Genius club

"Haha, it depends on your ability."

Newton made a gesture of taking off his glasses, and his body became transparent and turned into an afterimage, gradually disappearing into the golden auditorium.

Lin Xian stared at the place where Newton disappeared.

Then bend down and press the button on the side of the Einstein chair.

moment.

The holographic image lasers in all directions dispersed like a tide, and the brilliant and luxurious curtains, decorations, and crystal lamps disappeared one by one.

Even the virtual Rhenish cat mask on Lin Xian's face dimmed instantly.

In just ten seconds.

The bright virtual party scene disappeared, and the underground shelter returned to its original appearance.

"It seems that this button is the switch that controls the genius club's party system."

Lin Xian analyzed:

"Only when the party system is turned on, members can connect to the VR network through the [gold badge], come to the venue and participate in the party in their avatar."

"The regular gatherings 200 years ago were held at an agreed time on the first of every month at 00:42. Einstein only needed to turn on the system in advance."

"The question is... it is now 2234, and the gathering has been suspended for more than 200 years. How did Newton come to the meeting as soon as possible?"

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes and came to an uncomplicated conclusion:

"[This shows that Newton is always paying attention to the dynamics of the Genius Club, and there should be automated equipment to help him monitor whether the party system is turned on 24 hours a day.]"

"[The omniscient and omnipotent Einstein naturally knew this, so he was very sure that as soon as the party system was activated, Newton would enter the venue as soon as possible to confirm the situation.]"

While Lin Xian was analyzing, he walked down the steps and walked to seat No. 3 where Newton belonged and sat down.

This high-backed chair belonged to Newton.

Lin Xian planned to sit in this chair, imagine himself as Newton, take on Newton's place, and then reason about Newton's ideas.

Lift your head.

The first thing you see is the Copernicus Seat 2 directly opposite.

"Newton and Copernicus, as the earliest members of the Genius Club, are not rivals as they appear on the surface, but are friends with common ideals and beliefs, or... [companions], [comrades-in-arms]."

Lin Xian closed his eyes.

I began to daydream about the scene at the earliest offline gathering of the Genius Club.

Maybe a cottage with a fireplace,

Maybe it’s a small clubhouse with warm lighting,

At that time, there were only three people in the Genius Club. Einstein wearing an Einstein mask sat in the host position;

Copernicus should be older, while Newton is younger; but he is probably not much younger. After all, when Leonardo da Vinci met Newton, he was already an old man.

"No."

Lin Xian shook his head and found a blind spot:

"[If Copernicus and Newton reached a strategic alliance from the beginning and wanted to deceive other geniuses...it is difficult to determine whether Newton was really an old man or whether he was deliberately pretending to be an old man.]"

"[Is it even possible that Copernicus and Newton have a closer father-son relationship? Just to create a sense of hostility, the young Newton was made to pretend to be an old man of a similar age, in order to deceive other people. Human purpose?]"

…

This is a very bold idea.

But it's not entirely impossible.

because.

Copernicus was so old that even the hibernation chamber could not save him.

Now, 200 years later, Newton is still alive and kicking with the help of his hibernation chamber.

This is absolute evidence, enough to show that... Newton's real age is definitely younger than Copernicus; similarly, he is much younger than the appearance seen by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo.

"You two hide it so well."

Lin Xian continued to reason.

As the two original members of the Genius Club, it is not surprising that they are in cahoots and like-minded.

The strange thing is...

"What's the meaning?"

His brows furrowed.

This is something Lin Xian can't understand.

first.

The two of them certainly weren't going to fool around with Einstein by playing house.

Einstein was omniscient and omnipotent, so he naturally knew what the two of them were acting, and what plans and conspiracies they had.

But this does not violate the club's charter, and it is also part of the two's joint plan, which Einstein tacitly approved.

"The collaboration between Copernicus and Newton is essentially no different from the collaboration between Jaske and I... Looking at it from another perspective, isn't the trick of pretending that Jaske and I didn't know each other also a kind of double act to deceive other people? "

"Hmm...Looking at it this way, the two of them must have started playing the role of 'tit-for-tat rivals' after the next member Galileo joined the club; and before that, the two of them met frankly and told each other clearly. Stan asked questions at the right time and in the right place.”

