Chapter 559: Chapter 2: Acquaintances 2
Two female students were shouting at someone on the wall: "Get down, all new students have to go through the dog hole."
The person on the wall seemed to be in the same situation as Xiao Xian, having arrived today to register. Unlike Xiao Xian, who "whooshed" in from the direction of the dog hole on the east side, this other new student was not so lucky and got caught upon entry.
Xiao Xian stood and watched the two girls on the ground shouting, turning her attention to the new student stuck to the wall.
From her figure, she also seemed to be a girl, barefoot, with both hands and feet sticking to the wall. A layer of transparent mucus was clearly visible at the position of her hands and feet. It was with this sticky mucus with adhesive power that she climbed in from outside.
"You there, yes you! Go tell Lan Ya that the new girl is rebellious, didn’t come through the dog hole, just climbed straight in. Who knows if she’s transformed from a gecko, to actually be able to climb in reverse," the two girls hadn’t noticed that Xiao Xian was also a new student and they shouted at her.
"Lan Ya?" Xiao Xian thought the name sounded familiar.
"Xu Lan Ya, our big sister head. Which class are you from? How can you be so clueless?" The two girls found a moment, turned their attention, and after looking at Xiao Xian more carefully, both a tall and a short one, they realized at the same time, "You’re also a new student? How did you get in?"
"Sorry to disappoint you, no matter how I got in, I didn’t climb through the dog hole," Xiao Xian raised her eyebrows. Xu Lan Ya? She didn’t expect to encounter an acquaintance upon arrival, even though she was not particularly keen to meet this person.
At the mention of an acquaintance, Xiao Xian’s reply startled the other new student who was stuck on the wall motionlessly for quite some time.
Zhang Yiyi, feeling aggrieved, was brought by Mr. Zhang to the South Campus of Huake Institute to go through the enrollment procedures. She didn’t enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way at all, and like Xiao Xian, she was intimidated by the school walls and gates.
What happened next was pretty much the same. Mr. Zhang asked Zhang Yiyi to wait with her oversized luggage at the entrance and went back to the South Campus to seek an explanation.
Zhang Yiyi, indeed a good friend of Xiao Xian, shared similar logical thinking abilities and also came up with the idea that "there must be a door at the end of the wall". She also found that dog door.
However, when choosing a specific method of entry, Zhang Yiyi used her recently discovered superpower, "Gecko Climbing Wall Technique".
"Xiao Xian!!" Zhang Yiyi moved her head and spotted the familiar face of Xiao Xian on the ground about seven or eight meters away.
"Yiyi!" Whether it was Zhang Yiyi’s appearance or the position she was holding, both brought a shock to Xiao Xian as intense as experiencing a magnitude five earthquake.
Seeing that the two new students knew each other and both had entered the school in such strange ways, the two female students discussed briefly and then left them behind to report the news.
When Zhang Yiyi climbed down from the wall, her face was covered with dust and tears. First, she gave Xiao Xian a hug so tight Xiao Xian couldn’t breathe, "I thought I would never see you again in this life."
"Don’t cry yet, what exactly happened? Speak clearly first?" Xiao Xian struggled to catch her breath from Zhang Yiyi’s tight embrace, and seeing the mucus on her hands, guessed that it must have been caused by swallowing the colorful gecko from Monk Tianya.
After returning to Beijing from Chengde, Zhang Yiyi parted ways with Xiao Xian and went home to spend the summer holiday.
Back home, she didn’t sit idly by; she would often accompany Mr. Zhang to play basketball and even became a little basketball coach for a local primary school.
"Do you remember in the hospital, when I showed you how I could stick a soup spoon to my hand? I didn’t take it seriously back then. It was some day in early August when I was demonstrating ball-grabbing techniques to the kids," Zhang Yiyi was really just playing around while teaching those primary school students, with no real basketball skills involved.
Zhang Yiyi’s fingers were long and especially good at grabbing balls; at that time, the demonstration was just to show off.
Little did she know there was a particularly critical student among the kids who wanted to compete with "Teacher Zhang" to see who could hold the ball longer.
Zhang Yiyi couldn’t stand the challenge and immediately accepted, winning the contest by going all out. However, after the contest, the basketball was stuck to Zhang Yiyi’s hand as if glued there with superglue, not budging at all.
"And what’s worse, I didn’t let go of the basketball for several hours after winning that day. Since then, I’ve found my fingers frequently secreting some slippery mucus, especially in the morning and evening. Later on, even my body started secreting mucus. The most outrageous incident happened at the end of August when my dad, seeing that I didn’t get up in the morning, urged me to wake up and found me stuck to the ceiling." Zhang Yiyi herself didn’t remember the details well but had a vague impression that there was a mosquito in the room that night, buzzing and keeping her awake, and when she woke up... she was already stuck to the ceiling.
Could it be that Yiyi had assimilated with the gecko and even wanted to eat mosquitoes? Xiao Xian was speechless. Such a big event had happened and Zhang Yiyi, usually so talkative, managed to hold it in and didn’t call to tell her, which was really something.
"You don’t believe me?" Zhang Yiyi took Xiao Xian’s expression as disbelief, reacted quickly, waved her hand in the air, and stuck to a small fly, "Now do you believe me?"
"It’s not that I don’t believe you, it’s just that this matter, I think it needs to be explained," Xiao Xian thought about it and decided it would be better to tell Zhang Yiyi the whole story about what happened in Chengde. After all, the occurrence was to some extent because of her, Xuerou and Yiyi had those physical and psychological changes because of her.
That trip to Chengde was very important for Xiao Xian, Xuerou, and Zhang Yiyi; its happening was like the advent of Huake Institute’s Reverse Genius Class, completely altering the trajectory of their destinies. (To be continued. If you like this work, we welcome you to Qidian () to cast your recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)