It wasn't just Lucas who needed rest. The members of the superpower team were also exhausted. Although Tan Yan and Liang Xian were okay, they were a couple who had been in a different world for so long and finally got together, so they needed some space to get along with each other.
However, before Lucas woke up, Qiao Zhixue secretly gathered the people from the superpower team and held a small meeting.
After all, Liang Xian’s affairs cannot be known to people from other countries.
The meeting was held at 8 a.m. the next day. The special-powered team had slept all night and had almost recovered. However, Aunt Yang did not attend the meeting. She said that she could not understand so many theories and it would be better for her to sleep a little longer. Her old arms and legs were tired and it was really uncomfortable to toss and turn all day and all night. Moreover, as an ordinary citizen like her, she had not received any confidentiality training, so of course the less she knew, the better.
Minister Yu agreed.
The next topic of the meeting was how Liang Xian came back.
"Tell us about your experience." Minister Yu said very concisely without saying anything else.
Liang Xian said: "You know most of the content. What I have been doing these days is mainly to accumulate strength to fight against that consciousness. Originally, the chances of winning were slim, but for some reason, one day I suddenly felt that the consciousness gave up automatically."
Everyone listened attentively.
"Just like when we crack an apple with our hands, the brain allocates a part of consciousness to control the strength of the hand. This consciousness can be strengthened at any time, and it can also be relaxed. If I must crack the apple, the brain will use consciousness to make the hand increase the strength. On the contrary, if I don't want to eat the apple, I can put the apple back on the table and withdraw my consciousness. I am like the apple to that consciousness. It suddenly loses interest in me and relaxes its monitoring of my body.
I took this opportunity to concentrate all the viruses on my right hand, cut it off at the wrist, and was free. "
Liang Xian raised his right hand, and everyone could clearly see that there was nothing on his wrist, which meant he was already a disabled person.
Minister Yu's heart ached slightly, but on the surface he still praised seriously: "You have enough judgment and determination. Well done."
"You can contact the prosthesis now and install it after the wound heals." Qiao Zhixue said.
"No need." Liang Xian placed a large pile of metal on the table. "I studied the production principles of prosthetic limbs last night. I should be able to make them now."
After saying that, he placed his left hand on the metal. After a while, these raw materials turned into a right hand. Liang Xian seemed not to be afraid of the pain and directly installed the hand on the wrist without even frowning the whole time.
After the prosthesis was installed, Liang Xian tried to move it and found it was very flexible, no different from a real hand.
"Generally, prosthetic limbs are not as easy to control as those of the body due to problems with nerve connections. But just like cracking an apple as I mentioned earlier, as long as the consciousness is strong enough, it can act on the prosthetic limb and be controlled directly by consciousness without going through the nerves. This saves the time of nerve conduction and makes the prosthetic limb more flexible," Liang Xian explained.
He put a glove on his right hand and looked like a normal person.
Just like in martial arts novels, the protagonist obtains a secret book and mastered magical skills after falling off a cliff. Liang Xian was in this state at this time, and he was so strong that it made people jealous.
Minister Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the severed hand had little impact on him.
"Why would that consciousness let you go?" asked Tan Yan.
He was always worried about Liang Xian, fearing that he would lose consciousness one day.
"Not sure," Liang Xian shook his head. "There are two possibilities. The first is that he thinks he might lose and doesn't want to waste any more time, so he cuts his losses in time. The second is that he has a new goal. I have almost no communication with that consciousness, so I really can't analyze how a consciousness that can use the entire world as its own energy would think about problems."
This is indeed a reason that is difficult to refute. Consciousness and humans cannot be considered to be in the same dimension, and it is difficult to understand with human thinking.
"This is not the first time that your consciousness has entered the deer's body. This is normal. What I am concerned about now is why you even teleported your body back?" Qiao Zhixue asked, "This is the issue we are most concerned about at the moment, and it is also a difficult problem that we must overcome. How did you do it?"
"I didn't know the answer to this question at first. I just saw the superpower team being killed in the deer's body and was worried, so I appeared in the dark energy world. I didn't calm down and think about it in the other world at that time. After returning to the real world, I carefully recalled the situation at that time and got some ideas."
"I returned to the base at 8 p.m. after finishing my work. We had a meeting at 2 a.m. this morning. You thought a lot in these short twelve hours. Didn't you sleep?" Cui Heyu asked suddenly.
"I don't have such a strong need for sleep now." Liang Xian said simply, "You can do it once your consciousness is strong. Everyone will experience it slowly."
Qiao Zhixue, Minister Yu and Cui Heyu all frowned, feeling that Liang Xian seemed to be hiding something after returning this time.
Tan Yan also noticed it, but he said nothing.
Logically speaking, the two of them should have rested in the same room last night, and Minister Yu turned a blind eye and pretended not to see anything. Even if nothing happened, they should have reminisced about the past and expressed their feelings.
At least when Liang Xian just arrived in the dark energy world, he still hoped that Tan Yan would give him an answer immediately.
But… Liang Xian became very silent after the possessed consciousness looked at Tan Yan. He did not stick to Tan Yan last night, but sat in the chair in a thinker's posture until dawn.
