Genius Club Chapter 34 Zheng Xiangyue's Ticket (1/6)
Sure enough.
“No way to tell” again.
Lin Xian snorted.
Since there is no decisive denial… then it is likely that Yu Xi’s crossing here is still related to the Genius Club.
But what kind of relationship is unknown, this relationship can be positive or negative.
The current situation is confusing.
Lin Xian feels that the mystery around him is getting bigger and bigger… He must break it as soon as possible!
“Then I’ll go to sleep first.”
Lin Xian closed his eyes and told Yu Xi:
“If you are tired, wake me up.”
“Okay.”
Yu Xi’s answer was short and powerful.
“Has that time-space assassin caught up again?” Lin Xian opened his eyes again.
Yu Xi shook her head:
"She is still hanging around in Princeton. Don't worry, although there are many mysteries about her, she is just a human with flesh and blood after all."
"She can't fly, can't resist bullets, and I can sense her position. She is not as scary as you think. Go to sleep peacefully, I will wake you up if there is any situation."
Lin Xian nodded.
Only by getting a good rest can we face a better battle tomorrow.
He looked down at his watch.
It is 01:23 in the morning of US time, which is equivalent to 13:23 noon of Dragon Country time.
If you fall asleep at this time, you will definitely fall asleep.
But after you fall asleep, unless you wait until 00:42 in Dragon Country time or die in the dream, the outside world will never wake you up.
This happened once when I was a child. My parents couldn't wake me up no matter what, and they were so scared that they sent me to the hospital.
The doctor checked it and found nothing wrong, so he could only judge that I slept too deeply... Although it is rare to see such a deep sleep, facts speak louder than words.
But in this situation, sleeping to death is not allowed.
If he really encountered any danger, Yu Xi couldn't wake him up by shouting or even beating him, and he might die.
So...
He had to think of a way to die quickly, wake up once, and then continue to sleep.
The fourth dream was different from other dreams, and there were not so many opportunities to commit suicide.
His range of activities was very small, and once he missed the first opportunity, he would be electrocuted and fall into a state of disconnection between reality and dream... It was like real death.
His eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.
Gradually...
Lin Xian fell asleep.
...
...
Huh...
Familiar summer breeze, familiar noise.
Lin Xian opened his eyes quickly.
As always, dozens of soldiers surrounded him, and more than a dozen balloon airships printed with advertisements of Tam Bank hovered in the sky above his head.
All the soldiers nervously picked up their rifles, released the safety, and faced the young man who suddenly appeared like a magic trick.
The soldier dressed as the captain was about to step forward...
"Hehe."
Lin Xian chuckled and rushed towards the target he had chosen -
a soldier who was not very skilled in gun operation and was half a beat slower than others.
He rushed directly to the muzzle of the gun, aimed at his forehead, stretched out his right hand and suddenly pressed the trigger!
Bang!
A gunshot that shook his head, and Lin Xian's eyes went black.
...
...
...
Teng!
Lin Xian jumped up from the co-pilot seat of the vehicle.
His heart rate soared, and he was breathing heavily.
Yu Xi looked over in confusion:
"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
Lin Xian calmed his breathing and looked at Yu Xi.
It seems that.
This time traveler who traveled back from the future to protect himself did not know the secret of his dreams.
This is probably the ironclad evidence that she did not know Huang Que.
Huang Que knew everything about him, including but not limited to the fact that he could travel through time in dreams.
But looking at Yu Xi...
, he seemed to know nothing about his dreams.
That's fine.
Lin Xian himself had no intention of sharing this matter, his most precious secret.
"A little bit."
Lin Xian casually perfunctorily said.
Then he turned over and continued to sleep.
Once death "pops up" in a dream, there will be no dream before the next dream cycle.
Now I can sleep peacefully.
A dreamless night.
...
Woke up the next day, almost noon.
Yu Xi was still driving in the same posture, not a bit tired.
Lin Xian yawned and sat up.
He stood up the flat seat and looked out.
Sure enough, it was flat.
The highway in front of him was straight and led to the horizon without any turns--\u003e\u003e
It's no wonder that so many people say that you can lock the steering wheel and sleep when driving on the highway in the United States.
