Kryptonians: Man of Steel

Chapter 1492 The World Has Gone Mad

An unprecedented longing surged and boiled in his chest like magma.

This is not a blind, superstitious shift, but a rational choice made by a scientist awakened by harsh reality, based on the most direct observational evidence and the coldest logical reasoning on the ruins of cognition.

He has no prejudice against psionics or physics itself.

Existence is truth!
Saeko Busujima's slash is the most irrefutable proof of its existence!
That force manifested itself in the material world in a real and undeniable way, causing observable and measurable (although the measurement results were absurd) physical effects.

It is there, like gravity, like electromagnetism.

Denying it is as foolish and self-deceptive as the medieval church denying heliocentrism.

What is science?
The core spirit of science has never been about adhering to a specific theoretical system!
Science is a methodology!

It is an exploration process based on observation, hypothesis formulation, experimental verification, and continuous revision and iteration to approach the truth!
It is a rational attitude of embracing the unknown, challenging boundaries, and having the courage to acknowledge the limitations of existing knowledge!

If psychic science truly exists and systematically studies this phenomenon of "projection of higher-dimensional rules," then it also needs to observe (psychic phenomena), propose hypotheses (about the nature of psychic energy and higher-dimensional rules), verify them (through psychic practice or specific experiments), and construct theoretical models.

This process itself is an application of scientific methods!

However, its research object has broken out of the traditional physics category of "matter-energy-spacetime" and entered the more profound and difficult field of "consciousness-rules-dimension".

"Psionics is also a science!"

Anderson opened his eyes abruptly, his gaze burning with the embers of the old faith burned away and the intensely blazing light of the new path ignited.

The radiance no longer held the previous trembling and fear, but only a pure, almost pilgrimage-like steadfastness.

"It studies the dark continents that current human science has not yet illuminated, or even discovered! It is the crucial piece that we are missing from the puzzle of the universe!"

He hesitated no more.

He bent down to pick up the tablet with its shattered screen, his fingers swiping rapidly across it to bring up an encrypted file that had long been sealed away but was now his only hope—extremely limited information about admissions to the Tokyo Metropolitan Totsuki Spirit Exorcism Academy.

The application process is exceptionally mysterious and rigorous, involving talent tests and mental assessments, making it far superior to that of ordinary universities.

Then, he made a highly symbolic gesture: he lowered his head, his gaze fixed on his chest.

That small badge, with a platinum base inlaid with a miniature particle accelerator pattern and surrounded by the Latin phrase "Scientia Vincere Tenebras" (knowledge triumphs over darkness), is a symbol awarded by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) to its highest-ranking researchers.

It was a testament to countless days and nights spent exploring the truth amidst the microscopic wonders of particle collisions, and a glorious emblem of a lifetime's pursuit of the ultimate laws of the universe.

At this moment, however, it is cold and heavy, like a tombstone from an old era.

There was no sigh, no hesitation.

A pure, cold resolve seized him.

He raised his hand, his fingers gripping the badge that carried all his past honors and beliefs with remarkable stability.

The force applied with the fingertips is not a rough bend, but a precise stress applied to the most vulnerable point of the delicate structure. The coating of the special ceramic material first cracks silently, forming a spiderweb-like pattern, followed by the internal supporting titanium alloy skeleton, which emits a subtle yet piercing metallic fatigue groan under the force exceeding its yield limit.

With a short, clear cracking sound—not the shattering of plastic, but the announcement of the complete failure of the precision metal structure—the badge that symbolized the crown of human reason and technology, along with the rigid polycarbonate ID card below it bearing his full name, the title "Ph.D.", and the CERN logo, was mercilessly folded in two.

The crisp cracking sound was particularly clear in the deathly still air.

He casually tossed the remnants of his faith into a nearby metal trash can, where they echoed hollowly.

The history of human warfare?

Faced with a force capable of directly rewriting the rules of physics and manipulating cutting-edge technological creations like children's toys, all tanks, airplanes, missiles, and even nuclear weapons—these behemoths—instantly lose all meaning.

They are no longer symbols of power, but have been reduced to dusty, clumsy relics deep in history museums, symbolizing humanity's long and bloody era of ignorance.

The violent logic they represent, based on matter, energy, and destruction, appears so primitive, clumsy, and even somewhat ridiculous in the face of the power of "rules" in a higher dimension.

That was no longer a difference in power level, but a crushing defeat in terms of the dimension of existence.

The violent evolutionary tree, at the very moment Saeko Busujima swung her sword, was brutally twisted by an invisible giant hand into a bizarre branch that the human technology tree had never conceived of and was completely powerless to reach.

The foundations of physics—mass, energy, and the continuity of spacetime—seem like drafts that can be painted on at will in the face of that force.

"I have to go there."

Anderson said.

"Tokyo Metropolitan Totsuki Spirit Exorcism Academy. I want to study psychic science. To analyze it, understand it, master it... or at least, learn how to coexist with this power."

The road ahead is destined to be fraught with thorns, filled with phenomena that current scientific frameworks cannot explain, and fraught with unpredictable dangers. Every step could lead to a cognitive abyss. Existing knowledge systems are not only ineffective, but may even become obstacles to understanding the new world.

But Dr. Anderson—no, now he is simply the Seeker Anderson—only saw a vast, breathtaking new universe that had just begun to unfold before him.

The light from that universe was so dazzling that it instantly burned away the remnants of the old world.

His scientific spirit has not died. It has simply broken free from the "cage" formed by the brilliant but now cramped framework of classical physics, relativity, and quantum mechanics.

That core pursuit of truth continues to burn fiercely, even more intensely and passionately than ever before.

It is eagerly preparing to leap into this new and disruptive realm and embark on the greatest and most dangerous adventure since its inception.

This is not a betrayal of science, but rather an awakening and return of the scientific spirit at a higher level—heading towards the unknown.

What he was going to learn was not magic or witchcraft, but another kind of "physics" that was deeper and more fundamental to the universe.

A kind of underlying rule hidden beneath the appearance of matter and energy, manipulating information, causality, and even the basic structure of spacetime itself.

A kind of... ultimate science that may allow human civilization to truly break free from the shackles of gravity, traverse the stars and the sea, and even touch upon the essence of dimensions.

(End of this chapter)