Volume 1 Chapter 1 (1/2)
CHAPTER 1: SECOND WORLD
“Ding Ling Ling Ding Ling Ling” I woke up abruptly with a jerk from the bed and my forehead was covered in sweat, wiping the sweat with one hand said: “Ah, there can be no mistaking now, this alarm clock is too loud.” I turn off the alarm clock.
Then got out of the bed and opened the curtains, the suns.h.i.+ne glared into the cold bedroom, looking at the alarm clock, the time is now 7:35 CST, having looked, “s.h.i.+t, It’s not good, I am late, I forgot that today’s the day of the college entrance examinations.” Saying so, in less than five minutes, brushed, changed clothes, ate four slices of bread from the table and one bottle of nutrients hastily, and running out bolted down the stairs, riding his bike at 80 miles per second, sped along to school.
After reaching the school gate, quickly put down the bike, burst into the cla.s.sroom, and then sat down at his spot, while gasping for breath.
Patting my shoulder with his hand, a person said: “Long Ling, you were almost late for the college entrance exams, were you appreciating the pillows at home! Hahaha.”
I said “Ye Shuang you don’t have to worry about me whiling the time away, if it were not for your alarm clock, perhaps I would have been really late.”
This Ye Shuang guy is my buddy, don’t think of us as just best friends, since kindergarten we have been together, through the window made the mistake of going to prost.i.tutes together, our relations.h.i.+p is a complete and total mess.
Ye Shuang is a top student in the school, is the Student Council President, the cla.s.s monitor, head of the group, with grades always among the best, is almost good in sports.
Comparing him to me, I do the odd jobs in the student a.s.sociation, in the cla.s.s am the P.E. representative, don’t have any merits, don’t have much physical strength,
We both talked nonsense, until the test finally started, as the test sheet arrived, examined the test paper, as I went down the paper, my heart also sank down, there’s nothing that I could learn by heart now or know inside out, but my brain was totally blank right now, my only hope was my friend.
But a tragedy unfolded infront of me, as for this test, odd and even number people were separated, moreover, my student number was 11th while his student number is 12th, oh the heavens are so cruel to me, if I did anything wrong in my past life, please forgive me G.o.d.
After this strong ideological struggle, I finally finished all the questions, G.o.d knows whether right or wrong, after finis.h.i.+ng the liberal arts, finally arrived the sports test which I am adept at.
Teacher brought us to the School Auditorium, the first test was the vaulting box test, which was something like a piece of cake for me, as I immediately volunteered but at the same time demanded the height to be raised to the 20th level.
After taking a deep breath, I stood at the starting point and said: “At this trivial height, I don’t even need to pay attention, hmph! Watch me, soar throught the sky!” Then I started the run-up and jumped, at which point I thought that I would be able to clear this 20th level height but in my arrogance I had missed a step, the result being that I hit the 20th level vaulting box head first, fortunately the ground was properly rubber cus.h.i.+oned, otherwise I would have had to get admitted into a hospital.
The next test was swimming, the school’s swimming facilities are very good, there was a proper swimming pool in the gym, and it also acts as a platform for the college entrance exams, this test was to swim 400m in one stretch, the distance was Ok, but Ye Shuang was not mentally prepared and found it a bit difficult to finish, even was about to drown and I had to jump in and save him.
After the day ended, we accompanied each other back on the way home, Ye Shuang said: “Long Ling, do you know about Second World, the super online game?”
I said: “I heard about Second World, which gaming company is bringing it out?”
Ye Shuang said: “Come on, it is now the world’s most famous gaming company, Dragon Soul Group, after spending several billions, and with the joint effort of over twenty countries accross the world and over a thousand well-known enterprises, a specially adapted helmet to go with the game was developed, the realism is over 90%, there are five basic cla.s.ses Warrior, Mage, Archer, Priest and Summoner, and more importantly can make money, if we are able to develop our character well.”
I said: “That’s true, we could become professional players like in those novels and such.”
Ye Shuang: “Well, tomorrow we will go together to buy helmets, you better not be late.”
“Ofcourse, with your alarm, it is difficult to be late.” I laughed.
The next day, we met at the bus stop and walked to where the helmets were being sold.
On the way, Ye Shuang asked: “Do you know wha this means?”
I was puzzled and asked: “What?”
“That means I would be able to grope many beautiful MMs” He said laughing. [TLNote: MMs in Chinese slang means Young/Pretty Girls for those not keeping in touch with Zhan Long or other chinese gaming novel, I could use girls instead if you guys want]
I said: “So boring, what is the point in groping, we should instead make them come to us, right.”
Ye Shuang said: “You are way more evil than me.”
Saying that, we both laughed.