OVERGROWN GRASSLAND

4

After spending two minutes readying herself, Zhu Yun moved ahead. Ren Di simply occurred to be leaving, so the 2 of them ran into one another.

After which, guitar on her again, Ren Di walked proper previous Zhu Yun. Zhu Yun, “….” Was it too darkish?

“Ren Di?” she tried calling out, however Ren Di appeared completely out of kinds. She picked up her small bike from a darkish nook after which rode off, disappearing instantly.

Effectively, that was fairly awkward.

Now, solely one among her targets remained. Zhu Yun actually wished to go away, however then she recalled Fang Shumiao’s hoarse voice and her mom’s earnest directions. After standing in place for a couple of minutes, Zhu Yun determined to only chunk the bullet and go for it.

“Um…”

Li Xun didn’t appear to be caught in his personal world this time. He heard her voice and turned. As a result of he’d appeared up along with his eyes, a couple of creases appeared on his brow. The glow of his display screen added a coolness to his facial options.

Remorse… Oh, she felt remorse, remorse, remorse.

She ought to have simply returned to her room and loved each cups of milk tea on her personal.

“What are you doing?” Li Xun requested.

The knot in Zhu Yun’s abdomen tightened. She ought to introduce herself first. “Um, whats up. I’m Zhu Yun. We’re—”

“What’s it?”

“….” Zhu Yun tried to settle down. “So, not too long ago the college is wanting into the morning and night examine corridor…”

Li Xun lowered his head and resumed his typing.

“….”

Can’t you let an individual end talking first?

Zhu Yun continued evenly, “As a result of faculty simply began, the lecturers are preserving a watchful eye. The category president is basically anxious about it too. She doesn’t wish to report you guys, so she’s been hiding it, but when—”

Instantly, one thing else appeared in entrance of them.

As soon as once more, she didn’t get to complete talking.

Li Xun was sitting on the grass. Certainly one of his palms was typing on his laptop computer, and the opposite pulled a cigarette out from his pocket and lit it.

He blew out a puff after which informed Zhu Yun, “Maintain this.”

?

“Maintain this.”

Zhu Yun put her milk tea on the bottom and grabbed the laptop computer with each palms.

There was a code compiler on the display screen.

“Press house.”

“Ah?”

“You don’t perceive when folks discuss?”

“….”

Zhu Yun pressed the spacebar, after which a window popped up. In it, there was a darkish pixel character holding a sword.

A sport?

“Arrows and spacebar to maneuver. Dodge the balls that float down and cross the river.” Li Xun was sitting on the grass, his again to a goalpost. He held a cigarette in his hand, legs stretched out, as he appeared up at her. “You get three tries. If you happen to don’t die, then I’ll go to morning examine corridor.”

Huh?

Effectively, tremendous then. Enjoying video games was simpler than making an attempt to talk with him.

Zhu Yun took a deep breath and clicked begin. Bang! A ball dropped down from the highest of the display screen. Zhu Yun trembled. She was useless. He known as that “floating” down?

She raised her eyes and noticed a really relaxed Li Xun. Zhu Yun requested, “What number of balls are there whole?”

Li Xun silently raised two fingers.

Positive.

Zhu Yun thought to herself, there are three possibilities and two balls. She knew the place the primary ball would fall, and he or she’d discover out the place the second ball fell on her second strive. Then, she’d be capable to succeed by the third time.

She pressed begin as soon as extra. Zhu Yun moved her character again and dodged the primary ball. She continued transferring so far as she might, after which one other ball fell.

Zhu Yun had already pressed the important thing to maneuver, however she nonetheless received hit.

She appeared up once more. Li Xun was nonetheless taking a look at her, a smirk on his face.

What a rotten sport design… An individual clearly couldn’t react that shortly.

However, no want to fret. There was nonetheless one other likelihood. Zhu Yun relaxed and grabbed her hand. It was then that she realized that her palm was sweaty.

Ultimate likelihood.

Zhu Yun simply dodged the primary ball and continued backwards. She was tense, however she’d already pressed the keys to maneuver her character earlier than the second ball might hit her.

