Cutting-edge Technology: I Provide the Brains, the State Provides Everything

254: A three-dimensional being’s first experience of four-dimensional space!“Buzz—”

There was no earth-shattering roar as imagined, nor an ear-splitting boom.

The moment 100,000 pangu-class warships simultaneously activated their dimensional engines, the entire world seemed to be muted.

Immediately after, came an indescribable “stretching sensation.”

Lu Chen, sitting in the command seat, felt his body transform into an infinitely stretched noodle. Every cell, every nerve, every atom, was cheering and frantically extending in a direction never before explored— “upwards”!

That wasn’t the sky in a physical sense, but a “higher place” in a logical sense.

“Ugh—!”

Suppressed gasps and retching sounds came through the communication channel.

Even Super Soldiers with iron wills experienced a momentary brain freeze when first facing a dimensional leap. Because their eyes were transmitting completely “wrong” and “crazy” information to their brains!

Their vision had changed.

The originally enclosed bridge suddenly became “transparent.”

It wasn’t that the walls disappeared, but that the “blocking” property of the walls vanished.

War Wolf lowered his head in horror; he wanted to look at his boots but saw directly into the power cabin beneath the floor. And in the power cabin, the core of the high-speed fusion reactor was displayed on his retina without any obstruction.

He could even see inside the reactor, those hydrogen atomic nuclei frantically colliding!

“Damn it! My eyes! My eyes are messed up!”

War Wolf yelled, covering his face, only to find his palms had also become “transparent.” He clearly saw the bones, blood vessels, nerves, and the vivid red blood surging through the vessels inside his palms.

This feeling was like being a living dissection specimen, exposed naked to the air!

“Don’t panic! This is normal!”

Lu Chen’s voice rang out in time, still calm, but if one listened carefully, they could detect a hint of suppressed tremor and excitement.

“We are currently in a ’pseudo-four-dimensional’ state.”

“In the eyes of four-dimensional beings, there is no distinction between ’inside’ and ’outside’ in the three-dimensional world. Just like when we draw a circle on paper, we can see both inside and outside the circle, and also the ’interior’ of that dimension of the circle.”

“Now, we are that person drawing the picture!”

Lu Chen suppressed the dizziness from processing excessive information, suddenly stood up, and pointed beyond the panoramic viewport.

“Look up! Look outside!”

“Look at this true starry sky!”

Everyone instinctively looked up.

In that instant, even the toughest warriors were so awestruck by the sight that they lost the ability to speak.

Vastness.

Infinite vastness.

The originally dark and profound cosmic background disappeared, replaced by a dazzling ocean woven from countless light bands, color blocks, and lines.

Every star was no longer a glowing sphere but brilliant “pillars of light” burning in the river of time. They extended from the past to the present and then to the future, like golden colossal pillars supporting the spine of the universe!

And the terrifying black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy—Sagittarius A*—was no longer the abyss that devoured everything in everyone’s vision.

It had transformed into a massive, funnel-shaped vortex.

And at the deepest part of the vortex, the singularity from which even light cannot escape—

Was now clearly visible!

“I… I see it…”

Su Qingying gazed blankly at the singularity, tears unknowingly streaming down her face. It was awe for truth, and emotion for the ultimate mystery of the universe.

“That is where spacetime knots.”

“That is the universe’s navel.”

“It’s too beautiful… Is this a god’s perspective?”

However, this beauty did not last long before being shattered by the cruelty of reality.

“Warning! Low-dimensional attack detected, currently passing through current coordinates!”

heavenly craft’s alarm pulled everyone back to reality.

Everyone lowered their heads—or rather, cast their gaze towards the plane representing the “three-dimensional world.”

There, the dark purple Void Collapse ripple, released by the Star-Devouring Hive Mother and capable of erasing all existence, was like a surging tsunami violently crashing into the area where the human fleet had originally been.

Space shattered like a mirror, and matter dissipated like smoke.

That starfield instantly became an absolute void.

If they had still been there, no matter how strong their shields, there would probably be nothing left but dust.