Professor Rupert Hogwarts

Chapter 317 Come, Listen to Me Tell You!
After a while, Eisen stopped at a distance in front of the shop.

"Hi, hello, tell me if you need anything!" The middle-aged man looked at Aisen from a distance, pointed at the shelves in the store and waved hello.

There was a deformed cross with a strong musty smell, a transparent crystal ball stained with some mud, and some bandages wrapped around it, which looked very strange.

In addition, there are some angel statues of different shapes - well, Eisen even saw a rough wooden Buddha statue.

Embarrassing, very embarrassing.

In fact, this was the reason why Aisen stopped moving forward. He got a little closer and realized that this was just an ordinary store.The shopkeeper just sells ordinary items of no use under mysterious slogans.

Even some of the wands placed on the shelves outside are just some relatively sophisticated-looking wooden sticks.

Well, after spending several years in the wizarding world, I didn't realize for a while that many ordinary people actually yearn for mystery.There are witches, devils, demon hunters, astrologers, etc. Only when such people exist can such shops survive.

After shaking his head and ignoring the other party, Aisen turned and left.

In the next few days, Aisen seemed to be really free, wandering around freely.From the Freedom Trail to MIT, he regarded himself as a tourist, silently observing everything around him while immersing himself in it and enjoying the customs and customs of Boston.

Walking around an exotic institution of higher learning, Eisen felt an atmosphere he had not seen for a long time.Many young people were sitting leisurely on the grass, gathering together in twos and threes, chatting casually or intensely.

Since graduating from college, Aisen has not had such an experience for a long time.

"Selena, look at that handsome guy, do you know which college he is a student from?" A blond girl looked at Aisen curiously, and then she whispered in the ear of a girl wearing a purple headdress.

"Maybe they're from the philosophy department. I heard there are a lot of handsome guys there. But I can't say for sure. They might be tourists from outside!" the other party replied with a smile.

"How about you go and ask?" The blonde girl showed a strange smile on her face, and then encouraged her.

"It's very simple, why not give it a try?" The girl with a purple headdress stood up like a proud peacock. She stood up and gave her friend a confident look and came to Aisen's side.

"Hi, I'm Verina Evans!"

After being stunned for a moment, Eisen turned his head and looked at the other person up and down, and said gently: "Hello, Miss Evans, you can call me Eisen, Eisen Turner."

Evans narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced to the side without trace, gave his friend a proud look, and then said: "You are very handsome, and you can call me Verina."

"Okay, Verina." Eisen looked at the girl in front of him with interest, but thought to himself, the handsome guy is indeed more popular.

I'm still the handsome guy from before, nothing has changed, time is just - ahem, I've changed.

"Which department are you a student in?" The girl named Wei Lina was particularly talkative. She didn't care at all about her friend who was already pouting and looking aggrieved, and started chatting with Eisen enthusiastically.

"Student?" Eisen repeated with a smile.

"Department of Philosophy? Or Department of History?" Verina's eyes widened with curiosity on her face.

"No, I have graduated and am now a professor in the astronomy department of a British university!" Eisen said seriously as the thoughts in his mind swirled.

Well, Hogwarts can be considered a university, so the astronomy professor at Hogwarts can also be considered a professor in the astronomy department. There is nothing wrong with that!

"Professor of the Department of Astronomy, this is amazing!" Verina looked at Eisen in surprise, showing an expression of disbelief. Then she seemed to have thought of something, and her voice became much softer, "By the way, there happened to be a very special person today. Are you here to communicate with the famous planetary astronomy professor’s open class?”

"Yes, I was invited to listen to this open class." Aisen's mouth twitched, but thinking that he had nothing to do now, he simply answered shamelessly.

Verina took Aisen into a spacious classroom. When she saw her friend who was glaring at her, she smiled and waved to him.

He casually found a seat at the back of the classroom and sat down. Not long after, the light in the large classroom dimmed, and then a beam of light was projected into the center.

The public class has begun.

A middle-aged man dressed casually stood on the podium and smiled at everyone in the audience: "Today we are discussing a very interesting topic, how can humans fly out of the solar system?"

"Of course, this topic is impossible for humans today. So most scientists agree that we need to go through a technological leap."

"Only technological leaps can break the constraints faced by mankind, break away from the constraints of the solar system, and freely choose to go to the next star system."

"Although it is enough to reach the third cosmic speed of 16.7 kilometers per second to fly out of the solar system, it is a pity that the lifespan of human beings is not enough to support such a long-distance flight."

"So, there is only one problem facing mankind, and that is speed!"

"On the scale of a star system, only by continuously increasing the speed can it be possible for humans to fly out of the solar system!"

……

The professor kept talking on the stage, and Eisen felt drowsy underneath.I originally thought that a professor from such an institution of higher learning would have some surprising opinions, but I didn't expect that he would have such a boring argument.

