Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Chapter 29 The Road to Paradise
Lin Xian nodded:
"These days, I have been waiting for you to contact me. Otherwise, I wouldn't come to the company every morning. The purpose is to make sure you can find me at any time. I even told the front desk that as long as anyone comes to me or sends me a letter, bring it to the office directly, without any questions or obstruction." "Anyway, I am just a hands-off manager, and usually no one comes to me. In short, according to my original plan, as long as Copernicus entrusts the investigation of space-time particles to Jask, then half of my plan will be successful."
He told Angelica in detail about how he had tricked Copernicus at the Genius Club.
Angelica also revealed all the arrangements on Jask's side. The current situation is:
Copernicus didn't completely believe what Lin Xian said at the party, but he knew very well that Jask had successfully captured a space-time particle. Therefore, Spacet Company must have detection equipment, capture equipment, and a series of data. So, he ordered his female secretary to verify the authenticity of the space-time particle information. It's a pity that Copernicus was too cautious and never showed up or contacted easily, so he didn't find out that the undercover agent he had placed next to Jask, the female secretary, had already been replaced.
In his eyes, the current superior-subordinate relationship is like this—Copernicus orders the female secretary to instruct Fake-Jask. But in reality, the real situation is——
Copernicus orders Angelica to cooperate with Jask. Lin Xian twirled a pen on his desk and hummed softly:
"We have been played by Copernicus for so long, now it's our turn to play him."
"Angelica, after you go back, report the information I told you to Jask, and let him forge a space-time particle detection signal, saying that a space-time particle did enter the Earth's atmosphere on August 24."
"In this way, Copernicus will definitely order Jask to capture it. I believe that with Copernicus's caution, he will not put the space-time particle outside during hibernation. He will probably put it next to his hibernation pod to feel at ease."
"So, this is our only chance to get Copernicus's location." "Whether he sends someone to take the space-time particle, or asks you to personally send it to him, or asks Jask to install a tracker in the empty mini-fridge, in short, Copernicus's location will be exposed, and we can use this to lock him down."
This was the plan Lin Xian came up with in a hurry. Indeed, there were many places that were not rigorous enough. But there was no way.
Seeing that Copernicus was about to sleep for two hundred years, no one knew where his secret hibernation base was located.
Currently, all the technology about hibernation pods is open source, the most difficult hibernation pod filling liquid has been overcome, and side effect drugs have also been developed. The hibernation pod has become a mass-produced product with no technical threshold. A crafty rabbit has three burrows.
If this old guy really disappears from the world, and we don't know any information about his identity, the possibility of finding him is minimal.
We must seize this opportunity. "I understand," Angelica nodded:
"Jask's idea is also like this. He has many spare mini-fridges that can be used, and it is not difficult to forge detection signals."
"I have to say, Jask's acting skills are quite good. During this time, he has been playing Fake-Jask, playing a false version of himself. Heh heh, the real himself is playing a false version of himself. This is also a big test for Hollywood actors." "Fortunately, Jask usually knows his double very well, and now he is acting with ease."
Lin Xian stopped twirling his pen, thought of the information he had obtained from Copernicus at the last gathering, and looked up at Angelica:
"The thing I promised you before, I have found out. I have confirmed that Copernicus was the one who killed Ji Lin's parents and a group of mathematicians." He stood up and paced around the room:
"Copernicus even proudly said that he is a kind person, a person with principles. Any child who becomes an orphan because of his murder, he will take care of them and raise them."
"From this point of view, it is likely that the orphan he is talking about is Ji Lin. After all, you have also been in the Seven Deadly Sins, and you also know that Copernicus's bottom line principle is not to kill innocent people indiscriminately. Of course, this innocence is only innocent in his eyes."
"Then you can imagine how likely it is that both parents happen to be mathematicians? At least from my current judgment, none of the other members of the Genius Club have similar criminal suspicions."
"Heh heh."
Angelica sneered:
"Kind? Principles? This old man really dares to say that."
"This is really good news for me. Nothing excites me more than the fact that he is the murderer."
Having said that, she raised her wrist and looked at her watch:
"It's getting late, Lin Xian, I should go. This time I had the opportunity to come to Dragon Country because Copernicus is preparing for secret hibernation and can't take care of everything. I can take the opportunity to meet you, but the time can't be too long. I have to go back and continue playing the female secretary."
Lin Xian nodded and sent her to the door: "Take care, Angelica, be careful." "Don't worry."
Angelica turned her head, her waterfall-like long hair swept through the air, and smiled at Lin Xian:
"You too."
At dawn on August 24, US time, a starship rocket carrying a spacecraft was launched from the Boca Chica Launch Center and entered outer space.
It was publicly claimed that this was just a cooperative experiment with the US Space Agency, and the details were not convenient to disclose.
Spacet Company and the US NASA have an unclear relationship in the open and in the dark, and this action did not attract much attention. Twenty hours later.
The spacecraft secretly landed, and an astronaut walked out with a square white mini-fridge in his arms, and took a special car to Spacet headquarters under secret protection.
