Chapter 48 Game Over, Bonus Chapter for Alliance Master uckyuu!

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At 00:42, a dazzling white light arrived on time, incinerating everything in the world.

In the guest bedroom of Zhao Yingjun's house, Lin Xian opened his eyes. Perhaps because the air conditioner was set too low, he felt a chill all over his body. It had been the entire month of October.

He had been running around in the Ninth Dream, seeking only to find a living person, someone from whom he could extract information.

Yes.

Just any living person would do.

At first, he wanted to find Big Face Cat, but later he stopped hoping for that and would have been happy to find anyone alive.

But as he dug out the motorcycle and explored a wider area, Lin Xian's ominous premonitions grew heavier and heavier.

Although he was somewhat prepared.

The Ninth Dream would either become better than the Eighth Dream or worse, and he had experienced bad dreams before. He would just take things as they came.

But the problem was.

None of the previous worlds, not even the worst, had been as bad as human extinction!

"This is a bit tricky."

Lin Xian muttered to himself as he lay on the pillow.

In the past, he had been able to use information from the dreams to change the present, rewrite the future, and cause the world line to leap.

If the future world in the Ninth Dream was really as he suspected, with no one alive...

That would be a dead end.

Not much different from the stagnant Fourth Dream. Even if, in the worst-case scenario...

Even if all of humanity was extinct, it would be helpful if some data and information remained. But that was the frustrating part.

He didn't know what happened in 2600, but the disaster had completely destroyed the world and human civilization, leaving almost nothing useful behind.

Lin Xian sat up from the guest room bed and went to the kitchen.

In the insulated container, glowing with warm yellow light, was a glass of milk that Zhao Yingjun had warmed for him.

At this point.

The milk had become a tacit understanding and habit between them. Lin Xian picked up the glass and gulped it down.

Today in the dream, he had driven the motorcycle for 1,000 kilometers, his back almost breaking from fatigue, and still found no one, not a trace of life.

He could now basically conclude the current state of the future world in the Ninth Dream. Thump.

After finishing the milk.

He placed the glass on the table, went to the study, turned on the desk lamp, and took out paper and pen. "There are several key points of suspicion in the Ninth Dream." Lin Xian uncapped the pen and wrote down the first point on the paper:

1. Even in a world line where Copernicus is already dead, human technology is still limited and developing extremely slowly.

The most direct evidence of this is the nuclear battery motorcycle he dug out.

This is a motorcycle produced in 2597!

In the Second, Third, and Fourth Dreams, there were many motorcycles flying in the sky, and Lin Xian had driven a flying motorcycle several times.

At that time, he hadn't interfered too much with the real world, and the future technology was still able to develop to that extent.

Why is it that now, after copying so much black technology from the future, has the technological level regressed again?

"What exactly happened during these 600 years?" Lin Xian couldn't figure it out.

He couldn't find any relevant books or evidence, nor could he find any natives to ask. Right now.

This question had become a dead end.

Lin Xian picked up the pen again and wrote down the second point:

2. Why was humanity wiped out so thoroughly? This was also the point that Lin Xian found most outrageous.

"Even the meteorite impact that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs didn't wipe out every single dinosaur. Many of the species that remain today evolved from small dinosaurs at the time."

"Considering all sorts of factors, there should be some lucky survivors who could survive the disaster. Moreover, the natural environment in 2624 is not harsh. There are wild animals and plants everywhere. It wouldn't be a problem for humans who survived the disaster to thrive and multiply.”

The pen twirled in Lin Xian's fingers.

With only the motorcycle, driving over 1,000 kilometers in 10 hours was the limit of his exploration range.

But this distance was really enough.

Chongqing was only a little over 1,000 kilometers from the East China Sea. This was roughly equivalent to driving from the East China Sea to Chongqing on the Dragon Country's mainland, without seeing a single person, a single piece of trash, a single wisp of smoke, a single house, or a single cultivated field...

If this really happened.

Perhaps only the complete extinction of humanity could explain it.

"Even if humans lived in the underground world, it's impossible not to leave artificial buildings on the surface, impossible to have no garbage."

"Moreover, if it was just to hide from the disaster underground, why not come up to live now that the surface environment is so good and the air is so fresh?"

Therefore.

This idea could be directly rejected. All living things depend on the sun.

