Genius Club

Chapter 1400: Chapter 47: Newton’s Last Move

Dr. Hans took a step back, stunned as he looked at the two unexpected guests in front of him.

Instinctively, he hurriedly turned around—

Click.

However, as soon as he turned, the world’s most secure smart door lock locked with a sound, leaving him no chance to escape.

He turned again to look at the security device on the wall—

Beep beep.

With a soft sound, the steadily breathing green light instantly extinguished, and the never-failing security device also failed simultaneously.

Hans frowned, realizing he was trapped, and suddenly understood why, despite two intruders, the door locks and security devices didn’t react.

The situation just now was enough to explain.

Lin Xian had come with a super hacker, and all electronic equipment was under his control.

How laughable.

A house full of high-tech defense devices, yet not as good as raising a Dogo; at least a dog’s brain wouldn’t be hacked, and now it could bite Lin Xian a few times for me.

“Heh.”

Hans chuckled softly, accepting reality.

He turned around to look at Lin Xian, who was steadily sitting on a wooden chair:

“How did you find me?”

Lin Xian smiled slightly, looked at the hafnium alloy trash can by his feet, and said slowly:

“Newton, I must admit, your acting skills are really good, and you hide very well.”

“No wonder Jask and the others couldn’t find you all these years. Who would think that the world-renowned Reformist, the technological leader, the academic giant Dr. Hans… is actually the culprit hindering human technological development behind the scenes?”

“If it wasn’t for targeting first before shooting, I might find it hard to suspect you too. In the eyes of the world, your research attitude is radical and brave, vehemently denouncing all traditional conservatism. Everyone knows you hate technological stagnation to the core, so no one would suspect you.”

He paused.

Lin Xian pointed to the chair behind Hans:

“Why not sit down and talk slowly? You are getting older, China has had the tradition of respecting the elderly and caring for the young since ancient times, and I prepared that chair especially for you.”

“Please sit, Newton, Hans, or Copernicus… I think, in this undisturbed room, we’ll chat for a long time.”

However…

Hans did not appreciate Lin Xian’s kindness.

He stood there silently, staring at Lin Xian.

Lin Xian didn’t mind and continued:

“The self-staged car accident today was brilliant, in my opinion… even if that female secretary hadn’t pushed you away, the ‘out-of-control’ flying car wouldn’t have hit you in the end.”

“Even though you have repeatedly instructed the female secretary not to leak it, you’ve secretly arranged for reporters to report it extensively. It’s unimaginable… with today’s exhilarating speech at the conference and the subsequent coverage of this assassination car accident, how high your status in the research and academic world will rise.”

“But you’re not concerned about status; your current status is already very high. The most critical purpose of orchestrating that car accident is probably to [pretend to be a victim and clear suspicion that you are Newton].”

“It’s just… others can’t see through your moves, but I see them clearly. I have also thoroughly investigated… the century-old debate on the reactionless drive centuries ago was actually fueled by you.”

“You know well that the reactionless drive has no prospects, no real value, but this project will waste hundreds of years of human time, resources, and talent, leading aerospace technology astray and wasting centuries of effort.”

“I suppose, this result is what Einstein once told you, right? When you and Copernicus monopolized the Genius Club’s question opportunities, you’d already asked all the questions you wanted; of course, you knew the reactionless drive was just a sci-fi scam, doomed to fail.”

“The same logic applies to today’s conference where you’re eloquently leading human technology into a new era of electronic prosthetics and electronic brains, the purpose is self-evident—”

Lin Xian looked Hans in the eyes:

“[Because you know, electronic prosthetics and electronic brains are also destined to be failed sci-fi scams, even if humans waste hundreds of years again, they will eventually find out it’s all wasted effort.]”

“The reason is quite simple, naturally.”

Lin Xian lowered his head, looking at the hafnium alloy trash can VV, reached out and stroked its top:

“Just like how VV locked your door and paralyzed all your security facilities just now. Mechanization and intelligence mean losing control, which is something humans haven’t realized yet.”

“Electronic prosthetics, electronic organs, electronic brains, technically not very difficult, but their biggest problem is they’ll make humans automatically relinquish control of their bodies, as long as a super hacker appears… the entire society of cyborgs, will become puppets and meat chickens of the hacker, so it’s destined to be an unachievable technological revolution.”

“This is one of the few superiorities and stability of the human flesh body; no matter how powerful a hacker, magician, or hypnotist, they can’t strip away control of your body.”

“Let me tell you a joke, if you raised a pack of dogs in your yard today, I wouldn’t dare sit here in your living room waiting for you; but if you dared to raise a pack of mechanical dogs… they’d surely all be lying at my feet now.”

…

After a long silence.

Hans stared at VV with green glowing eyes:

“So, this is your Artificial Intelligence? You found me through it?”

“Technically speaking, such a thing shouldn’t exist in the world; the AI’s upper limit is locked, humans didn’t choose this tech tree… where did you find this intelligent trash can?”