Genius club

"I have to meet Lin Xian in person and clarify many things."

Jask put the ticket in his pocket:

"What Copernicus said... really makes people care. People always have respect and inexplicable trust for unknown things, and I am the same. Now think about it carefully, just facing the favorable information given by others, I believe that the other party is indeed my teammate... It's really naive."

"Arrogance is indeed not desirable. I really didn't expect that such a bad quality would appear in me one day. But then again, I didn't completely believe what Copernicus said. After all, I can't just deny the teammates who have fought side by side with me for so long just because of a word from others..., right?"

"So, the real answer and truth must be found, verified, and obtained by myself. The good news is that I now have a general idea, and meeting Lin Xian... is the last link for me to [finally confirm the truth]."

...

Angelica was silent.

She was in a choice.

The information of Copernicus in exchange is indeed very tempting, and this is what she needs most urgently at the moment.

But Lin Xian told her that the killer who was chasing Lin Xian was sent by Jask.

This was also confirmed by the female secretary. The girl with blue eyes and short black hair was the killer hidden in the observation tower by Jask.

So.

Angelica did not believe everything Jask said just now.

But there is one thing that Jask said is very right.

Dragon Country is much safer than the United States.

Angelica is also convinced of this.

As long as the three of them arrive in Dragon Country, Jask, who is attending the official meeting, will never dare to attack Lin Xian; and, as a guest, Jask will never attack her when she arrives in Dragon Country together; no matter how you look at it, the situation is indeed much better than it is now.

Angelica also hopes that Lin Xian can be safer and not so adventurous.

Otherwise...

With Lin Xian's loyal character.

When he realizes that he is in trouble and has been discovered by Jask... he will most likely take the initiative to seek revenge on Jask and ask for his life.

But this is the United States.

Jask has a huge power, a complex network of people, and can cover the sky with one hand. Lin Xian is alone in the face of a serious Jask, and has no power to fight at all.

He may even be killed by Jask.

"Huh..."

Angelica looked out the window and breathed a sigh of relief.

She couldn't drag Lin Xian into danger again because of her recklessness this time.

Therefore.

Let's go to Longguo.

Lead Jask and Lin Xian to the safe and law-abiding Longguo, away from Jask's home court.

In this way...

No matter what Lin Xian's purpose is next, he will always be in his own territory, Donghai City, and his advantage is much greater than that in the United States.

"I hope you can keep your promise this time, Jask."

Angelica sat up from the sofa.

She crossed her arms and looked at the former world's richest man:

"I'll wait for you to tell me about Copernicus."

Jask smiled.

Spreading his hands:

"I always keep my word."

Soon after.

Jask's private plane took off from the airport, and Angelica and Jask sat in the cabin together, preparing to fly to Longguo Donghai.

Four days later, on April 28, Jask will attend the Council for the Promotion of International Trade in the capital of Longguo and meet with Longguo officials; and in the three days of early arrival, he will go to Donghai City to figure out this series of mysteries and eliminate the real enemy.

"Oh, I almost forgot, I have to send a tweet."

The plane was running on the runway, Jask took out his mobile phone from his pocket and opened the Twitter software:

"Originally, I didn't plan to make the itinerary of visiting Zheng Xiangyue public, that little girl needs quiet. But... there is no way, I must let Lin Xian know about this, otherwise how can I guarantee that he will come to see me?"

After that.

Jask started editing the social media platform with a series of clicks on his phone screen.

Angelica chuckled:

"Why don't you let me post a tweet? My account hasn't been updated for many days. Since you want Lin Xian to know that I also went to Longguo, why don't you let me post a tweet to cooperate with you?"

Jask typed.

He shook his head and smiled:

"Angelica, I'm not a fool... Even if I were a fool, I would know what you are thinking and what you are calculating."

"When I find out the truth of the matter, I will naturally return you to Lin Xian and give you freedom. It will only take two or three days, so you have to bear with it."

Angelica snorted, crossed her legs, and looked at the seat next to Jask.

There was no one sitting in that seat.

But...

there was a household [small refrigerator] that didn't fit the style of the painting.

This white cube refrigerator is really small; although it is larger than the traditional car refrigerator, it is placed in the range of household appliances, and this size can't hold much things.

--\u003e\u003e

According to Angelica's visual observation.

This small refrigerator is only about half a meter long, wide and high, and looks only two circles larger than an ordinary rice cooker. There are no obvious trademarks and logos around it:

"It's okay to bear it, I'm just curious... You are obviously visiting Longguo and bringing business, why do you bring your small refrigerator on the plane?"

"There is obviously a refrigerator and freezer on your private plane. What's more, your small refrigerator is not plugged in. Even if there is anything refrigerated in it, it will go bad? What is the reason... for you to bring one? Where’s the refrigerator going to Dragon Kingdom?”

