Chapter 1 Second World
Ding ling ling! Ding ling ling! I suddenly woke up from bed, with my head covered in sweat. I wiped away the sweat with my hand and said to myself: “ You’ve gotta be kidding me, this damn alarm clock is too loud.” I turned off the alarm while speaking.
Then I got out of bed and opened the curtains, dazzling sunlight entered the cold bedroom. I looked at the alarm clock again to see that it was 7:35 Beijing time, after looking , “Shit, not good, I’m late, I actually forgot today was the college entrance exam date,” I said not wasting a minute to brush my teeth and change my clothes. Eating four pieces of bread and a bottle of Wahaha Nutrition Express I flew out of the door and rushed downstairs to ride my bike at 80 miles per second to school.
[TL:Wahaha Nutrition Express is a drink, Google 营养快线 if you wanna see what it is.]
Arriving at the school gate way I parked my bike, quickly entered the classroom and sat in my spot while gasping for breath.
A hand patted my shoulder, and the person said: “Long ling, you were almost late for the college entrance exams, were you at home enjoying your pillows! Hahahaha!”
[TL: I think he means sleeping when he said enjoying your pillows, not to sure]
I said: “Ye Shuang, you don’t need to care what I do to kill time, but if it weren’t for your alarm clock, I might’ve actually been late.
The guy called Ye Shuang was my best buddy, there are no secrets between us. We’ve been together since kindergarten, fought together, went to school together, the only thing we haven’t done is go to the prostitutes together. Our relationship was very close.
Ye Shuang was a top student in the school, the president of the student union, a class monitor, a team leader, his academic performance was always among the best, and he was pretty good in sports.
And compared to me who did the miscellaneous work of the student union, and was the class representative for P.E. I didn’t have any strong point. Even though my physical strength was good and not like other peoples, the P.E. teacher had even commented on it, “this kid as long as he trains, China’s second Liu Xiang could be him.” But my grades were a complete opposite and although I’m not last there is almost no difference. Even high up there is no difference.
[TL: Liu Xiang is a Chinese gold-medal hurdler that had won in the 2004 Olympic Games]
The two people talked about nonsense before the exam began. After seeing the exam paper before starting, my heart sank as I looked down. There is no other way other than to already know everything inside and out but my mind was as empty as anything. My only hope was my best friend.
But we were tragically pulled apart, the test had split the odd and even numbers from each other and with my school number being 11 and his 12. Oh the heavens were cruel! If I wronged in my past life please forgive me!
After an intense battle of mental strength I finished the test, right or wrong only the Heavens would know. After finishing the language and science test the one that I was best at was beginning: P.E.
In the school gymnasium the teacher started our first test,the vaulting box test, which was a piece of cake for me.I hurriedly volunteered to finish the exam with the 20th level.
I stood at the starting point and took a deep breath: “This is a little jump, I don’t even put in any effort! Watch me fly over it!” I said before beginning. I ran forward to jump over the 20 layers of the vaulting box. But I was too proud of myself and had jumped short. I hit the 20th layer and the vaulting box collapsed while I landed onto the sponge like mat on the ground. Luckily there was a mat or I would’ve had to go to the hospital.
Next was the swimming exam and the school's facilities were not half bad,they even had a swimming pool in the gymnasium, and it allowed a place for the college examination.The objective was to swim 400 meters in a breath, the distance wasn’t to bad, but it was difficult for Ye Shuang who was not mentally prepared for it.The last part wasn’t easy but he would pretend to drown and I would only jump in too save him.
At the end of the day we go home together, Ye Shuang said: “Long Ling, Do you know about the Second World,the super online game.
I said: “ I heard of Second World, which game company is bringing it out?”
Ye Shuang said: “Come on, It’s the world’s most famous game company , Dragon Soul Group, that used billions of dollars in 20 years of joint effort with 20 countries and thousands of well-known companies to develop the game.They made a special helmet for the game while it was being developed, so that the game had 90%+ realism. It has five basic classes which are the warriors, mages, archers, priests, and the summoners. More importantly you can make money in the game, if you play well.
I said: “That’s only if we can become professional players like in the novels.”
Ye Shuang said: “ Ok tomorrow we’ll go together to buy the game helmet’s, you don’t be late.”
“Of course, It’s hard to be late with your alarm clock.” I laughed.
