Genius Club

Chapter 109: Chapter 106 Important Intelligence

Big Face Cat’s muscles wiggled as he sprung into action!

He burst forth with a ferocity like a wild beast!

With a few large strides, he hunched over like a hefty bridge pier, firmly propping himself against the black wall of the Waste Treatment Plant:

“San Pang!”

San Pang heard the call and leapt up, stepping onto Big Face Cat’s shoulders.

“Ah Zhuang!”

Ah Zhuang climbed up and stepped onto San Pang’s shoulders, bracing himself against the wall.

“Er Zhuzi!”

Slim as a bird, fast as lightning! Er Zhuzi, as if proficient in ninjutsu, swiftly climbed up to form the final link in this pillar of people!

Lin Xian was absolutely awestruck.

Even though he had seen this “combined technique” last night, there were too many new things around him then, and his eyes were too busy to calm down and truly appreciate this form of human artistry.

Today, after watching the entire process of combining, he truly felt the rush of “I’ll form the head!”

“Ning Ning, you jump first! Quickly!”

Big Face Cat, bearing the entire weight, tensed his whole body, his face turning beet red.

CC, wearing an Ultraman mask, glanced at Lin Xian.

Lin Xian nodded.

She sprang forth, lithe as a swallow, with a few graceful leaps, she landed on Er Zhuzi’s shoulders. Then, arching her body like a cat, she tensed, stretched, and leapt! With the coordination of her limbs, she successfully scaled the eight-meter-high wall of the Garbage Factory.

“Lin Xian, it’s your turn!”

Big Face Cat continued to give orders.

Lin Xian stepped back twice and started to accelerate into a run!

Parkour techniques were different from CC’s soft martial arts, relying on a surge of momentum to produce miracles.

Charge!

The ultimate burst of power!

Thud, thud, thud, like climbing a ladder of clouds, he used the momentum to hoist himself onto Er Zhuzi’s shoulders, and with a second jump, claws at the wall’s crevices, fingertips straining, he smoothly vaulted over!

Thump.

Safe landing.

Lin Xian looked around and saw the same old sofas and furniture as yesterday.

He gazed towards the steel high wall on the other side… The heavy, towering steel gate was tightly closed, not a single garbage truck in sight inside the Waste Treatment Plant, all was quiet.

It seemed that it wasn’t yet time for the garbage trucks to return with their loads.

From his crawling reconnaissance yesterday, Lin Xian had confirmed that the garbage trucks had no drivers. All their actions and routes were autonomously executed according to pre-set programs.

After they unloaded the garbage, they would immediately turn around and head back through the steel gates to New Donghai City to continue transporting waste.

It looked like…

The level of automation and intelligence in New Donghai City was very high, perhaps a lot of tasks had been replaced by robots, AI, and automated equipment.

Therefore, New Donghai City probably didn’t need too much low-skilled labor… after all, the service industry, transportation, and the vast majority of day-to-day work could be replaced with robots.

Of course, this was just Lin Xian’s speculation.

He didn’t know the exact situation in New Donghai City and could only wait until the day he managed to infiltrate it to open his eyes.

“Quick, hide! The drone is coming.”

CC pulled Lin Xian, running towards a cover behind a pile of garbage in the distance.

Buzz…

Buzz…

Just 10 seconds after they left, a surveillance drone whizzed past overhead, capturing everything within a 20-meter radius.

But by that time, Lin Xian and CC had already hidden beyond the 20-meter no-see zone and hadn’t been detected.

Lin Xian checked his watch.

00:05

“There’s plenty of time left.”

He turned his head to look at the control room in the middle of the Waste Treatment Plant, which was empty.

According to his experience from yesterday.

The monitor, wearing “Bluetooth headset,” would probably come around at about 00:20, then sit in the control room with a silly grin.

“We should get to the spot where the garbage truck unloads the safe in advance. It’ll save us a lot of time.”

Lin Xian pointed to an open space in the distance:

“It should be right there, at around 00:25, a convoy of garbage trucks will drive out from the steel gates, and the truck that unloads there will have the Hafnium Alloy Safe we are looking for.”

