Genius Club.

Chapter 196 Taxi Driver

boom! !

Zhou Duanyun walked out of the house and slammed the sliding door shut.

After a loud crash, the thin sliding door bounced back halfway...

Zhou Duanyun strode away from the yard, and the sound of his footsteps gradually faded away.

The salty and humid evening breeze from Shikoku Island blew in from outside, making Ji Lin feel that his clothes were a little thin.

He stood up, walked to the door, and slowly closed the sliding door.

The noisy wind was finally blocked outside the door, and the air flow in the entire house became gentle and quiet, leaving him alone, leaning against the wooden wall, closing his eyes and thinking.

Just before contacting Gluttony.

He could almost conclude with 99% certainty that Lin Xian was the one who disrupted history.

Although there is no direct evidence or hard proof... a unilateral conclusion is not a lawsuit and does not require such rigorous proof.

There are too many suspicious points about Lin Xian. If the person who disrupted history was not him, then many things would not make sense.

However, this certain probability has always been 99%.

Because Ji Lin still held a glimmer of hope in his heart...

I hope I guessed wrong.

I hope the truth is that tiny 1%.

But he knew that such a low-probability miracle would never happen.

From childhood to adulthood, he never made mistakes in any math problem. From the day that Arrogant told him that his parents were mathematicians, he immersed himself in a sea of ​​math problems every day, doing problems, problems, and problems...

His favorite math game is Sudoku.

When doing Sudoku, he would feel surrounded by numbers, just like the parents he never remembered and the embrace he had never felt.

He always believed that he must have a talent for mathematical reasoning.

Countless facts also prove this point.

At least when it comes to the Sudoku game, no matter how complex the array is, he has never made a mistake in solving a single puzzle; and in terms of speed, he is often faster than the world record.

The only time I couldn't solve a Sudoku...

It’s the Sudoku game in the November 2022 issue of Mathematical Monthly, the side job.

He still remembers that Sudoku game.

Because of a printing error, the question was wrong, so I didn't finish it.

But apparently...

Lin Xian's answer was not wrong, and he did not make any mistakes.

The fact that he showed up at the crime scene alone in a Ferrari tonight... was enough to show that he had already predicted Leon's death.

Earlier this evening, he called to "express his condolences" to Xu Yun's former colleagues in the task force, asking them how the deployment was going and which team Lin Xian was in.

Until almost dawn, Lin Xian was still on standby in the office.

At that moment, he thought that he might have really made a mistake in a question.

Maybe I really had wronged Lin Xian.

Unfortunately……

In the end, it turned out that I had guessed the correct answer from the beginning.

Just like every math problem I've ever done.

uninteresting.

There is no challenge.

He turned on his phone and opened the online shopping app.

In the shopping cart, there are many birthday party decorations, toys, latte art, table games, etc.

He had never held a birthday party and didn't know what to do.

I could only follow the example and buy decorations on the online shopping platform according to the arrangement of Chu Anqing's birthday party that day.

This is a job that can be handed over to a decoration company... It is always more efficient and effective to leave professional matters to professionals.

But in the end, Ji Lin decided to do it all by himself.

After all, this is his first birthday party in his life.

I was 22 years old and it was a bit late to hold my first birthday party.

But for him, it is still fresh and even exciting.

"Hey……"

Ji Lin sighed softly.

Ding-a-ling-ding-ling-ding-ling-ding-ling-ding-ling-ding-ling-ding-ling--

The phone rang again.

The caller ID is [Pride].

Ji Lin pressed the answer button, and Ji Xinshui's slightly hoarse voice came:

"Jealousy just called me and told me that they have confirmed the irrefutable evidence that Lin Xian is disrupting history."

"He's really quick-witted."

Ji Lin smiled and said:

"He wishes Lin Xian would die tomorrow. He still holds a grudge against Lin Xian because of a small incident during high school... That's why I told you long ago that I don't like jealousy. He is a person with a twisted mind. He can't even be considered a human being."

"Don't tell anyone about each other."

