Chapter 698
Chapter 698: Chapter 44: Jask VS Copernicus (Monthly ticket plus update!) Chapter 698: Chapter 44: Jask VS Copernicus (Monthly ticket plus update!) Angelica listened to the completely unfamiliar voice of the old man on the phone…
she was surprised, why could he accurately state her codename from the Seven Sins.
Seven Sins was an organization founded by Ji Xinshui.
Angelica had never been privy to its core secrets, so naturally, she didn’t know the ultimate purpose behind Ji Xinshui establishing the Seven Sins.
It was always Ji Xinshui who would inform her when he needed information, and then she would use her identity, connections, and disguise skills to extract it.
She could, of course, sense that Ji Xinshui and Ji Lin were involved in something dangerous and illegal, but since the two of them, one old, one young, were both cunning, they wouldn’t tell, and she couldn’t ask—so she had to let it be.
It was only after connecting with Lin Xian that she truly understood the Genius Club, knew about Copernicus, and learned about the elusive bubble Ji Xinshui and Ji Lin had been chasing.
By now, all the members of Seven Sins, except for her, had been eliminated, leaving it in name only.
But unexpectedly…
Listening to the old man on the phone suggested…
He was the real leader of the Seven Sins?
The Black Hand?
The instigator?
Was it him…
Source: Webnovel.com, updated on ƝοѵǤᴑ.ƈο
who deceived Ji Xinshui and Ji Lin, leading them to blindly chase a non-existent light, until they became expendable pawns?
“Copernicus.”
Angelica gripped the phone tightly, her fingertips turning white, her voice trembling.
This was the closest she had ever been to her enemy, the very first real conversation.
𝑛𝗈𝘃𝘨𝗼.co
Thinking of Ji Xinshui, who had pulled her from a pile of charred bodies;
Thinking of Ji Lin, who she held in her arms as he cried without milk to drink;
Thinking of the little boy she had raised, studying under the moonlight without turning the light on;
Thinking of returning to Brooklyn to be welcomed only by two cold tombstones…
Anger surged in Angelica’s heart.
She wished she could tear apart the murderer who had once again turned her into an orphan and taken away her family!
“Copernicus…”
Angelica clenched her teeth:
“You killed my family, I won’t do anything for you!”
“Even if I am part of Seven Sins…
it’s Ji Xinshui’s Seven Sins, not yours!”
Hehehe…
*cough cough*…
The old man on the phone let out a few light coughs.
It seemed his health wasn’t very good.
He sounded somewhat weak.
After clearing his throat a few times, the old man, undeterred, continued:
“So…
do you still want to know the true nature of Ji Lin’s parents’ death?
Want to know…
who really killed your brother’s parents?”
“Your phone has been under my surveillance from the beginning, not just yours…
The phones of most members of Seven Sins have all been monitored by me.
This is something even Ji Xinshui doesn’t know…
even though it was actually his doing, through the information he sent you, that allowed me to gain control of your phones.”
“So I clearly know what you want to know and what you want to do.
Haven’t you always been trading with others?
Whether it’s Jask or Lin Xian…
Well, since that’s the case, let’s make a trade with me as well.”
“I just want the small fridge Jask brought with him to China, bring it to me, and I’ll tell you who really killed Ji Lin’s parents…
How about it?
This chip and sincerity should be enough, right?”
Having said a lot in one breath, the old man on the phone coughed dryly again:
“These things…
don’t count on Lin Xian ever being able to tell you one day.
It’s something he can’t access and a secret answer he’ll never find.
So…
you only have this one chance, Angelica, I’ll wait for you until 11 a.m.
only.”
“If I don’t see the small fridge, or you by 11 o’clock, then you might as well give up on knowing the answer for the rest of your life.”
Beep beep.
With that, the call was disconnected.
The burly man in front of her had already reloaded both Taser guns with “bullets,” pointing one at Angelica:
“Either put on your makeup and disguise yourself as one of the female bodyguards and walk out with the fridge, or lie there like them, and I’ll leave with the fridge myself.”
…
Angelica put down the phone.
Seeing the Taser in the man’s hand, she understood everything.
She had wondered why Copernicus had saved her just in time from Jask’s gun.
As it turned out.
The old man’s goal.
Was for this moment, for her to act as an insider and help him steal Jask’s small fridge.
Although Angelica didn’t know what was inside the small fridge.
The fact that Jask carried it with him on his trip to China showed just how important its contents must be to him.
She bent down and picked up the white small fridge from the corner of the living room.
It was much lighter than she had expected, easy for her to lift.
This meant either it was empty or whatever was hidden inside was very light; or, this wasn’t just any small fridge, without components like a compressor, which is why it was so light.
On closer inspection.
Indeed.
There were no electrical labels, no power cords, no switches.
This was not a fridge at all, it couldn’t function normally; it looked more like a safe.
Because…
Angelica had noticed that what looked like a small fridge was secured by an electronic keypad lock.
On the keypad, there were 12 buttons just like on a telephone dialpad, plus an enter key and a backspace button at the top.
Obviously, it would only open if the correct password was entered or it was forcibly broken into.