Genius Club.

Chapter 546: The Past (Thanks to the leader for the reward!)

Boom boom boom boom...

The twin-propeller transport plane slowly took off from the ground, rose into the air, and flew towards the southeast.

CC clenched his fists and watched the plane gradually disappear into the sky and turn into a black dot.

"fraud."

She repeated it again in a low voice.

The father patted his daughter on the shoulder and shook his head:

"You can't say that about Mr. VV. He is the lifesaver for all of us. We should be grateful to him."

"As for your so-called agreement... it's just a play between a child and an amnesiac. It doesn't count."

CC pursed his lips and said nothing.

The father lowered his head, looked at his aggrieved daughter, and continued:

"This is why Mr. VV said that you are not yet capable of choosing your own life. You are too young, immature, and selfish."

"Mr. VV is obviously not from the same world as us. He has more important things to do and greater things to do... How can you be so willful and selfish and leave such a great man in a small village in Brooklyn?"

"I don't!"

Little CC said stubbornly:
"I didn't say I wouldn't let him leave! It's true that I couldn't bear to let VV go, and I also know that I can't help him and will only hinder him, but why can't he just say it?"

"I thought... I thought that after these days of getting along and fighting, we had become friends and even family, but... why did he lie to me?"

Speaking of this, CC feels very aggrieved:

"I can accept any reason he gives, but I feel uncomfortable when he uses the excuse of coaxing a child to lie to me."

"Look at what nonsense he is talking about. What about the past and the truth, a predetermined ending, a safe, etc. It's just like a fairy tale!"

"If there really is a safe, then why didn't VV tell me the password? He was hesitant for a long time and didn't tell me the password, which means this story was made up on the spur of the moment and was not even well written!"

"Do not."

My father shook his head and looked in the direction where Mr. VV flew away on the plane:
"[Mr. VV's eyes don't look like he's lying; even if what he said is really outrageous, I still believe it's true.]"

"What's more, many things in this world require you to use your own eyes to judge whether they are true or false... and before you really know the truth, don't jump to conclusions."

"Hey."

At this time, the horse Bruce came over with his head lowered and rubbed CC's shoulder with his nose, as if to comfort her.

CC turned around, looked at the sturdy Bruce, and stroked his neck:
"I will."

She snorted softly:
"When I grow up, I will definitely go to the East China Sea."

"I must open the safe in the Thame Bank and see what's inside..."

"What on earth was released?!"

……

On a double-helix transport aircraft.

Lin Xian looked at the distant land through the narrow porthole.

The plane was flying very fast and in a blink of an eye CC and the others were no longer visible. All that was left was a primeval forest.

"You didn't tell her the combination to the safe."

On the other side, the elderly Liu Feng asked in a hoarse and dry voice:
"why?"

Lin Xian took one last look at the land of Brooklyn, turned back and looked at Liu Feng:

"do not know."

?

Liu Feng showed an expression of disbelief:
"Don't know? Then you..."

"I just had a feeling."

Lin Xian interrupted Liu Feng, leaned back in his chair, and closed his eyes:

"I did want to tell CC the password, but I couldn't explain why I stopped at that moment."

"It's not that someone stopped me, nor did I suddenly remember something. I just simply thought... it's better not to say it out loud."

"[Because, I've thought it through - this story on this world line is the first piece of memory in CC's mind.]"

He opened his eyes and rubbed his temples:

"There are too many strange things about CC, and I can't figure it out myself. But the formation and appearance of memory fragments are probably the same as we guessed before. This is the fragmented memory of each world line, and it is also a special mechanism formed because the Millennium Pile has become unstable."

"I am now increasingly beginning to doubt whether my dreams are absolutely real... Because the CC in my dreams and the last CC in reality are also very different, with many differences in details."

"So, for the sake of caution, I plan to keep this first memory fragment stable. Although I don't know what the point of doing so is, so far, many things have been driven, including CC's first driving force, to open the safe in Taimu Bank. I don't want to change this."

Liu Feng listened to Lin Xian's explanation without saying anything.

There was silence for a long time.

He sighed lightly and said slowly:
"Sorry, Lin Xian, I have some very sad news to tell you."

