Genius Club.

Chapter 547: Pile Driving

Chapter 547: Pile Driving (Thanks to the auto chess addict ing for the reward!)
On the plane on the way back, Liu Feng had already told Lin Xian about the current situation of the University of the Rhine, naturally including the research aspect.

It has been very difficult to persevere and maintain the main body of the university over the years; due to limited conditions and equipment, almost all cutting-edge topics have come to a standstill, including the cosmological constant.

Frankly speaking, the research on the cosmological constant 42 has already reached a bottleneck.

Even with the participation of Emperor Gao Wen, Liu Feng and Gao Wen could only calculate the number of 42, but could not go any deeper.

Everything is a mystery.

Everything remains a mystery.

Since even Liu Feng, the author of "Introduction to the Cosmological Constant", and Emperor Gao Wen, who is at the pinnacle of human intelligence, can't help, the only hope is the last person...

Chen Heping.

"Get to work."

Lin Xian said calmly:

"We don't have much time left, every minute and every second is precious."

"So what are we going to do now?" Liu Feng asked.

"Let's go to the barber shop first."

Lin Xian stroked his beard:
“I just can’t accept this look.”

……

Inside the Rhine University barber shop.

With the sound of scissors clicking, strands of thick long hair fell from the top of the head; the buzzing razor slid across the chin, shaving the fluffy beard cleanly like a lawn mower.

"Huh?" "Eh?"

Looking at the delicate face in the barber mirror, Lin Xian and Liu Feng were stunned.

"Wait a minute, what's going on?"

Lin Xian opened his eyes wide and looked at the handsome young man in the mirror.

This……

Is it yourself?
It was indeed my fault.

But this face belongs to my younger self!

Liu Feng also stood up with his cane, observing Lin Xian's ageless face closely:
"How come you're still so young? When I saw your haggard appearance with long hair and a big beard, I thought you were at least 40 or 50 years old."

"Yeah, I think so too."

Lin Xian couldn't tell whether he was surprised or frightened. He untied his barber's apron, stood up, and looked closely at the mirror.

Confirm again, nothing wrong.

The man in the mirror, although not a young man in his 20s, is definitely not a middle-aged man in his 30s or s; judging by the details of his skin and eyes... Lin Xian should be around years old now.

"I understand."

Lin Xian analyzed:
"I thought I had been growing naturally in the hibernation chamber for more than ten or even twenty years, but from what I can see, this period of time was not that long."

"The hibernation effect of the hibernation chamber should have expired a few years ago, so I was equivalent to sleeping in the normal temperature filling liquid for four or five years."

"If you think about it, if I sleep for ten or twenty years with a normal metabolism, shouldn't my hair and beard be several meters long?"

Liu Feng nodded thoughtfully:

"Several meters may be a bit exaggerated, but you are right. If you really slept for that long, your beard and hair would definitely not be this long."

"I can only say that when we normal people see a big beard and long hair, we assume that he is very old and directly rule out the possibility of being young..."

"But you can't blame others. You look like a wild man, and your facial features are all covered with hair. If you don't shave it off, who would know your real age?"

The barber next to him picked up a strand of hair from the ground and straightened it to see the length:
"Generally speaking, young people's hair grows faster, and it is possible for it to grow more than 10 centimeters or even 20 centimeters in a year."

"Looking at the length of your hair, you must have been in hibernation for the first four or five years, but you were in a complete coma for the last four or five years."

"If you were 25 before hibernation, your real age now... should be around 30."

"hehe."

This funny accident made Lin Xian laugh for no reason.

He suddenly realized many things.

Recalling what CC once said in the dream:

"There is a middle-aged man with long hair and a big beard who asked me to come to Donghai City to open Lin Xian's safe. Your voice sounds very similar to his."

"I've only seen one person whose marksmanship is comparable to yours, and both of you shoot in exactly the same way."

"You are definitely not VV because you are too young. The age doesn't match."

"VV's eyes were confused, cold, and cold-blooded... He left very decisively."

Lin Xian scratched his head.

Wearing leather shoes, trampling the thick hair that fell on the ground:

"This is a long misunderstanding..."

"So long that it will take 600 years to unravel."

……

The next day, in a red brick conference room.

Liu Feng was leaning on a crutch with one hand and writing on the blackboard with chalk with the other.

Lin Xian, who was sitting below, stared at the space-time clock on the table and thought while waiting for Liu Feng to write.

The outer shell of this space-time clock has obviously been refurbished, but the interior remains the same, so there is no need for recalibration.

The current reading displayed on the space-time clock is 0.0002184.

This proves that after the super disaster in 2504 was triggered ahead of schedule, the world line did jump.

only……

Now, this result can be easily seen with the eyes without relying on the reading of the space-time clock.

Liu Feng finally finished writing on the blackboard, straightened up, and tapped the blackboard:

"I have summarized the issues that we have not figured out yet."

