C49 Only Friend
The question that Zhang Peng casually answered just now was the last three questions on the test paper. Usually, these three questions were left for people to challenge, and the only step that people like me could complete was to write the word "Explanation".
Zhang Peng calculated it using his mouth.
I suddenly understood what Shuyue meant when she said: Why is the difference between humans greater than that between pigs and humans?
No wonder he wasn't in a hurry to go to class. Even if he didn't attend class, he would still be the top student in the world after ten years.
After a long period of silence, Zhang Peng asked me, "... Where are you going now? "
"I don't know. I'll take a stroll around before I leave."
"..." Do you want to see a cartoon? " Zhang Peng asked me.
I swear it's the first time I've ever climbed over a school wall.
Zhang Peng pushed me out of the corner of the wall, then with a few steps, he easily moved me to the other side and took me down.
Why, all the designs of this world are full of malice against the short ones.
My school is in the busy city, surrounded by small shops, and further down the street are the pedestrian streets. The two of them, one tall and the other short, strolled along the street.
"Didn't you say that you were going to look at comics?" I asked.
"Yeah, but didn't you say you wanted to take a stroll?" Zhang Peng said lazily as he kept both his hands in his pockets.
It seems that I have nothing to say to that.
"Wang Wangwang, I've always thought that your name was too special. When your parents gave you that name, did they not think twice?" Zhang Peng asked me.
When I talk about my parents, I think about my father's cold body and the fact that my mother might never wake up again. He tried so hard not to cry, but he couldn't say a word.
"What's wrong with you? Are you unhappy? It feels like you've been in trouble all day. " Zhang Peng asked me.
"Do you believe that my father gave me this name to protect me?" I said, "Actually, my real name is Tu Aoqing."
"Aoqing?" Zhang Peng thought for a while and said: "Ao Xue Ling Feng is too thin, the bitter rain and the wind have finally cleared. Arrogant against wind, frost, rain, snow, would eventually welcome a sunny day. Your father wants you to be a strong man! "
"Really!?" I had never heard these two lines before. The name, it turned out, was what my father had hoped for from me.
"Thank you for telling me, I never knew there was such a meaning …" How do you know this poem? "
"'A must-have for all kinds of materials for writing in the Huanggang Chinese Literature Examination'."
Alright, hehe.
The two of them bought a big bowl of brown bean sugar water and sat down.
"Eat more, then you'll have nothing to eat in America." Zhang Peng didn't touch the spoon, but rather pushed his bowl towards me.
"Zhang Peng, I feel that you have changed." I ate my bowl until it was empty and then took his bowl. "Don't be unhappy, I told you. In my impression, you have always been a timid and selfish person …"
"You're talking about Wind Ball Eight, I probably ignored the argument between you and senior," Zhang Peng laughed. "I saw that you took the book first."
"Why didn't you help me when you saw it? "If I didn't scare her, I wouldn't have been able to win in a fight, and you can just watch your classmate get bullied?" I was actually a little angry when I thought about it.
"I'm sorry, I especially wanted to help you back then, but …" Zhang Peng suddenly lowered his eyes. "Actually … "At that time, I just had a stomachache, and my stomachache was extremely severe …"
"Three hours of pain?! What kind of lousy reason is this! " I nearly vomited out a mouthful of red bean sand. "You're kidding me. If it were my stomach, I would have been in the hospital for such a long time. You're still so calm."
"I've actually been enduring it all this time!" Zhang Peng laughed: "It doesn't matter if you believe me or not, it's my fault that I didn't help you. I apologize. Please forgive me. "
He stood up and bowed to me.
"Hey, I said that casually. Alright, I'm not blaming you. I'd have forgotten if you didn't say it." Startled, I stood up as well. People who didn't know what we were doing thought we were doing.
"Then aren't you angry?"
"I'm not angry anymore." I finished the two bowls of red bean sand and smacked my lips. "Because I feel that you are different now. You have changed a lot. Not only have you become more cheerful, but you are also willing to help others. Didn't you teach me how to do math problems?"
"Then can we be good friends?" Zhang Peng suddenly asked me seriously.
Ah? What do you mean?
