From the Three-Body Escape to Super God

Chapter 351 Are you Professor Zhang?
Zhang Heng was not very familiar with Cheng Xin, a person who had also survived the last universe zero cycle like himself, but he was definitely not a stranger to her.

There was even a time when he tried to influence and change this Madonna who was like the god of death, so as to prevent the final tragedy from happening.

But it's a pity that at that time he didn't understand at all that the root of everything was not Cheng Xin, everything was human's own choice.

Besides, he didn't have much ability at that time.

He cannot stop the choice of human nature...

People can drive Luo Ji out of the community, or they can make him unable to sleep even under the overpass...

Back to the topic, after seeing Cheng Xin, Zhang Heng also stopped his subsequent actions.

Because there is no need anymore.

Since this war planet also belongs to humans, and is led by Cheng Xin, he no longer dares to continue to have the interest he had in it before.

Is he tired of living by letting Cheng Xin join his faction of Enlighteners?

Even today, Zhang Heng doesn't dare to underestimate her.

After giving up the idea of ​​controlling the war planet, Zhang Heng's only remaining targets were those individuals from marginal civilizations who were captured by this group of humans.

As long as he showed up and asked Cheng Xin for these captives from marginal civilizations, Cheng Xin would definitely give them to him.

After much deliberation, Zhang Heng decided to choose the most direct method.

Furthermore, showing up to meet Cheng Xin and asking for captives from marginal civilizations was just one of the reasons.

More importantly, Zhang Heng also wanted to use Cheng Xin to learn about other people who have also survived the last cycle of universe zeroing, Yun Tianming and others, how are they doing now, and where are they...

However, Zhang Heng did not appear in front of Cheng Xin in a high-profile manner. Instead, he waited until there was no one around her before his consciousness appeared around her.

Cheng Xin also achieved the existence of an independent consciousness. As soon as Zhang Heng's consciousness appeared around her without any cover, she would naturally sense the existence of Zhang Heng's consciousness at the first moment.

"who are you?"

After sensing the existence of Zhang Heng's consciousness, Cheng Xin looked carefully at the direction where Zhang Heng's consciousness was and asked.

Although the human civilization under her leadership, in addition to her independent consciousness, there are a few people who can also have independent consciousness.

However, the consciousness that appeared around her now was not like the other people in the civilization.

Then, it means that this unknown consciousness does not belong to the people of one's own civilization, but comes from an unknown civilization.

"Are you a conscious body from a marginal civilization?"

Thinking that her human civilization had just ended a war with a marginal civilization, she couldn't help but ask this question again.

However, after thinking about it carefully, she felt that something was wrong.

This is because the fringe civilizations in the current time period do not have the technological capabilities to even create a small universe, let alone an independent consciousness.

Therefore, this unknown consciousness cannot be from a marginal civilization.

Just when Cheng Xin was puzzled and was about to call on the security forces to drive away this unknown consciousness whose intentions were unknown, Zhang Heng answered her with action.

Since he has decided to meet Cheng Xin, he must restore his physical body. Otherwise, Cheng Xin may not remember him if they only communicate with each other through consciousness.

When Zhang Heng regained his physical body and Cheng Xin saw his appearance clearly, she immediately stopped preparing to call for security.

It wasn't that she recognized Zhang Heng at first sight. The reason she stopped was simply because Zhang Heng's physical body was also human.

"You are human too?"

However, she still asked one more question.

After all, the physical body can be faked.

A life that has achieved independent consciousness will no longer be limited to its original body.

As long as one wants, the body of any form of life can be used as a shell by an independent conscious life.

Therefore, she had every reason to suspect that the person in front of her was a fake human.

"I am very sure that you do not belong to our species. Where are you from?"

Cheng Xin continued to ask.

If the other person can't answer, or the answer doesn't match what she knows, then it must be false.

After all, not many people know better than her how many branches of human civilization there are in the entire Three-Body Universe.

