Genius Club.

Chapter 411 The best of times
What kind of future...

Is this the best future?

Lin Xian was stunned for a moment when he saw the last question that popped up.

When he was asked to choose whether humanity still had a future in the multiple-choice question just now, he was determined and clear-minded, and he believed that humanity definitely had a future.

but.

When it came to the second half of the question, Lin Xian felt as if he was being questioned by his soul and couldn't answer a single word.

yes……

[What kind of future is the best future? ]

Lin Xian really couldn't come up with an accurate answer.

Up to today, he has experienced a total of six dreams, which means he has witnessed the future of six world lines.

In the future of the first dream, although the level of technological development is severely restricted, at least urban life is still there and people live and work in peace and contentment.

In the future of the second dream, although there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and the old and new Donghai City are separated by a high wall, people inside and outside the wall do not disturb each other and live their own lives, so everything is peaceful.

At that time, Lin Xian felt that the future of the first and second dreams was not good, as if they were controlled by the invisible black hand of history...

But when compared with the third, fifth, and sixth dreams, the difference is obvious. No comparison, no harm. Only by comparing can we know how happy the future of mankind is in the first two dreams.

and so.

Let’s go back to the last question about the Genius Club.

What kind of future is the best future?
Lin Xian let out a breath.

He walked back to the sofa, sat down, closed his eyes and began to daydream.

He is clear about the future that Jask and Kevin Walker expect.

Jask believes that the best future is probably that humans migrate to Mars, and then use Mars as a springboard to continue to develop interstellar travel technology, gradually leading humans to leave the earth and fly into the vast universe.

Kevin Walker believes that the best future is that all humans are transformed into digital life forms, stored in a server the size of a city, using minimal resources to maintain the existence of human civilization, and everything lives in a virtual world.

Lin Xian didn't know how other members of the Genius Club answered this question, but Jask and Kevin Walker's answers were roughly the same.

Kelin string.

up until now.

I haven't thought about this matter carefully.

His original plan was to wait until he joined the Genius Club and found out what this group of people were doing and what their purpose was before deciding on his future battle direction.

I never thought that I would have to answer this question before joining the genius club.

“It was a bit unexpected.”

Lin Xian said softly.

He knew that the third question was a subjective question and there was no standard answer. As long as his answer made sense and he could express his own ideas, it would be fine.

we can even say.

The real questions in the Genius Club exam are only the first two, and the third one is definitely an easy one.

But maybe…

The third question is the most important one for the members of the Genius Club.

because.

The first two questions are answered to the "examiner" to prove the candidate's ability and qualifications.

The third question is to be answered to "yourself". The purpose is to enable every member joining the genius club to face their inner selves and strengthen their beliefs.

From this perspective.

Lin Xian had to admit that each of the three test questions set by the Genius Club had its own reasons and significance.

Broadly speaking.

Lin Xian just believes that the future world in the first dream is relatively the best.

Although the level of technology has not developed for more than 600 years.

But for daily life, it is actually enough.

The faces of the people in the square and in the city are filled with satisfaction and happiness. They don't care much about whether technology develops rapidly. Most people are concerned about daily necessities. Things that are too far away and high-end are illusory to them.

Ever since he copied the hibernation chamber filling fluid into reality, the most basic fairness of birth, aging, sickness and death has been destroyed, and the future world has become worse and worse.

"So...actually, everything originated from the appearance of the hibernation chamber."

Lin Xian opened his eyes on the sofa.

Let’s take Jask and Kevin Walker as examples.

Even though both of them are recognized geniuses, they both have grand goals and dreams.

However, the limitations of human lifespan are there...

Limited by the speed of technological development.

If the hibernation chamber had not appeared, Jask would never have been able to visit Mars in person; Kevin Walker would definitely not live to see the day when the super server appeared.

Death, for human beings, is the fairest cruelty and the cruelest fairness.

“But is there anything wrong with technological development?”

Lin Xian asked himself this question.

The emergence of hibernation capsules has brought about some inevitable social problems.

But it has saved many lives, allowing people like Zheng Xiangyue and Wei Shengjin, who should have died from the disease, to recover healthily; at the same time, it has also provided great scientists like Gao Wen with the possibility of traveling through time to support future scientific research.

The existence and appearance of any thing has two sides, and there is no absolute right or wrong.

This made it even more difficult for Lin Xian to decide...

in case.

You really need to set a "closed loop", a "goal", and a "future you want to achieve" for yourself...

What should that look like?

He yawned.

I've been busy all day today and I'm really tired.

