Genius club

Soon, the group of Yan Qiaoqiao's men were defeated and stood up again like bamboo shoots after a rain. The playfulness of children is an obsession that adults cannot understand.

so

Yan Qiaoqiao pulled off the Rhine Cat mask from her face and returned to the free fighting stage to chase and fight with the group of children.

Zhao Yingjun put her Rhine Cat mask into her handbag, holding Yan Qiaoqiao's coat in her hand, walked to Lin Xian, and looked at Yan Qiaoqiao running on the lawn with him.

Lin Xian turned his head and looked at Zhao Ying:

"I'm thinking about how to speak to Yan Qiaoqiao."

"I think about it all the time."

Yue Yingqun crossed her arms and breathed out lightly:

"Many times I feel that this is not a big problem and I can just say it casually. But we are adults after all. When we consider children's problems, we always think it is very simple, very casual and a trivial matter."

"But from the perspective of a child, this matter may not be so easy to accept. Especially now that Qiaoqiao has become sensible and cheerful, I am worried that telling her the truth rashly will cause harm to her spirit. positive effect."

"If you were from our perspective, we would accept these outrageous things very quickly. We are older and have experienced a lot of things, so naturally our vision and acceptance level are different. But Qiaoqiao's world in her eyes is just that A little older, I don’t know if she can accept it when I suddenly tell her the truth.”

Lin Xian turned over the Rhine Cat mask in his hand and looked at the cute Rhine Cat on the front and the two holes for the eyes.

Rhine cat.

Rhine Village.

He thought of Zheng Xiangyue, the "little girl" who was over a hundred years old and ran from Mars to Earth to build her hometown.

At that time, Lin Xian also hesitated whether to tell Zheng Xiangyue her true memories and add a touch of childhood misery to her happy life.

But later, after experiencing the story of Uncle Wei Shengjin, Lin Xian realized

No one is qualified to make decisions about other people's memories.

The same is true for Yan Qiaoqiao now.

Do you want to keep hiding it from her?

Definitely not.

Lin Xian and Zhao Ying know the truth and can raise and take care of their biological daughter as their sister, and they will not feel any psychological pressure.

But in Yan Qiaoqiao's eyes, she is an orphan,

An unwanted orphan,

An orphan abandoned by his parents,

Even though Yan Qiaoqiao didn't say it, Lin Xian could tell at a glance that Yan Qiaoqiao had always had a strong obsession with the word parents.

This obsession did not even disappear with the amnesia, but became more intense.

Lin Xian had no intention of keeping Yan Qiaoqiao a secret.

But what Zhao Yingjun said requires consideration that the world of children is indeed different from that of adults.

"Let's take our time."

Lin Xian raised his hand and looked at the date on his smart watch.

"Qiao Qiao, her memory and living conditions have just stabilized during this period. How about we wait a little longer and tell her the truth in July?"

Lin Xian suggested:

"It may be difficult for her to accept it at first, but we can accompany her through the process."

Zhao Yingjun nodded:

"I think so."

She smiled:

"Maybe Qiaoqiao will be happy instead. After all...she really likes us and approves of us."

"Um."

Lin Xian nodded: "Yes."

after.

The two of them stared at Yan Qiaoqiao, who had swept through thousands of troops and Lu Bu was still alive.

They were silent.

Neither spoke.

Even though their child jumped out early...but in fact, there was still a tacit understanding between Lin Xian and Zhao Yingjun that had not been broken.

Zhao Yingqun was concerned about Lin Xian and worried that the secret mission he was performing would not be made public;

Lin Xian was also thinking about Zhao Yingjun, and did not want to involve her in danger when the crisis of her own death on July 7 was about to come, causing her to worry in vain.

so.

July 7th is an important time.

No matter what Zhao Yingjun chooses next after learning the truth.

Lin Xian didn't plan to hide it from her anymore.

afternoon.

Zhao Yingjun still had something to do at MX Company, so he left with Yan Qiaoqiao.

Lin Xian also took a special car to Tunghai University and returned the time and space clock to Liu Feng.