Except for this group on Earth in the solar system, all the others spread throughout the Trisolaran Universe are the descendants of those who survived the last universe zero cycle.

And she had basically met those people at the beginning of the current cosmic cycle.

Even though many years have passed, the branches derived from the people she had met may have changed a lot.

It is also possible that some of them have already forgotten their origins.

However, historical information cannot be false. Even if the specific origin cannot be remembered, the information recorded in history will record what a civilization experienced and in which galaxies it developed.

With this information, Cheng Xin was able to determine which branch the other party belonged to based on the direction each branch went when they parted ways with those people.

"My name is Zhang Heng. Take another good look at me and think carefully about where I come from."

At this time, Zhang Heng also replied.

"Zhang Heng?"

Hearing this, Cheng Xin also began to murmur the name, and tried to recall carefully when she had had a deep contact with someone with this name.

However, after thinking for a long time, she still couldn't remember anything.

Although there were quite a few people named Zhang Heng in the human civilization under her leadership, they were basically ordinary people and had never come into direct contact with her...

Seeing that she really couldn't remember, Zhang Heng had no choice but to remind her: "When you graduated from college, I gave you a model airplane at your graduation ceremony and talked to you a lot..."

After Zhang Heng finished speaking.

Only then did Cheng Xin finally open her eyes wide. It seemed that Zhang Heng’s reminder was useful and she really had thought about something.

"Graduation ceremony?"

For a moment, she didn't know whether it was because of excitement or something else, her tone seemed a little hurried and uncoordinated.

The word "university" is a very ancient word to her.

Before Zhang Heng reminded her, when she searched for relevant memories in this regard, she did not think about the previous universe zeroing cycle.

After all, she had seen those who were lucky enough to survive from the last universe zero cycle to the current cycle at the beginning.

But I didn’t expect that there were other survivors?
"you……"

When her memory went back to the last universe zero cycle, she finally remembered: "No, you, you are Professor Zhang?"

Professor Zhang was Zhang Heng's social identity on Earth at that time. Although he was not a famous scientist, he was not recognized by the mainstream intellectuals of the society at that time. They thought he was just a man who relied on the fame of Luo Ji, the Wallfacer, to cheat for food and drink.

But it is undeniable that it made a series of contributions beneficial to mankind when dealing with the Trisolaran rebels and facing the Trisolarans.

He is involved in many important projects.

In the end, he was even listed by the Trisolaran intelligentsia as a target who must be assassinated at the same level as Luo Ji.

The above was Cheng Xin’s limited understanding of Zhang Heng at the time.

"I'm sorry, Professor Zhang, I have failed you and Dr. Luo Ji..."

But when she thought of Zhang Heng and realized that she was facing her former elder, she couldn't be happy at all. She behaved like a child who had done something wrong and lowered her head deeply to her chest.

She still remembers that at the graduation ceremony, Professor Zhang, who was not well-liked but quite famous, suddenly appeared in front of her when she was still a little girl.

He also said that he came to congratulate her on her graduation and brought her a gift.

At that time, this was the second person in her life who gave her a gift.

The first one was from Yun Tianming, her classmate at the university before she graduated, who gave her a star named DX3906.

However, this classmate Yun Tianming has always been secretly in love with her.

Now Professor Zhang suddenly gave me a gift, could it be...

It's no wonder she would think too much. After all, although Professor Zhang was very famous at the time, most of his stories were gossip.

Before Dr. Luo Ji, the wall-facer, met his wife Zhuang Yan, he did a lot of ridiculous things with Professor Zhang.

I heard that Professor Zhang likes female college students like her the most...

However, in the subsequent conversations, she gradually discovered that although Professor Zhang was indeed a little off, he was not as bad as the rumors said.

And the motivation for giving her a gift was simply because it was related to her profession.

Since she was studying aerospace engines, the gift Professor Zhang gave her was an exquisite airplane model.

