APTnovel Chapter 177 Action at a Distance
Chapter 177 Action at a Distance
Chapter 177 Action at a Distance
From the letter Anne left behind, Lola learned that Anne had left the Herald Academy.
She seemed to be heading to the Principality of the Holy Messenger to carry out some task given to her by her mentor.
However, Anne did not say when she would be able to return.
Lola was a little uneasy. What if Annie encountered some unexpected trouble on the way?
What if I never see Annie again?
Lola really wanted to escort Anne herself, so that she would feel at ease.
But Anne would definitely not agree. Besides, Lola also understood that when the two of them got older, their relationship would not be as close as it was now.
Laura hopes that day will never come.
In the Kingdom of Giant Classics, fourteen years old is considered adulthood.
But in the Far East, it takes until the age of sixteen.
In Lola's hometown, the sign of a woman's coming of age is whether or not she has been given the blood of nature.
So Lola hasn't fully grown up yet, and she hopes she'll never grow up.
As long as she doesn't grow up, she can ask her older sister to stay with her. Children can be willful, but adults can't.
Lola eventually returned to the frozen continent.
Summer had arrived, and for the first time in this cold land, she felt warmth.
But I've heard that only southern communities experience summer; other places are still cool to this day.
The Bing family in the northern community is even colder, like the dead of winter.
But for Lola, there was no difference between summer and winter.
She was uninterested in most things and didn't care about the weather.
Lola sometimes feels that she is really boring and has no opinions of her own. She will almost never take the initiative to do anything unless asked to do so by others.
For example, right now, even though there's still a lot of time left in the day, Lola doesn't know how to spend it after Anne left.
Before she knew it, she had returned to her residence.
Now, she lives with Lolotti.
This house was provided specifically for Lolot by the Phantom Society, presumably because of his fame.
Loloti also mentioned that after he compiles and writes his findings into a book, he will donate it to the Phantom Society's library.
It's likely that the academy values Loloti's knowledge and is therefore willing to provide him with conveniences.
I opened the door and found Lolot sitting at the table in the restaurant.
This is unusual; Lolo usually spends this time in the library reading and writing.
But it wasn't just Lola who was surprised; Lolotti also seemed curious about the timing of Lola's return:
"Little Lola? Why are you back? I thought you wouldn't be back until after nightfall."
Lola felt there was no need to explain to Lolotti, so she simply responded:
"Um."
Are you still planning to go out?
Lola shook her head.
Lolot smiled and said, "Then, would you like to sit down and have a chat with me?"
Lola didn't think much of it and started chatting with Lolo: "Is it necessary?"
"Of course not," Lolo shook her head. "If you don't want to, that's fine. You've already asked me for leave, so you can do whatever you want today."
But today, Lola didn't know what to do either. After thinking for a few seconds, she sat down next to Lolotti.
Loloti smiled, but didn't say anything more about it.
After thinking for a moment, he asked:
"Little Lola, have you made any progress lately?"
Loloti was referring to the mind magic he taught Lola.
Although Lola's focus remained on "The Knot of the Clouds," she had made significant progress in her mastery of mind magic during this time.
Because Lola discovered that as her understanding of this witchcraft deepened, she was able to control her emotions and mind more easily.
Once her emotions remain stable, her use of the Radiant Realm will become even more precise.
In order to better utilize the power of the Cloud Realm Knot, Lola felt that practicing this set of witchcraft would be helpful.
So she nodded her little head.
Lolotti smiled and nodded in satisfaction.
"Keep up the good work. Once you've mastered some more, I'll teach you more profound witchcraft, so you can understand mind magic."
Where does true strength lie?
Lola didn't care, but if she said it out loud, Lolotti would definitely try to persuade her and talk to her about it endlessly.
So Lola nodded, and Lolotti stopped there.
After another moment of silence, Lolotti suddenly stared at Lola.
Laura felt the gaze and met it.
Lolotti stared at him for a long time, still not saying a word.
Lola didn't understand what Lolotti was looking at, so she tilted her head.
Lolotti's eyes sharpened, as if he had made up his mind, and he said to Lola:
"Little Lola, I've actually wanted to ask you for a long time: you're a green-eyed person, aren't you?"
The moment she heard those words, all the hairs on Lola's body stood on end, and her vigilance was heightened to the extreme.
She also mobilized the collective magic power, preparing to use it at any time to construct a magic circle and kill the person in front of her who had discovered her identity.
Lolotti could threaten Lola's life, which meets her criteria for murder.
But Lolotti quickly raised his hands to comfort her:
"Oh! Little Lola, don't be nervous, I mean no harm! I think you should know me, I don't have much of a racial consciousness,"
Whether you are a green-eyed person or a kingdom, it makes no difference to me.
Lola wasn't sure if Lolotti was lying, so she remained vigilant.
"How did you find out?"
"Of course, it's through your eyes. I was curious from the beginning why you wore such strange glasses, and I understood after I discovered your green pupils. Indeed, once the identity of a green-eyed person is discovered, it will bring a lot of trouble."
"That's all?"
"After all, we've known each other for so long, it's normal for us to find out," Lolo said. "But you don't need to worry too much. Apart from people you need to be in frequent contact with, other people probably won't find out."
"When did you find out?"
"It's been half a month. If I had any ill intentions towards you, I would have taken action long ago. The reason I haven't said anything is because I haven't found the right time, but more importantly, I'm afraid you'll worry. Look at your reaction now, it proves that my initial guess was correct."
Hearing this, Lola's tense nerves relaxed a little.
But she still dared not completely let her guard down: "So that's what you wanted to tell me today?"
