Chapter 1362: Chapter 33 Newton (Thanks to Xiaoyu Qi Zi Hua for rewarding the leader!)

Einstein’s withered arms supported the chair, and he stood up:

“Rhein…”

His voice trembled.

Even his whole body was shaking.

“No…”

He pinched the “The Sorrowful Einstein” mask on his face with his right hand, slowly lifted it upwards, and let it fall off.

It was a face Lin Xian was incredibly familiar with.

Just now, just 300 years ago, just in 1952, he had seen this most famous great physicist in history multiple times —

Albert Einstein.

Indeed, he was immortal.

Time had stopped for him.

Appearance, hair, even the wrinkles on his face… were exactly the same as that elderly man in 1952, not differing in the slightest.

Before this moment.

No one could have guessed that beneath the Einstein mask, it was actually Einstein!

This was a tactic so ingenious it reached the extreme.

At the same time…

He could also conceal his bright blue eyes, not drawing undue attention.

At this moment.

Those blue pupils, transcending time, gazed at Lin Xian across ten meters of carpet and 300 years of time and space, his lips quivering in shock, a voice hoarse and unbelievable:

“Doug… Douglas?”

Lin Xian nodded.

Smiling slightly:

“Einstein, it’s been a long time.”

“I told you, I would definitely come to retrieve the watch. Did you… keep it safe for me?”

Einstein bit his lip, covered his eyes with his hand, and fell back into the chair again.

Lin Xian could not see his expression.

But he could sense…

[Einstein, in great pain.]

More than excitement, nostalgia, joy of reunion… was pain.

Why was this great man in such pain?

Perhaps.

During these 300 years, Einstein had both longed deeply for a reunion with Douglas and feared it greatly.

Back in 1952, he did not see a future where he reunited with Douglas; yet at that time, Douglas insisted there would be a day of reunion…

[A contradictory future inevitably means one of them is false.]

If.

All of this.

Everything he had seen was false… then what had he been doing all this time?

“No, Douglas, something is wrong.”

Einstein raised his head.

In his bright blue pupils, full of melancholy:

“Clearly you were also struck by the Space-Time Particle, yet why… have your eyes turned back to black?”

Lin Xian shook his head:

“Do you remember the question I asked you at the Genius Club gathering? I originally thought you were lying, but now… it seems you weren’t lying, but you simply couldn’t see that part of history.”

“In 1952, indeed a girl transformed into Blue Stardust and disappeared; another Space-Time Particle did not hit me, but hit that girl; you can see every future, so you should know very well that I have just returned from 1952 on the Time Shuttle Machine.”

“The reason lies here, that history you didn’t see due to unconsciousness severely misled your judgment, Douglas was not a native of 1952, but a Space-Time Traveler, which is… me.”

“My blue eyes aren’t hit by a Space-Time Particle like yours, but are due to the effects of Space-Time Exclusion. You are so smart, standing at the pinnacle of human intelligence, I have spoken until this point, you should have already figured out many things, right?”

…

Listening to Lin Xian, his old friend Douglas’s words.

Einstein closed his eyes.

Lowered his head.

Like a child who had erred.

These years, these 300 years, he had been constantly expecting and longing for a reunion with Douglas.

Yet as world lines and futures repeatedly changed, in all the futures he could see, there was never a shadow of Douglas.

This friend, seemed to have vanished from the earth, as if he never existed.

But he never gave up.

Just as Lin Xian said earlier, he had restored the farmhouse on the ground several times, each time replicating precisely the appearance when Douglas left in 1952, ensuring every fence, every brick and tile was perfectly recreated.

The purpose of this… was the concern that one day Douglas would not find him, would get lost in the ever-changing Brooklyn.

Including the layout of every house, the location of the simple elevators, even the scenery of nearby roads were all like the old era movies, forever halted in 1952.

Einstein was fully aware, if one day, Douglas really appeared in front of him… what it would truly mean.

Just like today.

Lin Xian told him about the unseen history and came to retrieve that watch in the identity of Douglas.

Everything, unspoken yet understood.

“Your watch, I have kept it very well.”

Seated on the ebony chair, Einstein did not stand, he extended his hand, pointing to the [oven] on the table in the corner:

“I admit, Douglas, I did not expect there to be a day you would come to retrieve the watch… but I have never broken my word, even if I could not see this scene, I still kept my promise.”

Lin Xian walked forward.

Looking at the dust-covered, yet still brand new oven.

This feeling was very strange.

The style of the oven was very old, it was visibly aged, and the dust on it showed it had been placed here for a long time.

Yet why… did it still seem so new?

With this doubt.

Lin Xian opened the oven, which was not very large in size —

A fierce blue light shone on his face.

And he saw…

Inside the oven, a Space-Time Particle was suspended in the center!

This device with the appearance of an oven was actually a Space-Time Particle Captor; similar to Liu Feng’s rice cooker, Jask’s mini fridge shared the same ingenuity.