Did the world end today?

Chapter 138 Coffee?

Lin Xu turned around and saw that Qi Yuan had already pressed an armed man who was not completely dead to the side.

The fact that the opponent was shot in the arm and knee at the same time was clearly the result of Qi Yuan's precise control.

The high-protection bulletproof vest gave him more room to maneuver and allowed him to survive even in the heat of battle.

Qi Yuan's fingers had dug deep into the enemy's wound, but the man on the ground gritted his teeth and remained unmoved.

The muscles in his face were contorted and deformed. Noticing his movements, Qi Yuan grabbed his chin and carefully examined him before finally letting out a sigh of relief.

"No cyanide dentures."

"Believe me, you'll regret it."

As he spoke, Qi Yuan quickly bandaged the man's wound, stopping the continuous bleeding.

Then, he turned to Lin Xu and said:
"Do what you're supposed to do, don't worry about me, and don't look this way."

"Bai Mo, come help me!"

"clear."

Lin Xu nodded solemnly, turned around, and continued reading the document through the screen on the headset.

Now, he has a relatively clear idea.

The nodes will not undergo drastic changes.

The timeline of the world wars is like a maze with countless forks in the road; looking from the present into the future, you never know which path will lead to the final outcome.

However, if you look back from the future, you only need to find the forks in the road that eventually lead to your destination, and then work backward step by step.

Those insignificant side roads, or what Zhou Yue called "nodes," can all be ignored.

By finding the truly dangerous forks in the road and setting up "no entry" signs on them, we can avoid the unacceptable outcome.

However, there is more than one way to avoid the wrong path than "going to theocracy"!
Lin Xu was completely immersed in the experience, but the screams from the side still occasionally reached his ears.

He would occasionally be drawn by screams and turn around uncontrollably to look.

Those few glances were enough to send chills down his spine.

This was absolutely the most brutal interrogation method he had ever seen.

He learned for the first time that a human skull could be opened while the person is still alive.

This was the first time he had ever learned that, even without the aid of drugs, it was possible to induce a "hallucinatory" state in a person using certain methods.

"Who sent you to find Jiang Xingye?"

How do you know her identity?

Who is the inside man?

"What did you ask her?"

What do you want from her?

Questions continued to be raised, but the two received only vague answers.

Lin Xu stopped paying attention to them and focused all his attention on stuffing that crucial report into his mind.

Time ticked by, and when Lin Xu looked up for the last time, there were less than three minutes left until the final apocalypse.

And beside him, the man who had suffered enough finally breathed his last.

Qi Yuan casually wiped the blood and unidentified liquid from his hands, walked to Lin Xu's side, and said:

"There isn't much information."

"But there are a few clues you should write down."

"If I come in again next time and enter this interrogation process again, it might come in handy."

"First, these armed personnel came from the Ares ground station, and they have ties to the Western Alliance."

"Secondly, their target is Jiang Xingye. Their goal is clear, but they don't necessarily want him alive. The interrogation is just an extra step. Their most important goal is simply to kill Jiang Xingye."

"Third, we have confirmed that they have an inside agent within our ranks, but we do not know who it is at the moment."

"They obtained the base's access code in advance, which allowed them to bypass biometric identification measures."

"This was a meticulously planned attack, and I suspect it may have been planned for months or even years."

"The attackers must have known about the VIP's existence beforehand and fully understood the VIP's importance."

"If we need to investigate, we can do so from this angle!"

"understand!"

Lin Xu nodded solemnly.

I had known about Jiang Xingye's existence for a long time and fully understood her importance.

He tries to extract information from her, but then kills her without hesitation if he fails.

The only person Lin Xu could think of who best fit this logic of action was Zhou Yue.

There are only 30 seconds left.

Just then, Bai Mo seemed to suddenly remember something.

She turned to Lin Xu and said urgently:
"Next time, don't land on Mars again!"

"You and Qi Yuan go directly to the space station!"

"I'm here to get information. After I get it, I'll find a way to get out of the sandstorm's coverage area and pass the information on to you!"

"how is this possible?"

Lin Xu frowned and asked:

"How did you escape the sandstorm? This spaceship can no longer return to orbit, you..."

Do I need to return to orbit?

Bai Mo interrupted Lin Xu.

"I only need to fly a few thousand meters high—the end of the world is coming, do I need to live that long?"

As the words fell, the apocalypse arrived. The torn planet Deimos plummeted into the void, and Lin Xu's consciousness gradually faded away.
When Lin Xu opened his eyes again, he was back in his bed.

