"Yes!" Qiqi nodded emphatically, put down what she was holding, jumped off the chair, and followed Ji Jinnian inside.
Ji Jinnian took her to be disinfected. She was supposed to wear a lab coat, but there weren't any in Qiqi's size.
Ji Jinnian decided to have one custom-made for her so that Qiqi could wear it next time she came.
Qiqi has always been very interested in the science experiments her older brothers do, especially the little girl experiments that her father said her second brother could do.
What she was most curious about was whether science could explain the existence of this metaphysical phenomenon.
Ji Jinnian carefully disinfected the little girl's entire body, and then took her to the experimental table.
I picked up the experimental procedures that I had originally planned to put aside and showed Qiqi a few steps.
However, considering Qiqi's age, he deliberately simplified the steps to coax the little girl into playing.
Qiqi watched as he poured some liquid into a test tube, then added several other liquids, and a beautiful, transparent pink substance came out.
Qiqi stared wide-eyed, exclaiming, "Wow, what is this? It's so beautiful!"
"This can conduct electricity..." Ji Jinnian explained, taking a piece of copper wire, putting it into the liquid, and then taking a light bulb, wrapping the copper wire around the bottom of the light bulb.
Then, the light bulb suddenly lit up.
Qiqi's eyes lit up instantly!
"Wow, that's amazing!" The little girl's eyes widened, and it was clear that she was very curious.
When the Thunder Talisman summons lightning, lightning will also strike.
My dad once told me that lightning is also electric.
I wonder if her lightning talisman can light up the light bulb.
What should I do? I really want to try.
Seeing the little girl's eager expression, Ji Jinnian found it amusing, thinking that the little girl also wanted to try to do an experiment.
"If Qiqi wants to try it, she can give it a try too."
Qiqi blinked her big, dark eyes. "Can I really try it? Won't it cause trouble for my second brother?"
“It’s alright,” Ji Jinnian said. “This laboratory was specially approved for me by the teacher, and I am the only one who has the right to use it. You can do whatever you want here.”
After Ji Jinnian said that, Qiqi had no more worries.
She walked to the test bench, took down the light bulb that Ji Jinnian had placed on it, and then turned the copper wires on it so that both copper wires were pointing upwards.
Then, to Ji Jinnian's surprise, he reached into his bag and pulled out a talisman.
"Wait a minute, little sister, you wouldn't happen to be..."
Ji Jinnian was about to stop him, but it was too late.
Qiqi tossed the talisman away, then turned back to look at Ji Jinnian with a bewildered expression. "Second brother, what are you trying to say?"
Ji Jinnian: ...
He looked out the window at the sky that had suddenly darkened, and at the thunder and lightning overhead, which felt incredibly oppressive. He felt a chill run down his spine.
"N-nothing!" He was now filled with regret for his boastful words.
I wish I could go back in time and sew my mouth back up!
Knowing full well that the little girl was unconventional, he still answered her using the usual approach.
Hearing her second brother say it was nothing, Qiqi, who had paused while making a hand seal, suddenly sped up, pointed one finger to the sky, and then swung it down heavily.
Boom!
A deafening bolt of lightning struck, accompanied by a blinding flash of light.
Ji Jinnian instinctively covered her ears and closed her eyes.
The next instant, Qiqi's cheers rang out.
"Yay! My Thunder Talisman can actually light up light bulbs!" Qiqi clapped her hands happily. It seems that if there is a power outage in the future, she can use the Thunder Talisman to provide lighting for her family.
Ji Jinnian removed his hands from his ears, opened his eyes, and looked over. Sure enough, he saw lightning like a small silver snake coiled around the copper wire.
The light bulb shines brightly because of the energy contained in the lightning.
It was even brighter and stronger than the light produced by the suspension he had just created.
Ji Jinnian: ...
My sister is truly a bug that exists outside of science!
"Yes, Qiqi is amazing!" Ji Jinnian praised sincerely.
His younger sister was indeed amazing; he never expected that Qiqi's lightning talisman could actually generate electricity.
Does that mean that Qiqi can also achieve other things using science using talismans?
Qiqi's little tail wagged as she was praised by her second brother, whom she was afraid of.
Her smiling face was filled with a hint of pride. "Second brother is amazing too!" She glanced at her second brother's test tubes filled with various liquids and his strange experimental tools, and looked up, saying, "Second brother, is all scientific research this complicated?"
I feel like their metaphysics is simpler. All you need to do is meditate, draw spiritual energy into your body, draw talismans, and learn some formations.
"Yes, science is a rigorous and exploratory process. If Qiqi is interested, your second brother can teach you." Ji Jinnian was also very curious. If he guided his little sister onto the path of science, how would she combine science and metaphysics?
Unfortunately, before this idea could be fully developed, Qiqi shook her head and said, "Master said that I am naturally slow-witted, so I am not interested in complicated things!"
She still prefers to keep things simple.
Moreover, if she could achieve what her second brother called science, she felt there was no need to learn about it.
After all, the process of my second brother fusing those liquids was quite complicated.
She couldn't understand it at all.
Ji Jinnian: ...
How could her master make such an absurd assessment as her younger sister being slow-witted?!
"Isn't metaphysics complicated?" Ji Jinnian couldn't understand it. In his view, metaphysics was more complicated than science.
Qiqi looked up at him, her eyes wide with surprise. "Mysticism is very simple. Look at how we draw talismans; it's all done in one stroke. But when Second Brother does experiments, it takes so many steps, and the effect is different depending on the order. It's so complicated!"
Ji Jinnian: ...
If you put it that way, it does make sense!
"But if you don't draw the talisman in the correct stroke order, the effect of the talisman will also be different, it's the same!"
Qiqi tilted her head. "The stroke order of talismans is fixed, so why would you draw it wrong?"
"Do your innovative talismans, such as good luck talismans, also have fixed strokes?" In this respect, science and metaphysics are actually interconnected.
Qiqi seemed taken aback by the question, paused for a moment, and then answered, "But before I drew it, I had already thought about how to draw it, so there wouldn't be any deviations!" She paused, blinked her big eyes, and asked innocently, "Don't you think through the experimental steps carefully before doing an experiment, Second Brother?"
Ji Jinnian: ...
That's really a...good question!
I feel like my heart has been stabbed!
He paused for at least two minutes before finding the words to answer the question: "Science has no steps; to achieve a result, countless steps are needed to verify it!"
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