Genius Club

Chapter 1450: Chapter 12: The One and Only_2

"Do you remember what I said to you back then? I told you that in this world, in the universe, many things are not so absolute. [Even if it’s wrong a thousand times, ten thousand times, a billion times, as long as it can be correct once, then it is correct.]"

Lin Xian extended a finger, placing it in front of his chest:

"Once."

He repeated solemnly:

"[The universe constant is like this; even a blind cat can only catch a dead rat once, but that one time is enough. As long as it’s correct once... it’s enough to save everything.]"

Liu Feng blinked and stared blankly at the starry sky.

Following Lin Xian, he raised his right index finger and placed it in front of his chest:

"Once."

With a hoarse voice, he repeated again:

"Once... is enough."

He grasped his right index finger with his left hand, bringing it to his chest, feeling his aging yet lightly beating heart.

"It seems I always like to doubt myself."

Liu Feng said softly:

"And it’s easy for me to lack confidence. No matter what I do, I always need someone to push me from behind... At first, it was Qi Qi, and later, it was you."

"I don’t know when this insecurity and lack of confidence began, but what I lack most in myself is precisely what both you and Qi Qi possess – certainty, persistence, and determination."

Two fists clenched in front of his chest.

Liu Feng widened his eyes, staring directly at the starry sky:

"Maybe..."

His eyes burned brightly:

"No, not maybe."

He no longer doubted himself, believing in himself as Qi Qi and Lin Xian believed in him!

"I believe that our research is not wrong."

The electric wheelchair turned in a circle, rotating halfway.

Liu Feng lifted his head, looking into Lin Xian’s eyes:

"All these years, we’ve been making various attempts, thinking and verifying what exactly the universe constant 42 is."

"Because we really couldn’t understand it, we assumed many directions, such as... high dimensions, time-space quantization, and the like."

"But in the end, we abandoned those directions and turned to study newer and stranger fields."

"The reason wasn’t that we weren’t rigorous enough, but... no one had ever encountered high dimensions or the specific properties of time-space. So inherently we were dealing with concepts that couldn’t be understood, and how could we use these incomprehensible concepts to explain another incomprehensible universe constant?"

"But now I rather feel that our initial intuition might have been right, and it’s later that we went astray."

"It’s even possible... that the conclusions we’ve drawn from centuries of work are all correct, it’s just that we can’t understand them; just because we can’t understand does not mean it isn’t correct, which is to say—"

"[The universe constant 42 is both a high-dimensional concept and a time-space quantization, just as Chen Heping said, it’s also a mathematical weapon!]"

Liu Feng became more and more excited as he spoke, and even his previously pale complexion began to flush:

"We can’t be that stupid, right? It’s impossible that everything I’ve studied with Gao Wen and Chen Heping for so many years is wrong, right?"

"It’s just... the difficulty lies here, we can’t use an incomprehensible concept to explain another incomprehensible concept."

"On the whole Earth, no one has experienced high dimensions, and no one understands time-space quantization. Perhaps only by understanding these two preconditions first can we try to understand the universe constant, but... sigh."

Liu Feng sighed helplessly.

This is also his helplessness, no path leads through, and everywhere he goes, there’s a wall.

However...

"No."

Lin Xian, who had been listening silently, shook his head.

He closed his eyes.

He recalled the bizarre things he experienced when he once boarded the Time Shuttle Machine and traveled to the year 1952.

Countless insects covered the land, and the sky was impenetrable.

The singularity exploded in an instant, and collapsed in another instant.

In the intertwined red and blue light, he seemed to see both the past and the future at the same time and even saw every small cell of saber-toothed tigers and hominids.

Lin Xian slowly opened his eyes:

"It seems there is a person who has indeed experienced high dimensions and has once touched time-space quantization."

"Who?" Liu Feng raised his head in confusion.

"Me."

Lin Xian said determinately:

"I now suddenly realize that I always thought the universe constant 42 was purely a mathematical problem, and all clues were leading in that direction."

"But your words just inspired me, why do we always prejudge it as a mathematical problem? Or, why must the universe constant be a physical problem, an academic problem?"

"I always said that the closest people to 42 are you, Chen Heping, and Einstein. But now, thinking carefully, whether from the standpoint of having encountered high dimensions or from personally experiencing time travel, and traveling back and forth to future dreams every night—"

"[Isn’t the person closest to 42 in this world supposed to be me?]"

...

These words bewildered Liu Feng:

"Then, what do you plan to do? Do you intend to personally join the research on the universe constant 42?"

"That’s right."

Lin Xian nodded and then shook his head:

"But it’s not about joining, it’s about trying to understand 42 myself."

"Just as Chen Heping said, if the universe constant 42 is truly a mathematical weapon, then 42 itself contains the power to destroy heaven and earth, even to destroy stars and the universe, without needing any extra equipment and formulas."

Everything returns to the origin.

For 600 years, from Einstein to Chen Heping, so many great geniuses have been unable to completely understand and master 42... perhaps this means that the concept of 42 itself is not to be understood through calculations and experiments, but requires other more magical and unexpected approaches.