Chapter 161 Reality Story 1 20,000 Nutrient Solution Plus
The red contact lenses are indeed not very eye-catching, and compared to the guy next door who has dyed his hair blue, they are already low-key enough.
Probably, in a class, the probability of being noticed by the teacher is 30% lower than that of the blue-haired kid next door.
Chu Xiuyan turned the pen with a smile. His position closest to the podium meant that he could not escape the teacher's attention no matter how hidden he was, so he met a pair of eyes that looked at him from time to time - perhaps all teachers in the art department have a sense of humor, even the old professor with gray hair.
"Teacher, what you said was great. It was so vivid and lifelike. I have never taken such a humorous and interesting history class!"
Chu Xiuyan did not hesitate to give sincere praise to the old professor who was looking over.
The old professor said without hesitation: "Thank you. You are the most energetic students in all the classes I have attended. The combination of you has successfully attracted the attention of the entire classroom to the podium. This is the first time I know that it is possible to have a class at 8 am without anyone sleeping."
The suppressed laughter from the audience suddenly became louder.
This was an open class. There were students from many classes sitting in the classroom, about two hundred people. At this time, sitting in the front and most conspicuous first row of seats were a red-haired, a blue-haired, a black-haired, and a white-haired person—from four different classes. However, the black-haired person caught the opportunity and “persuaded them with kind words”, and finally they successfully sat in the first row, attracting the attention of the whole audience.
By the way, this black-haired guy is Chu Xiuyan.
Although he has black hair, he has red eyes and is a relatively low-key one among the conspicuous group.
The blue-haired boy next door lowered his voice and gritted his teeth, "Dude, you? Did you do this on purpose? Tell me the truth, did you lose the dare or is there a girl you like in this classroom? That made you use such a horrible method to attract her attention?"
Chu Xiuyan took the initiative to answer the old professor's question, then turned around and asked in surprise: "You? Why do you think so? How can attracting the attention of one person be as interesting as attracting the attention of hundreds of people?"
Blue Hair: "...Got it, you? A damn funny guy."
The red-haired guy on the other side of Chu Xiuyan said calmly, "Are there any girls you like? It's me..."
At the same time, the white-haired guy sitting next to him wrote a note and passed it to Chu Xiuyan. On it was a sentence that exuded a sense of resentment: [Damn black-haired guy, I stayed up all night last night and was planning to make up for the sleep in this class - compensate me for the sleep!]
The student in the back row? He overheard their conversation and laughed non-stop.
Two hours later, get out of class is over.
Chu Xiuyan packed his schoolbag and ran away quickly, but was caught by Lanmao with his quick eyes and hands, "Dude? Why are you running? Do you have classes later?"
“No.”
Blue Hair showed a happy but sinister expression, "Why don't you play ball with us? We have a game planned, Red Hair is going too... Oh, and you, White Hair?"
He looked at Baimao, and saw that he said darkly like a dark male ghost: "The dragon wants to sleep."
Bluefur: "...Okay, Dragon you? Go to sleep, and we'll meet again next time."
Then he put his arm around Chu Xiuyan's shoulder and dragged him to the basketball court with a smile. Red Hair followed behind him and kept checking the chat box. The girl he had a crush on never sent him any messages. With every step he took, it was as if his soul had left his body.
At this time, there were already several people on the basketball court. Before Lanmao could talk to his acquaintances, a young man dressed in black and white hip-hop style rushed over and shouted, "Oh my God, what is this! Is it a new member of the group? As expected of our leader, he actually opened a branch in the school?... Wait, so we are from the same school! What a coincidence! Damn it, if I had known earlier, I would have put on a wig. Doesn't this make me look out of place with you guys?"
Chu Xiuyan was pounced on, but he didn't break free. He stroked his chin and looked at the strange young man who was particularly enthusiastic. The other party looked very familiar. He said a lot of things. His face was strange, but there was a hint of familiarity.
"Ah, you? Are you——"
Chu Xiuyan seemed to have thought of something, and the young man opposite him was about to introduce himself.
"Is this the bastard next door who owes me fifty bucks?"
"Zheng Xu, a sophomore in the School of Computer Science? Network Engineering Class 5 - it's impossible that I don't owe you any money! We only met once at the last comic convention. I'm the one with the yin-yang head! The head of the group! It's not been that long and you've already forgotten me?"
Zheng Xu wiped away the tears of "Doesn't Exist?"
Chu Xiuyan: "Oh, sorry, I just remembered - so you? When will you pay me back the fifty dollars you owe me?"
"So I don't owe you money? Captain!"