Although she couldn't say whether she liked or disliked the gift, she still accepted it.

However, from what Professor Zhang said next, she discovered that this gift was not just a model.

"Do you believe that this is just a model of an airplane, but if it is launched into space, it will immediately become a spaceship?"

"Even if we add some things, it can become a spaceship that can travel faster than the speed of light?"

After giving the gift, Zhang Heng pointed at the gift and said.

"Professor Zhang, you are such a joke. I just graduated and I haven't even given back what I learned to my teacher yet."

"With our current human technology, can we exceed the speed of light?"

"How can this be?"

Cheng Xin thought Zhang Heng was just joking with her, so she retorted in a joking tone.

You know, even the Three-Body Civilization, which has far surpassed humans and has always been oppressive to humans, has spacecraft that can travel at a maximum of one tenth the speed of light.

At this speed, it would take another 40 years to reach the solar system from the Trisolaran system.

If exceeding the speed of light could be achieved so easily, Zhang Heng and she might not have the chance to continue standing here and joking, and the Trisolarans would have come and killed the humans on Earth long ago.

But Zhang Heng still had a serious expression and continued, "It doesn't matter if you don't believe it now, but I hope that one day in the future, you will be able to recall what I said today and verify this model to see if it can become a superluminal spacecraft."

"If it can really become a superluminal spacecraft, I also hope that when your personal thoughts can determine the future of human civilization, you can take all of humanity on it and fly into the universe as soon as possible."

When Zhang Heng said these words, he looked like a charlatan who claimed that he could see the future.

It seemed that, because he could see the future, he chose her, a currently unknown, mediocre girl who had just graduated from college.

But at that time, Cheng Xin felt that there was no reason for such a well-known professor to make fun of her.

So, I accepted the model with some doubts.

However, she still forgot what Zhang Heng said to her today.

When her personal thoughts could really determine the fate of the entire human race, thus putting the entire human civilization in crisis, she could no longer remember where she had thrown the model.

Later on, she thought that when Zhang Heng gave her this model, there might really be curvature technology hidden inside it, and it was still complete.

If she still keeps this model, even if deterrence fails, humans can still have a chance of survival.

At least, there will be more people who can escape the attack of the Two-Dimensional Foil.

But she didn't know that without this model, humans still have a chance.

However, Vader's efforts over 60 years and the only chance left for humans to build a superluminal spacecraft were shattered by her!

It seems that no matter how many chances she is given, she will be screwed.

In fact, when Zhang Heng gave her the model, he was already planning to escape from the solar system.

Giving her the model would give humans another chance to build a superluminal spacecraft, and it was also a last-ditch effort.

But the result is that this dead horse still cannot be revived...

This is also why, now that Cheng Xin sees Zhang Heng again and is sure that Zhang Heng is gone, she will be the first person to say sorry.

Because she had lost the opportunity Zhang Heng had given her to bring to the entire human civilization...

When she said "I'm sorry" in front of Zhang Heng at this moment, her words were as sincere as when she said them in front of the aging Luo Ji during the last cycle when the universe was reset to zero.

But Luo Ji said to her nonchalantly: "It's not your fault."

Choose to forgive her.

But Zhang Heng wouldn't say that.

However, with his current mindset, he will no longer dwell on the past.

Although the model he sent was indeed lost by Cheng Xin, this can no longer be blamed on all human beings, after all, it was not the choice of all human beings to let her get rid of it.

However, before becoming the Sword Wielder, she was just an ordinary little human girl.

It also requires an ordinary little human girl to be mentally prepared to save humanity from that moment on.

Since the person you gave the model to knows that this thing can save humanity, why doesn't he do it himself?

You don't do it yourself and let others do it, and then you blame others for their messes?
Therefore, Zhang Heng will not blame Cheng Xin now, and he has no right to blame Cheng Xin for this matter.

After all, he had already started to run away...

(End of this chapter)