Dragons: Reboot the New World

Chapter 75 No.20 Scene Ferris wheel, his girl, and gardenia
Chu Zihang grabbed the basketball with one hand, squatted down, and took a deep breath.

He was the only one on the basketball court. He performed a textbook three-step layup and dunked the ball into the basket.

"Practice for a while longer." Chu Zihang said to himself.

The ball fell into Chu Zihang's hands, and he dribbled to the midfield like lightning, heading towards the basket on the other side for another perfect three-step layup.

Next week their basketball team will go to compete with other schools.

"Brother, let's take a rest." A person who did not exist in Chu Zihang's memory said. She walked up and handed him a bottle of water and a white towel.

"Thank you." Chu Zihang said calmly. He pushed aside the bangs that slightly blocked his eyes with his hands and took the towel and water.

"Brother, come on next week!" The girl raised her fist with a serious look on her face.

"I will." Chu Zihang nodded.

"Senior brother's reaction is too cold!" the girl pouted, "I am your entrustment, and I am going to be there to support you!"

"Then how should I thank you?" Chu Zihang asked. He was really not very good at this aspect.

"If you want to thank..."

"Just treat me to a movie!"

The girl smiled, her eyes narrowed, and she smiled like a cunning little fox. Her soft chestnut hair turned into dazzling gold under the sunlight.

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"Brother Hang! That girl is looking at you, that girl is looking at you!"

The brother who played guard poked Chu Zihang in the waist and said that they had just won a basketball game against a foreign school.

When Chu Zihang heard this, he looked over and saw a girl wearing a purple skirt and white high-heeled boots. She had a high ponytail and makeup with sparkling sequins on her eyelids. Her eyes were so bright that they reflected the light from the sequins. All submerged.

The girl noticed his gaze and lowered her head shyly.

Chu Zihang remembered that she had just danced to cheer in high-heeled boots and shouted his name from the stands.

"Let's go watch a movie in the afternoon." Chu Zihang smoothed his wet hair with his hands, walked up to her and said, "What do you want to see?"

"Well..." The girl scratched her chestnut hair, looked at the sky and thought for a while, her eyes suddenly lit up, "Why don't you go watch "ONCE"! It was just released recently, I heard it's very good!"

"Okay." Chu Zihang agreed.

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The movie is a bit boring, Chu Zihang thought.

It is an Irish music film that tells the story of a wandering singer and his girlfriend who immigrated from Poland. The girl is already married and has a family. The only way she can treat the singer well is to play the piano to accompany him and try her best to find him. Sponsorship helped him release records. Later, the singer finally became famous and went to London. The only thing he could do for the girl was to buy her a piano that she had longed for.

The singer went to the airport with the guitar on his back. The girl happily played the piano and lived an ordinary life. Her husband kissed her on the forehead. The only thing left from that insignificant or dispensable relationship was That piano...

He turned his head slightly to look at the girl. He and she were the only two people in the huge screening room. The light of the projector was projected onto the screen from behind, like a blue blade cutting through space.

He stared at her profile in the dim light of the screen. It was dim just right. The light and shadow continued to change and flow freely on the girl's face. The makeup in the corners of her eyes flickered. The carefully applied lip glaze on her lips reflected in his pupils. It was breathtakingly beautiful. .

I don’t know if she is so quiet or if she is asleep...

He recalled the opening scene of the movie, the man standing on the street with his guitar late at night, singing a heart-rending song.

"And if you have something to say
If you have something to say to me
You'd better say it now
Better say it now

Cause this is what you've waited for
Because you have been waiting
Your chance to even up the score
This is my chance to take revenge

And as these shadows fall on me now
These shadows hang over me

I win somehow
I will still win in the end

Cause I'm picking up a message Lord
Because I have a premonition

And I'm closer than I've ever been before
I'll be closer than ever

......"

In fact, there is a lot of good music in the whole movie, but the one that impressed him most was not the slightly sad theme song "Falling Slowly".

But "Say It to Me Now."

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"Brother Hang! There's a girl looking for you!" Someone shouted at him.

"Here we come." Chu Zihang raised his head from the exercise book and walked to the door.

"Hello, senior brother, I am the leader of the dance troupe of Shilan Middle School." The girl stood there lively, "I would like to invite you to work with me on an extracurricular paper on the theme of marine animals."

"Why are you looking for me?" Chu Zihang asked with some confusion.

"Isn't it appropriate?" The girl's eyes widened, "Senior brother, you are No. 1 on the "The Killing List".

