Everyone looked at each other and whispered to each other.
The head teacher shouted "Quiet" twice and walked out holding his cell phone.
The discussions around suddenly became louder.
Shi Yu began to write the Chinese test paper amid the buzzing background sound.
The class numbering pattern of Huajun Middle School is obviously different from that of ordinary elementary and junior high schools. He casually flipped through the textbooks on the table and determined that Class 414 was the first year of high school.
It's only been three months since the start of school, and the courses are relatively easy.
My deskmate was a restless chatterbox. He hadn't stopped talking since the head teacher left, chatting animatedly with the students in the front row. In the end, he somehow turned the topic to Lin Zhi: "It's a pity that Lin Zhi was abandoned by him like this."
"He carried her to the infirmary during the day, and even disappeared at night. This is too heartless."
"Don't say that. After all, Lin Zhi is still carrying a 'curse'. Whoever gets close to her will suffer. Isn't it normal for Cen Biesi to not want to pay attention to her?"
"What's funny is that Cen Biesi chases after her every day, but she doesn't know why he bothers her. She avoids him like the plague."
"Wow, has Cen Biexi hit a snag?"
"Maybe we have hit a wall."
After Shi Yu finished Chinese, he took out Mathematics, scanned all the questions, and started writing without even making a draft.
The whispers continued:
"Ah, what are you talking about? Didn't Cen Biesi just help her?"
"You are the one who really doesn't care about what's going on outside. Everyone in the school knows about their relationship."
"Huh? Aren't they classmates?"
"Silly child, you are too naive. Your ordinary classmate hugs you like a princess in front of the whole school? Your ordinary classmate brings you breakfast every morning? Your ordinary classmate even remembers to pour you hot water when you have your period?"
"But everyone knows it, doesn't the teacher know it?"
"So what if you know? After all, Lin Zhi is a top female student who is firmly in the top three of her grade, and she has a golden ticket to immortality."
"Why do you think there are so many girls chasing after Cen Biexi in school? His name is still on the honor roll for the monthly exam. Didn't the director say at last week's morning meeting that they 'support meaningful activities that can improve youth sexual awareness and emotional arousal'? Who do you think the director was referring to? He was just short of reporting their ID cards."
"I thought they just hoped that those with good grades would help those with poor grades to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor..."
The topic got out of control.
The only thing no one noticed was that the girl, who was the center of everyone's conversation at the moment, was holding a pen, lowering her head, with her bangs covering her eyes, and slowly tightening the pen.
The night wind blew open the draft book in front of her and turned to the covered side.
A whole page, just one name.
The long strokes almost penetrated the back of the paper, and the ink seeped into the dried paper layer by layer. Thick, sticky, rolling, dense, almost overflowing,
It was the name of the person to whom she had just said "I'm so annoyed with you" during the day.
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The clock hanging in front of the classroom turned two and a half circles, and everyone finally heard the bell for the end of get out of class.
My deskmate was like a butterfly wandering around in gossip. He had been absent-minded all night and was now looking at his half-finished homework with a bitter face. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of the action of the person next to him and his eyes lit up.
Shi Yu put the cap on his pen, aligned the corners of the completed test paper, folded it, paused, and looked down at the hand that was holding his sleeve: "?"
My deskmate gave me a flattering smile: "Are we friends?"
“…”
“Should good friends help each other?”
“…”
My deskmate put his hands together and said, "Please lend me your homework."
After a moment of silence, Shi Yu handed over the folded homework.
"You are my real father!"
My deskmate cheered, quickly packed up his things, and rushed out of the classroom carrying his backpack.
Shi Yu didn't like to be crowded with too many people, so as usual she stayed until almost everyone had left.
What’s more amazing is that there were actually five or six people who stayed until the end like him, with their sleeves either pulled up to the bottom or to their elbows, revealing their gaming bracelets.
It’s clear what his identity is.
One of the male players glanced at the wheelchair, frowned, and muttered, "So annoying, why is there a lame person?"
The other player stood up from his seat, crossed his arms, and said condescendingly: "Shi Yu, huh? I've heard of your great name for a long time."
Just as Shi Yu was about to leave his desk, Shang Xia grabbed the wheelchair handle and pushed him out of the classroom.
The others were completely ignored. The one who had called out their names earlier had his arms folded and looked a little embarrassed: "Hey, you guys are just leaving like this?"
Shang Xia paused and turned around to ask, "What else? What do you want? Cooperation? Competition? Peaceful coexistence?"
The one with folded arms opened his mouth.
"Cooperation, do you have the ability to influence the entire game like the one ranked first in the overall leaderboard?"
The male player's eyes suddenly widened.
"Competition, do you have what it takes to rank first on the leaderboard and brush up your rating?"
The only female player stood up.
"Coexist peacefully. Do you have the character of someone who ranks first on the popularity list and can make others throw their brains behind you with just one sentence?"
Shang Xia raised his eyebrows and smiled, "I have nothing, but you still care about everything and whether I leave or not? Who gave you the face?"
The others' faces turned completely black.
Regardless of the original intention, this sentence was obviously directed at everyone else in the classroom, and it obviously offended everyone else.
