"The revival of God?"
Dr. An's story about the previous civilization had been interrupted by the sudden appearance of that phrase.
He immediately frowned slightly, finding it difficult to understand.
"Hard to understand, is it?"
Dr. An looked at Lu Xin and gave a bitter smile. "I, along with many people back then, probably found it very difficult to understand as well..."
"But the people who proposed this theory at the time were extremely certain."
"They said these signs had run through all of human history. If you carefully looked through the historical records, you would find descriptions of many strange mental states—the Queen Mother of the West organizing people to pass around chips, the Strasbourg dancing plague, the Massachusetts Scarecrow, the Tokyo Red-eyed Spider, and so on. They worked hard to prove to the public that events of this kind were not isolated incidents in history."
"They had merely appeared more and more frequently in reality, over an increasingly wider area."
"They firmly believed in the theory of the cycle of civilizations. They believed that the previous civilization was already who knew which generation of civilization on Earth. After each preceding civilization developed to a certain point, it would suddenly vanish, like fireworks burning at their brightest."
"Was it an alien invasion? Climate change on Earth? Or the extinction of entire populations due to disease or war?"
"None of those."
"..."
Her voice sank slightly. "They believed it was caused by the shadow of God projecting itself into the human mind."
"Of course, to avoid feudal superstition and consider how acceptable it would be to others, they changed the word they used to describe God."
"That word was—high-dimensional life!"
"..."
Lu Xin listened closely, finding it increasingly bizarre.
Dr. An sighed softly. "It may sound absurd, but many people