Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 358 - 277: Dimensions

This experience had allowed Jiuyue to grow much.

She decided that she would implement more team activities in the future, to let the crew feel the warmth of home.

But on the other hand, the Shan Clan People seemed like they would never grow.

In the following days, the clever prison escape show continued, and after several days of preparation, there was a significant breakthrough in the story. The clever inmate found two accomplices on his level to join the shared escape plan—an overseer of the prison zone, whose cooperation could provide many conveniences, and an experienced shipwright whose foresight was not limited to constructing a submarine that could take them up to the next level, but also extended to matters after the escape.

Once they had successfully escaped and returned to the surface, they would need someone who understood interstellar travel.

It was like an escape, but also like forming a new Cosmic Pirate Group.

This brought the audience much enjoyment, and after venting a lot of dissatisfaction, the Universe Company’s casino had no choice but to accept reality—for the Shan Clan People, there were few things more uncomfortable than having to give back the money they had earned.

Though that casino had amassed vast wealth over the past few years, they would never be satisfied.

The company and Chamber of Commerce executives also closely observed the dynamics of the Prison Planet every day. After losing contact with the Specter squad, the only way for them to understand what happened to this missing planet was through the clever inmate’s escape process.

They still did not know where the Prison Planet had been moved to, but as the Sixteen Star Summit approached and the Blue Star People remained on the Prison Planet without setting off, they drew another conclusion.

Perhaps they were all trapped on the Prison Planet and stuck with it in some unknown place. Therefore, they had no choice but to make the best of a bad situation and arrange this prison escape show.

This was a silver lining in their misfortune.

The Shan Clan People were particularly happy. If Duan Mingyuan could always be trapped on the Prison Planet and unable to leave, they would be free to promote their merger plans without restraint.

Now that the Iron Guard Consortium was severely weakened and the Huagang Consortium had withdrawn from the struggle, their only remaining opponent was the group from the Ashen Church, remnants of an era.

The Shan Clan People’s actions became increasingly bold, even making Fu Ling feel a bit uneasy.

She had firmly believed that Duan Mingyuan and the others would arrive on time. She assumed they had thought of a way to neither compromise with the Shan Clan People nor delay their journey.

But by the measure of spatial dimensions, the Blue Star People should have set off by now.

After all, the Prison Planet and the Eco-Ship were separated by half a Star Zone. Even on the fastest interstellar flights, it would take several days, and the company still hadn’t discovered the location of the Prison Planet in these days. Fu Ling had to rethink the rumors that had been rife among the internals recently.

Could it be...

That these people were really trapped in an unknown place and couldn’t get out?

With the attention of the Shan Clan, the academic summit also took on a different tone. This moment in time became their benchmark for verifying whether the rumors were accurate—if the Blue Star People failed to appear on the Eco-Ship at the time of the invitation, it would mean that all the rumors were true. At that point, they would rapidly push forward with the merger plans.

At the same time, they planned to sanction the planets that voted against them at the Sixteen Stars Summit, one by one.

When the time came, everyone who had obstructed the merger plans would be held accountable, including Blue Star. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

Meanwhile, on another front, Eisenberg-Adler had systematically prepared a comprehensive theory.

First, he had to use some simple and understandable examples to help Mingyuan grasp the concept of dimensions.

"For many insects, humans are like higher-dimensional beings,"

In order to make this lesson vivid, he even specially commissioned a Judge to prepare a plastic ant toy, "For example, to this ant, the world only consists of directions like forward, backward, left, and right. They cannot comprehend the concept of ’above,’ and when we capture them like we are doing now, it is akin to performing a ’Dimensional Strike’ on them."

As he spoke, Eisenberg picked up the plastic ant in his hand.

Dimensional Strike is a term often on the lips of people, popularized by science fiction works.

But in reality, when a true Dimensional Strike occurs, people usually cannot understand what has happened, just as humans are to ants, it’s like a pair of unattributed hands grasping them.

Unlike ants, however, humans have never ceased their exploration into higher dimensions.

Many scholars believe that the key to accessing higher dimensions lies within wormholes.

"In the past hundred years, approximately seven starships that passed through wormholes described many similar experiences in interviews afterward."

For instance, they all completed a spatial transit.

In a short amount of time, they spanned most of the universe and appeared in places more than a dozen Star Zones away; within the wormholes, the concept of time also became extremely vague. The crew claimed they were in the wormholes for close to over a month, yet to most people, they had disappeared for just an afternoon.

"It sounds like the legend of the Bermuda Triangle!"

Jiuyue also came to the class, she exclaimed in surprise.

As a child, she read about the legends of the Bermuda Triangle in amusing books, where many ships that strayed into that area in the age of great seafaring also completed transits through time and space.

Eisenberg did not confirm or deny, as similar phenomena had actually occurred on various planets.

However, researchers could only speculate on the connection between wormholes and high-dimensional space; they couldn’t truly understand the reality of wormholes.

The seven starships were lucky. Most of the time, starships that ventured into wormholes would disappear without a trace. Eisenberg knew of an exploration team formed by experts in this field who, with corporate funding and thorough preparation, lost contact immediately after entering a wormhole and have never reappeared to this day.

Their disappearance delivered a severe blow to the academic community and caused people to become more distant from exploring wormholes.

Fortunately, what he needed to do now was not to explain the true nature of wormholes and high-dimensional space, Eisenberg also believed he didn’t have the capability to do so. What he intended to do was to piece together a theory that seemed plausible at first listen using the information already known.

Eisenberg took out a sheet of white paper and drew two dots on it.

"For us, interstellar travel means going from one point to another,"

As he spoke, he folded the paper, bringing the two dots together, "And a wormhole is akin to this process, making two points in space coincide, creating the phenomenon of instantly traversing most of the universe."

The question now was whether Duan Mingyuan could achieve what only higher-dimensional beings could do.

——Bringing two points located in different Star Zones together.

Science, at its current stage, cannot accomplish this feat.

Therefore, Eisenberg could only believe in magic.

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