Genius Club.

Chapter 322 Return to Chu Shanhe

Lin Xian took a step back.

Looking at the eight shiny combination wheels under his nameplate on the locked safe:
20240328
These eight digits formed a date, which was Chu Anqing's 20th birthday, and also the day she turned into blue stardust and disappeared.

In fact, until he planned to set a password today, Lin Xian had never thought about what kind of password to set.

He simply thought that it would be enough to set a complex password.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if it’s simple.

Because safes are meant to protect you from nobles but not from villains, if your dream is a fake, forged studio by the enemy, then the enemy will definitely be able to crack the hafnium alloy safe by exhaustive methods within 600 years, see the contents of the small note in advance, and copy a copy for you.

It doesn't matter what the password is.

What is important is the content on the note, and the fact that you need a safe as the location coordinates to ensure that you can see the note 600 years from now.

Because of this, he never thought about what the password should be.

but……

Just when I was about to close the safe.

He thought about many things.

I thought of Chu Anqing.

I thought of the girl who had dared to jump out of a plane for me, and how she disappeared into pieces as blue stardust.

20 is old.

It is her birthday and also her death anniversary.

I didn't even have the chance to say happy birthday to her, nor did I give her a birthday present.

Before she could even see the first rays of sunrise at the age of 20, she disappeared mysteriously.

After investigating the Millennium Pile for some time, Lin Xian intuitively felt that Chu Anqing must not be dead yet.

She just disappeared, she didn't die!
In this magical world, there are all kinds of magical things and all kinds of magical powers.

Since time, space and cause and effect can be reversed, why can't Chu Anqing, who disappeared, come back?

Lin Xian won't give up easily.

He must find those who have driven the thousand-year stake:
"Give Chu Anqing back to me!"

Original,

Completely good,

It still goes back to March 2024, 3, to the moment when I grabbed her hand in the sky, to the moment when I landed, opened my space suit and saw her smile.

This is an impulse that comes from deep in my bones.

He did not hesitate, and even felt it was natural, to dial the eight code wheels to this date.

He had thought about it just now.

If this is the closed loop of history, then why didn't he set this password? Wouldn't that destroy the closed loop?

But the problem is...

Brother Wang said that this password cannot be changed once it is set.

Would he use the precious space-time particles and the small note that Chu Anqing sacrificed everything for, to verify such a meaningless thing?
He is unwilling.

To him, it doesn’t matter whether history is a closed loop or not.

But at this moment.

Lin Xian believes that only by using this date as the password can he be worthy of Chu Anqing's efforts and the hardships he has endured for the past 600 years.

No wonder I couldn't guess the password before...

Even if I knew that it was Chu Anqing's birthday.

But it was neither the year of her birth nor the year she turned eighteen, but the ordinary age of 20.

Who would take a 20th birthday so seriously?

Not to mention……

He didn't even know Chu Anqing before the MX celebration party, and he didn't pay much attention to this lively and cheerful junior high school girl.

"We'll see you over there."

He whispered, stretched out his right hand, and completely scrambled the eight code wheels. Finally, he looked back at the hafnium alloy safe filled with secrets and time:

"【I will find you.】"

Lin Xian turned around and strode towards the code door on the alloy wall.

Click.

Outside the door, Brother Wang opened the door and greeted Lin Xian:
"Oh, that's fast. Many customers take a long time to think about their passwords. After all, once a password is set, it cannot be changed. Everyone is very cautious and wants to set a very meaningful password that is worthy of a time capsule."

"There are even more people who have considered the possibility of sleeping in a hibernation capsule in the future. Isn't it said that the hibernation capsule has the side effect of amnesia? When you wake up, you have no memory of anything, not even who you are. How can you convince yourself who you are and that the things in the safe have special meaning to you?"

"This is also a very hot social issue right now. As hibernation chamber technology becomes more and more mature, the problem of memory loss has become a major concern for many people."

"So many customers consider that the password must be set to a number, date, or code that is very important to them... so that when they open the safe after losing their memory, they can understand how important and precious the things inside are to them."

……

Lin Xian also heard a little about what Brother Wang said.

Now Xu Yiyi has already slept in the hibernation cabin, and the first batch of volunteers recruited by the Longke Institute have also gone in, and they seem to be in good condition.

I believe that after a few rounds of experiments without any problems, the first generation of mass-produced hibernation cabin will be released.

