Chapter 3: First Day with My Roommate - A Smooth Journey
Adhering to the principle of remaining unmoved no matter what happens, you are shocked inside, but you don't show it on your face. You simply extend your hand and shake it back. No matter how friendly he tries to talk to you in his gibberish, you just avoid eye contact and pretend to be an impolite and despicable stranger. You quickly find your room and go inside.
Whew, you breathe a sigh of relief. Now, you should be safe, right?
Your room isn't big, probably around 10 square meters. A single bed is placed against the wall, and the large wall cabinet reaching the ceiling looks like it can hold a lot. The table and chairs are under the window, and the radiator is mounted on the wall and hidden under the table. I imagine if you sat here, you could turn on the radiator and warm your legs nicely.
It's not time to turn on the heating yet, but you don't know what the climate is like here. At least you're satisfied with the location of these radiators.
You walked around the entire room, touching and looking at everything. Several paper documents sat on the large suitcase beside the bed, which you naturally didn't miss. Even though you couldn't understand them, you picked them up and glanced at them with great seriousness, before decisively giving up. Only half a day had passed, and you had already mentally and physically mastered the use of Liu Zi's powerful tool: a translator.
Rental Agreement:
1. After 10 o'clock is a quiet time.
2. The heating system should not be turned off in winter.
3. Strictly adhere to garbage sorting! (Underline, bold, italic)
4. You'll see what happens if you lose your keys.
5. We welcome mutual reporting.
Why are there 123 rules everywhere? It's making you dizzy, so put it aside. You've finally taken a real look at the sentence "different scenarios have different rules" in Xiaoming's message.
You belatedly realize again, could there be rules in the restaurant too?
You were just lucky to meet a good person like Xiaoming.
You open the app and send Xiaoming a heartfelt thank you message. She quickly replies with a cute emoji: "Is everything going well for you?"
"It's pretty good, but it's a bit strange. Why are there guys in the shared dorm?" you asked.
"Ah, that's normal. I'm an international student here, and they really don't mind if men and women share apartments," Xiaoming replied.
Alright then, you're not one to mince words, so just lock the door and see if it's a woman or a man, as long as they don't barge in and kill her again.
After chatting with Xiaoming for a few more minutes, you put down your phone and went through all the items on the shelves in the room, trying to find all possible information.
A moment later, you pull out a school calendar wrapped in a plastic book cover, which clearly outlines the holiday schedule for the entire semester. You're surprised by the number of holidays, but also somewhat relieved that it's Friday, October 25th, because October 31st (Reformation Day) and November 20th (Repentance Day) are public holidays, plus 5 days of school holidays, meaning you actually only have 18 days of school time.
You understand perfectly well that staying home and minimizing contact with the locals will help you avoid trouble.
Next, you need to find the class schedule, but this time you're in trouble. You've already searched the whole house, so where else can you find clues?
You open your phone again and download Little Green Book from the app store. You used to love using Little Green Book when you were a student, but after you started working, you couldn't stand how carefree the users seemed to be, so you uninstalled it. But you know that many people use Little Green Book as a search engine, and while this world is strange and scary, it's almost a mirror image of reality most of the time.
You simply can't post real events related to your current situation on public platforms; anything else—food, drinks, entertainment, travel guides, and happy life—is allowed. A chill runs down your spine; you wonder if these seemingly vibrant people on the screen are just an illusion.
—Even, do they actually exist in this world?
Do you know what "infinite flow" is? Generally speaking, each instance is independent. If you are doing an instance in one country, will people doing instances in other countries share the same world with you?
Stop thinking about it; it'll only scare you anyway. Focus on your search, and thank goodness, you actually find a lot of guides.
All sorts of life tips, from clothing and food to housing and transportation, including everything you might think of and not think of, are here.
You frantically click on the bookmarks, while simultaneously making a survival plan.
First, download a widely used university student platform, enter your school information and email address, and it will automatically register an account to learn about school activities and your personal class schedule.
