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

Chapter 376 Departure
The sun shines in from the square glass windows on the oblique side of the dome of the gymnasium, illuminating Lin Nian standing in the middle of the empty basketball court. The sound of the basketball hitting the wooden floor is clear and soothing, echoing throughout the empty gymnasium.

The score on the electronic scoreboard was 0:0, but in the next second, the sound of the basketball hitting the floor suddenly disappeared. A few seconds later, the electronic scoreboard jumped and a 3-pointer hit the net. .

Standing in the middle of the basketball court, Lin Nian lowered his shooting arm. The basketball hit the basket 14 meters away and bounced back. A basketball was thrown out with a standard posture. The basketball flew halfway across the court and hit the backboard and bounced into the frame. It hit the ground and hit the first basketball that bounced on the ground and knocked it away.

One basketball after another was thrown in a melodious arc, half court shooting, Lin Nian only repeated mechanical movements, fetching the basketball, shooting, hitting, at the speed of his shooting, the basketball with a net around him should be within 1 minute. But the strange thing is that no matter how often and how fast he throws, the basketball around him will never bottom out, but whenever he stretches out his hand, he can always touch a ball, and the basketball in the net pocket will never reach the bottom. see the bottom.

The sound of the basketball hitting the floor kept ringing in the gymnasium. The electronic scoreboard kept jumping the score, and soon one side was brushed to the upper limit. When it reached the 999 count limit, Lin Nian reached out to touch the basketball but found nothing. He turned his head and looked into the net pocket, the basketball inside finally bottomed out.

"There must be an ending, right? You should have known that everything has an ending, whether it's a shot or a person." From the other end of the basketball court, a familiar girl's voice rang out.

Lin Nian put away his hands and looked up under the basket. The blond girl was sitting on a basketball, holding her chin, with a basketball in her waist, sticking out her tongue as if she was exhausted, but in fact her forehead and body were indeed There was a lot of sweat, and the white hospital gown stuck to the back and chest, revealing the milk-like white skin underneath.

Lin Nian didn't speak, but put his hands lightly on the side of the net bag. The blond girl could only sigh when she saw his appearance, muttered bad things in a low voice, and ran with two basketballs in her arms, running across the half court. He came to Lin Nian's side and threw the basketball into it. This is why the basketball in the net pocket is always endless.

"I know you're upset, but what can you do if you're upset? This is a decision made by the executive department after careful consideration, instead of slapping your head and saying: Ah, I think the 'S' class has gotten enough of the limelight recently, this time I won't take him to play. So I really won't take you to play. It's not like this at all, I can understand it, why can't you understand?" The blonde girl turned her head and walked towards the basket of a pile of basketballs with her hands on the back of her head Over there, talking loudly.

"Did you expect this?" Lin Nian threw out the two basketballs that the blond girl had just picked up in the net bag, and they still hit, and asked from a distance as she picked up a basketball.

The blond girl held a basketball in both hands, looked back at Lin Nian in the middle of the dark basketball court, and said without hesitation, "Of course I don't know, what do you think I am? A witch of the prophet? You here It's Cassel College, not Hogwarts, no crystal ball divination class!"

"But is it necessary to be in such a hurry? I thought that staying in the executive department for a long time would wear off your impatience, but it feels like you are still like this no matter how long it has passed. You are acting on emotions." The blond girl lazily clapped the basketball in her hand , Lin Nian dribbled the ball towards the midfield, "Do you still remember a question they asked you during the 3E exam? The trolley problem."

"What exactly are you trying to say?" Lin Nian asked calmly as he looked at the blond girl slapping a basketball in the dim light behind the sun.

"I just want to say that there are many variants of the trolley problem. The core of this problem is whether you are willing to give up some people to save others. To put it bluntly, it is a question of trade-offs, a rogue problem. I put the If the people were replaced by your sister and Mandy, did the question instantly become who would you save first if your girlfriend and mother fell into the sea?" The blond girl patted the ball in front of Lin Nian, holding it with both hands. Handed the basketball to Lin Nian, "Then the question is, who are you saving?"

Lin Nian didn't answer, and reached out to get the ball, but the blond girl stopped and avoided it.

"You can't answer it, right? That's why I said this kind of question is a hooligan question." The blonde girl said, "But in fact, when you really encounter this kind of question, it is not difficult for you to answer it in your heart. This question It’s not the same as the trolley problem, it’s not about making a choice, it’s about actually saying that choice.”

"I just want to save people. You have complicated the problem. No one will be sacrificed. There is no need for this matter to rise to this level."

"Well, it looks like this on the surface, but in reality, it's no accident that your lovely golden-haired senior sister is in danger this time." The blonde girl sighed.As soon as she finished speaking, the thin neckline of the clothes was pulled instantly, and a huge force pulled her over.

