Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 236 Conjecture
Although Lu Yuning didn't believe in ghosts and gods, she still felt a little uneasy after hearing what Gu Yu said.

If it was a psychological effect, it wouldn't be such a coincidence, but among the three, only Gu Yu heard the sound.

Is this thing picky about people?
Lu Yuning asked, "Can you hear what's being said?"

Gu Yu said nervously, "I'm not sure, but it sounds like someone is shouting for help."

"Help?" Lu Yuning was stunned.

Ghosts can also cry for help? Hearing this, Lu Yuning was sure that this strange thing must have been created by humans, but there was no one in sight around.

In that case, I might as well just ask directly. At the moment, it seems that the other party has no ill intentions. However, I wonder if those corpses at the door were caused by this person.

Lu Yuning thought for a moment and said, "Try to communicate?"

"Huh? How do we communicate?"

"Just ask anything, like where is he, who is he?"

Gu Yu was stunned, obviously a little scared, but he finally calmed down and slowly said, "Who are you?"

After a while.

The empty office was still silent.

The whispering sound in Gu Yu's ear just now seemed to disappear.

He scratched his head a little embarrassedly, then said: "I guess I heard it wrong, but I really heard it clearly just now."

Seeing his expression, Wu Xiao laughed out loud, then said, "Haha, I was scared."

He suddenly stopped talking mid-sentence, and then a look of horror appeared on his face.

Lu Yuning looked at him thoughtfully and said, "Did you hear the sound too?"

Wu Xiao nodded silently and said in disbelief, "I really heard it. It was very strange. It was like a voice ringing directly in my head. It was very clear, but the person who spoke seemed to be unconscious."

The three of them were silent. Since even Wu Xiao heard the strange sound, it was basically certain that it was not an auditory hallucination.

However, the sounds the two heard were different. Gu Yu heard someone shouting for help.

What Wu Xiao heard seemed to be a somewhat doubtful voice.

Wu Xiao recalled the intermittent sound and said uncertainly, "It seemed to be saying that it didn't know where it was and asked us to rescue it."

Lu Yuning frowned, then nodded and said, "It sounds like the other party should be able to hear our voices. Is the first sentence a reply to us?"

"It seems to be true."

"Ask again?"

Wu Xiao nodded and said, "Okay."

He cleared his throat and then asked into the air, "Who's there? Can you hear me?"

Another long time passed.

Just as Wu Xiao was about to continue speaking, Lu Yuning suddenly froze in place, then made a gesture of silence with his hand.

"Help me, I can hear you talking, I, I don't know who I am, I don't know where I am, but I can see you, your ears"

Lu Yuning first told the two of them what he had just heard. It seemed that the time for this thing to reply was not fixed, and it seemed that it could not select the person to reply to the message, which led to the three of them receiving his message in turn.

However, this time the voice sounded much clearer, and the other party seemed to have found the correct way to communicate.

His words at the time made the three of them confused. They didn't know where they were or who they were.
According to Lu Yuning, this person was most likely a person with superpowers. He was probably trapped somewhere. Because the light was too dim, he couldn't identify his location. The way he spoke to them was probably some kind of superpower.

It was very strange when he said he didn't know who he was. Even if he was locked up, he wouldn't not know who he was.

And the last sentence, what does it mean, I can see your ears? If I can see the ears, why can't I see the person?

The more Lu Yuning thought about it, the more confused she became. Guessing like this was not a solution. Since the other party could hear the voices of several people, she might as well continue communicating.

Thinking of this, he sorted out his thoughts and said, "We can save you, but you have to provide some useful information, such as how did you hear us talking?"

Another long while passed, and the other party seemed to be very slow in receiving information.

"Can you save me? I don't understand the middle sentence. The last sentence is asking how I heard you speak?"

The other party seemed to have some communication problems. Lu Yuning remembered that her voice was quite clear, but he actually said he didn't understand.