"That's just a side note," Lolotti shrugged. "You probably noticed that I didn't spend any time in the library today."
Lola nodded.
"That's because I was stuck on an idea," Lolo said. "So I've been sitting here thinking about it. When I saw you come back, I wanted to talk to you about it, both to sort out my thoughts and to hear your opinion, to see if I could get out of this mental block."
"What's the problem?"
Lolo replied, "Do you remember what I told you on that eerie night? That day, I mentioned the Root Theorem."
For Lola, that experience wasn't too long ago, and she did remember it, so she bowed.
"That's good," Lolotti nodded. "The problem that's been bothering me is related to this theorem."
"According to the fundamental principle, every power must have a source. But some extraordinary methods borrow power from the sun, or even from the distant stars. Little Lola, do you understand what I'm talking about?"
Laura, of course, didn't know, and shook her head.
"When a human uses supernatural means, he can quickly use power to achieve a certain effect, but the source of the power may be on the other side of the universe!"
"Little Lola, do you understand what this means? It means that power can respond regardless of distance, or be transmitted at extremely fast speeds, but no matter how this effect is achieved, it must consume energy."
"In the experiment, the faster an object moves, the more energy it needs to consume. It is possible that the process of force transmission may consume more energy than the force used to achieve a certain effect."
Lola processed these words briefly before quickly offering a rebuttal:
"But perhaps the power is stored within us."
"Then what about magic? Magic is a kind of extraordinary power that directly draws upon the source of power, which absolutely explains my point."
Laura could not refute this.
She was a magician, and she was aware of her own power, not that she directly participated in the construction of the Dao Xia Realm.
However, even if what Lolotti said is true:
"But what does this prove?"
"This proves that extraordinary power has a long-range effect."
"So what?"
"Lola, you may not realize how terrifying it would be if action at a distance truly existed in reality."
"horrible?"
Lolotti suddenly stood up, walked outside, and said to Lola:
"Come with me."
Lola followed and went into the woods.
Lolotti picked up a stone from the ground, handed it to Lola, and then pointed to a miasma tree ahead:
"Little Lola, try hitting that tree in the distance with this stone."
Lola gripped the stone and threw it at the tree.
The pebble traced an arc, struck the tree bark, and then bounced away.
Lolotti picked up the stone and handed it to Lola:
"This process took a total of two seconds, Laura, try to shorten that time."
Upon hearing this, Lola didn't think twice and threw the stone with more force.
This time it only took a second, and the sound of the stone hitting the tree trunk was much louder.
Lolo then asked, "Little Lola, what did you discover?"
"Feed?"
"You instinctively used even more force."
Upon hearing this, Lola realized what was going on.
"In other words, if you want to shorten the time, you must increase the speed, and increasing the speed often requires increasing the energy. However, the energy borrowed by extraordinary means arrives instantly, and the amount of energy it consumes is simply unimaginable."
"But can our bodies truly withstand that amount of energy?"
Indeed, if this is the case, the body of a superhuman must first be injured by superhuman power.
Lola also realized: "But there is another possibility: the transfer of energy does not depend on speed, but rather on some kind of instantaneous influence."
"In other words, there is no intermediate process," Lolotti accurately expressed Lola's idea.
Laura nodded.
Loloti then said, "What I meant by action at a distance was more about describing this phenomenon. Indeed,"
This approach seems more in line with reality, but, Lola, do you know what this means?
Lola shook her head; of course she didn't know.
"Normally, it takes time for any object to influence another object. However, there is a situation where time can be compressed to zero."
"What's going on?"
"That is, when the object being affected is itself, that is, the distance is zero," Lolotti replied. "And the action at a distance of supernatural forces means that they are equivalent to the distance between the source and the target being zero."
Laura thought for a moment: "That seems to be the case."
"That's the scary part, little Lola. Now, try looking at the world from the perspective of supernatural powers. What do you think it would be like?"
Lola followed Lolotti's guidance and began to think.
Action at a distance is equivalent to no distance.
Extraordinary power always has a distance-based effect; that is to say, for the extraordinary:
"The world has no distance?!"
"Yes! There is no distance! The whole world is just a point!" Lolo mentioned, "But the paradox is that you and I are clearly two independent individuals, and we can precisely use our supernatural abilities to act on certain different objects."
"If the world is just a single point to the extraordinary, then every object in the entire world should be indistinguishable to it, so how can it be precisely utilized by us?"
As Lola listened, she felt a heat rising to her head, and her mind went blank.
She asked, still a little dazed, "What do you want to say?"
"If action at a distance exists, it means that our understanding of time or space is flawed, or even both are wrong."
Lola frowned: "But humanity has survived to this day based on this kind of thinking."
"So I feel fear and confusion," Loloti said. "I feel like I'm destroying the castle of truth!"
Laura didn't understand what truth was.
She didn't fully understand what Lolotti had just told her, but she could sense what Lolotti had been saying.
It must be extremely profound.
"What do you want to do about this?" Laura asked.
"I don't know, to be honest, I'm a little scared," Lolo said. "I hope I'm right, but I don't want to be right either."
"Tell me again, is your thinking clearer now?"
"It helped, but it wasn't enough to answer my questions," Lolo said. "What I need more than just a story is a discussion."
"This question is too profound; there aren't many people you can discuss it with."
"Yes," Lolo nodded, "Among the people I know, there's only one person who might be able to answer this kind of question."
Develop your own insights.
"Then go and discuss it with him."
Lolo shook his head: "He's not in the Southern Community, and I'm busy writing a book right now, so I don't have time to go see him."
"Is he still in the permafrost continent?"
"Why are you asking this?"
Lola said:
"I'll find him for you."