Chapter 102 It’s All Worth It

"Don't worry, Lin Xian, just say it!"

Dean Gao stood up with a cheerful smile, boiled a kettle of water, and prepared to pour a cup for the two of them later.

He was very happy to see Lin Xian make a request immediately.

It takes give and take to be friends, and he was happy to be able to help Lin Xian.

"It's like this, Dean Gao, I heard…that our Longke Academy has a project at the Guizhou Tianyan now? That is, the world's largest radio telescope."

"Yes, there is one."

Gao Yan nodded:

"It was applied for by the Astronomical Research Institute, and I approved the order at the time."

"To be honest, Dean Gao."

Lin Xian sat up straight:

"I want to borrow this Guizhou Tianyan for a few months. My laboratory has a project that needs it. It's just that ordinary laboratories are not qualified to apply for this kind of national project, and I want to ask you for a favor."

"Oh…so it's about this."

Dean Gao Yan smiled easily:

"This is not a difficult thing. I contacted the director of the Astronomical Research Institute some time ago. Their original application was for a year, but because the observation plan went unexpectedly smoothly, the project has been completed ahead of schedule."

"Originally, we were considering whether to return the Guizhou Tianyan to the local authorities and reopen it for tourism, or ask other research institutes if they needed it. But since you brought it up…then there's no need to rush to return it. Anyway, the lease period approved by the country at the beginning is still half a year, and it's no problem to lend it to you for a few months. I can assist with various procedures and the like then."

"Of course, privately, we both know what's going on, but the procedures on the surface still have to be followed. After the director of the Astronomical Research Institute comes back, I'll arrange a meeting for you, connect you, and don’t you have a laboratory at Donghai University? Then we'll discuss establishing a cooperative project. After obtaining authorization, your laboratory personnel can use Guizhou Tianyan openly and legitimately."

Lin Xian nodded:

"Thank you, Dean Gao."

"No need to thank me, no need to thank me, why be so polite."

Gao Yan stood up and shook hands with Lin Xian:

"This little favor is almost insignificant compared to the contributions you have made to the country… Lin Xian, I also wish you to achieve equally proud achievements in the field of astronomy!"

…

After drinking a cup of hot tea and chatting for a while, Lin Xian and Dean Gao Yan exchanged contact information.

Then they walked out of the laboratory together and headed towards Chu Shanhe's office.

The two chatted and laughed, both very satisfied.

Gao Yan had already begun to imagine the day when cold fusion technology would be realized, and his joy was evident.

Lin Xian was planning to capture space-time particles as soon as possible so that Liu Feng's research on the cosmological constant could continue.

The cooperation was very pleasant.

Both felt that they had made a great profit.

At the entrance of the office, Chu Shanhe, seeing that the two had disappeared for so long, had long been unable to sit still and paced outside the door.

However…

When he saw the two talking and laughing, walking over shoulder to shoulder like good brothers, he was directly stunned.

What was going on?

Gao Yan noticed Chu Shanhe's gaze and walked over with a smile:

"Shanhe, this young man Lin Xian is indeed good, and he has some ideas, but not many. I just gave him a little guidance in the laboratory, and he quickly realized his mistakes and plans to give up this research project."

After saying that, he looked at Lin Xian.

Lin Xian also nodded, understanding Dean Gao Yan's meaning.

This was deliberately concealing the truth for himself, and at the same time, due to confidentiality needs, he could not reveal too much inside information to Chu Shanhe:

"Yes, I still thought about controlled nuclear fusion a little too simply. I really wasted Dean Gao Yan's time today."

"Haha, wasting time doesn't count. The young man is very perceptive, and I like him very much."

Chu Shanhe looked at the happy two and knew that he must have misunderstood before. Although Lin Xian's manuscript was wrong, according to Dean Gao Yan, it still had its merits and was considered a hard-won recognition.

He looked at Lin Xian with a smile:

"In that case…it's getting late, so let's not disturb Dean Gao any longer."

After that.

Dean Gao Yan politely sent the two to the parking lot and shook hands to say goodbye.

"Wait for my news when you get back."

Gao Yan said softly to Lin Xian after seeing Chu Shanhe get in the car, and waved goodbye.

…

After running around for a day, Lin Xian and Chu Shanhe did not take a plane back to Donghai that night.

They stayed at a high-end hotel nearby. The two had a few drinks in the restaurant, chatted happily, and then returned to their respective rooms to sleep and rest.

Lin Xian took a shower and lay on the bed.

He closed his eyes.

He knew very well in his heart…

At this moment, an irreversible space-time change anchor point has formed.

Cold fusion technology has arrived in the world hundreds of years ahead of schedule.

Even if the current level of technology cannot create a finished product, it is only a matter of time. The technological development process in 600 years will inevitably be disrupted and accelerated, and the future world 600 years later will inevitably change accordingly.