Amid the wailing of Zheng Xu, who was about to be kicked out of the "Yunyan" group, a large group of people began to play basketball noisily. Although some of them had never met before, they were able to play together after a few games.
Chu Xiuyan, with his terrifying strength, wind-like speed, and ruthless attitude of wanting to smash down the basketball hoop, was cordially judged as a strategic talent by all the members of the audience. He was respectfully invited to the referee's seat and the audience stand, and was stuffed with a bunch of drinks and snacks, in the hope that he would stop thinking about the basketball hoop, as they could not afford to pay for it.
Chu Xiuyan sighed: "I have tried my best to save my strength... This world is full of bugs. When will it be fixed?"
He turned his grief and anger into appetite and ate snacks like crazy, intending to eat all the snacks of this group of people.
Around 11:30 am, the game ended and Zheng Xu, the yin-yang head cosplayer, invited everyone to have dinner.
Chu Xiuyan refused as he was invited to have lunch with someone.
While saying goodbye, he handed the empty snack bag to Zheng Xu, patted his clothes, and left contentedly.
Lanmao looked at Zheng Xu, "You? What's the meal for? The second? floor of the cafeteria?"
Zheng Xu threw the snack bag into the trash can and said casually, "Why eat in the cafeteria? It's hot and stuffy. Let's go to the restaurant."
Red Hair is still there? He looked at the chat box, which was empty, and couldn't help but shed tears. Then he was pushed towards the school gate by a group of people laughing and joking.
......
At this time, Chu Xiuyan found the destination according to the navigation.
A quiet looking restaurant.
The person who asked him out was...
"Teacher Zero One!"
Chu Xiuyan slowly put down his phone, looked up, and saw a happy office worker in a suit at the door.
Chen Xiangming, a comics editor with a prominent hairline and dark circles under his eyes, is also the main person in charge of organizing the upcoming book signing event.
Editor Chen almost cried, "It's not easy, it's really not easy, I can actually meet you in person in real life..."
You have to know that the previous teacher Lingyi was a missing person who didn’t answer the phone or reply to text messages!
However, her temperament in real life is completely different from the impression she gives on the Internet.
At least in Editor Chen's guess, Teacher Lingyi should be a taciturn, cold and arrogant person who is immersed in his own world, rather than a social person who gives a warm hug as soon as they meet.
"Teacher Zero One, Teacher Zero One, please let go, I'm suffocating..."
Chu Xiuyan put down his hand with a smile and greeted happily: "Don't call me Teacher Lingyi, it's weird, just call me by my name, Chu Xiuyan, classmate Chu, it's more intimate, right~"
Editor Chen said awkwardly, "Okay, okay, Mr. Chu?"
“Wuhu, I feel like a big boss, shout twice more, hurry up!”
Editor Chen looked a little confused, but he was very conscious of his boundaries and didn't ask any more questions. He even called out to Chu Xiuyan twice, and then took the initiative to invite Chu Xiuyan into the restaurant to discuss the details of the upcoming book signing event.
At this moment, a crackling sound suddenly came from behind.
Chu Xiuyan paused slightly, the smile on his face disappeared, and his sudden cold expression made Editor Chen's heart skip a beat, with an indescribable feeling of horror.
At this time, Chu Xiuyan was turning around to look at the place where the sound came from.
It was a small path with shops on both sides. Passersby were playing with their phones or chatting with friends, and there seemed nothing unusual.
"Mr. Lingyi... ahem, Mr. Chu?"
Editor Zheng inexplicably lowered his voice and called out tremblingly.
Chu Xiuyan put on a smile again, said "Nothing", and walked briskly into the restaurant.
At this time, at the corner of the alley several hundred meters away, which was a blind spot, three male college students were squatting with difficulty behind the green plants of the flower shop. The yin-yang head cosplayer Zheng Xu was terrified and pressed the heads of the blue-haired and red-haired men with one hand each to press them to the ground. The hands and feet of the three were pressed into a ball, with nowhere to put them.
“F--k, f--k, f--k!”
Zheng Xu yelled three times in a row, and it took him a while to regain his ability to speak. He said, "You bastard, that's not right, my dear big boss father is here? By my side!?"
Blue Hair struggled to stand up: "What the hell, why are you hiding, let me go...you? Aren't you ashamed?"
Even though his face was about to be pressed to the ground, the red-haired man did not forget to hold his mobile phone and check the chat box. At this time, his face flushed and he screamed softly: "Ahhhhhhhh! My goddess finally sent me a message!!... Hey wait, who is Chu Xiuyan?"
