Chapter 2234 December 11, 2234, Rhine University, Secret Laboratory

*Dong.*

The time-travel machine, which had just been successfully activated, suddenly emitted a muffled sound from within, causing Gao Yang, Gao Wen, and Liu Feng in the lab to pause and exchange glances.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Gao Yang scratched his head. "You guys didn't mess up this time-travel machine, did you? Did you successfully send Lin Xian back or not?"

"Of course, we sent him," Liu Feng quickly manipulated the monitor.

Just now, Lin Xian's biological signal did disappear, and the weight of the shuttle also decreased. Gao Yang hurriedly stepped forward, quietly pried open the hatch of the shuttle, and asked, "Hey, hey, is anyone in there? Are you human or ghost?"

*Dong, dong, dong*. Three knocks came from inside the shuttle, two long and one short. This was the agreed-upon code from the beginning – *ling qian* (pocket money). Gao Yang excitedly shouted and called Gao Wen over.

"Quick, quick, open this thing and let *Ling Qian* out! Seriously, how did he come back as soon as he traveled to 1952?"

"What could he do in such a short time?" Gao Wen quickly opened the rotating hatch of the shuttle. He looked down and saw Lin Xian's two feet. Gao Yang and Gao Wen each grabbed a leg and helped Lin Xian out.

"Whoa!" Gao Yang looked at his pale friend and exclaimed, "Lin Xian, why aren't you wearing any clothes? Where's my otter skin?" Lin Xian stood on the ground, rubbing his temples,

recovering from the dizziness of time travel. "Who knows where the otter skin went?"

"What's the date today?"

"What time is it? I spent a week in 1952. How long has it been here?"

"Ha! Scrap metal garbage can robot, Weiwei, is dragging a laboratory white coat over. Garbage, garbage, found garbage." Incidentally, his small display screen shows the current date and time.

Lin Xian took the white coat and put it on, then glanced at the display. "Isn't this the time I left? I came back in a second." Liu Feng nodded. "Although it's hard to explain, that's the reality."

"From your perspective, you might have spent a real and complete week in 1952, but from our side, it feels like you just teleported back as soon as you traveled. This shows that our time flow is out of sync."

Gao Yang circled Lin Xian, checking if he was missing any arms or legs.

"Yeah, it's rare for you to go back. Why didn't you stay longer? Why did you come back so quickly?"

"Quick?" Lin Xian shook his head and smiled helplessly. "You don't know, I almost couldn't come back. Just a tiny bit more and my kite string would have snapped."

Lin Xian's statement was not an exaggeration. At that time, Einstein confessed everything to Lin Xian and raised many questions.

In that instant, Lin Xian felt that even his breathing was wrong, as if taking an extra breath would allow Einstein to figure out clues from the length of his breath, thereby changing the world line.

The kite in the storm was teetering, the kite string was cracking, with only a sliver of connection left, so Lin Xian didn't hesitate. He immediately decided to climb up the kite string and return to the 2234 timeline.

"Luckily, I escaped successfully and safely returned along the kite string." Gao Wen, Gao Yang, and Liu Feng exchanged glances again, completely not understanding what Lin Xian was talking about.

"What's a kite string? What are you talking about?" Lin Xian waved his hand. "Those things aren't important. We'll talk about them later." He looked up at Liu Feng. "First, confirm whether our entangled time-space particles have been completely consumed."

Liu Feng stepped forward and opened the sealed cabin of the time-travel machine. Everyone looked inside. It was empty. The entangled time-space particles, which were originally intertwined, rotating, and violently agitated, had completely disappeared, leaving no trace.

"Good." Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems that our previous guess was correct. Due to the special nature of the entangled time-space particles, a complete round trip is required to completely consume them."

"That's one less thing to worry about. We don't have to worry about terminators coming to assassinate us anymore." Liu Feng nodded.

"So, Lin Xian, have you completed the tasks you scheduled before this time travel?" Gao Yang also curiously approached.

"Yes, yes, yes. Tell us quickly, where exactly did you go? What did you do?"

Gao Wen was even more excited, rubbing his hands. "Why don't we find a conference room? While your memory is still fresh, let's quickly report and summarize everything and re-sort out the clues of the various mysteries."