Shang Xia had a big fight with the others right after the game started. As soon as he left the classroom, his 2.80-meter-tall aura instantly subsided. He walked quietly all the way until he could see the brightly lit dormitory building in the distance. Then he spoke again: "Can I ask what's wrong with your wheelchair?"
Shi Yu came back to his senses and replied casually, "Car accident."
The knuckles of Shang Xia holding the pusher turned white: "Real world?"
"Um."
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Accommodation is compulsory for first-year high school students.
The system probably didn't expect that there would be such a weirdo among the players. Even though he had mobility problems, the system didn't give him any special treatment as a day student, and he still had to live on campus.
I walked all the way to the dormitory building, and it was almost closing when I heard someone running behind me. I stepped into the dormitory door just as the dormitory manager was closing the door, and the next second I ran into two people who happened to be parked in the lobby on the first floor. I didn't brake in time and almost hit the wheelchair.
Shi Yu gave him a hand and paused slightly when he let go.
This skeleton...
"Thank you." Cen Biexi stood up straight. He was about the same height as Shang Xia, and his school uniform looked neat and handsome. He looked up and saw the two people's faces clearly. "Is it you? Haven't you returned to the dormitory yet?"
We are all classmates, it is obviously unrealistic to ignore him.
More importantly, Shang Xia obviously didn't intend to let go of this opportunity to ask questions: "Why didn't you come to the evening self-study class? Didn't you ask for leave? The teacher is angry."
Cen Biesi's eyes flickered slightly, and he whispered, "I know. The teacher called before and I explained it to her. Do you want to go upstairs now? Do you need help?"
Shang Xia saw that the other party was interested in the topic of turning the chair, so he didn't ask any more questions. He lowered his head and stretched out his hand: "Do you want me to carry you?"
Shi Yu looked at the two pairs of hands in front of him, neither of them responded, and he stood up holding the railing.
Shang Xia subconsciously protected him, then suddenly realized: "Can you walk?"
Shi Yu: "...I was in a car accident, not disabled."
He really didn't think his injuries were serious. Apart from the concussion and soft tissue contusion and blood loss, the most serious thing was the misdiagnosis of being a "vegetative state". If Wen Hesi and the nurses on the ward rounds hadn't told him every day that walking around without healing would affect his recovery, he wouldn't even know how to use a wheelchair.
The lights were still on when I returned to the dormitory.
Shi Yu finally took off his school uniform, revealing the blue and white hospital gown he was wearing before he came in.
When he came out of the bathroom, steaming all over, Shang Xia was flipping through the dusty school magazine in the corner.
The school dormitory has four people, and Cen Biexi was the second one to go in and wash up.
Shang Xia quietly appeared in front of Shi Yu, holding the school magazine: "Teacher..."
Shi Yu raised his eyes and glanced at him.
Shang Xia swallowed the remaining word and asked, "What happened to Cen Biesi?"
Shi Yu: “?”
"After I sent you back to the classroom, I went to the infirmary. I just wanted to eavesdrop, but I bumped into the girl named Lin Zhi who he was carrying to the infirmary."
"She came out alone." Shang Xia closed the school magazine. "Cen Biesi followed her but didn't go with her. This means that he didn't just take Lin Zhi to the infirmary and leave. It's that Lin Zhi herself refused to go with him."
"Although the game doesn't give any clues at the beginning, the purpose of the game is not to educate us but to complete the game. If it doesn't give obvious clues, then usually the first thing we encounter after entering the game, the first person with a complete name we meet will not be a passerby who interferes with us."
"Cen Biexi is not an ordinary classmate to Lin Zhi. This is beyond doubt, whether it is his own subjective actions or the feedback from others. But Lin Zhi seems to be very resistant to him. Their relationship seems too strange. Moreover, I heard people around me talking about it too many times this day. It's hard for me not to connect them with the main quest."
Shang Xia leaned against the iron bed, unscrewed the water bottle and drank a sip of water: "Just now you saw Cen Biexi was obviously stunned for a moment, what's his problem?"
Shi Yu did pause for a moment at that time, but he didn't expect that it could be captured.
Shang Xia didn't hear his reply for a long time. Just when he was about to say "It's okay if you don't want to say it", the other party spoke at this time: "Age."
He was stunned: "What?"
Shi Yu wiped his hair half dry and put down the towel: "He is an adult."
Shang Xia didn't even bother to find out how he came up with this. He asked reflexively, "Is he also a player?" He denied it before waiting for a response. "All players have bracelets, which cannot be hidden. He is an NPC. Why is that? Is he taking drugs?"
Shi Yu was silent for a moment: "Why can't he just be a normal adult?"
Shang Xia wondered: "Then what high school is he attending now?"
Shi Yu: "Suspension of study, repeating a grade, unexpected transfer to another school."
Shang Xia was stunned, and his thoughts suddenly became clear: If something happened to Cen Biexi before and he didn't go to school for a while, and he came back only after he adjusted to the normal study and life, and he also grew up during this time, it would make sense.
"I'll go to the teacher's office tomorrow." He suddenly realized something and looked towards the dormitory door. "Who?"
A moment after he finished speaking, the dormitory door was pushed open and the fourth roommate walked in, resembling a scholar.
It’s Lin Chenghuan.
Shang Xia's face darkened: "Were you eavesdropping?"
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