This is a bit strange. Is it because the distance is too far?
However, his reply was obviously problematic. What did he mean by "not understanding"? If he meant "not understanding", or if the voice was low, shouldn't it mean "not being able to hear" or "not understanding"?
Could he be a deaf-mute? But that doesn't make sense. How can a deaf-mute speak? Unless he is deaf due to acquired deafness.

But the other person's speech was a little unclear at first, but later it became very clear, which is difficult for deaf people, so the more I think about it, the stranger it becomes.

However, the other party just asked two questions, and it seems that both of them can be answered with the affirmative, so I might as well just keep it simple.

After Lu Yuning thought about it, he immediately cleared his throat. Considering that the other party might be deaf and dumb, he opened his mouth as wide as possible and then shouted: "Yes"

This time, the other party replied not long after, the voice was clearer, and there was some excitement in the tone.

"You said so, I understand, finally someone can talk to me!"

Lu Yuning did not continue asking questions, but waited for the other party to continue answering. Sure enough, after a while, the other party continued speaking.

"I don't know where I am, but I can see you. I can see all the organs in your body, but I can't hear your voice. I can only recognize your words by the rhythm of your mouth movement."

Lu Yuning rubbed his head. He heard the sentence very clearly, as if the other party had imprinted the voice directly in his head. However, although he heard the words clearly, he did not understand the meaning at all.

Can't hear any sound, but can see all parts of your body?
The reduced hearing range is greater than the visual range. Although you can still vaguely see distant scenes, they are mostly blurry.

So the other party can see him clearly, but cannot hear any sound. This spatial location makes Lu Yuning very surprised. Where on earth can such an effect occur?

And he seemed to mean not just being able to observe them, he was talking about all the organs of the body.

This made him very confused. What did all organs mean? The human body has countless organs. In addition to the nose and eyes, there are also the heart, liver, spleen, fat and kidneys. Could it be that he could see all these as well?

Lu Yuning actually had a lot of questions she wanted to ask, but the other party couldn't hear anything, so communicating on slightly more complicated issues might be difficult and might even lead to errors.

He lowered his head and pondered for a long time. Finally, his eyes lit up and he asked the third question.

"Where am I relative to you?" Lu Yuning spoke these words almost word by word, mainly to let the other person see the shape of his mouth clearly.

After a moment of silence, a voice rang out.

"There's no place, no place here, you can go in any direction from me, I'm sorry, I can't describe this feeling."

Indescribable.

Why is it impossible to describe? The position of an object in space is fixed. If we draw a three-dimensional coordinate system based on its current position, and if it represents the origin, then anyone, at any position, should be able to express it with a numerical value, and naturally know the specific position. But the other party is unable to describe it. Why is this so?

Gu Yu and Wu Xiao were watching Lu Yuning from the side. It seemed that talking casually would disturb the other party, so after Lu Yuning started communicating with the mysterious man, the two could only stand aside quietly.

The two bored people had no choice but to walk towards the diary they had read before. There should be a page that they had not read yet.

Gu Yu quickly turned to the last page of the diary, but strangely, there were no words on this page, but simply two perpendicular lines drawn on it.

Wu Xiao was so lost in thought that he forgot he couldn't speak: "What does this mean, ten?"

“No, there’s another point.”

The two people's voices pulled Lu Yuning, who was lost in thought, back to his senses. He looked at the two of them, then moved his gaze to the diary, and then his gaze rested on the strange symbol.

Suddenly he felt as if struck by lightning, and for a moment he felt as if everything had become clear.

"Damn it, I know, I know!"

Seeing Lu Yuning suddenly slap his thigh, Wu Xiao and Gu Yu were both startled and hurried forward to see if he was upset. After all, the scene in front of them was really weird.

Lu Yuning reacted and waved his hands, saying, "I'm fine, but I think I know what's going on. The owner of this diary must have guessed it, so that's why he drew this."

After saying that, he pointed to the strange symbol on the book.

"This ten?"

