Genius Playground

Chapter 16 Making Money
All three of them clearly had their own agendas.

Their expressions betrayed them, especially from the moment Jiang Ran smiled.

The three of them glanced at each other, then exchanged knowing looks, and finally, without saying a word, they reached a tacit understanding:

"Lottery!" "Lottery!" "Lottery!"

A burst of laughter followed.

"Great minds think alike."

Qin Feng laughed:

"Based on my understanding of the two of you, I know you two have definitely wanted to do this for a long time."

"You do not want it?"

"Of course I want to. I wanted to do it during my first test."

Jiang Ran shrugged:
"It's normal to have this kind of thinking. Before looking up at the stars, you should also keep your feet on the ground. Let me see... It just so happens that today is the Double Color Ball lottery draw day."

Double Color Ball is one of the most common lotteries.

There are 6+1 numbers in total. If you guess all of them, you win the first prize of 500 million yuan. If you guess the first 6 numbers, you win the second prize, which varies but is usually around 20 yuan.

The lottery is drawn every two days, and the draw is broadcast live on a television channel at 9:15 pm on the day of the draw.

"I'm quite lucky."

Jiang Ran opened his laptop and found the live lottery draw:
"We wait for about ten minutes until the winning numbers are announced, and then we'll send a time-travel text message to our past selves."

"No matter if this text message was sent three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, or even a few hours ago, we still have time to buy lottery tickets."

……

It must be said that the lottery plan is indeed inspiring.

The atmosphere in the activity room was extremely cheerful.

A dozen minutes later, the winning numbers were announced. Jiang Ran wrote them down on a piece of white paper and handed it to Qin Feng.

"What?" the other person asked, puzzled.

"It's your turn to send the text message this time."

Jiang Ran said:

"Let's try someone else and see if you can retain your [Full-Time Memory] this time."

"No... I have to operate this."

Qin Feng points to the positron cannon:

"I just adjusted the cluster strength to one-fifth of what it was before, and I'm trying to see if I can send the text message from yesterday."

“There are some details that you two can’t handle, so I don’t trust you two to do them.”

"Makes sense."

Jiang Ran turned around and handed the blank paper to Cheng Mengxue:
"Then you can send the text message. Use your own phone to send the lottery numbers to my phone."

Cheng Mengxue nodded:

"Should we remind our past selves not to buy first prize tickets? That would be too conspicuous."

"Heh, we weren't stupid back then."

Jiang Ran was very confident:

"The past us are still us, and our intelligence is still online."

"It's definitely more worthwhile to buy the second prize. I just checked, and every time the Double Color Ball lottery is drawn, hundreds of people across the country win the second prize. It's a very hidden gem."

Deployment complete, the three are now in position.

Cheng Mengxue stood close to the transformer distribution box, holding her mobile phone.

"There's no need to stick so close..."

Jiang Ran reminded:

"An electrical leak is no fun."

Qin Feng remained in charge of the positron cannon, while Jiang Ran sat on the windowsill counting down.

“5！4！3！2！1！”

His gaze was fixed on Cheng Mengxue's fingers...

"0!"

The positron cannon roared! Cheng Mengxue pressed the send button—

hum!
hum!
hum!
The familiar dizziness, the world turned upside down.

Jiang Ran felt as if she had fallen from the windowsill, as if she had been stuffed into a washing machine, and the whole world was spinning.

The world line has shifted!

It seems that no matter who sends the text message or whose mobile phone is used, as long as the prerequisites are met, the time-space text message can be sent successfully.

The sender, recipient, phone number, and text message content... none of these matter.

Only the positron beam gun and the transformer distribution box are required.

Roughly speaking, there are many transformer distribution boxes of the same specifications in the school, so perhaps they can be replaced.

However, the positron cannon is the only one.

It is a random product pieced together from various sources with unclear principles, and no one can replicate it.

Two seconds later.

The dizziness disappeared.

Gravity and the tactile sensation of the ground are back.

He opened his eyes.

Find……

I wasn't sitting on the windowsill, and the window wasn't even open; I wasn't falling off the windowsill either, but standing in the middle of the activity room.

