I am a hero of the former civilization.

He was overjoyed, as if a disabled person had regained their legs and could explore the unknown.

Why does it smell like coffee?

Ryan quickly examined himself and then realized that he couldn't see his body at all, as if he had become invisible. But if he didn't even have a body, where was the coffee aroma coming from?

Never mind, this is my paradise.

He ignored such trivial matters and pressed on through the boundless golden starry sky, trying his best to get closer to the golden stars. But when he got closer, he realized that these things were not stars.

"It looks more like fruit hanging on a branch, or perhaps like leaves?"

leaf?

Ryan felt his pupils contracting. He looked around again, but he couldn't see any end in sight. Were there tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or endless golden leaves?

This is imaginary space, yes, imaginary space, so these leaves must be...

He randomly picked a spot of light, peered into it, and then his brain was overwhelmed by a flood of information, making his thinking sluggish.

This is... the world?!

For a moment, he was unable to describe the scene he had witnessed in words, or rather, all human language seemed rudimentary. To use the crudest analogy, it was like reading some online novels called "XX in a Box" in his previous life.

The universe appeared before his eyes, and the magnificent Milky Way was right in front of him. Only then did Ryan understand why he couldn't look at it and why he needed the Second Key of God to observe it.

Because 'Thousand Worlds One Vehicle' focuses its gaze on a single point, and the field of vision of a telescope is always limited, while he is looking down from a higher dimension, he suddenly realized that he was courting death after peering in.

Observing the operation of a universe, Ryan had no doubt that if he were in a physical body, this one glance would be enough to drive him mad, or at the very least, he would be overwhelmed by the amount of information and crash. One glance and ten thousand years would have passed.

Even Ryan was frozen in place, because the box was far too large and too many things were happening at the same time, causing his attention to wander and making him less sensitive to time and space.

'No, if I get overwhelmed by information, it will take me tens of thousands of years to recover. I'll become a high-dimensional observation satellite, and eventually, I'll even lose my self-awareness.'

Ryan felt his forehead was covered in sweat. He was really asking for trouble. If his consciousness stayed here, his body on the other side would definitely not wake up. Maybe they would even have survived the post-civilization era.

To focus our attention, we must focus our attention on one point!

This wasn't a battle, and there were no swords involved. Ryan found it difficult to control his attention because his scattered gaze was seeing too much.

A warship the size of a planet, figures traversing the starry sky on their physical bodies, and a planet where billions of people are sacrificed simultaneously, all kneeling frantically towards the sky.

They're worshipping me? That's right, I am now a higher-dimensional life form, the one most fitting for the concept of 'god'.

Ryan felt his attention starting to wander again, because his spying had triggered a response from one of the few beings in this universe.

The two sides are like two people separated by a barrier, echoing each other from afar.

So he began to look to other 'stars' and discovered a driving force.

Curiosity, the curiosity about the unknown, governed his consciousness, and then his consciousness controlled his gaze. Gradually, Ryan found that he could turn his head and catch glimpses of the world's reactions out of the corner of his eye.

The priest was completely bewildered, while the being standing on the star breathed a sigh of relief. Ryan did his best not to recall what he had just seen, and simply glanced over it indifferently.

Yes, it's like a supreme being giving you a fleeting glance; you mustn't observe it closely, just take a quick look, and let only a vague concept flash through your mind.

Different universes, different worlds, full of unknowns and wonders.

He saw countless worlds that were similar yet different, vanishing at any moment and reappearing at any moment.

He saw the astronomical world of galaxies and stars, a giant ring around which everything moved, and a tree-like universe isolated from each other, like dense scales.

The world is countless, the people are countless, and the unknown is countless.

Gradually, Ryan's gaze returned to the starry sky, where countless stars twinkled. Mathematics lost its meaning at this moment; he only felt his thoughts wandering, and these countless points of light formed the shape of a giant tree.

The tree was so close yet untouchable; at least Ryan didn't even have a body to touch it, but he did see some strange shapes.

They wanted to touch them, to climb them. Some were destroyed upon touch, while others gave rise to new stars. It was like a great challenge that made beings beyond the gods willing to shatter their bodies and exhaust billions of years of accumulation.

Climb the tree of imaginary numbers!

Ryan was filled with excitement, feeling that his act of fighting the Herrscher was nothing compared to the crying of a baby. This was the highest courage!

However, he didn't have a chance to try, because as he gradually lost consciousness, he felt himself falling.

Falling towards the stars, falling into the Milky Way, falling into the blue and white stars, falling into the castle in the wind and snow.

Before all consciousness was annihilated, he sensed the gaze of a challenger queuing on the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, with an endless track extending beneath his feet, and turned his head.

Hey, why are you courting death again?

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boom!

Ryan suddenly sat up, feeling his head hit something hard, but the pain was nothing to him. His thoughts were racing, leaving him completely dazed.

Drop drop drop  …

The heart monitor was beeping, but Ryan stared straight ahead without blinking, not even noticing that he was lying in a hospital bed.

What did I see? What did I remember?

A huge amount of information processed through his mind, much clearer than the last time he dreamed, at least enough for him to savor. Then he covered his face, his gray eyes trembling slightly through his fingers.

Time was completely disordered, and space seemed to refract infinite images like a prism. Then I looked up at the digital clock.

Three days and five hours? How is that possible!

Just by looking at any planet he randomly picked, the time span was measured in years. For example, the time frame that Ryan specifically chose: from the time those people prepared to the time they slaughtered an entire planet, it took several years.

Is a day in heaven equivalent to a thousand years on earth?

