Genius Club.

Chapter 552 Fireworks
2624年8月29日，00：00分。

The dim street lights flickered. There was no pedestrian on the entire street, no shop open, and no sound at all.

CC, wearing a black tights, looks at her watch:

"It's time to act."

Click.

She loaded the pistol and put it at her waist; then she loaded another small pistol, wrapped it in her hair, tied it with a red headband, and piled it up high.

So far, the action that had been planned for several days after years of worrying about it and traveling for more than half a year to the East China Sea of ​​Dragon Country and scouting the area...

It's finally starting.

Tam Bank is a very new bank, established only a few months ago.

Logically speaking, this bank should not have been established when I met VV in Brooklyn 8 years ago.

But why did VV say it so decisively?

If I had really come to Dragon Country when I was a kid, there would be no Taim Bank here...

She couldn't figure it out.

What's even more surprising is that.

She had investigated in the past few days and found that the business of this bank was very strange, or it could be said that it had no actual business at all; the warehouse was filled with hafnium alloy safes and did not contain a penny.

but……

None of these things matter anymore.

All the mysteries will be answered tonight.

CC finally organized the tools for cracking the password, crouched down, stuck to the wall, and trotted towards Tam Bank across the road.

"what?"

Halfway through, she stopped and opened her eyes in disbelief.

how come.

The doors of the Tam Bank were open and brightly lit!

impossible.

At this time of day, banks would definitely not be open, not to mention that the brightly lit lobby was completely empty with no customers or even a security guard.

What's happening here?
The unreasonable experience made CC alert and he took out the pistol from his waist and held it in his hand.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

In the quiet night, she approached the door of Tam Bank step by step.

indeed.

This time she looked carefully and found that there was indeed no one in Tam Bank.

Is it a trap?

That’s not right. Why is it necessary to set up such an obvious trap?

CC walked slowly, sticking close to the wall.

Then he quickly entered the hall, found a blind spot, raised his pistol and faced the corridor.

……

Still no one.

"Strange."

She frowned slightly, slowly stood up, and continued walking into the passage.

The lights are still on.

It was as if she was not there to rob a bank but to attend a party.

Walk to the end of the passage.

The bank warehouse, which usually has a very high security factor, also has its password door open at this time, with green lights all the way, welcoming everyone.

CC pursed his lips and touched the series of lock-picking tools on his lower back.

It's so weird.

but……

Now that she's here, and this is something very important to her, even if it's a trap, she has to go in and take a look.

She held the pistol tightly in both hands and walked carefully into the warehouse of Tam Bank.

No one, no sound, nothing.

The only things in the warehouse are hundreds of hafnium alloy safes embedded in the walls.

Neatly arranged, one after another, row upon row.

It seems that, so far, VV has not lied.

CC also let down his guard and no longer paid attention to the footsteps. He began to walk among the safes, looking for the safe that VV mentioned "had Lin Xian's name engraved on it."

It didn't take much effort and she quickly found her target.

because……

All the safes in the entire warehouse were locked and closed, except for one safe which was half-open and very conspicuous.

CC walked closer and looked at the shiny silver hafnium alloy nameplate on the counter:

【Lin Xian】.

Sure enough, Lin Xian’s name was engraved on it.

"Tsk, all the code cracking and lock picking techniques I've learned for so long are of no use at all."

CC muttered.

It’s not bad news though.

It is still unknown how long it will take to crack the mechanical code of this 8-code wheel. Although I don’t know whether VV opened the safe intentionally... but in short, it saved her a lot of trouble.

"What's in this safe?"

CC's heartbeat quickened as he gripped the handle of the safe.

8 years,

Brooklyn and Donghae City are 14,000 kilometers apart across the ocean.

All the past and truth from VV's mouth,

It’s finally going to be revealed at this moment!

She gritted her teeth and opened the safe.

next second.

I was stunned:
"empty?"

She took a deep breath:

"How come it's empty?"

There was nothing in the huge silver safe!
what is the problem?

Were the things in here stolen in advance?

Or... is this a lie in itself and there is nothing in the safe?
She looked down.

Fortunately, it is not absolutely empty.

At the bottom of the safe, there was a piece of white card with neat handwriting on it.

