The legend of Tiga

Chapter 2283 Dislocation
The immense joy of finding what was lost completely overwhelmed Horii.

He could hardly believe his eyes. The thing he had longed for and dreamed of day and night had actually come true. His heart seemed to stop beating, and the whole world seemed to stand still. Horii was surrounded by silence, unable to hear any sound, and all he could see was the person slowly waking up.

He reached out shakily, wanting to grab her and stop her from leaving, but his fingers touched hard, cold glass. His heart seemed to start beating again, bringing a surge of heat that burst through his chest, across his neck, and into his eyes, blurring his vision instantly.

"Chizuru!"

The countless words and unspeakable longing finally coalesced into a shout, a trembling voice filled with an unconcealable sob.

The sudden surge of ecstasy was like a raging wave that tossed Horii high into the air before plunging him into an abyss, causing him intense dizziness. His legs went weak and he couldn't stand up. He slumped forward against the glass, his forehead throbbing with pain, but he felt nothing. His eyes were fixed on Chizuru, unable to look away.

The shout snapped Chizuru out of her daze. She turned her head toward the sound and saw Horii pressed against the glass. His already chubby face was now squashed into a pancake shape, and two lines of tears were streaming down his face. He looked quite comical, which made Chizuru laugh.

That smile made Horii's heart bloom, and he grinned too, laughing through his tears. It was incredibly comical, yet it warmed Chizuru's heart.

But then she thought of her son, and immediately tried to get up, calling out, "What about the future? How is he?"

"mom!"

A shout from the side made Chizuru turn her head immediately, and she saw her son rubbing his eyes as he sat up from the hospital bed next to her. He looked drowsy, just like when he woke up on a normal day. Chizuru rushed over and hugged her son tightly, as if afraid that if she let go even a little, he would fly away again.

Horii abandoned his research and equipment, stumbled in, opened his arms and embraced his wife and son like wings. The three of them hugged each other, crying and laughing with excitement.

Chiba Makoto and Maya exchanged a glance, then quietly left the room, giving the family enough space to vent their excitement and joy.

After the door closed, Maya raised her right hand and showed the pendant in her palm to Chiba Makoto. It was dull and faded, not to mention compared to its previous brilliance, it was not even as good as when she first got it. It looked as if it had been exposed to the wind and sun outdoors for ten years, and it was rotten and worn out.

then
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As if a gust of wind had blown by, the metal pendant vanished in a flash, leaving not a speck of dust behind, disappearing without a trace in an instant.

"Thank you!"

Maya felt a pang of sadness; her last existence was gone, and all traces of her having once walked this earth had been completely erased.

"Ugh!"

Chiba Makoto also sighed, reached out and put his arm around the somewhat sentimental Maya, offering her warmth and security with his strong arms.

"If anyone is still unconscious, there won't be any more soul crystals."

“There really is someone unconscious,” Chiba Makoto grinned. “The chief scientist at the police department hasn’t woken up yet, and he’s very likely the first victim.”

"Uh"

Maya wasn't a novice; she understood immediately.

There are no secrets that stay hidden forever, especially not such a high-profile one.

The news that Horii's wife had woken up would definitely spread very quickly. After all, you can't expect someone to continue pretending to be unconscious. It's one thing for adults, but children really can't lie still for long.

To be regarded as the chief scientist by the police department must mean one has exceptional abilities; they could probably be considered the police department's most valuable asset. With such a person in a coma, countless people must be worried.

If everyone had fallen into a coma, that would have been fine, since no one could do anything about it. But now that someone has suddenly woken up, it means they've found a solution. It would be strange if the police didn't send someone over to inquire.

If you say the 'antidote' is used up, no one will believe you, especially since the relationship between the two parties isn't that close. The level of trust isn't nonexistent, but it's very low.

The story of the wise man who doubted his neighbor has been passed down for thousands of years without diminishing in popularity.

