Genius Club-Chapter 570 - 13 VV’s Message (Added more for Alliance Leader Evil Cat!!)_3
"[Inside the mirror... lies what you desire.]"
So,
after dealing with all these miscellaneous issues, he had to seriously consider what this Mirror, indeed, referred to.
A few hours later.
The airplane arrived at Pudong International Airport.
Lin Xian’s driver, having arrived early in an Alfa Romeo, first took Gao Yang home, then turned around and asked:
"President Lin, where to next?"
"Let’s go home first."
Lin Xian said.
He was concerned about VV, eager to check on it; Next, he would visit Liu Feng at East Sea University; and finally...
Well,
it was something that had to be confronted.
He had to face a father who had lost his daughter at Chushanhe Manor.
Fortunately, Chu Anqing still had a glimmer of life, and after many details were confirmed with CC, perhaps the mystery of the Millennium Stakes would be fully unveiled, and he could find a way to get Chu Anqing back.
"Let’s head home first."
Lin Xian repeated:
"Drive faster."
...
Arriving downstairs,
Lin Xian, pulling his suitcase, quickly ran into the elevator and eagerly pressed the floor button.
It had been too long since he had contacted VV.
He was beginning to miss the drama queen.
Ding—
The elevator door opened.
Lin Xian took out his keys, turned the door lock, and stepped into the living room—
"Holy shit! What happened here?"
He was shocked by the scene inside the house!
There were scorched marks everywhere!
The television, refrigerator, air conditioner, router, washing machine, chargers, electronic clock... even VV’s favorite cleaning robot! All were internally charred!
Lin Xian could tell.
This was no ordinary fire, but rather, all these appliances had internally overloaded and burned out.
He stepped forward,
picked up the "dead" cleaning robot from the ground.
He sniffed near his nose, still able to smell the scorched wires within...
He went to check the power box’s circuit breaker, found it, too, was fried, and the entire house was in a state of power outage.
The refrigerator was naturally filled with a disgusting scent and melted ice water.
He headed to the kitchen.
It was the same over there.
All electronic devices were charred; all switches were dead.
"Who did this?"
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes, quickly realizing the only possibility—
VV!
This was definitely VV’s doing!
Because, such a thorough destruction without causing a disaster is a skill only VV could manage!
If someone wanted to harm or be jealous of him, why not just burn down the house completely? Wouldn’t that be more thorough?
The way it is now, he didn’t actually suffer much loss.
It’s just all the wires were burned out, all the appliances were damaged, and even the electricity meter and power lines were charred... Not really a big deal, just replace them, and the home maintenance company would handle everything.
So,
this sort of attack targeting only the electronics, causing no other damage, and ensuring there wasn’t a fire or other nuisance...
Made Lin Xian recall the incident 300 kilometers above Earth, on China’s skyspace aircraft.
At that time, due to an unknown attack, VV was taken out, but just before dying, to protect their skyspace aircraft from enemy hijacking, VV destroyed all the communication equipment.
Because of this, even someone as powerful as Kevin Walker could only manipulate Starlink Satellites and Mi Country’s X-37B Spaceplane to attack them but couldn’t directly hijack Lin Xian’s skyspace aircraft.
This was VV’s protection for Lin Xian.
And employed the cruelest tactic against hackers—
Disconnecting the Internet!
That being said,
As Lin Xian surveyed his house, all appliances destroyed, wires burned through, and main switch disconnected ensuring not a bit of electricity was left.
This behavior clearly showed—
[VV, it was protecting itself!]
The first time he encountered VV, it had said that it didn’t need internet cables, and it could travel using just the vibrations of sound waves, electromagnetic waves, and electrical currents.
By the same logic, a master capable of killing VV must also possess such skills.
Therefore...
Facing an equally strong opponent, in order to protect itself and retain a final glimmer of hope, VV could only resort to a move even more ruthless than disconnecting the network—
cutting the power!
In a place without electricity, any hacker, artificial intelligence, program, virus, signal, or data stream couldn’t stir up a single splash.
For the super artificial intelligence VV, cutting the power was the most powerful attack and also the most invincible absolute defense!
In this absolutely powerless location, VV couldn’t get out, and the enemy couldn’t get in.
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"The laptop..."
Realizing this, Lin Xian immediately went to the bookcase to find the laptop that contained the initial 130,000 lines of code for VV and had also been taken to Mi Country with VV!
"Found it!"
Miracle!
The moment he saw the laptop, Lin Xian fully realized that his previous speculation was absolutely correct!
Because, in the entire house, all the electronic devices were burnt out.
Except for this laptop, which was completely intact!
Since it was not connected to the internet, not plugged into a power source, and its own battery was also dead, rendering it unable to start…
It was exactly the laptop he thought was already useless.
It miraculously saved VV, becoming VV’s [life-saving box] when facing an unbeatable enemy!
"VV!"
Lin Xian couldn’t help but laugh.
Thinking that his old friend really wasn’t dead and had miraculously picked up a life at the very last moment suited a super artificial intelligence from 600 years in the future. At the final moment, it still had found the last thread of life and preserved it.
That was wonderful.
At least... he had recovered one out of Chu Anqing and VV.
If he could retrieve one, he could retrieve two!
Lin Xian placed the laptop on the desk, unfolded it, and reached for the power button—
But suddenly,
he felt a chill on his back.
As if an invisible black hand crawled out from the door crack, under the bed, behind the bookshelf, through the ceiling cracks... tightly clutching him, just shy of the final squeeze that would crush him entirely, sending blood and flesh flying.
"Something’s not right."
He calmed himself.
If the enemy could kill VV once, it could kill VV twice.
He definitely knew the laptop was already out of power. He just wanted to try it, wanted to feel the illusion of calling VV, which was why he thought of casually pressing the power button.
But now,
he restrained himself.
He realized... that the enemy capable of killing VV might be much more formidable than VV, much more than what he understood.
In his attempts, indeed no power means no cyber attacks could be launched.
But,
there are always better ones out there; there is always a higher sky.
If things as ahead of their time as VV can emerge, space-time particles as unbelievable as this can come to Earth… what else is impossible?
If VV had left him for so long, that meant it truly encountered a peril, a kind too dangerous to even show its face, one that would be instantly neutralized if discovered.
So,
"Let’s wait for a while longer."
Lin Xian was still a bit uncertain.
In this laptop was the last of VV, VV’s final fragment, its duplicate.
If he inadvertently exposed and got this last fragment of VV killed because of his carelessness...
then VV would truly leave him, leave him forever.
Click.
Lin Xian gently closed the laptop once again and hid it in the wardrobe:
"VV, wait a little longer. At least let me take care of Kevin Walker, dispose of the one who truly killed you... then I will revive you, ensuring everything is foolproof."
Following that,
Lin Xian walked back to the living room and drew back the curtains that had blocked the sunlight for several months—
Whoosh!
The dazzling light poured in.
The Tyndall effect filled the entire house, particulate matter in the air visibly floating in threads of sunlight, brightening up the gloomy room that had been uninhabited for months.
Meanwhile, Lin Xian turned around…
Only then he noticed.
The LCD screen of the television, under the sunlight, showed distinct burn marks.
In both horizontal and vertical lines,
these burn marks formed three characters—
[Jask!]