"Let me drive."
Lin Xian looked at Yu Xi:
"Take a nap and eat something. When you wake up, we will be in Texas."
Yu Xi stopped the car without hesitation.
Then he exchanged seats with Lin Xian, letting Lin Xian sit in the driver's seat while he went to the back seat to sleep and rest:
"The time-space assassin is probably still in Princeton and has not followed us. Because we are far away from her now, my perception has become blurred and I don't know her approximate location."
"But don't worry, even when I'm sleeping, I can feel the distance between the time-space assassin and us. Once she gets close, I will wake up immediately."
After saying that, Yu Xi squinted her eyes and began to sleep.
Lin Xian turned down the radio volume so as not to disturb Yu Xi's sleep.
He rested his left elbow on the window frame, supported his chin, and held the steering wheel with one hand in his right hand, which he didn't need to control at all... Through the rearview mirror in the car, he looked at Yu Xi, who was sleeping quietly in the back seat.
Only then did he remember that he had never cared about anything about Yu Xi.
How old is she? Teenagers specifically?
What kind of life do you live? What kind of life do you have?
Is she an only child? Are your parents still alive?
After this protection mission is completed...can I still go back?
Even in that future era, drug enhancement and gene editing can make everyone smart, beautiful, and powerful.
But that's just physical and appearance.
Real skills and knowledge can only be mastered through practice and study.
Yu Xi's age seems to be fifteen or sixteen years old at most, maybe even younger.
At this age, his vehicle driving skills are so superb, and he can also use a pistol. Not only can he suppress the strong recoil, but his marksmanship is also very accurate.
It's hard to imagine how many of her more than ten years have been devoted to agent training.
Clang.
Clang.
The old car, with inferior shock absorbers, drove over a railway track across the road, once again bumping up and down Lin Xian and Yu Xi sleeping in the back seat.
The girl in the rearview mirror rubbed her eyes in her sleep.
Changed posture.
Turned over.
Turn your back to Lin Xian and continue sleeping.
…
After the two arrived in Cameron County, Texas, they did not go to the address given by Angelica immediately. Instead, they found a hotel to rest for the night.
The next morning, they followed Angelica's arrangement and arrived at a suburban villa complex.
One of the villas was the residence of Jask's female secretary. Angelica said that she had taken care of everything and asked Lin Xian to go directly into the house to find her.
"I won't go in, I'll guard outside."
Yu Xi watched Lin Xian get out of the car and said:
"I can feel that the time and space assassin has started to move. She is approaching here, very fast... I guess she saw that we haven't moved for a long time, so she chased after us."
"Get me a gun. If there is a chance during a close fight, I can use it to kill her. As long as there are no other people around, I still dare to use the gun, so that the missed bullet will not trigger the mandatory avoidance law. ”
Lin Xian nodded and closed the car door:
"Then just stay outside the villa. I told Angelica that she will prepare two pistols for us. I will go see her first."
After saying that, Lin Xian walked to the villa and knocked on the door.
Boom, boom, boom.
soon.
Angelica, wearing baggy pajamas, opened the door.
She had no makeup, her eyes were a little tired, and her seaweed-like hair was tied back casually.
"Where's the female secretary?" Lin Xian asked.
"Asleep." Angelica replied calmly.
Lin Xian felt funny inexplicably:
"How can she sleep so well?"
Angelica raised her eyebrows:
"This time... I used some special means. I guarantee that she won't wake up until night."
"Come inside now, it's time for us to discuss our next plan."
Lin Xian walked into the house and Angelica closed the door.
She first took Lin Xian to the bedroom and asked him to see the female secretary sleeping soundly on the big bed.
Slept well indeed.
"Although I'm sure she won't wake up in a short time, I'm afraid of accidents. So Lin Xian, help me guard her here. If she wakes up early, control her and don't let her go to Jask." Reporting the news will ruin our good deeds."
As she spoke, Angelica patted a black suitcase placed on the dining table.
Lin Xian opened.
Inside were the things he needed, two black pistols, magazines, and bullets.
Immediately, Angelica pointed to a corner of the living room.
