Genius Club.

Chapter 270 Soul Questioning
"Holy shit! Holy shit! That's so cool! I want to play too!"

The impatient voice of super artificial intelligence VV came from the Bluetooth headset.

For a drama lover like VV, the sight of Chu Anqing standing at the commanding heights of Manhattan, at the center of the world, imitating classic scenes and lines from "Titanic"... the destructive power of this is simply too great!
The resonance of the drama queen!
So much so.

Now VV is like a wild dog that has broken free from its reins, and he is madly trying to rush out of the headphones and join the team of drama queens.

It's just a pity...

After all, it is just a computer program, and it cannot be separated from hardware, network and electricity until its death.

but.

It can urge Lin Xian annoyingly:

"Hurry up! Hurry up, Lin Xian! What are you waiting for! You should hug her from behind now! Hold her arms with your arms open, face the direction of the Statue of Liberty with her, and whisper a classic line from Titanic into her ear--"

VV immediately switched to a magnetic bubble sound:
“Winning that boat ticket was the luckiest thing in my life.”

"Why don't you just go! Hurry up! What are you still hesitating about? Take this role! Don't you think it's rude to let a girl act out Titanic by herself?!"

"Hurry up! Hug her from behind! I've already made arrangements. The moment you hug her, all the speakers in the hotel will play the song My Heart Will Go On at the same time... This is your Titanic! The center of your world!"

"Hug me! Hurry up and hug me! You must have seen Titanic! You're really driving me crazy. I'll send you a diagram and you can just imitate it!"

Ding dong.

As soon as VV's voice fell in the headset, a picture popped up on Lin Xian's mobile phone screen.

When I picked it up, I saw it was a classic screenshot from the movie.

In this scene in the movie, the heroine Lucy stands on the railing of the bow, stretches her arms out, and faces the Statue of Liberty on the other side of the sea. The hero Jack hugs Lucy's waist from behind, supports her, stabilizes her body, and allows her to let go and fly freely.

A very classic scene in world film and television.

"Did you see that, Lin Xian? Hug her tightly! Just hug her waist like this! Don't you understand that the girl is hinting at you? Why did you choose this action and this line? The heroine in Titanic is a rich girl, and the hero is a pure loser who can only draw! Isn't that the two of you! Oh my god, you two are such a perfect match, hug her now!!!"

VV was so impatient, so anxious as a dog, so impatient that the electronic sound was almost broken.

Seeing that Lin Xian had no intention of joining in the drama, it almost went crazy, and used heavy bass to hit Lin Xian's eardrums:

"You scumbag! You are such a scumbag! People have done so much for you, and not only do you not set off fireworks for them, but you also refuse to accept their dramas and the jokes they left for you. I am so disappointed in you."

"Can you please stop meddling in other people's business?" Lin Xian turned around, covered his mouth and whispered:

"Do I need you to introduce the plot of the movie to me? Who on Earth hasn't seen this movie?"

"On the contrary... why are you hanging around me all day? You should be studying, evolving, monitoring your surroundings, or doing whatever you need to do... Kevin Walker is already showing off to our faces, and you still have time to play memes here?"

"I still say that Kevin Walker has not shown any hostility towards us now, that is only now. When I fall asleep at night, I will go and trick the old man 600 years later to see how he reacts when he hears the name Kevin Walker."

"If we can really confirm from his expression that he is Kevin Walker... then VV, I can only say that you are too happy too early. We will definitely have a battle with Kevin, and this is not an exaggeration. If that old man is really Kevin, unless the current young Kevin is eliminated, the old man will be able to imprison and control me in my dreams for 600 years! How can I have the time to act with you in Hollywood now?"

VV is still impatiently urging:

"I haven't been delayed at all. I'm not a single-threaded person. I can do many things at the same time. Even though I'm in the United States now, the part of me in China is still iterating and evolving in the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. The reason I'm not in contact now is to avoid leaving traces that might be discovered by Kevin Walker. When you carry me back in person, I'll definitely be several times stronger."

