Wen Qian was recently playing a casual campus RPG game, short for "School Simulator." After staying up all night playing games, she died suddenly. When she op...
Chapter 201 Chapter 201 Something that cannot be solved...
If something cannot be solved, just put it aside for now. It will naturally be solved as time goes by. Wen Qian came up with his own universal solution.
Besides, it hasn’t come yet, so you don’t have to worry about it until it comes.
The backpack bar has been unlocked. Wen Qian took out his phone and looked at the dazzling red dots of message prompts, his expression paused.
I feel like just replying to messages would exhaust me to death, so I'd better wait a while before dealing with it.
After convincing himself in a few seconds, Wen Qian naturally put his phone back into his backpack.
"I'll go get some milk tea." Wen Qian pushed open the door, looked at Zhou Zhu and Lin Huai and said.
"Okay." Zhou Zhu looked up at Wen Qian, "Let's discuss where to eat when we get back."
"There's a pretty good store near the school." Lin Huai looked down at his phone and said.
"Okay, let's talk about it when I get back." Wen Qian nodded.
Looking at the delivery picture sent by the delivery guy on his phone, Wen Qian opened the map and navigated to the takeaway cabinet here.
Following the arrow on the map and turning a corner, she saw a bright yellow takeout cabinet. Her eyes lit up slightly and she quickened her pace towards the cabinet.
Wen Qian, preoccupied with getting her takeout, bumped into a hurried pedestrian approaching from the other side. She quickly raised her hand and gestured apologetically, "Sorry, I didn't see you."
The arm that had fallen was suddenly grabbed by someone. Wen Qian, who was walking forward, was forced to stop and turned to look at his side in confusion.
When he saw the face of the person next to him clearly, Wen Qian was stunned, and then a surprised expression appeared on his face: "Chu Lingyu?"
Chu Lingyu instinctively grabbed Wen Qian's wrist, his fingertips trembling slightly, and his face showed some confusion and nervousness that he was not even aware of, as if he was worried that the person in front of him would disappear if he let go.
"...Wen Qian?" His voice was very soft, but the hand holding Wen Qian's arm slowly tightened.
"You came so quickly." Wen Qian remembered what Lin Huai had said about running into Chu Lingyu. He didn't expect to run into him the next moment. "I just—"
Before she could finish her words, Wen Qian was hugged tightly by the person in front of her. His pounding heartbeat passed through his chest and entered her ears. The hand holding her arm fell on her back and tightened little by little.
Hearing Chu Lingyu whispering his name, Wen Qian said lightly, "It's me."
After Chu Lingyu calmed down, Wen Qian patted his arm and signaled him to let go. Chu Lingyu let go of his hand with some reluctance.
"Wen Qian, when did you come back?"
"I came back two days ago." Wen Qian looked at the people following him and said, "I've been busy with the registration for the next two days. Oh, right! I just ran into Xiao Zhu and Lin Huai. Lin Huai even told me that he saw you a few days ago."
"Yeah." Chu Lingyu replied in a low voice, "I'll come to see you."
I haven't seen her for a long time. Although I occasionally receive messages from Wen Qian, those messages seem to be floating in the air. I have tried to find her countless times, but always to no avail.
"Well now you've found me!"
"Let's go, let's get the takeout. Xiaozhu and the others are still waiting." Wen Qian hurriedly led his people to the takeout counter.
After not seeing each other for a long time, Chu Lingyu couldn't help feeling hesitant when he saw Wen Qian again. However, Wen Qian's usual attitude made him feel at ease unconsciously.
Her attitude towards him did not change. Her worries before coming, such as not being able to find him and that there would be a gap between them when they met, suddenly disappeared.
Just like before, as long as he stayed by her side, he would be infected by her emotions, as if the year of separation did not exist. The corners of Chu Lingyu's lips curled up.
He took a step forward, took the takeaway bag from Wen Qian, and shook her hand firmly: "Wen Qian, can you tell me what you encountered this year?"
"Sure." Wen Qian read out the introduction of the travel game word for word. It was no different from the message automatically sent to them by the system, but Chu Lingyu was very happy to hear it.
He just wanted to hear her voice a little longer.
