The moment Hu Xia started her livestream, quite a few viewers just looking for a laugh tuned in.
"Sister Hu, where have you brought us this time?"
"Sister Hu, did you get sold off to some remote mountain village?"
"You’re all wrong. Sister Hu went into the mountains to become a bandit. Have you all forgotten how tough she is?!"
"..."
Hu Xia ignored the stream of comments and said, "Hello, everyone. Today’s livestream is from a rather special location. You probably still remember the time I bought those ridiculously expensive grapes. Well, the boss from back then invited me here to do a promotion for him."
"Boss, you’ve lost your mind! How could you let Sister Hu do a promotion? That’s a total waste of money."
"The boss will have to learn this the hard way. The last shop Sister Hu promoted has already gone out of business!"
Hu Xia said, exasperated, "Don’t you dare slander me. That last shop went out of business because it was breaking the law. It had nothing to do with me."
"Alright, first, let me show you all the boss’s Lin Xian Village. To be honest, he hasn’t finished building it yet."
Hu Xia panned the camera around, giving everyone a panoramic view of the entire village.
"Many areas are still under construction. Today, I’m going to show you the archery range the boss has finished, and the stargazing platform on the mountain peak."
The viewers in the livestream were all confused. ’The place isn’t even finished, so what’s there to advertise?’
"The view from this Arrow Tower is great. I was doing some archery up there yesterday, and it felt amazing. I’ll take you guys up for a look."
Hu Xia climbed to the top of the Arrow Tower and pointed her camera at the distant scenery. Soon, people in the livestream noticed something was off.
"Sister Hu, you’re going too far with this promotion. This is so fake, you’re clearly messing with the camera settings."
"Yeah, I was wondering about that. The video was so blurry when you were filming from the ground, but now that you’re up there, the distant scenery is crystal clear."
Hu Xia noticed the comments in her stream. After a quick look back at her feed, she saw that it was true.
"Wait a second, you guys. I really didn’t touch the camera settings. This is a bit strange. Let’s go back down and have a look."
After coming down from the Arrow Tower, Hu Xia suddenly realized it wasn’t just the camera. Even with her own eyes, she couldn’t see as clearly from the ground as she could from the top of the tower.
This strange change was unbelievable. She had originally thought it was just a better vantage point, but that clearly wasn’t the case.
"Zhiming, go up there and see. Is the view from the top of the Arrow Tower clearer than it is from down here?"
Hu Zhiming asked, a bit confused, "Sis, of course the view is better from up there!"
"I’m asking you to look at the same spot. Even if the view is better, it shouldn’t magically become clearer."
"Alright, I’ll go up and try."
Hu Zhiming was skeptical at first, but after going up and down the Arrow Tower twice, he finally understood what his sister was talking about.
"Sis, this is really magical! Looking at the same spot from up there and down here... it’s way clearer from the top of the Arrow Tower. It’s like using a pair of binoculars!"
"Did you all hear that? It’s really not me messing with the camera. This Arrow Tower is just... magical. Now, I’m going to give the camera to my brother and film with my phone. You’ll understand when you see the difference."
The viewers watched Hu Xia’s continuous shot and soon saw that the footage from her phone on the ground was genuinely different from the footage at the top of the Arrow Tower.
"See? It’s not me adjusting the camera. This change really happens when you go up the Arrow Tower. If you hadn’t pointed it out, I would have just assumed it was because of the more open view from the top."
"Are there any physics experts out there who can explain the principle behind this?"
As it turned out, there was a physics student in the stream. He analyzed it from a scientific perspective and suggested that water vapor was causing light to refract, creating a "Thousand-Mile Telescope" effect.
Soon, everyone agreed that explanation was wrong, because Hu Xia tested ten different Arrow Towers and found that this strange phenomenon occurred at every single one.
One could be a coincidence, but for the same thing to happen at all ten, the probability of a coincidence was just too low.
"How about this: I’ll come back and film again at noon to see if anything changes."
The physics student who had just explained the water vapor refraction theory was starting to question his own reality after watching the subsequent experiments.
One location could be explained as a coincidence, but ten locations all being the same... that couldn’t be explained by coincidence.
With that thought, he quickly downloaded the video and sent it to his university physics professor.
"Teacher Niu, there’s a strange phenomenon in this video. Could you take a look and tell me what the principle behind it might be?"
Niu Yaozu was resting when he saw the video his student sent on WeChat. He casually opened it for a look.
The moment he saw the distant scenery become clearer from the top of the Arrow Tower, he knew something was off. After watching the entire video, he had even more questions.
"Was this video processed by AI? Or were the camera settings adjusted differently for the shots at the top and the bottom?"
"Teacher Niu, this was from a livestream. I just clipped this part of the video. I initially guessed it was refraction caused by water vapor, but after she showed the same change happening in ten different places, I figured the odds of it being water vapor were too low."
"The streamer said she’s coming back here to stream at noon. I’m going to watch then to see if the phenomenon is still there."
"Send me a link to this streamer’s channel. Let me know when she goes live; I want to see it for myself."
Niu Yaozu was also quite curious. If this wasn’t faked, it could very well be a location with a unique physical environment.
After finishing her livestream at the Arrow Tower, Hu Xia went straight to find Lin Feng to ask him what was going on.
"Boss Lin, what’s the deal with your Arrow Towers? Why is it that when you look at the same scenery from the ground versus from the top of the tower, the view from the top is so much clearer?"
"Isn’t it just that the view is more open from the top of the Arrow Tower?" Lin Feng said casually, pretending not to know.
"No, that’s not it. It’s that when you look at the *exact same view* from the ground and from the top of the Arrow Tower, it’s clearer from the top."
"Oh, is that so? I honestly hadn’t noticed. I just thought it was because of the more open view."
Unable to get an answer from Lin Feng, Hu Xia was at a loss.
"You all heard him. The boss doesn’t know what’s going on either. Looks like we’ll have to rely on the power of the internet to see if anyone knows the reason."
Hu Xia was ecstatic. ’This is definitely a good thing for me. I might gain a ton of followers from this, and it could even make me go viral.’
"If you don’t believe me, you can have someone come and film it themselves. I’m definitely not faking this."
Hu Xia thought about the six Arrow Towers on the mountain. Thinking back now, it seemed like the same thing happened there, too.
’It’s just that I was using an astronomical telescope to look around yesterday, so I didn’t notice this effect.’
She thought to herself, ’Could Boss Lin’s place be some kind of special, wondrous land?’
’I’ve heard of places that can record sound, and others that can retain images, which then play back on rainy days and so on.’
After Hu Xia left in disappointment, Lin Feng knew that Lin Xian Village was about to blow up. Once the strangeness of the Arrow Towers was discovered, countless people would surely come to investigate, and it might even attract the attention of scientific researchers.
Obviously, they wouldn’t be able to find anything to study, which would only make it all the more enticing.
’The village’s construction progress is still too slow. I’ll let Mountain Ridge Town down the mountain profit from this first wave of hype.’
People were already paying attention to this place, and many knew about the village’s situation. He didn’t dare use the Village Construction Order’s function to instantly finish the buildings.
Things went just as Lin Feng had expected. The video from Hu Xia’s livestream quickly began to spread across the internet.
The curiosity of netizens fanned the flames, making the video hotter and hotter. More and more professionals joined in and began to analyze the footage.
At that moment, however, Lin Feng was busy receiving a tour group of senior citizens who had just come up from Mountain Ridge Town. It was from them that he learned just how powerful the effects of the Jade Grapes were.