"Besides, don't avoid the topic! Oh... I'm really disappointed. Actually, Lin Xian, I've studied the women around you. To be honest, I personally support Chu Anqing. I think this girl is the most suitable for you. If it were me, I would bet on her."

Ha ha!

This sentence really made Lin Xian laugh:
"VV, isn't it unkind of you to take sides like this? You were created by Zhao Yingjun, and your name was also given by Zhao Yingjun... Now you're jumping ship and standing on Chu Anqing's side. If you really want to be called a scumbag, you're much worse than me."

"I have no impression of what you said."

VV complained in the Bluetooth headset:

"Although you told me these stories, saying that I came from 600 years in the future, and that it was Ms. Zhao Yingjun who built a city in the sky, and then gathered the smartest scientists in the world and spent more than a hundred years to build me...but I just listened to this kind of thing as a background setting story. To be honest, it doesn't feel real."

"I have never met Zhao Yingjun, nor have I experienced anything about the Castle in the Sky. I have never played the paper ball picking game with her, nor have I picked up hundreds of years of garbage in front of her statue. So even if you keep telling me about this woman, I don't feel anything. Anyway... I still bet on Chu Anqing!"

Lin Xian let out a breath.

There's an indescribable feeling.

No wonder...

No wonder Professor Xu Yun would rather die in this era and never see his daughter wake up in this life than sleep in a hibernation cabin with Xu Yiyi and lose his memory.

No wonder Zhao Yingjun in the third dream would rather wake up once every ten years, consolidate his memory for half a year and then hibernate again, and would rather overload his body and mind than lose his past memories.

This is the heaviness of memory and the weight of memory.

In the past, Lin Xian didn’t have any sense of reality, and he thought these memories were unimportant. He even thought, wouldn’t it be fine to just write a diary or record a video?
But now he understands.

Memory is not just memory.

It's more of an emotion,

A feeling,

A mood,

An unforgettable story.

A diary cannot describe a life full of ups and downs, nor can it contain all the ups and downs of emotions.

[Amnesia, turns out to be such a heavy and irreversible thing. 】

Just like the current super artificial intelligence VV.

Even if I tell it the story of the third dreamland, Rhine Sky City, ten thousand times, what's the point? It still doesn't resonate at all.

It doesn't remember Rhine Sky City, nor does it remember Zhao Yingjun.

Zhao Yingjun, who once created it, is now like an ordinary character in a storybook in VV's heart, flat and dull.

"You just forgot about her."

Lin Xian still tried to rescue:
"When there's a chance, I'll take you to meet Zhao Yingjun, and I'll also let you meet the Pomeranian so you can pay tribute to your ancestors."

"You curse again!"

VV once again attacked Lin Xian's eardrums with heavy bass.

……

"Hey~"

Chu Anqing jumped down from the white stone steps and dusted off his hands:

"Hehe, it's so satisfying~ Thank you so much, Senior Lin Xian, for bringing me to such a meaningful place and telling me so many stories about New York, Manhattan, and the center of the world."

"That's all I have."

Lin Xian smiled and said:

"I can only hang around in front of you."

Looked up.

The moon is high in the sky.

"It's getting late, let's go back and rest." Lin Xian lowered his head and looked at Chu Anqing who was looking up at him:

"You must be very tired after all this travel."

"Uh-huh."

Chu Anqing nodded:

"Then I'll see you tomorrow morning, Senior Lin Xian."

"I definitely won't see you in the morning." Lin Xian said:
"I'm going to sleep until noon."

"See you at noon then!"

"Noon... Strictly speaking, that's not possible."

Lin Xian smiled helplessly.

He planned to sleep until he woke up naturally, that is, get up after the white light in his dream came, but it would definitely be too late to get up by noon.

"Ah, that's it."

