I Went Abroad?

Li Mo rubbed his eyes.

After lowering his hand, Li Mo widened his Karslan-sized eyes.

He scanned the exotic sign in front of him, punctuation mark by punctuation mark.

Great, it was English he didn't understand!

"What the hell is all this supposed to mean? I'm a perfectly good Chinese person. Even in a dream, I wouldn't end up in a place covered in English, would I?"

This wasn't a matter of whether it was English or not, but something strangely hard to put into words.

He couldn't read it...

Smack! Li Mo slapped himself.

Served him right for slacking off whenever his English teacher taught class! Served him right for giving up English and focusing on Chinese, math, and physics!

"Hey! Is anyone there?!"

A gust of cold wind blew past. Feeling a little awkward, Li Mo slowly lowered the hand he had been waving over his head.

Did he look a little stupid like this?

After a moment of thought, repeated deliberation, and a conclusion, Li Mo raised his hand again.

"Hollow! I am Chinese..."

???

Smack! After another slap, Li Mo touched the side of his face, which was starting to burn, and fell silent.

I think that's all I know. What am I supposed to say next...

"Maybe I should find somewhere high and jump off. Maybe I'll wake up right afterward."

Rubbing his chin, Li Mo felt that this idea of his was simply perfect beyond the heavens.

After all, had anyone ever fallen asleep in front of a computer, only to wake up in some unfamiliar place with English signs standing all over the streets?

That was right. Li Mo felt very wronged. Not long ago, he had just passed a turning point in his long life—the college entrance exam. Today happened to be the day to fill out his applications, so he had gone to the school computer room and selected schools under a teacher's guidance.

And then...

Didn't I just stay up all night at an internet café, fill out my applications, and fall asleep in front of the school computer? You staff members actually dumped me in a place like this?

He was a little dumbfounded. He had only turned seventeen this year; he was still just a kid!

And he had studied at this school for three years!

"Sigh, it has to be a dream." Li Mo lowered his head. Jumping off a building was too scary, so forget it. As for pulling down his pants and taking a piss?

Not that Li Mo had any intention of doing that, but even if he did, he wouldn't. Otherwise, the rumor that "a male student fell asleep in the school computer room and wet his pants" would be passed down at this school forever...

He should keep walking. First, he would see whether he could find a familiar road. Besides, if this was a dream, he would probably wake up after waiting a little longer.

Otherwise, he would definitely file a complaint against the school computer room staff tomorrow!

Ten minutes later, Li Mo leaned against a utility pole by the roadside, his head full of complicated thoughts as he decided to give up the foolish act of looking for a way back.

Had he ever seen a street in China where every sign along the way was in English?

Li Mo could say that there was no such place in the small city where he lived.

"So, have I really been dumped abroad?"

Li Yuan voiced his doubt. In his seventeen years of life, he had never seen so many English words, and he probably never would again.

But I only slept for one night! What terrible crime did I commit to deserve being thrown abroad as a mere student?

"If the police catch me, they'll deport me, right?"

At the thought of local news a few days later reporting, "A high school student from our city was deported after failing to illegally enter another country," Li Yuan instantly became frightened. He felt as though a dark cloud would hang over the rest of his life.

I'm about to go to college! This won't leave a stain on my record, will it?

Whoosh! A streak of light flew past Li Mo and landed in a shop by the street not far away, instantly jolting him awake from his wild thoughts.

Boom! The shop exploded.

Li Mo went blank.

I... wasn't dumped in Libya, was I...

Human bombs? Forced mercenaries? An international war?

At that moment, Li Mo thought of many things, and his legs had already begun trembling uncontrollably.

Grrr~ A sound from his stomach rang out at a terribly inappropriate moment.

"..." Li Mo's old face reddened, but his body suddenly went limp beyond his control, and he nearly collapsed to the ground.

—Of course, it definitely wasn't because he was scared!

Weakness and limpness often came after that...

Don't misunderstand. It was from staying up late!

As the saying went, "People are iron, food is steel; miss one meal and you'll feel hungry." Li Mo was feeling a little panicked right now.

This is a war zone. It's pitch-black in the middle of the night, and I'm just an ordinary person. Going around asking people for food doesn't fit the mood at all...

Besides, no matter how he thought about it, even the whole vibe was completely different, okay!

Grrr~ grrrr...

Smack! He was so angry he slammed the table!

Is my hungry stomach seriously giving me a rhythm now?!

Gulp. Swallowing hard, Li Mo encouraged himself.

Looking ahead, Li Mo spotted a building about ten meters away from him by the roadside.

It was three stories tall, and it looked like people had once lived there. There had to be some food left behind, right?

Probably... right?

Charge!

"I should have done this earlier. After walking for so long, I'm starving." After a while, Li Mo, who had finally climbed to the third floor through a drainage pipe after failing to find the entrance, looked at the darkness below and thought to himself.

"But can you even get hungry in a dream?

This dream is so realistic that once I wake up, I'll definitely have to brag about it!"

Li Mo chuckled and stretched his right foot onto the third-floor balcony.

He had watched those climbing and parkour videos online before and thought those people were amazing. Today, he could give it a try too!

Then his hand slipped, and his left foot... missed its footing...

Fuck me...

As Li Mo fell into the darkness below, a terribly lame English sentence suddenly flashed through his mind.

—"You jump! I jump!"

Wrong, sorry, it was another sentence.

"MMP!"

After the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground, Li Mo lay sprawled on the floor, blood slowly flowing from his body.

"This dream hurts like hell. It feels just like being injured in real life..."

And he had actually gone this far for a little food. Was that necessary...

No, wait! Just like reality?!

Li Mo suddenly widened his eyes. "This is reality? I'm not dreaming?!"

Damn it! Did the computer room staff really dump him abroad?

Pfft! Bright red blood sprayed from his mouth. As life slowly drained from his body, a gray haze began to cloud Li Mo's eyes.

Fuck... this is seriously screwed up. I only fell asleep in front of a computer. Did they really have to be this ruthless?!

The scene before his eyes began to blur, and the remnants of consciousness in his mind slowly faded away. After countless images flashed past, the entire world went dark.

At the instant he closed his eyes, Li Mo only saw a glowing figure slowly approaching him.

What a fucked-up life!