Chapter 553
Chapter 553. Feng Jiany’s Conjecture
The emergency broadcast in the Star Iron caught the attention of Xia Feng and his three companions. After all, an S-grade wanted order, such a level of wanted status, had only been seen a few times in the entire history of the Empire. To be on the S-grade wanted list, the minimum requirement was the level of a Sage. How could a senior researcher from the Spirit Science Institute possess the strength of a Sage?
The Spirit Science Institute held a noble position in the Empire, and the Empire invested a vast amount of funds annually for the development of spirit science. However, based on Xia Feng’s limited understanding from online sources, the spirit masters in the Spirit Science Institute were primarily research talents. Even if they had some talent in cultivation, they didn’t have much time to practice, with most of them being fanatics engrossed in spirit science research. Therefore, let alone being a Sage, it was questionable if they could even become Venerable.
So, why was Feng Jiany considered so important by the Empire that they issued an S-grade wanted order just to capture this person?
“Miss Mu, do you know this person’s origin?” Xia Feng felt that Miss Mu, who was interested in the field of spirit science, should know something.
“I’ve heard of him,” Mu Qingtong nodded, “but I don’t know his specific background.”
Cha Nai Xue sat opposite Xia Feng with her legs crossed. She glanced at Mu Qingtong, and a strange light flashed in her purple eyes, as if countless data streams were flowing through them. She said, “Feng Jiany, male, born in Haiding City, Area 51. Recruited into the Area 51 Research Institute at the age of 8 due to his outstanding talent. At 18, he was recognized by the Director of the Spirit Science Institute and specially admitted into the Institute. However, for the next hundred years, his records were completely blank, as if he had vanished from the face of the earth.”
“It wasn’t until Feng Jiany was 118 years old that he suddenly published a paper titled ‘Research on the Sectional String Theory of Time and Space’ on the official website of the Spirit Science Institute, which caused quite a stir in the spirit science community. However, because the theories mentioned in his paper were contradictory and even seriously inconsistent with common academic knowledge, many of his outrageous claims were refuted and criticized by some spirit science experts. The matter eventually died down, and Feng Jiany disappeared from public view once again.”
Listening to Cha Nai Xue’s account, Xia Feng was somewhat surprised and chuckled, “I didn’t expect you to be quite capable, knowing everything.”
Cha Nai Xue’s lips curved slightly as she said in a soft voice, “It’s good that you know I’m capable.”
“?” Xia Feng raised an eyebrow. ‘Hey, you’re getting on a roll just because I gave you a little praise?’
Sensing Xia Feng’s increasingly dangerous black eyes, Cha Nai Xue’s confident smile faltered. She pursed her lips and lowered her head, murmuring softly, “I’m sorry, Master. Little Cha got carried away.”
“?” Xia Feng’s raised eyebrows did not lower; instead, they rose higher. ‘Hey, I didn’t ask you to be so humble and call me Master in public!’
Xia Feng glanced around. Luckily, there weren’t many passengers, but a few girls nearby were still peeking, their eyes filled with curiosity, and they seemed to be muttering, “Playing quite wild…”
Before entering the Star Iron, all four of them had altered their appearances, so they weren’t afraid of being recognized. However, Jiang Qiue still felt somewhat uncomfortable, finding it a bit embarrassing. Her beautiful eyes silently glanced at Cha Nai Xue, and she sighed in her heart, ‘Truly a woman with no dignity.’
‘However, it’s fine. Cha Nai Xue couldn’t resist the punishment and chose to temporarily surrender. That was her own choice. Jiang Qiue wouldn’t say much.’
‘As for me, even though I’m trapped and enslaved by the enemy, I will never call the wicked Xia Feng Master! This is my Star God dignity, equivalent to life and death!’
However, Mu Qingtong calmly raised her golden eyes and said, “Cha Nai Xue, you need to understand that your Master is me now.”
“…” Cha Nai Xue’s plump white legs pressed together beneath her skirt, her ear roots turning Fei red. Before she could recover from the shame of calling her childhood sweetheart Master in public, she heard Mu Qingtong’s words. Making eye contact with those light gold beautiful eyes, her heart sank. She gritted her teeth secretly but eventually succumbed and repeated herself to Mu Qingtong, murmuring in a low voice, “I’m sorry, Master. Little Cha… got carried away.”
Mu Qingtong nodded her head.
