Chapter 175: Reality Outside
It was two days later that Shi Yu received the news of the errand again. At that time, he was on duty in the gate room of the residential complex.
In July, the duty roster was automatically adjusted again according to regulations, and his working hours became after 4 pm and before midnight. When he returned to the apartment, everything was quiet.
Shi Yu opened and closed the door without making any sound. He opened the shoe cabinet in the moonlight. The next second, the light above his head suddenly lit up.
He was stunned for a moment, then raised his head: "You haven't slept yet?"
Xiao Guangtuan was wearing pajamas that had just arrived in the past two days. They were a very soft pink color with animal paw patterns on the pockets. The bear embroidered on the back was rounder than his head. “I’m not sleepy yet.”
Shi Yu said "Oh", lowered her head to change her shoes, walked to the balcony, and grabbed a handful of dog food for Yuan Bao who was locked in the cage: "I have already submitted the application to the school."
The little light ball followed closely: "What school?"
"Linjiang."
Two kilometers away, the road turns to Lijiang Road, which is the road where the restaurant where the whole group had dinner before Lian Gui left is located. Linjiang Primary School and Shuiyunxuan occupy the south and north of the street respectively.
Shi Yu opened the cage, ruffled the fur on Yuanbao's head, and said, "You may need to take an exam to enroll."
This sentence was like a bolt of lightning.
Xiao Guangtuan was stunned for five seconds, trying to understand the word "exam": "End-of-year exam?"
Shi Yu said, "Is it difficult?"
This is not a question of whether it is difficult or not.
This is because he has never understood the worldly knowledge system.
However, if he doesn't do well in the exam, he won't be able to get into school. If he can't get into school, he has no reason to stay here. If he has no reason to stay here, he will be sent to someone else's home.
Xiao Guangtuan swallowed hard: "No... no problem."
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The next morning, Shi Yu led Xiao Guangtuan, both of them with dark circles under their eyes, to Linjiang Primary School. They attracted countless people's attention along the way.
Xiao Guangtuan grabbed his clothes and said, "Sir, did you not sleep well last night?"
"I didn't get enough sleep."
It was past midnight when he got back to his apartment from get off work last night. He fed the dog, washed up, and it was almost one o'clock when he got ready for bed.
But the time agreed with the teacher is 8 o'clock in the morning.
Once you promise something, you must do it. In his mind, this is a matter of principle.
He had difficulty falling asleep and his sleep was shallow. He was woken up by the alarm clock less than five hours after he actually slept.
Shi Yu was buying soy milk at the steamed bun shop opposite the school and asked, "What do you want to eat?"
Xiao Guangtuan spent a long while reading the bold black words on the price list: "Xiangru, vinegar dishes, Xinjiang soup, before death?"
“…”
Shi Yu looked up.
Mushroom beef brisket buns.
Sauerkraut vermicelli buns.
Soup meat dumplings.
Pan-fried buns.
The bun shop owner was amused: "Little boy, how old are you this year?"
The child hesitated: "Eight years old."
This is the information on your ID card.
The boss of the steamed bun shop praised him without any hesitation: "How amazing! You know so many characters at the age of eight."
“…”
Xiao Guangtuan was depressed for a few seconds. He had studied intensively and stayed up all night to memorize human characters to this extent.
Shi Yu ordered one of the things Xiao Guangtuan mentioned, handed the plastic bag over, and finally realized that the little carrot head next to him was a species that had just come into the world and had not been in the world for a full month: "Are you sure your test is okay?"
Xiao Guangtuan held the bun, feeling a little guilty, but he said with all his might: "No problem."
Shi Yu did not ask any more questions. He registered at the school guard room before being allowed to pass and taken to the Academic Affairs Office: "The bag should be thrown into the trash can."
Xiao Guangtuan threw the empty plastic bag into the black box and took the tissue to wipe his mouth: "Sir, who are we going to look for now?"
"Teacher." Shi Yu said, "The chair of the divine world."
The dean of studies who was waiting in the office was a female teacher: "We have understood the situation."
"He is eight years old this year. I heard that you plan to let him go directly to the third grade? Although there is not much knowledge in the first and second grades, he has not received compulsory education before, and I don't know if he can keep up with the pace. It happens that the second graders will have their final exams in a week. According to our plan, we will let him attend the school first, and then take the final exams of this school year. If his foundation is good, he can skip a grade when he comes next semester."
Xiao Guangtuan listened to a lot of things and only summarized one point: there are still seven days before the exam.
So he had seven more days of staying up late to make up for his studies.
After the dean finished giving instructions, he squatted down to talk to the little carrot head, and his voice became softer: "The little boy's name is Xin Zhihe, right?"
Xiao Guangtuan restrained his expression and smiled sweetly: "Hello, teacher."
The director's heart melted when he called out, "Hey, good boy."
Someone knocked on the door, and the owner straightened up: "Xiao Zhou, you're just in time. I'll take this child to your class now."
The school problem was solved, but how to get home after school was another problem.
Although Xiao Guangtuan assured him that he had memorized the route, he was still a child after all, and running around was bound to be dangerous.
Shi Yu remembered this matter when he was sitting in the guard room in the afternoon and the teacher named Xiao Zhou called him. He thought for a few seconds and opened the errand dialog box again.
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The errand runner feels that his workload has increased recently.
Specifically, the boss who had never contacted me in the past year or two, called me seven or eight times in just one month. Most of the calls were about buying clothes and shoes for my children, applying for school enrollment, and so on.
