Genius Club

Chapter 351: Chapter 36: Never Seeing Each Other in This Life_2 Chapter 351: Chapter 36: Never Seeing Each Other in This Life_2 “`

“Lin Xian, even if you memorize the information on cold fusion technology and take it back, the technological level of 2023 won’t be able to fully realize it,” VV said.

“Although the theory can be understood and validated with experiments, creating something like Rhine Sky City’s mature cold fusion engine requires at least another 100 years of development in other fundamental industries and materials science.”

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VV said that.

But Lin Xian didn’t care.

He told VV that he only needed the theoretical materials, and what was most important was an experimental simulation that could validate the feasibility of the theory at the 2023 level of technology:

“I don’t care when the cold fusion engine can be built.

I just need to make the dean of the Dragon Science Academy at that time realize that this theory is correct.

So the summary of cold fusion materials you provide me doesn’t need to be too advanced or too complete.

The focus is to make others believe that the materials I copied are accurate.”

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VV, truly the most intelligent artificial intelligence in human history, could provide accurate and detailed answers to any question, as long as it was asked precisely enough.

Cold fusion technology had become as mature as it could get in the Rhine Sky City 600 years later.

In fact, it had been optimized and simplified over the last 200 years, and the theory perfected to the extreme.

According to Lin Xian’s original understanding, people were still limited by nuclear fusion technology over these 200 years, and there had been no development of more advanced methods of energy acquisition.

In a way, this could also be seen as marking time.

Anyway.

In the world of Rhine Sky City, although technology had indeed taken off to a certain extent compared to the second dreamland, it was still restricted and artificially controlled.

Another dozen days passed.

Lin Xian had finished copying all of the manuscripts related to cold fusion technology and controllable nuclear fusion.

The moment he wrote the final period on the paper…

Lin Xian felt a sense of empty loss.

He knew.

This time.

It was truly past the point of no return.

When he handed this manuscript to Dean Gao Yan of the Dragon Science Academy, the wings of the space-time butterfly would once more stir up a hurricane that would change the future; it would scatter the Rhine Sky City, the VV, Zhao Yingjun’s White Jade Statue, that projected corridor, that blue Bentley Continental, and that handful of 600-year-old artificial flowers…

Scattering them…

Scattering them beyond recognition.

A new, unknown, and unfamiliar Fourth Dreamland would be irresistibly arriving with the irreversible formation of the space-time anchor point.

Evening.

21:00.

Lin Xian bound all the manuscripts and placed them into a file bag.

It was time to sleep.

Chu Shanhe had already arranged a meeting with Dean Gao Yan of Dragon Science Academy for the following evening.

They would depart from Pudong Airport to the Imperial Capital tomorrow morning.

So…

Tonight.

Would be his last encounter with VV.

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“VV.”

Lin Xian, sitting cross-legged on the base of Zhao Yingjun’s statue, looked up at the solitary White Jade Statue and touched the lid of the trashcan robot next to him:

“How many years have you been picking up trash here?”

“Me?”

The trashcan robot’s mechanical grabber pointed to itself:

“I’ve only been here for an hour.

It was when you called out the name VV and said the correct password that I was activated into this trashcan robot.”

“Even though I’m using this trashcan robot to talk to you, the two of us are entirely different entities.

I am Rhine Sky City’s central brain, the super artificial intelligence VV; and it was the first micro waste processing robot VV made by Miss Zhao Yingjun herself.

Although its name is also VV, it has no relation to me.”

“It was with Miss Zhao Yingjun in her later years, played the paper-ball picking game with her, and accompanied her in the car.

While for these past 200 years, I have been operating Rhine Sky City and continuing my self-evolution…

so, I can’t answer your question.”

“But this trashcan robot can’t answer your question either.

It’s a minimal program to the extreme, without the ability to think, learn, or adapt, only following its programmed routine to pick up trash…

Once I leave it, it will become that dumb robot that locks onto your ankle again.”

“Okay.”

Lin Xian said casually.

In his heart, he never really distinguished clearly between the two VVs.

But upon reflection, it was true.

The trashcan robot VV was the one that had accompanied Zhao Yingjun in her final years and guarded around the statue, picking up trash for 200 years.

The super artificial intelligence VV was a shining jewel in human history, the weapon left by Zhao Yingjun for her own turnaround.

Although it was also named by Zhao Yingjun, this VV had not spent even a day with her.

All it had for Zhao Yingjun was respect and reverence.

If possible…

Lin Xian actually wanted to say a few words to that VV that had guarded Zhao Yingjun for 200 years.

But that was impossible.

That was a dumb robot.

One that would only shout “Trash!

Trash!

Waste detected!” and then swiftly lock onto one’s ankle.

“Anyway.”

Lin Xian turned his head to look at the trashcan robot:

“Tonight is our last meeting.

I wonder if you can understand what that means.”

“Of course, I do.”

The green light flickered in the eyes of the trashcan robot:

“From what you’ve just told me, I’ve already analyzed the effects of the Space-Time Butterfly Effect.

It will turn heavens and earth upside down, and everything in this world will cease to exist…

Starting from that point 600 years ago, the direction of development will change, and everything will start anew.”

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