Genius Club.

Chapter 321: The Three Laws of the Millennium Pile (Additional chapter for the leader Guangying Bingyan KP!!)

After saying goodbye to Zhang Shi and leaving his house, Lin Xian and Gao Yang walked quickly to the elevator and pressed the button to the first floor:

"So, you see, Chu Anqing's disappearance has nothing to do with the contact with the space-time particles, including the space-time particles themselves! There is no connection at all!"

"These are two completely independent things! Now we can figure out Lin Xian. When Chu Anqing was capturing the space-time particles a few days ago, no matter if she touched the space-time particles or jumped on the plane...even! Even if she didn't come to participate in this event and went back to school honestly, she would definitely disappear on time at 00:42!"

"However, when she turned into blue stardust, she was probably in the dormitory, which would have scared her roommates... In other words -"

“楚安晴本身就是千年桩，和时空粒子没关系。无论她在哪、无论她干什么，都阻止不了她会在年满20岁的当天、2024年3月28日凌晨00：42分准时化作蓝色星屑消失，这一既定事实任何事情都改变不了！”

Before the elevator door closed, Gao Yang gave his excited summary.

"Yes."

Lin Xian nodded:
"Zhang Shi should not have lied. Judging from Chu Anqing's condition, the reaction after touching the space-time particles was quite intense. You also saw that Chu Anqing only touched the space-time particles for a moment, and she screamed on the spot, bleeding from her nose, holding her head in great pain, crying and shouting."

"If Zhang Yuqian really touched the space-time particles, it would be impossible for Zhang Shi and Yan Qin not to notice such a violent overreaction. And according to Zhang Shi's description, the family of three were talking and laughing in the car at the time, and Zhang Yuqian did not behave abnormally at all. Since there was no overreaction, it can be confirmed that she should not have been touched by the space-time particles."

"So, from now on, we can rule out the possibility that Zhang Yuqian disappeared because of contact with space-time particles... Just as you said, whether it is Zhang Yuqian or Chu Anqing, whether they are exposed to space-time particles or not, it will not affect their fate of disappearing at 20:00 when they are 42 years old."

"That makes sense. Otherwise, a space-time particle would appear on Earth every twenty years or so. There would be no need to fight over it like we did last time, right?"

"And we have already verified it last time. The space-time particle will not take the initiative to find Chu Anqing. It simply ignores everyone. How could it take the initiative to find Zhang Yuqian?"

Ding--

The elevator door opens on the first floor.

Lin Xian and Gao Yang walked straight out and hurried towards the exit of the community.

This trip is really worth it.

Now we have collected a lot of key clues, and by comparing the Chu Anqing incident and the Zhang Yuqian incident, analyzing the similarities and differences, we can draw many accurate conclusions -

First, the first one.

[The formation and disappearance of the Millennium Pile has nothing to do with space-time particles; these are two completely independent things.]

Lin Xian witnessed the disappearance of Chu Anqing a few days ago. Because all the unusual things happened after he touched the space-time particles, it caused some interference to his judgment.

But fortunately, there was Zhang Yuqian as a sample, and Uncle Zhang Shi told Lin Xian the truth of that year in detail, so he was able to deduce the absolutely accurate conclusion above.

On January 2000, 1, Zhang Yuqian turned into blue stardust and disappeared without touching the space-time particles and without any signs or abnormalities.

This is probably the correct way to drive the Millennium Piles.

Silently.

Quietly.

Without the help of any external force or any external objects, you can complete the piling independently and lock the history.

of course……

The locking of history is currently just Lin Xian’s guess.

It is very likely that this guess is correct, but I still don’t understand how a thousand-year-old pile that disappeared and a 20-year-old girl who disappeared could lock down history?

Then, what will happen after history is locked?

These are all issues to be explored in the future.

Currently.

Judging from the situation of the Millennium Pile, Zhang Yuqian is the real, qualified, and on-schedule Millennium Pile.

But look at Chu Anqing.

Because she accidentally touched the space-time particles, something unexpected happened.

She must have awakened some memory, or realized some truth and answer at that moment.

She not only knew clearly that she would die at 00:42.

and.

She also knew many other things, many remarkable things, which even made her very confident to write a small note to herself... telling herself that as long as she opened this small note in the dream world 600 years later and read the contents on it, she would know the truth and falsehood of the world.

