Chapter 21 Jinjiang's first release or three-in-one
A group of people were walking forward in the dense forest. The young man walking in front had a cold face and his thin lips were tightly pressed into a line, as if he looked like he didn't want anyone to approach him.
No one knew that Li Zhuo was very unsure.
He used to be just a peasant living in a remote mountain village. He was not an adventurer at all and knew nothing about exploration.
He had little confidence that he could find water. If he were alone, he might not be under so much pressure, but there were too many people behind him!
——About fifty students were divided into three groups. Li Zhuo’s group had the largest number of students, with nearly twenty.
Now that so many people were following him, he could only keep recalling some of the things he had read in books before, and try his best to move forward in the direction of dense vegetation.
While watching your step, you must also be careful not to let anyone fall behind.
I'm really worried.
He even couldn't help but think of the chickens he raised in Pingshan Village.
——The fence can hold the chicks when they are still small, but it is no longer effective when they grow up. They all want to fly out. At this time, Li Zhuo often goes to the nearby area to look for chickens, and then rushes back after finding them. He counts the number of chickens from time to time on the way, for fear that any chick will be left behind.
Thinking of this, Li Zhuo looked back at everyone's number. Well, it matched, not a single one was lost.
It was strange that the nervousness and helplessness caused by being the captain for the first time and being pushed to the front of the stage were diluted a lot by the images that came to mind.
Li Zhuo laughed out loud without knowing anything.
"What's wrong?" Deng Yuliang, who was closest to him, spoke first, very nervously. "Is there something dirty on my face? Tell me, or else you look back at me and laugh."
"nothing."
Li Zhuo said with a smile.
"Nothing, really."
In fact, he didn't need to be so careful. This area was on the outskirts of the ecological protection area. Since students were allowed to come in, it was definitely absolutely safe.
There were already summer camp staff behind him, not to mention Mo Liang watching secretly. Even if they detected a snake crawling towards Li Zhuo, they would be guided to change direction silently. It could be said that it was as safe as it could be.
Unfortunately, Li Zhuo didn't know it at this time.
He really thought that the summer camp was taking these students to a dangerous mountain forest in order to train them and allow them to get closer to nature...
So he was constantly alert to the surroundings along the way, worried about encountering large wild animals, worried about encountering venomous snakes hiding in dead branches and rotten leaves, worried about stepping into traps or deep pits, and he turned back from time to time to remind:
"Be careful where you step. If there are areas covered with leaves, poke them with a stick before you step."
"I know, I know."
“I’ve said this several times…”
A classmate from Class 10 stared at the figure in front of them and joked, "I'm a little touched. I've been classmates with Brother Zhuo for half a year, and this is the first time he cares about me so much..."
"Me too. I thought they were studying so hard that they definitely wouldn't want to play with us."
"Hahaha, then you two go up and confess your feelings."
"Repaying kindness with enmity?"
A group of tender and delicate city students unexpectedly found a source of water while laughing and joking.
Someone sincerely sighed, "Li Zhuo's luck is really good." Yes, he always caught the most crabs and picked the most fruits before, and now, he led them to a water source and a relatively flat open space.
In an instant, praises surrounded Li Zhuo like a wave, and his expression was more like... helplessness and nervousness rather than pride.
"Actually, I'm not that great," he explained, then added, "You guys are great too."
After all, he was the person who communicated with him the most in the whole audience. When others thought that Li Zhuo must be being modest again, his deskmate Deng Yuliang knew that Li Zhuo was serious.
He really thinks he is not that great.
Although he didn't understand why the rich young man in a big city had such an inferiority complex and such a low sense of entitlement, it didn't stop Deng Yuliang from speaking up to help.
"Don't ruin the atmosphere right now. Let me teach you. You should say, 'You little losers, now you finally understand how powerful your daddy is, right?'" Deng Yuliang said with a grin, "Come on, tell me."
How could Li Zhuo say that? But after this interruption, he did not say those "modest" words again.
The group took a short break, and Li Zhuo, the team leader, began to think about the next step: finding a water source, and the rest was food...