What friend? How good is it? Boyfriend? Girlfriend? Am I going to fall in love? Did he think a bowl of red bean sand could buy me off? You know I'm going abroad, yet you want to date me? Did he know that I have a green card? What if he broke up with her in another place? Didn't the books say that love died quickly in a foreign land? Our kids must be more common … I just launched the Appearance Society so easily … Even though young people are in love … readers want us … but it's not a very principled decision … "" I'm not going to do it, "she said." I'm not going to do it, I'm not going to do it, I'm not going to do it, I'm not going to do it.
After about a second, my brain was fully opened, thinking about Zhang Peng and I's miserable future.
"I... Err … The motherland is not yet united, the frontier is not yet settled, and I have no intention of falling in love. "
After I finished speaking, I was also impressed by my IQ.
"... "You're thinking too much. I'm talking about good friends." Zhang Peng immediately laughed.
"There are so many tyrants in this world, why bother looking for dregs to learn from when making friends?" I couldn't figure it out.
"Actually, I don't have any friends, I was too timid in the past and always felt that I was an ordinary person. There was nothing I could do to change this world, so I could only adapt," Zhang Peng said as if he was sighing with emotion, "But something happened later on and it made me feel that no matter how humble and small a person is, as long as I believe in myself, I can change this world. Do you think that I'm right?"
"Mm." Thinking about what happened in the past few days, I nodded my head thoughtfully.
"Thus, I have first started by changing my character and attitude. It turns out that I can also do it. Not only can I help others, I can also improve this world." Zhang Peng was a little excited: "Wang Wangwang, we are actually the same type of person."
"That's why I want to be your friend."
Looking at Zhang Peng's smile, I nodded my head.
Zhang Peng said, we are the same type of people. I simply understand that we are all comic-book teenagers who dream of changing the world.
It took me a long time to understand the true meaning of this sentence.
After eating the sweet water with Zhang Peng, they strolled around the magazine shop until the afternoon break.
"Wang Wangwang, this is for you." When she walked to the foot of the school building, Zhang Peng took out something from the pocket of her school uniform.
It was a brand-new copy of The Parasite Beast, with the words "Final Chapter" printed on it.
Big! Clone! A plot!
"Holy sh * t!" Where did you get it? Why didn't I see it! " I almost cried out.
Logically speaking, this comic book has already come to an end. However, this half year, this pirated comic book has been suppressed so much that many bosses don't dare to enter the book anymore. I don't know how long they have been waiting for this book.
"It was bought in Animation City. I've already seen it. Here, take it." Zhang Peng scratched his head in embarrassment: "I can watch even when I'm bored on the plane. Oh, that's right — "Zhang Peng took out a pen from his pocket, and wrote a string of numbers on the back of the book:
"This is my QQ number. Remember to add me when you go to America." Zhang Peng laughed and said, "Maybe I will be able to go to America to find you in the future!"
"Good!" A bookworm like you, you can come to the United States easily! You must come and find me! " I said it from the bottom of my heart.
"Yes."
The bell for class rang. I ran a few steps towards the classroom and heard Zhang Peng calling me from behind:
"Hey, Wang Wangwang!"
I turned my head and saw Zhang Peng standing under the banyan tree at the side of the field.
"Thank you for being my friend."
I wave at him.
At that time, I never would have thought that the day I saw him again would be the time I would truly part from him.
The noisy exit hall.
"Next," the customs official opened Shuyue's passport, looked at the photo, compared it to Shuyue, and asked in disbelief, "You are 37 years old?"
Shuyue mischievously smiled.
"Next." The customs officer opened my passport, looked at the picture, then stood up and bent down to look at me.
I feel like my height and my height have been damaged by ten thousand points.
Sitting in the terminal, I hold the cartoon and plane ticket that Zhang Peng gave me in my hand. The plane ticket's final address is a small city in the southern part of the United States.
Flipping through the comics again, he was still a little disappointed. He didn't expect the story that he had been chasing for so many years would end up like this.
"What are you looking at?" Shuyue asked me in a rare moment.
