Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 30 Ye Wenjie (Long Chapter) (Please continue reading)
The conversation didn't last long; no matter how Luo Qing tried to guide it, Luo Ji never revealed any more information.

Even in his dreams, even when his reason was extremely weak, Luo Ji remained vigilant.

Luo Qing was amazed.

But it wasn't difficult to fool someone in a dream, and Luo Qing still managed to learn some useful information by constantly skirting the rules.

If nothing unexpected happens, the "Teacher Ye" that Luo Ji mentioned should be Ye Wenjie.

Luo Qing knew Ye Wenjie.

However, this knowledge is limited to publicly available information from PDC.

Ye Wenjie, the first leader of the ETO organization, the culprit of the Crisis Era, and the first human to communicate with the Trisolaran civilization.

Luo Qing briefly reviewed the timeline.

Ye Wenjie retired from Tsinghua University in 2004, while Luo Ji transferred from another university to Tsinghua University in 05, the same time as his predecessor.

In other words, it is highly unlikely that Luo Ji and Ye Wenjie met at Tsinghua University, not to mention that Ye Wenjie was also a physics major before retirement, which has nothing to do with Luo Ji's astronomy field.

But Luo Qing quickly uncovered another clue from Luo Ji's words.

Luo Ji and Yang Dong were high school classmates.

Yang Dong is Ye Wenjie's daughter.

It's all strung together, all strung together.

Luo Ji also mentioned other names, such as Yang Dong's husband Ding Yi, Ding Yi's companion Wang Miao, and even Shi Qiang, but Luo Qing had no interest in listening anymore.

Luo Qing sat cross-legged in his dream, letting the dream world around him change like the sea and the fields.

He is thinking.

Ye Wenjie was arrested in 2007, and Luo Ji's communication with Ye Wenjie probably predates that period.

Luo Ji was just an ordinary person until the Wallfacer Project began, and Ye Wenjie, whom he came into contact with, was most likely just an ordinary person who concealed her identity as the commander of ETO.

This is very important information.

However, Ye Wenjie had already passed away, so Luo Qing naturally had no way to find her to confirm it. No matter how many methods a Nascent Soul cultivator had, he did not have the ability to revive the dead.

Ye Wenjie must have said something to Luo Ji.

The things Ye Wenjie and Luo Ji said are very likely the truth that Luo Qing is trying to find.

So, what did the two of them talk about?

After thinking for a moment.

Luo Qing decided to go and ask Ye Wenjie.

Don't misunderstand, his question was not about traveling to the underworld—in fact, even in his previous life's cultivation world, there was no such thing as the underworld; when a person dies, their cultivation ceases to exist.

Although Ye Wenjie has passed away in reality, she still lives in Luo Ji's memory.

Luo Qing needs to find out the situation from Ye Wenjie in Luo Ji's memory.

However, Ye Wenjie has not yet appeared in the current dream, so Luo Qing needs to take the initiative to intervene.

When the mind is at peace and the will is settled, dreams naturally arise.

Luo Qing made a hand seal, and the dreamscape around him began to change rapidly. Soon, it transformed from an endless green grassland into the Louvre Museum in France, and then into the Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco. Looking at the flowing "Genesis" above his head, Luo Qing waved his hand to disperse the contact between God and Jesus, and continued to accelerate the changes in the dream scene.

Oasis, snow-capped mountains, lakes, deserts, cities—scenes flash by in a blur.

Zhuang Yan, her son, Shi Qiang, Sai, and her ex-girlfriends—one character after another quickly enters and exits the scene.

Luo Qing remained expressionless and continued to use incantations to accelerate the changes in the dream.

This would obviously make Luo Ji uncomfortable. In reality, Zhuang Yan had already noticed Luo Ji's abnormality. The latter was trembling slightly, as if he was enduring the backlash of a nightmare.

Zhuang Yan had no choice but to put down what she was doing and come to Luo Ji's side. She gently patted his back and coaxed him softly until he gradually calmed down.

"God, when will this end...?"

Zhuang Yan stared at her husband's face, silently screaming in her heart.

I don't know how much time passed, but it seemed that even the thick darkness outside the window was diluted by the dawn, and the changes in the dream finally came to an end.

Thousands of dream scenes flashed by, and the dream reached its climax amidst a frenzied switching.

Luo Qing remained silent, observing the dramatic changes in the dream like a detached observer.

Everything and everyone disappeared, and coldness enveloped everything.