There were two familiar huge suitcases standing there, and naturally they contained Angelica's "disguise props".
"My driver delivered these things and left. Today is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Jask sent a work message to the female secretary and asked her to come to the Starship Rocket Launch Center and Observation Tower to find him at 10 o'clock this morning. trip."
"This is also the opportunity I have been waiting for. In the past two days, I have been getting along with the female secretary day and night. She also took leave and did not go to work. We have been together. I have understood her speaking habits, spoken language, standing posture and walking steps. State... plus me and --\u003e\u003e
Her figure is very similar, so there is no problem in pretending to imitate her. "
Angelica said as she opened the suitcase:
"It just so happens that this is the home of the female secretary. There are a large number of her clothes and jewelry to choose from. It can be fake and look real."
"But what about the sound?"
Lin Xian spread his hands:
"Even if you can imitate your appearance, body, temperament, and even your walking posture, can you also imitate things like your voice?"
Angelica smiled.
Clearing his throat, he pressed his throat again.
Then she changed into a woman's voice and said:
"Mr. Jask...why do you always come here without your mobile phone!"
Guaranteed replacement if fake.
It was the female secretary’s voice!
"You know a lot."
Lin Xian sighed sincerely:
"It seems that the Oscar for Best Actress was awarded to you too late. No wonder you did such a good job as the female agent in the movie... She was totally in her true colors."
"I'm curious, where did you learn these skills and who taught them? Serious Hollywood wouldn't train these things, right?"
Angelica put her right index finger on her lips and made a shushing gesture:
"Secret~"
She changed her voice to someone who didn't know who it was, and it was still easy to control:
"I have no problem imitating a normal speaking voice like this. But if you speak loudly, the secret will definitely be revealed. So let me tell you a little trick... If you want to know a person's real voice, let her raise her voice. Just shout a few times or say a few words loudly."
really.
Lin Xian thought of the bubble sounds and clip sounds that were once all the rage.
These two sounds that make one's scalp numb and crawling with ants all over the body... can only be achieved when speaking in a low voice, or in other words, can be pinched out.
Now that the disguise, clothing, detailed jewelry, and voice are all done, it seems that Angelica's success rate is still very high this time.
Lin Xian believed in her acting skills. Even if she couldn't answer Jask's questions, she should still be able to fool him.
Angelica took off her pajamas:
"Okay, I'm going to start putting on makeup to disguise myself. You go to the bedroom and look at the female secretary and avoid it."
…
Two hours later.
When the bedroom door was pushed open again.
Lin Xian saw a twin who was exactly the same as the woman sleeping on the bed walking in!
"looks like?"
Angelica asked in a voice that was not her own.
"picture."
Lin Xian sincerely agreed:
"It really looks like it."
He turned around several times to compare the two faces.
It's just like copy and paste...
Angelica's disguise skills are really amazing.
The female secretary in front of me pushed open the door and looked very real. She had a tall figure, a black professional skirt, slightly reflective stockings, and high-heeled shoes. The charm of a professional woman was before her eyes.
Look at the face part again.
Angelica's hair has been dyed the same color as the female secretary's hair, straightened, and tied up behind her head, using the hairpins commonly used by female secretaries.
Lin Xian looked at a magazine cover on the desk in his bedroom.
The photo on the cover is a photo of Jask and the female secretary. The headline of this issue is an interview with Jask and the private secretary.
Lin Xian picked up the magazine.
Then stand it in front of your eyes.
Compare the exquisite and capable female secretary on the cover with the brand-new Angelica in front of you...
Perfect.
Every detail is the same:
"Except for a pair of red-rimmed glasses."
Lin Xian just finished speaking.
The perfectly disguised Angelica took out a pair of red-rimmed glasses from behind and gently put them on the bridge of her nose.
Wink:
"Isn't it exactly the same now?"
"really."
Lin Xian nodded affirmatively:
"Looking at this female secretary's face shape and eye habits, she should wear glasses every day."
"That's right."
Angelica replied:
"I've seen photos of her at work, and she was always wearing this pair of red-rimmed glasses. But in the two days she was with me, she never wore them once. She always wore contact lenses."
