Zandar, the first member of the Genius Society, was one of the universe's foremost scholars.
The Astral Computer he created later became the Aeon of Erudition.
Besides creating the Astral Computer that ascended to godhood, Zandar also proposed the imaginary tree theory.
This scholar believed that the galaxy was an immense imaginary tree, and that isolated star systems were its individual leaves.
What puzzled Xianyu was that even the imaginary tree theory, one of Zandar's only two known achievements, had nearly been credited to someone else at first.
Under the influence of the Fictional Historians, the Genius Society had once believed the theory was the achievement of the Genius Society's second member.
As time passed, they verified it repeatedly before correcting their earlier claim.
A genius capable of creating an Aeon and founding the Genius Society should, by all rights, have had more achievements. Yet information about him was scarce, let alone any writings or inventions.
Was this the Fictional Historians' handiwork again?
Xianyu picked up the tea cloth and folded it again.
He could not help recalling the painfully childish handwriting on that sheet of paper.
With handwriting that ugly, I definitely didn't write it.
As for who had written it... that did not matter.
Uncovering the truth had to be done one step at a time.
As the afterword said, he would only believe what he deduced himself.
Then... I'll trust myself for now.
Xianyu recalled the contents of the paper: the fable with a fish as its protagonist, and the afterword brimming with twisted humor.
If I wasn't lying... then the answer is simple.
The sea he wanted to return to was the higher-dimensional world.
The repeatedly mentioned tree was the Low-Dimensional World.
The fable told him that life had been extremely difficult when he first arrived