Chapter 1121: Chapter 23 Is That It?_3

“Just this?”

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August 28, 2624, Donghai City, sewers, noon.

Lin Xian, CC, and Xu Yiyi were running through the pitch-black sewers, preparing to leave the city and head to the City of Sin to find Gao Wen.

CC turned around, puzzled, looking at Lin Xian who was trailing behind with unsteady breaths, and wondered:

“Are you sick?”

“Huh?”

Lin Xian propped himself up, lifting his head:

“No, I’m fine. Why do you ask?”

“It just feels like…”

CC squinted, scrutinizing Lin Xian up and down:

“Why do I feel like your physical stamina has weakened a lot compared to the previous memory fragments… You used to be very agile, running fast and jumping high, never gasping for air like this.”

“Did something happen in reality that made you so tired and exhausted? Speaking of which…[What have you been busy with lately?]”

“Busy memorizing blueprints…”

Lin Xian said weakly:

“It’s exhausting work, much more so than studying and memorizing books for school, and the difficulty this time is extremely high, with very strict requirements. Blueprints are something you can’t afford to memorize incorrectly, not even a tiny bit off, or it will lead to big problems.”

“It’s not like theories and principles, where a slight mistake, a bit of vagueness, is still understandable. Even if some formulas are copied with one or two wrong numbers, they can be corrected by deriving from the context, but blueprints are unforgiving. You can’t get a single detail wrong with these.”

After listening, CC.

Nodded thoughtfully:

“What you say does sound, indeed, quite strenuous… If only I could help you.”

CC turned around and caught up with Xu Yiyi’s pace:

“But to me, this is just a brand-new, unique day, and I can’t travel to the past either, so I can’t be of much help.”

“It’s okay.”

Lin Xian waved his hand:

“I can handle it myself.”

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City of Sin, Underground Laboratory, beside the Time Shuttle Machine.

After verifying with Gao Wen, he should have prepared the engineering blueprints for him, laid them out on the table for memorization.

Lin Xian suddenly had an idea and thought of a question.

At present.

The construction of the Time Shuttle Machine seems to be a distant dream.

So…

At which point in time were the Entangled State of Time-Space Particles in his possession stolen by Copernicus on both the 0.0000000 world line and the -0.0000042 world line?

To be precise.

In the 0.0000000 world line, it was Copernicus who stole Jask’s Time-Space Particle, but it can be assumed that when Copernicus stole it, the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle was certainly in an energized state.

In April 2024, when Jask visited China with Angelica, Copernicus took advantage of Angelica’s presence to attempt a heist on the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle.

Although the attempt failed.

It at least proved that Copernicus was already aware of the importance of the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle at that time.

Later, Jask destroyed the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle, rendering it useless.

From then on, even though the small refrigerator lay unguarded and ordinary in Liu Feng’s laboratory, nobody ever attempted to steal it.

It’s like deceiving the enemy starts with deceiving oneself.

Even Lin Xian and Liu Feng thought the energy-depleted Time-Space Particle was worthless, and probably Copernicus and Jask thought the same.

At the 2024 stage, there should be several Genius Club members who are aware of the existence of the Time-Space Particle.

But very few might know of the existence of the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle.

Perhaps only Lin Xian, Jask, and Copernicus.

Furthermore, the only one who knows that the already scrapped Entangled State of Time-Space Particle has been re-energized again…

Is none other than Lin Xian himself!

This conclusion is also quite obvious.

Firstly, if Jask knew the Time-Space Particle could be recharged, he wouldn’t have originally given the Entangled State Time-Space Particle’s ‘corpse’ to Lin Xian… He would have kept it, or sent it into space to eliminate future trouble.

Secondly, if Copernicus had known this piece of information, he would have had no reason not to steal the small refrigerator in Donghai University’s laboratory.

Considering there are covert operatives around Jask.

It makes sense to believe that these insiders would have absolutely informed Copernicus of all these details.

But up until now.

The Entangled State of Time-Space Particle has been quietly lying in Donghai University’s laboratory, as if no one in the world is interested in it…

Therefore, Lin Xian wanted to figure out approximately when Copernicus would have stolen the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle.

At the very least.

It would have been after he realized the value of the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle and that Time-Space Particles could indeed be recharged.

“Gao Wen.”

Lin Xian spoke up and asked:

“In your opinion, when do you think humanity will realize that Time-Space Particles can be recharged?”

“It’s tough to realize.”

Gao Wen shook his head:

“Had it not been for you telling me that Time-Space Particles can be recharged, I would never have drawn such a conclusion on my own. Because… there’s absolutely no evidence to suggest that Time-Space Particles can be recharged.”

“I’m actually more curious, how did you determine that Time-Space Particles can be recharged? Is there any particular basis?”

Lin Xian recalled the words once spoken by Liu Lu and repeated:

“A scientist friend of mine said that he measured two Time-Space Particles that had exhausted their energy and found a slight difference in the remaining energy of each, so he boldly hypothesized that this ‘voltage-like’ ‘potential difference’ suggests that the energy is reversible.”

Gao Wen furrowed his brows, thought for a bit.

And shook his head:

“Such a guess is actually quite irresponsible and explains nothing.”

“I can only say… your scientist friend most likely stumbled upon the truth by pure chance.”