Click.
The searing gun barrel pressed against Lin Xian's forehead.
He sighed helplessly... Big Face Cat was truly a hopeless and lousy teammate!
The situation was clear just a moment ago, CC had been driven into a corner!
Her last words were nothing more than a bluff, a desperate bet to see if she could scam a breakthrough from Big Face Cat.
And to think, Big Face Cat really did her a huge favor!
CC had no idea what was in the safe, nor did she know Big Face Cat's purpose, or what he needed the most...
But Big Face Cat directly confessed:
"An invitation! Could it be, in the safe, a Genius Club invitation!?"
It was truly like saying there was no silver buried here!
The son of a Fields Medalist mathematician, and that's the level of his intelligence?
After that, Big Face Cat was just in an overloaded pig-brain state.
And CC, pretending to surrender by placing her hands behind her head, did it to get the gun hidden in her hair, ready to shoot through the head.
...
"Go ahead, shoot."
Lin Xian felt somewhat weary.
Since his own plan to break the game had failed, there was no point in staying here anymore.
"You really are the least concerned about your life I have ever seen," CC remarked sincerely from behind her Ultraman mask.
"First disguising as me, getting into his car, and now causing such a huge commotion here... Do you really not fear death at all?"
"Stop wasting time, hurry it up."
Lin Xian closed his eyes, ready to get up early and rest:
"But I still want to know the answer to that question."
He pursed his lips:
"Since you're going to kill me anyway, why don't you just tell me the answer? It can be counted as a good deed, letting me die with some understanding."
"What exactly do you want to ask?" CC's gun still pressed tightly.
"I just want to know if there's anything between us," Lin Xian opened his eyes:
"I don't know how to describe it. But obviously, this isn't the first time you've seen me, right? At least you're not completely unfamiliar with me, there must be some special reason you didn't just shoot me dead."
"I won't hold any grudge if you kill me, go ahead. So, can you please tell me honestly now—"
Lin Xian, with the gun still pointed at him, looked directly into CC's eyes:
"Have we met before?"
"..."
"..."
CC raised the gun barrel, her serious gaze meeting Lin Xian's:
"No."
Bang!!!
...
...
The thunderous sound of the gun.
The smell of gunpowder hit him squarely in the face.
The intense ringing in his ears buzzed through Lin Xian's head.
The bone-piercing pain came from his ear—
?
Hold on.
His ear?
Lin Xian opened his eyes...
He had not returned to the familiar bedroom and was still in this warehouse full of safes.
The barrel of the gun in front of him was smoking... slightly off to the right.
The bullet had passed through the bone of Lin Xian's ear and embedded itself into the stone wall behind, blood slowly dripping from the burst eardrum.
"You're not killing me?"
Lin Xian was genuinely incredulous.
After what he had just done to her, and she had shot Big Face Cat without even blinking, how could she be reluctant to kill him?
There had to be something wrong...
If this scene were in a martial arts drama, you could be 100% sure that this female demon head must have fallen in love with him!
"You can go now. Don't interfere with my work."
CC turned around in silence, put away her pistol, and walked towards the safes at the back.
She began the clicking sounds of cracking the password.
Lin Xian stood still and did not speak...
Time passed, second by second.
Until a clear click, the sound of electricity, indicated the main circuit was restored.
Wu wa! Wu wa! Wu wa! Wu wa!
The alarm blared.
CC punched the unopened safe and sighed.
Lin Xian stepped forward.
"I want to ask a question."
"Where do you get all these questions?!"
CC was already somewhat out of control, turning his head and shouting through clenched teeth:
"You're the one wasting time here!"
"Just one, just one more."
Lin Xian smiled apologetically, pointing at the safe:
"Inside this Lin Xian's safe, is it really an invitation from the Genius Club?"
However.
There was no answer.
Wuuwaa! Wuuwaa! Wuuwaa! Wuuwaa!
Amidst the alarm, CC stood up and walked toward the big hole in the wall.
Without turning his head.
Boom!!!!
Boom!!!!
Boom!!!!
Fierce white light once again devoured the world, burning everything to ashes.
...
...
Sigh...
In his bedroom, Lin Xian sighed without opening his eyes.
The bedding felt unusually heavy today, almost suffocating him.
"Sigh..."
He sighed out of nowhere:
"For no reason at all, what does that woman want to do."
He truly couldn't understand.
Lin Xian yawned, covered his eyes, and rubbed them fiercely.
Daytime work and socializing were tiring enough, couldn't his dreams offer some exhilarating sequences?
Lin Xian was increasingly impressed by his own imagination.
The plot in his dream was tense and thrilling, with each logic closely linked... If he were to write it into a novel and publish it, it would at least earn a lucrative contract.
"Off to sleep, off to sleep, I still have to labor tomorrow."
Lin Xian turned over.
A night without dreams.
...
The next day.
Lin Xian ran into a colleague from the production department at the reception desk; the colleague waved and came over:
"Group Leader Lin, your Rhine Cat Doll sample has been made, here's one for you first."
The colleague handed over a delicately crafted doll.
About the size of a soccer ball, it had a good material feel, with all the details and expressions well-crafted.
The little tail at the back was a small fluffy ball, very cute.
"Really nice," Lin Xian praised.
He smiled and patted his colleague from the production department on the shoulder:
"I'll take this one to President Zhao. You can send a few more to my office later."
The colleague nodded and left.
"Hey! Group Leader Lin! Are you going to President Zhao's office?"
Lin Xian turned his head, and the receptionist called out to him:
"A lady dropped off an invitation card this morning, said it was for our Zhao Yingjun, President Zhao... Can you take it to him too?"
"Sure, give it to me."
Since he was going to Zhao Yingjun's office anyway, it was not much trouble.
Lin Xian took the invitation card.
It was a dark red card, looking like a folded greeting card.
At the opening of the card, it was sealed with red wax, the contents unknown. Looking closely... the wax seal bore an exquisite emblem, very upscale.
"Is it a friend of President Zhao getting married?"
Lin Xian made a casual remark, turned the invitation over, and looked at the back—
A chill spread throughout his body...
He suddenly recalled Gao Yang's words in the bar:
"What's so strange about things from reality appearing in dreams?"
"The real big deal is when something from the dreams appears in reality!"
Lin Xian furrowed his brows tightly.
Looking at the back of the dark red card, there were five embossed golden characters—
[Genius Club]