Xiang Kun's Hypothesis

Seeing that Xia Libing had finished speaking, Xiang Kun took out his phone and said, "I'll show you something."

Then he opened a recorded video and handed the phone to Lao Xia.

After taking the phone, Xia Libing frowned slightly and straightened her back as soon as she saw the video, because she roughly guessed what the video showed.

The video shows the warehouse where she and Xiang Kun discovered the three "car thieves" that afternoon.

Judging from the angle, the photo was taken from a location more than 20 meters away, diagonally opposite the warehouse gate.

It was obvious that Xiang Kun her to "display" the crispy pork knuckle to distract the two car thieves, while he secretly took the picture from the other side.

While attempting "Electric Flight," Xiang Kun entrusted her phone to him for safekeeping. However, after discovering the car thief and failing to get a signal to call the police, she returned the phone to Xiang Kun.

In the video, the tall, thin young car thief was about to jump onto the back of a pickup truck when a dark object suddenly appeared out of thin air half a meter above his head, then fell and hit him on the head.

Although the video is blurry and unclear due to the distance, it's difficult to identify what it is.

But Xia Libing, as the "instigator," naturally knew very well that the object that appeared out of thin air was the pig's trotter that she had "manifested"!

It really was filmed!

Whether the image is clear or not is not important at all. What matters is that what is "revealed" can actually be captured and preserved. That is the most crucial thing.

It seems that Xiang Kun's previous speculation was indeed true—the inability to photograph things that are "manifested" is related to the subconscious of the "manifester." When the "manifester" is unaware that what is "manifested" will be photographed, it can be successfully recorded.

This also demonstrates once again that what is "manifested" is by no means a mere illusion.

Looking back, Xia Libing realized that Xiang Kun's initial arrangement for her to hide near the warehouse and use the "manifested" items to distract the three "car thieves" was not merely to help him place the "Super-Linked Object or to instill fear in the three car thieves so that they would be more easily influenced by the Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Wooden Carving's emotions. His main purpose was to find an opportunity to "secretly photograph" her "manifested" items.

So, what exactly is the object that she and Xiang Kun "appear" in?

Xia Libing repeatedly dragged the progress bar back and forth, watching the appearing and disappearing of the items, lost in thought.

After she watched the video several times, Xiang Kun said, "Actually, I had a systematic hypothesis about the ability of 'Fantasy Manifestation' before. I told you part of it last time, but the key parts haven't been verified yet, so it's still not perfect. I can't figure out how to understand the items we 'manifest'. On the way back, and just now, I've been refining this system and this hypothesis. Lao Xia, now feel the connection between you and those nine Coin and one steel ball. Is there any difference?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Libing looked up from Xiang Kun's phone and stared at the crispy pork knuckle that had "appeared" on the table. She tilted her head and examined it for a while until the pork knuckle disappeared before saying to Xiang Kun, "There's no difference."

Xiang Kun wasn't surprised and said, "The changes are probably too small for you to notice. This afternoon, after I took a picture of the pig's knuckle that you 'manifested' with my phone, I sensed the ten 'Super-Linked Object' on your body and discovered that the connection between me and them was weakening in every single one of them, and to the same degree."

"This situation occurred after the video was filmed, which shows that filming 'manifested objects' can have this effect on the 'Super-Linked Object' used in 'manifestation'. Previously, when we were subjectively aware that the 'manifested objects' would disappear once we tried to film, it was our subconscious mind trying to prevent the connection between the 'Super-Linked Object' and me from weakening."

"Moreover, this subconsciousness is only related to the 'manifestation being'. When you are unaware that you are being filmed, you cannot avoid this situation. When the connection between the 'Super-Linked Object' that you can use to 'manifest' and me weakens to a certain extent, it may directly affect your ability to 'manifest'."

"Although my method of 'manifestation' is somewhat different from yours, in essence, it still needs to be achieved through 'Super-Linked Object'. So when I 'manifest' items, I will also have the same subconscious protection for the 'Super-Linked Object' I 'call'."

"As for why this is the case, we need to start with the nature of 'co-manifestations.' In my conjecture, these 'co-manifestations' are neither illusions in the traditional sense, nor the matter manifested in their physical form in the general sense, but rather an existence that lies between the two..."

Next, Xiang Kun further explained his conjectures and hypotheses to Xia Libing, using his current knowledge and understanding of his own abilities to construct a system to explain "Fantasy Manifestation" and other related "extrasensory system abilities".

When Xiang Kun first discovered that he could sense the tissue he had established a "Super-Sensory Link" with from a distance, he believed that this ability could only be understood and explained from the perspective of the microscopic and quantum realms.

Xiang Kun first hypothesized that there exists a very small, special particle that can interact with his consciousness in a very complex way, thereby influencing macroscopic matter. He named this particle the "Consciousness-Entangled Particle".

In the real world as we know it, most matter is composed of atoms, which are further divided into a nucleus and electrons.

The atomic nucleus contains neutrons and protons. A proton is composed of two up quarks and one down quark, while a neutron is composed of one up quark and two down quarks.

