Fate's Choice: Livestream at the Start Summoning Billions of Ravens

Three days after the CCGEXPO anime convention ended.

John the Bull, Cambridge University, Trinity College.

The afternoon sun streamed through the courtyard of the old college and fell on a leafy apple tree.

Tom, a history student, is live-streaming from his phone onto the apple tree.

"Hey family, do you see this? This is the descendant of that legendary apple tree. It was here that Newton got hit on the head by an apple and then figured out the law of universal gravitation."

Tom introduced the product to the hundreds of viewers in the live stream in a typical touristy tone.

"Of course, this is not the original variety; the original is long gone. But the school says it was cultivated using grafting techniques and has a pure lineage."

The live stream chat was filled with sparse comments.

[Checking in from the front row]

So what? Can I pass physics with this?

[The streamer should probably take a bite and see if he can have an epiphany about relativity.]

Tom smiled, just about to say something more.

Just then, in his live stream footage, a green apple, ripe and ready to fall from the branch.

It did not fall downwards.

The apple remained suspended in mid-air for a second.

Then, defying a law that had been considered a universal truth for over three hundred years, it began to slowly fly upwards.

The pace was not fast, but the determination was unwavering.

It soared higher and higher through the gaps in the leaves, eventually becoming a tiny dot and disappearing into the azure sky and sparse clouds.

The chat in the live stream completely stopped at that moment.

【? ? ? ? 】

Holy crap?!

[Special effects? The post-production team the streamer hired is pretty good.]

[Is this a script? Is there a drone inside the apple?]

Tom's mind went blank. He stiffly raised his head and, like the other tourists taking pictures under the tree, stared blankly in the direction where the apple had disappeared.

There was nothing in the sky.

A gentle breeze rustled the leaves, and everything seemed eerily normal.

Just when everyone thought they were experiencing a collective hallucination.

A man dressed in a 17th-century scholar's robe and wearing a silver curly wig slowly emerged from behind the apple tree.

The man looked to be about fifty years old, with a serious face and a dignified demeanor.

He held a black cane with a transparent triangular mirror at the top.

His presence created a stark contrast with the modern environment around him, where people were dressed in T-shirts and jeans.

An elderly professor present, a doctoral supervisor at the Cambridge History Department, subconsciously took out his phone and pulled up a portrait saved in his photo album.

The person in the painting and the man emerging from behind the tree are identical except that one is an oil painting and the other is a real person.

The old professor's hands began to tremble, and he almost dropped his phone.

The man ignored the astonished crowd around him.

He walked to the apple tree and looked up at the direction the apple had flown away.

He then turned to Tom's still-live-streaming phone camera and spoke calmly in pure English with a 17th-century royal accent.

"Isaac Newton".

"Summoned by the Holy Grail, class Rider."

The short sentence was clearly transmitted to everyone in the live broadcast room through the network signal.

A deathly silence fell over the scene.

Tom even forgot to breathe.

Newton.

He said he was Newton.

The man seemed completely unconcerned about the crowd's reaction, which was exactly what he had expected.

Isaac Newton raised his cane and pointed it toward the sky.

The next second, an even more unbelievable scene unfolded.

The still, cotton-like clouds in the sky began to slowly rotate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It started as a tiny cyclone.

Soon, the cyclone expanded rapidly and its rotation speed increased.

All the clouds within a radius of several kilometers were drawn into it, forming a huge and spectacular white vortex over Cambridge University.

Sunlight streamed through the center of the vortex, casting a sacred beam that shone directly upon Isaac Newton.

"F = G * (m1*m2)/r²".

Isaac Newton spoke again.

"It's just an application of the formula."

After saying that, he put down his cane.

The swirling clouds in the sky also stopped spinning, freezing into a breathtaking apocalyptic scene.

Finally, Isaac Newton announced his schedule to the world through that tiny mobile phone camera.

"Two days later."

"I will be giving a public speech here, at the site of the ancient Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University."

The topic is...some revisions to modern physics.

……

Less than ten minutes after the incident, the Bull government's rapid response force sealed off the entire Trinity College, and the lockdown was subsequently expanded to the entire heart of Cambridge.

But it was too late.

The live stream recording titled "Apple Ascends to Heaven, Newton Returns" was edited, downloaded, and backed up by countless netizens, then subtitled in dozens of different languages ​​and frantically uploaded to every mainstream media outlet, short video platform, and academic forum around the world.

The internet has exploded.

#Newton must be turning in his grave#

This topic, in just half an hour, rose to the top of the trending topics list on all social media platforms worldwide at an unprecedented speed.

"I declare this to be the strongest performance art of the year, bar none!"

"Hey upstairs, didn't you see the apple fly away? Didn't you see the clouds spinning? This is the Holy Grail War! It's the real deal!"

"So, the physics we've studied for the past three hundred years has been built on... well, on a temporary theoretical foundation, one that could be retracted at any time?"

The physics teacher destroyed all the textbooks overnight, declaring: "Lord Niu is absolutely right!"

"Apple may be the biggest loser, as the theoretical basis for its logo is gone."

"What I'm more interested in is, what was Newton's class? Rider? What did he ride? Did he fly through the sky riding an apple?"

"No, he's riding on gravity! Didn't you hear that? F = G * (m1*m2)/r²! He's using his own law as a mount! What an outrageous display of arrogance!"

"Now that's great, physicists all over the world are going to lose their jobs. The original author himself has stepped in. What future do you writers of fan fiction have?"

"I can almost picture it two days from now, at the Cavendish Laboratory, Hawking's wheelchair driving itself out of his grave, followed by Einstein, who runs and shouts: 'Master Niu, don't change it anymore! If you change it any further, quantum mechanics will become inconsistent!'"

On the internet, memes and jokes about Newton are being refreshed at a rate of tens of thousands per second.

Someone photoshopped Newton's image onto various "The Return of the King" movie posters.

Some people created "states of physics" memes: Schrödinger's cat, Zeno's tortoise, and Newton's apple, with the caption: "Another day of nuclear peace."

Behind this carnival lies a profound and subversive impact on our fundamental understanding of the world.

If even gravity can be easily reversed by its discoverer.

So what in this world is certain?

The very foundations of science are being shaken by the very people who founded it.

This kind of shock, which strikes at the very core of one's worldview, has left countless people feeling an unprecedented sense of absurdity and confusion, ultimately leading them to resort to ridicule and deconstruction to mask their inner unease.

Beneath this global online frenzy, an undercurrent is brewing.

Intelligence agencies and high-ranking government officials in countless countries felt a chill run down their spines.

A person who can manipulate the laws of physics has a strategic deterrent effect that even surpasses that of Madara Uchiha's meteorite.

Within twelve hours.

The Nobel Prize nominee from the MIT Physics Department, the tenured professor who published "Preliminary Conjectures on 'Conceptual Solidification' and 'Extension of Authority' as Hyperdimensional Physics Phenomena," updated his personal Twitter account with a new post.

"I am withdrawing all my previous conjectures about 'Mora' because a more fundamental, more underlying specter of physics has returned from its grave."

"I've already booked a flight to Cambridge. If God truly exists, then I hope to witness firsthand how He will legislate for this universe."

This article instantly ignited the entire academic community.

The world's top physicists, mathematicians, and astronomers couldn't sit still after seeing the live stream recording and the colleague's tweet.

They flocked to the English town, which had been blockaded by the military, from all over the world through various official and private channels, sparing no expense.

They were going on a pilgrimage.

Or rather, they want to witness how the knowledge system they have acquired throughout their lives is overturned by its creators.