Chapter 4 Chapter 4 After offering two cat eggs, the next...
After offering the two cat eggs, Ning Ji returned to the dormitory at four o'clock in the afternoon. As soon as he opened a can of Coke, he received a voice call from his counselor.
The counselor's surname is Zhang. His profile picture is a smiling Maitreya Buddha. He is very friendly. I asked him on the voice call if he had time and asked him to come to the office in Harmony Building to discuss academic matters if he was free.
Ning Ji went out with a can of Coke. Just as he closed the dormitory door, he saw Yan Sui from the next dormitory also went out. The two of them were almost in sync, both holding a can of Coke and wearing the same style of sneakers.
“…”
Ning Ji immediately frowned, looking quite disgusted—God knows why Yan Sui started wearing this brand of sneakers.
Since high school, the two of them had a tacit understanding to avoid the sports brands that the other often wore. It was like a forbidden zone, and neither of them had ever taken a step outside.
Ning Ji turned around and went back to the dormitory and changed into a pair of sneakers.
Ten minutes later.
In the office on the second floor of Harmony Building, Yan Sui's eyes stopped on Ning Ji's pair of sneakers, and he felt inexplicably displeased.
Counselor Zhang smiled and asked the two people in front of him to sit down, and the first thing he said was congratulations on their successful advancement to this year's financial startup competition.
The Financial Startup Competition is of extremely high quality. It is held every three years. Teams of three people are formed on their own. A group of people are eliminated in the school competition, and then the winners of the school competition participate in the city competition, provincial competition, and finally compete in the national competition.
The national competition not only has generous prize money, but it is also a great plus point on one’s resume.
Counselor Zhang looked at the two boys in front of him. One was sitting on the left side of the sofa, and the other was sitting on the right side of the sofa. There was a huge barrier between them that they would never see each other again. He thought for a moment and said, "I heard some classmates in the class say that you were high school classmates?"
Ning Ji responded vaguely.
Yan Sui withdrew his gaze from Ning Ji's sneakers, "Yeah, but not very familiar."
Counselor Zhang: "Teacher Li, the instructor of this financial startup competition, came to me and said that our department has two good talents. The teams led by the two of them both won the first and second place in the school competition. I guessed that it must be you two."
"The teacher has great confidence in you, but the provincial and national competitions are different from the school competitions. They are more difficult and the competition is more intense. Teacher Li suggests that you two captains form a team, so that you have a better chance of winning first place in the national competition."
"But I heard from Teacher Li that you guys don't seem to want to form a team?"
Ning Ji: "I think I can lead my team members into the national competition."
Yan Sui on the side glanced at him and said, "What a coincidence, I feel the same way."
Counselor Zhang: "The national competition is different from the school competition. The school competition only counts the points within the group, while the national competition also counts the individual points. If you form a team, the combined points of the two of you will be higher, and you will have a better chance of winning the first prize in the national competition."
He paused for a moment, "Teacher knows that you may not be close, but for the honor of the school and your own honor, teacher still hopes that you can consider forming a team."
The office fell into silence, with only the slight sound of the air conditioner running.
"You can form a team, but I have to be the team's operator. After all, I ranked first in the school competition." Ning Ji stretched his long legs and blurted out a few words.
Yan, who was on the other side of the sofa, didn't raise his eyelids. "Your school competition score is only 0.13 higher than mine. Do you want to be a trader with just these points?"
Ning Ji: "This score is not enough. My second mock exam score in my third year of high school was 7 points higher than yours. Is this score enough?"
Yan Sui: "You plan to talk about these seven points for the rest of your life, right?"
Ning Ji spread his hands and looked at the instructor innocently, "Teacher, you see, it's not me who disagrees with forming a team, it's him who disagrees."
Counselor Zhang: “…”
Yan Sui: "His style is too risky and radical, and it's easy for us to have disagreements when we form a team."
Counselor Zhang: "When forming a team, you can communicate well and slowly convince each other..."
The polite boy smiled and said, "Teacher, why should I try to persuade a stubborn donkey?"
Counselor Zhang: "...Xiao Yan can't talk about classmates like that. And Xiao Ning... don't secretly give your classmates the middle finger."
Yan Sui Tairuo said "oh" naturally, and Ning Ji retracted his secretly raised middle finger.
Ning Ji: "You scored seven points lower than me in the second mock exam in senior year of high school. Do you believe that I can still beat you by seven points this time?"
Yan Sui: "Is it possible that I had a fever of 38 degrees during the mock exam in my senior year of high school?"
Ning Ji: "Fever of 38 degrees. Why, do you think I will believe you?"
There's nothing to talk about.
Counselor Zhang had a headache. He held his head with both hands and listened to the buzzing sound of quarreling in his ears. It was as if he saw the chattering of children at home during the New Year.
These two people are good in every way. They have excellent academic performance and have won numerous awards, big and small. When taken alone, they are also very calm and stylish. But when they meet, they start to fight each other, tit for tat and refuse to give in.
Counselor Zhang sighed: "Is there really no room for negotiation on the matter of forming a team?"
Ning Ji shook his head honestly.
Yan Sui glanced at Ning Ji beside him and shook his head.
Counselor Zhang was silent for a moment, then smiled helplessly and said, "Okay, the teacher won't interfere with your choice. I'm just giving you a suggestion. Since you don't want to form a team, the teacher won't force you."
