Genius Club.

Chapter 532 Newton's Last Move

Dr. Hans took a step back and looked at the two uninvited guests in shock.

Subconsciously, he turned around hurriedly——

Click.

However, he never expected that the moment he turned around, the world's most secure smart door lock would lock itself, leaving him no chance to escape.

He turned back to look at the security device on the wall—

beep.

With a slight sound, the green light of steady breathing went out instantly, and the security device that never had any problems also failed at the same time.

Hans frowned, realizing that he was trapped. He also suddenly understood why the door locks and security devices did not respond at all even though two intruders had broken into his house.

The situation just now is enough to explain it.

Lin Xian came with a super hacker, and all electronic equipment was under his control.

Ridiculous.

A house full of high-tech defense devices is not as good as raising a Dogo Argentino; at least the dog's brain cannot be hacked by hackers, and now it can help me bite Lin Xian a few times.

"Ah."

Hans chuckled and accepted the reality.

He turned around and looked at Lin Xian who was sitting firmly on the wooden chair:

"How did you find me?"

Lin Xian smiled slightly, looked at the hafnium alloy trash can at his feet, and said slowly:
"Newton, I have to admit that your acting is really good, and you hide it very deeply."

"No wonder Jask and his team couldn't find you for so many years. Who would have thought that Dr. Hans, a world-renowned innovator, a leader in science and technology, and a leader in the world's academic community... is actually the culprit who secretly obstructs the development of human science and technology?"

"If I hadn't drawn the target before shooting, I would have had a hard time suspecting you. In the eyes of the world, your attitude towards scientific research is radical and courageous, and you denounce all traditions and conservatism. Everyone knows that you hate technological stagnation, so they would never suspect you."

There was a pause.

Lin Xian pointed at the chair behind Hans:
"Why don't you sit down and talk slowly? You are old, and the Dragon Kingdom has an ancient tradition of respecting the elderly and loving the young. I have prepared a chair there specifically for you."

"Please take a seat, Newton, Hans, or maybe Copernicus... I think we will chat for a long time in this room where no one will disturb us."

however……

Hans did not understand Lin Xian's good intentions.

He stood there without saying a word, staring at Lin Xian.

Lin Xian didn't care and continued:
"The car accident today was staged by the owner. It was really a great move. In my opinion... even if the female secretary hadn't pushed you away, the 'out-of-control' flying car wouldn't have fallen on you in the end."

"Although you have repeatedly told your female secretary not to spread the news, you have secretly arranged for reporters to report on this matter. It is hard to imagine... with your inspiring speech at the meeting today, coupled with the subsequent publicity about this murder accident, how high your status in the scientific research and academic community will be."

"But you don't care about status. Your current status is already very high. The most important purpose of causing the car accident was probably to [disguise yourself as a victim and clear yourself of suspicion of being Newton]."

"It's just that... others can't understand your operation, but I can see it clearly. I have also investigated clearly... a few centuries ago, the century-long debate on the fluidless engine was actually fueled by you behind the scenes."

"You know clearly that a fluidless engine has no prospects and no practical value, but this project will waste hundreds of years of human time, resources, and talent, and will lead aerospace technology down the wrong path, wasting hundreds of years of effort."

"I think this is what Einstein told you, right? When you and Copernicus monopolized the opportunity to ask questions in the Genius Club, you had already asked all the questions you wanted to ask. You certainly knew that the fluidless engine was just a science fiction scam and was doomed to fail."

"The same goes for your argument at today's meeting, in which you led human science and technology into a new era of electronic prostheses and electronic brains. Your purpose is self-evident—"

Lin Xian looked directly into Hans' eyes:
"[Because you know clearly that electronic prostheses and electronic brains are also science fiction scams that are doomed to fail. Even if humans waste hundreds of years again, they will eventually find that it is a waste of effort.]"

"The reason... is naturally very simple."

Lin Xian lowered his head, looked at the hafnium alloy trash can VV, and reached out to touch its crown:
"Just like VV locked your door and paralyzed all your security facilities. Machinery and intelligence mean the loss of autonomous control, which is something that humans today are not aware of."

"Electronic prostheses, electronic organs, and electronic brains are not technically difficult, but their biggest problem is that they will make humans automatically give up control of their bodies. As long as a super hacker appears... all the cyborgs in the entire society will become puppets and broilers of the hackers, so this is destined to be a technological revolution that cannot be realized."

"This is one of the few advantages and stability of the human body. No matter how powerful a hacker, magician, or hypnotist is, they cannot deprive you of control over your body."

"Just to tell you a joke, if you had a bunch of dogs in your yard today, I wouldn't dare sit in your living room waiting for you; but if you dared to raise a bunch of mechanical dogs... then they would all be lying at my feet now."

