Genius Club

Chapter 151: Chapter 136 Huang Que

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The flash of lightning was fleeting.

Lin Xian suddenly stood up, taking two steps back, his heartbeat uncontrollably accelerating!

How could there be someone hiding in this office!

At the moment he had seen the high heels and earring… Lin Xian truly thought Zhao Yingjun was the one waiting here to spring a trap! He had even figured out the plot for the trap laid by the Genius Club!

This was a decoy!

But… once he had a clear look at the woman’s face, Lin Xian instantly realized she was not Zhao Yingjun.

Not only was her figure curvier than Zhao Yingjun’s, but she was also significantly older.

Although Lin Xian couldn’t accurately gauge her age, she was at least in her thirties, completely different from the maturity and charm of a 24-year-old like Zhao Yingjun.

Lin Xian hadn’t seen the details of her facial features too clearly, only felt she was very beautiful, but what made the deepest impression on him was her eyes—

Crystal blue pupils.

It was an indescribable color of pupils.

They didn’t look human.

Too profound, like melting colored glaze, seemingly flowing.

Once confirming she wasn’t Zhao Yingjun, Lin Xian felt an odd sense of relief.

After all, encountering a stranger in this place was somewhat less unsettling than encountering someone he knew, at least… it wasn’t as terrifying.

But the problem was…

Zhao Yingjun had set up such a difficult-to-guess password, and emphasized multiple times that only the two of them knew it.

So how did this strange woman gain entry to this office?

The woman’s appearance was so unexpected, Lin Xian was completely unclear about her purpose, whether she was a friend or foe.

Therefore, he didn’t speak.

He just kept his gaze fixed on the woman sitting on the sofa.

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Outside the window.

The clattering sound hitting the window weakened.

As the raindrops gradually thinned out, the curtain of rain clinging to the glass also slowly slid down…

The mist parted.

The half-hidden moon that had been obscured for a long time finally peeked out, slanting its bright moonlight into the office… shining on the woman’s rhythmically swaying high heels.

“Are you looking for this?”

Seeing Lin Xian didn’t speak, the woman picked up a dark red invitation card from the sofa beside her and casually flicked it in the air twice.

The invitation card was folded in such a way that wasn’t quite folded, fluttering open and shut like a clamshell with the woman’s movements.

There was no wax seal.

Lin Xian could see clearly, the invitation card’s five golden embossed characters on the back flickering in and out of visibility under the diffuse moonlight.

Although the woman’s body and appearance were still shrouded in darkness, the moonlight’s shift was slow, only moving from her high heels to the edge of her clothes draped over the sofa…

Lin Xian did not understand the woman’s purpose.

But it was clear…

this woman seemed to know a lot about him.

He had never seen this woman before, but she knew his name.

He hadn’t said anything, yet this woman very much understood that he came for the Genius Club’s invitation card.

How did she know he would come to sneak a peek at the invitation card today?

“No need to be so tense, Lin Xian. I am not your enemy,”

the woman said with a smile, twirling the invitation card in her hand before tossing it out.

The invitation card traced an arc through the air, hitting the back of Zhao Yingjun’s monitor and falling along the desk edge.

“This invitation card is fake.”

Just as Lin Xian was about to reach out for it, the woman’s deep voice came from the sofa:

“I placed it at the reception desk.”

“Fake?”

Lin Xian looked toward the woman bathed in the half moonlight:

“What was your purpose for placing it?”

“It was just to catch your interest,”

the woman said as she unfolded her crossed legs and shifted her position to lean sideways on the sofa:

“The real Genius Club invitation card isn’t so easy to obtain. But it’s not that difficult either, at least not for you… it’s not that difficult.”

“Then I’m sorry, but it seems your plan has fallen through,” Lin Xian replied:

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“I have no interest in joining the Genius Club, and I don’t even have a good impression of it.”

“You are already not your own master…”

The woman leaned forward, watching Lin Xian from the darkness he could not see clearly:

“Lin Xian, you can choose to circle in puzzles and whirlpools for a lifetime, you can keep marking time like this, you can drift along like an ant. But you will always get swept up in it… History is like this, you cannot resist it, nor can you avoid it.”

“[If you want to find the answers to all this… the simplest way is to get a real invitation to the Genius Club.]”

“Why should I believe you?” Lin Xian walked in the moonlight, closing in on the woman:

“From what you’re saying, the Genius Club sounds like it’s still a righteous organization?”

“You need to figure that out for yourself, judge for yourself,” the woman said indifferently.

“Then I can also choose not to figure it out, not to judge.”

Lin Xian smiled and spread his hands:

“Actually, most of these things have nothing to do with me. Why should I go looking for trouble?”

“Trouble will find you even if you don’t look for it. Perhaps you haven’t noticed it yet… but your game of Catch Me If You Can has already begun,” the woman stood up from the sofa.

She moved with light steps toward Lin Xian by the window, passing Zhao Yingjun’s desk, and picking up the dark red invitation with two fingers, stepping into the moonlight.

Her crystal blue eyes shone brightly again in the moonlight… And in an instant, those eyes were inches away.

The dark red invitation was pressed against his chest, and Lin Xian reached out to catch it.

“I’ll be waiting for you at the Genius Club.”

The woman smiled charmingly, her scent wafting into Lin Xian’s nostrils:

“Don’t make me wait too long, alright?”

With that.

The woman turned and left. Her silky hair brushed Lin Xian’s cheek, especially fragrant amidst the damp, rust-filled office…

The scent of white mountain tea.

Lin Xian took another deep breath.

This scent… Although slightly different from the one on CC, it was definitely the aroma of white mountain tea.

“What exactly is your purpose?”

“I can’t tell you.”

“How can I get a real invitation?”

“I can’t say.”

Lin Xian chuckled and tossed the invitation onto the desk:

“Since you’re not willing to tell me anything, then you can wait at the Genius Club for a lifetime.”

“It’s not that I don’t want to tell you, Lin Xian,” the woman paused, turning her head:

“I am unable to say.”

“Actually, you’re already very close to the answer… Instead of asking questions here, why not go back and think about the Space-time Law a bit more?”

“The Space-time Law is far more important than you think, far more stringent. Nearly all the answers are hidden within it… But from what I see, your understanding of the Space-time Law is still too shallow.”

“Especially the ‘Space-Time Elasticity’… such a critical law, why not rack your brains and think more about it?”

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Listening to the woman’s words, Lin Xian felt his sense of security slip away once again.

The term ‘Space-Time Elasticity’ was something he had invented, crafted, and concluded all on his own.

No one else had ever spoken of it.

Yet this woman knew it so clearly.

“Who on earth are you?” Lin Xian squinted his eyes, looking at her retreating figure.

“The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the Yellow Sparrow behind…” The woman smiled and pulled open the coded door:

“Next time we meet, you can call me ‘Huang Que’.”

Bang!

The heavy coded door closed tightly.

The moonlight finally broke through the clouds and a whole swath of frost shone in.

The electronic clock on the desk kept breathing, and Lin Xian looked down at the time—

00:42

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Volume One “Yellow Sparrow”, to be continued…