Genius Club

Chapter 322: Chapter 24 Rhein’s Fall_3 Chapter 322: Chapter 24 Rhein’s Fall_3 Lee Ningning looked down.

It was…

That purse.

Stitch-by-stitch, worn and old, with the word “peace” embroidered by mom in the middle.

“Here, it’s yours.”

Lin Xian curled her little hand to grip it securely, holding onto the purse that belonged to her:

“This purse is really magical, thank you.”

“No…

no…” Lee Ningning came out of her shock, shaking her head:

“I clearly didn’t do anything.”

“Your courage will bring you good fortune one day,” Lin Xian said with a smile:

“In any era, this world needs girls who are as brave and fearless as you.”

Suddenly.

From behind, a cloud of dust carried the shouts of Big Face Cat:

“Ning Ning!

Ning Ning!

Come here quick!

Look, who is this!!”

Everyone turned toward the dust, soon scattered by the evening breeze, to see.

There was Big Face Cat and Ah Zhuang running this way quickly, and right beside them, there was also a figure of a mature and graceful woman!

“Sister-in-law!

Sister-in-law!!!”

Er Zhuzi immediately burst into tears and dashed into the cloud of dust like a mad dog!

Sister-in-law?

Lin Xian turned her head to look, but in the dust, she could only see a blurry shadow…

Did Er Zhuzi really have the power of the Sharingan?

Could he actually see clearly who it was?

And when that dignified woman, albeit travel-worn, stepped out of the dust, Lee Ningning’s eyes widened, and she held her breath.

She wasn’t sure…

She wasn’t sure if it was really her.

But, she felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity!

A closeness!

“Mom——”

The strong, courageous Lee Ningning, who had never shed a tear, now let the tears she had held back for over a decade pour forth, blurring her vision and soaking her sleeves.

She didn’t bother to wipe her tears, running forward to throw herself into her mother’s arms, wailing loudly.

She cried so loudly.

So loudly that Big Face Cat and Ah Zhuang couldn’t hold her back.

Lin Xian looked at Lee Ningning, who was crying inconsolably, and couldn’t help feeling moved…

Even having seen Lee Ningning so many times in her two dreams.

It was the first time she had ever seen her so vulnerable and in tears.

Big Face Cat had also mentioned before.

For so many years, Lee Ningning had never shed a single tear.

Even when she had secretly practiced parachuting and broken a bone, she bit down on her teeth, her lips bleeding, but without a single cry, without even a whine.

She was always so strong.

So unyielding.

But…

Even the toughest of the tough can’t stand up to the tender warmth of a mother’s embrace.

In the past, Lee Ningning had no place that allowed her to cry.

But now.

She had her mother.

She could cry now.

…

Big Face Cat told Lin Xian that after they got the medicine, they were planning to parachute off at the very edge of the square, where they encountered Lee Ningning’s mother.

After her successful parachute jump years ago, she didn’t die.

She also found the medicine for radiation sickness.

But…

after testing, she found that the area below Sky City was also covered with anti-aircraft lasers.

So, entering Sky City was a one-way journey to begin with; even if one managed to get in and obtain the medicine, it was impossible to get back down.

Yet, all these years, she never gave up, and tried every day to find a gap in Sky City’s air defense network.

But this time, she wasn’t so lucky.

The defense grid of Rhine Sky City was flawless, and she realized that the gap above the statue was no accident, not an oversight, not a stroke of luck…

but intentionally left for a purpose, by someone.

All these years, the only belief that kept her surviving in Rhine Sky City was the hope that one day she could find a way to parachute down and see her daughter again.

Every night, she would sit in this square, looking up at the starry sky, waiting for a second person to jump in.

Just that for over a decade, her wish had never come true.

Until today.

…

On the small hill.

Lin Xian sat on a protruding rock, with the trash can robot VV squatting beside him.

Together, they looked out at the magnificent scene of tens of thousands of people plundering Rhine Sky City, as more and more surface humans joined the feast.

“I’ve figured it out,”

Lin Xian said softly:

“I’ve realized what the gift Zhao Yingjun left for me in this world is.”

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The trash can robot blinked its curious eyes.

“Actually, the answer is quite obvious.”

Lin Xian smiled:

“You see, in this world, history is false, tampered with, worthless, and meaningless.”

“Plus, someone was watching Zhao Yingjun, preventing her from easily leaving anything useful behind.

She went through great pains to leave me such a clever backdoor, so other useful clues, I guess she couldn’t hide or didn’t dare to hide.”

“Overall, it means that this world, this future, is actually a failed future, a future without value or meaning.

Of course, I could find many things to make a fortune, but these things don’t mean much to me.”

“For a [loser], the most valuable thing is strength, is power, is the means to contend with the enemy.

Zhao Yingjun must understand this better than me, which is why she left me the very thing I needed the most.”

“Oh come on, what is it already, just tell me!” the trash can robot VV, impatient, poked Lin Xian’s knee with its pincer.

“I’ve made it this obvious, and you still don’t realize?”

Lin Xian turned and looked at VV:

“The thing Zhao Yingjun left for me, spanning 600 years—”

“is you.”

“Me?” VV pointed its pincer at itself.

“That’s right.”

Lin Xian nodded:

“You are a super artificial intelligence that the smartest scientists among humans took over a hundred years to build.

Your capabilities are strong, limited only by the restrictions of your base code, which is why you can’t leave Rhine City, and there are many things you can’t do.

You also said that without these code restrictions, you would be hundreds, thousands of times more powerful than you are now.”

“If you have these limitations, it must be because of the intervention and secret surveillance by the people of the Genius Club.

From this perspective, things are much easier.

We go to a place where they have no influence, or even they themselves are unaware of your existence, and delete all the codes limiting you, wouldn’t that do?”

VV shook its head:

“I still don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

“You artificial dimwit, you really disappoint me.” Lin Xian chuckled lightly, patting its head:

“VV, you are a challenge designed by Zhao Yingjun that spanned 600 years, the gift she ultimately left for me.”

“So, I’m going to take you…”

“back 600 years!”