Chapter 46 Hunter
Lin Xian stared at the photos on the monitor.
That's him!
The old man who surrounded himself at the birth point of the fourth dreamland, was electrocuted, put on a hood, and said with a dry smile, "I see you!"
In 2023, in order to find this old man, Lin Xian and VV did not hesitate to go to the United States to participate in the World Hacking Competition and collect all electronic photos on the global Internet, but in the end they found nothing.
Lin Xian was very confused at that time.
Super artificial intelligence VV has already simulated the old man's appearance at various ages based on his own sketches.
It stands to reason.
As long as this old man lives in 2023, even if he is just a baby in 2023, he should be able to compare.
Therefore, Lin Xian suspected that the true identity of this mysterious old man was Kevin Walker. After all, only super hacker Kevin Walker had the power to delete the entire network's data.
But later when he killed Kevin Walker with his own hands, Lin Xian discovered that the two men looked completely different. This conclusion was self-evident, and Lin Xian began to suspect that the mysterious old man's true identity was Copernicus.
Surprisingly...
Later, when he killed Copernicus with his own hands, Lin Xian was still speechless to find that Copernicus still looked different from the mysterious old man!
He didn't think too much.
Because all the evidence pointed to Copernicus, Lin Xian guessed that Copernicus in the fourth dream had undergone plastic surgery and changed his appearance.
In the end, I never expected...
After wandering all the way, cat and mouse, the mysterious old man’s true identity turns out to be Newton!
"Then why can't we find it in 2023?"
Lin Xian asked:
"Newton obviously lived in 2023. He was of the same era as Copernicus, Galileo, and Leonardo da Vinci. It's not like he didn't leave any image data, right?"
"I don't know about that."
Hafnium Alloy VV shook his head:
"I don't know why, but I couldn't find Newton based on the portrait you gave me."
"And... I can't push back to 2023 normally based on the information I found now. I don't know where Newton is in 2023. In other words-"
"[Newton's biographical information is incomplete, discontinuous, and forged, and even...including his appearance may be false.]"
…
false.
camouflage.
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes and thought.
Considering that Newton and Copernicus are the same species and are the inheritors of Copernicus' will, it may be possible to forge identities and appearance.
"What you said reminds me of a previous conjecture."
Lin Xian turned around and looked at VV:
"When I learned about Newton's true position, I thought that Newton might not be an old man of the same age as Copernicus, but more likely a father and son."
"Because Copernicus was so old that he was about to die at any time. If Newton was also his age, how could he still be alive and kicking after 500 years?"
"Don't forget, Newton didn't hibernate for 500 years at a stretch. He woke up intermittently over the years and was always active, so I had a bold guess at that time -"
"[When Newton joined the Genius Club, he was actually a young man. But in order to create an illusion of opposition to Copernicus, he pretended to be an old man of the same age as Copernicus... to deceive other geniuses and confuse the public. ]"
I have to say.
Copernicus and Newton, these two old men are really cunning.
The Genius Club has been gathering for so many years.
Except for the omniscient and omnipotent Einstein, who knew that the two men were playing a double act, no one else discovered the truth.
"Copernicus and Newton were indeed very smart and capable, but as the first two members of the Genius Club, they held too high a position and monopolized information for too long, which led to a fatal development in both of them. shortcoming--"
"【arrogant】."
Lin Xian shook his head and continued:
"Arrogance and arrogance are the most fatal shortcomings for a person. There is no one. Many enemies we have faced were very powerful, but they lost in the end. They lost not to others... but to others. Gave arrogance.”
"Newton and Copernicus have always looked down on everyone in the genius club, including me. Now, it's time to find Newton in reality and give him a surprise."
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VV spins excitedly, raising his hands high:
"Let me do it, let me do it! I like to do this kind of thing the most! Before, whether it was Kevin Walker or Copernicus Newton, they stepped on our heads one by one to show off... Now, it's finally our turn! "
"Thanks to my studying in Hollywood, I learned so many acting skills and directing techniques, but I ended up being offline before I could put my skills to use. Now that I have such a good opportunity, I must be allowed to direct one!"