"After Chu Anqing touched the space-time particles, she must have gained some memories. That's why her reaction was so exaggerated and violent. Although I'm not sure what kind of memories Chu Anqing gained... this must have been caused by the space-time particles. Moreover, Huang Que may not have known that the space-time particles would affect the Millennium Pile before this."

Passing by the pavilion and small square in the middle of the community, the two of them quickly glanced at the old lady peeling pomegranates and continued walking towards the entrance of the community.

After listening to Lin Xian's words, Gao Yang added:

"Huang Que probably really didn't know that Chu Anqing gained memories after encountering the space-time particles. Because you see, Huang Que was also very panicked at that time. It was obvious that it seemed to be the first time she saw the Millennium Pile come into contact with the space-time particles."

"I remember now. It was Chu Anqing who kept crying and questioning Huang Que, and Huang Que asked doubtfully, "You know everything?" This shows that the situation at that time was beyond Huang Que's cognition! In fact, I feel that many things in the space-time particle capture plan that day seemed to be beyond Huang Que's expectations, and there were all kinds of unexpected situations."

Lin Xian nodded:
"But one thing is certain, Huang Que must have known that the Millennium Pile can see the characteristics of space-time particles. This is why she deliberately brought Chu Anqing on the aerospace plane but did not assign her a specific task."

"This also further confirms that when Zhang Yuqian disappeared on January 2000, 1, there were indeed no space-time particles around. Otherwise, even if others couldn't see it, Zhang Yuqian would definitely be able to see it. This is now a real hammer."

"Not only that, Huang Que also knew that the Millennium Pile would dissipate at 20:00 on her 42th birthday. This is also obvious. She knew long ago that no matter whether Chu Anqing touched the space-time particles or not, she would definitely disappear at 00:42, so she shouted at that time, saying that I don’t need to save her... because she will disappear sooner or later, so why save her?"

Suddenly.

Lin Xian recalled what Huang Que had said.

The woman said that if this space-time particle was lost, the future, the world, and everything would become terrible.

Therefore, in order to change all this, she planned such a desperate and dangerous space-time particle capture plan.

The yellow bird may have only seen space-time particles and known about space-time particles before... but had never caught a space-time particle, at least not this one.

The same reason.

Huang Que has seen the Millennium Pile, knows that the Millennium Pile can see the characteristics of space-time particles, and knows that the Millennium Pile will disappear at 20:00 on her 42th birthday...but she doesn't know what will happen after the Millennium Pile touches the space-time particles. This not only deviates from the history she knows, but also exceeds her cognition.

"No wonder……"

Gao Yang snorted coldly:
"No wonder Huang Que agreed so easily to Chu Anqing's going out of the cabin to capture the space-time particles. Wasn't this her original plan? She knew that Chu Anqing would disappear anyway, so she didn't care about Chu Anqing's life or death at all. She just wanted to use Chu Anqing to capture the space-time particles!"

“Oh, that’s hard to say.”

Lin Xian patted Gao Yang on the shoulder and advised him not to think about the past anymore.

No one knows what Huang Que's original plan was.

On the bright side, Huang Que might have brought Chu Anqing here just to be on the safe side. After all, if Gao Yang had put in some effort and caught the space-time particles directly, why would Chu Anqing have to take action?
Thinking about the worst case scenario, Huang Que might have already known that Gao Yang could not be caught and the space-time particles would become transparent and invisible, so the only way to catch the space-time particles was to let Chu Anqing go out of the cabin to capture them.

"It's all in the past, Gao Yang. Huang Que may have done something wrong, but it was essentially for my sake. So let's not dwell on it and look forward."

The two walked out of the community, hailed a taxi, and prepared to go back to the hotel to rest.

"you say……"

The two of them sat in the back seat of the taxi. Gao Yang turned his head and looked at Lin Xian:

"What memories did Chu Anqing awaken in her mind after encountering the space-time particles? It can't be Zhang Yuqian's memories, right?"

Lin Xian shook his head:
"I'm not sure, and I can't guess. But I think that the memories she awakened should be a lot, and they are very crucial. Zhang Yuqian's 20 years of life were too monotonous and simple. It should not be enough for Chu Anqing to write that little note to me so confidently."

"But this question is not important, because when I see the contents of the note in the future, I should understand. Just as Chu Anqing said at the time... I will definitely understand. I believe her."

"So, let's stop thinking about all that and focus on summarizing the conclusions about the Millennium Pile."

talking.

