Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 220 Star Sea
"This knight is really a weirdo."
On the 58th floor, Ron, who had just walked out of a room, muttered softly to Neville and Lee beside him.
"He doesn't look like someone who is short of money. Why did he come to the Norwegian Sea to suffer? Even if he really wanted to study astronomy, he could just move to Sweden or Finland, where he can see the same starry sky as this one."
Neville said, shaking his head.
"Everyone has different ambitions. Maybe it was something that Sir Stork experienced when he was young that prompted him to live in seclusion here."
As they were talking, Lee looked around , and both Neville and Ron noticed his unusual behavior.
"What are you looking for?"
"I always feel like someone is watching us." Li said with a frown.
His words made Ron shudder subconsciously. He didn't feel anything at first, but after Li said that, he didn't know if it was a psychological effect or if he just realized it at this time, but he also felt like he was being watched all the time.
Neville patted them both on the shoulders and motioned for them to look in the direction of the corner of the stairs.
There was a black cat that looked exactly like the ones they had seen before.
It was squatting in the shadow of the corner, looking at Neville and the other three with its eyes that glowed faintly in the darkness.
Ron breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the black cat.
He walked up to the black cat and watched him approach. The black cat did not leave, but just kept staring at him.
"There are so many cats in this tower, and they are all pure black. They look like they are all one."
As Ron spoke, he wanted to reach out and touch the head of the black cat that scared him.
But the cat didn't seem to want his hand to touch it. It jumped away from Ron and ran down the stairs.
Ron shrugged somewhat confusedly.
“It doesn’t seem to like me.”
"Let's go, let's go up one more floor, it's almost time for lunch."
Neville urged Ron, and the three of them continued up the stairs until they reached the 59th floor.
There was still only one closed room here, and the door was not locked like the other floors. They easily pushed the door open and walked in.
The room was pitch black. Unlike other rooms, where candlelight would automatically light up as soon as one entered, here it was still dark even if all three of them walked in.
“Why are there no lights here?”
"Maybe the knight forgot about it when he was renovating this floor."
"It may be that there is some big secret on this floor that he cannot reveal. Wait for me to pull out the wand."
When Li was about to wave his wand and cast the illumination spell, a faint light suddenly appeared in the center of the originally dark room.
Suddenly, the attention of Neville and the other two was attracted by this spot of light.
The light was originally only the size of a grain of rice, but it was still expanding. Soon, as they witnessed, a fireball that was emitting light and seemed to be constantly burning appeared before their eyes!
At the same time as the fireball appeared, countless spots of light flashed around it.
The entire dark room seemed to contain a sea of stars. Light balls of different colors kept appearing around them, and then began to rotate around the fireball in the middle according to fixed orbits.
Around these light balls that were obviously smaller than the fireballs, smaller light balls gradually emerged, and these light balls began to revolve around them.
Neville's eyes reflected this magnificent scene, and he said in shock.
"This is... this is the solar system!"
Even in exile, Hogwarts never stopped teaching astronomy. In the first grade, they had already learned about the nine planets in the solar system (Pluto was removed in 2006, leaving eight planets), and even learned about the satellites orbiting the planets.
So when Neville and his friends saw this galaxy, they did not feel unfamiliar with it.
However, the evolution of the planets in the room did not stop.
After the entire solar system appeared around them, including the sun in the middle, the entire solar system began to shrink, and soon the galaxy became a sphere the same size as the original sun.
Various other galaxies that Neville and his friends had learned about or not learned about kept appearing around them, circling around them, as if they were now in the sea of stars.
Not only Neville, but Ron and Lee were also shocked by the scene before them and were speechless.
At this moment, someone outside suddenly pushed the door open.
Sir Stoke, who had just come down from the top of the tower with Jon, stood in front of the door with a smile on his face, looking at the three children who were surrounded by the sea of stars.
He was neither angry nor blaming, but asked.
“Isn’t it wonderful?”
Lee said excitedly: "This is absolutely amazing!"
Ron looked fascinated: "I have never seen anything so beautiful!"
"There is nothing in the world more fascinating than the starry sky above our heads."
Sir Stocker looked at the stars floating in the darkness, a faint light appeared in his eyes, and there was obviously fanaticism hidden under his calm gaze.
Jon stood beside him, looking at the stars in the room that were simulated on the ground. He neither agreed nor denied Sir Stoker's words at this amazing scene.
He was amazed at the scenery before him, and even more amazed at Sir Stock's courage.
This sea of stars could not be created overnight even with magic. Moreover, apart from the solar system, the positions and orbits of the planets in every other galaxy are not information that can be obtained easily.
Sir Stock must have put a lot of effort into this room, and there is really no better explanation for why he spent so much effort to create such a room except that it was out of personal interest.
Astronomy is an important direction for wizards to understand magic and observe the world.
But development in this direction is unlikely to bring any substantial improvement to wizards themselves. So although the astronomical knowledge of the wizarding world has been developing, it is still unclear whether they know more than the Muggles who have already landed on the moon.
Because they have never left the earth and gone into space, not many wizards are actually very interested in the starry sky above their heads. Their research on the starry sky is mostly related to divination.
They hoped to discover patterns in the orbits of planets that would affect people on land, and use them to make predictions.
But Sir Stocker was obviously not a fortune teller. He understood astronomy, but it seemed that he just simply liked it.
I like it to the point of obsession or even fanaticism.