On the other end of the phone, Ji Xinshui was a little impatient. He had long been fed up with mediating the conflict between Ji Lin and Zhou Duanyun like a kindergarten teacher:

"Not everyone in this world can get along as friends. Even though I told you to try to be friends with Jealousy, that was also for work considerations. Now that the work issue has been resolved, the relationship between the two of you doesn't matter."

"So, answer my question, Ji Lin. When will you kill Lin Xian?"

Ji Lin pursed his lips and remained silent.

"Ji Lin?"

On the other end of the phone, Ji Xinshui was very surprised:

"You don't have a plan in mind, do you? This is unlike you... In the past, when I asked you when to kill someone, you had already made a detailed plan. Don't tell me that you haven't even thought about the time now."

"【On the evening of May 5rd.】" Ji Lin said softly:
"That is, at 5:4 in the early morning of May 00th."

Ji Xinshui thought for a moment:
"More than 20 days later... OK, Lin Xian's situation is indeed different from others, and requires careful planning. Send me the location you planned later. I want to witness his death with my own eyes at this important moment."

"You didn't have this kind of bad taste before."

"Lin Xian is different from others..." Ji Xinshui laughed:

"[I found him myself...it means a lot.]"

After saying that, Ji Xinshui was about to hang up the phone.

"arrogant."

Ji Lin called him:
"May 5rd, don't you think it's a very special day?"

On the other end of the phone, Ji Xinshui hesitated for a moment:
"I don't think this is a holiday or anniversary. But maybe... this day will be a day worth remembering for the rest of our lives."

Ji Lin snorted and lowered his head:
"You're right."

……

Whoosh!Whoosh!
The high-speed taxi and Ferrari rushed out of the city road one after another and came to the national highway on the outskirts of the city.

The national highway at night is a chaotic dance of semi-trailer trucks.

Unlike the city roads that were always empty of traffic, the national highways do not have idle cars and each one is a king.

Speeding, overloading, license plates covered with dust, running through checkpoints without stopping... these are almost standard passive skills for this type of truck driver.

No matter how powerful a Ferrari is, it is still nothing compared to a semi-trailer that weighs dozens of tons.

So Lin Xian had to slow down along with the taxi to avoid these semi-trailers. It seems...

Just as I guessed before, perhaps the vehicles that caused the accident were able to disappear out of thin air because of the cooperation of these semi-trailers to perform a "transformation".

The taxi in front of me was snaking between the interlaced semi-trailers, as if searching for something.

Lin Xian was not in a hurry to chase after him. He took out his cell phone and prepared to call Chu Shanhe.

boom! ! ! ! ! ! !
suddenly!

There is a raging fire ahead!

A semitrailer was thrown sideways by the explosion! The taxi in the traffic was blown more than ten meters high! It broke into two pieces while burning fiercely, and smashed into the irrigation ditch on the right side of the road!
squeak------

Lin Xian hurriedly did a sideways drift, allowing the Ferrari to stop in time at a safe distance to ensure safety.

Then, after checking left and right to make sure the oncoming vehicle is safe, I parked the vehicle on the side of the road, turned on the hazard lights, and got out of the main driver's seat...

bomb?

Lin Xian smelled the familiar smell of gunpowder in the air...

He had smelled this smell many times in the bank in the first dream. It all came from the C4 bomb in the hands of Big Face Cat.

Why did the taxi suddenly explode?

Is it...

Was this also Ji Lin and the others' original arrangement?

Did they anticipate that I would be ambushed here... or did they intend to kill the taxi driver and destroy the body?
Lin Xian didn't call Chu Shanhe again. It was meaningless now.

But this was only the first half of Lin Xian's plan. Chu Shanhe's cooperation would also be needed in the second half...

It is a good thing for me not to expose the secret arrangement between myself and Chu Shanhe now, so that I will have one more trump card that has not been revealed when facing Ji Lin in the future.

Lin Xian ran down the irrigation ditch beside the national highway...

The taxi I had been chasing just now broke into two pieces.

The back half was burning fiercely in the ditch, while the front half was in the farmland a few meters away, emitting a faint smoke.

The front glass of the car was shattered and the body of the car was blackened.

The driver, wearing a hat, sunglasses and a mask, half of his body was leaning outside the car window, crawling on the ground, without a trace of life.

Lin Xian took a deep breath and slowly walked towards the driver.

