Chapter 20: The True Scripture of Fantasy (I) Zhang Xiaodeng's Dreamland. ...
Zhang Deng covered his head and yelled, "It's so noisy!"
Then there was a loud bang, and then a "bang", as if something exploded. Zhang Deng was sitting on the subway seat, but when he opened his eyes, he found himself in front of an office.
Everyone turned their heads stiffly and looked at Zhang Deng standing in the middle of the office. He was looking at them, but he could also see through them and see the dim light reflected from the subway glass.
Everyone: “…”
Zhang Deng: “…”
Everyone had only one thought in their mind: "What's going on?"
Zhang Deng thought that he should be polite, so he stretched out his hand and greeted them.
Suddenly, screams broke out in the room: "Ah!"
Everyone was running for their lives, completely devastated. Zhang Deng said, "Calm down!"
"It's over!" The man cried, holding his head. "We are all finished!"
"how so?"
Zhang Deng guessed that they were probably the staff behind the scenes. He felt that his appearance was a bit too abrupt and said, "It's okay, I'll be gone in a while."
Zhang Deng's extraordinary calmness invisibly comforted the others, and everyone began to observe this little boy from a strange world.
Zhang Deng didn't feel anything about the stares he was getting. He was used to this kind of scrutiny. The man asked, "Why are you here?"
"I don't know either," Zhang Deng said, "but it doesn't matter. I feel like it will disappear soon."
He sounded very optimistic, but he really didn't have a clear idea.
The reason why Zhang Deng felt so indifferent was probably because he didn't think the world would collapse so easily. That would be too wonderful and impossible.
The girl came on the speaker and said, "I guess the reason is that his mind is at a critical point. The world is on the verge of breaking apart."
Everyone looked at Zhang Deng strangely as he stood in front of them with a normal expression.
Zhang Deng was even looking at what was on everyone's screen with some curiosity.
"Oh, this is amazing," Zhang Deng asked, "What kind of creature is this?"
"E-axis creature, white-winged red pig." The man explained to him stiffly.
Zhang Deng said, "It seems to be the name of a Shanghainese dish."
The man smiled awkwardly.
No one could see the slightest sign of Zhang Deng's collapse. A female voice said, "I've already given instructions to 679 to get here as soon as possible."
"Wei Yuanye?" Zhang Deng said, "No need, I'll be home soon. Don't let him show up on the subway unexpectedly, it will be on the news."
The man said, "What the hell did you do?"
"I'm fine," Zhang Deng said. "Are you the leader?"
"Hello," the man immediately extended his hand. "I'm the director of the General Affairs Department. My name is Jia Ming."
Zhang Deng: "When will Wei Yuanye come back?"
Man: "This depends on the completion of the mission. The current situation..."
It's really too complicated to judge.
Zhang Deng said, "Oh, can I write him a letter of praise?"
Jia Ming: “…”
"This is the first time I've dealt with this situation..." Jia Ming said, "No one has ever sent one before... If you want to send one, you can."
Zhang Deng said, "Could you please get me some paper and pen?"
Then, Zhang Deng carefully bent over his desk and wrote a letter of praise. After finishing, he handed it to Jia Ming with both hands and said, "If there is a chance, I will also give you a banner."
"Under your leadership, Wei Yuanye, comrade number 679, has performed exceptionally well in my world. I don't know what I would do without him," said Zhang Deng, a man of great social skills. "He's truly outstanding. Thank you to the organization for cultivating such an outstanding talent."
Everyone was speechless and had nothing to say.
Zhang Deng glanced around and said, "Ah, it looks like my subway is about to arrive."
"I'm leaving now," Zhang Deng said with a smile, "I'm sorry to bother you."
When he got off the subway with the lights on, he felt a little happy. He felt that Wei Yuanye's office environment was quite simple and the pressure should not be too great.
And after his kind words today, Wei Yuanye would definitely become a celebrity when he returned. Everyone would think of him as the man whose mission target had traveled across the world to offer praise.
