Chapter 10 Disguise
"I'm bankrupt! Completely bankrupt!" Captain Madara screamed at the top of his lungs.
In order to prevent the Yan family from falling into intense emotional fluctuations, Xiaozhen ordered a virtual scene projector from a fox merchant. The one who paid for it was Captain Ban.
The virtual scene projector can project a scene that is exactly the same as the reality. At present, this is the only way to save the Yan family's garden.
Xiaozhen flipped through the photo album, searched for photos of the garden, and sent them to the virtual scene projector for analysis. In just a few minutes, the projector was able to restore the garden to its normal state.
Mr. Cat squatted beside the album, watching Xiao Zhen flip through the pages. When he turned to a certain page, Mr. Cat pressed his paw and said, "This is the human who came to see you today."
It was talking about Liu Xingquan. There were two little boys in the photo, that was the young Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan. They had happy smiles on their faces and rosy cheeks. Xiao Zhen thought that Liu Xingquan at that time was not as worried as he is now. Behind the two boys stood two women, Xiao Zhen's mother An Yuan and Liu Xingquan's mother Luo Qingxi. An Yuan tilted her head and looked at the squatting Xiao Zhen with a smile on her face, while Luo Qingxi looked straight ahead. She was younger than the one Xiao Zhen saw at the funeral. She had a pair of bright eyes under her black and shiny hair, staring at the person behind the camera clearly and gently.
When Yan's mother brought Yan Zhu home, the house had returned to the way it was when they left.
Mr. Cat jumped onto the sofa and said to Xiao Zhen, "Do you really think they won't notice?"
"For humans, seeing is reality," Xiaozhen said.
"This is the latest type of virtual scene projector." Chicken puffed out his chest and flapped his wings, his tone full of confidence as a financial sponsor.
Mr. Cat sneered: "Excuse me, but you bought the cheapest model, which doesn't even have a simulated tactile system."
"People who didn't pay a cent have no right to find fault!!"
"Are you trying to avoid talking about a safety hazard that could be exposed at the first sign of trouble?"
"you……!"
Xiao Zhen stretched out his hand to hold down Captain Madara who was jumping up and down and trying to attack Mr. Cat, and glanced out the window: "According to my observation, humans trust their eyes more than anything else. The garden should be able to be concealed for the time being. The remaining question is..."
He was referring to Yan Zhu’s summer homework—the only bean sprout that was successfully grown but died this morning at the hands of Mr. Cat or the chicken.
The bean sprout in front of Yan Zhu was also an optical projection. Thanks to the photos Yan Zhu took of the bean sprouts growing up, the projection of this bean sprout was a perfect simulation. No matter from which angle you look at it, it is a small green seedling that is growing vigorously. Except, you can't touch it.
Yan Zhu was talking to the bean sprouts cheerfully as usual, encouraging them to grow quickly, while Xiao Zhen watched fearfully from the side.
Mr. Cat said, "If she gets curious and touches it, it will be all over."
Xiao Zhen replied, "I won't let this happen." He stood up and walked to Yan Zhu's side. Yan Zhu looked up at him, curious about what her brother came to her for.
“This bean sprout…”
"Um?"
Xiao Zhen said seriously: "If you touch it, it will die."
Yan Zhu: “…”
Captain Madara shouted: (You are just threatening me!)
Fortunately, Yan Zhu loved bean sprouts very much. Her mother had told her that bean sprouts were very delicate and would easily wither if touched carelessly. She did not reach out to touch them, but just stared at them again and again. Xiao Zhen was just relieved when Yan Zhu suddenly burst into a scream.
“Aaaaaaah!!”
"What's wrong?"
"Brother Zhen, there are bugs on these bean sprouts!!"
Xiao Zhen looked closely and found that several brightly colored worms had crawled on the leaves of the bean sprouts. The worms were extremely scary in shape, and each one was as big and thick as a human finger. Xiao Zhen thought quickly, this is impossible, the projection is not a physical entity, how could there be worms?
The chicken jumped onto his shoulder and said, "I forgot to mention that the projection manual says that this scene projection will intelligently calculate the environment and simulate more interactive scenes."
"you mean?"
"This insect is a scene simulated by the projection to make the projection more realistic. Look, the insect has started to eat the leaves."
