That night, Xu Ziran finally finished his homework, was physically and mentally exhausted, ignored the system's countdown reminder of "the task is about to fail", covered his head and began to sleep, but at six o'clock the next morning, he was awakened by the sound of "Ding Ding Ding".

Her mind had just cleared up, and before she even opened her eyes, the system panel had already been unfolded in front of her eyes, and there was a line of blood-red bright words in the center-

[Only 20% of the learning tasks were completed yesterday, and the punishment is about to be given.] 】

Probably because this font was so panicked, Xu Ziran trembled all over, but when he opened his eyes, he found that he was not on the single bed in the room at all, but standing in a dark space in his pajamas.

There seems to be no light source in this space, but Xu Ziran can clearly see himself, as if he is a light source.

Xu Ziran was confused and looked around.

- What punishment? Little Black House?

As soon as doubts arose in my heart, there was suddenly a white light in front of me, which grew bigger and bigger, and after about three seconds, it became a person.

Xu Ziran was dumbfounded, because it was Qiu Yurou who appeared in front of her.

To be precise, it is Qiu Yurou ten years later.

Wearing a smooth white coat, his hands are rubbed in his pockets, his black hair is like a waterfall, his skin is white and his lips are red, and he smiles and mocks.

At the same time, there was a suspended light screen in front of Xu Ziran, and there was an additional explanation on it-

[Time stands still in this punishment space, and cannot be separated until all punishments are completed]

[In view of the fact that the host did not complete most of the learning tasks yesterday, compulsory teaching and learning will be conducted]

[The person shown in this paragraph is the most capable of teaching in the heart of the host, and the instructor will first punish the host in the first stage]

As usual, there is a five-second countdown.

Before Xu Ziran could react, the five-second countdown had ended, and Qiu Yurou had an extra whip in her hand.

Xu Ziran: "......=mouth="What, what the hell, why Qiu Yurou is the person who can teach the most in my heart, and whether this is teaching or playing, it's too shameful."

As an adult who has been affected by the information of future development, Xu Ziran's mind flashed in an instant, and the adult version of Qiu Yurou had already walked in front of her.

Xu Ziran blushed a little.

She had a faint guess in her heart, probably because she had more contact with Qiu Yurou before she was reborn, and the other party gave her the impression that she was smart and good at teaching people, so the system chose it this way.

But it turned out that she really believed in a peer so much, which still made her feel weird and embarrassed.

Her embarrassment only saved for a second, and she was stunned because of the "Qiu Yurou" voice in front of her.

The other party lowered his voice and said, "Reach out." ”

Qiu Yurou's voice itself was gentle and peaceful, but for the sake of convincing her subordinates, she often suppressed her voice, making her voice low and hoarse, like a glass of old wine.

Although Xu Ziran had seen Qiu Yurou talking to others like this, it was the first time she heard Qiu Yurou talking to herself like this, and she felt a little weird inexplicably.

It turns out that when you stand in front of her and are ordered like this, you feel so oppressive?

She shook her head for a moment, and Qiu Yurou said again: "Stretch out your hand." ”

This time, this voice seemed to have some magic power, which made Xu Ziran unconsciously obey, and raised his hand and handed it over.

In the next second, the whip fell.

Xu Ziran scolded and wanted to retract her hand, but her body didn't succeed as if she was accused, she was hit three times in succession, and finally said angrily: "What the hell is going on." ”

And Qiu Yurou, who slapped Xu Ziran's palm three times, took a step back, and stood quietly not far from Xu Ziran, silently.

Xu Ziran figured out that this guy was not Qiu Yurou at all, just an NPC with a Qiu Yurou face.

It was very boring to be angry with an NPC, but Xu Ziran still glared at her fiercely, and at this moment she finally regained control of her body, and suddenly there was a table in front of her, on which a test paper was spread out.

There was another light screen in front of her eyes, and the description on it was-

[In the next three hours (standard time), the host will complete yesterday's learning task, otherwise the second stage of punishment will be performed]

[There are five opportunities to ask the teacher for help during this time]

Although I don't know what the punishment of the second stage is, but thinking about it with my toes, I also know that it should be worse than the punishment of the first stage, Xu Ziran doesn't want to be punished at all, but ......

"If you can't do it, you can't do it! This kind of thing is not something you forced me to do! ”

Xu Ziran wanted to cry without tears, flipped through the test papers on the table and the reference books on the side, and found that there were all the reference books that should be available, but even so, it was too embarrassing to learn something that he couldn't do at all in three hours.

Time waits for no one, and now that he can't hide from it no matter what, he has to do it hard, Xu Ziran sat down and flipped through the book while doing it, thinking about how to use the opportunity to ask questions five times.

The system says five times, and there is no other addition, then it can probably be said that no matter the difficulty of the problem, the number of uses is consumed, so the skill of asking questions is very critical, and it is too wasteful to use up the opportunity because of a very boring question.