Unless the surface environment was extremely harsh and unsuitable for survival, like in the movie *The Wandering Earth*, there was no need for humans to shrink into underground cities to survive. Finally, there was the third point of suspicion:

3. The super disaster in 2600 was obviously also man-made. Who was behind it? "It's very likely Galileo." Lin Xian said softly:

"But this time, the destructive power was much greater than the one in 2400, directly wiping out all of humanity."

"The miniature nuclear battery produced in 2401 represents that on the world line of the Ninth Dream, the super disaster in 2400 did not occur, and the Earth was safe and sound."

"So..."

"Could it be that Galileo changed his mind and strategy because of something, or someone, and specifically postponed the disaster by 200 years?"

Lin Xian thought for a while and nodded.

Possible.

Very possible.

The first thing that came to his mind was that during the last Genius Club gathering, Galileo had clearly avoided and acted confused about the "global disaster" question, as if he was a little flustered. "I have an idea." Lin Xian rubbed his chin.

If Galileo changed his future plans because of something, that thing was likely...

"Galileo is inherently suspicious. He probably thinks his plan has been leaked, exposed." This was very likely!

He realized that Galileo had always thought his future plan was well-hidden, and no one knew. He had indeed hidden it well.

Even with Lin Xian's God's-eye view, he couldn't find any flaws in the questions he asked, and he never had any solid evidence.

But coincidentally.

Miss Da Vinci's casual question, like a blind cat catching a dead mouse, exposed Galileo's hand.

Plus, he specifically asked Da Vinci for a private chat after the gathering...

"Someone as extreme as Galileo would probably think that Da Vinci and I saw through his plan to cause a global disaster in 2400."

"Therefore, he temporarily changed his strategy and postponed the disaster by 200 years."

This was one guess. There was another guess.

If Galileo changed his original plan because of someone, that person was self-evident.

That person could only be Miss Da Vinci. "Let's make a bold guess."

Lin Xian closed his eyes and began to imagine:

"Perhaps something unpleasant or conflicting happened between Galileo and Da Vinci, leading Galileo to kill Da Vinci and, for some reason, postpone the disaster by 200 years."

Lin Xian couldn't guess the specific reasons.

Because he knew very little about Galileo and Da Vinci, other than being able to see that Galileo had some deep feelings for Da Vinci. "If that's the case, then what was the purpose of specifically postponing it by 200 years?" Lin Xian continued to ponder.

Considering that Galileo initially believed that humans should reclaim their lost "bloodthirst," while Miss Da Vinci hoped to use the power of role models to guide people in promoting "humanity"...

Could it be that...

Galileo was really touched by the power of love, by Miss Da Vinci, and decided to give humanity 200 more years to test humanity? "Heh."

Lin Xian laughed at his own ridiculous idea. It didn't make sense logically.

If Galileo was really moved or persuaded by Da Vinci, then why would he kill her? "That's not right either."

Lin Xian shook his head:

"We're just guessing that Miss Da Vinci died, but whether she actually died or not will have to wait until the Genius Club gathering the day after tomorrow to confirm." He looked up at the electronic clock on the table. Today.

It was October 30, 2024, 02:27 AM. There were exactly two days left until the next meeting. Lin Xian decided.

He would arrive a little earlier for the November 1st gathering to see what was going on with Da Vinci and Galileo.

He'd be a third wheel if he had to.

He didn't mind being glared at by Galileo a few times, he had to find a way to figure out the truth behind this series of events.

"I'll go to the dream tomorrow and drive the motorcycle in a different direction, explore another 1,000 kilometers to the north."

"Hopefully, I'll have some gains." Lin Xian stretched.

He turned off the lights in the study and tiptoed to the master bedroom.

VV, fat as a ball, was still snoring. The small sleeping nest was already too small for her.

Her current size didn't resemble a Pomeranian at all, but was bloated like a Bichon Frise.

"Keep it up, VV."

Lin Xian had given up on treating this hungry ghost and cheered her on in secret: "Try to eat your way into becoming an Alaskan Malamute."

VV.

VV showed a smile in her sleep.

He wondered what beautiful dream she was having. "It's good to be a dog." Lin Xian sighed.

VV seemed to be having good dreams every day, while his dreams were getting worse and worse. He went to the bedside.

Slippers.

Got into bed and lay down.

Zhao Yingjun was also sleeping lightly. He looked at her lower abdomen.

Xiao Xiao Yuxi had grown another month. "That's great."