There is no way, he has been baptized by the Internet storm, and he has never heard of any kind of argument.

What?Is it 1995 now, not 2022 in Eisen’s previous life?Oh, that’s okay!

A student raised his hand and stood up to ask: "Assuming that humans have strong enough technology to fly out of the solar system, will they encounter alien civilizations?"

"Hmm - well, this will involve another quite interesting issue - the Fermi Paradox..."

Many people raised their hands.

Aisen stood up from his seat and planned to leave.

But unexpectedly, the professor pointed at Eisen who was standing up. Suddenly, quite a few people in the classroom looked over.Verina and her friends looked at him expectantly.

Hey, I'm about to leave, why did you stop me?Do you have to ask me to say something shocking?Well, since you do this, don't blame me for being pretentious here.

Eisen looked at the smiling professor with a playful smile on his face: "Professor, do you think it was extremely stupid for NASA to launch Voyager 1977 in to expose information about human civilization?"

After the words fell, whispers resounded in the classroom, and then from time to time someone looked at Aisen, seeming to be curious as to why he would ask such a question.

"So, what's your opinion?" The professor's face changed slightly and he extended his hand to indicate.

Very good, the pretense has officially begun!
"Then, I need to explain some - well, axioms first!" Eisen said calmly, "First, survival is the fundamental need of civilization. Second, civilization will continue to grow and expand, but the world in the universe The total amount of matter remains unchanged. Professor, do you have any objection?"

The professor looked at Eisen without speaking, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"So, if a civilization discovers another civilization in the universe, it will be impossible to judge whether the other civilization is kind or malicious towards it.

In the same way, it is impossible to judge whether another civilization can judge whether it is benevolent or malicious towards the other civilization.Obviously, such suspicions will continue to circulate and form a chain before the two civilizations communicate.

Does the professor agree with this chain of suspicion? "

The discussion in the classroom became louder, and the professor's face became extremely serious: "You mean that Voyager will expose the information of human civilization, which will attract the attention of alien civilization, and thus bring devastating consequences to human beings." Hit?"

"But if human civilization is much weaker than alien civilization and cannot pose a threat to the other party, then alien civilization will always feel at ease to communicate with humans!"

One student couldn't help but offer his own idea.

That's right, but don't worry, Aisen still has some pretentious words that he hasn't finished yet.

Aisen looked over with a smile, a hint of disdain on the corner of his mouth.

"This is true in theory, but in reality, you have to remember that the speed of light in the universe cannot be exceeded, so communication between two civilizations will be very troublesome."

"The history of life on earth is billions of years long, human civilization is only a few thousand years old, and modern science and technology has only been developed for a few hundred years. Therefore, alien civilization has no way to judge whether the science and technology of human civilization will change in the gap between the exchanges between the two parties. A leap—no, a technological explosion.”

"So even if an alien civilization discovers that human civilization is much weaker than itself, it still feels threatened by human civilization because of the possibility of technological explosion."

"Then, in order to ensure the safety of civilization, we must remain silent in the universe and not let other civilizations discover us. And once civilization is exposed, because of the chain of suspicion and the explosion of technology, the safest way is to cause more powerful civilizations to Before paying attention, completely wipe out the other side’s civilization.”

After Eisen finished speaking, the entire classroom was dead silent.

"This is the explanation of the Fermi Paradox -" a student in the narrator said blankly, and suddenly thought of something and shuddered.

"The universe is a dark forest, and every civilization is a hunter with a gun, sneaking in the forest like a ghost... Trying not to make a sound with their footsteps, even breathing carefully... So, do you think NASA launches travelers? Is No. ’s behavior extremely stupid?”

While everyone was still recalling Eisen's cold words, he had quietly left the classroom.

Looking at the beautiful sun in the sky, Aisen suddenly sighed: "Sure enough, the netizens are not bullying me. They pretended to be cool and ran away. It's really exciting."

But speaking of it, it is indeed very difficult for humans to fly out of the solar system.Or it can be said that it is almost impossible.

Although he had told the dark forest laws he had heard in his previous life in order to show off, technology explosion is not that easy.

It’s hard for Eisen to believe how explosive the technological explosion must be for humans to create a spacecraft that travels at nearly the speed of light.

And if human civilization does not develop a spaceship with such a speed, it is likely to be trapped in the solar system until the energy of the entire star system is exhausted.

What?Is there magic in this world?Oh, that’s okay!

"By the way, I should be able to fly out of the solar system now!" Walking slowly on the street, Eisen showed an eager expression.

Well——, the diameter of the solar system is about two light years.In other words, it will take him two years to fly out of the solar system.So, what about the Milky Way?The diameter is about 10 light years.In other words, it will take years of flight to fly out of the Milky Way.

