Genius Club

Chapter 75: Chapter 75 Changes and Anchors

Late at night.

01:24

Step, step, step, step…

Lin Xian paced back and forth in his bedroom.

By now, he had calmed down and understood many things.

Firstly, it was clear that—

1. The reason for the earth-shattering changes in the Dream World was the Space-Time Butterfly Effect triggered by the public release of Professor Xu Yun’s paper, leading to a “Temporal Flux.”

He had already checked the smartphone news.

The previous evening, the Donghai University Research Institute had released all of Xu Yun’s research materials as promised. This included the solution to the Ice Crystal Problem, the unfinished Hibernation Pod Filling Liquid paper, and various experimental data on hibernation by-products…

All of it had been made public to the world free of charge.

This had been Professor Xu Yun’s original intention; after his death, the Donghai University Research Institute carried out his wishes.

Once the materials were made public, they caused a sensation in the global scientific community, with nearly every research laboratory working overtime to verify the data.

Since the data was absolutely correct, the replication of the Hibernation Pod Filling Liquid progressed very quickly. Even though Xu Yun’s paper was not complete, the core data and experimental documents were there. It was not difficult to complete the final piece of the puzzle with the world’s top scientific forces focusing on it.

Just two hours later, China’s Academy of Sciences had already successfully prepared the Hibernation Pod Filling Liquid and started experiments with mice.

Soon, laboratories and research institutes in other countries also sent back positive reports, confirming the achievements of Professor Xu Yun’s research and this great invention.

Even though it was approaching the early hours of the morning, the internet was still abuzz with various messages.

Mi Country had already taken the lead in completing the hibernation and thawing experiments with mice, with all vital signs being normal, and several research institutes had indicated their intent to shift their future research focus to the field of hibernation pods.

China’s Academy of Sciences also issued a statement intending to establish a hibernation research institute named after Xu Yun, investing a large amount of money and resources to specifically study hibernation technology, aiming to produce the first generation of simple hibernation pods for use within two to three years.

And there were other news bits about various award nominations, follow-ups by research institutes from various countries, and so on…@@novelbin@@

Everything was as Professor Xu Yun had wished.

Though he had left this world, the spark of hibernation technology had been ignited, even bursting into a raging fire with the potential to spread like wildfire.

Given the current global effort to develop hibernation pods… Lin Xian had no doubts that hibernation pods could be manufactured within a few years.

He believed in human potential and the power of humanity when united.

However…

“Why has technological advancement fallen backward instead of springing forward hundreds of years as a result of the early start of hibernation technology?”

This was simply too bewildering to comprehend no matter how he thought about it.

This was the second fact that Lin Xian had ascertained—

2. The Dream World, or rather the world 600 years in the future, had tech levels regress to the 80s and 90s of the last century due to the Space-Time Butterfly Effect.

No matter how inconceivable this was logically…

But the truth was the truth, seeing is believing, and all of this was Lin Xian’s own experience, what he had personally witnessed.

If his geographic coordinates when entering the Dream World hadn’t changed…

Previously his “starting point” was a square surrounded by bustling commercial streets, with skyscrapers in the distance, resembling a modern city.

The city in the dream also was named Donghai City.

This was the reason Lin Xian wanted to attend university in Donghai; he really wanted to come here to take a look.

However, after coming to Donghai City for university, he couldn’t find any place that resembled those from his dream… But at that time, he thought it was just a dream, so he didn’t give it much thought.

In hindsight, it doesn’t seem strange now—if the city in the dream was indeed Donghai City 600 years later.

Most modern buildings would not last until 600 years later; they would have certainly been demolished or redeveloped by then.

“These aren’t important,” Lin Xian shook his head, looking out the window at the brightly lit, infinitely beautiful night view of Donghai:

“What’s important is… why would technology regress, and the prosperous Donghai City devolve into a backward small village?”

He could accept technology not advancing, or even regressing slightly.

