Genius club

April 26, 2024, morning.

Yu Xi put on the girl's casual clothes she bought yesterday and walked out of the suite room.

Pulling up the sleeves and adjusting the sweatshirt and hat that nestled together at the back of her neck, she was completely ready.

Her face is fair and her brows are slightly furrowed. She is cool, cute and supple.

This is probably only the future new race of people who have received drug enhancement and gene editing, who can have so many words of praise on their faces at the same time.

This is a beauty that does not belong to this era

Just like her crystal blue eyes, which were still bright and dazzling in the morning sunlight, they were incompatible with this world.

"Put on your contact lenses." Lin Xian put on his shoes in the living room and looked at Yu Xi who came out and ordered:

"Just those black contact lenses, weren't you given them all yesterday?"

"I won't wear it."

Yu Xi said softly.

Oh I got it.

Lin Xian lowered his head to tie his shoelaces and chuckled.

Sure enough, Yu Xi is a human girl after all. Even though she is extremely powerful, she is still very different from the Terminator robots in the movie.

As long as we are human, we must be afraid of things.

Some muscular men over two meters tall are afraid of arthropods and insects;

Some vicious people with scars all over their bodies would be afraid to watch horror movies;

Lin Xian still remembered that he had seen on Douyin before, a social eldest brother with a big gold chain and tattoos all over his back. When he was queuing up to get vaccinated, his legs were weak because he was afraid of injections.

Perhaps, for Yu Xi...

Having such a dark, slimy-looking plastic piece stuck to your eyeball is simply scarier than fighting a space-time assassin with a bayonet under the moonlight.

When Lin Xian helped her take off her contact lenses yesterday, Yu Xi asked:

"Is it true that such a thin piece of material won't move behind the eyeball as the eye blinks?"

Lin Xian has never worn contact lenses.

But then I thought about it, and theoretically, this situation should happen with probability:

"It should be possible. After all, human eyeballs are round, and the orbits and corners of the eyes are not closed."

He said truthfully:

"But the probability shouldn't be high, right? At least I've never heard of anyone's contact lenses getting behind the eyeballs."

It should be the sequelae brought about by this sentence.

Yu Xi, who dared to fight the devil, really didn't dare to try wearing contact lenses on her own.

Lin Xian put the daily disposable contact lens on the small plastic suction post and raised Yu Xi's chin:

"Keep your head up and your eyes open."

Yu Xi obediently opened her eyes...

Those blue pupils that looked like broken glass were so deep, like a rotating galaxy, that Lin Xian felt like he was almost being pulled into it... falling into a rift in time and space, into a black hole from which even light could not escape.

He pressed Yu Xi's upper and lower eye sockets, placed pure black contact lenses on the eyeballs, and covered the two blue light bulbs.

I really don’t know how time and space rejection can make human cells glow, is it like fireflies and electric eels?

"Okay, the other eye."

Yu Xi closed her eyes, wiped the protective tears that leaked out of the corners of her eyes when wearing glasses, and shook her head. Her short and cute hamster-like ponytail brushed the tip of Lin Xian's nose, bringing with it the smell of hotel shampoo.

"Why do you have to tie your hair into a ponytail with such short hair?" Lin Xian asked looking at Yu Xi's tight hairstyle.

"Because you don't have to wash your hair often." Yu Xi answered honestly.

"..."

Lin Xian was speechless by this unexpected answer:

"Okay. It seems that even if the technology is so advanced in the future and there are so many gene editing and drug enhancement methods, there is still no way to solve the problem of hair washing in the end."

"After all, the benefits of skin oil far outweigh the disadvantages."

Yu Xi raised her head again, widened her other blue eye, and asked Lin Xian to put on black contact lenses for her:

"Besides, the dead keratinocytes of the hair itself have no activity or functionality. This kind of thing can strengthen the hair roots, but there is nothing else to strengthen."

"If it weren't for the purpose of concealing others' attention and fear of attracting others' attention... I would prefer to have a shaved head without any hair at all. That way, I would never have to wash my hair. I would wash my hair when I wash my face; and I wouldn't have to think about my hair when fighting. It will be caught by the enemy, and there will be fewer flaws.”