In his mind, Lin Xian deduced a second conclusion about the Millennium Pile based on the known clues:

[Since the disappearance time of the Millennium Piles is fixed and cannot be changed... that means the interval between the driving of the Millennium Piles is a stable 24 years.]

So, if we drive a thousand-year stake every 24 years...how long will it take?

Is it really going to take a thousand years?

That's not necessary...

Is a thousand years long?
Not to mention on a cosmic scale, even on an earthly time scale, a thousand years is not a very long time.

If we really count based on 1000 years.

One pile is driven every 24 years.

How many times should I fight?

"1000 divided by 24..." Lin Xian was doing mental arithmetic.

"42."

Gao Yang blurted out:

"If it's not divisible, round it up to 42. If it's 1008, it's divisible by 24, so the answer is 42."

Lin Xian looked at Gao Yang in disbelief:

"You're really fast at calculations."

"Isn't it often calculated when buying a car..." Gao Yang laughed:
"I do multiplication and division of 12, 24, and 36 every day, calculating interest and rate... I've done it so many times that I've memorized it."

【42】

Lin Xian did not expect that this mysterious number would appear again out of the blue.

If the Millennium Pile really wants to last for a thousand years, it does not have to be exactly 1000 years. 1008 years can also be called the Millennium Pile, which is allowed in conventional grammar.

not to mention……

The name of the Millennium Pile itself is not Millennium Pile. This is a word created by Huang Que.

But it is original creation, not random or blind creation.

Since the yellow bird chose the thousand-year-old pile instead of the hundred-year-old or ten-thousand-year-old pile, there must be a special meaning for it.

Take this into account.

It is not impossible that the Millennium Pile is a pile that is driven once every 24 years, and is driven 42 times in total, with a total duration of a thousand years, which can lock up a total of 1008 years of history!
But this, too, is speculation.

It is still completely groundless and just a random guess for fun.

……

Lin Xian's thoughts continued to return to the accurate inference regarding the Millennium Pillar.

In addition to the above two inferences, we can also draw a third and final obvious inference:

[In reality, the Millennium Pile will exist in the form of a human girl. She will grow up like a normal girl, be born at 00:42, and dissipate at 20:00 on her 42th birthday, completing a pile drive. Moreover, each Millennium Pile looks exactly the same.]

This is the third inference.

It is based on factual reasoning and is absolutely correct.

But who exactly was the first Millennium Pillar, and who was the first girl in history who looked like this... Lin Xian wasn't sure, but it was definitely not Chu Anqing.

From this, it is not difficult to infer that CC is definitely a thousand-year-old pile.

“I don’t know when CC was born, nor do I know how old she is.”

Lin Xian thought to himself. If...

如果CC的出生日期，是2604年8月29日00：42的话……

That's true, everything just happened to coincide with each other.

自己的梦境，总是准时在2624年8月29日00：42分被白光毁灭。

and so.

How does white light come about?
If CC was really a thousand-year-old pile, then she should be the one who turned into blue stardust and disappeared! Why would she kill herself with white light? Burn the whole world?
This is also something that Lin Xian doesn’t understand.

The main reason is...

He still doesn't know what the white light in the dream was.

Depending on the different imaginations, the explanations are also different, and Lin Xian is not sure which one it is.

Maybe the white light didn't mean the world was destroyed, but he was killed, or the dream simply ended, or some other reason.

This is another case of not being able to see the true face of Mount Lu because one is within the "light cone" of the mountain.

Because he was destroyed by the white light.

and so.

He could never not know what the world is like after the white light, what the world outside the white light is like, what is the reason for the white light, and what is the purpose?
Lin Xian, who is "inside the cone of light", is destined to never find the answer.

"Just take it one step at a time."

Lin Xian felt that he was thinking a little too far ahead. Now his fourth dream was still stuck.

After I finish dealing with various matters in the East China Sea, I will have to find a way to revive VV, and then officially go to war with Kevin Walker and start a new round of cat-and-mouse game.

Once Kevin Walker is successfully eliminated.

The self in the fourth dream may be able to move freely and be liberated as promised.

At that time, there are two things to do first.

First, go to the Tam Bank 600 years later, open your safe, take out the small note Chu Anqing left for you, and see what is written on it in order to understand the truth of the dream.

Second, find a way to find CC, ask about her birth time and age, and then confirm that she is a thousand-year-old pile, and further clarify the relationship between her and Chu Anqing.

“These are all long-term plans.”

Lin Xian murmured softly.

