Genius Club.

Chapter 353: Seven Deadly Sins, back in action!

July 2024, 4, morning.

Yu Xi changed into the girl's casual clothes she bought yesterday and walked out of the suite.

She pulled her sleeves and adjusted the hoodie that was curled up at the back of her neck, and she was fully ready.

She has a fair face, slightly wrinkled brows, and looks cool, cute, and fresh.

Perhaps only the new human race of the future who have undergone drug enhancement and gene editing can have so many compliments on their faces at the same time.

This is a beauty that does not belong to this era
Just like her crystal blue eyes that were still bright and dazzling in the morning sun, they were out of tune with this world.

"Put on your contact lenses." Lin Xian put on his shoes in the living room and said to Yu Xi as he looked at her.
"Just the black contact lenses. Weren't they all given to me yesterday?"

"I can'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 strong, she is still very different from those Terminator robots in the movies.

As long as one is a human being, there must be something he or she is afraid of.

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

Some vicious and cruel people with scars all over their bodies would not dare to watch horror movies;

Lin Xian still remembers seeing on Douyin before a gangster with a big gold chain and tattoos all over his back. When he was queuing for vaccination, his legs went weak because he was so scared of the injection.

Perhaps, for Yu Xi...

Sticking such a black and sticky piece of plastic on the eyeball is even more terrifying 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:
"Will such a thin piece of material really not move to the back of the eyeball as the eye blinks?"

Lin Xian has never worn contact lenses.

But then I thought about it, theoretically, this situation should have a probability of happening:

"It should be possible. After all, human eyeballs are round, and the eye sockets are not closed at the corners."

He said truthfully:
"But the probability shouldn't be high, right? At least I've never heard of anyone's contact lens moving behind their eyeball."

This should be the sequelae of this sentence.

Yu Xi, who dared to fight the devil, really didn't dare to try wearing contact lenses by herself.

Lin Xian placed the daily disposable contact lenses on the small plastic suction column and lifted Yu Xi's chin:

"Keep your head up and eyes open."

Yu Xi obediently opened her eyes wide...

The azure blue pupils that looked like shattered glass were so deep, like a rotating galaxy, that Lin Xian felt as if he was almost being pulled into it... falling into the cracks in time and space, into a black hole where not even light could escape.

He pressed Yu Xi's upper and lower eye sockets and attached the pure black contact lenses to the eyeballs, covering the two blue bulbs.

I really don't know the principle behind how time-space rejection can make human cells glow, like the fireflies and electric eels?

"Okay, the other eye."

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

"Why do you tie your hair into a ponytail when it's so short?" Lin Xian asked while looking at Yu Xi's tight hairstyle.

"Because I don't have to wash my hair so often." Yu Xi answered honestly.

"..."

Lin Xian was speechless by this unexpected answer:

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

"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 keratin cells in the hair are already dead and have no activity or functionality. This kind of thing can only strengthen the hair roots, but it can't strengthen anything else."

"If it wasn't for hiding my identity and not wanting to draw attention... I would rather shave my head, without even a single hair. That way I would never have to wash my hair, I could wash my head when I wash my face. And when I'm fighting, I don't have to worry about my hair being caught by the enemy, which would reduce a lot of loopholes."

Lin Xian thought of Yu Xi's bald head and felt that it was somewhat funny:

"You don't have to be so extreme. It's fine like this. Okay, you've got your black contact lenses on. Put on your big sunglasses, and then others won't be able to see your eyes."

Say it.

Lin Xian also stood up and put on his coat.

Yu Xi walked to the coffee table in the suite's living room, picked up the large black sunglasses on it, and put them on her face, completing her outfit for going out.

Today is the day that Jask will go to Tunghai University Affiliated Hospital to visit Zheng Xiangyue.

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

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

Yu Xi's intention was to let Lin Xian find a reason to call Jask out alone and kill him to eliminate future troubles and completely resolve the assassination crisis of the time-space assassin.

