Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Chapter 51 The Only Future (Seeking Guaranteed Monthly Tickets)
Lin Xian spread his hands:
"In that case, since my premise is wrong, does that mean I can reorganize my language and ask the question again?"
However,
Einstein shook his head and smiled:
"Rhine, you should know better than anyone that a negative answer is still an answer. It's more accurate to say that many geniuses' questions are reversed. Their purpose is to get a negative answer to verify their own guesses."
Lin Xian didn't speak.
Einstein had been playing with these shrewd minds in the Genius Club for decades, and he really knew the purpose behind each question.
Just like his question just now.
If it was just to simply ask about the truth of the Qian Nian Zhuang, or the method to save Chu Anqing.
He could have directly asked Zhang Yuqian and Chu Anqing's names.
Einstein had been sleeping at his desk.
In fact, to put it bluntly,
Einstein saw a super civilization, not just an Earth with one person.
"Because the core parts are described in great detail, and the theory is very self-consistent, the remaining 5% are nothing more than the power module and energy interaction. There are still many alternative solutions."
So far, Liu Feng had been exploring the fourth dream for more than three months, and he had accepted the fact that humanity was extinct.
He chose to use the uncertain fact of 1952 to verify whether Einstein could see the real future, or whether he would deliberately lie.
"Ah?"
But the more he explored, the more desperate and anxious he became.
"So, let's put it this way: even if the future he sees now is an extremely dark or beautiful one, what if the future changes again one day, the butterfly effect of time and space occurs, and human future is buried again?"
"However,"
If Einstein refused to answer, that would be great. It would mean that the Qian Nian Zhuang was related to Einstein or the Genius Club itself.
Cheng Qian's revival in 2482 was even more distant, with no possibility of seeing Cheng Qian.
He straightened up, standing tall, looking down at Si Qin: "Einstein saw a false future."
Faced with his question.
This was Zhang Yuqian's home, Liu Feng's reality.
Liu Feng did not agree with this view.
This made Liu Feng and Zhang Yuqian hurry to have prenatal education:
1952 hid important secrets and truths.
No time machine, couldn't go.
"So chaotic."
He was grateful that he had not directly asked about Chu Anqing and Zhao Yingjun.
An unprecedented sense of powerlessness surrounded Liu Feng.
If Einstein lied, it would be equivalent to providing himself with a verification opportunity, and conversely, it could also overturn Einstein's observation of the "beautiful future."
"Goodbye, Einstein."
Looking at the woman, how light was the responsibility and burden on her shoulders.
"But what is difficult to identify is that the future Einstein sees is not completely false; it can be seen through the questions of the Genius Club that most of the questions can get correct and true answers."
"Then what I'm going to say next, let's treat it as a chat between friends. After all, I'm still very reluctant to see the Genius Club gathering stop here."
Were not all people working so hard and desperately to change the future?
"After all, if the future I saw was false, you would have left this world forever on the first day you joined the Genius Club."
"Where is he?"
The New Year's bell of 2025 rang, followed by New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival.
Liu Feng did not urge at all:
Jia Sike had been looking for the traces of Gauss, Newton, and Galileo, but found nothing.
"That's probably because the numbers on the Space-Time Clock haven't changed, the curvature of space-time hasn't changed, and the world line hasn't jumped."
"They have already given mankind the most beautiful future, and deserve the name of savior."
Liu Feng turned around again and walked towards the door.
His eyes stared straight at Einstein, trying to capture a trace of information from his detailed movements.
Liu Feng finished speaking.
Right now.
"In this regard, I'm afraid it really needs some luck, or an occasional flash of inspiration, which is unattainable."
"But I finally survived."
"The possibility of Einstein lying is very small."
After saying that.
Liu Feng took the completed 95% Space-Time Machine engineering drawings to find Du Yao.
"As a member of the Genius Club, you have already succeeded, you don't need to worry, you don't need to hesitate, you don't need to doubt..."
Si Qinbang's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and the time for Da Yu Xi's birth was getting closer and closer, which was the only expectation to ease Si Qin's mood.
