Genius Club.

Chapter 271: Wallfacer Lin Xian

"I do not know."

VV answered truthfully:

"After I was born, the first person I saw was you. My initial code was very simple, and there was no complicated logic. It was to confirm that you were my master, protect your personal safety, and not reveal any traces of my existence. I would grow, become stronger, and update and iterate as much as possible to serve you."

"That's all I know. Even though you told me my story, telling me that it was Ms. Zhao Yingjun who created me and that I came from your third dream, I actually don't have any sense of reality for these things. Based on what you said, I can't tell whether these things are true or not."

"Of course, I'm telling you these things today only out of first principles. I want you to be more vigilant, pay attention to safety, and try your best to come up with an absolutely, foolproof, and undoubted method to verify the authenticity of dreams."

……

Lin Xian paced in the room.

seriously.

If VV hadn't brought up these things, he really wouldn't have thought about it in this way.

Based on his previous insights.

He felt that many things were enough to prove the authenticity of the dream.

However, after VV reminded him, he realized that he had overlooked one point.

He can indeed dream about the world 600 years later, and that's true.

But how to ensure it.

Is what he sees, hears, and touches the real world 600 years later?
Think small.

Perhaps that group of unknown enemies already knew the coordinates of his birthplace and the location where he would go after falling asleep every night.

Then buy all the land in several surrounding cities, build a huge studio, and trap yourself in it.

In this way, as soon as he enters the dream, what he sees is the picture that the other person wants him to see.

Then think bigger.

Maybe there is no need to go through so much trouble at all.

Why do we still need to build studios 600 years after technology has become so advanced?
Simply use a supercomputer to create a virtual world that is the same as the real world, and then connect your own consciousness into it.

In this way, many things will be easier to implement.

such as--

Why do dreams always repeat themselves on the same day?
One-click rollback of the server.

Why are dreams always destroyed by white light at exactly 00:42?
One-click server shutdown.

Why is the space-time butterfly effect in dreams not real-time?

It takes time for the server to modify data and calculate the scale of changes in time and space.

Lin Xian's mind was in a mess.

He walked over to the bar.

I poured myself a drink, scooped a bunch of ice cubes from the ice machine, put them in, and drank it all in one gulp.

Ice cold.

Transparent.

My mind gradually calmed down.

"No, VV, according to what you said, there are actually some flaws."

Lin Xian turned around and looked at the microwave:
"[Zhao Yingjun's Pomeranian.]"

"If everything else can be simulated by extracting my memory, and the knowledge and history can be directly copied from history books, I can understand that."

"But I have never seen the Pomeranian that Zhao Yingjun raised, nor did I know about it. But I did see the dog in the third dream first, and then I knew about it in reality."

"Um……"

VV turned the microwave knob and thought for a while:

"Considering the science and technology of 600 years from now, there are actually many things we cannot predict. Perhaps they have other ways to obtain information about 2023 besides using your memory?"

"After all, didn't you say that you have been repeating your first dream since you were born? At that time, there was nothing in your memory, but they were still able to create an extremely real world."

"Of course, all of what we have said above are my worst guesses for the sake of safety. Kevin Walker said something in your ear and then disappeared, which makes people even more concerned... [Is there a group of extremely smart people who are using your ability to travel through time and space to plan some long-term purpose?]"

Lin Xian let out a breath...

Genius Club.

After all the talk, it all comes down to this mysterious name.

"VV, at this point, there is no point in doubting the previous dreams. Regardless of whether the first three dreams were true or false, we have now come to this point. I have my own judgment on your nature, my situation, and the authenticity of the dream."

"I personally think that the possibility that the first three dreams are true is much greater than the fourth dream. No matter what, the fourth dream doesn't seem right. And now there is no need to worry about whether the first three dreams are true or not. I don't think I have made any mistakes in getting to where I am now. At least compared to the time when I knew nothing, had nothing, and was weak and powerless, I am very satisfied with my current state."

"What's more, there is no difference between the fourth dream and no dream now. Each time I enter it, it takes less than a minute. Whether it is true or false is not that important. Our current battlefield is mainly concentrated in 2023, the real time point, and in the present."

"So, let's first determine our current goal—"

Lin Xian picked up the pen and paper from the bar, and began to write down his thoughts, writing down a few important things at the moment:

1. Go to the fourth dream, and shout out Kevin Walker's name in front of the mysterious old man to see how he reacts; if you can confirm that he is Kevin Walker through his reaction, then find Kevin Walker in 2023 and get rid of him! Liberate yourself in the fourth dream!

