Chapter 103: Fuxing Electric Street
To this day, Lin Yun can still recall the first time he went to the electronics street with his team members.
And that was several months after the young boy became a magical girl.
After choosing to fight to protect Anya and becoming a magical girl, he and Anya formed a magical girl team of only two people, and continued to fight in Fontaine City to protect the city.
After a while, a magical girl from the East Japan region, codenamed Margaret, came to Fangting City and met Lin Yun Anya while fighting against the remnant beasts. The three of them got along very well with each other and hit it off, so they started to act together, and the size of the team became three people.
Some time later, Fangting City's sower, the rabbit fairy Wobo, found the fourth and last member of the team for them - a girl of the same age named Su Shengzi, whose magical girl code name was Lanxiang.
Su Shengzi was a girl who was suspected to be from a wealthy family. The reason why she was suspected was that she never disclosed the details of her family. However, her wealth and lack of concept of wealth made the other members of the team feel the huge financial power behind her.
As a suspected young lady, Su Shengzi, apart from occasionally pretending to show some etiquette, usually does what she wants most of the time, without caring about other people's eyes.
The specific manifestation of this state is that she always throws herself into something because of a short-lived enthusiasm, studies it day and night, and then forgets about it after she thinks she has learned it, and the cycle repeats itself over and over again.
One day, several months after joining the team, Su Shengzi suddenly became addicted to arcade video games.
No one knew when she came into contact with this thing, but one day after school, she suddenly announced to the other members of the team, "Let's go to the electronics town!"
This proposal caused controversy among the team members at the time.
In the Fangting City team at that time, Lin Yun was a good boy who studied hard. He had no good feelings towards arcades, which were called dangerous places by his elders; Anya, on the other hand, was a playful person who was interested in everything and was willing to try all kinds of entertainment that she had never experienced before; and Margaret, as a resident of the Japanese state, the birthplace of arcade games, was extremely familiar with this kind of entertainment activity.
The debate eventually turned into a vote, and Su Shengzi's proposal was passed with an overwhelming result of three to one, thus opening the precedent for the Fangting City team to hang out in the electronics street after school.
At the same time, every time Lin Yun, as the only member of the opposite sex in the group of four, left school surrounded by three girls and under the strange gazes of countless same-sex classmates, he had to mourn his irreparable reputation in his heart.
His reputation among the boys and girls in the same school was already damaged: boys regarded him as a role model, and girls regarded him as a scumbag. But in fact, he and the other three were just friends, because when the four of them went out together, he usually acted like a magical girl and followed the other members.
For this reason, if we only talk about the time spent in the electronics street, "Delphinium" has spent much longer than "Lin Yun".
Looking at the Electric Street under the rain, Delphinium seemed to see the past scenes of the old team here. After many years, the former partners are now scattered all over the world, and she herself has not come here for the purpose of playing for many years.
In the rain, the Electric Street, which is a pedestrian shopping street, was also quite quiet. Only a few pedestrians were walking slowly along the eaves with umbrellas. However, the surrounding shops were still open, with bright lights inside, and the sound of people and music was noisy, making it seem extremely lively.
Delphinium and Xia Liang, each holding an umbrella, walked along the road full of puddles and finally arrived at the first stop of the trip - the archery hall.
As a popular venue that has stood in Electric Street for many years and is still in operation despite several changes in ownership, the Electric Street Archery Hall is also a well-known landmark.
Whether when Lin Yun was young or now, as long as you walk through the winding porch and enter the actually wide inner field, you can see a few young people who look like college students practicing here.
When Cuique and Xia Liang walked in and came to the counter, this somewhat strange combination quickly attracted the attention of some people.
After all, the hourly payment standards of places like archery halls are often too high for primary and secondary school students. And right now, such a combination of a junior high school student and an elementary school student inevitably seems a bit out of place in the crowd.
Xia Liang was relatively okay, but it was Cuique - even though she was dressed very simply today: long sleeves, long pants, short boots, and her hair was tied into a neat ponytail, her exotic blue hair was still somewhat eye-catching.
However, Kuiqi was accustomed to such looks. Rather, she was accustomed to the surprised looks from others when she acted in this manner.