"Okay, okay."
Lin Xian waved his hand:
"Just think of it as giving you 500 years of pretending to be stupid for rehabilitation. As long as you can find Newton in reality, it doesn't matter what form you meet."
"The game among the members of the Genius Club has always been like this... We are all ordinary people. No matter how high our IQ is, we are just miserable flesh and blood. Exposing your identity means death. Everyone is the same, and there is no difference between them."
"VV, can you guess why Newton didn't come to kill me at all even though he knew my true identity?"
"What's so hard to guess."
VV immediately replied:
"For the stability of the world line!"
"Newton didn't know that the wonderful future that Einstein saw was false. He must have thought that the emergence of the world line of the wonderful future was all due to him!"
"Then, in order to maintain the stability of the world line and prevent it from jumping to other world lines again, the best way is not to do unnecessary things and let history and the future continue to develop according to their original trajectory."
"Newton's target has always been those scientists and mathematicians. Although it hurts to say it, in his opinion... there is no point in killing you. Instead, you have to bear the risk of the world line changing. Why do such unnecessary things? What about the matter?”
Lin Xian chuckled lightly and spread his hands:
"Killing me, indeed for Newton, has no value but only risk; but for me, killing Newton is the greatest meaning."
"Newton killed so many scientists, hindered the development of human science and technology, and led many cutting-edge fields into dead ends... He is the real sinner of human civilization."
Lin Xian turned around and looked at the corroded black wooden seat on the high platform. It was Einstein's seat and the place where he turned into blue stardust and dissipated.
The old friend was no longer here, but the look in Einstein's last look at Lin Xian still contained a hint of remorse and entrustment to Douglas.
“We will finish what Einstein didn’t finish.”
"Get ready for a big fight VV..."
Lin Xian raised his head and looked at the ceiling as bright as stars:
"It's time to face the final mystery and truth, and take back the real future of mankind..."
…
Germany, city of Dresden.
"Dr. Hans! Be careful!"
With quick eyesight and quick hands, the female secretary flew forward and threw Dr. Hans onto the grass next to him.
This is not enough.
She rolled around a few more times with Dr. Hans in her arms, and rolled away from her original position.
boom! ! ! !
An out-of-control flying car fell from the sky and hit the place where Dr. Hans originally stood.
Fortunately, these flying cars are powered by nuclear batteries, and the shell of the nuclear battery is made of hafnium alloy, so there is no risk of explosion at all.
Advances in materials science have also made vehicles extremely strong and will not fall apart.
The only damage to the entire car was the deployed airbag and broken glass.
"Dr. Hans! Are you okay?"
The female secretary quickly got up and looked at Dr. Hans up and down.
fine.
No injuries.
The female secretary was relieved...
She quickly ran to the runaway car to check.
This is a driverless flying car with no driver or passengers inside.
This is very strange.
Generally speaking, except for urban vehicles such as trucks, public transportation vehicles, taxis, and garbage trucks, it is unlikely that private cars will run on empty.
So, obvious!
[This is a purposeful murder! 】
"Dr. Hans, we should call the police immediately."
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The female secretary turned around and looked at Dr. Hans who got up from the ground:
"This kind of situation where a self-driving car loses control is too rare. Obviously... this should be a premeditated murder, and their target is you!"
The old Dr. Hans stood up, brushed grass clippings from his body, and put on his glasses again:
"It doesn't matter."
"The more this happens, the more it proves that my research direction is correct."
Dr. Hans glanced at the fallen car that attempted murder, and walked straight towards the conference building in front:
"Let's go quickly. We don't have time to waste here. Everyone is still waiting for my report."
The female secretary looked at the crashed vehicle and Dr. Hans who was striding a long way away...
have no choice.
