Genius Club

Chapter 1386: Chapter 42 I Still Miss Him

Lin Xian looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar pretty girl in front of him.

She didn’t know him.

He didn’t know her either.

But...

In countless time spaces and nights, they had already met at the beginning and the end of the world countless times.

The most recent meeting was in Brooklyn in 1952.

The massive fireworks from ten big pickup trucks didn’t keep the First Generation Pillar CC’s attention for long, as she turned into blue stardust and vanished beside the clock tower on the bank’s top floor.

That girl in the scene.

Was strikingly similar to the Qin Xi who had just finished a street performance in front of him.

As if time rewound, the sun and moon traveled east, dragging the flourishing city of Chengdu back to the ancient, impoverished Brooklyn... the girl sitting on the dock’s wooden box gazing towards the Manhattan skyscrapers.

Lin Xian didn’t know what the talkative VV was thinking at this moment.

But roughly.

He was also probably thinking similar memories to his.

He had never seen VV so quiet, so anguished before.

No.

Strictly speaking, there was one time.

At the end of the Third Dreamland, Lin Xian told the dilapidated garbage can robot VV that the furthest distance in the world is when people are not able to meet in life.

At that moment, the clumsy, foolish old robot suddenly seemed to have a heartbeat, emotions, and a human heart.

The lights of the entire Rhine Sky City dimmed, like dripping tears, just like VV at this moment.

...

The girl in the tunnel tilted her head.

Blinked her eyes.

Looking at the strange group in front of her.

It was already nearing one o’clock in the morning, public transport stations were no longer open, and the surrounding crowd was gradually dispersing, leaving the tunnel empty in the blink of an eye.

Yet, the panting young man stood there silently staring at her; beside him was a garbage can robot trembling all over as if it was about to fall apart... also staring at her without speaking, causing Qin Xi to feel inexplicably creepy.

Could it be...

She had encountered someone crazy?

Suddenly.

She had a light-bulb moment and figured it out:

"You... you didn’t come here on purpose, did you?"

The panting man.

Seemed like the only possibility.

That was really embarrassing; they had come all the way over, only to find her performance had ended.

But!

In this era, there were still people who liked classical music so much that they came all the way to watch a performance in the middle of the night, she couldn’t help but feel a bit pleasantly surprised and newsworthy.

She smiled slightly, stood with her hands behind her back looking at Lin Xian:

"Do you also like classical music?"

This question indeed stumped Lin Xian.

Classical music...

He hadn’t actually been in contact with it, so he couldn’t say he liked or disliked it.

However, speaking of it.

For Qin Xi from 2504, what exactly was considered classical music?

It seemed, based on the span of time, that music from several decades or a hundred years ago could be considered classical music; music from hundreds of years ago... should be called antique music, right?

But at least.

For a zombie from the old era like him, music from 2234 was already a bit incomprehensible, like being stunned from the first note.

Not to mention the year 2504, he definitely couldn’t accept music from the new era.

Unexpectedly.

Someone who was once at the forefront of fashion had turned into a stubborn conservator because of the time span of hibernation.

No wonder the British science fiction writer Douglas Adams jokingly summarized the "Three Laws of Science":

1, Any technology that existed when I was born is normal; it’s part of the natural order of the world.

2, Anything invented between when I was 15 and 35 years old is revolutionary, destined to change the world.

3, Anything invented after I’m 35 is against the natural order and anti-human.

"I quite like it."

Lin Xian said while looking at the girl, who looked exactly like Chu Anqing, Zhang Yuqian, the First Generation Pillar CC, and CC six hundred years later:

"I prefer things from the old era."

Pffft—

The girl was instantly amused, the fluffy ponytail at the back of her head bouncing charmingly:

"I could tell at a glance! Because... you’re actually a person from the old era!"

?

Lin Xian was a bit puzzled.

He looked at his own attire, which was no different from the students at Rhein University, all prepared by Gao Wen and considered very ordinary for this era.

His hairstyle was fine too; on the way here, Lin Xian didn’t think his hairstyle was particularly odd.

Under such circumstances...

How could she tell he was a person from the old era?

As if seeing Lin Xian’s perplexity, Qin Xi smiled and explained:

"Hee hee, it’s the [expression and eyes]!"

"Do you find it curious why, even when the dress is the same, it’s easy to identify who are people from the old era?"

"The reason lies in the expression and eyes; people who’ve hibernated from the old era always have a sense of unhappiness, melancholy, and loneliness and rejection."

"Look, people from the new era are all energetic, full of hope for the future; but many hibernators from the old era, perhaps because they lack a sense of belonging after awakening without family or friends, always give off a feeling of walking dead, unable to integrate into the new era... ah!"

Qin Xi suddenly realized such words might be offensive, impolite, and hastily covered her mouth!

Really.

Why was she so unguarded as if chatting with a good friend, talking about someone she just met for the first time?

Since the person was from the old era, saying they were like the living dead was indeed inappropriate.

"Sorry, sorry, I’m just blunt and straightforward, please don’t mind."