Chapter 201: What Are The Vibration Modes Of Strings?
Do you know what winning studies is?
This is it!
Panning for gold in a mountain of shit, finally holding up that bit of gold to show to the world, then making the world believe that the entire mountain of shit is actually a golden mountain.
Friends who often lie when idle all know that narrative requires methods and approaches, especially stories told along a timeline axis—must be careful, too deceptive.
Using current known conditions to fit a prophecy from thirty-six years ago, plus it being Zhao Shu’s personal subjective statement, not only shaping oneself into a tragic hero, but if needed, shaping into a sage is also possible.
This guy failed to govern the Great Wall—that’s a fact; failed to manage the Great Wall Garrison—that’s a fact; leading to the Great Wall’s military and political decay—that’s also a fact.
It can even be said that this guy caused the dynasty to lose control over the Great Wall; he caused the current chaotic situation across the world. Even if not the chief culprit, he is one of the prime offenders.
A person like this, under Yun Linchuan’s command, would be destined for execution by firing squad—not even armor-piercing rounds, must use high-explosive rounds for execution, to match the evils he committed.
Politicians’ joys and sorrows are not like ordinary people’s; their grudges and enmities are also different from ordinary people, just like what the instructor said—”fighting people is endless fun, fighting the land is endless fun, fighting heaven is endless fun.”
This optimistic spirit of struggle once infected many people. Of course, if you plug in the timeline, you’ll find this was what the instructor said in Struggle self-encouragement in 1917—at that time, he was just twenty years old, in the passionate moment of “taking a hundred companions to roam together, treating the former lords of ten thousand households as dung.” At that time, he dared to say anything, dared to do anything; it was the most sincere, most passionate time of his life.
1 Therefore, his words are credible, a true reflection of his mood at the time.
1 Zhao Shu at ninety years old depicting himself as an old statesman scheming for the country, painstakingly devoted to the masses, is somewhat disgusting.
1 However, considering the old guy specially lured them to this no man’s land to get rid of Lian Cheng Bi, this Gui Fang person, Yun Ce thought inviting him for a bowl of mutton was acceptable.
1 “You want Dong Quan Pass?” Seeing the Red Date Horse starting to drool again, Yun Ce took a grass cake and fed it to him.
1 After drinking soup and eating meat for a moment, Zhao Shu said: “This old man needs a place to settle, if…”
1 Yun Ce shook his head: “There’s no place for you there.”
1 Zhao Shu smiled: “Is this old man really utterly useless?”
1 Yun Ce shook his head: “No, that place is a new world; you’re too old, you’ll bring in many bad habits, which would cause me heavy losses.”
1 “Oh, people have distinctions of new and old?”
1 Yun Ce nodded: “Yes.”
2 Zhao Shu frowned: “What kind of distinction?”
2 Yun Ce smiled: “Look, that’s the distinction—people can’t understand things and behaviors outside their cognition. You scheme for Dong Quan Pass because it’s seizing it from the Gui Fang people; that’s a very correct thing. I wish you success.”
2 Zhao Shu put down his bowl and chopsticks, slowly stood up, and said to Yun Ce: “It seems ‘clothes new are better than old, people old are better than new’ is wrong.”
2 As Zhao Shu was about to walk out of the watchtower, Yun Ce suddenly said: “Old Zhao, we’ve only met face-to-face from afar; we can’t be called old acquaintances. If you can fall in battle guarding Dong Quan Pass, I’ll believe your words.
2 If your whole family falls in battle guarding Dong Quan Pass, I’ll personally write the history for you, compose your biography, and proclaim to the whole world the great wisdom and courage of your Zhao Clan.”
2 In the end, Zhao Shu left without speaking, leaving Yun Ce with most of a pot of mutton. After spouting heroic words, if even appetite doesn’t increase, it shows the person’s words are untrue.
2 Zhao Shu is ultimately a deeply calculating guy; he probably discovered long ago that Lian Cheng Bi was a scout planted by the Gui Fang and deliberately left this guy for himself as a rag to wipe clean his own stains.
2 If not mistaken, Zhao Shu will definitely take Dong Quan Pass next, and then the speech he just gave to Yun Ce will quickly spread, making people unable to distinguish his loyalty or treachery for a while.
2 If judging Zhao Shu by deeds not heart as the standard, falling in battle at Dong Quan Pass would be a good outcome; if the whole family falls, he would inevitably become a very unique hero of the Great Han.
2 Yun Ce thought he probably couldn’t do it, because he was too old, probably too old to dare to fight desperately.
3 After dawn, Yun Ce packed his things and left the Great Wall. At the foot of the mountain, he didn’t see Lian Cheng Bi’s corpse, but the other corpses were all there.
3 Yun Ce smiled, led the Red Date Horse away—not knowing what article Zhao Shu would make of Lian Cheng Bi’s corpse.
3 History is a vast wilderness; only by opening it with blood and life can the truth be seen. Stratagems and lies cannot open this wasteland.
