Genius Club

Chapter 967: Chapter 49 I’ll Wait for You_5
 

“So… can you give me a little time? I’ll figure everything out very quickly, and when I do, I’ll tell you every single detail.”

“Of course, you can.”

Zhao Yingjun smiled and answered without hesitation:

“I’ll wait for you.”

That smile.

It genuinely made Lin Xian feel as though a weight had been lifted off his shoulders.

He straightened up and smiled as well:

“To be honest, I’m quite embarrassed, but I’m very thankful that you’ve always trusted me like this; even I feel it’s somewhat blind.”

Zhao Yingjun shook her head:

“Do you remember what I told you once?”

She blinked:

“I said… it didn’t matter whether we could fly over that overpass back then. Whether we made it over or not…”

“Even though we live in peaceful times, without the need to face life and death so closely. But I have never been someone who clings to life out of fear of death. If I can offer any help with your matters, I will not shirk my responsibility.”

“So… I’m willing to wait, no matter how long.”

She smiled, making the lighting in the living room seem softer:

“Didn’t you say you had a dream? It was in front of the Disney castle today that you told me about it. You said you had a dream where I turned into a White Jade Statue and, together with a garbage bin robot named VV, braved wind and sun, waiting for 600 years until a magical spell came along, until redemption.”

“Honestly, before you gave me that vacuum robot a few days ago… I always fancied that the story you told was just made up. But now it seems you really had such a dream, and it seems the White Jade Statue truly waited 600 years.”

“If 600 years have already passed, what’s a little more time?”

Zhao Yingjun spread her hands and looked into Lin Xian’s eyes:

“Any length of time is fine… I’ll wait for you.”

At this moment.

No words were needed.

Lin Xian felt as if Huang Que was standing right behind him, and Queen Rhein of Sky City was sitting right beside him.

The orange light of the living room crowned them, enveloping him in their midst.

“Then I’ll be going first.”

Lin Xian stood up:

“This time… I won’t make you wait too long.”

Zhao Yingjun picked up the DNA report from the coffee table for Lin Xian, handing it to him:

“Take this with you.”

She smiled:

“Consider it a keepsake. I was at the hospital a while ago hoping you’d never need this knowledge, and look how soon it’s come into use.”

Lin Xian took the report and smiled along:

“Yeah… life is unpredictable, intestine within intestine.”

…

Arriving at the underground parking lot.

Little Li was startled:

“Mr. Lin! You’re back so soon!”

“Soon?”

Lin Xian raised his wrist and looked at his watch; it was 23:07.

He had stayed at Zhao Yingjun’s house for an hour:

“It’s already been quite a while. After all, it’s late at night; how much longer should I stay at someone else’s house?”

“Do…”

The driver, Little Li, was dumbstruck, quickly nodding:

“Right, right, right, it’s indeed not short.”

…

Back home.

Lin Xian truly felt exhausted.

He sympathized with the parents in Disneyland, wondering how they endure day after day of caring for children.

He was really struggling to keep up.

He washed up with effort and immediately collapsed onto the bed.

Opened his eyes.

Glanced at the digital alarm clock on the bedside table.

23:47

It was already this late; falling asleep and dreaming now, he’d wake up in less than an hour, hardly worth the trouble.

But he really couldn’t keep his eyes open any longer, eyes closed and out like a light in a second.

…

…

…

The sound of clinking and clanging machinery entered his ears.

Lin Xian opened his eyes.

He was still in that familiar deep pit.

But Big Face and Gao Wen were nowhere to be seen:

“At this time, they must be inside the Underground Hibernation Base, the Blue-Eyed Girl will wake up soon, and then she’ll chop off the Supervisor’s head…”

“Well, since I’m here, might as well join the fun.”

Lin Xian quickly ran towards the deep pit in the Northeast, entering the Hibernation Base familiarly, just in time to see the lid of Smith’s Hibernation Pod slowly rise.

Since he had woken up,

it meant the Blue-Eyed Girl would be kicking through the tempered glass any minute now.

Lin Xian walked in and found Brother Lian sitting on a chair, looking through the Hibernation Pod’s tempered glass, staring at the Blue-Eyed Girl inside.

“Yo, Brother Lian.”

Lin Xian greeted Big Face Cat as if he were coming home:

“How long since you woke up?”

Big Face Cat looked at the readout on the Hibernation Pod:

“About half an hour now.”

Suddenly,

he jumped up, the flesh on his face squeezing together as he sized up Lin Xian:

“You’re not my bro… who the hell are you? Where did you spring from?!”

“Eh…”

Lin Xian waved his hand, indicating Big Face Cat should not sweat the small stuff:

“That kind of detail isn’t important.”

At this moment, Gao Wen also came over from Smith’s Hibernation Pod, looking at the Blue-Eyed Girl’s Hibernation Pod:

“It’s really sad, this little girl… It’s bad enough for us old folks, but for someone her age, in the prime of her life, to spend it here as a slave laborer, it’s just too tragic.”

“Looking at this girl’s appearance, she must have lived in a wealthy family before hibernation. Waking up to such a stark change, I really wonder if she can mentally handle it.”

Lin Xian turned his head.

Looking at Gao Wen:

“You don’t have to worry about her at all, you might be screaming in fear because of her in a minute.”

“Besides, after waking up, the blank in her brain means she is in a state of amnesia, what comparisons of going from luxury to hardship does she have? She doesn’t remember anything about what she experienced before, or what kind of life she lived… after all, there was nothing left in her storage locker.”

“Hey! Who says there was nothing left eh!”

Big Face Cat sauntered over:

“Clearly, she left something! Although it’s very little, just one photo, still, it’s something! Maybe this young lady will remember everything once she sees the photo after waking up!”

“What are you talking about?”

Lin Xian turned around.

Narrowing his eyes at Big Face Cat:

“Are you saying… there’s something in this girl’s storage locker? It’s not empty?”

“Of course it’s not empty! I was just looking at it!”

Speaking,

Big Face Cat bent over, pulled out the Blue-Eyed Girl’s storage locker, then opened the drawer, took out a laminated photo, and handed it to Lin Xian:

“Look, here’s a photo, isn’t there? Although the little girl in the photo… doesn’t look much like the one in the Hibernation Pod, after all, girls change a lot as they grow up!”

“And look at what they’re wearing in this photo, how strange… Look at this man, he doesn’t look like the little girl’s dad either… Eh?”

Big Face Cat scratched his heavy head:

“Why does this guy look so familiar?”

After a few more glances, his mouth agape, he looked up at Lin Xian:

“Holy shit! Bro… which Hibernation Pod did you crawl out of?!”

“Are you here to visit relatives or something?”

Gao Wen, hearing this, also came over, carefully comparing the “King” with a crown in the photo to the young man in front of him.

This…

They were exactly the same person!

Not a single difference!

Lin Xian tilted his head in confusion, pulling the photo over:

“Let me have a look.”

The moment he took the photo… Lin Xian froze.

The laminated photo was the one he had taken at Disneyland just this afternoon!

In the front of the photo, Yan Qiaoqiao in a princess dress was holding up her dress’s hem;

Behind her, he and Zhao Yingjun were leaning together, wearing an extravagantly styled crown.

He held his breath,

Emptied his mind…

And then,

he flipped the laminated photo over…

Only to see,

on the back of the photo,

written in black marker were three delicate characters—

Yan, Qiao, Qiao.