CC reached out and picked up the card and looked at the words written on it:

[Come to the tallest building in Donghai City. I'll be waiting for you on the roof.]

She blinked:
"Is this... a message from VV?"

Then, he turned around and looked outside the Tam Bank warehouse. It was still brightly lit but empty.

CC held the card tightly and walked out.

……

There are no tall buildings in Donghai City, most of them are low buildings with five or six floors.

So the tallest building is undoubtedly... the East China Sea Clock Tower, which stands not far from the Taim Bank.

No matter from which direction you look at it, it is the tallest building in Donghai City and also the most conspicuous building.

It is said that this bell tower was built several years ago. Its original intention was to be a monument of unity, commemorating the unprecedented unity of the people inside and outside Donghai City to build their home together.

After CC left Tam Bank, he ran quickly towards the clock tower and soon arrived at the bottom of the clock tower.

It doesn't look high from a distance.

But when it was close to me, I could really feel the huge size of this clock tower. It was at least seventy or eighty meters high. In this era of backward productivity, it could already be considered a "skyscraper".

CC looked up at the clock hands.

The time showed 00:31:17, and the second hand was still ticking.

Rooftop...

The person who left a message for me in the safe was waiting for me on the rooftop.

CC ran into the bell tower without any hesitation, got on the simple elevator, pressed the button, and slowly rose amid the sound of friction of the steel cable. Finally, he reached the top of the building and pushed open the door.

squeak...

The hoarse sound of a rusty lock.

The moonlight shines through the door frame and slowly unfolds.

She lifted her right foot and stepped on the bright frost again, and came to the wide rooftop.

There is a man's back.

At this moment, he was leaning on the railing, looking up at the gorgeous starry sky.

"VV?" CC called softly.

However, when the young man turned around, CC immediately knew that he had recognized the wrong person.

He was a young man with a clean face, without long hair, a big beard, or the vicissitudes of life.

This is definitely not VV.

Because... he is too young, and his age doesn't match VV's at all.

VV should be at least 50 years old now.

"who are you?"

CC stood up straight and looked at the young man in front of him.

The man was tall and was holding a brand new rice cooker in his arms. This overly contrasting combination made CC feel very insecure.

"who are you?"

CC asked again:
"Where is VV? Do you know VV?"

Lin Xian held the rice cooker and looked at the girl whom he had seen countless times but who didn't recognize him at all:
"Sure enough, not having memory fragments is a very troublesome thing. I don't even know where to start."

"what are you talking about?"

CC frowned, not understanding the man's strange words at all.

But she didn't care either.

She pointed at the rice cooker in the man's arms:
"You wrote the message in the safe, didn't you? Was this rice cooker originally in the safe?"

"If you don't mind... can you let me take a look? This is something very important to me. I won't fight with you for it. I just want to know what's hidden inside."

"No problem at all."

Lin Xian stroked the rice cooker lid, which was still as smooth as before:

"But, can you wait a few minutes?"

……

Rhine University, inside the confidential laboratory.

Liu Feng sat in front of the experimental table, closed his eyes and breathed evenly.

There are two devices on the experimental table; one is a space-time clock that displays the world line readings, and the other is an ordinary electronic watch.

Behind Liu Feng stood Chen Heping, who looked as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

He couldn't take his eyes off the electronic dial, which showed the exact time...

【2624年8月29日，00：39：57】

"There are only two minutes left."

He glanced at the space-time clock again, and the reading on it still showed a stable 0.0002184.

This means that the world line has not changed, the future has not changed, and the ending of the white light destroying the world has not changed.

"Lin Xian's plan... is it really okay?"

Chen Heping was a little nervous.

"I believe in him."

Liu Feng closed his eyes and spoke in an unusually calm voice:
"Lin Xian is such a person. Ever since we met 600 years ago, I have always believed that he is a qualified leader."

"Even if some people don't think so, many people don't think so, and think that Lin Xian is immature in various ways...but I have never thought about it this way."

"He has qualities that no one else possesses; and these qualities are far more important than knowledge, intelligence, and strategy. It is precisely because of these things... that he can do things that ordinary people cannot do, do things that others can't even think of, and create miracles that no one believes in."

"So, look up at the stars, and be peaceful."