Lin Xian's heart skipped a beat.

Sit up straight:

"You're not... going to tell me about the Thame Bank?"

"See, you guessed it yourself."

Liu Feng smiled helplessly:

"Yes, just as you guessed, Tam Bank is gone."

"In the super disaster of 2504, there was an earthquake and a tsunami. Most of Donghai City was razed to the ground, and many geological cracks appeared..."

"[The Thame Bank and those hafnium safes are all missing.]"

……

Lin Xian took a deep breath.

It’s such heavy news.

If a bank can disappear from the face of the earth, it is hard to imagine what will become of Donghai, an international city.

"Ok."

He pursed his lips:

"There's nothing we can do about it. Almost every major disaster will cause the Taimu Bank to disappear. Humans are still too fragile in the face of the earth's natural forces."

"Just what I said to CC just now...ah..."

Lin Xian felt a little powerless for a moment.

On the last day of the end of the world in 2624, he fought side by side with CC in several dreams. The initial opportunity was the safe in Tam Bank.

He originally thought that now that Tam Bank was his and the password was set by him, he could finally lead CC to open the safe.

But don't want to.

This time the super disaster is still unfolding steadily, and no one knows where the safe will be rolled to.

"Hey."

He sighed again and covered his eyes with his palms.

"Oh, that's not right."

Suddenly remembering something, Lin Xian sat up:

"In the crater, in the secret research institute left behind by Jask, there is another space-time particle!"

"I know."

Liu Feng answered calmly:

"We found the research institute right from the start. After all, the natives couldn't get into the crater, but we had a plane, so we went right in."

"There is indeed a space-time particle in the receiver connected to the 22 exploration rockets. But... it is a one-piece hafnium alloy structure. You know better than anyone that it is the hardest thing in the world. We cannot pry it open with our current level."

"Besides, the space-time particle detection rocket is still working. I suggest not to touch it. Although a rocket has already detected the white light track, who knows if there will be any follow-up or other directions?"

Lin Xian nodded.

Yes.

Liu Feng considered it very carefully. That was the final legacy left by Jask. Since it was still in operation, there was no need to dismantle it or move it around.

after all……

In the post-disaster era, that may be the only means for humans to explore the universe.

"alright."

Lin Xian responded:

"Then Liu Feng, tell me now...what has happened in these years."

……

What happened in Antarctica that year was pretty much what Lin Xian had guessed.

The impact caused by the collision of space-time particles has shrouded the world in sudden major disasters, including earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, plate movements... everything has become unstable, almost leading to the extinction of human civilization.

"A lot of people died."

Liu Feng said in a serious tone:

"It's the same in Donghai. Many people died. Our schools, teachers, students... too many people died."

As the rotating principal, even though a hundred years have passed, Liu Feng still turned pale when he recalled the tragic scene:

"Jask, Gao Yang and the others died on the spot in Antarctica. The same thing happened to us. I am the only one left... all alone..."

Liu Feng closed his eyes:

"It was Gawain who saved me. He sacrificed himself to lift me out. Gawain said... I was younger than him and could do more things and had more time."

Lin Xian listened silently.

No words were spoken.

This was the outcome he had anticipated, but he had never dared to ask directly. What he was most afraid of hearing... was this obvious answer.

After a brief silence, Liu Feng raised his head:
"The only good news is that there are many secret facilities at Rhine University that are very strong, so there are some high-tech equipment left behind that can be used."

"This plane is one of the few remaining legacies. I can guess that you must have gone to Brooklyn, USA, but I don't know the exact location, so after a short rest, I urgently took people to Brooklyn, USA to look for you."

"I've been looking for you for a long time but I still can't find you. I don't know whether you are dead or alive, but I will keep looking for you no matter whether you are dead or alive. Because I thought of the possibility that you are sleeping in a hibernation capsule. If I can't find a hibernation place, I will come to Brooklyn regularly every year to look for you."

"I hibernated intermittently, maintained Rhine University, and came to the United States to find you... This is how the past hundred years have passed."

"Thanks a lot."

Lin Xian looked at the strange yet familiar old man in front of him.

Liu Feng is now estimated to be over 80 years old. He is extremely old, skinny and wrinkled.

