Genius Club

Chapter 309

Chapter 309: Chapter 18 Three VVs Chapter 309: Chapter 18 Three VVs Password?

Why is it always a password?

Lin Xian’s head really spins whenever he hears these two syllables now.

Ever since he first dreamt of the bank vault last year, he had been caught in the vortex of passwords.

If it wasn’t one password, it was another.

If it wasn’t one set of digits, it was some other.

He had developed an unprecedented aversion to this kind of guessing game.

...

But...

He looked into the bright green eyes of the waste-bin robot.

Considering that this door-opening robot was left to him by Zhao Yingjun, its presence here demanding a password from him must hold some deep significance.

He turned to look at the ancient yet technologically sleek “Rhein Sky City’s First-Generation AI Core–VV” beside him.

This colossal device, several buildings tall, appeared to be a highly advanced computer cluster, in other words, the control nucleus of the entire Rhine Sky City.

Lin Xian had already figured it out.

Given the high degree of automation and intelligence of City in the Sky, it was impossible without a powerful computer control system.

Countless vehicles and fish swarmed in the sky, and a myriad of robots of all shapes and sizes operated in complex patterns throughout the city...

All devices operated at very high speeds, and any minor error could lead to a severe chain reaction of accidents.

Property damage was the least of the concerns, not to mention the inevitable casualties.

Therefore, it was certain that the city housed a powerful control nucleus to manage and maintain the intelligent functioning of the entire city.

Now it seemed that the enormous and complex computer he was looking at was the original control nucleus of Rhein Sky City.

And coincidentally, its name was also VV.

Lin Xian glanced at the garbage can robot stubbornly clinging to his ankle, then turned his head to look at the gigantic computer dozens of meters tall, and down at his shoes...

All three were VV, all called VV.

If this was a game, they should have combined to form a two-star VV by now.

This moment was definitely not a coincidence.

Since the waste-bin robot was asking him for a password at this critical moment...

it suggested that the clue to the password was likely hidden within this enormous contraption, the super-intelligence VV in front of him.

Lin Xian continued to read the electronic display board with a detailed description of the exhibit.

The description was lengthy...

To put it simply, it was just as Lin Xian had guessed.

The construction of the entire Rhine Sky City faced three major challenges.

The first challenge was the architecture and the foundation of the city.

Ordinary reinforced concrete couldn’t support such massive weight, nor could it withstand the powerful thrust generated by the fusion engines.

Looking at it now...

it seemed that the controllable nuclear fusion engine employed a technology that Lin Xian had never heard of before, cold fusion.

When Academician Lyon had died, he had also researched a lot about controllable nuclear fusion, but there was little mention of cold fusion.

Presumably, this new technology was developed over the next few hundred years.

Judging from the results, its stability and safety were far superior to those of the traditional high-temperature nuclear fusion model.

Then, to ensure the Sky City was sufficiently strong to withstand gravity, stress, and thrust, the entire city’s infrastructure was constructed using hafnium alloys.

Although complicated and tedious, this task wasn’t as challenging compared to the other two issues.

The second challenge was the construction of over 6,000 cold fusion engines, the core element in building the City in the Sky.

Without the immense thrust generated by these cold fusion engines, there would be no way for the Sky City to ascend.

The immense cost involved was what bankrupted the global giant Rhein Company, far more expensive and challenging than building a city itself.

But fortunately, the president of Rhein Company, Zhao Yingjun, overcame countless difficulties and managed to see this phase through, at least allowing Rhein Company to hang on until after the Sky City had ascended before going bankrupt.

As for the third challenge in building the City in the Sky...

It lay in the “Control Core System.”

Not only was the Sky City a highly intelligent urban area,

The introduction on the electronic display board ended here.

Lin Xian now fully understood what this central brain of Sky City, the super artificial intelligence VV, really was.

It was quite similar to a common trope found in many science fiction movies.

Even in 2023, the year Lin Xian lived in, AI technology was rapidly developing.

Not only was there the unbeatable AI AlphaGo, which surpassed the top human Go players, but a series of radically new large model AIs also continually revolutionized the world.

Lin Xian had also gained some understanding of this reality...

In fact, the development of human AI technology should not have been so slow.

According to the father of artificial intelligence, Alan Mathison Turing, humans should have already invented artificial intelligences similar to human thinking, capable of passing the Turing test, around 2000.

Clearly, since the emergence of electronic computers, humankind had deviated from the correct path in AI technology.

It wasn’t until the advent of neural networks – computational models that simulate the neural networks of the human brain – that we found our way back on track.

Within just a few years, we caught up with the several decades we had fallen behind.

“So...”

Lin Xian looked at the emotionless green-eyed trashcan robot that kept staring at him, repetitively urging him to enter the password.

Since it also had the name VV.

Then this password should be related to the super artificial intelligence VV, right?

Associating with Rhine Sky City, whose predecessor was the Rhein Company he had founded – though the company no longer existed – everything here originated from that great company.

Although he doesn’t know why Zhao Yingjun became the owner of Rhein Company, nor why his own existence and history were completely erased.

But.

History is history.

Those events that have already happened in reality objectively exist—

[Rhein Company was established by me.]

This is an unalterable fact of history.

May 20th,

Lin Xian recalled that morning again, on the morning he submitted his resignation, in the office on the 22nd floor of MX Company, Zhao Yingjun was holding a calendar in one hand and pointing at the date on it, smiling at him:

“So to say...

today should be a memorable day for you.”

“May 20th, 2023, you’ve taken the most memorable step in your life, found what you truly want to do, and named the company after something you like.

I’m truly happy for you.”

“No matter what achievements your company will make in the future, how far it will go, or what scale it will reach.

But in any case, on this day...

Rhein Company has arrived in this world.”

Yes.

Lin Xian slowly lifted his head.

For the name Rhein and for his life, if there’s any day that’s worth commemorating...

Apart from his birthday, it surely must be the day Rhein Company was named.

The official establishment date of Rhein Company, the date disclosed to the public, was the day of the opening ceremony, not May 20th.

As Zhao Yingjun said, it’s a day of personal remembrance.

It’s the first true step he took;

It’s the start when he found the direction in life and was willing to strive to change everything blood-soaked.

“Please enter the password!”

Still in its emotionless mechanical electronic voice, the trashcan robot looked blankly at him.

Lin Xian turned around.

Before the colossal artificial intelligence VV, one VV facing another VV:

“The password is...”

Lin Xian whispered:

“20230520.”