Genius Club.

Chapter 534 What is 42
"If Einstein can see the true future, see the dissipation of the Millennium Pile, and see the white light of annihilation... can the geniuses of the Genius Club save the future of mankind?"

Lin Xian placed the golden badge on the invitation letter, and then put them both into the vacuum safe and locked it:
"I think there is still hope."

After pressing the lock key.

The safe let out a hissing sound, and the inside was evacuated again.

Lin Xian stood up again and continued:

"The emergence of human beings is a miracle from the perspective of life and probability. The earth is a place where miracles are born. I believe in the potential of human beings. Of course... the premise is that there is a [real leader] to guide these geniuses onto the right path."

Hearing Lin Xian’s bold words.

VV's eyes flickered alternately, and she raised the clip excitedly:
"The new genius club! So...so cool! This is simply the coolest transition in a Hollywood movie!"

"Add me, add me! There must be a place for me here! In terms of seniority, I, VV, am a veteran who has sacrificed for the organization; in terms of strength, as a super artificial intelligence that has been developing silently for 500 years, I am afraid of no one; in terms of loyalty, that goes without saying! Who can be more reliable than me, Lin Xian!"

"Don't worry, don't worry."

Lin Xian touched VV's crown and held down the trash can that was about to jump up:
"You will definitely have a place in my genius club. But right now, our first priority is to search Newton's home for information."

"The information in the computer, the cold storage data, the handwritten notebooks, etc.... Let's divide the work and see if we can find some useful information."

……

After several hours of searching, Lin Xian and VV searched every corner of Newton's house.

Not much gain.

There was not a single clue about the most desired fact, the cosmological constant of 42; it seemed that Newton and Copernicus were very cautious about this matter and only allowed this information to remain in their minds.

However, a lot has been clarified about Newton's life, his relationship with Copernicus, and why they wanted to kill mathematicians and scientists.

"We did get Newton's true age and his disguised appearance at the club party right."

Lin Xian closed his notebook, leaned back in his chair and said:
"Old people like them, who lived in the 20th century, do have the habit of recording information with pen and paper. Many things must be written down in a notebook before they can feel at ease."

"But to some extent, with the widespread existence of big data, cloud backups, and Internet traces, these notebooks can indeed better protect personal privacy."

"I am very grateful to Newton for maintaining this good habit, so that we can still obtain information from long ago after his death."

VV nodded:
"The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change."

It whispered:
"The hardest thing for people to change is deep-rooted habits, just like your pen spinning. In this high-tech age, habits can identify a person more accurately than biological features and DNA."

"Let's take all this stuff and go find Jask."

Lin Xian stood up, sorted out the valuable notebooks, and placed them neatly on the table:

"After meeting Jask, we told him about the whole story about Newton, and then told him about my plan to form a new talent club."

VV opened his head with a bang and pointed at the inside of the trash can:
"Just put it inside my body. There are so many notebooks and the safe. You can't carry them all by yourself. Just throw them in here."

Lin Xian blinked:

“It’s a very novel idea.”

then.

He first picked up the vacuum safe containing the last invitation and placed it inside the VV trash can, and then put Newton's many notebooks in it.

Cover the top of your head.

Perfect suitcase.

“It’s so convenient to travel with you.”

Lin Xian praised:
"If the top of your head was a little smoother, I could even ride on you... but now it's bulging too much, which means the designer didn't think of this use from the beginning."

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't go too far and ask for too much!"

VV was unconvinced and turned around three times:

“I’m already very capable!”

……

After leaving Newton's residence, they left on a private plane, one person and one bucket, and returned to Jask's private territory in Old Brooklyn, USA, to meet with the elderly richest man in the world.

Jask sat in a chair and looked through Newton's notebook:

"I never thought that Newton was so young when he joined the genius club, and...he had been pretending for so long."

"Yes."

Lin Xian responded:
"From these notebooks, we can analyze that before joining the Genius Club, Copernicus and Newton did not know each other and had no intersection at all; when the two first met in the Genius Club, Copernicus was in his 50s, while Newton was only 20 years old, a very young college student."

Jask let out a long breath and said with emotion:

"At the age of 20, he was able to crack the code in the painting "Sad Einstein" and answer three test questions correctly. Newton is indeed worthy of the name of a genius. No wonder he was able to come up with such a complicated plan later."