Zhang Deng did not see Wei Yuanye come to pick him up. When he got home, Wei Yuanye was cleaning up the cat's poop.
Wei Yuanye just looked back at him, then shoveled the shit with an expressionless face.
Zhang Deng said, "You will succeed in whatever you do."
Wei Yuanye: “?”
"You don't even have an expression when you clean up Xiao Mi's poop," Zhang Deng said, "I always dry heave."
Wei Yuanye took out two toilet paper balls from his nose.
Zhang Deng: “…”
Wei Yuanye said: "You haven't shoveled once since I came here."
This is the truth. After Wei Yuanye came, Zhang Denglian rarely fed the cat. At most, he would give it some snacks occasionally to enhance the parent-child relationship.
Zhang Deng took off his shoes and entered the house, but he couldn't avoid smelling the stench. Wei Yuanye sealed the garbage bag tightly and threw it out directly. Zhang Deng could not see anything unusual in his expression.
But Zhang Deng understood that Wei Yuanye knew everything.
"Guess what He Xiaoqiu talked to me about today?" Zhang Deng asked again.
Wei Yuanye didn't care and asked casually, "What are you talking about?"
"Guess."
Wei Yuanye: "Talk about me."
Zhang Deng: "...How did you guess that?"
Wei Yuanye: "He wants to seduce me, I can see that."
Zhang Deng laughed and said, "I told him that you don't like his type anymore."
Wei Yuanye didn't laugh, but he wasn't angry either. He just talked about the matter calmly and said, "He's the sickest one."
Zhang Deng didn't agree with this. Instead, he took off his clothes, threw them on the sofa, and went to play with the kittens: "Little Kitty, Little Kitty, who has the stinkiest poop in the whole world?"
Then he imitated the kitten's voice: "It's me, it's me."
Zhang Deng laughed at himself. He suddenly remembered something and said, "I want to eat stir-fried beef tonight."
"Oh." Wei Yuanye responded.
Zhang Deng didn't write anything this afternoon. I lay on the bed playing with my mobile phone and petting my cat. Although I felt quite relaxed, I kept playing until dark and felt dizzy and a little tired.
Wei Yuanye cooked three dishes as usual in the evening: stir-fried beef, tomato and egg, and stir-fried bamboo shoots. They were extremely delicious and Zhang Deng devoured them with relish.
Zhang Deng's meal was relatively short, but he felt it was a pity. After he was full, he stopped to play with his phone for a while, then continued eating. He saw a piece of news and said, "Huh?" He exclaimed, "Has the girl been found?"
"Which one?" Wei Yuanye said.
Zhang Deng: "It's the missing college student. I saw the missing person notice again."
"Maybe." Wei Yuanye said, "We'll find it after a while."
Zhang Deng asked, "I don't know whether he is alive or dead?"
Wei Yuanye still didn't look at him. He took a bite of food and finished it before saying, "It should be alive."
Zhang Deng nodded and agreed, "I think so."
"It's really dangerous now," Zhang Deng sighed, "If only I were alive."
Wei Yuanye said "hmm", and the two of them said nothing more.
The night passed in peace.
As usual, Zhang Deng turned on the lights and slept with the quilt closed. The weather outside had turned completely cold, but the heating in the house was sufficient. The air in the house was dry and warm. As night fell, Zhang Deng could hear the whistling wind outside in the silence, and he hugged Xiao Mi tightly and fell asleep.
At eight o'clock the next morning, He Xiaoqiu posted an apology video on all his public platforms.
He fully apologized for his actions towards Zhang Deng, including that he snatched away Zhang Deng's ambiguous object, plagiarized Zhang Deng's articles, and even hired professional black fans to cyberbully Zhang Deng some time ago.
He apologized to each one.
In the video, He Xiaoqiu was crying while speaking. Because he cried so hard, the video was even edited in the middle. By the end of the video, his face was red and swollen.
