Genius Club-Chapter 1202 - 48 Game Over (Added for alliance leader luckyluu!)

Boom!!!!!

Boom!!!!!

Boom!!!!!

At 00:42, the dazzling white light arrived precisely on time, incinerating all things in the world.

...

...

...

In Zhao Yingjun’s house, inside the guest bedroom, Lin Xian opened his eyes.

Maybe it was because the air conditioning was set too low.

He felt a chill across his entire body.

The whole month of October.

He had been rushing around in the Ninth Dreamland, hoping to find a single living person to provide him with some clues.

Yes.

Just one living person would suffice.

At first, he wanted to find CC, or Big Face Cat. Later, he no longer hoped for that—finding anyone would do.

But as he unearthed the motorcycle and the range of exploration widened, Lin Xian’s ominous feeling deepened.

Even though he had mentally prepared himself.

After all, the Ninth Dreamland could either improve upon the Eighth Dreamland or worsen it. He’d been through terrible dreamlands before—whatever challenges arose could be faced, whatever obstacles could be overcome. Up until now, few things had gone smoothly.

But the problem was.

Even in the worst worlds he had experienced, none had reached the point of [human extinction]!

"This is getting tricky."

Lin Xian murmured to himself as he lay back on the pillow.

In the past, he could use information gleaned from the dreamland to change the present, rewrite the future, and cause the timeline to leap.

But if the future world in the Ninth Dreamland truly had no living humans, as he suspected...

Then it would be a deadlock.

Just like the utterly impassable Fourth Dreamland.

Even in the worst-case scenario.

Even if humanity were completely wiped out, there might still be some leftover data or information.

This was what made it all the more frustrating...

No one knew what had happened in the year 2600. Whatever it was, the disaster had obliterated the world and human civilization so thoroughly that it left almost nothing of use behind.

Lin Xian sat up on the guest bed and went to the kitchen.

Inside the warming box that glowed with a soft yellow light, there was a glass of milk that Zhao Yingjun had prepared for him beforehand.

By this point.

That glass of milk had become a silent agreement and habit between the two of them.

Lin Xian picked up the glass.

And downed it in gulps.

Today, he had driven a motorcycle for 1,000 kilometers in the dreamland. His waist was sore to the point of breaking, yet he hadn’t found a single person or trace of life.

The current state of the future world in the Ninth Dreamland could essentially be concluded.

Thud.

After finishing the milk.

He placed the glass on the table, went into the study, switched on the desk lamp, and pulled out paper and pen.

"There are a few critical [doubts] in the Ninth Dreamland."

Lin Xian uncapped his pen and wrote the first doubt onto the manuscript paper—

[1. Even in a timeline where Copernicus is dead, human technology remains constrained and progresses extremely slowly.]

The most direct evidence of this is the nuclear-powered motorcycle he had unearthed.

This was a motorcycle produced in the year 2657...

In the Second Dreamland, Third Dreamland, and Fourth Dreamland, there were numerous motorcycles flying in the skies, and Lin Xian had even ridden several flying motorcycles.

At the time, his interventions in the real world hadn’t been particularly significant, yet future technology had still reached such heights.

Why now, despite all the advanced technology he had stolen back from the future, had technological progress returned to stagnation?

"What on earth happened in these 600 years of history?"

Lin Xian couldn’t figure it out.

Nor could he find any relevant books or corroborating evidence.

And he certainly couldn’t find indigenous people to ask.

At the moment.

This question had clearly become a deadlock.

Lin Xian picked up the pen again and wrote down the second doubt—

[2. Why did humanity go extinct so thoroughly?]

This was also the point Lin Xian found most absurd.

"Even during the asteroid collision that caused the dinosaur extinction, not all dinosaurs were completely wiped out... many of today’s species evolved from small dinosaurs of that era."

"In earlier dreamlands, the super disaster of the year 2400 wiped out 95% of the population, but 5% remained."

"Considering various factors, there should always be some lucky individuals who survive a disaster. Moreover, the natural environment of 2624 isn’t particularly harsh; wild animals and plants thrived everywhere. Survivors of the great disaster would have no trouble repopulating the species."

The pen rotated between Lin Xian’s fingers.

With only a motorcycle at his disposal, driving over 1,000 kilometers in 12 hours had already reached the limits of exploration.

But that distance was indeed sufficient.

The distance from Chongqing to the East Sea was just over 1,000 kilometers. This was roughly equivalent to driving across the entirety of China, from the East Sea to Chongqing, without encountering a single person, not even a piece of trash, a wisp of smoke, a dwelling, or a cultivated field...

If such a scenario truly existed.

The only plausible explanation would be [complete human extinction].

"Even if we consider the possibility of humans living in underground cities, it’s impossible for there to be no trace of human-made structures on the surface, no signs of garbage from daily life."

"Moreover, if they were only hiding underground to avoid disasters, with the surface environment in such great condition now, with such clean air, why wouldn’t they come back up to live?"

So.

This hypothesis could be directly ruled out.

All life depends on sunlight.

Unless the surface had become extraordinarily inhospitable for survival, as in the scenario depicted in the movie "Wandering Earth"... Otherwise, humans would have no reason to retreat into underground cities for survival.

Finally, the third doubt—

[3. The year 2600 super disaster was clearly caused by humans. Who was behind it?]

"It was very likely Galileo."

Lin Xian said softly:

"But this time, the destruction was far greater than the disaster of 2400—it directly wiped out humanity."