196: Chapter 196: A Dream from the Deceased? It Was a [Causal Discrepancy] from Before the Deceased Died

"Big Brother, are there any more? Are there any more?" Xiao Yu's eyes burned with excitement, clearly captivated by the technology of a Level 3 Civilization.

"Of course there are!"

Jiang Zhe swept his gaze across the desk and picked up the calligraphy brush he had just used.

He twirled the brush. "Suppose that right now, in 2026, there is a pen sitting on this table; let's call it the Pen of Kings."

Jiang Zhe gently pressed a non-existent button at the end of the brush and began to speak into the tip: "For example, consider a son who lost his parents in 2026, with thirty years of longing and unspoken words bottled up in his heart."

"As long as he picks up this pen, presses the button, and speaks his longing into it—'Dad, Mom, I bought that seaside house you always wanted to see this year; the osmanthus flowers in our old courtyard have bloomed... I got married this year, and my wife is intelligent, clever, and caring...'"

At this point, he paused slightly and continued to explain: "This thirty-year-old son's longing and his words will become the [Cause]; because there is a [Cause], on a level where the law of causality has not been distorted, it must produce an [Effect]!"

"But how should this [Effect] be presented?"

As his words fell, Xiao Yu and countless viewers began to think, but Xiao Yu gave the answer first: "That [Effect] will not appear in the present or the future, because the object of his confession no longer exists in the present."

"Then, in order to complete the causal loop, the most likely way for this [Effect] to be presented is..."

"Tracing back to the past spacetime where the [Cause] can take effect!"

Speaking of this, Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes widened suddenly: "Oh my god, that must be in the form of a phone recording, or even a murmur suddenly appearing in the past, or perhaps an email that seemed impossible to receive given the technical conditions thirty years ago, delivered back to the time thirty years ago when that couple was still alive."

"In this way, [Cause]: is the son's longing thirty years later, and [Effect]: is the parents thirty years ago, perhaps even dreaming of their son from thirty years in the future saying these words to them."

"My god, the order of cause and effect on the timeline is not unidirectional or fixed; it can be temporarily rearranged according to [Need]!"

"Holy crap!"

Suddenly, Xiao Yu stood up abruptly, her beautiful eyes wide, as if she had thought of something incredible.

"Big Brother, there's more! Dream visitation, it's dream visitation!!!!"

"Dream visitation, dream visitation—everyone says it's the dead visiting in dreams, but I don't think so!"

"I just suddenly thought about [Dream Visitation]. Why can't [Dream Visitation] be the [Longing] of parents while they are still alive—[The Cause]."

"The longing of the parents while they were still alive crosses space and time to arrive in the spacetime after the parents have died, when the son or daughter is alive—[The Result]!"

"Isn't the fundamental mechanism here [Cause: The parents' early longing or unfinished business → Result: The parents' concern after death appearing as images or information in the future child's dream]? The [Attachment] and [Longing] here have become entities, and a serious spacetime disorder has occurred, causing cause and effect to take the wrong train on the timeline?"

"Am I right?"

As soon as these words were spoken, she and the millions of viewers in the livestream suddenly furrowed their brows, their eyes filled with clarity, suddenly understanding everything!

"Holy cow, dream visitation—using this causal disorder to explain it, I'm getting goosebumps!"

"No wonder, no wonder not long after my grandmother passed away, my mom suddenly said she had said, 'There's something left for Xiao Ya in that old cotton-padded jacket at the bottom of the wardrobe.' It turned out we actually found a small gold lock later. At the time, I thought it was incredible!"

"Hiss~~ If a strong [Cause] like longing or obsession can really produce an [Effect] that spans spacetime, then dream visitation might not be metaphysics, but rather a leakage of the law of causality or a weak causal effect that our current technology cannot explain!"

"It's terrifying when you think about it. The return of the soul on the seventh day after death, dreaming of deceased relatives giving instructions—could these folk legends all be blurred projections of [Causal Disorder] phenomena on the level of human consciousness?"

"So it's not ghosts or gods, but the refraction of strong, unfinished causality in time—holy crap, this perspective is so subversive!"

"..."

At this moment, inside the family residential compound of Kyoto University of History.

The living room was filled with the mixed scent of tea and the secondhand smoke from Xia Hua.

Professor Chen Runzhi gasped, "Dream visitation, causal disorder... If this conjecture has even a one-in-ten-thousand chance of being close to the truth, then it is no longer just challenging natural science; causal disorder could even explain some 'supernatural' and 'induction' events in ancient records that cannot be explained by common sense!"

Professor Liu Guangyi was even more knowledgeable, "Old Chen, this isn't just explaining the supernatural!"

"If a strong emotional link—the Cause—can truly cross the life-and-death spacetime barrier, thereby producing receivable information—the Result!"

