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

The weather in Japan's rainy season is always unpredictable. It suddenly gets hot and then cools down quickly after a few days. If there is wind at night after the rain, when walking on the street and the evening breeze blows through the narrow and colorful streets, the body will always feel cold, but this chill will soon be dispelled by the chaos and heat of the bustling crowd under the neon lights.

Standing in front of the zebra crossing at Shibuya Crossing, Li Huoyue, who was wearing a black shirt and carrying a black guitar bag, unbuttoned the first button of his collar to reveal a silver clavicle chain, and the tail of the shirt was tucked into the light blue jeans, making it seem that his legs in flat boots were longer-lived than the Japanese uncle next to him whose eyes were almost squinting.

Once I arrived at the bustling urban area of ​​Japan, especially at night, I looked around aimlessly. I felt that in addition to the crowds of people, there were red and green lights everywhere. When the traffic stopped, the red taillights of the brakes lit up, like a signal. Looking around, a sea of ​​red round lights filled the entire steel city, like the wide eyes of countless beasts in the jungle. Crowded but quiet people lowered their heads and stood in front of the zebra crossing to isolate themselves from the city.

When the signal light turned green, the ubiquitous and pleasant "beep" prompt sound spread throughout the intersection, just like the floodgates opened at the flood discharge outlet, and the noisy footsteps and voices rushed forward at once, a sea of ​​​​people.

Li Huoyue mixed in this intersection known as the most congested in the world. She walked at her own pace and was not dragged by the crowds around her, which made her so eye-catching even if she was walking in the school of fish.

This was her first time in this country and this city.

When she was in the orthodox period, she had been to many prosperous places in China for missions, but no city gave her such a special feeling like Tokyo. It was like the fireworks had not yet cooled down, and when the continuous fireworks exploded on the top of the mountain, the people on the ground who looked up already felt lonely.

Just like she was standing at the crossroads in the center of the world now, looking up at the bright LED advertising screens and bright signs on the steel buildings in all directions, she felt that this prosperity was very close to her but also very far away, as if she was looking at snow through a snow globe.

It was already dark, so the whole of Tokyo was lit up, especially Shibuya at the moment.

Li Huoyue didn't hate the feeling that Japan brought to her, a strong sense of unreality. She walked alone on the streets of Shibuya with a guitar bag on her back. The road became narrower and narrower as she walked forward. She had inadvertently walked into the complex business district that spread like a spider web.

Japan's regional planning is very interesting. Unlike other cities where the more prosperous they are, the wider they are, Japan's land is narrow, so in regional planning, it counterintuitively appears that the narrower the area, the more prosperous it is. The road is so narrow that only one car can pass, but the flow of people is geometrically greater than that of other wide streets. The further you go, the more neon and LED signs like menus are lined up on the buildings on both sides. This counterintuitive feeling is the biggest shock to tourists who come to Japan for the first time.

Li Huoyue has heard others say that Japan is a very cold country. When she really came to this place, she had to agree with this from the bottom of her heart. The reason for agreeing with this is not the national quality of this country, but a more mysterious feeling.

This is also the second point that constitutes the impression of Japan's characteristics, that is, the sense of withdrawal.

It seems that if you are too in the center of prosperity, you will feel that prosperity is a distance away from yourself. Even if the crowds, signs, and neon lights around you are telling you that you are standing in the most prosperous place in the world, you will still feel lonely from the bottom of your heart-this loneliness is called withdrawal.

There are so many new things and so many prosperous scenes, but when you walk on the streets embraced by the tide, you can only stand on the street and look up at the prosperity like a cursory glance, and you can't really put yourself in it - even if you want to try to integrate into it, you will find it ridiculous that you can't take action at all, as if this prosperity has actively separated you from a wall of neon lights, and you can only passively watch the fire from the other side of the river. The more prosperous everything you see, the more lonely you seem.

But Li Huoyue doesn't hate this feeling, but rather likes it a little, because she has always been alone. This kind of loneliness will increase people's psychological pressure, but some people always get a strange pleasure under that pressure, as if loneliness can really be enjoyed, rather than self-entertainment.

It seems that she came here just for sightseeing. She walked and stopped, occasionally stopped at the door of the drugstore, looked at the unfamiliar Japanese and thought for a moment, then walked in. When she came out, she had nothing in her hands. The clerk in the automatic door behind her still welcomed her to come again with a bright smile.

When she walked to the door of the barbecue restaurant, she stopped again because of the aroma inside. She stood in front of the sign beside the door and looked at the dishes and prices on it. She silently converted the exchange rate in her mind and tried to understand the price situation in Japan. When the clerk inside the door walked towards her with a smile and prepared to sell her, she turned around and walked away.

When she reached a slightly wider intersection, she stopped again because of the garbage on the ground. She fell silent as she looked at the intersection that looked like a garbage dump. She was probably removing the story in Yilinli praising how clean the streets of Japan were from her own think tank. The idea that citizens would not litter if there were no trash cans seemed to be a joke. Li Huoyue did not see a single trash can on the street, but the garbage was everywhere.

Those young men and women around 20 years old, or should we call them Shibuya men and women, gathered in groups of three or five at an intersection, leaning on the guardrail to chat. There was a no-smoking sign on the side, but they still held cigarettes in their hands. The ground was full of cigarette butts and black marks left by the stepped cigarette butts.

Li Huoyue stopped in the middle of the intersection because there were two or three black crows blocking her way. These little creatures kept pecking at the dregs in the snack bag on the ground. They were not afraid of people passing by and completely ignored the existence of these humans on the street. They enjoyed their evening snacks by themselves. Maybe living in Japan should be like these crows to live more comfortably? This thought flashed through her mind.

During the short time that Li Huoyue was in a daze, there was already a person who approached her. He was a young man with dyed yellow hair, dressed very fashionably, and had all the shiny accessories. He approached her and started to chat with her in Japanese.

"Miss, hello."

"Miss, are you here to play in Tokyo?"

"Miss, are you a foreigner? You must be Chinese! I can tell from your hairstyle!"

"Miss, are you a musician with a guitar on your back? I also like music and can play BBOX!"

"Miss, are you ignoring me? You are so cold! Haha!"

This is not the first person Li Huoyue has met who has approached her. This is one of the things she is not used to in Japan. There are too many people who approach her. These people seem to never be afraid of being rejected. They stick to you like a dog-skin plaster. Their words and attitudes are very polite. They insist on being persistent. The highest record she met was a person who kept repeating the sentence "Miss, you are very beautiful!" He followed him for three blocks before giving up and leaving.

Li Huoyue ignored the yellow-haired boy who approached her, walked around the crow and continued to move forward. The yellow-haired boy next to him seemed to be really attracted by Li Huoyue's temperament and appearance. He tried hard to follow Li Huoyue to show his eloquence and show his humorous and witty side as much as possible.

Li Huoyue ignored him and just continued to walk forward, looking at everything in Japan. Since she came to Japan, she has hardly spoken a word. She also travels by subway. She never communicates effectively with anyone and just waits for the phone in her pocket to ring.

Before the phone rings, she plans to learn as much as possible about the country's style to avoid mistakes later.

The yellow-haired boy still follows Li Huoyue, and it seems that he really doesn't intend to give up this super beautiful, wild and high-quality woman who is like a top-level graphic model. Or it can be said that as long as he leaves, there will always be someone else to take his place and chat up. Even if he fails, he can't let others succeed. Otherwise, it would be more uncomfortable to think that such a top-level woman who can be a landscape is taken to the hotel by other men every night.

This yellow-haired boy seemed to be about to break the record of men who came to flirt with Li Huoyue. He followed Li Huoyue around the business district for about four or five rounds until Li Huoyue stopped. He immediately thought that the stone had finally blossomed and the effect of water dripping on the stone was achieved. As a result, he found that Li Huoyue stopped just to look up and look at the sign of a Wagyu barbecue restaurant. It seemed that she was attracted by the aroma of high-quality beef fat melting on the charcoal fire.

"Miss, do you want to eat? I can treat you!" The yellow-haired boy gritted his teeth and prepared to spend a lot of money to flirt with her. Usually, no matter how he flirted, even if he succeeded, any consumption would be AA with the woman, but this time he was ready to break the rules set by his ancestors and spend some money to pick up girls.

Li Huoyue turned her head and glanced at him. It seemed that she was ready to take some action, because she felt that if she didn't do something, this annoying guy might really follow her into the store and sit down opposite her shamelessly. If there was a dispute in the store at that time, the scene would be ugly, which would have a negative effect on her mood and subsequent actions.

Just when Li Huoyue was about to say something in English, he suddenly stopped, his eyes became indifferent, and a hint of gold gradually appeared in the bottom of his pupils.