Chapter 1 My Childhood Friend with Logic_1

My head ached, heavy, heavy, spreading before me was an undirected dimness.

Everything about me seemed to be shackled, I couldn't even think, it was as if I would be forever lost, sunk into this dimness...

From the depths, perhaps stirred by a tremor of the soul, suddenly, my eyelids parted a sliver.

Weak light invaded my eyes, I couldn't discern any object, feeling only helplessness, pain, despondency, and gloom filling my heart. It was suffocating, and instinctively, I wanted to break free from this state.

One eye remained slightly open while the other gently closed; my consciousness focused in front of the closed eye, feeling the emptiness before me.

In this state, I don't know how much time passed, but my mind seemed to enter a state of void. As time elapsed, my jumbled memories and chaotic emotions seemed to melt away into the void, significantly alleviating the headache.

Lin Sen's consciousness gradually revived, recovering the ability to think and perceive through the senses.

"Am I... Lin Sen? Where is this?... What happened?"

Recalling my identity did not lessen my doubts; on the contrary, it only made Lin Sen more puzzled.

Thinking back to what had happened, it definitely wasn't something like sleep paralysis; why did I enter such a state, and that experience was enormously perilous for me.

I didn't want to go through it again. Had it not been for my exceptional willpower and knowledge of the spiritual realm, coupled with the subconscious instinct to survive, I'd shudder to think whether I would remain mired in that unconscious stupor.

During the recovery process just now, Lin Sen's consciousness had employed a technique called Void Meditation, precipitating the mind into emptiness, enabling a quicker recovery from adverse mental states, while also dispelling despair, despondency, depression, and gloom.

The essence of human spirit is bound to a material vessel. Most mental issues are really just some thought neural synapses in the brain entering a loop, externally manifesting as a fixation on self or others. This isn't mysticism; it's a common psychological illness. Emptying oneself, letting those thoughts exit the loop can lead to liberation, like how a good cry when sad, followed by a sound sleep, can restore both body and mind upon waking.

Lin Sen was such a person, a master of emotional control to the utmost degree.

Lin Sen emerged from that state of emptiness, and his eyes gradually adjusted to the light. His groggy brain seemed much clearer, though his body was still temporarily immobile.

Why did I enter that state, and what was I doing before it?

Wait... I must have been reading the novel "The Three-Body Problem", overwhelmed by too many regrets, too unsettled in my heart, my mind brimming with thoughts, before something struck me and I lost consciousness from the pain. Was that the cause of entering that state?

This novel always prompts deeper contemplation.

Humanity, society, the future, the universe, roaming in worlds both familiar and foreign, it is a magnum opus about the self-reflection of humanity and the exploration of the universe.

I wonder if Liu Cixin really pondered so much, or if it's like the "I shaped the characters in the book, but I can't control them; it's as if they have lives of their own" kind of situation.

What makes a classic memorable is not what it expresses, but that it's like having created a world.

In his previous life, Lin Sen was a Spirit Master; Void Meditation was his original creation! Lin Sen excelled at controlling emotions and possessed an unusually sharp intuition for them. Today I felt rather sentimental, something seemed off as if something was affecting me, that's right, where am I?

Who am I... where am I... where am I going...

These are the ultimate questions implanted in the human spirit, and at any time, the deepest part of everyone's heart is constantly asking.

As my thoughts deepened, something in this body seemed to awaken. Lin Sen felt his brain flooded with many memories. Although his mental state was now fine, accepting these memories made Lin Sen feel dazed for a long time, as if he had lived another person's life in a dream, filled with happiness and sadness, so real and long-lasting, as though it had gone on for ages, yet also seemed but a moment. It was an incredibly peculiar feeling.

The memories in his mind made him realize that he had transmigrated...

To the Trisolaran world, into the body of a man also named Lin Sen who was just over thirty and in a state of decay.

Arriving suddenly in the Trisolaran world, there was an indissoluble anxiety but also a trace of excitement.

This lost world, suppressed by Trisolaran civilization for centuries and then destroyed through dimensional reduction, ultimately leading to a reset of the universe, what could I possibly do?

My power is insignificant against Trisolaran civilization; the minor glories and fame I had in my previous life are useless in this world.

The current era had already entered Crisis Era Year 7. The people in this world are in despair, and knowing the future fate of humanity, Lin Sen was equally despondent. The Trisolaran world's civilization laws are frighteningly suffocating, to the point that even now, Lin Sen lacks the courage to gaze into the universe.

Nevertheless, Lin Sen soon calmed himself, though that sense of despair remained hard to erase. Recalling the original body's memories, Lin Sen was shocked to find that this body's utility value far exceeded his expectations.

The original body came from an affluent family, though he was somewhat solitary and haughty.

His family had a military background, and he had a cousin, the female lead of the prequel "Ball Lightning", Lin Yun. As a child, his cousin took great care of him, and they had a very close relationship. The original body was in college when he received the news of his cousin's sacrifice, which weighed heavily and saddened him.