"Let's continue talking about traveling through space," Liang Xian turned the topic back. "I recalled my own experience of traveling through space, and suddenly I had a new idea - string theory."
Students who haven't even finished learning quantum mechanics: "..."
It was very wise of Aunt Yang not to come to the meeting.
"Previous physics, even quantum mechanics, believed that the smallest unit of matter was a particle, but the introduction of string theory broke this traditional idea. It believes that the smallest unit of matter is not a particle, that is, a point, but a one-dimensional energy string. Different vibration modes of energy strings constitute different particles, thus forming the universe."
Liang Xian took out a rubber band, pinched both ends of the rubber band with both hands, and shook it in different ways: "For example, the shapes formed by the vibration frequency I use are completely different from those formed by another frequency."
His speed was so fast that except for Yan Yongfeng who had excellent dynamic vision, the rubber band in the eyes of others had turned into countless phantoms, which appeared as an irregular sphere of a special shape in the human eye.
"In other words, the smallest substance that constitutes matter is actually energy. I used to think that energy and matter are two completely different things, but according to string theory, matter is made up of energy. Once the universe explodes, the extremely high heat will decompose all matter, and in the end only energy will remain in the endless void." Liang Xian put down the rubber band and said seriously.
"So what does this have to do with your return to the real world?" Qiao Zhixue asked.
He had studied string theory and had some ideas in his mind, but they were not complete and needed Liang Xian to continue analyzing them.
"Superstring theory believes that the world is not three-dimensional or four-dimensional, but nine-dimensional, ten-dimensional or even more. The worlds of different dimensions are wrapped by the world membrane. We humans only live in the three-dimensional world and cannot rise to higher dimensions. Similarly, all parallel universes are different membrane universes, but in fact these universes are wrapped in a huge higher-dimensional body universe. We keep traveling through the 'voids', which means we travel back and forth between these membrane universes.
Since it is called a membrane, not a wall, these membranes can be penetrated. However, the world membrane is more special than the membranes we are familiar with, and only some extremely special particles can penetrate the membrane. "
"Do you know how to turn into these special particles?" Qiao Zhixue asked. He felt an idea flash through his mind, but it quickly disappeared and he didn't catch it.
"I didn't turn into a particle," Liang Xian shook his head. "I think, at the moment of transmission, I should have turned into the most basic unit, energy. From matter, I turned into a very special form of energy, and with the help of the attraction of quantum entanglement, I found the superpower team."
Everyone was shocked by his shocking words. After thinking for a long time, Ah San said, "Isn't this the same as what is said in the immortal cultivation novels, 'One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things', all things are one, and one is all things? In the novels, it is always written that the protagonist is beaten to death, with only a remnant soul left, but he suddenly realizes the truth of the world between life and death, and his mind moves, and his body is reshaped out of thin air. Because all things are one, spiritual energy or immortal energy can create a body. This... is too ridiculous, it's just like in the novels."
Qiao Zhixue was very receptive: "Not necessarily. Many ancient novels have now become reality through technology. Liang Xian's statement is of great reference value."
Everyone: “…”
"In fact, I have been worried about one thing," Qiao Zhixue said, "According to the viewpoint of quantum mechanics, what is transmitted is information, not the person. I have always suspected that the first batch of you who entered the 'void' has disappeared. Every time I see you, it is just the same information reorganized. It is equivalent to me writing a line of words on an A4 paper and faxing it to another machine. After faxing, I destroy the original A4 paper. At this time, can the fax still be regarded as the original? After traveling through time, the information reorganized you is actually equivalent to a clone. Are you still the original you?"
Everyone has thought about this question to some extent, but no one has explicitly raised it. Now, after hearing what Qiao Zhixue said, everyone felt a chill in their backs.
Even if the cloned person is exactly like oneself, including the memory, no one wants to no longer be themselves.
"But Liang Xian's statement has solved my concerns very well. You are still the same as before, but you have become special particles that can pass through the membrane."
The superpower team and even Minister Yu breathed a sigh of relief. I am still myself.
"In this way, there is a better explanation for the chance of awakening superpowers for people who enter the 'void'." Qiao Zhixue said, "Although we travel from one universe to another parallel universe through the world membrane, in the process of entering the membrane, we are actually between the membrane universe and the body universe. In other words, at that moment, everyone has entered a higher-dimensional universe. To give a common example, a poor person suddenly enters a rich world. When he comes back, he may still have no money, but his knowledge will be different."
Cui Heyu was the first to follow the two people's thinking: "So now we are the poor people who have received some pocket money from the rich and are trying to use this money as capital to become rich and well-off?"
"That's right. But some people will spend the money quickly after getting it, and it won't create any value. Only a very small number of people will seize the opportunity and get rich. So even if everyone enters the 'void', the awakening rate will not increase." Qiao Zhixue thought of Lucas and said, "Generally speaking, people aged 18-25 are more likely to awaken, but because brain workers have high brain cell activity, they still have a chance even if they are older."
"Just tell them that you envy Lucas and want to enter the Hollow," Minister Yu said.
Qiao Zhixue, this cold man, actually blushed: "Yes, I think the time is ripe. I am looking forward to my plasticity and I really want to enter the 'void'."
