A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 33: Ball Lightning

Chapter 33: Ball Lightning (Please Read)
"Zhou Qing, my buddy is getting married. The wedding will be on the 25th of next month. Are you coming?"

marry?

Zhou Qing's mind immediately flashed back to the scene of him in the university dormitory not long ago, looking distraught after graduation and a breakup.

It's only been so long.

He immediately typed, "What's going on?"

Zhushi Railway Station, clothing wholesale market.

After ten o'clock, the market was deserted. Sun Ke saw Zhou Qing's message and replied, "During this time of helping my family run the store, I've learned that if you can avoid taking detours, do so. There's no need to endure hardships without trying."

Zhou Qing: "So?"

Sun Ke: "So let me ask you a question. Suppose you go on a blind date and the girl falls in love with you. She's average looking, not ugly, but fat, 1.6 meters tall and weighs 160 pounds. Her father says that as long as you get married, he'll give you two cars, two apartments, and a dowry of 8 million yuan in cash, with 2 million yuan going into the man's account... Would you agree?"

This……

Putting aside other things, the fact that two million cash will be directly transferred to the man’s account is definitely extremely tempting to many people today.

Zhou Qing tried to think about it and felt that he would not agree, whether now or before obtaining the panel.

From the beginning to the end, he was a man who knew very well what he wanted.

Click the dialog box and type: "If it were me, I would definitely not..."

He paused before finishing his sentence, thought for a moment, deleted everything, and retyped: "I've never encountered this situation before, so I don't know what choice I would make."

Sun Ke: "I agree. The other party is my eldest uncle's niece. Now both parents have met and decided to hold the wedding on the 25th of next month."

Zhou Qing didn't know what to say for a moment.

After a moment of silence, he asked, "I remember your family's financial situation is quite good, is it that serious?"

Sun Ke replied, "(pouting) Our family isn't bad, but I have three brothers. If I calculate our assets, apart from the pension money my parents leave me, and the money I'll get in the future, apart from a house in Zhushi, the cash won't exceed one million at most."

Zhou Qing was speechless when he heard what he said.

What does "Except for a house in Zhushi, the cash will not exceed one million" mean?
Is this still not enough?

Well, compared to the two million cash that can be deposited immediately, this really does not seem to be a big deal. After all, the housing prices in Zhushi are relatively low. They used to be only five or six thousand per square meter. Recently, from the news, it seems that the housing prices have dropped a lot, just like those in Tanzhou.

He stroked his chin and typed, "Then I will definitely try my best to attend the wedding."

Sun Ke: "Do you want to be the best man? (squinting smile)"

Zhou Qing thought for a moment and replied, "Forget about being the best man."

After finishing the chat, I sat in the chair and was in a daze for a while.

From Peng Xiaomei, a high school classmate who returned to her hometown to open a small supermarket, to Sun Ke, a college classmate who married a wealthy woman and became rich...

"You can't endure hardship without it." Zhou Qing silently recited the words Sun Ke just said, thinking, "It's not like I can endure hardship without it. Who wants to work hard if they can avoid it?"

He gathered his emotions and summoned the panel again.

"Everyone has their own choices. Mine is to strive for an infinitely bright future through my own hard work... Deep Blue plus points!"

After joking with himself, Zhou Qing focused his attention and thought: choose to read the whole article.

The next moment, the panel changed to——

Name: Zhou Qing

Currently reading: Ball Lightning (Liu Cixin)
Complete reading library: "The Mistake by the River", "Tree King", "Border Town", etc.
Completed Intensive Reading Library: The Return of the Condor Heroes, Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind

Cumulative number of draws: 2
Extractable items: a yellow cow, a bottle of methaqualone, a black travel bag, etc.

...The novel randomly selected this time was Liu Cixin's "Ball Lightning". After Zhou Qing "saw" it, he was eager to try it.

"This is the first science fiction novel randomly selected!"

He didn’t read many science fiction novels before, but he still knew the name “Da Liu” and had gone to the cinema to watch “The Wandering Earth 2”!
For other college students, going to the cinema to watch a movie is a very common thing, but Zhou Qing used to save money and he didn’t have a girlfriend, so he rarely went to the cinema to spend money.

"The Wandering Earth 2" was the second movie he went to the cinema to watch during his four years in college, just to support truly good movies and support his own country's science fiction!
A movie ticket is insignificant to the huge film market.

But this is Zhou Qing’s own “action”.

"Liu Cixin's science fiction is generally quite 'hard'. I wonder what Ball Lightning is about, and whether there's anything good in it."

He immediately opened the browser and looked it up on the encyclopedia.

"Ball Lightning" tells the story of the protagonist, Dr. Chen, who had a horrific childhood experience. He witnessed a mysterious ball of lightning floating in from the window and burning his parents to ashes.

When he grew up, Dr. Chen fell in love with physics because he wanted to know what force caused his parents' tragedy. Later, Dr. Chen went to Mount Tai to participate in a lightning research project and met a soldier named Lin Yun.

......"

After reading the encyclopedia, Zhou Qing searched for "high-tech equipment in Ball Lightning" and quickly found an analysis article on Zhihu:
1. Silicon knife made with molecular arrangement technology. This silicon knife, manufactured using molecular-level material manipulation technology, is described in the novel as "the sharpest knife."

2. High-energy batteries: Made of room-temperature superconducting materials, they can store electrical energy without loss.

3. Genetically modified attack bees.

……

He was dazzled by the various high-tech items, and the one that caught his eye the most was the "high-energy battery".

"This high-energy battery is made of room-temperature superconducting materials, the same super material that was the subject of a South Korean scientific research fraud scandal last year."

"If you're lucky enough to win a battery like this, wow."

Zhou Qing imagined it for a while and started looking for the original text of the novel.

After searching on the browser, I found that there are not many resources for "Ball Lightning". Those pirated websites are full of advertisements, which will block the main text, and obscene and misleading pictures will pop up from time to time, which poses the risk of virus infection.

Fortunately, I quickly found the authentic electronic version of the physical book on the Qidian Chinese platform.

He knew this platform because he had looked for books on it before when reading online articles.

I went back to the app store on my phone, searched, found the Qidian Reading app, and downloaded and installed it.

"overture."

"Today is my birthday. I didn't remember it until Mom and Dad lit the candles on the birthday cake and the three of us sat down around the fourteen little flames."

"It's a thunderstorm night."

……

The full novel has 180,000 words. After reading the first two chapters, it was already noon.

Zhou Qing estimated that it would take about five hours to finish reading it.

"Let's go eat first, then come back and get to work. We'll try to finish it before dark!"

He stood up from his desk and was about to go out to find food when his WeChat message on his cell phone rang.

I saw it was a message from the landlord's friend, Li Wanxiu: "Zhou Qing, what shoe size do you wear? (smiley face)"

　Fellow Taoists, please support me in every way!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)