Genius Club-Chapter 590 - 19: Lying to You (Added for Alliance Master Wei Rou!)
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Liu Feng’s head popped up with three question marks.
He glanced at Lin Xian, then at Huang Que.
This...
What’s with this ambiguous atmosphere?
Flirting right in front of me, really?
"Ahem, ahem."
He coughed lightly and then walked straight to the door with his phone:
"Uh, I need to use the restroom. You two chat for a bit."
Having said this,
he walked briskly out the door.
Lin Xian looked at Huang Que:
"You—"
Before he could get a word out, Liu Feng hurriedly came back, grabbed a roll of toilet paper, and left:
"I thought about it and, well, I gotta do a number two. Chat away, I take my time in the bathroom. If I’m not squatting for half an hour, I probably won’t get up. Uh... sometimes it actually takes an hour. Anyway, I gotta go."
Bang.
He even closed the door behind him.
"..."
Lin Xian looked at the closed laboratory door, turned his head, and looked at Huang Que.
It seemed that his earlier feeling had indeed been a misconception.
It could also have been because Huang Que was standing in the sun,
making the color in her eyes seem dimmer.
Now as Huang Que walked from the corridor into the lab, entering the shadows, her pupils remained as bright as ever... He didn’t know what mechanism was at play.
"I’ve received the invitation to the Genius Club."
Lin Xian said softly.
He had wanted to ask why Huang Que happened to be there, but Liu Feng interrupted, so he decided to get straight to the point:
"I don’t really know what to say. Your hints were spot on. It turns out I haven’t been looking in the ’Mirror’ long enough, nowhere near long enough. If I had taken your advice and stared at the ’Mirror’ for 24 hours straight, I would’ve solved the puzzle long ago."
Huang Que chuckled lightly, walked into the middle of the lab, and caressed the ’Space-Time Clock’ that Liu Feng had placed on the bench:
"Hindsight is 20/20, plus, no normal person stares at a mirror for 24 hours. Besides, getting the invitation now isn’t too late."
"Or perhaps... even if you could’ve somehow gotten it earlier, it wouldn’t have been much help. After all, the invitation is only the first step, and without answering those three questions correctly, you still couldn’t join the Genius Club."
"Life is like that, you never know which step is right or wrong, nor do you know what to persist with and what to give up on partway. Just like I told you before, Lin Xian, if you want to be a leader, you should stick with the right and follow through on the wrong; you’ve got to have the guts and confidence to do great things."
Lin Xian unzipped his sports jacket to reveal the sweatshirt underneath.
On his chest, there was the gold emblem of the Genius Club.
He pointed to the emblem and showed it to Huang Que:
"What I’m curious about now is whether I obtained this Genius Club invitation through proper channels or if there was some cheating involved. Based on my understanding... those who receive an invitation should easily be able to answer those three questions, not be completely clueless like me, without the foggiest idea."
"After all... even getting an invitation to the Genius Club is hard enough, and there shouldn’t be any chance of failing the assessment, right? At least over the years, the Genius Club has kept itself so well hidden, with not a single clue exposed, which suggests that everyone who got an invitation had actually passed the test with the three questions, right?"
Huang Que blinked her azure eyes and hummed lightly:
"You’re not wrong about that, anyone who gets an invitation will certainly answer the three questions correctly; it’s an inevitable cause and effect. As for the origin of your invitation... I think you’re aware, but don’t ask me for specifics, as I can’t tell you."
Lin Xian nodded.
Zipping up his jacket, he no longer asked:
"I’ll find the answer on my own."
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Huang Que smiled meaningfully and stayed silent.
Only then did Lin Xian remember the initial question; he looked up at Huang Que:
"Based on Liu Feng’s interrupted comment earlier, did you come by earlier? Did you have something to discuss with me?"
Huang Que nodded:
"I would like to invite you to join me on a trip to Copenhagen."
Copenhagen?
Lin Xian mulled over this familiar name.
Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark, as well as its largest city, once rated as the most livable city in the world and one of the happiest cities on the planet.
It has a privileged climate, mild throughout the four seasons, with summer temperatures around 22 degrees Celsius and winter lows just below zero—a truly livable place.
However, Lin Xian felt familiar with this city not because of tourism or the climate, but because of one of the greatest debates in the history of science—
The century-long debate between Einstein and Niels Bohr.
This debate revolved around quantum mechanics and almost included the brightest scientists in human history, each adhering to their views, making the debate indecisively fierce.
And Niels Bohr is the founder of the Copenhagen interpretation, having made significant contributions to the creation and development of quantum mechanics in modern science.
It’s worth mentioning that to this day, there’s no consensus on who won this century-long debate.
In 2022, because the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the highly anticipated field of quantum entanglement experiments, many people believed that the Copenhagen interpretation had won, and Einstein had lost.
However, quantum mechanics is still a somewhat enigmatic domain today, and most theories cannot be experimentally verified, so there’s no evidence to prove Einstein was wrong.
