Genius Club-Chapter 584 - 18: The Real Invitation (Two-in-One Large Chapter)
"Fuck!"
Even if Lin Xian could ascend to the heavens or descend into the earth, this horrifying scene was too much for him to handle! He took a leap toward the bathroom’s glass door and jumped out.
It was terrifying!
What was going on!
The mirror’s reflection being out of sync with reality was already exaggerated enough, enough to give anyone goosebumps...
If he hadn’t seen it wrong just now.
That hand holding the invitation from the Genius Club! It had even stretched out from the mirror!
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What kind of late-night ghost story was this?
At least Sadako Yamamura crawled out from an old television set, which physically could still be explained, but a mirror, it was just a reflection of light!
The object inside the mirror is a virtual image!
How can it possibly crawl out?
Moreover...
The person in the mirror who was out of sync and smiling at him was himself!
If that was Lin Xian with his free will.
Then who was he?
Was it the inverse of Tian Gang?
...
Standing at the bathroom entrance, he turned his head back.
Lin Xian noticed that the oddity in the mirror had completely vanished.
There was no one there.
As usual, reflecting the bathroom’s clutter... the bottles and jars on the sink, the corner’s washing machine, the stool on the floor, the towels on the rack, and—
At this very moment,
quietly lying on the sink,
unexpectedly appearing out of nowhere,
as red as fire, with golden letters,
the invitation from the Genius Club!
Lin Xian blinked his eyes.
Incredulously staring at the invitation taken from the mirror...
This was too against common sense!
It was utterly incomprehensible!
Was he dreaming?
Could it be... He was leaning on his chin in the bathroom, so sleepy that he had fallen asleep?
So now he was in a dream?
But he glanced over at the electronic clock at the corner of the sink.
The time displayed:
[00:43]
"At this time, I wouldn’t be dreaming," Lin Xian softly said.
He knew all too well; for 25 years of his life, his dreams would always wake him up precisely at 00:42, and no dreams would come if he fell asleep again until 12:42 the next day, when a new cycle of dreams would start.
"What on earth... is going on?"
Lin Xian took a deep breath.
Then carefully took one step into the bathroom, making sure he appeared at the edge of the mirror.
The Lin Xian in the mirror was also being careful, tentatively looking out from the mirror.
Lin Xian took two more steps forward.
The Lin Xian in the mirror also moved two steps forward.
Lin Xian waved his right hand.
The Lin Xian in the mirror also waved his right hand.
"It seems, it’s back to normal now."
But even though the mirror was normal now, Lin Xian’s heart was still not at ease, remaining tense.
His gaze flicked to the invitation from the Genius Club lying on the sink...
Its presence was solid evidence of that terrifying and supernatural moment a while ago.
Even if the mirror was normal now,
it couldn’t cover up the abnormal scene from before, which had shaken Lin Xian’s view of the world.
He looked down again at the electronic clock.
There was a slight jump.
The time displayed had leaped from 00:43 to 00:44.
"So, that unscientific scene just happened between 00:42 and 00:43, within that minute," he mused.
He inexplicably thought of Ji Xinshui, and the Seven Sins organization to which Ji Lin belonged.
This organization, although possibly misguided, had very strict and harsh rules about assassinating scientists, no matter the method.
A car accident was a must.
What was more necessary and even less controllable was the death time of those scientists—
also between 00:42 and 00:43.
Who determined this time?
Based on the current speculation, there were two possibilities.
1, it was Copernicus, suspected to be a member of the Genius Club, who demanded this from Ji Xinshui; hence, even though Ji Xinshui didn’t understand the significance of this time point, his desperate desire to join the Genius Club led him to this rigid and blind implementation.
2, it was not Copernicus who demanded it but as Lin Xian and Ji Lin deduced, Ji Xinshui was simply blindly imitating the murderous acts of the Genius Club; that is, Ji Xinshui witnessed, or knew of a murder orchestrated by the Genius Club at this time, executed through a car accident, which was why he rigorously mimicked it without understanding.
...
In his confession during his surrender, Ji Xinshui did not clarify the reason or origin of the 00:42 murder time.
He only stated that he would instruct his subordinates to control the target’s death time within the minute between 00:42 and 00:43.
When the police asked Ji Xinshui why it had to be at this time,
this unrepentant old man smirked cryptically and said something profound:
"Letting them die at 00:42 is the highest form of respect to them."
The female police officer in charge of the interrogation couldn’t help but curse him as a madman, and no matter how she asked about this issue, Ji Xinshui remained silent, merely confessing his criminal facts.
Lin Xian picked up the electronic clock.
He weighed it in his hand.
So, it’s to say...
The time 00:42 really has some special significance.
It’s not just the end time of his dreams, the time when Millennium Stakes comes into and disappears from existence, but also closely associated with certain actions and motives of the Genius Club!
Therefore,
it’s no wonder, at the 00:42 time point, he received the invitation from the Genius Club!
If indeed as Ji Xinshui stated,
00:42 is a very noble time, a time of great respect... then it makes sense that he received the invitation at this special time. Moreover, if it is a genuine invitation from the Genius Club, it must be received at this time to carry the most ceremonial significance.
