The climate here is warming rapidly.
To be more precise, in this huge space that seemed like an enclosed cruise ship floating on the sea, the temperature had been soaring from minus 18 degrees Celsius when he first came here, and now it had already exceeded zero.
So, a sea cucumber that was frozen hard just now, with ice chips on its spines, has now completely melted, and its body has gradually thawed and become soft.
Although Wen Nan looks like a sea cucumber now, he is not a real sea cucumber after all. He firmly believes that his original form has not changed and he is still a little white dragon.
So he asked Jun Beibei next to him with a humble tone: "If the temperature rises too high, what will be bad for seafood?"
Jun Beibei did not answer him immediately. Instead, she turned her head and looked at him with a scrutinizing look. After a moment of silence, she asked, "You noticed it too?"
Wen Nan was confused, "Huh? What?"
"Seafood." Jun Beibei replied in a low voice.
"Ah, yes, why else do you think Ms. Mudanxia called me to her office?" Wen Nan said shamelessly.
Jun Beibei smiled slightly, lowered her eyes, and recalled the words of the people around her, "Peony shrimp...yeah, it's true."
After savoring it, she raised her head and looked at the sea cucumber beside her again. Suddenly, there was a sense of familiarity in her eyes, as if she was one of her own. She returned to the question she had just asked.
“I wasn’t sure what to expect, as it was my first time experiencing such a big temperature rise.
"From a physical point of view, the temperature has gone from below zero to above zero, which has thawed us. This has made us more flexible in our movements and our minds, which is a good thing.
“But if the temperature continues to rise, the consequences are hard to predict.
"I will observe further and inform you immediately if there is any news."
Wen Nan was holding a sea cucumber, standing there blankly. He didn't respond, but just looked at the white shell beside him with an ambiguous smile.
Jun Beibei felt uncomfortable with the other party's strange gaze and turned to look at him, "What's wrong?"
She was a little worried that the other party, like other students, thought that her words were problematic and that she was a freak.
But the sea cucumber on the opposite side said, "Don't you recognize me?"
Jun Beibei frowned slightly, "You are Ye Cancan, you just transferred to the transition class."
Wen Nan smiled helplessly and shook his head.
Surprisingly, I really don't remember him.
Wen Nan should have thought of it earlier. After all, this was the interior of Test Space No. 1, a small world tailor-made for Yu Shujun, just like the room of the faceless woman that was created before to extract Yu Shujun's fear value.
The world now is much larger than that room, and the elements are much richer. Being in this world, Yu Shujun is like falling into a more real and deeper dream, completely blending into the dream, forgetting who he was originally and why he appeared here.
Wen Nan, the intruder who accidentally broke into this world due to a bug, once again retained his original consciousness.
However, Wen Nan was not completely awake.
Perhaps because of the fusion of the test space, Wen Nan's current state is actually very similar to the first time he entered the sheath of the divine staff, a state of being half drunk and half awake.
Moreover, the longer he stayed here, the more "drunk" he became.
This world has been adjusted because it incorporates some of Wen Nan's memories, which results in some characters, scenes, and dialogues that always make Wen Nan feel like he's "catching shrimps".
This means that the longer Wen Nan stays here, the stronger his sense of immersion becomes and the deeper his consciousness becomes.
Wen Nan reasonably suspected that if he continued to stay here, he would soon believe that he was a sea cucumber that was born and raised here.
Besides, there is another problem——
There is something wrong with the flow of time here.
Judging from Wen Nan's system countdown and comparing it with the time he feels here, the speed of time flowing here is less than one-tenth of that in the outside world.
In other words, the 12 hours of testing time given by the Scepter's Sheath system is equivalent to 120 hours in this space.
This time should be enough for them to generate obsession value and then completely eliminate it.
The only problem is that if he stays there for too long, there is a certain risk that even Wen Nan himself will forget whether this space is a virtual world for testing or the real world in his memory.
But it was not a big problem. Wen Nan was very good at distinguishing reality from illusion. Even if there might be a brief moment when he couldn't tell the difference, he would always get himself back on track. After all, he had been fighting wits and courage with the attending physician in Taoyuan for ten years and had solid practical experience and rich theoretical reserves in this regard.
As for now...
Wen Nan turned his head and looked at the white shell beside him. He squinted his eyes and scanned it carefully from beginning to end. Finally, in the dazzling light of the particle effects on the shell, he saw a row of very hidden system prompts -
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing stage: Stage 1; Cumulative progress of obsession value: 15%.] Just as he was staring at it in fascination, a cold voice rang out beside him: "It's natural."