"Guess who I just met downstairs!" Wen Qian pushed the door open and was stunned when his eyes fell on the room.
Lin Huai glanced at the two people who stood up hastily when Wen Qian opened the door, coughed softly, and decided to play the role of a member to prevent the president's words from falling on the ground.
"Who is it?"
"She bumped into me." The smile on Chu Lingyu's face faded a little when he saw the two people walking towards Wen Qian.
Wen Qian said in surprise: "Luo Lun, Lu Yanbai, you are all here!"
Loren didn't care about Chu Lingyu standing next to Wen Qian. He walked around him and stood in front of Wen Qian.
"Long time no see, Wen Qian." He looked a little stunned when he spoke. Two seconds later, he smiled and repeated, "Long time no see."
Lu Yanbai looked down at Wen Qian. He had a lot to say to him, but suddenly he didn't know what to say.
"Have you finished everything needed for school to start? Do you need any help?" he asked softly.
"It's all done." Wen Qian took two steps forward. "Why are you standing? Aren't you going to sit down?"
"That time... I thought you would come back later." Lu Yanbai's gaze stayed on Wen Qian. He didn't expect that he would never see her again after that phone call, until now.
"You left without even replying to my messages." Loren's resentful voice followed.
Wen Qian: "But I don't usually reply to messages."
"Okay." Loren smiled. "That's definitely your style."
Looking at Loren who had drawn all of Wen Qian's attention to him, Lu Yanbai's eyes dimmed slightly, and he naturally interrupted their conversation.
The silent confrontation was hidden under verbal conversation. Zhou Zhu and Lin Huai, who felt this familiar atmosphere again, found it difficult to describe their current mood.
It really hasn't changed at all.
"It's not like it hasn't changed at all." Zhou Zhu whispered, "Hasn't it become more obvious?"
"You're right."
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Jiang Zhi looked at the screen of his mobile phone, his gaze lingering on the last message sent by Wen Qian for a long time. He put down the phone and looked up at the shops on the street.
His steps towards the school paused slightly, he frowned, looked at the photo of the shop next to him, and after two seconds turned around and walked towards the shop.
"Xia Zhiqing, you really didn't meet her? Are you lying to me?"
"I'm not lying to you. I really didn't find her."
"Or... Hey? Jiang Zhi!" Xun Cang sighed and turned sideways. His eyes paused and he raised his hand to wave to the person who had just walked in.
Jiang Zhi, who didn't expect to meet them here, greeted them lazily.
Xun Cang leaned on the table and looked at Jiang Zhi: "Jiang Zhi, are you here to see Wen Qian?"
"You seem to be asking a nonsense question." Xia Zhiqing chuckled.
Jiang Zhi sat across from them: "When did you come?"
"A little earlier than you." Xia Zhiqing retracted his gaze and guessed, "You came in because you saw the name of this store, right?"
Xia Zhiqing remembered it very clearly. It was a restaurant exactly the same as the noodle restaurant on the floor above Wen Qian's house.
"If that's the reason, I can tell you that the owner of this store is the one you know." Xia Zhiqing paused and continued, "But he doesn't know where Wen Qian is either."
Jiang Zhi paused his fingertips tapping the table unconsciously. He looked up and said, "It doesn't matter. Now that she's back, it's only a matter of time before I see her."
His tone was calm, but his unconsciously bent fingers revealed his faint anxiety.
"Boss, what's wrong with you?" The man who suddenly pushed the door open and walked in rushed towards the kitchen. "Can you calm down for a moment? What happened?"
The voice that was deeply engraved in memory sounded without warning, and the three people sitting at the table looked at the person who came almost at the same time.
She moved quickly, and when they looked up they could only see her back, but even her back was enough to confirm her identity.
Wen Qian, who suddenly received a request for help from the noodle shop owner, hurried to the noodle shop.
She didn't see anyone at first and was about to shout a few times, but the sudden sound of a chair moving behind her scared her.
What happened? A customer who came to eat noodles fell down?
Wen Qian subconsciously turned around and looked behind him. He pursed his lips and looked down at the person who was walking towards her quickly.
"Jiang Zhi." Wen Qian asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"
"Xun Cang, Xia Zhiqing, you are here too!" Wen Qian looked past Jiang Zhi and saw the two people behind him.
