Genius Club-Chapter 219 - 50 Gifts

"So... our task for today is to pick a gift for An Qing?"

Lin Xian looked at Ji Lin who was seriously selecting gifts in the shopping mall’s gift section and felt like the sun had risen from the west:

"Is it really necessary, to specially choose a gift for an entire afternoon during such a busy time? Isn’t that a waste of time?"

"Just consider it a break for the team members, they’ve been overworking for so long."

Ji Lin spoke softly, examining a Barbie doll gift box from front to back, left to right, top to bottom, then put it back.

"Don’t you think we should look at more mature gifts?"

Lin Xian looked around at the brightly colored and tender children’s gift area, feeling like Alice who had wandered into a wonderland:

"An Qing is celebrating her 19th birthday, not her 9th."

"What should a 19-year-old girl like?"

Ji Lin raised his head and asked seriously:

"I’ve never given anyone a gift before, I don’t even know what to give."

"Then how would you write a gift-giving scene in your novel?"

"I would use diversion, minimally touching on the gift-giving part."

"You have your ways... But I think you’re actually overthinking it."

Lin Xian scratched his head and walked towards the luxury goods display:

"A birthday gift is really just a gesture, there’s no need to be so serious about choosing one. It’s enough to have something; the more important thing is that it represents a blessing and care. In the end, what the gift is isn’t that important."

"That’s easy for you to say..."

Ji Lin followed Lin Xian, looking left and right:

"But since it’s rare to attend someone else’s birthday party, I still want to give her a gift that she genuinely likes."

"You don’t even know her, how would you know what she likes?" Lin Xian laughed helplessly:

"A woman’s heart is like a needle at the bottom of the ocean; sometimes, figuring out what they actually like can be harder than solving a case."

"Not necessarily."

Ji Lin, as if struck by a revelation, stared at Lin Xian’s back:

"Actually, Chu Anqing is quite easy to understand."

...

March 28.

On this day, Ji Lin and Lin Xian together helped the Donghai City Public Security Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Division Four solve an old, cold case.

Sometimes it was quite frustrating.

The files sent over from other departments, Lin Xian and Ji Lin, with an attitude of lending a hand, easily found crucial clues and assisted in solving the cases. However, their special task group had yet to make progress, leading to low morale among the members.

The main problem was the lack of clues and evidence, which stalled the investigation and led it into a dead end.

"If only we could find those vehicles involved in the accidents."

A female team member complained:

"I just don’t get it. In a Donghai filled with cameras, how can those vehicles just vanish into thin air?"

"Cameras always have blind spots."

A male team member next to her sighed:

"If those accident vehicles stuck to the main roads, we definitely wouldn’t lose them; the junction cameras can be linked. But every time is the same, once these vehicles enter the monitoring blind spots, they disappear forever, vanishing into thin air."

"What do you think?"

Ji Lin looked at Lin Xian, who was spinning his pen:

"How do you think those vehicles disappeared into thin air?"

Lin Xian spun his pen, pondering with his head down:

"I believe vanishing into thin air is absolutely impossible; nothing in this world can disappear out of thin air. Those vehicles either must have been cleverly hidden away or moved using some inconceivable method."

"For example?" Ji Lin asked, intrigued.

"I can’t figure it out."

Lin Xian shook his head:

"But in movies, there are many similar plots like in ’Fast & Furious,’ where the main character Tang drove a car to hide underneath a speeding truck, maintaining the same speed and went undetected."

"If in reality the criminals also used such movie-style techniques, driving the vehicles under the truck within the blind spot of surveillance and then using a device to collect the sedan into the container unit inside the truck... our tracking clues could be lost there."

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"I’ve seen the escape footage of that Audi and the taxi; the last place they disappeared was at the national highway outside the city, surrounded by semi-trailers with containers. It’s actually difficult to find them, like hiding a tree in a forest, especially after so much time has passed, they’ve long dealt with it."

"So... the best solution is still to intercept those vehicles involved in the accident on-site." Ji Lin concluded with arms folded:

"Therefore, we should strengthen our connection with the scientific research departments, trying to master the schedules and meeting information of every scientist coming to Donghai who studies Hibernation Field. If necessary, we can set up an ambush in advance and use roadblocks to catch the escaping vehicles.

"Of course, we must first ensure the safety of those scientists, and we need to predict in advance which scientist will be murdered. This will be our main job for some time... Only by predicting ahead of time which scientist the murderer aims to kill at the next 00:42 can we catch the murderer, move the case forward to the next stage. This is our only chance."

Everyone nodded in agreement with the idea.

Lin Xian was no exception.

He was also waiting for the next 00:42 murder case.

By then, the driver who had run over Xu Yun, run over Tang Xin, would definitely reappear.

If only they could catch that driver...

Lin Xian spun his pen, watching Ji Lin tidy up the papers on the desk.

Following the leads, they would find decisive evidence.