I Can Meet with Dead Scientists

Chapter 467 - 228: 100 Ways to Eat an Axe

Inside the station.

Looking at the somewhat heavy badge in his hand.

Xu Yun’s mind flashed with many thoughts, and after a long silence, he slowly said:

"Mr. Thomson, if I’m not mistaken, this should be the badge of the Cambridge Apostle Society?"

Thomson nodded. With such a life-risking friendship, there were some things he no longer intended to hide from Xu Yun:

"That’s right, I am one of the only two ’Angels’ in the Cambridge Apostle Society at present, codenamed Elijah."

"Ilya?"

Xu Yun was slightly taken aback, his mind instinctively flashing the image of a certain anime white-haired girl from "Fate/stay night."

But soon, he pushed this distracting thought out of his mind.

The Elijah Thomson spoke of should refer to the prophet from the Bible, living in the 9th century BC, a time of spiritual decline and rebellion against God.

This is a very important figure in the Bible, meaning "Jehovah is God."

Thinking of this.

Xu Yun instinctively rubbed his thumb over the badge’s texture, muttering:

"Cambridge Apostle Society... a prophet...?"

Friends who often watch content from the Europe and America Region should all know.

In some campus-themed literary works or films from later generations in Europe, there is often one or several secret organizations composed of students.

For example, Dumbledore’s Army in Harry Potter, and the Greek letter societies in Europe and America TV shows.

In reality, however.

The student organization settings in these TV shows are mostly derived from real-life templates.

For example, 90% of student societies in American TV series are reimagined based on Yale University’s Skull and Bones.

Yes, the degree of promiscuity is highly restored.

It was founded in 1832 by William Huntington Russell, and it’s currently one of the world’s most famous student organizations.

Three presidents from across the sea came from Skull and Bones, two of its Supreme Court justices, dozens of cabinet members, and hundreds of congressional members.

It is truly a ’hegemonic’ organization.

However, Skull and Bones is not the longest-existing foreign student society.

For example, Europe has a student organization older than it, as famous as it, and far more mysterious.

It is the Cambridge Apostles, Cambridge Apostle Society.

The Cambridge Apostle Society was a secret organization founded in the 1820s by F.D. Morris, Tennyson, and Harlem.

The whole society consisted of the top 12 members from Trinity College and King’s College, with a maximum of 12 people per class.

Undergraduates in the society were usually called Apostles, that is, Apostle.

Graduate students were called Angels, which means Angel.

The initial purpose of the Apostle Society was quite simple, just a few top students organizing offline gatherings.

For a long period, their gatherings were about reciting poems and painting, eating snacks while chatting about dreams, serving as a platform for top students to communicate.

But when several members graduated and moved into high positions, someone recognized the value of this organization and began to steer it in another direction.

By 1840.

The Cambridge Apostle Society had become a highly secretive organization, with strict confidentiality regarding member identities, many never disclosed their identities until their deaths.

Just like in later generations, you never know that some visibly successful figures are secretly members of 91 or Model.

Nearly two hundred years have passed, but only fifty or sixty Cambridge Apostles are actually known by people.

And just these fifty or sixty revealed individuals are enough to shake the modern history of science, politics, and economy:

For example, among them is the third-generation heir to the title of Baron Rothschild, Nathan, the one holding rights to the currency issuance for the entire British Empire.

Additionally, there are Keynes, Alan Hodgkin, Maxwell, Bertrand Russell, E.M. Foster, and more.

Even several famous spies, mentioned without saying for fear of being flagged, were members of the Cambridge Apostle Society.

Currently, Thomson is around 26 years old, having graduated from Cambridge undergraduate studies three and a half years ago.

Although his formal position now is as a Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, he is also a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge.

Adding to this is the fact that during his time at Cambridge, he won second place in the Langle Prize, first place in the Smith Prize, and published several influential papers.

In terms of age and resume, he fits the recruitment criteria for the Cambridge Apostle Society.

Therefore, in later generations, including Xu Yun himself, many thought he might be one of the members during the 1840-1850 period of the Cambridge Apostle Society.

Unfortunately, there is no solid evidence to prove this view, so it’s always been a speculation rather than a conclusion.

Unexpectedly, after traveling through time, he accidentally solved this mystery?

Yes, obsessive compulsion feels much relieved...

Then Xu Yun returned the badge to Thomson, slightly sentimentally saying:

"Mr. Thomson, long heard that the status of Cambridge Apostles is extraordinary and far-reaching; I didn’t expect that to take your life, someone would be willing to lay down such a significant cost..."

The nature of Cambridge Apostles is very close to the "potential of the great emperor" in fantasy novels, destined to achieve something once grown, even potentially becoming a giant.

Coupled with the fact that academia both ancient and modern, local and abroad, cannot escape political machinations, especially in 19th-century European society, under the original accumulation of capitalism, it was exceedingly bloody.

Thus, it’s not uncommon to use some underhanded tactics in cases of political stance or related ideological conflicts.