Chapter 176 Blackened Elementary School Students, Gather! (Seeking monthly tickets)
The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy stood at the door of the prison cell, head lowered, playing the game console with a focused look.
From the palm-sized PSP in his hand, a jazz-style battle music sounded in the prison room.
"You're ignoring me, right? Then I'm going to ignore you too."
Ji Minghuan muttered softly, rested his elbows on the table, supported his chin with his right hand and yawned.
Just by listening to the background music of the game, he knew that Mario was playing the fourth game in the Persona series.
After a while, Mario finally looked up from the PSP handheld.
He glanced at Ji Minghuan, his eyes as if he was looking at the NPC at the village gate when playing an online game, and then walked over, pulled a chair and sat down very rudely.
"Is this my home or yours?" Ji Minghuan frowned. "Where are your manners? At least let me play the game console. You have no manners."
"...Your name is Sun Changkong?" Mario suddenly said.
He paused, imitating the tone Ji Minghuan had used to provoke him, and responded in a low voice: "Did you pay the copyright fee to the author of Journey to the West for choosing this name?"
"No, my name is actually 'Kong Youling'."
Ji Minghuan shook his head and explained seriously, "Besides, Journey to the West was written many years ago. It has long passed the period for paying copyright fees. Even if you are an internet addict, you should have some common sense, right?"
"Oh." Mario said, "Kong Youling, your name sounds like a woman's."
"What you said, doesn't it mean that 'Sun Changkong' doesn't sound like a woman?"
"Like a monkey."
"Well said! I will relay this comment to her verbatim later."
Ji Minghuan clapped his hands and raised the corners of his lips, then turned his head to look at the screen of the handheld game console. As expected, the game Mario was playing was "Persona 4 Golden".
He thought for a moment, then asked, "Why is your name Mario, but you play Sony's PSP? Do you think you deserve Nintendo's support?"
At this point, Ji Minghuan suddenly slammed the table hard like a lawyer in court, and then said seriously:
"Stop pretending to be a kid and take out your Switch! We can play Mario Party together. I can barely tolerate Kirby. If I'm a little more serious, I'll play third-party games like It Takes Two."
"I just love playing PSP." Mario said expressionlessly, "Nintendo's games are not fun, too childish, not as good as 4399."
"Zelda is the best in the world."
"Not as good as P5R."
Ji Minghuan sighed and tilted his head, "Forget it, I won't argue with you. In fact, I have never played it. I am a poor child, and there are no game consoles in the welfare home."
"I can see that."
Hearing this, Ji Minghuan was stunned at first, and then black lines suddenly appeared on his forehead.
He said, "Why are you so proud? When I destroy the world in the future, I will first destroy all of your beloved Sony factories and leave only Nintendo's factories. Then Nintendo game consoles will dominate the world!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the instructor's serious voice slowly sounded from the penguin-shaped broadcast on the ceiling:
"Ji Minghuan, please be careful with your words. This is already my second warning. Three times the punishment is too severe... If you make similar remarks again, we will punish you by confining you to solitary confinement for five days. You will not be allowed to meet or interact with other children during this period."
"Tsk... I was just joking. Why is it so serious? You people from the Savior Society are really something."
As he spoke, Ji Minghuan smacked his lips nonchalantly, holding his cheek and looking away.
"Then go ahead and destroy it. I wish the world would be destroyed sooner." Mario suddenly said.
Ji Minghuan was stunned for a moment and thought that it was true that internet-addicted teenagers were all world-weary.
After a long silence, he said, "Actually, my name is Ji Minghuan. What about you? Mario is not your real name, right?"
"What are you talking about? My real name is 'Mario'."
The blond, blue-eyed boy rubbed his dark circles and said disapprovingly. His reactions always seemed to be a beat slower.
"I heard you were an exorcist?"
"right."
"Wait a minute, this PSP in your hand is not your SkyDrive, right?"
"no."
"Oh, and what about your SkyDrive?"
"Don't even think about it..." Mario said without raising his head, "I can't use it now. Even if I could use it, I would be electrocuted."
Hearing this, Ji Minghuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, thinking: "Not only the superpowers, but the Salvation Society even has a way to suppress the exorcists from summoning the 'Sky Drive'?"
He asked again, "How did you get here?"
"And you?"