This is not a very difficult thing.
This season is chosen very appropriately. Firstly, the climate is neither too cold nor too hot, and the wind in the mountains is just cool but not freezing. In addition, the environment here is good, and if you want to find something to eat, there are wild vegetables and fruits everywhere.
Besides, having had personal experience of catching fish and crabs in the river before, the students were not so reckless when wading in the water again this time. Those with some experience quickly caught a crab hiding in the crevices of the rocks.
Li Zhuo cleaned the wild vegetables he picked along the way, and then laid out the basic supplies such as rice, flour and oil that he had prepared for them when the summer camp set off.
While several other students were still processing the crabs, fish, etc., Li Zhuo quickly built a simple stove with a few stones.
While waiting for the crabs to be cleaned, Li Zhuo, with an expressionless face, rolled up his sleeves swiftly and skillfully placed the wild vegetables coated with flour paste into a small metal frying pan to test the temperature.
The aroma of wild vegetables bursting in the boiling oil made the other twenty or so heads turn simultaneously.
Liao Guang, the study committee member, was the first to approach. Perhaps because he wasn't familiar with Li Zhuo, he looked serious. "What is this?"
"It seems like they picked it along the way just now?"
“Is this edible?”
Soon, other students started asking questions. Li Zhuo didn't answer, but continued to work as he quickly fished out the fried vegetable pancakes.
"This is... a wild vegetable."
When thinking of a name, Li Zhuo only thought of some mountain dialects. He really didn't know what the correct scientific name was. Anyway, he only knew that this thing was edible.
He emphasized again: "It's edible."
The first person to come out and show his support was his deskmate. Deng Yuliang felt a bit burned when he picked it up, but after chewing it for a few times, the puzzled expression on his face gradually relaxed, and he murmured, "Hey...it tastes good! A little sweet. Where did you learn this? You're amazing!"
"I used to..."
Li Zhuo's threshold for praise has obviously increased now. He is no longer so stiff and adds a concise sentence.
"My very kind mother-in-law taught me that there are actually a lot of edible things in the mountains. I'll tell you more about it later..."
*
[His emotions have been fluctuating noticeably just now... Scanned: Sadness.]
It's him again...
Without Li Zhuo by his side, Mo Liang didn't pay much attention to whether his skin remained gentle enough to be friendly. As soon as his emotions fluctuated slightly, black tentacles began to move under his skin.
Humans are like this...
The system explained.
As a non-human string of data, it is very convenient for it to communicate with the non-human creature Mo Liang in terms of consciousness, and a long piece of information can be transmitted in just a moment.
[His sadness just now doesn't necessarily mean it was caused by the people around him. It could also be a memory. Didn't we unlock his memories of Pingshan Village before?]
Although Li Zhuo's adoptive father didn't intentionally abuse him, he had little experience raising children. When Li Zhuo was a few years old, he often went hungry at home. There was a village mother-in-law who treated him very well...
The mother-in-law's children had all moved to the city, and her husband had passed away early. She couldn't stay home alone, so she would occasionally pass by the door and bring some steamed buns to Li Zhuo. She also taught Li Zhuo how to distinguish wild grasses and vegetables...
When Li Zhuo was in elementary school, he went to the market in town and was maliciously fined by the urban management. This woman was setting up a stall not far away and argued with the urban management for a long time...
"Haven't you seen it? You can't just be focused on Li Zhuo, blurring out everyone else. You don't remember that mother-in-law at all, right?"
【……】
[It seems so.] 0255 sighed very humanely, [Perhaps in your eyes, there are only Li Zhuo and others.]
*
Lunch was manageable, but there was a small problem when setting up the tent.
Most of the students were born and raised in cities, so it was too difficult for them to learn outdoor skills such as setting up tents without any guidance in a short period of time.
Including Li Zhuo, no one had actually done it before, so the ones who came out to demonstrate and teach everyone were naturally the several summer camp staff members who followed behind.
After the tent is set up,
The last evening activity also began.
