Manny finally arrived at the top of the mountain, but she did not find the truth she expected on the top of the mountain, because the top of the mountain was bare, which made Manny feel annoyed that "this whole journey was just a joke."
At least you can put a temple here.
But Manny circled around the top of the mountain and returned to the way she came, but she didn't find anything. This was just an open space, and it was quite flat.
Smooth...maybe this is Manny's only discovery.
The fatigue from the whole journey broke out here. Manny lay down, facing the sky, with a half-smile on her face. Her mind was confused and she didn't know what she was thinking or where she was going next.
But there is always a question reminding her, telling her that this is not the end.
That is... "If there is really nothing here, then... where did the father and son go?"
Did they leave here on some kind of aircraft?
It's really possible when I think about it... But wouldn't the answer be too ironic for me... I have no wings... and no direction... where should I go?
After thinking about it again and again without a definite answer, fatigue came over her, and Manny fell asleep just like that.
There was no vigilance, as if he had given up.
…
The black sand and white waves form a sharp contrast.
The summer atmosphere in my impression was all gone, and all that was left was the solemn coldness under the deep blue sky.
However, there was a person on the beach, wearing only a pure white skirt, carrying shoes, barefoot, walking leisurely forward in the sea breeze.
Manny followed the footprints and tried to chase her, but the girl's back kept getting further and further away. Only when she disappeared did Manny realize to her horror that she had been staying in the same place and had never moved.
She is like the black rock on the beach, which has witnessed countless passers-by over the long years and endured the loneliness that accompanies time.
However, this kind of literary emotion will not appear in Manny's mind, because she is an engineer and a mathematical genius, and she is born with a keen sense of numbers and the order of the world.
Therefore, when she found that she was still in place, what Manny thought was not that she was imprisoned in the same place, but that... she was absolutely still compared to this world.
Absolute stillness seems to be contrary to science in common cognition, while relative stillness is the more normative term.
But over the years, Manny, whose path to in-depth and detailed research has become narrower and narrower, is eager to free herself from this limitation and pressure.
Therefore, she also began to try to pick up Yang Di's books and try to find ways to broaden her horizons and ideas.
The simplest thing is to propose something that is completely contrary to existing knowledge, or more popularly, to say something that "goes against science."
"Violating science" is not superstition, but boldly proposing a wild and unimaginable idea, or a concept that although we cannot do it, is possible in the theoretical world and meets all conditions.
"Absolute stillness" is one of them.
But when the concept of "absolute stillness" was proposed, many people believed that it did not break away from the existing scientific cognitive categories, because if it is understood in a popular way, it is like a person standing by a river and the river is rushing away.
And are people "absolutely still"?
No, we are also moving, but at this time, at this place, by this river, when we look at and feel it from our perspective, we are not moving, but the river is moving.
Every time I think about this, Manny
I found myself falling into a dead end again.
A goat naturally appeared in front of me.
It stood not far from Manny, facing Manny from the side, lowering its head and looking for something to eat in the black beach.
Manny looked at it quietly and found that it was black, but she could not say that the goat standing in front of her was a black goat, and inferred that all the goats nearby were black, because that was not rigorous.
That's unscientific.
It should be said that the goat in front of me on this beach looks black from this angle.
As soon as this thought appeared, Manny did not cheer for herself, but frowned, thinking very sadly... Because it was this rigorous attitude that made her struggle to develop the warp engine until she had no way out...
Now she wants to look back, she wants to burn all this research, but it's like standing on the top of this mountain, thinking she can find the truth, but what she gets is a "joke".
As if he noticed someone beside him, the goat raised his head and looked at Manny.
Then Manny discovered that the entire goat's head was black. But... when it really turned its body to face Manny, Manny was horrified to find that the other side of its body was completely mechanized, and
is naked.
Gears and other steampunk-style mechanical bodies are working well.
After looking at Manny for a while, the goat suddenly turned around and ran away, making a rustling sound from the splashing gravel.
Manny frowned, watching the panic as it left, and couldn't help but think of what might be behind her.
So she turned around suddenly...
Follow...
Just woke up.
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Day 42
In the early morning, the thick fog that had lasted for nearly half a month finally began to dissipate. It was very slow at first, but by noon, Manny could clearly see the way down the mountain.