Even if the clerk at the front desk came up and said a series of rude words like "Little sister, are you lost?", "Little sister, are you a foreigner?", "Children may not be able to play with this", she could still face it calmly and respond calmly.
After making an appointment and paying a deposit, Cuique took Xialiang to find two secluded shooting trails.
After choosing a bow of the right size and standing in front of the target, Cuique slightly adjusted her posture under Xia Liang's gaze. Then, she held the bow with one hand, put the arrow on the arrow with the tail, stretched her elbow, drew the bow, aimed, and released it, all in one smooth and graceful movement.
Whoosh! The arrow hit the bull's eye.
"Oh!" Xia Liang clapped his hands in amazement, "So handsome!"
Shaking her ponytail, Kuiqiao glanced at Xia Liang and held out the bow in her hand: "Would you like to try?"
Seeing the action of the larkspur, Xia Liang subconsciously reached out to put his hand on the bow, and then blinked in confusion: "Me? But I have never played this before..."
"No need to play it before. I'll teach you the moves and you just need to practice how to aim." Delphinium said indifferently.
In fact, Delphinium herself is not very proficient in archery, but she has practiced the shooting posture according to the standard. In addition, with the physical fitness of a magical girl, strong eyesight and coordination ability as a foundation, her hit rate is naturally high.
After correcting Xia Liang's posture and making sure it was generally correct, Cuique watched Xia Liang practice.
During this period, there were other customers who, for some unknown reason, volunteered to teach Cuiqiao and Xialiang archery, but were rejected by Cuiqiao with a cold face.
On the other hand, Xia Liang was still a little unfamiliar and nervous at first, but with repeated trial and error, his hit rate gradually improved. From missing the target to the outer ring, and then from the outer ring gradually inward, his improvement speed was very fast.
Delphinium on the side watched for a while, and soon walked back to her own shooting range.
The sight of Xia Liang practicing made her unable to tell whether she was in the present or the past.
In the past, the four girls from Fangting City's team would often go to the archery hall with their schoolbags after school. In order to explain it more easily and avoid others questioning why these junior high school girls came here to play every day, Su Shengzi came up with a crooked idea - she told the store owner that they were doing club activities.
As magical girls, their physical qualities can be optimized to a certain extent even in their original form, so after practicing for a period of time, several girls have reached a level far beyond that of ordinary enthusiasts.
Over time, as they went here more and more often, even among enthusiasts, a spontaneous perception emerged: the level of the women's archery club at Lixing Middle School is very high.
This also made the sports students of Lixing Middle School confused when they were later asked about the archery club in the school: How come they didn’t know that their middle school had an archery club? Of course, these are all stories of the past.
Soon, the originally agreed hour had passed. Xia Liang put down the bow in his hand with a slight sweat, looked at the target in the distance, and smiled with some satisfaction.
The arrow hit the bull's eye, and there was more than one arrow.
"Continue?" Cuiqiao also lowered his hands and turned his head to look at Xia Liang beside him.
"It's interesting, but I remember there are other arrangements for today?" Probably because he had a lot of fun shooting arrows, Xia Liang's emotions were obviously fully aroused, and he asked excitedly.
"Of course, but if you really like it here, you can stay a little longer."
"Well... let's continue next time."
"Really not?"
"Well, let's go to the next place!" Xia Liang smiled.
Cuiqiao no longer hesitated. After paying the bill, she took Xia Liang out of the archery hall and walked towards the second stop of their trip with an umbrella.
The next destination is the bookstore.
Electric Street used to have the largest book wholesale city in the city, which had a wide variety of books and was also the main gathering place for reading enthusiasts at that time.
Twenty years later, the book wholesale city is still there, but it is no longer in its old form. When Cuique and Xialiang walked into the door of the building, they found that the interior decoration was brand new and not old-fashioned at all. It was obvious that it had been renovated.
Although the renovated bookstore still retains the main structure of twenty years ago, its internal furnishings, decoration and even business model have undergone major changes.
Today's bookstores have been integrated with catering and beverage businesses such as tea and coffee, forming a form similar to book bars or book cafes.
