Chapter 200: Reunion After 200 Years_1

In the 202nd year of the Crisis Era, at Wallfacer Headquarters, the Mental Quantum Sensing Array Research Department.

All the equipment and instruments were ready, and this was the 37th time that Lin Sen and Hines established a Mental Quantum Sensing Array with Lin Yun and Tyler through the quantum resonators in between the positive and negative macro-atoms.

Human research on Mind Tactility had far surpassed the Great Ravine period, confirming the relationship between the human brain and quantum entanglement resonance in Quantum Space. Currently, this entangled resonance relationship could only be studied through macro-quantum resonators.

As the instruments started, Lin Sen's and Hines's thoughts also gradually submerged, like a lone boat drifting in the ocean, at the mercy of the tempest, rolling and pitching on an unknown course.

They felt as though they had merged into the vast universe, intertwining and resonating with the stars, the darkness, and all that exists.

Suddenly, they felt their bodies had entangled with something, some invisible entity intersecting and merging with them, forming a unique resonance entanglement. This entanglement made them more closely connected as if they had become an indivisible whole.

In the next moment, their consciousness seemed to split, existing simultaneously in four different spaces, yet able to sense this world together. This wonderful feeling was indescribable in words.

In this place, where there is no distinction between light and dark, everything seemed so desolate and deep.

The material forms in Quantum Space were elusive, surpassing the range of human perception and understanding.

Lin Sen could feel four other places apart from himself; close by must be Hines, and further away must be Lin Yun and Tyler.

Quantum life maintained its human form as a reaction in the observer's brain, not as an actual state of quantum matter.

It was a diffusing quantum field state of matter, like electromagnetic waves, where electric and magnetic fields wave and tangle in coexistence.

Lin Sen's thoughts attempted to enter the quantum field range of Lin Yun. Although it was a great distance away, it seemed to reach instantly.

His eyes seemed to perceive Lin Yun's figure, vague though it was, recognized at a glance through innate memory. At the same time, his own figure slowly emerged as well.

Both sides constructed the other's image in their brains, as there were no such physical forms here, not even light.

"Is that you? Cousin," Lin Sen asked in the voice from his memory.

Although there was no real sound in this space, their mental resonance echoed in each other's minds as if it were real.

Lin Yun's figure seemed to stutter, and after a while, the voice came through in fits and starts, "Lin Sen, is it really you!"

"It's me," smiled Lin Sen with a nod, "I never imagined that after 200 years, we would meet again. Your departure grieved me deeply for a long time."

Lin Yun's voice continued slowly and intermittently:

"Life is truly strange; not even the proverbial seas turning to mulberry fields can describe it. Tyler told me everything that happened after I left.

"I never expected that my little brother, who used to follow me around, would now become the most remarkable person in the human world."

Having been in Quantum Space for 200 years, Lin Yun's thoughts were highly dispersed, and her thinking was particularly slow.

A minute seemed to pass, which might have been half an hour in the outside world. But as thought time is extremely rapid, even such slowed time allowed for barely adequate communication.

If this situation were to continue, one day in the future, Lin Yun might feel only a second has passed, while eons might have gone by in the outside world, declaring her complete death.

A vague emotion surged in Lin Sen's heart, and suddenly he had a strong desire to confide in someone. Quantum Space could shield Sophons, and after hiding for so long, Lin Sen also felt exhausted in body and mind.

"Yes, this world changes so quickly, always catching us unawares, and never waits for anyone, never giving you time to prepare.

"We could only do our best to prepare, desperately prepare. I don't know if this path is correct, but I have no other choice."

"I dragged everyone to struggle desperately with me, even playing with them all. Holding sway over all under heaven, even the Trisolarans were being toyed with by me."

"I was laying out plans, calculating, for that goal, at any cost—but my heart was also wandering and struggling."

"I feared that the dragonslayer might turn into a dragon himself; I also feared leading humanity into an even more dangerous abyss. Nobody can see clearly into the future; not even if one were to live their life over again."

In Quantum Space, Sophons are unable to listen in; it's akin to a Sophon Shielding Room.

Lin Sen had been repressing so much for so long; at this moment, he longed to talk to someone, although he and Lin Yun were not really siblings, he wished he had such a sister right now.

Lin Yun felt like she was back to the days of being a confidante to Lin Sen when he was a child: "You have a very strong sense of crisis, which doesn't seem to all come from Trisolaris."

"Sometimes letting go of obsession and fervor might make everything different."

"My former enemies, soon after my death, joined us to establish a community of shared human destiny. Ironically, those who came to build the Quantum Mentality Matrix were once my adversaries."

"I am a technocrat and a lover of weapons, dedicated to finding a kind of weapon, especially one that could turn the tide of battle, and using it to end wars."

"Full well knowing that it's impossible to win a sure-to-lose battle with some ultimate weapon, yet I still can't suppress my deep infatuation with the power of technology."

"After I launched the Ball Lightning, after the frenzy, calm was bound to follow."

"I then realized that I, perhaps, am not that important."

"Everything is predestined. It seems as though I've changed something, but in reality, I've changed nothing."

"Now our enemies have changed, shattering the illusion of victory through weapons. Our strongest weapons might just be toys to them; they don't care."

"I can see what you are worried about, but let everything take its natural course!"

"The view always comes after an effort, working towards a goal. Just do your own work well, that's enough."

"This universe may not be as we imagine. We can only live, and live with all our might..."

These words also brought a lot of relief to Lin Sen's heart.

If you consider the Dark Forest as a weapon, it's a double-edged sword that can harm both the enemy and ourselves. Ironically, having shattered the illusion of the decisive power of weapons, we still rely on weapons to determine victory and defeat in the end.

Sometimes I even envy Logic, maybe he is just such a person with no grand ambitions, just an ordinary man.

When humanity placed Logic in the position of Wallfacer, he just worked hard at his job, ultimately deterring the Trisolarans with Dark Forest Deterrence.

When humanity placed Logic in the position of Swordholder, he persisted in deterring the Trisolarans for over half a century.

When humanity decided to judge Logic, he also faced it calmly. He had no regrets; humanity's greatest arrogance is to never repent."

In the destruction of the Solar System, Logic didn't even blame Cheng Xin much. He only built a "grave" for humanity—ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Thinking of this, Lin Sen also felt much more relieved. He had tried his best, there was no need to chase after victory or defeat.

The fate of humanity is not of great significance to the universe; humans are not the protagonists of the story. As for how far humanity can go, let's leave that to humanity itself.