Chapter 72 Disturbance
August 28, 2624...
It was the same day.
The time in the dream did not change.
But apart from the time...everything else in the dream changed.
"Wait a minute."
Lin Xian supported the mossy and muddy stone wall with one hand and put his other hand on his forehead to think.
[Butterfly Effect of Space and Time].
Obviously.
The dream once again experienced [Space and Time Change].
So what was the reason for the change?
What was the source?
What was the anchor point?
When did the butterfly flap its wings?
Lin Xian opened his eyes...
He recalled the news he saw before going to bed yesterday:
"Tonghai University is receiving and sorting out Xu Yun's research materials and unfinished papers. It will follow Xu Yun's wishes and publish them to the world. "
"Maybe this is the reason."
His heartbeat calmed down, and the lost sense of security gradually returned.
This is indeed his dream, that's right.
He didn't watch the news today, but from the looks of it, Donghai University should have published Xu Yun's research materials.
"That's not right. In fact, even if it is not published publicly, as long as the official organization intervenes in this matter and receives Xu Yun's research data, this moment has become an [anchor point that cannot be reversed]."
"Because the official organization is very large and reliable, it is only a matter of time before they disclose these materials according to Xu Yun's wishes. If the official organization does not intervene in this matter, Xu Yun's research materials are all in the laboratory, and the paper is not completed. Everything is a single copy without a backup. In fact, if you really want to sabotage... there are still certain variables."
In any case.
The time-space butterfly still flapped its wings, and the time-space change still occurred.
It's just that this time the butterfly's wings were so smoked that it was estimated that... 108,000 tornadoes rolled up the future world 600 years later into a completely new look.
This is reasonable from the perspective of time and space logic.
But the problem is——
"[Why has the technological level of the future world regressed?]"
Lin Xian looked left and right.
No matter how you look at it...the technological level, economic level, and living standard here are too backward.
In the previous dream, although it was also backward, it was not much different from the 2023 where Lin Xian lived. It was a modern city anyway.
But the scene in front of me... The grandfather's house that Lin Xian went to when he was a child was much more developed than here!
At least there was a road to his grandfather's house.
But the stone road here is winding. Let alone cars, even riding a bicycle requires turning the beam.
Look inside the store again.
Almost everything is wrapped in worn oil paper.
Tungsten filament bulbs, thermos liner, shoelaces, shoddy hardware, colorful shampoo, and various snacks that you dare not eat at first sight...
What's going on?
It's a good year in 2624...
Why is the life scene almost the same as in the 1980s and 1990s?
If it is said that after Xu Yun's paper was published, the dream world changed drastically, with starship cannons, space elevators, etc.... Lin Xian doesn't find it strange at all.
Because it is very logical.
Even Professor Xu Yun himself said that once the hibernation capsule is available, the world pattern may be rewritten, and human technology will inevitably enter a period of rapid development with rapid take-off, and the future is immeasurable.
But rapid take-off...
Why is it flying back?
Lin Xian couldn't convince himself and couldn't accept the facts in front of him.
Even if Xu Yun's paper was published, the technological level of the future world would still have no progress and he would still be "born" in that square, he could accept it.
But after this paper was published, technology has regressed by several decades!
"What happened in these 600 years?"
...
In the canteen.
The vest uncle stopped fanning and looked at the tall man at the door with a moody look:
"What's wrong, young man? Do you want to buy something?"
"No, no..." Lin Xian waved his hand:
"Uncle, I want to ask-"
Clang.
While the two were talking, a man in black suddenly rushed out from behind Lin Xian, wearing a black hat.
He was very fast!
After knocking down the shelf outside, he stretched out his big hand to pick up the money box on the glass cabinet, turned around and ran!
"Hey!"
The old man jumped up immediately! He grabbed the thief's arm:
"Put it down! Put you down! Ah——"
The thief kicked the old man in the stomach, and the old man fell directly beside the glass cabinet, grimacing in pain.
He pointed at the thief who was going away and looked at Lin Xian:
"Little... young man... help me... catch..."
"Ah, okay."
Lin Xian turned around, and his parkour skills were fully activated, chasing after the shadow in the dark night.
It just so happened that he had a lot of things to ask this old man, and it would be easier to communicate if he helped him get the money box back.
The thief was obviously very familiar with this area.
