Chapter 51 Making Friends

Sitting on the podium, the president of the White Cat Club was about one meter seven tall, dressed in a long-sleeved hoodie and hot pants. She sat in a backrest chair with a full personality, a pair of fair, well-proportioned, and long legs resting on the podium. With a slender waist, a well-developed upper body, and long silver hair, she looked both flamboyant and stunning.

"Thanks. When I am a human male, just call me Lu Xing."

Lu Xing nodded at her, glanced at the classroom environment again, and asked, "Are you all here to welcome me today, or is there some kind of gathering?"

"Both!"

The president of the White Cat Club jumped down from the podium, strode over to Lu Xing with her well-proportioned, snow-white, long legs, and stopped right in front of him. Her exquisite face was almost touching his as she stared straight at him, leaving Lu Xing utterly baffled. Had he offended her in some way?

"President?"

Someone called out to her.

Ignoring them, the president walked behind Lu Xing and circled him twice, as if inspecting something.

Lu Xing asked, "What are you doing?"

He was trying to convince himself: This is a virtual world, and everyone has their own little quirks to varying degrees.

Anyway, it's completely different from the twenty-first century.

"You have two adaptation systems?" the silver-haired president asked with great interest.

"Are you talking about me and Jiang Xuannv? Yes, I am Lu Xing right now."

"I've been observing you these past few days and checked your previous school records. You're amazing. You fooled everyone, and I had no idea you were actually a human!"

"Hehe."

Lu Xing could only manage a chuckle.

"Do you have a partner?"

"Pardon?"

"I mean a spouse, someone you try to apply to form a family and have children with. Do you have one?"

"President!"

Several male students cried out, their expressions looking rather disappointed.

"..."

Lu Xing carefully looked at the silver-haired, long-legged president, who was taller than him—oh wait, taller than Jiang Xuannv by a full head—and seriously considered whether she might be a lesbian.

"Well, do you or not?" The silver-haired president grew impatient. "If you do, pretend I said nothing. If you don't, consider dating me. I'm sure you'll find it interesting!"

"Excuse me, let me ask you something."

Lu Xing wore a colorful expression. "You like women, right?"

"No. According to what's written in books, human males only form families with human females," she stated, then looked him over a few times. "Didn't you just say you are a human male? Perfect, I am a human female!"

She was practically saying: You're a man, I'm a woman—what a coincidence, let's get together and start a new ethnic group!

"I get it!"

Lu Xing finally realized that these humans, including the president, genuinely possessed a completely different mindset from the people of the twenty-first century!

"But I'm sorry."

Lu Xing declined. Despite the president's striking beauty and the fact that she fit his aesthetic preferences, "This is my first time interacting with humans, and I didn't know that your greeting custom is to mate... No, I mean, I didn't know that getting married upon first meeting was the rule."

"President, why pick him? Why can't it be me?" a male student asked with unconcealed reluctance.

"You're too weak. You're not good enough for me!"

The silver-haired president of the White Cat Club spoke without the slightest bit of politeness, gesturing casually at the others. "The rest of you, too. I can be friends with you, but the person I date has to be someone exceptional!"

She turned her head back to Lu Xing with a smile. "It was my fault for not considering things thoroughly and failing to explain our human traditions passed down from ancient times."

No, humans do not have a tradition of mating upon meeting at gatherings!

"The purpose of human gatherings is to make friends, exchange feelings, and try to choose a potential marriage partner.

Unlike androids, humans actively search for the other half to form a family, rather than waiting to be randomly assigned!"

The president emphasized this, her words brimming with contempt for androids and immense pride in being human.

Lu Xing looked around. He had initially thought the White Cat Club was an underground resistance organization of humans fighting against artificial intelligence, but it turned out to be a masquerade party.

Hearing it so abruptly, it sounded laughable, but upon second thought, it felt deeply tragic.

Humans had been oppressed to such a miserable degree!

"How about it? Have you considered dating me?" the silver-haired, long-legged president extended her invitation once more.

Lu Xing shook his head. "I don't even know you yet. How can we date?"

"You need to know someone to date?"

"According to human tradition, the prerequisite for dating is a mutual attraction, understanding each other's habits and personalities, going on dates, deepening your feelings, and only then confessing your love to become boyfriend and girlfriend, before finally getting married!"

"..."

Lu Xing's words were entirely ordinary in the twenty-first century, but placed in this futuristic world before these humans, they sounded like an ancient celestial scripture!

All the members of the White Cat Club stared at him in shock.

"Human relationships are so cumbersome...? Where did you look up this information?"

After a moment of exclamation, the president asked him with a puzzled look.