It's really funny to think of the scene where Copernicus and Newton teamed up to "interrogate" Einstein.

But it's undeniable.

If these two original members, Big Brother, are a team, the information and secrets they can obtain are beyond imagination.

"This can explain Einstein's purpose of bringing Newton to me at the end of his life."

Lin Xian opened his eyes and completely understood Einstein's good intentions:

"[Copernicus and Newton knew many secrets that I didn't know, and they were all very important secrets... Einstein was guiding me and wanted me to focus on Newton.]"

"In this way, we can roughly understand why Copernicus and Newton played the role of villain and decent leader respectively."

"First of all, their purpose, plan, and relationship can be perfectly hidden. And as the number of members in the Genius Club increases, the restrictions on asking questions will inevitably increase. Under this premise...their antagonistic relationship can be more... It’s good to take the initiative.”

"The same goes for intelligence. Copernicus was absent from the meeting for a long time, but he would not miss any key information, because Newton would tell him everything; at the same time, even if Newton hung up all the time without asking any questions, he would not lack any answers. Because Copernicus could ask questions for him, allowing Newton to hide deeper."

"In general, the fact that Copernicus and Newton were so cautious... shows that they were still afraid that their plans would be exposed and let others know the truth about the cosmological constant 42."

Lin Xian stood up from the chair and walked around the underground shelter:

"But for me, if I want to continue to dig deeper into the truth about Einstein, the Thousand-Year Stake, and the World-Destroying White Light, I must start with the secrets of Newton and the cosmological constant 42."

"This is also my next main task -"

"[Find Newton from the vast crowd and further investigate the truth about the cosmological constant 42!]"

The thinking is clear.

Lin Xian also breathed a sigh of relief.

He walked back to the experimental platform and looked at the small oven containing space-time particles and a watch gift box.

Turn on the oven.

Put your hand inside.

Take out this gift that has been preserved for 300 years...

Thanks to the local pause time characteristics of ordinary space-time particles, the small gift box in hand is still as new as before, as if it has not been baptized by time.

Pinch the sides and open the small gift box.

A silver watch with a dull luster came into view. The hour, minute, and second hands had all paused for a long time, as if what locked time was not the particles of time and space, but this unwound watch.

Lift your wrist.

Lin Xian put his watch on his pulse and felt it was cold.

After tightening the iron clasp, this $20 watch from 1952 was officially worn on Lin Xian's hand.

After casually winding the knob a few times...

Click, click, click.

Time that had been stagnant for 300 years began to rotate, and the crisp sound of gears was transmitted from 1952 to the present.

"This is the most expensive watch I have ever worn."

Lin Xian said softly.

This is a gift that a poor girl from Brooklyn spent all her wealth to buy, which is better than any Rolex in the world.

At the bottom of the small square gift box, there is a small, slightly yellowed piece of paper folded.

Lin Xian pinched it.

Apparently, I just opened it a few days ago.

But now.

But I feel that the sun and the moon rotate, the stars and rivers hang upside down, and the sea changes...

Of course he knew what was written on the note.

It was a gentle instruction, telling him that daylight saving time would end tomorrow and remember to set his watch back one hour.

Now, it is December 2234.

"Sure enough, it's winter time."

Lin Xian suddenly thought of it.

In the hafnium alloy safe of Thame Bank, there was also a small note written by Chu Anqing to herself.

No coincidence.

The small piece of paper was covered with space-time particles just like this one, and was placed in the rice cooker version of the space-time particle trap.

"According to Einstein's theory, that little piece of paper, including the rice cooker, is also in a state of time suspension. No matter how much time it is left, it will not be damaged or aged."

"What exactly is what Chu Anqing wrote on the note?"

He vaguely remembered that on the space plane, Chu Anqing wrote two lines of words in the rhythm of rustling, rustling, rustling; these two lines were not very long, and they were written very quickly.

In fact, it no longer makes much sense for Lin Xian to rely on that small piece of paper to distinguish the authenticity of dreams.

