Volume 1 Young Genius Chapter 001: Double pupils are the way to invincibility
China, Jiangmei Village.
This is one of the poorest villages in the country. There is no road access and one has to walk ten miles of mountain roads to see this village with only dozens of households.
Here, the richest families only plant a few more acres of land than others, and to go to school they have to walk ten miles along the mountain road to the town.
There are only elementary and junior high schools in the town. If you want to go to high school, you have to take a bus to Huang County, 40 kilometers away, and there is only one high school in the entire Huang County.
However, Chen Xuan failed to get admitted to this high school.
Failing the high school entrance examination is a normal thing for such a backward village.
But the villagers were really surprised that Chen Xuan failed the exam.
He is a true genius and the only hope of the children in the village.
From childhood to adulthood, he has always been the first, and he is far ahead of the second place. No one can test better than him. It is a pity.
Dad Chen Wu smoked his pipe and said with a sad face, "What are you going to do if you don't pass the exam?"
"I'll go work." Sixteen-year-old Chen Xuan was sensible, because his family couldn't afford the high school selection fee, which required farming for a year, and his father had been smoking this kind of dry tobacco, so his lungs were not good and he couldn't do heavy work.
Chen Wu sighed, and hesitated to speak. He coughed, tapped his pipe and said, "Fainting in the examination room, maybe our family really doesn't have that kind of fate. Go and work if you want. I'll let Li Wu take you there tomorrow."
"Yeah." Chen Xuan nodded. Li Wu was the neighbor's son. He went to work in a big city and came back every year with big bags, looking very proud.
My family feels more at ease when I go to work with such an older brother.
Before leaving tomorrow, Chen Wu took Chen Xuan to visit his neighbor and brought them to his home for a meal. He cooked fried eggs and braised pork with preserved vegetables, which was a rare sumptuous lunch.
Li Wu had been to a big city, so he spoke more naturally. He talked eloquently at the table, describing the big city of Shanghai as a paradise on earth.
Then he glanced at Chen Xuan, and suddenly he was surprised and said, "Chen Xuan, your eyes seem to have the legendary double pupils!"
"What is double pupils?" Chen Wu asked while pouring homemade rice wine for someone.
"Double pupils mean that there are two pupils in the eye, with the larger pupil covering the smaller pupil. Legend has it that in ancient times they were the appearance of a saint. If not a saint, they would be the top figures in a certain industry." Li Wu said.
"Stop it, you saint, you've had too much to drink." Chen Wu shook his head and laughed.
“Oh, don’t disbelieve me. I’ve read the novel. Double pupils mean the way to invincibility. But I can’t remember what the next sentence is.” Li Wu tapped his head.
"Tightening nuts in Foxconn." Chen Xuan thought for a moment and added.
"..." Li Wu was stunned at first, then he laughed and drank and ate. Although complimenting others makes people happy, one should not flatter the horse on the leg.
He failed the high school entrance exam, so he was obviously not very happy. It would be annoying if he kept bragging about it, so Li Wu knew what to do and kept silent.
In the afternoon, after a good meal and a good drink, Li Wu saw Chen Xuan going out with a homemade slingshot, so he followed him and said, "Go bird hunting, take me with you."
"Okay." Chen Xuan did not refuse and took Li Wu to the top of the mountain.
Seeing that Chen Xuan was still interested in bird hunting, Chen Wu couldn't help but shook his head. In fact, even if he had to beg and borrow money, he was willing to support Chen Xuan's studies for another year.
After all, this small place hasn't produced a child with such a high talent for studying for many years.
And now, he has given up, so let it go.
The two had just walked into the mountains.
Then, a sparrow flew by. Chen Xuan pulled the slingshot, narrowed his eyes, and shot it into the target. Chirp!
The sparrow fell to the ground!
"Awesome, awesome! This slingshot is powerful." Li Wu praised Chen Xian endlessly, thinking that he performed well.
Little did he know that this could be considered a blessing in disguise for Chen Xuan.
Chen Xuan fainted in the examination room that day, which directly resulted in him missing the two main subjects of Chinese and Mathematics.
Even a god can’t pass the exam, so getting full marks is useless.
However, when Chen Xuan woke up, he found that he seemed to have gained some kind of super power.