No, the last scene I saw was a Nordic castle. Could this be a memory from before I came to the Honkai world? But that doesn't make sense either. Why would Yanlu exist in my memories, and why would she be thinking about controlling her attention to go back as soon as possible?

And who was the last person to see me? What does "courting death" mean?

Countless questions filled Ryan with both excitement and distress, as if he were enjoying himself to the point of abruptly stopping. This was something that humans could not comprehend, and even if he were asked to express it and ask others for help, he wouldn't know how to describe it.

To give an analogy, the Thousand Realms One Vehicle can focus on a single leaf, which is still within the scope of human observation and description. Ryan, on the other hand, sees an entire forest, which, from a linguistic perspective, can only be described using relatively abstract words such as "beautiful and spirited" or "full of life."

Just as Ryan was caught in a frantic mental storm, a hand suddenly pressed down on the bed. Mebius, clutching his head, slowly got up and met the bewildered Ryan, his cheeks twitching rapidly.

"You...you've come back from the dead! You scared me half to death!" Mebius's face was flushed, and there was a sense of pride in his snake-like eyes.

Hahaha, I truly deserve to be called a miracle doctor! This treatment is a million times better than that woman Mei's. She licked Kevin for ages and he didn't react at all, but as soon as I kissed him—no, as soon as I treated him—this guy immediately jumped up.

She was really scared just now. Her heart rate spiked as soon as the treatment started, and then Ryan suddenly jumped up, causing Mebius to keep licking her lips and getting lost in some kind of thought.

Could it be that my saliva has some special ability? No, I need to analyze this properly when I have some free time.

Ryan stared at her too, finally understanding why his forehead hurt. But why was Möbius's face even redder than his forehead? What was with that proud look in her eyes?

Another thought was added, making his head throb with pain. He quickly took a deep breath and put the brakes on his train of thought.

Seeing his pained expression, Mebius tensed up, because Ryan gave her a strange feeling. She quickly climbed onto the bed and leaned her head closer.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Ryan twitched his nose; he smelled a strong coffee aroma, which made him even stranger.

What did you just do to me?

"Huh? I...I...I didn't do anything. I just gave you treatment." Mebius stammered, as if caught doing something wrong, clutching her skirt, unsure whether to confess.

Before she could think it through, Ryan leaned in close, their noses touching, their pupils facing each other. Mebius's eyelashes trembled, and Ryan looked like he'd seen a ghost.

Wait a minute, the book says that this kind of moment should be very romantic, and even the air will feel warm.

Ryan was truly seeing a ghost; he had no time to let his imagination run wild, because the smell overturned all his guesses.

This is the taste of Möbius?! How is this possible?!

That wasn't a memory? That doesn't make sense. What state was I in just now?

Paradoxes of time, disorientations of space, blurring the lines between reality and illusion, and a chilling sense of the unknown.

After so many years of research, this was the first time he had encountered such a mysterious topic, one that could overturn all common sense and render wisdom and experience worthless.

Ryan ripped the cable off his body, threw off the covers, and muttered to himself as he walked out. He was going to find Mei, and hopefully use the Second Divine Key to observe her, because the truth was extremely important to him, and he even felt the call of his destiny.

The automatic door opened and closed, and Ryan, dressed in a hospital gown, strode out quickly, so fast that Mebius was still lying on the bed, his plump buttocks sticking out.

What's going on?

Mebius blinked, looked at the empty hospital bed, then at the closed automatic door, gritted his teeth, and gripped the bed sheet tightly.

"You're a lunatic!"

She cursed loudly, then bit her lip and gently patted her face.

"I'm a lunatic too!"

Ryan didn't mean to mess with Möbius. In a high-EQ way, he was now caught in a philosophical dilemma: "Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?" He desperately wanted to figure out if this was a dream or some kind of hallucination.

In other words, having low emotional intelligence means being overwhelmed by too much information.

He walked to the bridge, where there was hardly anyone around. Mei was a little confused when she saw him, and it took her a while to come to her senses.

"Why did you wake up?"

“Mebius said he underwent special treatment. Oh well, that’s not important.” Ryan, still in his hospital gown, found a seat, opened a can of coffee, and took a few big gulps to calm his mind.

This is important! By the way, what exactly did she do? How come the effect is so much better than mine? Platypuses have such effects?

Mei pursed her lips, noticing Ryan's strange expression, and then regained her seriousness: "Did you find anything?"

"Has the Second Divine Key been observed?"

"Three experiments have been conducted. Do you want to see them?" May answered casually, then dismissed everyone on the bridge, not knowing why Ryan brought this up.

Ryan nodded, then picked up the tablet, his eyes scanning it quickly.

The Thousand Realms One Vehicle is like a super telescope, allowing you to see what another world looks like, but the distance is limited, and you can only see the adjacent leaves.

The results are not very clear, because it's like looking at a leopard through a tube; the field of vision is too narrow, and it's impossible to scan the entire universe like Ryan did.

The advantage of this is that it doesn't put much burden on the observer, but the disadvantage is that it wastes a lot of time, and it's estimated that it would take hundreds or thousands of years to reach a conclusion. If it were a fusion warrior with special mental abilities, the efficiency would be higher.

The three experiments, though of little reference value, did lead to the discovery of 'Earth' and even the possibility of finding similar humans. Mei wrote a paper specifically about this.

"The parallel world theory of imaginary space—this is what I've seen as annihilation and rebirth."

Ryan rubbed his forehead and explained in a more fantastical way that every person, every different action they take, can extend into a world line, so you can imagine that the number of them is almost infinite.

The significance of observation lies in whether a way to defeat the Honkai can be found in another timeline, but that's no longer what Ryan is concerned with.