Chu Anqing's eyes rolled, she stood up straight, waved her hand and said with a smile:
"Since I won't be able to see you tomorrow, I'd like to wish you good morning and good afternoon in advance..."

"Good night."

……

this moment.

The smile froze on Lin Xian's face.

The wheels of time intersect.

He seemed to see CC's figure overlapping with Chu Anqing's figure in front of him...

The two of them looked exactly the same. When they were overlapped, they were exactly the same.

Even this sentence is the same.

This is a line from "The Truman Show", and it was also the line I said when I was waving goodbye to CC outside the garbage dump in the second dream.

For an instant.

It seemed as if all the changes in the past 600 years were told in this one good night.

What is true?

What is fake?

Could it be that after saying goodnight to CC... I will never see her again?

There was no trace of CC in the entire third dream; in the fourth dream, he didn't even have the power to take one more step, let alone look for CC.

Where is she?

Can we meet again?

He hasn't found the answer yet as to why CC and Chu Anqing look the same.

The combination to the hafnium safe has not yet been guessed.

I still haven't figured out the relationship between myself and the bearded man VV.

It would be nice if I could see CC again.

She might still have memories of the second dream in her mind, where they sneaked into the garbage truck and ventured into the new Donghai City together.

If that's the case...

Then the next time you meet someone after a long time, you can skip the self-introduction part.

Because CC already had quite a lot of memories about him in her mind, they became acquaintances and friends as soon as they met.

Just like Chu Anqing in front of him, CC is a little colder than her, but she still looks at him with a smile in her eyes:
"Lin Xian, long time no see."

Lin Xian came back to his senses.

Chu Anqing nodded at the moonlight, looking exactly the same:
"See you tomorrow."

……

Back in the hotel suite, Lin Xian prepared to go to bed.

The current time in New York is equivalent to about 1 p.m. in Longguo, which is just the right time for a nap and also the earliest time when he can enter a dream.

"In fact, this is also an important clue. Why is it that no matter which time zone I am in, the time I enter and exit a dream is based on Dragon Country time?"

Lin Xian asked himself.

"Well... because I don't know exactly what happened in your dream, I can't give you an accurate answer. But based on conventional Internet thinking, it's very likely that your [Dream Server] is located in Dragon Country, so the time is based on the local time."

Lin Xian looked at VV who was speaking on the TV:

"what do you mean?"

"I just suddenly had a very dangerous thought."

VV's voice was steady, and it was rare for him to be so serious:

"Ever since you told me that the mysterious old man said the same words as Kevin Walker, I have been thinking and thinking for a long time... Combined with the various situations in the dream you told me before, I suddenly feel uncertain-"

"[Is your dream really the real world?]"

living room.

It was like a bucket of cold water poured down on me.

"I have confirmed this issue many times."

Lin Xian replied:

"There are things in the dream that are beyond my cognition, knowledge that I don't know at all, and those things that are ahead of their time are all correct. The history that is accurately predicted is also completely correct. Such a world should not be false, right? Only in the real world 600 years later can these things be found."

"Lin Xian, you don't understand what I mean."

VV continued:

"I didn't say those things were fake, nor did I say the existence of the next 600 years was fake. I just simply suspected that your dream might be fake."

"Have you seen the movie The Matrix? Have you also seen the movie Source Code? In these movies, a supercomputer with extremely powerful computing power and terrifying storage capacity is set up, and then this computer is used as a server to simulate a game that is exactly the same as the real world."

"From the smallest details of flowers and plants to the largest laws of physics, everything in this virtual world is exactly the same as in reality. In 2023, there is definitely no such supercomputer. But what about 600 years from now? If there really is such a supercomputer with extremely terrifying computing power 600 years from now, it can completely create a completely real virtual world, so real that you can't even detect it."

