LRAB Chapter 74: 74: Wrong Answer (Thanks to the alliance leader, I have two baby cats!)
Chapter 74: 74: Wrong Answer (Thanks to the alliance leader, I have two baby cats!)
Chapter 74: Chapter 74: Wrong Answer (Thanks to the alliance leader, I have two baby cats!)
“Because...”
The old man gritted his teeth:
“Because Xu Yun, he also... ‘disturbed history’.”
“No, no, I’m not asking you this. Do you think I don’t know?” Ji Lin twirled the pencil in his hand, his gaze still fixed on the old man:
“I’m asking you, why do you need to kill these people who ‘disturb history’?”
The old man didn’t speak.
...
After a long silence:
“Ji Lin, you’re very talkative today. You’ve never asked such a question before.”
“Because before, it wasn’t Xu Yun who died.”
Ji Lin looked at the list rolled up on the ground:
“You gave me this list, intending for me to find the person ‘disturbing history,’ right? Actually, I think it’s totally unnecessary.”
“There are only two or three hundred people on this list. Why not just kill them all? Why go through the trouble of singling out the one ‘disturbing history’? Being so cautious doesn’t seem like your style.”
“No way.”
The old man said vehemently:
“We must not kill the innocent indiscriminately.”
Ji Lin chuckled.
He opened ‘Mathematical Monthly’ September issue, found the Sudoku page, and continued solving problems:
“So you see... you still know something; you’re keeping something from me.”
“With your righteous talk, I almost thought we were some kind of justice organization.”
He stopped writing again and looked up at the old man:
“My parents were also killed by you, weren’t they?”@@@@
The old man turned away, sighing helplessly:
“Ji Lin, I’ve told you many times about this. Your parents weren’t killed by me... Even if it wasn’t just a simple accident, it was definitely not my doing.”
“Stop pretending.”
Ji Lin smiled wryly, continuing his Sudoku:
“I’ve figured it out.”
“Then you’d better investigate it thoroughly!”
“You are the smartest person I’ve ever met, the most extreme genius. I’ve always believed that you are the one closest to the Genius Club. So... help me, Ji Lin, you’d also be helping yourself.”
Rustle.
Ji Lin threw down the November issue of “Mathematical Monthly” he had in his hand.
He slowly stood up...
And picked up the roster on the ground:
“I’ll find that person.”
Having said that, he scratched his messy hair and walked towards the bedroom.
A breath escaped the old man’s nose.
He looked at the “Mathematical Monthly” November issue lying on the floor...
And gazed at it, quite surprised.
The page that the magazine had fallen open to showed the Sudoku puzzle—astonishingly, it was incomplete.
Only about half of the numbers had been filled in, with several erasures, but in the end, the Sudoku puzzle was not solved.
“How curious...”
The old man exclaimed:
“There’s actually a Sudoku you can’t do.”
“It’s not that I can’t solve it, the problem is wrong,” Ji Lin yawned, rubbing his eyes:
“If the problem is wrong, no one can solve it.”
The old man was curious.
He stood up, picked up the last “Mathematical Monthly” December issue, and flipped to the Sudoku page.
There was an “Apology Statement” in the most conspicuous place, where the magazine company apologized for the print error in the Sudoku game from the previous issue and corrected several numbers in this issue.
The old man smiled proudly and put down the magazine.
“As expected... you’ve never let anyone down! If you weren’t so ‘Lazy’, you would be quite likable.”
“‘Lazy’.” Ji Lin opened the bedroom door and walked inside:
“I hate this code name. I’m not the last one who joined the organization, why didn’t you pick a nice sounding name for me? I don’t like laziness.”
“Then get to work!” The old man’s patience had been worn out for the night.
“Got it...”
Ji Lin yawned again and closed the bedroom door:
“Goodnight, ‘Arrogance’.”