The final dream took shape, and the boundless universe surged violently. The entire Milky Way galaxy, with its 200 billion stars, was surging chaotically. They transformed into wildly whipping whips, drawing out ripples of starlight against the deep darkness. The dream was far more frenzied than any Van Gogh painting. These 200 billion stars, forming a chaotic mass, flew wildly and erratically, then accelerated faster and faster, exploding into endless, brilliant light that filled all the colors of the dream in an instant, before finally dissipating into a fierce white light.

Memories that had been locked away for years and remained dormant in the depths of the heart gradually settled during this dream explosion, eventually cooling down into a small grave.

At the end of this cemetery.

Luo Qing saw Ye Wenjie.

...

"Teacher Ye, you've arrived?"

"You are……"

"I am Luo Ji, Yang Dong's high school classmate."

Ye Wenjie, with her white hair, looked up at him and then shook her head:

"You're not Ronaldinho, who are you?"

Luo Qing's mind was slightly shaken.

He stared in astonishment at the person from his dream before him.

"Alright, I don't ask where you've come from. I'll assume you're Xiao Luo. You seem to have been waiting for me for a long time... Is there something you need from me?"

Luo Qing pondered for a moment, then carefully asked:

"Teacher Ye, I'd like to ask you, what should we do next?"

"Your question is too broad; how can I possibly answer it?" Luo Qing's first question failed. In this rather narrow dream world, Luo Qing got up and looked around. Everything was a vast expanse of white. The true master of the dream, Luo Ji, was currently sealed away in another dream by Luo Qing. He had to ensure his conversation with Ye Wenjie went perfectly.

Luo Qing also noticed that in this dream with a very small coverage area, besides Ye Wenjie, there was a second creature, a brown ant.

The brown ant paid no heed to the conversation between the two enormous creatures beside it, but the sound waves from their dialogue still caused the tombstone to tremble slightly. The brown ant couldn't understand their whispers, but it knew its position was dangerous and it had to leave quickly. So it began to climb up the tombstone. When one of its antennae stepped into the numbers '1979-2007', its wondrous journey officially began.

The brown ant began to climb. After crossing the groove with its two thick ends and a vertical bar in the middle, it quickly arrived at the next location. The brown ant really liked this '9'-shaped groove, as if the beauty of the '9' was naturally very similar to the primitive single-celled state. This happy brown ant circled back and forth on the '9' before finally reluctantly climbing towards the '7'.

Such a vivid and detailed dream must have left a deep impression on Luo Ji regarding this brown ant.

Luo Qing thought for a moment, then looked away and asked again:

"Teacher Ye, you know what I'm asking. Humanity is facing some difficulties these days."

"Some difficulties?"

"Yes, this difficulty is probably insurmountable by human strength alone."

"..."

The aged voice paused for a moment, then asked:

"Xiao Luo switched from astronomy to sociology. What do you do?"

“I am in the field of cutting-edge physics, just like you and your daughter.”

"Physics is great. Physics is a mystery of the universe. If you can't solve it, you're in a grave. If you solve it, you'll reach the stars and the sea."

"But now someone has put a lock on physics, preventing humanity from solving this puzzle."

"Physical means can lock people up, but the human heart cannot be locked up."

The brown ant encountered a similar ditch to the one before, but parallel to the base of the monument. However, unlike the '1', this horizontal line was completely lying down and was exceptionally long, blocking its path. The brown ant's simple neurons were insufficient to understand the meaning of this horizontal line, but its life instincts told it that it was impossible to restrict the path ahead with a horizontal line. The brown ant quickly cracked this low-dimensional trap, took a step, and effortlessly climbed over the horizontal line "—", entering the wider surface of the monument.

"Ever since physics was locked down, my mind has no longer been on physics. Studying physics can't save humanity. People in society are thinking about change, and things are starting to become turbulent."

"This is my fault."

"No, Professor Ye, the change in the trajectory of human history is the result of the combined effect of multiple factors, but you can still undo it all. Just tell me what you once told Luo Ji."

"Where's Xiao Luo? Yang Dong often praises him as a smart kid; he should have gotten the answer by now."

"He is now trapped in the walled city woven by life, unable to let his thoughts out or let his thoughts in."

"But you can come in."

"Yes, Teacher Ye, I'm in. I used some tricks to specifically seek an answer, which is of great importance to me and to everyone else."

