Genius Club

Chapter 79: Chapter 79 The Moon

New Donghai City.

Lin Xian gazed at the stunning scene that even science fiction movies could not depict… and felt deeply the power of technology.

In light of this, the Temporal Flux had not caused technological development to fall behind.

Rather, as Professor Xu Yun had wished, human technology had achieved unprecedented advancement!

Although it had taken 600 years for technology to evolve to this state, Lin Xian felt it was still somewhat lacking.

According to his intuition… perhaps it should’ve developed into something even more science fiction than New Donghai City.

But this was already quite good.

At least compared to the initial Dreamland, “The First Dreamland,” the technological level of New Donghai City here had already led by more than a century.

“This really is a city of the future…” Lin Xian sighed:

“How wonderful.”

“Wonderful my ass!”

Big Face Cat spat:

“It’s wonderful for them! What does it have to do with us! We can’t even pick up the trash they leave behind!”

Lin Xian turned around.

He looked at the few dim lights that lit up the village, their glow dim and indistinct.

But on the other side, New Donghai City sparkled with lights and neon, like a fairyland.

“So…”

Lin Xian turned his head to look at Big Face Cat:

“The Hibernation Pod has been successfully developed, right?”

“Hibernation Pod? I think I’ve heard of that name; they say New Donghai City has that thing.” Big Face Cat said:

“But what’s the use of all these high-tech gadgets? All of these are enjoyed by them, and have nothing to do with us.”

“But why has the world developed into this state?”

Lin Xian asked:

“Could it be because the Hibernation Pods allow those rich and powerful people to indirectly achieve immortality. Their wealth never disappears or disperses, but becomes more and more concentrated. And education, knowledge, and even ideologies and thoughts are monopolized by the elite… Is this why we’ve ended up in the current situation?”

“Or is it that the capable people are all going into hibernation, not striving, looking forward to enjoying fortunes in the future, and so the real society has gradually decayed?”

Lin Xian voiced his superficial guess.

“I don’t know.”

Big Face Cat shook his head:

“I don’t know anything, ever since I was born… even from the time my great-grandfather was born, the world has always been like this.”

Lin Xian fell silent, he remembered a sentence he read in some book—

Death is the most fair thing in human society.

Only death can completely eliminate class solidification and genuinely push civilization forward.

“Alright.”@@novelbin@@

Lin Xian nodded his head.

In his era, there were many Cyberpunk-themed games and movies, whose depicted worlds were probably not much different from the current situation in the Dreamland.

This kind of distorted development situation, where exactly did the problem lie?

Lin Xian wasn’t a historian or a sociologist, and he couldn’t understand it.

But what’s fortunate is—

Technology had still developed as promised.

In fact, when previously pondering the irrational phenomena in “The First Dreamland,” Lin Xian had also doubted… had the Genius Club stifled the development of human technology?

Had they killed all the scientists?

He had thought so, but he couldn’t find any reason why.

Firstly, he didn’t know what the point of doing that was.

Secondly, he didn’t know what benefit doing that would bring to the Genius Club itself.

If the white light that arrived punctually at 00:42 was the signal of the destruction of Earth, wouldn’t the members of the Genius Club also perish in the white light?

So why would they bother?

Why not let Earth’s technology develop at breakneck speed, whether it’s escaping Earth to find a new home or facing the alien race that could explode technology and destroy Earth… there was absolutely no need to restrict the development of human technology, right?

But that’s all in the past now.

The “First Dreamland,” where human technology hadn’t developed at all and stagnated for 600 years, had completely disappeared.

In its place…

Was the “Second Dreamland” before his eyes, the world after the Temporal Flux, with highly advanced technology.

The gap between the rich and the poor, the uneven development, that’s the realm of sociology.

From the perspective of scientific progress alone, due to the public publication of Professor Xu Yun’s paper, the technological level of the future world indeed achieved a leap-forward enhancement.

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes, looking at New Donghai City a few kilometers away…

Cars of all sizes raced through the air, robots were everywhere in the city, and even on those hundred-meter-high steel walls, they were filled with high-tech devices that he couldn’t understand.

This might be a good era, or it might not be.

But at least in this era, there was no force that limited the progress of human technology.

Possibly, even the Genius Club itself might no longer exist.

“That tall wall…”

Lin Xian pointed at the hundred-meter-high wall surrounding New Donghai City and asked Big Face Cat:

“Can you get in?”

Big Face Cat shook his head.

“Isn’t there any way to get in at all?” Lin Xian continued to press:

“Your daughter’s dream is to live in New Donghai City, so even if she studies hard and strives hard, she can’t go to New Donghai City?”

“No, unless you can blow up that high wall.”

Big Face Cat laughed heartily:

“There and here, they’re like two different worlds. They look at us like we’re aliens, and we look at them the same way.”

“Alright.”

Lin Xian said softly:

“Actually, even without going to New Donghai City, you live a very happy life.”

“Brother Lian, you now have both a son and a daughter, and your elderly father and mother are still with you, enjoying the joy of a family. If you were given a chance to go to New Donghai City, you might not want to go.”

“That’s true.”

Big Face Cat chuckled:

“Actually, I haven’t thought about it much, just living day by day, and I reckon I’m not living too badly.”

Lin Xian also smiled.

In a previous dream…

Big Face Cat’s father and daughter had both been killed by the Genius Club. Blinded by revenge, Big Face Cat had no choice but to walk down the path of a ruthless bandit.

Compared to that, this future was already quite good.

“At least the Genius Club should no longer exist.”

Lin Xian looked at Big Face Cat:

“Have you heard of the Genius Club?”

“Nope.”

Big Face Cat shook his head:

“What is that? Never heard of it.”

“It seems to be an evil organization.” Lin Xian explained with a smile:

“There are rumors that only the wealthiest tycoons, the most extreme geniuses, and the most powerful figures can receive an invitation from this club. But actually, this rumor is false. The threshold for joining this organization is much more than that.”

“Honestly, I don’t even know what this organization does or what its goals are. It’s really too mysterious, so mysterious that it seems like it doesn’t exist at all.”

“Sometimes I even wonder… is it really an evil organization? Could it be that some incidents have caused people to misunderstand or misinterpret this club?”

Big Face Cat shook his head:

“What are you talking about with all this gibberish? Can’t you make it simple? What exactly does this club do?”

Lin Xian shook his head:

“I don’t know anything either. The only thing I do know for certain about them… is their emblem.”

Lin Xian raised his right hand and extended his index finger, pointing straight up at the sky:

“Their emblem is like this, a right hand pointing towards the sky.”

“Hey!”

Big Face Cat, with a look of contempt, snorted forcefully:

“I’ve been listening seriously for so long, turns out you’re just fooling me! Making up stories to amuse me, brother! I thought you were telling the truth!”

Lin Xian looked at his right hand, somewhat surprised:

“You’ve seen this gesture?”

“Who in the world hasn’t seen it! It’s been around for hundreds of years.”

“Where?”

“Look up!”

Lin Xian followed Big Face Cat’s gesture, looking up into the night sky.

August 28, 2624.

The sixteenth day of the seventh lunar month.

The moon on the sixteenth was as round as a jade plate, hanging high in the night sky).

And across the bright lunar surface loomed a huge black shadow. The shadow was so large it spanned the entire moon from the north to south pole, nearly splitting the jade plate in two.

The shape of that shadow was a right hand with an extended index finger, pointing straight upwards!

It was identical to Lin Xian’s gesture at that moment.

“Heh heh.”