Chapter 102: Resuming the Electric Street
To this day, Lin Yun can still recall the first time he went to Electric Street with the team members.
And that's a few months after he became a magical girl at a young age.
After choosing to fight to protect Anya and becoming a magical girl, he and Anya formed a magical girl team of only two people, and they fought constantly in Fangting City to protect the city.
After some time, an exotic magical girl codenamed Margaret from the Dongying Prefecture came to Fangting City and met Lin Yun Anya while crusading against the remnant beasts. The three of them chatted very well with each other and hit it off, so they began to act together, and the size of the team became three people.
Some time later, the sower of Fangting City, the rabbit fairy Wobo, found the fourth and last member of the team for them - a girl of the same age named Su Shengzi, whose magical girl code name was Lan Xiang.
Su Shengzi is a girl who is suspected of being from a wealthy background - the reason why she is suspicious is because she never reveals the specific situation in her family. It's just that the strong net worth she showed from time to time at that time, as well as the lack of a sense of wealth, made the other members of the team feel the huge financial resources behind it.
As a suspected eldest lady, Su Shengzi except for occasionally pretending to show a bit of etiquette, most of the time on weekdays is in a state of doing her own thing and never caring about the eyes of others.
The concrete manifestation of this state is that she will always devote herself to something because of the three-minute heat, study it without sleep or food, and then forget about it after she has learned it, and so on.
A few months after joining the team, one day, Su Shengzi suddenly became obsessed with arcade video games.
No one knows when she got her hands on it, but one day after school, she suddenly announced to the rest of the team, "Let's go to Electric Street!" ”
This proposal led to a debate among the team members at the time.
At that time, Lin Yun was a good boy who studied hard, and he didn't have a good impression of the Longtan Tiger's Den in the mouth of the elders like the arcade hall; Anya is a playful who is interested in everything, and she is willing to try all the entertainment methods she has never experienced; And Margaret, as a resident of the Dongying Prefecture and the birthplace of arcade games, is very familiar with this entertainment.
The argument eventually turned into a vote, and the vote was overwhelmingly three to one, and Su Shengzi's proposal was approved, which opened the precedent for the Fangting City team to fight in Electric Street after school.
At the same time, whenever Lin Yun, as the only member of the opposite sex in the foursome, left the school surrounded by three girls and under the strange eyes of countless classmates of the same sex, he had to mourn his irretrievable name in his heart.
At that time, his reputation was already scandalous among the boys and girls in the same school: the boys saw him as a role model, and the girls regarded him as a scumbag. But in reality, he is just friends with the other three, because when the four of them hang out together, he usually acts with the other members in the form of magical girls.
It is precisely because of this that in terms of the time spent in the electric street, "Delphinch" is much longer than "Lin Yun".
Looking at the electric street under the rain, Delphinium seems to have seen the past of the old team here. After many years, her former friends are now separated, and she herself has not been here for many years.
In the rain, the Electric Street, which is itself a pedestrian commercial street, is also much depressed, and there are only pedestrians walking slowly along the eaves with umbrellas on the street. However, the surrounding shops are still wide open, the interior is brightly lit, and the vocal music among them is noisy, which is extremely lively.
Delphinium and Xia Liang each held umbrellas, walked through the road that had accumulated puddles, and finally came to the first stop of the trip - the archery hall.
As a popular venue that has stood in Electric Street for many years, and the owner has changed several times but is still operating, the Electric Street Archery Hall is also a well-known logo.
Whether it was when Lin Yun was young, or now, as long as he walks through the somewhat winding porch and enters the actual wide infield, you can see sporadic young people who look like college students practicing here.
And when Delphinium and Xia Liang walked in the door and came to the counter, this somewhat strange combination quickly attracted the attention of some people.
After all, the hourly payment standard for places like archery halls is often on the high side for primary and secondary school students, and at the moment, such a combination of junior high school students and elementary school students inevitably seems a little out of place in the crowd.
Xia Liang is better, but it is Delphinium - even though she is dressed very plainly today: long sleeves, long pants and short boots, and her hair is tied into a neat single ponytail, but the blue hair that looks like an exotic is still somewhat eye-catching.
However, Delphinium was accustomed to this kind of gaze, or rather, she was used to the surprised eyes of others when she was doing things with this look.