"Let's go to sleep first and explore the Seventh Dream."

Lin Xian stood up and went to the washroom:
"Let's see if I can find any clues about July 7 in this dream. Maybe the established history has changed."

"By the way...if we can find the source of Yan Qiaoqiao's memory recovery, we can solve this matter once and for all."

"Let's think about the answer to the third question tomorrow. It's a subjective question anyway, so there's no correct answer."

Although I knew that even if I wrote nonsense, it would not affect my joining the genius club.

But Lin Xian still planned to be cautious.

not to mention……

The answer to this question is indeed very important to me.

So far, there are only three driving forces that drive him to join the genius club:

1. Find out the truth about the Millennium Pile and bring Chu Anqing back.

2. Understand the answers to a series of mysteries, find out the purpose of the Genius Club, what your dreams are, and what the white light at 00:42 is.

3. Take revenge when there is revenge, find out who killed Copernicus, and fulfill the promise to Angelica to help her find the murderer who killed Ji Lin's parents.

These are short-term goals.

There is no long-term plan.

Through the previous discussion with Liu Feng... Lin Xian also wanted to find the most perfect future world line, and then lead the curvature of space-time in that direction.

That was before this.

It is indeed necessary to figure out what kind of future can be considered the best future.

"I just hope... the world of the Seventh Dream will not become worse than the Sixth Dream."

Brushing teeth.

Looking at himself in the mirror with his mouth full of toothpaste foam, Lin Xian felt helpless.

Every time, when he wanted to make the future world a better place.

They will almost certainly backfire and make life in the future world worse.

This is vividly reflected in the big-faced cat.

Originally, Big-Faced Cat had a home.

I made it all the way to the seventh dream realm.

He lost his home, his sister-in-law, his younger brother, and even the clothes to cover his body... Only a piece of rag was left on his body.

"It can't get any worse, right?"

Lin Xian rinsed his mouth, spit out the toothpaste foam, and prayed for Brother Lian:

"Everything has its limits. Brother Lian has been extremely unlucky. It's time for him to bounce back this time."

Wipe your face clean.

With anticipation for the seventh dream and blessings for the big-faced cat, Lin Xian turned over on the bed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

……

……

call……

The long-awaited summer breeze arrives.

The nose is filled with the aroma of soil and the pleasant smell of green leaves.

My ears are filled with the loud chirping of cicadas and the singing of birds all around.

very nice.

Lin Xian hasn't opened his eyes yet.

You can feel that this is at least a peaceful era.

Take a deep breath of the quiet air.

Lin Xian opened his eyes——

"Huh?" "Eh?"

As far as the eye can see, Lin Xian found himself in a vast rice field.

The rice is growing well, neatly and densely, obviously it is a large-scale cultivation.

And the reason why Lin Xian made the sound...

It was because the moment he opened his eyes, he saw a familiar old friend standing in front of him! The other party was also surprised to see Lin Xian suddenly appear:
"What are you worried about?"

He was a tall foreigner with a beard, but he was wearing a large vest and a straw hat, a mix of styles.

Lin Xian looked at his clear and simple eyes and immediately recognized who he was:

"Smith, the great villain!"

"Shift!"

The foreigner spat:
"You are the biggest scapegoat! Your whole family is the biggest scapegoat!"

He spoke fluent Longguo dialect, which made Lin Xian feel out of place, as if he was watching a Chinese-language movie:
"You are always Smith then?"

"Yes, that's me."

Smith picked his nose:
"Who are you?"

"..."

Lin Xian was speechless and didn't know how to communicate with Smith in the correct way.

His accent and grammar are so messed up.

Sometimes he speaks in Northeastern dialect, sometimes in Henan dialect, and sometimes in Face English. Who taught this student? He can't speak in a silly accent all of a sudden, can he?
"Speak!" Smith was anxious. He took a step back and pointed the sickle in his hand at Lin Xian:

"Don't think I'm a good guy, I'm Shu Daoshan!"

"Alright, alright."

Lin Xian reached out to stop him from speaking:
"That's enough, Smith. You speak Dragon Country very well, even too well, but you should take a break first."

Out of the rice fields.

Lin Xian stepped onto the dirt road next to him, stomped his feet, and looked around.

Ok……

About two kilometers away, you can see a village, which should be where the residents gather.

Overall, it is not clear what the world view of the Seventh Dream is.

But since Smith the Unjust can farm comfortably here, it means this world is not bad. Even if it is not a peaceful and prosperous country, at least everyone can be self-reliant and have food to eat, and it is not like the slave society in the Sixth Dream.

