Chapter 471
Chapter 471: Chapter 74 Our Agreement (Added for League Master Summer Solstice sam!) Chapter 471: Chapter 74 Our Agreement (Added for League Master Summer Solstice sam!) Passwords, huh…
Recalling those nights spent with Big Face Cat and CC, racking our brains over breaking passwords, it’s hilarious, heartwarming, and nostalgic.
Unexpectedly…
Today, at this moment, I could actually set any password for the safe myself.
Whatever is set now, the safe’s password 600 years later will be the same; everything is up to me.
The original password has become irrelevant and will forever remain a mystery.
Even the item originally placed inside the safe will disappear, replaced by an eternal mystery, itself replaced by a small piece of paper.
But…
A few months ago, when Lin Xian shared this thought with VV, VV had a different interpretation.
At the time, VV said,
“Lin Xian, maybe there was never any ‘original’ item, no ‘original’ password…
The safe, from beginning to end, has always had the same password, containing the same thing.
You just don’t know the truth yet, because you haven’t reached the moment when history comes full circle.”
“That is, when you truly need to use the safe to store something and set the password, you will have an epiphany.
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From the first glance at the safe, until you open it 600 years later, throughout this lengthy period, it has never changed—”
“[No matter how history and future space-times change, the item you place in the safe is always the same, and the password is forever unchanged.]”
…
What VV said had a sense of fatalism.
Its meaning is this.
The safe in The First Dreamland and the one in the second dream, as well as those that will appear in the Fourth Dreamland or even the fifth dream…
actually, they all have the same password and contain the same item.
“If what you end up putting inside is a small piece of paper, then the safe in The First Dreamland has always contained that piece of paper.”
“And if there isn’t a piece of paper inside the safe, then rest assured, even if you are determined to put a piece of paper inside it now…
when the time comes for you to truly place something in the safe, you won’t put the paper in.
What ends up inside will always be the thing that was predetermined in The First Dreamland’s safe.”
That’s how VV analyzed it at the time:
“Lin Xian, this is called a ‘closed loop.’
While it sounded somewhat mystical, Lin Xian didn’t doubt this point.
There was evidence for it.
Previously, when he saw the hafnium alloy safe in the second dream, Lin Xian wrote a letter to his future self, reminding and even warning his future self to set the safe’s password to 29990203, explicitly advising that everyone involved was a friend and not to make things difficult for oneself.
Now…
The letter sent months ago, the “Space-Time Mailbox” has delivered the letter, like a postman, to…
My future self.
Isn’t that me at this moment?
The letter was the one Lin Xian from a year earlier wrote to the Lin Xian of now, the same person currently on the phone with Brother Wang.
So…
Will he now obediently heed his past self’s advice and set the password to 29990203?
After a three-second hesitation…
He shook his head.
[No].
It wasn’t that he was betraying his past self.
It’s just…
if it’s not yet the time to truly use the 600-year safe, what use would there be in opening it prematurely?
He had considered.
He could have Brother Wang throw a Rhein Cat Doll into the safe labeled with his name right now and set the password to 19990320, his most commonly used password, so that he could open the safe immediately upon first meeting Big Face Cat and CC.
But…
What would be the point?
Upon opening it, to find a Rhein Cat, another Rhein Cat like the masks on Big Face Cat’s face, or what was then called a Keke Cat.
What significance would that have?
It would amount to nothing more than making oneself a laughingstock.
Moreover…
CC’s relentless search for the safe and risking her life to open it shows that the contents must be very important to her.
It’s also vitally important to the bearded man.
This is enough to suggest that the safe couldn’t possibly contain a Rhein Cat.
So…
[What has been lying hidden inside that safe labeled with my name all along?]
Now that the moment has come for me to decide the answer, I find myself somewhat at a loss.
I always feel like placing something in the safe should be a matter of great importance.
But the most worthwhile thing I can think of placing inside it right now is that small piece of paper, whose contents I haven’t even decided upon.
Never mind.
I’ll put it aside for now.
After all, I’ll wait until I finish up the tasks at hand.
By the time I return to Donghai and truly set the password and place something inside the safe, it will at least be the end of March or the beginning of April.
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We shall see then…
Whether or not things turn out as VV said, a ‘historical closed loop.’
If it is indeed like that,
I will have my moment of sudden realization.
Just like Zhao Yingjun’s Pomeranian VV…
It was truly meant to be,
Predestined from the start.
What a marvelous feeling.
“I haven’t figured it out yet,”
Lin Xian said over the phone:
“I’ll think about it when I get back to Donghai.”
“Alrighty!”
Brother Wang laughed:
“Then on March 20th, your birthday, look forward to the good news of Tem Bank’s trial opening!”
With that, he hung up the phone.
“There’s so much to do…”
Lin Xian plugged his phone into the charger and set it on the table.
It felt like an insurmountable pile of tasks was before him, but fortunately, they were just a bit troublesome and not a matter of life and death like before, when contending with the Seven Sins.