"I took a nap in the welfare home, and when I woke up I found myself here," Ji Minghuan spread his hands, "The Salvation Society, isn't it amazing?"
“I was in the classroom.”
"classroom?"
"At that time, several classmates were kicking my head. They wanted to smash my game console." Mario said slowly, "My Sky Drive awakened, and I had an extra game console in my hand. I was playing a shooting game at the time, so I dragged them all into a shooting game and shot them in the head one by one."
Ji Minghuan was stunned for a while, then said, "You are so powerful! Don't pull me into Persona while playing the game console, yell 'Persona', and beat me up with your personality mask."
"I can't do such a thing."
"Why?"
“I can only get people into some simple games.”
"Have you ever thought about getting your mentor into the shooting game?"
Mario was silent.
The instructor's voice once again rang out from the device in Penguin's head: "Ji Minghuan..."
Ji Minghuan shrugged and interrupted him: "Why are you so anxious? I asked you to accompany Mario to fight zombies, not to let him blow your head off."
He paused and said, "This is like a father and son playing VR games together. Isn't that great? Parent-child time helps promote bonding, don't you think, Shigeru Miyamoto?"
Shigeru Miyamoto is the name of the real-life "Father of Mario".
Hearing this, the instructor stopped talking.
After a moment of silence, Mario suddenly said, "The instructor said you don't like it here, so he wants me to accompany you to London and carry out the mission at the same time."
"Do you like it here?" Ji Minghuan asked back.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with this place. There's food and drinks, and people to help with cleaning. I can lie on my bed and play games 24 hours a day, and sleep when I'm tired. It's heaven."
"I understand. Only those little brats like you who don't do well outside like this place. A little bully like me from an orphanage has never experienced such a frustrating life since I was a child."
"No matter how good you are at the welfare house, you still have to find a job in the future," Mario said. "Once you get a job, you'll know that it's better to just eat and drink for free at the Salvation Society."
Ji Minghuan sighed and thought to himself, can you be any more depressed?
As expected, the Saviors only caught self-loathing and self-destructive kids. Sun Changkong massacred the village accidentally, Firion ate his mother, and Mario killed his classmates like he was playing a shooting game when he first awakened his Sky Drive.
However, judging from Mario's experience, he was the one who was bullied at school, so he should not feel any guilt for killing his classmates.
"Is it just my personality? Do you simply like the environment here?"
Just as he was thinking, the metal door rumbled open and three blurry figures walked out from the dazzling light.
The voice arrives before the person arrives.
"You bumped into me!" said a voice that sounded somewhat domineering.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." said a voice weaker than the girl's.
"Be careful next time. If you bump into Sister Xiao Ling, you'll be in trouble."
"But...she stepped on my tail."
"Sister Xiao Ling stepped on your tail to reward you, don't be ungrateful."
"oh oh."
The sound of chatting was getting closer and closer, and finally the three of them walked in with their eyes closed. After all, the bright white light from the ceiling was too dazzling, and no one dared to open their eyelids.
As the last white-haired girl crossed the threshold, the metal door behind them slowly closed.
Mario turned his head and glanced at them, then looked away and continued playing the game.
The three of them slightly opened their eyelids and adjusted to the sudden light for a while, then looked curiously at Mario who had his back to them.
"Ji Minghuan, we are here." Firio said with a smile.
Kong Youling wrote on the notebook, raised it and faced Ji Minghuan: "Here it comes."
Seeing a stranger in the cell, Sun Changkong raised his eyebrows, put on his cap, walked over and asked:
"He is Leo the Cat?"
"It's Mario, not Cat Rio." Mario said. He also seemed to know Chinese, so the instructor must have taught him a lot.
"Oh, I'm Sun Changkong." Sun Changkong said.
Mario suddenly stopped talking, as if he was too lazy to pay attention to her.
"Big sister, he just said your name sounds like a monkey." Ji Minghuan complained quietly.
"What?" Sun Changkong was stunned, then turned his head and looked at Mario angrily, pouting and showing his little tiger teeth, "Who are you calling a monkey?!"
"The first thing that comes to mind with this name is a monkey," Mario said. "Do you want me to lie? It's boring."
Seeing that the two were about to fight, Kong Youling walked between them and wrote something in pencil on the notebook, first showing it to Sun Changkong, then turning around to show it to Mario:
"Don't quarrel, NO quarrel!"
