Did the world end today?

Chapter 104 Compound Eyes
Lin Xu finally understood why Zhou Yue was able to reach Jinling 20 years later, in a technologically advanced and strictly regulated environment.

It is very likely that he used a higher-dimensional channel.

Theoretically speaking, it is possible for high-dimensional channels to achieve such an effect.

However, at least based on the information Lin Xu currently possesses.
Apart from Zhou Yue, no one else has been able to do it.

He is indeed a rather special "high-dimensional experiencer".

He can see the "pollen" scattered by butterflies, track high-dimensional channels, and most of the time he can actively enter high-dimensional channels. It was probably through such repeated trial and error that he finally found a way to "utilize" high-dimensional channels.
In that case, this person must be incredibly important.

Finding him is not just about information—if he can predict the exact location of the high-dimensional channel, he might be even more useful than an entire gravity monitoring system!

We'll lock him up, put an electrode in his head, and ask him any questions. If he refuses to answer, we'll shock him.

Anyway, this person is different from Zhang Yuan. This person has a real criminal record and has been verified to have serious antisocial tendencies. Lin Xu has no psychological burden at all about abusing him.
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But it seems that doing this gives off a strong sense of déjà vu.
Depend on!
What wet parts?

Lin Xu suddenly found it a little funny.

At this time, the special meeting on the arrest of Zhou Yue had ended, and Qin Feng began to mobilize and deploy overseas forces to prepare for the arrest.

This was the first time Lin Xu had witnessed the Coast Guard's operations in real life.

Compared to its strength 20 years from now, the current Coast Guard is much weaker.

They didn't even have a local presence; the nearest team was near Djibouti in Africa, and they had to fly there on a commercial plane to Mauritius to organize the follow-up operations.

Fortunately, Lin Xu had taken time to prepare when he asked Zhou Yue in the bracelet world.

According to the results, he will remain in Mauritius until the 13th, which is tomorrow.

There's plenty of time; the next steps will be left to the Coast Guard.

After briefly explaining the precautions and informing Qin Feng of the danger posed by Zhou Yue, Lin Xu decisively withdrew and stopped participating.

His energy is limited; it is neither necessary nor possible for him to handle every single detail.

But this does not mean his work is over.

You've helped resolve Qin Feng's matter, so you should lend a hand to me, Wang Yifan, and Liu Qijin, too, right?

So after leaving the National Security office, Lin Xu didn't even leave the office building, but turned around and went into the offices of the high energy physics and aerospace engineering working groups.

He had to burn himself out and exhaust himself as much as possible to provide the working group with the most detailed information possible.

Only by doing this can we accelerate technological development and reach new milestones at the fastest speed.

20 years.

Only 20 years!
Lin Xu temporarily forgot the fatigue from entering the bracelet world multiple times and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the discussion about the technology.

The Star Travel No. 1 project has been officially launched, and the design and development of a new engine has begun.

According to the latest news brought by Liu Qijin, with all industrial machines running at full capacity, this engine, which is an improvement on a mature model, will be able to enter the ground for testing in just over a week.
That day, Lin Xu was busy until dusk before leaving the company.

The numbers on the bracelet were recovering at an extremely slow pace, until he lay down on the bed, when there was only a single flashing "1".

This means that he will not be able to explore the world of the bracelet again tonight.

But yes.

Forcing growth is clearly not advisable. I should develop a comprehensive plan to find the optimal balance point for energy recovery.
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But every time Lin Xu thought about this problem, he felt that it didn't make logical sense.

This bracelet is clearly some kind of higher-dimensional creation; it can lead you into another world, and it obviously doesn't rely on your own "brain computing power" to simulate it.

If that's the case, why is the number of times you use it directly linked to your energy levels?

Or is it that the energy it needs to enter another world is actually unrelated to its own energy level, but rather a safety line is set up in a numerical way to avoid entering another world in a low-energy state and being in danger in that world?

This seems to be a more reasonable explanation. If that's the case...
The design concept of this thing is quite user-friendly.

I don't know who came up with this thing.

Perhaps it's myself 20 years from now?
Lin Xu didn't think too much about this question, which was destined to remain unanswered in the short term.

After quickly washing up and replying to a few messages from Jiang Xingye, Lin Xu lay down on the bed and fell asleep immediately.

As he lay in bed, Lin Xu's mind was filled with a jumble of chaotic thoughts.

What Star Travel One, what Zhurong, what Tianqin Project, what launch site renovation, what higher-dimensional space, what Zhou Yue...
One keyword after another spun in his mind, but when he tried to grasp one of them, they quickly flew away.

Then, in a moment, he suddenly fell asleep as if his phone had been turned off.

Then he entered a dream.

This was a rather bizarre dream.

He dreamed that he had become a bee, flying aimlessly in a room filled with paintings of peonies.

From the bee's perspective, the whole world looks very strange.

Everything seen through compound eyes appears as multiple layers, which might be an easily understood signal for a bee.

The problem is, Lin Xu is a person.

His brain simply couldn't process such signals, so he couldn't distinguish between reality and what was just an illusion he saw.

I kept running into obstacles, and every now and then I would bump into unseen barriers.

If one is lucky enough to fly over the obstacle, they will immediately fall into an even more psychedelic and complex scene.

Lin Xu was in a state of turmoil. He wanted to find an exit to fly out of this chaotic room, but there was no way out in front of him, nor could he see any light to guide him.

He thought he was going to be trapped in the room and die.
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But just then, he suddenly smelled a floral fragrance.

A faint, shimmering trail appeared in the air, barely visible in the sunlight.

Lin Xu recognized it as pollen scattered in the air.

Perhaps by following these pollen, I can find my way out?
He was greatly encouraged and flew quickly forward, following the fragrance of the flowers.

But as he flew, he discovered that the direction the pollen was pointing to was not the actual flowers.

It stained the painting, which was still smelling of ink.

Lin Xu was anxiously hitting walls repeatedly, seemingly unable to distinguish between reality and paintings.

And in a single instant, he was astonished to find that he had become part of the painting.

It was too late to leave.

He was firmly locked in place, and could only watch helplessly as the pollen-covered butterfly fluttered away from the painting.

All that remains are pollen floating in the air.
"Buzz—buzz—"

Lin Xu suddenly woke up.

The security device next to them was vibrating continuously.

He picked up his phone and answered the call; Qin Feng's voice came through the receiver.

"We've caught Zhou Yue!"

"But... his condition seems a bit off!"

(End of this chapter)