I. I remembered something happy.
Inside the side hall, Locke stared at Zhou Xu with his mouth hanging open, his face as bewildered as it could possibly be.
His mind had instantly turned into a tangled lump of paste.
Before he could clear the paste from his mind, Zhou Xu's voice rang out again...
"Chief, what did you say you also were back then?"
"Huh?"
The question made Locke's heart jolt, leaving him with an awkward look on his face.
"I mean—I mean, I also broke through that quickly back then!"
"Pfft!"
The moment he heard this, John, who was standing nearby, failed to hold it in and made a sound.
Locke's face instantly stiffened.
"What are you laughing at?"
"I remembered something happy."
"What happy thing?"
Perhaps because he felt guilty—he knew John was aware that he had been stuck at the bottleneck for a hundred years before breaking through—Locke was feeling awkward inside, while his outward emotions were somewhat agitated.
"There's braised pig trotter in the cafeteria today. I haven't had it in ages."
"..."
John's answer left Locke completely at a loss. Just then, another "pfft" sounded inside the hall.
Locke turned around with a bewildered look.
At that moment, Zhou Xu had one hand half-covering his mouth, as if he were trying to conceal something.
Needless to say, that sound had come from him.
If John had failed to hold it in because he knew Locke's background and understood that Locke was bragging, then Zhou Xu had failed to hold it in simply because he found it far too funny.
He had never imagined that, through such a twist of fate, such an iconic scene would actually happen!
"Your Majesty, what are you laughing at this time?"
Locke's mentality was on the verge of collapse. Considering