Chapter 30 Drifting Bottle 2
Xiaozhen felt that Wei Jingjing's gaze behind her was very dazzling.
Since the first class in the morning, he felt that Wei Jingjing was glaring at him from time to time, and that look seemed to want to dig a hole in his body.
He thought about it and decided that he had not offended this young lady recently, so he decided to ignore it completely.
Wei Jingjing glanced at Yan Zhen. It was a break between classes, and Yan Zhen was talking to Xiang Zeyu. She frowned and observed Yan Zhen carefully again, from his eyes to his eyebrows, from his ears to his chin, she wanted to see every part of him, including his pores, clearly, and then looked down at her phone.
She was browsing Weibo. Recently, because of a popular movie and some other reasons, she became a fan of Ren Anzhi. In the past two months, she would search for information about Ren Anzhi when she had nothing to do. She just saw a few photos of Ren Anzhi in his youth on Weibo. His youthful and tender appearance made her infatuated for several minutes. However, as a person who loves beauty, she was happily licking the photos for a while before she discovered something that was enough to shatter her worldview and make her doubt her life.
That is——
How come the young boy Ren Anzhi in this photo looks so much like Yan Zhen?
She stared at the person in the photo again and again, and felt more and more that she was face-blind. So she knocked on Chen Yuxin's table next to her, put the phone in front of Chen Yuxin, and asked, "Look, who is this?"
Chen Yuxin blurted out as soon as she saw it: "It's Yan Zhen."
“…”
"Wow, this photo is so handsome." Chen Yuxin said, "This must be Yan Zhen."
"..." Wei Jingjing was a little disappointed, "But it says here that these are photos of Ren An from a few years ago."
"Ren Anzhi?" Chen Yuxin looked at him again and said, "The third male lead in that popular movie?"
"He's the second male lead!! He ranks second!" Wei Jingjing raised her voice to correct her ignorant classmate, "Ren Anzhi's first big screen appearance was in Director Hu's movie, which has grossed 1.8 billion, and he was the second male lead right away. In fact, our Anzhi is much more dazzling than the first male lead."
Chen Yuxin blinked. She knew nothing about the ranking of the entertainment industry and didn't realize that she had accidentally stepped on Wei Jingjing's sore spot. She continued naturally, "I'm not familiar with Ren Anzhi, but this photo does look like Yan Zhen."
"..." Wei Jingjing closed her mouth sadly. She still didn't want to accept the reality.
Ren Anzhi was the first star that ignited her passion for star-chasing. Now her favorites on a certain video website are all Ren Anzhi's cuts and MVs. She has not joined any of Ren Anzhi's fan groups, nor does she uniformly support Ren Anzhi's rankings and traffic like other fanatical female fans. She is an authentic casual fan, and the most she does is to repeatedly watch Ren Anzhi's cuts and post a few comments like "Anzhi is so beautiful".
When she thought of the words "beautiful face", Wei Jingjing couldn't help but hold her head. Although she felt that Ren Anzhi looked familiar before, she only thought that her idol had a kind face and never thought of Yan Zhen. Now because of these photos, she has completely become face-blind. Now she only feels that Ren Anzhi and the annoying Yan Zhen keep overlapping, and these words that she would be embarrassed to say every day seem to have become her fanboy for Yan Zhen.
She screamed an endless marmot in her mind.
Aaaaaaaah!!
Aaaaaaaaah!!
My An Zhicai is not like Yan Zhen! ! Wei Jingjing lay on the table and wailed silently.
Chen Yuxin didn't seem to want to stop her mental torture of Wei Jingjing. Before Wei Jingjing got her phone back, Chen Yuxin showed the photo to Liu Xingquan, asking the monitor to see who it was.
"It's Yan Zhen." Liu Xingquan answered without hesitation.
"Okay, okay. I got it." Wei Jingjing was dejected.
Chen Yuxin said: "Wei Jingjing said this is Ren Anzhi."
"It's Yan Zhen." Liu Xingquan's voice was not loud, but his tone was extremely firm.
Okay.
After school, Xiang Zeyu stopped Liu Xingquan.
"Liu Xingquan, I need your help with something."
"What?"
Xiang Zeyu lowered his voice: "I heard from people that you are very familiar with Brother Xiaosheng."
"..." Liu Xingquan looked at Xiang Zeyu , and then replied: "Yes."
Brother Xiaosheng is a high school student in our school. He once got into a fight with a student from another school and was punished. He became a well-known problem person, a character that even teachers were reluctant to intervene in. The students in the lower grades said that he was the leader of a gang and a bad boy who was involved in society. Some people said that his father was a gangster. Out of respect for the legendary powerful student, the students called him Brother Xiaosheng.
For the students who study hard, Xiaosheng is Chen Haonan and Xiao Ma Ge from No. 4 Middle School. He is a symbol of wanton challenge to authority, an object of hatred for teachers and parents, and a dangerous and attractive walking unruly person.
When they saw Xiaosheng, he was playing basketball on the playground. When he saw Liu Xingquan, Xiaosheng smiled and said, "Liu Xingquan? It's rare. Do you want to play basketball?"
