Chapter 50 Gift

"So... our task today is to choose a gift for An Qing?"

Lin Xian looked at Ji Lin who was carefully selecting gifts in the gift area of ​​the mall and felt that the sun was coming out from the west:

"As for that, isn't it a waste of time to spend all your afternoon shopping for gifts when you're so busy?"

"Just think of it as a holiday for the team members. They've been working overtime for so long."

Ji Lin said softly, looking at the Barbie gift box in his hand from front to back, left to right, up and down, and then put it back.

"Don't you think we should look at some more mature gifts?"

Lin Xian looked around at the colorful and tender children's gift area, feeling like Alice who had strayed into Wonderland:

"An Qing is celebrating her 19th birthday, not her 9th birthday."

"What should a 19-year-old girl like?"

Ji Lin raised his head and asked seriously:

"I've never given anyone a gift, and I don't know what to give."

"Then how would you write a story about giving gifts?"

"I will use my strengths and avoid side descriptions, and simply skip the birthday gift plot."

"It's really yours...but I think you don't need to be so serious."

Lin Xian scratched his head and walked towards the luxury display cabinets:

"A birthday gift is actually just a formality. You really don't need to choose it so carefully. Just have this thing. It represents more of a blessing and concern. On the contrary, it doesn't matter what the gift itself is."

"That's what I'm saying..."

Ji Lin followed Lin Xian, looking left and right:

"But it's rare to attend someone else's birthday party, so I still want to give her a gift that she really likes."

"You don't know her well, how do you know what she likes." Lin Xian smiled helplessly:

"Women have deep desires. Sometimes figuring out what they really like may be more difficult than solving the crime itself."

"That's not necessarily the case."

Ji Lin suddenly realized it and stared at Lin Xian's back:

"Actually, Chu Anqing is pretty easy to understand."

…

March 28th.

On this day, Ji Lin and Lin Xian helped the Fourth Criminal Investigation Section of the Donghai City Public Security Bureau solve an old case.

It's quite helpless sometimes.

Lin Xian and Ji Lin looked at the files sent by other departments with a helpful attitude, and easily found key clues to help solve the case. However, there has been no progress on the part of their special team, which has also made the morale of the team members very low.

The main reason is still the lack of clues and evidence, which has caused the progress of solving the case to stall and reach a dead end.

"It would be great if we could find the vehicles that were involved in the accident."

One female team member complained:

"I just don't understand. There are so many cameras in the East China Sea. How can those vehicles disappear out of thin air?"

"Cameras always have blind spots."

A male team member next to him sighed and said:

"If the vehicles responsible for the accident insist on taking the main road, we will definitely not lose them. The surveillance at the intersection can be connected. But the situation is the same every time. After these vehicles enter the blind spot of the surveillance, they disappear forever. I don’t know. Suddenly it disappeared into thin air."

"What do you think?"

Ji Lin looked at Lin Xian who was writing next to him:

"How do you think those vehicles disappeared out of thin air?"

Lin Xian turned his pen, lowered his head and thought:

"I think it is absolutely impossible to disappear out of thin air. Nothing in this world can disappear out of thin air. Those vehicles were either hidden secretly or moved away using some incredible means."

"What about?" Ji Lin asked with interest.

"I can't figure it out either."

Lin Xian shook his head:

"However, there are many similar scenes in movies, just like in "The Fast and the Furious", the protagonist Tang once drove a car to hide in a high-speed road.

truck

"If in reality the murderers also used this movie-style technique and drove the vehicle to the truck in a blind spot of surveillance... maybe our tracking clues would be cut off here."

"I've seen the video of the Audi and the taxi that were involved in the accident, and they disappeared on the highway outside the city. There were semi-trucks pulling containers everywhere. If they were hidden in the woods, it would be difficult to find them. Especially after such a long time, they have already dealt with it."

"So... the best plan is to intercept the vehicles that caused the accident at the scene." Ji Lin crossed his arms and concluded:

"Therefore, we should strengthen contact with scientific research departments. It is best to have access to the itinerary and meeting information of every scientist who comes to the East China Sea to study hibernation. If necessary, we can ambush in advance and use roadblocks to block arrests. Stay in the vehicle that escaped the accident."

"Of course, we must first ensure the safety of those scientists, which requires us to predict in advance which scientist will be murdered. This will be our main work in the future... Only by predicting in advance Only by determining which scientist the murderer wants to kill at next 00:42 can we catch the murderer and advance the case to the next stage. This is our only chance."

Everyone nodded, agreeing with this idea.

The same goes for Lin Xian.

He has also been waiting for the next murder at 00:42.

By then, the murderous driver who killed Xu Yun and Tang Xin will definitely appear again.

Just catch the driver...

Lin Xian turned his pen and looked at Ji Lin who was clearing away the papers on his desk.

