Researching New Principles, Dispelling Doubts, Attracting Secrets, Entering the Workshop, Grinding Teeth, Sighing, Waiting Distantly

What Mo Xiaoding taught was not the Mohist School's familiar Mechanism Arts at all, but many concepts they had never even heard of—things like the principle of the lever, the law of inertia, acceleration, and the like.

Although the Mohist School's Mohist Canons had long contained records on matters such as the principle of the lever, and had conducted some research into mechanics, they had never summarized them with such clarity.

As for things like inertia, this was the first time they had ever learned of them.

Before this, the Mohist School had always believed that force was the cause of motion, yet they could not explain why "a projectile continues moving after leaving the hand," merely attributing it to residual force left within the object.

And once they began studying, it became something extraordinary.

Over the next several days, the two were practically possessed. Before dawn each day, they rushed to the workshop to learn these new, systematic concepts from Mo Xiaoding.

At one point, they happened to overhear Xiaoding muttering to himself about theories such as universal gravitation and magnetism generating electricity, instantly arousing their immense interest.

Unfortunately, after pressing him with questions, they discovered that Xiaoding himself only had a hazy understanding of things like the law of universal gravitation and magnetism. He had merely heard them in passing from his senior brother, Qin Guli.

Though they had learned nothing concrete from their questioning, the two instinctively knew that profound learning lay hidden within those few scant words.

Their curiosity gnawed at their hearts and scratched at their livers; they wished they could seize those two little traitors right this instant and torture the answers out of them.

Little did they know that those two little traitors were currently just as consumed by curiosity themselves.

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