Genius club

"I will."

Lin Xian said solemnly.

He was really grateful that Chu Shanhe trusted him so much and didn't even say a word of blame.

but……

The promises and vows you have made must be fulfilled.

No matter how many beautiful words you say, it's better to get Chu Anqing back!

He turned around.

Walking outside the manor...

"go home."

After getting in the car, he lay down on the back seat and closed his eyes.

…

Soon after.

He returns home.

Professional electricians from Rheinland Company have rewired the power lines in his home and basically replaced all the household appliances. Except for some large items that have not had time to be shipped, the entire home has a completely new look and he can now live normally.

Lin Xian ordered a takeaway to fill his stomach.

Only then did he realize that he had not eaten or slept normally for several days.

Keep spinning.

Imperial Capital, Qufu, Imperial Capital, East China Sea... traveling back and forth by plane, and even carrying a lot of tools with Gao Yang to dig graves in the deep mountains and old forests.

In fact, these things are not bad.

Before going to find Chu Shanhe, Lin Xian seemed to be numbing himself with all this busyness.

But after meeting Chu Shanhe today, he felt much more relaxed and determined.

Just as he promised Chu Shanhe.

No matter where Chu Anqing is now, no matter who Chu Anqing is now.

He wants to get her back.

bring back!

bring home!

However, just talking without doing anything is not enough. In the current situation, we must find a way to break the situation and find a way to go further.

After dinner.

Lin Xian simply cleared the table and then returned to the bedroom.

Unscrew the desk lamp.

Sitting at the desk I haven't sat at for a long time, I started thinking.

First of all, there is still the issue of Millennium Piles.

On the way back in the car just now, he had already made some calculations.

The time interval between the two Millennium Piles is exactly 24 years.

But when each millennium pile disappears, it is 20 years old.

so.

There is a 4-year gap between the disappearance of the last thousand-year pile and the birth of the next thousand-year pile.

He was a little confused at the time.

What does this 4-year gap mean?

If it is for the sake of continuity of piling, in fact, it only takes 10 months to conceive.

It's absolutely possible that this Millennium Pile will disappear as soon as the pile is driven, and then immediately 10 months later, another Millennium Pile will be born. Isn't this coverage more compact?

In this way, piles can be driven once every 21 years.

In 1,000 years, I can fight several times more.

This detail also made Lin Xian start to wonder...

If the meaning of the Millennium Pile is really to lock up history. How many years of history can the dissipation of a millennium pile lock in?

Just like Zhang Yuqian and Chu Anqing.

Zhang Yuqian disappeared on January 21, 2000, Chu Anqing was born on March 28, 2004, and then Chu Anqing disappeared on March 28, 2024...

Between January 21, 2000 and March 28, 2004, there were no millennium piles in the world.

What to say during this time?

Is this period of history locked or not?

"Logically speaking, the locked history should not be changed. So what I have been doing is to change history, isn't it?"

Lin Xian began to write:

"So, there is a high probability that history can still be changed during the period before the thousand-year stake is laid... But this kind of lock-in is of no use to people in this time and space!"

He realized this principle.

Before Chu Anqing disappeared as a millennium stake, he had changed his future development trajectory several times, and his first dream had become his fourth dream. It had changed too many times.

Then on March 28, 2024, the Millennium Pile locked the previous history.

But what does it have to do with yourself?

He has now lived until April 2024. There are still 4 years until the next Millennium Pile is born; there are still 24 years until the next Millennium Pile is driven...

In the past 24 years, I don’t know what I can transform into in the future. Maybe the fourth dream will be updated to the fortieth dream.

So what is the significance of this kind of pile driving for thousands of years?

Lin Xian squinted his eyes and discovered this blind spot——

"[So, the existence of the Thousand-Year Pile has never been guarded against by people from this time and space, but by those time-travelers from the future! To prevent them from tampering with history!]"

History is locked...

Lin Xian recalled this law of time and space.

In fact, those things that have not happened yet are clearly the future for people in this time and space.

Only for time travelers like Oriole from the future, this kind of thing that has not happened yet can be called history.

It's history for them.

--\u003e\u003e

Thinking back to what happened to Huang Que that day...

She wanted to tell herself what the Thousand-Year Pile was, but was forcibly muted by some invisible force and could not utter a word.

Not only that.

Her body also became transparent and almost disappeared. This was obviously punished by some kind of coercive force!

Oriole made it clear at that time.

It is said that this situation generally does not occur, and will only occur when [Time and Space Exclusion] and [History Lock] are triggered at the same time.

This is the second law of time and space that she wants to teach herself.

no name.

There are only phenomena.

You need to think, extend, and summarize yourself.

but……

At the moment, Lin Xian felt that he still did not understand this unnamed law of time and space thoroughly enough.

I always feel that the law of exclusion from time and space is indistinguishable and not very different.

The understanding of time and space exclusion means that when the behaviors and words of these time and space travelers exceed the elasticity of time and space, they will be counterattacked and attacked by the power of time and space. The proviso is that even if you don't do anything beyond the elasticity of time and space, you will still be rejected and hurt... your eyes will turn blue, your body will become weak, etc.