As long as you concentrate, you can see what will happen in the next three seconds.
As long as you don't interfere, the three seconds before your eyes will not change.
However, if Chen Xuan chooses to intervene, things will change.
So Chen Xuan, who was already able to use a slingshot, has become more and more accurate in shooting. Being young and strong, he can hit the target accurately from a hundred paces away, especially when shooting at moving targets.
However, this is not completely unsolvable. For example, Chen Xuan tried to use this trick to hit a fly.
However, Fly reacts too quickly, and his movement is not fixed, but reacts according to the incoming attacks.
So even if Chen Xuan can predict it, others can make temporary changes.
Chen Xuan’s fly eradication plan has never been realized.
On the contrary, he was very good at shooting birds, but he couldn't do it continuously. He had to rest for ten or twenty seconds after each use. However, shooting birds was illegal, and this sparrow was not the target, so Chen Xuan let it go directly.
Chen Xuan knew very well that this was most likely a superpower.
If I stay in the village or go to high school, this ability will definitely not be of any use.
It's impossible to say that if I can predict three seconds, I can succeed in the exam. This ability should be more useful in other places.
Good news, you have super powers. Bad news, these powers are useless, but they can be used to shoot birds.
Just before Li Wu tried to pick up the sparrow, another bird suddenly flew up.
Chen Xuan used the slingshot and took aim immediately.
The pupils suddenly shrank, and the world in Chen Xuan's eyes seemed to stop, allowing him to see the future three seconds later!
right here!
Chen Xuan, who already knew how to use a slingshot, combined with this ability, became a god-level slingshot player, with extremely accurate predictions.
Once again, a stone hit the bird's wing accurately, and at the same time Chen Xuan saw clearly that this was his target.
A parrot that can't fly high!
Chen Xuan didn’t know how there was a parrot in this mountain, but after discovering it, it became Chen Xuan’s biggest target.
"Awesome, awesome, two hits in a row. If only my ez could have this kind of prediction, wow." Li Wu said in amazement.
"What is ez?" Chen Xuan asked curiously.
"Oh, it's my son, Quan's biological son." Li Wu said with a smile.
"Fist?" Chen Xuan could n't understand. After Li Wu went to the big city, he always said something incomprehensible.
"A gaming company, whose logo is a fist, made a game that is popular all over the world, League of Legends, and Ezreal is one of the heroes in it." Li Wu said with a smile.
"Oh." Chen Xuan did not ask further questions, but just asked, "Can you take me out to see it?"
"Of course, you may not know that League of Legends is my way to make extra money." Li Wu said quietly.
"Extra income, can you make money?" Chen Xuan's eyes lit up.
"Of course, I'll tell you in detail when we go out tomorrow." Li Wu said, and went to catch the parrot.
Chen Xuan held the parrot and smiled slightly, saying, "It's time to see your ability to mimic others."
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The next morning, at half past five, when it was just getting light, Chen Xuan and Li Wu were about to set off, because they had to walk ten miles along the mountain road to catch the bus.
So I had to set off early, carrying a lot of bags, saying goodbye to my parents, and my mother helped me pack and gave me all kinds of instructions.
Chen Wu lay on the bed, not wanting to get up. He thought that only studying could bring him a future, but working would make it difficult to get out of the village. He was angry.
After Chen Xuan left, he secretly got up, walked to the door, and secretly watched Chen Xuan's receding back.
Until he disappeared at the end of the mountain road, he looked back and was startled by a green bird.
"What is that?" Chen Wu looked carefully and found that it was a parrot.
"What, what!" cried the parrot.
"Shut up!"
"I'm leaving. I'll earn my own tuition and go to college. I'll also earn enough money to pay for your medical treatment. I'm leaving..."
The sudden change in the voice made Chen Wu stunned. Is this... the words Chen Xuan left for me before he left?
It turns out that he is more sensible than I thought.
Chen Wu was silent for a long time, then he struck a match and wanted to light his pipe. After thinking for a while, he put out the fire and broke the pipe. When he was bored in the future, he would just play with birds. This parrot was a gift from Chen Xuan.
Thinking of this, Chen Wu broke the pipe and threw it into the stove.