Although Lin Xian didn't say anything on the surface, he understood Yu Xi's somewhat 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 was also fighting the time and space assassin with his life, and his life was on the line every time.

Lin Xian had many friends who died in this inexplicable battle. Logically, he should not hesitate or be indecisive any longer.

Perhaps it is true that the truth hurts, and Yu Xi's suggestion is the best solution.

but……

The truth is this.

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

Anyway, in Zheng Xiangyue's ward, in front of the official figures of Donghai City, the team certainly could not assassinate Jask, 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 Angelica was like, and then take action based on the situation.

……

"Honestly, I don't have anything that could interest Jask right now."

on the road.

Lin Xian drove a Volkswagen sedan with Yu Xi in the passenger seat from the hotel to the Tunghai University Affiliated Hospital.

While waiting for the red light, he turned around and said to Yu Xi:
"If I have to say, maybe Digital Life Turing is one of them, because Jask only knows Kevin Walker's address. He may not know that Kevin Walker has already digitized his consciousness and uploaded it to the Internet, forming another digital life version of himself."

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

"Turing said it would be a fair and impartial observer... But who knows? If it were an artificial intelligence, I might believe what it said, but it is still a human being... What's the difference between talking and farting?"

Yu Xi shook her head:
"I don't think this information is valuable enough for you to ask Jask out alone. Kevin Walker's address was given to you by Jask, or rather, it was what Angelica heard from Jask."

"Since you guessed that Jask and Kevin Walker are both members of the Genius Club, I think Jask's understanding of Kevin Walker must be far greater than yours. Maybe he already knew about Turing's existence. Even if he didn't know, he should be able to guess roughly, right?"

"Not to mention that they are all meeting in a 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 enough to interest Jask so that he will be willing to take the risk and make a deal with you... Whether it is to trade Angelica or something else."

Lin Xian sighed softly.

Look ahead at the traffic light with gradually decreasing countdown numbers:
"As for other things... I have a non-powered version of the space-time particle, and Jask may have a fully-powered one, or he may not have one yet. But it's obvious that he knows a lot about space-time particles, much more than I do, and I don't think he would be interested in using this as a bargaining chip."

"Besides that, the only thing I have studied in depth and come into contact with more is the Millennium Pile."

Ok?
Yu Xi's lower face, which was not covered by the big sunglasses, was visibly startled and turned her head away:
"What is a Millennium Pile?"

?

Now it was Lin Xian's turn to be stunned. He turned his head and looked at Yu Xi again:
"Don't you know the Millennium Pile?"

"Never heard of it."

Yu Xi shook her head:
"What is that? Is it related to space-time particles or time travelers?"

Lin Xian was silent.

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

But still the same sentence.

Originality is not random creation! There must be a great connection between Qiannianzhu and its original words, at least you should be able to figure it out once you hear it.

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

When Yu Xi and I first met, their names for the various details of the laws of time and space were completely inconsistent, but this did not affect communication, because one could tell which word and which law corresponded as soon as they heard each other.

It can't be that the original word "yellow bird" is a bit far-fetched, right?
Lin Xian was a little unsure...

Logically speaking, Huang Que, who traveled through time decades later, would know the concept of the Millennium Pile; then wouldn't Yu Xi, who traveled through time hundreds of years later, be unaware of the existence of the Millennium Pile?

"Thousand-year pile...how to put it."

Lin Xian tried to organize his words:

"Every 24 years, a 20-year-old girl who looks exactly like her disappears into blue stardust. This is a known phenomenon. I don't know what this phenomenon represents. What can you think of?"

“I can’t relate to it at all.”

Yu Xi shook her head without hesitation:
"It feels like listening to a fairy tale... Are you sure your idea is true? Or is it just your personal imagination? Why does it sound so mysterious to me?"

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

In front.

The red light turned green.

Because Lin Xian and his companions' vehicle had not started yet, the car behind them beeped to urge them to start.

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

Hearing Yu Xi ask back like this...

not difficult to see.

Yu Xi, she really didn’t know what a thousand-year pile was or what it meant.

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

Could it be...

