Genius Club.

Chapter 174 The truth emerges
Lin Xian's thumb rested on the phone screen.

[The person who killed me was Ji Xinshui! ]

Looking at the message Zhou Duanyun sent to his mother at the end of 2021, Lin Xian was stunned.

He had imagined countless kinds of relationships between Zhou Duanyun and Ji Xinshui.

It stands to reason...

Shouldn't the relationship between the two be one of cooperation, accomplices, or even boss and younger brother?
Why do you look like an enemy now?
Lin Xian continued to look down.

Perhaps because the message was sent in the afternoon, Zhou Duanyun's mother did not reply to the message in time.

Until two hours later.

Zhou Duanyun replied again:
[Mom, I'm playing truth or dare with my friends, don't take it seriously.]

After that, we started saying good night to each other every night again, and there was nothing unusual.

Lin Xian scrolled up and down a few more times, but found no other useful information.

He first exited the chat page, and then calmly handed the phone back to Zhou Duanyun's mother.

Zhou Duanyun's mother and Zhou Le had a very happy chat.

Lin Xian paced around the room, thinking about the two sentences he had just seen unexpectedly -

"Mom, I can't run away... Call the police and ask them to protect you! The person who killed me is Ji Xinshui!"

"Mom, I'm just playing truth or dare with my friends. Don't take it seriously."

No matter how you look at it.

This definitely can't be truth or dare.

It is not difficult to see from all aspects that Zhou Duanyun is indeed, as his mother said, a very filial and caring son. It is absolutely impossible for him to play such a joke with his mother.

Not to mention Zhou Duanyun...any child with a conscience would not tell such a lie.

Isn't this just making my mother worry for no reason?
Which mother wouldn’t be scared to death after reading such news?
and……

Take a thousand steps back.

Even if Zhou Duanyun really played such a bad joke on his mother out of mischief, he would definitely not wait two hours to send an explanation.

Normally, it would take about ten minutes to refute the rumor.

therefore.

After comprehensive consideration, Lin Xian deduced that—

【Zhou Duanyun lied! 】

But this time the lying should be passive.

He did encounter a life crisis at that time. Either he offended Ji Xinshui or he did something bad and was caught by Ji Xinshui.

In short, at around four o'clock in the afternoon when the first message was sent, Zhou Duanyun really thought that he was going to be killed by Ji Xinshui.

So he hurriedly informed his mother, told her who the murderer was, and asked his mother to call the police for protection.

This behavior is more in line with Zhou Duanyun's personality.

He loved his mother very much. The first thing he did after becoming rich was to improve his mother's life. When something happened to him, the first thing he worried about was his mother's safety. This is reasonable.

But there was a sudden turn of events.

No one knew what happened during these two hours, but Zhou Duanyun escaped from danger and escaped from Ji Xinshui's men.

wrong.

Lin Xian frowned.

Definitely not escaping!

If he really just wanted to escape, he could only escape temporarily, but not forever. Moreover, if he could escape, could his mother escape?

If Zhou Duanyun really escaped, then he is still acting arrogantly in Donghai City. Isn't that a provocation under Ji Xinshui's nose?
This is obviously unreasonable.

Therefore, it is not difficult to infer that Zhou Duanyun did not escape from Ji Xinshui; but it is very likely that the two of them reached some kind of cooperative relationship, became accomplices, or were forgiven and surrendered by Ji Xinshui, becoming his lackey.

"That makes sense." Lin Xian muttered to himself.

It's really hard to find it...

The two chat records that I accidentally saw on Zhou Duanyun’s mother’s mobile phone today directly connected all the clues and formed a complete logical network.

Recalling the night when Zhou Duanyun, Tang Xin and Gao Yang had dinner together, the conversation between Zhou Duanyun and Tang Xin:

"What is Tang Xin doing now?"

"I work at the Donghai Fuxing Pharmaceutical Research Institute."

"Oh~~~~I know your boss!"

"Is this true? He is a big shot... He was once Professor Xu Yun's mentor! You actually know him! Are you close to him?"

"He's OK. I've dealt with him a few times in business, but I just don't like him. He's too self-righteous."

This clue also matches!
The boss of the research institute and Xu Yun’s mentor are the same person, Ji Xinshui.

It was he who invited Tang Xin to work in Donghai, and it was also he who wanted to kill Zhou Duanyun. Zhou Duanyun was perhaps somewhat unconvinced, so while admitting that he knew Ji Xinshui, he also said that this old guy was self-righteous.

The relationship between the two is somewhat subtle, which is consistent with the results of his previous reasoning.

Thoughts.

It became unblocked instantly.

Lin Xian turned his head and looked again at the fake Hu Nan University admission letter framed in the glass frame...