Lin Xian smiled and began to imagine the scene of embracing Xiao Yuxi and being a father. "You grow up quickly too." He said softly:

"Mom and Dad are waiting for you."

After waking up during the day.

Lin Xian still entered the dream at 12:42 noon. He found the motorcycle, started it, and headed north.

He traveled a long distance, without changing direction, and drove at full speed for ten hours. At this distance, he should have reached Shandong Province. But he still hadn't found any living person.

Nor had he seen any farmland, houses, or traces of fire. It seemed.

There was no need to have any illusions.

The Ninth Dream was indeed a future world where human civilization was completely extinct. "This is the worst possible future." Lin Xian gritted his teeth: "The worst possible future."

Humanity, wiped out.

The next day, Lin Xian sat at his desk in the study, preparing to attend the Genius Club gathering in an hour.

He had called Jask in advance, intending to have Jask help him ask a question. "No problem, Lin Xian."

Jask agreed immediately when he heard that Lin Xian wanted to borrow his question opportunity: "Just tell me what you want me to ask."

"My question order is before yours. Regardless of whether Einstein answers or not, you can adjust your question in time, change the wording, or continue to add to it."

Lin Xian nodded.

He spoke his prepared answer:

"I want you to help me ask a relatively clever question. Didn't Einstein say that when asking about the future of humanity, if it involves the plans of other members, he will refuse to answer?"

"Then when we ask, we'll be roundabout, we won't directly ask about the ending of the future world, nor will we ask about specific matters, but we'll probe from the side." "For example, you can ask this question, we'll just say a date--" "January 1, 2622, what is the total population of the world?"

Jask was confused when he heard this meaningless question: "I can, but is there any need to ask this question?" He couldn't figure it out:

"It seems that no matter if Einstein answers billions, hundreds of billions, or even just a few hundred million, we won't get any valuable information."

"A large population might mean that future technology is developing better; a small population might mean that the Earth encountered some disaster in those years."

"But the world population itself is constantly changing. Even if there are only a few hundred million left in 2622 due to war or natural disasters, as long as humans are given a hundred years to recuperate, it is entirely possible to multiply it tenfold."

Hearing Jask's doubts.

Lin Xian smiled without saying a word.

That was exactly the doubt he wanted.

If Jask thought this question was meaningless, then others would naturally not understand it either.

The reason for not directly asking about 2624 was because Lin Xian knew that this year was a bit special, just at the cutoff point for the disappearance of the Millennium Stake (qian nian zhuang), so it was best to avoid it.

Anyway, the super disaster happened in 2600, and the population in 2622 wouldn't change much from 2624.

Actually.

Lin Xian didn't care what number Einstein answered. He just wanted to know a truth - whether humanity had really become extinct.

It didn't matter if the world population in 2622 was tens of millions, millions, or even hundreds of thousands.

As long as they hadn't all been wiped out.

Then human civilization had hope. If.

Einstein refused to answer.

Then it was likely that wiping out humanity was the content of a certain member's future plan; then he could be ranked after Jask and continue to ask supplementary questions, adapting to the situation.

After finishing the explanation to Jask. Lin Xian hung up the phone.

At 00:20, Lin Xian put on the VR glasses, scanned the Genius Club golden badge, and entered the venue in advance.

He wanted to see.

What was going on with Galileo and Da Vinci?

A burst of light and shadow flashed.

He came to the luxurious castle again, stepped on the red velvet carpet, strode forward, and pushed open the brown double doors to enter the venue. "Huh?"

Lin Xian blinked his eyes, very strange.

Nine chairs.

Nine empty chairs.

No one was there. "This is really strange."

"Why isn't that old fellow Galileo here early today?" "Let's wait a little longer."

Lin Xian walked to his seat, sat down, and waited quietly for the next member to enter.

Five minutes passed.

Ten minutes passed.

Fifteen minutes passed. No one came.

Galileo didn't come, and Da Vinci didn't come either. Lin Xian narrowed his eyes.

Something was wrong.

Something must have happened between these two.

The only possibility for why Galileo didn't come early was that he knew this time that Miss Da Vinci wouldn't come early. And the only possibility for why Miss Da Vinci wouldn't come early was that she was dead, and could no longer come. Squeak.