The evening activity on the first day was to observe the starry sky using different types of astronomical telescopes at the ecological base; on the second day, everyone ate dumplings they made during the day while listening to a concert; on the third day, there was a seafood barbecue; and on the fourth night, there was a bonfire party in the mountains.
The night wind blew, without the coolness of the day, adding a bit of chill. At this time, a few bonfires were built in the open space outside the tent. Everyone gathered together to dispel the cold wind and make the night less scary.
The food for dinner included a variety of wild vegetables and fruits prepared by the students themselves, and more were reward snacks prepared by the summer camp.
The vibrant orange flames reflected in Li Zhuo's eyes. As usual, he stayed alone in one place, quietly listening to the chatter of others.
It has nothing to do with me anyway, he thought, and scratched the ground in circles with the wooden stick in his hand. The next second, he felt a warm touch on his shoulder.
"Hey, I was wondering why I didn't see you. Turns out you were assembling mushrooms here by yourself... Come over and play with everyone."
When Deng Yuliang pulled Li Zhuo into the center of the crowd, he hadn't reacted at all. He was forced to sit down stiffly and looked around stiffly.
All the different faces were dyed with the same warm color by the firelight. Among them were classmates and those from other classes. Regardless of whether they knew each other before, they were just snuggling by the campfire to keep warm.
"Tell me the truth, did one of you offend the captain? Look how mad he is, he's even cosplaying like a mushroom and drawing circles..."
Perhaps worried that Li Zhuo wouldn't be able to adapt, Deng Yuliang said a few witty remarks to warm up the atmosphere with a playful smile, and the others also responded by saying that it was not there.
When Deng Yuliang wanted to add a few more words, Li Zhuo on the side said something hesitantly.
"I know. Actually, Teacher Zhang asked you to take care of me a little more, so you talked to me, right? You're not in school now." He said seriously, "You don't have to worry about me."
His deskmate responded by rolling his eyes and raising his hand, pretending to be angry and wanting to pat him on the back.
But when his hand touched Li Zhuo, it felt like something pricked him, and he withdrew his hand at a steady speed.
"Holy crap, you have static electricity. How can you have this in the summer?!"
He muttered quickly, but was quickly distracted by what Li Zhuo had said earlier.
"What do you mean I'll play with you only if I listen to the teacher? That's really hurtful. Teacher Zhang did ask me to take you with me, but at least we were desk mates for a semester, right? We changed seats twice, and when everyone was allowed to choose randomly, didn't I still choose to sit next to you?"
Deng Yuliang clutched his chest, looking extremely sad. "You are so heartless, it really hurts my heart."
Li Zhuo quickly said, "I'm sorry."
"...Hey, what are you doing? Never mind. I'm not really that sad." Deng Yuliang quickly regained his composure. "By the way, when we were chatting earlier, why did you completely ignore us? The people in your dorm said you didn't like to hang out with them either..."
"Which time?" Li Zhuo asked, then added, "You guys are talking, and it's not appropriate for an outsider like me to interrupt."
“…”
"What if I disturb you guys? I don't really understand what you're talking about, top lane, bottom lane, heroes, or clan winning the game. If I suddenly say something abrupt, you guys will be unhappy, right?"
“…”
silence.
Deathly silence.
Perhaps the days and nights spent together in the past few days worked, and several classmates from Class 10 nearby tentatively joined in the conversation.
"Isn't that so? I always thought you didn't want to talk to people like us."
"Yes, many people say that you were the eldest son of a wealthy family in Hai City and you looked down on us, so you usually hang out alone..."
Liao Guang, who had inadvertently helped Li Zhuo out in the car before, hesitated for a moment, then took the initiative to step forward and apologize to Li Zhuo: "I had a misunderstanding about you before..."
In fact, after Li Zhuo moved to Changyang, he was seen as a rich young master by others.
After all, he transferred from Hai City and his previous school was very famous. Moreover, every scarf he carried was a well-known brand, and the shoes on his feet were also famous brands. It was indeed a bit out of place with the gray Chang Yang.
So naturally, his behavior of keeping to himself, not interacting with others in the class, and never talking to them became a synonym for arrogance.
