Chapter 37: Physical Test: I might have been a horse in my previous life
"Give me the Orange with Pulp. I like it."
Lin Zhuyue shot another arrow and hit ten rings, saying,
"Maybe the drinks were mixed up when they were being filled. That was the case at my junior high school. I wanted to buy a hot drink, but they gave me an iced one instead."
Shi Chan put the Orange Juice aside.
He felt that he couldn't mix all the drinks together, so he bought another bottle of electrolyte water with a different flavor.
The drinks rolled off the shelf with a "gulp" sound.
Shi Chan took the drinks out from the delivery port——
A bottle of apple-flavored Nutri-Express.
Shi Can: “……?”
Is this vending machine in need of adjustment?
After the training, Lin Zhuyue took a shower and walked towards the teaching building while drinking Orange Juice.
Shi Can walked behind, carrying a large bag of various drinks. He was in a rather grim mood, his eyes filled with gloom. He wished he could summon his ultimate blade to split the vending machine open and see what was inside.
"With vending machines, you don't teach them; they teach you."
Lin Zhuyue counted them carefully,
"Snacks get stuck during shipment, the wrong drinks get dropped, and your money goes to waste. Even a spiritualist has to learn to admit defeat to artificial intelligence."
"Also, although it's not the vending machine's fault...cell phones aren't allowed in middle school, so to make it easier for students, the vending machine only accepts cash. I didn't have any change, so I fed it a hundred yuan, and it gave me back ninety-seven coins."
Shi Chan asked, "Wouldn't that make your trouser pockets jingle?"
Lin Zhuyue nodded. "It was more than just a jingling sound. I felt like my pants were about to be pulled off. I was just about to go to the playground to gather for morning exercises. It was driving me crazy."
"Will you explode coins while running?"
"I don't know. I skipped the morning exercise that day."
Lin Zhuyue couldn't help laughing when she thought of this embarrassing incident.
"My junior high school teacher nearly died of laughter when he found out why I skipped morning exercises. He smiled at me from the first year of junior high to the third. At the graduation ceremony, he even reminded me to bring change with me when I entered Yuancheng No. 1 Middle School."
Shi Chan said, “It’s a bit embarrassing.”
But Lin Zhuyue acted very proud:
"Who hasn't done a few stupid things? Being able to make people laugh sometimes just proves that I'm a very interesting person."
They chatted and returned to the classroom.
Some people called their classmates bandits. Less than two minutes after entering the classroom, the drinks that Shi Chan brought were divided up.
“Why did you buy green Assam milk tea?”
Ye Yangjia unscrewed the bottle cap unsatisfactorily and said,
"The black tea one tastes better."
"I don't want to buy any red or green ones."
Shi Can took the textbook to the table and said,
"You can talk to the vending machine at the archery hall."
A small paper man climbed onto the table, and its flat hands reached into the gap between the pages of the textbook, opening the textbook to the page to be learned in class today.
Lin Zhuyue stared at the little paper man with a curious look in his eyes.
The little paper man seemed unwilling to be stared at by Lin Zhuyue, and crawled in through Shican's sleeve, but was then pinched and pulled out by Shican.
Lin Zhuyue picked up the little paper figure and asked curiously:
"Come to think of it, you seem to know a lot of spells?"
"I like to collect some nameless ancient books. In them, there are some spells left by some charlatans, real or fake. I will try them out, and sometimes I can find the real ones."
Shi Can flipped through two pages of the textbook and said,
"When I was little, I would shamelessly ask friends and family to teach me some magic. Over time, I learned more and more."
Wen Miyan dissuaded him:
"Zhuyue, you must not learn from him."
Ye Yangjia, who was sitting in the front row, also turned around and said:
"Searching for spells in obscure ancient tomes is like panning for gold. It's one thing to find fakes, but there are also sorcerous spells. Once you've touched something like sorcery, there's no turning back. This guy will stop at nothing to become stronger. He'll try anything."
Shi Chan raised his eyes from the textbook, as if he had been told this many times before, his voice tired and lazy, a little impatient:
"I've also carefully considered what I should and shouldn't learn. I've already tried it out. If my partner wants to learn, I'll definitely know what's permissible and what's not."
