Chapter 1161: Chapter 35 Galileo and Da Vinci

Lin Xian listened.

He smiled faintly.

Warmly:

“This makes me feel a bit guilty. After all, you can dream of me, but I can’t dream of you. The only time I did, it was just a statue.”

Zhao Yingjun chuckled softly:

“This is such an irrelevant matter. Why are you turning it into a big thing? Whether we dream or not, it’s all irrelevant. After all, for us ordinary people…”

“[Everything in dreams is fake. As long as I have the real you, that’s enough.]”

After saying this.

She turned around, pulled the door handle, and gently closed the study room door.

In the room, only Lin Xian remained.

Indeed.

Zhao Yingjun was right.

For ordinary people, everything in dreams is fake. This is why it’s impossible to deeply analyze Zhang Yuqian and CC’s dream content.

Because…

[There are too many contradictions, making it impossible to perform a normal analysis.]

Zhang Yuqian’s dreams are completely illogical, random and disconnected.

CC’s dreams, even worse–they cannot bear scrutiny–

[From the perspective of the Space-time Law, the blue-eyed Lin Xian, such a being, simply cannot exist!]

This is something Lin Xian realized from the very beginning.

Space-Time Travelers inevitably face Space-Time Exclusion, which includes changes in appearance. Having eyes turn crystal blue is actually just a result of Space-Time Exclusion.

Thus, starting from here, CC’s dream becomes inherently self-contradictory.

If she truly saw me, exactly as I am now, my eyes absolutely wouldn’t be blue;

If she saw my blue eyes, then my facial features and appearance certainly couldn’t be the same as they are now. Space-Time Exclusion would have triggered changes.

Whether it’s Huang Que and Zhao Yingjun.

Or the Time-Space Assassin Lin Yuxi and the normal-faced Lin Yuxi.

The appearance after exclusion versus the original appearance is as different as night and day. The facial structure and features undergo massive changes, leaving no trace of the original look.

Therefore.

If I truly traveled through space-time, Space-Time Exclusion would inevitably modify my appearance “Great Shift of Universe” style, rendering CC unable to recognize me even if she did dream of me.

This is the first contradiction.

Then comes the second.

Various confirmations prove that space-time travel can only occur toward the past, not into the unknown future. This means, as someone living in the future, CC could see the black-eyed me cryosleeping into the future, but she could never see the blue-eyed me traveling into the future.

“This is so chaotic.”

Lin Xian sighed and shook his head:

“It’s so chaotic, the logic and timeline are completely scrambled. There’s no way to make sense of Zhang Yuqian and CC’s dreams.”

“If only I could know what Chu Anqing dreamed about, that would at least provide another clue. Maybe these dreams could be pieced together.”

“But thinking about this now is useless anyway. Tonight’s gathering, the priority is to deal with Einstein and Copernicus.”

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring–

Just then, the phone rang.

Lin Xian picked it up and saw it was an international call, from Jask.

With only twenty minutes until the meeting, what could he want calling at this time?

“Hello?”

“Lin Xian, about the questions, I’ve thought it through.”

After answering the call, Jask spoke rapidly:

“I think we should swap our questions. You can ask Einstein’s question, and I’ll ask about whether Copernicus is truly dead.”

“This is for your safety. Although our designed questions can reveal whether Copernicus is alive or dead, regardless of Einstein’s answers or non-answers… Let’s not forget, the other club members aren’t fools. Just hearing the question, they’ll know the focus is on Copernicus.”

“That’s true.”

Lin Xian nodded:

“That’s obvious. Copernicus definitely won’t attend this Genius Club gathering, and everyone knows that the one scheduled to kill the mathematician at 00:42 is none other than Copernicus… Once we ask the question we designed, everyone will understand Einstein’s answer is meant to verify Copernicus’s life or death.”

“If Einstein refuses to answer, then everyone knows we killed Copernicus but didn’t succeed, meaning he’ll keep killing scientists in the future; if Einstein answers that mathematicians will continue dying, that also means we failed to kill him; if Einstein answers no mathematicians will die at 00:42 going forward, that proves we truly killed Copernicus.”

On the other side of the call.

Jask grunted softly:

“Exactly. That’s why I’m concerned about your safety.”

“Your current identity is entirely hidden. No one knows who you are. Why expose your stance and let everyone know you killed Copernicus?”

“It could bring trouble to you and might also attract unwarranted attention from other members. As a newcomer to the Genius Club, you can use your ‘newcomer’ identity to better approach others and gather more intel.”

“But if you openly admit killing Copernicus, many things become exposed simultaneously. I don’t think it’s necessary to make such a revelation now. Although people can sense there’s tension between you and Copernicus, the specific root cause behind it remains completely unknown… Keeping that mystery is best.”

“I’m different. My identity is already an open book. Everyone knows who I am. It’s easier for me to take the blame for killing Copernicus. You, on the other hand, can pretend not to know me and play dumb about the Copernicus incident, continuing your role as the ‘naive newcomer Rhein’.”