Did the world end today?

Chapter 280 High-Dimensional Adaptability Experiments

"High-dimensional adaptive experiment?"

Upon seeing the message, Lin Xu immediately frowned.

He turned around, patted Jiang Xingye on the shoulder, and held the security device in front of her.

Jiang Xingye's expression changed instantly.

She hesitated for a moment, then glanced back at her parents, and then at the first hot dish that had just been served on the table.

After a pause, she took a deep breath and said to her parents:

"Dad, Mom, we have to go."

"There's an urgent matter at the company that we need to handle immediately."

"I can't have dinner with you guys today. I'll call a car to take you back to the hotel later. I don't think I'll have time to take you to the airport."

"I'll contact you by phone later. Please take care of yourselves."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Jing wanted to say something more, but Jiang Huai immediately raised his hand to interrupt her.

"It's alright, you guys go about your business!"

“Aren’t we adults enough to take care of ourselves? Your mother and I have been to the Maldives, so Nanjing is like walking around our own backyard.”

"Don't worry, we'll go back by ourselves this afternoon!"

After Jiang Huai finished speaking, Jiang Xingye immediately nodded.

Goodbye, Mom and Dad!

"We'll come back to see you again during the Chinese New Year!"

After saying that, she pulled Lin Xu and turned to leave.

Behind them, Xu Jing and Jiang Huai finally couldn't help but sigh deeply as one exquisite dish after another was served.

"Eat up, what are you waiting for?"

Jiang Huai started eating.

Xu Jing hesitated for a moment before asking:
"Tell me, what exactly are Ono and the others doing?"

"So urgent, sending out just a message? Even a classified project can't be rushed like this, right?"

Jiang Huai silently shook his head.

He didn't answer Xu Jing's question directly, but after pausing for half a minute, he said:
"I just asked Kobayashi, 'Isn't our Ono a bit too good for her?' I wasn't joking."

"He is not an ordinary person."

"Not an ordinary person?"

Xu Jing subconsciously repeated Jiang Huai's words, then leaned closer to him and asked in a low voice:
"What's so unusual about it?"

Jiang Huai glanced around before replying:
“He knows a lot. Even though I only asked one question, his answer was something that no technician could have done.”

"Moreover, the way they were treated was really strange."

"Jing, haven't you noticed yet?"

"These past two days, we've been picked up and dropped off by private cars, and we've stayed in a private hotel. It's not exactly luxurious, but it's absolutely safe."

"Furthermore, was the tour guide who showed us around Nanjing yesterday an ordinary person?"

"He looks like he does sex work."

"Plus, those two young men who've been following Lin Xu around. They're supposed to be his assistants and secretaries, but I'm pretty sure they're bodyguards."

defend.

As soon as she uttered the word, Xu Jing immediately realized that even though she had thought highly of Lin Xu, she was actually still looking down on him.

He was not a rich second-generation, nor a promising young scientific research elite, nor a company boss.
He might be an official.

"Second-generation Red Army"?

Xu Jing asked tentatively.

Her voice was already at its lowest level.

Jiang Huai shook his head.

"Tsk, he can't possibly be a second-generation rich kid."

"It might be a generation."

At this moment, Jiang Huai's eyes were incredibly deep.

"Don't you know our daughter? Don't you know what kind of person she'll fall for?"

"Also, she definitely wouldn't have left us like this unless it was something extremely important."

"This means that what they are doing must be something big, something very, very big."

"How big is it?"

Xu Jing wanted to ask more, but Jiang Huai was no longer willing to talk about it.

"Stop asking."

"Maybe we're being monitored too."

"I really think that before we go back, the National Security officers might come up to us and make us sign a confidentiality agreement."

"if it is like this"

Before Jiang Huai could finish speaking, a man's figure suddenly appeared in the distance.

He immediately shut up, and Xu Jing recognized him as Xiao Hu, the "tour guide" who had led them around Nanjing.

Xiao Hu walked straight up to the two of them, a smile on his face.

There was also a hint of "shame" in that smile.

"Uncle Jiang, Aunt Xu."

"I might need to formally introduce myself to you."

"My name is Hu Yiwei, and I am a field officer of the Nanjing Municipal State Security Bureau."

"That's right, we didn't originally intend for you to learn about and get to know what Engineer Lin and Engineer Jiang are doing so quickly."

"But the situation has changed a bit now. To be on the safe side, we've decided to reveal some information to you first, so that you can be mentally prepared."

"I've already cancelled your schedule for this afternoon. How about we do a quick security training session first?"

Xu Jing and Jiang Huai looked at each other in bewilderment.

Confidentiality training?

This thing
It seems like things are even more outrageous than I imagined, even at the most extreme level?
Meanwhile, inside the coordination group's office building.

Lin Xu led Jiang Xingye into the conference room, where Wang Yifan, who was in charge of overall coordination, was already waiting on the large screen.

"Comrade Lin Xu."

Upon seeing Lin Xu enter the office via the security camera, Wang Yifan immediately spoke up:
"The time crystal we captured is becoming unstable, and the 'chaotic boundary' that constrains it is 'dissolving' due to some kind of disturbance."

"We believe this may be related to a conflict with the rules of the world itself."

"Time crystals are the product of disordered edge mapping, but in our world, the mapping of high-dimensional films is ordered most of the time."

"This order is devouring disorder, which will eventually lead to the disintegration and disappearance of the time crystal."

"Fortunately, we are making rapid progress."

"We have collected all the physical information that we can measure and collect."

"The most important task we have left now is to use this time fragment to try to verify the so-called high-dimensional adaptability."

"The Russian side has completed the preparations, and two military volunteers have volunteered to participate in the experiment."

"But we need your advice—regarding whether to start the experiment, and how to start it."