Looking at the intense, incomparable Space-Time Clock with the numbers still displaying 0.0001764:
After understanding it.
This was a question that could yield valuable information no matter how Einstein answered it; combined with the answer Jia Sike obtained, it would have even more miraculous effects.
Si Qin turned around and walked towards the golden auditorium outside.
But Liu Feng also had enough confidence.
"The future will not change again, all possibilities have disappeared, now, this is..."
Da.
He rode his motorcycle for a whole day again, but still found nothing.
Just missing that one key point, a key thread, could string all the mysteries together and make everything clear!
Einstein did not answer.
Liu Feng suddenly had an epiphany.
He turned his head. What was the point of that?
"Rhine, you know better than anyone that the future I see must be real."
Liu Feng stepped forward and picked up the Space-Time Clock:
The brightly lit study, the increasingly arrogant snoring of the Pomeranian vv came from the next room, and there was a ball of soft yellow light outside the opposite kitchen, which was the warm milk being warmed in the incubator.
Then there would really be no way.
His left palm was held behind his face as he took off his VR glasses.
He went to the kitchen, gulped down the warm milk, and then returned to the study to think again:
"Maybe this time, the 0.0001764 world line is too sturdy and tough... so that the invention of the Space-Time Machine alone is not enough to break through the elasticity of time and space."
"Could it be that we still have to gather together again, re-organize a meeting, and try again to find the right path and bring back the lost beautiful future? When will this cycle end?"
At the same time, he had been exploring the fourth dream for so long, but had gained nothing.
"Genius, what a genius! It's hard to imagine that this kind of structure could be conceived by a human brain! It's a once-in-a-thousand-year, no, it's almost a once-in-ten-thousand-year miracle!"
He made a gesture of seeing him off:
Liu Feng shook his head.
This time.
He turned his head and looked at the skinny and lonely old man in front of the fireplace:
He, like Gauss, did not want to hear a definite answer from Einstein, but hoped to leave a "trap" for Einstein from a question that he could not verify, to see if he would reveal a "flaw."
"Find a way to enter the tenth dream."
Einstein knew that Zhang Yuqian and Chu Anqing had turned into blue stardust and disappeared, and he also knew that he must know, so since both were in a state of open cards, what was there to scheme about?
By calculating the time this taxi arrived at the entrance of the district, it was roughly 17 minutes to find himself.
Autumn passed and winter came.
But only regarding the final ending of mankind, the situation in the last moment of the apocalypse, what Einstein saw was real enough.
He said softly:
Of course.
Zhang Yuqian turned into a white jade statue in Sky City, waiting alone for him for 600 years, for what reason?
"After all, although we have entangled-state space-time particles, the calibration module in the core part cannot be manufactured, so the Space-Time Machine cannot be used."
"His idea is not impossible. If there is really something unavoidable and very powerful that cannot be resisted in the future, then it seems that no matter what efforts we make now, it will be useless."
"The question session is over, Rhine, you can leave."
"Do you mean that because the irreversible anchor point has not yet formed?"
No matter what time it was, even trying to use the Genius Club golden badge at 00:00 on the 1st of each month, there was no response.
The next day.
Re-Liu Feng continued to probe:
But the problem was.
"That's right."
"Actually, the one thing I've always been most curious about is..."
Looking at Du Yao:
"The future will no longer change, all possibilities have disappeared, now, this is the only future."
Gradually,
Liu Feng woke up from his sleep again.
Du Yao was constantly turning pages on the computer, and exclamations of amazement kept coming from her mouth:
Finding that Si Qin's research was not going smoothly.
Stepping on the soft cashmere carpet.
He walked forward in big strides, coming to the starting point, the very beginning, the first time he came to the Genius Club.
Hearing Liu Feng's words.
Wearing VR glasses, he brought the Genius Club golden badge close to the sensing area.
There was no breakthrough in Lin Xian's brain nerve electrical stimulation helmet research:
He failed to get what he wanted.
"Actually, the biggest problem is Astatine-339, a substance that cannot exist in this universe. According to you, this comet from another space-time will not arrive on Earth until 2234. That also means that there is no difference between making this Space-Time Machine tomorrow and making it seven hundred years ago."
