Chapter 418 Red Altar, Eye of the Lord

The sun was setting, and the waves on Lake Patzcuaro were shining. The majestic city of Chincongchan stood by the lake, and the brand-new Shenwei University symbolized a broad future.

In the ancient mythology of the Purépecha people, Lake Patzcuaro was the driving force of the world, and Chincongchan was the center of the world. At this moment, in the words of the king's divine revelation, on the shoulders of countless giants in later generations, the exploration of the laws of the world by Mesoamerican civilization will be born in a new form. From religious beliefs, the light of science is born!

"I hope that one day this will become the origin of modern science in the entire human world!"

With a smile on his face, Xiuluot looked at the young apprentices under the altar, his face full of expectations, thinking silently in his heart. Most of these priest apprentices are fifteen or sixty years old. They are active in their minds and are not bound by traditional ideas. Their worldview has not yet been formed, which is much easier to shape than adult priests.

The king pondered for a moment and announced loudly.

"My students! Whether you understand or not, you must listen to my teachings patiently and learn the secrets of the gods! When you pass the test here, you will be my students and my disciples!"

After hearing the words of the king, hundreds of apprentices collectively lost their voices for a few breaths, and then burst into excited cheers. The cheers echoed warmly in the university, like the rolling thunder before the arrival of spring rain.

Xuluot's face was full of joy. Looking at the enthusiastic young faces, he felt the belonging and pride of being the principal. Newborn seedlings need to be nurtured and grown, and the identity of being a disciple of the God-inspired One is an effective encouragement and protection.

The God-inspired priest in charge of recording walked up to the altar and respectfully handed over the recorded instructions for the "God-inspired One" to review. Xiuluot took a quick look and nodded slightly. The seven recorded "secrets of the gods" unfolded one by one, laying the foundation for natural science. These "secrets of the gods" seem mysterious and difficult, but in the language of later generations, they will be concise and straightforward.

The first one is that matter is composed of particles. The particles are subdivided into molecules, atoms and smaller elementary particles.

Second, different atoms form molecules in different ways, which determines the physical and chemical properties of matter.

Third, energy is transferred between substances, causing them to move and change. When the structure of molecules is changed by energy, the physical and chemical properties of matter will also change.

Fourth, energy is released in the form of heat, following the second law of thermodynamics, and spontaneously flows from a high-temperature heat source to a low-temperature heat source.

Fifth, the definition of force, force is the action that changes the speed of an object or deforms an object.

Sixth, the three laws of motion. The law of inertia, the law of acceleration, and the law of action and reaction.

Seventh, life is composed of cells.

Of course, if you want to truly lay the foundation of natural science, these "divine mysteries" are far from enough. Xiu Luote has an ambitious plan to gradually transform the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology learned throughout the compulsory education stage into a language that can be accepted by the times. Then, like today, teach it to university apprentices as scientific enlightenment!

The process of scientific enlightenment will be long and will last for many years. The initial students may not be able to truly understand it, and will only memorize it as a holy teaching. However, the significance of this kind of teaching is beyond doubt, and the sense of achievement it brings is incomparable!

"I am changing the world for the better!"

The king nodded with a smile and handed the recorded teachings to Bravo.

"Bravo, engrave all my words today on the stone wall so that all apprentices can ponder them over and over again."

"Follow your decree, Lord Patriarch!"

Bravo bowed his head respectfully. He took the teachings and saw "Everything in the world is made up of particles of God." After a little thought, he felt panic in his heart.

"Lord Patriarch"

"Hmm?"

"When I engrave your teachings, can I add a little?"

Bravo on the altar lowered his voice and cautiously admonished.

"Everything in the world is made up of particles of God. Are the noble descendants of God and the humble slaves the same in origin?"

Hearing this, Shulot raised his eyebrows and understood in his heart. He glanced at the uneasy Bravo lightly and asked.

"How do you want to change it?"

"Can you add a sentence at the end that the god particles that make up the descendants of the gods were personally endowed with divinity by the main god, so they are noble and above everyone else?"

The king pondered for a long time. No matter what the teachings he said, they must be interpreted by the people of the time according to the will of the time. If these enlightening scientific doctrines want to spread within the religious system, they must add some footnotes that are in line with the times.

"Yes! Don't change what I said. Attach the scripture annotations at the back alone!"

"I obey you! Great God-inspired One!"

