Chapter 137 The Original Ancestor of Versailles

"Incredible..." Cao Fusheng muttered, deeply shaken by the scene unfolding before him.

Holding Cao Fusheng's hand as if greeting an old friend, Bai Qingchu walked up to the wall, gazed at the playful fish, and said softly, "When you think these are mere illusions or projections, they clearly lack true authenticity and cannot be called high technology. But when they are real, you truly marvel at my masterpiece."

The man being led by the hand was completely baffled, failing to grasp the meaning behind his words for a moment.

Bai Qingchu smiled faintly, offering no further explanation. Instead, as if toying with a cherished plaything, he gently pressed his hand against the wall—and his hand passed right through it!

"Splash..."

A koi fish thrashed with a pleasant watery sound, effortlessly caught in Bai Qingchu's palm.

"This... This is real!? How did you do that!?" Cao Fusheng reached out to touch the koi, which unhappily flicked its tail, seemingly displeased at being petted by such rough hands.

Bai Qingchu smiled, raising a single finger to his lips. "Shh."

Cao Fusheng instantly fell silent.

"When you think what I'm holding in my hand is real, you are mistaken once again. This is entirely beneath my level, because I am not a magician." Bai Qingchu casually tossed the fish back toward the wall, and it slipped right back inside the surface.

"I don't quite understand."

Cao Fusheng was bewildered. Though he didn't understand what the man was trying to convey, he was certain the guy was an elite-level show-off.

"Haha, it's good that you don't understand. If everyone understood, how could we prove that each person's thoughts and neural pathways are unique? What I understand, naturally you cannot understand; conversely, what you understand, I need not understand." Bai Qingchu said solemnly. Before they arrived, all the researchers in the laboratory had been cleared out.

In this cavernous laboratory, only he and Cao Fusheng remained.

Cao Fusheng inwardly scoffed. Call that human language?! What was that about *what I understand, you cannot understand, but what you understand, I need not understand*?

This was undoubtedly the grandfather of all show-offs.

"Have you ever heard of spatial theory?"

"I've heard of it, but I'm not well-versed in it."

"Then you also know that, according to spatial theory, human beings are actually three-dimensional creatures."

Cao Fusheng nodded. That much was common knowledge.

"Then do you believe in spatial diversification? Or, to put it another way, parallel universes?"

"This... this seems to be a proposition that hasn't been fully decoded yet, as there is no conclusive evidence to prove it."

Bai Qingchu shook his head and said, "Then how do you explain what I just did? How did I pull it off? Go touch that wall again right now."

Half-doubting, Cao Fusheng walked over and gently brushed his palm against the wall, but this time his hand did not pass through.

"What's going on? Then just now..."

Bai Qingchu smiled and began, "Let me explain it simply. We currently exist within our native space, as three-dimensional beings belonging to this native space. In our perception, only this single space exists. And what about that fish? You can understand it as a creature from another space capable of interacting with ours. Therefore, it is real, yet I cannot touch it at all times."

"For instance, right now."

Bai Qingchu walked over once more, reached for the wall, and passed right through it again.

He chuckled awkwardly and pulled his hand back. "Heh, an accident. Purely an accident."

He tried again, but this time he failed.

True to his word, it possessed randomness and limitations.

"But that still doesn't make sense. Why would this space exist inside your laboratory? It completely defies logic. How could a laboratory on such a high floor interact with some oceanic space?" Cao Fusheng immediately seized upon the crux of the matter. It was thoroughly unscientific.

Bai Qingchu frowned and said, "Do you truly understand our spacetime? Or do you genuinely believe that the universe, the world, and the spacetime you comprehend are exactly as you perceive them? Why not try to overthrow your existing perceptions and boldly hypothesize the impossible?"

"..."

Cao Fusheng was struck speechless. This was simply too difficult for him to accept. To overturn every existing perception—how was that even possible? Was that something a human being could actually do?

Yet Bai Qingchu had done it.

"Pity. In this field of understanding, I still fall short of my teacher. His research in this area was far more thorough than mine." Bai Qingchu looked somewhat dejected. There were still aspects he hadn't figured out, whereas his teacher would certainly have had the answers, but his teacher was nowhere to be found now.

He gathered his emotions and said calmly, "However, you were right about one thing: why it interacts with my laboratory here. In truth, the greatest achievement of my research is verifying the extremely high probability of the existence of multiple and parallel spaces, though I did resort to a few little tricks... Let's not speak of that. In short, I haven't made substantial progress in this regard."

Cao Fusheng chuckled softly. "A few little tricks...? Minister Bai... could the sudden drop in the Sky Pillar's energy be related to these 'little tricks' of yours—in other words, this experiment of yours?"

"What? Why would you think that? As for the sudden energy drop, I haven't found a clue either..." Bai Qingchu's expression remained unchanged, his tone entirely normal.

Cao Fusheng strolled leisurely around the laboratory, observing his surroundings as he spoke offhandedly, "Minister Bai, heaven knows, earth knows, you know, and I know about this. You don't need to worry about me leaking secrets. Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken, this laboratory of yours can definitely block detection from within the Sky Pillar. They have no way of seeing what you're doing in here."

"I don't know what you're talking about. Besides, the laboratory is a vital facility of the Sky Pillar and has never been linked to internal security. Outsiders cannot view the experimental content; this is a special privilege granted by the Boss, and the high command of the Sky Pillar all know it," Bai Qingchu said indifferently.

"Oh~ is that so? But I imagine the internal security you mentioned doesn't include direct surveillance by the Boss himself, does it? Would you dare claim he would overlook such a critical facility? But right now—no, ever since we walked in—you've blocked the surveillance from the Boss! Moreover, I have an even bolder guess: from the moment you intended to let me see your research achievements, you never planned on letting me walk out of here alive."

Cao Fusheng's tone was flat, as if he were discussing something trivial. From the moment he entered, he had sensed a faint, ethereal intent to kill.

Though he could never pinpoint its source, he had even suspected Bai Qingchu standing beside him, but the man's demeanor didn't seem to belong to someone harboring murderous intent.

Moreover, that trace of murderous intent was far too weak—resembling the inadvertent aura emitted by a child who had never killed before, contemplating harm to a small animal.

That was until he heard Bai Qingchu's theory.

An experiment capable of manipulating space could never be achieved easily or casually.

Thus, Cao Fusheng's mind instantly connected it to the sudden drop in the Sky Pillar's energy, which had triggered the 24-hour countdown of the genetic ecological lock.

It was highly likely that all of this was inextricably linked to Bai Qingchu. He simply went ahead and boldly guessed that this minister was the culprit behind it all.