Having experienced waking up in the hospital last time, Jiang Ran is now used to this kind of change in location.

This is perfectly reasonable under the theory of world line transitions.

Since the butterfly effect in time and space causes history to change, his life trajectory will naturally change as well.

Unless there's an extremely rare coincidence, it's unlikely that people will still be standing in the same place after a timeline shift. "Tomorrow I'm going to buy a massive amount of Rhinecats!"

Cheng Mengxue, her voice trembling with excitement, scattered flowers in the activity room:

"I can't possibly spend it all! There's simply no way I can spend it all!"

Look at it like this...

"You won the lottery?"

Jiang Ran asked a question she already knew the answer to:

"How much did you win?!"

He was mainly curious about this.

"A whopping 130 million!"

……

The three of them sat down first and helped Jiang Ran synchronize his memories, that is, the events that happened from yesterday to today after the world line changed.

"I received the text message yesterday afternoon."

Cheng Mengxue pointed to Jiang Ran's phone:
"This time it was received on your phone, and the sender was me."

"very good."

Jiang Ran nodded.

Qin Feng truly lived up to his reputation as a genius; his guess hit the mark on the very first shot.

[Adjusting the intensity of the positron beam magnifier indeed allows control over the timing of spacetime SMS transmissions!]

This time, by reducing it to one-fifth of the initial value, three days ago became yesterday.

Conversely...

By increasing the strength of the restraints, one can send text messages to even more distant past times... a month ago, a year ago, or even ten years ago.

This is undoubtedly the biggest takeaway from this experiment.

As for the second gain, it was also expected:

[Full-time memory, indeed unique to me, unrelated to who sent the text message.]

This time, Cheng Mengxue sent the text message herself, but Jiang Ran's dizziness still occurred as expected; moreover, Cheng Mengxue still had no memory of the timeline before the change, while Jiang Ran's memory remained clear as always.

"That's right, that's right."

Jiang Ran immediately took out her phone.

I've confirmed that I received several text messages this time.

"It's still one."

He smacked his lips.

I can't quite describe how I feel.

He both looked forward to receiving another mysterious text message and was worried about receiving one.

This is contradictory.

But at least, judging from the current situation... not receiving any more of it actually makes me feel more at ease.

Cheng Mengxue told Jiang Ran the following about the lottery.

After receiving the text message yesterday afternoon, the three of them immediately met up and made it clear that they could not buy the first prize, as it would be too conspicuous and flashy. Their target was the second prize.

They went to different lottery shops and bought a lot of lottery tickets, most of which were randomly selected, in an attempt to create the illusion of "winning by chance".

Just over ten minutes ago, the winning numbers were announced, and they matched the numbers in the time-space text message exactly.

Therefore, they won a total of 5 second prizes in the Double Color Ball lottery, with a total prize of 130 million yuan!
"Get rich..."

Qin Feng looked at the lottery tickets in his hand:

"We are millionaires now."

"This, this is too easy..."

After the cheers subsided, Cheng Mengxue felt a little guilty:
"Really, nothing will happen? We... um, this is legal, right?"

Jiang Ran smiled:

"Existence is its own justification; this is the gift of physics."

"Shouldn't it be a gift from the film club, from those senior students who pieced together the positron cannon?" Cheng Mengxue corrected.

"That's true."

Jiang Ran nodded:
"So, to repay them, let's continue the film company, so that their spirits in heaven can see..."

"Hey, hey, hey, the seniors just graduated, they didn't die!"

……

the next day.

Outside the Donghai Welfare Lottery Center.

The three stood on the sidewalk, watching the busy traffic in front of them...

confused.

After claiming their prizes, each of them had hundreds of thousands more in their bank accounts.

Oh my goodness.

How should I spend this?
Normally, everyone has a monthly allowance of 2000 yuan, and their pockets are practically empty. When have they ever seen so much money?
For a moment, they couldn't find a direction to squander their money.

"Forehead……"

Jiang Ran scratched his head:
"How about we go back to school for classes first?"

"Yeah." X2
The two followed.

……

After taking a few steps, Jiang Ran made another suggestion:

"After class, how about making some money using time-space text messaging?"

"Mmm!!" x2
(End of this chapter)