Chapter 4 (2/2)
[XY] You can't play it
The three dots of silence
An explosion
[Barbecue Stall Prince – Lei] : Don't tell a uts, tell et onto the leaderboard in a arette and prepared to aa He was dazed With tre hands he deleted the brutal words he had previously sent
Then he hit the voice e button and replied, ”What the hell is this!”
hell Math, Huanggang Real Questions, Flower English, BioCheether… this was a virus, surely
”Is this a gaaame?'” Zhou Dalei's heart was pierced a thousand times and hurt like it had received ten thousand thorns In the end he could only ask, from the depths of his soul, ”Is this fun?!”
[XY] I don't know It'll do, probably
[Barbecue Stall Prince – Lei] : ……
The total nu was less than four hundred It was unpopular and its interface was si shutdown at any time
Upon entry, players encountered a test made up of random questions They had to accumulate a certain amount of points before they could enter the second level: endless question ame did have some frills: in the lower left corner was a sed communication between players But the contents of this colishClassRep”: Let's colishClassRep” said to ”TopTenInClass”: Interesting Is that fun? If you have that o lish—pardon rader If your vocabulary is stuck at the fourth grade level, you don't have a future You should reflect on yourself
”TheBeautyOfChineseCulture”: Melish? When one is tired, come to the Oceans of Chinese Culture to rest and recuperate Classical Chinese PK, self-explanatory Double experience Roo”: Game God, please explain question 13 on booklet B? Is zero or negative one not the solution? Are the li?
”StudystudystudythatsallIdo” : Will pay high price for a set of the 40th Anniversary Limited Edition edition of ”Beat the Gaokao:² The Mock Exa” I went to all the bookstores and couldn't get it Because I couldn't do thisMy heart hurts The Beat the Gaokao series is my favourite mock exam, how can I not have the liistered player This game really was unpopular; the systee box for a full two minutes, then enthusiastically predicted his future for hiht hard to build a beautiful new China Tsinghua and Peking University³ are waving to you
Xie Yu clicked in and did a : Welco Tournament family!
At this time, the players online hadn't realized that this newbie, whose account naainst his keyboard, would bring a massacre of blood, wind, and rain in the summer vacation to co to back down until he hit the southern wall⁴ In the answer box for every question he scrawled only two crooked words: Don't know
The result was obvious
He hit the 'subht corner and was inforible for adame lobby
Zhou Dalei alainst bad students! What kind of broken gaital arena! You don't even let ame lobby? If I can't do 'em, I can't do 'em! So what if I can't do the questions? At least I' the questions, he had received es from Barbecue Prince
-Scoundrel!
-How is this solved? Is this reallya cohtly on the screen several times as he formed his sentence carefully He was about to hit send, but Zhou Dalei sent another et?
How many points?
Xie Yu sat on the carpet with his back to the side of his bed and deleted the words he had just written, one at a tiaarette in his mouth He squatted by the box and conte Bao Lai Sunflower Seed Oil written on it in red cursive One could tell at a glance that it was a 'buy two get one free' piece fro clearance sale
He wasn't bad-looking His features were proportional and soht now, it was the way he squatted that an
Hishim deflated like this, she picked up a foot and kicked hi squatting here! Have you finished grilling the la”
Zhou Dalei hurriedly stood up and had only taken two steps when he thought of so and turned back to say: ”In a while, ”
His mom replied smoothly: ”Don't know, noto ask you, do you reood and he even represented our street in a math competition and won a prize And ere little and had a Rubik's cube, he could do it even with his eyes closed He was so good at it…”
His mom put the dirty dishes in the sink ”So what? Your ot full ot lost People get worse with time, too Like you Look at you now”
Zhou Dalei tried to capture the vaguely formed notion in his mind ”No—Mom, I really think that that's not… also, what's up withmy ass Get rid of those”Kids these days just want to play They're all s Like Jie froot out of the hospital he jumped ahead about a hundred places in the mock exams I think you also need a car accident to clear your brain All you kno to do is play ga”
Translation notes:
[1] In rural areas, oil containers were made of bamboo which was heavy Because rural areas were far frohbors would often ask his frohts, cooking, etc) The villager would thus end up dragging six or seven heavy oil containers behind him
These oil containers were usually ‘someone else's property,' were tedious to haul, and often picked upthe way (拖泥带水, an idio up unnecessary fuss or work) Thus, ‘dragging an oil container' gradually beca up soitih school exa U: the best universities in China
[4] Refusing to back down until hitting the southern wall: Stubborn