"Maybe...she thinks wearing glasses affects her appearance, right? Or maybe she thinks wearing glasses is more inconvenient~ In fact, I still like the way she looks wearing glasses...that would make her look more elegant and make people more aggressive. ”
Angelica looked at the small gold watch on her wrist, which also came from the female secretary’s jewelry box:
"It's almost time. It's time for me to set off. Jask is a very punctual person. It's not good to be early or late. Whatever time he says is what time it is."
"Ah, I have one more thing to tell you." Lin Xian said suddenly.
He asked Angelica to pay special attention to the girl with blue eyes. Although the time and space assassin is still far away from here, it is always right to pay more attention:
"If that girl with blue eyes appears, you must stop the action immediately. She can see through the disguise."
"Got it." Angelica walked over to the bedside table.
Picked up the female secretary’s cell phone.
He shook his head at Lin Xian: --\u003e\u003e
"I took away her mobile phone. You can see work messages in it. I saw it when she entered her password in the past two days. I know her well now."
"Besides, I also have my mobile phone with me. If anything happens, please send me a message instead of calling me. I will find a chance to reply to you after I see it."
"Then Lin Xian, I'll leave this to you. Watch her carefully. The dose of medicine is sufficient. Generally speaking, you won't wake up, but if you really wake up... Anyway, I have already given you the pistol. All you need is Just control her for the time being, and when I come back... I will tell her that this is part of the game, and she will believe it."
"Is she so stupid?" Lin Xian couldn't believe it.
Angelica chuckled lightly, followed the steps of the female secretary and went out, looking back for the last time:
"When a woman is in love, everything she looks at is romantic~"
boom.
The door is closed.
Lin Xian looked through the window at the Tesla car outside the door being driven away by Angelica.
This time, everything is fake from the inside out.
Coupled with Angelica's Oscar-level acting skills, voice imitation, and in-depth communication with the female secretary in the past two days, she has a very good understanding of the communication method between the female secretary and Jask——
Never asks, only orders and answers.
This is why Angelica decided to take the risk...
Jask has always been very confident. He makes his own decisions on everything and never asks his secretary for his opinion.
This greatly reduces the difficulty of Angelica's imitation.
actually.
Now for Lin Xian, it doesn't matter whether Angelica contacts Jask or not.
He had gotten the information he wanted, Jask's position and his attitude towards himself.
But Angelica's goal has not yet been achieved.
She wanted to know more about the Genius Club, the true identity of Copernicus, and the murderer of Ji Lin's parents.
That's why she took the risk and tried her luck;
Go and see what Jask is hiding on that observation tower;
And...Does Jask usually tell his secretary something about the Genius Club?
If she doesn't say anything, Angelica won't take the initiative to ask questions. The worst thing this time will be is to achieve nothing.
But if Jask really trusts the female secretary, doesn't treat her as an outsider, and often tells her some information about the Genius Club... then Angelica will gain a lot from going deep into the tiger's den this time.
Buzz…
When the battery-powered Tesla drives out, there is no noise other than a low warning beep, and the ride is extremely smooth.
Tesla drove out of the villa yard and drove to the small town of Boca Chica, the Space-T starship launch center.
…
[Observation Tower] Go up.
Jask looked up.
The sun was blazing.
Now that we have entered late April, the weather is getting warmer and the whole world is becoming full of life.
He looked at the deployed rocket launcher in the distance.
On the level road below, a huge carrier vehicle was slowly erecting a brand new starship rocket.
The next step of test firing experiment is about to be carried out.
Its starship rocket has exploded many times. The first time it exploded, the whole world regarded him as a joke and laughed at him.
but now.
More and more people are afraid of his rockets exploding.
Because everyone knows...
The more his rockets explode, the closer he gets to success.
You can gain more experience from failure than from success.
He was never afraid of failure.
That's why he can achieve the success he has now.
Today, his Starship rocket is undoubtedly the most powerful launch vehicle in the world's history.
The reusable model can carry 150 tons of cargo at a time.
And those single-use models can carry 250 tons of weight at a time.
Looking around the world, this is a quite exaggerated value.
But it was not enough for his grand ambitions.
Mars is just the first step in his gaze.
