0713: You who shine in the parallel world

After gathering all the information from the courtyard, everyone finally focused their attention on the question on the blackboard. The question required them to take out ten pots of flowers from the flower bed and arrange them in five straight lines, with only four pots of flowers on each line.

Obviously, this problem cannot be solved using the conventional method. A problem that normally requires twenty pots can only be solved with ten pots. Therefore, there must be intersections between each line, which means shared flower pots. After all, the problem does not specify that the lines cannot intersect.

Wang Yuexin took out the marbles she had learned and sat on a small stool to start simulating the puzzle. Most of the others gathered around to offer suggestions. Su Xing, however, glanced at the group and felt that there were already enough people gathered together to solve the puzzle. So he put his hands in his pockets and strolled to the flower bed, using the reflection of the props in the opposite window to look at himself in the mirror.

Land Rover was very clear about his own limitations. Realizing he definitely couldn't figure it out, he looked at the rubber boots and pants placed against the wall and decided that since he couldn't offer any intellectual help, he would do the physical work of moving the flower pots later.

"Allen, Tiger, wanna play marbles?" Yu Yu grabbed a handful of extra marbles and ran to the two of them, stuffing one into each of their hands.

They were already used to Yu Yu suddenly slacking off while working, so Lu Hu immediately said excitedly, "Come on, let me tell you about Yu Yu. I'm a professional at playing marbles. I've been unbeatable in my family since I was a kid."

"Sure, as long as you don't touch the dew." Yu Yu joked.

Land Rover immediately straightened his face: "That's impossible, absolutely impossible. My darlings are too busy to even think about it."

Su Xing possesses an extraordinary confidence in any ball sport: "Don't underestimate marbles just because they're small and seem simple. They're actually just like snooker, requiring a high level of skill in terms of force, angle, and overall strategy. Now I'll give you a proper lesson on what a 'human cue stick' is—it's turning your fingers into a long stick and sinking the ball in one shot!"

As Su Xing spoke, he squatted down, took out his purple glass bead, and aimed it at Yu Yu's blue glass bead. In terms of both his aura and posture, he looked quite like a professional player. At least Lu Hu was intimidated, and he stared at Su Xing's next move with a tense and serious expression.

Yu Yu, on the other hand, seemed to have seen through everything. She stood there with her arms crossed, watching with great interest as the glass bead that Su Xing had thrown rushed towards her at lightning speed. It then passed by the blue glass bead at least a fist's distance away, without even having time to turn around and say goodbye.

"Hahahaha!" Yu Yu and Lu Hu laughed at the same time, but unlike Lu Hu's laughter which was "I've been waiting for this for so long and this is what you show me", Yu Yu had been preparing to laugh at him for a long time.

Su Xing stood there in disbelief for a few seconds, then quickly tried to cover for himself, saying, "Okay, this was just a bad example I showed you to show you that if you only pay attention to the force and not the angle, this will be the result. Now I'm going to do it for real."

Yu Yu and Lu Hu didn't mind his stubbornness and arrogance. The two of them stood together and quietly watched Su Xing perform when he "got serious".

This time, the glass bead followed a fairly accurate path, but the force was a bit lacking, and it stopped halfway through rolling.

But Su Xing wasn't going to give them any more chances to laugh at him. After making his move, he realized that he might have missed the mark this time, and then "accidentally" dropped all the beads in his hand.

"I'm not playing anymore, this crappy game doesn't suit my style." He said, cursing as he turned and walked away, leaving Yu and Hu laughing behind him.

Su Xing gave up, but Lu Hu still wanted to play. As he himself said, he played a lot of these games when he was a kid. Unfortunately, the two of them hadn't even played two or three rounds when the brothers working on the other side found the answer, forcing them to stop and get back to work.

"Are you playing pinball? I want to play too!"

Zhang Yuan performed consistently well this time. He came up with the idea of ​​arranging the flowerpots in the shape of a five-pointed star. After solving the problem, he turned around and saw the two people who had been making a ruckus earlier now squatting on the ground playing marbles. On a whim, he wanted to join in, but Wang Zhengliang pulled him back.

"Stop playing, we need to get down to business." Little Liang was like a worried parent calling for the children playing in the yard to go home and do their homework. "Whose purple ball is this? Why is it scattered everywhere? Be careful not to step on it."

"Reporting to Brother Liang, it was Allen who threw it." Yu Yu immediately raised her hand to report without the slightest hesitation.

