Genius Club

Chapter 313

Chapter 313: Chapter 20 Your Voice Chapter 313: Chapter 20 Your Voice “`

King...

King?

In the vast museum courtyard, only Lin Xian stood alone.

Beneath him, thousands of various robots kneeled neatly on the ground, heads bowed, submitting to him.

Just moments ago, they were like a pack of rabid dogs with red lights, as if they couldn’t wait to tear him apart or roast him with lasers.

But the moment he shouted out the password, not only did the hundreds of lasers poised to strike suddenly change direction, but also the sea of red lights before him turned green in an instant, and silence fell, not a sound to be heard.

32375246...

...

That was the password for Zhao Yingjun’s office on the 22nd floor.

It was a password known only to the two of them.

Lin Xian turned his head...

To look at the doors of Zhao Yingjun’s personal exhibition hall behind him, which had now swung open.

This steel electronic door, which VV also couldn’t open before, burst open the instant he announced the password.

He then looked down at the trash can robot at his feet, which had just emitted a child’s laughter...

It went without saying.

This password, known only to him and Zhao Yingjun in the whole world, was the correct one.

And the one who made those thousands of robots kneel and eventually opened the exhibition hall doors...

was the trash can robot before him, VV.

“Who exactly are you?”

Lin Xian looked at the previously annoying and irritatingly dim-witted robot.

Had it been pretending before?

Or had it only just awakened?

But in any case, this trash can robot was definitely not the same “person” as before.

The previous trash can only spoke a few simple lines, and its behavior was extremely clumsy, speaking in a voice devoid of emotion, a very primitive mechanical electronic sound.

But just now...

Whether it was that inadvertent chuckle or the serious statement that followed, “Welcome home, king of Rhine,” the natural and smooth tone...

made it hard for Lin Xian to see it as an emotionless robot.

That feeling was hard to describe.

It was a tone and inflection unique to humans, fundamentally different from mechanical synthetic sound.

A bit gleeful, a bit mischievous, and somewhat solemn.

It really sounded like a real person.

A...

slightly childish one.

“I am the control center brain of Rhine Sky City.”

The trash can robot straightened up, its eyes flickering green, as if blinking:

“Of course, you can make it simpler, just call me by my name—”

“VV.”

The control center brain?

Lin Xian remembered the huge super intelligent computer in the previous exhibition hall of the museum.

That was the original intelligent brain of Sky City.

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After more than 200 years of updates and iterations, this super artificial intelligence had long since transcended storage mediums and operating hardware, roaming through every corner of the City in the Sky.

No one knew where it was.

Or perhaps...

it was everywhere.

Just like now, it had opened the doors of Zhao Yingjun’s personal exhibition hall for Lin Xian, directed the lasers elsewhere at the last moment, and made all the security robots bow down before itself.

Now, it resided within this dilapidated robot in front of them.

“So, was all of this planned by Zhao Yingjun?”

Lin Xian looked over the robots kneeling before him:

“Including me being the King?”

“No no no...”

The trash can robot awkwardly twisted its body and shook its head:

“This was just my own little whim.

I’ve always wanted to try this out.

But after this moment...

It connected to the real VV, the central brain of Rhine Sky City, the super artificial intelligence.

As soon as it picked up on the ‘voice recognition’, the ‘VV’ that he uttered, it would immediately enter password recognition mode, and if the password was entered correctly, the deepest hidden line of instruction in super artificial intelligence VV would be activated—

it would treat the person who guessed the password as the real owner of Rhein Sky City.

That is, the King of Rhein, as the master performer VV put it!

This.

Was Zhao Yingjun’s plan that took 600 years to plan.

Just to cross over 600 years of time...

In the last 12 hours before the apocalypse of humanity, to give this City in the Sky to herself, betting on all the years and miracles.

Those mysterious codes were too deeply hidden in VV’s program, equivalent to 230,000 irrelevant password gears each spinning independently...

continuing to spin for 200 years, coincidentally aligning into a new instruction at the moment of 12:42:00 PM, on August 28, 2624.

And August 28, 2624, at 12:42:00 PM, was the earliest time he could enter Dream World.

Everything was tailor-made for him.

It was a level designed solely for him, and he was the only one who could clear it.

As for the speed of clearing the level...

It all depended on when he could shout the two words “VV”.

Strictly speaking, he could have shouted ‘VV’ the first time he successfully parachuted.

The nameplate of the trash can robot bore its name, VV.

He indeed saw that hint at the time.

But there were no other people around at the time, and there was no need to read it out loud, so he missed that opportunity.

Naturally, Zhao Yingjun had considered this as well.

Therefore, she would certainly leave hints of ‘VV’ in many places, such as that giant computer in the exhibition hall, and perhaps...

other places he had not yet discovered.

So far, this logic was clear.

But what Lin Xian couldn’t help minding was...

Why did Zhao Yingjun have to be so careful and cautious?

What was she afraid of?

What was she guarding against?

Ultimately, what was she so intent on hiding and making so difficult to find...

to prevent whom from discovering it?

With this thought, Lin Xian slowly lifted his head, gazing at the bright full moon in the sky.

The moon tonight was perfectly round.

The sky was clear and cloudless, the dark handprint on the moon’s surface arrogantly overlooking everything, or perhaps monitoring everything...

Perhaps, the answer was already quite clear.

The existence that could make Zhao Yingjun work so hard, be so cautious...

could only be the Genius Club!

The good news was that Zhao Yingjun had succeeded; she had broken through 600 years of time to give the City in the Sky to herself from 600 years ago.

But the bad news was that humanity still could not escape the fate of annihilation by the white light, and they were equally unaware of the white light’s existence, completely ignorant even of the reason for their own destruction.

And what concerned Lin Xian more was...

What about himself?

His own history?

Zhao Yingjun and Rhine Sky City had both continued to exist and left traces 600 years later.

But what about himself, the real founder of Rhein Company?

Where was he?

What had he done?

What kind of past had he experienced?

“VV.”

Lin Xian’s gaze shifted from the moon and looked down at the trash can robot at his feet:

“I want to ask you a question,” he said softly:

“What kind of history do I, Lin Xian, the real founder of Rhein Company, have in this world?”

The trash can robot’s lights flickered quickly, and it shook its head:

“Lin...

Xian...”

“No such person exists.”