"When the newly admitted school girls saw your handsome and expressionless face, senior brother, at the opening ceremony, they were so crazy that they looked like they had drunk two glasses of high-strength liquor. Senior brother, do you know?"

"I said, if I can do academic papers with you, senior brother, I can brag like crazy in front of my classmates..."

The girl's mouth was like a cannon, sputtering out a lot of words, as if she could see her soul of nonsense words burning.

"I understand." Chu Zihang suddenly agreed, "What do you want me to do?"

"Eh?" The girl stopped, with stars twinkling in her deer-like eyes, "Really, senior brother? Then you can go to the aquarium with me after school this afternoon!"

"Why go to the aquarium?"

The girl laughed and said, "For extracurricular essays with the theme of marine animals, of course I have to go to the aquarium!"

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"Brother, look, that little turtle is just as stupid as you." The girl was looking at the dull little turtle and the dull uncle who was carrying a turtle shell and teaching it how to swim. She pointed at the turtle's little turtle through the glass. Tails laughed.

"Brother, tell me about the habits of seahorses!" The girl looked at him in front of the seahorse display cabinet.

Chu Zihang cleared his throat and began to vividly describe how a male seahorse put a baby seahorse in a pouch to raise, making her giggle all the way. Trembling wildly and in a very crazy state.

"It's so big!" In front of the huge whale display case, the girl lay on the glass. The whale took a long time to swim past them. At this time, the girl stared at it.

Chu Zihang was also watching, but he was not watching whales. He was looking at the girl's flawless reflection on the glass. The fine sequined eyeshadow she had deliberately applied shone brightly under the reflection of the blue water, as if she was experiencing the rays of spring.

Her beautiful eyelashes trembled slightly, and her brows were full of smiles, bright and moving.

"Senior brother! Come to my house to play in the afternoon!" The girl suddenly turned around and asked with burning eyes. "Isn't it appropriate..." Chu Zihang missed her gaze slightly unnaturally.

"Brother, what are you thinking about? We're just writing academic papers together! Don't think too much!" The girl raised her face in dissatisfaction.

"Feel sorry."

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The girl's family lived in an old house, and in front of the building there was a huge sycamore tree that seemed to block out the sky and the sun.

Chu Zihang was a little nervous. This was the first time he was invited to a girl's home.

The weather was a bit too hot, the cicadas outside were chirping vigorously, and a cool breeze was blowing from the little stars under the trees. The wind passed through the keyhole, and he was sorting out the reference books on the table.

"Brother, please help me write it." The girl said, she spread out a yoga mat behind Chu Zihang, "I'm going to practice, no peeking!"

Don’t you mean to complete an academic paper together?Chu Zihang thought a little helplessly, but he still lay on the table and started writing quickly, his pencil rustling on the paper.

During the pause to think, Chu Zihang looked back inadvertently.

He suddenly understood what the word "jump" meant.

The girl danced silently on the yoga mat behind him, raising her slender white neck. The summer sunshine penetrated through the gaps between the dense and intertwined branches of the sycamore tree and hit her black practice clothes, forming patches of mottled color with uncertain light and dark. The wall-creeping tigers outside the window grew like crazy, and the cicadas on the trees screamed desperately.

The girl stood on her head, did splits, flipped... her toes pointed to the ground and spun lightly. Her neck was slender and her legs were also slender, like... a swan treading water.

His heartbeat and breathing stopped at the same time. He quickly looked away, but his restless mind could not regain calm.

In the end, it seemed that the paper was finished absentmindedly, he thought, because there were black swans dancing behind him.

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The human brain is a broken hard drive that is easily degaussed, but there are some things that cannot be erased no matter how you format it.

At this moment, in the corner of Chu Zihang's broken hard drive, the images of the past were forcefully awakening, rushing towards him like a tide.It was like a large herd of wild horses trampling through the wasteland of memory, and it was painfully clear.

Basketball court, movie theater, aquarium, girl's home...these images emerge clearly.

He remembered everything, but he didn't remember the girl's face.

Who is who?He thought hard and thought again and again.

He couldn't forget, he definitely couldn't forget that girl. He had a vague feeling that if he lost that girl, then he would lose her forever.

"What would you do if one day a girl you like and likes you shows up?" In the church, the woman named Mai Shutoku tapped his forehead with the muzzle of a Glock gun, her tone sad, "If you like Whoever it is, just look for her all over the world, don’t wait for her to come to you, she might be waiting for you too..."

"Yes, senior brother, can you think about it again?" The two of them were lying side by side on the bed. Lu Mingfei answered firmly, "For example, the leader of the dance troupe? Or the leader of the cheerleading team?"