"What kind of idiotic simulation is this!!" Xiao Zhen said angrily.
Mr. Cat laughed out loud.
Liu Xingquan is concentrating on doing his homework.
This was not a summer homework, but a high school course that he had prepared in advance. After the summer vacation, there would be an entrance exam, and Liu Xingquan knew that this was the first battle to win the semester. He would never and could not lose.
School teachers judge the quality of students based on their grades , which has nothing to do with wealth or poverty. It is the only thing they can strive for.
He used to be a silly child, naively thinking that he and Yan Zhen were equal friends. From one day on, perhaps because of his father's fawning respect for Yan Zhen's father, he suddenly realized that he and Yan Zhen had been decidedly different since the moment they were born.
He had always respected and admired Yan Zhen's father, Yan An. When he was in elementary school, after a parent-teacher conference, he and Yan Zhen waited for their father to come out of the school gate. In the crowd, he saw Uncle Yan An at a glance. He was upright, slender and tall, and was talking to people with his face turned sideways. His firm and handsome features outlined his toughness like corundum. He was so dazzling that the people around him seemed to disappear like clouds and mist.
When he walked to Liu Xingquan, he turned around and smiled at Liu Xingquan, his dark eyes shining . At that moment, the young Liu Xingquan felt a strange sense of vanity. This man, he is the father of my best friend. He has always liked me. This close connection and Yan An's attention to him made Liu Xingquan happy and joyful. His face turned red unconsciously, and even his body seemed to become light. Then, Liu Xingquan's father appeared behind Yan An, ran to the front of the car with his head bowed, opened the door and invited Yan An to get in.
In that instant, all of Liu Xingquan's joy disappeared. He looked at his father, who had a flattering smile on his face - his father could only be described as rustic and mediocre, and got into the car with Yan Zhen.
In the car, Liu Xingquan subconsciously distanced himself from Yan Zhen. But Yan Zhen came closer with a smile. He looked a lot like Yan An, his long eyelashes flickered, and he said, "Before the parents' meeting, I secretly stuffed a grasshopper into the back of my dad's collar."
Liu Xingquan stared at Yan Zhen's heartless look, and uncontrollable anger gathered in his heart. He was the only person that everyone respected who could cross the line without restraint.
Only him.
This is determined from birth.
"The son of a servant" and "Yan Zhen's follower" The gossip that Liu Xingquan accidentally heard behind his back made him feel depressed and anxious even when he thought about it now. In contrast, Yan Zhen's nonchalant face appeared. If Yan Zhen knew a little bit of his depression, he would let out his unique cruel laughter.
Snap! When he came to his senses, the lead of his pen broke, leaving an ugly slash on his exercise book.
Liu Xingquan washed his face. The boy in the mirror had a handsome appearance, but his expression was gloomy and sad. Because his father had just passed away. He put his hand on the mirror, and the boy in the mirror did not show any trace of his father. He looked more like his mother Luo Qingxi.
"I won't be like Dad..." Liu Xingquan murmured.
"I'm back, what are you doing?" My mother's voice came from outside the door.
Liu Xingquan quickly wiped his face and walked out of the bathroom. He told his mother that the things had been delivered to Yan's house.
Luo Qingxi nodded and turned back to the kitchen to cook.
Liu Xingquan sat back at his desk and struggled with his homework again. His goal was to be the top student in the grade, so he couldn't relax at all. First, he had to reduce the error rate of this set of questions.
He has always been a child who can concentrate. He was concentrating on doing a few questions when he suddenly heard his mother's voice calling him.
"Xingquan, look out the window!"
Liu Xingquan looked up and was stunned by the scene in front of him . Countless birds were flying outside the window. It was like a gorgeous wind rushing towards the setting sun.
“Why are there so many birds…”
The mother and son stared at this strange and beautiful scene and were mesmerized by it. A beautiful green-winged bird landed on his balcony. It jumped, tilted its head to look at its audience, and then spread its wings and flew to the end of the sky.
"What kind of bird is this? It's so beautiful." Liu Xingquan couldn't help but say.
"Green-winged Bulbul." Luo Qingxi whispered.
"ah?"
"Green-winged Bulbul." Luo Qingxi repeated in a low voice, staring at the bird flying away with gentle eyes.