When Lin Xian thought of Yu Xi's bald appearance, he felt somewhat funny:

"It doesn't have to be so extreme. It's just fine as it is. Okay, put on the black contact lenses here. If you put on the big sunglasses, others won't be able to see your eyes."

Say it.

Lin Xian also stood up and went to put on his coat.

Yu Xi walked to the coffee table in the living room of the suite, picked up the large black sunglasses placed on it, and covered her face, completing her going out outfit.

Today is the day when Jask is going to visit Zheng Xiangyue at Tunghai University Affiliated Hospital.

The time he announced on Twitter was 10 a.m., and he would be accompanied by officials from Donghai City.

Lin Xian and Yu Xi planned to stay in advance and then find a chance to meet with Jask in Zheng Xiangyue's ward.

What Yu Xi meant was that Lin Xian wanted Lin Xian to find a reason to get Jask alone and kill him, so as to avoid future troubles and completely eliminate the time and space assassin--\u003e\u003e

Assassination crisis.

Although Lin Xian didn't say anything on the surface, he understood Yu Xi's slightly cold-blooded approach...it was indeed the most direct way to solve the current problem.

Huang Que told him at the cost of his life that some sacrifices were necessary for victory; Yu Xi also used his life to fight against the time and space assassin, hanging by a thread every time.

Lin Xian had many friends who died because of this inexplicable battle. Logically speaking, he really should not hesitate or be indecisive anymore.

Maybe the advice is really offensive, and Yu Xi's suggestion is the best solution.

but……

The truth is this.

He still couldn't completely ignore Angelica's life and death.

Anyway, in Zheng Xiangyue's ward and in front of the official figures of Donghai City, Jask was definitely not allowed to be assassinated, and the other party also did not dare to make any move.

He planned to take advantage of this rare safe moment to talk to Jask first to see what was going on with Angelica. After that, act according to the situation.

…

"To be honest, I don't have any chips in my hand right now that would interest Jask."

on the road.

Lin Xian drove a Volkswagen sedan, taking Yu Xi as the co-pilot, from the hotel to the Affiliated Hospital of Tunghai University.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to wait at the red light, he turned to Yu Xi and said:

"If I have to say it, maybe the digital life Turing counts, because Jask only knows the address of Kevin Walker. He really doesn't necessarily know that Kevin Walker has already digitized his consciousness and uploaded it to the Internet. Formed another digital life version of myself.”

"I don't know if this is valuable information. After all, we can know from the digital life Turing that Turing has transcended physical life, and his ideas are contrary to Kevin Walker. It can be said that they are already two people. A completely different person.”

"Turing said it would be a fair and impartial observer...but in fact who knows? If it were an artificial intelligence, maybe I would believe what it said, but it's a pity that its essence is still a human being...that speech What’s the difference between farting?”

Yu Xi shook her head:

"I think the value of this information is not enough for you to ask Jask out alone. Kevin Walker's address itself was given to you by Jask, or Angelica heard it from Jask. "

"Since in your guess, Jask and Kevin Walker are both members of the genius club, I think Jask's understanding of Kevin Walker must be far better than yours. Maybe he already knew that there was a plan. Even if you don’t know about the existence of spirits, you can probably guess it, right?”

"Not to mention that they are all meeting in the same club... Now that you have killed Kevin Walker, Jask will know about it sooner or later. I think you should think of a more tempting bargaining chip. It must be If it’s enough to interest Jask, he will be willing to take risks and make a deal with you...whether it’s using Angelica to make a deal or something else.”

Lin Xian sighed softly.

Look ahead at the traffic light sign with the countdown numbers gradually getting smaller:

"As for other things... I have a non-energy version of the space-time particle. Jask may have a full-energy version, or he may not have one yet. But obviously, he understands space-time particles very well, far better than me. If I use this as a bargaining chip, he probably won’t be interested either.”

"Other than that, the only thing that I have studied more deeply and come into contact with more... is the [Millennium Pile]."

Um?

The lower half of Yu Xi's face, which was not covered by the big sunglasses, was obviously stunned and turned her head:

"What is a Millennium Pile?"?

This time it was Lin Xian's turn to be stunned, and turned to look at Yu Xi again:

"Don't you know about the Millennium Pile?"

"Never heard of it."