Even without this small note, it would not stop him from working hard to save the Millennium Pile and save the future of mankind.

but.

Every time I think of Chu Anqing's firm and resolute eyes on the space plane; and the vicissitudes of the bearded man in CC's memory fragments...

"Perhaps, that little note is not only important to me, but also to Qian Qianzhuang, CC, and Chu Anqing."

"I hope that the next time I change the world line and enter the next dream, I can find the long-lost safe."

Now, Lin Xian is in an underground shelter, and the building's various hafnium alloy structures form a Faraday cage, so there is no signal for his mobile phone.

Therefore, even if the reading of the time and space clock changes and the world line jumps, Liu Feng's call cannot come in.

but.

Lin Xian felt that the probability of the world line changing was low.

This world line in which humanity is almost completely wiped out was itself created by digital geniuses. As Newton said, Einstein's death will only make the world line more stable.

For now.

If you want to change the world line, you must start from Newton or Galileo.

Galileo is still missing.

There is even reason to believe that he may hibernate directly until 2600 to cause a super disaster.

In comparison.

Newton with his fox tail exposed is easier to find.

Lin Xian closed the small oven and went to the other side of the underground shelter to check.

An unexpected discovery...

There are actually a lot of daily necessities and security facilities here.

A large amount of canned food, a large amount of stored water, various nuclear batteries, and even a intact [hibernation cabin].

"Einstein obviously didn't need these things. He didn't need to eat or drink, and he didn't need to hibernate."

Lin Xian checked carefully and found that there were no traces of use in either the hibernation cabin or the food.

It seems that Einstein was just preparing for a rainy day.

The underground shelter must look like an underground shelter. Even though he won't be able to use it, it still has the necessary things.

Lin Xian turned around and left, and went to explore other places. It was basically an ordinary shelter, with nothing new and almost no traces of use.

It’s hard to imagine…

Einstein spent these hundreds of years sitting in a chair alone?

Perhaps, he has been looking for a way out for the future of mankind;

Perhaps he had been waiting for a reunion with Douglas;

Perhaps, he was immersed in a false future, silently waiting for that day to arrive.

"Einstein, I have also recorded this debt for you."

Lin Xian looked at the place where Einstein fell and disappeared:

"Every injustice has its owner, and every debt has its owner. No matter who is behind the release of those two space-time particles, I will settle the score with them."

"Rescuing Chu Anqing, rescuing CC, figuring out the cosmological constant 42, solving the world-destroying white light... I estimate that the answers to these four things cannot avoid the mastermind behind the scenes."

"Then, the first step is to find out Newton's true identity step by step and start with him."

Walking behind Einstein's seat, Lin Xian touched the computers and servers with hafnium alloy shells.

These devices should be the foundation of the genius club party system.

According to previously obtained intelligence, the party's security system and logic program were written by genius hacker Kevin Walker.

In the early days, the authority was with Kevin Walker, who knew the true identities of all members; after Kevin Walker was killed by himself, the authority was controlled by Einstein.

In theory, Newton's true identity should be able to be determined from the data from these devices.

but……

"If things are really that simple, then Newton shouldn't be so arrogant and calm just now; since he knows that I killed Einstein, he must have guessed that I have found the headquarters of the Genius Club, so it is not difficult to guess. to the point where I can analyze the connection data in the web server.”

"But even so, Newton didn't care at all and was not afraid that I would find him... Is this a bluff, or is the security system designed by Kevin Walker impregnable and invulnerable?"

Lin Xian straightened up:

"Anyway, let's try it out first."

He turned around and looked back at the Genius Club, which was once bustling but now empty:

"It's better not to let too many people know about this underground shelter. This is a place that Newton, Copernicus, and other geniuses cannot find. It is extremely hidden. It can be said to be the safest place on earth. At critical times, Maybe it can save a life.”

"So, just bring Jask here alone and see if there is any way to extract the data from the server."

"If Jask can't do it either..."

Lin Xian stretched.

Thinking of my old friend who has been playing dumb for a long time, and the last and most powerful trump card:

"Then we can only find a way to eliminate the future virus and resurrect VV!"