Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

The roar of the engines filled the air, and with a powerful thrust, the plane slowly lifted off the ground.

The buildings, traffic, and crowds outside the window kept shrinking.

Su Ming only looked away when they were swallowed up by layers of clouds.

He didn't speak.

Shen Wanyu also remained silent.

The two simply held hands, silently staring at the time numbers ticking by on the cabin screen.

Yu Mengnian, who was standing to the side, felt a strong sense of oppression.

The invisible pressure made it difficult for her to breathe.

However, the passengers in the cabin were completely unaware.

Some of them looked out the window, quietly admiring the vast sea of ​​clouds and marveling at the magnificence of nature.

Some people looked at the movies they had already downloaded on their phones and lamented how badly the director had made them, wishing they had downloaded a different movie instead.

After the aircraft smoothly entered the stratosphere, the cabin lights came on.

The flight attendants pushed the food carts and began distributing lunches one by one.

Time was ticking away, second by second.

Su Ming could even hear the phantom ticking of a clock.

The third observation of the Time Insect is drawing ever closer.

Yu Mengnian, standing to the side, became even more uneasy.

She glanced at Su Ming several times, her lips moving, but she never said a word.

He noticed the tension in the person next to him.

Su Ming gently held Yu Mengnian's hand and shook his head, saying, "Don't worry, it's alright."

Yu Mengnian took a deep breath, suppressed her unease, and simply closed her eyes.

That is, at this very moment.

That strange, sudden arrival.

Just like when you're writing a book, inspiration strikes suddenly, and though it's fleeting, it leaves a mark on you.

and so.

Su Ming is now beginning to wonder if those who suddenly have a burst of inspiration have, in that instant, unexpectedly resonated with some higher dimension.

After all, knowledge is endless.

There will always be people who unexpectedly resonate with certain knowledge and gain a sudden, almost divine, insight.

Just like Ramanujan, who claimed that all his mathematical inspirations came from divine guidance.

It's a pity he passed away too young.

He died in 1920, leaving behind more than four thousand formulas and a life full of mysteries.

Otherwise, Su Ming could still do some research.

Just as Su Ming's thoughts were racing, the whole world suddenly froze.

It's not that time has stopped.

Instead, the world in that instant was laid out flat, transforming into a colossal world-famous painting.

All the passengers, tables, chairs, and objects inside the cabin, and even the air itself, lost their three-dimensional form.

They collapsed and flattened layer by layer, eventually settling into static blocks of color and lines in the painting.

At this moment, only Shen Wanyu was able to move.

She blinked first, then, like a figure in a painting breaking free of its frame, she floated lightly off her seat.

The visual impact was too eerie.

Then, Shen Wanyu pulled Su Ming along.

Su Ming instantly broke free from the restraints of the seat.

The instant you leave your seat.

Su Ming's perception underwent a dramatic change.

He lost all perception of height, thickness, and three-dimensional space.

They can't even walk properly anymore.

Moreover, he couldn't see the thickness of his own body.

You can only see one side of it; it has no three-dimensional texture whatsoever.

"This is…"

Su Ming was startled when Su Ming opened his mouth.

He was unable to make a sound.

To be precise, his voice was automatically converted into text.

A white dialog box appeared above his head, containing black text: 【This is…】

Seeing that Su Ming did not continue speaking, the white frame gradually faded and disappeared.

A white frame also appeared above Shen Wanyu's head.

Su Ming didn't need to look, but he heard it, and it was a real voice—Shen Wanyu's voice.

The text above is like the bullet comments in a movie.

No, it looks more like a speech bubble from a comic book.

Shen Wanyu's voice clearly entered Su Ming's mind.

It is a two-dimensional plane.

"We've moved from three-dimensional space to two-dimensional space."

"There is no height here, only front, back, left, and right."

"Start by swimming, and then gradually find the feeling of walking."

"You can think of it as lying on the ground, without actually standing up, just visualizing the walking posture in your mind, and your body coordinating the movements."

Su Ming did not look at Shen Wanyu.

His gaze was uncontrollably fixed on the top of Shen Wanyu's head.

Line after line of dialog boxes appeared above her head.

Just like watching a movie, Su Ming was used to staring at the subtitles.