Here you encounter another problem because you have no idea what your email address is, and there's no information on your tablet or computer. The Little Green Book also has posts addressing this situation: go directly to the student center and ask a teacher there for help.
Next is a detailed guide to the entire shopping process. In the past, when you came across posts that taught people how to do things that seemed very basic from scratch, you would have clicked "not interested" in the upper right corner with a puzzled look. Now, you will learn from them word by word.
One of the rules, that all supermarkets will be closed on Sundays and public holidays, is marked with a big red exclamation mark on your schedule.
Tomorrow is Saturday, you'll definitely be going to the supermarket.
The last and most important thing is to resolve your financial issues. The tip says that the bank here will send you the initial PIN after you open an account. If you don't have the PIN, you'll have to go to the bank to open a new bank account, or you can withdraw money directly at the counter using your existing account information and your ID card.
You checked your mailbox and there were indeed no emails. And there's really no other way to help you resolve your bank card issue tomorrow, which is a non-working day.
How do I pay?
Generally, there's a minimum spending limit for password-free transactions, which is what you hope to achieve. If not... you repeatedly click on it, looking at Xiaoming's profile picture, feeling a bit anxious.
You can't expect someone to help you again and again. But when it comes to your life, you have no other choice. You decide to see what happens tomorrow, and no matter what, you secretly vow that if you encounter a newcomer in a similar situation in the future, you will definitely lend a helping hand just like Xiaoming.
In the following months, you realized that you couldn't possibly survive the month without speaking like Xiaoming and the others, so you simply opened a video app and began to diligently learn basic grammar and everyday expressions.
Learning basic grammar is to make it easier to memorize everyday expressions, which is much easier and faster than simply rote memorization. You know that it is impossible to quickly master an unfamiliar language in just a few days, so the main focus is still on memorizing sentences.
You also need to be careful not to accidentally read out the flower language translations.
Two hours passed like this, and you were incredibly thirsty. You thought about going out, but then hesitated.
What else can you do? If you want to survive, you'll likely face even more difficult challenges than you do now.
Adjusting your mindset, you cautiously open the door a crack and listen carefully to see if your roommate is outside.
Quietly.
fine.
You turn your head, trying to squeeze out, but are caught off guard by blue eyes that bulge out as you try to peek.
Your seemingly enthusiastic and cheerful foreign male roommate has been pressed against you for some time now, with his skin just a hair's breadth away!
Huffing and puffing—
You can't tell who's gasping for breath. All you know is that you need to calm down, not be afraid, not panic. You haven't broken any rules, you haven't done anything, and nothing will happen.
I flung the door open. Whatever! Let's see what happens!
Your male roommate lost his balance and stumbled into your room.
He screamed uncontrollably.
At the same time, his body, like cold water poured onto a hot pan, hissed and emitted white smoke. As his limbs and torso convulsed and twisted, it finally turned into a dark mark and disappeared.
The moment he fell, you had already dodged to the side, and now you're just staring blankly at everything that's happening.
You seem to understand something now. It turns out that what the little green book said about your room in the UK, or even the whole of Europe, is that your room is your personal territory. Even the landlord cannot enter without your permission.
It seems your room is a safe house.
Exhale, inhale.
After taking a few deep breaths, you finally overcame your mental block, stepped over the mark on the ground, and quickly ran towards the kitchen.
Everything in the public space here is for public use. You pick up a rag draped over the side, turn on the tap, and want to wet it before wiping your floor clean.
The liquid that flowed out was golden yellow and bubbly.
Damn it, how could I forget? The tap was running beer.
You clicked your tongue and then rummaged through the cabinet under the sink, finally finding cleaning agents and kitchen wipes.
Wearing gloves that have been stored here for who knows how many years, with powder and grime starting to fall off, you pinch your nose and clean up the disgusting marks left by your male roommate after his "sublimation".
At least these things can be removed.
