Chapter 45: Legacy from a Distant Era

Chapter 45: Legacy from a Distant Era

Chapter 45: Legacy from a Distant Era

Lin Yi quickly said, "No, I would rather hear how the sports students and the art students fought."

"It's indeed 'quite interesting'." Tian Bufan said bluntly, "But let's leave this matter to the dormitory. You tell me what I want to know first."

"Old rules, whoever gets more help after knowing the information will be the one to listen to." Seeing that Lin Yi was not giving up, Tian Bufan directly made the final move.

Lin Yi opened his mouth and said speechlessly: "Aren't you clearly bullying me?"

"It just shows that you have no confidence in your IQ." Tian Bufan said lightly.

"Fuck." Lin Yi said seriously and solemnly, "I'm smarter than you. Okay, go ahead!"

Tian Bufan: “…”

"Okay, stop messing around." He frowned slightly, "Hurry up and tell me, we still have physical education class after you finish."

Lin Yi curled his lips.

"Okay, okay, I really lost to you."

He organized his thoughts a bit, then told Tian Bufan about his encounters with Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang in the classroom last night, and his encounter with Xu Shunkang in the cafeteria at noon.

After hearing this, Tian Bufan raised his eyebrows slightly, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Don't think at night, you can think freely under the sun... What an interesting summary."

"He even helped you fight off that green-bibbed chef."

His sight shifted from the old kerosene lamp to Lin Yi, and he narrowed his eyes slowly: "It seems... you are being 'watched'~"

"'Follow'? What does that mean?" Lin Yi was puzzled.

Tian Bufan shook his head slightly: "Don't get me wrong, it's just what it means literally. It must be something about you that caught his attention."

"What characteristics can I have?"

"I don't know either. Maybe... great wisdom appears foolish?"

"That's Liangzi."

"Idiot, you too." Tian Bufan sneered, "You two guys, one is very smart but appears foolish, and the other is very foolish but appears wise, just identify yourself."

Lin Yi: “…”

Tian Bufan patted his shoulder and said, "Okay, I'm leaving now. Remember to come back to the dormitory at night. We need to summarize the information."

"I know, I know~" Lin Yi waved his hands helplessly, "Oh, by the way, the sports students and the art students got into a fight, did you see it with your own eyes?"

"That's enough, let's talk about it when we get back to the dormitory." Tian Bufan turned around and was about to leave.

Lin Yi sighed quietly, then looked at the old kerosene lamp with a wry smile.

Actually, this is just a kerosene lamp, but the strange tangled thorny vine patterns seem to indicate that this is a relic from an extremely distant era...

"Oil lamps have existed since the birth of mankind. Ancient people often used oil lamps lit at night to replace the power of the 'sun'. The shadow of 'lamp' can be found in many myths and legends..."

Tian Bufan's voice came slowly from behind him. For some reason, he suddenly stopped and left.

"It's not a kerosene lamp, but something similar, but if you look closely you'll see that the fuel in the lampshade is an unknown substance."

"It is conceivable that although this lamp seems to have been abandoned by the times, some powerful power contained in it may still remain... It is a product of a distant era, modified by the hands of people in the old times, and has been passed down to the present."

Lin Yi was shocked: "A legacy from a distant era! But the security guard is holding this kind of lamp, right?"

"They are still producing effects... They may seem like flickering stars, but in fact they are everlasting." Tian Bufan said calmly, "You know, in a certain period of history that is only recorded in murals and runes, oil lamps dared to compete with the sun..."

“Although it is beyond our capabilities, it is undeniable that its brilliance has indeed illuminated a dark time.”

When he said this, there seemed to be a glow in Tian Bufan's eyes. In his eyes, this old kerosene lamp seemed to be full of stories.

"It's really interesting... a piece of history is hung on the wall in this way for future generations to see."

Lin Yi felt incredible. At this moment, Tian Bufan seemed like a new soul. He knew the history of the old kerosene lamp like the back of his hand. It was as if... he could see the marks left by time on the old kerosene lamp!
At this moment, Tian Bufan in Lin Yi's eyes seemed to become much more ethereal, and the feeling he gave him also suddenly became profound.