Lu Yuning shook her head and corrected him, "No, this isn't text. This is a two-dimensional coordinate system. This point represents a certain coordinate in that coordinate system."

"Coordinate system?"

"Well, he's probably simulating a state to help him think."

“The more I listen, the more confused I become.”

"Simply put, he treated the paper as a two-dimensional surface, probably wanting to observe how the two-dimensional state would appear from a three-dimensional perspective."

"I kind of understand. Aren't we three-dimensional? But what's the point?"

Lu Yuning paused, pinched his chin, and continued, "Knowing this premise makes things simple. Let's consider a scenario where we imagine a two-dimensional creature."

Gu Yu suddenly interrupted, "Wait a minute, what does a two-dimensional creature look like?"

"Don't interrupt, assume, assume you understand."

"Oh okay"

Lu Yuning found it a little funny. He really didn't know whether there were two-dimensional creatures or not, but he believed that there were. He just didn't know in what state they existed.

After hearing Gu Yu's long speech, Lu Yuning had to sort out his thoughts and continued, "Suppose a two-dimensional creature broke through the dimensional connection, escaped from this paper, and survived intact, then what would its vision be like?"

"He will feel that the space has become infinite."

Lu Yuning nodded and said, "That's right. He suddenly went from a two-dimensional plane with only up, down, left, and right to a three-dimensional space. From his perspective, there are not only four directions. To him, it is an infinite space composed of countless up, down, left, and right directions."

The two were stunned for a moment, as if trying hard to imagine the situation, but in the end they shook their heads, indicating that they found it difficult to understand.

"It's okay. You don't need to understand. Hyperdimension itself is an abstract concept. Those who haven't seen it firsthand can never truly imagine it. But just remember one thing: a creature that crosses from two dimensions to three dimensions cannot discern direction, because its consciousness only has up, down, left, and right. It can't understand or describe the extra space, because in its world, it doesn't exist."

The two nodded and stopped worrying about the spatial imagination.

Wu Xiao suddenly realized what was happening and asked in disbelief, "You mean, that thing is a two-dimensional creature?!"

Lu Yuning shook his head: "No, three-dimensional."

"what?"

"He is three-dimensional, but his current position should be four-dimensional."

"What?!" they both said in unison, their faces showing shock.

Lu Yuning nodded affirmatively and continued, "This explanation seems to be the most reasonable at the moment. First, he can see us, but we can't see him, which means he's in a higher dimension. His cognition and way of speaking are the same as ours, and he can't describe his current spatial location. So he must have been a creature of the same dimension as us, and entered the fourth dimension while maintaining his three-dimensional state."

Wu Xiao and Gu Yu looked stunned, finding it difficult to accept.

"seriously?"

Lu Yuning nodded seriously: "Yeah"

In fact, the reason why he was so sure, in addition to the clues given by the coordinate system in the diary, was that the split consciousness in his mind had already sent him a signal. It vaguely said only two words: dimension.

His split consciousness hasn't appeared for a long time since he left the Spark Base last time. Its sudden appearance at this critical juncture means one thing: this creature trapped in the high-dimensional space seems to have something to do with this series of events!

However, this matter seems to be a bit too coincidental. After all, the world has become so big now. It is extremely incredible to find this small office in this vast world, even before it was shrunk.

The only explanation is that this seemingly random behavior is actually his only way!

In other words, an inexplicable force already knows one's route of action in advance, or one's location at a certain point in time.

If the world is compared to a large coordinate system, then all the trajectories of one's actions in this space will draw a clear curve in the coordinate system, and the node where one is in this office is a solution on the curve.

No, this is not possible in three dimensions.

Although time increases linearly, it is impossible for humans to predict the complete action curve of a random living being.

Unless it is a perspective beyond dimensions!

When a two-dimensional living being walks in a certain direction, from its perspective, everything it will encounter is unknown.

However, for three-dimensional life forms, their end has actually already appeared, because the low-dimensional world is too small.

(End of this chapter)