"Is there any big difference between these two laws?"

Lin Xian couldn't understand.

Because the phenomenon of the oriole being forced to mute and stop can actually be explained clearly by using space-time elasticity and space-time exclusion.

Why bother mentioning it specifically?

so.

Is the key point just in that kind of [forced] behavior?

Ordinary time and space rejection may be something you can resist or tolerate.

But there is absolutely no way to resist coercion. Once you violate it, you will be held in the palm of your hand like a captured chicken, making you unable to move or open your mouth.

"avoid……"

Lin Xian recalled that when he was at Thame Bank this afternoon, Brother Wang said that there was a principle of avoidance in the company's articles of association.

That is to say, when customers deposit and withdraw items in the warehouse and set passwords, all staff must avoid it and are not allowed to watch, eavesdrop, or even enter the warehouse.

This [avoidance] principle may be similar to the oriole that cannot speak, write, or move.

"So, even though I haven't fully understood this law of space and time yet, let's give it a name first."

Considering the mandatory and evasive nature of the law of space and time that he just thought of... Lin Xian directly took off the cap of his pen and wrote the name of this new law of space and time on the white paper——

[Forced avoidance].

This is the seventh law of time and space, mandatory avoidance, following the time and space butterfly effect, time and space changes, changing anchor points, time and space elasticity, time and space exclusion, and historical lock.

It's just that Lin Xian is a bit vague about the naming and understanding of this item.

He always feels.

There's still a little more to do.

I feel that I have not fully understood this law of time and space, and I don’t know what this law of time and space will bring to me after I understand it.

But considering that Huang Que's face was full of pain at the time, he did not hesitate to demonstrate this phenomenon of the law of space and time in person.

Presumably...this law of time and space must be very important.

And Huang Que finally said something intriguing:

"Perhaps this is the last thing I can teach you."

Click.

Lin Xian closed the cap of his pen.

Could it be...

She doesn't have much time left?

Will the oriole turn into blue stardust and dissipate like Chu Anqing?

Or... is it another ending?

Think of oriole.

Lin Xian thought of Zhao Yingjun.

The two of them are very similar, but sometimes they are not.

He felt that the relationship between Zhao Yingjun and Huang Que should be similar to the big-faced cat in the first dream and the big-faced cat in the second dream, and Li Cheng from the first dream and Li Cheng from the second dream.

Are they the same person?

Obviously, it's a person.

But because of their different experiences, environments, and growth trajectories, their lives and personalities are completely different.

Naturally, there are similarities, but to say that Li Cheng and the big-faced cat in the first dream and Li Cheng and the big-faced cat in the second dream are the same person... Lin Xian cannot accept this setting. .

The big-faced cat is okay.

How is Li Cheng's stance and behavior different from that of a different person?

so……

Lin Xian believes that the relationship between Huang Que and Zhao Yingjun is probably similar.

Biologically speaking, they are the same person.

But they have experienced different lives, different stories, different environments... Therefore, they cannot be regarded as the same person in a strict sense.

At least in Lin Xian's mind currently.

Huang Que is Huang Que, and Zhao Yingjun is Zhao Yingjun. He has no way of treating these two people as the same person.

Because they are different.

"Mirror."

Lin Xian thought of this clichéd puzzle again.

What on earth is a mirror?

He stood up.

I came to the bathroom again and faced the big mirror on the wall of the sink.

Look at yourself inside, staring this way.

Lin Xian turned his head to the left, and Lin Xian in the mirror also turned his head to the left.

Just this thing, in the end--\u003e\u003e

What catches your eyes?

What else is there to hide?

The principle of the mirror is so simple, what will happen if you look at it for a while longer?

"[Look in the mirror more often, Lin Xian.]"

"[In the mirror...there is something you want.]"

Suddenly.

Oriole's gentle words came to mind again.

At the same time, he recalled that in the third dream, super artificial intelligence VV faced the mirror puzzle and after thinking for a long time, he gave the answer:

"[I think it means literally, let you look in the mirror more often.]"

"[Lin Xian, did you look in the mirror long enough?]"

same.

And that day at the science charity dinner, I asked Zhao Yingjun this question again.

The answer given by the other party is also:

"[If it were me...then I think maybe the answer really lies in the mirror, and you should probably look in the mirror more often.]"

"[I just feel that if this sentence is really spoken by me, it may only be literal and has no deep meaning. After all...I will never lie to you, right?]"

…

OK.

For this mirror puzzle, the answers given by VV and Zhao Yingjun are all literal. Return to nature and let yourself look in the mirror more often.

It’s not like I haven’t taken many photos before.

In terms of time, he once took photos continuously for 3 hours.

In terms of frequency, he took the photo hundreds of times in an hour.

He really has exhausted all methods. Of course, he wants to solve the mirror puzzle more than anyone else. He also wants to get what Huangque said he wants. He wants it more than anyone else!

"OK."

Lin Xian was very sleepy now.

But he decided to try again.

He returned to the bedroom and looked at the electronic clock on the bedside table. The time showed:

19:21

Then he directly picked up the square-shaped electronic clock and placed it on the bathroom sink.

