I don't want to be a doctor either.

It was not until after four in the afternoon that Jing Yu received Huang Qiuling's message, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Damn, there was finally news. If he didn't reply for a few days, the kids would definitely think he was a liar, and how could he put his face at that time...

Jingyu quickly opened the chat software and saw the reply: "Xiaoyu, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Teacher, can you please talk on the phone?"

"Sure. (OK gesture)"

Jing Yu took a deep breath and dialed Huang Qiuling's number with trembling hands. The call was quickly connected. He hurriedly greeted respectfully: "Good afternoon, teacher. What are you busy with? I haven't seen you for a long time?"

"Ah, I'm doing research in the wilderness with the research team, so there was no signal. I just returned to the base and saw your message." Huang Qiuling's loud voice came from the phone.

"Oh oh..." Jing Yu responded. It sounded like he had a really good relationship with this teacher. The teacher also seemed very talkative, so he started thinking about how to talk to Huang Qiuling about the problem of the boy in the lotus hat.

"Why don't you ask me what I'm researching?" Huang Qiuling's unhappy voice came from the phone.

Jing Yu was speechless after hearing this. He understood that this teacher was a show-off, so he quickly cooperated and asked, "Then... Teacher, what are you researching?"

"Hey, it's confidential, I can't tell you..." Huang Qiuling smiled.

"You..." Jing Yu held back the last three words of "Old Deng". He was really speechless. He never expected that his teacher had such a personality, like an old child.

"You beg me, beg me to tell you." Even if you beg me, I won't tell you.

Jingyu was silent. He was not that stupid and would not fall for the same trick twice!

"Ah~" Huang Qiuling was a little disappointed that Jingyu didn't fall into the trap. Xiaoyu was just not motivated. He could give it a try. Maybe he would reveal something.

Seeing that Huang Qiuling was silent, Jing Yu had to speak up to break the silence: "Teacher, this is why I came to see you today. I encountered an extremely difficult case."

Jingyu then told Huang Qiuling the situation of the boy in the lotus hat in detail. During the conversation, Huang Qiuling just kept making “hmmmm” sounds, but his voice became louder and louder.

Huang Qiuling didn't speak until Jingyu finished speaking, his voice was obviously a little excited: "This... shouldn't be, but... but, oh, I understand, interesting, very interesting."

Huang Qiuling said something that puzzled Jingyu, and then suddenly changed the subject and asked Jingyu a question: "Xiaoyu, what do you think?"

Teacher, there must be something fishy about this, Jing Yu complained in his heart, but he also knew that the teacher was probably testing him to see if he had made any progress during this period. In this case, Jing Yu also told his guess: "Teacher, I think this matter may be related to the 'elves' attributes and the five elements theory' you mentioned in class."

"You still remember that?" A smiling voice came from the phone: "Well, tell me your understanding of this argument. Don't be afraid of being wrong, just say it."

"Okay." Huang Qiuling's words "don't be afraid of making mistakes" made Jingyu understand that the teacher definitely knew a lot about this argument and had even verified a lot of it. So he told Jingyu all the thoughts he had been thinking about from the morning when the teacher didn't reply to his message until the afternoon. They were all just his guesses.

"First, let's look at the correspondence between the five elements and the attributes of the elves. I guess - the metal element corresponds to steel, the wood element corresponds to grass, the water element corresponds to water, the fire element corresponds to fire, and the earth element corresponds to rock or the ground. I prefer rock."

"Oh?" Huang Qiuling's eyes lit up, and then he asked with interest: "Tell me, why do you think the earth element corresponds to the rock attribute instead of the ground?"

"Because most ground-based moves require the help of the earth to be activated, such as 'Earthquake', 'Magnitude', 'Earth Power' and the like, all require the spirits to transfer their power to the earth, and then use the earth as a weapon to attack the enemy. Even if there is a ground-based move like 'Direct Drill' that can be activated by itself, it cannot attack a target that is too high off the ground.

In the theory of the Five Elements, each element itself is a kind of force and does not need any support. In fact, the same is true for the five attributes of steel, grass, water, fire, and rock.

Therefore, I think the ground attribute should not belong to the five elements, so the most likely attribute corresponding to the earth element is the rock attribute. "

After listening to Jing Yu's words, Huang Qiuling was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Your point of view agrees with mine, but your way of argument is refreshing to me. I didn't expect that you know so much about the elves' moves. Not bad, haha..."

Huang Qiuling smiled for a while and then continued, "Xiaoyu, I am very pleased. It seems that even though you have returned to Shuicheng, you still haven't given up your studies and haven't stopped seeking. That's good, that's very good!

