Genius Club

Chapter 884: Chapter 31: Black Hand Lurking in the Future_4 Chapter 884: Chapter 31: Black Hand Lurking in the Future_4 He could even clearly feel the wrinkles on Zheng Xiangyue’s hands,

the faint tremors,

a touch cooler than his own body heat.

The hands of the old, the young, and the children.

He had also held Zheng Xiangyue’s hand and even carried her.

So delicate, so weightless.

But now, 600 years later, the adolescent Zheng Xiangyue had turned into a centenarian, and it was her hand holding Lin Xian’s.

“Thank you, for giving me a birthday present…”

Zheng Xiangyue’s somewhat hoarse voice came through, and Lin Xian suddenly remembered the sickly girl in the hospital bed, who initially couldn’t even lift the Rhein Cat.

“Thank you, for looking after me and my brother…”

Zheng Xiangyue’s voice choked up a bit, and Lin Xian couldn’t help but recall the tiny girl who used all her strength to lift the urn, squeezing out a slight smile, saying, “Look, I can hold brother now.”

“Thank you, for buying me a ticket to the Moon…”

Zheng Xiangyue’s voice was soft and ethereal, Lin Xian was somewhat unable to distinguish who was speaking to him, that was the childlike Zheng Xiangyue, giggling and saying, “My dream, is to be buried on the Moon after I die!”

“Thank you, for letting me live a fulfilled and regretless life…”

Lin Xian didn’t open his eyes.

He felt the hands in his, as they seemed to gradually become tender, soft, and smooth, along with Zheng Xiangyue’s tearful voice, blending into one with that strong and lonely little girl from 600 years ago:

“Thank you, Brother Lin Xian.”

He suddenly opened his eyes!

Boom!!!!!

Boom!!!!!

Boom!!!!!

The white light at 00:42 arrived punctually, incinerating everything in this world, blurring the smiling face before his eyes.

…

…

…

In a corner of the bedroom, Lin Xian opened his eyes.

He looked at the ceiling overhead.

He lay there without getting up for a long while.

Zheng Xiangyue had him close his eyes, perhaps considering that at her age, calling out “Brother Lin Xian” directly would be somewhat shocking, right?

But…

Why did she still call out in the end?

Clearly, she had been told all the past events, she knew that he was her Brother Lin Xian, yet she always called him Mr.

Lin.

Did she regain her memory?

Certainly not.

However, why did Zheng Xiangyue start crying uncontrollably when she saw the correct drawing of the Rhein Cat?

That was [emotion].

Her memory truly hadn’t returned, but it seemed as if her emotions had taken the lead, leaping across time and space.

Lin Xian suddenly thought.

Since memory, can exist independently from emotion.

Then could emotions…

also potentially exist independently from memory?

Nowadays.

One fact commonly accepted by scientists is that amnesia from hibernation is irreversible.

This means that memories lost during hibernation are absolutely non-recoverable, and the side effect of memory loss is also unavoidable.

However…

Is it really so absolute?

The case of Zheng Xiangyue made Lin Xian doubt this commonly held conclusion—

[The memories lost during hibernation, can they truly not be restored?]

He thought of something Angelica had mentioned.

Jask evidently didn’t lose any memories, but his appearance was excessively young.

This was a very contradictory situation.

A young appearance suggests a long period of hibernation, making amnesia inevitable;

No memory loss means a short and frequent hibernation period, hence a young appearance wouldn’t be possible.

These are two mutually exclusive conditions.

Add to that three doubts:

1.

No one could clearly explain the truth behind the super disaster on Earth in 2400.

2.

After hibernating humans on Mars woke up, the historical education they were compelled to receive clearly skirted around certain issues.

3.

The space shuttle service between Earth and Mars runs only once every two years, completely cutting off communication between the two; moreover, a trip implies a two-year wait to return, effectively quashing any intentions of Earthly travel.

This appeared to be a result deliberately controlled by someone.

It seemed…

[A significant truth, was being deliberately hidden, deliberately concealed.]

“Allowing humans with true memories to die, and then filling the survivors with false memories…

Wouldn’t this turn the false history into the real history?”

Upon considering this,

Lin Xian felt that the super disaster of 2400 and Jask’s Mars colonization plan, whose success or failure was unclear, appeared to be much more complex than what he saw and heard in The Fifth Dreamland.

Lin Xian sat up from his bed.

He pulled back the curtains.

Looking at the moonlight high outside the window:

“Who could be an enemy of Jask?”

“To completely destroy human technology, completely isolate Earth and Mars, making Earth regress to a Primitive Era without even electricity…

Who exactly are they afraid of?”

Lin Xian closed his eyes.

He attempted to summarize his thoughts and find clues.

The complete destruction of human [technology],

The complete [isolation] of Earth and Mars,

A Primitive Era without [electricity],

Wait a second.

This feeling.

Why does it feel so familiar?

Just like…

the initial manhunt and escape targeting the super Artificial Intelligence VV!

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The “person” who could match this kind of apocalyptic destruction could only be one.

Lin Xian opened his eyes.

He thought of the abandoned school campus in Mississippi of Mi Country, where Kevin Walker met his demise, and of the digital life echoing through the room’s speakers, swearing to always be fair and just—

“[Turing].”