nycdaug Chapter 5 The Troubles and Joys of the Three Young Tigers
Chapter 5 The Troubles and Joys of the Three Young Tigers
"Alas, life is truly as lonely as snow!"
A month after gaining his abilities, Hu Biao sat on the roof of his villa, holding a gold nugget in his left hand and a pink diamond in his right, finally experiencing the loneliness of a master as described in martial arts novels.
Now, he can especially understand the pursuits of Zulong, Xiaozhu, and Erfeng in their later years.
How so?
He has already completed this world!
Ever since he spied on the Ancestral Dragon Tomb, his mind had been opened up, and he excitedly played around for several days, doing things like mining, exploring, and treasure hunting...
After exploring the asteroid belt in boredom, I discovered an asteroid composed entirely of gold, and a sense of loss welled up inside me.
At that moment, he deeply understood the profound meaning of the idiom "dull and tasteless"!
In short, it's meaningless!
Money, what good is it anyway!
Gold, what good is it!
What good is treasure?
There's not enough time!!!
Yes, after discovering that if he wanted, the entire planet Earth, and even the entire universe, would be completely defenseless against him, and could take whatever he wanted, a strange sense of loss rushed to his head.
Yeah, what's the use of giving so many?
Life is only a few decades long, and we all have to die eventually!
If I die, won't the blue planet be left to those ants? Won't the universe be left to those ants?
such……
That's not a good idea!
Well, I'm only eighteen. Am I thinking too far ahead?
No, that's not right. Preparation is key to success, and lack of preparation leads to failure!
Fortunately, there was still some hope. The magical mirror in the Ancestral Dragon Mausoleum seemed to be showing him another side of the world, which made him not too desperate.
"Should I really start studying harder? My knowledge isn't keeping up with my abilities!"
This is real.
His ability is domineering, directly bringing the universe to life before his eyes, allowing him to witness all the wonders of the cosmos...
Fart!
There's too much to see, absolutely too much to see!
The Milky Way alone contains 1000 billion to 4000 billion stars, and there are countless other celestial bodies. Not to mention the Milky Way, there are countless asteroids in the solar system alone. Even if he were to scan them one by one, it would take him a lifetime!
He can only get a general idea of the universe right now. There's really no time to observe it one by one. Putting everything else aside, just looking at some of the wonders of the solar system, even just one or two, would take a whole night to satisfy his curiosity. As an ordinary person with a limited lifespan, how could he possibly see it all?
Another problem is that Earth's astronomical knowledge cannot keep up with his vision.
As we all know, the speed of light is limited. The cosmic phenomena observed by modern astronomy are manageable near the solar system and beyond a few light-years or tens of light-years, but when the spatial dimension is expanded to the distance between galaxies, the problem becomes much bigger.
for example.
From Earth's perspective, the Orion Nebula is a cradle of stars, glowing with pink and green light, located approximately 1344 light-years away.
This means that what we observe on Earth is actually what the Orion Nebula looked like 1344 years ago, not to mention that it is hundreds of millions of light-years away from Earth. What we see on Earth is what it looked like hundreds of millions of years ago.
He, on the other hand, observes in real time. Can these be considered the same?
Can't you?
The greater the distance, the more terrifying this sense of time-scale tearing becomes.
He stared at an extremely faint galaxy located billions of light-years away in the hologram. In Earth's telescopes, it might still be a chaotic cloud of gas from the early universe, struggling to coalesce into the first stars. But in Hu Biao's view, this galaxy had already evolved into a massive elliptical galaxy.
Of course, this is not a reason for him to blame Earth's astronomical knowledge.
That's not a reason for him not to study.
He was able to see this large galaxy because the documentary was detailed enough that he was able to roughly determine its location and observe its general outline. This is a problem with Earth astronomy.
However, he also has his own major problems. If we scale it down a bit, the destination of the movie "The Wandering Earth" is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.24 light-years away from Earth. Isn't that a very small distance?
For him, it was just a matter of moving a finger, but it took quite a bit of effort to find him from such a short distance!
He watched documentaries and searched for star charts online, spending over an hour before finally finding this planet similar to Earth.
This is his own problem, caused by a severe lack of astronomical knowledge.
So, at that moment, he had an idea: to enrich the rest of his life, he wanted to study astronomy. But after checking, he found that getting into astronomy was not an easy thing, and his grades seemed to be insufficient!
His English was a drag on his overall score, and his grades were average. Based on last year's college entrance examination cutoff scores and his own scores, the only astronomy department he could get into seemed to be the astronomy department at Qiannan National Teachers College, but he was still a dozen points short of the cutoff.
This……
forget it!
Let me think about it again!
"Damn it, I awakened an incredibly powerful ability, but why didn't it boost my IQ too? What bad luck!"
He put away the gold and pink diamond, grumbled as he got up, went back to his room, picked up an English test paper, and started working on it. After ten minutes, he put down his pen, looking extremely annoyed.
"Hmm, I need to balance work and rest; I need to relax a bit!"
He blinked, and the scene before him transformed into a deserted island. He began to zoom in on the image, enlarging it to its maximum until the entire room was filled with the image of the deserted island. He then quickly and neatly stripped off his clothes, changed into his swimming trunks, and took a step forward.
Pop!
The next moment, he stood on a white sandy beach, cheered, and plunged into the clear, transparent seawater.
But he was nowhere to be found in his room.
Life-size, overall interference!
He called this teleportation-like or portal-like technique "overall interference," which was one of the useful effects he had developed after studying his abilities over the past month.
After a month of research and experimentation, he gained a general understanding of his abilities, which can be summarized in five points.
First, the higher-dimensional vision. This is the most primitive form, a vision that projects the entire universe onto one's own eyes. He naively calls this vision the Lord's gaze. Under his gaze, one can observe the entire universe by dragging, but the farther the distance, the more mental energy is consumed.
Second, the beacon. Places he had once observed can reappear in his sight in an instant when he wants to observe them again, without needing to drag them over and over again, as if they have been marked. He calls this ability the beacon of the Lord.
Third, the Lord's interference. In the manifested state of the universe, he can interfere with the operation of the universe. Using a pen to move stars is a basic operation, but the greater the interference, the more mental energy is consumed, and he will get tired.
Fourth, the Lord's gift. This is also the name he chose. In a state of interference, he can make any object or creature he comes into contact with exist in a higher-dimensional state. Just like the pen he initially used to poke the planet, if he wanted, he could keep that pen in a higher-dimensional state, turning it into a pen that traverses the galaxy and reigns supreme for eternity!
He had tried it, and it worked on living things as well. Therefore, he called this ability a gift from God.
Fifth, the life-size state. He can freely magnify and shrink the universe in front of him, but the magnification is not infinite. When the scale of the universe is in proportion to the scale of his own reality, that is the limit. He calls this state the life-size state.
He can interfere with the universe as a whole while in a state of full-body immobility, meaning that his entire body can appear in the scene he is in and enter into true reality.
What he manifests is like this now, appearing wherever he wants, like a teleportation portal.
This is also why he felt there wasn't enough time.
This universe is so big and so fun, but my life is limited. I can't even explore the entire Earth. I want to live forever! I want to explore the whole universe!
We can't get enough of it! We really can't get enough!!