She puffed her cheeks and looked at the two of them seriously with her red eyes from the notebook.
Seeing her like this, Mario was silent for a while, then turned to look at Ji Minghuan: "She can't speak?"
Ji Minghuan walked towards the TV in the corner and explained, "Her name is Kong Youling. She is a penguin alien from the M78 nebula. When she gets angry, she can use her magic stick to transform into a super-large penguin and fight monsters."
He paused and said, "Penguin Star usually communicates with others only through brain waves, but because her magic stick was sealed by her mentor, she had no choice but to use writing to communicate with inferior humans like you!"
Mario was stunned for a moment, then looked at Kong Youling again: "Are you a Penguin?"
Kong Youling was also stunned for a moment. She buried her head in her notebook and scribbled something, then turned to Mario. On the notebook was a silly little penguin, with a line of onomatopoeia written next to it:
"Gugugugugu!"
"You really are a penguin alien...first time seeing you." Mario murmured.
"Don't change the subject, you guy. Tell me again, whose name sounds like a monkey?" Sun Changkong frowned his fiery red eyebrows and continued to pursue the question.
Mario looked at her expressionlessly and said sarcastically, "Looking at it this way, you look more like a monkey than your name suggests."
As he said this, he glanced at Firion again, "I don't know. I thought I was in a zoo... penguins, monkeys, wolves, are there any humans here?"
After saying that, he continued playing the game console without even looking up.
Firio rushed over, hugged Sun Changkong who was about to lose his temper, and persuaded him: "Don't quarrel!"
"Big sister, forget about him, let's watch TV." Ji Minghuan also persuaded.
He sat down in front of the TV with his legs crossed, his head lowered, selecting a disc attentively.
"What are you watching today?" Kong Youling sat next to him and asked while writing in a small notebook.
"Spider-Man: Across the Universe," Ji Minghuan said, "Because we have to go to London to carry out a mission tomorrow, so we can only watch half of it at most, and watch the rest another day."
Sun Changkong finally calmed down, and Firio's wolf ears tickled her face, causing her to almost laugh out loud. She puffed up her cheeks, snorted coldly, and then ignored Mario and strode towards the TV.
Firion breathed a sigh of relief, touched his heart, turned around and introduced himself to Mario:
"My name is Firio."
Mario didn't answer, his blue eyes reflecting the screen of the handheld game console. Firio didn't want to be boring.
The three children sat down in front of the TV and watched Ji Minghuan choose from the pile of movie discs.
Kong Youling put down the notebook and clapped his hands expectantly.
Sun Changkong was stunned for a moment, thinking that this was some fashionable ritual of applauding before the movie started, so in order not to look like a bumpkin, he also clapped.
Firion wagged his tail, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
Only Mario was sitting in a chair at the back, playing his PSP without saying a word.
Ji Minghuan was choosing discs while thinking: "Speaking of which...if the Savior Society also captures Xizel, wouldn't it be possible to form a group of seven blackened elementary school students?"
He shook his head and took back his messy thoughts.
"We're going to London tomorrow. Are you nervous?" he suddenly asked.
"It's okay." Sun Changkong scratched his nose absent-mindedly.
"A little bit." Firion nodded.
"I'm not nervous when you're here." Kong Youling wrote and held up the small notebook.
"Is that so... Then let's come up with an inspiring slogan." Ji Minghuan suggested seriously, "It will help boost morale."
"What slogan?" Sun Changkong was stunned.
"Think about it, Ji Minghuan," said Firio.
"Evil elementary school students..." Ji Minghuan said in a rhythmic tone, "Assemble!"
Sun Changkong and Firio looked at him speechlessly. For a moment, the prison room was silent, with only the "click-click" sound of Mario playing the game console.
So Ji Minghuan curled his lips, looked away from their faces, and looked at Kong Youling silently.
His eyes seemed to say, "You don't even support me, do you?"
Kong Youling was stunned. She turned her head to look at Sun Changkong's expression, and then looked at Firio's expression.
Under the pressure of Ji Minghuan's gaze, Kong Youling buried her head behind the notebook, tilted her head slightly, and her white hair swayed slightly.
There was a silly penguin on the notebook, and next to it was written:
"Goo-goo-goo?"
(End of this chapter)
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