"Hmm?" Wen Nan retracted his gaze and turned to look into Jun Beibei's eyes, "What?"
The shell next to it said, "My shell looks so strange because it is natural. I don't wear strange clothes or make-up."
"What's weird about it? It's really beautiful." Wen Nan replied subconsciously.
Beike next to her didn't say anything, and the white edge of her skirt was gradually stained red.
Wen Nan did not notice the shell turning red. He was concentrating on something else at the moment. He had twisted the whole sea cucumber into the shape of a twist, with its back facing the shell next to it, and said:
"Beibei, can you help me take a look at my thorns?"
The shell next to it suddenly turned red, like a roasted Arctic clam.
She turned her head and looked at the other person with an indescribable look.
Wen Nan suddenly realized that there was something wrong with his words and apologized hurriedly: "No, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. I meant to say, look at me, are there... some strange words on me?"
Seeing that the other party was very serious, Jun Beibei believed that she was overthinking. She moved closer and began to search carefully on Wen Nan's back like a mother monkey picking lice for her baby monkey.
After a moment, she nodded, "Yes."
"Great," Wen Nan thought to himself, "As expected, what does it say?"
Jun Beibei took out a pen and a small notebook from the side of the desk, wrote down what she saw, and then pushed it across the desk to Wen Nan -
[Candidate: No. 2 (1:1 replica of No. 1); Testing phase: Phase 1; Cumulative progress of obsession value: 15%.] It seems that the fusion actively arranged by the Scepter Sheath this time has a much better effect than transferring the fragments, and directly helped Wen Nan copy a copy of Yu Shujun's obsession value.
From now on, directly looking at the values on the panel with particle effects on Yu Shujun's body is equivalent to seeing the mirror image of your own panel.
The next step is to wait for Yu Shujun’s obsession value to reach 100%, and then the two of them will enter the second stage together.
Thinking of this, Wen Nan relaxed, stuffed his schoolbag into the drawer, rummaged around inside, and actually pulled out a piece of crushed ice.
He hasn't seen this thing for almost twenty years.
Wen Nan was overjoyed. He used his short thorn to pull out the piece of crushed ice from under the table and passed it to Beike next to him. "Want some crushed ice? Let's celebrate being deskmates!"
As he spoke, Wen Nan opened the outer wrapping paper and found that the broken ice inside, which had been frozen hard, had melted into water due to the sudden rise in temperature.
This thing is only fun to eat when you break it up and chew it. If it is in liquid form, it is no different from an ice pack.
The shell next to it didn't realize where the essence of the crushed ice was, and had silently stretched out the edge of its skirt, trying to pinch the one that was reaching towards it.
However, Wen Nan took the stick back and said, "It's already melted. It tastes better when it's frozen. Forget it. I'll freeze it next time."
Jun Beibei looked at the one that was taken back reluctantly and opened her mouth, wanting to say something, when Mr. Shrimp's voice came from the podium: "Ye Cancan, Jun Beibei, you've only been sitting at the same table for less than a class period, and you already have so much to talk about? If you like chatting so much, why don't you come to the office after class and chat with us teachers?"
Wen Nan immediately raised his head and said with a smile, "No, teacher, we've finished talking."
The students sitting in the front row started laughing with their hands covering their mouths again.
After two classes, the shellfish in Class 2 were full of curiosity about the new sea cucumber.
They found that this classmate named Ye Cancan, although he looked abnormal like Jun Beibei, was much more interesting than Jun Beibei. He was also very relaxed and seemed willing to make new friends.
As a result, after school in the afternoon, during the two-hour dinner time before evening self-study, the edge of Wen Nan's desk was "growing" with shells.
Some are big, some are small, some are round, some are square, some are shriveled, and some are plump. All of them have opened the gap in the middle a little and are facing the direction of Wen Nan.
"Ye Cancan, are all the students in your transition class like you?"
"What?"
"You have so many, so many..."
"You want to say so many thorns, right?"
“Yes, yes, yes.”
"No, I'm the only one with that much."
"So amazing? Why are you so different from us? My uncle is the head of the senior class. I heard him say that you were admitted to our school as an exception by the principal. Is that true? I heard that you, I heard that you have, have..."
"What does he have?"
"I'm sick," the sea cucumber leaned back tactically, looking nonchalant, "You're right, I'm sick."
"Are you really sick? What's wrong with you?"
