Rhine... Sky City?

Having said that, the child turned and ran towards the distant crowd and the gathering lights.

Lin Xian listened to this name, so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar, and looked up at the Sky City pushed into the sky by thousands of engines spewing blue ion beams... lost in thought.

This Rhine.

Is it really the Rhine Company that he just founded this afternoon?

He himself couldn't believe it.

Originally, he just casually founded this Rhine Company. The goal was not to become bigger and stronger, nor to become a world giant, but to provide funds to cover up his next plan.

Even he, as the president, was thinking of being a hands-off shopkeeper before the business even started...

Could such a Buddhist company build a sky-city that blots out the sky 600 years later?

Even the founder himself doesn't believe it!

However...

The fact is the fact.

Since he was still born in the old Donghai and still in the world of the second dream last night when he entered the dream, then it goes without saying.

The anchor point that caused the dream to change again and the butterfly effect of time and space to greatly increase must have happened today!

And the biggest "intervention" he made to history today was naturally deciding to leave MX Company and, under the guidance of Zhao Yingjun, taking the most memorable step in his life—

Establishing the Rhine Company.

Therefore.

Very likely.

This Rhine Sky City above his head is gradually evolved or built by the Rhine Company he just founded over the past 600 years.

Perhaps, in essence, this Rhine Sky City is no different from the New Donghai City built by the former MX Company.

The only thing that is confusing is...

Why did Rhine Company build this sky city?

Is this his own intention in the future?

Looking back suddenly, is he himself the great power?

Or is it...

In these 600 long years, he had long lost control of the Rhine Company, and the company had changed hands several times, and had basically nothing to do with his own company 600 years ago except for the name?

Couldn't figure it out...

After all, 600 years is too long.

Lin Xian continued to walk forward, distancing himself from the Sky City, and looked up at the thousands of blue-glowing ion beam engines, which he had just mistaken for the "moon".

This scene seemed familiar in the movie *The Wandering Earth*.

In the setting of *The Wandering Earth* movie, in order to avoid the helium flash disaster brought about by the aging of the sun, humans decided to build thousands of planetary engines on the earth, and then simultaneously start these engines to generate a strong thrust, pushing the earth away from its original orbit... sailing to a more distant starry sky, wandering in the universe, looking for a new fixed star to orbit as a new home.

Lin Xian still remembers it clearly.

At the moment when thousands of planetary engines were started at the same time, the side of the earth closer to the sun, like the Rhine Sky City hanging in the sky now, emitted thousands of blue ion beams, slowly pushing the earth away...

The principles of the two should be roughly similar.

According to Lin Xian's guess.

Those engines emitting blue light beams are probably controlled nuclear fusion engines.

After all...

Only this purest and most extreme energy from inside the atomic nucleus can lift such a huge city for a long time, year after year.

Otherwise, any other form of energy conversion cannot achieve this exaggerated effect.

"In other words, the level of scientific development in the third dream has made another leap forward compared to the second dream."

Lin Xian remembered very clearly that in the New Donghai City in the second dream, nuclear batteries were only used in miniaturized applications, but there was still a long way to go before the realization and application of controlled nuclear fusion.

But now, in the third dream, technology can leap so much...

Is it because the sudden emergence of Rhine Company completely changed the history of these 600 years, indirectly promoting the breakthrough of controlled nuclear fusion technology?

Picking up the pace.

Lin Xian was getting farther and farther away from the thousands of blue controlled nuclear fusion engines, and therefore his perspective was more tilted, so he could see more of the scenery on the Sky City.

According to his visual estimate.

The suspension height of this Rhine Sky City should be in the sky of two to three thousand meters.

However, this data is only an estimate and is not necessarily accurate. It is his deduction based on the intuition that near objects appear larger than distant objects.

Through a corner of the Sky City, Lin Xian could very intuitively feel that the technological level in the Sky City seemed to be more developed and more cyberpunk than the New Donghai City in the second dream.

Thinking of the foul-smelling sewage, feces, and sludge that fell from the sky just now...

Needless to say, those disgusting things must be domestic sewage discharged from the Rhine Sky City.

This... is too rude, right?

The residents of the Sky City just excrete and discharge directly, and all the excrement, urine, and vomit are directly discharged to the ground. How can people on the surface live?

You are high above, with fresh air and bright sunshine. Isn't the world below a cesspool?

"If it were me, I would definitely not allow this to happen. It's too heartless."

Lin Xian continued to walk outward.

He asked himself, if he were the CEO of Rhine Company, would he allow these things to happen?

Obviously, he wouldn't.

Whether it was the high-up Sky City or the indiscriminate discharge of garbage and feces to the surface, he couldn't accept it.

If he had a choice.

He would rather turn Rhine Company into a company that makes the future of mankind better, rather than such a powerful, domineering, and unreasonable heartless enterprise.

But...

Still that sentence.

600 years is too long.

Who can guarantee many things?

