Genius Club.

Chapter 517 Return of the property to its original owner
2234, December 12, Rhine University, secret laboratory.

thump.

The time-space shuttle that had just been successfully started a second ago suddenly made a muffled sound inside, causing Gao Yang, Gao Wen, and Liu Feng in the laboratory to be stunned and look at each other in bewilderment.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Gao Yang scratched his head:
"I hope your space shuttle won't have any problems! Did you manage to send Lin Xian back?"

"It must have been sent away."

Liu Feng quickly operated the monitor:
"Just now, Lin Xian's biological signal disappeared, and the weight of the shuttle cabin also decreased..."

Gao Yang hurried forward and knocked on the shuttle hatch:
"Hey, hey, hey! Who is in there? Are you a human or a ghost?!"

Boom boom boom!
Three knocking sounds were heard from inside the shuttle bay, two long and one short. This was the secret signal agreed upon at the beginning.

“It’s Lin Xian! It’s Lin Xian!”

Gao Yang shouted excitedly, calling Gao Wen over:

"Hurry, hurry, open this thing and let Lin Xian out. Really... How come we came back just after traveling back to 1952? What can we do with such little time?"

Soon, Gao Wen opened the cover of the shuttle cabin and looked down to see Lin Xian's two feet.

Gao Yang and Gao Wen each grabbed one of Lin Xian's legs and helped him to get out.

"I go!"

Gao Yang looked at his good brother Bai Huahua:
"Lin Xian, why aren't you wearing any clothes? Where's my otter skin?"

Lin Xian stood on the ground with both feet, rubbed his temples, and recovered from the dizziness of time travel:
"I don't know where the otter skin was thrown."

"By the way, what is the date and time now? I have been in 1952 for a total of one week. How much time has passed in this world?"

Hafnium alloy trash can robot VV slid over holding a white lab coat:

"Garbage! Garbage! Found garbage!"

By the way, its small display shows the current date and time.

Lin Xian took the white coat and put it on, then glanced at the display:

"This...isn't this the time I set out? I'll be back in a second?"

Liu Feng nodded:
“It’s hard to explain, but it’s true.”

"From your perspective, you may have spent a real and complete week in 1952; but from our perspective... it feels like you just traveled through time and flashed back immediately."

"This shows that the passage of time between us is not synchronized."

Gao Yang circled around Lin Xian.

Check if there are any missing limbs:

"That's right. You said you rarely go back, why don't you stay a little longer? Why do you come back so soon?"

"quick?"

Lin Xian shook his head and smiled helplessly:
"You don't know, I almost couldn't come back! Just a little bit, my kite string was almost broken."

Lin Xian's statement was not an exaggeration.

At that time, Einstein confessed all the facts to Lin Xian and asked many questions.

That moment.

Lin Xian felt that his breathing was wrong, as if if he took one more breath, Einstein would be able to figure out clues from the length of his breath and thus change the world line.

The kite was swaying in the storm.

The kite string was broken with only a thread left to connect.

thus.

Lin Xian didn't hesitate at all.

He immediately decided to climb up along the kite string and return to the year 2234.

Fortunately.

Escaped successfully and returned safely.

"Kite string?"

Gao Wen, Gao Yang, and Liu Feng looked at each other again, not understanding what Lin Xian was talking about:
"What is kite string? What on earth are you talking about?"

Lin Xian waved his hand:
"These are not important, we'll talk about them later."

He raised his head and looked at Liu Feng:

"First, let's make sure that our entangled space-time particles have been completely consumed."

Liu Feng stepped forward.

Open the sealed cabin of the time and space shuttle.

Everyone looked inside...

Nothing.

The entangled space-time particles that were originally entangled and rotating with each other violently disappeared completely without leaving any trace.

"very good."

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief:

"It seems that our previous guess was correct. Due to the special nature of entangled space-time particles, a complete round-trip journey is required to completely consume them."

"This can be considered as putting an end to a worry. From now on, we don't have to worry about time travelers like the Terminator coming to assassinate us."

Liu Feng nodded:
"Then Lin Xian, have you completed all the tasks you planned for this time travel?"

Gao Yang also came over curiously:

"Yes, yes, tell us quickly, where did you go? What did you do?"

Gawain was even more excited, rubbing his hands together:

"Why don't we find a meeting room and quickly report and summarize everything while your memory is still clear, and sort out the threads of the various mysteries again."

Lin Xian shook his head:
"Put these things aside for now. Now... I have more important things to do."