But two kilometers is too far.

Instead of going over there to understand the world view, it is better to communicate with Smith here.

Although his Longguo dialect was mixed with accents from various places, provinces and cities... but no matter what, it was all Longguo dialect and Lin Xian could understand it.

What's more, if you really go to the village, you may not know anyone there.

It would be better to try to get some money from Smith the Big Unlucky here.

At least the two have met.

In the sixth dream, in the underground hibernation base of the deep pit excavation site, the big-faced cat would always wake up Smith's hibernation chamber first; then when Smith woke up from the hibernation chamber and was dragged to dig the soil with a confused look on his face... the blue-eyed girl would almost wake up.

then.

Lin Xian walked back to the rice field and looked at Smith, who was standing straight with his eyes wide open like a fool.
"Smith, you should have woken up from the hibernation chamber, right?"

Smith was stunned:
"Yeah, how did you know that?"

"When did you wake up?"

Lin Xian asked:
"Can you tell me what happened after you woke up? I'm in the same situation as you were at the beginning, and I'm also quite confused... If you're willing to tell me, I might be able to remember a lot of things."

"It's been more than ten years since I woke up from the hibernation chamber."

Smith straightened his straw hat and told the story in detail:
"After I woke up, I was unfamiliar with the place, but a group of Dragon people were very warm to me. They took care of me, gave me food and water, and showed me the Memory Notebook that I left before hibernation, which let me know some basic information about myself..."

"Unfortunately, there are too few things recorded in the notebook. Most of my previous memories are stored in the video storage hard drive. That thing can't be played now, so I don't know much about the details."

"Then I settled down in Donghai. The villagers were very kind to me. They found me a wife, built me ​​a house, and gave birth to a baby. I have lived a very happy life over the years... I don't really care about the memories of the past. I am quite happy living a leisurely life like this."

Smith gestured with the sickle in his hand:

"If I hadn't seen you suddenly appear in my field and wanted to see what was going on, I would have gone home to eat by now when the sun has set and it's dark."

……

Lin Xian silently listened to Smith's story about his life after waking up from hibernation. A few pieces of the worldview puzzle gradually came into his mind, and he continued to ask:
"Smith, will the Earth's super disaster still exist in 2400? Do you know anything about the super disaster?"

"I know, I know!"

Smith nodded:

"I've heard about a super disaster... It's said that various natural disasters destroyed most cities in the world and almost wiped out humanity. Then there were wars and famines. It wasn't until decades later that humans stabilized and gathered together to reproduce and develop technology... Then it became what it is now."

"Are you still busy? If you are, I will go home for dinner. My wife is waiting for me."

Having said that, he put away his sickle and hoe and left.

"Hey, don't panic."

Lin Xian grabbed the handle of his hoe and smiled slightly:
"Can you take me back with you? Let me have a meal."

Smith narrowed his eyes and looked at Lin Xian suspiciously:

"Where on earth are you from?"

"I do not know either."

Lin Xian spread his hands:
"I am now in the same state as you when you just woke up from hibernation. From what you described, there aren't many people left in the world now. We are all compatriots... ahem, okay, although you are a foreigner, you have completely naturalized. Your accent almost captures the essence of half the Dragon Country, so you can be considered half a Dragon Countryman."

"When fellow villagers meet, let's do each other a favor. Take me to your house for a meal and see if the village can take me in."

After ten years of domestication, Smith has apparently been infected by the traditional virtues of the Dragon Kingdom, which are hospitality, kindness and simplicity.

After hearing the word "fellow villager".

It only took two seconds to complete the self-strategy, and nodded:
"Okay, it's time for dinner, come home with me."

that's it.

Lin Xian helped Smith carry the hoe, and they walked on the ground dyed red by the setting sun, on their way home.

Along the way, Lin Xian learned a lot of history from Smith.

all.

Let’s start with the super disaster in 2400…

There is definitely no Turing in this seventh dream.

Jask still followed the original history and planned the immigration to Mars early, leading a group of people and hibernation capsules to Mars before the super disaster in 2400.

Subsequently, the super disaster occurred as expected in 2400, and the prosperous human civilization on Earth was almost wiped out, with more than 95% of the population dying.

Decades of war and famine followed, which were the same settings as the fifth and sixth dreams.

the difference is……

When the war and famine stopped, the remaining humans on Earth began to reproduce and rebuild civilization.

The reconstruction process went very smoothly this time.

Mainly due to two products:

There are massive amounts of miniature nuclear batteries buried underground, and underground hibernation bases scattered around the world.

