Genius Club.

Chapter 284 Impossible Game
【Space-time particle capturer】

As soon as Lin Xian heard it, he knew this was what Liu Feng wanted to talk about.

Everyone went forward to check.

These two space-time particle capturers really look similar to rice cookers.

"It really looks like a rice cooker." Chu Anqing sighed.

"That's quite reasonable!" Gao Yang complained:

"In the Dragon Ball comics, Mr. Muten used a rice cooker to seal the Great Demon King Piccolo. From this perspective, the rice cooker is indeed a very remarkable sealing artifact. Maybe it can really capture that magical thing!"

Huang Que rolled his eyes at Gao Yang, saying "Are you a fool?", and then looked at Gao Yang, Chu Anqing, and Wei Cheng:
"You three should go to another training room to train other items first. We will discuss some things with Lin Xian."

Wei Cheng nodded and left with Gao Yang and Chu Anqing.

In the huge training room, only Huang Que, Lin Xian and Liu Feng were left.

"Liu Feng, you can say anything now."

Liu Feng nodded and looked at Lin Xian:

"Lin Xian, this is actually the [Spacetime Particle Capture], but Huang Que asked me not to tell them for now and to use alpha matter instead."

"It's okay, I understand, just continue."

Liu Feng squatted down, opened one of the space-time particle capture devices, and let Lin Xian see the structure inside...

Unremarkable.

It is exactly the same as a rice cooker.

"You are a talent to have made the capture device like this." Lin Xian complained.

“This is already the optimal structure and size.”

Liu Feng explained:
"It's not difficult to temporarily restrain the space-time particles, but I'm considering unexpected situations. What if it escapes? So... if the [field] that restrains the space-time particles is reduced and the density is increased, like now, it can make the space-time particles inactive instantly."

"active?"

Lin Xian asked:
"You mean, the space-time particles are still alive and kicking? Didn't you say before that they were very stable?"

"You can understand it almost the same way by jumping around." Liu Feng nodded:

"The stability I mentioned earlier refers to the stability of chemical and physical properties, and even the stability of form, not the stability of the path or route."

"Over the past half month, I have been tracking and studying space-time particles more and more deeply. I found that the trajectory of this particle... is completely different from what we understand."

Liu Feng looked around, tore off a piece of paper from the end of Wei Cheng's notebook, crumpled it into a ball the size of a ping-pong ball, and held it in front of Lin Xian:

"For example, this ball of paper is a [space-time particle] that is flying towards the Earth. It has already passed Jupiter and is chasing the Earth, and it is still not slowing down. It is about to enter the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter."

"According to our understanding of the movement of objects in this universe, it should be [continuous], right?"

Liu Feng held the small paper ball in his hand, flew it to the left, moved it to the right, and then turned on the violent mode, flying up, down, left, and right everywhere:

"Look, Lin Xian, according to our daily understanding of the movement of objects, no matter how this little paper ball moves, it always has a [track] and is [continuous]. It will always pass a certain point on the path at a certain time before reaching its destination."

"Do you understand this? It's like if you use a high-speed camera to record my movement of a small ball of paper in slow motion. No matter when you pause the video, you can still see the small ball of paper. You can still see that the small ball of paper is in a certain position. It will never disappear out of thin air... Even if the accuracy is 0.00001 seconds, you can still find the position of the small ball of paper."

Lin Xian nodded:
“That’s easy to understand.”

Rather, isn't this the way objects are supposed to move?
Whether it is people running around the playground,

Or the plane flew from the East China Sea to the capital,

Or maybe a satellite orbits the earth.

Voyager 1 spacecraft flies out of the solar system,

Even more, it is photons that shoot into the universe at the speed of light...

Etc., etc.

The movement trajectories of all objects, no matter how big or small, fast or slow, have trajectories and paths.

It is impossible for a person to stand in a house and then suddenly disappear from the house and appear outside the next second.

This is not realistic.

People always have to go out through the door or climb out of the window, and they always have to go through a certain path to reach their destination.

"I can understand the concept of continuity you mentioned." Lin Xian said:
"Instead, I am more curious... What does a [discontinuous motion] look like?"

"Is such that."

Liu Feng raised the ball of paper in his left hand and clenched it tightly with his hand, making it invisible.

Then, he stretched out his right hand and opened it for Lin Xian to see——

Inside, a small ball of paper appeared.

