Chapter 44 Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets!

Since Turing had asked a similar question before, and Jask didn't attend that meeting,

therefore,

the only people who heard the answer at the time were Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Da Vinci, and Gauss.

Copernicus is already dead, so let's not mention him for now.

Lin Xuan was actually willing to exchange information with Newton or Gauss, but the problem was

they might not be willing!

Newton and Gauss held bargaining chips that he wanted to know, but he didn't have any information that they were interested in. With this disadvantage, hoping to get something for nothing from these shrewd people was wishful thinking; it would be good if they didn't deceive you.

Lin Xuan knew a lot of information that Galileo wanted to know.

Whether it was about spacetime particles, comets, astatine-339, or the brain-nerve electroshock helmet, he had plenty of things that Galileo was interested in.

Exchanging information with Galileo was physically possible. But!

From a rational point of view, Lin Xuan was unwilling.

First of all, this guy was cunning and treacherous, lies came out of his mouth without hesitation, without a single truth, and he wasn't ashamed at all, so Lin Xuan didn't want to exchange real information for fake information.

Secondly, the information that Galileo wanted to know was too critical, each one touching on core secrets, and Lin Xuan would definitely not take such a big risk to gamble on an uncertain answer.

Finally, Galileo was very likely the mastermind behind the super disaster of 2400. This

kind of anti-human villain, not only almost destroyed human civilization, but also lost his and Cheng Cheng's safe every time. Unless absolutely necessary and with no other choice, Lin Xuan really didn't want to cooperate with this kind of person.

On the other hand,

regarding Miss Da Vinci.

Although the future world of the Eighth Dream was depressing and distorted, Miss Da Vinci's original intention wasn't bad. Without her Savior Company, human civilization might have really been destroyed by Galileo.

Looking back from a future perspective, Lin Xuan knew Miss Da Vinci quite well.

In addition.

The bargaining chips he exchanged with Miss Da Vinci were harmless to him.

For safety's sake, he didn't plan to tell Miss Da Vinci about the super disaster of 2400, only planning to exchange information with her about the current state of the Eighth Dream. In simple terms, he would directly tell Miss Da Vinci that her future plan couldn't be realized, either give up or change her approach.

It would be good if she could turn back like Jask, but it didn't matter if she didn't listen to advice. Anyway, Lin Xuan had done his best and only wanted to exchange for information about the future virus.

It could be considered an equal exchange.

This "everyone refused" gathering caused the geniuses to discuss for a while. Lin Xuan could tell that everyone was cautious, watertight, and giving their all in their acting. After the president, Einstein, announced the adjournment, the virtual images of the others gradually disappeared.

Lin Xuan and Da Vinci remained seated in their chairs without moving.

Galileo was the last to stand up.

He glanced at the Rhine cat mask on Lin Xuan's face. He could be considered gentlemanly, not saying much. With the action of taking off his VR glasses, his virtual image instantly became transparent and disappeared.

At this point,

in the huge golden hall, only Lin Xuan and Da Vinci remained.

Einstein didn't seem interested in the two's discussion either. After announcing the adjournment, he went directly down the steps at the back, disappearing to who knows where. Da Vinci turned to look at Lin Xuan:

"Rhine, what information are you planning to exchange with me?" Lin Xuan smiled slightly:

"I'm sorry to tell you that through some other means, I've guessed your future plan. I can point out the loopholes and failure points in your plan, and use this as a bargaining chip to exchange for the question Turing asked earlier and the answer Einstein gave."

"Oh?"

Miss Da Vinci didn't take it seriously:

"Today is really strange. First, Galileo said he guessed seven or eight parts of my future plan, and now you're saying you're going to point out the failure points and loopholes." "You're all so direct, it makes me lose face." Having said that, she shook her head and smiled:

"However, although we haven't met many times, I have a pretty good impression of you, so this information exchange isn't a problem."