As soon as Wang Yifan finished speaking, Lin Xu shook his head almost without hesitation.

"Stop conducting any more risky experiments." "Our research on higher-dimensional adaptability isn't that urgent—we don't even have stable methods for dimensional ascension, so what's the point of talking about higher-dimensional adaptability?"

"He Qijun is just a one-in-a-million exception. Don't forget, we still have one experimenter we haven't found."

After he finished speaking, Wang Yifan in the video nodded slowly.

"I think so too."

"But the Russians are very aggressive; they think this is very important to us."

"They stated that they were willing to bear the consequences."

"Ignore them, we have the final say."

Lin Xu interrupted Wang Yifan.

experiment?

If necessary, even the most risky experiments can be tried.

The problem is that this is not a truly "necessary situation".

Within the bracelet, the world of the Alliance era left Lin Xu with two major lessons.

First, arrogance is unacceptable.

Secondly, being overly aggressive is also not advisable.

Both of these will fundamentally destroy a world's ability to self-correct, plunging the entire world into a downward spiral.

Therefore, such risky experiments should not be carried out anymore.
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Furthermore, is it really necessary to conduct experiments with "humans" to test high-dimensional adaptability?
Lin Xu always had doubts about this.

As of now, neither the Bracelet World nor the Destiny Stone World has been able to provide a relatively reasonable explanation for the so-called higher-dimensional adaptability.

However, Lin Xu believes that the source of this "adaptability" may not be from "individual differences".

The structure of the human brain is essentially the same, and human thinking is largely determined by physical structure.

If you insist on saying that the reason one person who came into contact with the fragment of time lived a good life like Ivan, while the other tragically perished like the other two, was due to some kind of "metaphysical" or idealistic "adaptability," then...
That's really disrespectful to physics.

Lin Xu's mind was racing; as he thought, he asked:
How long is it expected that the time fragment will dissipate?

"Two to three hours."

In the video, Wang Yifan quickly replied:

"The boundaries of this fragment have begun to blur, and they are truly blurred."

"It's as if this fragment is blurred in the image."

"We speculate that this is due to the chaotic mapping around the time fragment affecting the propagation of the light signal, leading to..."

"no!"

When Wang Yifan uttered the word "signal," Lin Xu's eyes suddenly lit up.

"information."

"This is purely an information disturbance."

"Everything we observe is based on information."

"Whether it's optical, acoustic, or information at the microscopic particle level, it's all information."

"The blurring of the time crystal is not simply due to photon interference; it presents a chaotic state of secondary disorder following 'mapping disorder'."

"True high-dimensional adaptability is not human adaptation to high-dimensional space."

"It is the information carried by humans and their adaptation to higher-dimensional information."

“Time fragments alter the information mapping process from the higher-dimensional world to our 3+1 dimensional membrane world, and this chaotic interference breaks the original order.”

"That's why some people die during contact with time fragments, while Ivan survives."

"The so-called high-dimensional adaptability is actually the overall interference resistance of an information set."

"The human body is also a collection of such information."

"Verification is also very simple."

"High-entropy information is easily interfered with, while low-entropy information is not easily interfered with."

"The person you should really invest in the time crystal is not a living person."

"It is a low-entropy substance."

"For example, superfluid helium!"

Two hours later.

On the ice field.

An emergency cryogenic transport system has been deployed near the time crystal. Almost simultaneously, after mobilizing almost all of Russia's existing resources, a canister of superfluid helium stored in a Dewar flask was brought from the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics in Sarov to this temporary "institute" in a "relatively stable" state.

The extremely low temperature provided favorable conditions for the experiment to be carried out here. If it weren't for the biting Siberian winds, these precious experimental materials would have long since lost their most important properties during the long-distance transport.

Two kilometers away from the factory where the time crystal was located, Wang Yifan watched nervously as a remotely controlled robot approached the time crystal.

And in the hands of that robot, a precious Dewar flask of superfluid helium is being preserved.

It was as if it were tied to a mountain, without the slightest tremor.

"Ready to launch."

Wang Yifan's voice trembled slightly.

He knew that a huge mystery might be revealed and proven right before his eyes.

Once this mystery is solved, many problems will be easily resolved.

Furthermore, based on the information provided by He Qijun, the idea of ​​"traveling through space" using a high-dimensional channel may actually become a reality in the near future!
"Countdown to 3 seconds."

Wang Yifan took a deep breath.

"3."

"2."

"1."

"Put it in!"

For an instant.

The Dewar bottle was gently dropped into the "fragment of time".

Immediately afterwards, the metal casing of the Dewar flask disintegrated as if it had been gnawed away by countless microscopic termites.

The curse of high entropy is embodied here: molecular bonds vibrate wildly in the turbulence of time, and stainless steel instantly turns into silver dust and dissipates.

However, the helium-II in the bottle defies common sense. Its superfluid quantum state makes it immune to the tearing effect of entropy increase, and its zero viscosity makes it thrive in the folds of spacetime.

The liquid helium, having lost its container, did not fall, but instead stretched out in mid-air into a trembling blue-silver film.

Quantum vortices spontaneously align on a two-dimensional plane, shaping the fluid into a wing-like fractal structure.

Each feather is a macroscopic manifestation of condensed matter.

A pearly halo shimmered on the surface of the wing membrane. These wings, unaffected by the fragments of time, were now drawing an extremely beautiful trajectory in the chaos at 0.002K above absolute zero.

Wang Yifan stood up.

His lips were trembling slightly.

"Comrade Lin Xu is right."

"High-dimensional adaptability is the ability to resist information interference."

"We're one step closer to the answer!"

His words trailed off.

On the screen, the wings still exist in superfluid form.
Unfold instantly!

(End of this chapter)