Chapter 13 Space-Time Laws

Tap, tap, tap, tap...

Lin Xian paced back and forth in his bedroom.

He had calmed down and figured out a lot of things.

First of all, it was clear that—

1. The dream world had undergone earth-shattering changes because Professor Xu Yun's paper was published, which triggered a space-time butterfly effect, triggering the [Space-Time Change].

He had already checked the news on his phone.

Yesterday evening, the Donghai University Research Institute released all of Xu Yun's research data as promised, including papers on overcoming the ice crystal problem, unfinished hibernation capsule filling fluid, and experimental data on various hibernation by-products...

All of them were made public to the world free of charge.

This was also Professor Xu Yun's original intention, but after his death, the Donghai University Research Institute carried it out on his behalf.

The release of the data caused a global sensation in the scientific community, and almost all research institutes and laboratories were working overtime to verify it.

Because the data was absolutely correct, the speed of replicating the hibernation capsule filling fluid was very fast. Even though Xu Yun's paper was not completed, the core data and experimental materials were available. With the world's top scientific research forces focused together, it was not difficult to fill in the last piece of the puzzle.

In just two hours, the Dragon Country Academy of Sciences had successfully prepared the hibernation capsule filling fluid and started experiments on mice.

Subsequently, laboratories and research institutes in various countries also sent good news, confirming Professor Xu Yun's research results and this great invention.

Even though it was close to midnight, there was still a lot of activity on the internet.

The United States had already taken the lead in completing the hibernation and thawing experiments on mice. All life indicators were normal, and multiple research institutes had indicated that they would shift their future research focus to the field of hibernation capsules.

The Dragon Country Academy of Sciences also issued a statement announcing the establishment of a hibernation research institute named after Xu Yun, investing a large amount of funds and manpower to specialize in hibernation technology, striving to create the first generation of easy-to-use hibernation capsules that can be put into use within two or three years.

There were also various news about award nominations, follow-ups from various national research institutes, and so on...

Everything went as Professor Xu Yun wished.

Although he had left this world, the spark of hibernation technology had been ignited, and even turned into a raging fire, with the potential to start a prairie fire.

Given the current global effort to develop hibernation capsules, Lin Xian had no doubt that hibernation capsules could be manufactured within a few years.

He believed in the potential of mankind and the power of human unity.

But...

"Why has the technological level of the future world regressed when hibernation technology has been launched hundreds of years ahead of schedule?"

This was so unbelievable that he couldn't figure it out no matter what.

This was the second fact that Lin Xian had confirmed:

2. The dream world, i.e., the future world 600 years later, has regressed in technology due to the space-time butterfly effect, returning to the level of the 1980s and 1990s.

No matter how illogical this was...

The fact was the fact. Seeing is believing. All of this was experienced and seen by Lin Xian himself.

If the geographical coordinates when he entered the dream hadn't changed...

The previous "birthplace" was a square, surrounded by bustling commercial streets, with high-rise buildings in the distance, which could be considered a modern city.

The city in the original dream was also called Donghai City.

This was why Lin Xian wanted to go to Donghai University, because he really wanted to come here and see it.

But after going to Donghai City for university, he couldn't find anything similar to the dream... but at the time, he thought it was just a dream and didn't think too much about it.

Now that he thought about it, it wasn't strange. Even if the city in the dream was really Donghai City 600 years later, it wouldn't be strange.

Most modern buildings couldn't last for 600 years. They would definitely be demolished or re-planned during this period.

"None of this matters."

Lin Xian shook his head, looking at the brightly lit Donghai night scene through the window:

"What's important is... why has technology regressed, and why has the prosperous Donghai City degenerated into a backward village?"

He could accept that technology didn't advance, or even regressed slightly.

But those technological products that had already been put into use and popularized in millions of homes, their production lines couldn't just disappear out of thin air, could they?

Thinking back to the old man's shop...

Lin Xian hadn't seen that kind of big-backed TV for many years. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe the resolution as full of mosaics. It should have been eliminated by the times long ago.

It wasn't just the TV.

Tungsten light bulbs, hardware wrapped in oil paper, matches, and other things full of the atmosphere of the times... should not appear in the future world 600 years later.

"Unless..."

For some reason, Lin Xian only thought of one possibility:

"Unless there was a world-scale war, or a global disaster, that almost destroyed the entire human civilization. So after recuperating, all human technology had to be overthrown and restarted."

"But that's too unrealistic."

In the end, Lin Xian rejected this wild thought.

Since the dream had changed due to the space-time butterfly effect, there was no need to think about why now.

Space-time changes were completely irreversible.

Instead of thinking here without a clue, it would be better to go to sleep earlier tomorrow and go to the dream world to find the answers to everything.

This was the safest and most efficient way to do it.

...

Lin Xian was tired from walking around in the bedroom, so he sat down at his desk and began to summarize the third fact he had realized:

3. Space-time changes do have very accurate [anchor points]. That is, a certain event at a certain time determines that the space-time will change, and this follows a certain pattern.

In simple terms, it was when the space-time butterfly flapped its wings.

Only when the butterfly flapped its wings at a certain point in time could it create a "changing" tornado in the future 600 years later.

This was not difficult to understand.

The anchor point of the first space-time change was the moment when Lin Xian renamed Keke Cat to Rhein Cat. At this moment, the space-time butterfly flapped its wings, the future was rewritten, and the space-time change was triggered.

The anchor point of the second space-time change was not clear, because he didn't verify it in time. But he guessed that it should be the moment when he put the manuscript in Xu Yun's laboratory, or the moment when Xu Yun saw the manuscript and completed the initial experiment. From that moment on, the space-time butterfly flapped its wings again, and the Father of Hibernation became Academician Gao Wen.

The anchor point of the third space-time change was when Xu Yun sent the sample of the new hafnium alloy to the Dragon Country Aerospace Research Institute. Space, history, and the future also began to change from this moment, causing the safe in the dream to change its material.

The anchor point of the fourth space-time change was a certain moment in the series of events in which the Donghai University Research Institute received, sorted out, and released Xu Yun's research data and unfinished papers. Because once Donghai University and official organizations intervened in this matter, it eliminated the possibility of it being burned or stolen, and this matter became "irreversible."

The space-time change caused this time was huge and subversive...

Unlike the previous small changes, the scope of this space-time change was very wide, the intensity was very great, and it directly overturned the entire future world, leaving not a trace of its original appearance.

Lin Xian guessed that the reason why this space-time change was so drastic may not only be due to the impact of the hibernation capsule filling fluid.

It also included Xu Yun's magical chemical substance, the new hafnium alloy, and other series of events that were intertwined and mutually influenced, producing a stronger space-time butterfly effect.

"Although the reason why technology will regress is still not understood, the relevant theories about space-time change are definitely correct."

Lin Xian rested his chin on his hand and twirled his pen, feeling that he had a clue about the rules of space-time, history, and the future.

All of these changes should follow certain axioms, formulas, rules, or laws.

"How should I summarize and classify the concepts of space-time butterfly effect, space-time change, and change anchor point?"

If he could really master these rules... that would be a terrifying force enough to traverse space-time!

Lin Xian pondered for a long time and stopped twirling the pen.

He unscrewed the pen cap.

He wrote four large characters on the top of the white paper—

[Space-Time Laws]