Let me ask you another question. According to the theory of the five elements, most of the corresponding attributes you just proposed are in line with the theory. However, there are still two differences. That is, metal overcomes wood. But why doesn't steel overcome grass?

There is a saying that 'earth overcomes water', but rock is overcome by water. How do you explain this?"

Jing Yu had already thought of some explanations for this: "Teacher, I think this is not inconsistent, but we need to analyze specific issues specifically. First of all, 'metal overcomes wood' should be expanded to mean that the sharpness of metal cannot be compared with the hardness of wood, so when the two collide, metal wins. For example, an axe can chop down a big tree.

However, steel in the attributes of elves is not completely equal to gold, or it can be said that it only inherits the toughness of gold.

The grass attribute is not exactly the same as the wood element. It is not as hard as wood, but it is extremely flexible.

In fact, there are quite a lot of vine-type moves among the grass-attribute moves. This type of move is better at control, and even when used as a means of attack, most of them are whipping. These all make use of the flexibility of plants, but there are very few direct head-on type moves.

So think of it this way, steel is a type of gold (metal), but not all metals are steel; grass is a type of wood (plant), but not all plants are grass.

So when the steel that is not sharp enough meets the flexible grass, it is like hitting the weeds with an iron rod. It can bend the grass but cannot cut it. The damage is not great. This is why steel cannot restrain grass. "

"Well, that does make sense." Huang Qiuling's eyes became brighter and brighter.

Seeing that Huang Qiuling also agreed, Jing Yu spoke more boldly: "Teacher, as for why rock is restrained by water, it's very simple. I believe that if a group of rock-type elves can hold hands and go together to block the water without fear of death, they will definitely be able to block it."

"Pfft~" Huang Qiuling was amused and said after a while: "Slippery, you mean that it is because of life that rock-type elves cannot resist water, right?"

"Yes, as the saying goes, water and fire are merciless. As long as one is alive, who dares to say that they are not afraid of water at all?"

"Haha, that's nonsense. According to you, why aren't rock-type elves afraid of fire? Water and fire are merciless." Huang Qiuling said unhappily.

"Uh, this..." Jingyu couldn't justify himself.

"Never mind. This is not your fault. Even if it is the Five Elements that counteract each other, the fact that earth counteracts water is a question worth discussing. It is good to cover water with earth, but a flood may also break the dam. This is not the key point..."

"The key is actually the mutual generation of attributes, right?" Jing Yu continued.

"That's right, tell me what you think about the mutual generation of attributes." Huang Qiuling's voice was full of appreciation.

"Teacher, regarding the mutual generation property, I would like to propose an idea. Suppose that in the phenomenon of wood generating fire, wood is the mother element, and fire is the child element. Wood does not pose a threat to fire, so we can also get a theorem by analogy to all the five elements, that is, all mother elements do not pose a threat to child elements, right?"

Huang Qiuling quickly replied, "You can say that."

"So, the sentence 'the mother line does not pose a threat to the child line' should be translated into 'the mother attribute will be resisted by the child attribute' when applied to the elf attribute, right?" Jing Yu raised the question, but did not stop there, and quickly continued:

"Through the above two theories, we can find something interesting when we look at the five attributes. That is -

Metal produces water, but steel is resisted by water;

Water gives birth to wood, but water is resisted by grass;

Wood creates fire, but grass is resisted by fire;

Fire produces earth, but fire is resisted by rock;

Earth produces metal, and rock is resisted by steel.

Don’t you think this is a coincidence?”

Huang Qiuling, who was thousands of miles away, suddenly widened his eyes, looked shocked, and did not say a word for a long time.

After a long while, he finally burst into laughter. "What a coincidence, it's really a coincidence. You simply identified the answer first and then worked out the evidence. Although it's a bit of a substitution of concepts, it's great to find such a pattern! But there's actually not a single point of medical evidence. It's a bit... a bit depressing for me..."

"Ah, sorry, teacher. After all, I just encountered this disease this morning and haven't had time to analyze and study it carefully, so I can only make some guesses that have nothing to do with medicine..." Jingyu could only be careless. He couldn't say that his medical level was really average because he had only been practicing medicine for a month...

"It doesn't matter. It's already remarkable that you can think of so many things in just half a day." Huang Qiuling paused and continued, "And some of the ideas I haven't even thought of. I've decided that I will put some of your words in the final paper."

"Wow, really?" Jing Yu's eyes sparkled as he continued to ask, "Then, teacher, is there any royalties?"