The Flame of All Things Chapter 63—The Eve of the Storm (1)
Before leaving, Gu Xiaobei called his grandmother, but he didn't get through. Standing in front of the window in the dormitory, he put down his mobile phone. During the freshman training camp, the instructor told everyone that if you want to carry out tasks in the future, remember to write your suicide note and call home every time, so that even if you die, your family will be less worried.
Don't be pretentious, he said to himself.
So, the boy set off with a small suitcase.
A seven-seater SUV slowly drove through Comet City, heading outside. Obviously, it was the second time he had left here, but Gu Xiaobei had a feeling of time traveling, as if he had been here for a long, long time. Dark-hued forests are on both sides of the road, and the mountains in the distance are half-snow-white.
It turns out that the scenery here is so beautiful. You can just take a photo and take it to participate in that kind of photo exhibition, right? Gu Xiaobei has seen those photos of Mount Everest and Japan's Mount Fuji on the Internet, and most of them are just this feeling at this moment.
"Do you want to put on some songs?" said Moto-Kao in that languid voice.
Without waiting for the people in the car to answer, he had already put it up on his own. Gu Xiaobei was a little surprised, people like Teacher Yuan Yao would actually listen to Jay Chou's songs with vague lyrics like people of their time. The silver-gray haired young man sat in the co-pilot, Gu Xiaobei and Yeslanka sat together, and Guan Zijin stayed behind alone.
In fact, there are a few people in this car who are a little special.
"That, Xiaobei, right. Yuan Kamu asked. He had an impression of this student, and Gu Xiaobei was the only one who asked him to repeat it when the freshmen called him, so he still remembered it.
"It's me. Gu Xiaobei moved his gaze back from the window.
"Don't cause trouble outside, this trip is to another country, you know?" Yuan Yao glanced at Gu Xiaobei in the rearview mirror.
In fact, Gu Xiaobei is also a small celebrity among the freshmen of the 32nd batch, from the first obstacle race on the entrance test to the amazing actions at the club exchange meeting, and then to the decapitation of the C level in the first mission. Yuan Kao subconsciously thought that this guy was the kind of master who was very good at causing trouble.
"Good. Gu Xiaobei said. He also heard what Yuan Yao meant, but there was no need to explain, after a long time, the other party would naturally know who he was.
The silver-haired young man in the co-pilot was none other than the senior brother Jinglian. In fact, Gu Xiaobei was also quite surprised, he thought that the senior brother could not appear in the team of this mission. But that cool young man was so accidentally bumped into by him.
Senior brother is very powerful, Gu Xiaobei at first felt that having a strong man like him by his side would make the task easy, so it would be difficult to reflect his growth. But every time he thinks of the battle with the charm in City A, he feels tightened and depressed, and feels that he can't complete the task on his own.
Those teammates were brought into the team by him, so what qualifications did he have to be willful? Gu Xiaobei was not good enough to take care of everyone's feelings, but at least he felt that he had to have a clear conscience.
The brand-new SUV drove slowly down the road in the forest. The sky darkens from bright to dark, and the moon is followed by the first dawn. No one spoke in the car, Yuan Yao and the senior brother changed positions, changed to the senior brother to drive, and took a break by himself.
Guan Zijin was listening to a song with a headset of Bluetooth headphones, and Yeslanka was looking out the window.
Only Gu Xiaobei slid around on his mobile phone alone, and he didn't have the habit of playing with his mobile phone. But it's a bit boring.
I remember when I first entered high school, almost every student had their own smartphone. Gu Xiaobei is the alternative one, he uses an old ZTE key player. When others are accustomed to the 26-key input method, he still silently uses the nine keys. There are always new games being launched on the smartphone, and the boy is just silently playing the 'Legend of the Three Kingdoms' that he brushed in with Ja and va.