If only my dream could last just one second longer...

If it could be extended for just one second, he would be able to see whether CC had turned into blue stardust and disappeared.

suddenly.

Lin Xian was stunned.

Slowly open your eyes.

Is it...

My dream ended at such a coincidental time...

Was it just to prevent him from seeing the moment when CC turned into blue stardust and disappeared?

It's impossible to dwell on this kind of thing.

It’s just hard to believe why so many events and so many coincidences all occurred at 00:42?

The more I think about it, the more unreal it seems. The more I think about it, the more terrifying it becomes.

squeak----

The taxi brakes.

"Let's go, Lin Xian, we're at the hotel now. Let's take a rest and then catch the plane back to Donghai."

Lin Xian nodded.

He and Gao Yang got out of the car together, walked into the hotel and entered the room.

……

Gao Yang ordered a bunch of takeout and ate and drank to his heart's content.

Lin Xian took a hamburger and a Coke, and ate them on the coffee table chair on the balcony. Then he was still in the old position, half lying on the back of the chair, holding the password diary in his hand, constantly turning the password wheel, trying the passwords one by one by exhaustive method.

After this period of hard work.

The password is within reach.

It also made him regret several times...If he were to crack someone else's code book again, he would definitely start from 0000 instead of going back from 9999.

It's really such a rip-off.

In my hand, the four-digit combination wheel has reached 1979.

Lin Xian pressed the lock with his right thumb.

Click.

Not open.

Like a conditioned reflex, the thumb pushes the wheel upwards.

The password becomes 1978.

Click.

It’s not open again.

"I suddenly remembered Lin Xian!"

In the room, Gao Yang turned around with a large lump of food in his mouth and puffed up his cheeks:

"Since the Millennium Pile is driven every 24 years, it means that before Zhang Yuqian, there was another girl! There was another girl who looked exactly like Chu Anqing."

Click.

The password diary in Lin Xian's hand was not opened again:

"Isn't that obvious? The last time the Millennium Pile was driven was in 1976."

Lin Xian lowered his head and found that the combination wheel of the diary lock in his hand happened to spell out the password 1976.

He pressed the lock hard.

Click.

Still not open.

"Haha, let's see how long you can hide."

Lin Xian couldn't help laughing now. It was wrong, so what? There were less than 2000 password combinations left. How long could the correct password be hidden? Even if it was 0000, it could only be hidden 2000 times at most.

I have endured such a long period of brute force cracking, so why can’t I endure these last thousand or so?
Lin Xian continued to look up.

Keep trying the passwords by rubbing the password wheels one by one.

Click.

Click.

Click.

Over there, Gao Yang and his friends wolfed down the food in their mouths, finally swallowing the one in their mouths, and then picked up another one:
"Tell me, can we find out who the girl who looked like Chu Anqing was who disappeared in 1976?"

"You will never find it. Don't even think about it."

Click.

Click.

Lin Xian continued to try the combination lock.

The numbers above continue to get smaller.

1961,

1960,

1959,

……

"1976 is too long ago. You have to know that Longguo only started to implement the first generation of ID card system in 1984. Although it is a bit inappropriate to say this, the only thing that could prove a person's existence in that era was a crude household registration book, and there was no photo on it... So you definitely can't find Chu Anqing in 1976."

"Not to mention, you have to consider the possibility that he was born abroad. This time it might just be a coincidence that two consecutive thousand-year-old piles appeared in China. There are too few samples now, so it is not impossible that a thousand-year-old pile was born abroad."

Lin Xian thought of CC.

She said that she was born abroad, in Brooklyn, USA.

Click.

Click.

The code wheel in his hand continued to slide.

Gao Yang sighed and wiped his mouth with a tissue:
"So, when will this thousand-year pile end? Even if we really want to drive a thousand-year pile, there must be a beginning, there must be a first pile, right?"

"1976... 24 years before that... was... 1952!"

1952?

Lin Xian blinked his eyes. This year seemed strangely familiar.

this is not……

Is this the year when the realist painter Henry Dawson painted Einstein's portrait in Brooklyn and created "The Sad Einstein"?
Lower your head.

On Zhang Yuqian's combination-locked diary, the four combination wheels just happened to form the combination of 1952.

Lin Xian hesitated.

Press your thumb up -

Click.

There was a crisp sound.

The combination lock of the diary that has been closed for 24 years...

Open as soon as you hear it!

(End of this chapter)