Liu Feng looked through the window at the clock tower at the highest point of Donghai City, his eyes were sharp:

"This will be the first time that humans open their eyes to the deep space."

……

The night is starry.

as always.

Just like the night on Earth for billions of years, it remains unchanged forever.

"Wait a few minutes?"

On the Donghai clock tower, CC looked at the watch on his wrist. The time showed 00:40:12 seconds:
"How long will it take?"

"You don't have to wait too long."

Lin Xian chuckled:
"All the actors are in place, just waiting for the final curtain to rise."

?

"What on earth are you talking about?" CC was fed up with this kind of chat where there was no communication at all.

"Just listen to it casually."

Lin Xian lowered his head:
"This rice cooker should really be placed in the safe, waiting for you to take it; but I'm sorry, there's something in it that I really need, so I opened it in advance."

"Originally there was only one space-time particle in the rice cooker, but now there are two, and they are entangled together; they seem to overlap, but in fact there is a tiny misalignment, so tiny that it cannot be seen even if the entire universe is expanded."

"This results in many minimum scales, minimum cracks, and minimum constituent units named 42 appearing between two space-time particles with different Planck lengths."

CC stared at the rice cooker in the man’s arms:
"Does what you said have anything to do with me?"

"Of course."

Lin Xian raised his head and looked into CC's eyes:
"This matter has something to do with everyone in the universe. Now everyone has adapted to the black universe, the white stars, the expanding universe, and the absolute zero space."

"But what if... [everything turned upside down?], the universe would turn white, the stars would turn black, and all colors would be reversed. And not only would the colors be reversed, but all properties, temperature, direction, and even time would be reversed. The entire universe would begin to collapse, and no one would be able to escape."

CC sneered:
"Your story is interesting, but this kind of thing only happens in daydreams."

"Not necessarily."

Lin Xian shrugged:

"From a physics perspective, in order to trigger a cosmic negative, one must bombard the smallest unit of the universe with a huge amount of energy, so that... the microscopic will spread to the macroscopic. This is a reaction that is much faster than the speed of light, and the entire universe will flip in an instant."

"But it's not so easy to bombard with huge energy, at least it's absolutely impossible to do it on Earth. But by chance, a kind-hearted person sent a light-speed weapon to Earth. Now it's just like playing billiards. The white ball has been placed in position, waiting for the light-speed weapon to poke it."

CC couldn't listen any more.

I raised my wrist and looked at my watch:

【00:41:58】

"Feel sorry."

She raised her head:

"I really don't understand your fantastic stories."

"It's ok."

Lin Xian disagreed and looked up at the sky:
“[It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, there are people who do; they may not care about the tiny Earth, but they cannot care about the only universe.]”

Click.

The second hand of the clock tower below stands vertically.

The time has come——

【00:42:00】

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!!

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!!

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!!

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!!

In an instant.

Night turns into day, and countless white lights bloom in the sky!

No.

That's not the sky.

Instead, thousands and thousands of suns suddenly appeared higher than the sky, [crashed] into an invisible barrier, were forcibly blocked, and turned into fireworks that illuminated the universe!

fireworks.

CC looked up blankly, watching tens of thousands of dazzling fireworks blooming in the starry sky like magic... It was clearly the early morning of the dark night, but the whole world was as bright as noon at this moment.

She turned around in shock.

The same goes for the starry sky behind you.

fireworks.

Fireworks, fireworks, fireworks!

This is the most gorgeous firework in the world, this is the most dazzling firework in the universe!

【00:42:01】

【00:42:02】

【00:42:03】

……

The second hand of the clock below continues to move forward, entering a new minute and a new day.

With the second hand ticking.

Lin Xian raised his feet and walked in front of CC.

"Nice to see you again, CC."

Looking at the girl who hadn't reacted yet, Lin Xian smiled slightly, handed the rice cooker in his arms to her chest and put it in her arms:
"I have lost count of how many times I have met you. I have seen you many times and said good morning, good afternoon and good night to you many times."

"But this is the first time I've seen you at the age of 20. No matter what choices you make in your life, no matter what path you take, before I say a thousand words, I still want to say to you a blessing that I owe you for 600 years..."

"Happy birthday!"

(End of this chapter)