"The two of them worked together to extract a lot of truth and secrets about the future from Einstein. Unfortunately... from the perspective of hindsight, it is obvious that much of this information was false, and even Einstein was deceived."

Lin Xian changed his posture and crossed his legs:
"It's not their fault. The 'mastermind' who deceived Einstein was indeed very insidious. All the predictions they made about the future that could be verified in the near future were true, making you believe them without a doubt. Even the predictions about the future hundreds of years later were all true, but only the final outcome was false. It was really too difficult to tell."

"The most difficult lie to uncover is one that is 99% true and 1% false, not to mention Einstein's lie, which is % true and only % false. There is absolutely no way to tell the difference."

Jask closed his notebook.

Close your eyes.

Think about this for a moment:

"So, from this perspective, the 'black hands' behind all this, or what you call the 'mysterious force', are really powerful. At least... they can indeed observe the real future, otherwise they would not be able to create such a real pretext out of thin air."

"The reason why Copernicus was obsessed with killing scientists and mathematicians was that the false future that Einstein saw showed that the study of the cosmological constant of 42 would lead to human civilization exposing itself and leading to its destruction."

"This is quite confusing. It's just an ordinary number 42. What magic does it have? What power does it have?"

"It was the same with Einstein in 1952. The moment he calculated this number, a space-time crack appeared out of thin air and two space-time particles flew out."

"[That's it. He only calculated 42, but didn't fully understand the secret and truth of 42. So... the reason why the mastermind let Einstein see this false future was because he was afraid that the power of 42 would be mastered by humans?]"

"It's very possible."

Lin Xian said softly:

"VV and I have also analyzed it. The mysterious power behind the scenes should have located the existence of our human civilization at the moment when Einstein calculated 42, so they immediately sent two space-time particles."

"It can also be understood that perhaps our human civilization has been marked since this moment... The mastermind behind the scenes used our Earth as a place to drive piles, driving and protecting millennium piles in order to lock up their history."

"They don't care how high humans can jump, and they know very well that there is no need to suppress human technology. Because even if human technology explodes for hundreds of years, it is still like an ant to them and can be destroyed in the blink of an eye."

"That is to say, our human civilization and even the billions of years of evolution of life on Earth are worthless in the eyes of the 'mysterious forces'. Our only value to them is as a place for the piling of millennium piles, nothing more."

"But the cosmological constant 42 is an unpredictable Pandora's box. It is probably the only thing that can threaten the 'mysterious power', so they let Einstein see a false future to guarantee two things -"

"[1. In enough time, use the Millennium Piles to drive piles multiple times to achieve the most basic purpose of locking up history.]"

"【2. Find a way to stop humans from studying the cosmological constant 42 too much, to prevent this truth power from being mastered by humans and causing the situation to become uncontrollable.】"

"This is probably why the 'mysterious force' waited until 2624 to destroy the Earth. By that time, the Millennium Pile was already unstable and close to failure. The entire human civilization no longer had any value to them, so it was safer to destroy it directly."

"Haha." Jask sneered twice:
"Shameless and a scum."

"This sinister mastermind wants to lock up history while also preventing humans from understanding the secret of 42. Do you feel... that this is somewhat similar to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?"

"On the scale of the earth, nuclear weapons were once such a weapon of mass destruction that could not be countered, defended or matched; whoever possessed nuclear weapons could have a place in the world's discourse power."

"Then... on a cosmic scale, if the cosmological constant 42 is really like Earth's nuclear weapons, it is irresistible, undefended, and unmatched. Perhaps those powerful mysterious forces really don't want weak humans to grasp this truth. They just want to monopolize this power."

however……

Lin Xian shook his head:
"No, Jask, I don't think so."

"My thought is that the mastermind behind the Millennium Stake should not have fully grasped the true power of 42."

?

Jask tilted his head:

"Why do you think so?"

Lin Xian took a deep breath and raised his head:

"[If the power of 42 is so strong and so terrifying, why would they bother with the thousand-year pile and lock up history?]"

"[Since they still need to rely on the Millennium Pile to lock down history and need to be wary of us humans studying the cosmological constant 42, this shows that the 'black hand behind the scenes' is not strong enough, not strong enough to ignore everything.]"