Time quickly arrived at the end of December.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can sat face to face, with two paper figures fighting on the table. Because of his stronger spiritual power, Lin Zhuyue's paper figure had a considerable advantage in strength, and he pressed Shi Can's paper figure to the table and beat it.
Lin Zhuyue's psychological activities are quite rich:
Left hook! Right hook! Shi Chan took my palm!
Just then, both of their cell phones rang.
“Ding Dong~”
"Sweeper, start!"
Lin Zhuyue collapsed and went crazy:
"Can you please change this text message alert tone?!"
"No, I like it. I love the sweeper."
Shi Can opened the text message and read,
"Dear students, after consultation between the Spiritual Master College and the Spiritual Master House, this semester's physical fitness test will be conducted on December 22nd. The physical fitness test for senior female students will include sit-ups, sit-ups, long jump, 100-meter sprint, and 3,000-meter run. The physical fitness test for senior male students will include pull-ups, sit-ups, long jump, 100-meter sprint, and 5,000-meter run."
Lin Zhuyue received exactly the same text message.
Lin Zhuyue was surprised and asked, "You ran so far?"
The physical test for Yuancheng No. 1 Middle School only requires running 800 meters, and 3,000 meters sounds like a Spartan run.
Shi Chan asked, "Can you hold on?"
"Sure, I run a lot on the treadmill."
Lin Zhuyue is quite confident about her current physical fitness. She said,
"Even if I were to do pull-ups, I could do more than ten."
But when it rains, it pours.
In the early morning of December 22, Yuejing greeted Lin Zhuyue, who was still sleeping, in a friendly and gentle manner.
Lin Zhuyue woke up feeling incontinent. She sat up and discovered she had a heavy hemorrhage. She washed herself and made her bed. When she was done, she sat dejectedly on the bed, wondering how her period had come five days early.
Fortunately, I didn’t stay at Shican’s house today. If I had messed up their sheets and bedding like this, how would I end it?
Lin Zhuyue felt a stomachache, probably from the shower. Since she had a physical exam today, she didn't insist and just took an ibuprofen. Shi Can had replaced all the expired medications in her medicine cabinet, so the dates were all newer.
At nine o'clock, Lin Zhuyue appeared on the playground.
"Are you okay?"
Shi Can reached out and touched Lin Zhuyue's forehead.
"You look so pale...why are you so cold?"
Lin Zhuyue pushed Shi Can's hand away and said, "It's my period."
"Then can you take a physical test?"
Shi Can chased after Lin Zhuyue and asked,
"How about asking the teacher for leave first, and then taking a make-up test the day after tomorrow with those who failed?"
Lin Zhuyue refused. She did feel better on the third day of her menstrual period than on the first day, but her body lacked strength at that time, so it was not a good time for a physical examination.
Lin Zhuyue finished testing all items other than long-distance running first.
Her training over the past few months had been effective. If she were at Yuancheng No. 1 Middle School, she would have gotten full marks. However, the difficulty of passing and getting full marks at the Spiritual Master Academy was quite high, and Lin Zhuyue's results were only average.
After resting for a while, she put on a fluorescent green vest equipped with a machine for counting laps and stood at the starting point of the 3,000-meter long-distance race with a fearless attitude.
One lap of the playground track is 400 meters, and 3,000 meters is seven and a half laps.
Lin Zhuyue ran relatively smoothly for the first two laps, but by the third, her vision began to blur. Her pace gradually slowed, and her breathing became increasingly irregular. But as she ran, someone grabbed her hand.
Lin Zhuyue raised his head.
"I said it would be better to take a leave."
Shi Can ran forward from the inner circle of the runway, holding Lin Zhuyue's hand.
"But since I'm already running, I might as well finish it quickly. If I don't pass, it will all be in vain."
Lin Zhuyue adjusted her breathing. She held Shi Can's hand tightly and tried her best to keep up with his speed.
The person in charge stopped them, saying, "Hey! No cheating!"
“Is running alongside considered cheating?”
Shi Chan shouted back,
"It's not like I'm running for you!"
The person in charge had nothing to say.
Shi Can ran with Lin Zhuyue for a full five of the seven and a half laps. After crossing the finish line, Lin Zhuyue's vision went dark and he fell headfirst.
Shi Can put a long down jacket on Lin Zhuyue and carried her to the stands beside the playground. After Wen Miyan, who had started a round later than Lin Zhuyue, finished her run, Shi Can handed her over to her before going to participate in the boys' long-distance running test.
