Chapter 700
Chapter 700: Chapter 44 Jask VS Copernicus (Extra Monthly Ticket Chapter!)_3 Chapter 700: Chapter 44 Jask VS Copernicus (Extra Monthly Ticket Chapter!)_3 “Copernicus, will he really be inside?”
Angelica shook her head.
She knew it was impossible, the opponent would absolutely not foolishly come here to meet her.
Their target was only the white mini-fridge after all.
But still…
She couldn’t understand it at the same time.
If she herself was indeed expendable, why did Copernicus still bother to rescue her from Jask, indirectly granting her freedom?
The logic of these people, she really couldn’t comprehend.
Just like her endlessly missed brother, Ji Lin, her most beloved little boy.
Being friends with these people, dealing with them, you still don’t feel anything odd.
But…
Once you become opponents in such cutthroat struggles, once caught up in a vortex of deceit, she found she was no different from a lost ant, completely unable to understand the enemies’ thoughts, completely unable to grasp their objectives.
Just like that, confused, helpless, and at a loss, feeling from beginning to end that she had fallen into becoming someone else’s tool, used by others.
Is this what they call the Genius Club…
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those so-called geniuses?
The creak—
Angelica pushed open the long-neglected wooden door.
The church’s furniture and walls were in disrepair, brilliant sunlight poured through the broken roof, casting light on the patchy murals, and illuminating the infant cradled in Holy Mary’s arms…
which appeared particularly sacred.
The painting to the right depicted the famous Crucifixion of Jesus, the one where his palms are pierced and nailed to the cross.
Because the morning sunlight was slanted.
Thus, only on the left side murals were the Holy Mother and Holy Infant bathed in sunlight, while on the right, Jesus, nailed to the cross and being judged, hung his head in silence beneath the darkness.
Angelica continued to walk farther inside.
The hardened wooden floor symbolized past nobility, liveliness, and adoration from worshippers.
But all turns to dust, to earth, time smoothes everything and also damages everything.
Her steps, by chance, passed directly between the church’s pews, left foot in sunlight, right foot in darkness; to her left was the Holy Mother, to her right was Jesus.
Everything was so quiet, yet so ancient.
In this moment, Angelica was like walking through history, stepping over the passage of time.
Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling—
The cellphone in her pocket rang.
Angelica took it out.
This wasn’t her phone, the one monitored by Copernicus, which Jask had long since thrown from the Scenic Iron Tower.
This phone belonged to the burly man she had met earlier, very new, clearly just purchased, with hardly any signs of use…
after hanging up on Copernicus earlier, the burly man didn’t take the phone back but instead directly let her put it in her pocket.
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It seems, all this was within Copernicus’s script, waiting for her to confirm her entry into this church, then he would dial the number.
Angelica pressed the answer button, placing the phone at her ear.
“Well done, Angelica.”
“It seems this plan to steal the mini-fridge doesn’t need me?”
Angelica spoke into the phone:
“I’m completely dispensable in this plan, even without me, that man could easily take Jask’s mini-fridge.”
“So, bringing me here, what’s your purpose?
Why did you originally rescue me from Jask’s iron tower?”
Hehehehehe…
On the phone, the old man’s laugh was as ever, calm and devoid of fluctuation:
“Silly child…
I’ve always treated you, Ji Xinshui, and Ji Lin as my children…
You’ve done so much for me, how could I turn a blind eye to your plight?”
“Then why don’t you save them?”
Angelica countered:
“Why not save Ji Lin, or save the elderly man who you mercilessly deceived?”
The old man on the phone sighed softly:
“Because they’ve made mistakes, that’s their destined fate…
They obtained much more than they lost, fame, money, benefits, and even…
lives.”
“You think I haven’t saved them?
If it weren’t for me, Ji Xinshui would have committed suicide by jumping off a building decades ago; Ji Lin would have frozen or starved to death in his unattended crib; and you too…
Angelica, if I hadn’t saved Ji Xinshui, who could have retrieved you from the rubble after a bomb and sent you to Hollywood?”
“What ungrateful children…
Compared with the destined course of history, I have never owed any of them anything, not a single one…
including you, Angelica Rescue from Jask was merely an act of an old man’s kindness, along with a reluctance stemming from past affections.”
“But what ultimately made me unable to let you die at Jask’s hands, was still the obsession of avenging within you…
This must be our last call, after this, we two will no longer have any interaction.
So now, I will tell you the answer…
”
“Ji Lin’s parents were killed because they researched something they shouldn’t have, and even came up with some results.
There is a consensus in the scientific community—”
“[Mathematicians are the most intelligent and terrifying beings in the entire world; they don’t need any instruments, no equipment, not dependent on the era, nor the future…
Wherever they are, they can just use a pencil and a sheet of paper, from 1+1 to the ultimate truth of the universe.]”
“That’s too terrifying, an unpredictability and an incalculable terror.
The progress in other scientific fields is step-like; only mathematics progresses by leaps and is deadly.”]