Zhu Yun let loose a breath and jumped throughout the river.

After which died.

????

Zhu Yun’s eyeballs practically popped out.

At her facet, Li Xun coated his head and laughed till his shoulders shook, the cigarette ash floating via the air.

Zhu Yun all of a sudden observed the compiler working quietly on the nook of the display screen. A thought all of a sudden crossed her thoughts. Ignoring Li Xun’s ridicule, she investigated the compiler.

They hadn’t formally began studying to program but, however the code there was quite simple. It had a really clear framework, like a math flowchart from highschool. At a look, she noticed the primary conditional perform.

Cross the river and also you die.

Die. Fuck.

The laptop computer was shut and brought away. Zhu Yun raised her head and checked out Li Xun standing earlier than her. At such an in depth distance, she realized that he was actually tall… However being tall or quick wasn’t the issue at hand…

“Is…” Zhu Yun thought for a second, after which she fastidiously continued, “Isn’t your sport designed a bit unreasonably?”

Li Xun didn’t reply, merely patting away the ash on his sleeve.

Zhu Yun laughed. “Getting hit by a ball causes dying. Crossing the river causes dying. One thing’s incorrect, proper?”

“Nope,” he replied quietly, in a low voice, a cigarette hanging from his lips.

Zhu Yun stated, “So, you die it doesn’t matter what you do.”

“Yep.”

“….”

Zhu Yun spoke cautiously, “So, you’ll all the time lose whenever you play this sport?”

“Mmh.”

“So why did you inform me play it?”

“You’re an eyesore.”

WTF? Zhu Yun thought she should have misheard. “What?” she requested.

“Since you’re an eyesore to me.”

Very commonplace Mandarin, and his voice was truly fairly good to take heed to.

Greatly surprised, Zhu Yun was silent for awhile.

“Why?”

Li Xun lastly pat all of the mud from himself as he stood up.

Zhu Yun felt that there was nobody like her, somebody who would nonetheless take discover of his easy pores and skin in such a circumstance.

He appeared down at her and grabbed the smoke in his mouth. Evenly, he stated, “You might be. Method too. Fucking faux.”

The wind blew.

Zhu Yun arrived on the library. She wasn’t there to have a look at books, however slightly to look at the surroundings.

On the primary day of courses, she discovered that the library opened the doorways on the highest ground in the course of the night in the summertime to air out the place. You possibly can instantly head out to the roof.

The library had six flooring, and the highest had no railing. Sitting on the ground, you had a transparent view of the fountain and the sector.

When she was youthful, her mom informed her that if she was in a nasty temper, she ought to go to an open house and take deep breaths. Her stuffy coronary heart would open up as properly, and the trivial issues in life would develop into much less essential.

Zhu Yun ran to the open house and took a deep breath. After which she smelled the paint can within the nook.

Cough, cough!

…Overlook it.

Zhu Yun sat down on the ground and opened a milk tea to drink. After she drank half of it, she all of a sudden heard a curt voice—

“Fuck.”

She circled and noticed a shadow standing behind her. The sky was darkish so Zhu Yun couldn’t make out a face. However she might see the acquainted define of a guitar.

“Ren Di?”

The shadow took a couple of steps over, and it was certainly Ren Di.

Zhu Yun moved apart a bit to provide her some house. “What are you doing right here?”

Ren Di frowned. “What about you?”

With out elaborating, Zhu Yun merely replied, “I got here for some air, to chill off.”

Ren Di questioned, “The dorm has air con, however you got here right here to chill off?”

Zhu Yun’s face was neither flushed or pale. “There’s pure air right here, and there’s much less likelihood of getting sick. It’s higher right here.”

Ren Di furrowed her brows.

Zhu Yun requested her, “What about you? What are you doing right here?”

Ren Di reluctantly sat down. “I come right here to follow guitar.”

“You follow right here?”

“Individuals complain if I follow within the dorm.”

“….”

Zhu Yun checked out Ren Di’s sad expression after which handed her a cup of milk tea. “You need it?”