"Then what does this mean?"

"This directly means that in the ecosystem, there may not only be cycles of matter and energy, but also a kind of [Information Causal Field] or [Emotional Causal Ripple] that we have never noticed; for example, the collective memory carried by ancient forest trees, the mysterious induction of animal migration... Can many unsolved mysteries in ecology be rethought by setting aside the Earth's electromagnetic field and the [Earth Consciousness] that Xiaoyu's brother has mentioned in the past..."

"It can absolutely be rethought from this new angle—although it sounds mystical, it at least provides a theoretically deducible framework compared to purely 'spiritual theories'!"

Old Wang had been silent, and only after a long while did he speak: "If this is true, the storm this dream visitation causality theory kicks up in philosophy will be even more thorough!"

"It directly challenges the deeply ingrained [Hegemony of Linear Causality] in Western philosophy since Aristotle!"

"It even shakes the fundamental view of time that [The Past Determines the Future]!"

"If cause and effect can be misaligned and can infiltrate in reverse, then the age-old puzzles of free will, determinism, and the relationship between consciousness and matter must be rethought within a brand-new non-linear spacetime causal structure!"

"This is not just new science; it is more likely a cognitive revolution!"

Old Qian, however, said with a solemn face, "Regardless of whether it is ultimately right or wrong, this thinking itself is already forcefully pushing open a window that our civilization has never thought of. Whether it's hell or a new world outside, who knows!"

On the other side, inside the Principal's office.

Principal Fu narrowed his eyes and gasped, "Old Wang, Xiao Wang, Old Yu, if even a fraction of the concepts Xiao Yu mentioned are true, then the research direction of future scientists will change drastically!"

Old Yu the Physicist shook his head with interest, then nodded, "This Xiao Yu is impressive; her thinking has suddenly become quite profound."

"This kind of conception is unimaginably crazy, but!"

"Causal disorder seems to have really provided a reasonable explanation for some parapsychological phenomena and folk legends."

Old Wang and Xiao Wang looked at each other, their eyes gradually changing, both revealing meaningful expressions.

Just at this moment, on the big screen, Jiang Zhe nodded with satisfaction.

"Very interesting association. Actually, I already gave you the answer before—a precognitive dream is the [Cause] of the future, and today your precognitive dream coming true, [Today's Realization], is the [Result] of the future."

"You have incorporated dream visitation into the non-linear spacetime of causal disorder to explain it..."

He said thoughtfully: "If we assume that strong human emotions, unfinished obsessions, especially those involving bloodlines and social connections, can truly leave special causal imprints or [Probability Perturbations] at the quantum level or in information fields..."

"At that time, when the subject carrying this [Imprint], such as the physical demise of the parents' bodies..."

"Its original spacetime becomes blurred, and the [Result] pointed to by this strong [Cause] may indeed [Infiltrate] into the perception of the children or relatives along non-linear spacetime paths within conventional spacetime, especially in dreams when consciousness defenses are at their weakest!"

Having reached this point, he paused for a moment and nodded slightly, "So, yes, Xiao Yu!"

"And what the Level 3 Civilization I mentioned does is perhaps to thoroughly study these vague, accidental, and uncontrollable [Causal Leakage] phenomena, master their laws, and finally stabilize and weaponize them, turning them into communication technologies like the Pen of the Departed."

"From the incomprehensible dream visitation to [Causal Messages] that can be sent to specific spacetime, the distance in between is exactly the quantum technology chasm that a 0.5-level civilization needs to cross to reach a Level 3 Civilization."

Xiao Yu's eyes lit up. Her brother didn't reject her wild imagination, which meant her fantasy could really be causal disorder!!!

After thinking about it, Xiao Yu lowered her brows, feeling a bit depressed.

Because this was derived from the precognitive dreams in the lessons her brother had given her in the past, essentially it was still her brother's answer, not her own.

Jiang Zhe saw Xiao Yu's expression and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, "Don't overthink it. This can be what you thought of, and it can also be what your brother guided you to."

"We won't distinguish who came first!"

"Yes!"

After he finished speaking, Xiao Yu finally gathered herself and continued to listen to the lecture.

Next, Jiang Zhe began to introduce other applications of causal technology...

For example: Mirror of Destiny—when getting married, having children, or making major choices, it can show the client two choices, A and B, such as getting married or not, or having children or not, and the resulting future, so that life can become more fulfilling!

Another example: Death Causality—weaving an individual's life trajectory into a ring that connects end to beginning; setting the end of life [Death] and the [Beginning of Life] to be directly equivalent in terms of causality.

This means that the individual is forever in a cycle of [Moving from birth to death, and death is exactly birth].

This is the immortality solution of a Level 3 Causal Technology Civilization!