There was a beep of successful transmission, and Jask finished updating his Twitter.

He then put down his cell phone and turned to look at the small white square refrigerator on the seat next to him, stroking it fondly:

"The things in here... are of great use."

…

USA, New Jersey, highway.

Lin Xian slowly opened his eyes from the passenger seat and sighed.

Yu Xi held the steering wheel and turned her head in confusion:

"Why are you awake? You've only been asleep for less than two hours."

Lin Xian didn't speak.

Looking ahead, I looked at the yellow sand on the road and the dry grass leaves that were swirled by the swirling wind.

Nothing had changed in the dream just now.

Soldiers are still the same group of heavily armed soldiers;

The old man is still the old man with a dry smile;

I have been working hard for so long, but I still haven't been able to break through the fourth dream. It is impossible to say that I am not a little disappointed.

this moment.

He really misses the big-faced cat, Erzhuxi and the others...

Of course, what he misses most is CC.

Now that Chu Anqing has turned into blue stardust and disappeared, CC is the key for him to further understand the Millennium Stake, understand the secrets of Chu Anqing, and understand how to rescue Chu Anqing.

More than anyone else, he wanted to see CC in the dream world.

He wanted to ask about CC's birthday and the secrets about her. The best thing to do was to take her with him to open the safe in Taimu Bank and see what was written on the little note together. What.

CC said.

The bearded man who called himself VV and was most likely his middle-aged self told her that the safe contained all the truth she wanted to know and the meaning of her life.

From a historical closed-loop perspective.

The password of the safe and the contents stored in it have never changed from beginning to end... Doesn't that mean that what CC was pursuing from the beginning was that ordinary little piece of paper?

This couldn't help but make Lin Xian feel a little incredible.

Just a small note.

At most, Chu Anqing wrote two lines on it.

Really... can it have such great magic power, such power, and such heavy weight?

Before actually opening the safe, Lin Xian didn't dare to tell CC that there was just a small note inside.

Even if the small piece of paper contains mantras written in heaven, it is not worthy of CC's journey of wandering, traveling from far away, staying consistent, and narrowly escaping death, right?

I really don’t know what that bearded man is thinking…

Could it be that he also took this into consideration and felt that he couldn't do anything or speak out, so he didn't tell CC the password in the end?

Unexpectedly, it was counterproductive. This behavior of the Riddler actually made CC more persistent in opening the safe.

"Maybe... there are other reasons."

Lin Xian murmured to himself.

He currently knows too little information, and does not know the specific situation of CC, Millennium Stake, or Bearded Man VV, so it is too early and too irresponsible to draw a conclusion.

Anyway.

I just hope that I can see CC soon, so that... he will feel a little better.

"I'll sleep a little longer. Call me when you get to Princeton."

Lin Xian told Yu Xi and continued to close his eyes and rest.

…

In the evening, the SUV successfully drove near Angelica's villa.

Yu Xi woke up Lin Xian.

The two did not drive too close to each other, but got out of the car far away, each holding a pistol and approaching quietly.

After finally confirming that there was no danger, Yu Xi smashed the window with a punch, got in, and opened the front door of the house for Lin Xian.

Enter the house, turn on the light, and look around.

I found that there was no difference from when I left, no changes, and no traces of life.

"It seems that Angelica's situation is indeed not good. It is estimated that Jask found out that she was pretending to be a female secretary that day."

Lin Xian walked to the dining table and looked at the used glassware, fake eyebrows, beard patches...the same props that Angelica used to disguise herself when attending the dinner that day.

This means that Angelica has not been back for several days.

He took out his mobile phone, entered major social platforms, and checked Angelica's personal account:

"In the past few days, Angelica has not appeared on online social platforms, has not sent any updates, and has not forwarded or browsed any recommended information."

Lin Xian closed his phone, sat on a chair, and frowned slightly:

"Did Jask put Angelica under house arrest? Or did he directly kill her?"

"I feel that direct killing is more likely."

Yu Xi opened the refrigerator, took some food, and shared it with Lin Xian:

"Jask is the richest man in the world after all. In a place like the United States--\u003e\u003e

, it is not an exaggeration to say that one hand covers the sky. Besides, Jask himself is not a good person. He has never been lenient when sending time and space assassins to kill you. "

"You are just lucky to have been able to escape the assassins of time and space many times. Otherwise... you would have been a dead soul under Jask's sword now. So, since Jask is so cruel to you, then he should kill you Angelica is not surprised either.”

