Did the world end today?

Chapter 349 The Eternal Dream

"Forgotten?"

The young researcher standing opposite Julius looked clearly puzzled, and Julius was at a loss for words.

After a brief silence, he spoke:
"We need more support."

“We have previously worked with a neurology expert named Guo Aixia, and now we need his further assistance.”

"Understood, I'll notify him to come over right away."

The researcher nodded at first, then asked with a hint of doubt:

Why do we need his support?

"Does the current issue overlap with his research field?"

"Have."

Julius did not answer immediately, but turned to Yu Shiliang.

He reached out and lifted Yu Shiliang's eyelids. When the light from the small flashlight shone on his eyeballs, he clearly noticed that Yu Shiliang's eyeballs were trembling slightly.

This behavior is completely different from the nystagmus that occurs when ordinary people are exposed to strong light.

It's more like a kind of...
Rapid eye movement response during deep sleep.

“Record the time.”

Julius gave the order, and the researcher beside him immediately pressed the stopwatch.

Yu Shiliang, puzzled, sat down opposite the two and asked:
Is there something wrong with my body?

"No."

Julius had already learned basic Chinese, and with the help of a translator, communication wasn't a big problem.

"Your body is normal - at least for you personally, what is happening to you now is unlikely to affect your health."

"But it's clear that you are no longer a normal human being."

"no the same?"

Yu Shiliang was somewhat panicked, but there was a hint of expectation in his eyes.

They are completely different from normal humans. So, to put it another way, aren't they "supermen"?

When I returned from the higher-dimensional passage, I did indeed demonstrate extraordinary abilities. Although the official explanation was that it was merely a temporary "physical instability" caused by the chaos of the four fundamental forces, ...
Who can definitively say that they don't have any "superpowers" at all?

Although this superpower may not bring much benefit to oneself in the context of advanced high-dimensional research in this world, it's still pretty cool to think about, right?
Seeing Julius's focused gaze, Yu Shiliang couldn't wait to ask:

"What's different? Does it have superpowers?"

".have."

Julius nodded solemnly.

"If not sleeping counts as a superpower, then you're a superpowered person too."

"No need to sleep??"

Yu Shiliang was dumbfounded.

"What do you mean? I slept perfectly fine yesterday!"

Julius turned off his flashlight, gestured to his assistant to remove the monitoring device from Yu Shiliang's head, and then replied:

"You being able to fall asleep and your need for sleep are two different things."

"Based on the EEG monitoring data, your brain showed a large number of beta/gamma waves, with alternating delta waves."

“Among them, delta waves are strongly correlated with ‘forgetting’, but the more typical scenario is during sleep.”

"Right now, I just want to pinpoint one point."

Are you awake, or are you sleepwalking in some kind of way?

After saying this, Yu Shiliang subconsciously reached out and rubbed his eyes.

Sleepwalking?

I can clearly see everything, hear everything, and perceive everything.

He can think, understand, and remember; even when asked to recall the minutiae of events from a few days ago, he remembers everything perfectly. How could this be sleepwalking?
and many more.

Is my memory a little too vivid?

He could even recall the slightly pungent, burnt smell he smelled when he stepped off the plane, the sun scorching the airport runway.

It felt as if I had returned to that moment.

what is this?
Super memory?

He looked at Julius in shock, while the latter calmly continued to ask:

"Do you feel that you can clearly recall every experience you've had, as if you were actually there?"

"That's right!"

Yu Shiliang nodded first, then added:

"It's not so much every single thing, but rather every single thing that happened after I returned from the higher-dimensional passage!"

"now it's right."

Julius reached out and took the report from the researcher, pointing to the data and charts on it, and said to Sera:

"Based on your brainwave activity waveform, you largely conform to the data and waveform characteristics that should be present during a 'sleep state'."

"For example, alternating low-amplitude fast waves and high-amplitude slow waves, irregular sleep spindles, and the most typical, but imperceptible, rapid eye movement."

"However, your physical condition is different from when you are asleep."

“In REM mode, your spinal motor neurons are clearly not suppressed, and your breathing and heart rate remain relatively stable.”

"At the same time, in the high-amplitude slow-wave 'deep sleep' state, your cerebrospinal fluid flow does not increase significantly—it does increase, but only by about 30%, less than half that in a true sleep state."

"That's weird."

"Your brain is constantly clearing and reorganizing your memories in a state that is 'similar to sleep,' and the process and mechanism are exactly the same as sleep."

"However, in terms of so-called 'intensity,' it is several orders of magnitude lower."

"I have never seen anything like this before. Perhaps Comrade Guo Aixia and her team need to come and take a look before we can get a final result."

After Julius finished speaking, Yu Shiliang's expression became even more tense.

He could tell from the other person's words that his current behavior was more like some kind of "pathological manifestation".

Does this mean that the high-dimensional channel has actually permanently damaged his body and that he doesn't have much time left?

The thought swept through his mind like a hurricane, making his body tremble slightly.

Julius immediately noticed his unusual behavior, so he quickly reached out and patted him on the shoulder, saying reassuringly:

"Don't be too nervous."

"Although all your behavior seems abnormal at the moment, abnormal does not necessarily mean 'negative'."

"We need more experiments to test the true condition of your body."

"For example, perhaps we need to test whether you can stay awake without sleeping."

"If it really could be done."

"Your performance might actually be the key to solving that crucial problem for us."

"clear."

Yu Shiliang nodded slowly.

After a brief silence, he asked:
"So, what exactly is wrong with my body?"

"Not sure yet."

Julius shrugged.

"Either you experience similar brain activity to that during sleep while awake due to some special reason, such as dysfunction of gamma-aminobutyric acid neurons or brainstem problems."

"Either you've entered some kind of eternal dream from which you can't wake up, or perhaps you don't need to wake up."

(End of this chapter)