Lian Yu quietly rested his chin on Cen Zhen’s shoulder. When Cen Zhen looked at Hong Xing and the Jiao, he looked at Cen Zhen. Paying close attention to his long eyelashes, his blue pupils, his tightly closed lips, and his well-defined chin.
The gaze tracing up and down the side of Cen Zhen’s face became more and more arrogant, so unbridled that Cen Zhen had to cover Lian Yu’s eyes with his backhand and push the person away from him.
Hong Xing politely chatted with the Jiao Princess, making the princess laugh with just a few words. Qu, the president of the Tower Student Union, and other Sentinels stood nearby, looking as cold as a group of emotionless bodyguards, which further enhanced Hong Xing’s gentleness and humor.
After a while, the Jiao Princess seemed to have sent out an invitation, and Hong Xing readily agreed. Not sure if it was because beauty was in front of him that he accidentally did not notice his ‘good friend’ Yao Jin had been missing for quite a moment, or if he had deliberately forgotten about Yao Jin because Yao Jin was in his way. The group of people all left together.
“The plot has changed! This time, Hong Xing left with the Jiaos.” Lian Yu opened the terminal excitedly, dragged out an encrypted folder from the hidden interface, and then entered a nearly twenty-digit password. The novel that had been scanned earlier appeared on the screen. Even the browsing was in high-privacy mode. Even from the slightest deviated angle, for example, if Cen Zhen looked at him from the side, he could not see the contents of the floating interface at all.
Lian Yu flipped through the follow-up content, “Well… But we still can’t take it lightly. I think in the original plot, the more Yao Jin ignored the Jiao Princess and refused harshly, the more the Jiao Princess Jiao became obsessed with him. ‘Ha, you are the first man who dares to reject me, the Princess! I shall remember you.’ I’m afraid that the Jiao Princess doesn’t like those who take the initiative, and prefers people like Yao Jin who would rather die than surrender.”
“So?” Cen Zhen was sending a message to Pan with his head lowered, asking him to come quickly and ‘collect the body’ of Yao Jin.
“…So I want to help Hong Xing.” Lian Yu raised an evil smile, “Believe me, I have hinted my displeasure towards Yao Jin in front of him before, and I think he has taken it to heart. Don’t wait for me tonight.”
Twenty minutes later, Pan appeared in front of Cen Zhen on a scooter specially provided by White Tower for students’ convenience. Yao Jin, who was still in a coma, was lying on the bleachers at the edge of the running track. Lian Yu was missing, and Cen Zhen was quietly reading an e-book.
Lian Yu’s hand-knife was too cruel. Not sure if he took advantage of the opportunity and did it on purpose due to a villain’s hatred against the protagonist. If it was Cen Zhen who knocked him out, Yao Jin should have woken up a quarter of an hour ago.
“What’s wrong with Yao Jin? Why did he faint suddenly?” Pan got out of the scooter anxiously and squatted next to Yao Jin to check on him.
“So the situation is…” Cen Zhen spoke seriously about the lies that Lian Yu colluded with him before leaving, “Yao Jin is twenty this year and his zodiac is the rat.”
“Rat?”
“Zodiac, ancient eastern human culture.”
Pan has learned about zodiac culture in history books. It was even being asked on the final exam one year. The question was: how many zodiac signs are there? It was called one of the most crazy and irrelevant pieces of information by students. All he could remember was that the zodiac signs are all composed of animals, but no way he could remember what animal, let alone calculate Yao Jin’s zodiac sign.
He hesitantly asked half knowingly: “Yao Jin’s zodiac is rat…?”
“Well, you are the same age as him, and you are also a rat.” Cen Zhen said, “Snakes like to eat rats, so rats and snakes conflict. This means if you are close to snakes or snake-related people or things, you will be unlucky because snakes bring bad luck to you two.”
“…Uh.” Living in the highly technological Special Planet, Pan has never been exposed to such strange and unabashed feudal superstitious thoughts since he was a child. Although he knew that Cen Zhen was talking nonsense seriously, he just couldn’t refute it for some reason.
“Did you know that the Princess of the Jiao came to the White Tower as an exchange student? Just now, the pet snake of the Jiao Princess was frightened by the eagle and fled nearby…”
“Then Yao Jin accidentally encountered this snake. Because the rat conflicts with the snake, he fainted?” Pan covered his mouth in surprise, unable to believe that the zodiac could have such a powerful force. Cen Zhen shook his head, “No, it’s us. In order to prevent him from encountering the snake, we had to knock him unconscious.”
Pan: “……”
It’s more possible that Yao Jin conflicts with you two instead, right? !
“That’s what happened.” Cen Zhen stood up, “He should wake up soon. You should take good care of him. If the back of his neck keeps hurting, you can go to the school doctor’s office… But remember to stay away from snakes.”
“Cen Zhen…” Pan wanted to ask more, but saw Cen Zhen get on the scooter he rode here quickly and elegantly, and rushed twenty meters away in the next second.
“…” Pan looked around at the deserted track. The A-level training hall is far away from the crowd, the only scooter has been ridden by Cen Zhen. If he wanted to help the unconscious Yao Jin out of here by himself, he would probably lose consciousness due to exhaustion halfway……Most importantly, that scooter is still charging his student ID!
Pan, who had always regarded Cen Zhen as the best Guide in the White Tower, had a vague feeling that he had been tricked by this best Guide.
