If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"Hey, Lu Mingfei, have you ever thought about what you will do in the future?"

"What do you mean what to do in the future?"

"After graduating from college."

The sound of churning.

Lu Mingfei sat up in dormitory 616 late at night, stared at Lin Nian diagonally across from him on the upper bunk, and said excitedly: "Brother, weren't we kidnapped by the executive department directly after graduating from college? Wait, can we take the initiative to refuse? Professor Schneider’s edict? Is there still such a thing?”

"There is no such thing. There is a high probability that you will be recruited after graduation." Lin Nian said, staring at the black ceiling in a daze.

"Damn, what the hell, I thought Kassel College really had human rights!" Lu Mingfei lay down.

"In this world, you should listen to human rights and freedom seriously. I'm just saying that if, if you, Lu Mingfei, don't have to join the executive department after graduating from university - let's add a premise, if the dragon clan's affairs have already been resolved before graduating from university. It was solved successfully, the world is at peace, and Principal Angers sent us back to our hometown——"

"Damn it, you're going to get fired after using up what you're going to do? What kind of electronic fraud group is this fucking Kassel College?" Lu Mingfei muttered.

"At any rate, you can still be deported and returned to China. Electronic fraud groups usually sell you to other parks to continue to be used as meat pigs. I digress. If you are demobilized and returned to China, you can go back to the city where we lived before. The following days What are you going to do to make a living here?"

"Good question, um, let me think about it, is there any severance pay? In your hypothesis, the two of us worked as cattle and horses for the secret party to kill four pairs of four kings, four times two and eight dragon kings, plus a history lesson The black and white emperor who goes to school will have ten dragon kings, so the severance package should be enough, right?"

"Just calculate it as one million, after tax."

"One hundred after tax? U.S. dollars or RMB? This is too confusing! Let me think about it. Converted to more than 700 RMB, it doesn't seem to be too much."

Now it was Lin Nian's turn to sit up and glance at Lu Mingfei, raised his eyebrows and said, "It seems that studying abroad for a few years will be good for you. In the past, I'm afraid you were already clamoring about getting rich." , you can drink porridge one bowl at a time, right?"

"There's nothing I can do." Lu Mingfei, who was lying down with his hands on the back of his head, sighed, "When I was in high school, I had no idea about money. Hundreds of thousands felt like an astronomical figure. Once I went to college, I came into contact with so many people and things. Only then did I realize that it costs millions to open a coffee shop in the school, including rent, decoration fees, raw materials, equipment, staff salaries, and pre-opening publicity. It’s all money! You can’t even afford it if you don’t have more than a million dollars. If you still want to consider a slightly better road, then the rent will have to increase several times - do you know the coffee shop at the intersection about 200 meters downstairs from our dormitory towards Anbo Hall? That's the one Chun Coffee, I heard from the Jewish boss that the rent is 8 dollars a month, brother, dollars! Just the Budapest style decoration cost more than 50 dollars, and he kept complaining to me every day that the store was losing money, so he opened this The shop has been transferred just a month ago."

"Why are you inquiring so clearly? You also know that the decoration of that store is Budapest style. Do you really plan to open a coffee shop after returning to China?"

"I open an egg cafe, do I seem to be such an elegant person?" Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes and turned sideways, "Why don't you tell me that I only order Matcha Frappuccino when I go into Starbucks? Cafe? I’m not a young man like Caesar who only drinks espresso for coffee. I usually don’t tip when I drink Frappuccino! ( # S-level consumption does not tip)”

"Then what are you going to do? You have more than 700 in your hand and you just put it in the bank to earn interest? Aren't you afraid of inflation?"

"You are so bloated. You have more than 700 people, who can be more bloated than you? If you put it in the bank and earn interest every month, you can earn more than 3,000 yuan. If you save some money, when you get old, you may have more than 700 yuan." So some."

"Are you just waiting to die?"

The bedroom became quiet, and one could hear the snoring of Fingel, who was on Lu Mingfei's upper bunk.

After a while, Lu Mingfei said, "How about opening an Internet cafe?"

"This seems like your high school dream."

"This was my lifelong dream before you pulled me onto this broken ship." Lu Mingfei sighed, "How great would it be to open an Internet cafe? Be your own network administrator and surf the Internet whenever you want. What flavor of instant noodles do you want to eat behind it? Just eat whatever flavor you want, add as much braised eggs and ham as you want. If I really graduated from Kassel College, I will probably go back and open an Internet cafe? I will keep my status as an alumnus and people will ask me what school I graduated from. I can even say 'Cassell College' in a pretentious way. Anyway, I probably won't learn anything in school for four years. It doesn't take much brains to open an Internet cafe. I just need to find a good location, increase the computer configuration and hold Internet cafe competitions regularly. , and finally find a few beautiful girls to be network administrators. If you have nothing to do, just open a machine in the corner of your Internet cafe and play StarCraft, CS, etc. If you and your senior brothers come online, I can also open free private rooms for you. Let the most beautiful female network administrator give you Coca-Cola instant noodles, and we will play games all night long, until your girlfriends come along the network cable and pull your ears back, and I will watch the jokes next to you. Every week we How nice is it to get together just once? It’s a day like this.”

