"I'll buy it myself, I should have enough points." Lu Shi opened the shop; what he needed most right now was actually a psychiatric potion.
But when Lu Shi opened the store, he discovered that he still had unused rewards.
So he looked up and asked Ye Bugui a question he hadn't expected:
Are you lucky?
"Me? That probably isn't good..." Ye Bugui thought of his background and laughed self-deprecatingly.
"I forgot to open the chests. I got a silver treasure chest and a surprise box after clearing the dungeon, but I haven't opened them yet," Lu Shi said calmly, leaving Ye Bugui speechless.
Is this something that can be forgotten? Which player doesn't immediately open the reward after receiving it, hoping to survive the next dungeon?
That makes sense. Unlike ordinary players, Lu Shi doesn't need to constantly think about survival. So it's understandable that he forgot to open the prize.
Soon, a beautifully packaged box, about the size of a palm, appeared in Lu Shi's hands.
[Surprise Box: What is a surprise? Here you can open anything, even a demon from the abyss!]
The moment Lu Shi's hand touched the surprise box, a mouth suddenly sprouted from it and burst into laughter:
"Darling, I have a feeling you're about to die!"
The box exploded with a bang, and then a straw hat fell to the ground.
"Props?" Ye Bugui showed great interest; the props in the Infinite Wish Game all had miraculous effects. "Let's take a look at its effects."
It's already shown on the game console.
[The King's Straw Hat: Put it on and try to imagine yourself at your most beautiful! At least in other people's eyes, you are so beautiful!]
"Is this a disguise technique?" Lu Shi immediately thought of a secret skill that had been passed down among the people.
Now that he can no longer use his transformation magic, he can certainly use this hat.
"Hmm, it can be surprisingly effective in certain dungeons that require role-playing." Ye Bugui stroked his chin: "It's a pretty good item."
Lu Shi then opened a silver treasure chest, from which emerged a bottle of mental potion and 3000 points.
For a moment, Lu Shi even suspected that the contents of the treasure chest had been temporarily changed by the system to perfectly suit his needs.
“It’s exactly what you need,” Ye Bugui yawned. “You’re definitely much luckier than me.”
After taking the psychic and stamina potions, Lu Shi immediately checked his stats.
Just when he thought that possessing the psychic potion would allow him to use magic recklessly, he discovered a notification:
[Mental potion, can only be used once per game].
Lu Shi had grown accustomed to the various restrictions and silently led Ye Bugui to Gao Yang's phone.
When they checked their phones, they found that an hour had already passed.
"We cleared out the monsters outside the door in just one hour! You're amazing!" Ye Bugui exclaimed again.
At this moment, Lu Shi had already swiped the screen, and the familiar WeChat chat interface appeared before his eyes.
The person Gao Yang chatted with this time didn't have a note; their nickname was "The Man Like the Wind."
[Wind Man: Gao Yang? This is Huang Tao. I heard you're doing well with your job now, can I borrow some money?]
Huang Tao? Lu Shi immediately thought of the old Huang who had bullied Gao Yang in his dream; it must be the same person.
[Black Orange: I'm also short on money lately, planning to save up to buy a house.]
[Windman: Not bad, you've even got money to buy a house, why don't you lend me some? By the way, your company is xx, right?]
[Black Orange: What are you going to do?]
[Wind Man: (Smiling) Don't be nervous, I just saw a video on my phone, and it made me nostalgic for the old days!]
Black Orange has received the video...
[Wind Man: Hey, what would your company's reaction be if they knew you like to wear women's clothes to school? State-owned enterprises probably aren't that open-minded, right?]
Ye Bugui and Lu Shi both looked very ugly. If they could, they would both like to find Huang Tao and punch him in the face.
"Heh, resorting to such despicable means to borrow money, he's probably not doing so well now." Ye Bugui sneered, "If it were me, I'd crack his head open, or I'm not Ye!"
Lu Shi shook his head. Given Gao Yang's personality, he would probably compromise in the end.
But when dealing with this kind of person, constantly compromising will only embolden them to take advantage of you.
At this moment, neither Lu Shi nor Ye Bugui touched the phone, but the phone automatically started playing the video.
Strangely, the mosaic filled the entire phone screen. Then the screen went black, and Gao Yang's face appeared on the screen.
Rotten eggs were dripping down his hair, blood stained his face, and his swollen eyes were filled with helplessness and despair.
He opened his mouth, then managed to utter a cry for help: "Save me, please, save me!"
The sound was like a signal; both Lu Shi and Ye Bugui, who heard it, instantly lost consciousness.
In the darkness, Gao Yang, curled up in a ball, groaned softly, with only the faint light emanating from his phone screen.
A note from the author:
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter 34
☪ Good Family Apartment 9
The afternoon sun was scorching hot, making the students by the window suffer unbearably. Some even put their hands in the sunlight to feel its temperature.
The pages turned slowly
The afternoon sun was scorching hot, making the students by the window suffer unbearably. Some even put their hands in the sunlight to feel its temperature.
