Genius Club-Chapter 232 - 57 Taxi Driver

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Bang!!

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

Following the huge collision sound, the flimsy sliding door rebounded halfway open...

Zhou Duanyun strode away in the courtyard, his footsteps gradually growing distant.

The humid evening breeze from Siguo Island blew in, making Ji Lin feel his clothes were somewhat thin.

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

Only then was the noisy wind blocked out, and the airflow in the house became gentle and quiet, leaving him alone, leaning against the wooden wall, eyes closed in contemplation.

Before he had contacted Gluttony just now.

He had been nearly 99% certain that Lin Xian was the one disturbing history.

Although there was no direct evidence, no irrefutable proof... a one-sided conclusion didn’t require the strictness of a courtroom, it didn’t need such rigorous evidence.

Lin Xian had too many suspicious points; if it wasn’t him disturbing history, many things would be inexplicable.

However, this certain probability had always been 99%.

Because deep inside, Ji Lin still harbored a sliver of hope...

Hope that he had guessed wrong.

Hope that the truth lay in that minuscule 1%.

But he knew that such small-probability miracles would not happen.

Since he was a child, he had never got a single math problem wrong. From the day Arrogance told him that his parents were mathematicians, he buried himself in a sea of math problems every day, solving problems over and over...

His favorite math game was Sudoku.

Playing Sudoku made him feel surrounded by numbers, like the embrace of parents he had never remembered, never felt.

He always believed he had a talent for mathematical reasoning.

Countless facts had proven this.

At least in the game of Sudoku, no matter how complex the array, he had never made a mistake, and in terms of speed, he was often faster than the world record.

The only Sudoku he could not solve...

Was from the "Mathematical Monthly" November 2022 issue, a puzzle on the supplement.

He still remembered that particular Sudoku.

It was unsolvable because of a printing error, not because he had done something wrong.

But obviously...

The problem of Lin Xian was not a misprint; he hadn’t made a mistake.

Lin Xian’s appearance at the crime scene alone in his Ferrari tonight... was enough evidence that he had foreknowledge of Lyon’s death.

Earlier tonight, he had called to "console" his former colleagues from the Xu Yun Special Case Team, asking them about their deployment and where Lin Xian was assigned.

Up until close to midnight, Lin Xian was still on standby in the office.

At that moment, he had thought he might actually have got a problem wrong for once.

Perhaps he had really wronged Lin Xian.

It was just a pity...

In the end, it still proved that he had guessed the right answer from the beginning.

Just like every math problem he had done before.

Boring.

Without any challenge.

He unlocked his phone, tapping into the online shopping app.

In the shopping cart, there were many birthday party-related decorations, toys, streamers, table games, and the like...

He had never held a birthday party nor did he know how to.

He could only mimic others, choosing decorations on the online shopping platform based on the setup he had seen at Chu Anqing’s birthday party.

It was a task that could be assigned to a decoration company... professional tasks were best left to professionals, as they were both efficient and effective.

But in the end, Ji Lin decided he wanted to do all this by himself.

After all, it was his very first birthday party.

22 years old, and holding his first birthday party was indeed quite late.

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

"Sigh..."

Ji Lin let out a soft sigh.

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Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding—

The phone’s ringing picked up again.

The caller ID showed [Arrogance].

Ji Lin pressed the answer button, and Ji Xinshui’s slightly husky voice came through:

"Jealousy just called me to say that there’s now solid evidence that Lin Xian has disrupted history."

"He sure talks fast,"

Ji Lin said with a smile:

"He can’t wait for Lin Xian to die tomorrow. Just because of some trivial matter in high school, he’s still holding a grudge... That’s why I told you long ago, I don’t like Jealousy; he’s a person twisted to the extreme, not even qualifying as a person."

"Neither of you should talk about the other,"

On the phone, Ji Xinshui sounded somewhat impatient; he was already tired of mediating conflicts between Ji Lin and Zhou Duanyun like a kindergarten teacher:

"Not everyone in this world can be friends, even though I told you to try to be friends with Jealousy, but that was also for work’s sake. Now that the work matter has been resolved, your relationship with him doesn’t matter."

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

Ji Lin pursed his lips, silent.

"Ji Lin?"

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

"You haven’t planned it yet, have you? That’s not like you... In the past, when I asked you when you were planning on killing someone, you’d already have a detailed plan set up. Don’t tell me you haven’t even thought of the time yet."

"[May 3rd in the evening.]" Ji Lin said softly:

"That is, May 4th at 00:42 in the morning."

Ji Xinshui thought for a moment:

"More than 20 days from now... That’s good; Lin Xian’s situation is indeed different and requires careful planning. Later, send me the location you’ve planned as well. For this momentous occasion, I want to witness his death with my own eyes."

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