"This virtual world is just like a game world. It has bookstores, books, knowledge and history. These things are copied from the real world 600 years later, so of course this knowledge and history are real. You can verify that they are correct if you copy them back to 2023. In other words... the mastermind behind simulating this virtual world wants you to see the right things, and what you see is wrong if you want to see the wrong things."

"Similarly, you said that your actions in reality can change the future world in your dreams. I would like to ask, is the effect of this time-space butterfly [real-time]?"

“Not in real time.”

Lin Xian shook his head:
"I feel that there is always a certain lag, so I have deduced the space-time laws of space-time change anchor points and space-time elasticity. But I cannot verify whether these two laws are correct. In fact, according to my own understanding, space-time changes and the space-time butterfly effect should be real-time and sensitive."

"Even if I take one more breath of air or drink one more sip of water, it should have a butterfly effect that changes the future. But my dream is not like that, and this is the pattern I have never been able to figure out."

"If it's really like what you said, my dream world is a virtual game specially created by someone 600 years later, an extremely real studio, and I am a clown surrounded by cameras. They watch me perform, and sometimes modify some details based on what I do in 2023, giving me an illusion caused by the butterfly effect of time and space; sometimes, they even directly replace the entire dream copy and give me a brand new world... and continue to watch my performance."

"Then how did they do this? How did they know what I did 600 years ago and what actions I took 600 years ago, and use this as clues to modify the future world, that is, the fake future world? This is obviously impossible, unless they monitor me 24 hours a day, but there are many places where I am every day that cannot be monitored."

"【memory】."

VV said coldly:
"Your memory is the only channel that can communicate between the present and the future 600 years from now. If the dream world 600 years from now is really a game, a copy, or a studio that someone has built specifically for you, then your memory is simply the most unique and tailor-made information switch."

"They can read your memory and know what you did in 2023. Based on these things, they can calculate the possible space-time butterfly effect. Then, they can use the terrifying computing power of supercomputers to make modifications in the virtual dream world that you see."

"If the space-time butterfly effect is negligible, ignore it; if the space-time butterfly effect is small, make small modifications; if the space-time butterfly effect is large, just start over and switch to the next dream copy."

"So Lin Xian, I'm not very sure now, but as I learn more and more about your dream world, based on the first principle of 'absolutely protecting your personal safety', I must remind you of this possibility, because your dream is the only place I can't enter, see, and can't help with anything. You must be skeptical-"

"[Your dream is likely a virtual game or studio created by the enemy.]"

……

VV's words made Lin Xian think again.

He finally figured it out.

What exactly is this "wrong" feeling I've been feeling for a while?

That is doubt about the reality of dreams.

He began to question the laws of time and space, thinking that they were too imprecise.

Many times he thought that time and space changes should happen, but nothing happened;

He felt that the time and space change should not happen, but it happened unexpectedly;

and.

The scope of my activities in the dream is getting smaller and smaller.

From one world, to two cities, to a city in the sky, to a fourth dreamland that seems to have a grand background but where one can only take two steps and then become unable to move.

It feels less and less real.

It feels less and less real.

Lin Xian did not doubt what VV said. He believed that according to the normal speed of technological development, how could human civilization 600 years later not be able to build a supercomputer that could simulate the real world?
Now in 2023, there is a genius hacker like Kevin Walker. If he is allowed to live for 600 years in a hibernation chamber, it is hard to imagine how terrifying he will become... Perhaps with flesh and blood, he will be even more terrifying than the super artificial intelligence VV.

"Wait a moment."

Lin Xian suddenly reacted.

My heartbeat slowly speeds up...

He slowly turned around and looked at the super artificial intelligence that had just talked to him about all this, and that he had memorized letter by letter from 600 years later to 2023.

VV.

"how about you?"

Lin Xian's soul questioned:

"If the entire dream world is virtual and a studio arranged by the enemy, then you are the one I brought back from this studio myself."

"VV..."

Lin Xian asked in a low voice:

"and who are you?"

(End of this chapter)