If you know there are subtitles in your mind, even if you can hear the audio clearly, you will still subconsciously stare at the subtitles. This is an ingrained habit that is difficult to correct.

"That's amazing!"

He tried to follow Shen Wanyu's suggestion, visualizing the walking posture in his mind and simultaneously imitating it with his body.

Sure enough, his slender body took a few steady steps.

These few steps just happened to block Yu Mengnian.

Half of Yu Mengnian's body simply disappeared, completely covered up.

Even if you turn around, you can't see anything.

After taking a few steps back, Yu Mengnian's body was whole again.

"Headless sister, I feel like I'm filming an animated movie."

"It feels like jumping directly from 3D stereoscopic animation into pure 2D animation, and it's all silent."

Shen Wanyu smiled and pointed at Su Ming, saying, "Try running."

Su Ming ran a few steps.

He became increasingly adept at this bizarre method of action.

This run.

To his surprise, he discovered that several small cloud-shaped icons had appeared at his feet.

It's the classic special effect used exclusively in comics when someone is running, both vivid and eerie.

He blew a breath, and three slightly trembling, flowing lines immediately appeared in front of him.

"Holy crap."

Then something even more shocking happened.

Su Ming saw himself in the mirror.

A large red exclamation mark hovered above his temple.

Shen Wanyu spoke up at the right moment to explain: "Here, all intangible emotions, states, and thoughts will be made concrete."

"Go try opening the toilet door."

Su Ming was a little confused, and then a big question mark appeared above his head.

With a simple grab, the question mark was actually removed.

Give it a strong bend to straighten the question mark, then place the dot below it.

It changed from a question mark to an exclamation mark.

"Headless sister, look."

Su Ming, as if he had discovered a new continent, showed Shen Wanyu the exclamation mark he had made.

Before it was even presented to Shen Wanyu, the exclamation mark disappeared.

Shen Wanyu helplessly poked Su Ming's head.

As a result, a few pink bubbles popped into her head first.

His tone was somewhat amused: "Stop playing around, get used to it quickly."

"Okay, okay."

Su Ming glanced at the chat box above his head again, then walked to the bathroom door.

It feels even stranger now.

I could clearly see the toilet door handle, but I couldn't grab it.

Shen Wanyu stood beside her, giving instructions: "Don't actually grab it. Just make the grabbing motion, coordinate with your mind, and then twist it open."

Su Ming obediently followed Shen Wanyu's instructions, making a grasping motion with his hand, as if he were holding the doorknob, but in reality his palm was empty.

He then considered opening the door, simultaneously twisting his hand.

The doorknob did indeed turn.

However, new problems arose.

The doorknob is turned, how do I open the door?

Because there is no height here, only front and back.

Shen Wanyu instructed, "Abandon your preconceived notions and make a pushing motion. It's mainly about intention, that is, the feeling of pushing the door open."

"Use your mind to visualize the scene of pushing open the door."

Su Ming pondered the idea of ​​pushing the door open, then made a pushing motion, though he didn't actually push it; he merely used the feeling of pushing.

The toilet door opened as expected.

"Let's go in and take a look," Shen Wanyu said, pointing to the restroom.

Su Ming obediently went into the restroom.

The scene changes instantly.

It is not a three-dimensional view capture.

It is not a continuous spatial movement in the three-dimensional world.

Instead, it's an extremely abrupt scene transition.

The toilet space appears to be connected to the cabin, but they are actually two completely different planes.

It's like turning a new page in a book and seeing new content.

This resulted in a dense array of exclamation marks appearing above Su Ming's head.

Don't be surprised.

"We should go look for traces of the Time Worm."

Shen Wanyu pulled Su Ming out of the bathroom and led him forward by the hand.

The two arrived at the cabin door.

This gave Su Ming a real headache.

The cabin door was locked.

How can he open it?

Is he going to make a gesture of smashing the cabin door with a punch?

Not bad.

Shen Wanyu said to Su Ming, "Smash it open, use your senses to guide your movements."

Su Ming nodded.

The first punch landed, and it hit.

He smashed through the door frame with a single punch.

Then a loud bang appeared in my mind.

Meanwhile, at the point where the door frame is penetrated, a giant "Boom" special effect character with sharp edges and an explosive feel appears, maximizing the visual impact.

