Chapter 34: Chapter 34: The Butterfly of Time and Space
CC pointed at the watch:
“Will you stop spacing out? It’s already half past twelve! We’ve wasted enough time as it is!”
“You’re not fooling me, are you?”
Lin Xian came to his senses:
“Don’t worry, I’m a very trustworthy person.”
He stepped forward and began to turn the gears of the safe:
“Actually, I should have thought of this earlier, you’re right, I really shouldn’t limit my thinking to dates. There aren’t many commonly used 8-digit numbers, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any.”
CC was all question marks, looking at Lin Xian confusedly:
“Are you talking to me?”
Click, click, Lin Xian turned the dials one by one:
“In my life, besides my phone number and ID card number, I guess I can only remember one more long number, which is my QQ number. Ah, two, I also remember MC Stone’s QQ number.”
“Who exactly are you talking to?”
CC looked around, feeling the situation in front of her was somehow terrifying:
“Ever since you saw me take off the mask, you’ve been babbling on and on, your mind has gotten a bit abnormal….”
Lin Xian set the last number, looking at CC:
“Actually, I’ve guessed what’s in the safe.”
“It should be some embarrassments from adolescence.” Lin Xian thought of the ostentatiously cool QQ signatures from his ‘too-cool-for-school’ years, and those embarrassing silly things he did during that clunky first romantic fling.
If the password really was a QQ number… then the contents here would make the most sense.
CC felt like she was communicating with a lunatic, yet completely unable to communicate:
“If my looks scared you to this state, I apologize.”
“Can 120 handle your kind of symptoms? I can call one for you when I get out.”
Lin Xian chuckled softly and shook his head:
“Wait until we open the safe… you’ll see.”
He raised his right fist!
And smashed it down hard on the lock——
CC held her breath and bit her lip.
Lin Xian was completely stunned.
He checked the 8 digits of the password again; there was no mistake! It was his QQ number!
He pounded the lock with another two punches.
After triple-checking the password was correct, Lin Xian tried pressing on the lock from a different angle.
Lin Xian was baffled.
No… this couldn’t be right.
An 8-digit password that’s neither a date nor a QQ number, then what else could it be?
CC was behind him, her veins bulging, shaking with anger!
Her hand holding the gun was squeezed red.
You could tell… she was doing her best to suppress the impulse to blast Lin Xian with one shot!
CC looked up, fuming:
“Can’t you stop overdramatizing for once?! Will it kill you?!”
“Stop yelling at me!”
Lin Xian held his forehead with one hand, while signaling for CC to shut up with the other:
“Just stop… there’s something not right here.”
“The only thing not right here is you! I can’t believe I fell for your crap!”
CC clenched the gun tightly, taking several deep breaths to quell her raging fury:
“Get out of the way!”
She roared in anger and shoved Lin Xian aside.
Then she pressed her ear against the safe and began to turn the password dials, listening for the faint clicking sounds of the internal pins and levers.
Lin Xian stepped back twice and leaned against the safe.
He cupped his chin in thought…
What on earth was going on?
He had thought that this time the password would certainly be a sure thing, after all, he had already tried all the possibilities before. Various types of dates, even the time of the dream, the time when Rhein Cat got its name changed, and so on—all the times he could think of had been tested.
The QQ number was truly a last-ditch effort!
If this was incorrect as well…
Then it was very likely that this wasn’t his safe at all!
Nor was this his dream!
“Then where is this…”
In the midst of the alarm, a scorching white light engulfed the world.
Burning everything to ashes.
Lin Xian opened his eyes and sat up in bed.
He drew the curtains and opened the window, allowing the early winter’s chill to enter the room, waking up his complex thoughts.
“Doctor Liu was wrong,”
he opened his eyes and gazed at the starless dark sky outside the window:
“Gao Yang was also wrong.”
Lin Xian was certain—
Everyone thought his dreams were just simple dreams, mental issues, but only he knew… his dreams were far from simple!
He was increasingly convinced.
Perhaps his dreams really were the actual future world 600 years later; he just lacked one crucial piece of evidence.
Successfully predicting the results of three football lottery matches was strong evidence, but it wasn’t decisive.
If only he could verify it with a few lottery draws of the Double Chromosphere, but unfortunately… the network in the dream could not access any useful information from this era, so he couldn’t find any lottery winning numbers or current news. This was also a very puzzling matter.
Which meant that, from the current situation, there was no way to judge the reality of the dream from the angle of [verifying known facts].
“I need to change my approach.”
Lin Xian closed his eyes and thought.
The bone-chilling wind made his thinking clearer and clearer.
For now, all mysteries could be set aside.
What about CC, Big Face Cat, Genius Club, the safe and the like… all of them could be set aside for the time being.
The most urgent task at the moment.
[Was to quickly find a decisive piece of evidence that proved whether the Dream World was indeed the real future world or not.]
He had to get an absolutely accurate answer!
His glance swept over the manuscript papers lifted by the night wind on the desk.
On them were various designs of Rhein Cat, all copied from the toy store in his dreams.
Keke Cat had become Rhein Cat.
This was the only change in the unending dreams of more than twenty years.
Lin Xian felt this was an extremely important clue.
He had to reevaluate its significance.
He picked up a design sketch at random, looking at the cute and lifelike Rhein Cat on it.
The cat itself was copied, but the name was absolutely his own creation; the changes in the dream were all thanks to him.
If this was a successful Space-Time Butterfly Effect…
[He could use the information from his dreams to change reality and rewrite the future, causing the Dream World to change.]
If this proposition could be verified again.
Then it would be enough to prove—
[His dreams were undoubtedly the real, 600 years later, future world!]
“Don’t rely on heaven or earth, it’s better to rely on oneself.”
Instead of waiting to validate known future facts, it’s better to personally initiate the Space-Time Butterfly Effect and change the dream because of oneself!
That was the truly decisive evidence!
Lin Xian looked up at the lonely full moon in the sky:
“It’s time for me to take the initiative.”
He wanted to try to initiate the Space-Time Butterfly Effect…
Once more, to rewrite the future!