Genius Club.

Chapter 170 The Thief Cries Thief
"Ji Xinshui?"

Lin Xian read it again.

What a strange name.

"Ji Xinshui."

Chu Anqing read out the name and opened her eyes wide:

"I know that name!"

"Have you heard of it?"

"Yes!" Chu Anqing nodded affirmatively:

"I heard my father talk about him, and because his name is so unique...it is very memorable."

"My father has always been very interested in the scientific field and scientists, especially scientists in Donghai City. He knows almost all of them."

Lin Xian was very interested:

"Your father also funded Ji Xinshui's research?"

Chu Anqing shook her head and smiled:

"That won't happen."

"This Mr. Ji Xinshui is a very remarkable person! He doesn't need my father's financial support... He may be richer than my father."

Richer than Chu Shanhe?
Lin Xian blinked.

That's incredible...

There are probably many people who are richer than Chu Shanhe in the whole country.

Of course, Lin Xian was just guessing. He didn't know how much money Chu Shanhe had, and who knew which of the rumors was true.

Seeing that Lin Xian was quite interested, Chu Anqing continued:
"I remember my father said... Ji Xinshui was also very unsuccessful when he was young. He was not well received in the research field and was even excluded and targeted by people from the Tunghai University Research Institute."

"But then, he suddenly seemed to have a sudden epiphany. He published several heavyweight research results in succession, became famous in the field of medicinal chemistry, and secured his position as the dean of the Graduate School of Tunghai University."

……

It turned out to be the case.

It is indeed a story of "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west" and "Don't look down on the young and poor."

He had always been excluded from the academic field, just like Xu Yun.

But later he made a big splash and directly became the director of the institute. This is a very cool article.

"Then he should have been Xu Yun's mentor for a long time. It is very likely that Xu Yun was his student from graduate student to doctoral student to researcher."

Lin Xian thought:

"If that's the case, then the two of them should have a very good relationship. In this graduation photo, he looks at Xu Yun very kindly, as if he were his own son."

Chu Anqing nodded:

"Now that you mention it, I remember that my father mentioned this old man when he was talking to me about Xu Yun some time ago. Xu Yun and he had a very good relationship. He was like a mentor to me, like a father."

"And Mr. Xu Yun's wife was introduced to him by Mr. Ji. She is his niece... So the relationship between Xu Yun and this old gentleman was no longer just teacher and student. They were relatives."

That's it...

Lin Xian listened to Chu Anqing's description and fell into deep thought.

Chu Shanhe and Xu Yun have a good relationship that is obvious to all. He has funded Xu Yun for ten years, and Xu Yun is very grateful, so the two must have talked a lot in private. The information from Chu Anqing should be true and come from Xu Yun.

But there is one question I still don't understand...

[Since Xu Yun and Ji Xinshui had such a good relationship that they were like father and son, why did they go their separate ways over hibernation research and have no contact for ten years? ]

Isn't this a bit of an exaggeration?

"Then why did they break up in the end even though they had such a good relationship?" Lin Xian asked his question directly.

Chu Anqing shook her head:

"Then I'm not sure. My father only mentioned this to me during casual conversations, and I didn't ask in detail."

"I only know that Mr. Ji Xinshui later left Donghai University and seemed to go into business? Or maybe he went to do some research? I'm not sure about that, but from what my father said, this old man has a very high status and power."

Lin Xian took out his cell phone and searched for the name [Ji Xinshui].

I found a lot of news.

But most of them were from several years ago, and the most recent one was from two years ago. Perhaps because he was getting older, Mr. Ji rarely showed up in public.

Lin Xian casually clicked on a piece of news.

It was an international medical conference, and Ji Xinshui was sitting in the middle of the first row. It seemed that his status was indeed not low.

Enlarge the photo. Ji Xinshui at this moment is indeed much older than the photo in the graduation album.

My hair is almost completely gone, and the remaining hair is all gray. My face has many more wrinkles, my skin is very dry, and I even have some age spots.

Time is not forgiving.

Compared to his appearance in the graduation photo, he looks about 20 years older. It seems that Ji Xinshui is at least years old now.

Recalling that Ji Lin and Ji Xinshui have the same surname, and Ji Lin himself said that Xu Yun is his sister's husband, and that he was adopted.

Calculating it this way...

[Aren't these people a family? 】

The relationship was a bit messy, so Lin Xian decided to sort out his thoughts after returning.

After taking a photo of the doctoral graduation with his mobile phone, he said goodbye to Chu Anqing and returned home.

Take out a piece of paper and start summarizing the complicated relationships between these people.

Based on the known information and the timeline, Lin Xian deduced that the story between these people should be like this:
First of all, Ji Xinshui is a very successful, powerful, and prestigious person, and his rise to fame was very sudden. It can be regarded as a template for a cool novel. When he met Professor Xu Yun, he was already the dean of the Graduate School of Tunghai University (information comes from Chu Anqing).

