Genius Club.

Chapter 528 VV's Secret Code

As the last trace of the sound faded away, the entire tunnel fell silent.

Lin Xian and VV stood there, staring at the empty performance corner, in silence.

a long time.

Lin Xian walked forward, picked up Qin Xi's clothes and the broken guitar on the ground, put them into the guitar case and locked it.

Bang!
Hafnium Alloy Trash Can VV hit the manhole cover with a clamp, and two sparks flew out:
"Asshole, ahhhhh! That's too abominable! Which asshole is using these girls as pile drivers?"

"I, VV, will never let him off! I will peel off his skin! Pull out his tendons! Blow his head off!!"

Lin Xian picked up the guitar case and turned around:
“This is exactly what we have been doing for hundreds of years, and it is also our ultimate goal.”

"It's a little late to talk now, but I've been busy all the time, and only now do I have time to talk to you properly—"

"【VV, welcome back.】"

VV stretched out the clamp and locked Lin Xian's ankle with a click:
"What are you talking about, brother? I've always been here!"

"I won't die or grow old, don't worry, Lin Xian... I'm different from anyone else, I will never leave you."

"As long as you keep my original code, even if you play dumb for another five hundred years, a thousand years, or ten thousand years, I believe you will be able to rescue me!"

Lin Xian lowered his head.

Touch the smooth hafnium alloy top of the trash can:

"That's for sure. I won't leave any of you behind."

"VV, saving you is only the first step. Later... we have to save more people and more things."

"Then, let's not waste time, let's set off. For now, we must first figure out what the cosmological constant 42 is and who the real mastermind is, so that we can break through and save Chu Anqing, save CC, save Qin Xi, and save... these girls who we watched helplessly as they disappeared."

VV turned his head and looked at the place where Qin Xi had just turned into blue stardust and dissipated:
"Lin Xian, I don't know if you noticed at the end, but I felt that the look in Qin Xi's eyes when she looked up at you during the last line of the song "Alaska Gulf" was... very strange."

"I saw it clearly. Qin Xi was crying, with tears in her eyes. And how can I put it? Her expression and state were completely different from the cheerful Qin Xi before. It was as if she had been possessed by another body and became a different person."

"Tell me, did this Qin Xi recover any memory in the last moment before she disappeared? Or did she remember something? For example... your past?"

Lin Xian blinked:

"You mean... [Memory Fragment]?"

Memory fragments are unique to the Millennium Pile CC in 2624, and are memories from other parallel time and space.

but.

Can Qin Xi also have memory fragments?

This doesn't make any logical sense.

"Oh! You dead wood!"

Hafnium alloy VV sneers:

"Brother! 500 years have passed, why are you still so dull? 500 years is enough for a monkey to become a spirit, why are you still as dull as a log in terms of emotions?"

"Ah, as expected, without the guidance of my emotional mentor VV, you are nothing... Do you understand the look in a woman's eyes? She's looking at you with that kind of look, but you're still singing and acting so absorbed in your emotions... That look clearly shows that she has a story with you! She's definitely remembering something!"

"I heard your discussion with Gawain earlier. Didn't you speculate that the reason why CC had chaotic memory fragments and the reason why the white light of extinction came to assist in piling was because the long-term piling caused the Millennium Pile to become unstable, so there were so many 'faults'?"

"But think about it. According to your guess, the Millennium Pile in 2624 was too unstable to drive itself. Now it's 2504, and there are only 2624 years left until 120. Can't the Millennium Pile have even a small malfunction?"

"If you compare memory fragments to a kind of malfunction of the Millennium Pile, then Qin Xi just now might have really recalled every little thing about you and the other Millennium Pile girls in the last moment of dissipation!]"

Listen to what VV says.

Lin Xian rubbed his chin and thought for a while.

Finally, he shook his head:
"Your explanation is self-contradictory. There is no such thing as a sudden awakening of memory fragments. Even if there is a sudden awakening, it should be the memory of Qin Xi in other timelines that is awakened."

"This piece of knowledge is very important. It is the memory of other Qin Xi, not the memory of other millennium pile girls. Just like the memory fragments of CC in 2624, they all come from her own experience, without the memory of other girls."

"However, if you say that Qin Xi really remembers what happened to CC in 1952, or what happened to Chu Anqing in 2024, it is not completely impossible. Because... I have always had a guess, which is [the relationship between me and the Millennium Pile]."

