Witnessing the Past

Bai Ye focused his mind on the Black Substance, and in an instant!

His consciousness seemed to be yanked from his body by invisible threads, plunging into a chaotic halo of light.

All his senses shattered and reassembled in an instant. Space no longer extended according to the familiar laws of three dimensions.

The world's "walls" dissolved like gauze. Time, once formless and intangible, flowed like liquid metal. The boundary between past and future came crashing down, both appearing before Bai Ye's eyes at once.

He seemed to be standing within the river of time, countless tangled timelines intertwining and flashing madly before him.

"Success! High-dimensional matter has been born!!"

Bai Ye saw more than a dozen researchers in white coats gathered in a laboratory, their faces filled with wild joy.

Ring-shaped quantum lamps cast a cold blue glow, illuminating a nanoglass curtain wall several meters tall. Within it, nebula-like patterns suddenly bloomed across the surface of a constantly twisting mass of Black Substance.

The laboratory's instruments emitted piercing buzzes. Torrents of data flooded the holographic screens, while the wildly flickering fluorescent green numbers rewrote the boundaries of human understanding.

Bai Ye froze slightly. This was... people from the Civilized Era researching Black Substance? A hundred years ago!?

Wait, where was my body?

He suddenly realized that he was not in the laboratory at all. Instead, he was taking in the entire lab from a god's-eye view.

"This is undoubtedly a great experiment that will rewrite human history! With high-dimensional matter, human civilization will enter a new energy level. We may uncover the secrets of time and achieve true immortality!"

An elderly man with graying hair stared obsessively at the ever-changing Black Substance.

**"Dr. Qin, we conducted energy tests on the high-dimensional matter and discovered that its energy simply never