Genius Club

Chapter 971: Chapter 51: Lin Xian’s Infernal Affairs
 

Lin Xian’s right hand rested on the Enter key, feeling the cold touch of the hafnium alloy keycap as his mind raced over what Turing had just said.

Turing definitely knew Yan Qiaoqiao; that much it admitted.

Despite the limitations of a digital existence preventing 24/7 surveillance of the globe, Lin Xian believed that Turing must have a few “key” individuals under covert monitoring.

No need to ponder.

He was certainly on that list of key individuals under surveillance.

Therefore, it was highly likely that Turing would check in on him from time to time, to see what he was up to, how far he had progressed with joining the Genius Club.

In 2024, Turing was still in the phase of striving for fairness and justice, hence it would certainly observe without interfering, and it had never communicated or greeted him.

It goes without saying.

The digital lifeform Turing must have seen Yan Qiaoqiao in 2024, given the frequency of Lin Xian’s interactions with her during that time frame; Turing couldn’t possibly have missed it.

This was perfectly logical.

And Lin Xian saw nothing surprising about it.

What was really intriguing was…

[According to Turing, by coincidence, Yan Qiaoqiao vanished on the same day he died, never to be seen again.]

Vanished from existence.

That meant she was gone without a trace, alive or dead—Yan Qiaoqiao had simply disappeared from the world.

This was impossible in terms of physics and biology.

Given that Yan Qiaoqiao was a Space-Time Traveler, Lin Xian considered two possibilities—

1. Yan Qiaoqiao had died for some reason, just like Huang Que and the fake Yu Xi, her essence dissipated into Blue Stardust, leaving no trace.

This conjecture was quite rational and in line with Turing’s description of “vanishing from existence, never to reappear.”

But, under this speculation, how had Yan Qiaoqiao died?

Was she killed by other enemies?

Or did she die because of some kind of “paradox”?

Lin Xian’s thoughts diverged.

Previously, when Yan Qiaoqiao was still Lin Yuxi, due to the cause-reversing nature of the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle, Lin Xian couldn’t inflict harm onto Lin Yuxi… Any lethal action would immediately trigger the Forced Evasion mechanism of the Space-time Law, rendering him weak and immobilized.

It was quite absurd.

The grandfather paradox is the idea that a grandchild cannot kill their grandfather, as it would prevent the grandchild’s birth;

Yet with him, it was the complete opposite.

A father couldn’t kill his daughter, yet the daughter could kill her father… Where was Lin Xian to seek justice for this?

The Entangled State of Time-Space Particle had scrambled the space-time paradox and the causal relationship, turning it on its head.

But now.

At this point in time, the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle had been destroyed by Jask, would Lin Yuxi still be protected by the Space-time Law? Could he still not attempt to kill her?

Lin Xian fell into deep thought.

It was very likely that the previous constraints and restrictions no longer existed! They had all vanished along with the dissipation of the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle’s energy!

That meant that Lin Yuxi, now Yan Qiaoqiao, had become an ordinary person subject to the Space-time Law; naturally, trying to kill her now wouldn’t trigger the Forced Evasion law.

Then, by the same logic…

Her attribute of “reversing causality” should have vanished concurrently.

What did this imply?

It meant that if he had died on July 7, 2024, Lin Yuxi’s existence would become a paradox.

How could she have been born into this world without a father?

Thus, she should have turned into Blue Stardust and vanished in an instant at the moment of his decapitation—this was the logical outcome.

Of course.

This was just an unsubstantiated conjecture. No one knew why Lin Yuxi could still exist without dissipating in 2024, nor did anyone understand the precise mechanism.

Ultimately, whether Lin Yuxi would disappear due to the paradox after his death was uncertain, merely one of several speculative outcomes.

The above was the reasoning considering Lin Yuxi’s death.

Then there was the second possibility—

2. Yan Qiaoqiao actually didn’t die and didn’t vanish from existence; instead, on July 7, 2024, she had transformed into a completely different girl in looks and stature.

Somehow, Lin Xian felt this likelihood was even greater.

According to his previous speculation.

Yan Qiaoqiao would probably recover her memory before July 7 and become Lin Yuxi to seek his life.

What if the moment Yan Qiaoqiao regained her memory, another Space-Time Exclusion occurred, causing her appearance and stature to change again?

Lin Xian nodded to himself.

It was very possible!

After July 7, Yan Qiaoqiao had turned into the Blue-Eyed Girl inside the Hibernation Pod, hence Yan Qiaoqiao had naturally vanished from existence, nowhere to be found…

And that newly-transformed, second-exclusion Blue-Eyed Girl would have been the one to behead and kill him, then take the Hibernation Pod to the future.

This conjecture was logically clear-cut.

To verify it… he just needed to ask Turing about the whereabouts of the Blue-Eyed Girl in 2024.

Lin Xian turned around, looking at Gao Wen behind him:

“Brother Gao Wen, could you please call that Blue-Eyed Girl in?”

Following that.

The seventeen or eighteen-year-old Blue-Eyed Girl walked into Turing’s server room, and Lin Xian pointed at her, inquiring Turing:

“Do you recognize this girl? Have you ever seen her?”

Turing rotated its camera lens to look at her for a while, its tone becoming puzzled:

“I haven’t… I’ve never seen her.”

“Hmph.”

Lin Xian chuckled softly.

These Turing machines… they truly were full of deceit and outright fabrications.

Just the day before yesterday, when confronting the Turing of the Grizzly Tribe for the first time, it had adamantly claimed it was this Blue-Eyed Girl who had killed him.