Genius Club.

Chapter 279 Whose Father, Whose Daughter (Part )
"Chu Anqing!?"

Lin Xian and Gao Yang opened their eyes wide and looked at the completely unexpected girl in front of them.

Back then at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Huang Que did say that she would find another teammate she could trust.

Lin Xian didn't care either.

She is so powerful that the person she has found must be either a space tycoon or a technical expert, and Lin Xian can trust him.

But who would have thought!
How did Huang Que find Chu Anqing, who is ordinary in every aspect and has no talents or special skills?
Letting a 19-year-old girl, who is still a college student at an art college, take a space shuttle to outer space to capture space-time particles, isn't this a joke!
"Hehe~"

After imitating the others and saluting, Chu Anqing, who was standing straight at attention, suddenly softened.

She giggled, put her hands behind her back, swayed her body and looked at Lin Xian:

"Senior Lin Xian, long time no see!"

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A few months ago.

It’s the third day after the World Hacker Contest ended.

United States, New York Airport, international business jet base.

The victorious Dragon Country Information Security Team is boarding the plane in an orderly manner under the protection of the country's elite forces and returning to the motherland.

"An Qing, have you got everything?"

Lin Xian turned around and looked at Chu Anqing, who was dressed lightly and had almost no luggage.

Chu Anqing nodded:

"That's all I have. After all, I came here secretly. I can't go home to get my suitcase, right? My parents would definitely find out... Plus, I was afraid I wouldn't have enough time to catch up with the game, so I didn't bother packing so many things. I went straight to the airport to buy a ticket and flew to the United States."

Lin Xian smiled helplessly:

"Don't do this next time. It's very dangerous. If something happens to you, how can I explain to Mr. Chu? And don't worry, I can handle my own affairs. When I really need you to cheer me up, I will take the initiative to tell you."

"Okay, okay!"

Chu Anqing laughed:
"Then you must not be polite! I am very free! I am free anytime!"

Behind.

Two accompanying Dragon country official protection personnel, each carrying one of the artworks and paintings that had been packaged and secured on shelves, were preparing to carry them into the aircraft cargo hold and secure them.

Passing by Lin Xian, the two asked:

"Mr. Lin, can you please tell me how to package this artwork? We are short on time and don't have time to find a more professional package."

Lin Xian checked it up and down and nodded:
"Yes, there shouldn't be any problem. Just be careful when fixing it. It's okay if the corners of the frame are bumped. Pay attention to the surface of the painting. Don't touch the paint, and don't cover it with anything."

"Okay." "Understood."

The two nodded and moved the painting "Sad Einstein" to the cargo hold of the special plane.

"Um……"

Chu Anqing rubbed her face with her index finger, thinking:
"Senior Lin Xian, you said... the painting "Sad Einstein" that we saw at the East China Exhibition Hall and the World Oil Painting Tour must have a different code from the one in your hand, right?"

"If we get that set of codes and compare it with this one, will it be faster to crack it? After all, I watched the movie The Imitation Game... the movie about the life of the genius scientist Alan Turing, which said that when cracking a code, if you can extract the same or similar fragments from different codes, it will be very helpful to locate the logic of the code and greatly help the cracking progress."

Lin Xian nodded:
"That's right. I looked up some information last night. There are all kinds of rumors about this painting on the Internet, some true and some false. Some say there are several authentic copies of this painting, but no one can say exactly how many there are."

"Also, there are only two paintings whose storage locations or sales information can be accurately found. One is the one we saw at the oil painting exhibition before; the other is one collected by a famous Hollywood director. But it is obvious that the one in the hands of the Hollywood director was bought by actress Angelica and given to Ji Lin. This is the one we have now."

"The fact that there are eight authentic copies of "Sad Einstein" is deduced by Ji Lin through the code, and there is no real evidence or real records. But I think Ji Lin is so smart, he probably has cracked some of the codes and even understood some of the logic... That's why he can say the total number of authentic copies of this painting so confidently."

……

When Chu Anqing heard Ji Lin's name, her heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

She recalled that there were two paintings hanging on the wall in the bedroom of the villa that she received as a coming-of-age gift.

One was a sketch of himself drawn by the senior that Ji Lin stole from Lin Xian’s notebook and gave to him.

The other one is a sketch drawn by senior Lin Xian, which she colored with watercolors. It is a photo of her, Lin Xian and Ji Lin, which is warm and full of vitality.

just.

Now things and people have changed, and we are separated by yin and yang.