"Then who is the proprietress of the Internet cafe? Chu Zihang and I both have girlfriends in your idea, what about your girlfriend?" Lin Nian turned his head and looked at him on the lower bunk.

"Can she live with an Internet cafe owner?" Lu Mingfei smiled bitterly.

"Ah? What happened to opening an Internet cafe? Who is she?"

"I mean forget it, it's nothing." Lu Mingfei scratched his head.

The dormitory was quiet for a while.

"So after rounding it off, we're still just eating and waiting to die." Lin Nian commented sharply, "The difference is that one is to open an Internet cafe and wait to die, and the other is to eat interest and wait to die."

"There seems to be no difference?" Lu Mingfei thought for a while and found that it seemed like this, but he was too lazy to argue, "Then let's just live and die and wait for death. This is the good life I imagined after graduation, eat and wait for death. Isn’t it bad? You have to force yourself to get involved, right?”

"That's not the case. It's good to eat and wait to die."

"Sigh." Lu Mingfei was silent for a while, then suddenly sighed.

"What are you sighing for?"

"Actually, I didn't want to come to the United States to study in the first place." Lu Mingfei sighed, "What I originally thought was to take the normal college entrance examination, then take the pheasant university and study for four years, and then find a job for a few years after graduation, and then Moving out from my aunt's house to live alone - my biggest dream before was to move out and live alone. It would be better to buy a second-hand laptop, connect a network cable, and play games every day when I come home from work. No one can If you can’t control me, this is probably the happiest life I’ve ever had.”

Lin Nian said nothing.

"But the plan couldn't keep up with the change. As soon as you made a phone call and received an admissions letter, I was lured to the United States. Even if I came to Cassel College, I still wanted to quietly finish four years of study and return to my hometown after receiving the scholarship. Eating and waiting to die. Then the thing about the Lord of Bronze and Fire happened again. It was like every time I made up my mind to eat and wait to die, someone always came to drag me out of the doghouse and pull me a magnificent picture. Look, tell me, you are right to follow this path - there is a feeling that I am not me. Although I know that everyone is doing it for my own good, and you are doing it for my own good, but... you don't really care about what I want. "

"To bring down the four kings and become a hero in everyone's eyes, isn't that what you want?" Lin Nian asked, "Don't tell me you're not secretly happy. I saw you repeatedly posting on the Night Watch forum. I have been reading posts about myself, and I have been secretly enjoying myself for a long time when I saw that they boasted about you so much. Now you open your laptop, and the first five items recorded by the browser are probably those when you click on them with your eyes closed. Post.”

"That's what I said." Lu Mingfei hummed twice, and what he said after that was completely inaudible.

"Then what do you want? Do you want to eat and wait to die?" Lin Nian rested his head on his hands and looked at the ceiling.

"How do you say this?" Lu Mingfei said, putting his hands on the back of his head and looking at the wooden board on the upper bunk.

"My unreliable parents wanted me to be a left-behind child so that they wouldn't disturb their honeymoon and become Indiana Jones. Regardless of whether I wanted to or not, I ended up living at my aunt's house. My aunt and uncle wanted me to apply to a foreign university to take me away. I was assigned to be out of sight, but in the end I obediently took the IELTS and TOEFL exams. You, my good brother, wanted me to be more promising and study at Kassel College. Although I am very scared, I am still lying in the dormitory on campus. I stayed up late at night chatting with you here - so do my own thoughts really matter? I didn't dare to pursue Chen Wenwen at that time and you scolded me for having no opinion. Now it seems that maybe I really have no opinion. What do I want? It seems that what I do has never been important. What matters is what people want me to do and who they want me to be.”

There was silence in the dormitory for three times. Lin Nian said nothing, just silence.

Until Lu Mingfei's upper bunk came Fingel's quiet voice, "Then I want you to sleep quietly now, can you satisfy me? Junior brother. Not everyone is as idle as you two great heroes, I I have to go to the vice-principal early tomorrow morning to act like a bully!"

The dormitory finally became completely quiet. When the snoring started again, Lu Mingfei in the lower bunk made no movement. He must have fallen asleep, but Lin Nian in the upper bunk on the other side kept looking at the ceiling with his eyes open.

—

"After thinking about it for so long, is this question difficult? In my opinion, this question is for free."

On the stage of the reality show, the host looked at Lin Nian on the other side of the V-shaped seat. The spotlight cast their shadows on the ground. The hot temperature of the light made people's skin feel burning pain. It is the brilliant eye of white light.

"It has never been important what he really thinks. What matters is what the people around him want him to do and what kind of person he wants to be." Lin Nian said in a low voice.

"This is not a direct answer to the question." The host said.

"Looking at what Lu Mingfei has done up to now, after entering Kassel Academy and becoming an 'S' class, the first thing he came into contact with was the crusade against Constantine, the King of Bronze and Fire, and then he was compiled He entered the 'Bronze Project' and got into trouble with Norton, and now he is forced to be involved in the chaos between the Earth and the Mountain King." Lin Nian said lightly, "Obviously, there is a force that wants him to do something really big. Let him be that hero...or something else."

"It's very close to the answer, but I want you to tell it." The host stared at Lin Nian and said calmly.

"Lu Mingfei's future path is to kill the four kings. Behind his back there are people who want to see him do this. Regardless of what he really wants, he will always take such a path." Lin Nian said, "That is His end point may be that he will fulfill his true dream and get what he wants on the way, but at the end of the road, he has only one end point, and that is to kill everything on the throne and become the 'Destined Dragon Slayer' .”

"The answer is correct." The host nodded slowly, "That is Lu Mingfei's fate. He was born for this. Hilbert Jean Angers has the same reason to find him as he has to find you. .You are all the same tools in the eyes of those people. Many people are looking forward to you becoming the kind of person they want. They can satisfy everything you want, but when you accept those gifts, We will inevitably follow the path arranged by them."

"Who is the driving force behind Lu Mingfei? I know that such a person exists. He is even close to the emperor. I want a name." Lin Nian asked, looking at the host's bright golden eyes.

"Unfortunately, the rules of the Q\u0026A show are that I ask questions, you answer, and then expand some relevant knowledge based on your answers. It does not include the part where you ask me questions." The host said, "I can't answer your question behind Lu Mingfei's back. The specific identity of the pusher, because this violates the 'contract', but I can give you the name of an irrelevant person."

Lin Nian and the host looked at each other, and the latter said slowly, "Remember that Lu Mingfei had a cousin, right? The biological son of his uncle and aunt, the boy who also attended Shilan Middle School and had the nickname 'Prince Ze'. "

"That little fat guy named Lu Mingze?" Of course Lin Nian remembered this character. Lu Mingfei used to complain about his cousin taking his computer to play in high school.

Lin Nian didn't think that the fat man was hiding any extraordinary energy and was planning everything behind Lu Mingfei's back, hiding it from everyone including his eyes. However, the host suddenly mentioned that this person must have her reasons.

"That little fat guy is nothing worth mentioning. He is not a figure in the same world as Lu Mingfei and the Dragon Clan. He is only qualified to be mentioned on this occasion. I am afraid that only his name is Lu Mingze. This name is really good."

Lin Nian stared at the host's paco appearance for a while and said nothing.

"Is there something dirty on my face?" The host raised his eyebrows and looked at Lin Nian and smiled. To be honest, Paco's face does look pretty when he smiles. There is some pure and innocent beauty that makes people feel happy from the bottom of their hearts. A caring heart will arise.

"What's the reward for this question?" Lin Nian didn't express his guess and brushed the topic hastily.

"The reward for the fifth level is very exciting." The host sat up straight, adjusted his posture, and asked, "Lin Nian, you know why I said at the beginning of the show, 'You will be the first to answer six questions correctly. Someone who has passed the customs?’ Is this sentence?”

Lin Nian paused for a moment, then immediately understood what the host meant and made an inaudible snort.

"Yes, the reward for the fifth question is fixed." The host nodded, "Those who answer the fifth question correctly can choose to leave the reality show immediately and get tickets for the next subway line in Nibelungen. But the price That is, he needs to give up all the prizes accumulated in the prize pool for answering the first four questions correctly.”

"There were many people before you who persisted until the fifth question like you, but when it came to the choice of continuing to challenge or leaving the reality show, they basically chose the latter, so from beginning to end, those who answered the six questions correctly passed the level Man has not yet been born.”

The host paused, "Including your good brother Lu Mingfei, he also gave up the prize in the prize pool after answering the fifth question correctly and chose to go to the next level. It is really regrettable. He clearly wanted to The Seven Deadly Sins: Arrogance took him away, but he accepted it abruptly when it was good - he said he was in a hurry."

"Is the sixth question difficult?" Lin Nian raised his head and asked.

"It varies from person to person, but the prizes are extremely rich. There is a mysterious grand prize hidden in the sixth question." The host tempted, "Want to give it a try? Don't give up in the bloody battle, and become the first to clear it. The hero of the reality show level?”

ps: Happy New Year’s Eve