Damn it, just one Milky Way takes 10 years to fly. This is too inferior.When Ye Fan first became the emperor, a single battle shocked the entire universe.

This is tens of billions of times the speed of light!Thinking of this, Aisen couldn't help but shake his head, feeling sad for his own weakness.

Forget it, it seems it's safer for me to stay on earth.

……

In the next few days, Eisen traveled around during the day and returned to the room Fontana gave him at night.Occasionally, I would have video calls with Hermione, and sometimes I would enter the dream world to study how to create a chat group.

Having been monitoring the surroundings of Ilvermorny School, Aisen still found nothing unusual.The detection charms placed around Mount Greylock did not detect any traces of black magic.

Until the holiday was about to end, Eisen even wondered whether Dumbledore had made a mistake, or whether Voldemort had some conspiracy to deceive Dumbledore and give him the wrong news?

Anyway, he thought about it for a long time and still couldn't figure out why Voldemort came to the United States.

Is there any treasure in Ilvermorny School that can restore the opponent's strength?It shouldn't be possible.Aisen should have some idea of ​​what treasures there are in the wizarding world, but what can Ilvermorny have?
You know, if Voldemort wants to restore his power, besides the Sorcerer's Stone, what he needs most is the blood of the unicorn.Wait—unicorn blood?

Could it be that Voldemort sent people to capture the unicorn that disappeared in the Forbidden Forest?
If this is really the case, isn't Voldemort's power recovering rapidly?If Eisen remembers correctly, Voldemort should be accompanied by a snake servant named Nagini.

With the snake's venom and the unicorn's blood, Voldemort can restore his power.So what's the purpose of sending his servants to America, um, to Ilvermorny?
strength!strength!correct--

Wand!

An idea flashed in his mind, and Aisen suddenly thought of a possibility and almost gasped.

In the original book, Voldemort finally tried every means to find the most powerful wand in the world, the Elder Wand, in order to improve his strength.

So now, is it possible that Voldemort already knew that the Elder Wand was in Dumbledore's hands, and then set his target on Salazar Slytherin's wand.

The story about the Slytherin wand also involves the experience of Aesop, the founder of Ilvermorny, but it is said that the wand can be controlled by Parseltongue to render it useless.

The wand was eventually buried outside Ilvermorny School.Later, an unknown snake tree grew where the wand was buried.

Could it be that Voldemort's target is Slytherin's wand that has been buried?Well, Voldemort has always been proud of his Slytherin blood, so it makes sense to get Slytherin's wand.

Well——, that is to say, Dumbledore received news that Voldemort might send a servant to take away Slytherin's wand, so he asked me to come and pay attention to whether there is anything abnormal in Ilvermorny?

However, if this is really the case, is it possible that the other party has already obtained the magic wand before I come here before the Easter holiday?
Damn it, no way, no way!It can't be such a coincidence!

Thinking of this possibility, Eisen lost interest in shopping. He turned around the corner and entered a narrow alley, turning into light and running towards the top of Greylock Mountain.

In an instant, Aisen traveled through space and arrived at the top of Mount Greylock. After passing through a layer of clouds and mist that surrounded the surroundings, he landed outside Ilvermorny Castle.

The granite castle stands on the top of the mountain. At first glance, it looks really impressive.There are two marble statues on both sides of the main entrance of the castle.If nothing else, it is a statue of Aesop and James, the founders of Ilvermorny.

In an open space not far from the door, a strange-shaped tree grew.

With a thought, Aisen, who had returned to his human form, directly put a magic body spell on himself, and then slowly walked to the tree.

After taking a look around, he found that no one was passing by, so he squatted down and touched the ground with his hands, and then began to feel it carefully.

A faint ray of light emerged from Eisen's hand, like ripples, constantly surging downwards.After a moment, Aisen stopped what he was doing and stood up.

"The bottom is empty. Has the wand really been stolen by someone sent by Voldemort?"

After muttering, Aisen frowned and circled the snake tree several times, and then cast several detection spells.Immediately afterwards, the results of the feedback came into his mind, letting him understand that there was indeed a slight trace of turning in the soil under the tree.

After a moment of silence, Aisen seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but sigh.

After taking a deep look at the castle gate of Ilvermorny not far away, he used phantom to teleport to his office in Hogwarts Castle.

That's right, now that he has guessed what's going on, Aisen doesn't intend to waste time.He simply returned to Hogwarts.

After dawn, before it was time for breakfast, Eisen walked out of the room and walked towards Professor McGonagall's office.

Although I don't know if the abnormality I discovered is something Dumbledore needs to pay attention to, it doesn't matter. I just need to report it to Dumbledore from Professor McGonagall.

After a while, Eisen knocked on the door and entered Professor McGonagall's office.

(End of this chapter)