He stepped aside halfway to let Lin Xian, the only audience member, look at the blackboard:

[1. Why did Lin Xian lose his ability to dream, and why did the Millennium Pile CC also lose the ability to have nightmares? ]

[2. The world-destroying white light in 2624 did come from the depths of the universe. Who was the mastermind behind it?]

[3. Why did the Millennium Pile fail after only 600 years of operation? Why is it so fragile? ]

[4. How to break the current situation? How to save the world? How to stop the world-destroying white light that will arrive in 8 years?]

……

“That’s the four questions.”

Liu Feng patted the chalk dust on his hands and pointed to the first question:
"I thought about this question last night. Is it possible that your dream itself is related to the Millennium Pillar?"

"Actually, this is an old question. We discussed it hundreds of years ago. Because that space-time particle first passed through your ear and then hit CC, the two of you are inexplicably [connected] or [entangled] together."

"So, the fact that you can dream about the future world 600 years from now is essentially due to the entanglement between you and the Millennium Pile. And now... no matter what the reason is, this connection between you has been broken, so not only have you lost the ability to dream, but CC's dreams have also become normal at the same time."

Lin Xian nodded:
"It's possible."

He thought for a moment and added:

"I was the one who came up with this hypothesis hundreds of years ago. After all, before the Millennium Pile was driven, I had no ability to dream about the future."

"If all the causes are attributed to the space-time particle that hit CC, the logic of the matter can indeed explain it clearly. [Entanglement]... Well, this description is very mysterious, but it is very appropriate."

"CC and I are indeed entangled in many ways, such as dreams, memory fragments, and the fact that we always meet easily and the closed loops that always happen inadvertently."

"Everything started in 1952 and ended in 2624. This is the fate of the Millennium Pile, and it is also the entangled story between CC and me."

"But the question is, why did this ability suddenly fail? Did it start failing in 2504, or in 2600, or after CC was born in 2604?"

Elderly Liu Feng coughed twice and spread his hands:

"That's unclear. There's no way to verify it. Ahem... never mind. Let's not dwell on the cause for now. Since the result is like this, let's look at the second question first."

As he spoke, Liu Feng pointed to the second question on the blackboard:
"Jask is a man of great skill and courage. His actions are rough but effective. His 22 space-time particle detection rockets launched into deep space actually caught the White Light of Destruction."

"One of the rockets was launched towards the outer reaches of the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and captured the trace of the white light of destruction 20 years ago. Its direction of travel was completely straight, unaffected by any gravity, and it hit the location where the Earth would arrive 20 years later."

"The range of that white light is much larger than you think, spanning 0.001 light years... Although this area is not considered vast in the universe, in our solar system, it is much farther than the distance from Earth to the Coeur Belt."

Lin Xian listened and calculated silently in his mind.

0.001 light-year...it doesn't sound too far, but if you convert it, it's a full 100 billion kilometers.

"The distance from the sun to Neptune is about 45 billion kilometers, which is also the radius of the nine planets in the solar system."

While Lin Xian was calculating, he said:
"That is to say, when this fierce white light arrived at the solar system in 2624, it not only destroyed the Earth... but also evaporated the Sun and the nine planets in the solar system."

At this point, Lin Xian thought of Jask again:

"No wonder it's useless for Jask to escape to Mars. The range of the world-destroying white light is too wide. Unless we can fly out of the solar system, we will all die and evaporate."

He closed his eyes.

Lean back in your chair and imagine the terrifying scenes in the fantasy universe.

A straight white light coming from hundreds of light years away;
There was no ups and downs, no waves, no bends, it just shot straight into the void;
Likewise, the Earth orbits the Sun and hurtles through the universe, dragged along by the black hole at the center of the Milky Way;

看上去相隔甚远毫无交集的地球和白光，却刚刚好在2624年8月29日00：42分的第一秒在宇宙中相遇；
Everything burned up and became nothing.

That kind of indifference destroys your contempt, cold and arrogant.

"The enemy is too strong."

Lin Xian slowly opened his eyes:

"Not only do they have speed-of-light weapons, they can also accurately predict the Earth's position hundreds of years in advance and carry out precise strikes."

"I can't believe it. What kind of advanced civilization can do this? No wonder they only left two space-time particles and messed around with human history and the future. They don't care what we do."

"Because...with such a huge and disparate gap in strength, any struggle is meaningless; just like ants to humans, ants can never defeat humans."

Liu Feng let out a breath:

"The enemy is indeed very powerful, so powerful that it is unimaginable and incomprehensible."

"So I propose that we name our ultimate enemy, the mastermind behind all events, the mysterious extraterrestrial civilization—"

"[Pile Driving Civilization!]"

Liu Feng picked up the chalk, wrote four words heavily on the blackboard, and then drew a circle.

"can."

Lin Xian feels that it doesn’t matter what he is called:
"I have no objection, it's just a name anyway."