Sleeping in a hibernation capsule and traveling to the future world in disguise is indeed a very attractive thing. But besides this surprise, the problem of amnesia and how to restore memory has also become the hidden danger that people are most worried about.

Many people naively believe that:

"Write a diary! Then just read it when you wake up!"

"Prepare a few more hard drives to store recordings, take more videos, and watch them again after you wake up."

"Take turns hibernating with a trustworthy person. After waking up each time, the other person will tell him the original memory, and then take over to sleep in the hibernation chamber."

have to say.

This kind of thinking is too taken for granted.

Not to mention that human memory is extremely complex, extremely fragmented, and also contains emotions that cannot be simply recorded in diaries and videos.

Sociologists say that the biggest problem facing memory recovery is...

【trust】.

Once a person wakes up from hibernation, his brain is blank and he will instinctively sense danger, reject all good intentions and malice, and trust his own judgment more than anyone else.

At this time, you give him a diary and tell him that this is what you wrote before and your memory, so he should take a look at it and get into the role as soon as possible.

No one will believe it.

At that time, he had lost all his memories, and when he looked at the diary that he had written carefully, he felt it was boring, uninteresting, and had no sense of immersion. He didn't want to read it at all.

He would not so easily accept these memories that others gave him, even if he had once written them down.

The same goes for videos.

People with blank brains have a strong sense of self-protection and will instinctively resist all of this.

Even if you trust someone before hibernation, he or she will be a stranger after waking up from hibernation. The trust issue is very difficult to resolve.

And if the most basic trust cannot be achieved, how can those memories from outside the body be restored to the brain?
Not to mention……

If you think about it, there are many other things that can happen, such as memory fraud and memory modification. In martial arts novels, there are many plots where someone loses his memory and recognizes the thief as his father. Considering that the hibernation chamber will cause the brain to completely lose its memory, this situation is not impossible to happen in reality.

As science fiction products such as hibernation capsules get closer to real life, people around the world are becoming more and more concerned about this.

They are more worried about losing themselves than losing their property after hibernation.

They were afraid that after waking up, several men in black would hand them a diary and a videotape:

"This is your memory, get into character and come with us! It's time to get to work!"

This is indeed a bit scary.

It also made many people give up the curious idea of ​​sleeping in a hibernation cabin.

After all, there are thieves and bad people in every era. If they can defraud money now, they will be able to defraud memory in the future. They will directly instill a false memory in you and let you use it for their own purposes.

Therefore, under this premise, many people began to have sudden ideas and find a way out for their memories and a real guarantee.

Brother Wang had told him before that many customers who bought safes were preparing for hibernation in the future. They wanted to leave the most authentic memory backup in the safe, and then find a way to let themselves know the password after waking up.

This step is difficult... and contradictory.

But there is no other way. Facing the coming of the hibernation era, everyone must be prepared. "Times are changing, Lin Xian!"

Brother Wang smiled and patted Lin Xian's shoulder, then hugged him and walked out:

"Do you think I should sleep in a hibernation chamber and then wake up hundreds of years later to see if the Taimu Bank still recognizes me as the founder?"

"If you really have this idea, I support it." Lin Xian said bluntly:
"I can pay for all the expenses for you."

"Hahaha, I'm just kidding!"

Brother Wang waved his hand:
"I won't sleep in a hibernation chamber. I can't bear to leave my family and friends... This era is pretty good. Who knows if the future will be better or worse? What if there's a war?"

Chatting, the two walked out of Tam Bank.

Brother Wang went back to continue his work.

Lin Xian sighed and got into the Alpha business car again.

Since returning to the East China Sea, I have been running around, doing a lot of things, and finishing a lot of things. And now... I am finally going to do the most difficult thing.

The electric door closed, and Lin Xian looked at the driver in front:
"Go to Chushanhe Manor."

He paused:

"Drive slower."

……

After one hour.

The Alpha business car drove directly into the manor. Lin Xian got off the car in front of the door and came to the door of the entrance room.

I raised my fingers several times but failed to press the doorbell.

finally.

He gritted his teeth.

Press it!

Ding-dong-

The ding-dong sound was particularly harsh, like a knife stabbing into Lin Xian's heart.

After a while, the door opened.

It’s Su Xiuying.

His eyes were red, his eye bags were swollen, and there were traces of tears on his face that had just been wiped away.

"Aunt Xiuying..."

Lin Xian shouted softly.

It seems.

Chu Shanhe and Su Xiuying obviously already knew about Chu Anqing's affairs.

