After Chapter 146, I will also be a principal here.
Anson Lu opened the door, and the warmth from the air conditioner enveloped his body. "I'm back."
"Welcome, I've been waiting for you for a long time, Lu Jun."
Urushihara Ritsu was sitting on the sofa, his chin resting on his hand, flipping through a magazine boredly; Yuri was watching TV quietly; Chu Qimo was in the kitchen, sorting out the utensils needed for cooking.
Anson Lu took off his baseball cap, handed it to Asuka, and exhaled a breath of hot air:
"You didn't even consider how many things you asked for. You still have the nerve to complain about me taking so long. But it's mainly because our big star took up too much time, signing autographs and taking photos with people all the time."
Asuka Uesugi took the cap and frowned slightly, saying, "Stop complaining. If they recognized you, we would still be trapped in the supermarket and unable to leave."
"Gaba."
"Gaba."
From behind the two people, two alien kangaroos carrying shopping bags squeezed past. They walked into the apartment, put down the shopping bags, and then disappeared very consciously.
"Wait, Kangaroo." Anson Deer said suddenly.
"Gaba?"
The alien kangaroo jumped out, but the Grey Shadow didn't have this ability - after returning to the chess domain, it would turn into its original form, a grey guy with no intelligence.
Anson Lu looked at Chu Qimo, patted Kangaroo on the shoulder, and said seriously:
"Teacher Chu, please entertain one more person. At least he will be considered our hero."
Chu Qimo hugged his shoulders, hesitated for half a second, looked at the kangaroo again, and said meaningfully:
"I understand, President. I'll make six servings then."
"As expected of Teacher Chu, I am looking forward to it."
Urushihara Ritsu mentioned: "Lu Jun, my cooking skills are also excellent."
Anson Lu sat down on the sofa and changed the subject directly: "Come to think of it, doesn't the British official team have a sequence player named 'Donnie the Kitchen God'? I really want to pull that guy over here."
Uesugi Asuka rolled her eyes at him and said, "Ha, if you really kidnap him and let me settle accounts with him, you will not only offend China, Iceland, and the United States, but also Britain."
Anson Lu shrugged. "That's enough. The world is about to end. They can't keep fighting among themselves."
Chu Qimo and Urushihara Ryu each carried two bags of food into the narrow kitchen and sorted the food in an orderly manner.
It can be seen that these two people are not a good pair - Urushihara Ritsu is casual and undisciplined, and his work mode makes full use of divergent thinking, and he can prepare several dishes at the same time; Chu Qimo is serious and rigorous, and almost every dish is made strictly according to the steps of the recipe;
Anyway, Anson Deer was stunned.
"Awesome." Anson Lu raised his eyebrows. "Come to think of it, forget about Yuri, but Asuka, can you cook?"
"No." Asuka answered decisively.
"What do you mean... I just let it go?" The Icelandic girl turned her gaze away from the TV.
"Of course Yuri can!" Anson Lu quickly changed the subject: "Do I need to say this?"
"I don't know how to do that." Yuri paused, resting his hand on his chin, "But I just need a recipe book, take a look at it, and write it down."
"Okay, everyone knows that you have a good memory, but practice and theory are two different things. When I was a kid, I was very excited when I saw the assembly diagram of a Gundam toy, but I spent an entire night at home and still couldn't put it together."
"hiss--!!!"
At this moment, the aroma was already wafting out of the kitchen. Urushihara Ritsu was not wearing an apron, but he was still wearing the black windbreaker, but it was not stained with any oil, and his grilling skills were flexible and skillful;
Chu Qimo's attitude was meticulous. He took off his coat, revealing the shirt underneath. His muscular body supported the clothes, and his lines were clearly visible through the shape of the folds. He put on an apron and cooked potato soup.
Outside the kitchen, Asuka Uesugi was flipping through a comic book with her chin in her hand.
"This is a good man." Asuka raised her red nose and sniffed the aroma coming from the kitchen. "Comrade, former chess player, can you learn from me?"
"Haha, the tough guy who just saved Tokyo doesn't count as a good man, right?"
"There's a difference between a hero and a good man."
"What is the concept of a good man?"
Asuka said: "Not only should you be successful in your career, you should also take care of your family. Taking care of your family is the most basic thing."
"Have you watched too much "The Godfather"? "Anson Deer complained.
"Rest." Yuri said suddenly.
She placed her arms on the table, using a book as a cushion, and then closed her eyes. Her clear eyes were replaced by long eyelashes.
Anson Lu took a sip of Coke and looked at her: "You can sleep in my room."
Yuri tilted his snow-white face, opened his eyes, stared straight at Anson Deer, and said in an emotionless voice: "There is only one bed in your room."
"Yeah, sleep on my bed, or on the floor?"
"good."
After Yuri finished speaking, he stood up from the table, walked into Anson Lu's room with a book in his arms, and closed the door.
"Ka"
The sound of locking.
"Hey, hey, hey, whose room is this?" Anson Lu was stunned.
Asuka Uesugi glanced at him and said disdainfully, "Oh, be careful of finding some obscene books."
"You seem to understand a lot?"