Now even students from other classes realized that it wasn't that he disdained to play with them, but that the misunderstanding between them was too deep.
People started laughing one after another, among whom Deng Yuliang laughed the loudest. When he fell down, he even spilled the drink of another classmate next to him.
"Since everything before was just a misunderstanding, let's not talk about it anymore. Come on, I happened to have a camera with me, shall we take a picture? We have to go back tomorrow afternoon."
*
Our civilization is rarely like this...
Without the system's active inquiry, Mo Liang rarely took the initiative to mention the world he was in.
[Our kind don't live together. After the initial survival crisis, we each left our home planet, occupying our own territory. We quickly decomposed and multiplied. The resulting offspring would assimilate all the disobedient natives on our behalf. Those who remained would treat us as vassals of gods...]
[Of course, I'm different from them. I can't generate offspring, so I'm the only one on the planet I'm on... It's very quiet...]
【Oh, and my children.】
The system emits a faint light.
My child is enough for me, but maybe I am not enough for him.
【■■■■■■…】
Even with the nearly ten million languages stored in the system, it was still unable to parse the meaning of the last sentence. It could be seen that each symbol condensed countless characters.
His figure hidden in mid-air remained motionless, his eyes fixed on a human being not far away. He was currently surrounded by other people of his age. He lost his initial stiffness and nervousness, and gradually began to blend in with the group.
A group of teenagers aged sixteen, seventeen or eighteen can really make a lot of noise. Even in a place like the mountains where there is nothing to do, they can come up with entertainment activities such as storytelling, shadow puppet shows, idiom chain games, and Gobang.
Not only did it surprise the summer camp staff who followed him, but the system also quietly began to collect all kinds of valuable data and materials for him.
The smile on Mo Liang's face this time was no longer the standard smile that seemed to have been precisely measured with a protractor. Instead, it was a "smile" with the corners of his lips almost occupying half of his face, a smile that had nothing to do with a smile.
Will this make you happier?
In his completely black pupils was a tiny miniature of another human boy; his breathing, his pulse, and the friction between his hair were all so clear.
【It seems so.】
The light on the system flashed for a moment, and then gradually dimmed into an ordinary sphere.
【……】
*
It was gradually getting dark. As one student after another fell asleep in the "tent camp", the entire forest was completely submerged in silence except for the occasional crackling sound from the burning bonfire in the mountains.
When Li Zhuo tiptoed out of the tent, the time on his watch showed 01:38 in the morning.
He casually put on a coat and, relying on the light of his mobile phone flashlight and the moonlight above his head, walked towards the stream where he had caught fish and crabs during the day.
On the way, he couldn't help but think of what happened during the day, an experience that only he knew about:
The purpose was to pick a type of mushroom that grows on rocky cliffs and prefers a damp environment. Although it looks flat and unremarkable, and people who don't know it often mistake it for a dead leaf, it is actually a highly nutritious mountain delicacy, rich in nutrients and a delicious treat.
When he saw it, he naturally wanted to pick as many as he could so he could fry them and eat them later.
The seventeen-year-old boy was like a nimble mountain cat. He twisted his waist and climbed up using his hands and feet. Just when he was about to pick it, a piece of moss under his feet made him lose his balance instantly.
In the eyes of other students, Li Zhuo was just very agile. Just like climbing the tree before, he climbed up in no time. It was amazing!
Only Li Zhuo himself knew that in an instant, when he was about to slip on the moss, he suddenly felt something supporting his lower back. The touch was like silk soaked in ice water, and it disappeared in an instant.
There are many more moments like this...
It seemed like from the moment he entered summer camp, from the moment he got off the bus, something was hidden around him that he couldn't see. Or maybe even earlier, when he was in school...
The destination has been reached.
A bright moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight reflected in the shallow stream created tiny rays of light. Li Zhuo rolled up his trouser legs and stepped into the cold stream step by step.
When he deliberately stepped on a pebble and the water was about to reach his knees, some transparent substance appeared, supported his lower back and gently lifted him up.