"What's more, compared to the pile-driving civilization, we are too weak. We don't know where they are, nor do we know what form they take. Even in such a state of ignorance...the other party can casually throw out a light-speed weapon that spans 0.001 light years, which is enough to destroy billions of years of civilization history on Earth."

"So here comes the problem."

Lin Xian raised his hand and pointed to the third question on the blackboard:

"Such a powerful and tough super civilization, a pile-driving civilization... can only use 600-year-old piles for years? Isn't this too unreasonable?"

"Not only is it illogical, it's also contradictory. After all the hard work of driving a thousand-year pile, it becomes unstable in the blink of an eye after 600 years, and in the end, you still need to rely on light-speed weapons to manually drive the pile. Is this reasonable?"

Hey.

Liu Feng sighed:
"These questions you mentioned are not something that can be answered with our current knowledge. What is the purpose of the pile-driving civilization and why the thousand-year-old piles can only be used for 600 years? These are questions they need to consider, not questions we need to face."

"The problem we need to face is how to deal with this white light, how to save human civilization, and how to survive."

He moved his finger down and pointed to the last question on the blackboard.

Lin Xian picked up a fountain pen on the table next to him, held it between his fingers and began to turn it:

“In fact, the problem becomes simpler after realizing that the enemy is unprecedentedly powerful and too strong to be defeated.”

Liu Feng pushes his glasses:

"How to say?"

"Haha, think about it."

Lin Xian smiled helplessly:

"The Pile Driving Civilization can launch light-speed weapons with a flick of the finger, and all stars within a 0.01 light-year range will evaporate instantly. Facing such a powerful enemy, what can we do to help?"

"Are aircraft cannons useful? Are starships useful? Are nuclear weapons laser cannons useful?"

"It goes without saying that these things are all useless. So, the last resort left to us, the last hope, and also the only thing that the pile-driving civilization fears -"

"【Cosmological constant, 42.】"

There was a pause.

He continued:
"The pile-driving civilization doesn't care about what we humans do, but... they are afraid of all the mathematicians who have calculated 42, and they are worried that humans on Earth will understand the true power of 42."

"It was their caution, but also their negligence, that allowed us to grasp this last straw."

"So, the more the enemy fears something, the more we should work towards it. This is the real way to break the deadlock."

"How's the investigation going on with the Chen Heping I told you about a few days ago? Have you found him?"

Liu Feng walked towards the chair with his cane:

"Indeed I have found it."

He sat down in the chair:
"We at Rhine University still have some advantages in finding people and intelligence work. There are not many people in the East China Sea right now, so it's not difficult to find someone. We found the Chen Heping you mentioned very quickly."

"It's just...how should I put it? I feel like it would be a bit troublesome to contact Chen Heping."

trouble?

Lin Xian blinked:

"What trouble?"

Liu Feng leaned his crutches against the desk and said seriously:
"Lin Xian, you may not know much about the current world. Not all places are as peaceful as Rhine University."

"We live in a peaceful environment here, and we have enough weapons to protect the school, so it's like a paradise."

"But...the areas outside Donghai City are in chaos, with various villages fighting for territory and resources, and fighting all day long."

"It's not that they did anything wrong, or that they are warmongers... After all, this is the way things are in this era; if you want to survive and face limited resources, you can only fight."

"I know that."

Lin Xian waved his hand:
"I know this better than anyone else. I've experienced too many apocalypses. But...what does this have to do with Chen Heping?"

"Based on my limited understanding of him, he should be a very easy person to deal with, even very kind and enthusiastic. If we explain our purpose, it shouldn't be difficult to have a good conversation, right?"

Liu Feng also waved his hand:
"You don't know. I heard that Chen Heping is a nice guy, but his son is notoriously arrogant and domineering. He is very difficult to deal with."

moment.

The image of that face with swaying flesh appeared in Lin Xian's mind:

"Big-faced cat?"

"Correct!"

Liu Feng was a little surprised:

"That's him, nicknamed Big Face Cat. He's hot-tempered and aggressive, and he leads a few of his followers to form gangs and make noises all day long to collect protection money."

"Of course our weapons are not inferior to theirs, but isn't our ultimate goal to persuade Chen Heping to come to Rhine University to conduct research?"

"And if we want to go deep into the village and communicate with Chen Heping, we must first get past Big Face Cat... I sent people there yesterday, but Big Face Cat was unreasonable and very difficult to deal with. He beat our people out directly."

Ha ha.

Lin Xian smiled knowingly.

It's something that Brother Lian can do.

Snapped.

He slapped the pen on the desk and stood up:
"It's okay, I'll take care of the big-faced cat."

"what?"

Liu Feng looked at Lin Xian in disbelief:

"I just said so much, are you sure you listened carefully?"

"of course."

Lin Xian disagrees:

"It's just a big-faced cat. It's not that difficult to deal with."

He smiled slightly and flexed his wrist: