Xin Donghai City.

Lin Xian gazed at the shocking scene, something straight out of a sci-fi movie… deeply feeling the power of technology.

From this, it seemed that the time-space alteration hadn't set back technological development.

Instead, just as Professor Xu Yun had wished, human technology had undergone an unprecedented leap!

Although it had taken 600 years for technology to develop to this point, Lin Xian still felt it was a bit lacking.

According to his intuition... it should have developed to be even more sci-fi than Xin Donghai City.

But this was already very good.

At least compared to the technological development in the initial dream, the "First Dream"... the technological level of Xin Donghai City here was already more than a century ahead.

"Truly a city of the future..." Lin Xian sighed.

"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 their leftovers!"

Lin Xian turned his head.

He looked at the few lights lit in the village, dim and flickering.

On the other side, Xin Donghai City was ablaze with lights, like a fairyland.

"So..."

Lin Xian turned to look at Big Face Cat.

"The [Hibernation Pod] has been successfully developed?"

"Hibernation Pod? I think I've heard that name before. It's said that Xin Donghai City has those things," Big Face Cat said.

"But what's the use of having those high-tech gadgets? They're the ones enjoying all this, and it has nothing to do with us."

"But why has the world developed like this?"

Lin Xian asked.

"Could it be that the Hibernation Pod allows the rich and powerful to achieve a form of immortality? Their wealth will never disappear or be dispersed, only becoming more and more concentrated. And education, knowledge, even ideas and thoughts are monopolized by the elite... is that why this situation has arisen?"

"Or is it that those with the ability all go into hibernation, don't work hard, and just think about enjoying themselves in the future, so society has slowly declined?"

Lin Xian voiced his shallow guess.

"I don't know."

Big Face Cat shook his head.

"I don't know anything. From the time I was born... even from the time my grandfather's grandfather was born, the world has always been like this."

Lin Xian was silent, and he thought of a sentence he had seen in a book—

Death is the fairest thing in human society.

Only death can fundamentally prevent class solidification and truly promote civilizational progress.

"Okay."

Lin Xian nodded.

In his era, there were many games and movies about the cyberpunk genre, and the world depicted in them was probably not much different from the situation in the dream now.

Where exactly is the problem with this distorted development?

Lin Xian wasn't a historian or a sociologist, and he couldn't figure it out.

But fortunately—

Technology had still developed as promised.

In fact, when considering the irrational phenomena in the "First Dream," Lin Xian had also suspected... did the Genius Club stifle the development of human technology?

Did they kill all the scientists?

He had thought about it this way, but he couldn't figure it out.

First, he didn't know what the point of doing that was.

Second, he didn't know what benefits it would bring to the Genius Club itself.

If the white light that arrived on time at 00:42 was a signal that the earth was about to be destroyed, wouldn't the members of the Genius Club also die in the white light?

So why would they do that?

Why not let Earth's technology develop rapidly, whether to escape Earth and find another home, or to confront the aliens who technologically exploded and destroyed Earth head-on... there was absolutely no need to limit human technological development, right?

But those were all things of the past.

That "First Dream," where human technology had not developed at all and had stagnated for 600 years, had completely disappeared.

Replaced by...

The "Second Dream" with rapid technological development, which was the future world after the time-space alteration.

The gap between the rich and the poor and the imbalance of development were issues within the scope of sociology.

From the perspective of scientific progress alone, because of the public release of Xu Yun's paper, the technological level of the future world had indeed achieved a leap.

Lin Xian squinted his eyes and looked at Xin Donghai City, a few kilometers away…

All kinds of cars were flying in the sky, robots were all over the city, and even the hundred-meter-high steel outer walls were filled with all kinds of high-tech equipment 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 resistance to human technological development.

It was very likely that even the Genius Club might no longer exist.

Because...

If it really still existed, Big Face Cat's father would have died long ago.

"That high wall..."

Lin Xian pointed to the hundred-meter-high wall surrounding Xin Donghai City and asked Big Face Cat.

"Can you guys get in?"

Big Face Cat shook his head.

"Is there absolutely no way to get in?" Lin Xian continued to ask.

"Your daughter's dream is to live in Xin Donghai City, so even if she studies hard and works hard, she can't go to Xin Donghai City?"

"No, unless you can blow up that high wall."

Big Face Cat laughed.

"Their place and our place are two different worlds. They see us as aliens, and we see them as aliens."

"Okay."

Lin Xian said softly.

"Actually, even if you don't go to Xin Donghai City, you can still live a happy life."

"Brother Face, you now have both sons and daughters, and your parents are still alive, enjoying family happiness. If you were really given a chance to go to Xin Donghai City, you might not want to go."

"That's true."

Big Face Cat chuckled.

"Actually, I haven't thought so much about it. I just live each day as it comes, and it's not too bad."

Lin Xian also laughed.

In the previous dream...

Big Face Cat's father and daughter were both killed by the Genius Club, and Big Face Cat, blinded by revenge, had no choice but to embark on the path of a desperado.

In comparison, this future was already very good.

"At least the Genius Club should no longer exist."

Lin Xian looked at Big Face Cat.

"Have you heard of the Genius Club?"

"No."

Big Face Cat shook his head.

"What is that? I've never heard of it."

"It seems to be an evil organization," Lin Xian explained with a smile.

"There are rumors that only the top tycoons, the ultimate geniuses, and the most powerful figures can receive an invitation to this club, but in fact, this rumor is false. The threshold for joining this organization is far more than that."

"To be honest, I don't even know what this organization is doing or what its purpose is. It's too mysterious, so mysterious that it seems to not exist at all."

"Sometimes I even doubt... is it really an evil organization? Is it because of something that people have misunderstood this club?"

Big Face Cat shook his head.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Can you make it simpler? What does this club do?"

Lin Xian shook his head.

"I don't know anything either. The only thing I know accurately about them... is the club's emblem."

Lin Xian raised his right hand, extended his index finger, and pointed straight to the sky.

"Their emblem is like this, a right hand pointing to the sky."

"Tch!"

Big Face Cat looked disdainful and cut off with a "tch."

"I've been listening seriously for so long, and you're just messing with me! Telling me stories to tease me, bro! I thought everything you said was real!"

Lin Xian looked at his right hand, a little surprised.

"You've seen this gesture before?"

"Who in the world hasn't seen it! We've been seeing it for hundreds of years!"

"Where?"

"You look up!"

Lin Xian followed Big Face Cat's gesture and looked up at the 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 on the white moon, there was a huge black shadow. The black shadow was so huge that it ran through the entire lunar north and south poles, almost dividing the jade plate in two.

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

The same as Lin Xian's gesture at this time…

Exactly the same.

"Heh."