Chu Zihang lowered his head and felt that he seemed to have grasped some clue. He held on to the thread tightly.

"Senior brother? Senior brother?" Someone rubbed his head, and the girl asked in a panicked tone, "Don't scare me, senior brother, you don't have any hidden diseases, right? If you can't, what will I do if something happens to you? First of all, Are you looking for a bargain with an amusement park? Yes, that’s right. Then I’ll say, “Oh, there’s something wrong with your amusement facilities. Let’s see what happens to my senior brother..."

Chu Zihang looked at his toes blankly, and the tone of his muttering was so familiar, as if a girl had also chanted like this in front of him before.

The delicate scent of gardenia suddenly lingered on the tip of his nose, traveling through a distant time. It was a memory imprinted on his taste.

It is like a thin thread that connects six years ago, now and the year after next year or who knows how many years in the future.

The girl's smile, the girl shouting his name, the girl lowering her head in the crowd, the many rambling words the girl said to him... and the girl's face.

He remembered those blurry faces, each one so clear, and when superimposed, they turned into the girl sitting next to him.

It turns out that there has always been a girl who grew up with him in his life, hiding very close to him, but never getting close or far away. He did not remember her, and he had to recall many things every night. But none of them were related to her.

She had already been to the three holy places where she originally dated, but she didn't know it.

"Natsu...Mi..." He whispered her name.

"Eh? Senior brother? Are you okay?" Xia Mi patted his chest and exhaled, "I thought something was wrong with you. It was really scary just now, you know."

"Xia Mi." Chu Zihang was still calling her name.

"Senior brother, something is wrong with you." Xia Mi narrowed his eyes and moved to the side while holding his shoulders warily.

"You don't really want to confess to me, do you? On the Ferris wheel? Are you serious? What's going on now? Are you interested in me? Sorry, although I like people older than me, I also admit that it was a little bit... My heart beats faster, but we have just met. Do you want to attack me just because we went out together once? At least we have to go out together a few more times before talking about it. I'm really sorry..."

"It's you." Chu Zihang raised his head and stared into her eyes and said, Xia Mi's thoughts stopped abruptly.

"What...it turns out to be this..." Xia Mi sat back next to him and looked out the window nonchalantly, but his voice trembled slightly, as if he was trying his best to hide something.

10 minutes later, they were slowly sinking with the Ferris wheel, and neither of them spoke anymore.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Chu Zihang suddenly broke the silence.

"Because I want you to remember it by yourself. How can a girl bring up such a thing?" Xia Mi finally turned to look at him, widening her beautiful and lively deer-like eyes, "What are you doing, senior brother, I But I remembered you the first time I saw you."

"Sorry, I don't know why..." Chu Zihang said softly, raising his eyes to look at Xia Mi, his dark eyes with dim pupils. "It won't happen next time."

"There's still a next time!?" Xia Mi said fiercely.

Suddenly he grinned and chuckled again, "Forget it, forgive me, senior brother!"

She originally wanted to tease Chu Zihang a few more words, but when she looked at Chu Zihang's pupils, she felt that she had seen the Chu Zihang again. It was the Chu Zihang from Shilan Middle School. He was taciturn, polite and distant, and learned through reading. Learn everything.

As black as paint now, so clear that it can reflect the shadows of clouds and the light of the sky, you can't help but want to stare into his eyes, which are lonely mirrors that reflect the whole world.

"So easy?" Chu Zihang was stunned.

"Do you still want to be criticized by me?" Xia Mi asked, and the little devil junior sister had curious eyes, "Does senior brother have any special hobbies?"

"No..." Chu Zihang looked away awkwardly, "I just feel guilty."

"Don't hide!" Xia Mi stretched out his hands to straighten his face, forcing Chu Zihang to look at him, "Speak quickly! Why are you feeling guilty?"

"Because I almost forgot about you completely." Chu Zihang had no choice but to look into the girl's eyes, "Obviously there are so many memories between you and me."

"Oh, that's it..." Xia Mi tilted his head, his hair dripping like water, "If senior brother really feels guilty, promise me three things."

"what's up?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." She smiled sweetly, "I'll tell you when I think about it."

"Yes, I promise you." Chu Zihang said softly, "As long as it doesn't go against my personal wishes."

He suddenly felt that Xia Mi's smile was so beautiful and bright, with a little baby fat on her cheeks and little tiger teeth at the corners of her mouth.

(Happy birthday Xia Mi!)

(End of this chapter)