Genius Club-Chapter 253 - 71 Your Invitation

"Lin Xian? Where are you going?"

Chu Shanhe was surprised to see Lin Xian stand up and leave.

At such a critical moment...

What was Lin Xian going to do?

A few days earlier, Lin Xian had specifically asked him for a favor, which was to come forward and secretly gather some national forces from as far away as possible, outside of Donghai City, to coordinate with the planned ambush operation.

The main reason was that Lin Xian did not trust the police in Donghai.

At first, Chu Shanhe didn’t understand Lin Xian’s intentions... but after Lin Xian told him that the prime suspects were Ji Lin and Ji Xinshui, he immediately understood why Lin Xian wanted to do this.

Not to mention Ji Xinshui’s high status and reputation both domestically and internationally; even Ji Lin, for assisting the Donghai City Police in solving many difficult and complicated cases, was treated as an honored guest.

One could easily imagine that if the Donghai Police were used to coordinate the ambush, Ji Lin would certainly have ways to see through Lin Xian’s actions.

Therefore, the capture operation that took place 10 hours earlier, at dawn, was very successful.

Using his personal connections, he found a high-ranking official in the Imperial Capital who took this series of murders against scientists very seriously and was also very angry, so he let his subordinates take action, fully cooperating with the operation.

Everything went smoothly.

Unfortunately... there was still a problem when it came to grasping the motive and evidence of the killings.

The fact that Ji Lin withdrew at the last moment, and the skid marks left by the taxi driver’s evasive braking, made the final outcome of the capture operation ambiguous.

Chu Shanhe was not worried about losing face or anything of that sort.

He also hated the killers who had murdered Professor Xu Yun to the bone and wished he could kill them immediately.

If he just watched them getaway... he would feel that he had let down Xu Yun and the other great scientists who had died along with him!

"Don’t worry, Mister Chu, I’ll be right back."

Lin Xian stopped at the door, turned back, and looked at Chu Shanhe:

"I’ve thought of a way to make them talk. Please continue to keep Ji Lin and Ji Xinshui under surveillance... Don’t let them meet each other. Wait for my return before taking any further action."

...

After leaving the Donghai Public Security Bureau, Lin Xian took a taxi straight to MX Company.

Upon arriving at the reception desk and asking around.

Good.

Zhao Yingjun was out attending a meeting and there was no one in the office, which saved a lot of trouble.

He took the elevator and pressed the button for the 22nd floor.

Ding————

After the elevator doors opened, he arrived at the passcode-protected door of Zhao Yingjun’s office, entered the password, and successfully entered the office, whose passcode only the two of them knew.

"Phew..."

After closing the passcode door, Lin Xian exhaled a sigh of relief.

Zhao Yingjun’s office remained the same as always, unchanged.

Because he hadn’t come to clean and tidy up for her for a long time, a fine layer of dust had once again settled on the sofa and coffee table.

But that was unavoidable.

Zhao Yingjun didn’t trust anyone else, including cleaning staff; she wouldn’t allow anyone to enter her office privately.

Thus, the spacious office could only be cleaned when she had the time.

As for Huang Que...

Every day you treat this place like an ATM, coming and going as you please, helping yourself to whatever you want, couldn’t you at least clean up a bit? Really.

Lin Xian approached the file cabinet in the corner.

Zhao Yingjun was incredibly disorganized with her papers; unless Lin Xian helped her, she would pile all her documents on her desk like a tower of blocks, only considering finding somewhere else when there was no more room or when she couldn’t stack any higher...

And for this reason.

Before going to live with Ji Lin and visit the Donghai Public Security Bureau, Lin Xian had hidden the counterfeit Genius Club invitation in there.

Indeed, Lin Xian had not misjudged Zhao Yingjun.

He was also extremely relieved that, after much hesitation, he ultimately didn’t throw away or destroy the counterfeit invitation but kept it aside.

Squeak...

He opened the file cabinet, took out a file box from the bottom shelf, and opened it.

A dark red card lay quietly inside, just as it was.

Lin Xian turned over the folded invitation and on the back were five embossed golden characters, "Genius Club."

In one corner of the file box, there was also a wax seal, which bore the logo stamp of the Genius Club—

a right hand pointing straight up to the sky with the index finger extended.

Though falsified by Huang Que, this invitation was fake and ridiculously so.

The QR code inside the invitation was actually the live stream address for the Apple product launch... It was really hard to keep a straight face.

However.

The seal on the wax stamp was real.

This meant that as long as one didn’t open and read the contents inside... the invitation could pass as authentic.

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Furthermore.

Given the current situation...

Lin Xian smiled slightly, took out his lighter, softened the wax on the back of the wax seal a bit to make it sticky.

Then he pressed it firmly onto the fold of the invitation, resealing the invitation that had already been opened.

"Very good."

Lin Xian looked at the "like-new opened" invitation with satisfaction:

"The movie ’The Counterfeit’ once said... sometimes fake things are more useful than real ones."

"Moreover, since no one has ever seen a real invitation, the fake one is as good as the real thing."

...

Lin Xian put the invitation into a file sleeve, took a taxi to the Donghai Public Security Bureau, and joined Chu Shanhe and the others in the interrogation monitoring room.

From this monitoring room, one could see into every interrogation room.

Ji Lin and Ji Xinshui were separately confined in two interrogation rooms.