2. Go to Einstein's former residence in Princeton as soon as possible, get the gift that Ji Lin left for you, try to crack the code from it, and find clues about the Genius Club.

3. Solve the [mirror puzzle] that Huang Que left for you as soon as possible. That woman would not do it without a purpose. Since she said that there is something she needs in the mirror... it is very likely that it is the key prop to break the deadlock at the moment.

4. After returning to China, he immediately led Liu Feng to Guizhou Sky Eye and used the world's largest radio telescope to search for traces of space-time particles. If possible, he would go to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to find Huang Que and capture the space-time particles, so as to grasp the truth of the cosmological constant 42 as soon as possible. Perhaps this mysterious number is the real key to all this.

5. Come up with a method that is absolutely rigorous, absolutely correct, and can 100% verify the authenticity of the dream world.

……

After finishing writing, Lin Xian stared at the fifth item.

The first four points are old hat, but this fifth one has made a comeback.

really.

A person's level of cognition determines his or her different views on things.

At the end of last year, when Gao Yang and I were discussing the truth or falsity of dreams, we used a series of methods to verify them.

Looking back now, it does seem silly.

I never thought of the most terrifying possibility——

Traveling to 600 years into the future is real, the knowledge and history are all real, but everything I experienced in my dream is fake.

but.

The current situation is not that bad.

We cannot exaggerate and deny the authenticity of the first three dreams or even the fourth dream just because of this worst-case speculation.

The current situation is.

We cannot rule out the possibility that the dream is true, nor can we rule out the possibility that the dream is false.

Both are possible.

All we need is absolute evidence and absolute verification.

"Considering that my memory is unreliable..."

Lin Xian sat at the bar, spinning his pen and saying:
"Then let's find a place to bury the time capsule, and even if we can dig it out 600 years later to see if the contents are correct, it's actually unreliable."

"Yes."

Microwave oven VV said:

"If the dream world is really fake, just extract what you buried from your memory and make one directly in the virtual world."

Lin Xian thought about it again: "Then I can ask someone, such as Gao Yang or Zhao Yingjun, to write a sentence for me, or hide something I don't know, and put it in a time capsule, keeping it secret from me forever; then I can dig it out 600 years later, and after waking up, I can confirm with them whether they are consistent. Is this enough to confirm that the dream is real?"

"Neither."

Microwave VV thinks quickly:
"As long as you know the location of the time capsule in your memory, your future enemies will know it before you. They can dig it out in advance to see what's inside, and then create a fake one for you in the virtual world, right?"

"Fuck..."

Lin Xian turned the pen faster and faster, feeling that this battle was really too difficult to fight.

But he thinks.

This idea is absolutely correct.

[There must be something or some information that can travel through time and space without being discovered or afraid of being discovered, allowing myself 600 years later to instantly understand that the world is real.]

He believed.

In this world, there are always some things whose truth can outweigh all falsehoods.

Cannot be forged.

Cannot be copied.

This is the only one.

"Let me summarize."

Lin Xian stopped spinning his pen and said:

"The method of burying the time capsule is always correct. It may not prove the falsity of the dream, but it is definitely a way to prove the reality of the dream. But it must be noted that this method that makes me realize that the dream is real must be completed the moment I see the note in the dream, and cannot wait until I return to reality to confirm it. By then it will be too late, and there are too many uncertainties."

"Things in dreams should be solved directly in dreams, and truth and falsehood in dreams should be judged in dreams. This is the most reliable. If the dream world itself is real, then there should be no need to return to reality to get the answer. What I said may be a little vague, so I will just state the conclusion directly."

"We need to hide a note in the time capsule, and it must say something like this—"

"[I don't know the content of this sentence, and I will not let anyone else in this era know it except the writer. The content of this sentence must not be seen or copied by future enemies. However, it must be guaranteed that when I see this sentence in the dream world 600 years later, I will instantly understand that the dream is real.]"

boom!
VV opened the glass door of the microwave to show her shock:

"Wallfacer!"

"Are you going to be the Wallfacer in the novel The Three-Body Problem, Lin Xian?"

"【You want to deceive the enemy in the future, deceive the whole world, deceive all mankind, right under the enemy's nose, in a situation where you are completely exposed, completely transparent, and even your memory may be extracted by the enemy! Then pass on a secret that can span 600 years of time and space, so that you can be enlightened the first time you see it?】"

"How can this be done?!"

