Chapter 98 The World's First 42 (Asking for Monthly Votes~)

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a science fiction film that is critically acclaimed and influential.

Lin Xian had seen it many years ago.

Because after talking about dreams with Gao Yang at that time, Gao Yang said that he couldn't imagine what the future world would be like, so he couldn't dream.

So from that time on, he began to indulge in science fiction movies and science fiction. And this very classic science fiction movie in the history of movies is naturally on his list of make-up lessons.

In fact, if I have to say how good this movie is... Lin Xian really doesn't think it's good. To be honest, it's pretty average. After all these years, he has no urge to watch it a second time.

But today is different...

After coming out of the dreamland yesterday, he decided to come to the private theater tonight to review the movie.

There is only one reason.

The number 42 first appeared in the public eye...it was the movie "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." 】

…

Lin Xian ordered a drink and walked into his private room, where the movie had already started playing.

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a movie released in 2005. It can be regarded as an imaginative and funny science fiction road movie.

It is adapted from the science fiction novel of the same name written by author Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

The first half of the film seems a bit boring from today's perspective.

It's about a group of aliens who want to build a galactic highway, so they have to clear away the obstacles on the project route - the earth.

Then the earth was destroyed, and the protagonist began to adventure in the galaxy with an alien.

Then, there are some short stories in the style of unit dramas.

Lin Xian watched silently.

finally……

He waited for the best and most widely circulated clip in the film:

On a certain planet in the Milky Way, there is a highly developed and super-intelligent advanced civilization.

In order to obtain the truth of the universe, they gathered all their geniuses and built the most advanced supercomputer in the universe - Deep Thought.

After the supercomputer was built, tens of billions of aliens gathered here and asked the questions they had always been most concerned about and wanted answers to:

"Please calculate the ultimate answer to the universe, life, and everything in the world."

Shen Shen, a giant computer as huge as a mountain, turned on the indicator light a few times and then replied:

"The amount of calculation is too huge, please come back here in 7.5 million years."

7.5 million years later——

All the top civilizations in the universe have gathered here, waiting for the giant computer to announce the final answer.

Amid much anticipation, the supercomputer Shen Shen spoke:

"The ultimate answer to the universe, life and everything in the world is——"

"42."

There was silence.

Then this plot ended abruptly and the next short story began.

…

"42..."

Lin Xian muttered, rewinding this paragraph and reading it again.

The movie doesn't explain much about the concept of 42, and it just ends abruptly. In fact, everyone knows why this is...because the director doesn't know, and he can't make it up.

The ultimate answer to the universe, life, and everything in the world...

This is not a problem that anyone on earth can solve.

The director can't.

The audience can't.

Neither can Douglas Adams, the original author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"...

In the book of the same name he wrote, he still blurred this concept, never answering it, and pretending to be unpredictable.

But the book itself is a comedy science fiction book, and the main focus is nonsensical. Even at the beginning of the creation, it was just a contribution to a children's column of a TV station, and there was no need to explain the concept. It just needs to be fun and interesting.

but……

Lin Xian didn't think this matter was that simple.

"Even when Adams originally wrote this book, it was just for fun and unexpected twists, so the answer calculated by the supercomputer was 42..."

"But why is it 42?"

"Why such a coincidence?"

If.

Lin Xian has not experienced so many things so far, and he will never question why a family is set up like this.

This is someone else's. You can write it however you want. Don't worry about 42, 37, or 58. Those are Adams's freedom. It's very likely that someone just wrote it casually.

But……

The situation is different now...

Countless facts that have happened show that the number 42 is really special, and it really has a special meaning.

The earliest time I fell asleep was 12:42.

The time I wake up every time my dream ends is 00:42.

The time when the future world will be destroyed by white light is 00:42.

Professor Xu Yun’s death time is 00:42.

In the first dream, the death time of the big-faced cat’s father was also 00:42.

In the second dream, the big-faced cat’s father calculated the cosmological constant and the result was 42.

The walls in the room were covered with countless numbers, large and small, still 42.

This is so weird…

So many strange things are all related to the mysterious number 42.

This can't be a coincidence.

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes.

Looking at the credits that slowly rose after the film was played, Douglas Adams' name was written in the column for screenwriter and original author at the end.

"so……"

"Did Adams really know something? Or maybe he heard something by chance? That's why he set the ultimate answer to the universe, life, and everything in the world in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" to 42?"

Lin Xian had no way of knowing.

Because Douglas Adams himself passed away in 2001.

Lin Xian checked the information and found that Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was created in 1979.

Is it possible to make a radical reasoning——

Did the Genius Club exist as early as 1979, 1952, or even earlier, and was it hidden in the fog of history? 】

As soon as this thought came to my mind.

Lin Xian shuddered...

If his assumption was true, he really couldn't imagine how the people in the Genius Club did this.

How on earth did they hide in history without leaving any trace?

again

How do you remain consistent and uphold your faith across hundreds of years, or even nearly a thousand years?

What is their purpose?

What's the point of them doing this?

"All these mysteries...should be related to 42]."

The movie had finished playing, the screen went black, and the whole room fell into darkness.

Lin Xian stood up.

No matter what, if you want to solve the mystery of 42, you have to sneak into Xindonghai City to look for clues.

Whether it is the book "Introduction to the Cosmological Constant" or the father of the big-faced cat himself, only by finding one of these two can the investigation of 42 continue.

"There's a long road ahead."

Lin Xian stood up from the sofa and opened the private room door.

Squeak——

…

The sound of the entry door opening.

On the outskirts of Donghai City, in a villa facing the lake, sunlight shines in through the open entry door, and wisps of sunlight filter through the dust in the air, creating a glitzy Tyndall effect.

"Don't open the windows during the day.

Don't turn on the lights at night... Ji Lin, when will you listen? "

The old man walked into the house.

He didn't close the door.

Because that's the only source of light.

Not a single light was turned on in the room, and the curtains were tightly drawn. This dark and run-down atmosphere made him extremely uncomfortable as an elderly person.

He prefers sunlight to lights. The warmth that shines on his body can truly make him feel the existence of time.

The living room in front of me is still as messy as last time.

To be precise, it was even messier than the last time he came.

The last time I came, at least all the magazines and newspapers were piled neatly together, but now... almost all the newspapers and magazines were open and scattered on the floor.

All the magazines were opened and newspapers were scattered in a mess.

At this time, Ji Lin was leaning on the pile of magazines, sitting cross-legged on the floor, staring at the fluorescent light from the laptop in front of him.

The fluorescent light reflected on his thin face, revealing a sickly paleness.

And the ray of sunlight that slanted in from the entrance door happened to shine less than ten centimeters away from his feet...it did not pull the fair boy out of the darkness.

"Are you welded to that floor? Do I need to water you?"

The old man walked in, tired of looking at all the mess:

"I heard from the housekeeper... you haven't gone out in the past few days. You haven't gone out even once since the last time I came here."

"The housekeeper also said that you bought some stuffed toys online? Oh my god...you have really turned into someone I don't recognize."

"So what are you doing? Ji Lin, are you really working?"