There are currently seventeen known elementary particles, divided into fermions and bosons. Generally speaking, the smallest particles we understand are quarks and leptons within fermions. For example, the electron, which we are familiar with, is a type of lepton. With current accelerators and detection methods, it is no longer possible to further separate these elementary particles.

In Xiang Kun's hypothesis, his "Consciousness-Entangled Particle" can directly "work" on quarks and other particles, affecting them.

The composition and structure of atoms determine the types and properties of atoms, and the properties of atoms, in turn, to a certain extent, determine the properties of the matter they constitute.

To compose different substances and different atoms, it's certainly not as simple as piecing together these basic particles like building blocks.

Inside the atomic nucleus, the "strong force" between quarks is the strongest of the four fundamental forces. To carry out "construction" at this microscopic level requires an enormous amount of energy.

Decomposing particles in the environment, then manipulating and reassembling them—let alone creating a Napoleon cake or a crispy pork knuckle—even creating a single grain of sand out of thin air would require enormous energy and have a tremendous impact on the environment.

However, this is only from the perspective of ordinary, macroscopic matter. Perhaps at the microscopic particle level, Xiang Kun's "Consciousness-Entangled Particle" have a more efficient and skillful "construction" method?

Xiang Kun speculated that "Consciousness-Entangled Particle" might be able to operate in higher-dimensional spaces, or they might actually exist in higher-dimensional spaces. Just like many problems that are difficult to deal with in a two-dimensional plane, but can be solved very easily, directly, and simply after introducing three-dimensional space.

Problems like distance and the speed of light, which are unsolvable in three-dimensional space, might be solvable in simpler ways when higher-dimensional spaces are introduced.

After all, the items created through "Fantasy Manifestation" make no sound whether they appear or disappear, as if they truly appeared "out of thin air".

Quantum effects are amazing, with many phenomena that are difficult to understand in classical physics. However, macroscopic objects composed of microscopic particles do not exhibit quantum effects as a whole.

Because, under normal circumstances, most macroscopic objects we see every day have spatial scales that are much larger than the de Broglie wavelengths of the microscopic particles that make them up, the quantum properties of microscopic particles are masked by the results of statistical averaging.

Xiang Kun hypothesizes that his "Consciousness-Entangled Particle" can enable certain substances to directly exhibit some undiscovered quantum properties in higher-dimensional spaces.

The items Xia Libing constructed in her dream based on "Emotion-Infused Object" and "Super-Linked Object" may have become "matter" existing in another high-dimensional parallel universe. The "Fantasy Manifestation" in reality is a temporary dimensional reduction projection of that "matter" in some way.

This projection should not consume much of the "Consciousness-Entangled Particle" because it maintains constant interaction with consciousness.

However, if these effects have a permanent presence in the real world, such as being stored in electronic devices as digital images or pictures, maintaining these effects would cause permanent damage to the "Consciousness-Entangled Particle." Of course, this explanation is somewhat far-fetched, because strictly speaking, once the "manifested object" actually appears, it already has many permanent effects on its surroundings, such as hitting the tall, thin man on the head. Or perhaps this effect is too weak to significantly reduce the number of "Consciousness-Entangled Particle"?

However, Xiang Kun is not a physicist, so he doesn't need very rigorous deductions and evidence. He proposed this hypothesis, conjecture, and constructed this "Fantasy Manifestation" system and explanation simply to provide a plausible systemic support for his and Lao Xia's "Fantasy Manifestation".

Based on the past experiences of Little Apple, Liu Shiling, and Lao Xia integrating into the "Super-Sensing Item System" and "developing" various abilities, a structural understanding of these abilities and the establishment of a holistic ability system are essential for more efficient expansion and application. With more equipment for observation and research, and more data and supporting principles, this hypothesis and system can then be further refined and improved.

Essentially, it's the same as Liu Shiling's "magic system" and Little Apple's "Otherworld Monster System"—as long as it "works," that's fine.

The most important aspect of this hypothesis was convincing himself.

And Lao Xia.

However, after he finished speaking, Xia Libing stared at him blankly for a long time without saying a word.

"So, do you understand my explanation?" Xiang Kun asked.

Xia Libing scratched her head, picked up a pen and wrote a few things in her notebook, then quickly crossed them out. After thinking for a while, she looked up at Xiang Kun and asked, "Is that really how you want to explain it?"

Clearly, she understood Xiang Kun's purpose in proposing this hypothesis and conjecture, since she also knew about Liu Shiling and Little Apple's situation.

Xiang Kun shrugged and said, "I think what I said was pretty good. Or do you have anything to add?"

Xia Libing scratched her head again. "I need to think about it."

Xiang Kun then stood up. "Let's think about it tomorrow. You should get some rest tonight. You haven't slept well for the past two nights, have you? Tonight, let's not dream."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xia Libing yawned.

Xiang Kun could clearly sense that she was indeed very tired. Although she had entered the "Super-Sensing Item System" and gained the ability of "Fantasy Manifestation," physically she was still just an ordinary person.

It seems like another explanatory text has been written...