I don't remember the scene very clearly, but I do remember that the girl's real uncle was extremely grief-stricken.
However, for Qin Chu, Zhao Yuanqin's actions didn't feel much different from those of this little girl.
It's just kids causing trouble.
After glancing at Qin Chu across the street, Zhao Yuan walked over.
At first, he was still unwilling to give up, but after that night, Qin Chu's attitude towards him remained exactly the same.
If he needed to study with him, he should study with him; if he needed to eat with him, he should eat with him; if he caused trouble, he should beat him up. Only then did Zhao Yuan realize that his deskmate really didn't take this seriously.
Zhao Yuan felt some regret, thinking that he had been too timid at the time.
What's with the kiss on the cheek?!
If only I had known...
It's too late to say anything now.
Zhao Yuan walked over to Qin Chu and squatted down. Seeing the pale fingertips hanging by his side, he couldn't help but reach out and hook them.
"What are you doing?" Qin Chu twitched his fingers but didn't pull them back, looking down at the dejected Zhao Yuan.
Zhao Yuan thought to himself, "I'll hold his hand, otherwise I always feel like my deskmate might run away."
But he wouldn't say it like that. Instead, he said in a drawn-out tone, "I'm amazed at how heartless you are. The college entrance exam is almost here, and you refuse so decisively. Aren't you worried about me underperforming?"
Qin Chu: "..."
I was a little worried at first, but now I'm not worried at all.
It seems perfectly normal for him to be sarcastic and mean.
Most of the students in Class 1 were at this stop. Seeing that almost everyone had arrived, the teacher in charge said, "Check everyone's documents and belongings. We'll be going into the exam room soon."
The students opened their backpacks to check.
Suddenly, Zhou Sisi exclaimed in surprise, "Where is my exam admission ticket?"
Immediately afterwards, other people around also made similar noises.
"Damn, mine's gone too?"
"I remember it clearly, it was right here!"
It wasn't just one person who lost their exam admission ticket; at least ten students from Class 1 were frantically searching for it.
Zhou Sisi and Wang Peng are both in this group.
Qin Chu's eyes darkened slightly.
Zhao Yuan, who was squatting next to him, also opened his schoolbag. He moved lazily and frowned slightly after looking around.
Seeing his strange expression, Qin Chu asked, "You lost yours too?"
Zhao Yuan nodded, recalling the situation. It was impossible for them to snatch or steal anything from his backpack; the only oversight was that he had left his backpack on the table in the store this morning while he was delivering food.
Unlike the other students, he wasn't anxious. Instead, he looked up and glanced at Qin Chu's situation.
Losing his exam admission ticket is nothing compared to the trouble his deskmate is going through, who cares so much about the college entrance exam.
Qin Chu hadn't lost his exam admission ticket; he held it firmly in his hand.
But Qin Chu's expression was not good.
"Don't panic, don't panic!" Seeing this situation, the teacher in charge was also a little flustered. He comforted the students, "There should be a solution for this situation... Students with complete documents can go to the examination center first."
In the same study group, Qin Chu is currently the only one qualified to take the exam.
He glanced into the line and followed the teacher into the gate of the examination center school.
Zhao Yuan, Wang Peng, and Zhou Sisi were all looking at him.
Having spent so much time together, no one understood better than them how much Qin Chu cared about this college entrance exam. He cared not only about himself, but also about everyone around him.
As Qin Chu walked into the school, Zhou Sisi couldn't help but call out from behind, "Cheng Cheng, do your best on the exam!"
Qin Chu glanced at him but did not reply.
In Qin Chu's mind, Noah was reporting on the mission status: "Mission progress is regressing. The progress of all three mission targets has regressed to 50%...20%..."
Qin Chu interrupted Noah's tension: "Normally, after confirmation, shouldn't the candidate be allowed to enter the examination room?"
Noah was almost in tears: "Sir, you're talking about the situation in the normal world. This is just a low-level virtual network scenario, and the facilities are incomplete. It's uncertain whether it can be resolved in the end, but even if it is resolved after going through the procedures, their first test will be considered missed."
Missing an exam will affect your grades...
"knew."
Noah's answer was almost exactly what Qin Chu had expected.
Instead of following the other candidates to the examination hall, he took a detour to the school wall and climbed over it to leave the school.
Qin Chu recognized the group of people who had just lost their exam admission tickets. Besides Wang Peng, Zhou Sisi, and Zhao Yuan, the others had all been close to him. Among them were a few girls; if Qin Chu remembered correctly, these girls were present when he dealt with Meng Bo.
This is an act of revenge, an act of revenge against Qin and Chu.
After leaving the school, Qin Chu hid in the shadows and glanced at the school gate. The people who had lost their admission tickets were unable to provide any clues.
Qin Chu thought for a moment and decided to go back to the alley where he started to take a look.
Time was running out, but thankfully this test center wasn't far from that alley.
