Genius Club.

Chapter 467: Dream 9

Chapter 467 The Ninth Dream
beep.

suddenly.

The time-space clock on the experimental table made a slight sound. Liu Feng turned back suddenly as if by reflex, rushed over quickly, picked up the time-space clock with both hands and shouted:
"Lin Xian! Look!"

Lin Xian also hurried over.

The numbers on the space-time clock...are constantly rising!
0.0000210,

0.0000252,

0.0000294,

"Still rising!"

The two stared at the time and space clock face.

The space-time clock, which had been calm for three months, suddenly rose rapidly at a constant speed!
Waited patiently for a while.

Watch the numbers on the dial keep changing.

but.

There is absolutely no sign of stopping!
0.0001092,

0.0001134,

0.0001176,

……

"My God."

Liu Feng took a breath and blinked:
"The world line has continued to rise by more than 20 scales! What...what does this mean?"

He frowned.

unimaginable.

In the previous world line jumps, the changes in space-time curvature were very small, basically increasing or decreasing by 0.0000042, just two or three minimum scales.

Even in the craziest case, the jump of the world line would never exceed ten scales.

But now...

During the few seconds he was thinking, the world line continued to rise, rising by more than a dozen scales!

"This……"

Liu Feng scratched his head:
"With such a huge change, is humanity... the future... the world... destroyed? Or is it that the change this time is even more earth-shaking than a true overturn! Even more earth-shaking than starting over from scratch!"

"When will the reading change? It won't go beyond the decimal point, will it? This is really crazy!"

at last.

Shortly after Liu Feng finished speaking.

The numbers on the time-space clock stopped ticking, and were locked in a constant state.

【0.0001764】

Lin Xian pulled a chair and sat down in front of the experimental table, staring at the set of numbers with extremely exaggerated changes.

no doubt.

Since the numbers on the space-time clock are changing, it means that the curvature of space-time is changing, the world line is changing, and the dream world is changing synchronously.

From this moment on...

The repressed eighth dream disappeared.

One's own dream becomes a brand new ninth dream.

"Why is the change in time and space so great this time?"

Liu Feng also pulled a chair over and sat down next to Lin Xian:
"To be able to trigger such a powerful space-time butterfly effect... there must be a very important change anchor point! Could it be... that the scientist you brought back from Africa invented the brain nerve electric shock helmet?"

"probably not."

Lin Xian shook his head:
"I'm in frequent contact with Du Yao. She has just coordinated the lab and equipment, so the progress can only be considered as the beginning."

"And Du Yao also said that her graduation thesis was completely based on random guesses. It's not easy to really find a breakthrough in the laboratory."

These words were said by Du Yao herself.

She told Lin Xian that if she hadn't had the reverse inspiration from that genius work, the "Cranial Nerve Electric Shock Helmet Manuscript", she really didn't know when she would be able to research the breakthrough that Lin Xian wanted.

That manuscript was equivalent to giving her the final answer directly, and she just needed to make the process match it.

But even so, it will definitely not work without a few months.

"However, to be on the safe side, I'd better give Du Yao a call."

Lin Xian picked up the phone and contacted Du Yao.

as predicted.

There is still no progress on Du Yao's side.

He hung up the phone.

This means that this drastic change in time and space has nothing to do with Du Yao and must be caused by other reasons.

Other reasons…

Lin Xian thought of that kind and gentle woman——

Miss Da Vinci.

The eighth dream is the future dominated by Miss Da Vinci.

Now that this dream and this world line have disappeared, it is probably related to her behavior.

At present, there should be two possibilities:
1. Miss Da Vinci listened to her own advice and completely abandoned the plan of mechanical androids; just like Jask abandoned the plan of immigration to Mars, so the future trajectory changed and the world line jumped.

2. Miss Da Vinci had a problem, which caused her future plans to be stranded. For example... someone killed Da Vinci!

Think of this.

Lin Xian shuddered.

According to the original development trajectory of the world line, Miss Da Vinci should have had the last laugh and at least lived for several hundred years.