The sea cucumber stretched its body straight again, "Don't you realize that I'm too long? I'm longer than all of you."
Hearing Wen Nan say this, the group of male shells gathered around made disdainful sounds of "tsk", while the female shells made shy sounds of "eh".
Wen Nan smiled carelessly and subconsciously turned his head to look to the side. He found that the white Arctic clam had silently stood up at some point and was walking towards the back door alone.
"Beibei, where are you going?" Wen Nan called her.
When the male and female shells heard Wen Nan shout out the name "Beibei", they all started to cheer and said "yo yo yo" at the same time. There were also whispers like "you're shouting so intimately" and "what's going on, something happened just after you got here". Some people even sang "oh~babe~babe~babe~" out of tune in a low voice.
This made Jun Beibei close the shells on both sides tightly. Without answering Wen Nan's question, she disappeared into the corridor without looking back.
Wen Nan no longer had the heart to talk nonsense with the shells in the classroom. He stood up directly, and with his lithe body, he nimbly moved around the shells and chased out through the back door.
However, Jun Beibei was no longer in the corridor. Wen Nan looked left and right, unsure which staircase she had gone down from. While he was hesitating, he heard the whispers of the shells from Class 2.
Perhaps they did not expect Wen Nan to have such good hearing, so they did not deliberately control the volume, and every word fell clearly into Wen Nan's ears.
"No, are there really any problems between them?"
"I just arrived..."
"They are a good match, don't you think? They are both...sick."
"Is there really something wrong with your brain?"
"Isn't that nonsense? He's not mentally ill. How can he feel that he has thorns all over his body?"
This remark caused another burst of laughter in the class.
Wen Nan shrugged nonchalantly, quickened his pace, found a nearby staircase, and headed towards the cafeteria.
After he left, the shells in the classroom continued their conversation.
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"Ye Cancan himself admitted it, and the school leaders have also hinted at it, so it's not surprising. But, saying that Jun Beibei also has problems, this... is something you don't have any evidence for, so don't say anything."
"I didn't say anything nonsense. Jun Beibei must be sick in the head. Otherwise, why do you think she suddenly went crazy this morning and said that we were all seafood and that she was allergic? What's more hateful is that she just said that I smelled like scallops! Isn't this an attack? She is just sick. She pretends to be more noble than anyone else, as if getting close to us would dirty her noble shell meat."
"Hahaha, Hai Xiaobei, please be more polite."
"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong? She thinks she's great just because she got the top score in the grade. Who is she showing off to? Many people in the class must have been displeased with her for a long time. I just dared to say it out loud."
"You have the guts to say it to her face. What's the point of saying bad things behind her back?"
"You think I don't dare!"
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Wen Nan chased to the cafeteria, but did not see the glowing white shell.
Although it was dinner time, Jun Beibei did not go to the cafeteria.
She went to the shop at the school gate, skillfully took a sausage bread and a bottle of mineral water from the shelf in the corner, turned around, and was about to go to the counter to pay, but found that a long queue had formed by the counter without her knowing.
Jun Beibei usually stayed away from such busy places, and this time was no exception. She was about to put the sausage bread and mineral water back on the shelf and leave, but she accidentally heard a conversation at the end of the line and stopped in her tracks.
"What are you going to buy that has you waiting in such a long line?"
"Don't you know, there's a new Yolo Ice?"
"Yule Ice? Isn't that just crushed ice?"
"No, this is the crushed ice endorsed by Boss Zhou. Haven't you heard the line, 'What am I to you? You are my Yolo Ice. Ha, so I am the crushed ice? This way, I can hold you in the palm of my hand.'"
"Ouch~ That's so corny."
"Oh, hurry up and line up. The weather is abnormal right now. All the crushed ice in other stores has thawed. This store is the only one left. Because it has an old antique freezer, you can still buy frozen ones. If you don't buy now, it will be out of stock."
Hearing this, Jun Beibei turned the hem of her skirt and quietly went to the end of the line.
A glowing white Arctic clam suddenly appeared among the seafood which was mainly brown in color, and soon attracted the whole team to look at her.
"She's so weird."
"Yeah, why does it feel different from us?"
"Don't you know, she is Jun Beibei."
"Jun Beibei, that freak? No wonder..."
Jun Beibei stood in the line without looking around, with her back straight, like a sculpture, and seemed to have not heard other people's discussions at all. However, the sausage bread bag in her hand was squeezed to pieces by her at some point, and the mineral water bottle was also deformed by her.