He slowly floated up with a movement that completely defied gravity, science, and physics, and then stood up steadily.
It still feels cold to the touch.
Can’t see…can’t touch.
The first thing Li Zhuo did when he came up from the stream was to turn on the screen of his mobile phone and look at the signal bar at the top. Sure enough, just like during the day, there was a little signal in the open area.
This weak signal caused the students in the summer camp to complain a lot, saying that it was either non-existent or there was no point in having such a small amount, as they could not play online games and could not even send a message for a long time.
But for Li Zhuo, that was enough.
He unlocked the screen, clicked on the contact, found the number with the initials [M] and the note "Teacher Mo", and dialed it. A beeping sound came from the phone.
The ringing of bells rang out from the dark forest.
Unlike many young people who like to set all kinds of fancy ringtones, this sound is the default ringtone of the mobile phone, simulating the mechanical ringtone of a traditional landline phone mixed with high-frequency continuous vibration sound.
"Ding-ling-ling-ding-ling--"
"Ring, ring, ring, ring--"
The sound seemed very far away from him, yet very close.
"Ring, ring, ring--"
After seven or eight seconds, the ringing stopped.
Li Zhuo looked at the screen of his mobile phone. The battery level was still 46%. There was no signal, but the call was connected and it showed that the call was in progress.
——00:06
There was silence on the other end of the receiver, just like the dark forest not far away. He couldn't see what was inside, but he intuitively felt that a pair of eyes were closely watching his every move.
A mountain breeze blew by, and Li Zhuo, who didn't feel the cold at all, swallowed his saliva, stared into the depths of the dense forest, and tried to sound as calm as possible.
"Mr. Mo...Mr. Mo, is that you?"
The voice coming from the receiver was as gentle as I remembered. Just by listening to his voice, I could almost imagine the smile on his face.
It seemed that no matter when I looked at Teacher Mo, his face always had the same expression, even the curve of his lips was exactly the same every time.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and his whole body exuded a gentle aura of "I'm really a good person" and "I really won't hurt you".
"What's the matter? Did you miss me?"
Li Zhuo didn't answer immediately, but questions from the other side kept coming at him one after another.
"This is the first time you called me..."
"I'm very happy. Yes, that's right. No matter when you need me, as long as you call me, I will definitely answer..."
"Did you have fun at summer camp?"
Li Zhuo hummed: "Not bad."
There was silence on the other side. After a few seconds, the voice sounded again with a hint of a smile.
"Listening to your voice like this, it feels a little different from what it sounds like in person. What about you? Do you feel that my voice is different from before?"
Li Zhuo thought for a moment and said, "A little, but not a big difference. Is my difference that big?"
"That depends on how you define the difference. Sound transmitted through the air and converted into electrical signals, then encoded and decoded, will of course be different. Frequency, I guess..."
"But that's not important. As long as it's your voice, I think it sounds good..."
Li Zhuo hummed.
"How can you be outside so late? It's so cold. What if you catch a cold? Go home and go to sleep."
Li Zhuo fell silent again.
When he was a child, he was very afraid of the dark, the dark deep wells, the unlit houses, and the deep mountains without sunlight. But now that he was alone in the mountains, he inexplicably felt a sense of courage.
Before he knew it, the call was approaching 20 minutes. Li Zhuo looked up at the bright moon in the sky and the sparse stars around.
"I want to see you." He paused, "I'm not afraid, and I won't tell anyone, okay?"
The other party was silent for three seconds, or maybe five seconds.
"Okay, as long as it's your request, I'll agree to anything you ask..."
A rustling sound gradually approached from the depths of the jungle.
*
【Turn it off! ! Turn it off quickly! 】
【What are you doing? ! 】
【Why did you answer the phone? ! 】
【How come the call is still going on? 】
[Fuck, what are you doing? You want to go out?]
No way!!!!
The light on the system kept flashing at a high frequency like a short circuit, trying to interrupt Mo Liang's actions, but it was still useless.
"Didn't I tell you to turn off the audio when I was checking him? Why didn't you do that and even answered his call..."
