Genius Club

Chapter 57: Chapter 57 Side Effects

“This is Chu Shanhe’s daughter!?” Lin Xian couldn’t believe it.

Zhao Yingjun looked at Lin Xian as if he was an idiot:

“What’s so surprising about that? Didn’t you draw it yourself?”

“True, I did the drawing… but I’m certain I didn’t draw Chu Shanhe’s daughter.”

Lin Xian waved his hand in denial, not wanting any confusion:

“I don’t even know Chu Shanhe’s daughter, never even met her… Today is the first time I’m hearing her name from you.”

Zhao Yingjun narrowed her eyes, looking at Lin Xian suspiciously for a moment.

Eventually… she lowered her head, snorted softly, and chuckled:

“Alright, then I misunderstood.”

She tapped the invitation in Lin Xian’s hand and instructed:

“This is the invitation for the celebration banquet on Saturday night; you should deliver it to Professor Xu Yun later.”

“It’s best to ask if Professor Xu Yun wants to come; if he decides to, we will arrange a dedicated car and driver for him.”

Lin Xian nodded and looked at the invitation in his hand.

It was quite high-end, with the MX Company logo printed on the back:

“Okay, I’ll deliver it to him in a while.”

Zhao Yingjun turned to leave.

But then she paused:

“Additionally…”

She turned her head, looking at Lin Xian:

“Although I don’t promote office romances, there are indeed quite a few nice girls in our company. If you really plan on dating… you might consider someone more realistic.”

Lin Xian was speechless.

So Zhao Yingjun thought he had a crush on Chu Shanhe’s daughter.

He hastily folded the piece of sketch paper and stuffed it into the black notebook on the desk:

“I really didn’t mean it that way, President Zhao. I just did a random sketch, thinking it’s been a long time since I last drew, just to practice.”

“If you think the two of them look alike, then it’s purely a coincidence.”

Zhao Yingjun didn’t say anything else; she just nodded with her eyes closed:

“Alright, work hard, Lin Xian.”

She gave Lin Xian a final look, walked out of the office, and closed the door behind her.

“Alas…”

Lin Xian sat on the sofa, covering his forehead.

Although Zhao Yingjun had said “work hard, Lin Xian” when she left, the implication in her eyes clearly added “don’t get caught up in impractical thoughts.”

“Do they really look that much alike?”

Lin Xian found it hard to believe.

He was 100% sure he had never seen Chu Shanhe’s daughter.

Oh.

The only time.

Was some time ago when he glimpsed a girl from afar at the school gate, but because of the angle, the girl was always facing away, so apart from her bouncy and full high ponytail, he essentially saw nothing clear.

“They’re not identical twins; how could they possibly look exactly the same? CC and that what’s-her-name, Chu Anqing, are separated by 600 years and dozens of generations in their lifetimes.”

Lin Xian pondered for a moment.

He considered the possibility of the Hibernation Pod…

“But, in the future world where CC exists, there’s no such thing as a Hibernation Pod… Logically, Chu Shanhe’s daughter couldn’t have traveled in a Hibernation Pod to arrive 600 years later.”

Before he renamed Keke Cat to Rhein Cat in his dreams, there was no Rhein Cat at all, only Keke Cat.

So, even if Professor Xu Yun invents the Hibernation Pod tomorrow, that still wouldn’t explain why CC appeared in the dream yesterday.

“The butterfly effect caused by Temporal Flux can’t occur in the future before the Temporal Flux.”

But…

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Nothing is absolute.

“Let’s confirm it first and then draw a conclusion,” he said.

Whether he sought confirmation from CC or from Chu Shanhe’s daughter… Lin Xian felt that the matter was not that simple.

Perhaps those memories that CC referred to as “not her own” and “fragmented” were the key to unlocking the answer.

He stood up.

Picked up the invitation meant for Professor Xu Yun.

This celebration invitation wasn’t sealed with wax and could be easily opened.

Lin Xian unfolded the folded page.

Inside was a formulaic invitation, with Professor Xu Yun’s name at the beginning, followed by the time and place of the celebration marked in bold.

The day after tomorrow at eight-thirty in the evening, at Victoria Hall in Donghai City.

“Better hurry up and deliver this to Professor Xu Yun, it’s hard to say whether he will attend or not,” he thought.

…

He took a taxi to East Sea University.

Because of Xu Yun’s rise to fame, the guard post no longer allowed outsiders to enter freely, especially journalists and media, who were strictly prohibited from entry, probably to avoid disturbing Professor Xu Yun’s work.

Lin Xian still managed to slip in, thanks to his face that didn’t look any different from that of a university student.

After entering the laboratory building,

Lin Xian arrived at Professor Xu Yun’s laboratory.

But Xu Yun was not there…

Only after calling did he find out that Xu Yun was at the hospital with his daughter.

Lin Xian looked at the invitation in his hand…

He felt that it would be impolite and less formal to talk about it over the phone; it would be better to make another trip and personally deliver it.

And when he thought about it, it made sense.

Xu Yun had already achieved success and had completed the research on the Hibernation Pod Filling Liquid. There was indeed no need to stay in the lab every day.

With the time available, it was only right to spend more time with his daughter in a vegetative state.

Lin Xian took another taxi to the Donghai University Affiliated Hospital and entered Xu Yiyi’s ward.

The ward was very clean.

Xu Yun was performing muscle stretching exercises on Xu Yiyi while happily chatting with his daughter.

Talking about his research achievements,

Telling her that they would soon have the first generation of simple Hibernation Pods,

And that she would be able to hibernate into the future for treatment and wake up to lead her own life.

Seeing Lin Xian come in, Xu Yun greeted him with a beaming smile and beckoned him over.

Then, holding his daughter’s hand, he smiled and said,

“Yiyi, this is Lin Xian, the benefactor we should be most grateful to. Whether it’s Daddy’s research achievements or your hope of awakening, it’s actually all thanks to Lin Xian’s contributions.”

“Yiyi… when you wake up, stand up, and begin a new life, Daddy might not be here anymore. You should remember to visit Brother Lin Xian. Or when you wake up from hibernation… you might have to call him Uncle Lin Xian.”

With that,

Both Xu Yun and Lin Xian couldn’t help but laugh.

It all depended on how long Xu Yiyi chose to hibernate. If she went into hibernation for fifty or sixty years before being thawed for treatment… by then, she might as well call Lin Xian grandpa; if she chose to hibernate for two or three hundred years before thawing, she might need to burn some paper money for Lin Xian.

“Teacher Xu, in fact, you could choose to hibernate with Xu Yiyi, so in the future when Yiyi wakes up, you could still live happily together,” Lin Xian suggested.@@novelbin@@

However…

Xu Yun gently shook his head with a tender smile,

“Actually, there’s something that I haven’t yet disclosed to the world. But you can’t cover fire with paper, and once my paper is completed and made public, scientists and research institutes will sooner or later find out…”

He looked up at Lin Xian, his eyes somewhat sorrowful,

“Do you know…”

“What is the biggest side effect of hibernation?”

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