CC pointed to her watch:
"Can you stop daydreaming? It's already half past twelve! We've wasted enough time!"
"Are you trying to deceive me?"
Lin Xian snapped out of it:
"Don't worry, I'm a man of my word."
He stepped forward and began turning the safe's gears:
"Actually, I should have thought of it earlier. You're right, I shouldn't have limited my thinking to dates. While 8-digit numbers aren't common, they're not nonexistent either."
"???"
CC looked at Lin Xian with confusion:
"Are you talking to me?"
Click, click, Lin Xian turned the password wheels one by one:
"In my life, aside from my phone number and ID number, I can probably remember one more long number, which is my QQ number. Oh, and two, I also remember MC Stone's QQ number."
"Who are you talking to?"
Looking around, CC felt a bit terrified by the situation:
"You've been acting strange ever since you saw me take off my mask... your mind seems to be not quite right..."
Click.
Lin Xian set the last digit and looked at CC:
"I've actually figured out what's in the safe."
"What is it?"
"It's probably some embarrassing items from my adolescence." Lin Xian recalled the cool and rebellious QQ signature he had in his middle school years, as well as the embarrassing things he did during his naive romantic relationships.
If the password really was his QQ number... then these items would be the most logical contents.
"Are you okay?"
CC felt like she was communicating with a lunatic, but couldn't communicate at all:
"If my appearance scared you so much, I'm sorry."
"Can 120 deal with your symptoms? I can help you make a call later."
Lin Xian chuckled and shook his head:
"Let's open the safe... then you'll know."
With that, he raised his right fist!
And slammed it towards the lock -
Bang!!
CC held her breath, biting her lips tightly.
...
...
It didn't open.
"Huh?"
Lin Xian was stunned.
He double-checked the 8 password wheels again. They were correct! It was his QQ number!
He slammed the lock again with two more punches.
Still didn't open.
After confirming the password was correct again, Lin Xian tried a different angle to press the lock.
Still didn't open!
Lin Xian was a little confused.
No... this shouldn't be happening.
An 8-digit password, not a date, not his QQ number, what else could it be?
At this point, CC's veins were bulging, trembling with the urge to shoot Lin Xian!
She looked up, glaring angrily:
"Are you playing fewer scenes?!"
"Don't make noise for now!"
Lin Xian held his head with one hand and gestured for CC to shut up with the other:
"Don't make noise... something's not right."
"The one who's not right is you, isn't it? I can't believe I trusted you!"
CC gripped her gun tightly, took a few deep breaths, and then suppressed her rising anger:
"Get out of the way!"
She shouted and pushed Lin Xian away forcefully.
Then she pressed her ear against the safe, started turning the password wheels again, and listened to the faint clicking sounds inside.
...
Lin Xian took two steps back, leaning against the safe.
Resting his chin on his hand, he pondered...
What was going on?
He thought the password this time was a sure thing. After all, he had tried all possibilities before - all sorts of dates, even the time of the dream, the time when Rhein Cat changed her name, and every possible time he could think of.
His QQ number was the last resort!
If even this didn't work...
Then it was very likely that this wasn't his safe at all!
Then this place wasn't his dream world either!
"Then where is this?"
Boom!!!
Boom!!!
Boom!!!
Amidst the alarm, a scorching white light engulfed the world.
Burning everything to ashes.
...
...
Lin Xian opened his eyes, sitting up from the bed.
He drew the curtains, opened the window, and let the cold breeze of early winter into the room, waking himself up from his complex thoughts.
"Dr. Liu's diagnosis is wrong."
He opened his eyes, looking at the starless night sky outside:
"Gao Yang's analysis is also wrong."
Lin Xian was sure -
Everyone thought his dreams were just dreams, mental illness, but only he knew... his dreams were not that simple!
He became increasingly convinced.
His dreams might really be the true future world 600 years later, just lacking definitive evidence.
Predicting three consecutive football lottery games was a strong piece of evidence, but not decisive enough.
If only he could use a few rounds of lottery tickets to verify it, but unfortunately... he couldn't find any useful information about this era in the dream world. He couldn't find any lottery winning numbers or current events, which was quite baffling.
In other words, from the current situation, there was no way to judge the truthfulness of the dream world from the perspective of "verifying known facts".
"I need to change my approach."
Lin Xian closed his eyes and contemplated.
The piercing cold wind made his thoughts clearer and clearer.
For now, all the mysteries could be put aside.
All about CC, Rhein Cat, Genius Club, the safe, and the like... could all be set aside for now.
The most urgent task now.
[Is to find a decisive piece of evidence to prove whether the dream world is indeed the true future world or not.]
We must get an absolutely accurate answer!
He opened his eyes.
Glancing at the scattered sheets of paper on the table, blown up by the night wind.
They were filled with various Rhein Cat design drafts, all copied from the toy store in the dream.
Rhein Cat.
From Coco Cat to Rhein Cat.
This was the only change in more than twenty years of unchanged dreams.
Lin Xian felt that this was a very important clue.
It must be taken seriously again.
He picked up a design draft at random, looking at the cute and vivid Rhein Cat on it.
Although the cat was copied, the name was definitely his original creation, a change brought about by himself in the dream.
If this was a successful time-space butterfly effect...
Then it meant -
[He could change reality with the information from the dream, thereby changing the future and causing the dream world to change.]
If this argument could be verified again.
Then it would be enough to confirm -
[His dream world was undoubtedly the real future world, 600 years later!]
"Rely on the heavens, rely on the earth, better rely on yourself."
Rather than waiting to verify known future facts, it would be better to personally trigger the time-space butterfly effect and change the dream world because of himself!
This was the real decisive evidence!
Lin Xian looked up at the lonely moon in the sky:
"This time, it's my turn to take the initiative."
He was going to try to trigger the time-space butterfly effect...
Once again, rewriting the future!