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"Shadow puppet theory?"

These three simple words immediately caught Li Luo's attention.

With curiosity, Li Luo clicked on the title.

Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play" or "lantern shadow play", is a folk drama that uses silhouettes of characters made of animal skins or cardboard to perform stories, and many new types of interpretations have appeared in modern times.

During the performance, the artists manipulate the shadow figures behind the white curtain while telling the story with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and string music, which has a strong local flavor.

Its popularity is extremely wide, and a variety of shadow puppetry has been formed due to the different voices performed in different places.

Before the invasion of the abyss, shadow puppetry was regarded as a cultural heritage and was protected in many ways, but after the arrival of the abyss, it was lost on a large scale due to improper protection.

Although shadow puppetry has been valued again after social stability, this form of drama has gradually faded from people's sight with the development of science and technology and the direction of attention.

Li Luo had seen records of shadow puppetry in extracurricular history books, but the books only briefly mentioned it, without any in-depth discussion of this traditional culture.

After the invasion of the abyss, people talked about relics and the future, emerging technologies and cutting-edge applications. These historical cultures gradually retreated into the database and became data that no one cared about.

Entertainment, there are newer and more convenient entertainment methods.

Inheritance, the abyss has already been attacked, so what inheritance is still there?

Art, in a society that focuses on practical application, no one will understand this simple light and shadow art.

But why does the title "Shadow Puppetry" appear when searching for Eternal Night? This is also the reason why Li Luo is curious.

"Yuan Kong, why do you want to block the light from above the eternal night? Is it filtering?"

"No, it's because you 'must' block the light."

"Just like the curtain of a shadow play, blocking the light behind the curtain can make the things you really want to show appear."

The beginning of the article made Li Luo curious, and she hurried to read on...

"The function of Yuan Kong is to filter, filter out things that are meaningful to the abyss. This is what people have always believed, and many studies have also proved this, but why is 'light' filtered out?"

"Light is a very important thing. Above the fourth layer of the abyss, including the earth, the energy of all life comes from the sun. Sunlight is the source of energy for the entire world. With light, everything on earth exists."

"Such an important thing, when it comes to Yuan Kong, it is filtered out Is it because light has no meaning to the abyss?"

"Of course not, because light above the abyss hole is more meaningful than entering the abyss hole. The abyss needs to control the light above the abyss hole and use the shadows created by these lights to fill the chaos below the abyss hole."

"If a world is full of "meaningful" things, it cannot constitute a world, just like a game map. If there are only main lines and NPCs, it cannot constitute this game. It also needs some "meaningless" embellishments and fillings, some data redundancy."

"These redundancies are the key to preventing the world from collapsing. If "grass and trees" are meaningful, and "soil" is meaningless, the abyss hole only selects meaningful "grass and trees" to constitute the world, it will be like rootless duckweed, and the world it constitutes will be scattered and disordered. "

"At this time, It is necessary to bring meaningless "mud" into this world, let them serve as the support of "plants and trees" and stabilize the existence of these "plants and trees". However, this brings new problems. Now that "mud" has come, should "sand and gravel" also be put in? "

"Plants and trees rely on mud, mud is mixed with gravel, gravel is broken into dust, dust floats into the air, air carries various gases, and these gases participate in various chemical reactions. In the meaningless corners, the memory of the "game" is fully occupied, causing the normal operation of the abyss to be affected. "

"Everything in the world is connected, and it is impossible to completely distinguish the meaningful part from the meaningless part. If it is forcibly stabilized, the screening of the abyss will be useless, and everything will be put in, allowing meaningless things to fill this world with richness and color. At this time, and The world above the abyss is no different. "

"If these meaningless things are not put in, the world will collapse. If they are put in, the abyss will be invalid and the screening will fail. This is the problem facing the abyss. "

"In order to solve this problem, the abyss can only give up bringing the important "light" to the bottom of the abyss, and let the "light" stay above the abyss to play a more important role. "

"This role is-projection."

"Those meaningless things are all above the abyss. Just let them be projected on the curtain under the action of light, and then pass the content on the curtain to the bottom of the abyss."

"In this way, whether it is "grass and trees", "mud", "sand and gravel", or those messy things, after passing through the curtain, they will become the same thing-image. "

"Things that don't participate in normal interactions can all be made into textures, such as the inaccessible mountains in the distance, the birds flying in the night sky, the occasional passing lizards, the large rift valleys that make people want to stay away from them... These things don't even need to be added with a 'collision model', just play a moving or still image to solve the problem, and no one will care anyway."

"These are meaningless things. There will be no interaction, and of course there will be no mistakes. No one will really run to the curtain and touch those shadow puppets that do not exist at all."

"In this way, the light is blocked above the abyss hole and becomes the light source of the projection. The abyss hole then uses the light to project the image that wants to constitute the world below the abyss hole, and use these meaningless things to piece together to form a simple world."

"Anyway, it is pitch black, and no one will carefully observe the details of those images."

"Because only a simple image is needed, the projection is also very casual. If you want to project a mountain, you can use a mountain above the abyss hole to project it, or you can just find a small stone and project a huge mountain under the magnification of light and shadow."

"Or find the corpse of a huge creature and project this corpse to a distance as an unreachable mountain. This mountain looks hideous and terrifying, but it is more realistic than the projection of a real mountain."

"The degree of freedom of projection is very high, which can solve most of the problems of the world's composition, but there is still a problem that cannot be bypassed-"

"The connection between meaningful things and meaningless things."