Chapter 74 Our Promise
Password...
Thinking back to those nights when I racked my brains to crack the password with the big-faced cat and CC, it was really funny, heartwarming, and nostalgic.
did not expect.
At this moment today, I can actually set any password for the safe myself.
What is the setting now, what will be the safe password in 600 years, everything is up to you.
The original password is no longer important and will forever remain a mystery.
Even the thing originally placed in the safe will disappear and become an eternal mystery, replaced by a small note.
but……
A few months ago, when Lin Xian told VV this point of view, VV put forward a different understanding.
VV said this at the time:
"Lin Xian, maybe there is no original thing or original password at all... That safe has the same password and the same things from beginning to end. You don't know the truth yet, just because you haven't waited until The moment when history closed its loop.”
"That is, when you actually use the safe to store things and set passwords, you will suddenly understand. From the first time you saw the safe to the time you opened it 600 years later, it Nothing has ever changed—"
"[No matter how time and space change in history or the future, the things you put in the safe will always be the same, and the password will always be the same.]"
There is a sense of fatalism in what VV said.
it mean.
The safe in the first dream, the safe in the second dream, and the safe that will appear in the fourth dream or even the fifth dream...actually all have the same password and the same things inside. .
"If what you finally put in was a small note, then the safe in the first dream actually contained that small note."
"If what is in the safe is not a small note, then don't worry, even if you firmly want to put a small note in it now... But when you actually put something in the safe, You still don’t know how to put the small note in. The last thing you put in must be something that was already determined in the first dream safe.”
At that time, VV analyzed it like this:
"Lin Xian, this is called [closed loop]."
Although it sounded a bit mysterious, Lin Xian did not doubt this.
This is well documented.
When he saw the hafnium alloy safe in his second dream, Lin Xian wrote a letter to his future self, reminding or even warning his future self that when he sets the password for the safe, he must set it to 29990203. I ask everyone to be their own people and not to embarrass themselves.
Now.
The "space-time mailbox" delivered the letter sent a few months ago like a postman.
future self.
Isn’t that who you are now?
That letter was written by Lin Xian a year ago to Lin Xian now, who was currently on the phone with Brother Wang.
So……
Now, will he listen to his own words and set his password to 29990203?
After three seconds of hesitation.
He shook his head.
【Won't】.
It's not that he betrayed his past self.
It's just...if it's not the time to actually use this 600-year-old safe, what's the use of opening it in advance?
It's not like he hasn't thought about it.
You can now ask Brother Wang to throw a Rhine Cat doll into the safe with his name written on it, and then set the password to 19990320, his most commonly used password, so that when he first encounters the big-faced cat and CC , you can open the safe directly.
but……
Does it make any sense?
After opening it, I found that it was a Rhine cat, or a Rhine cat with the same mask as the big-faced cat, or it was also called a Keko cat at that time.
What's the point?
It's just a joke.
Moreover.
CC is so persistent in looking for the safe and risking her life to open the safe, which shows that the contents inside must be very important to her.
It is also very important for bearded men.
This is enough to show that there cannot be a Rhenish cat in the safe.
so……
[What has been hidden in the safe with my name on it all this time? 】
Now is the moment when you can decide the answer for yourself.
He was actually a little embarrassed.
I always feel that putting something in a safe should be a very important thing. But the most worthwhile thing he could think of to put in now was that small piece of paper that he didn't even know what to write.
never mind.
Never mind.
Anyway, let’s wait until we finish the things at hand.
When I return to Donghai to actually set the password and put things in the safe, it will be at least the end of March or the beginning of April.
Just look at that time...
Is it true that as VV said, [historical closed loop]?
If that's the case.
I will suddenly realize it at that moment.
Just like the Pomeranian VV raised by Zhao Yingjun...
That's really destiny,
Already doomed.
What an amazing feeling.
"I have not decided yet."
Lin Xian said on the phone:
"Let's talk about it when I return to Donghai."
"Okay!"
Brother Wang smiled and said:
"Then wait for the good news of our Taimu Bank's trial operation on March 20, your birthday!"
After that, he hung up the phone.
"There are so many things to do..."
Lin Xian plugged the phone into the charging cable and put it on the table.