Shen Wanyu corrected, "Don't just stretch out your arms."

"First, lock onto the attack point in your mind, let your thoughts accurately reach the spot where you want to smash it, and then coordinate with your actions."

"You can think of it as manipulating shadows to attack. You don't need to be bound by spatial rules. As long as your intention and strength are in place, that's enough."

Su Ming clenched his fist again and punched.

The arm was halfway extended, but the door didn't budge at all.

"You need to have a clear idea of ​​banging on the door, and then coordinate the banging motion accordingly."

"Since this is a two-dimensional plane, all actions follow the rule of thinking before acting."

"Every action must first be visualized in the mind before it can be brought to life."

"You need to get used to it as soon as possible."

"If we encounter a battle next, we will need to follow the same rules."

"Otherwise, you won't even be able to touch the other person."

Su Ming nodded.

He first etched the clear idea of ​​"smashing the hatch" into his mind, locked onto the landing point, then clenched his fist and smashed it out with a bang.

The loud noise exploded in my mind.

The explosive "Boom" special effect text appeared simultaneously.

The hatch shattered with a crash.

Shen Wanyu pushed the door open, revealing the stratosphere outside.

There was no wind, no elevation difference, the sun was bright, and the light was constant but unchanging.

Su Ming walked straight out and stopped steadily in mid-air.

But when he saw the layers of clouds beneath his feet, he suddenly started to fall.

"Ah~"

A scream.

The screaming text was still frozen in mid-air, but the person had already fallen.

"Fly, fly, fly!"

Suddenly, a pair of bone wings sprouted from Su Ming's back.

The wings were moving, but Su Ming couldn't fly.

Strange, so strange, so very strange.

They say it was a weightless fall.

It's more like an uncontrolled slide.

The body pierced through layers of clouds.

A desolate wasteland appeared beneath our feet.

With a loud bang, the ground was smashed into a neat, human-shaped crater, and two "BOOM" special effects characters rose up at the edge of the crater.

When Su Ming climbed out, Shen Wanyu was covering her mouth and chuckling.

Something's not right.

Su Ming's face darkened.

It's a real black line, right above my head.

"Didn't they say it had no height?"

Shen Wanyu nodded and patiently explained, "It has no height."

"Before you leave the cabin, your vision is limited to a flat plane."

"But once you leave the cabin and see the clouds below, don't you feel like you're standing in mid-air?"

"With this perception, the outcome of the fall will naturally follow."

Su Ming suddenly realized.

"In other words..."

"First comes perception and intention, then comes reality and results."

Su Ming finally understood.

The space, state, and outcome of this world never follow the rules of three-dimensional physics.

It is entirely shaped by human thoughts and perceptions.

What you think about, you will achieve; what you think about, you will produce results.

"Then why couldn't I fly just now?"

"Headless sister, do I have wings?"

Shen Wanyu said with a smile, "You can't fly by fanning yourself hard; that's just a useless physical movement."

"There is no such thing as aerodynamics here."

"First, you need to think about how you want to fly. Once you have a clear idea in your mind, find the feeling of flying, and then you can fly."

Su Ming understood.

Again.

Before doing anything, think it through in your mind first, and then do it.

Every action must be thought first, then felt, and finally executed.

This is completely different from when Su Ming entered Shen Wanyu's life before.

At that time, Su Ming entered Shen Wanyu's life from a low-level, blind spot.

He is a three-dimensional observer, penetrating one two-dimensional painting after another.

At that moment, he entered one of the paintings and became part of it.

They went from being three-dimensional humans to two-dimensional paper figures.

So here's the question.

How can we find traces of the Time Worm in this flat world?

Shen Wanyu had already prepared for this.

She smiled slightly and slowly opened her palm.

An exquisite golden light bulb appeared.

A question mark is suspended in the center of the light bulb.

Su Ming stared at the light bulb with a completely bewildered look on his face: "Headless sister, this isn't mine, is it?"

Shen Wanyu nodded: "That's your strange feeling."

"As soon as I entered the two-dimensional world, I took that strange feeling in your heart and then materialized it into this light bulb."

"Open it, and we'll know where it came from."

Exclamation marks were popping up everywhere above Su Ming's head.

【！！！！！！！！！！！！！】

He said he was stunned.

Can you do this?