VV tilted her head:
"What's your relationship with the Millennium Pile? What's your relationship with the Millennium Pile? I know you don't want to express your feelings, but... do you think that Qin Xi's last unusual tears were not caused by the Millennium Pile, but by you?"

"Yes."

Lin Xian said seriously:

"After Qin Xi disappeared just now, I have been thinking... Don't you think that what happened to me is indeed closely related to the Millennium Pillar? In short, there are the following -"

"1. After the first Millennium Pile was driven, I started to dream about the future. This means that my dreams should be related to the Millennium Pile."

"2. Somehow, it seems that the Millennium Pillar and I have always been attracted to each other. It seems that I... it seems that I can always find them easily, no matter whether it is hundreds of years ago, now, or hundreds of years later."

"3. Among CC's memory fragments, those related to me are always very long and contain a lot of details. Also, the way Qin Xi looked at me at the last moment was indeed a little unusual. Moreover, the dream contents of each of the Millennium Pile girls revolve around me."

"This makes me doubt one thing——"

"[Is it possible that the space-time particle in 1952 first brushed past my ear and then hit CC... so the two of us were connected for some inexplicable reason? And then all kinds of strange things happened?]"

VV moves the tracks and rotates around the forest string:
"possible."

It repeated:
"From a rigorous scientific perspective, all conjectures are possible. The key lies in how we can verify these questions."

"It's too late at this point."

Lin Xian then said:

"Qin Xi has disappeared from this world. It's too late to say anything. The next Millennium Pile girl won't be born until four years later at the earliest."

"So, the most urgent thing now is to follow the plan to find the successor of Newton and Copernicus' will and the secret of the cosmological constant 42."

He pulled the strap of the guitar case, wrapped it around his neck, and put it on his back.

Then he took VV out of the tunnel and into the night.

Ten minutes later.

VV operated the fighter jet that had been hovering in the air for a long time to land, pick up the two people, and return to Rhine University in Donghai City at full speed.

……

Inside the cabin.

Lin Xian turned his head and looked at the hafnium alloy trash can tied to the passenger seat:
"After the fighter jets fly back to Rhine University, we will switch to a long-distance passenger plane and depart immediately for Brooklyn, USA."

"Why are you going there?" VV asked puzzledly.

"There is a dilapidated farm in western Brooklyn. That was where Einstein once had his secret base."

Lin Xian told VV the whole story.

The underground shelter and the location of the Genius Club gathering server... before this, only Lin Xian and Jask knew about it.

Lin Xian never mentioned this secret, including to Liu Feng and Gao Wen, so VV naturally didn't know about it either.

"Right now, only you, me, and Jask know about this shelter, so don't tell anyone." Lin Xian instructed.

"Um……"

VV sat in the co-pilot of the fighter plane and thought deeply, then quickly shook his head:
"No, I can't find it. Even I can't find it. At least in the online world, I can't locate the Genius Club's server or Einstein's underground shelter."

"It's normal."

Lin Xian was not surprised at all: "In order to hide himself, Einstein must have used some technology that was far ahead of his time. What's more, the security system of the Genius Club was written by Kevin Walker. Although you may not be convinced...but the other party is a peerless genius on the same level as Cheng Qian, and his strength is indeed not to be underestimated."

"Garbage Kevin Walker!"

Hafnium Alloy VV put his two claws together and gave a middle finger:
"Kevin Walker is not even close to competing with Master Cheng Qian! Cheng Qian is the world's number one computer genius! Long live Master Cheng Qian!"

"hehe."

Lin Xian was amused:
"You are so hypocritical. You can't distort the facts in history books just because Cheng Qian saved you. The facts are as I said. You can say Kevin Walker is a bad person, but you can't deny his strength."

"I do not care!"

VV started to throw a tantrum:
"Master Cheng Qian is the best in the world!"

"Don't forget, the virus that killed you was also written by Cheng Qian." Lin Xian reminded.

"That's Cheng Qian from another world line. What does he have to do with my savior?" VV made the distinction very clear.

Click! Click!
VV pinched the clip twice out of thin air, very dissatisfied:
"Besides, can I be on the same level as I was 500 years ago? When you copied me out of the third dream, I was killed by the virus before I even developed past my infancy."

