Lu Mingfei, become the king of gambling in dungeons!

"Senior brother, stop carrying me on your back! It's stupid of you not to take the car!"

The maintenance vehicle sped along the tracks. Surprisingly, this old-fashioned vehicle worked very well on the tracks. The friction of the tracks was low, and Chu Zihang only needed to push the maintenance vehicle a little to make it slide a long distance. The speed was quite good. Xia Mi, who didn't want to walk, was cheering him on from the side, jumping around and shouting encouragement.

Perhaps it was a pang of conscience, but after playing around, Xia Mi rolled up her sleeves and went over to help Chu Zihang press down on the human lever for a while, making "heave-ho" noises.

When she got bored, she would grab the railing in front of her and sit cross-legged in front of the maintenance vehicle, pretending to be looking out from a ship at sea, saying things like "Xia Mi reports to First Mate Chu," "Sailors should eat good spinach," "Fifteen degrees to port," or "Full rudder, full rudder." If Chu Zihang ignored her, she would pout and turn her head away.

Chu Zihang recalled that when he first met her at the Chicago train station, he felt that he saw a female Lu Mingfei. The resemblance was obvious at first glance. Later, it was confirmed that his intuition was right. The two of them had equally broad and nonsensical inner worlds.

The difference is that Lu Mingfei was belly dancing in front of the seals in a daze, while Xia Mi always acted like a crazy rabbit, jumping around recklessly. Someone like me, whose thought process is as straight as a bullet trajectory, could never catch that rabbit's tail.

He couldn't help but drift off into thought, wondering if he should take Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi for a genetic bloodline test someday. The idea seemed surprisingly... plausible; one had S-grade bloodlines and the other A-grade, but their appearances were quite different.

This whimsical idea seems a bit too nosy, Chu Zihang thought, looking at the pretty girl beside him.

"How boring, you won't even cooperate with me for a second."

Sailor Xia Mi suddenly said coldly, "Senior brother, I'm angry."

She leaned against the railing with little expression, turned her head, and rested her cheek on her slender arm. She was probably really tired after a busy day.

Chu Zihang nodded without hesitation, "I'm sorry."

"Senior brother, you're not saying what you mean." Xia Mi was furious at his perfunctory attitude.

"When you say sorry, you should look the other person straight in the eye and tell them, 'I'm being very sincere, so please forgive me.' What's the point of saying it like this?" She waved her small fist.

"Sorry, I'm a little... sleepy, which shouldn't be happening, so I'm thinking." Chu Zihang gently stroked the bluish-black scales on his wrist, the swollen knuckles of his hand not yet returned to their original state.

Not long ago, he unleashed his Lionheart with a burst of blood, and the effects of the burst haven't completely worn off yet. Based on past experience, he should be in a very high state of mind right now.

Why am I sleepy?

"I'm a little sleepy too. I felt like I was sleepwalking or something today. Oh my, I think I heard about this phenomenon in some book. What was it called again? Dreams and reality are both complete versions of yourself." Xia Mi poked her chin with one finger, deep in thought.

"It seems to be the theory of holographic projection!" Her eyes lit up, and she felt herself radiating wisdom.

"The holographic universe theory is a concept proposed by American physicist David Bohm," Chu Zihang corrected.

The dragon-slaying elective at Kassel College covered a wide range of topics, and he never missed any of the extended physics courses at university.

In the subsequent scientific development of holographic cosmology, the theory of holographic universe has been linked with modern physical theories such as string theory, black hole thermodynamics, and AdS/CFT duality.

One of the most eye-catching subsequent theories is the ring theory—in terms of time, the past, present, and future coexist in the ring, with each instant carrying the total amount of information of the entire universe.

Each individual part is itself a form of wholeness. Experiments using laser interferometry to record the light wave information of an object have shown that even when a holographic film is divided into small, fragmented pieces, each piece can still reproduce a complete image, albeit with reduced resolution. This indicates that information distribution is non-local, with overall information uniformly encoded within each local part.

In simpler terms, each part possesses the integrity of the whole. If we apply this theory to a person, then any part of his/her spirit can represent the whole of him/her.

Xia Mi waved her hand dismissively: "It's pretty much the same idea. I'm not a STEM student, so what I mean is that one part of us as a whole is being affected by another. Xia Mi A wants to sleep soundly, so Xia Mi B is affected. Because Xia Mi as a whole is super big, Xia Mi can be represented by one of her parts, Xia Mi A, and the whole affects other parts... That damned Xia Mi A dared to affect me! I'll get my revenge someday!"

Chu Zihang silently watched her soft, beautiful hair dance in the tunnel wind, and suddenly had the urge to reach out and touch it: "...Theoretically speaking, there is no Xia Mi A and Xia Mi B. This is a typical theory of consciousness splitting. Perhaps only something like a pontine splitting surgery could achieve this."

There's also Eric Hilgard's new separation theory, which might not even require surgery; hypnosis and guidance alone are said to offer hope. This theory posits that some psychological processes and cognitive processes are detached from a person's control.

"If you really want to get revenge on yourself, just hurt yourself." Chu Zihang thought for a moment but didn't say it out loud. He leaned back to avoid Xia Mi's hair that was drifting over.

"Let's forget about it then. Brain surgery must be incredibly painful." Xia Mi scratched her head. "Senior brother, if you said there's another version of us somewhere in the world, maybe in the future or maybe in the past, what are they doing right now?"

"You should be at home with your family, I should..."

Chu Zihang thought for a moment and said, "I'll have dinner at your house."

"...That's a really cunning answer." Xia Mi's eyes darted around, and it was hard to tell whether she was satisfied or not. Suddenly, she looked at Chu Zihang with a bright smile, vividly demonstrating what it means to be "unpredictable."

Why are you acting like a "thinker"? Don't you think we're on a rollercoaster right now?

"...I rarely go to amusement parks, so I hope you have fun," Chu Zihang explained, focusing his attention on observation in order to quickly detect any approaching enemies from the front or rear.

I have a pretty strong impression of amusement parks from last time.

"No, no, I can't be happy if you're not happy." Xia Mi put her hands on her hips and then punched upwards with one hand.

The repair vehicle slowed down as it reached a relatively flat area.

"First Mate, our treasure ship bound for the New World seems to have slowed down! What should we do? What should we do?!"

"Don't wander around."

Chu Zihang turned his head and pressed down hard on the lever of the repair vehicle. Xia Mitian's sudden action slowed the repair vehicle down even further.

"Oh my gosh! Who cares about that? Go, senior brother! Faster!" Xia Mi waved her hands, "Let's reunite in the Sabaody Archipelago!"