Liu Xingquan said he was not here to play basketball, but that his classmates wanted to ask him for help. Xiang Zeyu hurriedly greeted Xiaosheng respectfully.
Xiang Zeyu came for his friend. Recently, his friend was bullied in school. His friend's name was Wang Siwen, nicknamed Little Mosquito, and he was in the next class, Class 1, and he had been bullied by the students in Class 1.
"Those people in Class 1 bullied Xiao Wanzi and tore up his homework." Xiang Zeyu said indignantly. "They always surrounded him in the toilet and threw his schoolbag into the toilet drain. It happened several times."
Brother Xiaosheng didn't say anything, but just raised his eyebrows slightly.
Xiang Zeyu said anxiously, "Xiao Wenzi has looked for the teacher, but you know the people in Class 1, the best class in the teacher's mind, are a bunch of pretentious bastards. They pretend to be well-behaved in front of the teacher, but they do dirty things behind the teacher's back. They did it to him again today, and they locked him in the toilet for two hours."
Liu Xingquan said, "If this continues, Xiang Zeyu's friends might get into trouble."
Brother Xiaosheng said, "Okay. I'll talk to the kids." With these words, Xiang Zeyu seemed to have taken a reassurance pill and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Xiaosheng threw the basketball up and caught it, then hooked his finger at Liu Xingquan: "Come and play with me for a while."
Liu Xingquan took a breath, and the ball bounced under his hands. Xiaosheng launched an offensive against him, and his attack was like an iron net, almost putting the ball under his control. Liu Xingquan took a step back, dunked the ball to his side, turned around and rushed forward with the ball at high speed. Xiaosheng chased closely, and was about to intercept the ball with a slap.
With almost unimaginable agility, Liu Xingquan jumped into the air, the ball drew an arc in the air, the basketball fell under the basket, turned half a circle and fell outside the basket.
"You jumped too quickly." said Brother Xiaosheng.
"You are a high school student older than me." Liu Xingquan reminded him.
Brother Xiaosheng laughed heartily. He picked up the basketball and said, "You have talent. The old man likes you, too. Are you really not considering developing in this direction?"
"Not considering it."
"What a pity." Brother Xiaosheng sighed. He looked directly at Liu Xingquan and asked softly, "Are you still angry with us?"
"yes."
Brother Xiaosheng scratched his head and said, "Shitou and Xiaomang thought you were bullied by Master Yan."
"I haven't been bullied by anyone." Liu Xingquan said, "Are those two guys crazy? How could they blackmail Yan Zhen?"
"They didn't want to blackmail him, they just wanted to scare him."
"That's blackmail!" Liu Xingquan raised his voice, his tone suddenly sharp, "You are going too far. How can you do such a thing!!!"
"They just want to help you vent your anger and teach him a lesson."
"Yan Zhen never bullied me. He has always been my friend."
"Shitou said Yan Zhen might think that you instigated Shitou Xiaomang to scare him. You didn't explain it to him at all, did you?"
"There's nothing to explain."
“……” Brother Xiaosheng opened his mouth, but when he saw Liu Xingquan’s angry eyes, he closed his mouth.
"Yan Zhen didn't do anything wrong, and this is none of your business."
"But I heard that it was that Master Yan who caused your father to lose his job."
Liu Xingquan fell silent. After a moment, he spoke, his voice firm. "Yan Zhen has never done anything wrong."
"but……"
"He didn't do anything wrong," Liu Xingquan said. "The one who was wrong was me, who was only incompetent and angry.
Liu Xingquan came to the green shrubs of the seventh teaching building of the school. Under the seventh shrub, he took out the bottle. The letter paper inside had been updated. The unknown pen pal had written new content.
Turning the bottle, he saw words written on the yellowed parchment that he didn't recognize. But in the next moment, Liu Xingquan recognized the words. Maybe it was because of his eyesight. He pulled out the letter thinking this.
The content of the letter is as follows:
【Hello, unknown believer from a foreign land. 】
[Today is another good day. There is no sour rain that rots the skin, and no thick fog that burns the throat. It is a good time to go out and work. ]
[But something went wrong halfway through the work and I got lost in who knows where. I got separated from Tita. It was terrible. I was really afraid that Tita was dead.]
【Tita still wants to leave here. I interpret this emotion as daydreaming. After all, based on my experience growing up in the bottom cave until today, if I face reality and live well, I might be able to become a factory manager in the bottom cave if I’m lucky. And those who are not at ease and want to leave, they are all dead.】
[Compared to going to the lower level to collect sleep stones like today, I think being a factory manager and filling in a bunch of numbers every day is the most comfortable emperor-level enjoyment. I have to pick up at least enough sleep stones to fill my backpack today, and two-thirds of them must be handed over to the Wet Tongue Family to barely pay off the license and equipment usage fees.]