Xia Zhiqing's brows relaxed: "Wen Qian."
When he called out her name, his tense heartstrings slowly relaxed, and a smile appeared in the corners of his eyebrows and eyes.
Xun Cang's face was almost filled with surprise. "Wen Qian, you're finally back. How was your trip? Did you miss me? I missed you so much!"
Jiang Zhi took a step back and looked down at Wen Qian.
"I came here first." He blocked Wen Qian's gaze from looking at Xun Cang, and his voice was inexplicably a little aggrieved.
"Won't you say a few more words to me?"
"We have plenty of time to talk." Wen Qian looked around and found a place to sit down. "Come and sit down first!"
"I just got back not long ago." She began, "I originally wanted to send you a message in a couple of days, but I didn't expect you all to come here."
"Just right." Wen Qian nodded with satisfaction. "Sending a message is no match for chatting in person."
Xun Cang's eyes lit up. Wen Qian thought the same thing as him. He also thought so.
Just as he was about to speak, Jiang Zhi intentionally or unintentionally interrupted the conversation: "Have you visited their home since you came back?"
"It's been uninhabited for so long, do you want to find someone to clean it up?"
"No need!" Wen Qian, who had just received the voucher for moving to his homestead not long ago, didn't have to worry about such things at all. "Maybe I'll move to another place later."
Jiang Zhi paused. "Really? Do you have a plan?"
"Not yet, let's see later!"
"Okay." He said calmly, "I'll accompany you then."
"OK!"
"Wen Qian, are you here for dinner?" Xia Zhiqing asked softly, "Do you want to go to another restaurant? The owner of this restaurant just went out for something."
"He went out?" Wen Qian was confused. "When did it happen?"
"About ten minutes ago." Xia Zhiqing turned to look at Wen Qian, ignoring the other two, and said softly, "Do you want to go eat together?"
"It's been so long since we last met, I have a lot to say to you."
"Okay, let me find the boss first." Wen Qian said, "I don't know what the boss wants me to do for you yet, so it might be very late."
Looking at his time-limited task which had changed from [Request from the Noodle Shop Owner] to [Find the Noodle Shop Owner], Wen Qian quickly stood up.
"I have to go find someone first, see you later!"
Jiang Zhi quickly stood up: "I'll go with you."
"No need, I'll come find you later!" Wen Qian turned around and left quickly.
Bringing too many people will easily affect her speed.
The noodle shop owner was not difficult to find. After going around twice, Wen Qian found him and followed the task instructions, urging the noodle shop owner to return to his work.
When the task completion prompt sounded, the mobile phone placed in the backpack column also rang.
"What's wrong, Jiang Zhi?" Wen Qian took out his cell phone and answered the call.
"Wen Qian, can you have dinner with me later?" Jiang Zhi's tone was very natural, and it was impossible to tell that he was about to intercept Xia Zhiqing's invitation.
"Sure, then I'll tell Xia Zhiqing." Wen Qian agreed. The three of them would eat together, no, four, including Xun Cang.
"Wen Qian, but I think it's just the two of us."
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Seeing Wen Qian coming back, Zhou Zhu raised his hand and said hello: "Wen Qian, remember to check your phone messages."
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know. Chu Lingyu asked me to remind you."
Wen Qian took out her cell phone and took a look. A new message popped up. The person who sent the message asked her if she had time in the evening and if he could ask her out for a walk.
The message was from Loren. Wen Qian silently read several new messages sent today. Almost all of them were asking her out for dinner or shopping. The reasons were different, but they were all similar.
Lin Huai, who learned of this, spoke calmly: "It seems that your choice questions came a little too quickly."
"With so many choices, Wen Qian, who are you going to be with?" Zhou Zhu asked interestedly.
"It's not that there is no solution." Wen Qian said slowly, "I choose—you!"
Two members: Who? Us?
"It just so happens that we agreed to go out for dinner together." Wen Qian said with satisfaction, "Lin Huai, where is the restaurant you chose? Let's go now!"
"It's a good idea." Zhou Zhu paused, "But Chu Lingyu seems to be downstairs."
"Didn't he leave? How come he's back so soon?"
Lin Huai: "He didn't leave. He just went back to the hotel to change clothes."