He went back to the living room, pulled up a chair, and placed it in front of the sink mirror.

Yawned.

Lin Xian washed his face, forcibly cheered up, and then sat directly on the chair, staring at himself in the mirror.

"How many hours will it take to watch this time?"

The longest time before, I just stared at myself in the mirror for three hours.

Then continue reading today.

Lin Xian crossed his legs and leaned forward, with his right elbow on his knee and his chin on his palm, looking at himself in the mirror.

Just stare and do nothing.

He blinked, and Lin Xian in the mirror also blinked.

He yawned, and Lin Xian in the mirror also yawned.

He really wanted to play with his phone for a while. Lin Xian in the mirror was obviously hesitant, but he touched his trouser pockets several times and held back.

He shook his neck and glanced around the edge of the mirror.

The mirror on this sink is so large that it occupies the entire wall behind the sink.

Otherwise, when Huang Que first told him about the mirror puzzle, he wouldn't have imagined... could he pass through the mirror? Just like in the cartoon, there is another world inside the mirror?

certainly.

It turned out to be too silly.

Lin Xian had already set up his poses at that time, and he was embarrassed.

"ah……"

He let out another long yawn.

Lin Xian in the mirror did the same, opening his mouth wide and moving his neck.

I traveled so much today and was really tired.

If he hadn't been sitting here for so long, Lin Xian would have really planned to go back to sleep...

He turned his head to the left and glanced at the electronic clock on the sink. The time showed:

20:07

The same goes for Lin Xian in the mirror, who turned his head and looked at the electronic clock here.

He kept staring at himself for so long.

Less than an hour has passed.

It's too slow...

Lin Xian couldn't help but lower his head and sighed.

Lin Xian in the mirror also lowered his head and sighed.

He raised his head again:

"continue."

Lin Xian in the mirror did the same. He raised his head and encouraged both parties.

time flies……

From the bathroom pipes, the sound of flushing water from the residents upstairs kept coming.

Clatter, clatter, clatter.

As bedtime approached, it was the peak time for washing and going to the toilet. The sound of running water in the pipes continued, which made Lin Xian, who had been staring at the mirror, feel a sense of reality.

He turned his head again and looked at the electronic clock on the sink.

Lin Xian was the same in the mirror, imitating him tirelessly and looking at the electronic clock on the left:

23:48

"It's been four and a half hours, do you still want to watch?"

He asked himself, and Lin Xian in the mirror asked him the same question.

He opened his mouth again and let out a big yawn.

The same goes for Lin Xian in the mirror.

Both Lin Xian were so tired that they began to fight before their eyes, and they couldn't bear it anymore.

"Hold on a little longer..."

Lin Xian and Lin Xian in the mirror gritted their teeth at the same time, closed one eye, forced the other eye, and looked at each other.

--\u003e\u003e

Gradually……

The pumping sound in the bathroom pipes also disappeared.

It is quite now.

Everyone went to sleep.

After all, at this time in the morning... Lin Xian just stared at the bathroom mirror for five hours like a fool.

Another huge yawn.

Lin Xian and Lin Xian in the mirror seemed to be able to see the tonsils in each other's open mouths.

Sleepy……

Really sleepy.

Almost done, right?

I've been looking in the mirror for five hours!

Lin Xianqiang opened his half-closed eyes, and together with Lin Xian in the mirror, he turned his head to look at the electronic clock again. The time showed——

【00：42】

"Forget it, go to sleep, you won't have dreams after this point."

Said.

Lin Xian stood up directly from the stool.

He looked up at the mirror he had been staring at for five hours.

A moment!

My scalp is numb!

Bang!

He couldn't help but take a step back, kicked down the chair, and pressed his back against the tiles behind him!

cold!

Coolness all over your back!

He stared at Lin Xian in the mirror with wide eyes——

it……

It didn't even stand up!

He had clearly stood up, but Lin Xian in the mirror was still sitting on the chair! Hold your chin! Look at yourself! The corners of his mouth slowly raised, revealing a smile!

Lin Xian's breathing was rapid.

Retreating backwards, but there is no way to retreat.

In the silent early morning, Lin Xian in the mirror finally stood up as if delayed, then stretched out his right index finger and put it in front of his lips...

Shh————

There was no sound, but Lin Xian stared at this terrifying scene with wide eyes.

After Lin Xian in the mirror made a gesture to keep quiet, he smiled slightly, took out a piece of red card from his back with his left hand, and handed it to the outside of the mirror!

It was an invitation letter that Lin Xian was very familiar with!

There was also a bright red wax seal on the fold of the invitation letter!

The invitation letter handed in the mirror was getting closer and closer.

Lin Xian could already see the pattern on the wax seal... the right hand pointing to the sky, and the line of English letters under the seal.

Just like that, silently.

The hand in the mirror stretched out with the invitation letter! Stretched out from the mirror! Stretched onto the sink!

Then turned his wrist.

Place the invitation letter with the back facing up on the sink.

Lin Xian lowered his head and looked at the five bright gold-plated characters on the back of the invitation letter -

[Genius Club]!