Only I Walk Alone

The space Wu Ge entered was akin to a temporal rift, invisible to ordinary people and even more so to robots.

Wu Ge could enter because his psychic power was strong enough to detect all anomalies around him, and he ventured into this time-space rift alone, fortunate that the rift was large enough. Otherwise, with his current power, he couldn’t have broken through the space.

The existence of this time-space rift is like a piece of paper torn open; because it’s torn, that part of the paper no longer aligns with the rest, effectively “departing” from this dimension.

A space rift means that the space has been torn, causing parts of it to detach from this dimension. From a fourth-dimensional perspective, this detached space would be visible, but from our three-dimensional world, it becomes invisible since it has left our dimension.

In a sense, this is akin to the origin of what we call the second space. As a three-dimensional world ages, more such rifts will inevitably form, much like how paper deteriorates over time.

Wu Ge now found himself in this vanished space, which had a ground but no lava or sky, and the temperature here was extremely low, in stark contrast to the 400-500 degree environment outside the rift.

Walking on this land, Wu Ge noticed the gravity wasn’t very strong. A light jump could send him flying into the air, and a short distance upward revealed another ground above his head.

Wu Ge flipped over and landed on this inverted ground.

His psychic power spread out, quickly understanding the structure of this space: it was an infinite three-dimensional space similar to a Klein bottle.

In the three-dimensional world, there’s a structure known as the Möbius strip, on which an ant, which cannot perceive up from down, can move forward indefinitely. Its path in a two-dimensional world is infinite, and two-dimensional beings on a Möbius strip can never reach the end.

Similarly, in the fourth-dimensional world, there exists an infinite three-dimensional space known as the Klein bottle. In this three-dimensional space, humans, who lack the perception of an additional dimension, can never find the end.

This refers to humans who haven’t reached the Enlightenment realm. Those who have can understand and perceive the fourth dimension and thus won’t be trapped here.

Wu Ge found two exits in this Klein bottle-like space; one was the entrance he used to come in, and the other led to a deeper location, where even more bizarre spaces likely existed.

First, Wu Ge searched the Klein bottle-like space. Such spaces are unlikely to form naturally; someone must have created it, probably to prevent beings from the three-dimensional world from entering the true core area.

This Klein bottle-like space was essentially a trap, a defensive formation. Wu Ge found many footprints here but saw no corpses or equipment.

He took out a four-dimensional space bag and pulled out an egg. He threw the egg outside his psychic power shield, and the egg visibly rotted at a speed visible to the naked eye, disintegrating into ash before it even hit the ground, decaying incredibly fast!

From this, Wu Ge understood that this Klein bottle-like space not only confuses ordinary people who cannot perceive the fourth dimension but also contains decay particles that accelerate the flow of time.

Cang Shu didn’t actually spend forty to fifty years here; rather, his body aged rapidly due to the influence of decay particles, affecting even his brain cells and memory.

In other words, his body aged, but his spirit remained at twenty-five years old. His memories disappeared due to the damage to his brain cells, making him resemble a vegetative state.

Wu Ge observed the footprints on the ground; they were still fresh, indicating the exploration team had only recently arrived here. Without the psychic shield, they likely succumbed to the decay particles, aging rapidly until there was nothing left, not even ashes.

After surveying the area, Wu Ge started walking towards the deeper part, curious about what lay within another space protected by the Klein bottle space and decay particles. He flew up, heading towards an entrance invisible to ordinary people.

Upon entering, he was engulfed in darkness. There was no land, no sky, no light, and no gravity—just an all-encompassing blackness, as if he had arrived in a universe devoid of stars.

Darkness, solitude, and vastness mirrored the human soul.

When the mind is empty of thought, it resembles this space—nothing exists, devoid of any light, darker than the deepest abyss. The human soul, in its most primal state, is dark.

This is like the eyes of a newborn child, which appear pure yet profoundly dark, without a hint of impurity.

Darkness is not inherently evil; it’s merely a concept humans have associated with the negative aspects of life. Darkness, like light, is an objective existence, neutral and inherent to our most primal state.

Wu Ge found himself in such a place—a calm, silent, and lonely expanse that felt as though he had returned to the time before his birth.

In this quiet, solitary, dark world, a speck of light suddenly appeared, symbolizing the emergence of the first human consciousness. Then, the human soul began to gain color.

Wu Ge followed the light, which grew larger until a world suddenly unfolded before him—a paradise, with the crisp sound of birds chirping and the scent of flowers wafting through the air.

Wu Ge halted before the light, standing in the silent darkness, observing the brightly lit world that was rapidly changing.

Looking up at the dark expanse, he said, “There must be some artifact in this space, something that can invert reality and illusion, inner self and the physical body.”

The concept of an artifact, mentioned hundreds of years ago by the Mechanical Civilization Alliance, indicated that artifacts could move the souls of artificial intelligence. Later, Wu Ge found a new artifact in the Underworld—the Gold Essence Sword.

Wu Ge looked down at the rapidly changing world below—a world of the soul, but not his. Wu Ge’s soul remained calm, making his world dark, solitary, and serene.

However, the paradise before him was different—it was a pink, swiftly moving world!