Zheng Xu continued to hold down the blue-haired and red-haired heads, as if immersed in his own world, muttering to himself: "Oh my God, it turns out that the Grand Captain is the Big Daddy, so that's it? No wonder, as the author, Mr. Lingyi must have a special understanding of the protagonist, so he can cosplay so? Restored, so? Realistic! He must have cosplayed Yunyan to find more inspiration to create a better plot! So that's it?, I understand!!"
The blue-haired guy continued to freak out: "That's enough! What's with Zero One and what's with cosplay? You? Let go of my hand! Am I in Mercury retrograde today?!"
Red-haired girl is madly sending messages to her crush? She murmured, "Ah, the black-haired girl sitting in the class this morning is Chu Xiuyan? Oh, the goddess and the black-haired girl are classmates. It is known that the goddess is the class monitor, so they should have a lot of contact in private. Should I build a good relationship with the black-haired girl? Wait a minute."
The red-haired man suddenly raised his head, belatedly realizing the key words in Zheng Xu's words, and hesitantly said, "Yin Yang Head, you? You just said Mr. Lingyi? The author of Blood Crystal Cataclysm, Mr. Lingyi?"
Because the goddess is a loyal fan of this work, he has also learned a lot about it. He even grabbed two copies of the pre-sale some time ago and tried to start a conversation with the goddess, but she didn't expect that she grabbed five copies and went to show off to others and ignored him for the time being.
Zheng Xu lowered his head in surprise and said, "So you? You are also a fan of Zai Fan! I just heard someone call the captain as Mr. Lingyi. I have always had good hearing, so I can't have heard it wrong. So, the captain's real name is Chu Xiuyan?"
The red-haired man's eyes widened. "Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!"
He fired three shots at me, then lowered his voice and said, "Shall we go over there quietly?"
Zheng Xu also lowered his voice: "This is not good... I want an autograph. To be honest, I also want to ask Mr. Lingyi how much he is delaying. The first pre-sale volume is already on the way and is almost arriving at school, but the gifts have not been shipped yet. Damn it!"
Redhead spoke for Mr. Lingyi: "Didn't the voting just close the day before yesterday? Maybe he didn't have time to draw illustrations."
Lan Mao looked left and right. As a modern person, he had no idea about comics, which made him confused and felt like he didn't fit in with the world.
"…So Zheng Xu, please let go! My face is already completely on the ground!"
At this time, the conversation in the other restaurant was also making Chu Xiuyan's eyelids twitch.
"It's like this. Because time is urgent, we shipped it in advance. Now? The single volume is on the way, but the gifts such as the single illustrations will probably take two days to ship. When can the illustrations be provided?"
Editor Chen almost made it clear that he was saying, "Hand in the illustrations quickly!"
Chu Xiuyan drank some juice, and the excitement he had maintained since returning to the real world seemed to be poured with cold water, and he calmed down a little. He promised: "Tonight, definitely."
Editor Chen didn't believe in Lingyi's procrastination, but he believed in his tentacle skills. "Then please provide the illustrations before dawn. We will print them immediately and display them at the book signing event next Tuesday. We have sent some pictures of small gifts to your email. Have you seen them?"
Chu Xiuyan continued to drink water strategically and said calmly: "It looks good."
Editor Chen thought that this was because he hadn't seen it, so he couldn't help but sigh, "Okay, I'll be in charge... By the way, the signing event next Tuesday was originally held at the stadium, but the weather has been very hot recently, and there is a road repair nearby, so we temporarily changed it to a hotel not far from the stadium. We have already sent a text message to the fans who have tickets for the signing event to change the address. The time remains unchanged, from 8 am to 12 pm, and the hotel will provide meals for all fans and staff at noon. Also, here is the process of the signing event, please be sure to read it."
He sent the document to Chu Xiuyan's mailbox, and as if realizing something, he changed his words and said, "Sorry, I made a mistake. Please read it now. If there is anything unclear, you can ask me."
Chu Xiuyan had no choice but to open the file. Normally, it was a system analysis record, and he was responsible for being an emotionless walking machine, but now the system was still turned off and he was drawing comics in a small dark room, so he had to rely on himself.
After seeing that Teacher Lingyi had honestly memorized the process, Editor Chen was obviously relieved and continued to chat about other things.
At this time, the waiter started serving the food.
Chu Xiuyan picked up his chopsticks and prepared to eat. Editor Chen saw him and said, "Mr. Chu? How about we eat first, and then I can tell you something else?"
"No, I have classes in the afternoon, so I have to go back and rest."
