Genius Club

Chapter 1442: Chapter 9: Piling

On the plane home, Liu Feng already told Lin Xian about the current situation at Rhein University, naturally including aspects of research.

These years, managing to hold on and maintain the core of the university has been very difficult; restricted by conditions and equipment limitations, nearly all advanced topics have completely stalled, including the cosmic constant.

Frankly speaking, the research of the cosmic constant 42 has long reached a bottleneck.

Even with the addition of Emperor Gao Wen, Liu Feng and Gao Wen merely calculated the result of 42, but were unable to delve any further.

Everything is a mystery.

Everything still remains a mystery.

Since even Liu Feng, the author of “Introduction to the Cosmological Constant,” and Emperor Gao Wen, the peak of human intelligence, are unable to solve it, the only hope rests on the final person…

Chen Heping.

“Let’s get started.”

Lin Xian said indifferently:

“The time we have left is not much, every minute, every second is precious.”

“So what do we do now?” Liu Feng asked.

“First, let’s head to the barbershop.”

Lin Xian stroked his large beard on his chest:

“I’ve never been able to accept this style.”

…

Inside the Rhein University barbershop.

With the sound of scissors snipping, thick strands of long hair fell from the top of the head; the buzzing razor slid across the chin, shaving the fluffy beard clean like a lawnmower.

“Hmm?” “Eh?”

Staring at the youthful face in the barber’s mirror, both Lin Xian and Liu Feng were stunned.

“Wait a second, what’s going on?”

Lin Xian widened his eyes, looking at the handsome and attractive young man in the mirror.

This…

Is this himself?

Indeed, it was himself.

But this face, it’s his younger self!

Liu Feng also stood up with his cane for support, leaning in to observe Lin Xian’s youthful appearance:

“How are you still so young? I previously saw your wearied long hair and beard, and thought you were at least forty or fifty.”

“Yeah, I thought the same.”

Lin Xian was unsure whether to feel delighted or shocked, he untied the barber apron, stood up, and leaned closer to the mirror for observation.

Upon further confirmation, there was no mistake.

The man in the mirror, although not a 20-something young guy, was definitely not a middle-aged man of forty or fifty; estimating through skin and eye corner details… Lin Xian should be roughly around 30 years old.

“I understand now.”

Lin Xian analyzed:

“I initially thought I had naturally aged for ten or even twenty years in the hibernation pod, but judging by now, that duration wasn’t as long as I imagined.”

“The hibernation pod’s effect must have failed a few years ago, so I effectively slept in the ambient temperature fill fluid for about four to five years.”

“Upon careful thought, yes, had I slept for ten or twenty years with normal metabolism, my hair and beard shouldn’t be just a few meters long!”

Liu Feng thoughtfully nodded:

“A few meters might be an exaggeration, but you’re right, if the sleep duration was truly that long, your beard and hair absolutely shouldn’t be of this length.”

“It can only be said, when common people see a large beard and long hair, they instinctively equate it with older age, ruling out the possibility of being young.”

“But it’s understandable, looking like a wild man with hair covering all facial features, who could tell your actual age without shaving it off?”

The nearby barber picked up a strand of hair from the floor, straightening it to check the length:

“Generally, the hair growth rate of younger people is quicker, it can be several centimeters, even twenty centimeters in a year.”

“Judging by your hair length, the previous duration was all normal hibernation, only the final four to five years were completely spent asleep.”

“If your age before hibernation was 25, then your real age now… should be around 30.”

“Haha.”

This hilarious accident made Lin Xian laugh inexplicably.

He suddenly realized many things.

Recalling the words CC once said in his dreams:

“A middle-aged man with long hair and a beard told me to go to Donghai City and open Lin Xian’s safe, your voice is very similar to his.”

“I’ve only seen one other person’s gun skills comparable to yours, the way you both shoot is identical.”

“You are definitely not VV because you are simply too young, the age doesn’t match.”

“VV’s gaze is very bewildered, very indifferent, and also very ruthless… leaving in such a resolute manner.”

Lin Xian scratched his head.

Wearing leather shoes, grinding the thick hair that fell on the floor:

“This is a long-standing misunderstanding…”

“So long that it would take 600 years to unravel.”

…

Next day, inside a red brick conference room.

Liu Feng leaned on his cane with one hand and wrote with chalk on the blackboard with the other.

Sitting below, Lin Xian, while waiting for Liu Feng to finish writing, stared at the Space-Time Clock on the table, pondering.

This Space-Time Clock’s casing was evidently refurbished, the interior remains the original set-up, thus there’s no need for recalibration.

Currently, the reading on the Space-Time Clock is 0.0002184.

This proves that after the super disaster prematurely initiated in 2504, the world line indeed shifted.

But…

By now, this outcome can be easily seen with the naked eye without relying on the Space-Time Clock’s reading.

Liu Feng finally finished writing, straightened his back, and tapped the blackboard:

“I’ve summarized, these are the few questions we haven’t yet figured out.”

He stepped aside to allow the only audience, Lin Xian, to see the blackboard:

[1, Why has Lin Xian lost his ability to dream, and the Millennium Stakes CC simultaneously lost the characteristic of nightmares?]

[2, The World-Ending White Light of 2624 indeed came from the depths of the universe, who is the Black Hand behind it?]

[3, Why did the Millennium Stakes began malfunctioning after only 600 years, proving to be so unreliable?]

[4, Under the current circumstances, how do we break the impasse? How do we save the world? How do we stop the World-Ending White Light arriving in 8 years?]