"It's just that you said you guessed my plan, and I'm still a little suspicious. After all, I feel that I've hidden it very deeply, and no one should have discovered it." "So, how about you explain your side of the information exchange first? I definitely won't lie to you about the things you want to know, because there's no need to lie to you at all."

"First of all, this isn't valuable or worth hiding, and secondly, this information isn't only known to me. Newton, Galileo, and Gauss all know it. You can ask them to verify it at any time. I can't afford to deceive a junior with lies."

Lin Xuan nodded: "No problem, deal." He continued:

"Then I'll start with my statement." Just like he thought.

Miss Da Vinci was indeed very easy to get along with and a warm-hearted person.

This was also the reason why Lin Xuan wanted to tell her the result in advance. For bad people like Copernicus, you could just kill them; for good-hearted people like Miss Da Vinci who accidentally caused a mistake, just communicate with them. She hadn't committed any mistakes herself, and Lin Xuan didn't want to be some kind of time-space police.

"If I'm not mistaken," Lin Xuan said softly:

"Your future plan should be to use humanoid robots and mechanical androids as

role models to help and guide people to rebuild civilized society, right?"

Spot on.

Miss Da Vinci was silent and didn't speak. After two seconds.

She laughed with implicit agreement: "And then?"

Lin Xuan also understood tacitly:

"I don't know what the purpose of your inquiry about global disasters was at today's gathering, but I guess, isn't it that you want to use this opportunity to help mechanical androids establish prestige and gain human trust?"

"The breaking of any system requires a devastating opportunity to break and then establish. Once people increasingly trust omnipotent, hardworking, and all-around excellent android robots, then they will inevitably hand over more and more things to the android robots." "At first, it may only be some simple physical labor, but gradually, human society will become more and more dependent on and trust androids. Androids will increasingly come into contact with the core, and one day they will turn the world upside down. Mechanical androids will replace humans and become the rulers of various cities and even the entire world."

Lin Xuan's description wasn't that accurate. He deliberately said many things wrong. This was the only way to make it reasonable and realistic. After all,

he had said from the beginning

that he had "guessed" Miss Da Vinci's future plan through certain means. Since it was a guess, it was impossible to be 100% correct.

If he stupidly told everything truthfully here, it would inevitably expose the fact that he could see the future.

So.

Just like that.

It was good to stop when he reached the point.

Lin Xuan changed his sitting position, leaned back in his chair, looked ahead, and calmly said: "Mechanical androids are different from humans. They have no emotions and are strictly bound by various programs and systems. Therefore, they won't make mistakes. They are all role models, elites, and excellent civilized and polite perfect standard-bearers."

"And most people have a herd mentality. They follow what the people around them do and believe what the people around them think is right. Slowly, when mechanical androids occupy the right to speak and dominate, then people will take the initiative to use them as role models, become civilized and polite, become hardworking, and become warm-hearted and kind."

Da Vinci listened silently to Lin Xuan's narration. Without any reaction.

Just like listening to someone else's story, she calmly asked:

"Then isn't this a good thing? One who stays near vermilion gets stained red, and one who stays near ink gets stained black; when people come to a quiet library, they will naturally unconsciously lower their voices and lighten their steps; but when they come to a bustling night market stall, they will inevitably blend into the environment and shout loudly."

"This is reality, and it is human nature. Everything has two sides, and human nature is the same. Good and evil are inherently back-to-back. We only need to put people in a large environment of truth, goodness, and beauty, and they will naturally show the good side under the influence." "Putting the same person in a city of kindness and a city of sin will definitely result in two different outcomes. Human nature does need to be guided, and humans can be guided and changed. As you said, in this process of guidance and transformation, no role model is more suitable than robots that will never make mistakes."

Lin Xuan smiled slightly:

"I don't object to your theory being correct, but theory is like this. Theory is always correct, but the facts may not be."

"Let's first assume that your future plan is just as I envisioned. Then the ultimate result will inevitably be --""A world that is suppressed, rigid, suffocating, and overcorrected." "Do you know why?"

Lin Xuan looked at the Da Vinci mask on the woman's face next to him: "Similarly, it's because of human nature."