Editor Chen began to verbally describe the possible reactions and questions that fans might ask during the book signing event. After a while, he paused and asked nervously, "Um, Lingyi, Mr. Chu? Would you mind talking about the original intention of creating this work? Or why did you create this work? An accidental burst of inspiration, an emotion you wanted to express because of something, etc.?"
Chu Xiuyan had almost finished his meal and thought that this editor was more interesting than chatting online. After thinking for a while, he replied, "It was probably an accidental inspiration. When you fall asleep or do something, you suddenly have a sense of déjà vu... You combine the various images that appear in your mind for unknown reasons to form this story. Perhaps, this work is not just a story, but a real event that is happening in another world."
Editor Chen almost blurted out: "Oh my god, he actually gave a very, very Zero One-sensei-like answer!"
Chu Xiuyan's smile widened, "It's very reasonable that three-dimensional and two-dimensional are two different character settings."
Editor Chen apologized subconsciously.
Chu Xiuyan was not angry. To be honest, he found Editor Chen's reaction very interesting.
"I'm almost done eating, so I'll leave now. I have classes in the afternoon, so I need to rest and replenish my energy."
Editor Chen stood up and sent him off: "Okay, do you need me to take you back to school?"
"No, I'm going home."
Teacher Lingyi attaches great importance to his privacy, so Editor Chen should not approach him rashly.
After sending the boy out of the store, the young office worker breathed a sigh of relief. He sighed that the young people nowadays were really amazing, and walked towards his seat in the restaurant. He was not full yet.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed that not far from where he had reserved a seat, at a table for four, by the window, three young men were holding menus and peeking in his direction, whispering from time to time, as if they wanted to ask him something.
Editor Chen thought that there was nothing to do at the moment, so he took the initiative to step forward and said, "Hello, what can I do for you?"
The three young men pushed each other for a while. The red-haired boy spoke first and asked, "Excuse me, are you the editor? And the person sitting opposite you, is he Mr. Lingyi?"
Editor Chen suddenly realized that this was a fan of Lingyi. Just as he was about to nod and hope that these people would not reveal Lingyi's information, a figure suddenly appeared outside the window beside the table, and an oppressive shadow pressed down heavily? Heavy?
Chu Xiuyan, who had returned from a trip, stood on the window and smiled at Zheng Xu, Lanmao, and Hongmao at the table. His tone was particularly strange: "Oh, what a coincidence, the three of you, I can actually meet you here."
Zheng Xu and Hongmao were startled and hugged each other in fear.
Lanmao was the only one who didn't know much about comics and was holding a menu while thinking about what to eat for lunch.
Editor Chen's mind once again emerged with the three-dimensional Zero One teacher, so lively, so lively that he seemed a little familiar...
He thought about it for a long time, and then, when he heard the notification sound of his cell phone, he realized the source of this familiar feeling.
It is Yun Yan, the protagonist of the comic "Disaster Rebellion".
Perhaps the work itself carries some of the author's thoughts, so it is normal for the protagonist of the comic to be somewhat similar to the author.
Thinking of this, Editor Chen opened the comic app and saw that Teacher Lingyi, who had just left contentedly after scaring the three young people, had posted a comic update a minute ago.
Three words.
It’s worthy of being a tentacle monster.
Just a bit of procrastination.
While he was thinking about whether he would receive a single-person illustration tomorrow morning, he saw the cover image of the first episode of this update. It was as exquisite as a movie poster and had a strong visual impact.
Editor Chen's hand holding the phone began to tremble, with a mask of pain on his face: "Great, you are so diligent in releasing the single-episode covers. Even if the popularity ranking vote is not released, the first and second place are also set in stone. Why don't you draw a picture, Mr. Lingyi..."
At the same time, at the next table.
Zheng Xu hooked his arm around Lanmao's shoulder and tried to persuade him, "Look at this cover, the colors. Don't you, who study art, feel overwhelmed?"
Bluefur was unmoved: "I just feel hungry."
But he still glanced at the screen.
What comes into view is a dark sun pushed high into the sky by the gray fog, with a faint bright light shining through the gray fog, as if it is about to fall and destroy everything. However, at the bottom of the picture, there is a back figure with arms open, and scarlet gray fog spreads from the feet, as if it is opening its arms to the "sun" that is about to fall, and as if it is loudly announcing the arrival of death. The overall tone is depressing and deep, but the impact of the picture is particularly strong and shocking.
Blue Hair narrowed his eyes: "Interesting."
He leaned over to turn the page.
Zheng Xu took back the phone, "Not giving it to you? Look, go download the software and read the comics yourself."
“…”
Bluehair gave him the middle finger.
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