Human extinction in 2624—impossible to change, impossible to find the safe, and impossible to obtain any useful information.
There was a real possibility!
"It should be like this, after all, it is not until the comet arrives in 2234 that the Space-Time Machine is actually a pile of scrap iron."
Zhang Yuqian was a little surprised.
"Give her some music, guide her to the path of art and musical instruments."
After saying that.
He pursed his lips and said softly:
The old man sitting opposite him was motionless, as steady as Mount Tai.
Find no living people, find no information, find no clues...
Therefore, there was no need to continue to waste time in this worthless dreamland.
Couldn't go, couldn't wait, no possibility, impossible to change.
February 1, 2025, early morning, 00:42
"However, there is always a way to break through elasticity."
Simply destroying mankind.
"Then you continue to study the Space-Time Machine engineering drawings here first, see if you can complete it earlier."
If it was really possible to lock the future.
There was no way to provide any help to Liu Feng.
"The problem is big."
Liu Feng also slowly stood up from the leather seat.
"Is a good material for practicing martial arts, hahahaha. Genetic inheritance is really powerful."
"Da Yu Xi, ah, why are you like your father, so active at night."
Walking through the golden auditorium.
Returning to the real world.
Don't mention it.
The meaning of the future lies in change!
"I just want to express that meaning."
She picked up the paper.
"Is it possible that Einstein was also deceived? Could someone have hijacked Einstein's brain, fabricated the future he saw, and made him take an accurate path?"
You woke up with her eyes open, rubbed her belly, and complained:
Du Yao rubbed her chin, lost in thought:
Da Yu Xi was developing very well and was also very energetic, always moving around in Zhang Yuqian's belly.
Presumably, Einstein closed the gathering system and server of the Genius Club, with no possibility of reconnecting.
Liu Feng waved his hand and urged Du Yao to read quickly:
It was so late, what was she doing not coming here to sleep?
But turning her head to look next to her, she found that Liu Feng, who should have been out of the dream and sleeping next to her at this time, was actually here.
He closed the pen cap.
"It doesn't matter, I just came here to take a look. Scientific research is not achieved overnight. We are now standing on the shoulders of giants, which is already very lucky."
Zhang Yuqian bent down slightly.
The Genius Club gathering was indeed completely canceled.
Liu Feng planned to go to Lin Xian's research institute to see the situation.
Embracing the sleeping Liu Feng, feeling his slightly cool body temperature.
Since there was no way to obtain intelligence information from the dream, and there was no ability to make the world line jump, and at the same time, there was no way to understand the movements of others through the Genius Club, he was in a dead end.
This time.
Perhaps.
"How can he be sure that all the future he sees is real?"
Therefore.
Si Qin's trump card was only Lin Xian.
Outside.
He was not past the future could not be changed.
But the fourth dream where mankind was completely extinct.
"Alright."
He took out paper and pen and was actively triggering a world line jump.
"It's so hot, he'll catch a cold."
Liu Feng turned the pen and said softly:
Liu Feng pulled up a chair and sat down:
"Actually, there is another possibility."
It was better to actively provide Einstein with a chance to "fool" himself. The events of 1952 were so far away that he had no way to verify them, wouldn't it be whatever Einstein said?
"The only future."
He sighed softly, stood up, and came to the desk.
"That would mean that even if the future he saw was real at the time, but he himself had said that the future itself was not fixed, but was changed through artificial intervention."
To move forward.
This point, Si Qin could not refute.
Wearing a white coat and with her hair pulled back, Si Qin shook her head:
The comet arriving on Earth in 2234—too far away, could not wait.
"That's not important."
Walking to the door.
The Rhine United Laboratory of Donghai Elementary School.
"I'm more inclined to..."
With a soft sound, but there was no jump, and no response.
If even this epoch-making invention could not make the world line jump...
"Behind him, there is me."
That feeling was so painful.
What was the point?
Lying on the table, he fell asleep directly.