Jask was stunned for a moment.

Frowning.

Then he gave Lin Xian a thumbs up:
"Brilliant idea!"

Say it.

He stood up, walked to the small blackboard, picked up the electronic chalk and started writing:
"According to your idea, the stages of understanding the cosmological constant 42 should be divided into three stages."

Jask wrote on the blackboard one by one:

Calculate 42.

Learn the truth about 42.

Master the power of 42.

"That's it."

He threw away the electronic chalk and clapped his hands habitually:

"We humans are currently only in the state of calculating 42, but simply calculating this result will not have any effect or meaning. Instead, we will become puppets of some behind-the-scenes masters with ulterior motives."

"And the mastermind behind the millennium stakes on Earth should already be in the second stage. They have long calculated 42 and know the truth about 42, and naturally know how terrifying 42's true power is."

"They must also want to master the power of 42 as soon as possible and have the strength to rival the truth of the universe, but this is not something that can be achieved overnight. I think that in order to master the true power of 42, either the whole universe needs to work together to study it, or... a truly great [Universe-level Genius] is needed."

"Ah, actually I have never figured it out."

Jask looked at Lin Xian and VV:

"42 is just an ordinary number. Anyone can write it anywhere. But can such a number really contain huge destructive power? What is the principle behind this?"

"Knowledge."

Lin Xian said:

"Knowledge is power. It is such an ancient truth. When Einstein proposed the mass-energy equation E=mc2, he never expected that this extremely simple and beautiful formula would turn into a mushroom cloud that shocked the world."

"So, 42 is probably the same. Before you understand it, it is just an ordinary number; only after you understand it, you can truly understand what 42 means and what kind of terrifying power it contains."

……

Listening to Lin Xian's words, Jask nodded.

If we compare 42 to the mass-energy equation, it is indeed easy to understand.

just.

Given the current situation, is it really possible to understand and master the cosmological constant 42?
Jask spread his hands helplessly:

"I'm not throwing cold water on you. Look, Liu Feng and Gao Wen are both top-notch geniuses. They have been studying together for hundreds of years, but they only calculated the result of the cosmological constant of 42 with various prompts. They have made almost no progress in understanding 42."

"Of course, I'm not saying that they are not good. Mr. Gao Wen is indeed the smartest genius I have ever met. I respect him very much. Over the years, I have asked him to help me solve many research problems."

"But even a genius like this could not understand the truth of 42...Even someone as talented as Einstein could only calculate 42 and then could not do anything."

"Under this premise, is it true that there is a genius smarter than Gawain and Einstein who can fully understand 42? Is it possible that the upper limit of human beings is that they cannot understand and master 42?"

"Do not."

Lin Xian closed his eyes.

Recalling the old man and the young boy who were run over by the truck;
Recalling the number 42 written all over the walls of the old house;

Recalling the peerless genius that even Emperor Gawain praised and admired;

Recalling the mysterious man who only existed in legends but had never met, the father of the big-faced cat—

Chen Heping.

“There was one guy…who actually did it.”

Lin Xian said softly:

"At least, that person is different from Einstein, Liu Feng, and Gao Wen. Not only did he calculate the result of the cosmological constant, 42, he was one step ahead of everyone else and understood the truth behind 42."

Thoughts trace back like rays...

Lin Xian suddenly realized.

Perhaps, all the truth and answers had already been revealed in the second dream.

He was an ordinary elementary school math teacher.

He studied the ancient book "Introduction to the Cosmological Constant" for decades, and after calculating the result of 42, he stayed indoors for several months.

Not only did he write the numbers 42, big and small, into every tiny gap between the bricks, he also made sure that every stroke never overlapped.

This must have been done on purpose, there must be a hidden meaning!
Chen Heping suddenly understood the cosmological constant 42.

Absurd behavior and mental breakdown.

Lin Xian still remembers the scene where Big Face Cat imitated Chen Heping's crazy behavior:

His face looked dull.

His eyes were unfocused.

The whole person seemed to be possessed by evil spirits. He grabbed everyone's arms tightly and repeated the same words in a trembling voice:
"[42... everywhere.]"

(End of this chapter)