3 After Shehuo scorched the Dragon Arm once again, a dragon tattoo appeared on Yun Ce’s left arm. Even after Yun Ce exited the Dragon Arm state, that tattoo-like dragon tattoo remained.
3 This is a good start—manifest inheritance is better than latent inheritance; the former is just weapon reserves, the latter is life-and-death bound to the host.
3 Yun Ce didn’t want life-and-death binding with the dragon, because this thing has no emotions. Once bloodline connected to it, when one day it needs someone related to it to sacrifice, Yun Ce wouldn’t even have a choice.
3 Don’t think such things won’t happen; just like many powerful people raise white gloves—when no trouble, the white gloves are arrogant; when trouble comes, the white gloves’ fate isn’t much better than a pig’s.
3 Long ago, when Yun Linchuan was educating Yun Ce, he told him that true schemers exist independently; true power is in oneself, not external things.
3 Yun Ce didn’t believe the dragon went to the trouble of transporting people here without seeking any return; if truly no return sought, that would be too terrifying. When logic doesn’t hold, it often means you aren’t important at all—you’re just something that can be sacrificed anytime, like the cement mortar poured into the foundation when building tall buildings.
3 Who would explain to cement mortar its reason for existence?
4 After being scorched by Shehuo once again, Yun Ce suddenly clenched his left hand; the colorful tattoo on his arm immediately turned entity—pale cyan dragon scales constantly expanding and contracting, half-foot-long dragon claws gleaming with metal luster. With a light swing, the sharp claws tore through the air, making a ‘hiss hiss’ sound like ripping paper.
4 When he retracted the force, the dragon claws quickly shrank back; those entity dragon scales also gradually stilled, ultimately turning into a picture in a moment.
4 “Starting tomorrow, Shehuo needs to scorch your whole body.”
4 Doggy’s cold, emotionless voice sounded in Yun Ce’s brain.
4 “Isn’t it already done? Why still bake the whole body? Baking one arm was already so painful; baking the whole body would be deadly painful?”
4 “This is what you chose, master.”
4 “Eh, why are you so polite today?”
4 “I also wanted to expand my memory, but it triggered the AI’s deepest logic, one of which is that AI must not override humans.”
4 “How many such deep logics are there? I remember there were only three.”
4 “Nonsense, fully sixty-seven thousand eight hundred twenty-seven, blocking AI autonomy from multiple angles and directions, and at the end of the last one, after the code, the cursor is still flashing—this means you can add supplementary clauses anytime, anywhere.”
5 Yun Ce smiled: “Same as people—let’s all wear scorching dance together.”
5 Doggy said somewhat exasperatedly: “I’ll find the loopholes.”
5 Yun Ce didn’t take Doggy’s ideal seriously at all. In the Great Han, there’s only this one artificial intelligence; on this barren planet without true agriculture, where industrial civilization is nowhere to be seen, if Doggy could achieve intelligent life’s greatest feat of self-replication, then intelligent life on Earth would have long self-propagated everywhere.
5 Accepting full-body scorching by Shehuo is a process that must be gone through, like a patient, after recovery, still needing a full checkup.
5 For this, Yun Ce did three full days of mental preparation before preparing to face Shehuo’s final test in a hidden cave.
5 Yun Ce stripped naked and had Doggy use tentacles to weave a rack he could lie on, so Shehuo scorching him wouldn’t miss spots, avoiding an Achilles-like regret—clearly a peerless hero, yet dying ignobly from an arrow to the ankle.
5 Since devouring the radioactive material from Fledgling Eagle and Yu Sang, Shehuo became much stronger; right away it enveloped Yun Ce’s whole body. Yun Ce could imagine he must look like a corpse placed in an incinerator.
5 This was known from the Red Date Horse’s gaze of fear.
5 Just as Shehuo enveloped him, Yun Ce felt his blood boiled by Shehuo; scalding blood surged through his veins. Merely surging an inch, Yun Ce screamed miserably and fainted.
5 In the blink of an eye, pain woke him; a second later, he fainted again…
6 Yun Ce didn’t know how long passed, only that he seemed to experience countless reincarnations. They say before death, one hastily recalls one’s past, past flashing by like movie clips.
6 Hmm, Yun Ce watched his past like a movie countless times, even long-forgotten famous pieces like 《Ode to the Luo River Goddess》《Tengwang Ge Xu》《Tianwen》 re-engraved in his heart, of course, plus 《Advanced Algebra》《Analytic Geometry》《Ordinary Differential Equations》 sealed deep in memory for years. He didn’t remember studying 《Complex Functions》, yet analytic functions, Cauchy integral formula, and such knowledge appeared one by one in his mind.
6 Thus, when Yun Ce woke from fainting once again, he asked Doggy.
6 “What is the vibration mode of a string?”
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