Chapter 3682: An Chengxi's Speculation

After meeting An Chengxi and learning her identity, Lin Wanner became especially curious about this woman.

In her heart, she greatly admired An Chengxi; for so many years she had been hiding from Wu Feiyan, only wanting to stay concealed and avoid being discovered, never once thinking of taking the initiative to attack, but An Chengxi was completely opposite—since the day she faked her death and escaped, she had been secretly battling Wu Feiyan, and although she and her team were still far weaker than Wu Feiyan in strength, this courage alone made Lin Wanner admire her all the more.

Moreover, although Lin Wanner had also studied at Stanford in the past, as a quiet absorber, she had never dared to stand out in any field, whereas An Chengxi was different—An Chengxi was one of Stanford's most outstanding alumni in recent years, and many of her business operations were highly forward-looking, worthy of being called one of Silicon Valley's top angel investors.

Therefore, on this return to the old place, besides feeling nostalgic, Lin Wanner also wanted to learn more about An Chengxi.

Because she always felt that she would inevitably have to deal with An Chengxi in the future.

The two arrived at what could be called an absolutely confidential archive; the archive staff, following procedure, used light-blocking stickers to completely cover the cameras of both their phones, then placed the phones into a transparent bag with a special magnetic snap lock, so as to prevent visitors from photographing confidential files with their phones, while also allowing visitors to feel at ease holding their phones and using them normally.

Ye Chen did not know why Lin Wanner wanted to look at the school history archives; he simply kept doting on Lin Wanner unconsciously, doing whatever she wanted.

Upon entering the archive, Lin Wanner did not avoid Ye Chen; seeing that the archives were organized by year, she directly went to look for the file cabinet containing An Chengxi's records from her time at Stanford.

Ye Chen had thought Lin Wanner would certainly be looking at things from the early 20th century or even the late 19th century in Stanford, naturally going to the corresponding file cabinets, but he never expected Lin Wanner to choose the 1980s.

Ye Chen suddenly realized that was exactly the time his mother had been at Stanford, so he became curious about what Lin Wanner was actually looking for.

Lin Wanner did not hide it from Ye Chen either, smiling and saying: "Young Lady came here mainly to see Young Master's mother's life story, to see some records of her at Stanford."

Ye Chen lightly nodded and asked her: "Miss Lin, why are you suddenly interested in my mother's past?"

Lin Wanner smiled and said: "Young Master's mother is an outstanding Chinese person and a business elite; some of her deeds make me feel deep admiration, and coincidentally, I once studied at the same school as her, so returning to Stanford, I want to learn more about her life and deeds—she was once Stanford's pride, so I also want to know whether this confidential school history records some unknown deeds of hers."

Ye Chen also had no doubts, smiling and sighing: "After you said that, I'm also quite curious."

In Stanford's school history, there are many major events from the 1980s.

And because these are non-transmissible confidential documents, there are no electronic versions or electronic searches; otherwise, one would only need to type the three characters "An Chengxi" into a computer, and all the files would pop up automatically.

Here, they can only search for An Chengxi's name through the yearly title yellow pages, because each file here has a corresponding title, and each year's file titles are printed in a yellow page; if one can find An Chengxi's name here, one can find related content, but this method can only find records where An Chengxi is the main subject; if the record is mainly about someone else with An Chengxi as a secondary figure, the title in the yellow page will probably not mention An Chengxi's name.

Interestingly, Ye Chen and Lin Wanner quickly found some content related to An Chengxi, but these were not events related to An Chengxi; instead, they recorded interactions between Stanford officials and the U. S. Intelligence Bureau, including one file titled "Suggestion to Have the CIA Restrict An Chengxi's Exit."

According to the numbering, they found the original of this file—a letter personally written by Stanford's president at the time to the CIA; in the body, the president detailed An Chengxi's capital operations and related achievements in Silicon Valley, mentioning that she already had intentions to return to China for development, and believed that if An Chengxi returned to China, with the An family's strength, An Chengxi's abilities, and her prior layout in Silicon Valley's tech field, it would pose a great threat to the development of emerging industries in the United States.

On the back of this original letter was also attached the CIA's reply three days later; the CIA's response at the time was that they had already restricted An Chengxi's exit, and thanked the president for the suggestion.

Lin Wanner said somewhat surprisingly: "Since Stanford's president already had this understanding back then, and the CIA also approved his suggestion, why did Young Master's mother still return to China smoothly? Was there any obstruction in between?"

Ye Chen shook his head: "I really haven't heard of this before."

Lin Wanner said: "Let's see if there are any other files."

The two continued checking the catalog and soon found a piece of correspondence registered two months later than that letter.

This letter was also written by Stanford's president at the time to the CIA; its content was to retract his previous judgment on An Chengxi, believing that whether An Chengxi returned to China or not no longer posed a threat to the development of emerging industries in the United States, and interestingly, he also detailed in it the basis for retracting this judgment, one of which was that An Chengxi had already shifted her focus from internet and high-tech industry development to antique research and arguing the hypothesis that extraterrestrial beings had once reached Earth; using that president's original words, An Chengxi had already lost her commercial drive, and even absurdly tried to team up with Stanford to conduct an in-depth investigation into this matter.

In this letter, the president also detailed An Chengxi's so-called "fallacious theories": An Chengxi believed that human history is not the only history of Earth's higher intelligent beings; she firmly believed that before human history, Earth should have once hosted interstellar colonial civilizations far stronger than modern civilization, and many human legends of miracles, even some religious records, are very likely related to these interstellar colonial civilizations.

And she even urgently hoped her alma mater Stanford would accept her speculation and join her in seeking direct evidence, but in the eyes of Stanford's president at the time, this was simply standard dereliction of duty.

Ye Chen and Lin Wanner were both especially shocked upon seeing this; Ye Chen frowned and said: "Could it be that my mother back then had already found evidence of those cultivators visiting Earth?"

Lin Wanner said solemnly: "Not necessarily that she found any direct evidence; Young Master's mother is a dragon among men, and it is also very possible to infer this conclusion from some clues, just like Mendeleev predicted undiscovered elements through the periodic table—so long as the evidence is sufficient, even without direct evidence, one can determine that something must exist, and history will eventually find direct evidence at some point to prove him right."