Chapter 43 - Date (1/2)

Chapter 43: Date

For their studies and for their results, Jiang classmate and Qin classmate worked very hard.

Even on weekends, the two had arranged to go out and have a study session. The location naturally was at the local McDonald’s. If they were hungry they could eat hamburgers or drink coke if they’re thirsty. They even had the cool air conditioning.

When Jiang Yang explained the question, Qin Xu chewed onto the straw and slowly slipped at it while spinning the pen around in his hand. With a very bored look, he didn’t look like he was paying any attention. Jiang Yang saw this and felt unhappy. He smacked him on his head and said a word of warning: “Pay attention.”

Qin Xu sprawled over the table and felt like he was going to get sick from studying so much. Exhausted he said: “I don’t want to study anymore. I want to go out and play.”

Jiang Yang scoffed coldly: “Play your head. Can you do that with your shitty results?”

Qin Xu rolled his eyes: “Do you think you are qualified to say that? Even if I answer it randomly, I’ll get more of them correct than you.”

The two seemingly pointed out their middle finger at each other at the same time. They pursed their lips and cursed at each other with a cold and indifferent face: “Fuck you.”

After they swore at each other, their mood improved significantly and the two tacitly returned to work on the problems. When they were done, they would throw it over to the other person to correct and then they would take turns explaining the question. While they explained they would scold the other party and call them stupid.

The afternoon passed quickly, and the intense study session was finally over. Under Qin Xu’s strong request to take a break to relax, they left McDonald’s and entered a nearby virtual reality experience hall. They didn’t leave immediately and ended up hanging around for a while.

Virtual reality technology has been very popular for the past two years. Not only is it used in various fields for greater convenience, it also plays a big role in the entertainment and gaming field. Almost all shopping malls had opened up a place for virtual reality gaming and, to experience it, it only costed a dozen of dollars so it was very popular amongst young people.

The experience hall in this mall wasn’t big and consisted of just a small area of the mall sectioned off and a few egg-shell shaped seats. The experiencer only needed to sit in those seats and wear a helmet to be able to see the simulated scene and immerse themselves in the environment with all their senses.

To achieve a good stimulating effect and to maximise enjoyment, the gaming interface is naturally not something calm and boring. Instead, it was games such as a role-playing shooting game against zombies, escaping from a ghost house etc.

When Jiang Yang and Qin Xu went to play, a young couple happened to be just before them. Not long after the game started, the girl started screaming and waved her hands around as if she was shooing something away. She even accidentally hit her boyfriend in the chest who could only groan out in pain. The girl continued to remain immersed in the game and when she made contact with her boyfriend she thought she could actually touch the ghost and was very surprised: “Fuck, is this for real?!”

Those who were watching on found this very amusing while her boyfriend had a look that looked like it was saying, “I wasn’t scared of the zombies but was scared to death by you.”

Jiang Yang and Qin Xu had not played this before and they couldn’t help but laugh: “Is it that scary? Such a scaredy-cat.”

The two who were clearly scared out of their wits when they had the ghost story telling session laughed at the misfortunes of other people and didn’t feel embarrassed at all. They even acted as if they weren’t terrified of anything as they entered the contraption confidently and wore the helmet.

From the beginning, there was only darkness and faint glow from the flickering candle. By their ears, eerie background music played and slowly bore into their brains. They couldn’t see much through in their field of view apart from mottled walls and faint blood stains. They could only walk on slowly down the narrow tunnel.

Without a warning, a pale face with a dark, empty eye sockets and red tears flowing out of it appeared before Qin Xu. It revealed a ghastly smile and it’s bony fingers reached out to grab your legs causing you to have the urge to climb up to escape.

Qin Xu was surprised, and he subconsciously reached out to grab onto Jiang Yang’s hand. At the same time, he shrank back but, seeing that he could not escape from the ghost, he started kicking at it desperately. It could be said that he has a very strong desire to live.

Jiang Yang had the helmet on, so he couldn’t see what Qin Xu was doing but, with his hands suddenly grabbed and feeling the movements from next to him, he could make a rough guess. He couldn’t help but laugh and just when he wanted to say a few words to mock him, as if the game had everything timed well, a dark head with black, with glowing red eyes and messy long hair also appeared behind him.

Jiang Yang: “!!!” Fuck!

He didn’t know whether or not it was just is imagination, but his shoulders also felt a little itchy, as if there really was hair moving on it!

Jiang Yang who was scared to the point of almost wetting himself unconsciously grabbed onto Qin Xu’s hand. He gripped onto it tightly, as if it was his only life-saving straw!

Qin Xu returned to his senses and his lips curved up as he bent his finger and used it to draw a few circles in Jiang Yang’s palm. He huffed: “And you dare laugh at me?”

Until the end of the game, the two didn’t release their hands. The moment their helmets were removed, Qin Xu noticed that his hands suddenly became empty. He looked up and saw Jiang Yang jumping off the seat. He looked back and his eyes subconsciously swept over to the hand that hung by his side.

It was about time for them to go back. They walked down the road side by side until they needed to split up.

Qin Xu: “Can I ask you a question?”

Jiang Yang looked at his smiling face and felt that it probably wasn’t anything good. Also, remembering that he had just made fun of him earlier, he directly refused: “No.”

Qin Xu naturally isn’t so obedient. He continued: “Jiang Yang.”

The set of dark and deep eyes looked firmly at him. Inside, it was as if there were stars sparkling. The corners of his lips lifted, and a gentle smile appeared on his face. He suddenly called out his name seriously, unlike the usual way he called him when he was asking for a fight.

Jiang Yang looked over at him with some doubts.

Qin Xu smiled and asked: “How many people know about those things?”

“What things?”

“Apart from me, does anyone know that you are afraid of the dark?”

Jiang Yang frowned and immediately denied: “I am not afraid of the dark!”