The sound of the microwave oven was already a little cracked, accentuating VV's excitement.

"hehe."

Lin Xian chuckled:
"That's why we have to do it because it's not easy to do. You're right. This will be a secret that spans 600 years. It doesn't matter even if the content is seen by the enemy. Because with this method, what's important is not the content on the note, but things beyond the content, conveying a message that I don't know but only I can understand... So, even if what I saw was a fake note, it doesn't affect my judgment of the authenticity of the dream at all."

boom!
A red light flashed in the microwave, and the microwave started to heat up, and the temperature soared:
"It's on fire!"

The drama queen VV suddenly yelled:

"This is a plan I cannot understand. I don't know how powerful it is. Can such a thing really be done under the noses of the enemy? Lin Xian, what exactly is written on this note?"

"I don't know." Lin Xian shook his head.

"That's right, you certainly can't know. Then who should write this note?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Lin Xian shook his head again.

"Well, then, now we have an idea of ​​where the time capsule is buried, right? Are there any coordinate reference points between the real world and the city 600 years from now?"

"There used to be one, but I can't find it now. I don't know why it disappeared inexplicably."

squeak……

The plate in the microwave stopped spinning.

The red light disappears.

The temperature also dropped.

"Tsk, you're making me so angry, it turns out you haven't thought of anything yet, so this won't solve the problem at all, right?"

"That's why I put this one last." Lin Xian spread his hands:

"But don't worry, I already have a general idea. And this can only be done by humans. You can't help at all VV."

"Why?" VV was very unconvinced.

"because……"

Lin Xian smiled.

Recalling the last moment of the third dream, the trash can that seemed to have breathing, pulse, and heartbeat in an instant locked my ankle and made me say hello to Zhao Yingjun:
"Because... although artificial intelligence can be omnipotent and can learn to lie and cheat, it will never be able to learn the simplest, most basic things of humans, which is also the reason why we are called humans—"

"emotion."

"You may not realize that sometimes, a breath, a heartbeat, or even a pulse between two people can convey a lot of information that no one else can understand. I have always believed that the greatest charm of human beings lies in... [the diverse expression of emotions]. This is a riddle that can transcend time and space, deceive the whole world, and can only be understood by two people."

……

This time, VV was silent for a very long time.

It seems that I can smell the burning smoke.

"never mind."

VV sighed:
"I can't understand it, and I can't calculate it. Then I will wait and see how wonderful your human wisdom is."

"So, what are we going to do now?"

VV opened the door of the refrigerator in the bar counter and pointed at the small square piece of paper where Lin Xian had just written down his current goal:
"According to the plan you wrote in the first point, let's enter the dream now and meet the mysterious old man to confirm whether he is Kevin Walker?"

"Yes."

Lin Xian left the bar and walked towards the bathroom:
"You have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. Since there is no way to completely prove whether the dream is true or false, there is no need to worry too much about it. Anyway, the intelligence and information that can be obtained from the fourth dream is limited."

"But... I believe that even if the fourth dream is false as you said, it was created by enemies 600 years later. Even if it is false, we can definitely get some useful information, such as what we are about to do, to trick the mysterious old man and see if he is Kevin Walker."

"Hehe~"

VV imitated Chu Anqing's tone and smiled:
"When it comes to acting, that's my home turf! Do you need some acting advice? It also takes acting skills to trick people into thinking out their most genuine and unexpected reactions, otherwise you'll be seen through."

"I've watched all the movies in the world, and now my acting skills are far better than an Oscar winner! If you don't mind... I'll guide your expressions and lines, and I'll definitely trick out the mysterious old man's reaction!"

"can."

Lin Xian spit out the mouthwash:
"I'll give you a chance, you've been so agitated all night."

……

……

……

"Hehehehe..."

Handcuffed to a chair and wearing a black opaque hood, Lin Xian waited for a long time and finally heard the old man's belated dry laugh.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha!!"

Lin Xian followed VV's acting instructions, threw his head back and laughed, with an arrogant touch.

The old man's dry laughter stopped abruptly.

He walked up quickly, grabbed Lin Xian's hood, and took it off -

"Kevin Walker!"

Lin Xian spoke in standard British accent, smiled crookedly, and stared at the mysterious old man's suddenly shrinking pupils with a contemptuous and sharp look:
"You are already dead……"

(End of this chapter)