Indeed, compared to the past, most of the superpower team can now fight against the end of the world even without Tan Yan. In addition to Tan Yan, they also have another strong man Liang Xian, Aunt Yang has followed the team in and out several times, and three exchange students have returned successfully. Qiao Zhixue's survival rate is very high when he enters the "void" again.
"At present, the country really needs you." Minister Yu still disagreed.
"It is necessary to take risks. Besides, individuals are not the determiners of history. The world can continue to function without anyone. But missing this opportunity will be a great loss for me." Qiao Zhixue tried hard to persuade Minister Yu.
"Okay, I'll consider it." Under Qiao Zhixue's insistence, Minister Yu finally gave in.
Seeing that Minister Yu showed some signs of relenting, Qiao Zhixue stopped asking further questions. He needed to give Minister Yu some time to relax.
He continued to ask Liang Xian: "If I ask you to travel through the world now, can you do it?"
"If there is a deer, it should be possible." Liang Xian closed his eyes and recalled, "I seem to still remember the feeling of the body turning into energy through its own consciousness."
Qiao Zhixue: “Try it.”
He signaled Qin Li to build a wall to separate the conference room, with Liang Xian on one side and Xiao Lu and everyone else on the other.
The normal way would be to break the wall and go in, but Liang Xian is now going to teleport.
Everyone was nervously waiting for a miracle to happen. Xiaolu was also very nervous as he was being held down by Qiao Zhixue.
During the whole meeting, Tan Yan said nothing, just listened attentively to Liang Xian's words. At first, Tan Yan didn't understand, but gradually, he felt that he seemed to understand something.
He looked at the deer. If Liang Xian was really teleported here this time, he would not be able to continue deceiving himself.
And a miracle really happened. Liang Xian appeared from the deer's head again, just like in the dark energy world, and fell to the ground, intact.
"Try again and bring other people with you." Qiao Zhixue said again.
This time Liang Xian chose Qiu Qizhen because Qiu Qizhen could share abilities.
In fact, Qiu Qizhen really didn't want to share the power of Liang Xian and Tan Yan anymore. His brain couldn't bear it. Last time, he had a vague feeling that these two people were fundamentally different from the superpower team... no, from ordinary humans.
Liang Xian patted his shoulder and whispered, "You don't need to use your ability. Every time Tan Yan brought everyone back, you didn't feel like using your ability, right? We're just trying it and we'll talk about it if it fails."
Qiu Qi was just breathing a sigh of relief, and in that moment of catching his breath, he found himself in front of Xiaolu. It wasn't teleportation, but the real feeling... It was exactly the same as when he returned to the real world with Tan Yan!
9 o'clock was the meeting time agreed with Lucas. Before 9 o'clock, Qiao Zhixue tried everyone and found that Liang Xian could really transfer space through quantum entanglement with Xiaolu. Everyone was very excited for a while.
They have always hoped that someone would have the same power as Tan Yan, and now it has finally come true!
Liang Xian opened up a new path for the research group and the special ability team, so that in the future all the burdens would no longer have to be placed on Tan Yan alone.
Obviously, he should be happy for Liang Xian, and he should be able to put his mind at ease and think about his retirement. But Tan Yan's expression was very solemn. He went to the toilet before the meeting. For protection, there was no surveillance in the toilet, only an infrared scanner.
Tan Yan stood in front of the sink, with no one around him.
He looked at himself in the mirror and closed his eyes quietly.
When he opened his eyes the next second, he was no longer in the bathroom, but appeared in front of the wordless tombstone in Ping County.
Tan Yan placed his hands on the tombstone and sat quietly on the ground.
It turns out that he was the most special one from the very beginning.
The author has something to say: This chapter was written very smoothly, which made me realize that people cannot live without science. As long as I write a theory, my ideas will burst out! !
ps: Although Lao Tan is in a very heavy mood now, I have to complain, you have been the protagonist of 370,000 words, and you just found out that you are the most special one? If you are not special, how can you be the protagonist, how can you be so arrogant!
At this point, I think there will be no problem updating at 2 p.m. tomorrow, after all, I'm on vacation~
I am not a full-time writer, I am also working. I can only write during my lunch break and at night when I go home to rest. Everything else is fine, but I am afraid of company events or dinners or business trips. When I updated 6,000 words before, I could still grit my teeth and work hard to save a few chapters. Now I have started writing 9,000 words (although the number of words is a bit insufficient recently_(:3∠)_), I really can't save any manuscripts. It is very difficult to come up with a 9,000-word plot every day_(:3∠)_
So if I feel a little tired, or if there is something unexpected at work, I tend to update less or not at all, which is also very tiring. In fact, I want to update 9,000 pages every day seriously, but I really can't do it. It's like this now. Every day at work, I am so sleepy that my boss wants to beat me up. He said, if you are sleepy, just take a nap at noon. It's not like I didn't find a place for you to take a nap!
I said no, I just like to be a little tired during the day!
God knows how much I want to take a nap_(:3∠)_
Fortunately, you are all little angels who always stay with me. I love you guys (づ￣3￣)づ╭?～