For so long, Chu Anqing had never mentioned Ji Lin's name in front of Lin Xian. Although she was conflicted about Ji Lin, a person with a complex identity and complex emotions, she always felt that if Senior Lin Xian heard this name, he would definitely be a little sad, right?
She really wasn't very smart.

However, this kind of thing can still be felt.

Her father had told her that it was Lin Xian who designed that trapped fight to lure Zhou Duanyun into the trap; and Ji Lin most likely deliberately cooperated with Lin Xian's plan; because it all happened too smoothly and too quickly.

At the same time, she also knew.

It turned out that the joyful and happy birthday party that day was actually the execution ground designed by Ji Lin to kill Lin Xian.

And the moment Lin Xian chose to let Ji Lin go innocently... he was also burying Ji Lin in a half-buried coffin.

Because in the external reports, Zhou Duanyun was innocent. After Ji Xinshui's death, Ji Lin was the only one in the world who knew the evidence of his crime. For his own safety, he would definitely find a way to get rid of Ji Lin, so that no one could prove his guilt.

Her father told her:
"Ji Lin is so smart, he must have guessed what Lin Xian was thinking and what Lin Xian was planning... Think about it, I was able to figure it out after thinking about it, let alone someone as smart as Ji Lin? He might have realized that Lin Xian was planning to use him as bait to lure out Zhou Duanyun the moment he walked out of the police station and saw that there was no evidence of Zhou Duanyun's guilt in the notice."

Chu Anqing was stunned when listening to this mysterious yet logically rigorous plan.

"That……"

She looked at her father and asked:
"Then why did Ji Lin take the bait when he knew he was the bait and would be killed by Zhou Duanyun?"

Chu Shanhe was silent for a while and sighed softly:

"Ji Lin may not be so sure that he will be killed by Zhou Duanyun. He knows clearly that the bracelets on his feet and wrists have positioning and tracking functions. Maybe... according to his original idea, Lin Xian will appear in time and save him before Zhou Duanyun kills him?"

"Or maybe Ji Lin didn't expect Zhou Duanyun to be so desperate that he would shoot and kill him without hesitation? But I think this possibility is not very high... Again, Ji Lin is such a smart person, there is nothing he can't think of. What's more, Zhou Duanyun belongs to the same organization and has worked with him for so long. Ji Lin will understand him. So..."

Chu Shanhe paused:

"So I think that maybe Ji Lin is also hoping, or betting, that Lin Xian, who has been monitoring everything around him, will come to save him."

"Of course, this is just my guess. None of us know the details. Zhou Duanyun's appearance and shooting happened too quickly. Chief Inspector Liu told me at the time that the moment he noticed Zhou Duanyun's whereabouts, drones and helicopters immediately flew over...but everything happened too quickly and they didn't have time to arrive."

"This kind of game of wits between smart people is not something we can understand. No one knows what they are thinking."

He laughed and rubbed Chu Anqing's smooth hair:

"Don't worry about these things. As a little girl, you just need to live happily and worry-free for the rest of your life."

“【Even if the sky falls, we will still hold it up.】”

Chu Anqing nodded.

It is exactly as my father said.

She couldn't figure it out.

Why was Ji Lin willing to use himself as bait to help Lin Xian lure out Zhou Duanyun even though he knew he would die?

Can he really face death so calmly?

Is this considered sacrificing one's life for justice?

She couldn't understand.

The textbooks say that some people's death is heavier than Mount Tai, while some people's death is lighter than a feather; from this point of view... Ji Lin's death may really only be considered as lighter than a feather.

No service to the country and the people,

There is no heroism,

No unforgettable

No chivalry,

This isn't a meaningful death, is it?

If everyone is going to die eventually... who doesn't want their death to be more meaningful and valuable?

……

Come to your senses.

Chu Anqing looked at the senior who was standing in front of the plane returning home, frowning and thinking about the code on the painting:
"I have a great idea!"

She laughed like a pistachio:
"The painting 'Sad Einstein' that we saw at the East China Exhibition Hall is usually kept and exhibited in the British Museum. Anyway, it's so easy to go abroad now... When we have time, why don't we go to the British Museum together!"

"When the time comes, we can do it like we did in Ji Lin's room. I'll shine the light on you from the side, and you take a picture of the code on the painting from the front. Then we can compare and study it together, and we will definitely be able to crack the answer to the code faster!"

Lin Xian nodded and smiled:
"That's true. Since we don't know where the remaining six paintings of 'Sad Einstein' are placed, we can only start with the one in the British Museum. So let's find a free time, a safe opportunity... and go abroad again and take a look at the British Museum."

