Chapter 456

Paige's apartment.

Adam is having a heart-to-heart talk with Paige.

The phone rang.

"It's Sheldon, it must be about security."

Adam picked up the phone, waved it at Paige, and then answered it.

"Hi, Sheldon."

Who is speaking?

Sheldon clearly recognized Adam's voice, but asked in a serious tone.

"... Adam Duncan."

Adam's lips twitched slightly.

"How can you prove you are Adam Duncan?"

Sheldon gave a skeptical and disdainful smile.

He was standing outside the atmosphere.

Don't try to hide anything from him!

"Do you remember when we had science class, and Dr. Ronaldo Chase from the Houston Johnson Space Center came to teach us at the invitation of our science teacher, but he just gave you a perfunctory lesson and then you proved him wrong?"

Adam casually mentioned something.

"Ha! I knew you were aliens in disguise!"

On the other end of the phone, Sheldon gave a knowing look. "Adam doesn't care about this at all. Only you aliens care about our Earthlings' space program."

Yes, I designed a technology solution for recovering booster rockets, which can greatly reduce rocket launch costs.

If realized, Earth's space program will achieve a breakthrough.

This would pose a significant threat to you aliens.

So that's why you came here trying to kidnap me, right?

"..."

Adam's lips twitched.

If someone else thought like that and dared to say it out loud, they would have been sent to a mental hospital long ago.

In fact, Sheldon was treated as a mental patient many times throughout his life.

For example, he would go to the amusement park in the middle of the night and swim in the "sea" of plastic balls.

The amusement park security guard spotted him and called Leonard.

When Leonard arrived, he apologized to the security guard.

The security guard reassured Leonard, "It's nothing, one of my relatives' kids is 'special' like that too..."

Leonard wanted to defend himself, but in the end, he remained silent.

Then he had to play hide-and-seek with Sheldon in the "sea" of plastic balls, and it took him half the night to finally catch Sheldon, who kept swimming and probing in the "sea" of plastic balls.

For example, Sheldon's hair grew long, but his personal barber was hospitalized.

He didn't trust his nephew, who was a professional barber, and only wanted his professional barber to cut his hair.

So he took a pair of scissors to the hospital, clamped the scissors on the unconscious professional barber, and tried to call out to the barber's subconscious through the familiar sound of the scissors, hoping that the barber would wake up from his coma and cut his hair.

The nurse saw this and immediately mistook him for a mental patient who had run down from the psychiatric ward upstairs. She called him "baby" to calm him down while she went out to call security.

Sheldon was an expert in this area; he quickly put away the scissors and slipped away.

Because if we don't leave soon, we'll really be sent to a mental hospital.

Emmm.

This is Sheldon, Adam's good friend.

"Do you still remember..."

Adam had no choice but to think it over carefully and pick out some small things they had talked about when they were alone together.

Both of them possess High-Definition Photographic Memory.

No matter how small or how long ago the matter was, as soon as it was mentioned, the two of them could immediately return to that point in time.

Poor Adam.

Sheldon shook his head and scoffed, "You've already taken control of him, you've read his memories, haven't you? If you hadn't used your advanced memory-reading technology to access his memories, he's not me, how could he possibly remember those things clearly? Hmph! Don't try to fool me!"

MMP!

Adam really wanted to complain.

But upon closer reflection...

To some extent, this inference actually makes a lot of sense.

Normal intelligence is innate.

During the time Adam spent with Sheldon, although his IQ continued to improve, he was still below genius level.

To Sheldon, he was just an ordinary person, nothing special.

So, can an ordinary person recall a trivial incident from many years ago and completely recount the scene, dialogue, tone of voice, facial expressions, and other details?

That's impossible, of course.

Sheldon's suspicions are actually valid.

Adam, a transmigrator with a system, grew up to possess High-Definition Photographic Memory even super geniuses might not be able to achieve.

What's the difference between aliens controlling Adam and using advanced technology like memory readers to access Adam's memories?

Which one is more credible?

This is no longer the 2002 era when East Country time-travel Webnovel were rampant in the United States.

Adam did write a time-travel themed novel Lord of the Mysteries.

But the best friend only has a cheat code, not a system.

The series of unconventional maneuvers employed by the system to travel through time are not yet commonplace.

Sheldon's first thought was naturally that they were aliens.

"I..."

Adam opened his mouth, then said helplessly, "I'll have Paige tell you!"

As he spoke, he turned on the speakerphone.

"Paige?"

Sheldon scoffed, "It's 2:23 a. m. in New York. How did you get Paige to talk to me? And you still say you're not aliens."

"Do aliens know how to do this...?"

Paige then spoke up, using the mathematical language typical of high-IQ geniuses to communicate with Sheldon.

Adam was completely bewildered.

He hasn't learned many mathematical theories yet.

These are the fruits of a lifetime of painstaking effort by super geniuses of various eras.

Even if Adam is a super genius now, he wouldn't understand it all at once without a long period of study and research.

With so many theories and their rapid-fire dialogue, it's like listening to gibberish.

The two talked for a full half hour.

"Okay, you're Paige. Aliens can read your memories, but they can't control your mind. If they could, there's nothing I can do about it."

After Sheldon relented, his tone changed, and he asked in confusion, "Why are you with Adam at this time?"

"You forgot, it was you who gave me the advice."

Paige laughed.

"My suggestion?"

Sheldon thought for a moment, "Oh, oh oh~ you mean you ******?"

Adam's lips twitched, and he interrupted, "Could you please not use that word?"

This word is a frequent vocabulary word for Sheldon.

However, it was a bit too harsh.

"OK".

Sheldon readily agreed, "You mean you *@#*?"

"..."

Adam didn't want to talk anymore.

God knows what other offensive words Sheldon might utter.

"Yes."

Paige nodded calmly. "Thank you for your suggestion. It has given me new inspiration for my stuck mathematical research, and this inspiration is endless. If this continues for a year, I may be able to completely solve the Complete Conjecture."

"Is it really that effective?"

Sheldon exclaimed in surprise.

"It worked very well for me."

Paige laughed.

"No."

Sheldon was jealous. "I want to try it too."

"You want to try it too?"

Sheldon, surprisingly, blossomed ahead of schedule.

When Penny heard this, she was so shocked that she crushed her wine glass.

Thinking of this, Adam felt a wave of fear and let go of his hand.

Then, after hearing Sheldon's blunt words...

Adam: "..."

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