653: Chapter 653 Science and Metaphysics

“Oriental Chen? Tell him to come see me!” Shen Huiying shouted.

Zhang Yuankui could no longer hold him back; it was his time to step forward.

As soon as she finished speaking, the large screen in the room lit up, and Oriental Chen’s avatar appeared on the screen.

“You’re looking for me?” Oriental Chen asked.

“Oriental Chen, I want to see Shanshan,” Shen Huiying said in a commanding tone.

“What’s the reason?” Oriental Chen asked.

“I want to see if you’re lying to me,” Shen Huiying replied.

“What if it’s true? What if it’s false?” Oriental Chen continued to ask.

“If it’s true, I’ll tell you everything you want to know. If it’s false, you’ll all die!” Shen Huiying gritted her teeth.

“Why didn’t you reveal your identity from the start? Why did you pretend to be weak when you came here?” Oriental Chen asked.

His meaning was that there was no essential difference between the current situation and before.

Before, she was willing to stay here quietly, but now she wanted to kill everyone.

“You ask too many questions. Unless I see Shanshan, I won’t answer any of your questions,” Shen Huiying’s words and actions exuded the aura of a superior.

“Brother Zhang, go bring Shanshan over,” Oriental Chen said.

“This…” Zhang Yuankui was a little worried.

“Don’t worry, she can’t hurt Shanshan,” Oriental Chen reassured him.

“Alright!” Zhang Yuankui said and left.

“Is Shanshan your daughter?” Oriental Chen asked.

“Of course,” Shen Huiying replied.

This was idle chat during the wait.

“When you married Brother Zhang, did you know you were a Mutant?”

“I am not a Mutant,” Shen Huiying shook her head.

“You have a crystals in your body, so you are naturally a Mutant,” Oriental Chen smiled.

“In our era, this wasn’t called a crystals.”

“Then what was it called?”

“It was called an inner dan,” Shen Huiying replied.

“An inner dan? Haha, don’t tell me you’re a Cultivator,” Oriental Chen laughed.

Modern society values science, not metaphysics.

“What? Is it that funny?” Shen Huiying’s gaze was sharp.

“You’re a biologist, why are you still superstitious about metaphysical things?” Oriental Chen asked.

“Whether it’s a crystals or an inner dan, it’s just a different name. Why is one science and the other metaphysics?” Shen Huiying asked.

“Different names represent different understandings and different stances. What is based on facts is called science, and what is based on imagination is called metaphysics,” Oriental Chen replied.

“Hahahaha, you are too naive. Tell me, what is a fact?” Shen Huiying burst into laughter.

She herself was a scientist, so she naturally had a deep understanding of science.

In the eyes of ordinary people, what they see is a fact, and what they don’t see is imagination.

But is what is seen truly a fact?

Is what is not seen necessarily not a fact?

Perhaps not?

So there was an inherent paradox here, which Shen Huiying could naturally discover.

Although science is based on objective facts, it relies not on completely objective facts, but on objective facts that humans perceive.

What humans don’t see, even if it objectively happened, is just imagination to humans.

This question was no longer a scientific question, but a philosophical one.

Therefore, Oriental Chen found it difficult to answer Shen Huiying’s question for a moment.

“Alright, when you were with Brother Zhang, did you know you had an inner dan?” Oriental Chen continued to ask.

“Of course!”

“Then you must have been very powerful back then, so why did you choose to marry him?”

“What? Can’t someone with an inner dan get married?”

“That’s not it. It’s just that books always say Cultivators and ordinary people are not on the same level, so why did you choose to marry him?”

This question sounded somewhat gossipy.

However, Oriental Chen’s understanding of cultivation was only based on fictional myths, with no factual reference.

“There were those like that before, high above, far from the dust, but they all died later,” Shen Huiying replied, looking up, as if reminiscing.

“How long have you lived?” Oriental Chen asked.

“I don’t remember, a very, very long time…” Shen Huiying sighed.

Oriental Chen could feel that while Shen Huiying was indeed a master, she seemed to have no airs.

Moreover, from her eyes, there was no killing intent or aggressiveness, which left him somewhat puzzled.

“What kind of person is this, after all?” Oriental Chen wondered.

Soon, Zhang Yuankui returned with Shanshan.

“Shanshan!” Shen Huiying wanted to go forward, but she could feel an invisible high-energy wall in front of her, so she could only stand still.

“Alright, take a look,” Zhang Yuankui said, holding Zhang Huishan’s hand tightly.

He didn’t want to tell his daughter now that the person in front of her was her mother.

Shen Huiying only needed one glance to know that her daughter indeed had a crystals in her body.

She also knew why Yuan Kui was guarding against her and unwilling to tell her daughter that she was her mother.

She was afraid the child would be sad.