"I just wanted to ask you about your thoughts today. After the challenge list comes out, you can come and talk to the teacher once you have found your teammates."
The two nodded without looking away, and counselor Zhang waved his hand, "Okay, go back."
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Ning Ji returned to the dormitory, which was empty. He played two games, then felt sleepy and went to bed to take a nap.
I didn't sleep well. I could vaguely hear some shouting in my ears, which was endless.
Ning Ji, who was sleeping, became a little impatient. He lay drowsily on the pillow and tried to cover his ears, but he shouted even louder.
Ning Ji, who was sleeping, opened his eyes in annoyance. He was irritated when he woke up and wanted to see who was making so much noise. But when he opened his eyes, he saw a thicket of trees blocking out the sun and branches crisscrossing in disorder.
Ning Ji: “?”
Have you played too much PUBG and dreamed of yourself lying in ambush in the bushes waiting for someone?
Ning Ji was confused and uncertain, his eyelids twitched suddenly, as if he realized something, and looked down at his hand - the familiar paw was fluffy and the pads were pink.
A cricket chirped loudly on the green leaves, and the next second it was slapped away by a cat's claw as big as a mangosteen.
What the hell, it keeps making noises.
The calico cat cursed and pushed aside the bushes, crawling out of the bushes in the green belt. Seeing the heterochromatic lion cat not far away looking at it cautiously, the calico cat cursed it without thinking, "You bastard."
Yan Sui: “…”
Come on, no need to test it anymore.
Both of them were dressed in cats.
The heterochromatic lion cat looked at the calico cat in front of it, took a step forward, and called Ning Ji's name.
Ning Ji was woken up and was in a bad mood. He scratched the floor tiles with his claws, making a squeaking sound. He seemed particularly angry and flew forward, ignoring the lion cat behind him.
"Ning cum."
The calico cat turned a deaf ear to the shouting, but the shouting behind him continued endlessly, buzzing like a green-headed fly.
The calico cat was so angry that it slid to a stop, raised its ears, bared its teeth at the heterochromatic lion cat, and said angrily, "Calling for your soul?"
"If you have to fart, do it now."
The lion cat with heterochromatic eyes also braked suddenly and slid to a stop in front of the flower bed. The corner of his mouth twitched, "You'd better not go into that grove. There are cats in it."
The calico cat held its head high, "Just go ahead, why do you mind me?"
Heterochromatic lion cat: "..."
“Meow——”
At the edge of the woods, a series of hoarse cat calls suddenly sounded from all around, one after another.
At some point, several stray cats came from all directions, staring at the calico cat and the lion cat intently, and seemed to be surrounding them. They seemed to be afraid of something and did not come close.
Ning Ji immediately hunched his body with full vigilance, watching the stray cats slowly approaching him with fear.
It is the nature of animals that the strong prey on the weak, and it is not uncommon for them to plunder territory, fight for resources, and even kill each other.
The calico cat's ears stood up, and its fluffy tail stood up as well. It stared warily at the stray cats that were slowly approaching in front of it, ready for a fight at any time.
The next second, several excited stray cats pounced on it and rubbed its head affectionately, making purring sounds and drooling all over its face.
Ning Ji: “……?”
The calico cat was a little confused. It stretched out its claws and pushed the head of the tabby cat next to it away. It climbed up, but its head was still being rubbed excitedly.
There was even a tabby cat that went around behind the calico cat and tried to smell its butt, but was scratched by the calico cat. The tabby cat sat on the ground in grievance, tilted its head, and meowed at the calico cat.
The calico cat waved its claws vigorously, trying to drive away the cats surrounding it, but found that it couldn't drive them away no matter what it did.
He was small in size, not as big as the stray cats, so he didn't dare to fight rashly. He could only wave his two paws wildly in annoyance, chasing the cats away like flies.
"You can't drive it away."
Yan Sui’s voice sounded.
The heterochromatic lion cat not far away said slowly: "Didn't you check the information when you went back?"
The calico cat raised its claws and scratched the tabby cat that stretched its head over, and said angrily: "What information should I look up? What information is there to look up?"
Heterochromatic lion cat: "You are now a calico cat."
Ning Ji: "Nonsense, I'm not you."
Heterochromatic Lion Cat: "...Do you understand what calico cats mean to other cats?"
Ning Ji was puzzled: "What does it mean?"
The lion cat with heterochromatic eyes paused, lowered its head and licked its fur, then said slowly: "You really haven't checked any information at all."
"It's said on the internet that cats see colors differently than we do. Calico cats have many different fur colors, and three colors happen to be visible to cats, so calico cats are very attractive to other cats."
"For cats, smelling the head is a way of courting a mate. In short, these stray cats think you are beautiful and are courting you."
Ning Ji: “???!!”
The calico cat was so frightened that its fur stood up like a small electric ball. It looked at the stray cats in front of it in horror and stammered, "Please, please mate?"
Heterochromatic lion cat: "Yeah, by the way, the tabby cat just now sniffed your butt to confirm whether you are a male or female cat."
Ning Ji's scalp tingled: "Fuck! I'm a man! What's the point of asking for an avuncle!"
The lion cat said in a strange voice: "Who knows, there are gay male cats out there."
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