A large number of humans from the old era are sleeping in these hibernation bases.

After they woke up, they recovered their memories through the notes left behind and also had strong learning abilities.

With them as the core and leader, the human beings on Earth quickly united and began to rebuild their homes and climb the technology tree again under the leadership of these hibernating humans.

After hearing this, Lin Xian roughly understood why the civilization of the Seventh Dreamland recovered so quickly.

Although humans can no longer dig Turing out from underground.

But they can recruit talents like Emperor Gawain!
Even if Gawain remembered nothing after waking up, he had notes and a brain. What couldn't he learn or study thoroughly?
With such intellectuals leading the way, civilization recovered very quickly indeed.

In the sixth dream, Turing certainly knew much more knowledge and technology than Gawain, but Turing's energy was all focused on fighting and internal friction, and they only regarded humans as tools and consumables... and would not wholeheartedly lead humans to advance in technology.

But intellectuals like Gao Wen are different. They are human beings themselves, and of course they can unite closely with the human beings on Earth to jointly seek development.

Smith told Lin Xian that since humans began to develop climbing technology, they have never fought a war until today, and life has been peaceful and happy.

In his words:
"In terms of energy, we have micro-nuclear batteries, which are inexhaustible; in terms of food, the land is vast and rich, and there is arable land everywhere, so there is more food than can be eaten; everyone is very satisfied, there is no pressure, and they live and work in peace and contentment, and they are happy."

Lin Xian listened and nodded.

This era is unexpectedly beautiful and can be said to be the best era in recent dreams.

Listen to Smith's description of various technologies.

Lin Xian roughly speculated that the current technological level of human civilization has improved a lot compared to the fifth and sixth dreams, and is roughly equivalent to the level of the Second Industrial Revolution.

In fact, the recovery of civilization should have been faster.

The reason is indeed that the population is too small... Population is the foundation of industrial development. Without sufficient population and labor support, industrialization will be difficult.

Fortunately, in this era, steam engines and internal combustion engines have been invented, and many large-scale means of transportation have appeared. Ships and trains are already operating between major cities; as for ordinary low-power household appliances, they all use miniature nuclear batteries, which are inexhaustible.

After a while, the two arrived at the village gate.

Smith instructed Lin Xian:
"Let me make this clear first. You can come to my house for dinner, but whether you can stay in the village depends on the opinion of the village chief."

"clear."

Lin Xian nodded.

He was very familiar with this plot, which happened in almost every dream, so he smiled and said:

"Don't worry, I probably know your village chief. Let me guess... Is your village chief... Zheng Xiangyue?"

"No." Smith shook his head.

"Angelica?"

"No." Smith shook his head.

"Big-faced cat?"

"No."

"Li Cheng?"

"No."

"Uh...it can't be Gawain, right?"

"No."

Lin Xian scratched his head, feeling that he couldn't stop pretending.

It is true that the position of village chief takes turns. Whose family is it this time?

Lin Xian racked his brains but couldn't think of any candidates for village chief among the people he knew.

You can't...

The East China Sea is a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery. I wonder if there are any new characters appearing?

"Who is your village chief?"

"Humph!"

When talking about the village chief, Smith was very proud:

"Our village chief is very powerful! When you meet him later, be careful with your words and be polite, otherwise you will suffer the consequences!"

"Ouch."

Lin Xian was amused:
"Your village chief still beats people? Is he really good at it?"

"Of course!"

Smith gave a thumbs up:

"Our village chief is very powerful! Last time a grizzly bear broke into the village, our village chief smashed the bear's head with one punch!"

"The last time a pack of wolves came in the middle of the night, everyone in the village was scared... but the village chief chased the wolves with a machete! Not a single wolf escaped, and all of them were put into the pot!"

"When the village was building houses, the village chief also personally took part in the construction. He could do the work of ten people alone! He could split such thick wood in half with just one hand! He could tear such thick steel plates in half with just his hands!"

tear……

Lin Xian heard this adjective.

A figure emerged in my mind:
"Could it be that... your village chief is a girl?"

"Yes."

Smith laughed:
"But she is no longer a girl, she should be called a woman. She is a few years older than you! When you see her later, you can call her sister or village chief."

"No."

Lin Xian was not calm anymore. Why was there another generation gap?

"Older than me? Do you have blue eyes?"

Smith took a breath:

"You are incredible... Could it be that you really know our village chief?"

He swallowed and continued:
"The name of our village chief..."

"My name is Yan Qiaoqiao!"

(End of this chapter)