Knowing he was in the wrong, Su Xing chuckled and picked up the beads with Yu Yu. Zhang Yuan also came over to help. Wang Yuexin and Lu Hu put on rubber overalls and waded through the "mud" made of non-Newtonian fluid to retrieve flower pots from the flower bed. Wang Zhengliang and Chen Chusheng were outside catching and arranging the flower pots.

With the seven people dividing the work, the yard was quickly cleaned up and the flower pots were arranged.

Just then, Xuexue's mother's voice came from the background. She first scolded them for solving the problem too quickly before telling Xuexue to go inside. As for Xuexue's "classmates," they were to wait in the yard for a while.

So here's the question: which of the seven can do Xuexue's solo task?

Currently, Xuexue only has Wang Yuexin and Zhang Yuan in common. Wang Yuexin is Xuexue's current friend, while Zhang Yuan is Xuexue's top student classmate. Xuexue also has a photo of the two of them that she keeps in her schoolbag.

If this task belongs to each NPC's corresponding friend, putting Zhang Yuan's photo in the backpack would be redundant, so Zhang Yuan is more likely to be the one to try.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Yuan entered the house, "Mom" called him over to sit on the sofa. Zhang Yuan didn't dare sit next to her, so he walked around and chose a single seat on the other side, where he could see his six brothers outside the window. This at least made him feel a little more at ease.

What followed was a series of typical and extreme examples of Chinese parents putting pressure on their children and using psychological manipulation. Zhang Yuan, who was a sensitive and empathetic person, was immediately drawn into that suffocating atmosphere. Occasionally, he would try to argue that the other party only cared about his grades and never thought about what he really wanted.

"Why bother getting such high scores?" Wang Yuexin stood outside, indignant.

“Exactly, what’s the use of being number one? I hate being number one the most,” Su Xing said “hatefully.”

Ok?

Su Xing, Yu Yu, Wang Yuexin, Wang Zhengliang, and Lu Hu all turned to look at Chen Chusheng.

"Brother Sheng, I wasn't talking about you." Su Xing's addition at this moment sounded like an attempt to cover up the truth.

"I've never gotten first place," Chen Chusheng said with a smile.

Su Xing was outside trying to lighten the mood, but Zhang Yuan had to hold his own inside. When his mother signed the divorce papers in front of him, he sat there for a long time, unable to recover.

After the scene ended and his brothers walked in, he stood up to greet them. Zhang Yuan handed them the folder and took two verification coupons from the clipboard.

Su Xing knew that Zhang Yuan was in a bad mood. He held the divorce agreement and said that he had never been through this before and therefore could not understand it. He then handed the agreement to Wang Yuexin, who was "experienced". Amid the slightly unkind laughter of the crowd, Wang Yuexin was innocently dragged into the fray and was subjected to another round of desensitization. Of course, he no longer cared about it.

Zhang Yuan, on the other hand, was still somewhat troubled, but Su Xing's interruption instantly snapped him out of his reverie.

He chuckled as he shared his analysis, believing that this was Xiaoyu's childhood experience. He blamed himself for his mother's departure, which is why he longed to become a top student who always ranked first, thus splitting off a personality that resembled that of a model student.

"It's great. Sometimes I envy those top students who can satisfy their families just by getting first place in exams. I never had such good fortune before. In my area, being first in academics was just the minimum requirement," Yu Yu sighed.

"Is getting first place the main point? The main point of this task is clearly the psychological impact of extreme education on children, isn't it?" For some reason, Zhang Yuan felt that Yu Yu's tone was a bit rude, and he gave Yu Yu a speechless look.

Yu Yu suddenly realized and slapped her left palm with her right fist: "Oh, I see! Yuan Yuan, you're so smart!"

"...Get lost!" Zhang Yuan rolled his eyes, the last trace of gloom in his heart disappearing.

In the midst of the banter, the lights in the room suddenly went out, the simulated light outside the window changed, and the ticking of a clock came from the background, representing the change in time in the scene. Next, we entered Meimei's story.

Meimei is Zhang Yuan's friend, but based on the pattern of the first round, the person tasked with this mission shouldn't be Zhang Yuan.

Regardless of who they are, they first find Meimei's diary in the room based on the clues, and then find all the task items based on the diary.

All of these task items are props used to "please" her father. Because Meimei comes from a single-parent family, her father remarried and had a younger daughter. He paid less and less attention to Meimei, and because she lacked love, she could only develop a people-pleasing personality and record everything she could do to please her father.

Meimei's diary also records that she once saved Su Xing from being kidnapped by human traffickers, so the brothers speculated that the person in charge of this mission should be Su Xing.