I flipped to the cover of Parasite Beast and showed it to her. "My classmate sent me a story about an alien spore that had drifted from the universe to Earth. The purpose of the spore was to become a human's head, and to become a parasitic beast instead of a host. One of them accidentally parasitized on the arm of a high school student. Afterwards, they became friends and worked together to kill other people with brain mutations. "
"What a boring story," Shuyue stretched. "Then, did this high school end up in a state of life or death?"
"Of course he didn't die, how could Halo die?" I sighed.
"But I also never thought that the end result would be the end of the world."
"..." "Passengers on Flight A1173 to the United States. The plane is about to take off. Please fasten your seat belt …"
I sat by the window and looked out longingly, not knowing when I would be able to return to my homeland.
There seemed to be a figure behind the glass windows of the terminal, waving slightly in my direction. I looked up. No one else seemed to be looking out the window.
Are you waving at me?
The glass in the terminal reflected too much light, and I squinted at him. He was wearing jeans and an ordinary shirt. He was rather thin and wore a baseball cap on his head. It seemed that … A ponytail?
It was a girl.
She smiled at me, and I thought I saw a mole at the corner of her eye.
So familiar, I seem to have seen it somewhere before.
I thought for a few seconds, and then a flash of lightning struck the center of my brain.
Could this girl be the girl in the photo in my room?!
There were only pictures of her when she was a child and she was in primary school, so I didn't know what she had grown up to be.
The only thing she remembered was the mole in the corner of her eye.
"Shuyue!" I cried out involuntarily, "Look …"
Shuyue looked in the direction I pointed. There was no one in the terminal.
"Are you looking to die?" "Don't be surprised." Shuyue rebuked.
"I think I just saw the little girl in the photo in my room..." I said doubtfully, "She had a tear mark on the corner of her eye..."
"Could you have seen wrongly? Why would she appear here? " Shuyue was also very suspicious, "This little girl was brought over by your father from Jingchuan. She disappeared a few days before your father's incident. Tu Xinlei told me before that if this child disappeared, there was only one possibility … "
"What possibility?" I asked.
Shuyue did not speak.
"Tell me, what is it?" I suddenly thought of something and shook Shuyue.
Silence.
"..." She died for you. " Shuyue turned her face away from me.
Just as I thought, I sat down on a stool.
The same Mickey Mouse dress, the same school uniform, the same books on the bookcase.
My mother said that the little girl my father brought back was my double.
She lived for me by my parents side, playing their daughter every day.
So much so that if bad people wanted to make a move on Tu Xinlei's daughter, they would start with her.
I suddenly hated myself.
Why would anyone die for me in this world?
Shouldn't everyone live for their own sake?
She had never met me, never spoken to me, not even a friend. But she was living for me.
Why?
She must hate me, too.
The plane began to speed up on the runway, moving farther and farther from the ground.
Shuyue and I didn't speak for a long time. After entering the stratosphere, the pressure in the cabin increased, and after sitting for a few hours, my legs started to feel sore and numb. I touched my ankles, and decided to stand up to move them.
When I stuck to the stool and was about to pass through Shuyue, she suddenly asked me:
"What's this in your pocket?"
"I don't have anything in my pocket …" Subconsciously, I felt in my jacket pocket and found a small white horn sticking out. It was a very thin and thin piece of silk. It was about the size of a silk scarf the stewardess wore around her neck, and I had no idea when it had appeared in my pocket.
The silk fabric was covered with a complex minority design, a whirlpool of colored circles, overlapping from outside to inside like tree rings, bright colors and complex patterns. At the four corners of the silk fabric, there were also four Thousand-Hands King Kong embroidered with golden silk. Each of the King Kong held a different magic tool.
There was a faintly discernible fragrance on the silk fabric, similar to the smell on Shuyue's body.
Shuyue's face instantly turned pale white. Under the temperature of less than 20 degrees on the high altitude plane, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on her forehead.
"Are you sure the girl you just saw... "Is it the one you saw at home?"
Shuyue's voice trembled slightly.
"... I … Didn't you say she was dead? "
It was hard to be sure.
"..." Time Wheel Mandala... How could this be possible … Give it to her? "
— — Finished the first volume —