Are You Watching Me? [Part Two]

Lu Xiaoqian herself had never imagined that a train of thought she had merely mentioned in passing would have such an enormous impact on Wang Qi, making him think of so many things.

In truth, the so-called "view of the nature of spiritual energy" had once flared up briefly in the Divine Land as well. But the concepts of "spiritual energy" and "mass" were simply too far apart—far more distant than "mass" and "electromagnetism."

Under the prevailing environment of modern cultivation, where all revered Lord of Yuanli, systems based on the view of the nature of spiritual energy had, in reality, mostly come to nothing.

It had too few followers, and therefore no future.

The mechanical view, meanwhile, had many followers. With everyone blazing trails together, it had already formed a system of its own, long since matured and traveled very far.

Wang Qi lay on the beach, gazing up at the starry sky as he pondered the affairs of two worlds.

"This universe is not a world where 'the laws of physics are almost entirely identical to those of Earth's universe.' It is a universe where 'the known portions of its physical laws overlap with Earth's universe.'"

Why did alternate-world counterparts of scientists exist in this world?

Alternate-world counterparts of non-scientists seemed to exist as well, but their role appeared to be that of background scenery for those scientists' alternate-world counterparts, ensuring that those scientists' counterparts could grow along certain trajectories... grow...

Why did scientists possess such a special status?

Take TXT files as an example. To a computer, 13KB of profanity and 13KB of physics formulas were no different whatsoever.

Before the universe, the information of scientists ought to have been no different from that of theologians, mystics, swindlers, criminals, soldiers, or farmers.

Why was it that only