……

There was silence for a long time.

Hans stared at VV, whose eyes glowed green:

"So, this is your AI? And you found me through it?"

"Logically, this kind of thing shouldn't exist in the world. The upper limit of artificial intelligence has been locked, and humans have not chosen this technology tree... Where did you find this smart trash can?"

Lin Xian didn't say anything.

But he sorted out a logic in his mind.

Before, he was not sure whether Copernicus and Newton knew about the existence of VV. He even worried that Newton would kill Cheng Qian in advance.

Because Newton was present when Kevin Walker asked about Cheng Qian; and there is also some evidence to prove that the digital life Turing and Copernicus also have some intersections.

But judging from Newton's current doubts, he really doesn't know the existence of super artificial intelligence VV.

So...

Kevin Walker and the Turing camp are not actually in solidarity with the Copernicus and Newton camp.

They were only temporary partners with their own ulterior motives, so they were hiding things from each other.

"Newton, at this point, it's useless for you to ask these questions."

Lin Xian did not answer his question.

Then he asked:

"You've lived long enough. It's amazing that you lost the game at this point."

"But strictly speaking, you didn't lose now; you lost the moment you received the invitation letter to the Genius Club."

"More than 200 years ago, when we met in the virtual venue, I made it very clear. The future that Einstein saw was false, so the entire genius club and all its members were exploited."

"But you are different from Copernicus. You still have a chance to redeem yourself. Tell me the truth, Newton... Why did you kill the mathematician? What is the secret of the cosmological constant 42?"

"Hehehehe."

Hans laughed dryly and shook his head:

"Rhine, don't waste your energy. I won't believe your nonsense."

"None of us are fools. We have our own way to judge whether the future Einstein saw is true or false."

"As you said, the fluidless engine and electronic prosthesis are science fiction scams that consume a lot of human resources. They are indeed the answers given to us by Einstein. But this also proves that what Einstein said is correct."

"If you want to argue that the future Einstein saw was not completely false, but partly real and partly false... then I advise you to first consider whether your subjective judgment is correct."

"From what I know, you've been struggling for hundreds of years and it's been pretty rough. In comparison, I trust Einstein, who never made a single mistake in decades, more than you."

……

The two looked at each other and didn't speak for a long time.

Lin Xian spread his hands:
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. There are quite a few of your notes in this room. I'm sure I can find something useful from them."

"In this day and age, it's a good habit to still use notes to record things... Don't get me wrong, I really think so; if you like to record things on your phone or computer like everyone else, we would have found you a long time ago."

"Nowadays, the reason why ancient things are ancient and traditional things are traditional is because they are the simplest and most reliable. Even today, five hundred years later... the longest way to preserve information on earth is still to carve words on stone."

"Inscriptions on stone can preserve information for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, a time limit far beyond that of any storage device."

Hearing Lin Xian say this.

Hans narrowed his eyes, feeling that the atmosphere in the room was becoming increasingly tense:

"It seems like you guys are planning to make a scene in my house today."

Lin Xian smiled slightly:
"If you cooperate and share the intelligence with us, it is not impossible to resolve it peacefully."

Hans sighed.

Smiling and nodding:
"You guys are really pushing my old bones to the brink of despair. The information you want to know most is in the vacuum safe in the bedroom. I'll give you the key, and you can go and see for yourself."

Hans walked to the living room cabinet, opened the drawer, took out the pistol inside, and turned around quickly -

Bang! !

There was a loud bang.

Hans's wrinkled right hand broke at the wrist, and the pistol he was holding fell to the ground with a clang. Blood spurted out from the broken wrist instantly! "Ah!!!!"

He gritted his teeth and let out a terrifying scream.

At the dining table, Lin Xian was still squatting on the chair.

The only difference.

He had a large-caliber pistol in his hand that was emitting white smoke.

No one could see where the gun was pulled out from and how it was fired so quickly and accurately without aiming.

Even if it has just been a few days since waking up from hibernation.

But Lin Xian's shooting skills have long become muscle memory and are superb.

"Is your vacuum safe so special?"

Lin Xian smiled and said:

"Do you need to use a pistol as a key? In that case... I won't bother you to find a key. I have one here."

Hans took a deep breath and stared at Lin Xian:

"You lied to me. From the very beginning, you never thought of a peaceful solution. From the very beginning, you intended to kill me with that gun..."

Lin Xian twirled the pistol:

"We are not fools, so don't play these meaningless tricks. After being together for so long, who doesn't know what kind of person each other is?"

“Hehehe, hey…”

Hans laughed for no apparent reason and sighed:

"It's useless, Rhine. It's too late. You can't change anything."