What went wrong?

Where did the turning point occur?

What was the opportunity [outside the trajectory] that led to Miss Da Vinci's death?

Lin Xian closed his eyes.

Various logics, clues, and fragments in the brain are constantly intertwined and overlapped, and finally pieced together into the most likely puzzle piece...

"[Is it because of the information I exchanged with Miss Da Vinci after the party?]"

perhaps.

This is the only possibility.

Normally, it would be impossible for Miss Da Vinci to know what happened in 2024 in 2624.

When other members of the Genius Club asked questions, Einstein would refuse to answer;
Miss Da Vinci herself would never ask this question and expose herself.

That's the only variable.

It can only be yourself.

He stood up.

Come to the Rhine Laboratory cabinet air conditioner.

He pulled off the fan blades, aimed the air directly at his head, and quickly analyzed the various possibilities.

If Miss Da Vinci is really dead.

Who could have killed him?

After analyzing the members of the Genius Club one by one, Lin Xian found that except for himself and Jask, all other members could not escape suspicion.

Thinking back to when the last party broke up.

Faced with his request to keep Leonardo da Vinci, he thought Galileo would say a few words or stay to join in the fun.

But it was unexpected.

Galileo said nothing.

He just turned his head to look at Lin Xian, then disappeared silently from the VR virtual hall and exited the meeting.

murderer.

Could it be him?

Lin Xian shook his head, not quite sure.

There are too few clues now.

It is better to wait until we have investigated the Ninth Dream and understood what the future world will be like before making any conclusion.

"I go first."

Lin Xian waved goodbye to Liu Feng:
"Contact me if there is any situation. If you can't contact me, contact Yingjun."

Say it.

He walked out of the laboratory, got on a special car, and returned to Zhao Yingjun's home.

Fill the Pomeranian VV’s bowl with dog food.

Then simply wash up.

Getting ready for bed.

The eighth dream ended rather hastily.

Fortunately.

90% of the engineering drawings of the time-space shuttle have been copied back, and the remaining 10% do not involve the core parts, have a very low weight, and can also be replaced by other solutions.

Anyway, this thing can't be used until 2234, so it doesn't matter if there is only one last drawing left to copy. There are plenty of ways to make up for it.

What he cares about most now is...

Now, in the future world of the ninth dream, who is leading the future?
Will it get better? Or worse?
Can he still meet his former partners, friends, Emperor Gao Wen, and even Big Face Cat’s father, Emperor Chen Heping?
"No matter what, no matter how the world changes, CC will definitely be there."

Lin Xian closed his eyes on the pillow:

"After the eighth dream, CC has one more memory fragment, and she also knows how important Emperor Gao Wen and Emperor Chen Heping are to me."

"If she can come to Donghai earlier this time, she can not only get information about the hafnium alloy safe in advance, but also establish good relations with Gao Wen and Chen Heping in advance, helping me save time and advance the progress."

"Anyway, when you are in doubt, look for CC. After entering the dream this time, go to the most conspicuous place in the entire East China Sea to look for CC."

Say it.

He turned over.

gradually.

Falling into dreamland...

……

call……

It's the familiar summer breeze again, and the scorching heat of the sun comes in an instant.

heat.

This was a heat I had never experienced before.

It’s not the sweltering heat of the city, nor the stuffiness of the tropical jungle.

But the kind of...

Without any shelter, it is directly exposed to the scorching sun at noon.

In almost an instant, sweat began to break out on the forehead.

It was eerily quiet all around.

In the distance, one can hear the incessant chirping of cicadas, but there is no sound of any human activity.

Footsteps,

Speech sound,

Traffic sound,

Broadcast sound,

Wait a minute, nothing.

"What kind of world is this?"

Lin Xian took a deep breath and opened his eyes——

Ruins, ruins, broken walls and muddy roads. It must have rained last night. Weeds are growing wildly everywhere, just like the scenes in a doomsday movie where people survive a disaster.

Look around...

The surroundings were eerily empty.