When they finally got to the freezer, Jun Beibei took a look at the few remaining Youle Ices inside, breathed a sigh of relief, and raised her finger, "Boss, give me another Youle Ice."
"Okay," the boss glanced at the bread and mineral water in her hand, "a total of three dollars and fifty cents."
Jun Beibei was about to pay when a figure stood between her and the freezer, followed by a familiar fishy smell.
It's that bay scallop, the sea scallop.
"Boss, has the Yolo Ice that I ordered this morning arrived?" Hai Xiaobei asked.
"Here it is, here it is. You ordered two, right? Here, I'm saving this for you. Two dollars."
Hai Xiaobei slapped a ten-yuan note on the counter and said, "Boss, you remembered it wrong. I reserved ten!"
"I clearly remember the two you mentioned. I only have eight left now. The girl behind me just bought one, so I have seven left. Can you take it first?" the boss negotiated.
Hai Xiaobei insisted, "I ordered it first, the remaining 8 are all mine."
The boss didn't know what to do for a moment, and looked at Jun Beibei behind him with an apologetic look, "Classmate, how about you come again next time?"
Jun Beibei said nothing, silently took out three dollars and fifty cents from her pocket and put them on the counter, then walked to the freezer as if no one was around and took out a Youle Ice.
Just as she was about to turn around, Hai Xiaobei grabbed the edge of her skirt and said, "Hey! Jun Beibei, stop right there! Who gave you the courage to snatch my things——"
Click! Hai Xiaobei was halfway through his words when Jun Beibei's two hard shells suddenly retracted.
With a crisp sound, the edge of Hai Xiaobei's skirt that was stretched out was cut off.
“Ahhhhhh!”
Hai Xiaobei howled madly, closed his shell and rolled on the ground.
Jun Beibei walked out under the terrified gazes of the crowd. The seafood watching nearby immediately stepped back to make way for her as if they had seen a ghost.
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As soon as Wen Nan came out of the cafeteria, he heard a commotion at the school gate and seafood was running around everywhere.
Wen Nan caught a running sea snail and asked about its situation.
Then, I heard about the "Arctic clam biting clam incident".
He followed the commotion to the small shop at the school gate, but did not see the familiar white figure.
After searching around the campus again, I finally saw the familiar figure in the sand field next to the playground.
Jun Beibei stuck half of her shell into the sand, leaving only a white semicircle exposed outside, which looked like a half moon in the night.
Wen Nan walked over, bent down, and looked at her closely, and found that her panel had changed -
[Candidate: No. 1; Testing phase: Phase 1; Cumulative progress of obsession value: 45%.] In just a short period of time, it has increased by 30%?
Wen Nan sat down next to her and asked, "Want to talk?"
The Arctic clam didn't make a sound, it just closed its shell a little tighter.
Wen Nan didn't say anything more and just sat with her quietly.
After a while, a bit of soft flesh stretched out from the crack of the shell, and pushed a hard object to Wen Nan.
Wen Nan lowered his eyes and looked over, and found that it was actually a piece of frozen crushed ice.
"It's for me?" Wen Nan picked up the broken ice, "Thank you."
He then extended one end of the crushed ice over to her, "Half for each of us?"
The shell was forced open, the soft flesh stretched out, grasping the other end of the broken ice, and both sides exerted force together.
With a "crack", the broken ice broke in the middle.
A bit of soft flesh protruded from the shell and he licked the broken edge in the middle very gently.
Wen Nan couldn't help laughing when he saw it.
"What are you laughing at?" Beike finally spoke.
Wen Nan said, "Do you know what the hidden meaning is when you give a person of the opposite sex a Yolo Ice?"
Shell paused from licking for a moment, then said, "I don't know."
Although he said this, Beike's mood obviously improved. He took out a sausage bread from the other side, tore open the package, and started eating it in small bites.
Seeing that she only ate one piece of bread for dinner, Wen Nan couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you go to the cafeteria?"
Shell stopped eating the bread again.
She never went to the cafeteria because she couldn't stand the strange looks from all the teachers and students every time she walked into the cafeteria.
But she didn't want to tell the sea cucumber next to her about this, so she just said coldly: "It's none of your business."
The sea cucumber took out three lunch boxes from behind and pushed them in front of the shell next to him.
Beike looked at the hot meal in front of him, which had just been taken out of the cafeteria, and was stunned for a moment.
"I just bought some vegetables," Wen Nan said, picking up a thorn and pointing to the side, "Can I exchange it for the sausage bread in your hand?" (End of this chapter)
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