"Who are you exactly?"
CC asked again:
"Where is VV? Do you know VV?"
Lin Xian was holding the electric rice cooker, looking at the girl he had seen countless tis, yet who did not recognize him at all:
"Indeed, not having mory fragnts is quite troubleso. I don’t even know where to start."
"What on earth are you talking about?"
CC frowned, utterly perplexed by the man’s strange words.
But she didn’t care.
She pointed at the electric rice cooker in the man’s arms:
"You’re the one who wrote the ssage in the safe, right? Is this electric rice cooker the item that was originally in the safe?"
"If you don’t mind... could I take a look? This is sothing very important to . I won’t compete with you for it, I just want to know what’s hidden inside."
"Of course, no problem."
Lin Xian smiled slightly, stroking the smooth-as-new lid of the rice cooker:
"But, could you wait a few minutes?"
...
Within the secret laboratory at Rhein University.
Liu Feng sat in front of the experint table, eyes closed, breathing evenly.
On the table were two devices; one was the Space-Ti Clock showing the world line readings, and the other, an ordinary digital watch.
Behind Liu Feng stood Chen Heping, as if facing a formidable enemy.
His eyes couldn’t move away from the digital display, where the accurate ti showed...
[2624, August 29, 00:39:57]
"Only two minutes left."
Chen Heping’s voice was filled with worry.
He glanced again at the Space-Ti Clock, which still stably displayed 0.0002184.
This indicated that the world line remained unchanged, the future unchanged, and the ending of the apocalypse by white light had not changed.
"Lin Xian... is he really alright?"
Chen Heping was sowhat uneasy.
"I believe in him."
Liu Feng, eyes closed, spoke in an unusually calm voice:
"Lin Xian has always been this kind of person. From when we t 600 years ago, I have always acknowledged him as a qualified Leader."
"Even though so might not think so, many don’t think so, believing Lin Xian has all sorts of immaturities."
"But I’ve never thought that. The qualities he possesses are ones that others don’t have; and these qualities are far more important than knowledge, intelligence, and strategy."
"However."
Chen Heping paused for a mont, then continued:
"However, such matters can’t be generalized. Regardless, relying on the frail power and technology of humanity to solve a light-speed weapon fired from the depths of the universe is simply too absurd. I can’t think of any way to achieve it."
"Heh."
Liu Feng chuckled lightly:
"I rarely talk with you about past things. You might not know, but when I first t Lin Xian, he said he wanted to give my beloved a teor shower."
"At that ti, I thought the sa as you—this is nonsense, right? How could human power control teors? And how could they create a teor shower? I also thought it was absolutely impossible."
"But in the end, Lin Xian really gave us the most spectacular teor shower. Since then, I’ve been wholeheartedly following Lin Xian. My life was saved by him, and I will always believe in this man who can always create miracles."
"Yes, Lin Xian is like that, always able to do what others can’t, achieving what others can’t even imagine, creating miracles that no one believes."
"So... gaze at the stars, Heping."
Liu Feng looked out the window toward the highest point of Donghai City, the Clock Tower, eyes sharp:
"Tonight’s starry sky must also be beautiful."
...
The night sky was filled with stars.
As always.
Like Earth’s billions of years of nights, unchanged through the ages.
"Wait a few minutes?"
Atop the Donghai Clock Tower, CC looked at her watch, the ti showing 00:40:12:
"Until when do we have to wait?"
"It won’t be too long."
Lin Xian looked at her and said:
"We’ve waited through 600 years, so why can’t we wait another two minutes?"
?
"What on earth are you talking about?" CC was getting fed up with such uncommunicative conversation.
"Just listen casually."
Lin Xian lowered his head:
"All of these 600 years of stories are just a high civilization’s trick, using humans as a tool to Locking History."
"It’s just a pity, they underestimated humanity’s stubbornness and persistence, underestimated human wisdom and potential, and also underestimated the power of humans, as emotional beings, to create miracles."
CC stared at the rice cooker in the man’s arms:
"Do your words have anything to do with ?"
"Of course they do."
Lin Xian lifted his head, looking into CC’s eyes:
"It is precisely because of many unexpected events that I have been granted a pair of eyes that can see into the future, sothing even the advanced civilizations could not have anticipated; just like the first amino acid on Earth, everything is accidental, yet predestined."
"This long struggle has been arduous and difficult; yet the human race has never submitted to fate, countless geniuses have stood up throughout the river of history, leading generation after generation to shoulder responsibility and mission."
CC humd softly:
"Are you trying to say that you’re a genius?"
Lin Xian chuckled lightly.
Shaking his head:
"I never considered myself a genius, even as the ninth mber of the Genius Club, later on re-establishing the Genius Club, I never thought I had the qualifications to be called a genius... On the contrary, I’ve always thought of myself as just a placeholder."
"But so what if one is a genius or not? As long as there are things one wants to do, people one wants to save, the desire to keep promises... then even an ordinary person can unleash a power no less than a genius."
CC couldn’t listen anymore.
She lifted her wrist and glanced at her watch:
[00:41:54]
"Sorry."
She raised her head and shrugged:
"Your speech was nice, but I truly couldn’t understand a word."
"It’s okay."
Lin Xian was indifferent:
"It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, soone will."
"Look at the sky CC, this is my 20th birthday gift to you."
[00:41:57]
?
CC was taken aback.
She looked puzzled at the stranger who called her by na and even knew her exact birthday:
"How did you..."
Suddenly.
The man’s pupils in front of her emitted a crystal blue light! The originally dark pupils instantly beca as dazzling as the galaxy!
CC took a deep breath.
Involuntarily took a step back.
Bright, too bright!
Those weren’t normal human eyes! Like blue light bulbs, like shattered sapphire, like stardust wandering the cosmos for hundreds of billions of years!
The stars and moonlight dimd at this mont, the blue light seed to freeze ti and space!
Click.
The second hand of the clock tower below stood upright.
Ti just arrived at—
[00:42:00]
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
In an instant.
The night turned into day, countless white lights burst in the sky!
No.
It wasn’t the sky.
But a place higher than the sky, where suddenly thousands of suns appeared, shattering on an invisible screen, turning into fireworks illuminating the universe!
[Fireworks].
CC blankly looked up, watching tens of thousands of dazzling fireworks bloom like magic in the starry sky... This was clearly the dead of night in the early morning, yet the whole world beca bright as noon in an instant.
She turned around in shock.
The starry sky behind her was the sa.
Fireworks.
Fireworks, fireworks, fireworks!
This is the world’s most brilliant fireworks, the universe’s most dazzling fireworks!
[00:42:01]
[00:42:02]
[00:42:03]
...
The second hand on the clock below continued to move forward, into a brand new minute, a brand new day.
With the ticking of the second hand.
Lin Xian stepped in with his leather shoes, walking up to CC.
At this mont, the blue light in his eyes had extinguished, and the night sky returned to darkness as the fireworks faded.
"Nice to see you again, CC."
Looking at the still unresponsive girl, Lin Xian smiled slightly, and handed her a rice cooker into her arms:
"I’ve lost count of how many tis we’ve t, I’ve seen many versions of you, said good morning, good afternoon, good night many tis."
"But the 20-year-old you, I’m seeing for the first ti. No matter how you choose in life, no matter which path you take in the future; anyway, before a thousand words, I have to say a blessing owed for 600 years..."
"Happy birthday!"
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