Genius Club

Chapter 390: Chapter 49: The True Genius_2 Chapter 390: Chapter 49: The True Genius_2 From this reasoning, the mysterious old man in the Fourth Dreamland is very likely a member of the Genius Club, possibly…

the man before me, Kevin Walker!

Now.

It’s time.

To reveal the truth.

“VV, pay attention to facial recognition.”

Having instructed VV,

Lin Xian circled around the competition stage and strode towards Kevin Walker.

Perhaps it was because his mind was overthinking,

blaming all his grievances on the Genius Club, the root cause behind the mysterious old man, Xu Yun, Tang Xin, Zhao Yingjun in the Third Dreamland…

His face looked very unpleasant.

Kevin Walker obviously felt Lin Xian’s hostility and backed away two steps:

“What…

what are you going to do!”

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Backing away, Kevin Walker was tripped by the cables on the ground and sat down, watching Lin Xian approach warily.

Whoosh.

Lin Xian, quick as lightning, grabbed the black mask on his face and removed it along with the hoodie —

Freckles, round face, flat nose, small and round eyes, curly brown hair.

This was a very ordinary-looking teenager from Mi Country.

This…

Lin Xian stared at the details of the teenager’s facial features.

It didn’t look like him.

Not at all!

Without even needing VV to run a facial recognition comparison, Lin Xian could swear that this young man was definitely not the mysterious old man from the Fourth Dreamland!

The nose and mouth were completely different,

eyes of vastly different shape and size,

banimation-none of the facial features matched!

Could it be…

Lin Xian inhaled sharply.

“Lin Xian, comparison complete.

This young man is not the old man from your sketch, and furthermore, he is not Kevin Walker.”

Through the Bluetooth earpiece, VV’s voice came: “His name is Johnson, also a young hacker with some fame in Mi Country’s hacking circles.

His skills are obviously far from Kevin Walker’s level, and he has a complete life history, currently enrolled in high school and has been admitted to Stanford University.

He has some talent indeed but looking at all his information…

he is far from a genius and definitely not a talent like Kevin Walker.”

Meanwhile,

the Mi Country audience in the stands also erupted into noisy discussions.

Those who had come to watch the event today were familiar with the IT and hacker communities, so they not only recognized Kevin Walker, but also knew Johnson, this young hacker.

They were absolutely two different people!

Today at the competition site, this person wearing the hoodie and hood, claiming to be making his first public appearance under the name of Kevin Walker…

turned out to be an impersonation by Johnson:

“How could it be Johnson?

I came here today specifically to see Kevin Walker!

For so long Kevin Walker has never appeared in reality, no one knows who he is, no one has seen him, I thought today I would finally see his true face, but it turned out to be fake!”

“No, it’s not exactly fake.

Kevin Walker is very active online, and he certainly knows Johnson on the web.

If Johnson intended to impersonate him, Kevin Walker would have definitely spoken up online.

But up until now, Kevin Walker hasn’t clarified anything…

This suggests!

It was Kevin himself who instructed Johnson to impersonate him!”

“What is this for?

With Johnson’s abilities, he definitely couldn’t hack the Dragon Nation Skynet System or the Big Dipper Satellite…

Not to mention Johnson, even the top ten hackers globally couldn’t achieve that, the only one with such ability is the real genius beyond our time—Kevin Walker.”

“Why always hide?

Who exactly is Kevin Walker?

Why does he want to conceal his identity?

If Kevin Walker himself had come today…

there’s no way he would have lost to China.”

…

On the competition stage,

Lin Xian slowly stood up, looking down at the unfamiliar and somewhat panicked boy before him.

Something was off.

Many things were off.

This sense of being off was not just in reality…

It was in every sense.

During this period, Lin Xian always felt that various things around him were quite awkward.

Even in dreams…

The old man in the dream always appeared in the final few seconds at 00:42, rendering me unable to do anything.

The Fourth Dreamland confined my range of activities to a tiny space, not surrounded, then shackled to a chair, unable to move.

The space elevator far in the distance, Starry Sky City, does it really exist?

Or is it…

Just a backdrop?

A backdrop like in “The Truman Show”?

Am I just like a lab rat in a film studio?

The same is true of time.

In the Fourth Dreamland, no matter how early I entered the dream, I had less than a minute to move freely.

This painfully short span of time not only prevented me from exploring the dreamland to gather information but didn’t even allow me to verify the reality of the dream.

Is this scientific?

Is this really a “real” dream?

Why does it all feel so “false”?

Or perhaps…

Lin Xian felt chills running down his body the more he thought about it.

If the Fourth Dreamland is real.

Then what on earth did the mysterious old man do to me during the time I was unconscious?

If they could sentence me to crimes against humanity, endangering Earth, and disrupting space-time…

would they honestly just shackle me to a chair and wait for me to wake up?

It was after confirming that the dream was real for a year that Lin Xian began to suspect for the first time that the dream might be false.

At least…

The Fourth Dreamland was indeed very strange.

Now look at the current reality.

[The genius hacker Kevin Walker, who never shows his face.]

The old man in the dream who only appears in the final few seconds.

𝘯𝗈𝘷𝘨𝘰.co

[Loudly announces plans to hack into the Dragon Nation Skynet System during the hacker contest.]

The dozens of soldiers guarding my spawn point.

[He has the ability to hack into Skynet and make the young VV leave traces, yet he deliberately awaits the hacker contest!]

He could have killed me directly in the dream, yet he purposely let me live until 00:42!

[Showing his face, but only for a few seconds!]

He lets other hackers disguise themselves and come on stage, with hoodies and masks tightly covering their faces, impossible to see clearly unless removed!

Teng.

Lin Xian stood up, took a deep breath,

“Not good!”

“Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!”

In the vast New Jersey Sports Stadium, all devices capable of playing sound burst out with a spine-chilling cackle!

A manic and naïve laughter;

An arrogant and excited laughter;

A laughter that seemed victorious and took pleasure in others’ misfortune!

Loudspeakers, sound systems, mobile phones, computers, the host’s headset, toys brought by children, a Tesla sedan placed as a prize on the prize stand…

All of it was laughing!

The entire venue of 80,000 people instantaneously descended into chaos.

Children crying in fright, women hugging each other in shock, men covering their ears, glass shattered by high-frequency sound wave resonance—

“Now…”

Lin Xian suddenly heard a soft chuckle close to his eardrum.

He spun around sharply!

But found that the sound was coming from the Bluetooth earpiece he had worn all night!

Scornful, slow, and cold:

“I see you!”