Even if the clerk at the front desk comes up and opens his mouth, "Little sister, are you lost?" "Little sister, are you an alien?" "Children may not be able to play this" series of rude words, she can still look at them calmly and calmly.
After making an appointment and paying a deposit, Delphinium took Xia Liang to find two secluded shooting walkways.
After choosing the right size bow and standing in front of the target platform, the delphinium adjusted her posture slightly under the gaze of Xia Liang. Then, she holds the bow in one hand, carries the tail of the arrow to the arrow, abducts the elbow, draws the bow, aims, releases, and performs a series of chic movements in one go.
Sou!
The arrow is right in the bull's-eye.
"Oh!" Xia Liang clapped his hands in amazement, "So handsome!" ”
Shaking the ponytail behind her head, Delphinium glanced at Xia Liang and handed out the bow in her hand: "Try?" ”
Seeing the action of the delphinium, Xia Liang subconsciously stretched out his hand to put on the bow, and then blinked his eyes a little confused: "I'm coming?" But I've never played this before......"
"You don't need to play it, I'll teach you the moves, just practice how to aim." The delphinium is not salty or light.
In fact, Delphinium himself is not very proficient in archery, but if he has practiced archery according to the norms, coupled with the superhuman physical fitness of the magical girl, with strong eyesight and coordination as the base, the hit rate is naturally high.
After correcting Xia Liang's posture on the side to make sure that there were no mistakes, the delphinium watched Xia Liang's practice on the side.
During this period, there were also other customers who didn't know for what purpose, Mao Sui recommended himself to guide Delphinium and Xia Liang in archery, but was rejected by Delphinium with a cold face.
On the other hand, Xia Liang was still a little rusty and nervous at the beginning, but with repeated trial and error with one arrow at a time, the hit rate gradually increased, from off-target to the outer ring, and then from the outer ring to the inside, its progress speed is not fast.
The delphinium on the side looked at it for a while, and after a while, walked back to its target platform.
The sight of Xia Liang's practice made her a little unclear for a moment whether she was in the present or the past.
In the past, the four girls of the Fangting City team carried their schoolbags to the archery hall after school at every turn. And in order to explain it conveniently, lest others question why these junior high school girls come to play blindly every day, Su Shengzi directly came up with a crooked idea - just told the shopkeeper that this was a club activity.
As a magical girl, even in the form of the body, the physical fitness can be improved to a certain extent, so several girls have a level far beyond the average enthusiast after practicing for a period of time.
Over time, as they went here more times, there was even a spontaneous perception in the circle of enthusiasts: the women's archery club of Lixing Middle School was of a very high level.
This also made the sports students of Li Xing Middle School confused when they were later asked about the archery club in the school: how did they not know that their middle school had an archery club?
Of course, these are all stories of the past.
Soon, the originally scheduled hour had passed, Xia Liang put down the bow in his hand with a little sweat, looked at the target in the distance, and smiled with some satisfaction.
The arrow hit the bull's-eye, and there was more than one.
"Go on?" The delphinium also lowered her hand and looked sideways at Xia Liang on the side.
"It's funny, it's fun, but I remember where else I was going to do today?" Probably because he had a lot of fun in archery, Xia Liang's emotions were obviously fully mobilized, and he asked with some excitement.
"Of course, but if you like it here, you can do it for a while."
"That'...... Sure enough, let's continue next time. ”
"Really?"
"Well, let's go to the next place!" Xia Liang smiled.
Delphinium no longer hesitated, and after paying the bill, she left the archery hall with Xia Liang, picked up her umbrella and walked towards the second stop of their trip.
The next destination is a bookstore.
Electric Street used to be the largest book wholesale city in the city, with a wide variety of books, and it was also the main gathering place for reading lovers at that time.
Twenty years later, the book wholesale city is still there, but it is no longer in its old form. When Delphinium and Xia Liang walked into the door of the building, they could find that the interior decoration was completely new, not at all old-fashioned, and it was obviously renovated.
Although the renovated bookstore still retains the main structure of 20 years ago, its interior furnishings, decoration and even business model have undergone great changes.
Today's bookstores have been integrated with tea, coffee and other catering and beverage businesses, and have been combined into a similar form to a book bar, or a book café.
