. From that moment on, the Universe began to grow, just like a balloon being inflated.”
“Then, everything in the Universe slowly began to form.”
“Initially, there were only some very simple fundamental particles, like the marbles you usually play with, and then these marbles gradually gathered together to form some more complex marbles.”
At this moment, an Elementary School student raised a hand, and the “teacher” said, “Ouyang Chen, what do you want to ask?”
“Teacher, will these complex marbles be more valuable?” The “child's” innocent words caused a burst of laughter.
“Hmm... I can't say more valuable, it's just a process, don't be so obsessed with money!” The “teacher's” face was twisted with anger, literally twisted.
“Later, these marbles gathered into stars and galaxies. Just like that, our beautiful stars, the sun, including our planet, all started from that tiny explosion point and slowly transformed into what we can see today.”
“This is... the Big Bang!”
Such a magnificent story, told by this teacher, was delivered in such a flat tone, as if she were talking about Aunt Zhang next door buying three catties of cabbage at the market.
But everyone was engrossed in listening.
Including Liu Sheng.
Although she had read similar theories in “A Million Whys,” hearing it from someone else still made her feel a surge of emotion, wanting to trace the origin of the Universe and see what that initial point was truly like.
However, she remembered that this was only a theory and had not yet been truly verified, at least in the civilizations she had encountered.
She wondered if the civilization to which Hongxing Elementary School belonged had already confirmed this.
Liu Sheng wanted to continue listening, but Nangong Wan thought she had heard enough and directly brought Liu Sheng to the rooftop.
The rooftop was empty, only closer to the god's face in the sky.
As the scene shifted, Liu Sheng couldn't help but feel a little disoriented.
“How was it?” Nangong Wan asked.
Although it was an abrupt question, Liu Sheng knew that Senior Sister Nangong was asking about everything that had just happened.
Everything she had deliberately shown Liu Sheng.