He seemed to see the corner of Tian Bufan's clothes fluttering, as if the wind blowing through the old kerosene lamp was blowing on Tian Bufan's body.

His pupils shrank slightly, and when the invisible wind blew past Tian Bufan, it seemed to blow in front of him as well.

A distant and heavy breath, as if born from the void, slowly came in front of him.

Vicissitudes, remoteness, mystery, ancient...

He seemed to see an ancient prophet holding up his scepter on the top of a mountain in a foreign land, singing a great chapter like an ancient god. As the dust of history blew away, the individual's figure was as tiny as a drop in the ocean.

He seemed to be looking into the clouds through those ancient eyes...

Just by raising his eyes a little, an indescribable, strong, chaotic and uneasy feeling suddenly came down, like the collapse of a sea of ​​clouds...

Just as that indescribable terrifying force was about to fall upon him, he shuddered and shook his head violently.

There was an unusually solid feeling under his feet, and he found that he was right where he was.

"What was that feeling just now...?! Not good!" He broke out in a cold sweat and suddenly realized something. He looked at Tian Bufan and warned him, "Oh no! Mr. Tian, ​​hurry up... eh?"

Tian Bufan was looking at him calmly with a faint smile on his lips.

"Mr. Tian, ​​you...?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, "You...how come you are so normal? Aren't you lost?"

"Lost?" Tian Bufan couldn't help but reveal a hint of teasing at the corner of his mouth, "Because this knowledge is still within my 'cognition'."

Tian Bufan glanced at him and said calmly: "Fortunately you just followed my feeling to 'feel'. If you got the 'feeling' from that lamp, I would have a headache..."

He rubbed his brows and reminded: "Okay, you can feel it, but don't stare at it for too long, be careful that the firelight will distort your shadow."

Lin Yi stood there in a daze. Tian Bufan’s words… why did they suddenly become so profound?
Tian Bufan didn't say much, but just said slowly: "Everyone has their own strengths, don't think too much, if you have any questions, we can talk about it when we get to the dormitory tonight."

"It's almost time. I have to leave now. A beautiful sports student just invited me to study gymnastics techniques."

The sudden change in style caught Lin Yi off guard: "Please! You don't have to say that!"

Tian Bufan shrugged. "You should hurry up too. If there's no cute girl to train with you, you can ask Wei Liang to play with you. Generally speaking, physical education classes definitely have their meaning."

"I'll go and do some research. You should stay idle."

"By the way, your socks are quite unique." Before leaving, Tian Bufan glanced at Lin Yi's shoeless right foot and gave it a high evaluation.

Then, without waiting for Lin Yi to get angry, he turned around and waved his hand casually.

"Let's go, come on."

After that, he put his hands in his pockets and slowly walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor of the gymnasium. Looking at Tian Bufan's elegant back, Lin Yi clenched the toes of his right foot unhappily and couldn't help but complain: "Really? We agreed to exchange information, but he came over to get some information from me and then ran away!"

"There was no mention of the fight between the sports students and the art students!"

"Alas!" He sighed, "Let's wait until night to have a good discussion."

After the physical education class, I would have dinner and go to the classroom to play some computer games, and then reach the dormitory building before the fog came. If I thought about it carefully, the time actually passed very quickly.

"By the way, this physical education class..." Lin Yi drew his attention away and began to look around.

Most people started to move around one after another, and they were thinking about how to move as well.

After all, whether it was what Tian Bufan said or the rules about physical education classes mentioned in the code, they all indicate the importance of physical education classes.

He looked down at his watch.

14: 48.

His heart was slightly moved. Apart from the time spent looking at the rules and observing the gymnasium, he spent almost ten minutes just chatting with Tian Bufan.

He suddenly felt that time was running out. Nearly one third of the one-hour physical education class was wasted.

He quickly took out the gym rules and read them again. After deepening his impression of them, he decided to borrow some equipment from the sports students to practice.

A cute athlete? He hadn't thought about it.