"Heh heh heh, it's really amazing." A man who looked like Jask patted the mini-fridge: "I saw Jask often studying this thing a long time ago. I thought he was a white appliance enthusiast in private and had some kind of collecting hobby. I didn't expect that this thing is not a refrigerator!"
"It's really a strange idea. Since it's not a refrigerator, why do you have to design it like a refrigerator? Why can't it be a microwave oven, vacuum cleaner, or rice cooker?" "You talk too much."
Next to him, a female secretary with a serious face pushed up her red-framed glasses and glared at the man:
"Even when it's just the two of us, don't forget your job of playing Jask. This is a 24-hour job with no rest for even a minute." "Oh, no! You're lying!" The man who looked like Jask shouted, holding his head:
"You didn't provide me with the conditions to play Jask for 24 hours! Does the world's richest man Jask go to bed by himself every night? Is his luxury car used to haul sugarcane? Is his villa used to store potatoes?"
"Women! Women! I have to play the world's richest playboy. If there are no female models or female stars to accompany me at night, I can't perform my acting skills at all!"
"Enough! Shut up!"
The female secretary glared at him fiercely, and saw the green light on the encrypted communicator light up, which meant that someone had sent a communication request.
Needless to say, it must be Copernicus.
Because this encrypted communicator does not have free communication function, and has always been able to only contact in one direction.
The female secretary pressed the communication button.
The video screen was turned off, and only the voice came: "Was the capture successful?" It was an old man's hoarse voice.
The camera was facing the female secretary, and the man who looked like Jask leaned over and waved at the camera:
"Hi! Boss! You should have called earlier so you could hear my urgent needs. I've encountered some insurmountable difficulties in playing Jask and must apply for Victoria's assistance." "Cough cough, I mean Victoria's Secret's assistance, can you approve it for me?"
However...
Neither the old man with the hoarse voice nor the female secretary paid any attention to this drama queen.
"The capture was successful."
The female secretary replied softly, pointing to the white mini-fridge next to her: "What's next? Are you coming to pick it up? Or should we send it to you? Or should we find a place to store it for you?" "Open it."
The old man's voice was hoarse and calm:
"Point the camera at the mini-fridge, open the refrigerator door, and let me see what's inside." The female secretary turned her head and looked at the man who looked like Jask. There was no reaction.
"What's wrong?"
The old man's voice became serious:
"Why don't you open it? Do I need to repeat myself?" "Ah? What?"
The man who looked like Jask made a trumpet shape with his hands and put it next to his ear, shouting with his throat:
"Boss, is the signal bad there? I can't hear what you're saying! Did you approve my application? Can I specify which one, no, not which one, but how many Victoria's Secret models? Please tell me how many you approved for me?" "I told you to open the refrigerator!" The old man raised his tone, stern and majestic. "Oh oh, hi, you meant open the refrigerator."
The man who looked like Jask pouted, started entering the password on the screen, and muttered in a low voice:
"So my proposal was rejected? How can I play that kind of temperament if I can't really enjoy the extravagant life of the world's richest man?" "Heh heh, aren't you playing it pretty well?"
The female secretary's words were full of impatience. After the mini-fridge password was entered, she directly pulled the refrigerator door open with a click:
"We don't need you anymore, Fake-Jask, get out of here and don't block the camera!" The man who looked like Jask muttered something in his mouth and left obediently. The female secretary picked up the encrypted communicator and pointed the camera at the inside of the mini-fridge. Only the old man's gradually rapid breathing could be heard from the communicator.
In the mini-fridge, two small blue balls of electricity flashing with intense charges rotated rapidly around a non-existent central axis, rotating, rotating, rotating, without stopping at all.
Restless electric filaments,
Bright blue light,
Constantly impacting the core of the sphere.
This extremely wonderful extraterrestrial object made people feel mysterious and unknown, and also made them feel the extraordinary energy it contained.
"Heh heh heh"
The old man let out a hoarse, dry laugh:
"Very good, very good... This is it, exactly the same..."
The female secretary held the encrypted communicator steadily, letting the old man appreciate it, and said after a while:
"This space-time particle capture device was left by Jask. We don't understand many of its functions, but since we captured it, the detector has inexplicably been unable to detect the signal."
"Hmm."
The old man thought for a while:
"It should be related to the relationship between energy and activity, but there is no need to rush to study this matter. When I need to use it, I can directly ask others for the answer."
"Now, I will send you an address. You send this space-time particle along with the mini-fridge. Only you, along with Fake-Jask, the two of you. The trip must be kept secret and don't tell anyone else."
"Huh?"
On the sofa, the man who looked like Jask jumped up, pointing at his nose: "Me too? Why me? I'm not going!" "You must be seeing that I have no value and want to kill me to silence me! I'm not going! Besides, this item was not in the conditions we agreed on before!"
Click.
The female secretary took out a pistol from her coat pocket, aimed it at the roaring man next to the sofa: "What? Is playing Jask on a business trip not one of your job duties? One sentence, are you going or not?"
