Genius Club.

Chapter 316 Extreme Reasoning
"kindness……"

Gao Yang stared at this exquisite diary that seemed to have no traces of time:
"This four-digit password isn't that hard to guess. I'll guess Zhang Yuqian's birthday. 0121! Try it now!"

Lin Xian lowered his head and turned the four code wheels.

It's as silky smooth as ever.

The clicks are crisp and smooth, the sound is pleasant and the feel is great.

It’s hard to imagine that this diary has been left there for more than 20 years... Just by the sound and feel, one can infer that the mechanical design of this combination lock must be very sophisticated.

It has to be said that the small is the big. The craftsmanship level of Xiao Rizi in the last century was still good, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was world-leading.

No wonder those toxic chicken soup magazines can make up ghost stories like the dishes in the Sakura Country have to be washed seven times.

It's just a passing cloud of smoke. Lin Xian doesn't know much about the current production technology of Sakura Country. After all, apart from games and animation, it really has no presence.

Even though there are several good brands in the cosmetics field, on the one hand, they are not considered the world's top brands, and on the other hand, due to the reputation impact of nuclear waste water, there is basically no room for Japanese cosmetics to survive in the domestic cosmetics field.

Lin Xian fiddled with the last two code wheels.

0121
The clear and bright numbers stand out, as if this diary has never experienced any time.

"All right."

As he spoke, Lin Xian stretched out his left thumb and pressed the lock to open.

Click!

……

Not open.

"hehe."

Lin Xian couldn't help but think of his first dream, the days and nights when he battled wits and courage with CC the Big Face Cat and tried various passwords to open the safe.

I feel inexplicably nostalgic, as if it were yesterday.

Thinking of the cold and mysterious CC, Lin Xian instantly overlapped her appearance with Chu Anqing and Zhang Yuqian.

Exactly the same, no difference at all, not even a little bit.

in fact.

When he opened the coffin just now and saw that there was no body or ashes of Zhang Yuqian inside, Lin Xian was really relieved...

I feel a little relieved and a little lucky.

If Zhang Yuqian really died of natural causes, with remains and bones, then Chu Anqing's mysterious disappearance is an isolated case in the world.

Isolated cases are not proof.

If something only happens once in this world, it will always be an unsolved mystery.

If we infer that.

Maybe... Chu Anqing just disappeared from this world because of an accident when she came into contact with the space-time particles. If she hadn't come into contact with the space-time particles, she might not have disappeared.

But now.

The same thing happened to Zhang Yuqian more than 20 years ago.

This means that the disappearance of twenty-year-old girls like them into blue stardust was not an accident, but rather a destiny, a designed program.

As long as these things are not accidents, we can find the source, trace the root, verify the cause, and then... change this destined fate!
Lin Xian could feel it more and more.

Chu Anqing may not be dead.

[She really didn't die, she probably just went somewhere else.]

"That's not right."

Gao Yang rolled his eyes:
"Then how about trying 0042? Although I don't think there is much hope, this time point is too special for Zhang Yuqian. It is the time when she came into this world and the time when she will leave this world."

"But it's hard to explain... Her mother couldn't even remember exactly when she was born, so how could she know? Not to mention, could she have predicted that she would disappear at 00:42?"

Suddenly, Gao Yang was stunned:
"Oh my god! It's not impossible! Didn't Chu Anqing know that she would disappear at 00:42 after she touched the space-time particles? That's why she was crying so hard, right?"

"Since Chu Anqing can predict this time, maybe Zhang Yuqian can do it too! Quick, try 0042. I think this password is more promising."

Lin Xian lowered his head again and clicked some words.

The four stainless steel combination wheels turned into 0042, and then the lock was pressed.

Click!

Not open.

Gao Yang took out a Swiss Army knife from his trouser pocket:

"Let's go to technology."

林弦又默默尝试了几个密码，2000、2024、2624、0828、0328这种比较特殊的年份和日期，都不对。

He was a little self-indulgent and tried his own birthday, but it was still wrong.

Haha, what a clown.

Helplessly, he held the diary higher and used the miner's lamp above his head to illuminate it, studying the structure of the diary and the combination lock:
"There is no problem with violent destruction of this thing, but looking at its structure, once it is forcibly destroyed, the structure of the combination lock will definitely be incomplete and cannot be used again, and we will never know what the password set by Zhang Yuqian is."

"Whoa!"

Gao Yang looked disdainful:
"What's important about a diary is the contents inside it. A combination lock is just a lock. Why do you care what the combination is? As long as you can open the lock, a hammer and pliers are both keys."

"Not always."

Lin Xian shook his head:
“Sometimes, the meaning of the password itself is far more important than the thing it locks.”

this time.

