Chapter 226: Chapter 53: The Injustice is Cleared_2 Chapter 226: Chapter 53: The Injustice is Cleared_2 The murderers were brazen in killing, but they were not foolish.
If they clearly sensed police ambushes and roadblocks, they wouldn’t risk it.
They would likely wait patiently for the next opportunity.
If this tug of war continued…
the police would only become more passive over time.
“Everyone’s right, we’re mainly facing two difficulties now,”
the male team member summarized while leaning on the table:
“[First, we can’t let the murderers detect our actions, including protecting the scientists, setting up roadblocks and nets, otherwise they won’t take the bait.]”
“[Second, if we don’t ambush in advance, we can’t protect the lives of the scientists.
Even if we catch the murderers afterwards, the cost is too great.]”
“These are two contradictory points.
Moreover, if we ambush at five target locations simultaneously…
the action is truly too large, it’s impossible not to alert the murderers.
And once they are alerted, they will cancel the operation, and we will never catch them this way.”
Listening to everyone discussing, Lin Xian twirled his pen without speaking.
In fact, he had a concern in his heart.
He looked around at the team members…
Ji Lin had left, that’s true.
But among the remaining team members, within this police station, was there still a mole for Ji Lin?
Or rather, was there a lookout for Ji Lin and his group?
He wasn’t distrusting his colleagues per se.
But given the opposition was extremely intelligent and cunning…
Lin Xian dared not trust these team members easily.
Although they appeared to be on his side, it wasn’t impossible that they were being used by Ji Lin.
Furthermore, if they really deployed a large number of people for an ambush, it would inevitably leak the plan, making it even less possible to catch the murderers.
“Lin Xian, what do you think?”
The male colleague smiled at Lin Xian:
“Ji Lin said before he left that you’ve been at the crime scene twice, so you have a better intuition and feeling for the murderers’ intentions than we do.
Among these five scientists…
who do you think is most likely to be the murderers’ assassination target?”
Lin Xian stopped twirling his pen, thoughtful:
“…I can’t make a decision now, I need some time to think.”
The male colleague nodded and looked at the others:
“This is indeed no small matter; we must proceed with caution.
A single wrong decision could not only result in the murderers’ escape, but also the death of a scientist, so…
everyone go back and think it over, and we will discuss it again at tomorrow’s routine meeting.
Remember, keep everything confidential!”
At noon, Lin Xian returned home for the first time in a while.
After locking the door, he went to bed to sleep.
He felt more and more as if he was still under Ji Lin’s surveillance, perhaps every move he made at the police station was being watched by Ji Lin and Zhou Duanyun.
This was also an opportunity for him to break the deadlock.
And the key to breaking the deadlock was to obtain more intelligence, more information.
If only he could know which scientist would be targeted for murder.
At the moment, the only place where he could obtain this “foreknowledge” was in his dreams, within New Donghai City, at that chain bookstore filled with books.
Lin Xian closed his eyes and entered the world of dreams…
In the nighttime New Donghai City, the bookstore.
Lin Xian had become familiar with this place, as if returning home.
He used the cash register computer to look up the names of the five scientists who arrived in Donghai City on April 12th.
The library guidance system 600 years later was very user-friendly, not like the libraries of 2023 where you could only search by book title.
Here you could even retrieve the contents of each book, as long as you entered the keywords.
Any book containing those keywords would be listed for you.
But such technological advancements were to be expected.
After all, New Donghai City was much more developed in all aspects than the real world, so having this search capability was not surprising.
Lin Xian first entered the names of the four scientists related to hibernation research and then clicked search each time.
All came up with ‘no person found’.
It seemed that these four individuals had become insignificant over the span of 600 years, not even meriting a mention.
Driven by curiosity, Lin Xian entered Xu Yun.
As expected, there were quite a few results.
Many books mentioned the name Xu Yun, calling him the Father of Hibernation, along with many commendations.
There was also a book that mentioned Xu Yun died in a car accident, and then there were no other details.
Next, he input Tang Xin’s name…
Again, no information was found.
“Indeed, 600 years is simply too long a time, long enough to bury everything,”
Only people of the stature of Xu Yun or Einstein could hope to have their names etched into history.
Lin Xian then entered his own name…
He also came up with ‘no person found’.
If even MX Company left no trace in history, what was he but a mere speck?
The Rhein Cat, no matter how popular, was just a toy and couldn’t be compared to Xu Yun’s Hibernation Pod or Einstein’s great achievements.
With a just-try-it attitude, Lin Xian typed in the name ‘Academician Lyon’ and hit the search button—
The page instantly refreshed.
Incredibly, lots of information popped up!
The amount of information was even more than that of Professor Xu Yun!
“It seems that this is indeed a heavyweight figure,”
His Room Temperature Superconductor was a precursor technology to controlled nuclear fusion.
Although he might not be titled as the Father of Controlled Nuclear Fusion…
any mention of controlled nuclear fusion couldn’t omit his significant contributions, right?
Moreover, in New Donghai City, technology still hadn’t conquered controlled nuclear fusion; only mini nuclear batteries had become widespread.
Under such circumstances, controlled nuclear fusion would undoubtedly attract far more attention than the already-realized Hibernation Pod.
As Lin Xian browsed through the search results, his brows furrowed more and more.
He had expected all this information to be full of praise and adoration for Academician Lyon.
But the reality was the complete opposite!
Nearly all the books had nothing but criticism and censure for Academician Lyon!
Words like academic scammer, plagiarist, deserving death, and dirty tactics nearly drowned out Academician Lyon’s name.
“What’s going on here?”
Lin Xian couldn’t understand.
In his time of 2023, Academician Lyon had already been hailed as a star of humanity, with numerous institutions verifying his theories and experimental data as correct.
How could it be that such a figure had become the target of public scorn in the future?
Lin Xian continued to scan through the excerpts filled with abuse and eventually found a useful piece of information—
[…Not until three years after Academician Lyon’s death in a car accident did Doctor Pang Simai finally clear his name.
From then on, the investigation into Academician Lyon commenced, and the sordid truth behind this academic fraud was thus revealed…]