Strange Events
After handing in the paper early and getting his phone back, Wei Shao received a message.
[Brother, what time will you be back today? 】
The sender was her cousin who was still in the third year of junior high school. This girl was used to being disrespectful and always called him by his full name, Wei Shao when nothing was going on and Brother when something was going on.
The school gate was closed before the bell rang, so Wei Shao walked straight to a secluded corner of the school botanical garden. There were two senior couples who had sneaked in for a private meeting during physical education class. They were startled when they saw Wei Shao.
Wei Shao threw his schoolbag over the wall and flipped over the corner in front of their shocked eyes.
After brushing off the dust on his pants, Wei Shao opened his phone again and replied: [What’s up? 】
Wei Xia replied quickly: [Oh, no, brother, what do you want to eat tonight? I’ll bring it to you! 】
If someone shows you kindness for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief.
Wei Shao leaned against the wall: [Forget it, I have an appointment with a friend and I won’t be back. 】
Wei Xia suddenly became anxious: [Ahhh, no, let me tell you, last weekend my mom found the collection in my bookcase and was very angry. She ordered me to throw it away this week. 】
Wei Shao’s eyelids jumped: [Impossible, don’t even think about it. 】
Wei Xia: [Wuwuwuwu brother, I really have no choice. I will really die if I lose them. Wuwuwuwuwuwuwu. Please take them in.]
Wei Xia: [They are all my lives! I climbed over the wall and snatched every book! Many of them are out of print now. I would die on the spot if I lost any of them. 】
Wei Xia: [Please, please, please, please, I will buy you a skin and be your little brother]
Wei Shao rubbed his eyebrows in pain, and couldn't understand why Wei Xia liked watching that kind of thing so much: [Forget it - let me make it clear first, if Second Aunt finds out, I won't speak up for you]
Wei Xia said generously: [Of course! Everyone is responsible for their own actions! 】
Wei Shao added: [If others find out, you have to explain that it was you who put it in and it has nothing to do with me. 】
He didn't want to be misunderstood as having a unique hobby.
Wei Xia didn't even think about it: [Don't worry, besides Aunt Chen, who else can go there?]
Aunt Chen was hired by the family to take care of Wei Shao's daily life. Wei Shao had lived alone for a long time since he was six or seven years old. His father rarely came home, and his mother...
Wei Xia realized something after he finished posting: [Sorry, brother, that’s not what I meant]
Wei Shao typed lazily: [Please pack up. I'll be home in half an hour. 】
Half an hour later.
Wei Shao stood at the door, watching with a numb expression as the delivery driver brought in large boxes time after time.
Wei Shao turned his head slowly: "Second Aunt only discovered it today, it's really hard for you."
Wei Xia was quite proud: "That's right, I'm good at using storage space."
After all the boxes were dragged into the study, Wei Xia took out the books one by one, piled them on the table, and began to sort them.
Wei Shao couldn't get involved, so he just picked up a book called "The Secret History of the Sword Master". The name didn't sound like the kind of books Wei Xia had read before, but more like a male upgrade novel.
"Hey, don't move!"
Wei Xia's voice was too late. Wei Shao had already opened the book and was so irritated by the words "koukou" and "koukou" on the pages that his eyes went dark. He slammed the book shut.
Wei Shao's face turned dark and red, and he looked like he wanted to curse, but he didn't know how to start: "..."
Wei Xia looked at his expression, stretched out his hand cautiously, and then snatched it back: "I told you not to look at it..."
Wei Shao pointed at the row of opaque wooden doors on the lower half of the bookcase and said, "Put all your messy stuff in the cabinet below. If someone finds out, I'll chop you into pieces."
Wei Xia said pitifully: "But it will get damp if I put it down..."
Wei Shao sneered: "Then let Second Aunt see if it will still be wet."
Wei Xia confirmed that pretending to be pitiful was futile, so he curled his lips and pulled out a bunch of ziplock bags and moisture-proof mats from another box. It was obvious that they had been prepared.
After this incident, Wei Shao no longer had the courage to rummage around. He simply ordered food with his phone, then sat down at the computer desk to play games with his friends.
He was wearing headphones, so naturally he didn't notice that Wei Xia behind him was looking at his back with a wicked smile on his face.
-
In the evening, after Wei Shao finished taking a shower, he received the answers to today's homework sent by Song Tao on his mobile phone.
He put a cigarette in his mouth and slid his fingers quickly, making a rough estimate of the amount of work to be done today.
Not much, I can finish copying it in fifteen minutes.
Wei Shao was actually too lazy to copy homework, but his math teacher was really difficult to deal with. He would often invite him to his office for tea and lectures. Physics was taught by the homeroom teacher, Old Bald. At the beginning of the school year, Old Bald threatened him that if he didn't hand in his homework this semester, he would visit his home.
The baldy old man was not familiar with him last semester, so he threatened to complain to his family at the parent-teacher meeting. But when he found out that no one came, he started to think of other tricks.
Wei Shao didn't want to make things too difficult for him, so he copied it reluctantly.
He grabbed his schoolbag and prepared to copy the physics homework, but he felt something was wrong as soon as he started.
...What else is tucked inside?
Wei Shao frowned and opened the book, and found a black-covered book hidden in the physics exercise book. The title of the book was "Zerg" in two large gold-plated characters.