Ren Di glanced at her, suspicious.

Zhu Yun stated, “The ice melted since I purchased it awhile in the past.”

Lastly, Ren Di accepted the milk tea.

Within the evening, Ren Di began enjoying her guitar. Zhu Yun couldn’t identify the tune, and Ren Di’s hand motion was a bit jerky since she hadn’t been enjoying lengthy. However for some purpose, as Zhu Yun listened, her stirred up feelings appeared to slowly return to regular.

The facility of music was actually fairly magical.

After a bit, Zhu Yun remembered the duty that Fang Shumiao had assigned her.

“Um…”

“Mmh?”

“Why don’t you attend morning examine corridor?”

Ren Di bit the straw in cup of her milk tea. “I’m busy.”

“You’re busy daily?”

“Mmh.”

“With what?”

“Why do you care a lot?” Ren Di turned to her. “It’s not prefer it impacts you if I don’t go to morning examine corridor.”

“No, no, you’re misunderstanding. That’s not what I meant. Anyway, it’s not simple on Fang Shumiao. If there are too many absences—”

“I didn’t elevate my hand.”

“Ah?”

“When folks have been choosing the category president, I didn’t elevate my hand for her.”

Zhu Yun hesitated a second after which requested, “You don’t like Fang Shumiao?”

“It has nothing to do along with her. I wouldn’t have chosen anybody.”

“Why?”

Ren Di directed an aloof expression at Zhu Yun. “Selecting somebody to resolve what I ought to or shouldn’t do… Are you loopy?”

“….”

“I’ve by no means cared for that form of factor.” Ren Di scoffed. “However nobody cares if I raised my hand or not. Nonetheless, since I didn’t elect her, I gained’t comply with her.”

“…………”

Zhu Yun was fully dumbfounded by Ren Di’s unimaginable, and but fairly cheap clarification.

Ren Di glanced at her. “Do you actually take pleasure in working errands for her?”

Zhu Yun paused and replied quietly, “Effectively, we’re all classmates.”

“Oh actually?” Ren Di laughed however didn’t say anything.

After sitting awhile longer, Ren Di picked up her guitar and stood up.

Zhu Yun additionally received up and stated, “Let’s return collectively.”

Ren Di shook her head. “I’ve issues to do at evening. I’ve to exit.”

“This late?”

“It’s tremendous.”

After parting with Ren Di, Zhu Yun returned to the dorm on her personal. She sat on her chair a bit and took a number of journeys to the lavatory.

When Fang Shumiao requested about her, Zhu Yun defined, “I drank an excessive amount of milk tea.”

A shabby bar, music enjoying.

Li Xun, Gao Jianhong, and two different male classmates sat on a settee, chatting. Li Xun’s present girlfriend, Liu Sisi, sat shut beside him.

A short while later, somebody walked as much as them.

Gao Jianhong appeared over. “Ren Di, why are you so late?”

Ren Di replied, “It’s nothing.” Then she requested, “Li Xun, come right here.”

Liu Sisi glanced at her. Li Xun stood up and climbed out from the crowded sofa.

Ren Di walked apart with him.

“Can that matter be settled?” Ren Di requested him.

Li Xun leaned towards the bar counter. “Yeah.”

Ren Di frowned. “Actually? Can I take your phrase for it?”

“Mmh.”

Ren Di continued severely, “Okay. When there’s a revenue, I’ll pay you again as per our settlement.”

Li Xun laughed. “Alright.”

Ren Di let loose a breath.

Li Xun checked out her. “Why are you so tense? And why are you so late?”

“Oh, I used to be being lectured.” She glanced at Li Xun. “My roommate, Zhu Yun. Are you aware her?”

Li Xun, “Ah…”

Ren Di thought for a second after which all of a sudden laughed.

Li Xun, “What?”

Ren Di leaned over to Li Xun and smirked. “She’s not well-behaved.”

“Mmh?”

Ren Di raised her forehead at Li Xun. “After I was training, I noticed her smoking on the roof.”