Chapter 9 Escape: Higher Dimensions

Li Xu thought he would be unconscious, but he was not!

It felt as though his soul was being pulled out of his body. Under the pull of gravity from behind, he kept rising.

All things froze in thought and motion at that moment, as if the pause button had been hit—the raised baton, the blood droplets flying through the air, the bright red marks blooming on his back...

As he continued to rise, the entire Imperial City, and even the entire Plot World, came into view.

The Imperial City and a small area spreading out from it amounted to the entirety of the Plot World. Beyond that, there was only churning fog like chaos.

At the boundary between the Plot World and the fog, light underwent extreme distortion, presenting an effect that was both hazy and blurry.

Countless silver specks danced out from the fog like numerous fireflies returning to their nests. They penetrated heavily into all the edge zones, and then, the Plot World began to grow. The hazy and blurry boundaries started to expand outward while the dense fog gradually receded.

In the process of growth and retreat, streets, houses, and even humans and animals emerged from nothingness. Newly appeared entities, whether buildings, streets, or animals and plants, perfectly joined with the original objects of the Plot World, as if a painting had been dusted clean off its surface.

Thus, old streets spread outward, and new streets continuously appeared; incomplete houses were filled in, yet newly emerged buildings were only partially colored!

This process of continuous completion, persistent incompleteness, and constant filling carried on endlessly, affecting not just inanimate objects but living beings as well.

Meticulously organized, methodically executed, appearing simplistic and effortless, yet achieving an incredibly precise and immensely complex molding process!

This scene was undeniably breathtaking. Li Xu was so entranced, not noticing that he had stopped rising and now resided between the sky and the dense fog, amidst the haze and blur.

Until a semi-transparent box appeared before him, with several lines of text that read: "Class A space, code: A001, rules and source of energy and materials: 'Legend of Zhen Huan' TV Series Version, Plot World completion progress: 56%, entering development stage, estimated time: 14 hours, estimated completion progress: 74%."

"Exiting Class A space: A001..."

A pitch-black vortex appeared out of nowhere, then spread boundlessly in an instant. The momentarily absent gravity returned, and Li Xu, resuming his ascent, did not enter the rolling fog.

The dense fog had vanished, shrouded by endless darkness, while a soft glow shot up from below!

The sudden change left Li Xu at a loss, floating in the void of darkness, with the world below transforming from a three-dimensional space into a flat plane that undulated like a wave.

This plane emanated multicolored light, with the colors changing rapidly—green, blue, red, purple...

And Li Xu floated above this huge, undulating, luminous plane!

This was separation, this was separation!

Indeed, at this moment, he and the Plot World below were each independent, coexisting in this void of darkness.

Li Xu's ascent did not cease; as the distance increased, he could see the full scope of the plane more clearly.

It floated in the darkness, with boundaries and edges, generally taking an irregular quadrilateral shape, undulating like waves, dazzlingly beautiful, intensely impressive, and rich with visual impact.

In the center of this plane, the Imperial City and all the completely sculpted areas had become a perfectly still painting, presenting a panoramic scene of ancient life like 'Along the River During the Qingming Festival.' The chaotic gray-white filled the corners and edges of the quadrilateral.

A tiny, nearly imperceptible silver speck suddenly flew from behind Li Xu, catching his attention, but it swept past him and drifted down toward the plane, followed by a second, a third, a fourth... In the blink of an eye, a silver "ribbon" made of these specks formed.

"The ribbon" began to make contact with the surface, completely avoiding the central part of the scroll, soaking into the chaotic greyish-white, like a fine drizzle, drop by drop, grain by grain.

Then, the chaotic greyish-white color began to recede, and the ancient panorama in the center started to expand again...

"The Wishes of All Beings, The Wishes of All Beings, this is Spirit, this is Telekinesis, this is energy, this is the foundation, definition, and material for constructing the Plot World!"

"This is shaping, this is reenactment... Oh, no, no, this is simply the process of creation!"

"My setting did not include this part, and with my imagination, I couldn't grasp such... such... rigor, such order, it's simply art!"

Words could not accurately depict the grandeur Li Xu saw or the rhythm and impact he felt; if one must describe it, it was like being adrift in the vast depths of the universe, witnessing an extremely majestic cosmic phenomenon firsthand, could be two planets colliding, could be a star expanding or collapsing...

"Stop, stop, now is not the time for wild thoughts!"

"Remember it, remember it!"

After "the ribbon" formed, the gravity behind Li Xu suddenly increased, his ascent speed began to increase, getting faster and faster...

If it weren't for the plane below rapidly shrinking, he wouldn't have felt this change in speed.

The duration of acceleration was actually very short.

When the plane world below became a tiny speck in Li Xu's eyes, a beam of light suddenly shot from the unknown darkness, enveloping him in an instant, then forcibly changed his direction from purely rising to horizontally rushing!

Rushing through the beam of light!

At this moment, besides light, Li Xu could see nothing else; he was like a particle of light, still accelerating, accelerating...

Eventually, when he reached an insurmountable bottleneck, being infinitely close to the speed of light propagation caused a great distortion in everything Li Xu saw!

No longer pure single-colored light, but a spectrum of randomly changing colors, a dazzling spectrum!

No longer flying through a beam, but through a spectrum-like distorted, changing "tunnel"!

The "tunnel" was completely sealed, and it was irregular, random, rugged!

Li Xu had completely lost his ability to think, having no idea how long such rushing had lasted!

Until, an exit!

Li Xu burst out, in an instant, like a fish leaping out of water, the gravity that had driven his rush disappeared, he touched sunlight again, felt gravity again, touched air again...

As he floated downward, Li Xu saw that black vortex-like "exit" disappear on the computer screen.

Yes, he had returned to reality, back to his own room!

Yes, he was floating down, toward a body attached to the computer desk, as if it were asleep!

That was his body!