Chapter 1 What's Going On!

Are you all ganging up to bully the newbie?

Why are all eight of you tacitly wearing masks of scientists, mathematicians, artists, or deceased geniuses and great men, all looking askance at Lin Xian!

Lin Xian felt a little flustered!

It wasn't stage fright... but rather... what the heck is going on? It’s not that he's afraid, but why are all eight of you so tacitly wearing masks of scientists, mathematicians, artists, or deceased geniuses and great men!

Why didn't anyone say anything beforehand? If they had, why would he have worn a children's toy, a Rhine Cat mask, to the gathering?

He also admired scientists and artists! If he had known in advance that everyone would be wearing those kinds of masks, he would have had plenty of choices! But now, the situation was just too awkward!

In such a solemn setting, they looked like members of the Genius Club, while he looked like a clownish, big-faced cat barging in wearing a cartoon mask! How was that any different from taking a dump in the street?

For a moment, Lin Xian wanted to quit the VR program and start over! Then it dawned on him!

In the mask setting, you could either scan a real object or provide an online image, and the system would automatically generate a corresponding mask!

No doubt, the masks of these eight members were all generated using online images! They were lifelike and exquisite!... But that wasn't the point! Even as Lin Xian kept walking forward, he was thinking fast!

He never expected!

The first challenge he faced after joining the Genius Club would be how to explain the ridiculous mask on his face! Sure enough!

After an icy silence, the woman wearing the Da Vinci mask couldn't hold back and burst out laughing: "Hahaha, Rhine Cat, what were you thinking? Why... oh my god, my stomach hurts from laughing... Why... why did you wear a cartoon mask to the gathering?"

The woman had apparently never seen anything so funny and laughed until her sides ached! The young man in the Newton mask next to her also recovered from his stiffness and chuckled: "Friend, did you do this on purpose, or was it an accident? Looking at the 'Melancholy Einstein,' can't you understand the meaning of a mask?"

On the left! The skinny man wearing the Gauss mask slowly straightened up and said slowly: "Genius... this is the real! Truly! Eccentric!" He spoke too slowly and was interrupted by the middle-aged man on his left!

The middle-aged man wearing the Galileo mask had a deep and steady voice: "This clownish and foolish show of yours is disrespectful to everyone!" "No, no, no!" The man opposite him wearing the Tesla mask let out a familiar laugh: "Precisely as Gauss said, this is true genius behavior!"

With that, Tesla applauded enthusiastically: "Well done! I really like you."

"Your cartoon cat mask has successfully turned all these pretentious guys into laughable clowns." "How about we take this opportunity to abolish the mask tradition? I've long been tired of wearing a mask to meetings! You all know who I am anyway!"

The skinny man wearing the Gauss mask nodded and said slowly, "Indeed, his casual choice of mask makes our earnestness... seem even more! Deliberate! And careful!"

He was too slow and was interrupted again by the young man wearing the Newton mask: "Oh, now that I'm closer, I see..."

"Isn't that a Rhine Cat mask? Whenever I take my grandchildren to the park, lots of kids are running around with that cat toy!"

"Sigh!" The woman wearing the Da Vinci mask sighed. "Can't you consider adjusting your virtual image? I understand you're an old man and maybe a little senile, but with your IQ, you shouldn't be unable to handle VR, right? This kind of thing... this default young and vigorous image, coupled with you constantly talking about your grandchildren and sounding like an old fogey, is really jarring, don't you know?" "Heh heh!" The young Newton laughed and turned to look at Da Vinci: "Are you any different, Miss Da Vinci? Decades ago, when we met offline, you were wearing this mask and this beautiful figure. Don't tell me you're still an ageless witch at your age?"

"If you're willing to change your virtual image to an old grandma, I wouldn't mind changing mine to an old grandpa! Okay, to be honest, I've tried to change my image, but the system doesn't provide that function!"

"The last time you joined the gathering, I already brought this up with Turing! This whole network system, VR imaging, and gathering mode was all made by him. I asked him why he didn't provide a function to change the image!"

"Turing..."

"Explained a lot from a professional perspective, saying it involved our identity verification, that is, the golden badge with the Genius Club emblem. From the first time we used it to connect to the network, data has been constantly recording and improving our identity verification information, such as voiceprints, habits, and faces!"

"That way, every time we use the golden badge to connect to the network, the verification information recorded on the server will verify the login to determine whether it's the real user. Anyway, Turing told me a lot at the time, just saying that this function can't be changed, changing it would cause bugs, saying that since a program can run perfectly, it's best not to adjust it!" "Heh heh!"

Da Vinci scoffed: "He's just lazy, he simply doesn't want to fix it for you, so he made up a bunch of nonsense reasons to搪塞 tangse (stonewall) you!"

"I think so too!"

Newton spread his hands: "After all, he's Turing, the world's number one genius hacker, he can't even handle this little function? He just doesn't want to change it for me!"

With that!

Gauss turned to look at Turing next to him, who was still breathing and turning his head, and looking at whoever was talking, and said leisurely: "Since Turing is already dead, why are we still putting a model here! Can we remove it? I feel a cold breeze on my legs... However, it's good that Turing is dead, as the administrator of this system, he definitely knew..." "That's right!"

Before the slow-talking Gauss could finish, he was interrupted by Tesla, who chuckled: "Indeed, it's good to be dead! Now only Einstein knows everyone's identity, which makes the game fairer. Everyone no longer needs to worry about Turing's position!"

"Enough!"

Copernicus, who had been silent all along, cleared his throat and scolded the crowd: "It's because you're always so frivolous, childish, and unserious that I don't want to attend the gatherings! Jibajawa (noisy) and loud, it hurts my ears! And you, Copernicus slowly raised his head!"

Although his expression couldn't be seen under the mask, it could be felt that he must be very impatient and even angry at this moment!

He stared at the Rhine Cat mask on the face of this new member and said sharply: "You must immediately change the mask on your face."

"Ah..."

Lin Xian, who had been listening silently with his ears perked up, finally let out a sneer: "If you hadn't said that, I was really planning to go back and change it, but now I find myself liking this mask more and more!"

With that!

He looked up and looked at Newton in his seat, "Mr. Newton, would you mind switching places with me? I want to sit opposite Copernicus!"

"Hahahaha!" Newton let out a hearty laugh and couldn't help but applaud, "Good, I'm very happy to see that the new member has such vigor and spirit, although I don't know what to call you yet... Genius, you have successfully gained my approval!"

"As for the seat issue, I'm afraid it can't be changed! Everyone's seats are arranged according to the order in which they joined the club! If we could really switch seats, then Opposite Gauss.