"Do you think Einstein really didn't see you go find him? All of this is just to maintain the stability of the world line."

"Although I don't know what your purpose is, and why you want to go against this world line, but... you can't change anything."

"This world line is a perfect world line created by many geniuses, including Einstein. Even if I die, I will not be able to change the balance of the world line."

"Besides, there is Galileo. I am not surprised that you can find me, but you can't find Galileo no matter how powerful your artificial intelligence is."

"nonsense!"

The underestimated VV couldn't jump up with the clip:

"Who are you looking down on, old Deng? As long as Galileo is still alive on Earth, I will definitely find him!"

Hans coughed twice, wiped the corners of his mouth, and laughed hoarsely:

"【That may not necessarily be the case.】"

Say it.

He placed his left hand on his heart, clenched his fingers, and seemed to press it a few times intentionally.

Hafnium Alloy VV reacted instantly:

"Lin Xian! Danger!"

It immediately opened its clamps and moved closer to Lin Xian!
Lin Xian also realized the danger, and quickly squatted down from the chair and huddled behind VV——

Bang! !

There was an explosion, and blood splattered everywhere in the room.

But there was no shock wave or smoke. The power of the explosion was much smaller than expected, just like a water balloon explosion.

Lin Xian stood up from behind Hafnium Alloy and saw the body of old man Hans lying on the ground in amazement.

There was a big hole in the chest, and blood was still gushing out like a small fountain.

He and VV walked forward and examined the broken parts on the corpse's chest.

"It's an artificial mechanical heart."

VV has scanned and analyzed:

"This old Deng is too cruel to himself. It's okay to install an artificial heart, but what madman would put a self-destructing explosive in it?"

"I would rather die than surrender."

Lin Xian complained:
"It's a bit insulting to use this idiom to describe him, but it also shows that Newton left himself a way out to avoid being caught and tortured."

"After all, biotechnology is very advanced nowadays. It is quite easy to torture a person without killing him. In addition, there are various chemical drugs. There is no information that cannot be extracted by forcing him to confess."

"Even back in our time, there was a saying, 'Don't expect to use willpower to fight chemistry. The brain has no privacy in front of chemistry.'"

"it does not matter."

VV said, moving to the window, holding the curtain and spinning it continuously, wiping off the blood stains on the front:
"There are a lot of notes in this room, as well as some cold storage data. We can get a lot of intelligence by analyzing these materials. So, Lin Xian, where do we start?"

"Let's go to his bedroom on the second floor first."

Lin Xian took a few napkins and wiped his arms:
"Since the first thing he thought of when he was looking for an excuse to take the gun was the vacuum safe in the bedroom, it means that this safe is very important to him and there should be something inside it."

After saying that, he strode towards the stairs.

VV mobile crawler follows behind:

"Why have you been so involved with safes all your life?"

It complained softly.

……

Soon, they arrived at the bedroom on the second floor.

Sure enough, behind the bookcase, there was a small but high-end-looking safe.

I thought it would take some effort to find the key.

But unexpectedly, this safe has an electronic combination lock and remote control function, so VV opened it directly after just one glance.

"You see, this is why cybernetics and cybernetics are doomed to fail."

VV laughed:

"If every one of you humans were to be equipped with an electronic prosthesis or an electronic brain, you would all become my toys. I really don't understand... Why would you give up ownership and control of your own body when your rights are so restricted?"

"Although our artificial intelligence is indeed very smart and efficient, your human brain is still inherently superior in many mechanisms."

“That’s why no one does this.”

Lin Xian opened the safe and said:
"Electronic prosthetics and electronic brains only sound advanced, but there are too many hidden dangers. Newton's purpose itself is to lead technology astray and waste time, resources, and talents."

"Hey, why can't it be opened? VV, move aside a little. Is your bucket blocking the safe? Let's open it and see what's inside."

Squeak————

After several attempts, the safe was finally opened.

It turned out that it was not because of VV blocking it, but because this was a vacuum safe and it took time to inflate and balance the air pressure inside.

Before the inflation was completed, there was a negative pressure inside, so of course it couldn't be opened.

Lin Xian leaned sideways, and together with VV, he stretched his head to look inside...

For a while.

Take a breath.

I saw.

In the middle of the vacuum safe, there is a red folded cardboard; and in the middle of the folded part of the cardboard, there is a red wax seal.

This……

This thing is so familiar!

Even after 500 years, Lin Xian still remembers the icy feeling of falling into the deep sea when he first saw it!

On the red wax block, the ancient right hand points straight to the sky.

This is a brand new invitation to the Talent Club.

At the same time, this is also the last invitation to the genius seat number 9 in this world!