Anyone with an IQ above 50 could see that after outwardly refusing the police's request, the police would definitely launch a frantic investigation behind the scenes. After all, people always feel that what others say is not necessarily true, and only what they know is the truth.

Neither of them cared about the police department. Horii, being in the research department, could withstand the pressure from the police department, but Mayumi's situation was not so easy. The medical department's staff officer ranked very low in TPC, and Mayumi herself was just a head nurse, making her highly replaceable.

As for Shinjo, although he is a senior captain at the Space Development Bureau, he is not really taken seriously by the police department. Only the project director of the Integrated Computer Technology Agency in Norizumi puts him under some pressure, but only a little.

Therefore, if the police contact Mayumi, it will cause her a lot of trouble.

It's the same old story: people only believe what they know. No matter what, there was only one item left by Takuma, and it's gone now. The police won't just believe what you say; they will definitely conduct a thorough search and repeated tests, probably even peeling off the wall plaster to taste it.

Of course, it's not a simple, crude act of barging into your house and ransacking everything. There must be a legitimate reason, such as presenting a radiation test report showing that your home is contaminated with nuclear radiation and everything must be removed and destroyed.

As for your objections and questions—

I'm sorry, your opinion doesn't count. Everything is based on the test report. I have the test report, so what I say is 'accurate'.

"Then just say it came from Monera's seeds."

Chiba Makoto immediately came up with a solution. As the saying goes, there must be an antidote within three steps. As for why three steps, it's because of the five-step snake. If the antidote is too far away, it will kill him if it's more than five steps away.

If your police department is capable, then go and find the fragments of Monera's Seed in the dimensional rifts.

Actually, if there were any left, it wouldn't be impossible to help awaken Dr. Kisaragi, but we used them all up.

Well, it's not that it's all used up; it's just that it dissipates immediately upon activation, like splashing water. No matter how much water falls into the bucket, it's all poured out, unlike a faucet where you turn it on and release as much as you need, and then turn it off when you've had enough. So...
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Whether it's a lie or not, it's your police department's bad reputation and bad name that makes it so effective. It might not stop a child from crying at night, but it's close enough.

Not long after, the door to the ward opened, and Horii walked out, wiping away tears of excitement. He thanked Maya repeatedly, while Chiba Makoto told Horii what he had just said. Horii nodded repeatedly. He already felt incredibly guilty for taking the pendant. If it caused Mayumi any more trouble, he would be guilty beyond measure and would never be able to face Shinjo again.

“But maybe we can replicate it.” After calming down, Horii excitedly began to talk about the inspiration that the data had given him, saying, “Based on the data we have collected so far, soul crystals can be regarded as a kind of highly condensed plasma. In the past, the physics community believed that plasma could only be formed and exist under conditions of high temperature, low pressure or strong electromagnetic field. But obviously, human understanding of plasma is still very narrow. Soul crystals are plasma that can exist under normal conditions.”

Horii was very excited because he had expanded humanity's understanding of plasma, and science continues to advance through such 'anti-physics' discoveries.

Just as in the past, humans thought that only living things had self-healing abilities, until the discovery of shape memory metals and self-healing polymers broke this narrow understanding and made us realize that non-living things also have self-repair capabilities.

Now, the soul crystal is a new 'anti-physics' that can exist for a long time at normal temperature and pressure, which is enough to show that plasma, like the other three forms of matter, does not require a special environment to appear.

Just as water is a liquid at normal temperature and pressure, while natural gas requires high pressure to become a liquid, the pressure required for either of them to become a solid would be extremely high. Yet, many objects in life are naturally solid.

Similarly, some objects may require high temperatures and strong magnetic fields to become plasma, while others are naturally plasma and require changes in temperature and pressure to transform into other forms.

"besides."

Horii paused mid-sentence, his brows furrowing as he pondered deeply. In an uncertain tone, he said, "I've also gained some insight into the soul, perhaps at a level beyond reality."

There has always been a great deal of controversy in academia regarding the soul.

