Genius Club

Chapter 258

Chapter 258: Chapter 73 Welcome, Join the Genius Club Chapter 258: Chapter 73 Welcome, Join the Genius Club “I know,”

Ji Xinshui nodded.

As an expert in pharmacology, he naturally knew about this:

“The drug injection death penalty involves administering three injections to the prisoner.

The first injection is just a common anesthetic, which is not lethal; the second injection is a muscle relaxant, which will cause the prisoner’s muscles to relax and gradually stop breathing; the third injection is the main lethal agent, typically potassium chloride, and an overdose can easily kill a person.”

Upon reaching this point, Ji Xinshui had a sudden realization.

He looked somewhat resistant and also a bit puzzled:

“You...

you mean to say, have me undergo the death penalty?”

Lin Xian nodded:

“Just like today, I have arranged everything for you.

When it’s time for your execution, we will replace the second and third injections with saline solution.

That way, you will only fall into a deep sleep from the first anesthetic injection, and the prearranged coroner will issue you a death certificate, and then...

...

we will legitimately transport your ‘corpse’ out.”

“In this way, you will have died in the eyes of the law, in front of the whole world; but you will come back to life in the Genius Club and the annals of history.”

This was Lin Xian’s plan.

He intended to make Ji Xinshui voluntarily undergo the death penalty.

And his bargaining chip...

was this unique, indistinguishably authentic invitation to the Genius Club.

He was betting on Ji Xinshui’s desire and persistence.

If Ji Xinshui were a rational person, his plan would mostly fail, as Ji Xinshui would weigh the risks and not dare to trust himself or take risks so easily with something as serious as the death penalty.

But if.

If Ji Xinshui was a person of desire, of obsession, of madness, someone who for the sake of joining the Genius Club would “disown his relatives,” “kill his most beloved student,” “use his subordinates as cannon fodder,” “casually trample the lives of others”...

Lin Xian believed.

Such a person would most likely take the bait.

As the saying goes, humans die for wealth as birds die for food; driven by a significant enough interest, capitalists are even willing to risk their lives.

What’s more, for Ji Xinshui, what is the Genius Club?

This was Lin Xian’s gambit for today.

In front of him.

Ji Xinshui was obviously hesitating.

His face expressed indecision as he said in a low voice:

“I will be released without charge in just over ten hours...

then, perhaps I could arrange a more solemn, more dignified fake death.”

Lin Xian’s expression remained unchanged, and he did not try to persuade him further.

He didn’t know if Ji Xinshui was hesitating, becoming doubtful, or whether he simply didn’t care about faking his death and was more concerned about the dignity and solemnity of his death.

But in any case, it was no longer time to stay here.

The more one talks, the more they lose.

It was time for him to leave.

“Ji Xinshui, this is a test,”

Lin Xian placed his right hand’s index and middle fingers on the invitation and pulled it back towards himself:

“Of course, you can choose whether to participate or not.

But for us...

we would prefer to have a trustworthy partner.”

Lin Xian stood up, took the invitation, and deliberately shook the Genius Club’s seal at Ji Xinshui:

“Goodbye, Ji Xinshui.”

Lin Xian put the invitation into a file bag and walked toward the interrogation room’s door:

“I’ll be waiting for you at the Genius Club.”

Bang.

The solid door of the interrogation room closed.

...

Whew.

Lin Xian let out a sigh of relief.

He had managed to get through the intimidation act.

The outcome of this gamble depended on whether Ji Xinshui could overcome his own desires.

Walking through the corridor, Lin Xian returned to the interrogation monitoring room.

The staff, Chu Shanhe, and Officer Liu immediately crowded around him:

“How did it go?”

“Any progress?”

He also remembered what Zhao Yingjun had said to him.

In the future...

would there be something he was willing to risk his life for?

Suddenly.

On the surveillance screen of Ji Xinshui’s detention room.

The old man who had been looking down for a long time finally raised his head and looked into the camera.

Everyone in the monitoring room held their breath for a moment!

“Send in the interrogator.”

On the screen, Ji Xinshui’s eyes were resolute, and a genuine smile appeared on his face:

“I have something to confess.”

...

At this moment.

Ji Xinshui in the interrogation room had clearly made up his mind.

He had never feared death.

Never.

He was already 86 years old.

At his age, no one truly feared death.

Moreover...

If it weren’t for Copernicus, he would have died at 56.

At 56, he was still just an ordinary researcher at the Donghai University Research Institute.

He was born in an era of war, fleeing overseas on a refugee boat with his parents as a child.

Losing his parents early, he struggled alone in poverty to study, finally returning to his homeland with dreams, only to live without achieving much, facing exclusion in the research institute.

He wasn’t skilled in socializing, adapting, or playing politics and was treated as an outcast by colleagues, often met with harsh words.

At 56, he stood on the rooftop, ready to jump down to end his nightmarish life, when he met Copernicus.

Copernicus from the Genius Club showed him the invitation he had yearned for all his life.

His life was changed from then on.

Copernicus could do everything and was almighty.

Soon, with Copernicus’s casual help, he invented a major patent, secured the position of the head of the Donghai University Research Institute, with numerous transnational corporations under him, wealthy enough to rival nations.

Yet he still loved his position as head of the Donghai University Research Institute the most.

Even though he had unlimited money and an influential name in the world.

He still preferred sitting in his office as head of the institute, drinking tea, watching students in the campus, and looking at that building he almost jumped from.

The 56-year-old Ji Xinshui indeed died beneath that high building.

But the 56-year-old who yearned for the Genius Club was born on the rooftop of that building.

If it had not been for his parting ways with his favorite student, Xu Yun, whom he tried to force to return to his side by abandoning the research on the Hibernation Pod...

He definitely would not have resigned from that position he loved most in his heart.

When one day Copernicus told him to kill Xu Yun,

He was in agony.

But at the same time, he was helpless.

His life was given by Copernicus, his life was a boon from the Genius Club, and his greatest wish in executing Copernicus’s orders was to also receive an invitation to the Genius Club.

In fact, while Xu Yun was alive, he had secretly visited Xu Yiyi many times.

He had deliberately arranged Zheng Xiangyue’s hospital room next to Xu Yiyi’s.

But after Xu Yun died...

He never went again.

He knew that once he had embarked on this road to the Genius Club, toward the sun, toward ultimate power and authority, he must accept everything and be ready to give it all up at any time.

Now, it was time for him to give it all up, to vanish from reality, to become a part of history.

To die and to be reborn.

This was the final test of the Genius Club.

The 86-year-old Ji Xinshui would “die” on the execution stand.

But the 86-year-old Ji Xinshui would be reborn in the Genius Club.

He had long planned everything for the time after his initiation; he wanted to become a person like Copernicus, standing beside him, looking down on the entire world.

He was never afraid of death, especially when this was just a false death to fool the world.

That moment of hesitation was only because he hoped to die with dignity, to be lavishly memorialized and praised for the legend he left in the medical field.

But perhaps...

Willingly giving up these things to become a purer presence in the long river of human history might just be the key to this final test.

The moment he realized this,

Ji Xinshui seemed to see a great light shining before him!

Copernicus was standing in that light, applauding him:

“Welcome, to the Genius Club!”