Genius Club Chapter 98 The World’s First 42 (Please vote for me~) (1/2)
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a critically acclaimed and widely influential science fiction film.
Lin Xian had seen it many years ago.
Because after talking about dreams with Gao Yang at that time, Gao Yang said that he couldn't imagine what the future world would be like, so he couldn't dream.
So from that time on, he began to indulge in science fiction movies and science fiction novels. And this very classic science fiction movie in the history of movies is naturally on his list of make-up lessons.
In fact, if I have to say how good this movie is... Lin Xian really doesn't think it's good. To be honest, it's pretty average. After all these years, he has no urge to watch it a second time.
But today is different...
After coming out of the dreamland yesterday, he decided to come to the private theater tonight to review the movie.
There is only one reason.
[The number 42 first appeared in the public eye...it was the movie "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". 】
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Lin Xian ordered a drink and walked into his private room, where the movie had already started playing.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a movie released in 2005. It can be regarded as an imaginative and funny science fiction road movie.
It is adapted from the science fiction novel of the same name written by author Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
The first half of the film seems a bit boring from today's perspective.
It's about a group of aliens who want to build a galactic highway, so they have to clear away the obstacles on the project route - the earth.
Then the earth was destroyed, and the protagonist began to adventure in the galaxy with an alien.
Then, there are some short stories in the style of unit dramas.
Lin Xian watched silently.
finally……
He waited for the best and most widely circulated clip in the film:
On a certain planet in the Milky Way, there is a highly developed and super-intelligent advanced civilization.
In order to obtain the truth of the universe, they gathered all their geniuses and built the most advanced supercomputer in the universe - Deep Thought.
After the supercomputer was built, tens of billions of aliens gathered here and asked the questions they had always been most concerned about and wanted answers to:
"Please calculate the ultimate answer to the universe, life, and everything in the world."
Shen Shen, a giant computer as huge as a mountain, turned on the indicator light a few times and then replied:
"The amount of calculation is too huge. Please come back here in 7.5 million years."
7.5 million years later——
All the top civilizations in the universe have gathered here, waiting for the giant computer to announce the final answer.
Amid much anticipation, the supercomputer Shen Shen spoke:
"The ultimate answer to the universe, life and everything in the world is——"
"42."
There was silence.
Then this plot ended abruptly and the next short story began.
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"42..."
Lin Xian muttered, rewinding this paragraph and reading it again.
The movie doesn't explain much about the concept of 42, and it just ends abruptly. In fact, everyone knows why this is...because the director doesn't know, and he can't make it up.
The ultimate answer to the universe, life, and everything in the world...
This is not a problem that anyone on earth can solve. …. .
The director can't.
The audience can't.
Neither does Douglas Adams, the original author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"...
In the novel of the same name he wrote, he still blurred this concept, never answering it, and pretending to be unpredictable.
But the novel itself is a comedy science fiction novel, and its main focus is nonsensical. Even at the beginning of the creation, it was just a contribution to a children's column of a TV station, so there was no need to explain the concept. It just needs to be fun and interesting.
but……
Lin Xian didn't think this matter was that simple.
"Even when Adams originally wrote this novel, it was just for fun and unexpected twists, so the answer calculated by the super computer was 42..."
"But why is it 42?"
"Why such a coincidence?"
If.
Lin Xian has not experienced so many things so far, and he will never question why a novelist set it like this.
This is someone else's novel. You can write it however you want. Don't worry about 42, 37, or 58. Those are Adams's freedom. It is very likely that they just wrote it casually.
But……
The situation is different now...
Countless facts that have happened show that the number 42 is really special, and it really has a special meaning.
The earliest time I fell asleep was 12:42.
The time I wake up every time my dream ends is 00:42.
The time when the future world will be destroyed by white light is 00:42.
Professor Xu Yun’s death time is 00:42.
In the first dream, the death time of the big-faced cat’s father was also 00:42.
In the second dream, the big-faced cat’s father calculated the cosmological constant and the result was--\u003e\u003e
42.
The walls in the room were covered with countless numbers, large and small, still 42.
This is so weird…
So many strange things are all related to the mysterious number 42.
This can't be a coincidence.
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes.
Looking at the credits that slowly rose after the film was played, Douglas Adams' name was written in the column for screenwriter and original author at the end.
"So..."
"Did Adams really know something? Or did he hear something by chance? Therefore, he set the ultimate answer of the universe, life, and everything in the world in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" to 42?"
Lin Xian had no way of knowing.
Because Douglas Adams himself had died in 2001.
Lin Xian checked the information and found that Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was created in 1979.
Then can we make a radical inference-[The Genius Club existed as early as 1979, 1952, or even earlier, and was hidden in the mist of history? 】
When he thought of this idea.
Lin Xian was a little chilled...
If his assumption was true, he really couldn't imagine how those people in the Genius Club did it.
How did they hide in history without leaving any clues?
How did they stay consistent and stick to their beliefs for hundreds of years, even nearly a thousand years?
What is their purpose?
What is the meaning of their doing this? …. .
"All these mysteries... should be related to [42]."
The movie has finished playing, the screen went black, and the whole room fell into darkness.
Lin Xian stood up.
No matter what, in order to solve the mystery of 42, he must sneak into the new Donghai City to find clues.
Whether it is the book "Introduction to the Cosmological Constant" or the father of the big-faced cat, only by finding one of the two can the investigation of 42 continue.
"The road ahead is long."
Lin Xian stood up from the sofa and pushed open the door of the private room.
Squeak--
...
The sound of the door opening.
In the suburbs of Donghai City, facing the lake, the sun shines in through the open door of the villa, and the rays of sunlight shine through the dust in the air, presenting a flashy Tyndall effect.
"Don't open the window during the day, don't turn on the lights at night... Ji Lin, when can you listen to me?"
The old man walked into the house.
He didn't close the door.
Because it was the only light source.
There was no light on in the room, and the curtains were drawn tightly. This dim and dilapidated atmosphere made him, an elderly man, extremely uncomfortable.
He preferred sunlight to light, and the warmth shining on his body could really make him feel the existence of time.
The living room in front of him was still as messy as last time.
To be precise, it was even messier than the last time he came.
The last time he came, at least all the magazines and newspapers were neatly stacked together, but now... almost all the newspapers and magazines were opened and scattered on the floor.
All the magazines were opened, and the newspapers were also thrown in a mess.
At this time, Ji Lin was leaning on the pile of magazines, sitting cross-legged on the floor, staring at the fluorescent light emitted by the laptop in front of him.
The fluorescent light reflected on his thin face, showing a kind of sickly paleness.
And the flat sunlight that slanted in from the entrance door just happened to shine less than ten centimeters away from his feet... and did not pull the fair-skinned boy out of the darkness.
"Are you welded to the floor? Do you need water?"
The old man walked in, looking at the mess with annoyance:
"I heard from the housekeeper...you haven't gone out these days. Since the last time I came, you haven't gone out once."
"The housekeeper also said that you bought some stuffed toys online? My God...you really have become someone I don't recognize."
"So what are you doing? Ji Lin, are you really working?"
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