You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

"Feed?"

Lin Chen answered the phone, his voice still carrying a hint of languor from just escaping a high-intensity work session.

"Advisor Lin... Advisor Lin! My dear brother! You finally answered the phone!"

On the other end of the phone, Li Mingyu's voice came through, almost on the verge of tears, filled with extreme anxiety and panic.

"Something terrible has happened! Something catastrophic!"

Lin Chen frowned. Although this guy was usually unreliable, the fact that he was so frightened meant that something serious must have happened.

Get to the point.

Lin Chen's voice instantly became calm.

"Yes! Yes!"

Li Mingyu took several deep breaths before he could finally speak coherently.

"Advisor Lin, during your seclusion... no, during these few days of your rest, something happened at Beijing University!"

Beijing University?

Lin Chen's eyes sharpened instantly.

That's China's top university, the face of the nation. What could possibly happen there?

"Within the past week,"

Li Mingyu's voice was trembling.

"Three students from Beijing University have mysteriously disappeared! They haven't been seen alive, nor have their bodies been found! Most strangely, none of the school's surveillance cameras, inside or outside the campus, captured any footage of them leaving the school! It's as if... as if they vanished into thin air!"

"Moreover! These three students are not ordinary people!"

Li Mingyu's tone became more forceful.

"The first one to go missing was Wang Tao, a doctoral student in physics specializing in quantum entanglement theory. He was widely recognized as a rising star in this field in China!"

"The second one is Liu Jing, a female graduate student in the Department of Materials Science. Her supervisor is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and she herself has achieved groundbreaking research results in superconducting materials!"

"The third one, who went missing last night, is Zhang Ming. He's also in the physics department, specializing in high-energy particle physics! Any one of these three could be a pillar of the nation's future!"

Li Mingyu became more and more agitated as he spoke, but also more and more fearful.

"Our headquarters has set up a top-level task force, turned Beijing University upside down, but we haven't found a single thing! The families are about to throw a tantrum, and the higher-ups have given a death order: the case must be solved within three days! Advisor Lin, now... now only you can save the day!"

After hanging up the phone, Lin Chen's face had completely darkened.

Jiang Tingxue, who was standing next to her, also heard the gist of it, and her cool and pretty face was filled with solemnity.

"Three top physics and materials science talents have disappeared within a week? This is definitely not a coincidence, nor is it an ordinary kidnapping case!"

"That's right."

A cold glint flashed in Lin Chen's eyes.

Kidnapping case?

Kidnappings are motivated by money.

However, none of these three cases involved a single extortion call, and the missing persons were all highly specialized "bookworms" who were of no value to ordinary people.

There is definitely a huge conspiracy hidden behind this!

[God-level Insight]! Activated!

Lin Chen's brain was working at lightning speed. All the information that Li Mingyu had just mentioned was instantly deconstructed, reorganized, and linked together!

Physics... Quantum entanglement...

Materials Science... Superconducting Materials...

Physics... High-energy particles...

These seemingly unrelated cutting-edge fields were quickly connected by an invisible thread thanks to Lin Chen's terrifying knowledge and insight!

A bold, even absurd, idea suddenly popped into his mind.

"They are hiring."

Lin Chen spoke slowly, his voice not loud, yet it seemed to lower the temperature in the entire basement.

"What?"

Jiang Tingxue was stunned for a moment.

"This is not kidnapping; it's a premeditated and purposeful 'recruitment'."

Lin Chen's eyes became incredibly deep.

"The other party is undertaking an extremely large-scale and highly advanced high-tech project."

"And this project happens to require top talent in these fields."

"Because of the illegality of this project, they couldn't recruit through legitimate channels, so they resorted to this most direct and brutal method—directly 'taking' people!"

Jiang Tingxue gasped!

If Lin Chen's speculation is true, then the power and ambition of this behind-the-scenes organization are simply terrifying!

To dare to "steal" the future pillars of the nation directly from China's highest institution of learning right under the emperor's nose—how arrogant and unscrupulous that must be!

"Let's go and take a look at Peking University."

Lin Chen took off his metallic work clothes and changed into a clean set of casual clothes.

His eyes, which had looked slightly tired from three days and three nights of intense work, were now replaced by a sharp and excited look, like a hunter eyeing its prey.

The Dark Moon organization has just been destroyed. Could it be that new rats are daring to hop around on his territory?

well.

I want to see who has such audacity!

……

Half an hour later, at Beijing University.

Lin Chen and Su Qingge, who had changed into a smart police uniform, led Li Mingyu, who had a fawning expression, directly to the dormitory of the last missing student, Zhang Ming.

The entire dormitory floor has been completely sealed off by the police, and a tense and serious atmosphere permeates the air.

"Advisor Lin, Captain Su, this is it."

Li Mingyu pointed to a dormitory door that was sealed off and said with a bitter face:

"Our technical staff went inside and out, even vacuuming the cracks in the floor, and inspected the place three times in total, but they really found nothing."

"Zhang Ming was like someone suddenly disconnected from a game. One second he was chatting with his roommate and saying he was going to the water room to get some water, and the next second he was gone."

"From the dormitory to the water room, the entire route was covered by surveillance cameras, but there was no trace of him in the footage!"

As Su Qingge listened to Li Mingyu's report, her striking eyebrows furrowed tightly.

The entire process was monitored without any blind spots, yet the person vanished into thin air?

This sounds like a paranormal event.

"Open the door."

Lin Chen's voice remained completely calm.

He doesn't believe in any supernatural events in this world.

Behind every seemingly supernatural phenomenon lies a scientific logic.

And he is the only key to unlocking this logic!

As the seal was torn off, Lin Chen stepped into the dormitory, which had been searched by countless police officers and was known as "cleaner than a dog licked clean".

Unlike other police officers, he didn't wear gloves or use a magnifying glass to search everywhere.

He simply strolled around the dormitory in a very casual manner, as if taking a walk after a meal.

Then, he stopped and closed his eyes.

[God-level meteorological expertise]!

Open!