At this age, he should be enjoying family happiness, but he is still busy working for the future of mankind and to find himself.

After a hundred years of loneliness and helplessness, fortunately Liu Feng did not give up.

"Lin Xian..."

Liu Feng, who had been holding on alone for more than a hundred years, finally felt his inner wall collapse when he saw Lin Xian.

The cane in his hand was shaking and clattering:
"What should we do now? Do we still have hope?"

Lin Xian stood up and patted Liu Feng on the shoulder:

"Believe me."

No matter how desperate the situation was or how no way out there was, in these hundreds of years, Lin Xian had thought of countless solutions, but he had never thought of giving up.

"Let's go back to Rhine University first."

Lin Xian stood up and looked out the window at the sea of ​​clouds breaking through the stratosphere:

"Although there are only two of us now, don't forget... when I first went to Xi'an to win you over, it was also just the two of us."

"So, Liu Feng, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's just a fresh start. Cheer up!"

Outside the porthole, the dazzling sun hangs high above the clouds, just as warm as it was hundreds of years ago:
"As long as we are alive, everything is still possible and there is hope!"

……

A few hours later, the plane landed on the campus of Rhine University.

Although the entire campus is neat and clean, it no longer resembles its original appearance.

All the buildings are very low, with few being higher than three stories. Both the architectural style and details are very rough, like the craftsmanship of tiled houses in the countryside.

It seems that the Rhine University was also severely damaged in the super disaster in 2504; but fortunately, it survived.

Look up.

In the direction of the school gate, two white jade statues are still standing against the wind, looking into the distance, bright and holy.

“I have to say, this is truly a miracle.”

Liu Feng walked behind Lin Xian with a cane:

"The entire university collapsed, with countless cracks deep into the lava, but these two white jade statues miraculously stood intact."

Lin Xian looked at Yingjun and Yuxi in the sunset:
"Perhaps, these two are the ones protecting Rhine University."

He said softly:
"Let's go and take a closer look."

Liu Feng walked slowly, leaning on a cane.

Lin Xian also matched his pace, walking beside him and accompanying him step by step.

The two took some time to stand under the white jade statues of Zhao Yingjun and Yu Xi again.

Nearly 300 years have passed since Lin Xian first saw this statue.

The passage of time has turned Liu Feng into a skinny old man and Lin Xian into a middle-aged man, but Ying Jun and Yu Xi in front of them are still at their most heroic age and at their most heroic time.

Lin Xian raised his head and looked at the solemn expression of Zhao Yingjun on the statue.

That was Zhao Yingjun, who was in her forties or fifties.

Probably... the same age as he is now.

This is truly a coincidence of time and space, and also a joke of fate, that allows middle-aged Lin Xian and middle-aged Zhao Yingjun to meet in this way.

"She once said that she didn't want to see her grow old."

Lin Xian pointed at the statue and said to Liu Feng:

“And now, we are all old.”

"It's better to say that we will continue to grow older, while they will always be young."

"yes……"

Liu Feng sighed:
"So many years have passed in a flash."

"I never thought that the journey from Xi'an to Donghai to find you would be so long."

"Do you regret it?" Lin Xian smiled.

"Of course I don't regret it."

Liu Feng sighed:
"I'm just worried... There are only eight years left until the arrival of the white light in 2624, and we are now in the worst possible situation."

"Do not."

Lin Xian shook his head, his eyes firm:

“These are truly the worst of times, but at the same time…the best of times.”

Liu Feng was puzzled and tilted his head:

"Why do you say that."

Lin Xian withdrew his gaze from the white jade statue and looked into Liu Feng's eyes:
"Because only in this era can we finally see the greatest genius in the world."

At that moment, Liu Feng suddenly realized:
"You mean..."

"Yes."

Lin Xian nodded:
"Liu Feng, although it seems that we have been doing useless work, in fact, every step we take is meaningful."

"Newton's death saved subsequent mathematicians from being killed; the super-catastrophic event was triggered in advance, which reduced its power, and saved the human race from extinction in 2616."

"Perhaps this time, we will be able to truly meet the man who is so elusive and exists only in legends—"

"Chen, He, Ping."

(End of this chapter)