Chapter 492
Reorganizing the World View
Chapter 492 Reorganizing the World View
Cornelius was silent for a moment, looking at this strange and talking cloak, and whispered: "Magic?"
cloak:"……"
It turned around twice in silence and retorted: "Look at me! Open your eyes and look at me! Do I have any steel wires? Do I have any sound generators? Do I have any propellers?"
"I certainly didn't see it... But technology has developed to this extent. To an old man like me who has been left behind by the times, it looks no different from magic."
Cornelius sighed and said, "Stop trying to tease me. What is your purpose? Just tell me directly."
Cloak: "...So, even if I turn invisible and fly you around or play a game of chess with you, you, an old man, will think that these are all achievements of human technology, right?"
Cornelius' eyes widened in shock and asked, "You can do all this?"
The cloak ignored his next words. It flew to Wade and said aggrievedly: "Master, you see he doesn't believe it."
Cornelius's gaze also shifted to Vader.
Earlier in the car, the Grays had already introduced their son to him in advance. He was said to be a young wizard who was talented and hardworking. In just a few years, he had achieved achievements that others could never achieve in their entire lives, and he had invented many powerful alchemical works.
In the words of the Grays, their child was too perfect in both ability and character to be real. It was this child who decided to cure Cornelius and hire him to participate in a research project.
To be honest, as a staunch materialist, Cornelius didn't believe a word of it.
He felt that the poor couple might have been brainwashed by some sect or had some kind of mental delusion.
He followed the couple all the way back to thank them for curing his illness. He wanted to find out the details and then help them return to reason and reality.
But after entering this house, Cornelius felt that his worldview was really beginning to crumble.
The little puppets are extremely lifelike and vivid, the photos on the wall move, and the cloak is as lively as a human being. It is only a thin layer, and there is really nothing inside.
Most importantly, Cornelius paid attention to the time in newspapers and on TV on the way. He actually knew that he did not "sleep for twenty years". He also saw that pedestrians on the street mostly carried cats and dogs as pets, and did not carry such a flexible "intelligent robot" with them.
Cornelius tried to use the scientific theories he was familiar with to explain everything in front of him, trying to stabilize his cognitive system that was on the verge of collapse.
He looked up at the young man who was walking down from the upstairs, his eyes trembling slightly, with both fear and expectation.
Wade came up to him, smiled, and said nothing. He just took out his wand and tapped the buttons on Cornelius's clothes.
The gold-plated button twisted as if it was itchy, and under Cornelius's eyes it suddenly turned into a golden butterfly. It flapped its thin wings and suddenly flew up.
Because both his parents are duds, Wade rarely performs this kind of "little tricks" at home.
At this moment, Mr. and Mrs. Gray could not help but follow the butterfly, watching it dancing in the air, its wings like golden gauze.
After a moment, the butterfly flew back, and Cornelius couldn't help but reach out a hand.
Then the golden butterfly landed on his palm, its black antennae trembling slightly, as if sensing the air around it.
Its tiny feet moved gently in Cornelius' palm. The touch was delicate and subtle, a little numb, like a feather brushing gently.
Cornelius did not dare to breathe loudly, for fear of disturbing this fragile little life. He held the butterfly with some button patterns on its wings, and felt as if he had experienced a devastating hurricane. The towering buildings collapsed, and he stood on the chaotic ruins, but he saw a wider world, and his heart became clear and peaceful again.
"Is this magic?" Cornelius whispered.
"Yes," said Vader.
"Can magic create life?" asked Cornelius.
"Yes, magic can create life, transform species, and prevent death."
Vader said, "But this butterfly is just the effect of Transfiguration. I can turn non-living things into ordinary creatures, and I can also turn living things into various objects."
"Transfiguration?" the old man asked in a trembling voice.
"Transfiguration, potions, spells, herbs, prophecy, alchemy, astronomy... these are the most important aspects of magic." Wade said, "If you are willing, we can study them together using scientific methods."
Cornelus raised his head, and the confusion, bewilderment and dead silence in his eyes had all disappeared, replaced by a burning flame, a desire and awe for the new world.
"Of course I do." He said eagerly, "Where do we start?"
……
Wade entrusted the laboratory and various instruments to his father. It took Ferdinand nearly a year to prepare them.
The Gray family was originally just an ordinary family with some assets, not considered wealthy.
But since Wade entered the magic school, on the one hand, he used alchemy to accumulate considerable assets for himself in the wizarding world; on the other hand, Ferdinand made some investments based on Wade's advice, and his wealth expanded unknowingly.
The way to convince his father was also very simple. Wade just said, "I have some talent in prophecy," and he could make his parents believe in his judgment.
Although the world of Harry Potter is not exactly the same as the world of Wade's previous life, the development of some things is the general trend of history. As long as you seize a few right opportunities, you can ride the wheel of the times and gain huge benefits.
However, the Gray family did not become the richest family in the world because Ferdinand had a stable character and rarely took risks. He would rather watch opportunities slip away than take the risk of bankrupting his family.
In fact, Wade does not have a very high pursuit of money, because when wealth accumulates to a certain level, it is just a useful tool for him, and it is enough to be enough.
However, supported by wealth, the Gray family's laboratory was like a castle shining with the light of science and technology, and was filled with the smell of money everywhere, which made Cornelius' eyes shine.
"Is this heaven? Am I actually dead?"
The old man caressed the top-notch experimental equipment lovingly, and it was only after a long time that he reluctantly looked away and looked at Wade.
"If I want you to study magic, will you be my subject?"
"Thank you. I have no intention of being a guinea pig at the moment."
Wade took out a blood sample and said, "Let's start with this tube of werewolf blood."
(End of this chapter)