Genius Club
Chapter 1143 - 30 Something’s Off (Extra for Silver Alliance, Unmatched in the World for 37 days!)

The elderly man in the mechanical swivel chair looked at this scene in disbelief.

He glanced at Jask, then at Angelica, and took a deep breath:

"I didn’t expect this..."

The surprise on his face vanished in an instant, and he chuckled:

"Truly wonderful, absolutely marvelous."

"I admit, kids, this time... you really fooled me. It seems... sometimes, one must accept getting old."

"I’m no longer young, no longer able to see through everything, to think of everything..."

He leaned forward, attempting to prop up his body with his arms—

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lin Xian demonstrated rapid gun skills, firing four shots in a second, hitting the old man’s arm joints and both knees with precision.

The handgun Jask gave him was of large caliber with immense killing power.

Four blossoms of blood burst open.

The elder staggered and fell back into his chair, his thin arms blown apart by the bullets, the lower halves spraying blood as they fell to the ground; his left knee blew apart, the lower leg twisted aside.

"Cough cough... Ah—"

The old man’s face turned crimson instantly, he gritted his teeth in agony, unable to voice his pain.

Lin Xian had noticed earlier that there were buttons on both sides of the swivel chair.

Although he wasn’t sure what the buttons did, his years of battling in dreams taught him not to give the enemy any chances.

Just like when he killed Kevin Walker, to show mercy to the enemy was cruelty to oneself; giving the enemy time to speak was to offer them a chance to turn the tables.

"Copernicus."

Lin Xian approached, looking coldly at the old man who had lost his limbs:

"As much as I would like to settle our scores, allowing you one more second of breath is a desecration of the dead."

He held the large-caliber handgun horizontally, pressing it firmly against the old man’s forehead.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

One shot, another shot, and then one more.

In his heart, he silently recited the names of the departed as he pulled the trigger again and again.

Xu Yun, Tang Xin, Huang Que, Yu Xi...

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

As the head exploded like a watermelon, it was nowhere near enough to vent the anger in his heart and the pain of losing friends and family.

Click, click.

Only when the magazine was emptied, the trigger slackened, and the barrel heated did Lin Xian finally set the handgun down...

In front of him, on the swivel chair, the old man had turned into a headless corpse.

Blood and brain matter scattered everywhere, even the back of the chair was shattered by bullets, with bits of skull embedded in the components, impossible to piece back to their original forms.

In the vast underground base, only the sound of dripping blood and the breathing of three people remained.

"Letting him die so easily is letting him off cheap."

Angelica came up from behind.

She threw away the red-framed glasses on the bridge of her nose, removed the wig from her head, and joined Lin Xian in looking at the exploded head of the corpse:

"I’ve seen him."

She said softly:

"As a child, I once saw him talking to Ji Xinshui. He wasn’t this old back then, but I have a very good memory for faces, almost photographic, and I can remember facial details at a glance."

"So there’s no mistake, he did meet with Ji Xinshui more than twenty years ago, but I don’t know what they talked about."

Lin Xian took out his phone and looked at the top right corner.

Indeed, deep underground here, there was no cell phone signal.

He had specifically instructed Liu Feng that if there’s any change in the Space-Time Clock readings, suggesting a leap in world lines, he should be informed immediately.

But now...

Liu Feng is probably raging again, as he couldn’t get through to him in time.

In planning the tripartite ambush against Copernicus with Jask and Angelica, Lin Xian was prepared for a leap in world lines.

Although he hadn’t finished copying the blueprints for the Time Shuttle Machine.

But the purpose of building the Time Shuttle Machine was to completely deplete the Entangled State of Time-Space Particles, to prevent Copernicus from stealing it and continuously sending back Time-Space Assassins from the future.

If they really managed to kill Copernicus.

It would be akin to solving the problem at its root, whether the Time Shuttle Machine gets built is then less important.

In fact, Lin Xian himself wasn’t very interested in traversing time and space; fear and the unknown were secondary, his biggest worry was...

[Not being able to return.]

So far, he hadn’t seen any example of someone using the Entangled State of Time-Space Particle to return to the future; neither Lin Yuxi nor No. 17 were successful in "going home" due to changes in world lines.

This made Lin Xian feel that time travel was unreliable.

Especially now that he and Yingjun were expecting a child, due next year, a complete family of three awaited him to be husband, to be father.

Should he travel back in time and then, due to various reasons, fail to return, jumping to some other world line, it would indeed be a regret for eternity.

Therefore.

As long as Copernicus could be killed, even if the Time Shuttle Machine is never built, Lin Xian would have no regrets.

Pocketing his phone, Lin Xian looked at Angelica:

"Does that mean you’ve confirmed he’s Copernicus?"

"Shouldn’t be wrong."

Jask also came over:

"Angelica and I both spoke with Copernicus on the phone, the voice matches. Plus, our plan was so meticulous and undiscovered, and you even used the real Entangled State of Time-Space Particle as bait, I can’t think of any mistakes."

"I can’t either."

Lin Xian shook his head:

"I also think our plan is perfect in every aspect, but..."

He pursed his lips and left his sentence unfinished.