Chapter 2: My Two-dinsional World
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Lu Zhiyu had decided to look at it from the three axioms of the theory of the universe:
Ti (T), Space (U), and Matter (M).
Ti, space and matter were tightly related to each other one another. The three elents were independent yet inextricably linked. The relationship between space and ti was U=U(T), and M=M(U) for matter and space. Ti was found in space, and space was filled with matter. Thus, ti and space were related to matter.
Among the three elents, matter was the prival elent. If there was no matter, space would never have existed. If space did not exist, ti would never have existed. Lu Zhiyu suspected that this painting was the entrance to a two-dinsional world. As matter did not exist in this two-dinsional world, space and ti likewise did not exist.
Lu Zhiyu looked at the painting, finding it inconceivable. He seed to have found the entrance of a new world. He wondered...
If I place large amount of matter into the Two-dinsional space, would I create a stable two-dinsional world? A two-dinsional world with ti and space, and also be able to sustain lives?
Lu Zhiyu felt excited at this thought, so he started to make a plan. He would first try to put a pipeline into the painting space, then transport sand and other things into it. At this mont, soone pressed on the doorbell. He looked down and saw that the courier was there.
“Are you Lu Zhiyu? Please sign for the parcel!” the courier requested, in a friendly and polite tone.
The parcel contained the cara that he had ordered. After linking it up with his computer, Lu Zhiyu put the cara into the painting space. He wanted to find out what was inside the painting space instead of observing it from the surface of the painting.
The mont cara was put inside the painting space, the computer screen went dark. Lu Zhiyu’s heart sank, but he had anticipated this reaction. Firstly, there was no light in the two-dinsional space, so he was prepared to see nothing. Secondly, he had a feeling that most likely the signals could not be sent out from the two-dinsional world, otherwise it would be too inconceivable. Although Lu Zhiyu felt this way, he still just wanted to give it a shot.
After Lu Zhiyu clicked on the mouse and turned on the light on the cara, the computer screen brightened. Lu Zhiyu’s jaw dropped in surprise, then he moved the cara around.
I can’t believe sothing actually showed on the computer screen!
The images on the screen looked strange. The cara seed to have captured the images, but what he saw was a flat side-view. The cara had captured its own image.
What angle is this?
There was nothing on the screen except darkness and a straight ray of light. It was like a 2D horizontal animation or a caricature. At this very mont, Lu Zhiyu saw a shadow flash across the screen.
What was that?
He quickly shifted the focus and found that there was a special sigil on the screen: a horizontal 8. Lu Zhiyu knew that this symbol ant infinity. However, in the capital city, the mark also represented smog.
Lu Zhiyu was certain that he had seen it correctly. It must an infinity. The sigil was in the center of the painting space. No matter from which angle Lu Zhiyu looked, he could only see the front view.
He found the situation in the painting space mysterious. He was certain that it was a two-dinsional space, but from what the cara had captured, it did not seem like a two-dinsional perspective. However, it was definitely not a three-dinsional one.
Lu Zhiyu had never entered a two-dinsional space, so he did not know exactly what a two-dinsional space should be. He retrieved the cara and saw that the part of the cara that had disappeared into the painting space seed to be rebuilding itself until it finally re-appeared in the three-dinsional world.
This occurrence was nothing new to Lu Zhiyu, so he was not surprised. After pondering things for a while, he decided to remove the horizontal 8 to have a closer look!
This was the first ti that Lu Zhiyu had placed his hand inside, and it had required much courage. If he could not pull his hand back out, he would be in deep trouble. He felt strange, when his hand was in the painting space. He seed to have lost his sense of touch, yet he could still feel his hand. His hand beca light, like a piece a paper.
I have caught it!
Lu Zhiyu was elated, and quickly pulled the thing out. However, when he looked at his hand, it was empty.
What happened? Where is it?
Lu Zhiyu turned his hand around and saw the silver ∞. It moved between the surface of his skin and his flesh without resistance as if his flesh and blood did not exist. It flopped around on his hand like a fish, then moved up his arm.
F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!
Lu Zhiyu was frightened, so he kept hitting and scratching his arm, but was unable to feel the thing. He saw it crawling up his arm, so he quickly dashed into another room and held up a mirror. The thing had reached his neck, crawled up to his face, and ultimately, entered his brain.
Bang!
Lu Zhiyu felt as though sothing in his head had exploded, and he lost consciousness. It was as if he had seen the explosion of the universe, resulting in endless of information being sent to his brain. However, the information was too much for the capacity of his brain. The information passed through his brain but could not be kept. Ultimately, only a small, vital portion remained in his mory.
When Lu Zhiyu got up from the ground, it was dark. He felt that although he had remained calm to face death, but was still quite terrified by the fact that sothing so strange had gone into his body. However, after giving it so thought, he was able to shrug it off. It was just like the cancer cells: worst case, he would die.
The thing that had entered his brain must be the controlling power of the painting it represented the ownership and the control center of that two-dinsional world. Lu Zhiyu could sense that there was tons of information, such as detailed explanation and operation manual, available to him. He felt the information was as much as what was stored in the National Library of China, yet he was unable to load all of it into his brain at the mont. He only learnt so simple operations, but had left the rest behind.
That being said, he now understood how to open and enter the two-dinsional space, and how to set up the the internal rules and variants for it.
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