He also wants to look to the farther universe, the farther future...and the farther, farther existence.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.
The sound of high heels stepping on steel plates.
Jask knew it was his anxious and easily flustered secretary coming.
He looked down at his watch.
Very punctual.
10 o'clock sharp.
"Jia...Mr. Jask..."
The female secretary wearing red-rimmed glasses was panting, holding a folder and bending over:
"Can't we meet somewhere else? Why do I have to climb so high in high heels every time?"
He smiled.
As always, every time this female secretary ran up the observation tower and came to the observation deck, she would complain like this:
"I'm going to Dragon Kingdom at the end of this month to attend a meeting in the Imperial Capital."
The female secretary straightened up and blinked:
"Is there anything you need to explain in particular? I'll note it down."
Jask leaned on the iron fence of the observation deck and shook his head:
"It's nothing. The schedule is still the same as before. I will attend the meeting on April 28 and have to meet with the official people of Dragon Kingdom --\u003e\u003e
Members meet. "
"I like Longguo very much. When they invited me, I immediately accepted. I also told the staff of Longguo that it was an honor for me to participate in the Longguo Trade Promotion. What I said was not polite words, but the truth... …Longguo has always been of great help to me. It can even be said that without the help of Donghai officials and Longguo, there would be no Tesla today.”
"The itinerary for the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade has been decided, and we should proceed as before. What I want to tell you today is... we will go to Dragon Country one day earlier, and I want to give a girl a ferry ticket. ”
"Flight ticket?"
The female secretary smiled inexplicably.
But still open the folder and start recording:
"Tell me, what kind of ticket? I will record your leisurely elegance. Do you need to inform the media or reporters in advance?"
"No no no."
Jask waved his hand:
"It's not what you think. It's not hype. It's what I should do and what I have to do with my own hands."
He turned around and looked at the female secretary:
"I thought you could understand what I was thinking, but it seems that we don't have a tacit understanding this time. Since we talked about giving a boat ticket to the little girl from the Dragon Kingdom... then it must be [Zheng Xiangyue]! "
"Didn't I call her in person before? She probably didn't watch the live broadcast and didn't know that she got a ticket to the moon, which made me explain to her for a long time."
"The little girl was quite happy in the end, but I always felt...she seemed to think it was a joke, or she didn't particularly believe it. Later, I asked friends from Longguo to investigate, and this little girl named Zheng Xiangyue …Really, I like her name very much, it’s so beautiful.”
"Zheng Xiangyue has suffered from congenital heart disease since she was a child. Her health has always been poor. She has spent most of these years in the hospital. From time to time, she would have sudden heart attacks. She almost didn't survive several times."
"Actually, to be honest, I really want technology to develop faster... Faster, maybe we can cash in those ten tickets for traveling to the moon within a few years. But that's not what I said. Forget it, if it were really me who had the final say, I would want the fleet to fly to Mars to set off tomorrow.”
"So please help me record and arrange the itinerary. There is no need to make any announcement or notify any media about going to the hospital to deliver the boat ticket to Zheng Xiangyue. We can just go quietly. Zheng Xiangyue is not in good health. That’s not good, we can’t disturb him too much. The reason why I want to give her this ticket in person is mainly for two reasons..."
"First, I want her to believe that even though she bought the ticket with a bearer check, it is real and valid and will always be real and valid! If one day she cannot hold on anymore and sleeps in a hibernation cabin. Then we Guarantee her that her ticket to the moon will never expire. When she wakes up, we will send her a replacement flight to the moon as she wishes."
"I will give her a guarantee that even if she is the only one on the flight to the moon, I will take off for her as promised; even if by the time she wakes up from the hibernation cabin and is cured, I will no longer be there. , our Space-T company will always honor her ticket.”
"Wow even."
The female secretary sighed, nodded slightly, picked up the pen and wrote it down on the folder, and then said:
"What about the second consideration?"
"The second point... is a little more pessimistic."
Jask turned his head and looked at the female secretary:
"I'm afraid that Zheng Xiangyue's heart will one day fail and die before she can move into the hibernation cabin... There's really no way she can do it. Not only did she not wait until we build a spacecraft that can land on the moon, she also can't Wait until the hibernating cabin enters mass production and is put into use.”
