Genius Club-Chapter 523 - 90 Millennium Stakes (Three-in-One Finale)
Lin Xian rose from his crouched position and looked down at Chu Anqing, who was a head shorter:
"Are you okay?"
Chu Anqing nodded and then shook her head:
"Sorry... I just failed to catch that space-time particle. I should have been able to, but as I jumped, I was yanked by the tether. Not only did I not jump up, but I was also pulled off course."
"So, the space-time particle just brushed past the outer shell of the rice cooker, pierced through my palm, and then vanished in a flash."
...
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes.
He caught the information in Chu Anqing’s words.
So that’s it.
The reason Chu Anqing reacted so intensely just now, screaming, bleeding from the nose, staring blankly, shaking all over, was all because she had come into contact with a space-time particle.
Lin Xian had not ruled out this possibility earlier.
But now, aside from Chu Anqing, no one else could see the space-time particle, so no one knew whether she had actually caught it or not.
Regardless, that space-time particle captor, similar to a rice cooker, had fallen from the sky right before his eyes, striking the Skyspace Aircraft’s outer shell before tumbling into the clouds below.
From this perspective, as Liu Feng had said, human contact with space-time particles could still cause severe injury. At least it wasn’t silent and gentle like inanimate objects.
Only...
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes, recalling Chu Anqing’s desperate crying and pleading gaze directed at Huang Que, followed by her complete despair and her sobbing with her head in her hands after receiving an affirmative answer.
What had caused such a huge emotional stimulus for her?
What was it that made her desperately hope for a negative answer?
And what had allowed her to eventually calm herself and speak of the agreement about the note?
Back when he was celebrating his 25th birthday at the very first moment.
Chu Anqing had lured him to an empty, dark training room, and the moment the lights were turned on, she held up a birthday cake she’d made herself, wishing him a happy birthday.
It was also that early morning when he had confided in her the puzzle of the note that had been troubling him.
The puzzle was really too difficult.
So much so that even the confident Chu Anqing was immediately struck hard. Merely reading and understanding the problem nearly fried her brain, and she didn’t have the slightest clue.
However, Lin Xian had not had much expectation of her anyway and had simply laughed it off.
But now...
Could it be related to touching that space-time particle just now?
Why was Chu Anqing so confident, so certain about what should be written on that small note, to achieve those extremely demanding conditions and effects?
"Senior Lin Xian."
The Chu Anqing of now had stabilized her emotions completely.
She lifted her fair but slightly muddy face, looking at Lin Xian:
"Didn’t we have an agreement? Although I’m not as brilliant as you, as your friend, I will definitely find a way for you."
"And now, I’ve finally come up with that answer! Please believe me, Senior Lin Xian, I know what the note needs to say!"
She turned her head.
Looking at the exterior through the equipment cabin’s porthole, she saw the eerie flickering space-time particle continuing to jump and quiver, moving upward and downward along its original path and speed:
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"We don’t have much time left!"
Lin Xian nodded and looked toward Huang Que:
"Is it possible?"
Huang Que didn’t speak. He exhaled through his nose, closed his eyes, and slowly nodded:
"Gao Yang, go to the locked document box and get An Qing some paper and a pen."
In a Skyspace Aircraft, for safety reasons, especially to prevent sharp objects from flying around in zero gravity, things such as pens and paper, which weren’t strictly necessary, were usually locked in a document box attached to the cabin wall to prevent them from falling.
The baffled Gao Yang also understood that the situation was extremely complicated and urgent.
So, he didn’t complain or grumble as before and hurried to the document box beside the control panel.
He quickly unlocked the document box.
Taking out an A4 white sheet and a space-specific writing pen.
He hurriedly handed them to Chu Anqing.
Meanwhile, urgent reports from Driver Wei Cheng continued to transmit over the radio communications channel:
"The Skyspace Aircraft has descended below 40,000 meters! 39,000 meters... 38,000 meters... Director Huang! Please provide me with the next steps!"
The situation was urgent.
The capture of the space-time particle was hanging by a thread! They were about to miss the last chance!
Therefore, Chu Anqing didn’t waste any time at all.
After receiving the paper and pen from Gao Yang, she rushed to the unoccupied corner of the equipment cabin.
That was just below the stairway leading to the Mechanical Arm Cabin above.
With no one to see her there and no cameras around, it was a blind spot for all eyes.
She crouched down under the steel frame of the stairway, turned her back to everyone, and knelt on the ground.
Shh –
She tore off a bank-card-sized piece of the A4 white paper and placed it on the ground, then picked up the space pen with her gloved right hand.
Scratch scratch scratch...
Scratch scratch scratch...
Amid the faint sound of the pen on the paper, Chu Anqing quickly wrote two lines on the small note.
Then she folded it up.
Folding it twice, she pressed hard on the fold to make sure the note wouldn’t unfold or spring open, and that the writing inside wouldn’t be exposed.
She then rose from the ground and walked over to Lin Xian.
Her expression was somewhat moved.
Her eyes were flickering a bit.
But still, she bit her lower lip, swallowing many words, lifted her head, and looked straight into Lin Xian’s eyes:
"Senior Lin Xian, this is for you."
Using two fingers, she held the folded note and solemnly handed it to Lin Xian.