Practicing with Wei Liang? Even if he wanted to, Wei Liang would have gone to gymnastics class long ago.

He then observed the people inside the gymnasium, and found that there were roughly two types of students in the gymnasium. One was the sports students wearing blue and white sportswear, and the other was the experience students (ordinary students) wearing different clothes.

Then go deeper into the first floor of the gymnasium, where there is a swimming pool.

The swimming pool and the court are separated by a huge piece of glass. Through the glass, you can see a huge swimming pool, but there are very few people swimming in the pool.

As he was observing the swimming pool, he suddenly noticed that many of the athletes on the basketball court stopped their sports and turned their eyes toward the entrance of the gymnasium...

Lin Yi also looked over curiously.

I saw several people holding baseball bats walking into the gymnasium entrance. Some of these people were the sports students who had been guarding the entrance before.

But at this moment, all these athletes were scattered on the side like security personnel, vaguely clearing the way for someone.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and his curiosity grew even more.

"It seems that there are also different levels among athletes?"

The person who is about to appear is obviously highly respected.

"Is it the physical education teacher?"

But soon his idea was shattered.

The person who walked in was not the physical education teacher, at least... he didn't look like one.

She was a tall, athletic girl.

She was wearing a black one-piece sportswear with blue and white stripes and a pair of pure white sneakers. The tight sportswear perfectly outlined her almost perfect body shape.

She tied a loose sportswear around her waist. There was something heavy in the pocket of the clothes, and the two corners hung down, swaying slowly with her slow steps.

She was carrying a thick stick, with her hands hanging on the stick. Gender aside, her temperament was very much like that of some top-level stick-wielding martial artist.

Lin Yi couldn't see her face clearly, he could only see that she was blowing a pink bubble gum and she was wearing a red and white baseball cap of the same style as the Pokémon Summoner.

With the brim of the hat and the chewing gum put together, from Lin Yi's perspective, only half of the face was left.

And this small half of her face was also covered by her bangs that were sticking out from under the brim of her hat.

The appearance of this girl instantly attracted the attention of almost all the athletes in the gymnasium.

She walked into the venue slowly and attracted everyone's attention along the way.

It was not until she walked to the other side of the court that Lin Yi noticed that there were several sports students behind her.

The figures of Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang... were also among them.

"Huh? Didn't Xu Shunkang come back a long time ago? Why is he coming to the gymnasium only now?" When he saw Xu Shunkang, this question popped up in Lin Yi's mind.

But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that Xu Shunkang's face was covered with sweat, and he seemed much more tired than at noon.

Not only him, but everyone else also looked exhausted, as if they had just fought a long tug-of-war.

And he suddenly discovered that all the athletes who came in from outside were holding a baseball bat or a stick in their hands, and their bats were all covered with a plaster-like substance!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the girl from the sports department who was leading the group.

His eyes immediately fell on the stick she was carrying on her shoulder.

"Sure enough!" Lin Yi's heart was shocked.

The middle part of the stick was wrapped with a belt to increase friction and grip, while both ends of the belt were covered with a plaster-like substance!

Assuming that all the plaster-like substances are converted from ketchup, then...

"How many green-bibbed chefs do you have to kill to get this many?"

When Lin Yi discovered Xu Shunkang, Xu Shunkang also noticed his presence, and then waved at him, motioning him to come over.

Lin Yi originally also wanted to find sports equipment for sports students, and he was immediately delighted when he saw this, as if he was running in both directions.

He walked towards Xu Shunkang happily.

However, when the distance between him and Xu Shunkang was close enough, a strong sense of oppression suddenly came from Xu Shunkang and his group, causing him to subconsciously pause.

His subconscious told him that he was being targeted.

"Qiang!"

The steel bar hit the ground, and the strong vibration made the floor tremble.

The girl from the athletic department who was walking in front of Xu Shunkang and the others slowly lowered her gaze to Lin Yi's shoulder.

Under the baseball cap, behind the bubble gum, and beneath her bangs, her pair of dark eyes slowly ignited with golden flames when she saw Lin Yi.

(End of this chapter)