Genius Club-Chapter 1001 - 58: The Best of Times (Extra for monthly votes!)_3
Chapter 1001 -58: The Best of Times (Extra chapter for monthly votes!)_3
I might as well try to get something here with Smith, the big estranged guy.
Lin Xian and Smith weren’t very close, but at least they had met and knew each other’s names.
In The Sixth Dreamland, at the deep pit excavation site’s Underground Hibernation Base, Big Face Cat would always wake Smith’s Hibernation Pod first; and then, as Smith emerged from the pod, cluelessly dragged off to dig… around that time, the Blue-Eyed Girl would awake.
So.
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Lin Xian walked back to the rice paddies, watching Smith, who stood as stiff and oblivious as an idiot in spring:
“Smith, you must have woken up from the Hibernation Pod, right?”
Smith was startled:
“Yeah, how did you know that?”
“When did you wake up?”
Lin Xian inquired:
“Can you tell me what happened after you woke up? I’m just as confused as you were… Maybe if you tell me, I could remember a lot of things.”
“I woke up from the Hibernation Pod over a decade ago.”
Smith adjusted his straw hat and spoke frankly:
“After waking up, I was a stranger in an unknown land, but a bunch of Dragon Country people took great care of me. They fed me, gave me drinks, and even showed me the ‘Memory Notebook’ I left before hibernation. It let me know some basic things about myself…”
“It’s a pity the notebook didn’t have much information. Most of my earlier memories were stored on video storage drives, which now can’t be played at all, so I don’t understand much of it in detail.”
“Then I settled down here by the East Sea. The folks have been good to me, found me a wife, built a house, had children, and I’ve been happy for these years… I don’t care much about those past memories anymore; this carefree life is quite blissful.”
Smith gestured with the sickle in his hand:
“If it weren’t for your sudden appearance in my field, curious to see what was going on, with the sun setting and the sky darkening… I’d have gone home for dinner a long time ago.”
…
Lin Xian silently listened to Smith talking about his life after waking from hibernation, his mind piecing together bits of the worldview. He continued to ask:
“Then, Smith, did the year 2400’s Earth’s super disaster happen as anticipated? Do you know anything about the super disaster?”
“Yep, yep!”
Smith nodded:
“The super disaster, I’ve heard about it from others… They say various natural disasters destroyed most of the world’s cities, almost leading to human extinction. Then came wars and famines, which lasted for decades until humans stabilized, gathered together to reproduce, and develop technology… and that’s how we ended up like this.”
“Do you still have any business here? If not, I’d better go home for dinner, my wife is waiting for me.”
Saying so, he started to pack up his sickle and hoe to leave.
“Hey, no rush.”
Lin Xian grabbed his hoe handle and smiled slightly:
“Why don’t you take me with you? Let me bum a meal.”
Smith squinted his eyes, suspiciously looking at Lin Xian:
“Where exactly did you come from?”
“I don’t know either.”
Lin Xian spread his hands:
“Just like you were when you first woke up, from what you describe, there aren’t many people left in the world now, we’re all compatriots… cough cough, alright, even though you’re a foreigner, you’ve completely integrated, your accent has practically mastered half the essence of Dragon Country’s dialect; you could be considered half a Dragon Country person.”
“When a fellow countryman meets another, it’s a call for help. Please take me to your home for a meal. Maybe I can find a place in the village that’ll take me in.”
Smith, after a decade of domestication, had clearly been influenced by the hospitable, kind, and honest traditional virtues of Dragon Country people.
Hearing the word ‘fellow countryman,’
He took only two seconds to self-persuade and nodded:
“Okay then, it’s mealtime. Come with me to my home.”
With that.
Lin Xian helped Smith carry the hoe, walking on the sunset-reddened earth, on the way home.
Along the way, Lin Xian learned much history from Smith.
Everything.
Still starts with the super disaster of the year 2400…
This time, in The Seventh Dreamland, there’s definitely no Turing.
But Jask, as per the original history, arranged early for the colonization of Mars and led a group of people and Hibernation Pods to Mars before the super disaster of 2400.
Then, as scheduled, the super disaster of 2400 struck, and the thriving human civilization on Earth was nearly wiped out, with over 95% of the population perishing.
What followed were decades of wars and famines, all consistent with the settings of The Fifth Dreamland and The Sixth Dreamland.
What’s different is…
After the wars and famines stopped, the remaining Earth humans began to reproduce and rebuild civilization.
This time the reconstruction process was very smooth.
Mainly due to two types of products —
The massive Miniature Nuclear Batteries buried deep in the ground, and the Underground Hibernation Bases scattered all over the world.
Within these Hibernation Bases, numerous humans from the old era were sleeping.
After waking up, they recovered their memories through the notes left behind and retained powerful learning capabilities.
With them as the core and leaders, the Earth people quickly united. Under the leadership of these hibernated humans, they began to rebuild their homes and re-climb the technological tree.
Lin Xian understood, upon hearing this, why the civilization in The Seventh Dreamland could recover so quickly.
Although they could no longer dig up a being like Turing from underground.
They could dig up geniuses like Emperor Gao Wen!
Even if Gao Wen remembered nothing upon waking up, he had notes, he had brains, what couldn’t he learn or research thoroughly?
With such intellectuals leading, the revival of civilization was indeed rapid.
Previously, in The Sixth Dreamland, Turing knew much more knowledge and technology than Gao Wen, but the Turengs spent all their energy on battle and internal strife, treating humans only as tools and consumables… not dedicating themselves to leading humanity up the technology ladder.