This time, it should be the fourth dream.

What will it be like?

Lin Xian felt that everything was unknown.

What he felt more regretful about was…

He didn't see CC in the entire third dream world.

Where did she go?

Where did Time Bank go?

Where did the hafnium alloy safe go?

He had asked VV in detail many times and asked VV to investigate, but the results obtained were the same—

Time Bank has never existed in history, and no bank has ever had a hafnium alloy safe.

VV's explanation was that using hafnium alloy on a safe was an extremely wasteful and unnecessary behavior. No safe manufacturer would do this. If there was, it would definitely go bankrupt soon.

A product that is not needed by the consumer market is destined not to go too far.

Lin Xian deeply agreed with this.

Time Bank in the first dream already had the intention of going bankrupt, and was dilapidated, and various equipment had not been updated for many years.

It was even more extreme in the second dream. Time Bank had indeed gone bankrupt, and the hafnium alloy safe had been transported to the garbage dump.

Then in the third dream, even if there was bankruptcy information, Lin Xian could accept it, but why was there no trace of it?

It had previously ruled out the possibility of the Genius Club deliberately tampering with history, so the only reason left was—

Because of a certain behavior in his reality, an unnoticed butterfly effect occurred, causing Time Bank, which should have been established in 2023, to die in the womb, and it was never established or existed in history.

"What exactly happened to prevent the establishment of Time Bank?"

Lin Xian thought hard, but couldn't figure it out.

This kind of clue-less source of the butterfly effect…was really too difficult to find. If you were unlucky, you wouldn't be able to find it in a lifetime.

"Since the third dream was created from the beginning of my establishment of Rhine Company, is the disappearance of Time Bank also because of the establishment of Rhine Company?"

It was difficult to determine.

Lin Xian felt that Time Bank and Rhine Company were completely unrelated things, so how could they affect each other?

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it."

He turned over and closed his eyes:

"Let's go to the fourth dream to see if we can find Time Bank…find CC…"

…

…

Huff…

Hot, dry, blowing in the face.

The familiar summer breeze is back.

Together with it, there were also the surrounding noise, clamor, and horn sounds.

This was the breath of a long-lost city.

Could it be that the city of segregated crowds like New Donghai City and Rhine Sky City had finally disappeared?

Has Donghai City become the original Donghai again?

Whoosh.

Lin Xian opened his eyes!

The scene in front of him made him take a step back involuntarily—

Dozens of fully armed soldiers formed a neat circle, each holding a strangely shaped gun pointed at him!

Just surrounding him in the center!

This shows that they already knew he would appear at this location and had been lying in ambush here!

Click.

He had only taken half a step back unconsciously, and the back of his head was also held against by a gun:

"Hands up!"

Those who know the times are heroes.

Lin Xian slowly raised his hands.

Taking advantage of raising his hands, he looked up at the details of this sci-fi city.

This was an unprecedentedly developed city.

Much more developed than Rhine Sky City.

He could even see the space elevator soaring into the sky in the distance, as well as floating islands in the sky, and even unknown buildings in space further away.

Was that a space city?

Has the future world finally ushered in a technological explosion and entered the era of space stars?

Whirr.

Outside the encirclement formed by dozens of soldiers in front, a person dressed as a captain walked in. He was also fully armed and threw a fluorescent paper of unknown material in front of Lin Xian:

"Lin Xian! Now, in the name of anti-humanity, endangering the earth, and disrupting space-time, you are hereby arrested in accordance with the law!"

"What?"

Lin Xian listened to these strange charges in confusion.

Buzz buzz!

A sound of electricity suddenly came from his neck.

A soldier behind him used a taser on him!

Lin Xian's eyes went dark and he leaned forward.

Thump!

He fell heavily to the ground and lost consciousness.

…

…

Darkness.

No light.

Lin Xian opened his eyes, but couldn't see anything.

He turned his neck.

He realized that he was handcuffed to a chair, and he was also wearing an opaque hood on his head.

This was the treatment for criminals.

But what did he do wrong?

He had just arrived in this world 600 years later.

He hadn't done anything yet.

"Hehehehe…"

From the front, an old man's dry laughter came.

It sounded very smug and very happy.

The laughter got closer and closer.

The old man was already very close.

He stretched out his hand, grabbed the black hood covering Lin Xian's head, and grabbed it away—

Swish!

Dazzling light.

It turned out that the room outside the hood was so bright, so white, that people couldn't open their eyes.

Lin Xian squinted his eyes and looked up, looking at the blurry old man in front of him.

He had a head of white hair and was as thin as a stick, but he was unusually excited and agitated. His dry eyes stared straight at Lin Xian:

"No…"

His chapped lips trembled up and down, revealing a creepy smile:

"I see you."