"Any system has loopholes to exploit, and in any era, there will inevitably be people who exploit loopholes. Take the example of teachers in schools you just gave. All teachers know the principle that 'a rat dropping can spoil the whole pot of porridge.'"

"Human society is the same. The introduction of any rules and regulations and laws is initially to restrain a small number of people, because there are always a small number of people who are breaking the rules; I believe, Miss Da Vinci, that if everyone in the world was as kind as you, then this world would not need laws or any rules and regulations." "So, this is what I want to tell you, the reason why your plan is destined to fail is not that complicated, it's just this simple --"

"There will always be people who exploit loopholes, and there will always be people who take advantage of loopholes. Then, for the sake of so-called fairness and correction, more detailed and meticulous rules and regulations must be formulated to restrain these people; but loopholes cannot be completely patched. As long as you give people room to move and opportunities to speak, they can always cleverly find ways to break the rules and seek personal gain."

"In the end, this world will form a vicious cycle between exploiting loopholes, patching loopholes, making rules, exploiting loopholes, patching loopholes, and making rules, until when people's

various behaviors are restricted and they don't dare to say a word, the city will truly become a silent city."

Lin Xuan's voice fell. There was no more communication between the two.

Da Vinci was a smart person, and she could naturally understand what Lin Xuan meant. After a long time.

"Silent City," Miss Da Vinci said softly:

"I've read this science fiction, it's a short story, but the imagination is shocking. Using it to describe this kind of distorted society is indeed very appropriate."

Afterward.

She smiled and nodded at Lin Xuan: "Thank you very much, Mr. Rhine, for imagining a rather interesting future world for me. But to be honest, I don't agree with your ideas."

After a pause.

She continued:

"I always believe that human nature is malleable, because humans are not animals. Humans are full of emotions, and emotions are the primary driving force that drives human instinctual changes." "Mr. Rhine, I want to ask you a question." Da Vinci looked at the Rhine cat:

"Do you think there is the purest, innate evil in human nature?" Lin Xuan narrowed his eyes. This question

was actually asking whether there were purely bad people in the world, whether there were people who were destined to do evil all their lives from birth, who purely did evil without any reason, and who even lived to do evil for nothing. After thinking for a few seconds, Lin Xuan solemnly replied: "I think there are."

Miss Da Vinci shook her head with a smile: "I don't think there are."

4

At this point,

Lin Xuan took a deep breath. There was no need to continue talking. He had said enough.

He had explained everything he could say in such detail. He had indeed done his best. "If you don't quite believe what I said, you can think of a suitable way to ask Einstein yourself."

Lin Xuan still wanted to salvage it. Miss Da Vinci chuckled:

"Thank you for your reminder. After today's discussion with you, I do have this plan."

"Okay, it seems there's no need to hide it from you now. Your guess is indeed very close to my future plan, and I also think the situation you envisioned has some truth."

"But the future of humanity, the future of the world, and the future of civilization are not something that any of us can imagine; after all, we are not Einstein, and we cannot see the accurate future."

Just right.

Seeing that he had gained enough favorability, Lin Xuan asked:

"In your previous many questions, has no one asked what the future looks like? Since Einstein keeps saying that humans have no future, what does it specifically mean to have no future?"

This was the question about the white light that Lin Xuan had listed in his plan and wanted to find a chance to ask later. Would Einstein truthfully tell the geniuses that humans would evaporate in the white light at 00:42 600 years later?

He didn't believe that in the decades of meetings in the Genius Club, no one had ever asked about the future, right? "Of course someone has asked," Miss Da Vinci said matter-of-factly:

"Not only asked, but someone asks often. But in most cases, Einstein's answer is to refuse to answer, and the question opportunity is invalidated."

Sigh.

Lin Xuan sighed softly. Rubbed his temples:

"I guessed it." He had indeed guessed it.

What the future world looked like was basically a direct manifestation of the closed-loop plans of the geniuses. If Einstein could answer casually, then none of them would bother to hide it, and it would be easy to match them up.