Lin Xian shook his head. "Let's put these things aside for now. I have more important things to do now."

"Gao Yang, go prepare the fastest plane for me." Gao Yang looked puzzled. "Rhine University has its own airport, and we have many planes. You can just take a private plane."

"But the point is, you just came back from time travel. Where are you rushing to?" Lin Xian turned around and looked towards the distant other side of the ocean, the United States. He said softly, "Brooklyn." A small, red private plane took off from the Rhine University's internal airport and flew to the United States at top speed.

Gao Yang wanted to go with Lin Xian, but Lin Xian refused. He was going to find Einstein, and it was best to go alone.

When he parted ways with Einstein in 1952, Einstein said that he had gained the ability to glimpse the future, obtained an immortal body, and planned to use the underground shelter on the farm as a secret base. When these clues were combined, the answer was obvious.

Einstein himself was the founder and president of the Genius Club.

Lin Xian guessed that Einstein's mental journey over the years must have been like this: initially, Einstein felt despair about the future of humanity and was depressed all day long, but later, after Douglas's persuasion, he felt much better.

At the same time, he also regarded Douglas as a close friend who transcended age and was very kind and trusting towards him.

Subsequently, Einstein was inspired by the video of the hydrogen bomb explosion and successfully calculated the answer to the cosmological constant, 42. This is where a strange phenomenon that is difficult to explain scientifically occurred.

According to Einstein, two time-space particles suddenly floated out of the crack behind him, one hitting him, and the other flying towards Lin Xian, but eventually hitting the original CC, resulting in CC turning into blue stardust and dissipating, and with a period of 24 years,

opening a cycle of reincarnation in hundreds of years of time and space, while Einstein gained immortality, time stopped on him, and he could glimpse the true and false future.

There are several inexplicable contradictions here. Both calculated the cosmological constant out of thin air. 42. Why did strange phenomena occur around Einstein?

But Chen Heping, the father of the Big-faced Cat, had a calm and uneventful life. The same time-space particles, several different people, why do they produce different consequences?

Is the reason in CC and Einstein, or in the nature of the time-space particles themselves? The future that Einstein saw does not match the real future. This is the most intriguing thing.

The kite string behind Lin Xian's head is actually another form of expression in time and space. As long as the kite string does not break, it means that the future of this world line must be the history that Lin Xian has experienced.

The world line is so rigorous, just like his unique time-space coordinates. No matter how tortuous and turbulent the world line is, it must be on the same world line, and it must only see the same history and future.

For example, the 0.001764 world line. The nuclear war in 1991 did not break out on this world line. Perhaps this nuclear war really exists on other world lines.

That's not important. As long as this period of history does not exist on the 0.001764 world line, then no matter where you stand in the long river of time to look or look back, it is impossible to see this nuclear war. So here comes the contradiction.

If the future that Einstein saw is real, then Lin Xian's kite string must be broken, and the world line will jump to another world line where a nuclear war broke out in 1991.

Even if Einstein later found a way to prevent this nuclear war and turned the world line back, he must wait for the unrecoverable anchor point. In short, the Einstein in 1952 absolutely could not be in his kite string without breaking.

While being able to dream of the ninth dream, he also saw the non-existent global nuclear war in 1991. Two people standing on the same mountain cannot see two sceneries. Sitting in a high-speed plane, Lin Xian closed his eyes and said softly,

History and the future are the same. Einstein and I are also standing in 1952, and it is absolutely impossible to see two different futures.

Since the future I experienced is real, and humans did not perish in 1991, then the future scene that Einstein saw in 1952 must be fake. It is not difficult to verify this conclusion. When I arrive in Brooklyn, I will confront Einstein directly.

Now it is 2234, his home ground. Lin Xian doesn't have to worry about the kite string breaking, he doesn't have to worry about time-space changes, he doesn't have to worry about the world line jumping, he has no worries, and he can do whatever he wants.

So he continued to think further, analyzing Einstein's mental journey. After gaining the omniscient ability to glimpse the future, Einstein would inevitably see Douglas's blue eyes. He probably thought that Douglas also had the ability to glimpse the future like him.

Once again sympathizing with each other with Douglas, Einstein invited Douglas to save the world and save the future of mankind with him.

