275: Dimensional concept organisms, dimensionality reduction, breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly

Hearing Wang Xiuzhi's question, Yang Dian carefully described the process of how he obtained the unknown creature's egg.

After Wang Xiuzhi repeatedly confirmed the details, he looked at the others.

Then, from the headphones hanging on Yang Dian's ear, many terms he didn't understand were heard again.

For example, 'dimension overlap,' 'observation factor,' 'concept of existence,' 'timeline fission and unification,' 'Schrödinger's egg'... He knew 'Schrödinger's egg'...

After a long while, the sound of arguments from the headphones disappeared, and Wang Xiuzhi told Yang Dian the results of their discussion:

"Based on your experience in the Dimension Crystal Mine and our observations and research, we can basically confirm a few things."

"First, the unknown creature's egg in your hand should be some kind of multi-dimensional creature that can travel through different dimensional spaces."

"The countless unknown creature eggs you saw in the Dimension Crystal Mine were actually all it."

"It's just that those were manifestations of it in different dimensions appearing in reality; essentially, they still exist in other dimensions."

"That's why you couldn't touch the other unknown creature eggs."

"Second, it wanders through dimensions and possesses a certain conceptual attribute, and it has anchored its own concept of existence to you."

"In the Dimension Crystal Mine, you believed it existed and tried your best to obtain it, so it appeared from countless other spatiotemporal dimensions, came to our spatiotemporal dimension, and anchored itself to you."

"In short, if you exist, it exists. If you genuinely believe it's false, it will lose you as an anchor point and be banished to other dimensional spaces."

"Until a certain moment, when you feel you need it and believe it's real, it will reappear by your side."

"Third, it should be in a hostile, or rather, predatory and parasitic relationship with the planet."

"From its behavior, it likely needs the energy contained within the Star Core, as well as a small piece of the Star Core, to hatch."

"In the future, if it wants to become powerful, it probably won't be able to do so through ordinary methods; it will require consuming Star Core energy and the Star Core itself."

"The Dimension Crystal Mine on the Alien Planet should exist to Seal it."

"The countless instances of it within the Crystal Mine are its struggles to escape the Crystal Mine's Seal."

"Fourth."

Speaking of the fourth point, Wang Xiuzhi was silent for a moment before continuing:

"Fourth, we cannot confirm how many dimensions it exists in."

"Four dimensions, five dimensions, or even higher dimensions."

"In any case, we can only be certain that it is extremely precious."

"And judging by the terrified expressions of the Lingwen Clan when they saw it, the Lingwen Clan might have records related to it."

"We must obtain more information about it from the Lingwen Clan..."

As he spoke, the unknown creature's egg in Yang Dian's hand seemed to reach a critical point.

Streaks of golden and silver light emanated from it.

Then, the world began to twist and blur.

Fearing an accident, Yang Dian subconsciously visualized the Mark of Wrath, summoning golden Qi and blood to form a layer of golden Dragon scales outside his body for protection.

He then felt it wasn't enough, so he controlled the star matter to surge out of his body, forming a layer of armor.

After doing all that, he looked up again.

In a daze, the radiation-filled Dimension Crystal Mine seemed to overlap with the small dimensional observation room.

Countless unknown creature eggs, each with two transparent lines on its back and a trace of undigested gold and silver at its base, turned into streaks of light and merged into the unknown creature's egg in his hand.

Then, the unknown creature's egg in his hand suddenly grew larger, then smaller, then became as light as a feather, then as heavy as metal.

Just as Yang Dian was marveling at how amazing the engineers at the Space Research Institute were, the familiar Crystal Lizardman suddenly appeared beside him.

However, looking at its bewildered expression, glancing left and right, it was clear that it sensed an anomaly but couldn't pinpoint its source.

In short, it couldn't see them... Time flowed erratically.

Yang Dian didn't know if seconds, minutes, or even hours or days had passed.

In any case, after countless unknown creature eggs merged into the unknown creature's egg in Yang Dian's palm, two lights, one gold and one silver, quietly bloomed on the back of the unknown creature's egg in his palm.

Then, it slowly dematerialized in Yang Dian's hand, eventually disappearing.

As the unknown insect egg disappeared, the Dimension Crystal Mine outside the distorted space also vanished, and Yang Dian saw the observation room wall again.

He subconsciously patted his pocket.

Then he began to look around in confusion.

"Where's my big unknown creature's egg?"

As his voice fell, a golden light bloomed in front of him.

The golden light was initially very faint, imperceptibly so, as if it could disappear from in front of Yang Dian at any moment.

But as Yang Dian's gaze fell upon it, the golden light grew stronger and more conspicuous.

In fact, besides the golden light in front of Yang Dian, countless other golden lights suddenly appeared in the observation room, then transformed into streaks of light and merged into the golden light in front of Yang Dian.

This made it even more real.

It was like the mythological concept of turning the fake into real, materializing the intangible.

At the same time, Wang Xiuzhi's somewhat ethereal, blurry voice, as if from another world, reached Yang Dian's ears.

"Anchoring the concept, locking the dimension."

"It's undergoing dimensional reduction."

As Wang Xiuzhi's voice faded, the countless golden lights that seemed to emerge from countless worlds suddenly disappeared, and the surroundings transformed into the vast Universe, leaving only Yang Dian and the brilliant golden light in front of him.

Subconsciously reaching out to support the golden light, Yang Dian found it becoming increasingly brilliant and dazzling.

But it was only glowing.

Yang Dian waited for a long time, but it showed no changes.

Fortunately, Yang Dian wasn't alone.

Just as he was bewildered, unsure of what to do next, Wang Xiuzhi's voice once again reached his ears:

"It's a dimensional conceptual creature. Whatever you think it is, that's what it is."

As the words fell, several thoughts instantly flashed through Yang Dian's mind.

'Unknown creature's egg, like a caterpillar, breaking out of its cocoon to become a butterfly...'

As the thought ended, the golden light in Yang Dian's palm instantly receded, transforming back into the familiar unknown creature's egg.

The unknown creature's egg squirmed twice in Yang Dian's palm, then transformed into a golden-and-silver caterpillar.

The caterpillar propped up its upper body, met Yang Dian's gaze with its tiny, sesame-sized eyes, then began to spin silk.

In a few blinks, a crystal-clear chrysalis, like a blue crystal, appeared in Yang Dian's palm.

Time within the chrysalis seemed to accelerate countless times.

The caterpillar, which had undergone several weeks of metamorphic development in a few blinks, began to struggle within the chrysalis.

Soon after, a crack appeared on the chrysalis.

Then the entire chrysalis began to emit golden light from within.

Within the golden light, a crystal-clear butterfly slowly spread its wings.

The butterfly's crystal-like wings refracted colorful light under the illumination. After gently fluttering its wings twice, it flew up from Yang Dian's palm and began to dance gracefully around him.

With each flap of its wings, it left behind a phantom in the air, the same size as itself but different in color.

Every phantom moved, flew, and seemed to be its true form.

But upon closer inspection, every single one, including the first butterfly that flew up, seemed to be her phantom... [image]