*
Day two is the aerial combat audition, day three is the mixed melee audition, and day four is the close combat audition.
The aerial combat was divided into two sessions, and it was stipulated that both members of the group must drive separately. After Cen Zhen learned the rules, he simply did not sign up. Lian Yu followed him pitifully and advised him earnestly: “Hurry and sign up, seriously. Why not participate, it doesn’t cost any money, and there is nothing to lose. It’s all for free, such a steal.”
Lian Yu’s nagging became more and more proficient as he spoke, and what he said sounded even better than what one can dream. Unable to bear the disturbance, Cen Zhen couldn’t help but point out his inner thoughts before dinner: “Then I will be responsible for scoring last in the first half, so you can catch up in the second half. It is best if half of the wings of the battleship flow out and half of the cabin explodes due to my driving. Then you use the remaining half of the wings and the burning battleship to turn the decay into something magical, and satisfy your bad taste of getting attention with incredible achievements?”
Lian Yu: “……”
“How could you be like this?” Lian Yu said unhappily: “Since you know everything, why don’t you sign up for my sake?”
Cen Zhen remained calm, “I won’t spoil you.”
“So ruthless after pulling out!”
Cen Zhen suddenly stopped. Lian Yu, who had been walking side by side with him, turned around strangely, tilted his head, and wondered why he stopped. At this moment, he heard Cen Zhen chuckle in a low voice, “You are wrong.”
“Um?”
“I’ve never inserted it in, so how can I talk about pulling it out?”
Lian Yu: “…”
Lian Yu: “!!!”
Lian Yu said in horror: “You spoke in a pornographic tone.”
Cen Zhen moved his legs and walked away, and Lian Yu chased after him.
“How could the Cen Zhen who’s so abstinent that he could castrate himself at any moment speak pornographically just now?”
“…” Cen Zhen said, “I was led astray by you.”
“No, you must be a fake Cen Zhen. Where did you hide the real Anatoli?”
“…”
After being shocked that Cen Zhen could speak in a pornographic tone, Lian Yu made up his mind to repay him with a more pornographic metaphor, “Then when will you insert me? If you continue not to insert me, I will insert instead.”
“……”
Half a minute later, Lian Yu surrendered with one hand up in the air. His view of this world was shaken and followed Cen Zhen without saying a word.
*
After giving up on aerial combat, the mixed melee went smoothly.
Because mixed melee consists of five groups competing at the same time, the more powerful the team is, the sooner they are eliminated. Usually, the weaker teams will join forces to eliminate the most threatening team first. In this case, how strong a team is no longer the most critical decision-making element.
This was simply a match tailor-made for Lian Yu, who had a physical level of ‘D’. In the auditions on day three, he was able to play along like a fish in water. He pretended to be weak and useless, and easily made it to the finals only by use of words. Furthermore, because they made it unscathed, and their opponents were tired out to the point of exhaustion, Cen Zhen and Lian Yu made it easily.
The various methods he used were so shameless and despicable that as a beneficiary, Cen Zhen couldn’t help but want to eliminate harm to the people and reported to the Tower that Lian Yu’s physical was falsified.
Day four was the close combat audition. Lian Yu disappeared as usual for the whole morning and appeared quietly from nowhere just before the match. Cen Zhen was sitting on a bench by the roadside, sorting out his class notes and waiting for him. When the appointed time was about to come, something cold suddenly touched his face. He turned around and saw Lian Yu holding two cups of sundae.
“I just saw a Guide acting coquettishly and asking his Sentinel to buy ice cream, so I bought one for you on the way. What flavor do you want?”
Cen Zhen pointed to the milky-white cup. Lian Yu smiled slightly and handed him the pink cup. Cen Zhen took the spoon and took a sip. As expected, it was the strawberry flavor that the ‘wild and macho man’ loved most. Lian Yu took a small sip of his original flavored milk ice cream, it was so cold that he shivered. After eating half the cup, he couldn’t stand it anymore, so he handed it to Cen Zhen with a trembling hand.
The Guide quickly finished the ice cream in his hand and ate the remaining half of Lian Yu’s cup without hesitation. Under Lian Yu’s ambiguous smile, he threw the garbage into the trash can on the roadside.
“Stop laughing. If we don’t enter the hall now, we will be disqualified.”
“Did we just kiss indirectly?”
“……Why bother?”
“How about this, Cen Zhen.” Lian Yu’s eyes flashed, clearly, he thought of a bad idea, “If we made it to the rankings, no matter which division, how about you take the initiative to kiss me? You can kiss anywhere.”
This request was very inexplicable, but Cen Zhen did not ask why or why should he.
Their group’s close combat match was assigned to Court No. 1 of the Tower’s C-level training hall, and they were listed in the second batch. After entering the venue, they first registered and received their number plates, and then a guiding virtual butterfly took them directly to their seats.
“Okay.” Cen Zhen said suddenly. Lian Yu took a second to react before realizing that Cen Zhen was answering what he said ten minutes ago. He said dully: “You are such a… I thought you wouldn’t reply. Well, no, no, the more I think about it, the more I feel I’m at a loss. It’s not easy to get into the rankings. One kiss is not enough. You have to kiss three times, one of which must be on the lips.”
Cen Zhen smiled and said, “If you really make it into the rankings, I can kiss till your hairline becomes bald.”
Original Author’s Note:
Pan: I suspect that I have been tricked, but I have no evidence. qwq
Lian Yu: Hairline is important, right? ! ! !