Follow the clues and find conclusive evidence.

Zhou Duanyun, Ji Lin, Ji Xinshui... none of you can escape!

"Let's adjourn."

Ji Lin stood up and ended the meeting.

…

night.

On the outskirts of Donghai City, beside the university town, there is a group of villas near the lake.

Ji Lin's driver drove Lin Xian and Ji Lin to the door of Chu Anqing's villa in a black business car.

"What a coincidence, I didn't expect it to be here."

Ji Lin looked at the familiar route home:

"I live here too."

"You live here too?"

Lin Xian pressed down the car window and looked at the pleasant villa area. It must be very comfortable to live in this place, but it is a little far away from the city.

Chu Anqing told Lin Xian in the WeChat chat that this villa was Chu Shanhe's coming-of-age gift to her. However, for safety reasons, she is not allowed to live here alone. She is only allowed to hold birthday parties here for her classmates, or drink tea and play with her classmates here.

But you must be on time at night

Go home or go back to the dormitory!

In terms of access control, Chushanhe's rules are still very strict.

"I live in that building."

Ji Lin pointed it out to Lin Xian through the window.

"6."

Facing two peers who are a few years younger than him, and each of them has a villa near the lake, Lin Xian can only hit a 6 alone.

Although Lin Xian now has the ability to buy a set with full payment, but once the full payment is taken out... his pocket will be empty.

In the future, Liu Feng will be brought over to set up a laboratory for him, so it's better to save some money.

or……

Once the crisis around him is solved and he can copy some useful technological products from his dreams, he may be able to cooperate with the state officials and directly provide Liu Feng with a laboratory without spending any money.

However, that is all a story for later.

The cat-and-mouse game in front of us is not over yet, so we can't be careless, not to mention... Lin Xian has a hunch that maybe the real decisive battle is about to begin.

Pushing open the mahogany double doors of Chu Anqing's villa——

"Welcome, welcome! Welcome, senior!"

"Wow! It's really Ji Lin! Teacher Ji Lin is really here!"

The arrival of Lin Xian and Ji Lin made the girls from Tunghai University who had been waiting for a long time cheer in the villa.

When Chu Anqing first told them that Lin Xian was coming to attend the birthday party, they were very excited to meet this legendary senior.

but!

When I heard that the popular reasoner, the youngest nominee for the Oscar for Best Screenplay, the young, melancholy and handsome Ji Lin was coming too!

The screams almost penetrated the classroom floor!

In their opinion, meeting Ji Lin was much more exciting than meeting Lin Xian. This was a great god who could not be born easily!

As a result, a swarm of people gathered around me, asking for autographs with books and taking photos with their mobile phones.

"Hey, Senior Lin Xian, I'm the one cooking today!"

Chu Anqing wore an apron and walked out of the kitchen with a cooking spatula. It looked like that:

"My mother and I have learned a lot of special dishes, and you will not be disappointed!"

There were not many people in the room. They were all Chu Anqing's friends from school and high school. They were all girls, seven or eight in total.

Including Lin Xian and Ji Lin, there were only 10 people in total for this small birthday party. The scale was not large, but there were advantages to having fewer people, and everyone became closer to each other when chatting.

After a while, the food was served, and the huge birthday cake was lit with candles.

Turn off the lights.

The birthday party has officially begun.

In the birthday song that everyone was wishing, Chu Anqing made a wish to turn 19 in the swaying candlelight and blew out all the candles in one breath.

"I hope everyone's life will get better and better! Friendship will last forever!"

Chu Anqing happily cut the cake for everyone and handed the first piece to Ji Lin opposite:

"Ji Lin, I'm so happy to meet you! You must invite me to your birthday party then!"

"That's natural." Ji Lin took the cake with a smile and placed it in front of him:

"It's an honor to join you."

"I want to go too!" "Can we go get some food?" "Teacher Ji Lin! Let us go too when the time comes!"

The girls around her age probably couldn't get over Ji Lin's appearance and temperament. For their age, Ji Lin's model is a dimensionality reduction attack.

"Of course, everyone comes."

Ji Lin didn't seem to be very good at dealing with girls, and he basically nodded his head and responded to requests.

Then, it’s time to give gifts.

There were gifts from everyone, and Chu Anqing opened them one by one in front of everyone, and she liked them all.

Lin Xian gave him a LV co-branded handbag.

He didn't know what to buy. He really didn't know what gift to give to a 19-year-old girl, so he simply asked the shopping guide to recommend one.

Why.

Giving gifts to girls is really a difficult problem, a university question.

Recalling the night before the New Year this year when the Bentley flew over the viaduct, Zhao Yingjun crossed the 23rd to the 24th birthday... He directly gave Zhao Yingjun the crumpled bouquet that the gangster hung on the broken car door as a birthday gift.