When buying or selecting books, customers can find a suitable place to sit down, order a drink, and then flip through the books they just bought, or preview the contents of some specific readings. This form is very relaxing and pleasant, but compared with the old book wholesale city, it is completely different in nature.
The bookstore is divided into five floors. Although there are floors, the upper and lower spaces are connected, and there are many escalators interspersed among them, which makes it look quite spacious. Cuique and Xialiang were not in a hurry, and they started from the first floor and walked up leisurely.
After spending some time observing the exhibits in the bookstore, Cuique turned her head to Xia Liang and asked, "Are there any books you're interested in?"
When they asked this question, the two of them were standing in front of the comics section.
“No need.”
Looking at the comics section not far away, which was crowded with young customers, Xia Liang paused for a moment and shook his head: "But I feel like this should be something Xiaolu would like, right?"
"really."
Delphinium looked ahead and nodded affirmatively.
She hadn't read comics for many years, but she knew that Lin Xiaolu was still quite enthusiastic about it. She thought about it and subconsciously began to speak:
"If there is a next time, call Bai Mei along."
But just as she said this, she saw Xia Liang stretched out his hand and gently grasped hers.
"Although it's a bit unfair to say this now, Xiaolu, but if we two hang out together, I still hope that the young senior can talk more about me."
Xia Liang looked straight ahead, his voice a little vague: "At least that's the case today."
"……I see."
After a moment's silence, Delphinium nodded slowly.
“Hehe.”
Xia Liang chuckled: "Then let's keep going like this."
Her words "maintain this" made Cuiqiao unable to react for a moment. After looking at her hands again, she realized what Xia Liang said: she said she wanted to walk holding hands.
Such behavior has some intimacy in it, but considering the current image of the two, it looks like an older sister holding her younger sister's hand, which is somewhat strange.
Delphinium sighed again: "Don't do those weird little things again."
"What little trick?"
Xia Liang blinked innocently, but he repeated his old trick and scratched the back of Cuique's hand with his fingers: "Like this?"
Delphinium raised her hand and gave her a chestnut on the head.
"Why?" Xia Liang screamed.
"I don't want to repeat myself, just be honest."
"Um……"
After being taught a lesson by Kuija, Xia Liang stopped being naughty on purpose. The two held hands and walked around the bookstore for a while, then left the renovated book wholesale city and headed for the third stop.
The third destination booked was also one of the highlights of the trip - the arcade.
As the main purpose of the old Fangting City team coming to the electronics town after school, arcades were also one of the important popular cultures in the early days of the commercial street.
When the old team was young, one of the freshest forms of entertainment for young people was to go to arcades to play games. Many people enjoyed it so much that they would often forget about time and stay in the arcades.
There will be wealthy players who continue to buy arcade tokens and play their favorite games repeatedly to hone their skills so that they can show off in front of their friends in the future; there will also be poor people who wander here aimlessly, watching others play various games, occasionally going up to give some pointers, or even seeing if they can get other people's coins.
Such time and culture are gone forever.
Today's arcades are no longer considered a new type of entertainment, so young people are naturally not so enthusiastic about them. Arcades have become ordinary experiential entertainment consumption, just like movie theaters and ice rinks.
Without the halo of trendy culture, it would be hard for so many people to settle down and study and wait.
"Wait here for a while. I'll go buy some game coins."
Seeing that Xia Liang's attention was attracted by the claw machine at the door, Cuique did not force her to follow, but simply gave her some instructions and left alone.
She found the front desk clerk at the cashier counter between the display cases. After repeatedly stating that she was not a lost child and did not need to look for her parents, and even proving her adult identity in the shocked eyes of the other party, Kujue finally returned to the place where she had agreed to meet with Xia Liang, carrying a small basket filled with game tokens.
But when her eyes fell on the scene not far away, she couldn't help but frown.
Because Xia Liang had been surrounded by several girls who were dressed up fancy and probably only in junior high school age without knowing when.
And judging from the fact that they were saying something to Xia Liang with sneers on their faces as if they were quite familiar with each other, and Xia Liang keeping his head down and not saying a word, I'm afraid this is not just looking for trouble.
They might know Xia Liang.
(End of this chapter)
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