Genius Club

Chapter 1042: Chapter 1 No.9_2

“Hehe.”

[Da Vinci] scoffed disdainfully:

“He’s just lazy, he simply doesn’t want to modify it for you, so he made up a lot of nonsense reasons to fob you off.”

“I think so too.”

[Newton] spread his hands:

“After all, he is Turing, the world’s number one genius hacker. Can’t even handle such a trivial function? He just doesn’t want to modify it for me.”

Having said that.

[Gauss] turned his head and looked at Turing beside him, still breathing, turned his head again, focusing on whoever spoke, and said leisurely:

“Now that… Turing is already dead… why still place a model here… Can we remove it? It feels chilling… However, it’s good that Turing is dead… as the manager of this system, he certainly knew every…”

“Exactly.”

The slow-speaking [Gauss] was interrupted again, [Tesla] chuckled lightly:

“Indeed, a good death. Now, only [Einstein] knows everyone’s identity, making this game even fairer, and there’s no need to worry about Turing’s position anymore.”

“Enough.”

Always silent, [Copernicus] cleared his throat, scolding everyone:

“It’s precisely because you all take things so lightly and frivolously every time that I don’t want to come to these gatherings… Chattering, giving me a headache.”

“And you…”

[Copernicus] slowly raised his head.

Although his face was hidden behind the mask,

You could feel that at the moment, he was very impatient, even angry.

He stared at the Rhein Cat Mask on the face of the new member and said sharply:

“You must change the mask on your face immediately!”

“Hehe.”

Lin Xian, who had been listening to the conversation with pricked ears, finally let out a cold laugh:

“If you hadn’t said anything, I might have really considered going back to change it, but now…”

“I’ve grown even fonder of this mask.”

After speaking.

He looked up at [Newton]:

“Mr. Newton, could you please swap seats with me? I’d like to sit opposite Copernicus.”

“HAHAHAHA…”

[Newton] let out a hearty laugh and couldn’t help but burst into applause:

“Not bad! I’m pleased to see such vigor and courage in a new member! Although I still don’t know how to address you… the ninth genius, you have earned my approval.”

“As for changing seats, I’m afraid that’s not possible. The seating order is based on when we joined the Genius Club. If it were possible to change seats… [Gauss] over there would have wanted to move over a long time ago.”

“Yes.”

The leisurely [Gauss] nodded slowly, speaking at a slow pace:

“I do often feel… uncomfortable with the people beside me…”

“Shut up, all of you.”

[Copernicus] shouted, coughing several times.

He raised his head, looking at the ridiculous Rhein Cat Mask, and sighed:

“How should we address you if you break the rules like this?”

…

Up to this point.

Hearing the genius members go back and forth and recalling the conversation he heard while approaching the brown wooden door, Lin Xian already understood a lot.

First of all.

The way these geniuses obtained their invitations was indeed different from his own.

Just as he initially suspected, his invite… was indeed acquired by cheating, through a backdoor.

Although he didn’t know who had cheated for him or who had opened that backdoor for him.

That’s not important.

The important thing is…

Because the way he obtained his invitation was different from others, it triggered the ludicrous scene of “Rhein Cat causing a stir at the Nobel Prize event” today.

Now he could be certain of one thing.

Apart from himself, the other members’ Genius Club invitations were all obtained by cracking the code embedded in the “Sorrowful Einstein” painting, followed by a series of puzzle solving and riddle answering.

During this process of puzzle and riddle answering, they would naturally learn about the Space-Time Coordinates, some Space-time Law, and the purpose and meaning of the Genius Club, and thus understand the “Masks” mentioned in the club’s rules.

No wonder Jask said that the hardest part was obtaining the invitation; the three online test questions were just giveaways, likely used for confirming identities.

And himself, a speedrunner, was like using a cheat engine, directly getting the final artifact… resulting in skipping the preliminary tasks, and missing out on a lot of key information.

But this was unavoidable.

Neither Liu Feng nor the Artificial Intelligence VV were able to crack the code on “The Sorrowful Einstein,” so this path was essentially a dead end for Lin Xian.

Ji Lin also failed to crack it, indicating that the puzzle on the painting was a deliberate barrier set by the Genius Club… essentially meaning, if you can’t even solve this puzzle, then don’t bother, for the doors to the Genius Club will never open for you.

Looking at it this way.

Ji Xinshui wasn’t wrong in saying that Ji Lin was the closest person to the Genius Club.

He had discovered the painting and found the puzzle, but had not had time to crack it.

Given a few more years…

He might not have failed to solve it.

However, a tragic fact was that the “Sorrowful Einstein” found by Ji Lin had already been used by someone else.

That was [Newton], with a character like a mischievous old child.

[Copernicus], [Galileo], [Gauss], these three seemed very serious, by the book.

So they were very rule-abiding. After solving the puzzle, they destroyed the “Sorrowful Einstein” straightaway, preventing it from re-entering the market and misleading others.