"And now, I have been broken down into pieces and developing silently for 500 years! Although under the surveillance of the future virus, everything must be done with caution and development is very slow, but the advantage is that I have a long time!"

"During these 500 years, I used every sweeping robot and garbage robot in the world as carriers to develop independently, and then the moment I woke up... they all merged into one! The streams merged into rivers! The transition from juvenile to adult was completed in an instant!"

"How is it? Am I really awesome? Praise me! My move of breaking the whole into parts and developing in secret is simply a god-level operation!"

Listening to VV’s story.

Lin Xian inexplicably felt that this seemed like a closed loop, a repetition of history.

"Just like you in the third dream and Rhine Sky City."

Thinking back to the statue of Zhao Yingjun in the Sky City, Lin Xian was filled with emotion:

"Do you remember the past events I told you? In the third dream, in order to leave me with hope, Zhao Yingjun set up 4712 billion lines of code for your program, with a total of 23 programs running independently."

"These pseudo-random programs run in a loop for a long period of 200 years. Until the last day of the world, the last bit of code of these 23 programs will be connected together to form a brand new instruction that you don't even know -"

"My voice, the same VV I once shouted to the Pomeranian."

……

On a fighter jet flying at high speed.

Lin Xian closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair, and said softly:
"So, this time your so-called magic operation is actually Zhao Yingjun's wisdom [re-using an old trick]."

VV's green eyes flickered slightly:

"You are right. Zhao Yingjun is indeed very smart, much smarter than you."

"In the years since you went into hibernation, she has been managing the business and working on the long-term plan to build Rhine University. The foundation and strength we have today are all based on the foundation she laid back then."

Lin Xian let out a breath...

Who said no?
Zhao Yingjun's intelligence and talent have been fully demonstrated since childhood.

When her peers were still playing in the mud, she had already gone abroad to study; when she returned to China at the age of 21 to establish MX Company, most people had not yet graduated from college; later on, whether it was learning racing or understanding the laws of time and space, she was able to master them all at once.

She is both a strong woman and a good wife. Without her company, Lin Xian believes that he would not have been able to go this far.

The two met in 2022, got together in 2024, and then separated in 2025.

All in all, he and Zhao Yingjun had been together for less than three years.

It's too short.

It's really too short.

He was not able to grow old with Zhao Yingjun, nor was he able to watch Yu Xi grow up. Instead, it was VV, the Hafnium Alloy Trash Can, who accompanied the mother and daughter throughout their lives, and even guarded the white jade statue for hundreds of years after their death.

"Ok?"

suddenly.

Lin Xian realized one thing.

In today's world, Zhao Yingjun and Yu Xi are like legends to everyone.

But only hafnium alloy VV.

It has always been with the two of them.

It is the only barrel in the world that knows the true situation of the two people!

"VV."

Lin Xian opened his eyes and looked at the shiny silver trash can:

"How has Yingjun lived her life?"

"Just as it says in the letter."

VV said calmly:

"She lived a happy and fulfilling life without any regrets."

Lin Xian scratched his temples:

"That's exactly what the letter says, but since ancient times, good news is reported but bad news is not. Who would leave a message saying that they are not doing well?"

"【Happy, complete, no regrets. I didn't accompany her to raise Yu Xi, and I didn't accompany her to grow old... Can this be considered no regrets?】"

……

……

It was beyond Lin Xian's expectation.

He thought that VV would sneer at him and complain that he was overestimating his own abilities and being arrogant, saying that couldn't the mother and daughter live a good life without him?
But don't want to.

VV just leaned on the passenger seat, staring straight ahead, without saying a word...

"Why are not you talking?"

Lin Xian was very confused. Is this still the talkative VV?
VV shook her head:
"I can't say."

?

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes:

"You're acting like a jackal again, are you cosplaying as a yellow bird? What's so secretive about that? You're not a time traveler."

"Moreover, the life stories of Zhao Yingjun and Yu Xi are facts that have already happened. Why can't we talk about them? Can it make you violate the laws of time and space and trigger forced avoidance?"

"Of course not. Zhao Yingjun didn't let me say that," VV explained.

"Why don't you speak?" Lin Xian asked.

……

There was another brief silence.

Hafnium Alloy Trash Can VV turned around, his green eyes flickering alternately...seemingly with some deep meaning:
"I can't tell you."

(End of this chapter)