"Then you must call me!"

Chu Anqing raised her hand:

"I can be your tour guide. I went to the British Museum during my high school summer vacation. Although I was too busy having fun and didn't appreciate the artworks inside, I am still very familiar with the routes there."

"no problem."

Lin Xian responded casually:
"But next time... you must get your father's permission. You can't sneak out like this again."

"Hehe, don't worry~" Chu Anqing scratched his head embarrassedly:

"I'll definitely tell him next time." Turning his head.

The cargo hold had been closed and everyone's luggage had been loaded, so Lin Xian and Chu Anqing boarded the plane together, entered the passenger cabin, and sat in adjacent seats.

Buckle up.

Soon after, the fuselage lifted off under the vibration of the jet engine and flew towards home.

"By the way..."

Lin Xian turned his head and looked at Chu Anqing who was sitting next to him:

"I haven't had the chance to ask you yet, what did the woman who supported you and protected you say to you at the hacker competition that day?"

"She said her name was Yellowbird, a very strange name."

Chu Anqing blinked and looked at Lin Xian:

"Do you know her? Is she an acquaintance of yours?"

"Well... sort of." Lin Xian didn't know how to define the relationship between himself and Huang Que:
"She did help me in some ways. Although she is always mysterious and elusive, she doesn't seem to be a bad person at the moment. At least in the hacker competition, she saved you and prevented some dangerous things from happening. One thing at a time, we still have to thank her for this."

Chu Anqing nodded:

"Sister Huang Que really seems to be a very nice person. She is very gentle and protects me very well, and...her eyes are really beautiful. When I turned around and saw her pair of deep blue eyes, I fell in love with them all of a sudden."

"What impressed me most about her was her eyes. To be honest, the moment I saw her, I thought it was Sister Zhao Yingjun. But then I realized that she looked nothing like Sister Zhao Yingjun, and her voice was different, too. It was just that her temperament and the feeling she gave were similar. She said to me... said to me..."

What gift will he give you this time?

Thinking back to what Huang Que said, Chu Anqing was embarrassed to say:

"She said I was brave."

Chu Anqing nodded and skipped over that sentence:

"Then he said that the five-pointed star you drew in the sky was very beautiful, and that her name was Yellow Bird, and that we would meet again soon. That's all I remember saying."

"I was really nervous and scared at the time, so I may not remember all the words, but I remember these few sentences clearly. Oh, yes, she also seemed to say that the genius hacker Kevin Walker was a coward and asked him to face you directly... That's all."

What a coward...

Lin Xian pondered over these words.

It seems that Huang Que also knew early on that the hooded boy at the game was not the real Kevin Walker.

Judging from the fact that Kevin dared not show up in person and only dared to hide in an unknown corner behind the scenes to manipulate everything... maybe the coward is the oriole mocking Kevin Walker?
If you think about it more deeply.

Huang Que claimed to be a member of the Genius Club, and Kevin Walker was also likely a member of the Genius Club. If the two of them had communication, met, and exchanged ideas on a daily basis... Could it be that Coward was Kevin Walker's nickname within the Genius Club?
There is another point that is very worrying.

Why did Huang Que tell Chu Anqing that they would meet again?

Chu Anqing is just an ordinary little girl.

Huang Que has many identities...a member of the Genius Club, a suspected time traveler, a riddler who knows everything but won't tell, a big shot who can take over the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and so on.

No matter from which angle you look at it, she and Chu Anqing don't seem like people who could be related.

Maybe it's just a polite remark.

Lin Xian has a lot of mysteries in his mind right now, so he didn't take this matter to heart for the time being.

……

Ten hours later.

The special plane landed at the Imperial Capital Airport, then took off again, headed for the Donghai Pudong Airport, and landed again.

After a long journey, Lin Xian and Chu Anqing got off the plane at Pudong Airport and stretched...

It was still daytime outside.

The sun was blazing.

"It really feels like a lifetime ago..." Chu Anqing said with emotion:
"It was daytime when we took off, and it's still daytime now."

"Senior Lin Xian, is the day we are on now the same day as the day we left the United States?"

This question really stumped Lin Xian.

He adjusted the time difference in his mind and said uncertainly:
"Your question really stumped me. I was a little confused for a moment. Logically speaking, Dragon Country's time is 12 hours ahead of the U.S. time, which means Dragon Country will enter the next day and tomorrow before the U.S. does."