But how did they know?

It doesn’t matter…

Su Xiuying's swollen eyes showed that she had been crying for a long time.

Lin Xian felt so guilty that he clenched his fists:

"I'm sorry, Auntie."

Su Xiuying wiped her eyes and pointed to the living room inside:
"Shanhe is waiting for you there... He knows you are coming."

Lin Xian nodded.

Went in.

He had already made all kinds of mental preparations and didn't mind telling the truth to any questions from Chu Shanhe.

It was he who lost Chu Anqing, and he must take responsibility for it.

He walked into the living room with footsteps.

The burly man sitting on the sofa stood up upon hearing the voice... He seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and was no longer as tall and strong as before, and his back also looked much slimmer.

Chu Shanhe slowly turned around and looked at Lin Xian with frowned eyes.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Chu."

Lin Xian lowered his head:
"I'm sorry...I didn't protect An Qing well."

A distance of five meters.

Chu Shanhe stood there, not moving.

He let out a breath:

"Lin Xian, I don't blame you."

Hear this.

Lin Xian couldn't help but grit his teeth.

My heart ached.

Chu Shanhe, as expected, said the words that he could not bear the most.

Even if he was beaten or scolded, he would feel much better than hearing these words.

"The day after An Qing's accident, a woman named Huang Que came with the leader of the national aerospace department."

Chu Shanhe looked at Lin Xian, his voice a little hoarse:
"It seems that the woman brought the head of the aerospace department just to increase the credibility of her words. She called me to the tea room, just the two of us, and she told me what happened to An Qing, and...you jumped out of the plane and saved An Qing."

"She said a lot of things I couldn't understand, but I knew the result anyway... My daughter disappeared. You clearly grabbed her hand in mid-air and brought her down with you, but An Qing disappeared out of thin air, without a trace. Nothing was left."

"I asked her a lot of questions, but she couldn't answer many questions. I was very angry, but after all, it was me who allowed An Qing to participate in this space mission. I knew there would be dangers, and I also knew that An Qing did an amazing thing."

"But Lin Xian... Which father can stand such a thing? Finally, after I asked her angrily, the woman named Huang Que said that you have already investigated the matter. She said that you will investigate this bizarre matter thoroughly and will come to me on your own initiative to give me a reply and an answer."

Chu Shanhe's voice was very soft.

Lin Xian had never heard his voice so light.

It’s not as confident as before, nor as powerful and majestic as before.

After a pause, Chu Shanhe continued:
"So, I haven't contacted you these days. I couldn't help but call you several times, but I finally held back."

"Lin Xian, since I am willing to entrust my daughter to you, it means that I trust you. I have always admired you and regarded you as my own child. So I also believe that you will definitely come here to find me, you will definitely investigate all of this and then tell me an accurate answer."

Lin Xian slowly raised his head and met Chu Shanhe's gaze.

"Lin Xian..."

Chu Shanhe continued:
"The moment you jumped off the plane at an altitude of 20,000 meters... you had already fulfilled your promise to me. So you don't have to feel any guilt now. You can face me with a clear conscience."

"I, Chu Shanhe, have been in the business world for so many years and have seen a lot of things. I also know that there are many phenomena in this world that cannot be explained by science. I am more accepting of these things than your Aunt Xiuying."

"I believe every word you say, and I believe you are a responsible man. So Lin Xian, I only have one question for you."

Chu Shanhe looked directly into Lin Xian's eyes, into his soul:
"My daughter, is she dead or alive?"

Lin Xian's eyes were firm, and he spoke word by word:
"Alive."

"Then where is she!" Chu Shanhe shouted.

Lin Xian took two steps forward.

Walk in front of Chu Shanhe.

Facing this sad but strong father:

"Mr. Chu, I don't know where An Qing is now."

"But I promise you with my life and everything I have."

He placed his right hand on his chest and looked up at Chu Shanhe:
"[No matter where she is, no matter who she is now. No matter the ends of the earth, no matter the long river of history, even if it is every corner of time and space and the universe——]"

Lin Xian gritted his teeth, his eyes were sharp:

"【I will definitely find Chu Anqing back for you!"

……

Chu Shanhe tensed his body, clenched his fists, and took a big step forward.

He stretched out his broad right palm and pressed it heavily on Lin Xian's shoulder:
"As a man, you should keep your word and do what you say."

He frowned and looked at Lin Xian:

"I'm waiting for you... to bring my daughter back!"

(End of this chapter)