"Not to mention that Angelica was the first to offend in this matter. If Angelica's disguise is indeed very realistic, then Jask might actually reveal some important information to her without noticing it at first. "

"And by the time Jask reacted belatedly, Angelica had already learned too many things from him that she shouldn't have known...then there was no other way. If he knew too much, he would have to be silenced, and Jask would also She must be killed and her body destroyed.”

"I thought of something."

Lin Xian put down the butter bread in his hand and looked up at Yu Xi:

"Since the time and space assassin was sent by Jask, where is the source? Just like you suddenly appeared in front of me, the time and space assassin also suddenly appeared in front of Jask at a certain point in time."

"So, who will send back a time and space assassin from the future as a gift to Jask? No need to think about it, it must be Jask's partner, accomplice, or himself in the future! Now that the hibernation cabin technology is approaching maturity, It will take no more than two years to reach full mass production.”

"So if Jask is willing, he can freeze in a hibernation chamber until he wakes up a few hundred years later...and then send a time and space assassin back to 2024 from an era when he has mastered time travel technology and can build a time machine. , for use by Jask in the past.”

Yu Xi wiped the jam from the corner of her mouth.

chuckled:

"Did you just think of this? I thought you could have thought of it a long time ago."

"Now that you have thought of this and the elasticity of time and space has increased, I can also say a little more about this matter. Obviously, traveling through time and space is not as random as you think. Otherwise, it would definitely be a problem every time. This era will be filled with a large number of time travellers, and in that case, time and space would have become chaotic.”

Lin Xian nodded:

"I have considered this a long time ago, so... in order for humans to travel through time and space, the necessary technological development is not a necessary condition; the reason why time travelers are so rare must not be because of technological limitations, but because of something else. [Conditions], [Energy], and [Consumables] restrictions.”

"It is precisely because these conditions are extremely difficult to achieve, or certain consumable materials are very scarce, that time travel is not an easy thing to do... Perhaps throughout human history, there are only a handful of time travelers. Number of people."

Very directly, Lin Xian thought of [space-time particles] that also travel through time and space, but are extremely rare and unpredictable.

"I don't know if you know anything about space-time particles."

Lin Xian looked at Yu Xi:

"This is the only thing that I have seen and know that can travel through time and space. It's just that the one I captured has no energy. My scientists also told me that space-time particles have no energy. It is equivalent to waste and has no use value.”

"But thinking about it on the other hand, if this space-time particle is perfectly captured and the energy is not consumed...then what great role can it play?"

"I have thought about this issue for a long time. I have always felt that the role of complete space-time particles must be very, very large. Otherwise, why would everyone go to such great lengths to snatch it? This also shows from the side that space-time Particles are such extremely rare things that their value is absolutely worthy of their existence.”

"I couldn't understand it before, but now that I see how powerful you and that time and space assassin are... I think I have roughly figured it out -"

"[Space-time particles should be the necessary consumables for humans to travel through time and space! If I guessed correctly... when you traveled back to the present from the future world hundreds of years later, you should also have consumed a complete space-time particle, right? ]"

…

Lin Xian looked into Yu Xi's blue eyes.

I thought that this time, the other party would still use "can't say" or "no way to say" to excuse me.

But very unexpected.

The other party actually nodded casually with jam on his face:

"This conclusion is not difficult to guess at all. Rather, you should have reacted to it the moment you saw the space-time particles."

"Yes, since you have guessed it, I can naturally say it generously. Yes, every time traveler must consume a time and space particle to complete time and space travel. The specific details and rules are as well Things to note... With the current elasticity of time and space, I definitely can’t tell you, not even for a long, long time.”

"After all, in your current era, 2024, there is still a long way to go before the development of time travel technology and the construction of a time shuttle. I am afraid that the detailed theory will have to wait until that day comes before you can truly understand it."

"It doesn't matter."

Lin Xian waved his hand:

"Having this information is enough. Then combined with my reasoning just now, it is not difficult to guess that at some point in the future, Jask obtained a space-time particle, and then started this centuries-long space-time assassin plan. ”

"In other words, if we think more boldly, why is the space-time particle discovered by Liu Feng the first in human history? Maybe several space-time particles have arrived on the earth before this, and Jask, who is very powerful in aerospace technology... had already captured one completely before this."

The more he thought about it, the smoother his ideas became:

"In this case, it seems that it is not difficult to explain why the space-time particle Liu Feng observed was chasing the earth... Its target was simply not the earth, not the millennium pile, not the oriole, or anything else. People... are upright--\u003e\u003e

It's the space-time particle in Jask's hand! They are attracted to each other! "

"It doesn't have to be in Jask's hands. Since Jask can have space-time particles in his hands, it naturally doesn't rule out that there are also space-time particles in other people's hands. After all... who can refuse to let his future self send a 'Terminator' What about the temptation of 'Super Saiyan'?"

