Chapter 564 - The Truth - Part 2 (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

A huge room without any splendid decor.

This was a room with a cold metallic feeling. In the center of the room, Qin Fen didn’t see the person he thought he would see. Instead, there was a huge liquid nutrient tank with a human brain floating in it. The brain was protected by a special container with thousands of thin wires attached to it.

There is no one in this room! It was only the brain in that special container in the nutrient tank. It was the only thing exuding a trace of life aura.

“Don’t stand at the door, just come in.”

The loudspeaker in the room sounded again. A row of computer signals shone softly along with the sound wave.

Qin Fen stepped into the room and looked strangely at the brain in the nutrient tank. He initially thought that there would be a powerful martial artist in this room.

Nowadays, in a society where martial strength reigned supreme, almost every chief who held a high authority in their forces were strong martial artists. However, this center in front of him, which obviously held the highest authority in the base, was not occupied by a powerful martial artist. It could even be said that it had zero combat power as it was just a human brain.

Although academics would compare with each other in terms of academic achievements, the Founding Society obviously did not belong to pure academia. They built a lot of killing machines here. They followed the cruelest rule of survival – those who were useful survived, while those who were useless died.

Chen Feiyu and the batches of experimental subjects back then were living examples of this rule. The leader for such an organization, or at least for this base, turned out to be just a brain.

There wasn’t any place for them to sit down in the cold room. Qin Fen and Chen Feiyu walked into the room and stood quietly. They couldn’t help but observe the surroundings curiously. There was a large number of computers here, and all kinds of data were constantly changing on the screen.

“This base is my body.” The brain broke the silence of the room, “So, you are Qin Fen? And you are… Chen Feiyu? Long time no see.”

The atmosphere of the room stiffened up at that instant.

Chen Feiyu looked at the brain with a murderous look. Not just anyone in the Founding Society knew about Chen Feiyu, only the personnel who conducted the experiment and the top leaders of the Founding Society knew about him! Anyone who had participated in that experiment would be Chen Feiyu’s enemies!

In this world, except for a few people like Qin Fen, only his enemies in the Founding Society would know the name of Chen Feiyu.

“Reading the data of your vigorous blood flow and the change in the room pressure due to your strength, you are angry now. I’m sorry. With my current state, I can only make speculations like this based on data.” The brain controlled the loudspeakers in the room to continue with its aged voice, “Chen Feiyu, we will talk about your case later. Before we discuss your case, I think it is necessary for me to tell you a story. If you don’t think that I’m dragging the time, then there’s no harm for you to listen for a bit.”

The walls of the room suddenly opened. Two chairs, a table, and some chilled drinks on it were pushed out automatically from inside of the wall. It gave off a feeling of hospitality to an old friend.

Qin Fen sat in the seat and looked quietly at the brain in front of him. The light in the room was dimmed at this time, and a huge projection was projected onto the smooth wall in front of Qin Fen.

It was society before the new technology movement. At that time, society had reached the peak of technology development. However, at the same time there was a great hidden worry of the depletion of energy and resources.

Petroleum was like the blood of Earth. In the era of rapid development, this black blood of Earth was almost dried up. Human experimented with various alternative resources, like the controllable nuclear fusion, solar energy, wind power, and even the methane ice buried deep under the sea — they were as good as petroleum. These alternatives became the main research subjects of human society at that time.

One day, there was suddenly a new kind of energy in our society. The new energy was inexhaustible, very environmentally friendly and it was truly safe to be used. People called it ‘plant energy’.

“Yes, the plant energy!”

The aged voice continued with the story with a hint of excitement, “The plant energy; plants are also considered lives. This lively energy went far beyond humans’ imagination. The energy resources problem of the human society seemed to be solved with the discovery of this plant energy…”

The aged voice suddenly turned cold, “It seemed to be solved… everyone thought the problem was solved. Has anyone ever thought of where wheat and corn came from? The Earth is only so big, and we had yet to enter the space era by that time. If we wanted to supply energy to the whole world, then humans would starve to death. We would be starved to death more than once!”

“Ordinary people didn’t know how life energy was exchanged. Naturally, they didn’t know how much food resources would be consumed.” The aged voice sighed, “However, there was somebody who knew about it. The person who invented it knew about the problem very well.”

Qin Fen looked quietly at the images on the screen. He could faintly feel that the aged voice was not going to simply talk about some useless old stories.

“Humans are like children, and scientists are like parents who love and spoil their children.” The aged voice sounded a little helpless, “Facing the ever-demanding children, the scientists who were just like the loving parents kept on inventing various techniques and inventions to satisfy their children. This time, a scholar from a scientific group had once again opened a ‘Pandora’s box’ filled with sweetness just to meet the children’s needs for energy and life resources.”

“As we couldn’t enter the space era, we couldn’t open new agricultural lands on other planets. So, this group of scientists thought of a crazy idea, which was to develop a multidimensional space.”

Multidimensional space? Qin Fen raised his eyebrows. This dimension theory was indeed a very famous theory.

“Zero-dimensional space has no length, width, nor height; it’s just a simple point. One-dimensional space has only length. Two-dimensional space is a flat world with only length and width. A three-dimensional world is a stereoscopic world with length, width, and height; it’s the very world that we see through our naked eyes. A four-dimensional space has a time axis on top of the three original length, width, and height axes; the time axis is an axis with imaginary numbers. According to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, the three-dimensional space we face in our lives plus the time axis constituted the so-called four-dimensional space.”