Genius Club

Chapter 1455: Chapter 13: 42_4

"It’s not just the Pythagorean theorem that’s so troublesome; even area calculation formulas, volume calculation formulas... the textbooks of this alien civilization say you must multiply by a ’correction factor’ to get the correct answer."

"All the precise manufacturing goods, electronic products, daily necessities, and large machinery of their entire society are manufactured according to such complex and unaesthetic formulas."

Big Face Cat’s head started to smoke.

He scratched vigorously:

"Well...that doesn’t seem like a problem, after all, their formulas are just like that."

"Indeed, it’s not a problem."

Liu Feng continued:

"Because these are the mathematical laws of the region where that civilization exists. So, living in that space poses no problem at all; everything is correct."

"But later, this alien civilization launched exploratory spacecraft into the universe, gradually moving away from their galaxy. As their distance from their original galaxy, that is, the giant black hole, grew further, malfunctions on the spacecraft increased."

"First, the hull started leaking, then the metal began to crackle, and eventually, the spacecraft developed numerous cracks everywhere. The once airtight fuel tanks and gas chambers ruptured and exploded instantly, leaving no survivors on the entire spacecraft."

"Huh?" X2

Big Face Cat’s brain was boiling:

"What kind of situation is this? Why did the perfectly fine spacecraft suddenly start leaking and cracking? It wasn’t under attack or damage, why did it just fall apart like that?"

Chen Heping sighed.

He felt like he’d given the answer from the start, but his silly son still couldn’t grasp it:

"Because their spaceship moved away from the supermassive black hole, the space distortion returned to normal, so... the Pythagorean theorem and a series of mathematical formulas all reverted to normal."

"Think about it, the original spacecraft modules were manufactured in an environment where the Pythagorean constant was 2.013, hence they fit perfectly; but now that the constant is gradually reverting to 2, how could the originally fitting steel plates and sealed containers not deform?"

Liu Feng nodded:

"Yes, Big Face, different mathematical formulas, different mathematical laws... how are they not mathematical weapons?"

"Think about Earth, if our world’s value of pi suddenly became 3 and our Pythagorean constant became 4... wouldn’t almost everything collapse?"

Big Face Cat was stunned:

"It seems so."

He seemed to half-understand, deciding not to strain his brain:

"Fine, fine, whatever, do as you like, I’ll just focus on delivering my meals."

During their conversation, the three had already arrived in front of the door to the underground laboratory.

This door had been locked for almost two years, as if time itself was locked, never opening even once.

"What should we do?"

Big Face Cat pointed to the meal delivery slot beside him:

"Are you planning to see Lin Xian? If you plan to open the door, I’ll deliver the meal through the main entrance; if you don’t plan to see Lin Xian, I’ll continue placing it through the usual spot."

Liu Feng opened his mouth, just about to say something—

Click.

The Hafnium Alloy door made a crisp sound as the lock switch unexpectedly opened automatically!

"Lin... Lin Xian?"

Liu Feng and Chen Heping were excited, quickly pushing the wheelchair forward.

But after waiting a long while, the door didn’t move at all; Lin Xian did not open the door for them.

The three looked at each other?

Since Lin Xian had already opened the lock switch for them, why not just push the door open directly?

Could they still have to push the door themselves?

With doubt, Chen Heping first steadied Liu Feng’s wheelchair.

Then he took a deep breath.

He pushed the door open strongly—

"Ahhhhh!!!!"

Big Face Cat screamed in shock.

He only saw...

In the brightly lit enormous underground laboratory.

On the walls,

The ceiling,

The floor,

The bed sheets,

The wooden chairs,

The tables,

Even on every piece of scattered scratch paper on the ground,

All were filled with densely arranged numbers 42 in various sizes!

Everywhere you looked, there was 42.

Not even a single corner, nook, or any writable place was spared!

Within a large 42, there was a smaller 42;

Within the smaller 42, there was an even smaller 42 written with finer strokes;

[Even within the smallest 42, there were still lines as fine as mosquito legs, but definitely not intersecting, not connecting, not overlapping with 42!]

Big Face Cat turned pale, slipping down to the ground with a thud...

His view dropped.

It was then he discovered Lin Xian, sitting cross-legged in the middle of the billions of dense 42s on the floor.

"Shift!"

He cursed loudly:

The dignified security captain was scared witless, Big Face Cat was genuinely ticked off.

He got up furiously.

He ran straight to Lin Xian, giving a hard slapping on his shoulder:

"Are you trying to scare people to death like a ghost! What on earth are you doing, brother!"

Finally.

Lin Xian, sitting cross-legged on the ground, slowly raised his head.

His gaze was out of focus.

He looked at Big Face Cat;

Or maybe he was looking at the air behind Big Face Cat:

"[42... is everywhere.]"