Liu Feng got the time and space clock.

Look at the numbers above.

Frowning:

"It has changed so much, but it is the same as what we predicted before. No matter how it changes, it will definitely be a multiple of 0.0000042."

"It's just that what happened this time? Do you know?"

Lin Xian nodded:

"The death of a man."

He felt that the description was not quite appropriate, so he added a patch:

"To be precise, it should be a very powerful person...a person who existed in a digital life form, died."

"Digital life?"

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Liu Feng raised his head and thought for a while:

"I originally thought that digital life was just a science fiction concept. Could it be that it was secretly conquered by some genius? Then he is indeed too powerful. In a sense, I feel that creating a digital life is no less difficult than building a computer. Time shuttle."

"But this is something in two dimensions after all, and it is not easy to compare. Since the values ​​​​on the time and space clock have changed so much, it is enough to show that the weight of this digital life in history, the future, and the long river of time is still quite important."

"Generally speaking, the death of an individual, or even the death of dozens or hundreds of people, may not break through the elasticity of time and space and cause the world line to shift and jump. Our various previous experiments have also confirmed that time and space itself is very inert and resistant. The change is far less sensitive than the butterfly effect in intuition. "

Said. Liu Feng walked to the blackboard.

Pick up the chalk and draw four parallel lines on the blackboard.

The distance between the parallel lines above is much larger, a full thirty or forty centimeters.

Liu Feng took the chalk and lit the last

"This is the 0.0000000 world line when we calibrate the space-time clock; and the next one is the jump to the 0.0000042 world line after Jask destroyed the entangled space-time particles."

"Later, you went to the Academy of Dragon Science and established the Second Rhine Laboratory. The world line jumped again and came to the 0.0000084 world line; today, because of the death of the digital life human, the world line went berserk and came to the 0.0000336 world. Wire."

"It stands to reason... that this time the changes are so big, then the world in the future should have changed drastically, right? Otherwise, how should we understand the value of the curvature of space and time?"

On the way here.

Lin Xian has been thinking about this issue.

But he believes that the change in the curvature of space and time may not represent the degree of change in the world in the future.

For example, the 0.0000000 world line becomes the 0.0000042 world line. From the perspective of humans on earth, the changes in the future world of the two world lines are so great that it cannot be described as earth-shaking.

But.

The curvature of space-time only changed by the minimum value of 0.0000042.

On the other hand, the fifth dream turned into the sixth dream.

Obviously the change is not very big, but it is still the minimum value of 0.0000042.

Isn’t this a contradiction in terms of setting?

"I think, at present, there are two speculations."

Lin Xian raised a finger:

"The first guess is that the space-time coordinates themselves are arranged in disorder. It does not mean that two space-time coordinates are close to each other, which means that they are very similar and have little change."

Then, he stretched out a second finger:

"The second guess is that the space-time coordinates are indeed in order, but the change in the curvature of space-time and the degree of change in the future world are not judged and measured from a human subjective perspective."

"I don't know if you can understand what I said. Let me give you an example. For humans, if all humans on the earth become extinct, then this should be a very large change in the curvature of space and time, right?"

"But what about the earth? Is this change really big? I don't think it is big at all. Human beings are not the first inhabitants of the earth, nor are they the last. So from the perspective of the earth, the changes in the curvature of space and time are also It’s not very big. The mountains and rivers are still there, but humans are gone, which is just scratching the itch of the earth.”

"So how do we understand the magnitude of the change in the curvature of space and time? Including the so-called earth-shaking changes in the future world as well as the minor changes, what is the perspective, reference system, and benchmark point for judging?"

Lin Xian's words.

Liu Feng fell into deep thought again.

He pursed his lips, thought for a long time, and then raised his head:

"Of your two guesses, I think the first one must be wrong. Countless results show that the universe and space-time must be orderly, concise and beautiful. Therefore, the greater the change in the curvature of space-time, it must represent the world line. The greater the deviation angle.”

"But the question is, from whose perspective is the change in your second guess observed? Where is the reference system?"