【Why should I turn it off? 】
While talking to Li Zhuo, Mo Liang drew out a bit of his consciousness to negotiate with the system.
[The first time my child called me, I couldn't find a reason not to answer.]
My child wants to see me and has made requests to me, and I really want to see him, so why not?
【………】
The system was probably confused by the situation and didn't know how to react. It flashed for a while and then stopped flashing.
Judging from the target's reaction, he's already aware of your non-human identity. His visit to the stream just now was just a test...
Mo Liang had already reached the stream, but since he had not yet removed his disguise, his child was obviously unaware that he was in front of him and was still looking into the depths of the jungle.
“How cute…”
Mo Liang unconsciously moved closer, so close that he could see the texture and pores of Li Zhuo's skin without adjusting his vision.
Perhaps feeling the faint airflow on his face, Li Zhuo began to look around the open space in front of him, somewhat unsure where to look.
"…Is that you, Mr. Mo?"
Mo Liang gradually revealed the human form that often appeared in front of Li Zhuo, and smiled the same smile he used to smile when he watched him eat. "What a clever kid! When did you discover this?"
Under the moonlight, Mo Liang came over in a hurry. He had not yet completely camouflaged his human skin to perfection, and the black part of his eye sockets was obviously too large.
Such strange eyes, in such a deep mountain, coupled with the pale moonlight and the occasional whistling night wind, are really frightening at first glance.
Although he knew that the "alien" in front of him was his teacher, and he also knew that he would not hurt him, Li Zhuo's heart skipped a beat out of instinct.
"Are you afraid of me?"
Mo Liang, who was always paying attention to his heartbeat and micro-expressions, would certainly not miss this moment. He quickly adjusted his skin to mimicry, looking completely like a living person.
"How about this? Will it be better?"
"I won't hurt you."
After taking a few deep breaths, Li Zhuo gradually calmed down. Just then he heard Mo Liang's last explanation and said, "I know. You saved me many times. At school and at summer camp..."
"...That's not rescue," Mo Liang corrected. "That's my responsibility."
The wind was blowing, and Li Zhuo could hear the whistling sound of the wind, but he could not feel the slightest chill, as if something he could not see was covering him.
He didn't know what it was before.
Now he knows.
The young man in the moonlight drooped his eyelids and was silent for a while, his brows slightly furrowed, as if thinking, as if he was struggling with an important decision.
"Actually, I've had some inkling of it for a long time, but I didn't think much of it. Later...anyway, you've been so nice to me, so I won't tell anyone else."
Mo Liang thought for a few seconds and tentatively said two words: "...Thank you?"
"No need to thank me. I just have two questions for you. One is, is this your true form? What did you originally look like?"
"If you want to see my true form, this place is too small. Maybe next time."
"Okay." Li Zhuo didn't hesitate too much. He took a deep breath and asked the second question very quickly, "Are you going to invade the Earth?"
"……What?"
In this small, broken world with such backward technology and a group of fragile primitive inhabitants who have no offensive power, what is there worth invading?
After a brief moment of confusion, Mo Liang shook his head and said frankly, "I'm here to save you."
"……What?"
Now it was Li Zhuo's turn to be confused, but he seemed to understand something and nodded seriously.
"All right."
The light ball of the system has completely dimmed. According to past databases, shouldn't humans be terrified when they see non-humans?
But now it seems quite harmonious.
The human boy and the non-human creature also agreed that this was a secret between the two of them. The system previewed scenes did not appear, and the favorability level did not drop.
The target even misunderstood that the transparent tentacle that Mo Liang had entrusted him with was too cold because it was exposed to the wind outside.
"Why don't you just sleep in my tent? There's a fire outside, it'll be warmer."
【Being closer will protect him better.】
Mo Liang thought this in his mind, and nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
0255 quickly added new data to the database. It thought that some humans did have strong fear, rejection, and disgust towards non-human creatures, but some were able to overcome and accept them.
When it tried to add a special note to Li Zhuo's information, it found that there was already a line there.
