Chapter 141 - The Three Body Problem and Inner Strength (2/2)

“Eh… Have to say I haven’t met one yet.” Long Fei winked, apparently thoughtful. Hao Ning began to figure that Long Fei was virtually suitable for a scientist or a theologist, while the sophistication on earth is not for him. Long Fei continued, “As far as I know, all ever been involved in theological history is about how to make weapons more strengthful. Who would conduct research on making such a useless thing as a magic weapon insulated from power?”

“How about thinking about that in another way? Since you’re a doctor in physics,” Seeing Long Fei’s truly seriousness, Hao Ning plucked up spirit and decided to divert himself from the fact that he was a pauper by discussing these things with Long Fei, “In physics, what an item could maintain the power without any loss?”

“Eh… It only exists theoretically, like a rigid object. We suppose that a ball would bounce and clap without any energy loss when a rigid object is absolutely smooth because there isn’t any friction…” At that thought, Long Fei peered at Hao Ning and speculated, “A hypothesis, I say it’s only a hypothesis, that if one object holds such an intense texture that there isn’t even a leak allowing the entrance of power, then that would be possible…”

“Seam?” Hao Ning pondered. He’d never met such a seamless thing. Then one item occurred to Hao Ning, “Eh, Long Fei, have you read The Three Body Problem?

“The Three Body Problem? You refer to the trilogy of the master of science fiction Liu Cixin?”Long Fei, not knowing why Hao Ning mentioned that, got confusion in his eyes, “I didn’t go further with that, but Yufei should’ve read it. I kept related memories after occupying his body, but it’s been years, so not quite clear. What’s it?”

“In The Three Body Problem, it depicted a weapon, Master Liu called it Water Drop. It was featured with a cohesive surface, in which the arrays of atoms were seamless. No matter at which level of magnification, the surface was smooth. That’s a very strengthful weapon.” Hao Ning said and turned on his mobile, looking for a depiction of Water Drop, then handed it to Long Fei, “See, here it is.”

“Ah, I keep such an impression.” Long Fei went through it and nodded, but then shook his head, “You mean the ring is likely to be such things? No way… According to Master Liu’s depiction, with no space between atoms, the tiny ring should weigh too much for a human to pick it up, leave alone wear it on fingers. Besides, what he wrote is science fiction, not the real.

“You make sense as well.” Hao Ning knew more about physics than Liu Shuai did, so he could understand Long Fei’s words. At that thought, he got the inspiration and beamed at Long Fei, “If this thing can’t be driven by your power, then will it be possible to drive this with inner force?”

“Inner force? How will inner force even drive?” Long Fei felt confused and scratched his head, “Inner force is the force that functions inside objects. If you do a force analysis, you’ll find that it has no external impact…”

Long Fei’s answer perplexed Haoning, but he understood in the twinkling of an eye, that Long Fei’s inner force wasn’t his inner force, but the inner force used in force analysis of physics subjects. For Hao Ning, he wouldn’t apply such inner force unless in a physics examination, so who’d ever think of that in daily life? It was visible that Long Fei was deeply affected by Yufei. Theology, physics or nothing would be on their mind.

“Hey, you got it wrong.” Hao Ning smiled mirthlessly. He was to blame for switching to physics abruptly when talking to Long Fei about physics. “When I say inner force, I don’t refer to the inner force in physics, but the one in Wuxia fiction, which is also known as inner strength. Yeah, Long Fei, you are supposed to be the one among us who reads the least of Wuxia fiction. For example, the Sven Sided Strike I applied on dinner table today, and the Flower-picking Finger, Cloud Step, are all driven by inner strength. Inner strength is quite important for the warriors in Wuxia fictions. Of course, the so-called inner strength doesn’t exist in the real world. But think about the guys in Brain Restaurant that evening, they’re all supposed to hold inner strength.”

“Exactly! I remember! That makes sense!” Long Fei patted his thigh and looked at Hao Ning in excitement, “Last evening when Dao used Soul Cutter, I didn’t notice the wave of power in his body. And I could tell by his behaviors that he didn’t exert his power by incense absorbed, which was to say, it was probable that he didn’t possess any power, and he utilised the ring in some other methods. Yes! I strayed by subjectively reckoning that power was needed to run at the sight of a magic weapon. Sure! It sure is! Dao should have been reformed by Book Elf, too, and they were actually exerting the inner strength in fictions!”

“In that way. it got relatively complicated.” Saying that, Long Fei got a bit anxious, “Though I haven’t read many Wuxia fictions, I heard something from Liu Shuai that in different kungfu they cultivate different inner strength. So if Dao was really exerting inner strength, while we didn’t know accurately which one, how could we learn the corresponding inner strength? The ring is mysterious, so it’s impossible that we drive it with nothing special.”