Genius Club.

Chapter 1 Opening

"You mean... you have the same dream every day? And you wake up at exactly 00:42 every time?"

The man wearing a cartoon cat mask looked at Lin Xian:

"Then you'll have a blast, buddy! You can kill whoever you want in your dream! You can do whatever you want! You can also play all kinds of suicidal games! Hiss... it's exciting just thinking about it!"

Click.

The man pushed the clip into the pistol and loaded it:
"But you don't have to look for excitement in your dreams tonight. I'm going to show you something real!"

He pointed to the bank across the street:

"My little brother has pried open the bank door, follow me!"

Lin Xian nodded, adjusted the Ultraman mask on his face, stood up and followed the man:

"What do you call me, big brother?"

"People on the street call me Big Face Cat."

The man grinned, and the fat on his face made the cartoon cat mask look even more two-dimensional:
"Just call me Brother Face."

"Brother Face, what is my mission?"

"It's not the time for you, a cryptographer, to take action yet. Follow me and don't run around."

rustling...

After a short trot, Lin Xian followed the big-faced cat to the bank entrance.

"Is everything done?" asked the Big Face Cat.

The younger brother nodded.

The big-faced cat put a gun to the little brother's forehead——

Bang! !

Blood splattered all over the wall!
He wiped the muzzle of the gun and patted Lin Xian on the shoulder:

"Now that there's one less person to share the money, we can get a lot more!"

"Isn't he your younger brother?"

"He is a man with dirty hands. For our safety, we can't let him stay!"

Big Face Cat said this as he pulled Lin Xian inside.

The two came to a fork in the passage.

A masked man was tinkering with the switchboard.

"Not okay yet?"

Big Face Cat urged.

Click.

The masked man cut off a wire and wiped his sweat with his free hands:

"It's done, the alarm system is deactivated!"

Bang! !

Another bullet in the back of the head! The switch box is full of blood!

"No, big brother, you're making me feel insecure!"

Lin Xian pointed at the corpse on the ground:
"You, my little brother, also have dirty hands and feet?"

The big-faced cat snorted:
"This guy is relatively clean, but he seduced your sister-in-law! Do you think I can keep him?"

"Is it so difficult to be your big brother?"

"Oh, don't worry about these little details! Shouldn't you be happy that there's one less person to share the money with?"

Lin Xian opened his arms:
"Are you planning to kill me and take all the money for yourself?"

"That must not happen!"

The big-faced cat patted his chest and abdomen, then took out a gray object held together with tape from behind his waist and handed it to Lin Xian.

"what is this?"

"C4 explosives."

Big Face Cat pointed at the switch and explained to Lin Xian:

"I am an open-minded person! I never do mean things! If you think I want to kill you later, just press the switch and blow your brother away! Are you relieved now?"

"Okay, reliable!"

Lin Xian gave a thumbs up and took the C4 explosives.

rustling...

The two moved on.

A masked man ran up from the underground passage:
"Boss, I'll cut off the main power supply line--"

Bang! ! !
A pile of brains.

"Brother, this guy..."

"It's okay, Brother Lian." Lin Xian waved his hand, indicating that he was used to it.

"Just tell me how many people are left to share the money?"

"It's just the two of us! Hehehehe...it's just the two of us!"

The big-faced cat pushed Lin Xian and walked quickly inside:
"Look, we're at the warehouse! It's time for you, the cryptographer, to take action!"

In front of me...

It was a thick black wall with a silver code door in the middle.

"What's the password?"

"Bah! Why would I need to ask a cryptography expert like you if I want to know the password?"

The big-faced cat pointed at his watch:

"Stop messing around, bro! Hurry! We don't have much time left! Once the main power is restored, the security system will automatically sound the alarm!"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry yet."

Lin Xian walked to the password door and started tinkering with it.

The big-faced cat paced back and forth, the flesh on his face twisted into a ball:
"About how long will it take you?"

"10."

"10 minutes!?" Big Face Cat exclaimed: "This is too long!!"

"9...8...7..."

???

The big-faced cat looked at Lin Xian who was running out with a look of shock!
Then he turned around and saw C4 explosives attached to the password door!

And the red numbers on the detonator keep changing!!

"Shift!"

A sudden pounce on the wall -

boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
The deafening explosion pierced his eardrums!

Countless bricks and iron blocks hit me!

“Cough cough cough… cough cough cough!!”

The big-faced cat wiped the blood off his face and yelled:

"Fuck... aren't you a cryptography expert? That's how you cracked the code!?"

"Just tell me whether it's efficient or not."

Lin Xian covered his ears and walked over, pointing at the collapsed wall in front of him:
"Look, the warehouse is inside."

The big-faced cat got up cursing:
"There isn't a single reliable expert..."

……

Lin Xian walked into the big hole that was blown out in the wall.

This was the first time in his life that he entered a bank warehouse, but the scene was completely different from what he had imagined...

"Why don't you have a penny?"

The warehouse was empty.

There were no piles of banknotes as imagined, nor were there mountains of gold bars as shown in the movies.

The walls around the warehouse are inlaid with safes neatly arranged one after another.

Lin Xian walked closer to take a look.

There is a different person's name written on each safe.

Wang Shuo.

Liu Liping.

Wei Shengjin.

Lin Xian.

king--

???

Lin Xian took a step back and stared at the name on the previous safe.

【Lin Xian】

Such as fake replacement.

Why does my name appear on this safe?
Click.

Behind him, the hot muzzle of a gun was pressed against the back of his head.