"Then, the next exercise." Liu Feng pointed to his left foot, where another small paper ball appeared:

"That's how the space-time particle moves."

"Its movement trajectory is not continuous, but rather jumpy. It suddenly disappears from one place, and then immediately appears from a place not too far away! It moves forward in a flashing manner. To put it in easy-to-understand terms in the game..."

"[This space-time particle is not running or flying, but is constantly flashing forward. Its trajectory is not continuous and is very jumpy.]"

flash……

Lin Xian naturally understood that this was a common skill in online games, and it was very appropriate to use it to describe the movement trajectory of space-time particles.

"You mean." Lin Xian tried to organize his words:

"That space-time particle is heading towards the Earth, but in fact its trajectory is not a straight line, nor a curve. In fact, it has no trajectory at all. It keeps flashing, flickering, going up and down, left and right, and jumping forward in a way that is completely inconsistent with the laws of physics."

"Yes." Liu Feng nodded heavily and gave Lin Xian a thumbs up, you are awesome.

"Then how do we capture this!"

Lin Xian felt it was too difficult:
"If we use a robotic arm to attach this rice cooker to capture space-time particles, we always need to see it and predict its subsequent direction based on its trajectory before we can capture it."

"This kind of up and down jump is just like Brownian motion... No, it's a flickering motion that's even more extreme than Brownian motion. There's no way to predict the trajectory of space-time particles. Isn't it too much of a matter of luck to capture it?"

"【That's why we need to make the space-time particles inactive.】"

Liu Feng pointed at the rice cooker and explained to Lin Xian:
"Use the robotic arm to hold this rice cooker to capture space-time particles. Even if there is no time to close the lid, as long as the space-time particles enter the rice cooker... even for a moment! It will lose its activity... that is, the characteristics of flickering, flashing, and jumping."

"The space-time particles will still move, but they will no longer jump. Instead, they will have a trajectory. In this case, it will be much easier to capture them. I know you must think that if this rice cooker is designed to be larger, the success rate of capture will be higher, but no, even if it is slightly larger, it cannot completely inactivate the space-time particles... It will become inert, but it will still flicker and jump, and the effort will fail."

……

Lin Xian picked up an electric rice cooker, which was also a space-time particle capturer, from the ground.

It is indeed heavier than an ordinary rice cooker, but not too heavy. It seems that Liu Feng's physical fitness needs to be improved... He stays in the laboratory every day without exercising, and he is almost powerless.

"understood."

He looked up at Liu Feng:

"So, you specially sent the space-time particle catcher here today, thinking of assembling it on the aerospace plane's robotic arm first, so that Gao Yang can adapt and train in advance."

"That's what I meant." Yellow Bird said:

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon. February 2th is the Spring Festival. It's only a few days away. Liu Feng predicts that the time when the space-time particles will reach the Earth's atmosphere is probably the end of March, and the height of the atmosphere is accurate to the suborbital space between 10 kilometers and 10 kilometers. Time is running out, and it's time for Gao Yang to start training the robotic arm."

"Gao Yang is right. He is the most crucial person in the whole operation, and he is also the ultimate insurance. Even if all our plans are perfect, if the robot arm does not operate properly and fails to capture the space-time particles, all our efforts will be in vain."

"That's why I asked Liu Feng to work overtime to complete the space-time particle catcher ahead of time. I plan to assemble it on the aerospace plane's robotic arm in the next few days, and then install another one on a 1:1 robotic arm simulator. I will let Gao Yang train with it to make sure he doesn't let me down."

"That fat guy... is it really okay?" Liu Feng frowned:
"It doesn't look very reliable."

"It's okay. After all, Gao Yang is just a front-stage operator and the ultimate insurance." Huang Que smiled and looked at Lin Xian:

"If possible, it would be safer to let your friend secretly operate the robotic arm and give Gao Yang a cheat."

Liu Feng blinked in confusion:

"Isn't Lin Xian's friend Gao Yang?"

The yellow bird shook his head:
"It's another friend."

Liu Feng suddenly woke up, feeling a throbbing sensation:
"It can't be me, right?"

"..." Huang Que ignored the sentimental Liu Feng and looked up at Lin Xian:

"You know who I'm talking about, right?"

Lin Xian nodded:
"I know."

……

"That's right, this Yellow Bird is an expert! She even knows of my existence!"