Lin Zhuyue woke up quickly.
At this moment, Shi Chan was on the track. He was wearing a red vest and took long, fast steps. His body was light, yet full of power. He was squeezed by others at the start and fell behind. Now he was speeding up in the outer circle, constantly catching up with other students.
Lin Zhuyue was amazed at Shican's speed.
He was clearly running long distances, but his speed was only slightly slower than Lin Zhuyue's 100-meter sprint.
As they ran, Shi Can and Ye Yangjia were side by side.
Ye Yangjia turned his head to look at Shi Can who was galloping on the outer track, and couldn't help cursing:
"Holy crap, man, you just ran for so long, how can you still run so fast? Are you human?"
"Maybe I was a horse in my previous life."
Shi Can accelerated and said to Ye Yangjia who was also accelerating beside him,
"Just go to the back!"
Shi Can quickly overtook Ye Yangjia and crossed the finish line.
Ye Yangjia achieved full marks, but he always felt like he had lost.
They both wiped their sweat with towels, put on their down jackets, and went to the stands to look for Lin Zhuyue and Wen Miyan. Lin Zhuyue leaned against Wen Miyan, her hand tucked into her sleeve, pushing the electrolyte drink beside her.
"Are you cold?"
Shi Can picked up the drinks, handed one of them to Ye Yangjia, and sat down next to Lin Zhuyue.
"Isn't he going to have a fever again?"
Lin Zhuyue shook his head: "No, I just have a cold body."
Wen Miyan reminded from the side:
"You two might become famous."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can looked at Wen Miyan at the same time.
"There's already a post on the Spiritual Master Mansion forum."
Wen Miyan pointed to the playground again and said,
"There are a lot of boys running with the girls. The fifth grade big sister is also very cool. She is running with the younger students."
Lin Zhuyue picked up his phone and opened the forum.
Title: [Holy crap! It’s true!]
The original poster: [On the Spiritual Master Academy senior school playground, the school bully ran alongside me in a self-propelled humanoid with a cheat, and after the run, he even gave me a princess hug. Who says partners only get bored of each other? I'm cracking up!]
1st Floor: [Since childhood partners, of course they dislike each other. A humanoid self-propelled hack is a drop from the sky for the school bully. My childhood sweetheart has never been able to beat a drop from the sky. I'm also crazy!]
2nd floor: [Nonsense, people like school bullies are destined to be alone.]
3rd Floor: [Has the person upstairs been beaten by a school bully? ]
4th Floor: [Wow, wow, wow, a guy like that school bully can find a girlfriend, but I'm still single. Why? It's so unfair!]
5th Floor: [It's fair, alright. The school bully is good-looking, good at studying, good at sports, and has a first-rate family background. If he wasn't such a dull person, he would have had a girlfriend long ago.]
After seeing this, Lin Zhuyue didn't want to watch anymore.
The Lingshifu forum's casual chat section is quite free, and there are always people messing around. Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can being messed around with is perfectly normal; they're partners, after all. There are even people messing around with Jue Ren's personification and Lin Zhuyue, but I don't know if they're just crazy.
Wen Miyan asked, "Would you like to come to my house for dinner?"
"Wait a moment."
Shi Chan took out his phone and looked at the message he had just received.
"Old Fu asked Lin Zhuyue and I to go over there."
Shi Can asked Lin Zhuyue: "Can you walk?"
Lin Zhuyue stood up and said:
"My leg isn't broken, why can't I walk?"
We can’t let those people on the forum get away with it anymore!
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can told Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia that they would see each other later, and they began to walk towards the office. Shi Can walked very slowly, trying to accommodate Lin Zhuyue, who didn't want to move.
They slowly "moved" into the office.
Fu Xingwei was checking the students' last exam results. After Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can entered the office, he pointed to the sofa against the wall and said,
"Sit down."
This sofa was replaced from the Spiritual Master's Mansion building. Fu Xingwei asked for it and put it in his office. When Shi Can came here last time, he saw this sofa and asked Fu Xingwei where he picked up the junk.
But it's quite comfortable to sit in.
After Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can sat down, Fu Xingwei took out a file from the drawer and walked towards the sofa.
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Mission?"
“No, it’s informed consent.”