Yu Xi shook her head:

"What is that thing? Is it related to space-time particles or time-travelers?"

Lin Xian fell silent.

Although, the term "Millennium Pile" was originally created by Huang Que.

But still the same sentence.

Originality, not random creation! There must be a great connection between the Thousand-Year Pile and its original word, at least you should be able to understand it upon hearing it.

It's similar to the laws of space and time.

When he and Yu Xi first met, their names for the various details of the laws of space and time were completely inconsistent, but this did not affect communication, because they knew which word and which law they corresponded to.

It can't be the original word "oriole", it's a bit too far, right?

Lin Xian was a little unsure...

It stands to reason that the oriole who traveled through time a few decades later would all know the concept of a thousand-year stake; and the Yu Xi who traveled through time a few hundred years later, wouldn't he know the existence of a thousand-year stake?

"Thousand-year pile...how should I put it?"

Lin Xian tried to organize the language:

"Every 24 years, a 20-year-old girl who looks exactly the same turns into blue stardust and disappears. This is a known phenomenon. But what exactly this phenomenon represents, I don't know. Speaking of this, Can you think of anything?"

"It's completely unexpected."

Yu Xi shook her head without hesitation:

"I feel like I'm hearing a fantasy... Are you sure your thoughts are true? Or is it just your personal imagination? Why do I sound so mysterious?"

"If this is the case, then why do girls disappear? There must be a certain reason and reason, right? And... without plastic surgery and gene editing, how can we ensure that these 20-year-old girls all look exactly the same? ?”

ahead.

The red light turns to green.

Because Lin Xian and their vehicles have not started yet --\u003e\u003e

, the car behind made a beeping horn urging sound.

Lin Xian hurriedly turned around, stepped on the accelerator, and let the Volkswagen continue to move forward.

Hearing Yu Xi's question...

It's not difficult to see.

Yu Xi, she really doesn't know what the Millennium Pile is and what the concept is.

Because she completely misunderstood it, and even had a big deviation, she didn't guess it right at all.

Could it be...

I really got it right by accident?

Yu Xi was familiar with those time and space laws, but she knew nothing about the concept of the Millennium Pile.

This may really show that [the confidentiality level and actual role of the Millennium Pile are even more important than the time and space laws! ]

Huang Que also told me that the Millennium Pile is a very important thing, and it is also highly related to the historical lock, and I hope I can figure it out as soon as possible.

Relatively speaking, the law of time and space is actually not difficult to discover and summarize.

Because this thing relies on all fantasy and reasoning.

Even if there is no evidence and experimental support, it does not prevent a pen and a piece of paper from being able to deduce everything.

But look at the Millennium Pile.

It only appears once every 24 years, the time is too long and too hidden.

The earth is so big, there are so many countries, so many people...

It is harder to encounter a thousand-year pile in this sea of ​​people than to climb to the sky.

And to witness the thousand-year pile turning into blue stardust and disappearing at 00:42 and completing the piling process... that is even more rare.

Unless you are the chosen one with a full luck value, who has such good luck? After all, the time to turn into stardust and disappear is only a few seconds, and you may miss it if you blink a little.

Lin Xian really didn't think about this problem before.

Now that he analyzed it, he felt that there must be very few people who know the existence of the thousand-year pile!

For example, himself.

If I hadn't happened to witness the moment when Chu Anqing disappeared, I'm afraid I would never come into contact with the concept of the thousand-year pile in this life.

The next thousand-year pile baby should be born in 2028.

The number of newborns born in the world every year exceeds 130 million, and hundreds of babies are born every day, every hour, and every moment... Who can accurately distinguish which one is the thousand-year pile?

Then time goes back.

The next time the Millennium Pile disappears should be at 00:42 on a certain day in 2048.

This is a rare supernatural phenomenon.

Why didn't Zhang Yuqian's parents tell the truth about their daughter's accident?

Because no one would believe it if they told it.

From childhood to adulthood, Lin Xian didn't know how many people had told supernatural stories and urban legends.

From the female ghost in the teaching building, to the upstairs neighbor with the sound of glass beads bouncing late at night, even UFOs, prehistoric creatures, and the old lady was suddenly possessed by someone's soul during a rural sacrifice...

He didn't believe any of them.