Bravo saluted solemnly and breathed a sigh of relief silently.

As long as he can write annotations, he can find a way to deal with the traditional high-level priests. Otherwise, with so many amazing "teachings", his position as vice-president will end. The priest elders of the alliance have always been conservative. They can't do anything to the king, but can't they sacrifice him, a small third-level chief priest?

Thinking of this, Bravo hesitated for a while and gave another exhortation.

"Respected Patriarch, it's best not to mention these instructions when you go to the Lake City"

Xuluot stared at Bravo calmly for a moment, nodded and smiled.

"Bravo, I understand what you mean. Don't worry about me, and don't worry about yourself. As long as you manage the university well, one day, you will have a place in the highest priest elders group!"

"Ah! Obey your decree! I will follow your footsteps to the end of the world!"

Bravo suppressed the excitement in his heart and solemnly bowed to the ground. Then, he stood up and stepped back, leaving the king alone in the center of the altar.

"Boom~bang~pah!"

A red firework bloomed in the sky and made a strange sound! The cheers under the altar gradually subsided, and the apprentices looked to the stage and returned to silence.

Shulot put down the diabolo tube in his hand, gathered his thoughts, and preached loudly again.

"My students, raise your heads and look to the sky! What do you see?"

"Strange red fireworks"

Several priest apprentices mustered up their courage and spoke softly.

Shulot has good hearing. He looked at the people who were talking, smiled and nodded.

"Yes! These red fireworks are fire and light, the power of God! The divine energy of the burning gunpowder changes the state of the particles of God. The divine energy is transmitted in the added divine particles, and the divine particles absorb the divine energy and release it again. Different divine particles will release different colors of red, yellow, blue, and green light according to their own characteristics! As long as a fixed divine particle is burned, a fixed divine light will be released! "

The king organized the words, describing the process in an atom in which electrons absorb energy from heat and jump to an unstable state, and then release fixed-frequency photons to return to the ground state. This process is to identify the flame color reactions of different elements.

Among the crowd, Elaine blinked. She was a little confused and a little curious.

"Burning fixed divine particles and emitting fixed divine light, could it be that priests can artificially create all kinds of strange flames without communicating with the gods?"

On the altar, Bravo lowered his head and trembled slightly. Hearing the king's narration, he was sweating all over. The blue flame is a standard equipment for priests in the Lake District, used to "communicate with the kingdom of the dead."

"The spring sun is so hot! Let me think, let me think carefully, how to interpret the precepts."

On the yellow altar, Shulot looked at the many apprentices and explained patiently.

"God particles make up everything in the world, and the types of all things are different, so the types of God particles are naturally different. Metals and stones, flowing water and air, earth and sky contain different types and different combinations of God particles, and the most essential difference between God particles is , lies in the inner core! The divine particles are too small to touch. Based on the color of the burning divine light, we can see the inner core of the divine particles and identify their types!

As she listened, Elaine's eyes were filled with "???" signs. She listened hard for a while, then decided to give up. The girl's gaze gradually deflected, finally stopping on the red altar.

There, the divine priests and craftsmen were already busy. A strange ball with a diameter of several meters gradually bulged, and was then fixed by ropes and suspended on the altar.

The ball seemed to be made of bark paper, a specialty of the kingdom, with a terrifying red eye engraved on its surface, like the cold gaze of a god, staring closely at everyone in the field.

The brave Tekos girl shuddered. She lowered her head slightly, guessing at the power of the gods, and did not dare to look directly at the mysterious and terrifying ball.

On the yellow altar, Shulot stopped talking. He looked at the distracted apprentices, smiled, walked off the yellow altar and walked towards the red altar.

As he approached, the hot air balloon on the altar clearly appeared in front of him. Under the guidance of the king, the craftsmen's prototype hot air balloon was made of tough bark paper, and the joints were carefully bonded with isinglass, and then coated with expensive rubber juice to reinforce it to prevent air leakage.

There are huge red eyeballs painted on the surface of the hot air balloon, which are named "Eye of the Lord God". It has a diameter of six meters and a volume of more than 100 cubic meters. It can be regarded as a super small hot air balloon or an extra large Kongming Lantern. Similar to the Kongming Lantern, there is a simple wooden frame at the bottom of the "Eye of the Lord", which is then connected with a rope to fix a thin pottery brazier.