Fu Xingwei pushed the file towards Lin Zhuyue and said,
"For your family, the Spiritual Master House allows your family to know about its existence. Although it seems that you have never contacted your family since transferring to this school, we still have to make it clear sooner or later."
Lin Zhuyue didn't know what to do.
Over the past three months, she has often been thinking about how to tell her family about this matter, whether to tell it herself or wait for them to be discovered.
It seemed best to bring it up myself. If I had a serious conversation, Mom might understand the existence of the "spiritual master" and her uniqueness. If I waited until she found out about my unauthorized transfer, there would definitely be a big fight.
Lin Zhuyue didn't want to quarrel with Lin Lang at all.
Some people say that sometimes the closer the relationship, the easier it is to quarrel, and quarreling is sometimes a way to communicate and solve problems.
But Lin Zhuyue felt that quarreling would only create a bigger rift between him and Lin Lang, which might even develop to the point where it would be difficult to repair.
"The Spiritual Master Academy will be closed for New Year's Day, and the final exams will be held after the holiday. You should take this opportunity to go home."
Fu Xingwei said to Lin Zhuyue,
"If you need an escort, Shican, Shican's mother, and Director Yi can all go back with you."
Lin Zhuyue lowered his head: "I'll think about it."
"Also, there is indeed a task that no one has taken up yet."
Fu Xingwei returned to his desk and found another file bag. He opened the file bag, took out the pages inside, and handed them to Shi Can and Lin Zhuyue.
"It's nearby, and it won't take long to drive there."
Shican took the paper file and glanced through it.
"There's a sixteen-year-old boy named Huang Zhengan who suddenly became unable to walk two months ago. A hospital examination revealed he's healthy, but the cause of his paralysis is unknown."
Shi Chan turned to the next page and read,
"To help Huang Zhengan recover, his parents sought out a folk shaman and brought back a statue of Guanyin, hoping that Guanyin would bless Huang Zhengan with a speedy recovery. However, ever since the statue was placed, the family has lost its peace. The shaman claimed that after Huang Zhengan's parents brought the statue home, the evil spirits in the house became frightened and started causing trouble. They then came to Huang Zhengan's home to perform a ritual, costing six thousand yuan per session..."
"Typical example of an average person piling up more and more buffs."
Fu Xingwei understands this very well:
“People who don’t understand metaphysics sometimes do take a long detour when seeking a solution.”
Shican didn't want to take on this task that smelled so bad.
But just like workers would bow down for a few coins, Shican had to kneel down for a few practice points.
"Will you release it again tomorrow?"
Shi Chan put the file back into the bag,
"My partner isn't feeling well."
Fu Xingwei had no intention of making things difficult for Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can:
"Just arrange your own time and complete the task before the deadline."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can left the teaching building and went to Wen Miyan's house for dinner.
Today, Wen Miyan had Wagyu teppanyaki and Sukiyaki at her home. In order to entertain friends, she prepared a lot of ingredients.
Wen Miyan just sent a message saying that she had made brown sugar and longan tea for Lin Zhuyue, and that she would feel better after drinking it.
Lin Zhuyue felt that Wen Miyan was a beautiful and kind person.
Shi Can showed the task to Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia, and both of them agreed to carry out the task together - because Shi Can and Lin Zhuyue killed ghosts too quickly, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia's task evaluations this semester have been very low, and they are still at least one task away from passing.
The chef in Wen Miyan's family is quite skilled.
Lin Zhuyue's stomach was a little bloated after eating, so she lay down on the balcony lounge chair to bask in the sun. Her body had warmed up, and she felt a little sleepy, squinting lazily.
Shi Can was sitting nearby, adding brown sugar and boiling water to the glass teapot, which had already been completely drained of tea.
Ye Yangjia and Wen Miyan carried out a table.
"Ludo or Monopoly?"
Wen Miyan took out two boxes from the desk drawer and asked,
"I think Monopoly is more fun."
Lin Zhuyue thought so too and said, "Let's play Monopoly."
Monopoly is a first-come, first-served game.
Shi Chan lost to three people in rock-paper-scissors and was the last to start. He was also the first to lose everything and left the game as a loser. After losing his pants, he sat at the "bank" and helped the other three people find money.
The four of them played several rounds of games. After it got dark, they had dinner at Wen Miyan's house before saying goodbye to each other.
