Genius Club

Chapter 1454: Chapter 13: 42_3

"What?"

Li Cheng blinked, thinking he had misheard:

"Are we going to rebuild the Tem Bank that disappeared over a hundred years ago?"

"Um...I feel like doing that seems pretty pointless, will there really be anyone to claim these safes?"

Liu Feng shook his head.

He said slowly:

"Whether or not someone comes to claim the safes, we must keep our promise."

"Faced with the previous super disaster, it was an act of God, and we had no choice but to break our promise. But now that we’ve found it, we must fulfill our duty and continue to keep what the customers have stored."

"Furthermore, this world is so wonderful, elders from hundreds of years ago can live until now, safes from hundreds of years ago can be dug up again..."

"Who can guarantee that no one will specially come to look for these safes?"

...

The blazing summer wind blew, and the sun shone fiercely.

Big Face Cat wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued pushing the food cart forward.

"Yoho."

Seeing the two people ahead, he let out a surprised cry to express his confusion:

"What are you two doing here?"

In front, his father Chen Heping was pushing the wheelchair toward the back mountain, and of course, the person sitting in the wheelchair was the old dean of Rhein University, Liu Feng.

"We’re here to see Lin Xian."

Chen Heping looked at Big Face Cat and said:

"Previously, I and Principal Liu Feng never came here, not to disturb Lin Xian."

"But...now there is hardly any time left."

Big Face Cat was utterly confused:

"What the hell are you talking about, it’s not even September yet, how is there hardly any time left? Have you gone mad from your research?"

"Oh, oh, oh, you’re saying there’s hardly any summer left, is that right. But what’s the point of that? This is not the last summer, next summer will be just as hot, won’t it?"

No one paid attention to Big Face Cat.

Explaining these things to him was too troublesome, so even Chen Heping had never told the kids about the World-Ending White Light.

Big Face Cat was very indignant.

He scoffed.

Pushing the food cart to catch up with the two:

"You guys, you have read yourselves silly! I’m worried because you few always look so gloomy and neurotic, I absolutely don’t want our daughter to continue going to school."

"I don’t want her to grow up and become like you, with such suffering and deep-seated hatred! The funniest one is Lin Xian, this little old brother is completely obsessed, he really wants to shut himself in the underground lab for enlightenment."

"And you, aren’t you scientists? How come you always do such magical stuff every day? And then there’s something called [Mathematical Weapon]...math is just simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, can this be considered a weapon?"

"You don’t understand."

Chen Heping replied coldly:

"Even if I explain to you, you won’t understand."

"I don’t understand?"

Big Face Cat stretched his head:

"Haha, since I can’t understand, it means your ideas must be wrong, the cosmic constant 42 you’ve been studying absolutely is not the universal truth."

A tap.

Chen Heping stopped.

Along with Liu Feng’s wheelchair, it also stopped.

The two turned together to look at Big Face Cat:

"Why do you say that?"

"[Because universal truth must be simple enough!]"

Big Face Cat answered obviously:

"What is universal truth? 1+1=2 is universal truth, it’s simple, right? It’s easy to understand, right? Isn’t it applicable throughout the universe? Such things that ordinary little kids can understand, that’s what universal truth is!"

"Fallacy," Chen Heping concluded concisely.

"Hey! Don’t look down on people like that, you bookworm!"

In the China-style father-son dynamic, the relationship between Big Face Cat and Chen Heping was vividly demonstrated.

Big Face Cat patted his chest:

"Did I say anything wrong? Truth is often the simplest and most elegant, just like philosophy!"

Chen Heping squinted at his unaccomplished son:

"Do you understand philosophy?"

"Why wouldn’t I?"

Big Face Cat retorted:

"I realized early on that the cat is an ideology, and the face is metaphysics!"

"That’s just what you think yourself." Chen Heping felt it was a waste of words.

"And Lin Xian!"

Big Face Cat pointed to the closed door of the underground laboratory ahead:

"No wonder you can’t figure out the cosmic constant, you have to rely on my little old brother, you see, you keep being pulled back and forth, and even end up being unable to explain a problem clearly!"

"Why don’t you tell me, what exactly is [Mathematical Weapon]?"

Liu Feng was amused by the bickering between the father and son.

He waved for Big Face Cat to come closer and explained to him:

"It’s not that it can’t be explained to you, actually using some easy-to-understand methods... During the era when I was born and grew up, there was a famous science fiction short story called ’Pythagoras’. "

"The story describes an alien civilization living near huge black holes, which caused their space to distort a bit, so their Pythagorean theorem was quite strange, not short side a squared + long side b squared = hypotenuse c squared."

"Wha?"

Big Face Cat’s brain started heating up:

"Isn’t this messing around? Isn’t the Pythagorean theorem just a squared + b squared = c squared?"

"This is common knowledge! My daughter knows this! If the Pythagorean theorem wasn’t this, what else could it be? What else could be a triangle?"

Liu Feng smiled slightly:

"In the region where that alien civilization lived, the Pythagorean theorem was short side a to the power of 2.013 plus long side b to the power of 2.013 equals hypotenuse c to the power of 2.013."

"Who can calculate this!"

Big Face Cat exclaimed in shock:

"This kind of calculation problem wouldn’t take several hours?"

"Yes indeed."

Liu Feng nodded:

"This is the impact of huge gravity distorting space on the surface area of objects and mathematical relationships."