One of the most widely circulated theories is that the soul weighs 21 grams. In reality, there is no consensus on this, and very few scientists even agree with it; they all consider it nonsense.

A more widely accepted theory is that the soul is a virtual, non-physical biomagnetic field. This is because biological nerve transmission relies on electrical signals, and the activity of neurons in the brain also generates electrical signals that are transmitted as brainwaves, which are then emitted in all directions. These signals can be detected and recorded by instruments and are considered to be interfaces for telepathy. As a result, they are being widely studied in this new era.

It wasn't until the Lightning Man and Gazort incident that the academic community reached a consensus that the soul is a special kind of plasma.

But now, Horii has a new inspiration: that the soul exists in a fourth dimension, which is higher than reality.

As we all know, the real world is three-dimensional, consisting of length, width, and height, while time is the fourth dimension.

Just as two-dimensional beings cannot know the concept of 'height', three-dimensional humans should not know the dimension of 'time', yet humans can perceive the passage of time, even if they cannot see or touch it.

Therefore, some have proposed that the universe is actually four-dimensional, while others have said that time is actually imagined by the brain and is a manifestation of subjective feelings.

Now Horii has proposed another hypothesis: that the human body exists in three dimensions and the soul in four dimensions, which is why we cannot see or touch 'time' and have no concrete concept of it, only a vague perception.

To use an imperfect analogy, it's like a person's shadow, a projection from three dimensions to two dimensions. But no matter how beautiful a person is, their shadow is still black. If there were a person in two dimensions, you could only see a dark shadow and wouldn't be able to discern their specific appearance from the shadow.

Horii's ideas weren't just baseless; he had his own set of theories:
If we consider the body as a hard drive, then the soul is like a program. Without a hard drive, the program has nothing to rely on; without a program, no matter how much data is on the hard drive, it is still inanimate.

Programs exist on the hard drive, but no matter how many programs there are, they won't add even a single gram to the weight of the hard drive.

People call past experiences memories, but from another perspective, could recalling or remembering be the soul in the fourth dimension 'seeing' what happened in the past?

Therefore, Horii believes that the appearance of Takuma in the Gazort II incident does not mean that the soul is plasma, but rather that the plasma environment can carry the soul like the human body.

Horii spoke at length about his inspiration and his discoveries.

Well.
Well, it sounds reasonable, but it's difficult to prove.

The first thing to be affected is...
How can three-dimensional humans search for the existence of the soul in the fourth dimension?
The types of matter in the three-dimensional world are countless, and their quantity is as numerous as the stars.

Are there fewer things in the four-dimensional world?

It's obvious that there can't be only one. Even if humans can access the fourth dimension, how can they determine which one is your soul from this vast array of four-dimensional objects?

With just two sentences, Chiba Makoto turned Horii's enthusiasm into ice.

I calmed down completely.

Yes, how do we prove it?
Horii scratched his head, genuinely at a loss for words.

Because that's how cruel the dimensional system is; you are wherever you are, with no way up or down.

"Don't think too much about it. Spend some time with your family first, then talk about the research. Even if you do research, don't touch on difficult problems like dimensions. First, figure out the soul crystal, at least make a gesture, because the police department will definitely be in a hurry."

"Hmm!" Horii was also a pragmatist. He wouldn't obsess over something that was impossible, at least not in the short term. Dimensions were indeed something that was unlikely to be seen in this lifetime, but the soul crystal might be something that could be solved with some effort.

After calming Horii down, Makoto Chiba and Maya took their leave. Normally, they might have stayed to try Chizuru's cooking, but it wasn't the right time; their family needed more time and space.

After leaving the hospital, Maya finally spoke, "Do you have an idea now? About this fourth dimension!"

"I have some ideas, but I still need to verify them." Chiba Makoto closed the car door and drove away from the hospital, saying, "Perhaps the fourth dimension is not as difficult or troublesome as imagined. It's actually just a membrane. As long as you find the right place, you might be able to break it with a single poke."

(End of this chapter)