The brown ant on the tombstone had already crossed the numbers "2", "0", and "0". But it had lost all interest in the numbers that followed. The brown ant wanted to cross the last number, hoping it would be a perfect "9", but unfortunately, it encountered a sharp turn that it had experienced before, and the sharp shape made it uncomfortable.

The brown ant began to climb vertically upwards. After crossing the "7," it encountered a wider tombstone and more complexly shaped trenches. It was a huge "tomb" character, intricately structured and deeply textured. With its extremely limited memory, the brown ant couldn't store the entire "tomb" character; it had to remember parts and forget others, just like with the previous "0." Unlike the "9," the "0" was a trap, a fact the brown ant only realized after circling around it several times.

Now, the word "grave" and "0" are no different in its eyes. In front of the word "grave", the brown ant feels that all the numbers it has experienced before have lost their meaning at this moment, including that perfect "9".

"I used to think that Luo's idea of ​​combining astronomy and sociology was very interesting. But you, have you ever heard of cosmic sociology?"

"I've heard that ever since the Crisis Era, humanity seems to have developed a fanaticism for the stars. All sorts of things like cosmic sociology, extraterrestrial studies, cosmic morality, and even cosmic gossip and cosmic feng shui have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. The slightest movement about the universe becomes explosive news."

"That's good. People have finally learned to look up and see where they're going. But we're not talking about anything else here. Do you know what the outstanding characteristics of cosmic sociology are compared to traditional human sociology?"

Luo Qing pondered for a moment. In the few years since he came to this world, his understanding of it had mainly focused on human history and the past. Compared to the cultivation world, where the sky was round and the earth was square, he rarely looked up at the sky.
Luo Qing felt that the pressure from the vast universe was much greater than that from the Heavenly Dao.

The universe is so vast that when Luo Qing first came to understand the concept of the universe after his transmigration, he was briefly trapped in a mental demon.

But now, he has to actively consider the relationship between the universe and civilization. Combining the characteristics of Earth civilization and the Trisolaran civilization, Luo Qing offers his own answer:
"Human sociology is more complex, while cosmic sociology is simpler. The mathematical models of cosmic sociology are also simpler and easier to understand. After all, every civilization occupies a star, and as a whole, a civilization has fewer variables and is more controllable than an individual."

Ye Wenjie gave him a deep look: "You're just as smart as Xiao Luo."

Luo Qing smiled wryly: "Your performance in the dream also shocked me."

"Dream?"

"This is a dream."

Ye Wenjie clearly didn't believe it; she shook her head.

"If this is a dream, then let me take one last look at the stars in the sky."

The brown ant could clearly sense that the enormous entity in front of the grave was slowly growing taller, soon surpassing the giant stone monument it was climbing and becoming twice as tall—it stood up.

Luo Qing's figure obscured the sky above the brown ants. The brown ants saw that the enormous being was adorning the dark blue sky with something, like an electrician modifying the circuitry of a light bulb. Soon, stars began to appear sparsely, then became dense, dazzling, brilliant, endless, and boundless.

The brown ant's eyes could not withstand the light from two hundred billion stars. It hesitated for a moment, then turned and crawled along a direction parallel to the ground, quickly hiding behind the stone tablet and enjoying the safety of the shadow.

Under Luo Qing's control, two hundred billion stars began to fall into the sky. Each speck of light trembled at the boundary between reality and illusion. In this dreamlike night sky, a sense of illusory reality overwhelmed everyone. Ye Wenjie, with her white hair, stared blankly at the starry sky.

"It turned out to be a dream..."

Ye Wenjie told Luo Qing all the answers.

First, survival is the primary need of civilization.

Second, civilizations continue to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains constant.

Third, the technological explosion.

Fourth, the chain of suspicion.

Fifth, within the cone of light lies destiny.

The dream suddenly froze; Luo Qing lost control of this tiny dream, seemingly foreshadowing the awakening of its true master. The two hundred billion stars against the black background transformed into an immovable silver dot matrix, their clear mathematical structure forming a new curtain.

Ye Wenjie's voice became increasingly ethereal, eventually soaring into the sky before returning to the ground as a deep male voice.

"I'm sorry, I disturbed your peaceful sleep," Luo Qing said apologetically.

Luo Ji, with his white hair, had a complicated expression: "You knew everything?"

"I understand, but I don't quite understand it yet."

“Don’t try to understand,” Luo Ji shook his head. “I’ve struggled long enough out of this desolate, dark universe. I know all the answers. Leave this place.”

"It's dawn, time for breakfast."

(End of this chapter)