Xu Ziran thought about it for a while, and felt that the best way to ask questions is undoubtedly to ask the location of the learning point in the book, so that when you encounter the same type of problem, you can read the book and solve it by yourself without asking questions.

I don't know if this urgency stimulated Xu Ziran's potential, but after two hours and forty minutes, she actually completed all the test papers, and even only asked the instructor NPC four questions.

She breathed a deep sigh of relief, and heard the system in her brain say—

[The punishment is complete, and the countdown will return to the real world after ten seconds]

Xu Ziran frowned slightly, although she felt that this punishment space was very pitted, but in her heart, she felt that such a space that had stagnated time was a big killer, if there was no time in the future, wouldn't she have a lot of time when she retreated into this space?

As a result, I didn't expect this space to be so sincere, as long as the punishment is completed, it will quit immediately.

Only ten seconds, Xu Ziran felt that he still had a question that he hadn't asked, so he asked the NPC casually: "Do you have a name?" ”

The NPC looked at Xu Ziran and said with a serious expressionless face: "I'm Qiu Yurou." ”

Xu Ziran scoffed, she didn't think that this guy who looked like an empty shell was Qiu Yurou.

When the countdown ended, it darkened in front of him, and Xu Ziran returned to reality.

She rolled over from the bed, put on her slippers and ran to the desk to pick up the alarm clock and look at it, and found that the time was still six o'clock in the morning, and there was no increase in a minute.

She pulled down the system panel and looked at it, and found that the panel was still purple like last night, and the experience bars on the upper right showed this-

Body value: 60/60

Ability Value: 5/105

Intelligence: 650/105

Level: 2

Xu Ziran was slightly stunned.

She remembers that before she went to bed, her stats were 105/105.

Speaking of which, the punishment system just now should have deducted her previous ability points.

But the punishment system itself does not have a reason for rebate points, Xu Ziran thought about it and felt that the five questions that were most likely to deduct the ability value were those five questions.

If you think about it, there must be a reason why there is only a limit of five.

At present, it seems that the reason for this may be that she does not have enough ability points, so she can only ask five.

So, it should be a question of 20 ability points.

But this is just speculation, in comparison, the increase in intelligence value makes Xu Ziran a little happy, she estimated, if the rise is stable, after doing more than a week of test papers, her intelligence value can reach 150, open the library.

I don't know what's in the library, but it looks awesome.

Thinking so, Xu Ziran brushed his teeth, washed his face and changed his clothes, and when he was wearing socks, the alarm clock went off.

At the same time, the door of her room was slammed open, and her mother shouted at the door, "Get up!" Don't get up late again...... Uh, why did you get up so early today? ”

Xu Ziran said with a smile: "You have to study hard." ”

Xu Mu showed a look of distrust, turned around and left, and said before leaving: "Breakfast is ready, come and eat." ”

Xu Ziran pulled the test papers on the table that he hadn't packed yesterday into his schoolbag, and when he saw Tian Jiaqi's letter and the gift he sent, he sighed again.

Tian Jiaqi's gift was a familiar comic book, the work of fifteen-year-old Xu Ziran's favorite cartoonist, Xu Ziran remembers that because there were few comic books sold in the bookstore in the neighborhood, if you wanted to buy a comic book, you had to go several blocks away.

In the past, Tian Jiaqi didn't care about spending a lot of time and energy for Xu Ziran at all, she would be willing to prepare for a few weeks in order to surprise Xu Ziran.

Xu Ziran sandwiched the comic book into the teaching book, folded the letter again, opened the drawer, and took out a small sky-blue candy tin box from the drawer.

When I opened the tin box, I saw a pile of letters and some blank letter paper envelopes.

She had a complicated expression.

Ten years later, Xu Ziran found this iron box when he moved, read the letters inside one by one, and burned them one by one.

When the things in this world that I once thought would disappear from my life forever, and the feelings that I once thought would disappear from my life forever, all came back overnight, I have to admit that Xu Ziran felt at a loss.

This confusion made her feel that the world in front of her was unreal, more like a dream.

But when she looked around the room, she felt that it was too real.

A corner of the comic poster, a pile of dolls at the head of the bed, a magazine hidden under the bed, and a cold and colorful tin box in the hand.

Her mother shouted loudly downstairs again: "Xu Ziran! When you wake up, come down and eat! ”

The picture that had faded and yellowed in the memory suddenly appeared clearly in front of me, as if the memory picture that flashed back violently in the movie finally gradually accepted after the initial confusion had disappeared.

She stuffed the tin box back into the drawer and went downstairs for breakfast with her school bag.

This was really fourteen years ago.

The high school days she thought she would never come back.

And now, she is a full fourteen years ahead of everyone else.