It’s September 1st again.

The school bell rang again, like a powerful summoning spell, gathering students back to campus, regardless of whether their holiday happiness was still unfinished.

Ye Xiaolong, who had not yet fully awakened from the long and exciting summer vacation, stood listlessly in front of the antique red paint gate with his schoolbag, looking at this strange new school.

Thirteen, although this number is very unlucky in the eyes of Westerners, is not taboo in this mysterious Eastern country. The Thirteenth Middle School in City B is a prestigious school with a long history. Students and parents are all vying for it.

It is sought after by everyone, and no one dislikes its number. It is said that those who can get into this place are elites, and the chance of entering a prestigious university in the future is more than 95%, with unlimited future. In order to become a member of the elite, Ye Xiaolong went to school in his old age.

After studying hard for half a year under Mom's high-pressure policy, I barely managed to achieve the expected goal, and got the admission notice with the third-to-last score. Despite this, this is still great news for the Ye family, and the celebration party is still

Inevitably, Ye Xiaolong also spent a pleasant summer vacation - but for him, it was still too short.

"Don't think that entering the No. 13 Middle School is equivalent to entering a safe. From now on, it is a new starting point. You are surrounded by good and hard-working students. You have to work harder!" Mom's teachings before leaving the house in the morning

It still echoed in his ears.

"The so-called 'hard work' has already cost me half of my life. How about 'doubling my efforts' will still cost me my life? Alas, study, study, study again, is this everything in my life?" Facing the front

On the gloomy road, Ye Xiaolong sighed. However, he sighed again, the reality is still unavoidable - there is no way, a small character in the big world is so helpless. So, what about becoming a powerful figure? It is a pity that he

He does not have this ambition, because overall, he is still a very realistic person who can distinguish what is an ideal and what is a delusion. Although he occasionally fantasizes about becoming an invincible superhero, saving the world from danger and winning countless

He received applause and won the favor of many beauties...but he only regarded this kind of sexual intercourse purely as a means to vent his depression. After all, no matter how good the dream, there is always a time to wake up.

While it was still early, Ye Xiaolong took a walk around the campus. Speaking of which, the layout of this campus is very unique. As soon as you enter the main entrance, there is a small garden like a classical garden, with various flowers and plants planted in it, and it is paved with green bricks.

There are towering old trees on both sides of the road, and the teaching building cannot be seen from here. Most people who are new here will feel like they have mistakenly entered the park. Surrounding the garden are matching gold lacquer paintings and antique classical buildings.

, but it has long been transformed into an office. The moon gate through the garden is the teaching area of ​​the school. You cannot see the teaching building from here. There are two teaching buildings, one new and one old, standing side by side. There is a large area opposite the building.

Teaching facilities renovated from ancient buildings, such as canteens, multi-functional conference halls, special classrooms, libraries, etc. Further inside is the playground. If viewed from above, the entire school is actually a long and narrow shape, like a deep house compound.

It is very deep. But this is not surprising at all, because the school building was originally rebuilt on the basis of the ancient palace, and the long history will definitely leave its own traces.

Ye Xiaolong was basically satisfied with the nostalgic environment: "It's quite interesting to sit in the shade of a tree during lunch break and read the stories on the gold-painted paintings." Just as he was thinking about it, a voice as crisp as nature suddenly came from behind.

A pleasant girl's voice: "Excuse me, where is the principal's office?"

"I'm just here too..." Ye Xiaolong originally wanted to save trouble by saying he didn't know, but when he turned around and saw the face of the girl who was speaking, he was stunned - not only did his breathing stop, but even his blood seemed to solidify instantly.

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The girl was dressed in a simple student uniform, wearing a pair of cute glasses with pink lenses, and a silver star hairpin slanted on the left front of her forehead. Her long black hair was gently fluttering in the warm breeze, as if it had vitality.

Although there is no exaggerated dress or any creative hairstyle, the natural beauty is like jasper, with an extraordinary temperament in the warmth, and it is like a fairy from the world, even if it is deliberately covered up, it will not be inferior.

Her pretty face shows her identity like an ID card.

Ye Xiaolong believes that he will never admit his mistake: "I'm not dreaming, am I? Isn't this the super popular beautiful girl Zhu Lingling who is popular in newspapers, television, and the Internet, known as the 'little princess who steals hearts', film, television, singing, dancing, and hosting? Why?

To see her here in person?! It’s incredible!”

"You, you, you..." He said the word "you" three times in a row. Before he could recover from the extreme excitement, his whole body was trembling slightly.

Seeing his lost look, the girl smiled happily, as if she knew what he was thinking and had already become accustomed to others' consternation, which indirectly proved the answer. "Do you know where the principal's office is?" she asked again.

"Oh...I...I seemed to have seen the sign for the principal's office just now...well...it's in the garden over there...do you need...I'll take you there?" In front of the idol who was like a goddess in his mind,

Ye Xiaolong was completely at a loss.

"No, thank you, I think I should be able to find it." The girl thanked her politely and walked towards the garden.

Until her figure disappeared behind the Moon Gate, Ye Xiaolong still stood there blankly. Being able to have such close contact with Zhu Lingling, and even saying several words, his surging heart could not calm down for a while. This morning

The unhappiness of going out has long been gone, and this dreamlike encounter will be an unforgettable memory for him.

That's what he thought at the time.

*****

Sitting in the classroom, other students gathered around to introduce themselves to each other, but Ye Xiaolong found a corner to sit down alone, looking out the window in ecstasy, still immersed in the happiness of the wonderful encounter.

The head teacher was a female teacher named Jin. After she introduced herself and called the names on the roster, she began to arrange seats for the students according to their height. The seats were arranged for boys and girls as much as possible. However, when Ye Xiaolong sat down, she specifically asked the next person to sit down.

The female classmate waited first, reserved a seat next to Ye Xiaolong, and said that there was another classmate who was not here.

Everyone was curious, and the students speculated whether the female classmate who had not yet appeared was a beauty, and some even made bets. Only Ye Xiaolong didn't care much about who his deskmate was: "Well, no one can compare to Zhu Lingling anyway.

...It would be great if I could sit at the same table as Zhu Lingling..." But he was just flirting casually because he knew that was impossible.

But he forgot that nothing is impossible in this world.

When all the students were seated, there were three crisp knocks on the door.

Teacher Jin hurriedly adjusted his hair and clothes, and then ran over to open the door himself. As soon as the door opened, the whole class was shocked - accompanied by the principal with a smile like a fat Buddha, a girl wearing a student uniform came with an intoxicating

Standing at the door with a smile on her face. How can a student uniform dilute her radiant charm? That famous face that almost everyone knows is equivalent to writing a name that almost everyone knows on a giant billboard.

The air froze for about half a minute, and there was no sound in the teacher. It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Then, the whole class was shocked. The atmosphere boiled to the top in an instant. The cheers were so loud that it almost shook the whole building. Unknown

So the other classes thought there was an explosion somewhere.

"Hello everyone!" Cherry opened her mouth slightly, and Zhu Lingling's sweet voice was conveyed to every corner. With a "gudong" sound, a boy fainted with excitement.

"Where is your seat?" Teacher Zhu pointed to Ye Xiaolong.

Ye Xiaolong, who was in a petrified state, couldn't believe that what he saw and heard was true, and he quickly pinched his face twice with his hands.

Seeing Ye Xiaolong's entranced and silly look, Zhu Lingling smiled slightly: "Hey! What a coincidence, I met you again, we are not destined to be destined, right?"

Ye Xiaolong's face and ears turned red and he didn't know what to say.

Seeing the two people talking intimately, many eyes were red with jealousy and wished they could emit high-heat flames and burn Ye Xiaolong alive.

Zhu Lingling blinked her big talking eyes and asked: "By the way, although I said thank you, I haven't asked you your name yet?"

"My name is...Ye...Ye Xiaolong." Ye Xiaolong stumbled out his name with his tongue almost trembling.

"Xiaolong, please take good care of me from now on!" Zhu Lingling stretched out her right hand.

Ye Xiaolong will never forget the wonderful feeling of the two people's hands holding together for the first time, as if electricity was flowing through them.

*****

The whole day, Ye Xiaolong was immersed in happy memories. He could see secretly during class, talk face to face after class, and was called by his name affectionately... These scenes that could only be seen in dreams before had actually changed.

It has become a reality. If Zhu Lingling's other star-chasers find out, they will be jealous to death! (In fact, the possibility of being cursed to death by the mixed resentment of countless people will be greater...)

Walking on the way home, he was still smiling stupidly. The gloom had long been swept away. The future that was judged to be "gloomy" seemed to be full of infinite light. If he hadn't known how to do it, he would have even wanted to shout out loud.

Recite poems that praise spring - although now we have entered the completely opposite autumn.

But as the saying goes, "Misfortune lies behind blessings, and fortune lies behind misfortune." The twin sister of luck is misfortune. When a person is completely immersed in the happiness that falls from the sky, misfortune may also follow...

Humming a song, he came to Yindu Center, a large shopping mall that was noisy as usual, and was about to take the subway home from here, when something unexpected happened.

Everything happened so suddenly that people could not recall any details afterwards. Ye Xiaolong only remembered that the ground suddenly shook violently like an earthquake. He almost lost his balance. Fortunately, he held on to the counter next to him so that he could not react like some people who did not react in time.

They all fell down. Then, from nowhere, there were screams, gunshots, and screams. People looked at each other at a loss, not knowing where to flee.

"Robbery!" This was Ye Xiaolong's initial judgment. He didn't want to be accidentally injured in the fight between police and robbers, let alone be held hostage by the robbers, so he quickly found an opaque counter to hide.

"Bang!" A dull loud noise came from the opposite side of his hiding place. It seemed that a giant hammer used for demolishing buildings hit the wall. One wall collapsed suddenly, and dust suddenly flew up. Ye Xiaolong's eyes were filled with tears.

It was blurry and I wanted to cough. "I don't know if it was an explosion or an impact... Anyway, no one would dare to commit such a blatant robbery in broad daylight. Could it be... a terrorist attack?" When I thought of the terrorists,

A foreign-made plane crashed into a building, a series of subway explosions, poison gas was released into the building's air-conditioning system and other notorious attacks. He couldn't help but shudder. He had just been lucky enough to sit at the same table with Zhu Lingling as if he had grabbed a million-dollar prize. But don't

Wu Fu continued to enjoy. He wiped his eyes randomly, covered his mouth, and bravely looked out through the gap in the counter. He saw a large flesh-colored ball with a diameter of more than two meters rolling out of the hole in the wall.

"Monster!" "Help!" "Run!" The frightened people screamed desperately, pushing each other, rolling and crawling towards the passages on both sides. The meat ball seemed to be alive and intelligent.

, rolled up at an astonishing speed, like a ball on a pinball machine, constantly hitting the walls, counters and other objects on both sides, using the force of rebound to advance along a z-shaped route, mercilessly hitting the fleeing people one by one.

The people running at the front could hear the screams and the harsh crackling of bones behind them. They were horrified, but they also knew that they could only save their lives by gritting their teeth and closing their eyes to endure the fear.

They were only two or three meters away from the door. Hope was in front of them. I thought I could escape this disaster. Suddenly I heard the sound of wind behind me and looked back. Unexpectedly, the meat ball flew up, crossed an astonishing distance from above my head, and blocked them.

In front of me. It turns out that the material that makes it up is extremely elastic. With one jump, it flattens its body, and then with the help of the momentum of recovering its deformation, it leaps into the air like a spring.

What happened next, Ye Xiaolong closed his eyes and covered his ears. He couldn't bear to see or listen to it. However, the strong grief and reluctance of those people before they died were still clearly conveyed to his heart, and the mournful cries of the dead souls were shrill.

The howl seemed to echo in his ears, piercing his heart like red-hot needles.

"How could this happen?!" Ye Xiaolong is not timid. He also yearns for adventure and longs to be a hero. But when he really faces danger, he realizes that being a hero is not something you just take for granted. How valuable courage and fighting spirit are. He

Now he wished he could stay away from right and wrong immediately, but once he was really involved in the whirlpool of disaster, how easy would it be to escape? Under the counter, he experienced loneliness and helplessness alone. He wanted to cry, but he was obsessed with the dignity of a man and resisted the urge to cry.

Crying out. After a while, the strong breath of death gradually dissipated. He let go of his hand, and the screams could no longer be heard in his ears. He tremblingly poked his head out from behind the counter where he was hiding, peeking at the movement around him and the wall.

There was a big hole in it, and there was no trace of the meat ball. It seemed that it couldn't find a dazzling target, so it smashed into the wall and rolled towards the hall next to it.

Everything returned to tranquility, no, it should be said to be dead silence. The air filled with choking dust was filled with a strong smell of blood. The originally magnificently decorated shopping mall was now devastated: bloody corpses were scattered across the rubble.

Middle; The collapsed counter, the items on the counter, and the backpacks dropped by people in panic, and shoes scattered all over the floor. At the beginning of the chaos, some people wanted to take advantage of the situation and grab some expensive brand-name goods, but after killing people

In the face of unblinking monsters, the most important thing is to save life. Who can care about property? Even Ye Xiaolong, who hid desperately from the beginning, survived only because of luck, because there were also shrewd customers hiding.

Behind other counters, but those counters were unfortunately in the path of the meat ball, and eventually became the coffins they chose for themselves.

Ye Xiaolong's nose felt sore and he really wanted to cry, but he knew that now was not the time to relax. After waiting for a while, he concluded that the gone meat ball would not come back, then he gritted his teeth and got under the counter.

Come out and run in the direction where the meat ball came from.
To be continued...