"Brother Face, please show mercy."

Lin Xian decisively raised his hands in surrender:

"Brother Lian, you have to be reasonable. I have done nothing wrong and I have not seduced my sister-in-law. You can't wrongly accuse me of cleaning up the family, right?"

"Okay, Brother Lian, I admit that I did lie to you. In fact, I am not a cryptography expert at all... I was just strolling in the square and picked up an Ultraman mask and put it on, but you jumped out and dragged me into the car without saying a word!"

"But I didn't know that this Ultraman mask was your [secret code]! To be honest, I just lied to you for fun, I didn't harm you."

"Besides...if you brought a real cryptography expert here today, you might not be able to crack the code until dawn! It's your luck that you met me!" Puff————

A silver bell-like laughter came from behind:

"I'm not that stupid! If I can't crack the code door by dawn...what kind of code expert am I?"

Then, the burning muzzle of the gun left Lin Xian's scalp.

Lin Xian turned around.

He discovered that the person behind him was a slender woman with her hair tied up and an Ultraman mask exactly the same as his on her face.

"Where's my face brother?"

The woman pointed her chin at her feet.

The big-faced cat was wearing a cat mask and lying in a pool of blood, holding a gun in his hand, with a big hole on the back of his head.

"Did you kill him?"

"If I didn't kill him, you would have died just now."

The woman kicks the body away:

"He was planning to kill all of you and take all the money. He's not a good person."

"Your team is really hard to lead..."

"Don't take me. I'm not in the same group with them."

The woman pushed Lin Xian away and walked towards the safe on the wall:
"It was the first time for me to meet him. I didn't recognize him, I only recognized the cartoon cat mask."

"Can your code for meeting be a little more retro?"

The woman ignored Lin Xian.

She passed Lin Xian and her eyes swept over the safes on the wall one by one.

Finally, she stopped in front of the safe with the name "Lin Xian" written on it.

Looking at the eight code wheels on the box, she snorted and threw away the small computer in her hand:

"It's actually a mechanical lock..."

The woman put her ear to the safe and clicked the combination wheel.

"What's in this [Lin Xian]'s safe?" Lin Xian came over from behind.

"do not know."

"Do you know Lin Xian?"

"do not know."

"Then why did you open his safe?"

"Why do you have so many questions?"

Through the Ultraman mask, the woman glared at Lin Xian fiercely:
"Go wherever it's cooler!"

She continued to fiddle with the combination lock.

Lin Xian looked at the eight combination wheels on the safe and pondered...

"Try 19990320."

"what?"

The woman looked at Lin Xian unhappily.

"I said, the combination of that safe, try 19990320."

"What number is this?"

"My birthday." Lin Xian answered affirmatively.

"..."

"..."

"Are you mentally ill?!" the woman asked sincerely.

"listen."

Lin Xian took a deep breath.

He looked seriously at the other Ultraman through the Ultraman mask:

"The alarm may go off at any time. No one would joke around in such an occasion. My goal is the same as yours. In fact... I am more curious than you about what is hidden in this safe."

"Believe me."

Lin Xian took a step forward, his face serious:
"This password cannot be wrong!"

……

The woman looked at Lin Xian and said nothing.

But obviously, she was convinced by Lin Xian's confident aura.

"Say it again."

"19990320."

Click, click...

The woman dialed the eight code wheels, looked back at Lin Xian, and pressed the lock button.

Click!

Not open.

"Al?"

Lin Xian was stunned. The password was wrong!

The woman's eyebrows twitched and she took a deep breath:

"I really should have let your cat brother beat you to death just now!"

"He insisted on calling him Brother Face..."

"enough!!!"

The woman couldn't stand it anymore and pointed a gun at Lin Xian!

Word by word, gnashing teeth:
"Say one more word! I'll kill you!"

Lin Xian raised his hand and took two steps back obediently.

He is not afraid of death.

But he was more curious about what was hidden in the safe.

……

Click, click, click…

The woman kept trying to crack the code, but made no progress.

Lin Xian squatted on the ground, holding his chin and thinking, but he had no clue.

click!
With a crisp sound of a circuit being connected, shrill alarms sounded all around.

It seems that the main power supply line has been restored and the alarm has been automatically sounded.

The woman pounded her fist on the safe and sighed.

Lin Xian raised his watch and glanced at the time:
【00:41:53】

He stood up and stretched:

"There's no time. Come back tomorrow."

"Haha! Tomorrow?"

The woman laughed disdainfully as if she had heard a huge joke:

"You blew this place up like this! Do you think you'll have a chance to get in tomorrow?!"

"You really have no chance..."

Lin Xian smiled slightly:
"But I can. I can every day."

He waved at the woman:
"Bye~"

boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
Suddenly, a white light appeared! The whole world was bright!
No time to feel any pain, no time to react!

The scorching white light engulfed everything in an instant!
Evaporate this world completely!
……

……

call……

The night wind blew up the window screens, setting the shadows dancing.

The moonlight shines through the glass, casting frost on the surface.

From downstairs came the shouts of men playing drinking and finger-guessing games at the night market stalls.

There was a sound of flushing water coming from the bathroom pipes next door.

The manuscript paper on the desk swayed in the wind, and the notebooks opened and closed like river clams.

On the bed in the corner of the bedroom.

Lin Xian opened his eyes...

He sniffed and sat up, looking at the digital clock on the bedside table.

【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】

【00:42:01】

……

【00:42:02】

……

【00:42:03】

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【00:42:04】

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(End of this chapter)