[You probably don't know what a sleeping stone is. If you drop alcohol on a sleeping stone, it will decompose into a wonderful gas that will make you have a sweet dream, but if you sprinkle too much alcohol, you will die on the spot. The Wet Tongue Family has been collecting sleeping stones to make medicine. They are one of the masters of the bottom cave. I have been praying that I will not die in their hands. ]
[Last time you asked me what the root of fortune tastes like. The root of fortune is a kind of fungus. It has consciousness and will find a suitable place to move and run away. We usually dry the root of fortune and grind it into powder and knead it into cakes. It tastes very similar to Akama moss, a little sour, and can fill the stomach. ]
[I always thought that all food in the world was like Akama moss, just for filling the stomach. But once an administrator assistant told me that there is a kind of delicious food in the world, it is called Tash Ball. I can't forget his expression when he mentioned Tash Ball. I saw his tongue sliding up and down his lips, and his intoxicated expression made people feel moved. How delicious is Tash Ball that he can talk about it as if he is pouring out a beautiful dream?]
[They all said that as long as you become an administrator, you will have the opportunity to taste tassballs. This is a delicacy that only the urban citizens "upper" can eat. I know that the delicacies that people "upper" can eat are definitely not just tassballs, but now whenever I mention tassballs, my mouth will unconsciously fill with saliva. I don't know when, his dream has become my dream.]
[Anonymous believer, if you have eaten tassles, please be sure to describe the taste of tassles in detail. ]
[I will keep this taste in mind as my daily creed and live by it.]
【Sorry, I'm going off topic again.】
[After being separated from Tita, I had to concentrate all my energy and wander among the dark buildings in the lower city. Although I did pick up some sleeping stones along the way, I knew that danger was everywhere. ]
[The damn city council made a very wise decision a hundred years ago. In order to clean up the various dangerous creatures that breed in the lower city, they very, very, cleverly introduced a creature called a sharp-beaked lizard. Everyone should stand up and applaud them. ]
[During the past hundred years, the sharp-beaked lizard did eat some mutant monsters and harmful creatures in the lower layer, but half of its food was definitely the residents of the bottom cave. When I was looking for Tita, I encountered a sharp-beaked lizard. I used all my strength to roll and crawl, and then I got rid of this abominable thing. If I had run a few steps slower, I would have been soaked in its stomach and received the baptism of digestive enzymes. ]
[After that, I encountered several vampire bats that fell behind the door of an abandoned warehouse, and tearing worms lurking under the stairs. In the chaotic escape, I was almost dragged away by a sac viper that was waiting for delicious food to come to its door. This kind of snake always nests in the corner, waiting for the unlucky ones to pass by. ]
[This is the lower level of the castle. The electricity is basically cut off at this level. The deeper you go, the darker and more foggy it becomes. Legend has it that there are remains of a civilization thousands of years ago down there. It is a dark abyss where only unknown monsters can survive.]
[Our ancestors built cities layer by layer until the buildings reached deep into the clouds. The rich and powerful lived higher and higher, while the lower-class residents were forgotten in the dirty lower layers. In our legends, the upper layers are where the most magnificent and magnificent wonders of the entire star region are located.]
【Tita has always wanted to go and see it.】
[I know, it's just a daydream.]
[Just when I had completely given up hope and thought Tita was dead, I found him. ]
[He hangs dazed on a spider vine.]
[Thanks to the Star Spirit, his upper and lower body are still there, but his tail and one leg have been eaten. A vine mutant spider is lying motionless next to him. His backpack is stuck to the leaves of the vine, and the sleeping stones are scattered all over the ground. ]
[I put on my gas mask and rushed forward to drag Tita down. For the first time, I wanted to thank the Wet Tongue Family, because they wanted the Sleeping Stone. Before Tita lost his ability to move, he poured the wine he brought with him onto the Sleeping Stone. This action successfully stunned the mutant vine spider that was eating him and himself. Otherwise, I would have only seen Tita's remains. ]
[Tita now looks very depressed. Although he was saved, all the sleeping stones he collected were gone. He owes the Wet Tongue family a debt for this. For every day the debt is delayed, the Wet Tongue family will charge interest. In addition, he has to spend all his savings over the years to install a mechanical leg. ]
[His savings were meant to buy a lift ticket out of here one day.]
【I knew from the beginning that what he was thinking was just a daydream.】
[I poured all the sleeping stones in my backpack into his bag. At least, he can be exempted from the debt of the damn Wet Tongue Family.]
【After all, daydreaming is not a bad thing. 】
【……】
【……】
Liu Xingquan didn't understand why he was so interested in this pseudo-sci-fi novel that didn't seem that good. He actually wanted to tell this unknown pen pal that life was already so depressing, and no one wanted to read such a depressing plot. But he also admitted that he actually read it with great interest and was looking forward to the future story of the protagonist "I". He even began to consider reminding this pen pal whether to add some cheat codes to the protagonist "I" or add some popular elements that attract attention nowadays, such as rebirth and revenge, system quick wear, etc. Anyway, this is no longer a serious science fiction novel.
But in the end, Liu Xingquan did not offer any suggestions. He wrote in his reply:
(Omitted)
[I think Tita would be proud to have a friend like you.]