"The evolution of human beings from the primitive era to the information industry era is a huge change; but for the earth, this critical step in human civilization cannot even use the resources of the earth's crust. Can it be regarded as a huge change? It can only be regarded as a small change. "

"The overall temperature of the earth has increased by 5 degrees. Is this a big change or a small change? The oxygen concentration in the atmosphere has increased by 5 degrees. Is this a big change or a small change? It is definitely a small change for the earth, but it is absolutely earth-shaking for everything living on the earth. great changes.”

Liu Feng smacked his lips:

"Lin Xian, you provided me with a very valuable idea."

“How do you define the magnitude of change in the curvature of space-time?”

"It certainly cannot be judged from our human perspective. This is absolutely because humans are not special in time, space and the universe, and we are not qualified to be a benchmark point."

"But if you ask me what the correct answer is, I can't figure it out at all. I feel that this already involves the rules and laws at the bottom of the universe, and even the laws of space and time that we haven't mentioned for a long time."

"I'm afraid we still need more experimental data."

Liu Feng walked to the experimental table and patted the eight-digit time and space clock showing 0.0000336:

"We must first determine how much the future of the current world line has changed compared to the future of the previous world line, and then we can make subsequent judgments and conclusions."

Lin Xian nodded.

He thought so too.

Today, he planned to learn the question of the third question of the Genius Club exam as soon as possible, then go to bed and go to the Seventh Dream to take a look.

Result Zhao Ying--\u003e\u003e

Qun's phone call delayed everything.

Just do it at night and after you get home.

"correct."

Lin Xian turned his head and looked at Liu Feng:

"Do you have any impression of the name Du Yao? When you heard Nangong Mengjie's name before, you knew who she was. Du Yao should be a genius scientist in the field of brain nerves. Have you heard of this name?"

"No."

Liu Feng shook his head without thinking:

"This name is too unfamiliar. If she is really as talented as you say, I should have some impression. I don't know much about the field of brain nerves, but it doesn't sound like a field that is easy to produce results."

"To achieve key breakthroughs in such advanced fields, we must rely on the flash of inspiration of some geniuses. It is useless to rely on ordinary scientists to accumulate the number of people and research time. The principle that quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes does not apply to every field. Common to all.”

"By the way, you can ask Nangong Mengjie. Her status and popularity in the academic world are much higher than mine, and her connections are much better than mine. If that lady named Du Yao is really as talented as you say, Nangong Mengjie must know something about it, after all, she works at the Longguo Academy of Sciences and is a student of Dean Gao Yan."

Lin Xian pulled up a chair.

sit down.

Shaking his head:

"I asked her a few days ago. Just a week ago, the equipment and personnel of the Second Rhine Laboratory in Donghai City were in place. I also went to meet Nangong Mengjie and chat. She said that she also I have never heard of the name Du Yao, and I have asked many experts in the field of neurology at home and abroad and everyone is unfamiliar with this name.”

"I have to say that Nangong Mengjie is indeed very capable, clear in thinking, and resolute in her actions. She is a natural leader at first glance. Dean Gao Yan is indeed right about the person. Under her orderly arrangement, the Second Rheinland Laboratory has begun micro-nuclear testing. For battery research, it is expected that experimental products will be produced by the end of the year and finished products can be mass-produced and put into the market within a year.”

"By then... our Rheinland Company's cash flow will reach a terrifying figure. In this way, no matter what research we do in the future, we won't have to consider money."

"According to my plan, I plan to have your Rheinland Laboratory No. 1 focus on research on cosmological constants, space-time particles, and space-time shuttles; and then in the future, I will set up a Rheinland Laboratory No. 3 to focus on research on cranial nerve electric shock helmets. The problem of hibernation amnesia.”

"But the problem is that the research on brain-clicking helmets is really not possible without Ms. Du Yao's key breakthrough. I don't know where to look for it now."

As Lin Xian spoke, he raised his head, only to find that Liu Feng, who was standing next to him, had disappeared.

"Where are the people?"

He turned his head.