I had to bite my lip, be wary of the surroundings, and follow quickly:
"Dr. Hans, I suggest you reconsider the security plan I proposed last week. You are a world-class scientific leader, and your opinions are related to the development direction of many cutting-edge fields. If there is any accident, it will definitely affect the entire human society." The loss!”
"I don't like being around people."
Hans replied calmly:
"Don't worry, the more someone wants to kill me, the more they make me stick to my ideas and beliefs."
"You also know that today, the development of cutting-edge science is slow or even stagnant. Many interest groups are deeply entrenched. They rely on the monopoly of old-era technology to make a lot of money. The emergence of new technologies will inevitably overtake them and leave them behind."
"This is also the reason why the development of science and technology has been difficult in recent years. History has proven countless times that every time a new technology appears, it will usher in a new round of business reshuffle. Capitalists wish that science and technology would never develop, and they could even keep selling Sewing machines will be sold until the end of the world.”
"As you said, as a leader in many fields, if I shrink back here or show fear of them, who among my students, latecomers, and others will have the scientific research spirit to fear nothing?"
"But……"
The female secretary strives for:
"Security issues and academic research do not conflict..."
"That's enough."
Hans waved his hand, interrupted the female secretary, and said solemnly:
"Don't mention this at the meeting later. Today's meeting is very important and the whole world is paying attention to it."
After a while.
Dr. Hans entered the meeting room.
He has a very high status, even in the world, he is the best.
The moment he stepped into the large conference room.
The academic masters and masters sitting inside were silent in an instant, all stood up, bowed and greeted Dr. Hans.
After taking their seats, the meeting began.
This is a global meeting to determine the development direction of the human science field.
Resources and talents are limited.
There are so many disciplines, so many branches, and so many specific projects in the world.
Especially for such world-class, global projects, it is not something that can be done by one country or even a few countries. It must be developed together by global collaboration.
In this case, the direction is particularly important.
It is very likely that a certain direction will go smoothly in the early and middle stages, but in the end it will be found that it is not feasible; it is also possible that a certain direction will always hit a wall and make no progress in the early and middle stages, but once the bottleneck is broken, there will be a bright road behind.
In the past few hundred years, there have been many cases of people choosing the wrong technology tree or taking the wrong technology path, which has led to many detours.
The most typical case was the dispute between fluidless spacecraft engines and fluid spacecraft engines when humans were preparing to face the long-distance voyage in the starry sea in the early 22nd century.
Scientists around the world formed two evenly matched factions.
On the one hand, the traditionalists believed that the fluid engine should continue to be developed; then, during the voyage, a step-by-step plan of continuously using gas planets to replenish fuel should be adopted.
On the other hand, the reformists believed that they should give it a try and pool global efforts to study fluidless engines to solve the problem of voyage once and for all.
In the end, the reformists won with their epoch-making ideas, and scientists around the world began to study fluidless engines.
As a result, hundreds of years later...
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It was finally confirmed that the fluidless engine was just a fantasy, a beautiful dream, and was completely unsuitable for voyage; at least, it was completely unsuitable with the current technological blessing.
Hundreds of years were wasted, and humans turned back to the working fluid engine.
If... at the beginning of that meeting, we had firmly chosen the traditional but reliable working fluid engine to continue research, would human civilization take another path after hundreds of years?
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine for time.
Hundreds of years of time and talents were wasted.
After this incident, the scientific research community generally became conservative, and innovation and courage to innovate were greatly frustrated.
The female secretary watched Dr. Hans take the chair, and she clenched her palms, a little nervous.
Can he...
succeed?
After a brief speech, the meeting began. Almost overwhelmingly, the vast majority of participants believed that human science should still be people-oriented, and strengthening and genetic improvement should be carried out on the basis of the human body, and it cannot be separated from the human body itself; scientific instruments can be relied on, but not overly relied on; electronic prostheses, electronic eyes, electronic brains and the like are completely unacceptable.
They believe that the limit of human mechanical acceptance is simple prosthetic limbs for the disabled and some mechanical organs for medical use.