He walked very slowly.

It's not that I'm worried that the driver will suddenly come back to life... In such a violent explosion, it's a miracle that he can leave a whole body. Reality is not a Hollywood movie, and the possibility of him coming back to life is extremely small.

Lin Xian's breathing became rapid...

The black smoke from burning gasoline and the pervasive smell of gunpowder made the nasal cavity very uncomfortable, as if breathing a ball of muddy sludge, sticky and disgusting.

There seemed to be a smell of burnt human flesh in the air. The protection mechanism engraved in the DNA made Lin Xian's scalp numb and issued the most instinctive warning of a living being.

One step, two steps, three steps.

Lin Xian was getting closer and closer to the driver's body lying on the ground.

The driver's sunglasses were tilted to one side, and only the mask and hood still covered his face.

Look at those broad arms... Lin Xian compared them to Zheng Chenghe, whom he had just met this morning. The two of them were so similarly muscular.

Zheng Chenghe.

Will it be you?

All Lin Xian remembered was Zheng Xiangyue's clean and pure smile:

"My brother is not ignorant, he is trying to protect me! He is a hero!"

"I want to ask my brother, after I die... bury me on the moon!"

"Because my brother said that my parents are there... I really want to see them."

"My brother always says that good is rewarded with good and evil is punished with evil. This is really how the world works!"

"I hope my brother can earn a ticket to the moon."

……

Zheng Chenghe.

This is what you told your sister...that evil will be punished?

Hey.

Lin Xian walked up to the driver's body and stopped.

He bent down, picked up the mask on the corpse's face, and took it off.

There were blood stains on the dark skin.

His lips were thick, his nose was big, and his skin reflected the moonlight, it was exceptionally smooth without a single scar.

The pupils were dilated in the empty eyes, no longer showing any signs of life.

"This is……"

Lin Xian opened his eyes wide.

This is a black man...

He is not a Dragon countryman, and certainly not the scarred and humble Zheng Chenghe!
Lin Xian turned back suddenly.

Looking at the crowd slowly gathering on the national highway behind me...

He felt something was wrong.

Something is very wrong.

[If Huang Que went to so much trouble to lead him to the hospital's inpatient department, her purpose was not to remind him that the murderer was Zheng Chenghe... then what exactly did she want to express? ]

[Did I think wrongly from the beginning? ]

[The clue that Huang Que really wants to hint at me is... Zheng Xiangyue? 】

……

"Thank you for riding. Please keep your receipt."

On the bar street, Zheng Chenghe tore off the receipt on the meter and handed it to the man in the passenger seat with both hands.

"Keep the change, please!"

The man handsomely took a big red bill, then hugged the two heavily made-up women behind him and walked into the place of feasting and drinking, laughing.

"Master! Here, here!"

The taxi business on the bar street is very good. As soon as the customers got off the taxi, a few young girls in cool clothes and drunk waved to Zheng Chenghe in front.

He waved back, then drove the taxi to the front, waited for the girls to get in, and pressed the meter:

"Excuse me, where are you going?"

"Uncle! Go to Julu Road!"

The girl in the passenger seat next to him was blushing and drunk, and she looked at Zheng Chenghe with a smile as she staggered:
"Uncle! Are you trying to rob a bank? You're covering yourself so tightly! Can you see clearly with sunglasses on at night?"

Zheng Chenghe smiled slightly and nodded apologetically:
"There are too many vehicles using high beams at night, so wearing sunglasses is actually safer."

"Ouch! I didn't realize, uncle! You have well-developed muscles!"

The girl in the car then noticed that the driver had a very muscular build, broad arms, bulging muscles, and was extremely powerful!
At the same time, my arms are very broad, and I can fight better than the coaches in the gym all day long!

"I was always bullied when I was a kid, so I started practicing to protect my sister," Zheng Chenghe said gently.

"Ah, so it's to protect my sister!"

The girl in the passenger seat gave a thumbs up:
"Then you are such a good brother. I envy your sister! You must really dote on her, right?"

"Of course."

Talking about his sister, Zheng Chenghe smiled:

"She is the reason for my existence, my everything in life."

(End of this chapter)