Three-body: The Most Competent Wallfacer in History

Consciousness exposed!

The very thought is terrifying, like a fragile brain laid bare.

"The Milky Way computer explained, "According to Jiang Shiliu's report, a normal person from the Three-dimensional World will have their body linked to the Fifth Dimension.

"In the Three-dimensional World, a person's body is in a 'present' state, while in the Fifth Dimensional universe, consciousness is in a 'both present and absent' state.

"Therefore, native beings of the Fifth Dimension can only occasionally perceive the existence of Three-dimensional beings' consciousness, and neither can substantially affect the other.

"After a person from the Three-dimensional World dies, their consciousness will briefly be in a 'present' state in the Fifth Dimensional world, but immediately after, without the energy supply, the consciousness will quickly dissipate.

"There are only a few exceptional cases where consciousness can maintain a long-term existence in the Fifth Dimension, such as Zhang Beihai's father and Weide."

Jiang Yu frowned and said, "This sounds a bit like the descriptions of souls I heard about when I was a child!"

"Now we have scientifically proven that consciousness is an energy entity, and the soul is a product of fiction or an adjective, and they are not the same."

Jiang Yu waved his hand dismissively, "I'm not trying to argue with you, it's just a sudden realization."

"Sorry, I mainly serve the modern people who survived the Great Depression; sometimes I might not understand your intentions."

Jiang Yu waved his hand again, "What other information do you have about the Fifth Dimension?"

"The Milky Way computer said, "In the recently decrypted file, there's more information. Initially, when Jiang Shiliu confirmed human consciousness in the Fifth Dimension and discovered that upon natural death, human consciousness briefly maintains a 'present' status.

"He then planned to ask every deceased person if they were willing to continue living in the Fifth Dimension since the population of Five-Dimensional Humanity is still scarce to this day.

"However, it didn't take long for Jiang Shiliu to realize that the location of consciousness in the Fifth Dimension is random, and the position of consciousness keeps moving.

"For example, two people from the Three-dimensional World might pass each other by, but the positions of their consciousness might be across the entire Milky Way.

"But if two people communicate, it's different. No matter how far apart the two people are, their consciousness will draw near to each other."

Jiang Yu opened his mouth in realization, "Paradise!"

"Exactly!" the Milky Way computer said, "According to research by Jiang Shiliu and other Five-dimensional scientists, they basically understood the techniques of Paradise from those days!

"As long as there is communication, the people of the Paradise civilization can quickly locate the position of the conversing consciousness, thus attacking human consciousness or even absorbing the energy from it outright.

"They use Shadow Mirage Technology to make many people see Paradise, which rapidly brings human consciousness closer to Paradise, allowing them to complete mass harvesting of consciousness.

"Consciousness can traverse vast distances in the Fifth Dimension in an extremely short amount of time, so Three-dimensional consciousness is elusive and hard to observe for Fifth Dimensional beings."

Jiang Yu slowly nodded, he hadn't expected that nearly two thousand years later, the incident with Paradise would still have consequences!

The Milky Way computer started to introduce Jiang Shiliu's situation: "About eight hundred years ago, Jiang Shiliu, Thirty-Six, and other Four-Dimensional Beings entered the Fifth Dimension, as they were the third group of humans to migrate to a higher dimension.

"There were two reasons for Jiang Shiliu and others' migration. First, the Four-dimensional Fragment they resided in had been shrinking continuously, and humanity still hadn't found a way to sustain the Four-dimensional Fragment.

"To avoid falling back into the Three-dimensional World, all Four-Dimensional Beings in the fragment collectively migrated to the Fifth Dimension.

"Now, the Four-Dimensional Beings are subordinate to a lower administrative unit under the Governing Council—Four-dimensional Zone."

"Currently, in six Four-dimensional Fragments of varying sizes, reside the Four-Dimensional Humanity."

"The main function of the Four-Dimensional Beings is to compare the Four-dimensional World with the Three-dimensional World in order to determine which are smokescreens deployed by God-level Civilizations to less advanced civilizations."

"And to conduct experiments that are not possible in the Three-dimensional Universe, such as the current 'Shadow Mirage Technology', which originates from experiments in the Four-dimensional laboratory."

"The so-called 'Shadow Mirage Technology' allows human ships to briefly enter 3.5 dimensions, completely disappearing from the Three-dimensional World, and reappearing at a space unexpected by the enemy."

"This technology is also known as Spatial Jump Technology, because at the beginning, it was only possible to briefly enter 3.5 dimensions, and it could only confuse the enemy to a certain extent, hence the name 'Shadow Mirage Technology'."

"This is using the observation of the Four-dimensional World on the Three-dimensional one, discovering that after Four-dimensionality collapses into Three-dimensionality, the fourth dimension, although collapsed, still exists in the form of ruins."

"That is dark matter. From the viewpoint of the Three-dimensional Universe, dark matter is almost imperceptible, but it is easily observed when the Four-dimensional World observes the Three-dimensional."

"So the basic principle of Spatial Jump Technology is using dark matter to create a 3.5-dimensional space corridor for spatial jumps."

Jiang Yu pinched his chin and nodded in satisfaction, realizing the more he understood, the more he discovered that humanity had made tremendous achievements over the years. Many things that were just ideas in his "lifetime" had become reality.

The Milky Way computer continued, "Another reason for Jiang Shiliu, Thirty-Six, and others to emigrate is that they also want to march into Six-Dimensional space!

"They contributed many research results in the Fifth-Dimension, giving humanity a more systematic understanding of higher-dimensional spaces."

"Understanding the intentions of Jiang Shiliu and others, let's return to their research on consciousness. With the current technology of Five-Dimensional Humanity, it's still very difficult to locate the consciousness of Three-dimensional beings."

"When Three-dimensional Humans die, the location of their consciousness is unknown, and ultimately Jiang Shiliu had to abandon his plan to have all the deceased join the ranks of Five-Dimensional Humanity."

"So the current migration to higher dimensions still uses the most primitive methods, where Five-Dimensional Humans communicate with Three-Dimensional Humans through consciousness devices, to narrow the gap between their consciousness, and then in the Fifth Dimension, the consciousness of the Three-Dimensional Humans is severed from their body."

"The energy used in the Fifth Dimension is completely different from that in the Three-dimensional Universe. Once Five-dimensional energy is injected into the consciousness of a Three-dimensional being, it immediately changes its state of being 'both existent and non-existent', presenting itself in an 'existent' state in the Fifth Dimension."

"At the same time, consciousness in the Fifth Dimension can hardly affect the Three-dimensional World anymore. At most, Three-dimensional Humans might feel the gaze from a higher dimension, but such an event has an extremely small probability of occurring."

"Humanity in the Five-dimensional Universe has its own administrative system and is roughly allied with the Humanity of the Three-dimensional Universe, with no hierarchy but an intimate relationship."

"The upper echelons of both sides conduct in-depth communication once a year to jointly contemplate humanity's future."

"At the same time, it is also a day for relatives from two different dimensions to reunite."

"If you miss your wife, you can apply to meet her at that time."

"It should be noted here that due to such intimate communication, you have made an outstanding contribution. Now the Blue Maiden Star you're familiar with has become the 'companion capital' of the human world, while Earth remains the undoubted source of identity for all Humanity."

"No matter the distance, no matter the dimension, humans always call themselves Earthlings."

"This gives the human world an extremely strong cohesion, unlike the Trisolarans, who lose their cohesion over time."

Jiang Yu thought: Now the term "Earthling" is almost serving the same purpose as "Descendants of Yan and Huang."

He then asked, "What's the situation with the Trisolarans now? Has anyone escaped the human manhunt?"