So when he received the message again, he was not surprised at all. He apologized to the person in front of him and said that he had to leave temporarily, then he went to Linjiang Primary School with his bag.
Shi Yu waited until the early morning to return to the apartment. Before the lights were turned on, a furry creature pounced on him.
Miraculously, the little carrot head was still awake. Almost as soon as he closed the door, the other party came out of the guest room, holding a box of ice cream in his hand in the middle of the night: "My lord, you are back."
Shi Yu could smell the sweet scent on the other person before he even got close, like popcorn, marshmallows, and a carbonated drink spilled and mixed together.
Sickeningly sweet.
"What did you do this afternoon?"
The little carrot-head blinked and answered, "I have Yuanbao at home, so Mr. Errand asked me if I wanted to go to the amusement park."
Shi Yu was guarding the north gate of Tianshui Lanwan, while the south gate of Linjiang Primary School was closer. He did not see the big and small kids come in, and he did not expect that he had only been running errands for an entire afternoon, but this little kid had changed his attitude.
Yuanbao waited for his owner, squatted in front of the sofa, wagging his tail, and looked down on Little Radish Head.
Xiao Guangtuan walked up to him holding an ice cream box and said, "Sir, do you want some ice cream?"
There was a stack of shopping receipts left on the table, considerately held down with a tissue box.
Shi Yu took a look, opened the errand dialog box, and typed the words "reimbursement" in the other party's transfer note: "Don't eat too many cold drinks at night, it's not good for your health."
Don't drink cold drinks at night, it's bad for your health - if a lawyer named Wen heard this, he would probably be so relieved that he would cry on the spot.
Xiao Guangtuan shoveled the last bite of ice cream into his mouth, threw away the plastic box, and was about to say something when he heard the other party ask, "Are you self-studying?"
“…” He instantly forgot what he wanted to say.
Shi Yu watched the errand boy collect the money in seconds, replied with an emoji of "Thank you, boss", put down his phone and rubbed the ingot that had been rubbing against his calf for a long time: "Do you think it's difficult?"
The little light group pondered for a moment: "Not bad."
After all, he is not really a newbie who has only lived in the world for eight years. When he was bored at work, he often replayed the real-life experiences of the players he had led to pass the time. He knows more about real-time policies and historical news than even many humans who are oblivious to the world outside. His ability to absorb knowledge is also much stronger than that of children of this age.
Of course, this ability is limited to mathematics.
As for Chinese... no matter how many replay videos he watched, he would not pay special attention to human writing. Being able to listen and speak was already the limit.
The mutual acquaintance between the two parties is a giant single arrow. As for putting pen to paper, it cannot be said to be easy, but rather it can be said to be as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Today, when the errand boy asked him if he wanted to go to the amusement park, he replied that he wanted to go to the bookstore first. In the end, he went to ride the carousel carrying a Xinhua Dictionary of Idioms and a copy of calligraphy with pinyin annotations that weighed three pounds.
When I finally had to come back, I entered the room under the other person's gaze, closed and locked the door, and blocked a certain long-haired dog from entering. After six hours of hard work, the result was that the dictionary was turned to page 30.
Fortunately, the language centers of humans and gods are the same.
Xiao Guangtuan thought to himself with a smile on his face that he had at least achieved half of the basics in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Shi Yu didn't ask any more questions, rubbed Yuanbao's fur for a while, got up and went back to the room to take a shower. As soon as he got dressed and came out, someone knocked on the door from outside.
The little light ball's voice sounded trembling: "My Lord..."
Shi Yu opened the door: "What's going on?"
Yuanbao was squatting in the corner, like a hairy mascot.
The little light ball hid from the dog and tried to shrink into the crack of the door: "An external force broke into the player space."
Shi Yu was slightly stunned: "External force?"
"Just now." Xiao Guangtuan looked anxious. "I can't see what the space looks like now in the mortal world, and I don't know who has entered, but," he paused, "any creature that enters the player's space can freely control the player's main display screen, which is your personal information, social weapons and backpack interface."
What he didn't say was that he had closed the external channel when Luo Huaishen Shuying applied for a visit. As long as he, the administrator, didn't agree, no one else could force their way in.
But even so, the other party still forcibly entered Shi Yu's player space.
Who has such great ability?
Xiao Guangtuan didn't dare to think.
Shi Yu thought for a moment: "Can that power come to the mortal world?"
"According to the rules, gods cannot enter the mortal world, and of course human players cannot enter before the administrator opens a channel." Xiao Guangtuan said, "But the other party can break the rules and break into the player space. I don't know if it's possible."
Shi Yu asked again: "If I go in now, can you stay outside by yourself?"
The little light ball hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, but if I'm not in the player space, I won't be able to receive your signal and won't be able to release you in time."
After listening to this, Shi Yu said, "Oh," and said, "Then please send me to the player space now."
Little Light Group: "Okay..."
Little Light Group: "Ah?!"
Shi Yu repeated: "Go to the player space."
Xiao Guangtuan swallowed and replied "yes" in a stammering voice.
The next second, the scene in front of me suddenly turned dark.
The light screen emitting pure white light floated in the air like a lighting fixture, illuminating the scene below.
Shi Yu stood in the darkness and saw a shadow standing under the light screen. He was wearing the uniform white robe of the temple and was looking up as if observing the information on the light screen.
That profile looks so familiar no matter how I look at it.
As familiar as the compass in the other person's hand.
He had just seen it a few days ago.
The other party turned around, knelt on one knee, lowered his eyes and said in a gentle voice: "I am the Dream God Xuanxing, and I greet the Lord God."
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