The video was eight minutes long, and Zhang Deng watched it from beginning to end. He cried at the beginning, but later he calmed down. By the time he finished watching it, many of his emotions had disappeared. Even Zhang Deng couldn't find a very appropriate word to describe his state at that moment.
Wei Yuanye sat beside him and watched the video with his help without any expression. The two of them sat on the bed in silence.
Zhang Deng said curiously, "Do you know why some Raven's IQ tests are not mainstream?"
Wei Yuanye: “?”
"Because Raven tests a person's fluid intelligence," Zhang Deng said, "a lot of these things are innate, like innate qualities, reaction time, judgment, and reasoning ability. Some people score very high on the test, but their living conditions are very poor, so everyone finds it unreliable."
Wei Yuanye wanted to know what he was going to say, so he asked, "So?"
Zhang Deng: "So, a complete intelligence scale should also examine crystallized intelligence, such as language skills, common sense, and social skills. Acquired knowledge is also important. Many people are born with high intelligence, but if they don't learn the rules of society, they won't be able to live well."
"I should be feeling relieved right now, right?" Zhang Deng said. "Or maybe I'm relieved and relieved, or maybe I'm a little reluctant to let go of this relationship. But none of that seems to be happening."
Zhang Deng said, "I can't learn the essence of interpersonal relationships. I feel like a monster that can't transform into a human form. When I encounter such things, I don't know what to do."
Wei Yuanye seemed to understand.
However, because Zhang Deng's emotions were too sensitive and complicated, he could not make any judgments or give Zhang Deng any definition.
"I'm always trying to learn what normal people should do and then imitate them," Zhang Deng said. "But I feel like very few people will experience these things. If I can't learn from them, I don't know what to do."
Wei Yuanye said: "At least you expressed it well."
No matter what happened, although Zhang Deng's performance was slow, his ability to describe things was always strong, and he could always describe his situation very accurately.
Zhang Deng made a decision and said, "I want to delete all the videos."
"I forgive him." Zhang Deng announced.
He didn't know how others would handle this situation, so his decision was: not to pursue it.
Zhang Deng opened his account and deleted all his videos one by one. In just less than a month, Zhang Deng posted more than a dozen videos. Starting from the most recent one, Zhang Deng realized that he had paid a lot for this apology.
In order to get an apology from He Xiaoqiu, he put everything about himself on the Internet, and everything was freely evaluated by people on the Internet. He indulged others and used a few scribbled words to summarize his life.
Zhang Deng realized belatedly how terrifying the Internet was.
Wei Yuanye asked him, "What are you going to do with this number?"
Zhang Deng hasn't made up his mind yet. He just wants to get away from here immediately at this moment. Only now does he feel the emptiness after fulfilling his long-cherished wish, but it's not completely emptiness. There is also panic and fear.
Zhang Deng said, "Just keep it for now. If anything happens in the future, you can use it."
Life is indeed full of crises. Zhang Deng feels that people should be cautious. Although this online lawsuit is difficult and even seems a bit unfair, one should still leave a way out for oneself.
Wei Yuanye listened and said nothing.
Wei Yuanye said: "I deleted it too?"
He was willing to listen to Zhang Deng, but Zhang Deng didn't know what to do. He said, "Do you want to keep it?"
There is no use keeping Wei Yuanye.
"Forget it," he said, "Let's leave it at that for now."
Zhang Deng nodded, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Are you leaving?"
This sentence seemed to finally lift the paper that covered the tacit understanding between the two people, forcing them to face the problem.
Zhang Deng’s long-cherished wish was to get an apology. Now that he has gotten it, it is time for Wei Yuanye to leave.
Wei Yuanye said: "Don't worry."
"Why?"
Wei Yuanye laughed: "You're chasing me away."
"You know it's not true," Zhang Deng explained with a smile, "I'm just worried about affecting your work."
Wei Yuanye: "I'm not sure if the other side will retaliate yet. I can wait a little longer."
Zhang Deng said "Oh". He should have been happy, but he didn't feel comfortable.
He seemed to vaguely hear the alarm ringing in his head again.
But this shouldn't be the case.
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