There are several kilograms of fine charcoal placed in the brazier and it is burning! The hot flame rises from the brazier, heating the air inside, causing the entire hot air balloon to inflate. Under the hot air balloon, a lightweight bamboo basket is connected with a rope.

A fat turkey clucked, its legs were tied, and it was stuffed into a small but tough bamboo basket. Little does the turkey know at this moment that it is about to become the first and strongest turkey to fly high in the sky in a hot air balloon. It just struggled repeatedly uncomfortably, raising pieces of chicken feathers and shaking the hot air balloon above.

The inflated hot air balloon was suspended in mid-air, bound by the ropes tied by the priests, and could only helplessly sway up and down, like a huge living beast, breathing breathtakingly.

Seeing this scene, Shulot nodded with satisfaction. For the Kingdom in the Lake, the pre-requisite technologies for making small hot air balloons are already mature. The production of hot air balloons is carried out in the name of offering sacrifices to gods. More than a dozen outstanding craftsmen work hard and strive to do their best in every detail, and the manpower and material resources are sufficient. Compared with the explorers of the Old World, he also has rubber unique to the Americas for sealing and reinforcement.

The priest apprentices looked at the suspended huge "Eye of the Lord God" and exclaimed in uncontrollable awe. Under the admiring eyes of everyone, the king walked under the hot air balloon. He raised his hand, touched the rubber coating at the bottom of the hot air balloon, looked at the thin brazier that emitted heat waves, and checked the fixed frame. Then, the king raised his head and silently stared at the huge sky creation.

The production of the "Eye of the Lord God" was carefully calculated by Shulot.

It is six meters in diameter and has a volume of more than one hundred cubic meters. When a cubic meter of air is heated from 20 degrees to 80 degrees, the weight will be reduced by 200 grams, providing approximately 2N of lift. In other words, a hot air balloon with a volume of 5 cubic meters is estimated to be able to lift an object weighing 2 kilograms when sufficiently heated. In the entire hot air balloon, more than 100 cubic meters of heated air can carry about 40 kilograms of objects.

In a hot air balloon, a thin pottery brazier weighs about 4 pounds and charcoal weighs about 4 pounds, which can burn for more than an hour. The paper balls, frames, ropes, and bamboo baskets weigh more than 10 kilograms in total. In total, the hot air balloon itself weighs a little more than 20 pounds and can provide half of the lift as a load.

The turkey in the bamboo basket weighs nearly 10 kilograms, and the remaining 10 kilograms are used to load the hemp rope. Yes, Shulot was not going to fly this oversized "Kongming Lantern", but connected a 200-meter-long hemp rope. After the experiment, he planned to use ropes to pull down the hot air balloon and recover it.

A 6 mm thick hemp rope weighs about 1 pound and 10 meters. According to rough calculations, if everything goes as expected, the "Eye of the Lord God" will fly to a height of about one or two hundred meters, and then it will float and stop with the rope until the firepower of the charcoal weakens, and then slowly fall.

Shulot stared in trance. In his heart, yearning and desire for the sky surged. The "eye of the gods" in front of you will be the starting point for the entire human civilization to explore the sky!

After a while, he smiled and asked the divine priest in charge of the hot air balloon.

"Chimel Knowledge, are you all ready?"

Chimel, the second-level divine priest, pursed his lips and tried to keep his face calm. However, his trembling voice betrayed his inner excitement.

"Dear sect leader, everything is ready!"

"Okay! The Lord God bless us!"

Shulot nodded solemnly. He looked at the awed apprentices under the altar and declared loudly.

"Priest apprentices of the kingdom, my students! Come and let us witness this great and immortal moment! The Lord God establishes the order of the world, and all things follow the laws of nature. You must always remember that as long as you master the secrets of the gods, even if Even a small mortal can reach the high sky!"

Under the altar, hundreds of apprentices listened solemnly, watched, and expected. The king smiled lightly and ordered proudly.

"Chimel, untie the rope and let the Eye of the Lord rise into the sky!"

"I obey you, the chief priest of the Divine Enlightenment!"

With trembling fingers, Chimel untied the rope. Then, under the gazes of the priest apprentices and janitor warriors, under the gazes of countless shocks and awes, the "Eye of the Lord God" finally broke free from all restraints, slowly rose up with the frightened turkey in the bamboo basket, and headed towards The sky of the Kingdom of God floats away!

Ah, Orz academic report is so difficult to write. Woohoo.