As the Starship continued to forge ahead, the sound of "crack crack" echoed from every part of the hull, relentlessly disturbing each interstellar traveler within the ship.
Until the moment when Wen Jie noticed a distinct, visible crack on the metal workbench beside him, which was then restored by the adaptive self-repair feature of the alloy itself — his eyes suddenly sharpened. In that instant, he thought of a fundamental cosmic rule of this world that had astounded him upon first arrival but had since been forgotten for a long time:
The sum of the squares of the two perpendicular sides of a right triangle equals the hypotenuse raised to the power of 2.023...
How could there be such a strange number?
It doesn't conform to the elegance of mathematics at all.
It should be an integer!
It should be 2!
The universe itself should be 2!