The blond girl didn't panic at all, she seemed to have expected this to happen, with a basketball straddling her waist, she tilted her head casually so as not to look at the pair of golden pupils looking down on her, and said to herself, "Hi , In fact, don’t you always have something in your heart? Just wait for me to say it myself, Murphy’s law.”

Lin Nian's fists were tightly clenched, staring at the blonde girl in front of him with an increasingly indifferent expression, he really wanted to punch her in the face, but he had never done this before when he was angry, and he always felt that it was so right. She, as if he would lose something. This time was no exception. After glaring for a full three minutes, he gradually let go of the other's neckline, but his tone was still as cold as ice, " Is this about the 'Emperor'?"

"Hmm." The blond girl was put down, took two steps back and nodded.

"The purpose is me?"

"uh-huh."

"If I don't go."

"Your senior sister is cool." The blond girl said, "It's definitely cool, don't expect anything in return, the 'Emperor' is not a kind and trustworthy person, if you don't show up, your senior sister will definitely die."

"But if I show up."

"Yangmou is not afraid that you will know that people are going to trap you, but let you step into it willingly, and often this kind of pit is the one that really kills people. Even if you think you are ready, He will always give you a huge one at the end. Surprise." The blond girl pursed her lips and shrugged her shoulders, the meaning was self-evident.

"So you don't want me to go?" Lin Nian asked in a low voice.

"Where is it?" The blond girl scratched her hair, "I just feel obliged to explain it to you clearly. In fact, you have already noticed that there is a problem with this matter, right? Although your senior sister set up a lot of flags before leaving Yes, but it would be a coincidence if something happened, but the facts prove that every coincidence is a deliberate necessity."

"You know the 'Emperor' better than I do. If I go, what is the worst situation?" Lin Nian asked.

"Probably die."

"Is it just possible to die? Not absolutely dead?"

"Where is it, be more confident in yourself? Although you are quite weak now, if the 'Emperor' doesn't end in person, there is nothing that can make you 'absolutely die'." The blonde girl reached out and tapped Lin Nian's chest Raising eyebrows, "Don't you still have me to cover you?"

"Why Mandy?" Lin Nian asked, "This time it's Mandy, could it be my sister next time, then Chu Zihang, Su Xiaoqiang from the other side of the ocean, or someone else I think is important?"

"Oh, it turns out that Su Xiaoqiang is behind Chu Zihang." The blond girl smiled strangely, but found that Lin Nian didn't respond at all, so she could only pucker her mouth in boredom.

She sighed and said, ".Actually, have you noticed that the purpose and means of the 'Emperor' have not been that simple all along. Kidnapping is really easy for him. Let's take Su Xiaoqiang as an example. , the kind of girl who has no means of defense around her, the 'emperor' really can tie her up as she wants, and can take her to a small room with no light at any time and put her in [-] poses to record a video Here it is, let you be as angry as a porcupine and charge forward desperately."

Halfway through the talk, the blond girl glanced at Lin Nian's lump again, shrank her head and continued to add, "But! But! There is a but in everything, but He hasn't done this until today, has he? Even I Knowing that Su Xiaoqiang is actually your weakness, but he never made a move on that girl from the beginning to the end, but picked Mandy, who has a background in the executive department of Kassel College, don't you wonder why?"

"What do you want to say?" Lin Nian asked.

"I just want to ask if there is a possibility. It's really just a possibility. Your senior sister, being involved in this matter is not a coincidence. It's because your senior sister has been involved with the 'Emperor'. Uh-huh ?" The blond girl turned her head away from Lin Nian, humming and talking intermittently.

Lin Nian gradually understood what the blonde girl said, and then saw her eyes sink.

"Hey, don't show me this face! I'm not happy if you do this!" The blond girl rolled her eyes, "I've never lied to you, think about it, you never knew me Since that day, has your sister Yelena ever lied to you?"

"You're a younger sister at best." Lin Nian stared condescendingly at the blond girl who was a whole head shorter than him, and his voice was a bit cold.

"Depend on!"

The blond girl muttered a dirty word after a long absence, looked up at Lin Nian and spread her hands, "Believe it or not, I was just making a reasonable inference, and I didn't say that your senior sister's golden hair must be black when cut, but what I said is true. It’s true! After all, you’ll never really know someone unless you walk around in her shoes and think from her perspective.”

"If Senior Sister wanted to harm me, she would have had many chances." Lin Nian said flatly.

"Indeed, that little girl did have many chances to kill you. At that time, you didn't understand 'floating life', and I didn't have the ability to jump around like I do now. If she did it, you probably wouldn't be able to survive now. But does this mean that you have not denied that she has something to do with the 'Emperor'?" The blonde girl raised her eyebrows and asked.