"You don't understand."
"By the way, I have to go back to school later."
"what?"
"Go to the principal's office. The principal hid a few bottles of wine in the cabinet. He fell ill and died."
Asuka was stunned: "Dead?"
Because her attention was focused on copies, players and the like, she had almost forgotten that besides being killed by copies and getting lost in a different space, there were many other ways for humans to die.
For example: death from old age, death from illness, suicide, etc.
However, despite the closure of the city, cases of starvation to death are rare at present.
If it is a larger city, official personnel will arrange for players to purchase goods from the copy, bring enough food back to the original city, and then distribute it evenly to the citizens who have lost their jobs.
For smaller villages and rural areas, officials will also send some players with special duties to deliver food resources to them using the baggage space and travel coupons mechanism.
This is also the reason why the official forces players to recycle travel coupons.
A travel coupon has many meanings. The official will either use the travel coupon to deliver resources, or give it to sequence players, allowing them to go to the fallen cities and eliminate the remaining colonial monsters.
"Yeah." Anson Lu drank the Coke in one gulp and breathed a sigh of relief. "The principal's death is not a strange thing. Besides being hacked to death by monsters in the dungeon, there are many other ways to die."
"Oh...then go by yourself." Uesugi Asuka hesitated for two seconds, "It just so happens that the things I ordered are about to arrive, so I won't accompany you to school."
"What?"
"Secret."
"The most terrifying thing is, why is the address you booked my home?" Anson Lu threw the Coke can into the trash can, put his hands in the pockets of his hoodie, and walked to the door in two or three steps, "Let's go."
Qiu Wen is a freshman at Shangshi High School.
He is sixteen years old this year. If it were a year later, he would probably not be sitting in the classroom now, but would have died in some copy... As the most ordinary member, he died quietly without leaving any trace.
Nowadays, since all teachers under the age of 45 have been involved in the evolution game, not to mention how low the survival rate is after four rounds of copies, these teachers basically no longer teach.
Therefore, most of the teachers who are responsible for teaching the first-year high school courses are old teachers over 50 years old.
Today, under the teacher's instructions, Qiu Wen had a task.
As an excellent student in the class, he has to persuade those bad students who often skip classes to return to the classroom when it is time to attend class instead of wandering outside, under the pretext of "preparing for the evolution game in advance and exercising the body."
Qiu Wen did as he was told, but unfortunately the response he received was not optimistic.
On the rooftop of the teaching building.
The boy with dyed yellow hair turned around, a cigarette hanging from his mouth: "Are you crazy? What's the point of being good at studying? In the future, everyone will have to go to the battlefield and be a player."
His name is Lu Gan, he is sixteen years old, and he has not attended a single proper class since the beginning of the evolution game.
"I don't want to be a gamer." Qiu Wen adjusted his glasses. "Besides, no one told me that the Evolution Game will still be going on after one year. Why did you skip classes? Teacher Ke Qi is waiting for you."
"Why? We are already taking the science courses related to the Evolution Game." A teenager holding a baseball bat said, "But what about the other courses? What's the point now? If we don't exercise, we will die."
His name is Xu Yang, he is sixteen years old, and like Lu Qian, he is a well-known bad boy in the school.
Qiu Wen frowned and said without question:
"Anyway, you guys go back first."
"Come on, don't you see how many people are left in class?" Lu Qian bit his cigarette and looked disdainful.
Xu Yang agreed: "Yes, I heard that the current world number one player, 'Old Chess Player', used to be the last one, with terrible grades, which shows that studying is useless."
Qiu Wen couldn't stand it any longer and said, "You...you are just using the evolution game as an excuse to escape reality. You don't study hard and do nothing."
"Qiu Wen, when did you dare to talk to me like this?" Lu Qian's face darkened.
Xu Yang grabbed Qiu Wen's school uniform collar and said, "If I don't teach you a lesson, you really think you are capable!"
"Who said I was the last one?" A calm voice came from behind them, "After all, I have an international chess championship. Do you have one? If not, you should go back and study hard."
Lu Qian and Xu Yang turned around, frowned at the visitor, and their expressions suddenly changed.
Anson Lu put his hands in the pockets of his hoodie, leaned against the mesh cover of the rooftop, and quietly observed the three people.
Qiu Wen's face was filled with disbelief. Even if he had no interest in the Evolution Game, there was no way he had not seen this face on TV. This was one of the most famous people in the world.
Lu Qian and Xu Yang also stood there in a daze, mumbling hoarsely.
"No way, this is me?"
“Really…”
After a moment, Anson Lu moved over and stopped in front of Lu Qian and Xu Yang.
He exhaled a breath of white air and said slowly: "Go back to class. Don't make me say it a second time. I will come to check every week from now on. I hope I won't see...you still don't follow the rules."
Lu Qian and Xu Yang nodded quickly and left the rooftop very peacefully.
Anson Lu sighed softly and looked at the stunned Qiu Wen: "Your name is Qiu Wen, right?"
"Yeah." Qiu Wen nodded.
"You don't have to worry about anything, just study hard." Anson Lu said slowly: "You can do whatever you want in the future. Not everyone has to be a shitty player."