Night, early morning, 00:43. VV saw Lin Xian wake up through the camera on her phone and talked to him using the electronic alarm clock:
"I've been thinking about it for a long time and I can't figure it out. Kevin Walker didn't even notice me, so how did she know I existed?"

"She's too shameless." Lin Xian rubbed his eyes and sat up from the bed:

"Don't worry about this question. She knows a lot of things. I don't know how she knows them. I suspect she is a time traveler, but I don't have any evidence."

"Her eyes are quite strange."

Electronic alarm clock VV said:

"Those are indeed human eyes. They are not mechanical eyes, electronic eyes, fake eyeballs, cosmetic contact lenses, etc. They are made of flesh and blood. But the strange thing is that eyes of this color do not exist on Earth. If you insist that it is a genetic mutation, then I have nothing to say. After all, there have been people with four hands, conjoined twins, and two hearts on Earth. Genetic mutation is not a strange thing."

"But! An isolated case is very abnormal! There are billions of people in the human race, and so many people have lived and died in thousands of years of history, but there has never been any record of another person having eyes like Huang Que, so... from this point of view, she may not be a normal person."

"But if you think so, then there is a problem. Even if she is a time traveler, she is essentially a human with flesh and blood. Why does she have such crystal blue eyes? Such eyes are outliers in any human group in any time and space, any dimension, or any parallel world."

Lin Xian waved his hand:
"Ah, I don't think this kind of thing is important. Compared to other things, the color of the eyes is the least worth mentioning mystery about the yellow bird."

"Let's not talk about this for now."

He walked to the table in the dormitory, poured himself a glass of boiled water from a cold cup, and drank it with his head tilted back.

thump.

Putting the empty cup on the table, Lin Xian sighed:

"In my dream just now, I still didn't see the airship of Taim Bank in the sky."

"This is so weird..."

He frowned:
"I called Brother Wang yesterday and he said the factory has already started producing hafnium alloy safes and that the lease contract for the business premises of Taimu Bank has been signed. I told Brother Wang not to rent it but to buy it directly, since there is plenty of money in the company account anyway."

"It stands to reason that this has become an irreversible anchor, right? On the night I founded Rhine Company, the second dream became the third dream; but now, Wang's Tam Bank has progressed halfway, why can't I see the airship in the fourth dream? What went wrong?"

"I still think the same as before, Lin Xian."

VV's voice was very calm:

"[Perhaps, your dream... Strictly speaking, the fourth dream is not real. It is very likely that the enemy has used it, or built a virtual world studio in advance to trap you and make it difficult for you to distinguish between truth and falsehood.]"

"They won't make this virtual studio too fake. After all, you're not stupid. If it's too fake, you'll definitely notice it. But fake is fake after all, so they're afraid that you'll notice something wrong, so they arrange for you to be surrounded, electrocuted, and handcuffed to a chair, limiting your range and time of movement."

Lin Xian spread his hands:
"I didn't deny it, so I'm trying to verify it. The only coordinate point that can go from now in 2024 to 2624 is the Taimu Bank. I can only find the Taimu Bank and the safe with my name on it in the fourth dream before I can proceed with the next plan."

"According to what you said before, the enemy will be able to read my memory in the future, right? Then they have learned from my memory that Brother Wang is going to establish the Taimu Bank, and they also know what I told Brother Wang about using airships to advertise over the city on every 100th anniversary."

"Since they knew all this, why didn't they create it in dreams? If it's true as you said, my memory is transparent and dreams are false."

"It's very simple." VV said:

"Lin Xian, do you know what the batch of safes that Brother Wang has not yet built look like? Do you know what the trademark font of Tam Bank looks like?"

"I've seen it in the first dream and the second dream." Lin Xian replied.

"At that time, Brother Wang didn't know you, didn't have as much investment as you did, and didn't have your kindness. Now the cause and effect, the future development path, and many possibilities have changed. Can you guarantee that the safe made by Brother Wang will be exactly the same as the one you saw before? Are the logo details the same?"

Lin Xian was speechless for a moment.

This is indeed a blind spot.

He nodded:
"What you said makes sense, but I have one more thought - if my dream is a false simulation of the world 600 years later, then outside this virtual world, there must be a real world 600 years later, which is the world where those enemies live."