——【The best kid in the universe.】
When did that black, unknown creature hack into its database again?
*
We still took the bus back home. After the bus had been driving for about 20 minutes, a boy wearing glasses sitting in the front row took out an orange from his pocket.
He had secretly taken the orange from the base before leaving. It looked bright orange and very sweet.
Two minutes later, after eating a slice, he did not continue eating, but handed the remaining orange with skin and flesh to the person behind him as if nothing had happened.
"Eat an orange."
The girl with a high ponytail behind him was playing with her cell phone at the time. She took it subconsciously, took a bite, was silent for a while again, and then calmly handed it back.
"Here, have an orange."
[…]
"Oranges are very sweet. Try some."
In this way, the orange kept moving back like passing the flower, and soon it came to Deng Yuliang.
This guy has always been a shrewd person. Looking at the expressions of the students in the front row who seemed to be staring at him after eating oranges, he became a little hesitant.
The student in front of him saw that he didn't want to eat it, and urged him seriously: "It's very sweet, do you want to eat it? There are not many left."
Deng Yuliang thought for a moment, then looked at Li Zhuo, who was texting someone with his head down, and said firmly, "Give it to Li Zhuo. I only believe what he says now."
Li Zhuo didn't notice how the orange was passed from the front to the back, and didn't think much about it. He took the orange from the classmate in the front row and peeled off a slice.
Just as he put the orange flesh into his mouth, the next second, his facial features were distorted by the sourness and his whole face was wrinkled.
"Why is it so sour?!"
He looked in disbelief at the students in front of him who kept emphasizing that the oranges were very delicious and sweet, and then looked at the yellow oranges in his hand, which also looked very sweet.
I don’t know which link went wrong.
The students who had eaten oranges before could no longer hold back their facial expressions. Those who used tissues to spit out the oranges spit out the oranges, while those who used drinks to drink water drank water.
"I fucking knew it... how could delicious oranges even reach me? They're gone!" Deng Yuliang complained indignantly, unscrewing a bottle of drink and handing it to Li Zhuo. "A bunch of old bastards! My buddy is a real and honest man. Come, have a sip of water to calm down. I'll give you a candy."
Li Zhuo waved his hand. The soreness was only a brief tingle, but it was fine afterward. What bothered him was the constant, subtle vibration of his phone.
That alien... Oh no, Teacher Mo seemed to be deceived by the students' superb acting skills, but he reacted quite quickly and put a lot of candy into Li Zhuo's pocket.
Maybe he did something else that Li Zhuo didn't know about. In any case, there was no trace of sourness in his taste buds.
As for the constantly shaking news, Li Zhuo glanced at it and saw that most of them were unhappy words, and some said that they felt that they had not protected him...
Li Zhuo replied with "It's okay" and just as he exited the chat box, the classmate sitting opposite him started talking to him with a smile and taught him some skills.
"Don't do that next time. If you do that, how are you going to fool the next person? You have to keep a straight face and hand it over to someone else. That's the fun part."
Li Zhuo nodded, not quite understanding. So that's how it is. Is it a game?
"Are you playing King of Glory or Horde?"
"Neither."
Back in Pingshan Village, life was very poor, with no smartphone and no time. Later, during the two years he spent at the Li family's house, he spent all his time, apart from sleeping and eating, studying hard to catch up on his missed classes. This was especially true when it came to the lab...
"Then I'll teach you how to play King of Glory first. It's very simple. Just open the app store on your phone and download it. Then I'll guide you and you'll be able to do it in a short while."
The man said this very naturally as he took Li Zhuo's phone and started helping him download games.
Li Zhuo seemed a little hesitant. He asked, "But Teacher Zhang said that our most important task now is to study. We will be in our third year of high school next year, so we can't play games..."
"It's downloaded. Come on, think of your ID."
Li Zhuo picked one at random in a daze, and under the guidance of the classmate next to him, he agreed to his friend request. Deng Yuliang also joined in, and the other three teammates were also the classmates mentioned above.
"You play support first, and just follow the team..."