Wen Qian: "At this point, there's only..."
【Emergency Mission——Flour Crisis (Limited to 2 hours)
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Jiang Zhi, who came to see Wen Qian at the appointed time, met a few people he didn't want to see.
Loren, who didn't expect to see so many annoying faces, didn't even bother to offer a fake smile.
The smell of gunpowder is heavy, but the only protagonist has yet to show up.
Lin Huai looked at the group of people in front of him, trying to pretend that he didn't exist, but the phone in his pocket vibrated twice at this moment.
He looked down at the phone screen, his eyes twitched, and an indescribable expression appeared on his face.
"Well, Wen Qian has something to do right now." Lin Huai, realizing that everyone around him was looking at him, was silent for two seconds before speaking, "She just received a call from the noodle shop owner."
"The noodle shop owner's handyman was injured, and she has to take his place to help the noodle shop owner get flour."
Lin Huai read the message sent by Wen Qian expressionlessly.
It was difficult for him to guess whether this was an excuse made by Wen Qian or the truth.
Whatever the possibility, it's a bit weird.
Wen Qian stood at the door of another store a little distance away from the noodle shop, looking for the Brother Zhao mentioned in the hint.
This name sounds strangely familiar.
Looking at the person walking towards him with a cane, Wen Qian was silent for two seconds, and suddenly remembered where this sense of familiarity came from.
"Why are you injured again?" Wen Qian said in a cryptic way.
Although injured, Brother Zhao looked completely uninjured except for his crutch. He laughed heartily and dropped the flour bag on his shoulder with a bang.
"Injuries are inevitable." He smiled brightly. "I've got a few more bags of flour. I'll go get them. I'm leaving it all up to you!"
"It's such a short distance, and you can cover it in two steps..." Wen Qian paused, "Didn't I say the same thing last time?"
She reached out to the flour bag helplessly, but before she touched it, two people, one on her left and one on her right, picked up the flour bag at the same time.
Wen Qian was stunned for a moment, then looked up and said, "Huh? When did you come here?"
"Just now." Jiang Zhi glanced at Chu Lingyu, who extended his hand at the same time as him, and then looked at Wen Qian, "Are you moving to the noodle shop?"
"Let me help you move, Wen Qian." Chu Lingyu ignored Jiang Zhi and said.
Wen Qian turned around and saw Xia Zhiqing coming from behind and standing beside her: "Go and rest, we'll take care of these."
Xun Cang became familiar with Brother Zhao after just a few words and took the remaining flour.
"You still remember where the noodle shop is."
"Don't worry, I know the location."
While no one else was paying attention, Loren approached Wen Qian and looked at her with a smile: "Do you want to go out and play with me later?"
Lu Yanbai came over with water and said coldly, "Go to work."
He handed the water bottle to Wen Qian and kept a close watch on Loren who tried to get close to Wen Qian.
"Just one bag for each person!" Wen Qian counted the flour and looked up at the people in front of her. "It just so happens that I haven't decided who to go out with later."
"Then it depends on who comes back to me first after delivering the flour to the destination!" Xiao Wen, who outsourced the task, carefully instructed, "It must be handed over to the noodle shop owner."
Wen Qian felt like a genius for not only completing the task but also not having to answer multiple-choice questions.
When Zhou Zhu and Lin Huai arrived at the location late, they only saw Wen Qian standing there chatting with Brother Zhao. The others were nowhere to be seen.
"Wen Qian, didn't they come to see you?"
"They're coming!" Wen Qian repeated what happened just now, "So I asked them to deliver flour."
"Oh, right, I forgot to take out the small trailer for them to use." Wen Qian thought for a moment, "Forget it, there's only one small trailer, not enough to share."
Brother Zhao: "Small trailer?"
"Do you want to use a small trailer? I have one here." He turned around and took out a brand new green trailer from behind him, then sighed as he looked at it.
"I had a little blue trailer that I had used for a long time and it disappeared. I don't know where it is and I can't find it. It's really strange."
Wen Qian: “…”
She glanced at the small blue trailer of the same model but a different color in her backpack column and nodded slowly, "Yeah, that's weird."
Lin Huai looked at Wen Qian hesitantly.