Shi Can sent Lin Zhuyue back to the dormitory and made a bowl of brown sugar ginger milk with the limited ingredients in Lin Zhuyue's dormitory. He squeezed a little too much ginger juice, and Lin Zhuyue felt uncomfortable in her stomach due to the spicy taste after eating it, and rolled around on the bed.
Early the next morning, the four people gathered in front of the Spiritual Master's Mansion and headed to the mission location, Qi Yan County, Ningyang City.
Qi Yan County is a small county town where everyone knows each other and can talk about one thing for half a day.
Shi Can was driving in the county town when he got stuck in a traffic jam.
Ye Yangjia got out of the car to check.
There were two elderly people arguing up ahead, and everyone around, whether they were driving, riding bikes or walking, stopped to watch with interest, causing the road to be blocked.
Shi Can: “…”
Can such a small thing cause traffic jam?
Forty minutes later, their car finally managed to pass through this road and arrived downstairs of Huang Zhengan's house.
Huang Zhengan's parents hurried downstairs to greet them.
Even though they'd been tricked by the "master," Huang Zheng'an's parents still respected Lin Zhuyue and his team. As long as there was even a sliver of hope for their son's legs to heal, they'd be willing to be tricked ten times.
They took Lin Zhuyue and his group upstairs.
The furniture in the house was a bit worn, but it was kept very clean. To entertain the guests, the coffee table was set with various fruits, nuts, and snacks, along with clean tea sets. Huang Zhengan's mother, Zhang Duoli, took out tea leaves and carried the teapot to the kitchen to make tea for Lin Zhuyue and the other three.
Dad Huang Xingping said:
"Zheng'an is sleeping. He cried for a long time last night, so he hasn't woken up yet. I'll go wake him up."
Lin Zhuyue has already started checking.
Lin Zhuyue said: "I feel something is not right..."
"Of course something is wrong. There are supernatural reactions everywhere."
Shi Chan walked around the living room with the compass.
"But I feel that the aura doesn't seem like a ghost. Or maybe there are more than just ghosts in this house, there are other things as well."
Huang Xingping quickly pushed Huang Zhengan out.
A sixteen-year-old boy should be full of vigor and energy.
But Huang Zhengan was sitting in a wheelchair in his pajamas, his head drooping listlessly, his eyes lifeless. His body beneath his pajamas was as thin as a pile of firewood, no better than Lin Zhuyue, who had just arrived at the Spiritual Master Academy.
Lin Zhuyue rubbed his eyes.
Shi Chan asked, “Did you see it too?”
Everyone has "fate", but the boy's fate has several ominous colors. They are twisted together in a mess and entangled on the boy's body and legs.
Wen Miyan moved closer with the compass.
The compass needle started to rotate as it approached Huang Zhengan, but the speed was not fast and it was relatively calm.
"There's a spirit in him."
Lin Zhuyue looked down at Huang Zhengan's legs and said,
"This soul is the reason why he can't walk, but the biggest problem he has now is not this soul."
Lin Zhuyue's gaze followed the messy "edges". Several "edges" passed through the wall and led to the room behind the wall.
Lin Zhuyue walked around the wall and opened the door.
The room smelled strongly of candlelight.
This room was specially cleared out. There was no bed or other furniture in it, only a table and a futon, with a gold ingot basin in front of the futon.
A yellow cloth covered the table, and above it was a statue of Guanyin. On either side were glass vases filled with artificial flowers and a pair of half-burned red candles. In front was an incense burner filled with rice and a lot of scattered incense ash.
Near the window, there are yellow paper with ingot patterns printed on it, ghee candles, gold and silver ingots, and sandalwood boxes.
Lin Zhuyue stepped into the room. She stopped in front of the table and looked carefully at the statue of Guanyin on the table.
Lin Zhuyue said, "It's very strange."
"Look, aren't these eyes very cunning?"
Shi Can walked up to Lin Zhuyue and showed no respect for the Guanyin statue. He commented on it and said,
"You're looking sideways with your eyes rolling around. Does that look like you're up to something bad?"
Lin Zhuyue suddenly realized——
Yes, normal Bodhisattva statues usually have kind and benevolent expressions. Why does the Bodhisattva statue in Huang Zhengan's home have such an expression?
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