When Qin Chu arrived at the alley entrance, he saw a person rushing to the roadside in a hurry, wearing the uniform of a milk tea shop.
It's Brother Yang.
"What are you going to do?" Qin Chu instinctively felt that Yang Ge's panic was related to the exam admission ticket, so he stopped him directly.
"Boss!" Yang was sweating profusely with anxiety. "I was just about to come find you!"
As he spoke, he handed Qin Chu a note.
Qin Chu took the note and glanced at it. The front of the note only had two names written on it: Cheng Cheng and Zhao Yuan. The back had an address on an outer street that Qin Chu had never been to before.
"I just opened the bubble tea shop today and saw this posted on the door. I know you all have your college entrance exams today, and I'm just worried something might have happened..."
Qin Chu accepted the note, glanced at the electric scooter Yang was riding, and said, "Okay."
Yang gave the electric scooter to Qin Chu, but Qin Chu said, "You go too, I need your help."
Following the address on the note, Qin Chu arrived at an abandoned factory.
Yang and the others had always referred to this place as the outer street, the outside area, and in Qin Chu's mind, it should be more prosperous than the inside. But when he actually arrived at this place and saw the dilapidated and collapsed factory buildings and the bent and broken steel bars, Qin Chu truly realized that Noah was right.
This is the edge of the world.
The people inside, trapped in this circle of desolate ruins, live normal lives and dream normal dreams.
Suddenly a whistle came from above. Qin Chu looked up and saw Meng Bo on the top of a factory building.
There were many other people standing around him, all with tattoos and scars on their faces and bare bodies.
Meng Bo poked his head out from the rooftop and waved his arm at Qin Chu in a provocative manner.
He then took out a plastic bag from behind him, which was full of identification documents with photos and names on them.
Seeing that he had attracted Qin Chu's attention, Meng Bo swung the plastic bag as if to throw it down.
At that moment, several figures peeked out from the windows of several factory buildings downstairs. They also let out a few strange laughs, and then each of them extended two garden shears from the windows of their respective floors, brandishing them a couple of times as if displaying their claws.
The sharp, grating sound of the scissors blades traveling together could be clearly heard below.
Qin Chu withdrew his gaze and said to Yang Ge behind him, "I'll go up first, you wait here."
Yang looked at the densely packed crowd on the top floor, his throat bobbing involuntarily, but he still said, "Boss, I'll go up with you..."
"No need." Qin Chu had already walked away. He said, "You can stay here for other purposes."
Instead of climbing the nearby factory building, Qin Chu went around to the other end.
The factory building wasn't tall, only four stories. However, all the entrances were blocked, so Qin Chu couldn't get in via the stairs and had to climb along the broken floor slabs and steel bars from the outside.
He climbed very fast, his body was so light, it was almost inhuman.
But as he climbed, the decaying wall beneath his feet crumbled into pieces, making Yang very nervous, fearing he might slip and fall.
Yang Ge finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Qin Chu safely climb to the top floor. Then he saw Meng Bo smile at Qin Chu, who had finally reached the rooftop. Suddenly, he let go, and the plastic bag in his hand fell to the ground.
In that instant, Yang felt as if his heart had stopped beating, because he saw Qin Chu jump off the roof.
A gloating whistle rang out, and Yang wanted to cover his eyes, but he couldn't move his body at all.
He watched Qin Chu's figure leap from the fourth floor, like a bird in flight.
Everyone thought he would fall to the ground along with the plastic bag full of dreams. But the garden shears that stretched out from the third floor, which seemed like a threat, became his leverage.
Ignoring the fact that the scissors were open, Qin Chu gripped the blade directly, and with his other hand, he grabbed the plastic bag.
Just before the person holding the scissors let go, he swung his body and his cut hand gripped a protruding steel bar not far away.
Crimson blood flowed down Qin Chu's palm, but his expression remained calm, unexpectedly calm, as if he had done similar things a thousand times over.
Before the thugs could react, Qin Chu used his teeth to bite the plastic bag, freeing his hand to break off a piece of cement from the wall and wrap it in the plastic bag.
In that instant, Yang Ge realized the purpose of his staying there.
He saw the plastic bag containing stones and documents flying towards him and heard Qin Chu's command: "Run!"
Dozens of candidates were still waiting at the entrance of the examination center.
The teacher kept making phone calls, but some of the girls waiting outside couldn't help but cry.
"Entry into the examination room will be stopped immediately."
Do we still have a chance?
"Does this mean I have to skip the exam?"
Zhou Sisi didn't cry. She sat on the steps, holding her schoolbag, thinking about her hard work over the past few days, but felt a little disappointed.
Wang Peng sat down beside her, silent for the first time.
The calmest expression was Zhao Yuan's, but occasionally he would wonder how Qin Chu was doing in the exam hall and whether his mood had been affected.
Time passed second by second, and the various announcements in the examination room behind us were almost finished.
The next rule should be "Candidates are prohibited from entering the examination room".