This was Li Zhuo's first time playing games. Perhaps because the character he chose was relatively simple, or perhaps because he had a classmate to guide him, it didn't seem as difficult as he had imagined.
By the third game, he had already figured out the general winning mechanism of the game, understood the combination of different skills of heroes, and was also in the process of exploring team cooperation.
"You're a quick learner!"
The classmate who had said he would teach him lowered his head to control his phone while reporting Li Zhuo's location and asking him to come over for support.
"Okay, I'm coming."
No matter how precocious he was, he was still a young child after all. Once his playful nature was aroused, he spent the second half of the car journey happily playing games.
*
Five days later, the bus once again stopped at the entrance of Swan Bay where it had picked up people before. Li Zhuo said goodbye to his classmates one by one. Through the window glass, he looked at a familiar figure outside from afar.
"Isn't that Teacher Mo?"
Deng Yuliang had already gotten off the bus earlier. This time, it was another classmate from Class 10 who noticed Mo Liang standing outside waiting for someone. After he shouted, the other students in the bus also looked over curiously.
Some of them had seen Teacher Mo downstairs in the corridor of Class 10 in the dormitory building, while others had only heard of his name but met him in person for the first time.
"Is the new psychology teacher really your relative?" As Li Zhuo stood up to get his bag, a chubby kid sitting behind him whispered to him, "So you rich people really do have housekeepers to accompany you to study... I'm so envious."
Obviously, Mo Liang's daily delivery of meals regardless of weather conditions had caused more rumors about him in the school.
Not knowing what to say, he just smiled and said, "That's not so outrageous. I'm leaving now."
Outside, Mo Liang had already taken Li Zhuo's suitcase out of the luggage compartment under the bus. When he saw him get off, he greeted him with a smile, "Welcome back."
The heat in Changyang is still sticky, and the big tree with lush branches and leaves outside Swan Bay is still standing. The leaves rub against each other in the breeze, making a rustling sound. Everything is no different from the day I left.
"Should we eat outside or back?"
"Anything is fine."
Li Zhuo had a black schoolbag slung across his shoulder, while Mo Liang was holding a 26-inch suitcase. The two of them walked side by side towards the side gate of the community.
Mo Liang said without hesitation: "Then let's go back. We just need to wait a little while, okay?"
Li Zhuo hummed.
He had seen Mo Liang cooking before. He was very serious about every step and every movement was extremely rigorous.
Pouring oil, putting food into the pan, and stir-frying, every minute and second is precisely calculated, and the simmering time is also accurate. The whole process is like conducting a rigorous scientific experiment, with clear steps and no room for error.
The only thing was that Mo Liang never let him interfere in kitchen matters. Every time he wanted to go over and lend a hand, Mo Liang would block him with a nervous look on his face.
He was worried that the oil spots would splash onto him and burn his skin, and that the fumes would damage his fragile respiratory tract...
Li Zhuo is much more accustomed to this than before.
The two walked into Swan Bay together, passed through the gatehouse, passed the security booth, and stepped into the community step by step.
Mo Liang continued to mutter in a low voice: "There are too many additives out there. You are still growing, you can't eat those..."
Li Zhuo shifted his gaze to Mo Liang, carefully observing his outline, and suddenly a sense of unreality arose in his heart: that night in the summer camp, the ringing of the mobile phone in the deep forest, the sudden appearance of Teacher Mo, and the countless cold touches, could they all be an illusion?
The eyes of ordinary people will change in the sunlight, but the eyes behind the lenses are like a bottomless abyss in the sunlight, and no light can penetrate it.
The bright sun shone on him, but without any warmth, it reflected a strange and cold luster on his skin.
——He is indeed not a human being.
The smile on the man's lips was neither too much nor too little, and his lips didn't even move, but for some unknown reason, his voice seemed to have grown legs and drilled into Li Zhuo's ears.
What are you looking at me for?
You looked at me forty-three times today, the longest of which lasted more than 36 seconds...
"I'm glad you're willing to pay more attention to me, but I'm also worried. Are you having any problems?"
Tell me…
【I will solve everything for you.】
My child...
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