Zhou Duanyun's life after the college entrance examination can be described as filled with countless lies.

But the truth is often hidden beneath these lies and is intricately connected.

Based on the existing clues, Lin Xian began to summarize the results of his reasoning:
1. Just as I guessed before, there is an unclear relationship between Zhou Duanyun and Ji Xinshui. They must be accomplices in the murder of Tang Xin.

2. Ji Lin has such a smart mind and high IQ to solve cases, but he never doubted Zhou Duanyun and Ji Xinshui, who are such obvious suspects. In addition, given his close relationship with Ji Xinshui, it is very likely that he is in the same group with Zhou Duanyun and Ji Xinshui and conspired in Tang Xin's death.

3. The murderer who killed Tang Xin and the murderer who killed Xu Yun are undoubtedly from the same group of people. It goes without saying that the people who killed Xu Yun are Ji Xinshui, whom he regarded as a father and son, and Ji Lin, who admired him very much when he was young.

……

Thinking of this result, Lin Xian couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

He once believed that everyone should have humanity, and at least the worst bottom line was not to harm their relatives.

But it is obvious that both Ji Xinshui and Ji Lin can only be described as beasts.

Lin Xian believed that Zhou Duanyun would attack Tang Xin, or would attack himself one day, but he would never attack his mother.

And Ji Lin and Ji Xinshui...

What kind of reasons, what kind of necessity, what kind of interests... could they have the heart to kill Xu Yun, who was like a family member to them?
"Killing Xu Yun, such a huge sacrifice, what good will it bring to them?"

Lin Xian was puzzled.

But the reasons are not that important in the face of absolute results.

He now truly understood what Huang Que had said:
"If you don't cause trouble, trouble will find you. Maybe you haven't realized it yet...but your cat-and-mouse game has already begun."

is not that right.

Now it's more than just trouble coming to your door.

Zhou Duanyun, this superficial classmate, was almost always beside him;
Ji Lin, a high-IQ genius who cries thief, has infiltrated the Donghai Public Security Bureau and has won the trust of the police;

Ji Xinshui is extremely powerful, a world-class boss, and is also very influential in China. He is an enemy that he cannot face at all.

These are just three "murderers" that I have discovered. God knows how many more "murderers" are lurking around me that have not been detected.

This cat-and-mouse game...

It is too difficult.

The strength of the enemy and I is seriously unbalanced. I am just a little hamster walking on thin ice. The darkness around me is full of cats with yellow eyes and vertical eyes lurking. They are just waiting for me to show my weakness... and they will immediately rush over and tear me to pieces!
I am in a very unfavorable situation.

But fortunately, we have finally figured out who the murderers are, so we won't fall into their trap and we have a certain degree of initiative.

Next step.

That's something to consider.

How to turn the tables, how to bring these murderous demons to justice, how to avenge Professor Xu Yun and Tang Xin!

Soon, Zhou Duanyun's mother and Zhou Le had almost finished their conversation, and Zhou Le stood up and prepared to leave with Lin Xian.

Zhou Duanyun's mother enthusiastically took out a big bag of peanuts from the inner room and insisted that Lin Xian take it away and take it home to try.

Lin Xian waved his hand and declined:
"Auntie, we young people don't know how to cook. It will go bad if we take it. You should keep it and eat it slowly."

Zhou Duanyun's mother chased him into the yard and stuffed the handle of the large plastic bag into Lin Xian's palm:

"The peanuts grown by Auntie are delicious. Take some home for your family to try!"

Then, she pointed to the huge dirt yard full of peanut seedlings:

"Don't be fooled by the fact that I grow a lot of peanuts. I just have to find something to do when I'm bored. But if you really want to know how much I eat... I haven't eaten a single peanut in a long, long time."

Gazing at the peanut seedlings all over the yard, the old mother sighed, shook her head and smiled:
"Life was hard in the past. The peanuts that were about to go bad and couldn't be sold were eaten by my mother and me."

"In those years, I ate all the peanuts I could afford. I won't miss them if I don't eat them anymore..."

In the end, the kindness was hard to refuse.

Lin Xian had no choice but to accept the peanuts from Zhou Duanyun's mother.

Afterwards, they went to Zhou Le's house and sat there for a while, chatting for a while. Then Lin Xian took a taxi back to the high-speed rail station, and then carried the big bag of peanuts on the high-speed rail back to Donghai.

When I walked out of the high-speed rail station, it was already dark and a drizzle was falling.

Lin Xian stood in the rain and looked at the colorful East China Sea in the distance, which was brightly lit...

It seems.

This is a battle like hide and seek.

It’s really about to begin!

(End of this chapter)