Genius Club

Chapter 1407: Chapter 49: What Is 42 (Part 2)

Lin Xian shifted his position, crossing his legs:

“You can’t really blame them; the ‘Black Hand’ behind deceiving Einstein is indeed insidious. All the future predictions they provide, which can be verified in the short term, are true, making you fully believe them; even those predictions hundreds of years into the future are real. Yet the ultimate outcome is false, which is incredibly hard to discern.”

“The toughest lies to expose are those that are seven parts truth and three parts falsehood, not to mention Einstein’s which are 99% true with only 1% false; it’s utterly impossible to distinguish.”

Jask closed his notebook.

Closed his eyes.

Thought for a while:

“So, from this perspective, the ‘Black Hand’ behind all this, which you call ‘Mysterious Power’, is really powerful. At least… they can genuinely observe the real future, otherwise this kind of authentic facade couldn’t be manufactured out of thin air.”

“Copernicus is so obsessed with killing scientists and mathematicians because the false future seen by Einstein showed that research on cosmic constant 42 would make human civilization expose itself and invite destruction.”

“This is quite baffling as well, just an ordinary number like 42, what kind of magic does it hold? What kind of power?”

“In 1952, Einstein experienced the same thing, merely calculating this number and out of nowhere a space-time rift appeared, and two space-time particles flew out.”

“[Just by calculating 42, without fully understanding the secret and truth of 42; so… is the fundamental reason why the Black Hand lets Einstein see this false future because the Black Hand also fears the power of 42 being grasped by humans?]”

“Highly possible.”

Lin Xian said softly:

“VV and I have also analyzed that the Mysterious Power behind the scenes likely indeed pinpointed the existence of our human civilization at the moment Einstein calculated 42, hence immediately sent over two space-time particles.”

“It can also be understood as perhaps from that very moment, our human civilization was marked… the Black Hand uses Earth as a staking venue, planting and protecting the Millennium Stakes to lock their history.”

“They don’t care how high humans can jump, they are well aware there’s no need to suppress human technology entirely, because even if human technology were to explode over several centuries, it would still be like ants to them, annihilated in a snap.”

“In the eyes of ‘Mysterious Power’, the evolution of human civilization, and even Earth’s life over billions of years, is simply worthless; our only value to them is serving as a staking venue for the Millennium Stakes, and nothing more.”

“However, the cosmic constant 42 is a mysterious force, akin to a Pandora’s box that’s unpredictable, this indeed seems to be the only thing threatening the ‘Mysterious Power’, so they let Einstein see a false future to ensure two things—”

“[1, Within ample time, use the Millennium Stakes for repeated staking, to achieve the primary objective of locking history.]”

“[2, Find a way to prevent humans from researching the cosmic constant 42 too much, to stop this force of truth from being grasped by humans, making the situation uncontrollable.]”

“This is also probably why the ‘Mysterious Power’ waits until 2624 to destroy Earth, because by that moment the Millennium Stakes are close to becoming ineffective, and all human civilization holds no meaning to them anymore, so it’s more prudent to destroy directly.”

“Hehe.”

Jask sneered twice:

“Despicable, and degenerates alike.”

“This insidious Black Hand, wanting to lock history while guarding against humans discovering the secret of 42. Do you not feel… this is somewhat akin to the past “nuclear proliferation treaty”?”

“On the scale of Earth, nuclear weapons were once unstoppable, indefensible, unmatched weapons of mass destruction; whoever possessed nuclear weapons had a seat at the table in global discourse.”

“So then… on the cosmic scale, if the cosmic constant 42 is truly like nuclear weapons on Earth, being irresistible, indefensible, unmatched, perhaps those powerful Mysterious Powers indeed don’t wish weak humans to grasp this truth, they only want to monopolize this power.”

However…

Lin Xian shook his head:

“No, Jask, I don’t think so.”

“My idea is, the Black Hand that plants the Millennium Stakes shouldn’t have fully mastered the true power of 42 either.”

?

Jask tilted his head:

“Why do you think this?”

Lin Xian took a deep breath, raising his head:

“[If the power of 42 is so great and terrifying, what necessary need do they have to bother with the Millennium Stakes, to lock history?]”

“[Since they still need to rely on the Millennium Stakes to lock history and guard against us humans researching the cosmic constant 42, it shows that the ‘Black Hand’ is not strong enough, not strong enough to face everything.]”

Jask was momentarily stunned.

Furrowed his eyebrows.

Then extended his thumb, giving Lin Xian a thumbs-up:

“Brilliant thought!”

Having said that.

He stood up, went to the small blackboard, picked up the electronic chalk and started writing briskly:

“Following your logic, the stages of understanding cosmic constant 42 should be divided into three parts.”

Jask wrote on the blackboard one by one—

Calculate 42.

Understand the truth of 42.

Master the power of 42.

“This is how it is.”

He threw away the electronic chalk, habitually clapped his hands:

“We humans are currently only at the stage of calculating 42, but merely calculating this result doesn’t achieve anything nor does it hold any meaning, instead it might turn us into puppets of some ill-intentioned Black Hand.”