Genius Club

Chapter 562

Chapter 562: Chapter 11 The Answer Revealed Chapter 562: Chapter 11 The Answer Revealed The next day.

Both took an early flight to the Imperial Capital, embarking on a new round of hustle and bustle.

“I don’t want to be an astronaut at all now.”

Gao Yang, sitting in first class with a grimace, slumped in his seat as he looked at Lin Xian:

“At the beginning of elementary school, our homeroom teacher asked us to stand up one by one and answer what our dreams were, what kind of person we wanted to become when we grew up.”

“At that time, I stood up without hesitation and said I wanted to be an astronaut.

But these past few days, going back and forth on airplanes with you, heading to space, riding on spacecraft...

I’m truly sick of it.

I miss the ground more than anyone now; I don’t want to go to the skies anymore.”@@@@

Lin Xian chuckled lightly, reminiscing about the first day of elementary school:

“Back then, 40% of the boys in the class dreamed of becoming astronauts.

It coincided with China’s successful manned spaceflight project just a few years earlier.

...

Which little boy didn’t want to be an astronaut?”

“Actually, it was mainly because children at that time didn’t know there were many kinds of professions, many kinds of lives.

Everyone’s world was as big as their field of vision, limited to teachers, police, astronauts, scientists...

When we were young, our views were narrow, and so was our world.”

“I remember you said at that time you wanted to be a scientist, right?”

Gao Yang turned his head to look at Lin Xian:

“Do you still want to be a scientist now?”

“Not anymore.”

Lin Xian closed his eyes, his hands still clicking away as he attempted to crack the diary’s combination lock:

“When I realized I didn’t have the IQ to become a scientist, I gave it up decisively.

Then I started practicing parkour, learning to draw, preparing to take the route of an arts student for the college entrance exams.”

“Ah, don’t give up on your dreams too early.” Gao Yang patted his chest and abdomen:

“Look, didn’t my dream of becoming an astronaut come true?

Life is like that, you never know when something might happen, and who knows, one day you might truly become a scientist!”

“I do wish I had that brain.”

Lin Xian turned his head and looked out the window.

Becoming a scientist is not something one can achieve by merely wishing for it.

If he could really become one, he would definitely dive into research on the cosmological constant right away, determined to unlock the mystery of the number 42.

And there’s plenty of fruit!”

“You get what you pay for.”

Lin Xian casually responded:

“It’s not an equal exchange.”

...

After the plane landed, Lin Xian’s reserved hotel had sent a car to pick them up.

The two tossed their luggage into their rooms and immediately set off, heading back to Xiruidu Residential in the third ring of the Imperial Capital.

They passed the central plaza quietly and in tacit understanding.

As expected.

The observant old lady was still sitting there peeling a pomegranate.

One seed at a time, slowly and carefully, fingertips gently picking up and then gently placing down.

“She really loves her daughter.”

Gao Yang said softly:

“That day, I talked with her there for so long, and she never offered me a taste of the pomegranate.

I’m not desperate to eat someone else’s pomegranate, haha...

but Shandong people have a real warmth and hospitality; usually, there would be some polite offer at this point.”

“But she never did.

In her eyes, these are for her daughter, Zhang Yuqian, so she wouldn’t give a single seed to anyone else.

Hey, if both girls are Millennium Stakes, and if the Millennium Stakes were deliberately planted by someone in a man-made fashion...”

“You tell me, how heartless would that person be?

To use someone else’s daughter, who’s been raised with effort for twenty years as a stake, and after it’s done, the soul scatters, not a single hair left, making it unbearable for the parents.

It’s utterly irresponsible and heartless.”

“Yes.”

Lin Xian nodded, rare in agreement with Gao Yang on the same issue:

“Whatever the reason, using someone’s daughter as Millennium Stakes is too much, against natural justice.

But now we don’t have to go to such extremes in our words...

after all, we have no concept of what Millennium Stakes are.”

“This current speculation is because I saw piles being driven into the construction site that day, so I guess these Millennium Stakes might be driven into the stream of history, locking down history.

But that’s too mystical; even I can’t convince myself of this explanation.

It’s easy to talk about such things, but how simple can it be to do?”