After putting the public property back where it belonged, you poured yourself a large glass of beer from the tap. You were so thirsty, you just wanted to gulp it down right there.
But you really don't like beer. It tastes bitter and has an astringent texture. Beer coming from the tap is even more... well, hard to swallow.
And it doesn't quench your thirst either.
Open the Little Green Book and search for "beer and beverages".
The most popular method is to mix beer with Sprite or lemonade with sugar. It's a great idea to get your thumb spinning, but unfortunately, you don't have anything to show for it.
The other posts are all just about adding various other drinks. But then you realize that what you really want isn't to make beer taste better, but to drink "water" to quench your thirst.
Then you can just search for how to separate and extract water from beer at home.
You actually found it!
You filled several more glasses of beer and put them all into the freezer. Since alcohol has a lower freezing point than water, the water will freeze first, separating out and giving you regular, plain water.
The process was lengthy, but you resigned yourself to it and poured yourself another beer. You then used a small pot, covered it, and slowly simmered it, being careful not to let it boil. This way, some of the alcohol would evaporate, leaving more water.
After overcoming numerous difficulties, you've finally gotten some water.
Tomorrow, I must buy a dozen or so buckets of water to store at home.
This day was so long. No matter how annoyed you were by your male roommate, you eventually managed to clear away the gloom in your heart with a funny video.
The door was locked tight, and you slept a very, very deep sleep.
Thanks to the iron roller blinds outside the window, when you woke up the sun was already high in the sky, but the room was still pitch black.
This thing is much better than curtains. You turn the crank, and the roller blind first changes from completely blocking out the light to a state where light can get in through the small holes, and finally rises up completely.
The first thing you do when you wake up is take out your phone to review the phrases you learned yesterday that you might use at the supermarket today.
After reading for a while, you couldn't help but chuckle, realizing that you hadn't worked this hard during your college entrance exam.
After a good night's sleep, you feel much more at ease. You're here now, so let's make the best of it and see how you get through this month.
I still need to get through the other 5 dungeons and return home safely.
Full of ambition, you quickly got dressed and washed up, grabbed your bank card, and rushed to the supermarket.
A note from the author:
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Those who know, know; some people really love to snoop on your privacy.
*The following is what I will write in the next book. Interested moms are welcome to pre-order!
The Pseudo-Man Elimination Plan
A fake human is a monster whose goal is to imitate and eventually replace a real person.
Studies have shown that they do not exhibit murderous intent towards non-targets, and their behavior is almost indistinguishable from that of a real person. However, once someone sees through their disguise, the aggression buried in their genes is triggered.
Extremely dangerous!
**
Zhou Miao, nicknamed Zhou Sanshui, has a younger sister named Zhou Sen, nicknamed Zhou Sanmu.
Besides being unable to sing, this Shui Mu Nian Hua duo also acted in strange ways.
As the captain of a special task force under the Fruit Market Pseudo-Personnel Management Bureau, Zhou Miao had a secret he couldn't tell anyone.
She has face blindness.
Not only are they face-blind, but they are also mind-blind.
The most important thing in judging a fake person is to meticulously analyze the changes in the real person before and after being replaced, but in Zhou Miao's eyes, there is no difference between a real person and a fake person.
This is Zhou Miao's biggest secret. And the reason she was able to become the squad leader is thanks to Zhou Sen's eyes, which are as sharp as a microscope.
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When Zhou Miao was 12 years old, a fire destroyed her home. Her parents also perished in the flames.
She turned around and found Zhou Sen, who was still a baby.
"Then you can be my little sister from now on." Zhou Miao wiped his dirty hands after escaping the fire and pinched his sister's cheek. "Your name will be Zhou Sen, hehe."
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A story featuring a group of characters with a touch of horror, a bit silly, and a hint of suspense. The main characters are all female, and the story revolves around sisterhood and family.
Tiger has a new idea in store! Moms, come and check it out! Please add it to your favorites!
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