Genius Club

Chapter 399

Chapter 399: Chapter 52: The Soul’s Questioning_3 Chapter 399: Chapter 52: The Soul’s Questioning_3 Lin Xian watched as VV, sounding from the television, said:

“What do you mean by that?”

“I just had a very dangerous thought all of a sudden.”

VV’s voice was calm and unusually serious:

“Ever since the day you told me that the mysterious old man said the same thing as Kevin Walker, I’ve been thinking, thinking, and thinking for a long time...

Combining various situations from your dreams that you’ve told me about, I suddenly have an uncertainty—”

“[Is your dream world truly the real world?]”

Living room.

It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him.

“I’ve confirmed this question many times.”

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“There are things in the dream that are beyond my cognition, knowledge that I am completely unfamiliar with, and all those things that are ahead of their time are correct, the historical predictions that are precise are also entirely correct, such a world can’t be fake, right?

Only the real world, 600 years from now, would have such things.”

“Lin Xian, you haven’t understood what I mean.”

VV continued:

“I’m not saying that those things are fake, nor am I saying that the existence of 600 years in the future is fake.

I’m purely skeptical that your dreams might be false.”

“You’ve seen ‘The Matrix,’ haven’t you?

You’ve also seen ‘Source Code,’ right?

...

In these movies, they set up a supercomputer with very powerful computing power and a terrifying amount of storage.

Then they use this computer as a server to simulate a game that is completely identical to the real world.”

“From the smallest details of plants to the laws of physics, everything in this virtual world is exactly the same as reality.

In the year 2023, there’s definitely no such supercomputer.

But what about 600 years from now?

If such a supercomputer with extreme computing power truly exists 600 years from now, it can perfectly simulate a completely real virtual world, one that you wouldn’t be able to detect as fake.”

“This virtual world is like a game world, with bookstores, books, knowledge, history...all these things are copied from the real world 600 years in the future, so of course, these pieces of knowledge and history are also real, and if you brought them back to 2023, you would naturally be able to verify that they’re correct.

Or perhaps...the Black Hand behind the simulation of this virtual world wants you to see what’s correct, so you see it as correct; if they want you to see mistakes, you see mistakes.”

VV’s words plunged Lin Xian back into thought.

He finally figured it out.

What had been feeling “off” during this time.

It was the doubt about the reality of the dreams.

He began to question the Space-Time Law, considering it too lax.

Often when he believed a Temporal Flux should occur, nothing happened;

times when he thought it shouldn’t happen, it occurred unexpectedly;

and moreover,

his range of movement in the dreams had been shrinking.

From one world, to two cities, to the City in the Sky, to the Fourth Dreamland where the backdrop seemed grand, but he could only take two steps before being unable to move.

It became less and less tangible.

He felt less and less of reality.

Lin Xian did not doubt VV’s words.

He believed that with the normal pace of technological advancement, how could human civilization 600 years later not be able to create a supercomputer capable of simulating the real world?

In 2023, there were already geniuses like Kevin Walker, hackers with almost magical skills.

If he could live through a Hibernation Pod to 600 years later, it was hard to imagine what a terrifying existence he would become...

Perhaps in the flesh, he would be even more terrifying than the super artificial intelligence VV.

“Wait a second.”

Lin Xian suddenly realized.

His heartbeat gradually sped up...

He turned slowly, looking at VV who had just engaged in this whole conversation with him, the super artificial intelligence he had personally brought back from 600 years in the future to 2023, letter by letter—

VV.

“What about you?”

Lin Xian asked soulfully:

“If the entire Dream World is virtual, a soundstage set up by enemies for me, then you are someone I brought back from this soundstage with my own hands.”

“VV...”

Lin Xian asked in a low voice:

“Who are you then?”