It felt like a bunch of things that could not be done were squeezed in front of him, but fortunately, it was just a little troublesome, not like the previous intrigue with the seven deadly sins, facing life-threatening dangers.
"Take it step by step."
He covered himself with a quilt, turned over, and went to sleep.
A dreamless night.
The next day.
The training of everyone entered the second stage.
Now everyone's physical fitness, overload adaptability, and low-gravity activity level have all passed, and they have to start learning the operation of equipment on the aerospace plane.
Gao Yang panted with his nose, and he was eager to try!
"Where is my robotic arm! I've been waiting for a long time!"
The group followed Huang Que to the equipment simulation operation training room.
Inside, there is a 1:1 replica of the operating device of the aerospace plane's mechanical arm, and it has been modified. The place where the mechanical clamp should be at the front end has become an electric rice cooker... No, it is a space-time particle capturer.
Through the joystick on the operating table, you can operate the mechanical arm to move up and down, left and right, raise your head, lower your head, turn your head, and retract and extend the three-stage mechanical arm.
There are three joysticks on the operating table, and one on the right hand side; there are three pedals under the feet, and there are a bunch of red, green and green buttons on the operating table.
It looks quite complicated.
"Can you really do it?" Coach Wei Cheng looked at Gao Yang with a suspicious look, not very trusting.
"Why do you always distrust me so much!"
Gao Yang patted his chest with a solemn oath:
"Everyone has their shining points, okay? Don't look at people with stereotypes!"
"That's right."
As Gao Yang's childhood friend, Lin Xian felt that he had to save Gao Yang's face at this time, and save himself by the way... He couldn't let Coach Wei Cheng think that birds of a feather flock together:
"Talent is really hard to talk about. The more complex the operation and the more difficult the subject, the more talent is needed."
"Just like the well-known game genius and e-sports master in the world, not only has very fast hand speed and very powerful operation, but also has sharp eyes. While playing the game, he can quickly switch the screen to observe the corners of the battlefield, never missing any details. He is simply invincible, a real genius."
Wei Cheng is only in his 30s this year. He played a lot of games when he was young and has a certain understanding of the e-sports circle.
He turned his head and looked at Lin Xian:
"Isn't the person you are talking about..."
"That's right."
Gao Yang gave himself a thumbs up:
"It's me!"
"...""..."Lin Xian and Wei Cheng looked at each other in silence.
"In short, in short." Lin Xian pointed to the robot arm operating table:
"Since we are here, let him try it."
Wei Cheng carefully and meticulously explained to Gao Yang the functions of each joystick, gear lever, pedal, and button, and then personally demonstrated several times how to control the robot arm.
After teaching step by step, Wei Cheng got up from the operating chair and gave it to Gao Yang:
"Try it yourself and get familiar with it for a while. I will train Lin Xian and An Qing first, and come to see your results later."
After that, he took Lin Xian and Chu Anqing away.
Two hours later.
The three came back.
I found Gao Yang sitting on the chair, pushing left and right, using his hands and feet, as if he was practicing Wing Chun.
He saw the three people coming back and smiled:
"It's not much different from an excavator, just with a few more axes."
"Heh."
Wei Cheng chuckled and began to give orders:
"Down left, forward, up right, back, dig, ouch..."
The smile on his face disappeared, and he looked at Gao Yang in confusion:
"Have you driven an excavator before?"
"No."
"You learn pretty fast..."
Wei Cheng couldn't believe it, so he took out a balloon, blew it up with a helium bottle, wrapped it around his fingertips, and tied it tightly.
Then he walked under the mechanical arm:
"Grab this balloon."
After saying that, he threw it to the side with force.
The balloon rotated and moved horizontally in the air, then flew diagonally upward.
Gao Yang was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He stepped on the pedal to adjust the posture of the rice cooker first, so that it would be like a Pac-Man with his mouth wide open, and open the lid diagonally downward.
Then he faced various joysticks and performed a burst of Wing Chun. The mechanical arm was like a snake, bending and twisting, staring at the balloon that was rising faster and faster!
Predict!
Aim!
"Ha-ha!" Gao Yang screamed!
Pushed the two joysticks!
Then his thumb immediately pressed the button on the right joystick!