The brown double doors of the venue were pushed open, and Jask, wearing a Tesla mask, walked over with his head held high:

"Hey, Lin Xian, it's really quiet today, are you the only one here?" Jask looked around with his mask on: "Where's Galileo? Where's Da Vinci?"

"Those two always come very early, especially Galileo. I heard that he has never been absent from any gathering, not once, and he always comes especially early, at least half an hour in advance."

Sure enough.

Lin Xian didn't say a word.

Further confirming his guess.

Galileo never missing any meeting, and always sitting in the venue half an hour in advance, made it very clear that he looked forward to meeting Da Vinci every time. Although Da Vinci didn't attend every time.

But for Galileo, he only had one chance a month to meet Da Vinci, so of course, he didn't want to be absent, fearing that he would miss it.

Under this premise of "deep affection" and "persistence," the simultaneous absence of Galileo and Da Vinci indicated that the ending of Miss Da Vinci was self-evident.

Soon, the brown double doors were pushed open one after another, and Gauss and Newton entered and sat down. Only four people.

The current time was 00:41:36. The Genius Club did not accept lateness.

This meant that Galileo and Da Vinci would not be coming to this gathering. "Amazing."

Newton sighed: "Galileo actually didn't come to the gathering. Since Miss Da Vinci joined the club, Galileo hasn't been absent once, whether online or offline." "Moreover..."

Newton turned his head and looked at the empty chair to his left: "Miss Da Vinci didn't come either." He didn't continue speaking. He was lost in thought.

Across from him, Gauss, the only remaining person on the four chairs, nodded tremblingly, looking at Jask:

"There are fewer and fewer people this year. Da Vinci and Galileo won't..."

"Hey, hey, hey!"

Jask interrupted the slow-speaking Gauss: "Why are you staring at me!"

"Because you killed Turing and Copernicus..."

"They provoked me first!" Jask interrupted Gauss again:

"I've always been one to take responsibility for my actions. If I killed them, I killed them. I'll definitely admit it openly. I'm also wondering why Miss Da Vinci isn't here. I really like chatting with her."

Lin Xian listened to the conversation between the two silently. He didn't say a word.

It seemed that in Gauss's eyes, Jask had already been promoted to "the number one killer in the Genius Club."

He had killed Turing and Copernicus, but now Jask was taking all the blame. However...

Jask himself was very willing to take these two black pots, even considering them honors. 00:42.

Einstein walked up from the rear steps on time, sat upright in the black wood high-backed chair, and smiled slightly:

"It's a pity, only four of you came to the last gathering of the club."

As soon as this was said.

Everyone looked at each other, unanimously looking at the old man wearing the Einstein mask: "What's going on? Did I just join and now I'm eating a farewell dinner?" "The last time? What does that mean? Is it..."

"I've never heard of such a thing? Einstein, didn't you say that you would be here at any time?"

The only one who was relatively calm was the old brother, Newton. He took a deep breath.

He slowly straightened up, looked at Einstein:

"Einstein, does that mean you see that humanity's future is saved?" "That's right."

Today's Einstein was light in tone, and in a good mood. He chuckled, spread his arms, and comforted everything in front of him: "Congratulations to you, geniuses, you have succeeded." "For decades, I have been worried about the future of mankind. I have seen mankind self-destruct in various forms, and human civilization perish for various reasons."

"I look forward to seeing the day when mankind has a future, but I have never been able to do so. But today, the mission of the Genius Club has finally been completed--"

"I can now see that humanity has the brightest and most beautiful future."

Long silence.

Lasting for dozens of seconds.

Finally, it was Newton's applause that broke the silence. He laughed loudly: "That's really gratifying! But I'm more curious..."

He looked around at the remaining three people, then looked at the four empty chairs in turn, smiling, said: "Which genius's future plan has succeeded?"

Jask, wearing a mask, turned his head and looked at the Lin Xian cat mask on his face. Lin Xian also looked at him. Neither of them spoke.

Jask knew that it was definitely not him, because he had already given up the Mars immigration plan. Lin Xian, on the other hand, knew better than anyone else...

That the current world line, the current Ninth Dream, was the most terrible, the most desperate future world in history.

But why.

Did Einstein say it was the brightest and most beautiful future?

Were the two of them really seeing the same future? "Einstein."

Lin Xian stood up from his chair, raised his head, and stared directly at the elderly man bathing in the golden light on the high platform.

He said in a deep voice: "What kind of future did you see?"