I found Liu Feng silently walking to the blackboard, staring at the arithmetic sequence he had written before.

""

Lin Xian was speechless:

"I'm talking to you, are you listening?"

boom.

Liu Feng picked up the blackboard eraser and slapped it on the blank space between the names of Yan Qiaoqiao, who was fourteen, and Chu Anqing, who was twenty:

"there is only one truth."

"Are you a comedian?" Lin Xian couldn't help but complain: "Do I need to wear reflective glasses for you?"

"The arithmetic sequence is absolute."

Liu Feng's eyes were full of seriousness and rigor:

"According to the reasoning of the arithmetic sequence, Du Yao should be only 17 years old now. She may not have graduated from high school. How can she become a leader in the field of brain nerves?"

"It may take ten years or even decades before she will make a breakthrough in the field of cranial nerves. But since you mentioned her name at this time, I think she should appear in the laboratory soon!"

"hehe."

Lin Xian stood up from the chair and walked towards the back door:

"Farewell."

When I got home, it was still early, only around six o'clock in the evening.

Lin Xian placed the Rhine Cat mask on the coffee table in the living room.

Then, he put the laptop with the VV source code in the closet and continued to hide it:

"Just wait a little longer. When I figure out a way to deal with the super virus from the future, you won't have to continue playing artificially retarded."

"I don't know how you are doing in Zhao Yingqun's office, but you have to help others clean the floor."

VV is an artificial intelligence. Unlike the digital life Turing, it can be split and hidden in several places at the same time.

Therefore, shutting down the laptop does not affect the operation of the sweeping robot VV in Zhao Yingqun's office at all.

The two VVs are independent of each other, but they are also a whole. They can split and merge at any time. This is the superiority of artificial intelligence AI.

Now that Turing was completely dead, Lin Xian was really relaxed and felt that the eyes that had been hanging above his head disappeared.

In order to be able to kill Turing completely and foolproof.

Lin Xian made many attempts in the Sixth Dream and tested many situations, and finally determined that the three lines of security lock code could indeed completely eliminate Turing.

can only say

After this tug-of-war, the feud between Kevin Walker and Turing was evened out and ended.

Turing used himself to kill Kevin Walker; the security lock code left by Kevin Walker helped him kill Turing.

Isn't this a kind of karma?

"It's better to do more good things."

Lin Xian said softly:

"what goes around comes around."

Now.

Finally no one bothered me.

You can focus on the third question of the Genius Club.

r\u003e Lin Xian took out his cell phone, took out the gold badge engraved with the Genius Club's seal, and stuck it on the back of the phone.

There was a soft sound, the NFC device recognized the signal, the browser opened and started to jump continuously. Lin Xian looked at the flickering web page.

I can't help but start guessing

What will the last test question be?

Logically speaking, it should be more difficult and harder to answer, right? But it’s hard to say.

Because Jask made it clear that as long as the invitation letter is obtained through "conventional" means, these three exam questions will be the scoring questions.

Ahem.

Who knew that this invitation was obtained by cheating? After all, you have to make up the votes.

If you think about it carefully, for the second question, it is actually not that difficult to perform the greatest possible historical revision.

After all, it’s just about being as great as possible.

If everyone really wanted to be like him, and a member of the Genius Club needed to be sacrificed to answer the question, then most of the members of the Genius Club would probably be dead.

"Maybe I pushed too hard."

Lin Xian smiled helplessly.

But despicable and hypocritical scourges like Turing are destined to be left behind. They harm others and themselves, so it is better to eliminate them as soon as possible.

He recalled the first two questions.

The first question asks about knowledge points about time and space; the second question asks about knowledge points about history; and the third question

What should I ask?

suddenly.

The webpage on the mobile phone screen stopped jumping and stabilized in white text on a black background.

At the top of the page, there is the word 33, which means that you have passed the second question and are qualified to face the third question.

Lin Xian looked towards the middle of the screen with curiosity and expectation.

Huh?

It is different from the fill-in-the-blank questions in the first question and the short-answer questions in the second question.