He's a nostalgic person, and as long as that ZTE phone still works, he doesn't want to change it. But in the era of 3G elimination and replacement for 4G, even my grandmother was coaxed by the staff in the mobile phone business hall to take a smart phone, and Gu Xiaobei had no choice but to buy a Xiaomi.
But what is the use of a smartphone for him? He has almost no one to call and he doesn't like to play mobile games. The students interact daily in QQ and WeChat, and from time to time they post a circle of friends and talk. He didn't even bother to change his avatar, and kept the lazy one he used at the beginning.
Of course, in the years after the reassignment, he would still expect a message from a pink penguin head. It was something he secretly looked forward to every day. As the vice president's "right-hand man", Gu Xiaobei would participate in most of the club work, and Jiang Jingmo often looked for him at that time.
After opening QQ, which he hadn't opened for a long time, he found that his messages had piled up. At the beginning of graduation, there was always a lively conversation in the class group, and everyone shared how they arrived at a new university. Gradually, no one spoke. Gu Xiaobei's school is quite good in City A, there are handsome guys and beauties in it, and they basically have very good family backgrounds. Therefore, there are many students who study abroad.
Gu Xiaobei felt that those people were the future social elites, and when they held class reunions for many years, they would come back in a good-looking suit and drive a luxury car, while people like him could only secretly envy in the corner, pretend to be polite with those unsatisfactory friends, and finally go home tired.
But he couldn't have imagined that after only a few months, he seemed to be in another world. Living a life that those classmates never dreamed of.
"Aren't you going to chat with them?" YesLanka had moved to his side at some point, and she obviously saw Gu Xiaobei looking through the chat history of the class group.
"There's nothing to talk about, it's been so long. Gu Xiaobei was a little embarrassed and wanted to turn off the screen of his phone, but he felt that it didn't matter, so he continued to flip through it, but the speed was much slower.
Yeslanka, apparently noticing the panic on his face, turned his head away with a faint smile.
Gu Xiaobei continued to look at it.
At the top of the news was the somewhat familiar pink penguin. It's a pity that it's been a long, long time since the last chat. Jiang Jingmo, like him, has no habit of changing his avatar.
The list has long become an "exhibition hall" of Internet celebrity avatars and cartoon avatars. Only he and the vice president wore old avatars.
But in the eyes of others, Jiang Jingmo is unworldly, and Gu Xiaobei is a turtle.
The turtle is the turtle, Gu Xiaobei didn't care at that time, but was secretly happy because he was paired with Jiang Jingmo like this.
Do you really like it? Gu Xiaobei asked himself. Actually, he doesn't like it that much, does he? To be honest, he doesn't know much about it, but now he gradually has a feeling. That crush may have been nothing more than an obsession with his high school life, and if he didn't even have this, he wouldn't even be able to find any trace of his past existence.
But those are over, and someone really appeared in his life, maybe it was Su Qingluo, maybe it was Li Wen and Ah Qiang at the beginning, or the people of Gu Suli at that time. They really took Gu Xiaobei away.
"If you have time to look at your phone, it's better to read more about the mission introduction. Yuan Yao woke up from his drowsiness at some point and handed Gu Xiaobei a blue mission report.
Subspecies Hidden in the Crowd
Details are as follows
Mission Name: Subspecies hidden in the crowd
Target: Yakui
Target Grade: Grade B
Mission: Kill the sub-species that lurks in human society.
Description: The town of Tander in the southern kingdom is inhabited by a high-blooded sprite we call Akui. He has been in human society for many years, and in some ways knows how to survive in human society better than many people. It seems to be plotting something in secret, and we don't know.
But in any case, it will appear above the trade fair
We need to find it, find it, and put an end to it.
Danger level: Medium
After arriving at the nearby city, the group boarded the plane, and in the darkness of the night, the group finally arrived in the mysterious southern country.
There are many languages in the southern country, and Chinese is one of them. Because it is a country that is not far away, many Chinese merchants choose to trade there.