What shape should a drop of water have?
Perfect sphere? It may only appear when there is no interference from external forces such as gravity in space. In most cases, there is no perfect sphere.
On the ground, water droplets on flat ground will appear oblate, which is the result of the confrontation between the tension of the water film and the gravity of the earth.
But now, such a vertical oblong drop that does not conform to the laws of physics appears here so suddenly.
Is this water? Yes, Zhu Jue just tested it with his own mouth and intestines. This is cold and refreshing water, not any other solid or colloid that can be shaped into this shape.
So why do water droplets take on this shape?
Zhu Jue's heart suddenly brightened. He stretched out his right forelimb and gently touched the drop of water.
The water droplets were disturbed and left the attached "ground", then "floated" upwards, quickly hit the "ceiling", broke into countless small water droplets, bounced towards the "ground" direction, and were then "floated" by the "ceiling". The ceiling” sucked back.
really! This is the shape of water droplets hanging from the tips of leaves, but...
Only then did Zhu Jue realize that this was what was going on. No wonder he always felt that there was something wrong with this lair. He couldn't find any pheromones "on the ground". He kept looking "up" but couldn't find the exit.
It turns out that this is the reason!
Thinking of this, Zhu Jue tried to carefully turn his body to the "ceiling" and move forward. However, this illusion was too real. He took a few steps and felt a little dizzy while hanging upside down. It was so real! ? Then we might as well return to the "ground".
Anyway, I have seen through this little trick, so it might not be a bad idea to "cooperate" a little more.
Zhu Jue found the correct direction and quickly moved "downward" to the nest. He entered from the small path to the main road, from the main road to the main passage, and ran quickly all the way "downward".
Soon, Zhu Jue discovered the spacious main passage. Moving along the main passage, it became wider and wider "downward", just as Zhu Jue expected.
A cave entrance appeared in front of him, and Zhu Jue recognized it. This was the entrance to the wild. He had been looking for the entrance but could not find it.
The entrance to the cave was so dark that one could not see the outside at all, not even a trace of moonlight came through. It was as if a door separated the outside of the nest into two worlds that could not even let in the light.
But where does the door of the ant nest come from? It is not the ant-body movable door of the turtle ant clan!
Zhu Jue knew that this was still some kind of cover-up, or a bug. But he decided to be cautious and first carefully moved his body to the "ceiling". For ants, such an action was very easy. Zhu Jue just didn't like hanging upside down because of human habits, but it wasn't impossible to do it. Make this move.
"Hanging his body upside down", Zhu Jue carefully poked the copper rod out of the hole, as if he were stretching into a puddle of dark water, and the first half of the copper rod seemed to disappear. Zhu Jue stirred it for a while and found that it felt the same. Then he took back the copper stick and took a closer look. There was no abnormality on the copper stick.
Zhu Jue tried to stretch out the jointed limbs again, An! So, he was cruel and crawled into the hole with his whole body.
Nothing changed. Zhu Jue had appeared outside the cave. His eyes suddenly opened up. The bright moonlight made the whole world extremely clear and upside down in Zhu Jue's eyes!
Yes, this is a topsy-turvy world!
I saw Zhu Jue "hanging upside down" on the ground, and the same was true for the ant mound in [Black Fire City]. The majestic ant mound grew "downward", and the crown of a tall tree next to it extended to "below" more than ten meters high. , and the bright moon hangs "under" the tree crown.
Of course, the world is not really upside down, it's just some kind of illusion that makes Zhu Jue feel upside down, and gravity is still at work. Zhu Jue jumped and was quickly sucked back to the ground "above" - obviously, gravity, the basic rule of the world and the source of illusions, cannot be interfered with.
This is the key to breaking the situation.
Ants can climb any surface, whether it's the floor, ceiling, or wall. Their very light weight and strong climbing ability allow them to ignore the existence of gravity most of the time, which provides opportunities for illusion makers.
Zhu Jue didn't notice this at first, but he did feel the violation. That was because the entire nest was turned upside down in his senses. The ground became the ceiling, the ceiling became the ground, and up became down. If the bottom becomes the top, can it not violate the harmony?
Why he couldn't find useful pheromones was because he had been looking for them on the real ceiling. No ant would deliberately place pheromones upside down. They usually placed them on the ground.
Why can't Zhu Jue find the exit? It's because he has been drilling deep underground. He doesn't know where he got, but the entrance and exit are obviously not here.
Once you see through the misunderstandings caused by illusions, these problems can be easily solved.
Then if you think about it carefully, more bugs can actually be explained. For example, why there is a black film outside the lair that blocks the view. It is because the difference between the two locations is too great, and the illusion cannot be smoothly transitioned. There must be a transition method similar to the scene switching in video games.
Now that Zhu Jue has confirmed that this is an illusion, what should he do if he wants to break the situation and get rid of the illusion?
Zhu Jue was not in a hurry to enter the lair. He "hanged" on the ground "above", meditating in the moonlight from below, carefully recalling everything that had just happened, and thinking about the clues in the lair.
There was another detail in the lair that I seemed to have overlooked just now. What was it? Zhu Jue couldn't remember it for a moment.
This clue was crucial, and Zhu Jue had actually realized it as soon as he woke up. However, he didn't think much about it at the time. Instead, he fell into panic because he lost his companion, and suddenly missed this crucial clue!
What's the clue?
Zhu Jue was thinking hard, but his mind seemed to be covered with a veil. The clues were behind the veil, and he couldn't catch it in a blur, and he couldn't brush the veil away!
After a while, Zhu Jue gave up and turned back to the nest, which was still upside down.
Little by little, he walked through the dilapidated passages and headed in the direction he came from. Zhu Jue planned to return to the palace where he slept at the beginning and sort out the information again!
Accidentally, Zhu Jue, who was thinking, did not see clearly a hole in the ground and stepped into it.
Zhu Jue pulled out his leg in annoyance. Suddenly, a glimmer of understanding arose: Why are there holes here? Haven't the black fire ants already started repairing the damage in their nests? Such a big hole must be repaired as soon as possible!
Zhu Jue looked up and looked around. There were tatters everywhere, and there was no sign of any repairs!
Yeah! The flaw turns out to be here!
