Genius Club-Chapter 1199 - 47: The Ninth Dreamland
Beep.
Suddenly.
The Space-Time Clock on the lab table emitted a faint sound. Liu Feng instinctively turned his head sharply and rushed over swiftly, grabbing the Space-Time Clock with both hands and shouting:
"Lin Xian! Look at this!"
Lin Xian hurried over as well.
The numbers on the Space-Time Clock... were climbing rapidly!
0.0000210,
0.0000252,
0.0000294,
"It’s still rising!"
The two stared intently at the Space-Time Clock’s dial.
After being dormant for three months, the Space-Time Clock was now accelerating at a steady pace!
They waited patiently for a moment.
Watching the numbers on the dial shift ceaselessly.
But!
There was no sign of it stopping!
0.0001092,
0.0001134,
0.0001176,
...
"Oh my god."
Liu Feng gasped, blinking nervously:
"The world line has climbed over 20 units already! What... what does this mean?"
He frowned.
Unthinkable.
In all the previous world line transitions, the changes in space-time curvature had been minimal — only small increments or decrements of 0.0000042, affecting just two or three base units.
Even in the most extreme instance, the leap of the world line never exceeded ten units.
But now...
As he deliberated for mere seconds, the world line continued ascending, surpassing another dozen units!
"This..."
Liu Feng scratched his head:
"With such drastic changes, could humanity... the future... the world... be headed for annihilation? Or could it be that this alteration is more cataclysmic than anything ever imagined! Beyond the scope of simply overturning history!"
"How far are these readings going to change? Is it seriously going to surpass the integer digit? This is utterly insane!"
Finally.
Not long after Liu Feng’s words fell silent.
The numbers on the Space-Time Clock finally ceased shifting, stabilizing at—
[0.0001764]
Lin Xian pulled a chair and sat down at the lab table, staring at the extraordinarily exaggerated numerical changes.
Undoubtedly.
Since the Space-Time Clock’s numbers had changed, it meant shifts in space-time curvature, world line modifications, and synchronization within the Dream World.
From this point forward...
The oppressive Eighth Dreamland faded away.
His dreamscape had transformed into a brand-new Ninth Dreamland!
"What could have caused such a significant temporal flux this time?"
Liu Feng pulled a chair over as well, sitting next to Lin Xian:
"To trigger such a powerful Space-Time Butterfly Effect... there must be a very important anchor point for the shift! Could it be because of that scientist you brought back from Africa, who developed the Neural Electrocution Helmet?"
"Highly unlikely."
Lin Xian shook his head:
"I stay in frequent contact with Du Yao, and her side has only just managed to coordinate the lab and equipment. The progress is barely at the starting phase."
"Besides, Du Yao also mentioned that her graduate thesis was mostly baseless conjecture and assumptions; making genuine breakthroughs in the lab won’t come so easily."
These words came directly from Du Yao.
She had confessed to Lin Xian that without that stroke of genius — the "Neural Electrocution Helmet manuscript" — serving as reverse inspiration, she had no idea how many years it might take before she could produce the breakthroughs Lin Xian sought.
The manuscript practically handed her the final result outright; all she needed was to match the findings.
Even with such a boost, a few months would still be far from sufficient.
"Regardless, to be safe, I’ll call Du Yao now."
Lin Xian picked up his phone and contacted Du Yao.
As expected.
Du Yao reported no progress on her end.
He hung up the call.
That meant this drastic space-time shift was unrelated to Du Yao and was definitely caused by something else.
Something else...
Lin Xian thought of that gentle yet enigmatic woman—
Miss Da Vinci.
The Eighth Dreamland was a future directed by Miss Da Vinci.
Now that the dreamscape and this world line had vanished, it was highly likely tied to her actions.
Based on current speculation, there were two possibilities:
1. Miss Da Vinci heeded his advice and completely abandoned the mechanical android plan; just as Jask had renounced the Mars colonization plan, altering the trajectory of the future and shifting the world line.
2. Something had happened to Miss Da Vinci herself, causing her future plans to falter. For instance... someone might have murdered Miss Da Vinci!
At this thought.
Lin Xian shuddered.
According to the original world line’s development trajectory, Miss Da Vinci should have thrived all the way to her final days, living for at least a few hundred more years.
What exactly went awry?
Where did the turning point occur?
What off-[trajectory] catalyst led to Miss Da Vinci’s demise?
Lin Xian closed his eyes.
Within his mind, countless fragments of logic, clues, and pieces overlapped and converged, assembling into the most likely puzzle...
"[Could it be that the exchange of intelligence between Miss Da Vinci and me after the gathering was the cause?]"
Maybe.
That could be the only plausible scenario.
Normally, Miss Da Vinci could not have learned about events in 2624 during the year 2024.
Other Genius Club members had asked, but Einstein would refuse to answer.
Miss Da Vinci herself wouldn’t ask such questions either, which might expose her plans.
Thus, the only variable.
Had to be himself.
He stood up.
Approached the cabinet air conditioning unit in Rhine Laboratory.
Removed the fan blades, aimed them directly at his head, and analyzed all possible scenarios rapidly.
If Miss Da Vinci truly had been killed.
Who could have done it?
Analyzing each Genius Club member one by one, Lin Xian realized that aside from himself and Jask, none of the others were free of suspicion.
Recollecting the dispersal after the last gathering.
When he requested Miss Da Vinci stay behind, he had expected Galileo to at least make a fuss or stay out of curiosity.
But instead.
He said nothing at all.