The plain-looking rice cooker was like the head of a cobra that attacked instantly! It leaned forward! Then the lid closed with a bang!
The light helium balloon that Wei Cheng threw casually was swallowed directly into the rice cooker... the inside of the device that is actually called a space-time particle capturer.
"Wow!"
Chu Anqing was stunned!
Wei Cheng's eyes twitched... He walked over and knocked on the rice cooker:
"Open it, and try again."
The lid of the rice cooker slowly opened, and Wei Cheng took out a helium balloon the size of a grapefruit from it, and then threw it in an unexpected direction.
Bang!
Under Gao Yang's operation, the robotic arm moved like a dragon and a rabbit, and swallowed the floating balloon accurately with a big mouth.
"Fuck?"
Wei Cheng was really shocked this time.
He threw the balloon eight more times in different ways.
Gao Yang launched eight different attacks from eight directions, and they all hit!
Snap, snap, snap, snap!
Chu Anqing applauded Mianzi very much!
Lin Xian turned around, pressed the Bluetooth headset, and whispered:
"VV, what did you do?"
"No! I didn't participate in what you said!" VV looked confused:
"I thought that you, this weird team of ragtag people, were basically just sleeping dragons and phoenixes who went to space to watch a show...but I never expected that everyone has their own unique skills!"
Lin Xian was really impressed by Gao Yang this time... Sure enough, there are only real losers and no real trash in this world?
He looked at Chu Anqing again.
This one is even more of a heavyweight, born with the holy body of an astronaut. It’s a pity that this talent is only used for dancing.
And Gao Yang.
If these two people don't come to the secret training base for astronauts this time, they really will never be able to find where their talents lie.
Both of them thought they were very ordinary, but they didn't expect to be so talented in such an unexpected and limited field.
Lin Xian inexplicably remembered what Mr. Zhang Yang said in his general education class at Donghai University:
"Each of you is a miracle in the universe. Those atoms from the depths of the universe traveled thousands of miles to the solar system billions of years ago just to form you billions of years later. How could you be ordinary? How could it be useless? Those star supernovae have been exploding for you for billions of years... So, my students, be proud and confident!"
Ahem.
In the Bluetooth headset, VV's cough brought Lin Xian back from his thoughts:
"Speaking of which, it seems that you are the most useless in the entire team."
hiss……
Lin Xian had to admit.
It really is.
A few days later, Liu Feng officially came for training.
He told Lin Xian that a simple space-time particle tracker had been made and he was coming to participate in gravity overload training.
"Now, the space-time particles have passed through the asteroid belt, just passed the orbit of Mars, and are flying towards the Earth. Its speed has not decreased, it is very fast, so the previously predicted arrival time of the Earth has not changed, which is the end of March."
After another half month of intense training.
Everyone took a special plane and left the secret training base for astronauts in the Imperial Capital. They said goodbye to the place where they had trained together for two months and flew to Gansu——
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
"The next step is actual training."
Huang Que brought a group of five people behind him, Lin Xian, Gao Yang, Chu Anqing, Liu Feng, and Weicheng, into a huge hangar.
Press the button and the hangar lights up.
A pearl-white space plane sits quietly and majestically in the middle of the hangar, surrounded by various ladders and brackets.
The four people except Wei Cheng raised their heads...
Gazing at this important national weapon and the only aerospace aircraft in the world...
Although the size is far less than that of a civil aviation aircraft.
But the shocking feeling of technology and the nobility that seemed to see through the inner world made the four people unable to help but become solemn.
Never imagined.
These four ordinary people were lucky enough to be able to fly on a space plane that most astronauts would not have the chance to ride!
Moreover, it is still very luxurious. It does not enter space, but only performs tasks in suborbital space of 10 kilometers to 100 kilometers.
Sense of responsibility, sense of mission.
It filled four people's bodies in an instant.
"We usually call this aerospace plane Xiaobai."
As the pilot of the aerospace plane's first flight at the end of last year, Wei Cheng took everyone around the aerospace plane and counted the treasures:
"It's very small and cute, right? But it depends on what you compare it with. Compared with the civil aviation aircraft we make every day, it is indeed a lot smaller. Because this aerospace plane does not have the ability to take off, it must be installed on the Shenzhou rocket head It is inside the cabin inside and is released after being launched by a rocket, so the size is definitely limited.”