Lin Xian had experienced too many password-protected events, not only the safe with his own name on it, but also the password door in Zhao Yingjun's office, the trash can robot in the Sky City, and the hafnium alloy safe for which he was about to set a new password...

Passwords.

It is a message in itself.

Even though it is just a string of meaningless numbers, there must be some deep meaning behind these number combinations, or... some unforgettable stories.

"So, let's not try brute force yet."

Lin Xian took the coded diary out of the coffin and placed it together with the photo album and old videotape:
"Anyway, there are only 10000 possibilities for a four-digit password. Even if I try them one by one, it won't take me more than a few hours to figure it out."

"A four-digit password is not an eight-digit password... It's easy to crack. It's just a matter of hand speed and patience."

"Compared to the contents of the diary, I am more curious about what password Zhang Yuqian would set for this diary. Perhaps the real [secret] is not in the diary. The four-digit password itself is Zhang Yuqian's real secret."

Gao Yang snorted and stood up:

"You are possessed by a demon."

"I think you just want to read other girls' private diaries by yourself, and don't want to share them with me."

Subsequently.

The two men pushed the coffin lid back on.

Then fill the excavated soil back in.

Even though Gao Yang wanted to make the grass flatter, the dug soil was like broken glass and it was difficult to restore it to its original state.

"Forget it, that's it."

Gao Yang gave up quickly, patted the dirt with his shovel, wiped the sweat off his face, and consoled himself:
"Anyway, grass grows very fast. Even though the area we dug is very conspicuous now, once it rains, it will be soaked like the areas next to it."

"Besides... who would come to this godforsaken place for no reason? It's not scary enough if it's gloomy."

The two packed up their things and moved them back to the trunk of the Prado in two trips. When they left for the last time, they looked back at the bright red swaying pomegranate tree, and Gao Yang even put his hands together and bowed to it.

"There's no one buried in there, why are you worshipping like that?" Lin Xian complained.

"Hey, the more gifts you give, the less blame you will get. Just one bow will make you feel at ease."

After that, the two turned around and walked away through the mud, leaving a quiet, peaceful, and silent paradise.

……

Toyota Prado off-road vehicle.

Gao Yang was concentrating on driving on the expressway, while Lin Xian was half lying on the passenger seat, constantly fiddling with the combination-locked diary with his hands.

He found that pushing up the combination wheel would save effort, and after pushing it up he could directly press the lock with his right hand, which was easier.

So he tried the password, adjusting the digits from 9999 one by one by trial and error, using the old method of brute force to crack the password.

9999...

9998...

9997...

Click, click, click.

Although it is boring to crack, it is not slow.

There are only 10,000 password combinations in total. One wrong combination means one less password. The more wrong combinations you make, the greater the probability that the next password will be correct.

Gao Yang had only driven past two intersections when Lin Xian had already tried more than 100 wrong passwords. The numbers on the four password wheels had reached 9811...9810...

After becoming proficient.

There is no need to look down at the combination lock, you can know which one is next just by feeling.

Lin Xian felt like he had turned into an emotionless code-cracking machine, repeating the same thing over and over again without even having to think.

He turned around and looked at the miscellaneous tools, an old videotape, and a yellowed photo album placed on the back seat.

This time, they took out a total of three things from Zhang Yuqian's coffin.

Password lock diary,

Old video tapes,

A thick photo album.

These are the three most valuable items in the empty coffin.

Lin Xian still has no clue. Apart from their looks, are there any other crucial clues about the three girls, Chu Anqing, Zhang Yuqian and CC... Can he connect these three girls from different eras?
Although all three of them may be thousand-year-old piles.

However, now that we don’t know what the Millennium Pile means or what it specifically refers to, this sentence is equivalent to nonsense.

therefore.

He and Gao Yang had to go back to the capital, to the luxurious residential area on the third ring road in Chaoyang District, to find the hesitant middle-aged man and ask him the truth about Zhang Yuqian's car accident.

This time, Lin Xian was very confident that he could convince the uncle.

It is now 99% certain that Zhang Yuqian, like Chu Anqing, turned into blue stardust and disappeared, and that the middle-aged couple were definitely eyewitnesses... Then Lin Xian has nothing to worry about and can say whatever he wants.

……

After returning to the hotel in Qufu, Gao Yang took off his dirty clothes, threw them into the trash can, and then rushed into the bathroom to take a shower.

Lin Xian also packed up simply, took a shower, changed his clothes, and put Zhang Yuqian's videotapes and photo albums back into the suitcase.

As he rummaged through the clothes, he saw the casual clothes he had worn when he went to the astronaut training base.

The next day, Weicheng gave them several sets of training suits, so the casual clothes were only worn once and were kept at the bottom of the suitcase.