"But we must grasp this degree and limit!"
A scientific leader said in the audience:
"If we don't grasp this degree from the beginning and develop prosthetic limbs and prosthetic organs too powerfully, it is hard to imagine...whether someone will specifically cut off healthy limbs and organs in the future to install those cold machines."
His point of view was recognized by many participants.
It is better to say that even in 2504, human acceptance of mechanical prostheses and electronic organs is still very low. As long as their own healthy organs can be used, no one is willing to replace them with mechanical ones...Naturally, few scholars study this aspect.
But.
This conference.
As a global leader in science and technology, Dr. Hans is a staunch innovator.
"Everyone."
He stood up, not afraid of the conservatives in the room huddling together for warmth:
"If the development of a technology is really beneficial to human life, physical fitness, health, and even intelligence... why should we be stubbornly conservative and not accept new things?"
"Nowadays, the atmosphere of fear of failure and fear of innovation permeates the academic world. Looking around the world, except for Rhine University in Longguo, this negative attitude is basically the same."
"The failure of the fluidless engine did waste hundreds of years of precious time for mankind, but can we overturn and give up all hope for the future because of this failure?"
Dr. Hans looked around slowly with a sharp look, and said in a deep voice:
"【You Do you really think that the human body is perfect? No, you are just afraid of failure, afraid of taking a detour again, and wasting hundreds of years. 】"
"What are you afraid of! Do we humans only have a few hundred years left before we become extinct? The benefits of the present will benefit future generations, and someone must make this attempt! If we don't start research on electronic prostheses, electronic organs, and electronic brains now... then when will we start again?"
"Scientists, scholars, if you can't always stand at the forefront of science and technology, it will be meaningless! If you don't dare to try to fail, who else dares to try to fail? !"
...
...
Dr. Hans's scolding made the whole audience silent.
gradually.
It started with one or two applause, and then slowly evolved into a standing ovation from the whole audience.
yes.
Hans is right…
Is it possible that human civilization will bow its head and be insignificant for the rest of its life because of one failure?
Everyone knows it.
The fusion of electronics, intelligence, machinery, high-tech materials, and micro-nuclear batteries creates electronic prosthetics, electronic eyes, electronic brains and other organs whose performance and durability far exceed those of human beings.
It's just that conservative ideas and traditional people-centered concepts restrict everyone from researching in this area.
Final vote.
Under the leadership of Dr. Hans, electronic prosthetics and electronic brains have become the new development direction of human body science in the future. From this moment on, mankind will move towards a bright future.
"That's great Dr. Hans!"
After the meeting, the female secretary came up to us excitedly and said:
"You succeeded! You will lead mankind to a new era!"
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“It still depends on everyone’s joint efforts.”
Dr. Hans said calmly:
"One person cannot change the world after all. This revolution in human science... is another long marathon, a race between human beings and their own destiny."
The two walked out of the door. The self-driving car prepared by the secretary had parked at the door. Dr. Hans got into the passenger seat and the female secretary drove him personally to take him home.
"Dr. Hans, I will come to pick you up tomorrow. Just wait for me at home. Until the police investigate this matter, you must go out less and pay attention to your safety."
"I see."
Dr. Hans waved his hand tiredly:
"See you tomorrow."
…
After the female secretary flew away in the car, Dr. Hans looked in the direction of the door lock, performed iris scanning and various biometric verifications to ensure that only he could open the door lock.
Click.
After the door opens.
Dr. Hans walked into the living room and turned on the light.
"ah!!"
He shouted, took a step back, staggered and almost fell!
I saw...
A smiling young man sat on a chair next to the dining table in the living room, and next to him stood a trash can robot with glowing green eyes.
The young man crossed his arms and crossed his legs, obviously waiting for some time.
"[The hunter will one day become the prey.]"
Lin Xian smiled slightly and looked at the belated old man:
"I have said this to you twice, but you can only hear it this time."
"So, what should I call you?"
"Newton... or Copernicus?"
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