Did I really get it right by accident?
Yu Xi was familiar with the laws of time and space, but he knew nothing about the concept of the Millennium Pile.

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

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

Relatively speaking, the laws of time and space are actually not difficult to discover and summarize.

Because this thing is all based on fantasy and reasoning.

Even if there is no evidence or experimental support, it does not prevent us from deducing everything with just a pen and a piece of paper.

But look at the thousand-year-old pile.

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

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

To encounter a thousand-year-old pile in this sea of ​​people is harder than climbing to the sky.

And to witness the thousand-year-old pile breaking into blue stardust and disappearing at 00:42, completing the piling process... is an opportunity of a lifetime.

Unless you are a chosen one with a full luck value, who would have such good luck? After all, it only takes a few seconds to turn into stardust and disappear. If you blink a little, you may miss it.

Lin Xian had never thought about this issue in detail before.

Now that he had analyzed it, he felt that there must be very few people who knew about the existence of the Millennium Pile!
Just like myself.

If I had not happened to witness the moment when Chu Anqing disappeared, I would probably never have come into contact with the concept of Millennium Pile in my life.

The next millennium baby will be born in 2028.

Every year, more than 1.3 million babies are born in the world. Hundreds and thousands of babies are born every day, every hour, and every moment... Who can accurately distinguish which one is the thousand-year-old pile?
Then time goes back.

The next time the Millennium Pile will dissipate is at 2048:00 on a certain day in 42. This is an even rarer supernatural phenomenon.

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

Because no one would believe it if I told them.

From childhood to adulthood, Lin Xian has lost count of how many supernatural stories and urban legends he has heard from so many people.

From the female ghost in the teaching building, to the upstairs neighbor who heard the sound of glass beads bouncing in the middle of the night, even UFOs, prehistoric water monsters, and the old lady who was suddenly possessed by the soul of someone during a rural sacrifice...

He didn't believe any of it.

He believed in the thousand-year-old pile incident because he had experienced it himself.

If he told this to another person, I'm afraid no one would believe it. At most, they would just say:
"Ah, then when we are all old in 2048, you can show me the young Millennium Pile sister turning into blue stardust."

No one will care about it or even remember it.

In the next few hundred years, with the development of technology, nothing can be said.

But in 2024, and in the past 2000, 1976, 1952... there is no technological support to find someone on a global scale whose appearance and year of birth are known only.

Who can guarantee that every millennium pile will live in a peaceful and prosperous country?
If you were born in a poor and backward country, you might starve to death before you grow up.

If you were born in a war-torn country, you might be killed by a bomb before you are 20 years old.

What would happen if the thousand-year-old pile died before the age of 20?

Lin Xian doesn’t know now.

But he did feel more and more that the existence of the Millennium Pile... seemed to be a secret known only to very few people.

That's why.

Both Zhang Yuqian's life and Chu Anqing's life were ordinary and stable for 20 years, without anyone disturbing, monitoring or exploiting them.

Except for the oriole.

If Huang Que had not known that Chu Anqing was a thousand-year-old pile, the disappearance of the thousand-year-old pile this time might have quietly disappeared in some unknown corner or place, and the case would have been closed with Chu Anqing's mysterious 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 all very familiar with it.

Therefore, if any supernatural phenomena really happened to Chu Anqing, he and Zhao Yingjun would definitely know about it.

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

As for Zhang Yuqian, she was just an extremely ordinary little girl and no one would notice her.

and so.

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes.

Could it be...

[The Millennium Pile is my one and only true backup, right? ]

This idea may be taken for granted.

But it's not impossible.

Otherwise, why have Zhang Yuqian and Chu Anqing’s lives been so peaceful for 20 years?
However, if you want to find out whether the members of the Genius Club know about the Millennium Pile... I'm afraid you can only make a judgment after you actually join them.

"This is just my initial guess, it has not been confirmed."

Lin Xian said perfunctorily and pointed to the tall building in front of him:
"Look, that's the inpatient department of Tunghai University Hospital. I've been here many times. Zheng Xiangyue's ward is on the 17th floor."