The next day we met at the bus station to walk to the store that was selling helmets.
On the road Ye Shuang asked: “Do you know what it means?”
I asked puzzled, “ What?”
“I can grope a lot of pretty girl’s, “ he said laughing.
I said: “That’s boring, groping? They should be the ones that come to us.”
Ye Shuang said: “You’re more evil then I am.”
We smiled and looked at eachother then laughed.
We arrived at the store, and the front of the store there was a sea of people. We didn’t want to cut in line because of our virtuous hearts, but even after waiting till 12 o’clock we hadn't moved at all.
Finally tired of waiting Ye Shuang dragged me along to do his hair. I didn’t want to go, but I also didn’t want to wait in the hot sun. More importantly I was hungry.
At the barber’s shop I waited for half an hour for a fresh and clean, bright and beautiful pretty boy to stand in front of me, “Long Ling, Am I or am I not the most handsome in the school?”
I said: “Yeah very handsome and very weak, I’m not kidding. I’m starving so let’s go eat lunch.”
Ye Shuang said “En,Let’s go to KFC I only have 20 Kuai in my pocket.I didn’t bring money, but we could eat some dumplings.”
I said, “Boss, do I even need to pay for my own helmet to,do you even have a heart.”
“It’s fine, I brought a credit card,” he said fishing out a card and waving it, it strangely looked familiar.
“Why does the card look so familiar?”
“Well it came from your pocket,”Ye Shuang said.
“You and your dad have a one of a kind characteristic,” I said checking my pockets.
Ye Shuang said: “Don’t even mention him, I don’t have a father like that, don’t you dare mention him.” The reason why he didn’t like to mention his father is because when he was young his father had been sentenced to jail for stealing.Thus the neighbors had treated his family badly thinking they were a family of thieves. He had a bad childhood and was forced to move with his mother. After his father was released he divorced his mother leaving them. In his eyes his father was a irresponsible person that he hated.
I said: “Ok I won’t talk about it, but walk quickly or I might eat a few mouthfuls of you."
The KFC was overcrowded, “Long Ling, you line up I’m gonna go get a seat.”This guy loves taking advantage of me to go sit down first. I’ll let it pass this time.
I didn’t hesitate and directly bought a whole family bucket, large bottle of Coke and three hamburgers, Ye Shuang seeing the table full of things said: “Don’t you know that people are trying to lose weight, buying all this food that we can’t eat is a waste!”
“You twig, you’re so skinny that you can be blown away by the wind and still want to lose weight, I see you want to slowly suicide, so hurry up and eat,” I said eating a chicken leg, out of the corner of my eye I saw a pretty girl wearing a skirt that went up and down as she moved.
What a pretty looking girl, thighs so thick, there’s only a few that look like her,” Ye Shuang said loudly, but because of the distance the pretty girl couldn’t hear him.
“Please! Our class is full of flat airport’s, and you had the nerve to compare them.” Seriously this girl’s figure was like a roaring ocean surging forward, it could even be a work of art.
I wrapped everything up and directly got up.
“Hey, I’m still not full yet,”Ye Shuang said.
I said: “Let’s go, you can eat or we can go buy the helmet’s.”
While talking we entered the store again,a lot of the people had left to eat lunch. They happily received us as we paid 10 thousand Kuai for the helmets, 5 thousand a helmet, my balls hurt!
We bought the helmets and went home, Ye Shuang this guy was also going to start living with me today. Either way my parents had died in a traffic accident when I was 6 years old. Although the culprit and insurance company had paid a million dollars back, it wasn’t something that money could buy back.
After installing the helmets, “Long Ling, You have to think well before choosing a class,I’m going to play the warrior”After I heard that, an amusing scene appeared in my head of him and a few others fighting with physical strength knocking each other down and I said: “A delicate guy like you fighting with a sword with others. You better play the mage, the mage can level up faster, and you can freeload some experience from others, hehe.”
“Humph, Humph!I’ll pay attention to it, not bad.My medicine money will be on you then.” Ye Shuang said.
“Go to hell!” I replied.
“Hehe, Long Ling, My name’s pretty good, guess what it is.”
“Yeah right,You always pick something with Shen something something, you only play to make your character a god, so hurry up and get on and get online.” I said as we entered the online lobby to begin.
Thanks for the chapter !
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