On the bustling avenue, He Xie was waiting for the traffic light to cross the road.
Suddenly, the phone in my pocket started twitching wildly.
He thought Chen Yuntong had sent him a message looking for him because she was worried he hadn't come back for a long time.
When I turned on my phone screen...
Good heavens, it was a WeChat message from my ex-girlfriend An Ruoli! I was quite surprised.
Even though they broke up so long ago, they haven't deleted each other's contacts.
Is this sudden contact because he and she are still entangled in some way?
He Xie's thoughts were racing, and he opened the chat box with a mix of doubt and anticipation.
An Ruoli: Are you there?
"?"
Upon seeing the words "Are you there?", He Xie immediately lost his composure.
He thought to himself that it was already 2022, and yet people were still using "Are you there?" as a chat opening line. He had never seen anything like it before.
Can't we just talk things out?
What if you ask me for money?
He Xie ignored the "Are you there?" and didn't even bother to reply with an emoji.
Then he immediately clicked on Chen Yuntong's WeChat profile picture and proceeded to block and delete her in one fell swoop.
Next, I opened the "Scumbag Man" character task panel and took a look.
[Character design completion rate: 99%]
Only 1% away.
All that's left is for the female player to realize she's run away, and then the scumbag character mission should be 100% complete.
Thinking of this, He Xie felt much happier and unconsciously started humming a little tune.
"Hey girl over there, are you looking over here...?"
"Looking this way?... "
"Looking this way?... "
"The performance here is fantastic!..."
Please don't pretend to ignore me...
......
Inside a private room at a tea restaurant.
Chen Yuntong had no idea that He Xie had already run away, and was still taking selfies with her two best friends.
During this time, she even called over a waiter and ordered several desserts costing over a hundred yuan each, as revenge for He Xie's earlier indifference towards her.
Seeing this, her best friend in black stockings couldn't help but worry and said, "Tongtong, we ordered so much food while he was in the restroom. Won't he complain when he comes back?"
Chen Yuntong said confidently, "Don't worry, I'm his goddess. At worst, I'll give him some perks later. I guarantee he'll be so infatuated with me that he'll be spending money like water."
Zhang Shan's friend, who was wearing white stockings, laughed and said, "That's right, Zhang Shan. I'd say your worries are a bit unnecessary. You know, we both came here wearing stockings today."
"You didn't see it. Just now, that sickly guy was sneaking glances at our beautiful legs in stockings out of the corner of his eye. His eyes were practically glowing green. Do you think he would be willing to leave?"
"Maybe if you casually brush against him later, he'll get so excited that he'll order a few more servings himself."
Her best friend, who was wearing black stockings, thought it made a lot of sense.
Yeah, I came here wearing stockings to freeload today, what guy could stand that?
Don't they all have to obediently come over and be the suckers?
......
At the entrance of the morgue at Shanhai Middle School.
After leaving the tea restaurant, He Xie went straight back to the school and stopped in front of the morgue.
In his memory, after falling out with his adoptive mother, he ran away from home in a fit of anger and moved to the school's morgue alone.
The reason he could do this was because the school principal and his adoptive mother were old acquaintances, and he could call him Uncle Shen.
"He Xie, have you eaten yet?"
He Xie was looking up at the morgue when a deep, middle-aged man's voice suddenly came from behind him.
He turned around following the sound and saw a man who looked to be around forty years old.
With a resolute face, a robust physique, and an air of righteousness between his brows, his overall image gives the impression of an upright and incorruptible person.
This is the principal of Shanhai Middle School, a single, middle-aged man named Shen Shou.
"I just ate, Uncle Chen, what about you?"
"Sigh, I haven't eaten yet, there's simply no time for me to eat."
Shen Shou suddenly sighed with a worried expression.
Then he began to complain:
"A few days ago, the higher-ups brought back a large number of prehistoric alien corpses from the battlefield of ten thousand races and distributed them to universities across the country for dismemberment and processing."
"This massive amount of dismemberment work is almost wearing out my old bones. I don't know when I'll be able to rest."
"Sigh, I really envy you students."
Listening to Shen Shou's complaints, many memories surfaced from the depths of He Xie's mind.
In this modern world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, where evolution reigns supreme, teachers in schools, in addition to teaching and nurturing students, are generally also responsible for a considerable portion of the dismemberment of alien corpses.
The reason is simple: evolution is just too expensive.
The subsidies from above are simply not enough to keep the school running.
Additional income is needed to support it.
At the same time, the process of dismembering a corpse also serves as a form of training for school teachers.
It can help teachers become more familiar with the physical structure of different ethnic groups, thus enabling them to better teach students about these groups.
After a brief chat, the two quickly entered the morgue together.
Upon entering, He Xie was immediately overwhelmed with shock.
In the spacious lobby of the morgue, everything in sight is a corpse.
There are corpses of cat demons, pig demons, chicken demons, human demons, and all sorts of unidentifiable and indescribable corpses.
The tree spirit corpse that had been seen earlier in front of the classroom window was now lying horizontally in the lobby of the morgue.
The tree spirit's corpse is too big.
Apart from the relatively spacious lobby, there was simply no other place in the morgue that could accommodate it.
"He Xie, after graduation, would you consider staying and working in this morgue?"
"Although it's a bit dirty, the pay is better than many jobs, and you can learn a lot about other races."
"If you ever go out without checking the almanac and are attacked by a foreign tribe, you'll have enough knowledge to make the best response for yourself."
Out of consideration for He Xie's adoptive mother, Principal Shen Shou extended an olive branch to He Xie, essentially giving him a favor.
After all, someone as sickly and weak as He Xie would hardly find a good job outside.
Working in the school's morgue was considered a job that guaranteed a government salary.
Whether it's buying a house or seeing a doctor in the future, you can save a lot of money.
There are so many people who would bang their heads against the wall trying to squeeze in.
However, He Xie's next answer surprised Shen Shou.
He smiled first, then shook his head and declined, saying, "No, Uncle Chen, I don't think I'm suited for this."
"Why?" Shen Shou asked, puzzled.
He Xie grinned and said, "I'm coming clean. I've been playing dumb all along. I'm a natural at taking the college entrance exam. I'll definitely be the top scorer in the science exam in a month!"
Shen Shou: "?"
[Contrast value from Shen Shou +100.]
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