Xia Feng could tell that Cha Nai Xue was also very afraid of Mu Qingtong. It was likely something Mu Qingtong did to this Saintess during the time he was in the Nightmare Realm. This was good. Although this guy Cha Nai Xue was actually wicked in her heart and might be planning something, she maintained a good outward appearance. Xia Feng couldn’t be bothered to argue with her and got back to the main topic: “Anything else? According to his records, Feng Jiany should be 218 years old now. Where did he go during the second hundred years he disappeared? And why was he eventually wanted by the Empire?”
Cha Nai Xue shook her head, “I don’t know anything more than that.”
Seeing this, Xia Feng looked at Miss Mu. “What Cha Nai Xue said is basically all I know,” Mu Qingtong shook her head.
‘Is that so? Fine.’ Xia Feng didn’t pay too much attention to it, as he was just suddenly curious about the reason for this person being wanted.
Mu Qingtong paused, then suddenly said in a soft voice, “However, there is one point about Feng Jiany that is worth noting.”
Xia Feng was startled and asked, “What?”
Mu Qingtong narrowed her beautiful eyes, “In his paper ‘Research on the Sectional String Theory of Time and Space,’ he proposed a spacetime theory called the ‘Feng Jiany Conjecture’.”
“This theory is likely the reason he is wanted.”
‘Conjecture? Spacetime theory?’ Xia Feng knew as soon as he heard these words that even if they were explained, he probably wouldn’t understand them. But since he had nothing else to do, Xia Feng didn’t mind reliving the feeling of his physics classes.
Ten minutes later.
Xia Feng’s eyelids were starting to droop.
“How about, Miss Mu, you explain it in a more understandable way?” Xia Feng coughed. “I’m mainly worried that these two foolish Saintesses won’t understand.”
“?” Cha Nai Xue and Jiang Qiue pursed their lips. Although they wanted to refute, they ultimately remained silent due to their Master’s oppressive power.
‘!’ Mu Qingtong glanced at the unlearned Mr. Xia, shook her head helplessly, contemplated for a moment, and then said, “We all know that to travel between the Empire’s 51 major regions, one must pass through the Eternal Flow Sea. Crossing a major region often takes several days or even months. Even the inter-regional teleportation gates, which can only be activated during wartime, can only teleport individuals, not large groups.”
“And the ‘Feng Jiany Conjecture’ actually proposes a theory for large-scale teleportation…”
Listening to Mu Qingtong’s slow narration, Xia Feng generally understood the meaning of the ‘Feng Jiany Conjecture.’ The dimension of time was too high to comprehend easily, but if understood from a three-dimensional perspective.
Let’s assume:
Space is an infinitely wide cross-section.
Time is an infinitely long vertical section.
When these two sections intersect horizontally and vertically, they form an intersection line composed of countless points. Feng Jiany calls these points Spacetime.
Each Spacetime point is like a stone thrown into a lake, scattering countless wave arcs across the spatial cross-section. The 51 major regions of the Real World, separated by the Eternal Flow Sea, are like fifty-one wave arcs, and also 51 plane worlds. For example, if Xia Feng is standing on the 51st wave arc and is suddenly subjected to an unknown external force, he can be directly [pressed and sent] to the 1st wave arc.
Initially, Xia Feng couldn’t understand the meaning of this sentence when Miss Mu explained it, but when he imagined the 51 wave arcs as “51 layers of nested stockings,” he immediately understood. According to Feng Jiany’s conjecture, everyone stands on top of the “51 layers of nested stockings.” When you press the top of the stockings with your finger, the top will indent, and the person on the outermost layer will become the innermost person as the stocking indents. The outermost layer of the stockings is Area 51. The innermost layer is Area 1. This process of being pressed from the outermost layer to the innermost layer is what Feng Jiany named [pressed and sent].
After understanding Feng Jiany’s conjecture with his own stocking theory, Xia Feng asked doubtfully, “Stockings can be pressed down by human fingers and turn inside out. But how can people in real spacetime be pressed and sent? Where does the force for this pressing and sending come from?”
“Stockings?” Mu Qingtong was taken aback.
“Cough, don’t mind the details,” Xia Feng waved his hand.
Mu Qingtong pursed her lips and said in a soft voice, “According to my guess, this is probably the reason why Feng Jiany is wanted.”
“The force that forms spatial collapse, the pressing and sending force.”
“He found this [force].”