The third question

It turned out to be a multiple choice question!

This really surprised Lin Xian.

I thought the third question that appeared as the finale... was it so simple? The font with white characters on a black background contains an unusually concise question line.

Does humanity still have a future?

Just such a simple question.

YES,NO

Lin Xian tried to swipe up the screen to see if there were any other prompts, but found that the page could not be slid.

It seems that this is already a complete topic.

"Isn't it too simple?"

Lin Xian didn't know what to choose for a while.

Sometimes it is like this. The question is too simple, and people will think more complicatedly and find it difficult to make a choice.

pick one of two

What to choose?

Does humanity still have a future?

He stared at this sentence and recalled the painting that had been in the East China Sea Exhibition Hall and Einstein's former residence in Princeton.

sad einstein

He saw this oil painting twice, both with Chu Anqing. Especially when he saw it for the first time at the Donghai Exhibition Hall, he also gave Chu Anqing some knowledge about the background of this oil painting:

“Einstein believed that it was his mass-energy equation that opened Pandora’s box, thus allowing mankind to master uncontrollable nuclear energy, which in turn led to the birth of nuclear weapons, a major killer, and caused the death of millions of people. ”

"But his worries are not limited to this. He is also worried about the future of mankind. He often expresses the emotion of "does mankind still have a future?" He is worried that after the next global war breaks out, countless nuclear weapons will fall from the sky, which will directly lead to the collapse of mankind. Extinction, destruction of civilization.”

"So, in 1952, the realist painter Henry Dawson and Einstein met in Brooklyn, and there he painted an oil painting of the sad great man, which is this sad Einstein."

At that time, Lin Xian told Chu Anqing this.

It was not until later that Angelica told herself that there were actually 8 authentic paintings of this oil painting, all of which were painted by Henry Dawson.

Moreover, there is a series of different passwords hidden in each oil painting.

The oil painting left by Ji Lin is still gathering dust in the laboratory of Tunghai University.

The password above is too difficult.

Liu Feng and VV both tried to crack it, but to no avail, so they gave up.

Lin Xian really didn't expect that

The third question of the Genius Club is actually related to Einstein’s worries in his later years and the oil painting of a sad Einstein!

Einstein in 1952 was already in the twilight of his life.

Negative emotions such as remorse, depression, regret, and self-blame constantly tortured his mind and body, leaving him physically and mentally exhausted and on the verge of collapse.

Does humanity still have a future?

This was what Einstein asked himself back then.

He didn't come up with an accurate answer, but his worries and concerns spoke for themselves. It showed that... he was not optimistic about the future of mankind and was full of despair.

Standing in 2024, Lin Xian looks back at this issue again.

He did feel that Einstein's concerns were unfounded. Nuclear weapons are truly terrifying.

But after Einstein's death, hydrogen bombs, which were ten to hundreds of times more terrifying than the atomic bomb, were also created.

But so far, no hydrogen bomb has been used in war; and after World War II, no atomic bomb has been used.

On the contrary, thanks to the formation of nuclear deterrence, the earth has experienced the longest period of peace in history.

It's hard to say whether Einstein and the Manhattan Project were heroes or sinners of human civilization... After all, it's too early to talk about this, and there is still nothing to do--\u003e\u003e

The law seals the coffin.

"Then what should I choose for this question?"

Lin Xian's eyes wandered between the YES and NO buttons.

he feels

This is actually a subjective question. Choosing YES or NO is the correct answer. It just represents different personal positions and opinions.

"So, is this about choosing your own position?"

"Optimist? Or pessimist?"

Lin Xian is not sure what the purpose of the genius club is to make this multiple-choice question the last question.

But he follows his heart and has never been disappointed with the future of mankind.

Even if he is asked a thousand or ten thousand times, Lin Xian firmly believes that

mankind has a future.

So he didn't hesitate.

Press the YES button directly.

Click.

This time, the webpage made a crisp sound, and instead of jumping repeatedly like before, a text box popped up immediately.

Above the text box, the second half of the third question was written in black and white text:

What kind of future is the best future?