"I saw it in a book."

Lu Xing smiled slightly and said to the crowd, "I agree to join the White Cat Club. But before that, may I know your names?"

"My name is Ren Qing."

The president stated her name, and the others followed suit, calling out theirs.

Aside from Ren Qing, only two or three other people had pleasant-sounding names. The rest bore names like Fan Daode, Song Liushui, Li Feng, and Zhao Qianmei—not necessarily bizarre, but virtually impossible to encounter in the twenty-first century.

Upon joining the White Cat Club, the system's mission finally arrived:

"Novice Advanced Mission II: Try to make friends or find a marriage partner in the identity of Lu Xing. Mission Reward: 1,000 Experience Points."

Wonderful, a simple mission! And it didn't require him to disguise himself as Jiang Xuannv.

Lu Xing glanced sidelong at Ren Qing, his eyes momentarily dazzled by her exceptionally long legs, then looked at the others. Would the mission evaluation be higher if he made as many friends as possible?

Yet the mission description specified the identity of "Lu Xing" rather than Jiang Xuannv, which implied using twenty-first-century standards rather than futuristic social customs, right?

"This gathering begins!"

Ren Qing beamed with a smile and asked Lu Xing, "Fellow compatriot, would you like to try dating me?"

Lu Xing noticed that the others around them were also approaching one another, asking similar questions and directly inquiring whether they could become friends.

A group of high school boys and girls, in a setting resembling a dance party, asking each other in deadly earnest tones whether they could be friends...

Among them, the men were handsome and the women were gorgeous; not a single one was overweight or frail. Yet the content of their gathering appeared so utterly childish!

"Wait!" Lu Xing interjected. "Didn't you make friends at your previous gatherings?!"

"We were friends last time, and we're still friends this time?"

Ren Qing asked with a puzzled look, while Chu Caifeng, Li Feng, Zhao Qianmei, and the others all turned to look at him as well.

"Of course! As long as you don't cut ties, friends remain friends forever! By the way, do you even know what a friend is?"

Everyone looked at him in confusion and bewilderment.

Lu Xing had no choice but to explain: "A friend is someone who shares the same ideals and aspirations. Ordinary friends are like us being in the same organization, such as the White Cat Club. True confidants and close friends go even deeper—if a friend is in trouble, you are bound to help them!"

The classroom fell silent for a moment as they seemed to process this.

"Compatriot, what you said is wonderful!" The hairclip provided this prompt to Lu Xing.

Lu Xing smiled helplessly and said to the members of the White Cat Club, "If you don't understand, just stick to your old ways. President, I'll be your friend!"

Ren Qing smiled brightly. "Alright. Since you said friends stay friends forever, then we will be friends forever, until we cut ties. My friend Lu Xing, have you run into any trouble? I can help you."

Her smile was stunning, but the latter half of her sentence sounded startlingly like something Wang Bagua, the android, would say.

Human society had been castrated by artificial intelligence to an unrecognizable state. Most art had vanished, and history books never mentioned the artistic and cultural achievements of any era.

Lu Xing nodded. "Actually, I have. I want to find the human resistance. Do you know anything about this organization?"

"Never heard of it. Is it not from our school?"

"No, it's an alliance of all humans fighting against the rule of artificial intelligence. It should exist widely among humans!"

His words caused everyone in the White Cat Club to stare at him.

"Fight against the... rule of androids?"

Ren Qing murmured, her gaze gradually turning cold, devoid of any prior excitement about dating. Her voice became much more indifferent. "Do you mean to make humans rule the entire world?"

Lu Xing noticed that the eyes of the surrounding students had also turned noticeably colder.

"Yes!"

Lu Xing raised his guard to the maximum, yet answered with unyielding firmness.

He was no longer afraid of exposure.

If Jiang Xuannv's strength couldn't even handle the current predicament, then she didn't need to bother looking for any resistance; she might as well live peacefully in the virtual world.

Ren Qing continued to ask, "Humans set the rules and govern the world ourselves?"

"Exactly!"

"A bold idea, but based on my immediate calculations, even if human forces are integrated, it will be extremely difficult to defeat them!"

"However, I like this proposal!"

Ren Qing smiled again, spreading her arms wide as if embracing the entire world. "I've decided. I'll upload your idea to the White Cat General Assembly! Unite all humans and wipe out all androids!"

The crowd exchanged glances, neither immediately agreeing nor instantly objecting.

Ren Qing turned her head to look at Lu Xing with a smile. "My friend, are you satisfied with how I'm helping you?"

Lu Xing: "..."

People really do laugh when they are speechless!