More importantly……

The hair of Chu Anqing that Lin Xian picked up from the garbage bag was also hidden in his casual clothes pocket.

Lin Xian reached into his pocket and touched the flat plastic bag.

take it out.

Looking at the lights above my head...

I saw that there was nothing in this tightly sealed plastic bag, not even a single hair.

"Sure enough, it's empty."

Lin Xian was not surprised.

The seal at the top of the plastic bag showed no signs of being opened and remained sealed as always.

This shows that even the hair that Chu Anqing had pulled off turned into blue stardust and disappeared at 2024:3 on March 28, 00.

in this world.

Everything belonging to Chu Anqing's body, every corner and every minute bit, disappeared at that moment; it turned into tiny blue stardust and collapsed like a quantum state.

So to say……

In a sense, those dissipated stardust are actually quite similar to space-time particles.

Spacetime particles do not belong to this spacetime, so they can penetrate any entity in this universe. Just like the blue stardust that Chu Anqing turned into, they can also overflow from the space suit without a trace, and can also disappear from the sealed plastic bag without a trace.

They are all very magical substances.

If we say that the Millennium Piles, like the space-time particles, do not belong to this space-time, then this property is consistent.

But the problem is...

If the Millennium Pillars, that is, Chu Anqing and Zhang Yuqian, do not belong to this time and space, why did time and space rejection not occur?

Why didn't their eyes turn as blue and crystal as the yellow bird's?
Why didn't it also suffer the backlash of time and space? Didn't it become weak, fall down, and become transparent like the yellow bird?
This is contradictory again!

"so……"

Lin Xian concluded:
"It is highly likely that the Millennium Pile and the Spacetime Particle are not the same or similar things. So there is no commonality, and there is no need to seek a connection between the two."

At this time, Gao Yang came over with a towel to wipe his hair and saw the small plastic bag in Lin Xian's hand:
"Is that the hair of Chu Anqing you mentioned? It disappeared as expected, right?"

Lin Xian nodded:
"But I was mentally prepared. It's just that... before I confirmed that Zhang Yuqian's coffin was empty, I still had a glimmer of hope in my heart."

Gao Yang squatted down.

I took the tightly sealed plastic bag with nothing inside:
"Anyway, there's no hope for DNA testing now. Zhang Yuqian's body has not been found, and it's very likely that there was no body at all. And Chu Anqing's hair has also disappeared, which completely blocks the possibility of DNA testing."

"Huh? Wait."

Gao Yang suddenly had an idea:

"Then how about we directly compare the DNA of Chu Anqing's parents and Zhang Yuqian's parents? Like father, like son. If Chu Anqing and Zhang Yuqian's DNA is the same, then Chu Shanhe and that middle-aged uncle's DNA should also be the same!"

“【It doesn’t make sense.】”

Lin Xian smiled helplessly:
"Even if the DNA of Chu Shanhe and that uncle is different and they are not the same person...what can that prove? Can it prove that Chu Anqing and Zhang Yuqian have no relationship? Can it prove that they are not the same person? This is obviously not rigorous. Otherwise, why would so many people in the world do paternity tests?"

"Or, if the comparison results show that Chu Shanhe and that uncle have exactly the same DNA, what does that mean? Can it guarantee that Chu Anqing and Zhang Yuqian's DNA are exactly the same? Or can it prove that Chu Shanhe and that uncle are also thousand-year-old piles, or ten-thousand-year-old piles? Then why haven't they disappeared yet? They can't wait until they are 200 years old to disappear, right?"

"What's more...if you use logical reasoning, if Chu Shanhe and that uncle have the same DNA, then it means that Chu Shanhe's father and that uncle's father also have the same DNA; that means their grandfathers' DNA is also the same, as are their great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers...What kind of biological ghost story is this? Is Chu Shanhe the origin of mankind?"

Gao Yang gave Lin Xian a thumbs up:

"Your reasoning is amazing! The logic is impeccable! So Chu Shanhe and that uncle's DNA are destined to be different, otherwise the origin of mankind needs to be re-studied."

"Then now, we are only one step away from finding out the truth of this series of events and the reason why Chu Anqing disappeared...right? That is, we need to see what role [Space-Time Particles] played in the incident where the two of them turned into blue stardust and disappeared."

"It is necessary, but not necessary; does it not matter whether it exists or not, or does it have to touch the space-time particles before it can become a thousand-year pile?"

"And if we want to find out the final answer... we have to go back to the capital and ask that middle-aged man to tell us the truth about the car accident and even before the accident. And whether Zhang Yuqian cried and babbled like Chu Anqing that night."

"Yes."

Lin Xian nodded and looked at the half-moon gradually rising outside the window:

"We need to confirm whether Zhang Yuqian in 2000 has ever come into contact with... space-time particles!"

(End of this chapter)