Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 165 - 166 Changing Mass Distribution

Chapter 165: Chapter 166: Changing Mass Distribution

Chapter 165: Chapter 166: Changing Mass Distribution

“In other words, the three dimensions of my own body are the normal three dimensions… The other six dimensions are likely caused by the matter of my own body.”

Space-time tells matter how to move, matter tells space-time how to bend. A space-time without matter is indistinguishable from “nothingness.”

Since the only matter in this space-time is Zhang Yuan himself, just a tiny bit, it is very probable that his own matter is causing this strange space-time to twist.

“…It is precisely because of the enormous, similarly frequent matter concentrated into a tiny area that the generated relativistic mass causes extreme bending and entwining of the surrounding space.”

“This space actually only contains myself; the point of warping should be inside the space, not the outside.”

Zhang Yuan didn’t know whether his line of reasoning was correct; it always felt a bit weird, requiring more patches to make it logically coherent.

“Ah, these ideas are just too bizarre; there’s absolutely no evidence for any of this.”

Zhang Yuan shook his head. Since he had no more ideas, he could only act out of desperation.

Continuously moving the light source, even taking it into higher dimensions, after repeated examination, Zhang Yuan finally discovered an anomaly within his body.

“Found it!” His heart skipped a beat.

This anomaly was like a glass bead, located where his small intestine should be, causing everything around it to distort abnormally.

This kind of distortion was not a conventional type of distortion but a higher-dimensional twist.

Just like crumpling a piece of paper doesn’t damage the curves inside it, and a two-dimensional life form on the paper wouldn’t be affected, or even aware, that it has been distorted. Only when observing from the third dimension can one see that the paper has been crumpled into a ball.

“Ah, this world, to someone of my low dimension, is no different from the most perfect prison…”

“However, now a bending point has appeared, not perfect anymore, and I can escape.”

“If only I can enter that warping point, perhaps I can return to the spaceship…”

Zhang Yuan’s face shifted between hope and doubt; this was just his speculation, uncertain whether it was true.

He carefully reached out with his index finger and tentatively, nervously reached through the fourth dimension into his own innards, trying to touch that warping point.

Just be careful, go slow, not to make any of these organs bleed, that’s all.

“It’s not working, I can’t do it.”

He found that it was impossible to touch that warping point.

Although it seemed to be inside his body, in reality, it wasn’t; it was hidden in a higher dimension, and what was inside his body was just a tiny projection.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and as a flood of information bombarded him, his head began to spin again.

He tried again, this time reaching through the fifth dimension to touch the warping point.

Suddenly, a sharp pain erupted from his abdomen!

Zhang Yuan was startled and withdrew his hand as quickly as possible.

The intense pain caused his entire body to tremble slightly, and his back was drenched in sweat. The pain was as if his heart was being torn apart, his adrenaline surged, and even the life support system in his space suit issued a safety warning!

It took quite a while for the pain to subside slowly.

Zhang Yuan sighed; the complexity of five dimensions was already beyond his computational capacity. One careless move, and he had touched his vulnerable organs.

This touch was as if out of nowhere, materializing inside his body!

Imagine, what would happen if a finger suddenly appeared within the blood vessels or organs? Internal bleeding or even death was possible!

Luckily, he retracted quickly; as soon as he sensed it, he pulled back, preventing severe bleeding.

But next time may not be so fortunate.

So, what to do?

He had just reached the fifth dimension and it had already exceeded his computational ability.

Moreover, even if he could calculate five, six, seven, eight dimensions, it might still be useless because he had just observed another phenomenon: during his exploration, the position of the warping point seemed to have moved slightly.

He tried again.

“It really does move!”

“When I move slightly, it moves slightly too. This way, I can never touch this damn thing… Fuck!”

Zhang Yuan couldn’t help but become impatient. Staying in this hellish place for even a second longer was torturous.

“Wait a second…”

“The entire space is constructed according to my own mass…”

“Just like the center of gravity of a human, can I change the properties of the space itself by distorting my body, altering the distribution of my mass… and moving the warped point into a dimension I can easily touch?”

He twisted his body forcefully, and the entire space underwent another change, the position of the warped point shifted again.

“It works!”

A surge of ecstatic joy rose in Zhang Yuan’s heart!

“That is to say, the position of the warped point is related to the current distribution of mass!”

But this change was tiny, no matter how he twisted, he could not bend like a snake, the extent to which he could change was limited.

Zhang Yuan thought carefully and carefully dismantled the toolbox from his back.

He tied the toolbox with a rope and placed it beside his body.

Because of the redistribution of mass, the position of the warped point changed again.

After repeating this several times and discovering a certain pattern, Zhang Yuan started calculating the number of components he could disassemble and the amount of mass he could alter.

He found that the only thing he could move at will was the toolbox he carried with him. But the mass of the toolbox was not significant enough; he had to alter a larger distribution of mass to complete the plan.

“This carbon fiber space suit has too few parts that can be dismantled.”

“The essential life support system cannot be dismantled… otherwise, I’d be dead on the spot.”

Zhang Yuan had once felt the outside world with his fingertips; when he extended them outside, there was a coldness as vast as the universe, and his fingertips rapidly lost warmth.

“That means, without the protection of the space suit, I cannot survive here. This place is almost the same as the universe’s environment.”

But the existing mass was completely insufficient to significantly alter the space’s attributes.

He needed to change a larger distribution of mass to be able to move the warped point away from his body to a place he could touch.

What should he do?

Where could he get the mass from?

Zhang Yuan’s face turned ashen; the idea he had painstakingly conceived seemed unworkable.

Minutes later, his complexion began to grow even more somber.

Perhaps…

Could he disassemble parts of his own body?

At the thought, his pupils contracted slightly, and he shivered uncontrollably.

This self-mutilating method…

Now he had two plans; the first was to force a crossing through five, or maybe six, up to seven dimensions, risking his life to touch that warped point.

However, this sort of high-dimensional traversal had already exceeded Zhang Yuan’s mental capacity. Humans were accustomed to movement in up and down, left and right, forward and backward; now there were so many additional directions like ABCDE, it was unimaginable.

If he carelessly damaged his internal organs, that would be the end of it, with no chance to try again.

The second option was to expose the warped point by distorting space through changing mass.

But that might mean removing some organs, for example, an arm or one or two legs.

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His breathing gradually became heavier; he had six hours to make this difficult decision…