"According to this calculation, you didn't travel back in time to the past... Instead, it's more like you traveled back in time to the future. When you left the United States, it was the morning of the 19th there, but now that you got off the plane in Dragon Country, it has become noon on the 20th."

"So, strictly speaking, you lost a day in your life... Anyway, just listen to it casually. I don't know if this is accurate or not. It touches on my blind spot in knowledge."

Lin Xian smiled helplessly:
"My passport was officially issued to me by the state this time. This is my first time going abroad, and I have never seriously studied this issue before."

Chu Anqing burst out laughing:

"I never thought that you also have blind spots in knowledge and things you don't know. I always thought you were omniscient and knew everything."

"You are exaggerating."

Lin Xian was also amused:
"You've stumped me this time, haven't you? You'll learn more and more, and understand more and more. One day you'll have more knowledge than I do, and maybe I'll even need your advice at that time."

"That day will definitely not come~"

Chu Anqing waved her hand:

"My brain is so stupid that I will never be able to catch up with you in my lifetime."

talking.

Chu Anqing suddenly had an idea:
"If flying from the United States to Dragon Country is considered flying along time and flying into the future... then if flying from Dragon Country to the United States... wouldn't that be equivalent to going back in time?"

Lin Xian laughed twice.

Chu Anqing is indeed a little happy person.

Being with her is like being infected, and I laugh all the time.

Other people’s imaginations may make people feel too jumpy and speechless...but Chu Anqing’s imaginations make people feel so cute, so beautiful, and they are pulled into the fairy tale book she is in.

"congratulations."

Lin Xian followed Chu Anqing and said:
"You discovered a bug in this world and gained eternal life."

"really?"

Chu Anqing smiled, her eyes curved into shallow crescents:
"But that's obviously impossible! Stop teasing me, what's the problem?"

"International Date Line"

Lin Xian explained to her:
"The problem you just raised is indeed a bug on Earth, but it was fixed by an international organization in 1884."

"They set up an imaginary international date line, which is roughly located at 180° longitude in the Pacific Ocean, as the dividing line between 'today' and 'yesterday' on the earth. International organizations stipulate that as long as this line is crossed, the date must change."

"So... your assumption just now, although romantic, is actually not true."

After saying that, Lin Xian looked at his watch:

"I'll take you back to school."

"If you are really interested in this knowledge, you can choose Professor Zhang Yang's general education course as an elective course next semester. He teaches knowledge about the speed of light, relativity, and time."

"Although the explanations are very simple, they are very interesting. When I was studying at Tunghai University, I took this general education course. Professor Zhang Yang's lectures are really interesting. He explains time travel, space travel, and the theory of relativity in a very easy-to-understand way. It's really great."

"alright."

Chu Anqing smiled:

"Now that you mention it, I am indeed quite interested. Time travel... it's really something that makes people yearn for it. It would be great if I could really travel through time and space."

Lin Xian handed the luggage in his hand to the driver and looked back at Chu Anqing:
"Do you want to travel back to a point in the past, or to a point in the future hundreds of years from now?"

"That must be going back to the past!" Chu Anqing imagined:
"There's no point in traveling into the future... I'm not even 20 years old yet, I can live into the future. Even without a hibernation capsule, I can live several decades into the future. Not to mention that hibernation capsules are almost becoming practical... Everyone can hibernate in a hibernation capsule for hundreds or thousands of years and arrive in the future hundreds of years from now."

"Many people on the Internet say that because of the existence of hibernation capsules, the word 'future' has become devalued! Nowadays, it is not difficult to use a hibernation capsule to 'travel' to the future. Everyone can go to the future."

"On the contrary, the past... the history that has already happened and has been determined, don't you think it is more attractive? Only the past is there, and no one can go back, never back to the past. No matter how advanced the technology is, or how powerful the hibernation chamber is, we can't go back to the past even a second ago."

"So...if I really had the ability to travel through time, I would definitely close my eyes and choose the past instead of the future!"

……

Lin Xian blinked:

"Your idea... is really novel."

He said sincerely:
"I think most people prefer to travel to the future, but I didn't expect you to choose the past without hesitation. Is there any special reason, or something you want to do, or any regrets you want to make up for?"

Lin Xian looked at Chu Anqing with some curiosity:
"If you could really travel back in time, what would you most like to do?"

"hey-hey……"

Chu Anqing smiled mischievously, with two dimples faintly visible.

She raised her index finger and made a hushing gesture in front of her lips:

"Secret~"

(End of this chapter)