"Cough cough."
The man who looked like Jask coughed lightly, slowly raising his hands: "You you misunderstood. What I mean is, a business trip, a business trip is okay." "But..."
He smiled hey hey, licked his lips: "There must be a business trip allowance!"
The encrypted communicator was hung up, and the screen displayed a location. The female secretary read it once: "Switzerland, Interlaken."
Interlaken.
Is a city located in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, and the Latin original meaning is "between two lakes."
The fact is also true.
Geographically, Interlaken is located between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, with beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate. It is known as "Paradise Town" and is one of the oldest health resorts in Switzerland.
Outside the city, there are vast green meadows, and many castle-style buildings are scattered among the low mountains.
Switzerland implements a system of private land ownership, and most of the land outside Paradise Town is privately owned, for these wealthy people to build vacation villas, pastures, manors, wineries, and anything you want to build. In a complex bunker deep.
A man and a woman, one in front of the other, walked into the underground secret base.
The woman held a square white mini-fridge in her hand, and the man opened the base door for her. The shocking scene inside with bright lights came into view. "You must be seeing that I have no value and want to kill me to silence me! I'm not going! Besides, this item was not in the conditions we agreed on before!"
Click.
The female secretary took out a pistol from her coat pocket, aimed it at the roaring man next to the sofa: "What? Is playing Jask on a business trip not one of your job duties? One sentence, are you going or not?"
"Cough cough."
The man who looked like Jask coughed lightly, slowly raising his hands: "You you misunderstood. What I mean is, a business trip, a business trip is okay." "But..."
He smiled hey hey, licked his lips: "There must be a business trip allowance!"
The encrypted communicator was hung up, and the screen displayed a location. The female secretary read it once: "Switzerland, Interlaken."
Interlaken.
Is a city located in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, and the Latin original meaning is "between two lakes."
The fact is also true.
Geographically, Interlaken is located between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, with beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate. It is known as "Paradise Town" and is one of the oldest health resorts in Switzerland.
Outside the city, there are vast green meadows, and many castle-style buildings are scattered among the low mountains.
Switzerland implements a system of private land ownership, and most of the land outside Paradise Town is privately owned, for these wealthy people to build vacation villas, pastures, manors, wineries, and anything you want to build. In a complex bunker deep.
A man and a woman, one in front of the other, walked into the underground secret base.
The woman held a square white mini-fridge in her hand, and the man opened the base door for her. The shocking scene inside with bright lights came into view.
Different from the castle above the ground, which is full of the imprint of the times, this underground base is full of high-tech equipment.
Supercomputers, hibernation pods, robots, various large devices that are incomprehensible, have everything. Many seemingly familiar technologies are much more advanced than the outside world, as if the winding underground passage was just a time tunnel, and this entry and exit brought them to the future.
It can be seen that the owner here pays great attention to concealment. There is not a single living person in the huge underground base, and all kinds of robots are working.
The female secretary led the man who looked like Jask forward, and the two couldn't help but look around, amazed. Finally.
In the base hall, an old man sitting on a rotating mechanical chair turned his chair around.
Most of his hair had fallen out, he had no beard, his eyebrows were also gray-white, and wrinkles surged on his face:
"Children, bring me the space-time particle."
The man who looked like Jask, like teasing a dog, stood in front of the automatic robot, watching it look for a way around and couldn't get through, and laughed happily.
The female secretary walked forward with the mini-fridge, entered the password, opened it, and placed it on the floor in front of the old man.
The old man lowered his head slightly, looked at the entangled space-time particles rotating around each other inside, and showed a satisfied smile:
"What a great gift, thank you for Rhine's gift." Suddenly.
With a bang.
The door of the underground base was pushed open, and a tall young man strode in against the bright lights of the corridor.
The old man was a little puzzled, and when he squinted his eyes and saw the young man's face clearly, his expression became puzzled:
"Lin Xian?"
Click clack!
With the arrival of the uninvited guest, the female secretary and the man who looked like Jask hurriedly took out their pistols from their waists, cocked them, and aimed them at the young man who was slowly walking over.
Two black gun muzzles pressed against the temples on the left and right, preventing Lin Xian from continuing to move forward. "Heh heh heh"
The elderly old man chuckled twice and shook his head:
"Let's see, who is here? You really managed to track this place. Did you discover the strangeness of Jask? It's a pity, it's too late." "Silly child, you don't think I don't hold grudges, do you? It's just that your level is not worth my action at all. I respect every scientist I killed, but obviously you don't deserve my respect." "Just like your reckless coming here, you are brave but lack strategy. Everyone here is my man, what are you going to fight me with?"
"That's right, Copernicus. It's just that you stole my line." Lin Xian stretched out his right hand, his palm opened in Copernicus's shocked eyes.
The man who looked like Jask removed the pistol from Lin Xian's temple and placed it flat on his palm.
Lin Xian flicked his fingers.
The black pistol spun at his fingertips. He smiled slightly, tilted his head and looked at Copernicus:
"Everyone here is my man, what are you going to fight me with?"