"What about the evolution game?"
"The Evolution Game will end this year. I will," Anson Deer paused and said, "find a way to make it end."
Qiu Wen was stunned for a moment, still a little dazed, he said hoarsely:
"Thanks."
"Are there any other people skipping classes?" Anson Lu twisted his stiff neck, "I happen to be free, I can go with you to find them."
"No, I won't bother you." Qiu Wen whispered, "I can go find him myself. There aren't many people. Senior Lu, you are a year older than me. I have seen you before. When I went to the principal's office, I saw you playing chess with the principal."
Anson Lu was stunned for a moment. He was silent for two seconds, then smiled and said:
"Yes, I quite like playing chess with him."
"Everyone in the class likes you very much. They always discuss you during breaks. They all say that you are the hope of humanity... the world. It is really a blessing for us to have someone like you in Shangshi City."
"Am I so popular?"
"Well, aren't there a lot of votes online?" Qiu Wen said, "In every popularity vote for Sequence Players, you always take first place, and the second place goes to the Italian from the Law Enforcement Team, who always lags far behind.
But in my eyes, you must be under a lot of pressure, as you are often in everyone's sight. "After a pause, he continued:
"I feel like you've changed a lot since I saw you in the principal's office. But it's also true... since you've become the center of attention, you can't decide what to do anymore."
Anson Deer said thoughtfully:
"Maybe I can't decide. After all, if I lie down, the earth will really be destroyed. Well, although this sounds stupid and arrogant, it's the truth."
"Haha..." Qiu Wen was amused.
It is hard not to be amazed when a person who is surrounded by many halos and known by everyone in the world stands in front of you and says such down-to-earth words.
"Come on, junior, study hard and strive to be the top student in your grade. Tsinghua University and Peking University are waiting for you."
“Tsinghua University and Peking University are a bit far away, but I will try my best.”
"Okay." Anson Lu patted Qiu Wen's shoulder and added: "Also, tell the younger students to study hard and stop thinking too much. The Evolution Game will not be theirs."
"Okay, I'll tell you."
"Then I'm leaving. Come find me next time if you have any problems. I'll be in the teachers' dormitory during every holiday. But don't tell other students about this, or else the dormitory will be surrounded by people every day."
Anson Deer left after saying this.
Qiu Wen stared quietly at the man leaving the rooftop. The dark blue sky was like a curtain, gradually engulfing his figure.
For some reason, Qiu Wen always felt that this person's back looked a little lonely.
Obviously everyone around him envied Anson Lu, envious of him for being the world's number one and having such luck, but becoming the world's number one is not such a perfect thing...
Anson Lu went down from the rooftop and came to the principal's office on the fifth floor.
The principal's office is empty... I heard that a new principal will report in soon. It will be arranged by the Shangshi officials. After all, Shangshi High School is a public school.
Anson Lu stopped at the door of the principal's office and took a breath of air. The ancient fragrance of tea permeated his nose, as well as a hint of stale tobacco. It seemed that the old man drank tea and smoked here often.
The bright sunlight at noon was somewhat dimmed by the curtains, shining in in a hazy form, and a dim halo enveloped every inch of the wall in the principal's office.
Anson Lu raised his head and looked at the long cabinet placed in the corner of the window. In the glass cabinet was a universal chess board, a chess box, some messy certificates, and a few bottles of aged wine that could be used as decorations.
He opened the cabinet, took out the chessboard and chess box, sat on the leather chair behind the desk, spread out the chessboard on the table, took out the dusty chess pieces, and followed his memory to set up the familiar chess game on the chessboard.
He and the principal have fought many battles.
There were many times when he almost lost to the principal.
Whenever this happened, the principal would stroke his chin with his hand, look at Anson Lu with a smile in his eyes, and utter sarcastic words.
However, every time Anson Lu made a move to break the deadlock, the principal's expression was relieved, without a trace of loss. He just said things like "That's good" and "I'm relieved, your chess skills haven't regressed."
It was as if he didn't want to see Anson Deer lose to him.
Anson Lu now understood why the principal didn't want him to lose.
Because if even he loses now, the world may repeat the same mistakes. Half a year later, the snow dragon will still be unstoppable and crush the world in the most brutal manner.
"How boring..." Anson Deer pursed his lips and picked up a chess piece.
The sunlight was cut into thousands of rays by the grid windows, shining obliquely on the chessboard. He moved the chess pieces silently, recalling every afternoon he spent sitting here with that person.
After a long time, he imitated the principal's usual posture, crossed his hands on the table, crossed his legs, and looked around the elegant room quietly.
The light in Anson Deer's eyes had never been so dim.
"When I'm old." He leaned back in his chair and said softly, "In the future, I'll be a principal here. I wonder if Shangshi High School will have closed down by then..."
Just then, an unusual message bubble popped up in the upper right corner of his vision.
Anson Lu took a deep breath, stretched out his bony fingers, and tapped the bubble.
It was a message from Lorenzo.
[Lorenzo: Anson Lu, are you free? I have something important to discuss with you.]
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