Genius Club.

Chapter 101: Arrogance and Hypocrisy (asking for monthly ticket)
Ji Lin didn't look up.

He stared at the various news information that quickly slid across the laptop screen, and kept scrolling the mouse wheel with his right hand:
"The list you gave me didn't get to the point at all."

"Since the list is wrong...then you can look for clues again..."

The old man was very troubled, but he did not doubt Ji Lin's judgment at all.

Since Ji Lin said it was wrong, then it must be wrong. There was no need to question it. This child had never let him down, and had never missed a single opportunity.
"Since you have ruled out all the possibilities on the list, then go out and look for new clues and catch this person who disturbed history as soon as possible... What's the point of you staying at home all the time? Will the person who disturbed history come to you on his own?"

Listen to the old man's words.

Ji Lin sighed softly and smiled:
"【Arrogant】... You are so arrogant. How much do you despise this person who disturbed history to say such a thing."

"Why do you say that?" The old man frowned.

"According to what you said, the man who disturbed history helped Xu Yun and got the hibernation chamber filling fluid. Now Xu Yun died in an accident. If that man is not a fool, he will definitely be on guard now and dare not act rashly and expose himself."

After hearing this, the old man turned his head away:

"So you don't want to alert him? You don't want him to realize that we are looking for him, so that he will let down his guard and gradually reveal his true colors?"

"That's not the point."

Ji Lin replied calmly. He closed his laptop and looked up at the old man:

"【Actually, I've been thinking... How can we prove that a person is indeed disrupting history?】"

He thought for a few seconds and continued:
“How do we define original history? And how do we define disrupted history?”

"This cannot be explained in one sentence. According to your request, we cannot kill innocent people indiscriminately. If we kill anyone by mistake, we will lose the qualification to receive the invitation letter from the Genius Club."

"That's right." The old man nodded:
"We must not kill anyone by mistake. We must strictly prove that he has indeed disrupted history and obtain the most accurate evidence before we can kill him."

“Do you know the original history?”

Ji Lin looked up and stared at the old man:

"Do you know the original historical development trajectory and historical direction?"

"Of course I don't know." The old man shook his head:
"If I knew, would you still need to investigate? I can find the person by simply comparing them."

"So the problem lies here, arrogance." Ji Lin spread his hands:

"You don't know what the original history is, nor do you know the original direction of history. So how can we judge whether someone is disrupting history? Based on intuition?"

"No." The old man answered simply:

"There must be absolute evidence."

"Look, you are forcing others to do what they want."

Ji Lin lowered his head and smiled, then continued to open the laptop screen and stared at the fluorescent light on it:
"Then don't complain about my slowness... You didn't tell me anything, and you didn't give me any hints, so I have to search the Internet carefully? What if I can find some clues on some forum?"

Listening to Ji Lin’s laughter.

The old man frowned.

He finally understood...

This kid did it on purpose.

He still didn't believe what he said and thought that he was hiding something from him.

This is a way of provoking someone, trying to lure you into the trap!
"Ji Lin, you want to trick me again, right?"

The old man pulled a wooden chair and sat down:

"Give up, Ji Lin. I have told you everything I know."

"No no... not even close."

The web page on the laptop slid across Ji Lin's pupils. He blinked and continued:

“你没告诉我的事情还多着呢……就好比你要求的这种诡异的杀人方式，必须是车祸、必须是在晚上00：42-00：43的这60秒内让人死亡。”

"This bizarre method is not only unsafe and not covert enough, but also difficult to implement. Sometimes we waited for several months and could not find a suitable opportunity to kill someone."

"That's 00:42, Arrogant... If you're a normal person, you'd be asleep at this hour. How can you expect us to cause a car accident and kill someone?"

"Is it difficult, Ji Lin?" The old man smiled and leaned back in his chair:
"I see you always execute well. It's a little troublesome, but aren't they successful in the end? Just like this operation, wasn't it a success?" "That's because of your cooperation." Ji Lin replied calmly:
"Actually, I'm quite curious. You met Xu Yun before he attended the celebration banquet... What would you say to him?"

"Say what you told me to say."

The old man put away his smile and stared at Ji Lin:

"Ji Lin, you don't think you are a good person, do you? You said it as if you were very reluctant to kill Xu Yun. Over the years, your hands have been stained with blood... It's too late for you to be a good person in this matter of Xu Yun."

"Although I was the one who proposed killing Xu Yun, you were the one who executed all the plans! You clearly knew that killing Xu Yun hurt me so much, why did you keep bringing it up in front of me?"

"If you really want to avenge Xu Yun, then hurry up and find the person who disrupted history! And think carefully! How to prove that he really disrupted history!"

"Then I would like to ask you something, Arrogant."

Ji Lin said softly:

"How do you prove that Xu Yun disrupted history?"

"Because it's impossible for him to research the filling fluid for the hibernation chamber. He doesn't have that ability!" The old man frowned.

"Isn't it obvious?"

"Can this kind of subjective judgment be used as evidence?" Ji Lin spread his hands:

"Then I can point fingers at anyone for disrupting history. Xu Yun is clearly not worthy of my sister, but you are trying to bring them together. Isn't that also disrupting history?"

The old man frowned and said nothing.

It can be seen that he was unwilling to talk about Xu Yun, and even felt a little disgusted. For him, it was a scar that he did not want to open, but it was torn open again and again by Ji Lin.

"You are so arrogant. How can I start working if you don't tell me the criteria for judgment?"

Ji Lin lowered his head and smiled:
"Look, you are hiding something from me, and it's very important. You are not as ignorant of the Genius Club as you say."

"Since you don't tell me, let me guess."

Ji Lin supported himself on the floor with his arms and slowly stood up.

He walked up to the old man step by step and circled around the chair:

"Every time you killed someone in the past, your reason was always to disrupt history. But when it comes to evidence, you can't really produce anything. It's more like you shoot the arrow first and then draw the target, or... In fact, you don't know what the evidence is, and you don't know what disrupting history means. Instead, someone told you-"

"This is the man who disrupted history. Go and kill him."

"And every time you kill someone, your requirements are very strange, very weird, and even unbelievable. You require that the death must be caused by a car accident, and the time of death must be 00 seconds between 42:00 and 43:60."

"This behavior is really weird. It's as if you're afraid that others don't know that you're deliberately killing someone. So I think... there are two possibilities for why you did this."

Hey.

Ji Lin stopped.

He placed his left hand on the old man's shoulder, squinted his eyes, and stared into his dry eyes:
"Or, you are actually a [copycat], and you are deliberately imitating someone's killing method, thinking that this way you can join the genius club like him. That's why you kill people so blindly in this way, regardless of the consequences, because you don't know why you do this."

"Or, you are deliberately performing for someone to see, letting him know that you killed all these people, just to show off, as if you are passing an exam arranged by the genius club."

……

Listening to Ji Lin's words, the old man said nothing and closed his eyes.

Ji Lin smiled and stood up:

"There is actually a third possibility."

He hugged the old man's neck from behind and placed three fingers of his right hand on the old man's carotid artery:

"Someone in the Genius Club asked you to kill these people who disturbed history."

"He must have promised you something... promised you something. That's why you are so determined to do these incredible things without knowing anything, just like a dog that bites people after its master's order."

The old man's heartbeat quickened a little. Ji Lin leaned close to the old man's ear and whispered:
"arrogant."

"In the Genius Club...who are you being a dog for?"

(End of this chapter)