“How do you know all this?” CC asked, surprised:

“The unloading spots of these garbage trucks are computed in real-time and are not pre-determined. They scan the available space and calculate where to dump… it’s not set in advance.”

“That doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about it, just trust me. We’re all in this together; would I lie to you?”

Lin Xian didn’t feel like explaining to CC. The dream would end in a few dozen minutes, and he was really tired of bickering with CC and Big Face Cat every day…

“Anyway, trust me, I’m right. Let’s hurry over there.”

“All the robots in here are blind, and the supervising officers won’t amble over until about 00:20 after the shift change, so we’re absolutely safe until then; we can run straight there without having to hide.”

Lin Xian had already planned all these routes before entering the dream.

If they waited until the garbage trucks had finished unloading and then crawled forward, sneaking closer to the safe, there wouldn’t be enough time.

Just like in the previous dream, by the time he and CC were almost at the safe, 00:42 arrived, and a blinding light destroyed everything, not even allowing them to touch the safe.

So they had to run over and get in position early to have enough time to try the codes and open the safe.@@novelbin@@

Whoosh———Whoosh———

Suddenly, urgent bird whistles came from outside the wall.

Lin Xian looked at the whistle in his hand, which Big Face Cat had just handed him, saying that as soon as he heard the whistle, no matter the situation, they should immediately retreat.

“It’s probably that girl named Lee Ningning who woke up,” said CC.

“I guess so.”

Lin Xian wasn’t surprised at all, having been through this once before.

He placed the whistle in his mouth and blew it forcefully as well, signaling back to Big Face Cat to hurry and retreat.

“What exactly did you do to Lee Ningning?”

Lin Xian was curious, looking at CC.

He remembered that CC had a gun, and had even used it to hold him at gunpoint during the last dream. But if Lee Ningning had been shot… how could she still crawl over to send a message to Big Face Cat and the others?

“I didn’t do much, just used this.”

CC pulled out a small handgun from his pocket.

The gun was very small… half the size of a normal handgun.

And it looked shoddy, not at all like a real gun, but more like a toy gun.

“What is this?”

“An anesthetic gun for animals.”

?

Lin Xian raised his head to look at CC:

“That sounds more cruel than a real gun.”

“How could that be.”

CC flipped the animal anesthetic gun to show Lin Xian some details:

“This kind of thing is used by veterinarians to treat livestock; the dosage isn’t high, but it has a very strong anesthetic effect on humans… I used a very small dose on Lee Ningning, not enough to knock her out, just to make her weak.”

“It doesn’t have bullets and lacks range, it’s actually just an anesthetic syringe, not as dangerous as you think.”

“Alright then.”

Lin Xian calmly accepted this explanation.

It seemed that in this second dream, CC also couldn’t get a hold of a normal handgun, which greatly weakened his combat capability.

But that made sense.

If someone like Lee Cheng couldn’t get a gun, what were the chances for CC?

“Hurry, run over there; the new supervisor will be here soon, and then we won’t be able to make it.”

Lin Xian and CC got up and boldly ran toward the open space opposite them, aiming for the cover behind a pile of garbage.

Very quickly.

The two reached the cover at their target location and hid.

According to Lin Xian’s memory.

This open space in front of them was where the hafnium alloy safes would be unloaded shortly.

All things considered…

The unloading was set for 00:28, leaving just 14 minutes until the white light would destroy the dream at 00:42.

The time Lin Xian and CC had to open the safe was indeed very short.

Boom————

Behind them, the gate in the towering steel wall rumbled open.

One by one, the garbage trucks, loaded to the brim, drove out from the wall, each following their navigation to their respective destinations.

At last.

A grunting garbage truck came to the open space in front of them.

It turned, reversed, and adjusted its position.

The sound of bearings working, the huge dump bed slowly rose.

Clang clang clang clang!

Clang clang clang clang!

Dozens of shiny, square, brand-new hafnium alloy safes tumbled down, landing haphazardly on the open ground before them.

These safes had eight embedded password dials made of the same material, and above the dials, there was an inscribed silver plaque.

On it…

Were inscribed names both long and short.