"This is the most pitiful situation and the last thing I want to see...but what if, thinking about the worst, this really happens?"
"Although I have no choice, I think that if this kind of thing really happens, I will regret extremely that I did not hand-deliver this ticket to the moon to Zheng Xiangyue. So just in case, just in case , during this trip to Long Country, I am going to meet Zheng Xiangyue in person."
"After all, I want to encourage her, give her motivation, and let her believe that as long as she persists in fighting the disease, she can go to the moon one day and realize her wish. Just like her name, Zheng Xiangyue... This is so simple and beautiful , and it’s such an evocative name...don’t you think so?”
The female secretary scribbled down the itinerary on the folder, then raised her head:
"Write this down and I will arrange it. Is there anything else?"
"You can't...you send me a message so far in advance and ask me to run to such a high tower just for this trivial matter, right?"
Hehehe...
Jask opened his mouth and smiled, shaking his head with a smile on his face:
"Of course it's not just this little thing, there are more important things. But before that..."
Jask stretched out his finger and pointed at the female secretary’s left calf:
"Your stockings are torn."
"ah?"
The female secretary was startled and hurriedly looked down at her left calf:
"Oops! When did it break? It was really..."
She placed the folder on the floor, squatted down, and began to straighten the scratched stockings with her hands painted with red nail polish.
Click!
The cold muzzle of the gun pressed against the back of the female secretary’s head!
The female secretary felt a chill...
She turned back tremblingly and opened her eyes wide.
The pitch-black muzzle was right between the eyebrows!
Jask held the silver pistol in his right hand and looked at the female secretary squatting on the ground:
"Tell me, who sent you?"
"Jia...Mr. Jask..."
--\u003e\u003e
The female secretary has shortness of breath:
"You, this is what you are doing?"
"I admit, you are really pretending to be very similar...I didn't notice anything wrong at all. Your voice, pace, expression, and tone are all exactly the same as my secretary's."
Jask smiled and said:
"[It's just...you forgot to put on your glasses.]"
He tapped the red-rimmed glasses on the female secretary's nose with the heavy and cold muzzle:
"My female secretary can't say more than three sentences before her red-rimmed glasses will slide down; on average, she will push them up once every 10 seconds."
"There were several times when I couldn't stand it and yelled at her to change her glasses to a pair of the right size and stop letting them slip off all day long."
"But now... I am extremely grateful to that stubborn and disobedient female secretary. Even if she would rather resign, she is not willing to replace these annoying red-rimmed glasses. I swear, I will never blame her again in the future. Maybe It was these annoying red-rimmed glasses that saved my life.”
The muzzle moves forward.
Pressing the female secretary's forehead tightly, it felt cold to the touch:
"I don't like wasting time. I only give you 5 seconds to tell me who sent you."
Jask put away his smile, as cold as the muzzle of a gun, and looked at
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1...goodbye."
Just when his index finger was about to exert force——
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells!
The mobile phone in the female secretary's pocket rang at an inappropriate time, interrupting Jask's execution.
Angelica, who was caught pretending to be a female secretary, dared not move...
She didn't even dare to lower her head and look at the ringing cell phone in her pocket.
Jask pursed his lips:
"take it out."
he snapped.
Angelica obediently took out two mobile phones from her pocket.
One is the mobile phone of a real female secretary.
The other one, ringing, was her own cell phone.
She took the opportunity to glance at the caller ID number on her phone screen.
It's a completely unfamiliar number.
Not Lin Xian, not anyone she knew.
Jask took the phone, pressed the answer button directly, and put it to his ear.
"Jask..."
But I didn’t expect it!
The voice of an old man opposite opened his mouth and said his name!
Jask narrowed his eyes and took half a step inside the observation tower:
"Who are you?"
The old man on the phone cleared his throat:
"Let her go... Jask, give me some face."
"Hahahahaha!"
Jask was amused:
"It seems that no one can have such a big face. Say your name and let me see if you have enough face."
On the phone, the old man laughed twice and his voice was hoarse:
"I am... [Copernicus]."