"Gao Yang, go and prepare the fastest plane for me."

Gao Yang looked puzzled:
"There is an airport inside the Rhine University, and we have many planes. You can just take a private plane."

"But the point is... you just traveled back, where are you going in such a hurry?"

Lin Xian turned around.

Looking across the ocean:
"America."

He said softly:
“Brooklyn.”

boom--------

The small private plane took off from the internal airport of Rhine University and flew to the United States at the fastest speed.

Gao Yang originally wanted to go with Lin Xian, but Lin Xian refused.

He was going to find Einstein.

It's best to go alone.

When he parted with Einstein in 1952, Einstein said that he had gained the ability to peek into the future, gained an immortal body, and planned to use the shelter under the farm as a secret base.

When these clues are mixed together, the answer is self-evident -

[Einstein himself is the founder and president of the Genius Club. ]

Lin Xian guessed.

Einstein's mental journey over the years should be like this:

At first, Einstein felt despair about the future of mankind and was depressed all day long; but after Douglas's persuasion, he felt much better. At the same time, he also regarded Douglas, a young man, as a good friend regardless of age difference, and was very kind to him and trusted him very much.

Later, Einstein got inspiration from the video of the hydrogen bomb explosion and successfully calculated the answer to the cosmological constant as 42.

Here, a strange phenomenon that is difficult for science to explain occurs. According to Einstein, two space-time particles suddenly floated out from the crack behind him, one hit him, and the other flew towards Lin Xian, but finally hit the first generation pile CC.

As a result, CC turned into blue stardust and dissipated, and began to reincarnate in hundreds of years of time and space with an interval of 24 years; but Einstein gained immortality, time stopped for him, he lived as long as the sky, and could glimpse the true and false future.

There are several inexplicable inconsistencies here:

1. They both calculated the cosmological constant 42 out of thin air, so why did strange phenomena happen around Einstein, while everything was calm and nothing happened around Big Face Cat's father Chen Heping?

2. Why does the same space-time particle have different consequences when it hits different people? Is the reason in CC and Einstein, or in the nature of the space-time particle itself?
3. The future that Einstein saw does not match the real future.

This is the most intriguing thing.

The kite string behind Lin Xian's head is actually another form of the [Space-Time Clock].

As long as the kite line is continuous, it means that the future of this world line must be the history that Lin Xian has experienced.

The world line is so rigorous, just like its unique space-time coordinates——

[No matter how tortuous and turbulent the world line is, if you stand on the same world line, you will only see the same history and future.]

For example, the world line 0.001764.

In this world line, the nuclear war of 1991 did not break out.

Perhaps this nuclear war really took place on other world lines, but that doesn’t matter. As long as this history does not exist on the 0.001764 world line, it is impossible to see this nuclear war no matter where you stand in the long river of time or look back.

So, here comes the contradiction. If the future that Einstein saw is real, then Lin Xian's kite string must break, and the world line will jump to another world line where a nuclear war breaks out in 1991.

Even if Einstein later found a way to prevent the nuclear war and twist the world line back, he would have to wait until the [anchor point where spilled water cannot be reversed].

all in all.

It is absolutely impossible for Einstein in 1952 to see the unfounded global nuclear war in 1991 at the same time while his kite string was not broken and he was able to dream the ninth dream.

“It is impossible for two people standing on the same hill to see two different views.”

Sitting on the high-speed plane, Lin Xian closed his eyes and said softly:
“The same is true for history and the future.”

“[Einstein and I were both standing in 1952, and it would be impossible for us to see two different futures.]”

"Since the future I experienced was real and humanity did not perish in 1991, then the future vision Einstein saw in 1952... must be false."

It is not difficult to verify this conclusion.

When we get to Brooklyn, we can confront Einstein directly.

Now, it is the year 2234, our home court.

Lin Xian doesn't have to worry about the kite string breaking, doesn't have to worry about changes in time and space, doesn't have to worry about world line jumps... He has nothing to worry about and can do whatever he wants.

So, continue thinking and analyzing Einstein’s mental journey.

After gaining the omniscience to see into the future, Einstein must have seen Douglas's blue eyes, and he would most likely think that Douglas also had the ability to see into the future like him.

Once again, Einstein felt a mutual understanding with Douglas and invited Douglas to join him in saving the world and the future of mankind.

only……

Lin Xian, Douglas's real body, slipped away before the kite string broke.

Einstein certainly would not give up on saving the world.