From here she realized that she hadn't gone very far in the past month or so.
Because she could still see the outline of the town where the sun rose, not clear, but still there.
After a rough estimate, I found that I had only traveled a few dozen kilometers.
But in reality, it feels like Manny should have arrived hundreds of kilometers away...
This sense of deviation made Manny feel a little uncomfortable.
Fortunately, the oppressive fog finally dissipated, and Manny could use her eyes to determine where to go next.
Going around the top of the mountain, there is a river on the south side of the mountain. From the top of the mountain, the river is as thin as a silver ribbon, but Manny is sure that if she really goes to the bank of the river, she should be able to see a magnificent rushing scene.
.
Walk further and look to the west of the mountain, where the mountains are connected to each other, and there is no longer the flat road like before. There is only a little green among the jagged rocks, proving that they still have vitality.
When Manny saw this mountain, she felt conflicted, but she felt that she would continue to go west.
But before that she had to look at the north side of the mountain.
Arriving at the north side of the mountain top, what you can see in the distance is a densely packed river. They are much thinner than the river in the south of the mountain, but they are very large in number, like capillaries.
Apparently, it was their gathering that created the surging river.
After reading it, it’s time to make a decision.
Manny sat down in the center of the top of the mountain, like a hermit, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.
In fact, Manny did ask Bai Ze of the Mysterious Sect for advice on arcane methods, but she never got the point and could not understand the mysteries.
Austria's true charm.
But even so, through the mental techniques taught by Bai Ze, Manny was able to calm down quickly. Then, although she could not borrow the techniques as naturally as Bai Ze and the others, she could feel the flow of heaven and earth flowing through her fingertips.
context.
It's very light, like a breeze blowing.
Manny closed her eyes, and when she opened them again after a long time, she had determined the direction she was going.
We are not traveling along the river, we are not visiting that wetland, and we will never look back.
She wanted to continue walking west, over the mountain, to the other side of the mountain, to see what was hidden in the mist.
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Day 49
When Manny looked back, she found that she could no longer see the mountain from where she came from, but she clearly remembered its height and its desolation. But here, it was like an illusion she had fabricated out of thin air, gradually waking up in her mind.
Then, disappeared without a trace.
The only real thing now is the road under your feet.
In the afternoon of this day, Manny found a clean place to rest as usual.
But as soon as I sat down, I could faintly hear the sound of a flute.
Manny was stunned at first. For such a long time, she could hardly hear any sound except her own breathing and occasional talking to herself.
The sudden sound of the flute was actually a bit unfamiliar to her.
However, Manny reacted quickly. She stood up suddenly, as if she wanted to catch the source of the flute sound.
But when she really started to pay attention to the sound of the flute, it disappeared again.
And it didn't appear again for a long time.
So Manny began to wonder if she was crazy...but she denied this idea as soon as she had it, because a crazy person would not realize that he was crazy.
Unless...she is already in an extreme state of schizophrenia.
Sitting down again, Manny said to herself: "Stop imagining things, it must be an auditory hallucination!"
"Auditory hallucination? How could it be an auditory hallucination? Didn't you hear it?"
"I heard it, but so what? It disappeared!"
"Humph, whatever you say, it will definitely appear again. I have already said that it left the town with us. Now it must be trying to tell us something!"
"You're crazy..."
"I don't!"
"You are just crazy! Don't deny it! If you are not crazy, why are you talking to yourself?"
"Me?! I..." Manny was left speechless by her own rebuttal. Similar soliloquies have appeared more and more frequently recently.
In a depressing and silent world, it is really not that easy to stay awake.
Closing her eyes in pain, Manny trembled: "If you really exist...why can't I feel it..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of the flute came again.
This time, it was long and clear, and it didn't stop even when Manny stood up.
It's just that the flute sound has no rhythm, just like a child when he first learns, it can only make sounds.
But that was enough. Manny hurriedly identified the source of the sound, then climbed down from the boulder in a panic, and ran towards it quickly following the sound, for fear that it would suddenly disappear.
The sound of the flute existed for a while and then disappeared again.
Manny stopped in a panic and listened. After a while, the sound of the flute came again, but this time it deviated from the original direction.
Manny was stunned: 'It's moving?!'
Just as I was thinking about it, the sound of the flute disappeared.