He glanced at his watch.

It's not even nine o'clock in the morning yet, Jask and his entourage should not have arrived yet.

He parked the Volkswagen in a position where he could obliquely see the entrance to the inpatient department.

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

In this way, the other party will not be able to observe them through the car window, but they can rely on the rearview mirror to see what is happening behind them.

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

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

Half an hour passed...

Lin Xian and Yu Xi were tired of looking in the rearview mirror, but still didn't see Jask.

"Aren't you coming yet?"

Another ten minutes passed.

Lin Xian looked at his watch and the time showed 09:46.

"Is it so stuck?"

Lin Xian felt a little strange:
"You said you'd arrive at Zheng Xiangyue's ward at 10 o'clock... not in advance at all?"

……

Donghai, Lingang New Area, inside the Tesla Gigafactory.

Angelica paced around the living room.

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

She went to the living room window and looked out.

There were many black-clad bodyguards and black vehicles surrounding the building, probably the security personnel brought by Jask.

Normally, even if you need to bring security when you visit abroad, you don't need to bring so many or so exaggerated.

Angelica is self-aware.

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

She doesn't have that much ability.

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 to if he wants to?

So, the answer is self-evident.

Angelica looked at the small, square, white, and ordinary 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 a bonus.

suddenly.

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

It was Jask, dressed in a suit and tie, who had packed up. His entourage got into the car 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 it.

Jask had already repeated his itinerary on Twitter ten thousand times. Even the moon ticket that he was going to give to Zheng Xiangyue had appeared on Twitter several times, as if he was afraid that the whole world didn't know that he was going to Tunghai University Affiliated Hospital.

of course.

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

Angelica had no idea what Jask wanted to say or discuss with Lin Xian.

In Angelica's eyes, the world's richest man is still an enemy and an untrustworthy person.

So she never told Jask a single word about Lin Xian...but the strange thing was that Jask never asked once.

Considering that Lin Xian said that the blue-eyed girl who was chasing him was sent by Jask, perhaps Jask did not need to ask anything from him. The information he got from the killer girl was enough to understand Lin Xian.

But this is Dragon Country and the East China Sea after all... Jask and the killer girl wouldn't dare to take action today, right?
Angelica thinks that most likely it won't happen.

Outside the window, the smoke and dust raised by the Jask convoy gradually settled. The convoy had long disappeared and should have already driven onto the expressway leading to the hospital.

Jask must first meet with the big shots of the East China Sea government before going to the hospital to visit Zheng Xiangyue.

She sighed helplessly.

I can't do anything to help now, I can only wait and see.

Just about to look away.

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

This burly man should be the head of the security team.

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

I didn't expect to buy it now:
"Too slow, it's almost time for lunch."

Angelica came back from the window and sat at the dining table, waiting.

Not long after, a burly man in a suit walked into the room and handed two oversized stacked lunch boxes to the two female bodyguards:
"You guys can eat together. I bought a lot. I bought it for the three of you."

The two female bodyguards each took the lunch box.

Turn around.

Getting ready to open on the dining table.

result--

Whoosh!Whoosh!
After two quick shots, the two female bodyguards twitched and fell to the ground!

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

The burly man in front of me held in his left and right hands...

Each holding a black and yellow [Taser]!
This is a common grassroots police equipment.

Two wires and an electric needle can be shot out, and then a huge electric current can be released to paralyze the prisoner for a short period of time, or to stun him, 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 from his pocket and dialed a phone number...

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

Then, the burly man walked to the dining table and opened the two huge stacked lunch boxes.

There's nothing to eat in there!

It's full of all kinds of cosmetics, bottles, jars, gels, decorations, disguise tools...

Angelica couldn't help but hold her breath.

Put the connected phone to your ear:

"Hey?"

"Hehehehe..."

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

It was a smile Angelica had never heard before, but it was so creepy that it gave her goosebumps.

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

"No, maybe I should call you something else."

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!"

(End of this chapter)