It's just that Lin Xian, as Douglas's real body, slipped away in advance before the kite string broke. Einstein would definitely not give up saving the world, so he founded the Genius Club, attempting to save the tragedy of human self-destruction.

Einstein must have made many, many efforts over the years, but the results have always been unsatisfactory.

Currently, Lin Xian does not know what other futures of human self-destruction Einstein has seen besides the nuclear war in 1991, but the future that Einstein saw is indeed different from Lin Xian.

All the futures that Lin Xian has seen, the world is destroyed by the white light of destruction, while the future that Einstein has seen is basically human self-destruction. It always feels like there is some conspiracy hidden behind this matter?

The plane slowly descended, leaving the clouds. Outside the porthole, the lights of the American continent were clearly visible. 200 years is very long for humans, but very short for the earth. The coastline and mountains of the United States cannot see a trace of change, but the ground has changed.

After landing at the airport, Lin Xian got into the car and drove directly to the western suburbs of Brooklyn. Along the way, he watched the street scene, still without any familiar place.

The Empire State Building is gone, and the Brooklyn Bridge has also been renovated into an unrecognizable appearance, not to mention the clock tower that Spider-Man once hung upside down, and the Highland Promenade where CC once set off fireworks, all disappeared, corroded and dissipated in time.

This is probably the loneliness of the times. Lin Xian sighed softly. Living in 2025, he could truly feel that he was a living person.

But now in 2234, Lin Xian only feels like a ghost. This feeling is not obvious when Gao Yang, Gao Wen, Liu Feng, and Jask are around, but now alone in a strange United States, loneliness is like a flood. The beasts came back and made it suffocate on land.

There is really no familiar place, no familiar scenery, no familiar people. Suddenly, Lin Xian looked at the dilapidated farm that suddenly appeared in his vision, and was momentarily stunned,

"Stop the car!" he shouted. When the car stopped, he opened the door and walked down, standing outside the same farm fence as always, everything as before. Even every grass and tree is exactly the same as in 1952.

It's really exactly the same. Unimaginable.

The farm at the same location in 2234 is actually exactly the same in every detail as it was in 1952. He had just left this farm in 1952, and had just walked around here many times. How could he be wrong?

But Lin Xian pursed his lips. Nearly 300 years of time, the Empire State Building collapsed, the Brooklyn Bridge corroded, and no reinforced concrete building could withstand 300 years of time, but this dilapidated farm miraculously did it.

He walked in and touched the dilapidated wooden fence, and looked up at several old buildings with new bricks. He understood.

Perhaps this is a Theseus farm. Although the fence layout, houses, and even weeds and trees are the same as in 1952, in fact, these things are all new, and they are all replicated with new materials according to the old appearance.

Lin Xian stepped on the rustling gravel and walked into the houses, pushing open the branches on the left side of the house that he knew what was inside. Pushing it open, it was the same as in 1952, it was the bunk bed left by the workers.

*Squeak.* Pushing open the house opposite, it was full of rags, sundries, and spider webs.

Then the last warehouse, Lin Xian walked to the last broken house on the north side and pushed open the door. As he remembered, the warehouse was full of various old tools, and in the corner, there must also be a simple elevator leading to the underground shelter.

Lin Xian took a deep breath. The air was heavy with dust and heavy with time. He easily found the Theseus elevator. The material was noble ha-alloy, but the style was old from three centuries ago. Pressing the button,

The elevator slowly descended with the friction of the ha-alloy steel cable. After more than ten seconds, it was brightly lit and cheerful. In the huge underground space, like the virtual venue of the Genius Club, there were 9 black wooden high-power instruments.

An old man wearing a sad Einstein mask was sitting at the end of the steps.

At this time, the elderly man looked up at Lin Xian, who was walking down from the simple elevator.

"Rhine." His voice was majestic and deep, "I didn't expect you to find this place."

Lin Xian chuckled. "Einstein, you specially renovated the farm on the ground countless times."

"You have to keep it in its most original appearance, probably because you are afraid that an old friend will not be able to find the way." He walked into the light, looked up at the old man who straightened his waist instantly on the seat, "Einstein, I am here to get my watch."