The Millennium Pile incident was only because he experienced it personally, so he believed it without a doubt.

If he told this to another person, I'm afraid no one would believe it. At most, they would say:

"Ah, then when we are all old in 2048, you can take me to see the young Millennium Pile sister turn into blue stardust."

No one would care about this matter, or even remember it.

Therefore——

[Since Yu Xi doesn't know about the existence of the Millennium Pillar, then Jask probably doesn't know either, and even the Genius Club may not know! ]

In the next few hundred years, technology will be advanced, and nothing can be said.

But in 2024, and in the previous 2000, 1976, 1952... there is no technological support to find someone on the globe who only knows his appearance and birth year.

Who can guarantee that every Millennium Pillar will live in a peaceful and prosperous country?

If he was born in a poor and backward country, he might starve to death before he grows up;

If he was born in a war-torn country, he might be killed by a bomb before he was 20 years old.

What will happen if the Millennium Pillar dies before he is 20 years old?

Lin Xian doesn't know now.

But he does feel more and more that the existence of the Millennium Pillar... seems to be a secret that only very few people know.

That's why.

Whether it is Zhang Yuqian's life or Chu Anqing's life, it has been 20 years of peace and stability, without anyone disturbing, monitoring or exploiting them.

Except for Huang Que.

If Huang Que hadn't known that Chu Anqing was a thousand-year-old pile, then the disappearance of the thousand-year-old pile this time might have quietly disappeared in some unknown corner or unknown place, and finally ended with Chu Anqing's strange disappearance.

Then continue to reason deeper.

Why did Huang Que know that Chu Anqing was a thousand-year-old pile?

The only possibility is that she is very familiar with Chu Anqing.

Whether it is the time and space where Huang Que is or the time and space where he is currently, Zhao Yingjun, himself, and Chu Anqing are very familiar with each other.

Therefore, if there is any supernatural phenomenon happening to Chu Anqing, he and Zhao Yingjun will definitely know it.

But neither Jask nor the members of the genius club have this opportunity.

As for Zhang Yuqian, she is an extremely ordinary little girl, and no one will notice her.

So.

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes. --\u003e\u003e

Could it be that...

[The Millennium Pile is my only real backup? ]

This idea may be a bit taken for granted.

But it's not impossible.

Otherwise, why would Zhang Yuqian and Chu Anqing have lived so peacefully for 20 years?

However, if you want to find out whether the members of the Genius Club know about the Millennium Pile... I am afraid that you can only make a judgment after you actually join.

"I am just making preliminary guesses, and they have not been confirmed."

Lin Xian said something perfunctory and pointed to the tall building ahead:

"Look, that's the inpatient department of Tunghai University Affiliated Hospital. I've been here many times. Zheng Xiangyue's ward is on the 17th floor."

He glanced at his watch.

It's not yet nine o'clock in the morning, and Jask and the accompanying team should not have arrived yet.

He parked the Volkswagen in a position where he could see the door of the inpatient department at an angle.

Pay special attention to the front of the car facing the flower bed and the butt of the car facing the direction of the inpatient department.

In this case, the other party cannot observe them through the car glass, but they can rely on the rearview mirror to see what is behind them.

Lin Xian turned the key, turned off the Volkswagen, and turned to look at Yu Xi:

"Let's just wait here. When Jask and the others come, we'll follow them."

Half an hour passed...

Lin Xian and Yu Xi looked tiredly at the rearview mirror, but they still didn't see Jask.

"Aren't you coming yet?"

Another ten minutes passed.

Lin Xian looked at his watch. The time on it showed 09:46.

"Is it so stuck?"

Lin Xian felt a little strange:

"You said you were going to Zheng Xiangyue's ward at ten o'clock...and you didn't bring anyone in advance at all?"

…

Donghai, Lingang New District, Tesla Gigafactory.

Angelica paced the living room of her room.

The two female bodyguards sat at the door dutifully, with their backs to her, guarding her tightly.

She came to the living room window and looked outside.

There were many bodyguards in black and many black vehicles outside this building, probably brought by Jask for security.

Normally, for a trip abroad, even if you need to bring security, you don't need to bring so much or so much.

Angelica is self-aware.

She knew that these security personnel and vehicles were definitely not prepared to prevent her from escaping.

