Chapter 1106: Candlelight World

Hearing this question, Chen Ling pricked up his ears and looked at Teacher Ye again.

The origin of the Red Star was something no one in the human domain could explain clearly, even before or after the Great Cataclysm... Chen Ling was very curious about what kind of view this mysterious Teacher Ye had.

"What is the Red Star... This question, the teacher has also been studying." Teacher Ye drew a line emphatically under the two characters "Red Star" with a red pen, and then led it to another word.

"But to figure out the origin of the Red Star, first, one must figure out the essence of the world."

"The essence of the world?"

"What is the world? Why does the era regress? Where does the Gray World come from? What kind of connection do we have with the Gray World?" Teacher Ye paused for a long time, as if he himself had fallen into thought... His peripheral vision swept over everyone and finally gathered on Chen Ling.

"Chen Ling, what are your thoughts on this question?"

The next moment,

Everyone’s eyes gathered on Chen Ling in the back row.

Chen Ling was stunned. He suddenly had the feeling of returning to his student days, when the teacher couldn't think of an answer and randomly pointed to a student to talk about the problem-solving ideas... He, the newly arrived transfer student, was undoubtedly the teacher’s best choice.

"No need to feel pressured, just talk about your views." Seeing Chen Ling hesitate, Teacher Ye said again.

Chen Ling frowned. Regarding what the world was, he actually hadn't thought about it much, and his brain was blank... Just then, the words of Dr. Lin, who had received him in District 3 back then, suddenly flashed through his mind.

"The world is candlelight." Chen Ling suddenly said.

Teacher Ye was stunned. "Oh? How so?"

"The birth of the universe is like a candle flame being lit. The world we are in is a ray of candlelight extending from this flame... And besides us, there are a large number of parallel time and spaces. They are also candlelight. All candlelight blooms from where the candle flame is lit, extending infinitely, but never intersecting." Chen Ling paused for a moment. "The Gray World is also one of the candlelights."

After hearing this theory, the whole classroom fell into dead silence.

Even Teacher Ye was dazed for a while, standing on the podium for a long time without coming back to his senses, as if he had fallen into deep thought.

"...Very interesting statement." Teacher Ye muttered to himself. "The so-called candle flame should be the former Big Bang theory... After the Big Bang, countless 'possibilities' of the world were born from the candlelight, like light, walking toward the end of their own silence...

Moreover, light will twist and intersect in a strong gravitational field. If so, the Red Star that disrupts time and space can also be seen as a celestial body with a super gravitational field, a heretic traveling in the candlelight... In this way, everything makes sense..."

"What did you say?" The students couldn't hear Teacher Ye’s voice clearly and asked suspiciously.

Teacher Ye came back to his senses, and his gaze toward Chen Ling was a bit strange:

"Chen Ling, did you come up with this theory yourself?"

"No." Chen Ling shook his head immediately. "Back then in the Aurora Domain, I met a psychiatrist named Lin... He told me, and he said that this theory was proposed by someone before the Great Cataclysm."

"Before the Great Cataclysm?" Teacher Ye frowned. "Before the Great Cataclysm, I had never heard of this theory... Moreover, the intersection of the Gray World was a matter of the late Great Cataclysm. Before the Great Cataclysm, how could anyone predict the arrival of the Gray World and propose a hypothesis?"

Chen Ling was stunned on the spot.

"This hypothesis has great research value." Teacher Ye’s eyes flashed with brilliance.

"Moreover, if this hypothesis holds, the Red Star may not be the only existence that can travel in the candlelight... Perhaps, in other candlelight worlds, there are also existences with super gravitational fields, transcending the candlelight trajectory of that world, and able to travel freely in different worlds."

As the crisp bell rang for the end of class, Teacher Ye’s train of thought was interrupted. Although today’s lesson was not finished, he didn't choose to drag the class, but tapped the blackboard.

"No need to erase the blackboard today, we will continue tomorrow, class dismissed."

"Chen Ling, come with me."

Teacher Ye organized his lecture notes and turned to walk out of the classroom.

Chen Ling didn't hesitate and followed him. The two traveled through the corridors of the tree hollow, and Teacher Ye couldn't help but ask:

"That... Dr. Lin you just mentioned, where is he now? If possible, I’d like to talk to him."

"Him?" Chen Ling recalled for a moment. "If nothing unexpected happened... he should be dead."

Dr. Lin was a doctor in District 3 of the Aurora Domain. When District 3 fell, he was not among the survivors Chen Ling brought into Aurora City. Facing the surging tide of calamities, he probably couldn't have survived.

Chen Ling suddenly recalled that when he wrote to Chu Muyun, it was also the address given by the other party. Maybe Chu Muyun knew this Dr. Lin, and he could ask when the time came.

"Alright... what a pity." Teacher Ye sighed. "How have you been resting these two days?"

"Very well, I have basically recovered."

"I have also had some thoughts while summarizing the materials these two days... Let’s talk in the office."

The two walked straight into Teacher Ye’s office. Chen Ling then discovered that the originally tidy desk was already piled with various documents and materials, and most of them were handwritten, with deep yellow surfaces, not knowing which era they were products of.

While pouring tea, Teacher Ye got straight to the point:

"In the Fusion Faction theory, I divide the fusion of humans and calamities into four stages. I have roughly analyzed your situation, and you are currently in the [Slaying the Evil] stage.

The so-called [Slaying the Evil] is the struggle of consciousness between humans and calamities. This is usually an extremely long process because no matter how strong human consciousness is, it cannot defeat the calamity in one fell swoop, and can only rely on constant cannibalization."

After pouring the water, Teacher Ye stood up with his cup, and while exercising his body tired from the class, he walked to the window to look into the distance. "Although your situation is different from other Fusionists, [Slaying the Evil] should be common. It’s just that others are the slaughter between human consciousness and calamity consciousness, while you are the slaughter between calamity consciousnesses.

But there is one point I am very strange about... Theoretically, after surviving the first round of [Slaying the Evil], you should gain part of the calamity’s power, and even your body should begin to calamity-ize... But there are no such symptoms on you..."

"Teacher Ye..."

"Don't interrupt my train of thought first. I judge that the reason you don't have calamity body-ization is probably due to the difference in consciousness frequency bands..."

"Teacher Ye." Chen Ling’s voice was a bit solemn.

Teacher Ye, who was looking out the window, turned his head helplessly, and seeing the scene before him, he was suddenly stunned on the spot.

I saw Chen Ling had lifted his opera robe sleeves at some point, and his two fair arms were actually turning into red paper visible to the naked eye, extending and splitting infinitely... Even half of his face had become flat red paper painting, looking extremely bizarre.

"Calamity body-ization... I already have it."