But those technological products that had been put into use and popularized in millions of homes, their production lines couldn’t just vanish into thin air, could they?

Recalling that old man’s small shop…

Those large cathode-ray tube televisions Lin Xian hadn’t seen for many years, describing their resolution as a full screen of pixels wasn’t an exaggeration at all – they should have been eliminated by the times long ago.

It wasn’t just the television sets.

Incandescent light bulbs, hardware wrapped in oil paper, matches, and other such items reeking of an era… they should never appear in the future world 600 years later, no matter what.

“Unless…”

For some reason, Lin Xian could only think of one possibility:

“Could it be that hundreds of years later, there was a global-scale war, or perhaps a global disaster that almost destroyed the entire human civilization? Therefore, after recuperating, all human technology had to be rebuilt from scratch, starting anew, and it just happened to have developed to this stage?”

“But that’s too unrealistic, isn’t it?”

In the end, Lin Xian still rejected this wild speculation.

Since the Dream World had already changed due to the Space-Time Butterfly Effect, there wasn’t much point in wondering why any longer.

Temporal Flux is completely irreversible.

Instead of contemplating here cluelessly, it would be better to enter the dream earlier tomorrow, to search for all the answers within the Dream World.

That would be the most prudent and efficient approach.

…

Lin Xian tossed and turned in his bedroom until he was tired, then sat at his desk to summarize the third fact he had realized—

3. Temporal Flux does indeed have very precise “anchors.” That is, a certain event at a specific time determines when temporal changes will occur; there is a pattern to it.

Simply put, it’s about when the space-time butterfly flaps its wings.

Only when the butterfly flaps its wings at a certain time can it set off a whirlwind of “change” in the future 600 years later.

This is easy to understand.

The anchor point of the first temporal flux was the instant Lin Xian renamed Keke Cat to Rhein Cat. The space-time butterfly flapped its wings at this moment, the future was rewritten, and temporal flux was triggered.

The anchor point of the second temporal flux wasn’t clear because it hadn’t been verified in time. But it was guessed that it must have been the moment he left his manuscript in Professor Xu Yun’s laboratory, or perhaps when Xu Yun saw the manuscript and completed the initial experiment. From that point on, the space-time butterfly flapped its wings again, and the Father of Hibernation changed to Academician Gao Wen.

The anchor point of the third temporal flux was when Xu Yun sent the sample of the new Hafnium alloy to the Aerospace Research Institute of China. Time, history, the future also began to change from that moment, causing the material of the safe in the Dream World to change.

The anchor point of the fourth temporal flux was at some point during the series of events when the Donghai University Research Institute received, organized, and published Xu Yun’s research data and unfinished papers. Because once East Sea University and the official organizations got involved, it eliminated the possibility of being burned or stolen, and it became irreversible.

This time the trigger of the temporal flux was huge, revolutionary…

Unlike the previous minor changes, this time the range of the temporal flux was very broad, its strength immense, completely rebuilding the entire future world from scratch, leaving not a trace of its original form.

Lin Xian speculated that the reason why this temporal fluctuation was so intense might not just be due to the impact of the Hibernation Pod Filling Liquid.

It also included Xu Yun’s miraculous chemical compound as well as the chain of complex events involving the new Hafnium alloy, which together produced an even stronger Space-Time Butterfly Effect.

“Although I still don’t understand the reason for the regression of technology, the theories related to Temporal Flux are definitely correct.”

Lin Xian, supporting his chin and spinning his pen, felt he was beginning to grasp the rules involving time, history, and the future.

All these changes must follow certain axioms, formulas, laws, or say, laws of nature.

“How should I summarize and categorize these concepts such as the Space-Time Butterfly Effect, Temporal Flux, and flux anchor points?”

If he could truly master these rules… that would be a terrifying power capable of transcending time and space!

Lin Xian pondered for a long time and stopped spinning his pen.

He unscrewed the pen cap.

On the top of a blank paper, he wrote down four bold characters—

[Space-time Law]