Wei Shao knew who did it without having to guess, so he took a photo with his mobile phone and sent it to Wei Xia: [What's wrong? 】
Wei Xia: [Why are you cursing at me, Wei Shao? This is my return gift to thank you. You don’t know how to appreciate a good person. 】
Wei Shao: [No. 】
Wei Xia: [Take a look, this is written by Yan Wu’s pseudonym, it’s really sour and refreshing, maybe after reading this, you will open the door to a new world~]
Wei Xia: [I guarantee that this book is definitely not in the same style as Sword Master! There won’t be a lot of descriptions that are not suitable for children. 】
Wei Shao: [……]
He glanced at the clock hand that passed twelve o'clock, stopped arguing with Wei Xia, threw the Zerg book aside, and started copying homework frantically.
The soft, bright light from the desk lamp fell on the boy's long black eyelashes and straight nose. His slender hands held a pen and wrote on the paper.
Unlike his crooked attitude towards school, his handwriting is actually very nice, although it is sloppy, you can tell that he has a solid foundation.
"Huh..." After Wei Shao finished copying the last big question and was about to close the booklet, he paused and realized that there seemed to be something wrong with the result.
He stared at the answer for two seconds.
——Stupid Song Tao, he copied the square root of two times three as two times fifty-three.
He changed the answer and reminded the other party, then packed his bag and prepared to go to bed.
Glancing at "Zerg" on the table, he paused strangely.
Reminds me of the Zerg in male-oriented novels...
Wei Shao thought: Is this even possible?
He frowned and carefully opened a corner with the expression of an old man on the subway reading his cell phone.
After reading the setting introduction on the first page, Wei Shao was shocked to find that in this book, the female insect was actually a male.
Male insects are also male.
The sub-female is also male.
?
Perhaps it was too unbelievable, Wei Shao couldn't help but turn back two pages and turned to the main text.
When he saw that the protagonist, a general, was forced to marry a dandy duke because of the outrageous and violent setting, he frowned and closed the book with a snap.
Trash novel.
He cursed in his heart, threw the book aside, and went to bed.
-
When he opened his eyes again, Wei Shao found himself in a ruin. Looking up, he saw the dim sky, and looking down, he saw the endless abandoned site.
His head was dizzy and he thought I must be dreaming.
Dreams like this in which one realizes that he is dreaming are not uncommon for him, so Wei Shao was not in a hurry. He leaned against the prickly broken wall behind him and waited to wake up.
Generally speaking, once you realize you are dreaming, it won’t be long before you wake up.
But this time it was quite strange. Wei Shao waited for a long time but the boy didn’t wake up. He thought to himself, could it be that I have learned the “lucid dream” without any guidance? At the same time, he belatedly looked down at his clothes.
Well, it was his usual attire for school during the day, not his pajamas before going to bed.
It seemed to be a very real dream.
Wei Shao took out the cigarette and lighter from his pocket and started smoking leisurely in his dream.
I finished one cigarette, but the dream was not over yet.
Wei Shao rubbed his head, which was becoming increasingly clear, and touched a handful of grainy sand on the ground and the broken wall with clear textures and cracks behind him.
...Is there something wrong?
Wei Shao stretched out his index finger and bent it slightly harder towards the back of his hand. After clearly feeling the pain and resistance, his expression gradually stiffened.
He looked down at himself again.
On his feet were a pair of black Nike sneakers that he had worn on Wednesday, with a few mud spots on the silver-white logo.
...He remembered.
It was raining on Wednesday and he was walking on the road when a car sped past. Even though he was far away, he was splashed with mud and water.
This level of clear recollection...it couldn't possibly be a dream, right?
A chill ran down Wei Shao's spine. He immediately frowned, stood up, and looked around.
But this place was very desolate and there was no living creature other than him.
Fortunately, the mechanical watch on his wrist was still working in this haunted place, and the passage of time was still visible.
He made a mark where he opened his eyes in case he couldn't find the "refresh point" later, and then tried to walk in another direction.
As he walked, he discovered something even more bizarre.
——He couldn’t move too far away from the refresh point.
After repeated attempts, Wei Shao finally confirmed that he could not go anywhere within a radius of 20 meters with the refresh point as the center.
He was trapped.
Wei Shao was anxious at first, but now he just felt it was ridiculous that such an outrageous thing could happen to him.
He tried to explore the area again, but finding it was futile, he simply went back to the refresh point and lay down to sleep.
He came here in sleep, maybe he can sleep back in sleep.
Two seconds later, he opened his eyes and sat up, picked up a sharp stone, and scratched the side of his shoe sole and arm.
…
I don’t know if Wei Shao was just too carefree or if high school students were really that good at sleeping... Anyway, he really fell asleep.
When he woke up again, he was back in his bed.
He was still wearing his pajamas. A little dim morning light shone through the gap in the curtains, but it was not yet daybreak.
Wei Shao immediately ran to his shoe rack and found the pair of shoes that appeared in his "dream".
There was a scratch on it.
He quickly rolled up his sleeves again. The long scar on his arm where the skin was broken was slightly bulging, and there was a slight stinging pain when pressed.
Damn it.
He thought to himself.
Then, Wei Shao found the clothes and pants he had worn in that strange space one by one...
The only thing missing was the mechanical watch.
-
It was a week later that I entered that strange state again.
Wei Shao was much calmer this time than last time. He first looked down at his own appearance.
It was still normal communication, but the watch on my wrist was replaced with another one.
After Wei Shao confirmed it, he fell asleep.
Unfortunately, perhaps because he lay down too quickly or in the wrong posture, Wei Shao was not sleepy at all and could only count sheep with his eyes closed.
When he counted to the 727th, his wrist was gently pinched by something.
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