Age of Cosmic Exploration

Chapter 391: Fourth Dimension!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Hope had officially entered the green light!

At the moment of entry, everyone felt blinded. Not from a bright flash, but the rewiring of the nerves connecting the brain to the eyes. It was… an indescribable sensation!

In that moment, an endlessly describable world appeared in everyone's sight. This was not a description, it was reality…

In fact, during the numerous experiments, the humans who were sent into the green light all experienced a weird phenomenon of blindness. The Academy came up with the simple hypothesis that humankind's eyes and other organs were not meant for the fourth dimension, so there naturally would be some problem when they broke through from the third dimension into the fourth dimension.

However, this blindness wouldn't persist for long. It would recover after two to three days. In fact, from a medical standpoint, this blindness wasn't even a type of physical injury. Some scientists suggested that it was because people couldn't mentally support the sudden change of dimensionality.

At that moment, when the Hope entered the green light, everyone suddenly understood why there was such a blindness. It was because… the place was too huge!

Just like how the cow was twisted beyond belief when its whole body was sent into the fourth dimension, it happened to human beings as well.

Therefore, when one looked out, the sight was dispersed. To put it simply, humankind's eyes had been affected by the fourth dimension to become something akin to a compound eye. One eye could look multidirectional at one moment in time. This caused the sensation of blindness because the normal indicators found through sight, like directions, had been completely jumbled up.

It was an indescribable feeling. The only sensation was the spaciousness!

Looking out from one's eyes, the sight was turning in different directions. One could even notice that the interior of the Hope was slowly changing as well. In other words, the cabin inside the ship was twisting and turning. No, it was not accurate to call it that, it was twisting and turning only if one viewed it from the perspective of a third dimension dwelling organism, but they were in four dimensional space, so this was merely the natural manifestation of the changing of forms in the fourth dimension.

To give a simple example, imagine an apple in a painting. That's an object in the second dimension. Should it turn on its own, then the other dimension normally hidden would appear on the painting. In reality, that dimension had always been there. The only reason it would appear as it was not there was because dimension wasn't something observable in a two dimensional painting.

Similarly for creatures in a three dimensional space, the organs, muscle, blood vessels, bones, and the like were unobservable because they were "inside". This was the limitation of the three dimensional space.

However, when they moved into the fourth dimension, an indescribable space axis appeared. This space axis didn't have a directional left, right, up, down, but crossed through all senses of direction, including inside and outside. Just like how the linear movement of a point caused the creation of line (first dimension), the movement of a line caused a plane (two dimensional), the movement of a plane caused the sense of dimension (third dimension), when the dimension moved, a new space axis that parsed through all the dimensions in normal three dimensional space was born and the creation of this new space axis led to the existence of the fourth dimension!

Currently, humankind was like the object moving out from the painting into a three dimensional space. Due to the change in dimension, it caused a sense of vertigo on the faculty of sight, hearing, touch, and even the Homo Evolutis' powers. This was something natural, and the reason behind the four dimensional blindness.

To put it even simpler… the human brain could not keep up with the sudden increase in observable information. To protect the consciousness, it befuddled the mind to limit the intake of random information.

This happened to every human being and alien in the Hope, including the Homo Evolutis… No, there seemed to be an exception. Granted their numbers was small, this group of people had truly overcome the information overload caused by the change into fourth dimension and managed to record everything in sight.

They were the Seekers!

The Seekers were the second most suitable Homo Evolutis in combat, ranking just behind the Perceptors. They were normally used for long-distance support. Other than that, they could also be considered the most non-favored among the Homo Evolutis. This was because their combat prowess was not as good as the Perceptors, they couldn't sense danger, couldn't help with technology, didn't have the Thinker's power, or even access to the soul web. In short, the Seekers were considered the most useless among all the Homo Evolutis.

This was because the biggest use for Seekers was their ability to see everything clearly. However, this could be easily replaced by surveillance devices, and this was merely the surveillance device of a level 2 space civilization. What if the space civilization was a level 3 or level 4 space civilization? Then the Seeker's power could be said to be completely useless.