It’s embarrassing to think about it now.

I just felt that the atmosphere was so bad at that time that it would be inappropriate not to give me a birthday gift. Under the circumstances... I could only borrow flowers and offer them to Buddha.

"This is my gift."

Ji Lin took out a rectangular photo frame wrapped in colored paper from behind. He didn't know what was inside, but it looked like a painting.

"Um?"

Lin Xian was a little surprised, looked at Ji Lin and whispered:

"Didn't you buy a hat..."

The gifts for both of them were recommended by the shopping guide. They were not cheap and they were all famous brands.

Lin Xian never expected that Ji Lin would betray him temporarily and give him a painting instead of a hat.

"I think she likes this better."

Ji Lin whispered:

"It's rare to give someone a birthday gift, so let's give her something she likes."

"You know so well that she must like it?"

"I'm quite confident about this painting."

After speaking in a low voice, Ji Lin turned to look at Chu Anqing:

"Happy birthday, An Qing. But you should wait until later to open this painting. Just treat it as a surprise."

"Okay Ji Lin, thank you for your painting!"

Chu Anqing was looking forward to opening it right away, but since Ji Lin said so, she put the painting down first and then continued to open other people's gifts.

This evening's birthday party was enjoyable and relaxing.

Lin Xian and Ji Lin also had a great time.

Lin Xian was surprised by Ji Lin's performance this night.

He originally thought that Ji Lin was not someone who liked this kind of lively atmosphere. After all, that was how he felt, withdrawn, unsociable, and silent. But it seemed that everyone was seeking approval and joy in their hearts. He gradually integrated into it and played many games with everyone.

Later, the girls chatted together about gossip, school, and TV series. Lin Xian and Ji Lin came to the open-air balcony on the third floor of the villa, lying on the lounge chairs and looking at the moonlight in the sky.

"Actually, I quite admire the pairing of you and Chu Anqing. They are more suitable than Zhao Yingjun."? ? ?

Lin Xian almost choked on the juice in his mouth!

"What nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden?"

Ji Lin lay on his back, turned his head and looked at Lin Xian:

"What's the relationship between you and Chu Anqing?"

"It doesn't matter." Lin Xian replied truthfully.

"But Chu Anqing obviously doesn't think so." Ji Lin said with interest:

"She likes you very much, even a fool can see that."

"Have you ever been in love?"

"No." Ji Lin shook his head.

"Then why are you so sure?"

"I've read a lot, and the emotional descriptions in them are all like this." Ji Lin turned his head and continued to look at the sky:

"So, I'm actually quite disappointed with you today. I thought there was some big drama today."

"Are you crazy about writing?"

Lin Xian really couldn't laugh or cry:

"Is reality the same as reality? As it is written, what should I do now?"

"If it's inside..."

Ji Lin blinked and said calmly:

"You always want to do something romantic and noisy, right? For example, set off fireworks for Chu Anqing that cover the entire city? Light up the night sky over the East China Sea? You clearly know that Chu Anqing will be very happy, but you just don't do it. "

"You're watching "Dragon", right?"

Lin Xian chuckled:

"Then I think your fantasy is a bit petty again. Why don't I just call on the heroes of the world to hold an East China Sea Conference, and let the world's top rich, celebrities, and big shots come one by one to give Chu Anqing treasures and magic weapons, and finally ride a horse? A giant eagle falls from the sky? Isn’t this more interesting than the plot you wrote?”

Ji Lin was amused, and he naturally understood what Lin Xian was talking about:

""The Couple of the Condor Heroes, Yang Guo and Guo Xiang."

He sighed softly:

"Actually, during this time I've been spending time with you, and I feel like I can quite easily chat with you. At least you are a very interesting person, and I feel comfortable chatting with you."

"In the past few years, I basically stayed in my room, doing math problems, reading, writing, and watching the news... I rarely went out. I always felt that the outside world was boring and did not arouse my interest. place."

"But looking at it now...it's good to be able to attend Chu Anqing's birthday party and chat with you here."

He sat up from the recliner, and the moonlight hit his slender face, making him look even paler.

He sat quietly and looked at Lin Xian, who closed his eyes and meditated under the moonlight next to him:

"Can you tell me in advance... what you plan to give me on my birthday?

what gift. "

"No one was informed in advance."

Lin Xian smiled without knowing why:

"You will know when your birthday comes. May 3rd, I remember? Don't worry, I will give you a birthday present."

Provided that……

Lin Xian put away his smile and stared at the moon gradually climbing up to the center of the sky:

You can survive until then. 】

Although during this period of time, on the surface, I got along well with Ji Lin.

But Lin Xian never wavered in his determination to avenge Xu Yun and Tang Xin.

Ji Lin, if you are really the murderer...

I will show no mercy.