Genius Club-Chapter 597 - 21 I’ve Been Here Before (Combined Large Chapter)_2
Lin Xian glanced at the electronic clock on his bedside, which displayed 21:30.
But that was Denmark time.
He lifted his left wrist to look at his smartwatch, which showed 3:30 in the morning—Dragon Country Time, or Imperial Capital time to be specific.
The time difference between the two regions was six hours, with China seeing the new sun and entering a new day six hours ahead of Denmark.
"So... going to sleep at this time means I won’t be falling into dreams,"
Lin Xian yawned.
After receiving the invitation to the Genius Club the night before, which was right after he parted ways with Huang Que in Liu Feng’s laboratory, he specially entered the dreamscape to check.
As expected.
The Fourth Dreamland remained unchanged.
But that was also anticipated.
Although he had received the invitation from the Genius Club, there was still quite some time before he formally joined the Genius Club and reached that irrevocable anchoring point.
If he answered any of the three test questions incorrectly, the Genius Club would reject him at the door, making him the first in history... to receive an invitation but fail the tests and become a rejected candidate.
That...
Would probably be a laughingstock to the members of the Genius Club, right?
After all, Huang Que said that other invitees had all passed the three exam questions without fail, proving themselves to be true geniuses and formally unlocked the doors to the Genius Club.
Therefore.
At this point in time, receiving the invitation from the Genius Club without triggering a Temporal Flux in the Fourth Dreamland was something Lin Xian could fully accept.
Not to mention, he hadn’t yet eliminated the possibility that "the Fourth Dreamland was a fake, a simulated world, a movie set."
The Tem Bank, the hafnium alloy safe, and the secret little note written by Chu Anqing were all in place, just waiting for him to verify them.
The current difficulty was that the Mysterious Old Man’s existence blocked his way to the Tem Bank. He had to first deal with the Mysterious Old Man before he could move freely within the Fourth Dreamland.
But the question was...
Who exactly was the Mysterious Old Man?
Kevin Walker? Jask? Or someone else he knew or didn’t know, could think of, or couldn’t?
No matter what.
This Mysterious Old Man had used the same catchphrase as Kevin Walker, so starting with Kevin Walker was definitely the right call.
Because the grudge between Lin Xian and Kevin Walker wasn’t the only thing... they had quite a few matters between them that needed settling.
If eliminating Kevin Walker wasn’t enough to change the Fourth Dreamland, then he’d have to find a way to locate other suspicious candidates.
"Sigh..."
Thinking of this, Lin Xian couldn’t help but heave a sigh.
Having roamed through dreams for so many years, he truly never thought that he, too, would encounter a level that would stop him in his tracks.
He couldn’t open the safe, couldn’t see the note, and he couldn’t find CC to verify the Millennium Stakes. It was truly infuriating.
When Lin Xian had just received the Genius Club invitation from the Mirror, he had thought he could directly join the organization, become an undercover member, find Kevin Walker’s clues, and then eliminate him...
But now it seemed...
It was uncertain which plan should precede the other. After all, he couldn’t change the Fourth Dreamland without killing Kevin Walker;
Without changing the Fourth Dreamland, the numbers on the Space-Time Clock couldn’t change;
Without the Space-Time Clock numbers changing, there was no way to study the values for space-time curvature to research the Space-Time Coordinates;
Without obtaining the Space-Time Coordinates, there was no way to pass the tests of the Genius Club.
This series of events...
Really locked everything tightly—practically caging him in.
Lin Xian yawned again.
Having wandered around for an entire day, he was truly exhausted...
"Time to sleep, at least I can sleep until morning now."
In the past in China, he always woke up at 00:42.
But now, that was no longer necessary.
"Sleep then."
...
...
As it turned out, Lin Xian had oversimplified things.
An hour later.
With heavy drowsiness, Lin Xian opened his eyes on the bed:
"Why is it so noisy? Where is the music coming from?"
He sat up in bed, put on his slippers, stood up, went to the window and pulled open the curtains to look outside.
Just as expected!
On the rooftop of the four-story building opposite, quite a large group of people were singing and dancing!
"What’s this about? The customs here are both simple and rough."
Lin Xian squinted, paying closer attention.
It looked like...
It resembled a gathering, a party, though he did not know what they were celebrating.
But it seemed warm-hearted and wasn’t the messy kind of party; those attending the party were slightly older, with hardly any young people, and resembled middle-aged folks.
Lin Xian couldn’t guess their specific ages...
As foreigners, whether male or female, tended to age quickly, often showing rapid signs of aging after thirty, and sometimes it was really hard to guess their age.
At this moment, the partygoers had finished their barbecued meat and beers, and loudspeakers blared intense exotic tunes, as they shouted and danced in pairs.
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Their dance style was mixed, being whatever the music dictated.
The song that had just ended was a frantic twist dance, and now it switched to an intense quickstep dance.
As someone who was trained by his university senior and junior female classmates in East Sea University for several years, Lin Xian was a semi-professional when it came to dancing. He actually watched quite seriously for a while, only to conclude—
These people were just flailing about relentlessly, and he had overestimated them.
They didn’t even distinguish between different music or dances; no matter what music played, the movements were the same, only the speed and frequency varied.