"Where are the people? Where is the city?"

He turned around, looked around, and looked behind him.

Although many ruins can be seen, there are no tall buildings blocking the view, and the flat land is clearly visible, stretching far into the distance.

But even in the farthest distance that could be seen, there were no protruding buildings or landmarks, as if... as if...

[It's as if someone took an eraser and wiped Donghai City off the map. ]

Or, it was like the time when Gao Yang kicked the mess on the sofa, sweeping away all the mess, leaving only the bare ground.

"It seems that the future world has become worse."

Lin Xian said softly.

He walked around casually, trying to find a place to hide from the scorching sun.

But the sad discovery...

Even such a humble idea cannot be realized.

All the broken walls and ruins he could find were no higher than his head and were completely unable to provide any shade.

Lin Xian walked forward.

Touch the relics.

It was reinforced concrete, to be sure, with rusty steel bars sticking out from every corner, curving like tentacles.

hard to imagine.

What kind of disaster could destroy a modern city so completely?

It is definitely not the super disaster in 2400.

If Donghai City was really destroyed in 2400, then more than 200 years have passed and these steel bars would have rusted into ashes long ago.

But now I am bending these steel bars in my hands, and I find that they are still very hard.

This incidates that……

The ruins of this city did not remain for long.

"So, where are the people? Where are the people?"

Lin Xian temporarily gave up his research on the city ruins and planned to find the indigenous people and living people to ask about the situation first.

then.

Enduring the scorching sun, Lin Xian wiped the sweat off his face and ran on the flat ground.

He finally found the remains of a building as tall as possible.

Climb up.

Climb high and look far.

Although he squinted and looked as far as he could.

But as far as the eye can see…

Indeed, there were no camps where humans lived or gathered.

What should I do?
Even if he ran desperately for 12 hours, the area he could search would be very limited and it would be unlikely to be farther than what he could see.

“How do we find the indigenous people?”

Lin Xian was in trouble.

I walked aimlessly for a long time again, but still gained nothing.

"Too strange."

He scratched his head:

"Where is the long-lasting big-faced cat?"

Lin Xian didn't feel uneasy about not being able to see CC.

After all, CC was not born in Donghai, she came from faraway Brooklyn, USA.

Lin Xian can understand if the backward technology and transportation methods prevent CC from crossing the sea.

but!
If he couldn't even find the big-faced cat, Lin Xian would be really panicked.

From the first dream at the very beginning, all the way to the eighth dream that just disappeared.

Except for the fourth dream realm that I didn't have the chance to explore...

Big-faced cat has never missed any future:
In the first dream, he was preparing to rob a bank in the square;

In the second dream, he was collecting property fees at Old Donghai;

In the third dream, he parachuted into the Sky City from a high altitude;

In the fifth dream, he was the village chief and was in charge of Face Village;

In the sixth dream, he and Gawain were digging in the excavation site;
In the seventh dream, he, as the village prince, assists the blue-eyed village chief;
In the eighth dream, he performed steadily as the leader of the Face Gang in Sin City.

Whatever the dream.

The big-faced cat will hang around the place where it was born, so it is not difficult to find it. In many cases, it will even come to you on its own initiative.

But now.

Looking out over an area of ten kilometers in radius, it was all flat land, with no towns or villages to be seen. The big-faced cat couldn't possibly live underground, right?
"We need to find a way to explore further afield."

That first.

A fast means of transportation must be found.

Lin Xian began to wander around in the ruins of the city.

It feels like there must have been a super natural disaster like an earthquake or tsunami, or a devastating war here.

Otherwise, it would be very difficult to truly raze a reinforced concrete city to the ground.

As the exploration scope increases.

Lin Xian made more discoveries.

There are many wild animals hiding in the ruins of various buildings, including rabbits, wild cats, wild dogs, and mice...

The fact that these wild animals can proliferate here also indirectly shows that there are indeed no signs of human activities in this large area.

In addition, he also found some traces of human existence.

rusty beverage bottle caps;
Corrupted plastic toys;
cracked and brittle rubber tires;
as well as……

Half a stainless steel dinner plate.

Facts have proved that in the face of time and years, stainless steel is the real king.

When Lin Xian dug it out of the soil.

The top half is rusted, but the bottom half is still intact, so it's half.

“These things are meaningless.”

This day's exploration of the dream basically ended in failure.

The next day, Lin Xian went to bed on time at noon and continued to look for clues.

Day 3

Day 4

……

Gradually, Lin Xian really discovered some treasures.

He took back what he said a few days ago:
“Stainless steel is not the king, hafnium alloy is!”

He dug in an area and found several shiny silver miniature nuclear batteries in the shallow layer!

The shell of this battery is made of hafnium alloy, which is stable and durable, and can be called a doomsday artifact.

Lin Xian also figured out the approximate time of the apocalyptic disaster through the production date engraved on the outer shell.

The production dates of these micro nuclear batteries are 2401, 2533, 2574 and 2598 respectively.

These time points can explain a lot of things.

First of all, since there is still stable production of micro-nuclear batteries in 2401, it means that -

[The super disaster in 2400 is highly unlikely to happen. ]

"Good thing."

Lin Xian nodded:
"This is the only good news among the countless bad news at the moment."

"But the bad news is... the disaster seems to be delayed but will never be absent. At some point in time after 2598, a similar or even more tragic disaster will occur."

Since miniature nuclear batteries can be dug out from the shallow soil in this area.

Then, we should be able to dig out more valuable things.

For the next half month, whenever Lin Xian fell asleep, he would immediately run to this area and start digging with homemade tools.

There is indeed an illusion of doomsday archaeology.

Most of what he dug out was worthless, either rotten or rusted. Moreover, he had limited tools and could not dig deeper.

By digging up more and more micro nuclear batteries, Lin Xian also obtained more production dates, and nuclear batteries produced in 2599 were also dug up.

but.

The most recent production date is 2599; Lin Xian has been digging for so long but has not found any items produced after 2600.

"so……"

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes:

"Can we simply speculate——"

"This world-destroying disaster happened in the year 2600?"

It stands to reason.

2600 is only 2624 years away from 24.

If it was a normal natural disaster or war, the city ruins should not be destroyed so completely.

That is to say.

[This super disaster in 2600 is definitely caused by humans, and the degree of destruction to human civilization and surface cities... is far greater than the disaster in 2400 in the previous dreams! ]

"Is it still Galileo?"

Lin Xian frowned:

"Or... someone else?"

No clues.

There is no intelligence.

Lin Xian could only continue searching in the ruined city.

Hard work pays off.

He finally dug out a motorcycle powered by a miniature nuclear battery from a corner by chance.

What a blessing.

This motorcycle, which was produced in 2597, 27 years ago, is still usable.

have to say.

Future technology has greatly improved product quality.

What puzzled Lin Xian was...

"As early as the Second Dream, people had already developed flying motorcycles. Why are humans still using land motorcycles in the Ninth Dream until 2597?"

"Doesn't that mean that until the great disaster in 2600, human technology will start to stagnate?"

Think of this.

Lin Xian couldn't help but feel a little confused.

[Why does the level of human science and technology always fail to achieve the leap and development it should have? ]

That is the future world now.

Who will lead the future?

After Lin Xian started the motorcycle, he was eager to find a local to ask, and he wanted to find the Big Face Cat Gang that was more stable than the Millennium Pile.

but.

The exploration lasted until the end of October, a full month.

He drove his motorcycle over a radius of hundreds of kilometers, but still didn't find a single living person, let alone any trace of human life.

That day, he rode at full speed for ten hours, covering a distance of at least 1000 kilometers...

still.

Got nothing.

Clang.

Lin Xian let go of the motorcycle and let it fall to the ground.

He stood on the vast but uninhabited land, and as night was about to fall at 00:42, he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

Unrealistic.

Not true either.

If there are really still humans alive in this world, it would be impossible not to find any clues in such a large area.