"However, it is about twice as large as the American aerospace plane X-37B. The American X-37B is an unmanned aerospace plane and can perform very limited space missions. Our Dragon Kingdom's aerospace plane is not Not only can it carry people, but it also has two special cabins, so in terms of advancedness and functionality, our novice is far superior to the X-37B. "
Speaking of this, Wei Cheng's face was full of pride.
He pointed to the place in front of the aerospace plane "Xiaobai":
"Here are the passenger cabin and the cockpit. The front is the cockpit, which is where Liu Feng and I will sit. The passenger cabin at the back is where you will sit. The space is quite tight, because there is only an inch of space inside. It’s expensive, and the passenger compartment is only used when taking off and returning to land on the rocket. The work at other times is mainly concentrated in the back section - the equipment compartment. "
Wei Cheng pointed at the middle section of the aerospace plane:
"The main functions and operating spaces are concentrated in this section, including the console where Gao Yang operates the robotic arm. Well, that's the exit of the robotic arm."
He pointed to a folding door above the space plane:
"The robotic arm is usually folded inside, and will be controlled when needed. Now Liu Feng's rice cooker... Uh, forget it, let's just talk about the rice cooker. The name of the catcher is really too long. Language exists. Isn’t the most basic meaning of it just for convenience of communication?”
Bang bang!
Wei Cheng clapped his hands and motioned everyone to look at him:
"In the next few days, Liu Feng will continue to conduct gravity overload training. The task is relatively light because Commander Huang has arranged other observation tasks for him; Gao Yang, you are here and directly operate the mechanical arm of the aerospace plane. Note that when you are actually capturing in space, it is different from the simulation. Your vision is far from being as good as the naked eye. You need to look at the monitoring screen to operate, and the difficulty has increased by more than a little bit... But now I have a new respect for you, I believe you can do it."
Then, he turned his head and looked at Lin Xian and Chu Anqing:
"You two, just follow me to learn how to operate and use all the equipment in the equipment cabin. These equipment are not used in most cases, but they must be learned, just like what I said to Gao Yang before... 99.99% of our training is prepared for 0.01% of emergencies... Do you understand?"
"I understand." Everyone said in unison.
Wei Cheng was very satisfied and nodded.
The team ran in very well, working together, and he was very pleased.
In the days ahead, it was still training, training, and training.
As the distance between the space-time particles and the earth got closer and closer, and time became more and more urgent, everyone consciously worked overtime to train.
Even if no one urged them, they were very demanding of themselves.
Lin Xian was no exception.
He and Chu Anqing took out all the energy they had in the college entrance examination. As long as they didn't die from studying, they would study to death.
Every night, Lin Xian would still enter the dreamland to look at the dozen or so luminous airships floating in the sky, staring at the advertisements for the 600th anniversary of the Tam Bank on them.
What is out of reach...
It was the distance between him, who was surrounded by dozens of soldiers, and the balloon airship in the sky, which was only a few hundred meters away in a straight line.
Damn it.
When can I kill Kevin Walker in reality?
I have been stuck in the fourth dreamland for a long time. The Tam Bank is right in front of me, but I have no way to open the safe to verify it.
This feeling is not good.
It's like a carrot hanging in front of a donkey's head, always within reach, but never reachable.
In addition, there is another thing that also troubles Lin Xian.
[What should be written on the small note that should be put in the safe, enough to deceive the whole world, deceive everyone, and instantly make him understand and realize that the dream is real? ]
Lin Xian admitted that he was a little too pretentious at VV before. He thought of many plans, but none of them could meet such harsh conditions.
Theoretically, even if the enemy cannot read his memory.
But it only takes more than 3 years to crack the hafnium alloy safe by exhaustive method. Maybe those enemies who created false dreams, virtual worlds, and studios for themselves... have long known what the password of the safe is, what is placed in it, and what is written on the note.
After all, for me, even if I set the password of the safe 1 minute ago and then fell asleep 1 minute later, it seems very fast.
But in fact, for the enemy... this 1 minute is 600 years for them.
If they really have the ability and patience to build such a realistic virtual world studio for themselves, then it would be easy to crack a safe password in 600 years, wouldn't it?