Turning left and right, he walked on the rugged path as if it were flat ground, and jumped left and right to dazzle Lin Xian's eyes.
But Lin Xian was not a pushover.
All these years of parkour skills have not been neglected for a day. He kicked left and right, jumped back and forth at a few bends, and caught up with the thief directly!
"Go!" "Ah——"
With a flying kick, the thief fell to the ground.
Lin Xian rode up to him with a quick step, pinned him down, snatched the money box from his hand, and put it behind him. Just as he was about to tie him up——
Swish!
The sound of a sharp knife sinking into flesh and blood.
Lin Xian's eyes turned red, and he looked at his chest...
The thief had a dagger hidden on his waist!
At this moment, it had already sunk deep into his heart!
Puff!
As the thief pulled out the dagger, the huge blood pressure squeezed the blood out of the blade and sprayed far away.
Lin Xian fainted for a while, and just as he was about to stand up...
"Damn it, I told you to mind your own business! I told you to mind your own business!"
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!
The thief was cruel and accurate! Every stab of the knife pierced Lin Xian's vitals! Another knife to the neck! Another knife to the head!
...
...
Teng——
Lin Xian jumped up directly from the bedroom bed!
Breathing rapidly.
Grasping the heart.
Heartbeat was very fast and could not be reduced!
Lin Xian gritted his teeth, stretched his fingers to the table lamp on the bedside table, and pressed the switch——
Click.
...
In the suburbs of Donghai City, in a lakeside villa, the huge crystal chandelier in the living room lit up.
The whole room was bright as day.
"Since you are at home... turn on the light..."
A hand with dry and wrinkled skin moved away from the light switch.
The old man closed the door, walked in, and looked at the fair-skinned boy squatting among the messy books:
"I have told you so many times that this is not good for your eyes... your myopia is already very serious."
"Or do you think it is cool to read in the moonlight? I think you should be past that age... Ji Lin."
Ji Lin was focused and did not speak.
He rolled up the "Mathematics Monthly" magazine in one hand and held a pencil in the other hand, writing quickly on the magazine's sub-page.
Whoosh--
He finished writing quickly and threw the magazine aside.
Then he picked up the February issue of "Mathematics Monthly" next to him.
The old man walked forward and picked up the magazine on the ground.
This is the January 2022 issue of "Mathematics Monthly". Because this villa has been uninhabited for a long time, the ordered magazines and newspapers are neatly piled up in the living room.
The old man turned to the page where Ji Lin had just written...
It was a page of "Sudoku Game", a very difficult math game.
The Sudoku board is a nine-square grid, and each square is divided into nine small grids.
Give certain known numbers and problem-solving conditions in these 81 grids, and use logic and reasoning to fill in the numbers 1-9 in the other blanks. Make each number 1-9 appear only once in each row, column, and square.
This is a game that tests IQ and brain power. Even a world-class master needs three or four minutes to do this difficult version of Sudoku.
Swish--
Ji Lin threw the February issue over again.
The old man lowered his head...
On the supplementary page of this February issue, there was also an irregular and difficult Sudoku. But just when he picked up the magazine and flipped through it...Ji Lin had already finished it.
Looking up again, Ji Lin, under the moonlight, had picked up the March issue of "Mathematics Monthly", turned to the supplementary page, and started to do a new Sudoku.
"In fact, even if you don't come to Xu Yun's memorial service this time, I plan to call you to Donghai."
The old man seemed to have long been accustomed to Ji Lin's indifference, and he didn't take it to heart. He said to himself:
"Xu Yun... he shouldn't die."
"Why did he die if he didn't deserve to die?"
Ji Lin scratched the magazine with a pencil in his hand, without looking up, and responded softly.
"Because someone killed him!"
The old man gritted his teeth, his voice a little hoarse:
"I know Xu Yun too well... He is a good person, but his talent is indeed a little lacking. Let alone one Xu Yun, even if there are ten Xu Yuns, one hundred thousand Xu Yuns! It is absolutely impossible to research the hibernation chamber filling fluid in this life!"
"So what?"
Ji Lin blinked his half-open eyes and threw the March issue of "Mathematical Monthly" to the ground. The Sudoku on it was written in one breath without any traces of erasure.
"So, someone is secretly making trouble and changing everything!"
The old man took out a rolled-up list from his pocket and threw it to Ji Lin:
"I suspect someone is..."
"[Disrupting history]!"