Wen Qian took two steps back and calmly left with his two members.
"Wen Qian, his little trailer looks similar to yours."
"Really? That's not important." Wen Qian said nonchalantly, "Let's go eat first."
"Aren't you going to wait for them?"
"I've been waiting for you." Wen Qian said confidently, "Weren't you two the first to find me?"
"So it makes sense for me to go to dinner with you!"
Zhou Zhu and Lin Huai looked at each other in silence. So, Wen Qian was intercepted by them?
Lin Huai paused: "Take Wen Qian and leave quickly before they come back."
"That's right. If you're a little late, you might end up having dinner with them. Hurry up."
…
After dinner, the three of them took a walk along the street.
Lin Huai: "My phone rang. It was Chu Lingyu calling."
Zhou Zhu: "Just pretend you didn't hear it."
Lin Huai: "Your phone is ringing too."
“…It’s not a big deal.”
As long as we can get through today, there should be no problem.
"Hello?" Wen Qian answered the phone. "Tomorrow morning?"
Seeing Wen Qian answer the phone, the two people who had silently quickened their pace paused slightly the next second and turned around to look at Wen Qian in disbelief.
"Want to help us set up the activity room? Sure—"
Two members: "No!!"
The president shrank his neck and said solemnly, "We can do this ourselves, no need to bother."
"Yeah, okay."
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Wen breathed a sigh of relief. Although she didn't understand why they were so resistant to having someone else help decorate the activity room - was it because of their love for the activity room? Did they have to decorate it themselves?
It doesn't matter, she's already refused.
"It's okay, I refused." Wen Qian patted the shoulders of the two members, "Oh, by the way, Lu Yanbai asked us to go out together this weekend."
Zhou Zhu: "We? There's an extra 'we', right?"
"No, he was talking about the three of us."
Lin Huai's mouth twitched, and he guessed what Lu Yanbai was thinking - he was afraid that Wen Qian would run away with them again.
"Is it only Lu Yanbai?"
If he was the only one there, then that would be fine, but was it really true that Lu Yanbai was the only one who asked Wen Qian to go out with him on the weekend?
"Of course." Wen Qian raised his phone confidently.
"...Well, it seems there are a few more people, but the difference isn't too big, they all asked out the three of us!"
Zhou Zhu and Lin Huai looked at each other slowly. It seemed that the idea that they would be fine if they could just get through today was wrong.
"Am I really in college?" Zhou Zhu murmured, "Why do I feel like I'm still at Holy Thorn?"
"Look at it from a bright side, at least there aren't any strange activities right now."
"Wait a minute, we can't go out with them this weekend." Wen Qian, who had been distracted for a while, suddenly announced, "Xiao Zhu, Lin Huai, our university environmental protection club's first event is scheduled for this weekend!"
Member:?!
"No, no, no, let's go out and play with them on the weekend." The two spoke quickly. The word "activity" spoken by Wen Qian was much more terrifying than the previous weekend invitations.
"Do you want to join them? Okay then." Wen Qian fiddled with his phone for a while.
"Okay, I just sent them a message inviting them to our environmental protection club's weekend event." Wen Qian said cheerfully, "So they don't have to choose!"
Two members: "..."
After going through so much trouble, all the harm was done.
Well, it’s not all bad.
"It's been a while since I've participated in the environmental club's activities. It was actually quite interesting."
"Well, Wen Qian, what are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about the Environmental Protection Society's next arrangements."
From setting up the activity room to the Arctic expedition, this semester's schedule is packed with arrangements by the president.
The members were all blank-faced and tried to persuade the president. The president accepted the suggestion and modified the plan - changing the Arctic expedition to an Antarctic expedition.
"I didn't ask you to change this!"
"You have three chances to modify the activity plan if you can catch up with me." Wen Qian walked backwards in front of them and spoke slowly.
She turned around and said, "If you can't keep up with me, then follow my plan!"
"Wen-qian-"
Once again, the president of the environmental protection club took her two members to exercise.
It's not the first time, and certainly won't be the last.
Judging from the style of the president of the Environmental Protection Club, such things will probably happen countless times during their college career.
The president really takes great pains to ensure the health of his members.
Let us say thank you, President.
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