"Therefore, those who possess space-time particles will definitely find a way to hide this big treasure tightly until the day the space-time shuttle is built. Then, when the space-time particles come into play, they will start to move forward. Give it away at the right time.”

…

After it is clear that space-time particles are necessary consumables for time travel, everything that happens can be deduced into a complete logical chain.

"There is a strong possibility that Jask possesses space-time particles."

Lin Xian held his chin and thought:

"At least, he has a very good understanding of space-time particles, otherwise he would not be fully aware of my actions and the actions of Kevin Walker."

"The space-time particles, the space-time assassin, and the future Jask, these three things form a perfect historical closed loop, each of which is indispensable - [The current Jask must ensure that the space-time particles will continue to the future Jask. Only In this way, the time and space assassin can successfully travel through."

"Thinking about it this way, it is not difficult to deduce that Kevin Walker wants to prevent me from obtaining the space-time particle. He should think that the space-time particle is my historical closed loop, or someone else's historical closed loop... This is all It’s not important, what’s important is that Kevin Walker doesn’t want this closed loop to be achieved, so he has to interfere with my capture of space-time particles.”

"But why did Jask help me? And why did he use time and space assassins to assassinate me after helping me? If he wanted to assassinate me, why didn't he do it in Copenhagen? What's so special about Copenhagen? So, currently, I just can’t figure it out. I still feel there are so many contradictions. There must be something wrong with this!”

While Lin Xian was thinking.

Yu Xi has finished eating the jam bread.

She took out the tissue next to her to wipe her hands, shook her short hamster-like ponytail on the back of her head, and blinked at Lin Xian:

"I can't understand what you are talking about. It seems that these are things that happened in your time and space, and are unique to your history. But... now that you understand the historical closed loop of Jask, space-time particles, and space-time assassins... …It shouldn’t be difficult to figure out how to [break the situation], right?”

Lin Xian nodded:

"Maybe we just need to steal Jask's space-time particles."

"Just like Kevin Walker interfered with me capturing the space-time particles, we stole Jask's space-time particles, or touched them to render them useless."

"In this case, Jask in the future will have no space-time particles to use, so naturally there will be no way to send the space-time assassin back... If the space-time closed loop that has been formed is destroyed, will the space-time assassin disappear directly? Fall? Just turn into blue stardust and disappear out of thin air?”

Yu Xi shook her head:

"I can't tell."

Lin Xian smiled knowingly.

Nowadays, "There's no way to tell" is roughly equivalent to "You're right."

So he continued:

"No matter what, according to my understanding, as long as the space-time particles in Jask's hands are destroyed, then his historical closed loop can be destroyed, and the space-time assassin can be neutralized and disappear. Anyway, it is absolutely impossible to exist in this place unharmed. in time and space.”

"This tactic should be perfect in theory, but there are still two factors that should not be considered -"

Lin Xian stretched out his first finger:

"First, Jask must know the importance of space-time particles better than anyone else. He will definitely cherish the space-time particles until a mature point in the future. With the strength of the world's richest man, I think if he wants to hide something It’s hard for the two of us to find and steal things.”

"This is only the first point, which is not troublesome enough. What is really fatal to us is the second point."

With that said, Lin Xian raised his second finger:

"Second, maybe we thought everything was too smooth. It's very possible that Jask doesn't have space-time particles at all in his hands now, and he hasn't reached the point of getting space-time particles yet."

"For example, he may have obtained a complete space-time particle in 2034, and then sent the space-time assassin back to 2024 to assist him in 2334 or even 2534."

"This is entirely possible based on the logic of the timeline. He didn't even prevent him from obtaining space-time particles in 2534, and then teleporting the space-time assassin back to the past in 2534."

"So do you understand what I mean? It is very likely that Jask does not have space-time particles at all in his hands now. Our so-called plans are just empty targets. The imaginary enemy space-time particles do not exist at all, so naturally we cannot find them. , and can’t be stolen.”

Yu Xi pursed her lips.

Think about it.

Then, he raised his head and looked at Lin Xian seriously:

"Lin Xian, I feel that you still complicate simple issues..."

"Since you already know that Jask's historical closed loop is composed of three parts: the space-time assassin, the space-time particles, and the future Jask."

"Then in the current situation, the space-time assassin is too powerful to be defeated head-on; the space-time particles are unknown and nowhere to be found; in this case... why do you have to focus on two complex options and ignore the simplest and easiest option?"

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes:

"You mean..."

"That's right."

Yu Xi pointed at the black pistol that Lin Xian placed on the table.

Raised his head.

The bright blue eyes met Lin Xian's eyes, reflecting--\u003e\u003e

The same blue halo appeared in Lin Xian's pupils:

"[Kill Jask... Let him have no future!]"