600 years...
With such a long time span, this battle is indeed very difficult to fight.
But.
It must be fought!
We must find a way to win!
"So..."
That night, Lin Xian, who was tired from training, lay on the bed, yawning, and thinking very tiredly:
"What should be written on that little piece of paper... After all, only words can express the most comprehensive, most obscure, most direct and most roundabout meaning, and are the most suitable carriers of passwords and codes."
He yawned again.
Get ready to go to bed.
"Ah?" VV used the electronic alarm clock, 0_0, and looked at Lin Xian:
"Are you going to sleep?"
"Yes." Lin Xian turned over:
"What's wrong?"
"It's not even 12 o'clock yet! Why are you sleeping! Get up and have fun!" VV yelled and started playing "Beier Shuang" on the TV in the room.
This is the feeling~ So cool! So cool!
So cool, so cool!!
VV even sang along.
"Are you... sick?"
Lin Xian frowned and looked at VV:
"What's wrong with you today?"
"Oh, go to bed later!" The electronic alarm clock said:
"How about this, I'll tell you a bedtime ghost story! Once upon a time, there was a corpse..."
"No, what good would it do you to scare me to death?"
Lin Xian looked at this obviously abnormal super artificial intelligence suspiciously:
"What's the matter with you? Just say it."
"Hee shua shua hee shua shua! Hee shua shua!" VV howled like a ghost.
"Don't sing."
"As a human being, I'm sorry..."
"Don't be eo!"
"Lin Xian, Lin Xian, I want Disney!"
"Are you done?"
Lin Xian was speechless. He sat up from the bed:
"Brother, what are you doing? I'm very sleepy today."
"Oh, wait a little longer! Play with me for a while!" VV tried his best to keep him.
Ding Dong~
Suddenly, WeChat on the phone rang.
The expression on the electronic alarm clock VV turned into ^o^, and then went out directly, turning into a normal time display.
"What are you doing..."
Lin Xian complained and picked up the phone.
It turned out to be a WeChat message from Chu Anqing:
"Senior, are you asleep?"
Lin Xian Jiugongge replied:
"not yet."
"Hey~ Could you please come to the training room?" Then, Chu Anqing sent another emoticon of a kitten kowtow.
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes...
There's a ghost!
This looks like something fishy, and it's obviously VV's fault.
If I didn’t go there, VV would most likely still be here to cause trouble, dance, and diss himself.
Lin Xian recalled that he had been with Chu Anqing all day today, practicing equipment operation under the guidance of coach Weicheng.
Do you have to work overtime to practice at night?
He didn't even change his pajamas, so he put on his space suit, opened the door and walked to the training room.
From a distance, I could see that the lights were turned off in the training room, and there was no light. ?
Isn't Chu Anqing here?
He walked to the middle of the dark training room and looked left and right:
"An Qing?"
Wow——————
The lights in the training room suddenly turned on!
"Dangdangdangdang~~"
At the light switch, Chu Anqing jumped out!
Lin Xian turned his head that way, and what suddenly appeared in front of him was not only Chu Anqing's smiling face, but also the crescent moon and the small pear dimple.
besides……
A small round cake held in the hand.
I saw her grinning and holding the small cake high:
"Senior Lin Xian~Happy birthday!"
The delicate voice echoed in the empty training room, clear and loud.
Lin Xian was slightly startled.
Raise your wrist electronic watch...
March 20, 2024, 00:01
it turns out……
Today is my birthday.
Busy training, endless mysteries in my mind, plus boys don't like celebrating birthdays. I haven't celebrated birthdays for so many years, and I forgot them all.
Not to mention this year, last year was completely forgotten.
Boys his age, especially those who have entered the society and have jobs and are very busy, often forget their birthdays unknowingly.
Even if I accidentally think of today, I just say "oh" and then there is nothing special.
What surprised Lin Xian even more was...
Why does Chu Anqing remember her birthday?
"Thank you."
Lin Xian smiled first and then asked:
"How do you know my birthday?"
"Hehe, you said it yourself last year! It was in the police station! That time I brought you food!"
Oh~~
Lin Xian remembered.
It was that time.
No wonder I can't remember.
