Ji Lin didn't look up.

He stared intently at the various news items flashing across his laptop screen, his right hand constantly scrolling the mouse wheel.

"I've looked at the list you gave me, and it's all wrong."

"If the list is wrong… then you should go find more clues…"

The old man had a headache, but he didn't doubt Ji Lin's judgment.

If Ji Lin said it was wrong, then it was definitely wrong. There was no need to question it. This child had never disappointed him, nor had he ever missed anything.

"Since you've ruled out all the possibilities on the list, then go out and look for new clues, and find the person who is disrupting history as soon as possible… What's the use of staying at home all the time? Is that person going to come to your door?"

After hearing the old man's words.

Ji Lin sighed softly and smiled.

"Arrogance… you are truly arrogant. How much do you look down on this person disrupting history to be able to say such a thing?"

"Why do you say that?" The old man frowned.

"According to you, the person who disrupted history helped Xu Yun and solved the problem of the hibernation pod filling fluid. Now that Xu Yun has died in an accident, unless that person is an idiot, he will definitely be on guard now and won't dare to act rashly and expose himself."

The old man turned his head away after hearing this.

"So you don't want to startle the snake? You don't want him to realize that we're looking for him, so he'll relax his guard and gradually reveal his true colors?"

"That's not the point."

Ji Lin replied faintly. He closed his laptop, looked up at the old man.

"Actually, I've been wondering… how exactly are we going to prove that someone is indeed disrupting history?"

He thought for a few seconds and continued,

"How are we going to define the original history? And how are we going to define the disrupted history?"

"This can't be explained in a single sentence. According to your requirements, we can't kill innocent people indiscriminately, because if we kill the wrong person, we'll lose the qualification to receive an invitation from the Genius Club."

"That's right." The old man nodded.

"We must never kill the wrong person. We must strictly prove that he has indeed disrupted history and obtain the most accurate evidence before we can kill him."

"Do you know the original history?"

Ji Lin looked up and stared at the old man.

"Do you know the original historical trajectory, the historical direction?"

"Of course, I don't know." The old man shook his head.

"If I knew, would I need you to investigate? I could just compare it and find that person."

"So, that's the problem, arrogance." Ji Lin spread his hands.

"You don't know what the original history was, and you don't know the original historical direction, so how are we supposed to judge whether someone is disrupting history? By intuition?"

"No." The old man answered crisply.

"We must find absolute evidence."

"Look, you're just asking the impossible."

Ji Lin smiled and lowered his head, continuing to open the laptop screen and staring at the glowing screen.

"Then don't complain that I'm acting slowly… You don't tell me anything, and you don't give me any hints, so I have to go online and do some research, right? Maybe I can find some clues on some forum…"

Hearing Ji Lin's laughter.

The old man frowned.

He understood…

This child was doing it on purpose.

He still didn't believe what he said and thought he was hiding something from him.

This was a tactic to provoke him and get him to take the bait!

"Ji Lin, you're trying to trick me again, aren't you?"

The old man pulled over a wooden chair and sat down.

"Give up, Ji Lin, I've told you everything I know."

"No, no… not nearly."

The webpage on the laptop flashed across Ji Lin's pupils. He blinked and continued.

"There are still many things you haven't told me… like the bizarre way of killing you require: it has to be a car accident, and it has to be within the 60 seconds between 00:42 and 00:43 at night."

"This incredible method is not only unsafe and not concealed enough, but it is also difficult to implement. Sometimes we stake out for several months and can't find a suitable opportunity to kill someone."

"That's 00:42, arrogance… A normal person would already be asleep at this time. How are we supposed to cause a car accident to kill someone?"

"Is it difficult, Ji Lin?" The old man leaned back in his chair with a smile.

"I think you've done pretty well every time you've carried it out, haven't you? It's a bit troublesome, but didn't you eventually succeed? Like this operation, wasn't it a success the first time?"

"That's because you cooperated from the inside." Ji Lin replied faintly.

"Actually, I'm quite curious. You met Xu Yun before he attended the celebration banquet… What did you say to him?"

"Said what you told me to say."

The old man put away his smile and stared at Ji Lin.

"Ji Lin, you don't think you're a good person, do you? You're acting like you were unwilling to kill Xu Yun. Over the years, your hands have long been stained with blood… It's too late for you to be a good person in the Xu Yun case."

"Although I was the one who suggested killing Xu Yun, you were the one who carried out the entire plan! You clearly know that I'm heartbroken about killing Xu Yun, so why do you keep bringing it up in front of me?"

"If you really want to avenge Xu Yun, then hurry up and find the person who disrupted history! And use your brain to think carefully! How to prove that he did disrupt history!"

"Then I'd like to ask you, arrogance."

Ji Lin said softly.

"How did you prove that Xu Yun disrupted history?"

"Because it was impossible for him to develop the hibernation pod filling fluid. He doesn't have that kind of ability!" The old man frowned.

"Isn't that obvious?"

"Can this kind of subjective judgment be used as evidence?" Ji Lin spread his hands.

"Then I can accuse anyone of disrupting history. Xu Yun clearly didn't deserve my sister, but you forced them together. Isn't that also disrupting history?"

The old man frowned and didn't speak.

It was clear that he didn't want to talk about Xu Yun's matter, even loathed it. It was a scar he didn't want to uncover, but Ji Lin repeatedly tore it open.

"Talk, arrogance. If you don't tell me the criteria for judgment, how am I supposed to start working?"

Ji Lin smiled and lowered his head.

"Look, you really are hiding something from me, and it's something very important. Your understanding of the Genius Club is definitely not as ignorant as you say."

"Since you won't say, then let me guess."

Ji Lin propped his arm on the floor and slowly stood up.

He walked step by step to the old man and circled around the chair.

"Every time you kill someone in the past, your reason has always been the four words 'disrupting history', but when it comes to evidence, you can't actually produce any. You're more like shooting an arrow first and then drawing the target, or… maybe you don't even know what the evidence is, or what disrupting history is. Instead, someone told you—"

"This is the person, he disrupted history, go kill him."

"And every time you kill someone, your requirements are very strange, very bizarre, even unbelievable. You require that the death must be by car accident, and the time of death must be within the 60 seconds between 00:42 and 00:43."

"This kind of behavior is really too strange, as if you're afraid others won't know you're deliberately killing someone. So, I think… there are two possible reasons why you're doing this."

*Da.*

Ji Lin stopped.

He placed his left hand on the old man's shoulder, squinted his eyes, and stared at the old man's dry eyes.

"Either you're actually a copycat, deliberately imitating someone's way of killing, and believing that doing so will allow you to join the Genius Club like him. That's why you're so blindly killing in this way, regardless of the consequences, because you don't even know why you're doing it."

"Or, you're deliberately performing for someone to see, so that he knows clearly that these people were all killed by you, like asking for credit and showing off, like you're going through an exam arranged by the Genius Club."

…

Hearing Ji Lin's words, the old man didn't say a word and closed his eyes.

Ji Lin smiled and stood up straight.

"Actually, there's a third possibility."

He put his arms around the old man's neck from behind and placed three fingers of his right hand on the old man's carotid artery.

"These people who disrupted history were killed at the behest of someone in the Genius Club."

"He must have promised you some benefits… promised you something. That's why you're doing these unbelievable things so firmly despite knowing so little, like a dog biting on the orders of its master."

The old man's heart was beating a little faster. Ji Lin leaned close to the old man's ear and said softly.

"Arrogance."

"In the Genius Club… who are you being a dog for?"