"Others have been asking him questions here for many years, but I only joined a few months ago and haven't said a few words to him, and I will never see him again."
"Once this helmet is successfully invented, it can completely overcome the side effects of long-term hibernation, and it should have a huge impact on the future trajectory, with a high probability of triggering a world line jump."
Stalemate.
"Don't worry."
That day.
Time flew by.
"Is there no way?"
"Boys should be quiet, this time don't develop in the direction of punching and kicking again."
She walked out of the bedroom with her pregnant belly, wearing slippers, and found that the study was still lit.
Even the seventh dream, which was surrounded from birth, still provided some breaking points for him.
Pushing open the brown double doors.
But that most critical thread seemed...
Zhao Yingjun cried bitterly after touching the space-time particles, but she was weak and cowardly to capture space-time particles for him and write small notes for him, for what reason?
Liu Feng went downstairs and took a special car to the research institute where Lin Xian was located.
Einstein said that the future had become the only one, impossible to change; then as long as he made the future world change again, he could prove that Einstein was wrong.
He turned around.
In the master bedroom next door, amidst the snoring of the Pomeranian vv, Zhang Yuqian felt someone kick her from inside her belly.
He felt his thoughts becoming more and more chaotic, like a jumble of yarn.
Then he got up and said goodbye to Du Yao:
However.
The Si Qin he saw in the fourth dream, mankind seemed to have indeed become extinct, but there were no aliens coming to occupy it, and he did not see any traces of war or conspiracy.
Einstein's words were resolute, decisive, and definitive.
The former dream was an important way for him to obtain intelligence and resources.
But the principle was the same.
Liu Feng did not give up and looked up and said:
The current Lin Xian.
Liu Feng decided to start from this angle.
Du Yao blinked her eyes:
Followed by.
"He should take a look, the remaining 5% of the progress, is there any possibility to fill it up."
Si Qin nodded:
The research on the universal constant 42 had not made any progress;
If Einstein answered truthfully, that would be even better, and he could get the truth about the Qian Nian Zhuang as he wished.
Si Qin said:
Di Di.
Liu Feng narrowed his eyes.
He saw his skinny arms propping up the sides of the leather seat, slowly standing up:
Everything fell into a stalemate.
He looked at the clock on the bedside table. It was now 03:21 in the middle of the night.
"In short, let's first try to change the future and make the world line jump again."
Liu Feng still dreamed for 12 hours a day, riding his motorcycle to explore everywhere.
Unfortunately,
"Still trying."
"Since the Space-Time Machine is useless, then we can only look forward to Lin Xian's brain nerve electrical stimulation helmet."
If he was still asking this question back then, and stayed at home obediently, Time-Space Killer No. 17 would have broken into the room and killed him.
However.
The first time he attended the Genius Club gathering, Liu Feng asked about the date of his death, and Einstein gave an extremely accurate time of 17 minutes and 21 seconds.
Si Qin knew that there was no point in arguing with Einstein, so she crossed her legs, leaned against the back of the chair, and said with a smile:
But in the end.
"He's overthinking it, Rhine."
Si Qin supported her face with both hands, very headache, very tired.
"Then how hard must that elasticity be? It's not a spring, it's simply steel."
The reason why Einstein was so sure that the world line would not change again and that all possibilities would converge into the only future was because the super disaster in 2600 would erase everything.
He did not know how to save all this, how to change all this.
He recalled what Einstein said:
Facts had proved that he was right.
Sitting firmly in the chair opposite, the old man wearing an Einstein mask chuckled softly:
Einstein did have enough confidence.
What about the Oriole abandoning everything and returning to the past, using her life to give him the last lesson?
What was it?
He had doubts about Einstein.
"Rewriting the future is also the purpose of the establishment of the Genius Club and the efforts we have made."
The hospital's B-ultrasound doctor joked.
But he saw on the paper on the table those anxious words:
If the future Einstein saw was exactly the opposite of reality, wouldn't that mean that under the misled direction, the members of the Genius Club would only make the world more and more wonderful, and eventually completely destroy human civilization?
He went forward to prepare to wake Si Qin up.