Because at that time, Chu Anqing was excited about celebrating his and Ji Lin's birthdays, and specifically asked them the date.
At that time, I and Ji Lin...
They are probably thinking about the anniversary of each other's death in their hearts.
"Thank you anyway, I actually remembered it." Lin Xian smiled and took the cake.
"Of course~"
Chu Anqing patted her chest and abdomen proudly:
"Didn't we agree at the beginning? [We will give each other gifts on every birthday from now on! Until the last birthday in our lives!]"
"Hey, since it's an agreed upon thing, of course we must keep our word!"
Lin Xian looked at this little pistachio.
In my heart, I was indeed a little moved.
He looked down at the cake.
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is located in a remote place and is an important confidential location. Don't think about cake shop takeout or the like.
The slightly rough cake she held in her hands looked more like Chu Anqing's own making.
"Is...did you not do well?"
Chu Anqing put her hands behind her back and smiled sheepishly:
"This is also my first time. I originally wanted to ask Sister Huangque to bring a better-looking one from outside. But... I feel that everyone has been very tired from training for a while, and I feel like calling them here at night Celebrating your birthday together will affect their rest. And...the mission time is getting closer and closer, and everyone is very nervous as if facing an enemy. In the end, I think it is better not to bother others with such a big fanfare. "
"So I talked with the chef here. After training this afternoon, she used the kitchen utensils in the base kitchen to teach me how to whip cream, make cake bases, spread butter, etc... Hehe, although she didn't do it very well, But! But at least it’s a cake!”
"It's so remote here, we can't go shopping or anything...and there's no decent gift to give you. So...senior, if you don't mind, consider this birthday cake as a birthday gift! Me too I kept my promise~"
Lin Xian chuckled lightly and said nothing.
Looking at the "inferior cake" in my hand, it is not very round, and is a bit collapsed in some places, and the cream is not spread evenly...
"Okay, of course, no problem. I haven't received a birthday present for a long time."
He pointed to the table next to him:
"Want to eat together?"
"Okay, okay! I have a plate, knife and fork with me!"
The two of them cut the cake in the empty and silent training room.
The cake itself is very small, half of it per person is almost completely destroyed.
"Is it tasty?"
Chu Anqing blinked and asked seriously.
"tasty."
Lin Xian nodded:
"This is the truth. You have made great progress. I remember that when you came to the police station to deliver food to me last year, you were only responsible for washing vegetables and serving dishes in the kitchen. Now you can even make cakes."
"Oh~ I have to slowly become more virtuous!" Chu Anqing was very happy to be praised, and her eyes curved into crescents:
"Just eat happily! Because... During this period, I felt that you seemed to be very depressed... It's not that kind of feeling, but you seem to be worried. Of course, I know that everyone will be nervous about things like going to space, but seeing you frowning every day, I just... I just want to do something for you."
Chu Anqing bit her lip and raised her head as if she had made up her mind:
"Senior Lin Xian, are you worried about something?"
Lin Xian nodded without comment.
Indeed.
During this period, he had been thinking about what to write on that little note in order to achieve the effect of deceiving the whole world but being understood by himself and realizing the reality of the dream...
I was thinking so much that my head was bald.
This question is really too difficult.
Too difficult.
Chu Anqing looked at Lin Xian:
"My father told me... that you are all smart people, too smart, so the things in your mind are things that people like me can't understand or figure out."
"But he also told me that the smarter people are, the more complicated, contradictory, and overly comprehensive they will think about many simple problems, so that they are timid and take detours... In this case, it is the people who are not very smart, have a single-minded mind, and can only see the appearance but not the essence of the problem, who are more likely to find the answer to the problem."
"That's a story in a science fiction book my father likes to read, "Ball Lightning". He said these words to me while looking at the book. He said——”
“Many times we can’t think of the answer to a question, not because we don’t think it’s complicated enough, but because we don’t think it’s simple enough.”
“So…Senior Lin Xian.”
Chu Anqing smiled slightly:
“I’m the kind of person who’s not very smart, thinks about things simply, and can’t see the essence of a problem.”
“If you think of a very [complex] problem and can’t figure it out…”
She blinked, and the incandescent light in the training room cast a halo in her pupils:
“Would you like to hear…the [simple] answer?”