Zhonghai.
A giant dark bird hovered above the villa estate on the mountainside.
"Captain, I'm heading back?" Zhou Haiyang asked.
"Wait!"
Qin Feng pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice, "Let's go down first and do an experiment."
"Xiao Feng!"
Qin's father and Qin's mother came out happily to greet them.
"Hello, Uncle and Auntie," Zhou Haiyang quickly greeted.
"You're Haiyang, right? I've watched the live broadcast, you and our Xiao Feng..."
"Dad, Mom, we'll talk later."
Qin Feng smiled, "Haiyang and I have something to do."
The villa estate on the mountainside had 12 detached villas.
Qin's father and Qin's mother lived in the middle one.
The others were used by the detachment of troops stationed there for their daily needs.
They went straight to one of the villas.
"Mr. Qin!"
A group of soldiers saluted.
"Clear out a villa for me, and enforce a cordon within a hundred meters, no one is allowed to approach!"
"Yes!"
Soldiers followed orders as their duty.
They never asked for reasons.
Soon.
The soldiers resting in the villa left, forming a perimeter line within a hundred meters.
Qin Feng brought Zhou Haiyang inside and closed all doors and windows.
"Captain, what are you... doing?" Zhou Haiyang looked bewildered.
"Testing a new ability."
A new ability?
Zhou Haiyang's eyes lit up.
This time, the captain had achieved a perfect score of 1000 points for the first time. He wondered what ability he had been rewarded with.
In the plot of "2012," Qin Feng had also received rewards.
Unfortunately.
Up to now, no one in the base knew what the previous rewards were.
No!
Not everyone was in the dark.
Xiao Ruoruo was the first to know.
Later...
An Ling and Han Xiao also found out, and had even "tested it themselves," becoming addicted.
"What is the new ability?" Zhou Haiyang asked urgently.
"Fourth Dimension."
"What... is that?"
"..."
Qin Feng shook his head.
In his previous life, not only did he not have this ability, but he had never heard of any other ability user possessing it.
Humans lived in a three-dimensional world.
This was true for both Blue Star and the post-apocalyptic planet.
What was the fourth dimension?
In essence.
Scientists had proposed it a century ago, but it remained mere speculation.
To put it this way.
Fundamentally, beings in three-dimensional space could not comprehend a four-dimensional space.
Like a summer insect cannot comprehend ice, or a frog in a well cannot comprehend the sea.
Similarly.
Qin Feng had never heard of or seen such an ability.
He couldn't even grasp the concept.
"How do we test it?" Zhou Haiyang asked again.
"This!"
Qin Feng pointed to the stainless steel water cup on the coffee table, "Manipulate it."
Zhou Haiyang was completely confused.
His ability was metal manipulation.
Controlling a metal cup should be easy for him.
He released his mental power.
The stainless steel water cup floated up.
Under his mental control, it kept changing shapes.
Sometimes it became a steel ball.
Sometimes it became a hollow cube.
Sometimes...
In short.
It shifted between different appearances.
"This is easy? I..."
Suddenly!
Zhou Haiyang's expression changed dramatically.
*Thud!*
It had just turned into an ashtray.
The next moment, the ashtray fell to the floor.
"How can this be..."
He looked at Qin Feng in astonishment, "I've lost contact with it?!"
He released his mental power again.
The ashtray remained motionless.
Zhou Haiyang stared at Qin Feng in horror, "Captain, did you use that new ability?"
"Yes," Qin Feng nodded.
"But... I didn't feel any fluctuation in your mental power, nor did I detect anything different—This is insane!"
It was indeed very strange!
Theoretically, when fellow ability users released their powers, Zhou Haiyang could feel their mental energy.
He could sense the changes caused by abilities.
But when Qin Feng released his ability, he felt nothing.
He then discovered that the problem wasn't losing control of the ashtray.
Instead.
His mental power couldn't be projected outwards!
How did ability users attack remotely?
They solidified their ethereal mental power in distant space.
But now...
His mental power couldn't leave his body! 138 Reading Network
"I can't either."
Qin Feng gave a wry smile.
After he unleashed his new ability, not only did Zhou Haiyang's ability fail,
He found that after activating the fourth dimension, all his other abilities were unusable.
However.
He was different from Zhou Haiyang.
Zhou Haiyang couldn't use his ability because his mental power couldn't project outwards.
He had used his ability.
His mental power was not restricted.
The problem was that although his mental power could leave his body, it couldn't materialize.
Simply put.
Once his mental power was projected outwards, it couldn't transform into an ability.
"What the hell is this?!"
Zhou Haiyang stared dumbfounded, "You've restricted yourself?!"
This made it even harder for him to understand.
"Yes."
Qin Feng frowned deeply and murmured, "I think I know the reason."
Currently.
His fourth-dimensional coverage was approximately a sphere with a diameter of twenty meters.
Within this range.
All externally projected abilities were unusable.
He himself was no exception!
Through testing with Zhou Haiyang, he discovered that other ability users couldn't use their powers because their mental energy couldn't project outwards.
He himself couldn't use them because his projected mental energy couldn't materialize into abilities.
Why was this happening?
He had a guess.
Most abilities shared a common trait.
That was their existence in three-dimensional space.
The fourth dimension.
It was impossible to comprehend.
When a fourth spatial axis was added, the spatial characteristics would completely change.
Therefore.
Not only could others not use their abilities.
Unless one could comprehend the fourth dimension, he himself couldn't use them either!
"Haiyang, try again, can you get out?" Qin Feng said again.
"Okay!"
Zhou Haiyang immediately walked towards the outside.
He couldn't see.
Anything different in the surroundings.
When he reached about 20 meters from Qin Feng, he...
Couldn't move further!
The villa door was right in front of him.
Yet, there was an invisible and incomprehensible barrier, forming an unbreakable wall.
"Attack it!" Qin Feng shouted.
"No... I can't use my abilities, how can I attack?" Zhou Haiyang gave a wry smile.
"I will restore the area where you are to normal three-dimensional space."
"Alright!"
Zhou Haiyang immediately released his abilities.
Summoning dark creatures!
Metal manipulation!
He used various abilities to attack.
Unfortunately...
It was useless!
Whether it was Qin Feng's spatial shield, Tang Xiaoying's telekinetic wall, or other companions' defensive abilities, even if they couldn't be broken, there would be some reaction, right?
For example.
If his attack power approached the defense of the spatial shield, the spatial shield would vibrate.
It might even crack.
But against this invisible barrier, his attacks...
Caused absolutely no reaction!
He could feel that even if his combat power increased tenfold, a hundredfold, it wouldn't shake this barrier in the slightest!
"Captain, it's useless!"
Zhou Haiyang panted, shaking his head with a wry smile, "This thing is invisible, undetectable, yet almost indestructible."
Qin Feng smiled.
In fact.
Before asking Zhou Haiyang to attack, he had already guessed the outcome.
That was the boundary between three-dimensional and four-dimensional space.
Like a barrier between two worlds.
How could it be broken?
Suddenly!
Zhou Haiyang seemed to recall something.
He suddenly turned around and stared at Qin Feng, "So... all externally projected abilities, whether elemental or spatio-temporal, cannot be used in the fourth dimension—You yourself can't use them either, right?"
"Yes," Qin Feng nodded.
"And once trapped in the fourth dimension, it's impossible to get out?"
"Yes."
"But your physical abilities are not externally projected!"
Zhou Haiyang suddenly became excited.