Although they weren’t in the sa examination hall, the class leader Zhou Yunyun just happened to encounter Tan Wenbin outside the exam room.
"How did the test go?" Zhou Yunyun offered a White Rabbit Creamy Candy.
Tan Wenbin took the candy and reached into his pocket, pulling out a chocolate wrapper, but half of the chocolate was already eaten during the exam.
Zhou Yunyun didn’t mind and naturally reached out to take it.
However, Tan Wenbin popped the remaining half of the chocolate into his own mouth.
"Ah, I’m really hungry."
Zhou Yunyun then naturally circled her outstretched hand and turned it into fixing her hair.
Tan Wenbin saw the boy surrounded by a crowd of teachers and leaders at the school gate. He didn’t wave his arms and shout but instead smiled and walked back to the classroom.
After sitting down in his own seat, Tan Wenbin placed the coffin-shaped pencil case on the desk.
Earlier, it was with this coffin that he had entered the examination room.
Zhou Yunyun sat down in Li Zhiyuan’s seat, opened her pencil bag, and pulled out a piece of paper.
"Shall we compare answers?"
Tan Wenbin shook his head: "No need to compare."
"Worried it might affect your state for the next exam?"
"No, I think I did okay."
"Could you switch to a different pencil case?"
"I can’t." Tan Wenbin turned to look at Zhou Yunyun. "If you find it distasteful, why did you ask for one from ? Even when I gave you one, I never saw you use it."
Zhou Yunyun was speechless; she had gotten one, and Tan Wenbin had given it to her, but she just kept it tucked away in a drawer, never to be used.
First, the thing did seem sowhat creepy after all, and second, without having established a relationship, what was the aning of both using a coffin-shaped pencil case?
If a relationship was indeed established, she, she, she... would use it.
The main thing was that she found herself increasingly fond of this big boy; initially just admiring his blatant unruliness as a model student.
Later, as his studies improved, and seemingly out of nowhere, his entire deanor changed. Though he still appeared lazy and unkempt, there was sothing increasingly charming about his expression, very attractive.
Previously, there was mutual affection, but both tacitly maintained a distance, without making it explicit. Now it was Zhou Yunyun taking the initiative, even hinting several tis at establishing a relationship, but the man showed no reaction.
Even Zhou Yunyun herself couldn’t understand what was happening with her.
But this was quite normal; not to ntion they were all high school students, even university students might still retain the naivety of being in an ivory tower.
And Tan Wenbin, having faced life-and-death situations several tis, may not have changed in appearance or age, but his mindset had vastly outpaced his peers.
The more it was so, the less he would respond to Zhou Yunyun’s hints. It’s better to focus on studies at a young age, to not delay your future.
Most importantly, he was now busy as if his feet were on fiery wheels, constantly occupied with no leisure to consider dating.
Dating in youth, nowhere near as interesting as dealing with corpses.
Although he hadn’t encountered any corpses recently, he was not anxious; his preparations now were for eting greater ones in the future.
Principal Wu drove Li Zhiyuan ho. Arriving at the yard, Li Zhiyuan heard soone calling him from the second floor; it was Xue Liangliang.
"Xiao Yuan!"
"Brother Liangliang."
Xue Liangliang had just taken a shower and changed into new clothes.
Li Zhiyuan thought that if it weren’t for the need to go down to the river, he might have even sprayed on so perfu and styled his hair.
"Xiao Yuan, I’ve put the restored bamboo slips on your desk for you. It took quite long, but I couldn’t help it; for sothing so important, I couldn’t trust others to deliver it. I had to bring it personally."
Li Zhiyuan didn’t believe him.
He thought the reason Brother Liangliang insisted on delivering the bamboo slips in person was to have an excuse to co to Nantong again.
And then, using the fact he was already here as a reason, create an unavoidable excuse to dive into the river again.
"Brother Liangliang, are you staying over tonight?"
"I won’t stay."
"Then are you going to another city overnight?"
"Well... not exactly."
Li Zhiyuan watched him.
Xue Liangliang sighed, speaking helplessly, "Ah, I really had no choice, now that I’ve co."
"Sure."
Who knows who it was that vigorously argued at the negotiation table to extend the frequency of river dives—was it once every few years?
Now, on the contrary, he cos to Nantong whenever he has the chance, and whenever he cos, he dives into the river.
"Oh, right, Xiao Yuan, rember you told on the phone last ti about the big secret buried in Fengdu Ghost City? Will you go there again?"
"Yeah, but I’ll wait until I’m older to go. Brother Liangliang, do you want to join ?"
"Of course, you must call when the ti cos. But, you have to grow up fast, and once you’re grown up, don’t delay too much, or else..."
"Or else what?"
Xue Liangliang shrugged: "Or else, the Ghost City might be subrged."
"Is that so, I understand."
"Rember..."
"I get it, Brother Liangliang, I’ll keep it a secret."
"Heh, then I’m off."
After Xue Liangliang left, Li Zhiyuan returned to his room and began examining the bamboo slips.
The capacity of the bamboo slips’ text was limited, so there wasn’t much written on them, and what was recorded was not deeds or thods, but locations.
There were a total of nine locations, but Li Zhiyuan could only identify three.
There was no helping it; the bamboo slips were written during the Spring and Autumn period, and the objects they were transcribing could even be older. Hence, the geographical terms didn’t match modern ones, and there was much debate in the historical community about where so places actually were, and that’s not even considering the effect of geological changes.
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