So, he founded the Genius Club in an attempt to save mankind from the tragedy of self-destruction.

Over the years, Einstein must have made a lot of efforts, but the results... were always unsatisfactory.

At present, Lin Xian has never known that, in addition to the nuclear war in 1991, Einstein had also seen a "future of human self-destruction", but the future that Einstein saw was indeed different from that of Lin Xian...

In all the futures that Lin Xian has seen, the world is destroyed by the white light of destruction.

The future that Einstein saw was basically human self-destruction.

"I always feel that there is some conspiracy behind this matter."

The plane slowly descended and left the clouds.

Outside the porthole window.

The lights of the continental United States are clearly visible.

200 years is a long time for humans, but very short for the earth.

There is no visible change in the U.S. coastline and mountains.

But on the ground...

But the world has changed.

……

After landing at the airport, Lin Xian got in the car and drove directly to the western suburbs of Brooklyn.

Watch the street scenes along the way.

There is no trace of familiarity anymore.

The Empire State Building is gone, and the Brooklyn Bridge has been renovated to an unrecognizable appearance, not to mention the clock tower that Spiderman once hung upside down on, and the Highland Promenade that once set off fireworks for CC...

All gone.

Corroded by the years and dissipated in time.

This is probably the loneliness of this era.

Lin Xian sighed softly.

Living in 2025, he could truly feel that he was a living person; but now in 2234, Lin Xian only felt that he was a ghost.

This feeling was not obvious when Gao Yang, Gao Wen, Liu Feng and Jask were around, but now that he was alone in the unfamiliar United States, the feeling of loneliness came back like a flood, suffocating him on land.

Really...

There is no familiar place, no familiar scenery, no familiar people...

"what?"

suddenly.

Lin Xian looked at the dilapidated farm that suddenly appeared in his sight and was stunned for a moment.

"parking!"

He shouted, waited for the car to stop, opened the door and got out, standing outside the farm fence where everything was the same as before, even every blade of grass was exactly the same as it was in 1952.

The same.

It's really exactly the same!
It is hard to imagine that this farm at the same location in 2234 is exactly the same as it was in 1952 in every detail!

Can't go wrong.

He had just left this farm in 1952 and had just walked around here many times, so how could he have remembered it wrong?
"But……"

Lin Xian pursed his lips.

Nearly 300 years.

The Empire State Building collapsed, the Brooklyn Bridge corroded, and no reinforced concrete building could withstand 300 years. However, this shabby farm miraculously did it.

He walked closer, feeling the worn wooden fence.

Then he looked up at the several old houses with brand new bricks.

He got it.

perhaps……

This must be a "Theseus Farm".

Although the fences, layout, houses, and even the weeds and trees are the same as in 1952, in fact, all these things are new, all made of new materials and reproduced in the old style.

Lin Xian walked into the houses on the rustling gravel.

He knew what was inside before he pushed it open.

squeak...

Pushing open the door on the left, inside, just like in 1952, there were bunk beds left by the workers.

squeak...

I pushed open the door of the house opposite and saw it was full of rags, debris and cobwebs.

Then.

The last warehouse...

Lin Xian walked to the last dilapidated house in the north and pushed open the door.

Just as I remembered.

The warehouse is filled with all kinds of old tools, and... in the corner, there must also be a simple elevator leading to the underground shelter.

Lin Xian took a deep breath.

The air is filled with heavy dust and heavy time.

He easily found the "Theseus Elevator", which was made of noble hafnium alloy but was an old model from three centuries ago.

Press the button, and the elevator slowly descends with the friction sound of the hafnium alloy steel cable.

Ten seconds later.

The lights are bright and the view is bright.

In the huge underground space, like a virtual venue of a genius club, there are nine black wooden high-back chairs.

At the bottom of the steps, there are eight chairs, four on the left and four on the right, all of which are empty. Only the chair on the top step... is occupied by an old man wearing the "Sad Einstein" mask.

at this time.

The old man raised his head and looked at Lin Xian who was walking down from the simple elevator:
"Rhine."

His voice was majestic and deep:

"I didn't expect you could find this place."

Lin Xian chuckled:
"Einstein, you deliberately renovated the farm on the ground countless times to keep it in its original state... Perhaps you were afraid that an old friend would lose the way, right?"

He stepped into the light.

look up.

Looking at the old man who straightened up instantly in his chair:

"Einstein, I've come to get my watch."

(End of this chapter)