"Why did you choose to tell me this now? If you knew about it a long time ago, you would have told me many times before, and you could even pull me to a showdown with her." Lin Nian said, "It's hard for me not to feel that you Don't have ulterior motives."

"I just have ulterior motives." The blond girl turned her head and said, "I think that little blond girl has been upset for a long time, and she runs around with the same hair color as mine, do you understand that same-sex repulsion!"

Lin Nian didn't speak, just stared at the blond girl. The latter was holding her hands and stepping on her toes with an expression of displeasure. After a few minutes of stalemate, she was the first to lose, and sighed, "I'm convinced. What's so good about Senior Sister? It makes you think about it so much, Senior Sister's control is a bad civilization, I'd rather your mind hang on the little celestial girl."

"Whether Mandy has anything to do with the 'Emperor', let's not talk about that for now." Lin Nian said, "I just want to ask you a question, is she very dangerous now?"

"Yeah." The blond girl folded her hands and nodded, "But she did it herself. Why is Su Xiaoqiang okay, your sister is okay, and she is the only one? You know the truth that flies don't bite seamless eggs."

"I don't want to talk about this for now. I'll keep asking, and you keep answering." Lin Nian said, "If I ignore her, will she die?"

"It's dead, the kind that's right!" the blond girl said without thinking.

"Then the problem will be over." Lin Qingnian said, "She is going to die soon, so I will save her, no matter where she is, I will pay a high price."

"Although you know there is something wrong with her." The blond girl looked at Lin Nian and asked in a low voice, "It's stupid of you to do this."

"Stupid is indeed a little stupid." Lin Nian took out his right hand from his pocket and opened his palm.

The blonde girl also looked down, then fell silent.

In Lin Nian's hand lay a black chess piece.

Black Emperor.

"So you already knew, she gave it to you?" The blond girl suddenly smiled boredly, turned her head and looked away and said calmly.

Lin Nian nodded, looked at the black chess piece quietly and said softly, "I don't know what kind of character you are, but if she is really dirty as you said, then how much courage must she muster, Dare to reach out to me for help? If I show hesitation and fear at this time, then I will look down on myself for the rest of my life."

"Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire in front of you, you will be doomed?" The blonde girl sneered.

"Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire in front of us, we will never recover." Lin Nian nodded.

"Just because she is your senior sister, and she wants you to help her now? Even if she actually hides a lot of evil intentions, but when the crisis comes, she can only salivate and beg you to save her? Even so, you are willing to go Save her?" She asked in a low voice, looking down at the two figures reflected on the floor in a daze.

"She's a senior sister." Lin Nian's mouth curled slightly and he shook his head, "She's so stupid, how bad-hearted can she be?"

"Yeah, a person is so stupid, how can he have bad intentions?" The blond girl finally couldn't hold back the smile at the corner of her mouth, and Lin Nian, who raised his head and his eyes reflected the sunlight, couldn't help but let out a silver bell. Laughter like that, "So you are a person like this. Even if someone has ulterior motives for you, as long as she shows a little kindness to you, she will go to save her when she is in danger, right? It's like a puppy Same!"

"Just say it, don't scold people." Lin Nian shook his head.

"Where did I scold you?" The blond girl smiled and threw the basketball into Lin Nian's arms.

"I think you're really like a puppy because a puppy never hates you for locking him out for 10 minutes or two hours. The puppy only knows that you opened the door for him and he will Protect you when you are most dangerous, and do your best."

"A person like you, how can we bad guys really set our minds to hurt you?" She said as she turned and walked towards the dark place of the basketball gymnasium, looking up at the dome of the gymnasium that leaked sunlight like a fire Giggling and saying, "I'll just help you again. It's just the same as before."

"Same as before?" Lin Nian suddenly looked up, only to find that the blonde girl had disappeared into a dark corner.

In the gymnasium, he was left standing alone in the midfield, surrounded by scattered basketballs, dragging oval shadows and his own shadow on the ground, and the scoreboard was always 0:0, as if it had never moved.

He stopped for a long time, until the basketball in his arms fell to the ground inadvertently and made a 'bang bang' sound. He turned his head and looked over, and his eyes fell on the gate of the gymnasium.

In front of the glass door of the gymnasium, under the sunlight, a man wearing an iron mask stood there quietly, watching him.

Executive Director, Professor von Schneider.

"Is it fun to play basketball with Yan Ling?" Schneider asked lightly, his hoarse voice deliberately raised echoed in the empty basketball court.

Lin Nian didn't answer him, but just stood there and looked at him. The shadows of both of them dragged for a long time in the basketball court.

"Are you interested in doing something more interesting?" Schneider looked at the boy expressionlessly, and turned sideways with his hands in his windbreaker, "Like going to a movie?"

(End of this chapter)