He didn't dare stop for a moment and immediately ran to the table to record the "landmark event" described in the security situation report he had obtained from the bracelet world.

This was the first time he had brought out information beyond "technical documentation" from the world of fitness trackers.

It has to be said that this thing is much easier to memorize than technical documents.

It took Lin Xu more than half an hour to finish copying all the information.

In the process of writing, he gradually sorted out a relatively complete narrative.

As Zhou Yue said, the timeline of this war is indeed constantly evolving.

However, every time the situation developed to the point where war was about to break out, a "mysterious force" would come to stop the momentum of war.

In February, the maritime exercise organized by the Western Alliance was postponed due to special circumstances, and the location was changed to a non-sensitive area.

In March, the World Quantum Computing Conference, originally scheduled to be held in London, was cancelled, effectively blocking the channels for joint research and exchange in the field of quantum computing among countries.

In April, just after quantum computing technology was leaked, advocates of war quickly emerged in the opposing camp, but these people were soon purged and "silenced" in various ways within a short period of time.

In May, the maritime standoff had escalated to the point where both sides were using radar stealth, effectively entering a state of war. However, someone simultaneously leaked the deployment locations of both sides, abruptly ending the impending war.

In June, academic opinions on quantum computing technology began to shift.

The initial claim that "quantum computing can solve all problems and establish an unshakeable hegemony" has been overturned, and experts and scholars have put forward new views in a very short period of time:

The limitation of quantum computing is not the randomness of entangled particle pairs, but the large amount of energy required for computation and the unsolvable heat dissipation problem.

Without solving these two problems, quantum supremacy cannot be established.

This view, which clearly carries a sense of "self-deception," quickly gained unanimous recognition in the academic community, and this "quantum crisis" was essentially declared averted.

After watching the whole thing, Lin Xu's biggest feeling was that the resolution of each crisis relied on the mysterious power of "deus ex machina".

It's as if there's an invisible hand constantly controlling everything and adjusting the direction of events.

This was clearly Zhou Yue's doing.

What he wants to do now is to replicate this strategy in the real world.

But is such a strategy really meaningful?

If problems are not solved by human initiative, logic, and the rationality upon which they depend for survival, then does the so-called "crisis mitigation" truly eliminate the crisis, or merely postpone it?
The answer is clear.

Lin Xu let out a long breath.

Now, he could finally be certain of Zhou Yue's intention in proposing this plan.

He never gave up his ambition to "become a god".

Even Lin Xu suspected that this arrest might have been part of his plan.

From this perspective, what I need to do is quite clear?
Cooperation?

Cooperation my ass!

Squeeze every last drop of value out of him, then kick him out!

A satisfied smile appeared on Lin Xu's face.

He glanced at the bracelet; the number on it had dropped to 1, and it was still flashing 1.

You cannot enter the bracelet world again today.

He took out his secure device and sent a message to Chen Yixin, explaining his judgment. Chen Yixin quickly replied in agreement, and then set a time for the next meeting to discuss the "quantum supremacy problem".

Although it's decided not to cooperate with Zhou Yue, things still need to be done.

A quantum crisis is brewing, and we cannot stand idly by and watch it happen.

Let's take it one step at a time!
It was already 2 PM.

Lin Xu's stomach was growling with hunger. He checked his phone and saw that Jiang Xingye had finally woken up.

"What's for lunch?"

"What's for lunch?"

She sent two messages in a row, and Lin Xu replied helplessly:
"Do I really get to decide what we eat for lunch?"

"Come over here, let's have a bite together."

Jiang Xingye:
"Okay, I'll be right there."

After putting down his phone, Lin Xu left his room and sent a message to the nutritionist, instructing him to serve dinner. A few minutes later, when Jiang Xingye knocked on the door and entered, the food was already on the table.

The two sat facing each other, chatting casually.

Lin Xu suddenly remembered the two letters he had found in the bracelet world.

"K", "A".

So, could the Jiang Xingye of this world foresee the message that Jiang Xingye of that world wanted to convey?
Perhaps we could give it a try?

After coughing, Lin Xu asked:
"If one day in the future you need to convey an important message to me, and this message must rely on a keyword to be conveyed, what kind of keyword would you design?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Xingye paused in his actions.

After a slight pause, she slowly began to speak:
"I think if you're starting to ask this question now, it means you've really encountered it."

"Given my personality, I would definitely devise a code that is highly likely only known to the two of us."

"Didn't you ask me before how our relationship developed?"

"These two things are most likely related."

"so."

Jiang Xingye took a deep breath.

"coffee."

"It's coffee."

(End of this chapter)