Genius Club.

Chapter 530 Old Man
"Um……"

Lin Xian thought seriously about Jask's crazy plan:
"Sending 22 exploration rockets in 22 directions... If it's within the solar system, it's fine, but on a scale of tens of light years, it's still too remote."

"No, Lin Xian."

Hafnium Alloy Trash Can VV shook his head and poked Lin Xian's knee with his claws:
"The purpose of these detectors is just to observe whether the apocalyptic white light comes from outer space, not to collide with it like playing billiards."

"Since you can see that white light in your dream, it means it is visible light, which should be visible in the universe."

"Just like the stars we see when we look up at night, in fact, the light of many stars came from hundreds or thousands of years ago. Even many of them have collapsed and exploded and no longer exist, but we have to wait hundreds of years before we can see their light go out."

"So, think about it from another perspective. Now we can observe stars hundreds of light years away with our naked eyes. The detection range of the detector can also be hundreds of light years, just like the space telescope."

"As long as these 22 detectors can observe a beam of white light rushing towards the Earth within their detection range, it will prove that Jask's theory is correct."

Jask smiled.

Walk up and touch VV's crown:
"Lin Xian, your artificial intelligence is indeed very smart and likable. I think I have changed my mind."

Subsequently.

He looked up at Lin Xian:

"But you're right. We don't know what the universe is like light years away, and we don't know what will happen."

"It is very likely that these 22 rockets and space-time particles will be wasted meaninglessly."

"But... in scientific verification experiments, the last thing we have to worry about is wasting our efforts. By eliminating failures one by one, we can get closer to success little by little."

"Even if my 22 rocket probes find nothing in the end, there won't be much loss except for some space-time particles. But if one of the probes does detect something, we will make a fortune! Perhaps all the puzzles will have a research direction from now on, and they will not be far from being solved!"

Lin Xian nodded.

This is true.

Ordinary space-time particles are really useless anyway, and Jask's recycling of waste can be said to have maximized the value of ordinary space-time particles.

"You can give it a try. This is indeed a good idea. How are you preparing? When do you plan to launch these probes?"

"It's almost ready."

Jask smiled and said:

"I have been doing this for all these years, and I cannot let you down for your trust in me."

"I will prepare everything as soon as possible, and when the rocket launches, I will invite you to watch it together!"

"Then I won't bother you guys from looking for clues here. I'll go back and get busy with launching the detector. By the way, I'll take Einstein's oven here as well. I also need to quickly entangle the space-time particle inside."

"The entire Old Brooklyn is my territory. I have protected Einstein's underground shelter very well. No one knows about it except the three of us. You can investigate as much as you want here. I'm leaving now."

Jask is always a busy man, coming and going in a hurry.

"Okay, VV, it's your turn to work."

After Jask leaves.

Lin Xian pointed at the network server covered with thick dust behind the platform:

"This is the foundation of the gathering system of the Genius Club. The program and security system were written by Kevin Walker. I think by investigating the information here, we should be able to find out the true identity of Copernicus or Newton."

"Don't worry! Leave it to me!"

VV swivel clip is ready to try:

"Look, I'll find that old bastard for you! Or rather... even without this network server, I can still find Newton!"

"I have not been idle in the past 500 years. My shadow can be found in every robot vacuum cleaner and trash can robot in the world. They are my cells and my eyes..."

"Stop."

Lin Xian quickly stopped VV from showing off and prevented it from setting up another flag:

"You should change your habit of bragging. Aren't you suffering enough? Don't act like you are so powerful only to be defeated in the blink of an eye."

"Catch Noah Road!"

VV let out a ghostly cry:
"Don't underestimate the bond between our trash can and the robot vacuum cleaner, asshole!"

"..."

Lin Xian looked at this drama queen speechlessly:

"Don't you think this cliché from 500 years ago is outdated now? I feel embarrassed for you."

"Oh, you're as boring as ever."

VV was too lazy to pay attention to Lin Xian, so he started the network server and began to crack:
"It will probably take a while to crack the program. You should find a place to rest for a while. You haven't slept since you woke up from hibernation."

Lin Xian yawned:
"I was planning to enter the dream, mainly... I wanted to enter the dream to confirm something."

"What's the matter?" VV asked curiously.

"you."

Lin Xian looked at the shiny silver figure of the hafnium alloy:

"When Einstein disappeared, it did not cause any changes in the world line or the readings of the space-time clock. I can understand that."

"But now, even though you, such a powerful super artificial intelligence, have been resurrected, it has not caused any change in the reading of Liu Feng's time and space clock. I find this very strange."

"It's nothing."

VV disagrees:

"When you copied me out of the third dream and activated me, didn't the dream world change?"

"That's because you were eliminated!"

Lin Xian spread his hands:
"In the predetermined future trajectory, you will be eliminated by the future virus brought by the fake Yu Xi, so of course it will not cause changes in the world line."

"But the problem now is... Cheng Qian has been recruited by us and has become a capable person at Rhine University. You have also evolved into a complete form. Who can destroy you?"

VV's eyes flashed green twice:

"I understand. What you mean is—"

"【You want to go to the Ninth Dream Realm to confirm whether I still exist!】"

"If I were still alive, we could communicate and transmit information across time and space. Even for Jask's rocket probe plan that has not yet been launched, maybe my future self could tell you the answer in advance... Of course, we still have to wait until the irreversible anchor point is formed."

"And if I still don't exist in the Ninth Dream, then that would be a big problem."

Even a smart person like VV couldn't figure out why it disappeared again? Who else has such a great ability?
Lin Xian's words also made it feel a little uneasy.

"Anyway, anyway, go into the dream and take a look."

VV added:
"Can't you find Yang Maimai's hibernation chamber? Yang Maimai is hibernating in an underground hibernation base now. I will leave a copy of my clone in the hibernation chamber's computer. You can try to find me there."

"Alas, I'm not Turing, why would I bother with a clone... Once bitten, one becomes afraid of ropes for ten years. I might as well put a clone in every hibernation cabin computer! I really don't believe that in the next 100 years, there will be someone who can kill me! That's nonsense!"

"Okay, now all the hibernation capsule computers in the world have my backup, including the hibernation capsule where Maimai is sleeping. Go back to your dream and we'll meet over there."

Einstein's underground shelter naturally had a bedroom and a bed.

only……

That is all in the past.

After hundreds of years, any wooden bed will rot and collapse. The only material that can survive the passage of time is hafnium alloy.

Unfortunately, Einstein was a pragmatist and did not have the leisure to prepare a bed.

Looking left and right, the only place suitable for sleeping is the hibernation chamber that Einstein prepared for someone unknown.

"Then I'll sleep in here."

Lin Xian patted the hibernation cabin:
"As long as you don't turn it on and don't cover it with a blanket, it's actually no different from a flat bed. I'll just take a nap here for a while."

Without taking off his clothes, he simply opened the hatch of the hibernation cabin, lay down in it and closed his eyes.

Before, he always thought riding in a hibernation capsule was terrifying.

Now, after two hibernations, I have really gotten used to it. I feel like I can sleep well here, as if there is some magical power.

I glanced at the slim transparent phone on my wrist, which displayed both Dragon Country time and US time. If I fell asleep at this time, it would be just the right time for me to fall asleep.

"Good night, VV. I hope to hear good news from you when I wake up."

Lin Xian closed his eyes.

Gradually fell into sleep.

……

……

……

The ninth dream, underground hibernation base.

The girl opened her eyes tenderly, sat up from the foggy hibernation cabin, and looked at a strange man handing her a manuscript.

On the cover, there are four huge characters "Heaven-Devouring Demon Emperor" written on it.

"This is?"

Maimai widened her eyes.

Just by looking at the name, you can tell how powerful this novel is! I wonder which great author wrote it!
Good to watch! Love it! Want to watch it!

"Take your book and read it aside. I'll use your hibernation chamber to do something."

The man pulled her out, pressed her down on the seat, and handed her the Heaven Devouring Demon Emperor.
"Just concentrate on watching it first, I'll give you electrotherapy when I'm free later." With great anticipation.

Lin Xian stuck his head into the hibernation chamber and looked at the computer that issued instructions and guided Su Xing to perform rehabilitation movements:
"VV."

He called out softly.

however……

No response.

"VV?"

Lin Xian knocked on the thin display screen, making a thumping sound:

"Don't act dramatic when you're doing something serious. If you're here, get out of here. There's something serious to do."

however……

No matter how Lin Xian called out, he got no response.

"..."

Lin Xian felt something was wrong.

The first principle of VV's underlying code is that you cannot be betrayed or deceived, so if VV is playing a meme or joking with you, he will tell you immediately.

That's the situation now.

really.

Just as Lin Xian had predicted before—

"It is very likely that at some stage in this world line, VV was still destroyed. In fact... this time the destruction was even more thorough, not even a single artificial idiot was left."

but.

Who can have such ability?
Lin Xian kept thinking about the dream until he was about to wake up, but he still couldn't figure out what was going on.

As smart and cautious as VV.

How is it possible to stumble in the same place twice?

VV will definitely focus most of its energy on self-preservation and safety in the future. With human intelligence, it seems that the possibility of killing it again, or killing it so thoroughly, is very slim.

He stood up.

Looking at Maimai who was squatting in the corner, concentrating with eyes wide open:

“Is this novel good?”

"Masterpiece!!"

I have read Maimai 800 times, but now it is still a new reader. I clench my fists excitedly:
"This novel got me excited! I can't wait to write one!"

"Uh...you are really persistent."

Lin Xian glanced at his watch and waved to her:
"Bye~"

boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
The wheel of time rolled forward, leaving two ruts that would never be straightened out, just like the ending that would eventually come together... The white light arrived on time at 00:42.

Burn everything.

……

……

……

After opening his eyes, Lin Xian sat up from the hibernation cabin with a worried look on his face.

"What's wrong with you? You look so miserable."

Hafnium Alloy VV moved over on its tracks and looked up at Lin Xian:

"Your worries are written all over your face. Could it be that... you still won't be able to find me in your future dreams?"

Lin Xian nodded silently:
"Indeed, I didn't find you. You disappeared completely, just like erasing a blackboard. Not even a trace of artificial intelligence was left."

"cut!"

VV was dismissive:
"Even if you wipe the blackboard, it's impossible to wipe it clean without leaving any traces. In this world, how can there be such an absolute thing as leaving traces behind?"

“Don’t tell me, I really can’t think of anything that can kill me! Even when the time traveler Yu Xi fought against Killer No. 17, the blue snow covering the entire Donghai City didn’t kill me…”

"Although both me and the future virus were completely wiped out in Donghai City when the time-space bomb exploded, we both have backups all over the world and all over the Internet. We can return to Donghai City in an instant, and there will be no impact at all."

"Hundreds of years ago, many apps on mobile phones had cloud backup functions, not to mention super artificial intelligence like me. As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. You don't know how many life boxes I bought for myself in the past few days! I guarantee I won't die!"

?

"Wait a moment."

Lin Xian suddenly jumped out of the hibernation chamber and walked quickly to VV:

"The blue snow you mentioned is the one on July 2024, 7 when Yu Xi turned into a time-space bomb and exploded?"

"correct."

VV tilted her head:
"When else can it happen? Isn't it just this time?"

"Zhao Yingjun once told Yu Xi this story. I was listening to it at the time, but she didn't have the nerve to tell Yu Xi that you two were pregnant before marriage, so she added a little bit of artistic processing to it."

"No, no, no, now is not the time to talk about this."

Lin Xian waved his hand to interrupt VV and got to the point:
"I always thought that the space-time explosion had no effect on you or the future virus. It just killed the travelers who didn't originally belong to this space-time."

"I didn't expect that you and the future virus couldn't escape this time-space explosion. But...but this doesn't make sense. I typed you letter by letter. You were born and raised in this era. How could a time-space bomb kill you?"

He thought quickly and paced in place:

"This matter is too illogical."

"Let me summarize. That space-time explosion blew Space-Time Killer No. 17 into ashes, recharged the two space-time particles that had lost their energy, and completely eliminated you and the Future Virus within the scope of Donghai City."

"That is to say, although we don't understand the exact mechanism of the space-time explosion, the result is that it treated VV and the future virus as foreign objects that did not belong to this space-time and destroyed them."

"But here comes the contradiction. Let's not talk about the future virus for now. VV, you can't possibly have any extra-temporal attributes or the attributes of a time traveler. You should be immune to the explosion of time and space like all other things in this world."

"I think this probably means one thing—"

Lin Xian raised a finger and said seriously:
"[The principle of the time-space bomb is not to destroy, but to correct!]"

"correct?"

VV was a little confused, but her mind worked quickly:

"You mean, the essence of the space-time bomb is not to destroy foreign objects in the outer space-time, but to correct the mistakes in the current space-time?"

"Since there is an error, there must be a correct reference. According to your idea, what is the basis for the time-space bomb to correct the time-space error?"

"【As you know, our time and space have already jumped several world lines. If we use other world lines as the correct template and the correct benchmark... wouldn't our entire world be wrong?】"

……

For a while.

Lin Xian and Trash Can VV stared at each other.

They all felt as if some hidden logic had been discovered, but they just couldn't connect the clues together, causing their minds to be in a mess and their thoughts to come out one after another.

"It seems that there is still a key point missing."

Lin Xian rubbed his temple:
"There's just one last key point left... that will tie all these questions together about the time bomb, correcting time errors, and what errors are."

"Cough cough."

Hafnium Alloy VV coughed twice in a pretentious manner, leaned back with his hands on his hips:
“Is it possible that this key point is in Newton’s hands?”

Lin Xian turned his head.

Wink.

Incredibly looking at VV:

"You wouldn't..."

"Hey Hey!"

VV let out the standard villain laugh from the movies and snapped his fingers, sparks flying.

moment.

The surrounding monitors lit up at the same time, showing a photo of a skinny old man.

Puffy eye sockets, sparse eyebrows, sunken cheeks, sunken eyelids, high nose bridge, chin with a narrow gap, slightly pale lips, narrow eyes...

Everything looks so familiar.

Even though hundreds of years had passed, Lin Xian still remembered this face clearly! He even drew a lifelike sketch of it!
"Lin Xian, what you said before going to bed was right. After you wake up, there is indeed good news waiting for you."

VV moves on tracks and walks to the big screen.

Lift the clamp.

Pointing to the photo of the old man on the screen:
“Are you surprised? The person we searched for for so long 500 years ago and couldn’t find even after scanning all the electronic photos in the world… actually appeared here.”

VV's eyes flickered quickly, and he said decisively:

"The old man who once trapped you to death in the fourth dream... was Newton!"

(End of this chapter)