Then, Ji Xinshui met the young Professor Xu Yun and accepted him as his student. It seemed that the two had a very good relationship both as a teacher and a student and as a private person, as close as father and son. Ji Xinshui also introduced his niece to Xu Yun as a partner, and arranged for the two to get married and give birth to Xu Yiyi (information from Chu Anqing).

And under this little niece, there is an adopted little boy named Ji Lin. Since Ji Lin calls Xu Yun's wife "sister", he should be adopted by Xu Yun's wife's father, Ji Xinshui's brother, so his last name is the same as Ji Xinshui's (information from Ji Lin).

During this period, everyone's life was happy. Ji Xinshui and Xu Yun became closer, Xu Yun and Ji Xinshui's niece were in love, and even the young Ji Lin became friends with Xu Yun, listening to his stories and reading the books he brought (the information came from Ji Lin).

After that, misfortunes happened one after another. Xu Yun's wife died of amniotic fluid embolism when giving birth to Xu Yiyi. But this incident did not seem to affect the relationship between Xu Yun and Ji Xinshui. The time when their relationship broke down should be when Xu Yiyi fell from the slide when she was four or five years old and became a vegetable. Xu Yun insisted on studying hibernation chamber technology, and the two parted ways (information from Xu Yun).

In the next ten years, they were strangers, without any intersection, and lived their own lives. Until I copied the manuscript from the future to Xu Yun, allowing him to conquer the hibernation chamber filling fluid, and also causing Xu Yun to die tragically on the street (the information came from me).

After Xu Yun's death, the situation became tense. Tang Xin was invited by Ji Xinshui to come to Donghai City for research. Ji Lin also came to Donghai to find the murderer in order to avenge Xu Yun. Huang Que also warned him that he was in a cat-and-mouse game, and Tang Xin died in front of him at 00:42. Zhou Duanyun was very likely one of the murderers (the information came from himself).

Click.

Lin Xian closed the pen cap.

“That’s roughly how these people relate to each other.”

Lin Xian felt like his reasoning seemed to be stuck somewhere...

There are a few places where the logic doesn't make sense.

He had always suspected that Ji Xinshui and Zhou Duanyun were both involved in the murder of Tang Xin, but now it seems that Xu Yun and Ji Xinshui are as close as father and son... If the same murderer killed Xu Yun and Tang Xin, could Ji Xinshui really do it?

“In fact, it may not be impossible.”

Lin Xian suddenly felt that it was meaningless to look for humanity in a murderer. Since he dared to kill a stranger for some purpose, he would dare to kill his relatives for greater benefits.

Although there is a saying that even a tiger will not eat its own cubs, in real life... there are many cases of fathers and sons killing each other and brothers turning against each other.

Continuing with this logic...

If Ji Xinshui was indeed the murderer who killed Xu Yun, then why did Ji Lin come to Donghai shouting "revenge for Xu Yun"? Is this a case of being in the dark, being kept in the dark, or pretending to be ignorant?
Lin Xian thought about this question for a long time while spinning his pen.

He didn't think Ji Lin was such a stupid person.

He is a globally recognized genius mystery novelist. He has also assisted the Longguo police in solving many overseas cases, and helped the Donghai City Public Security Bureau solve many difficult and complicated cases in just a few days.

This kind of plot, which can only be found in detective comics, is enough to prove that Ji Lin is a truly talented detective.

"So... since I am an ordinary person, I can deduce to this extent by finding clues and find out the suspicion of Ji Xinshui and Zhou Duanyun."

"Ji Lin has such a high IQ, so much experience in handling cases, and he is in the Donghai Public Security Bureau where he can obtain a lot of clues and information... There is no reason why he can't find out that Ji Xinshui and Zhou Duanyun are suspected of crimes!"

boom.

Lin Xian slammed the pen in his hand directly on the table.

In an instant, everything became clear and I had an epiphany.

As expected, he had always felt that something was wrong... Now that all the clues were gathered together, Lin Xian finally discovered the biggest blind spot in all these events -

[With all the clues so obvious, Ji Lin not only did not suspect Zhou Duanyun and Ji Xinshui, he did not even suspect that the chat records were fake, and he used these fake chat records to test himself for no reason! ]

Lin Xian cursed inwardly, fortunately he had been careful this morning and did not stand up directly to prove Tang Xin's innocence.

This is a complete trap!
This trap is too deep...

If all his reasoning was correct, then Tang Xin's death was also part of this trap! The purpose was to lure in this big fish!

"It seems that it's not that the Donghai City police's investigation was ineffective."

Lin Xian calmed down, sat back in his chair, and stared at the dark night sky outside the window:

"Someone took advantage of the trust and deliberately disrupted the direction of the investigation..."

"[The thief cries thief!]"

(End of this chapter)