Customers can find a place to sit down, order a drink, and flip through the book they just bought, or preview the contents of a specific book. This format is very relaxed and comfortable, but compared to the old book wholesale city, it is not the same nature at all.
The interior of the bookstore is divided into five floors, and although there are floors, the upper and lower spaces are opened, and multiple escalators are interspersed with them, making it seem quite open. Delphinium and Xia Liang were not in a hurry, and began to walk leisurely upward from the first floor.
After observing the furnishings in the bookstore for a while, Delphinium turned her head sideways to Xia Liang and asked, "Do you have any books that interest you?" ”
When this sentence was asked, the two of them were staying in front of the comic section.
"No, I don't."
Looking at the comic section with a relatively dense flow of young customers not far away, Xia Liang paused for a moment, and then shook his head: "But if you feel like this, it should be something that Xiaolu will like, right?" ”
"Indeed."
The delphinium looked ahead, then nodded affirmatively.
She hadn't read a comic for many years, but she knew that Lin Xiaolu was still quite enthusiastic about it, thinking about it in her heart, she subconsciously began:
"If there is a next time, call Bai Mei together."
It's just that as soon as she said this, she saw Xia Liang stretch out her hand and gently grab her palm.
"Although I'm a little sorry for Xiaolu when I say this now, if the two of them come out to play together, I still hope that the juniors can talk more about me."
Xia Liang looked forward levelly, and his voice was a little fluctuating: "At least today." ”
“…… I understand. ”
After a moment of silence, the delphinium nodded slowly.
"Hmph."
Xia Liang chuckled: "Then, let's keep going like this." ”
What she said about "keep it like this" made Delphinium not react for a while, and after glancing at her hand again, she realized what Xia Liang said:
She said she was going to hold hands.
This kind of behavior is somewhat intimate in it, but combined with the current image of the two, it is like a sister holding a younger sister, which is somewhat strange.
Delphinium sighed again: "Don't do any more strange little things. ”
"What little moves?"
Xia Liang blinked innocently, but he repeated the old trick between the words, and scratched the back of the delphinch's hand with his fingers: "So? ”
The delphinium raised her hand and gave her a chestnut on the head.
"Why!" Xia Liang screamed.
"I don't want to repeat it, just be honest."
"Hmmm......"
After being taught a lesson by the delphinch, Xia Liang was no longer deliberately naughty. The two of them held hands and walked around the bookstore for a while, then left the renovated book wholesale city and went to the third stop.
And the third destination booked, which is also one of the highlights of the trip, is the arcade.
As the main purpose of the old Fangting City squad to come to the Electric Street after school, the arcade machine was also one of the important pop culture in the early days of the commercial street.
When the old squad was younger, one of the freshest forms of entertainment for young people was to go to the arcade to play games, and many people enjoyed it and often spent time in the arcade hall as if they were forgetful of time.
There will be wealthy players who will continue to buy arcade tokens and play their favorite titles repeatedly to hone their skills so that they can show off in front of their friends in the future; There are also people who have no money wandering around aimlessly, watching others play all kinds of games, occasionally going up to point out, and even seeing if they can rub other people's coins.
Such time and culture are now gone.
Today's arcade halls are no longer trendy entertainment, and young people are naturally not so enthusiastic about them, and arcade halls have become the same as movie theaters and skating rinks, ordinary experiential entertainment consumption.
Without the aura of pop culture, it is difficult for so many people to settle down and wait.
"You wait here for a while, I'll go buy the game currency."
Seeing that Xia Liang was attracted by the crane machine at the door, Delphinium did not force her to follow, but left alone after a simple instruction.
At the cashier counter between the display cases, I found the sales staff at the front desk. After repeatedly stating to the other party that he was not a lost child, that he did not need to find his parents, and even proved his identity as an adult in the horrified eyes of the other side, Delphinium finally carried a small basket and returned to the place agreed with Xia Liang with game tokens.
It's just that when her eyes touched the scene not far away, she couldn't help frowning.
Because Xia Liang didn't know when, he was surrounded by a few girls who were dressed up and dressed up, probably only junior high school age.
And judging from what they said to Xia Liang with a sneer, as if they were quite familiar, and Xia Liang's performance of lowering his head and not saying a word, I'm afraid this is not just a simple way to find fault.
They may know Xia Liang.
(End of chapter)