Genius Club

Chapter 677: Chapter 39: Kill Jask_2 Chapter 677: Chapter 39: Kill Jask_2 A notification sound for a successful tweet, Jask updated his Twitter.

Only then did he put down his phone, turned his head to look at the white rectangular mini fridge beside him on the seat, and caressed it lovingly:

“The contents inside this… they could be of great use.”

…

Mi Country, New Jersey, on the highway.

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Lin Xian slowly opened his eyes from the passenger seat and sighed deeply.

Yu Xi, gripping the steering wheel, turned to him perplexedly:

“Why are you awake?

You only fell asleep two hours ago.”

Lin Xian said nothing.

He watched the yellow sand rise on the highway ahead and the vortex of dry straw and leaves blown by the twisting wind.

In the dream he just had, nothing had changed.

The soldiers were still those fully armed soldiers;

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After all his efforts, he still hadn’t broken through the Fourth Dreamland; it was impossible not to feel a bit disheartened.

At this moment,

he truly missed Big Face Cat, Er Zhuzi, and the others…

Of course, the one he missed the most was CC.

Now that Chu Anqing had turned into Blue Stardust and dissipated, CC was the key for him to further understand the Millennium Stakes, uncover the secrets about Chu Anqing, and figure out how to save Chu Anqing.

More than anyone, he wanted to meet CC in the Dream World.

He wanted to ask CC about her birthday, the secrets she carried, and ideally… take her along to open the safe in the Tem Bank and see exactly what was written on that little piece of paper.

CC said,

the man who claimed to be VV and was most likely his middle-aged self, the Bearded Man, had told her that everything she wanted to know, the truth about her life, was in that safe.

From the perspective of a historical loop,

the password of the safe and its contents had never changed since the beginning…

Didn’t that mean what CC had been seeking from the start was just an ordinary piece of paper?

This made Lin Xian feel somewhat incredulous.

It was just a piece of paper.

At most, it might have two sentences written by Chu Anqing.

Could it really possess such magic, such motivation, such significant weight?

Before actually opening the safe, Lin Xian didn’t even dare tell CC that it merely contained a piece of paper.

Even if the paper carried words of divine revelation, could it match up to CC’s exhaustive journey, her travels from afar, her unwavering resolve, her brushes with death?

He really didn’t understand what the Bearded Man was thinking…

Could it be that he also considered this, felt that it was too trivial to mention, too hard to bring up, which ultimately led him not to tell CC the password?

No matter what the reason was, ironically, this riddle-like behavior only made CC more determined to open the safe.

“Perhaps… there’s another reason.”

Lin Xian murmured to himself.

He knew too little at the moment and wasn’t fully aware of the specifics involving CC, the Millennium Stakes, or the Bearded Man VV, so concluding anything so soon would still be too irresponsible.

Anyway.

He just hoped he could see CC soon; that way… his heart would feel a bit better.

“I’ll sleep a bit more, wake me up when we get to Princeton.”

Lin Xian advised Yu Xi, then closed his eyes to rest again.

…

By evening, the SUV successfully reached the vicinity of Angelica’s villa.

Yu Xi woke Lin Xian up.

The two didn’t drive too close but parked at a distance, and quietly approached with their pistols drawn.

After confirming there was no danger, Yu Xi punched through a window, climbed inside, and opened the front door of the house for Lin Xian.

Upon entering, he turned on the lights and looked around.

Everything was just as they had left it, with no alterations or signs of habitation.

“It seems like Angelica is indeed in trouble; Jask probably saw through her disguise as the female secretary that day.”

Lin Xian walked over to the dining table, looked at the used glassware, false eyebrows, and beard patches…

exactly the tools that Angelica had used to disguise herself for a dinner party that day.

This meant that Angelica hadn’t come back for several days.

He took out his phone, logged into various social networks, and checked Angelica’s accounts:

“These past few days, Angelica hasn’t shown up on social networks, hasn’t posted anything, nor has she forwarded or browsed any recommended content.”

Lin Xian turned off his phone, sat down on a chair, and frowned:

“Did Jask confine Angelica, or did he directly kill her?”

“I feel like it’s more likely that he directly killed her.”

Yu Xi opened the fridge, took out some food, and shared it with Lin Xian:

“After all, Jask is the richest man in the world.

Saying he has immense power in a place like Mi Country isn’t an exaggeration.

Moreover, Jask himself isn’t a good person; he has sent Time-Space Assassins to kill you and has never been lenient about it.”

“You’re just lucky that you’ve managed to escape the assassinations by the Time-Space Assassins time after time; otherwise…

you would have long been a dead soul under Jask’s sword.

Therefore, since Jask is so ruthless towards you, it wouldn’t be surprising if he killed Angelica.”

“Not to mention that Angelica was the one who offended him first.

If her disguise was indeed very convincing, then Jask might not have noticed at first, and might have unwittingly disclosed some important information to her.”

“But once Jask belatedly realized what had happened, by then Angelica already knew too much…

There’s no other way; knowing too much means she had to be silenced, and Jask would have had to kill her and erase all traces of her.”