"So! Brother Wang's Taimu Bank will open sooner or later, and it will definitely open next month or the month after next, and it will last until 600 years later. Even if the enemy can't find the style of the hafnium alloy safe in my memory, they can always find Taimu Bank in the real world 600 years later, right? Whether it's the logo, trademark, or safe style, they can all be copied directly into my dream, without having to extract my memory at all."

Hey……

Electronic alarm clock VV sighed:

"That's why I said that your fourth dream was wrong and unreasonable."

"I've told you before, based on my understanding of the butterfly effect of space and time, the airship of Tam Bank should have appeared in your fourth dream a long time ago, just like the sky city in the third dream. That's normal and in line with the logic of space and time."

"Your fourth dream is really very strange... I suggest that after you capture the space-time particles this time, you should implement the plan to verify the truth of the dream as soon as possible. Anyway, by then, Brother Wang's Time Bank should have been established. It just so happens that we can also use the space-time particles to zero-calibrate Liu Feng's [Space-Time Clock]. While verifying the truth of the dream through the Time Bank, we can also use the space-time clock to detect the change in the curvature of space-time at the same time, killing two birds with one stone."

Lin Xian nodded.

It can only be this way.

In the past half month since he came to the astronaut secret training base, he would meet the mysterious old man in his dreams every night and check to see if the Tam Bank's airship appeared in the sky.

No.

Never saw it once.

Is there something wrong with my own laws of time and space? Or is there something wrong with Wang Ge's Taimu Bank?
But for now...

The Yellow Bird's strict selection proves that there is nothing wrong with the laws of time and space;
On Wang Ge's side, the opening of Taimu Bank is also a foregone conclusion;

It seems that all the things that are wrong point to a terrifying answer:

[Your dream may be a fake, a photo studio built by the enemy specifically for you. ]

"We must find a way to break the impasse."

Lin Xian said:

"VV, I still stick to my opinion. The laws of space and time are correct, and space and time elasticity does exist. The reason why the Tam Bank has not appeared is indeed because a space and time anchor point that cannot be reversed has not yet been formed."

"I can't figure out the specific reasons and details of the judgment right now. But let's wait a while. When Wang's Tam Bank actually opens for business in reality, the Tam Bank's airship should appear in the fourth dream, right?"

"By then... I will find a way to carry out the next step of my plan. I will use the hafnium alloy safe with my name on it in the Taimu Bank and put a note inside to thoroughly verify the truth or falsehood of the dream!"

The electronic alarm clock VV thought for a while and said softly:
"Lin Xian, the evolution over the past few months has increased my intelligence and thinking many times. Compared to when you first activated me, I am much smarter now."

"But even so, I have used up all my computing power, but I still can't figure out how to implement your plan, and what content should be written on your little note to meet your requirements--"

"[When your memory is completely transparent, and the enemy can open the safe before you do and directly copy an identical fake for you to see... you can still understand the truth of the dream world the moment you see the contents of the note.]"

"I combined these premises and reasoned and calculated billions of times. No matter what method I used, the conclusion I finally came to was impossible! It's impossible to achieve! This is even a self-contradictory paradox and a game that is bound to lose."

"unless……"

VV paused and laughed helplessly:

"Unless, a miracle really happens."

dong dong.

suddenly!

There was a knock on the door in the quiet early morning!

Lin Xian suddenly turned his head and looked at the voice-activated light that lit up outside the dormitory door:

"Who?"

"Lin...Senior Lin Xian, are you still awake?"

Chu Anqing's cautious voice came from outside the door:

"I just passed by the door and heard you on the phone..."

The numbers on the electronic alarm clock jumped and turned into an emoji of 0_0.

"Oh."

Lin Xian said to the outside of the door:

"I had insomnia today and couldn't sleep, so I called my friend in Donghai to chat."

He just finished speaking.

The phone on the table suddenly lights up!

Imitate his voice and play the following sentence at full volume:
"【Would you like to come in and chat?"

"Fuck!" Lin Xian quickly threw his phone into the quilt to cover it, and cursed softly:

"VV what are you doing!"

"Eh!?"

Outside the door, Chu Anqing was obviously panicked by this voice that was hard to tell whether it was real or fake:

"Can...is it okay?"

Click!

The fingerprint lock on the dormitory door pops up directly!

The light from the voice-activated lamp in the corridor slowly spread through the crack in the door...

(End of this chapter)