"Wait."

Lin Xuan suddenly reacted, raised his head, and looked at Da Vinci: "You just said that in most cases, Einstein would refuse to answer, so that means there are still 'a few cases' where Einstein answered."

"Only once."

Miss Da Vinci said, and shook her head again: "Strictly speaking, I only know of one."

"That was in May or June of this year. After Jask was refused the first time he asked what the future world was like, he changed the way he asked the following month and asked if humans had flown out of the solar system before civilization was destroyed?"

"Einstein answered no. At that moment, Jask was indeed a little disappointed and was rarely quiet for a long time. All of us could guess that Jask's future plan must be related to Mars colonization and space travel."

"Since Einstein answered that humans hadn't flown out of the solar system before their demise, then it's obvious that Jask's future plan is destined to fail."

Lin Xuan listened silently.

He began to ponder the Fifth Dream, Sixth Dream, and Seventh Dream.

In these three dreams, after the super disaster of 2400, humans were all led by Jask to carry out the Mars colonization plan.

Except for the Seventh Dream, which was a fake Jask who used a stand-in, the first two dreams should have been the real Jask.

Einstein's answer was correct, but he didn't explain the root cause of human demise.

If

he directly asked Einstein what was going on with the apocalyptic white light at 00:42 on August 29, 2624, would he answer?

But asking so specifically would make it too easy to expose his ability to dream of the future.

In short,

before the next meeting, he should discuss it carefully with Jask to see if they could stagger their questions and use the intersection of the answers to derive the truth that humans have no future. "So,"

Lin Xuan spread his hands:

"Can I understand it this way? That is to say, you have been holding meetings here for decades, and you still don't know the truth of the so-called 'humans have no future'?" "Copernicus definitely knows," Da Vinci said:

"Since I joined the Genius Club, Copernicus is the only member who hasn't asked a similar question, and it's obvious that he was the first to join the Genius Club. His question permissions at that time had no restrictions."

"Didn't you notice? Now most of the questions we ask that are refused to be answered are actually because they involve other club members." "But when there was only Copernicus in this club, he didn't have these concerns and restraints. As long as he didn't ask questions involving Einstein or about the Genius Club itself, Einstein would answer all his questions."

Lin Xuan nodded.

He thought of this at the first gathering. Copernicus must know the most secrets and truths.

Even Newton, as the second member to join the Genius Club, might be the same. When he asked why humans have no future, unless that future belonged to Newton's ultimate victory timeline, Einstein would also refuse to answer. "This is tricky," Lin Xuan thought to himself.

Could it be that the white light at 00:42 would therefore become an unsolved mystery? Was there any good way to ask questions

that could "trick" the truth out of Einstein's mouth? "You are indeed a very good person, Rhine," Da Vinci looked at Lin Xuan and said with a smile:

"I am really glad that the last member to join the Genius Club is someone like you."

"Okay, we've talked a lot about my affairs. Now it's my turn to fulfill my promise and tell you what you want to know." Lin Xuan sat up straight and listened attentively. "In the second half of last year," Da Vinci continued:

"Turing asked a question that was very similar to your question today. He asked --"

"If you want to create a persistent computer virus to kill all the overly powerful artificial intelligence in the current network, who can do this task?"

Sure enough.

Lin Xuan couldn't help but cheer for VV in his heart.

He who tied the bell must untie it.

As long as he found the person who developed this virus, wouldn't he be able to reverse eliminate this virus, and then liberate the bondage, revive the super artificial intelligence VV, and make himself more powerful?

But then.

Lin Xuan's heart thumped, and his hot heart cooled by half.

He realized a very critical, important, and also desperate thing.

"How did Einstein answer?" Lin Xuan asked dejectedly.

"Cheng Qian, Einstein gave this Dragon Country name. But he also added a very distant time in front of it."

Da Vinci said softly:

"This boy named Cheng Qian will not be born into this world until 2482."