CC pointed to her watch, "Can you stop spacing out? It's already twelve-thirty! We've wasted enough time already!"

"You're not trying to trick me, are you?" Lin Xian snapped back to reality.

"Don't worry, I'm a very trustworthy person."

He stepped forward and began turning the dials of the safe. "Actually, I should have thought of this sooner. You're right, I shouldn't have limited my thinking to dates. There aren't many common eight-digit numbers, but there are some."

???

CC was utterly bewildered, looking at Lin Xian with a questioning gaze. "Are you talking to me?"

Click, click, Lin Xian dialed the tumblers one by one. "In this life, besides my phone number and ID number, I can probably only remember one other long number, and that's my QQ number. Ah, two, I also remember mC Stone's QQ number."

"Who exactly are you talking to?"

CC looked around, feeling a strange sense of dread. "Ever since you saw me take off my mask, you've been acting all weird, like your brain's gone haywire..."

Click.

Lin Xian dialed the last number and looked at CC. "Actually, I've already guessed what's inside the safe."

"What is it?"

"Probably some embarrassing things from your adolescence." Lin Xian recalled his wildly arrogant QQ signature from his chuunibyou days, and the awkward, foolish things he did during his first infatuation.

If the password really was her QQ number... then the most logical thing inside would be those kinds of things.

"Are you sick?"

CC felt like she was talking to a lunatic, but she couldn't get through to him at all. "If my appearance has scared you into this state, I apologize."

"Can 120 handle your condition? I can call them for you when I go out later."

Lin Xian chuckled softly and shook his head. "You'll understand once we open the safe…"

With that, he raised his right fist!

And slammed it down on the lock—

Bang!!

CC held her breath, biting her lip tightly.

……

……

It didn't open.

"Huh?"

Lin Xian was instantly stunned.

He double-checked the eight dials. No mistake! It was his QQ number!

He punched the lock two more times.

Still nothing.

After triple-checking that the password was correct, Lin Xian tried pressing the lock from different angles.

Still didn't open!

Lin Xian was a little dumbfounded.

No… this shouldn't be happening.

An eight-digit password, not a date, not a QQ number, then what could it be?

At that moment.

CC's veins were bulging, her whole body trembling with rage!

The hand holding her gun was white-knuckled.

It was clear... she was desperately suppressing the urge to just shoot Lin Xian!

CC looked up, glaring at him. "Could you act less dramatic, or would that kill you?!"

"Don't interrupt!"

Lin Xian held his forehead with one hand and gestured for CC to be quiet with the other. "Don't interrupt… something's not right."

"What's not right is you! I really believed your nonsense!"

CC gripped the gun tightly, taking several deep breaths to suppress her soaring anger. "Get out of the way!"

She roared and shoved Lin Xian aside.

Then she pressed her ear to the safe and began clicking the dials, listening to the faint sounds of the inner gears and levers.

……

Lin Xian took two steps back and leaned against the safe.

He rested his chin in his hand, lost in thought…

What exactly was going on?

He had thought that this time the password was a sure thing. After all, he had already tried all the possibilities, various dates, even the time of the dream, the time Rhein Cat was renamed, all the times he could think of.

The QQ number was a last-ditch effort!

If that wasn't it…

Then it was very likely that this wasn't his safe at all!

And that this wasn't his dream!

"Then where… is this?"

Boom!!!!!!

Boom!!!!!!

Boom!!!!!!

Amidst the alarms, searing white light engulfed the world.

Burning everything to ashes.

……

……

Lin Xian opened his eyes and sat up in bed.

He pulled back the curtains and opened the window, letting the cold early winter wind blow into the room, awakening his complex thoughts.

"Doctor Liu is wrong."

He opened his eyes, looking out at the dark, starless night sky.

"Gao Yang is also wrong."

Lin Xian was very certain—

Everyone thought his dreams were just simple dreams, a mental illness, but only he himself knew… his dreams were not so simple!

He was increasingly convinced.

His dreams might really be the real future world, 600 years from now, just lacking a decisive piece of evidence.

Correctly predicting three football lotteries in a row was strong evidence, but not decisive enough.

It would be great if he could use a few issues of the Double Color Ball lottery to verify it, but unfortunately… the internet in the dream couldn't find any useful information from this era. He couldn't find any lottery winning numbers or current affairs news, which was also very strange.

In other words, from the current situation, there was no way to judge whether the dream was real or not from the perspective of [verifying known facts].

"I need to change my thinking."

Lin Xian closed his eyes and thought.

The biting wind made his thoughts clearer and clearer.

For now, all the mysteries could be set aside.

CC, Big Face Cat, the Genius Club, the safe, and so on… all could be set aside.

The most urgent task now.

[Is to quickly find a decisive piece of evidence to prove that the dream world is indeed the real future world, or not.]

He had to get an absolutely accurate answer!

He opened his eyes.

His gaze swept over the drafts on the table, rustled by the night wind.

They were covered with various Rhein Cat designs, all copied from the toy store in his dream.

Rhein Cat.

Ke Ke Cat, turned into Rhein Cat.

This was the only change in his unchanging dream for more than twenty years.

Lin Xian felt that this was a very important clue.

He had to re-emphasize it.

He picked up a design sketch at random, looking at the cute and lifelike Rhein Cat.

Although the cat was copied, the name was definitely his original creation. All the changes in the dream were thanks to him.

If this was a successful spacetime butterfly effect…

That meant—

[He could use the information in his dreams to change reality, and thus rewrite the future, causing changes in the dream world.]

If this argument could be verified again.

That would be enough to prove—

[His dream was undoubtedly real, 600 years in the future, the future world!]

"It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on heaven and earth."

Instead of waiting to verify known future facts, it was better to personally trigger a spacetime butterfly effect and let the dream change because of him!

This was the real decisive evidence!

Lin Xian looked up at the lonely full moon in the sky.

"It's my turn to take the initiative this time."

He was going to try to trigger a spacetime butterfly effect…

Once again, rewrite the future!