She's not that capable.

The two strong female bodyguards in the living room alone were enough to stop her.

What's more, the entire Tesla Gigafactory here is Jask's territory. Where can he run if he wants to?

So, the answer is self-evident.

Angelica looked at the square, white, and ordinary small refrigerator in the corner of the living room.

Such an exaggerated security force must be used to protect this small refrigerator. As for her... she is just an addition.

suddenly.

The crowd below the windows and in front of the building became restless.

It was Jask, who was in a suit and tie, who packed up, and his entourage got into the vehicle with him, formed a convoy, and headed towards the center of Donghai City.

Angelica knew what he was going to do this morning.

The whole world knows.

Jask has already repeated his itinerary 10,000 times on Twitter. Even the lunar boat ticket he was going to give to Zheng Xiangyue has appeared on Twitter several times, as if he was afraid that the world would not know that he was going to Tunghai University. Same as the affiliated hospital.

certainly.

He didn't care whether the whole world knew about it, he only cared about whether Lin Xian could see it.

Angelica didn't know what Jask wanted to talk about with Lin Xian.

In the eyes of Angelica, the richest man in the world is still an enemy and a person who cannot be trusted.

So she never revealed a word about Lin Xian to Jask... But the strange thing is that Jask never asked him once.

Considering that Lin Xian said that the blue-eyed girl who was chasing him was sent by Jask, maybe Jask didn't need to ask anything from himself. He could find out through the information about the girl killer. Lin Xian.

But this is the Dragon Kingdom and the East China Sea after all... Jask and the girl killer wouldn't dare to take action today, right?

Angelica believes that there is a high probability that it will not happen.

Outside the window, the smoke and dust raised by Jask's motorcade gradually fell, and the motorcade had long since disappeared. It should have already driven onto the expressway leading to the hospital.

Jask must first meet with the big shots from Donghai officials before going to visit Zheng Xiangyue in the hospital.

She sighed helplessly.

Now I can't do much to help, I can only wait and see what happens.

Just about to look back.

A black Tesla sedan parked in front of the door. A burly man in a black suit and sunglasses stepped out of the car carrying two huge lunch boxes. The security personnel next to him nodded to him.

This burly man should be the leader of the security team this time.

After getting up in the morning, Angelica told the female bodyguard that she wanted to eat some Donghai City specialty breakfast, and then the burly man went to buy it.

I didn’t expect to buy it just now:

"It's too slow. It's almost time for lunch."

Angelica came back from the window and sat down at the table to wait.

Not long after, a burly man in a suit walked into the room and held two oversized stacks in his hands--\u003e\u003e

He handed the lunch box to the two female bodyguards:

"You guys can eat together. I bought more for the three of you."

The two female bodyguards each took the lunch boxes.

Turn around.

Ready to open on the dining table.

result--

Whoosh! Whoosh!

With two rapid shots, the two female bodyguards twitched and fell to the ground!

Angelica's eyes widened and she stood up from the table.

The burly man in front of me has two hands on his left and right...

Each holds a black and yellow [Taser stun gun]!

This is a common piece of grassroots police equipment.

It can shoot out two wires and an electric needle, and then release a huge current to paralyze or stun the prisoner for a short time, so that the arrest can be completed safely.

"What do you want to do?"

Angelica looked at the burly man warily.

The burly man gave her a shushing gesture, then took out his cell phone in his pocket and pressed a phone number...

After waiting for the call to be connected, he handed it to Angelica silently.

Then, the burly man walked to the dining table and opened the two huge laminated lunch boxes——

There's nothing to eat inside!

There are all kinds of cosmetics, bottles, gels, decorations, disguise tools...

Angelica couldn't help but hold her breath.

Put the connected mobile phone to your ear:

"Hello?"

"Hehehehe..."

On the other side of the phone, a strange old man laughed dryly.

It was a smile that Angelica had never heard before, but it felt very charming and made people have goosebumps.

"Take Jask's little white refrigerator and follow this man to me. I'll tell you everything... tell you everything you want to know... Angelica."

"No, maybe I should change my name."

The old man laughed dryly again and said in a low voice:

"It's time for you to come back to me, my last seven deadly sins..."

"Lust!"