The sound of pages turning, the students chattering, and the occasional bursts of laughter from the front row of the classroom—all these are the sounds of youth.
In the last row of the classroom, two boys in blue and white school uniforms were looking at each other.
The wind on the playground, carrying the scent of spring leaves, blew through the window and ruffled the boy's long hair.
He smiled gently, looking at the handsome yet somewhat naive young man sitting opposite him.
If this isn't Gao Yang's dream, it's more like the opening scene of a campus drama.
Then the young man patted his cheeks.
Ye Bugui hadn't expected to enter Gao Yang's dream so easily; he had originally thought he would encounter a lot of trouble.
When Ye Bugui opened his eyes, he saw a face that was both strange and familiar looking at him.
"Lu Shi?" Ye Bugui was not yet used to Lu Shi having Gao Yang's face, and he felt awkward when he called him that name.
“It’s me.” Lu Shi was also sizing up Ye Bugui.
In fact, after Ye Bugui suggested coming along, Lu Shi was curious about what Ye Bugui would be like once he came in.
Will she become one of Gao Yang's classmates?
But he didn't expect that in the dream, Ye Bugui was still himself, only a little younger.
"Were you that tall back then?" Based on Gao Yang's age, Lu Shi judged that Ye Bugui should be about sixteen or seventeen years old now.
A boy who is not yet an adult is already over 1.8 meters tall.
Ye Bugui realized what was happening. Instead of answering Lu Shi's question, he started rummaging through his desk and unexpectedly found a mirror.
"This... I haven't turned into someone else?" Ye Bugui was also quite surprised by this change.
However, Ye Bugui's excitement at returning to his youth quickly faded. Looking at his face in the mirror—younger, whiter, and far less imposing than it was now—he didn't seem very satisfied.
“I wasn’t like this back then.” Ye Bugui smiled contemptuously: “I dropped out of school before finishing junior high. I worked every day after that, and I didn’t know where my next meal would come from. How could my skin be so white? I couldn’t afford a school uniform of this quality back then.”
Lu Shi didn't expect Ye Bugui to say that. At first, he just thought it was interesting that Ye Bugui suddenly looked younger.
But hearing him say that now, Lu Shi felt a pang of heartache.
Even so, it is truly remarkable that Ye Bugui can still maintain such an optimistic and positive attitude.
“Perfect timing, we’ve all essentially experienced a segment of someone else’s life.” Lu Shi opened the book on the table and realized that the time period he was in was different from the dream he had last night.
“That’s true.” Ye Bugui seemed to like this argument. “Then what do you need me to do? If the scene in that video is bound to happen, how should I stop it?”
"Let's fight violence with violence." This was the simplest and most direct solution Lu Shi could think of. "Because I'm inside Gao Yang's body, I can't beat them at all. But you shouldn't have that limitation."
"Okay!" Ye Bugui nodded immediately; this was the result he wanted most.
In his view, simple ideological education is useless if you want to reform these bullies.
Only by resisting them and teaching them a lesson with bigger and stronger fists can we make them repent.
"You probably don't know how good I was at fighting back then." Ye Bugui immediately raised the corners of his mouth proudly, a smug smile that perfectly matched his current face.
Lu Shi suddenly realized that when Ye Bugui was his age, there must have been many people who liked him.
"Really? I don't believe it." Lu Shi imitated Ye Bugui's gesture, picking up the pen and trying to twirl it as elegantly as he did.
Lu Shi soon discovered that the skill of pen spinning was even more difficult than magic.
"Hehe, Lu Shi, you used to be from a well-to-do family in the cultivation world, right? After all, your temperament must have been cultivated by a wealthy family." Ye Bugui twirled his pen even more diligently.
Lu Shi just laughed after hearing this, without answering Ye Bugui's question.
Ye Bugui deliberately slowed down his movements, trying to teach Lu Shi how to spin a pen, while reminiscing about his youth:
"Well, I was just a poor kid, and my grades weren't great. But nobody in my class dared to mess with me because they couldn't beat me. In today's terms, I was a school bully!"
School bully? Lu Shi heard a new term again, and for some reason, he felt that the term was very suitable for Ye Bugui.
This person is neither suited to be a cold and aloof big boss, nor suited to be a sugar daddy who clings to someone's coattails. The flamboyant and domineering Ye Bugui in front of you is the most real.
"Later, I couldn't continue my studies, so I had to work in various small shops. You know, internet cafes are places with lots of computers for people to use." Ye Bugui saw that Lu Shi had already learned how to twirl a pen, so he took out a piece of white paper, picked up a pen, and carefully examined Lu Shi.
"I think I understand." What Lu Shi felt most deeply from the last instance was that computers are a good thing, so it's normal for people to pay to rent them.
"Internet cafes are a mixed bag; all sorts of people come here. As the manager, besides telling them to shut down and restart their computers, my most important task is to maintain the security of the internet cafe."
The dream still didn't trigger any plot, and Lu Shi had a rare moment of leisure, chatting freely with Ye Bugui.
"So you're just guarding the place in the internet cafe." Lu Shi's understanding was quite accurate.