Chapter 1184: Cartoon
The little figures are still the same little figures, nothing has changed. But when Lin Shen looked at them with normal eyesight, then with super vision distance, and back to normal eyesight, he suddenly noticed that these little figures seemed somewhat different in his eyes.
He couldn't quite pinpoint what exactly was different, so Lin Shen switched to super vision distance again, didn't see any issue, turned it off, and again it felt a bit different.
Lin Shen repeatedly looked through the two perspectives, examining for a while, until he finally discovered what was different.
Lin Shen quickly took out his communicator, asking Smart Brain to photograph each of the little figures on Wall Mountain one by one.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Xiaona approached Lin Shen, asking curiously.
"I have a hypothesis, need to verify it, just wait a moment." Lin Shen waited for the communicator to snap photos on its own, needing to verify his hypothesis.
Lin Shen ceased practicing and just stood there waiting. Although he followed the figures and practiced many movements, he didn't feel they had any effect.
Unlike in Stepping on the Immortal Court, where movements could trigger one's strength, these movements practiced by Lin Shen had no effect.
Xiaoye frowned slightly, Lin Shen's situation seemed almost like giving up.
This made Xiaoye uncomfortable; if only three people were more gifted than Lin Shen, she'd rather be resented by him so she could help eliminate them.
But if Lin Shen couldn't comprehend the Untitled Divine Skill on Wall Mountain, then she couldn't possibly kill all those in the cosmic capable of understanding it; it's impossible to finish them off.
Watching as Wei Wufu and the other two seemed to have gained something, and Lin Shen was still directing the communicator to take photos, Xiaoye's once smooth and flawless forehead now furrowed into a frown.
"When Father reincarnated, what exactly went wrong, how did the damage become so severe, and could even the Realm King Fruit struggle to repair his brain?" Xiaoye pondered, thinking of ways to restore Lin Shen's brain in case the Realm King Fruit failed.
Although Father's legacies included treasures for restoring the soul or mind, compared to the Realm King Fruit, they were vastly inferior, not on the same level.
Those treasures, to an ordinary Divine Being, could be priceless, but compared to the Realm King Fruit, they're little more than functional trash.
If even the Realm King Fruit couldn't restore Lin Shen's brain, then those treasures were even less likely to work.
Xiaoye couldn't think of a solution for now, luckily the juice of the Realm King Fruit was still there, and the effects were ongoing; Xiaoye could only hope that once the juice fully took effect, Lin Shen's brain would return to normal.
Now, Xiaoye no longer hoped for Lin Shen's brain to advance to the level of a Great Emperor-level Smart Brain, just repairing it to its pre-reincarnation state would be satisfactory.
Everyone was doing their own thing: Wei Wufu was comprehending, Ouyang Yudu was practicing forms, and Di Esi was passing down culture.
Lin Shen, on the other hand, was like an avid photographer, controlling the communicator, and after a long time, finally taking separate photos of all the little figure illustrations.
"Dad, are you planning to go back and study them slowly?" Xiaona stretched her neck, peering at the photos Lin Shen had taken.
She couldn't see any issue, as the photos showed no difference from the illustrations on the wall; she thought Lin Shen might have taken them because he couldn't remember, intending to study them gradually.
"Xiaoye, have you ever watched cartoons?" Lin Shen asked while flipping through the photos taken by the communicator.
"What's a cartoon?" Xiaona asked curiously.
Xiaona was born in the Interstellar Civilization Era, and cartoons had long since faded into the annals of history.
The things they watched as children were all holographic images created by Smart Brain, capable of generating various special effects and characters at the push of a button.
She had never even heard of cartoons, a product of the ancient era.
"A cartoon is a kind of ancient imaging technology where artists would deconstruct character movements into many frames, then connect and play them rapidly, using the principle of visual persistence to make the characters in the images appear as if alive..." Lin Shen explained as he spoke.
"So such technology existed... You mean... these little figures are actually images from cartoons?" Xiaona, straightforward by nature and not low in intelligence, immediately grasped Lin Shen's meaning.
"I think so, look at this." Lin Shen arranged the sequence and let the Smart Brain rapidly play the photographs of the little figures.
"They're still just photos moving; I don't see them coming to life!" Xiaona looked at Lin Shen confusedly.
Lin Shen pondered, "It's probably a visual persistence issue; our levels are too high, and our visual persistence capability is weakened, with the persistence time we see becoming very short, so we can't see the animation effect. This isn't a major problem, just increase the playback speed."
Saying this, Lin Shen had Smart Brain continually increase the playback speed, otherwise, with their vision, they would see only moving pictures with no animation effect.
"There it is... it's moving... really..." Lin Shen increased the release speed repeatedly, until the communicator was almost smoking, Xiaona's eyes brightened, exclaiming in delight.
Xiaoye couldn't help but also come over, looking down at the screen of the communicator, indeed seeing a little figure on the screen making various moves.
Due to the high playback speed, the little figure's movements overlapped, making it appear like it had Three Heads and Six Arms, ending up in a very bizarre form.
"It's moving, but it doesn't look like it's practicing any cultivation technique, what's the use of it?" Xiaona spoke straightforwardly.
"Of course it's useful, you don't see the utility because your visual persistence time is too short; if the playback speed is slow, you can't see the animation, if too fast, the images overlap. So this is only for people with longer visual persistence times," Lin Shen said.
"I think your statement has an issue," Xiaoye thought and said, "When life's evolution reaches a certain level, the visual persistence time naturally shortens, otherwise there's no way to adapt to high-speed combat. Theoretically, the higher the level, the shorter the visual persistence time."
"Those who make it to Realm King Planet and overcome preceding challenges surely can't have low levels, meaning their visual persistence times aren't likely long, so no one would be able to see the animations, right?"
"My visual persistence time can be adjusted," Lin Shen said, slowing down the playback speed of the photos.
In Xiaoye and Xiaona's eyes, the photos merely scrolled across the screen, but in Lin Shen's eyes, the little figures seemed to come alive, performing various moves.