"If only I could be born directly on the Rhine Sky City, then I could directly understand many things."

Cough cough.

He remembered Hayao Miyazaki's animation, and the Columbia Sky City in the game... There wouldn't be a statue of him in the middle of this Rhine Sky City, right?

Being commemorated and praised as the founder?

It's also quite strange.

"By the way, is the Genius Club still there?"

Lin Xian just remembered that the reason he looked up at the sky at the beginning was to see if the logo of the Genius Club was still on the moon.

And now...

Looking up at the sky, he couldn't find the moon for a while.

It should be in the sky above the Rhine Sky City, blocked by this behemoth.

Lin Xian adjusted the running direction again, and roughly judged the position where the moon should be based on the direction, stars, and time, and gradually adjusted the perspective.

Finally.

Between the towering buildings of Rhine Sky City, the shy moon, which had been concealing its face, finally revealed its true face.

It was still so round and so bright.

600 years is a long time for human beings.

But for the moon, which has existed for more than 2 billion years...

600 years is just a blink of an eye.

Even if the world on Earth has undergone earth-shaking changes, it has only blinked its eyes and taken a nap.

It still rises in the east and sets in the west, still waxes and wanes, still stares at the earth with its front side forever—

It's still the same.

Lin Xian stared at the black hand shadow on the moon that directly penetrated the north and south poles...

It was still so familiar.

It was exactly the same as the moon in the second dream.

On the stamp logo of the Genius Club, the straight black index finger still pointed arrogantly and strangely at the sky, arrogantly mocking all the incompetent humans on earth... mocking the unchangeable fate.

"Okay."

In this way, the Genius Club, this ringworm, still exists in the future world of the third dream.

This also makes the mystery of Rhine Sky City even more confusing.

What is the meaning of its existence?

If it's just to isolate the people inside and outside the high walls, monopolize technology, and cut off history... the existence of New Donghai City is already enough, and it is operating very well. Why bother to build a sky city at the expense of people and money?

Or is it...

Is the purpose of this sky city to hide something?

Hide it from whom?

Hide it from the Genius Club?

Or...

"Hide it from myself?"

For a moment.

Lin Xian stood there, staring at the majestic Sky City.

Perhaps.

It's really possible!

Thinking from another perspective, if this Rhine Sky City was really planned and built by himself.

Then the future him, of course, knows that he can dream of traveling through time and arrive on August 28, 2624!

So...

Is it possible that the future him is waiting for him on the Rhine Sky City?

Because he knows that he will definitely come, and he will definitely go to the Rhine Sky City to find him!

And he.

Only needs to find a way to survive until this day 600 years later through hibernation chambers and a series of other means.

Lin Xian 600 years ago meets Lin Xian 600 years later...

Can this kind of thing really be realized?

Lin Xian felt some goosebumps on his body.

He didn't know what kind of feeling he had at this moment, but it was slightly frightening, an indescribable sense of horror.

"It's also possible that I'm thinking too much. Maybe the future me has already passed away many years ago."

"But, that doesn't prevent me from hiding anything important that I really want to leave to my past self in the Rhine Sky City."

Lin Xian tried to simulate his own thinking.

The person who knows himself best is himself...

Assuming that this Rhine Sky City is related to him, then the only reason he would bother to build it is—

To pass on information to himself who came dreaming from 600 years ago!

"So that's how it is..."

Lin Xian suddenly understood.

In the previous second dream, when he and CC were tinkering with the safe in Tem Bank, he had thought about it.

After Tem Bank in reality is established at the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024, he can use that safe that spans 600 years to send things from the past to the future.

This can also be regarded as the past supporting the future.

Then, thinking in reverse.

Is there a way to let the future self support the past?

At that time, Lin Xian felt that this idea was not realistic, because time is irreversible.

However...

Looking at it now.

Perhaps human wisdom is really infinite.

If it is really as he thought, the future him left some information, data, hints, or even physical objects, and sat on the throne in the middle of the Sky City for himself in the Rhine Sky City...

Doesn't this truly achieve the goal of the future supporting the past?

The more Lin Xian thought about it, the clearer his thoughts became.

He felt that if he had this ability, he would definitely do it!

This makes sense!

In this way, the Rhine company and the Rhine Sky City have meaning!

"It seems... this Rhine Sky City must be visited."

Lin Xian raised his head.

Looking again at the Sky City supported by thousands of controlled nuclear fusion engines...

Although.

So far, all the guesses are just unfounded fantasies and speculations.

But he believed.

The name Rhine, as the beginning of everything for him, as the best inheritance of these 600 years, its existence should not be so simple, and must have a special meaning.

Whether his guess is correct or wrong.

Whether the future him is waiting for him above or not.

Whether there is information left for him in the Sky City or not.

In short.

These mysteries can only be solved by personally venturing into the Rhine Sky City!

"If this sky city really exists to wait for me..."

Lin Xian looked at the huge object covering the sky and smiled slightly:

"You should have left some back doors for me, right?"