Su Xing thought so too, so he took the peeled bananas and fan and went out of the room to serve his father who was sitting in the yard. However, his father did not accept the offer and instead said that such things should be done by his own children.

The person he was pointing at was actually Chen Chusheng, which left the group of guys completely baffled. They realized that the pattern of this person's actions was truly unpredictable.

Chen Chusheng is sometimes a very emotional person, but his core is stronger and more stable. In addition, after his "half-sister" Xiaomei appeared, his doting fatherly heart overflowed and he didn't take the NPC father's belittling and PUA to heart at all. His eyes were directly glued to the little girl.

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at Sheng-ge's worthless smile." Yu Yu clicked her tongue and sighed, then suddenly patted Su Xing's shoulder, "If you could have a daughter, Chen Chusheng would never be able to hold his head up in front of you for the rest of his life."

Su Xing, who couldn't help but smile when he saw the cute little girl, immediately fell to his knees upon hearing that Chen Chusheng had also stabbed him. He was on the verge of tears. Could he really do something like this just because he wanted to?

Wang's daughter, Zhengliang, smiled brightly: "Little Fish, you're jumping around here so happily now, but later do you dare to tell Brother Sheng directly?"

Wang, who has both a son and a daughter, encouraged Yuexin with a look of encouragement: "Why don't you go and show off your daughter to these two when you have one yourself?"

With Chen Chusheng's strong inner strength and stable emotions, this mission was a piece of cake. The father took Xiaomei out to play, while Chen Chusheng took out two verification coupons from the envelope given to him and then casually handed the envelope to his brothers who came out of the room.

Yu Yu took the envelope and saw that there were several banknotes inside, with peach patterns printed on them. He said with a grin, "Thank you for the reward, brother. If you like it, come again next time."

Having grown accustomed to being teased by Yu Yu, Chen Chusheng calmly glanced at the counterfeit bills: "Oh, so next time I'll just give you these for writing a song, right?"

"Of course, I can do it for free for my brother."

"Then forget it. I'm afraid you have ulterior motives towards me."

Based on the seven people's speculation about the identities of their NPC friends, Meimei is actually Xiaoyu. After Xiaoyu's mother left, he lived with his father. His father married a stepmother and started a new family. The only remaining affection between them was gradually disappearing. His father always talked about how excellent his sister was and how well she danced. So he also hoped that if he could be as excellent as his sister, his father would approve of him.

Therefore, a dance streamer named "Meimei" emerged.

Having completed the two tasks at the mansion, the next task shouldn't be here, as there was no background noise. They left the courtyard and followed the light to another room.

Pushing open the door, I found it was actually a toilet, separated by several wooden doors, probably a public restroom on campus.

Looking at the gloomy environment, Su Xing understood that the next task should be school bullying.

He felt that this task was probably aimed at him. He had mentioned in a previous interview that he had been bullied, which was no secret, and the production team must have known.

But the background voice says that this is Qiuqiu's story, and he is Qiuqiu's friend. According to the pattern of the previous two games, he will not be the one to take on the task this time.

So, who should the production team choose to achieve the best results?

Yu Yu raised an eyebrow and, following the background audio prompts, turned around and hid in the cubicle with Land Rover.

After being sprayed in the face with water mist and hit on the head with a cockroach toy, two burly delinquents kicked the door open and came in, yelling at Qiuqiu to get out of there.

Su Xing and Chen Chusheng were in the first restroom. He pushed the door, but it was locked.

Wang Yuexin, Zhang Yuan, and Wang Zhengliang were in the third room, and the door was locked.

Only the wooden door to Yu Yu and Lu Hu's room was open.

While Land Rover stood there dumbfounded, Yu Yu pushed open the door and walked out: "Two classmates, what can I do for you?"

Upon seeing that it was Yu Yu, the man in the black vest immediately raised a baseball bat and pointed it at Yu Yu: "Who's looking for you? You little brat, don't..."

His acting was good; he did indeed portray the demeanor of a lawless school bully, but unfortunately, he ran into Yu Yu.

Before he could yell, Yu Yu casually deflected the baseball bat aside, her face bearing an elegant and noble smile that was devoid of any emotion. She calmly looked at the two people in front of her, while her other hand gripped the door behind her and pulled it out.

With a soft, quiet thud, the sound echoed gently in the confined bathroom, striking a chord in people's hearts.

"Then I'm wondering, if you two aren't here to see me, then who are you here to see? As we all know, under normal circumstances, there's only one person in a single bathroom stall."