However, at this moment, all of the Seekers realized that they had a natural adaptation to the changes in the fourth dimension. They were naturally familiar with the new space axis and understood how it operated instinctually. To put it simply, the Seekers felt like they were already fourth dimension dwellers…

At the same time, in the room that housed the central mainframe, Yao Yuan's group stood around the closed door that led to the room that held the secret UFO. The group also felt four dimensional blindness as the Hope's entered the green light. If not for ZERO's masterful handling of the ship's anti-gravity system, everyone would have been pinned to the spot. It was also the reason why there wasn't chaos among the citizens of the Hope, at least the gravity wasn't changed abruptly.

Several minutes after the four-dimensional blindness, Yao Yuan, as well as a Seeker who was present in the group, slowly adapted to the experience within the fourth dimension.

The world they saw was completely different from the non-seekers, who had around them an irrational, illogical world that they couldn't make sense of in words or writing. However, for the Seeker and Yao Yuan, they saw something different.

It was a world that was huge, but it could be described as spacious as well. In this small room that sealed the UFO, from Yao Yuan's eyes, this room seemed to morph into a giant, twisting maze with the dimensions layering on top of another; however, the overlapping was strangely harmonious. These dimensions added to a complete entity, like they were supposed to be that way.

From the perspective of the fourth dimension, dimensions were supposed to be fluid. They moved constantly, and this was the single biggest difference between the fourth dimension and the third dimension. Simply put, there was no constant in the fourth dimension, or rather, there was no constant point of reference that could be used to determine an object's location like in three dimensional space. For the fourth dimension, an object's location had to be determined through the calculation of a mathematic algorithm.

That was why it was so dangerous for a creature of the third dimension to enter the fourth dimension, because for them, it was a change from static to extreme movement, like a creature walking into a working blender. Wouldn't that be alarming and dangerous?

However, the most curious thing was that for Yao Yuan, it was as if he could discern the various movements and trajectories in the four dimensional space. Even though it was layers upon layers of dimensions before him, as if operating on instinct, he could pick up the way to go among the different layers. Where was the original ceiling, where were the original doors and exits, where was the UFO located, the information was registered in his mind as if by natural instinct. He took a closer look and realized that the place wasn't as chaotic as he previously perceived. If anything, there was a rush from the new sense of dimensional freedom.

"This way…"

The other person who uttered that statement at the same time as Yao Yuan was the other Seeker. He was Wa Luo, one of the original Black Star Unit members and leader of the eighth Black Star Trooper unit.

Both of them turned to look at each other. Even though what they saw was each other's meat blobs, they could still discern each other's identities. In fact, in their minds, it was the three dimensional human form that was registered. This kind of mental process was faster than the calculating power of a supercomputer, even more powerful than the Hope's low level AI.

"Of course, the Seeker's power… So this is the Seeker's real capability."

Yao Yuan sighed internally. He was remembering Ying, the most powerful Seeker the ship once had. However, this was not the time to process grief. Who knew how long they would last in this fourth dimension? The key point was to see this alien UFO for themselves!

Yao Yuan told Wa Luo, "You stay and watch over them. I believe they have been afflicted by four dimensional blindness. I'll go check on that UFO." Before waiting for a reply, Yao Yuan went flying down a direction.

Honestly, flying was probably not the correct term. As this was the fourth dimension, there was no exact location or point. Instead of motion, or words used in three dimensional space like walking or flying, it would be more accurate if it was called twisting and turning. In Wa Luo's eyes, Yao Yuan's body turned long, short, wide, and thin as he moved away. Then he completely disappeared from his sight.

Yao Yuan used his instinct to reach another dimension. From here, he could witness the alien UFO directly. His gaze landed on the UFO, and to his surprise…

The UFO was unchanged!

Not only was it not damaged by the change into the fourth dimension, even the form of the UFO itself was unchanged!

Yes, it had maintained its perfectly spherical shape, its three dimensional form!

It maintained a three dimensional form in a four dimensional space!

This was a scene… that could make even high tier space civilizations wet their pants from fear and shock!