Zhang Ze stared at their movements and listened to their sounds, his teeth almost grinding to powder. Looking at their clasped hands, he felt stifled and irritated, yet there was nothing he could do. He couldn't let Xiao Feng get angry; Xiao Feng wasn't well...
Finally, he gritted his teeth, stood up, and took Lu Qingyan's hand.
The sound of the stool legs scraping the floor was so loud that people chatting in the classroom turned to look, and the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
The girl sitting next to Zhang Ze was also a war correspondent.
It's really not easy to concentrate on studying while facing this intense pressure every day!
Now, she was so shocked her jaw almost dropped. Were those two alright?
Huo Cifeng's injured hand was gone, because it had been pulled to the back table.
He glanced at it, but simply said, "You two have a good relationship, so help each other out. Don't bother me unless it's absolutely necessary."
Lu Qingyan: "..."
Zhang Ze: "..."
When Huo Cifeng turned back, Lu Qingyan looked up and sneered, "What? Jealous? Can't wait?"
Zhang Ze smirked, then twisted Lu Qingyan's hand with his backhand. With a little more force, Lu Qingyan's hand could have been broken off immediately.
Lu Qingyan was sweating profusely, but she refused to say a word, because it was really embarrassing to be beaten in front of Huo Cifeng.
Zhang Ze was capable of anything, so he could only endure it, because he was always the one hitting others, and no one ever provoked him.
Zhang Ze clicked his tongue and flung his hand away.
Lu Qingyan clenched her wrist, her eyes bloodshot, too angry to utter a single word for a long time.
In Zhang Ze's eyes, Lu Qingyan was nothing more than a dog who dared not speak out against his anger.
No, Zhang Ze believes he is a dog too, Xiao Feng's dog. Even if his master hates him, he still loves his master.
He committed a heinous crime, daring to betray his master, so even if he were beaten thousands of times, it would be his just deserts. He only begged that his master not hate him...
Here we go again, that scorching gaze. Huo Cifeng was speechless, but too lazy to go anywhere else. He pressed his brow; he hadn't felt this annoyed in a long time, and he couldn't imagine how suffocating the days to come would be.
In the evening
Huo Cifeng had a dream in which a boy in a black robe appeared before him. The sky was gray, and everything around him was dull and lifeless. He raised his hand, which was also gray.
He looked back at where the boy had been, his tone not panicked, but very calm; after all, he was already used to this dark environment.
"I am the god of this world, existing to save lost little Tuzi. However, Huo Cifeng, if you continue like this, your days are numbered."
Huo Cifeng: "Oh."
God: "Don't you want to live?"
Huo Cifeng: "I don't want to."
God: "Why?"
Huo Cifeng: "Whether it's my past life or this life, it seems I'm living in the shadow of the past. I feel like I've lost all my emotions. I wish I could just die right now."
Unfortunately, I have a chip implanted in my body. If anything goes wrong, the doctor will appear immediately, so I won't die for now... Do you have any ideas?
god. "..."
God wanted to make a deal with Huo Cifeng, exchanging something for the method of saving Huo Cifeng, but who would have thought that Huo Cifeng would turn out to be a complete pessimist and misanthropic!
Helpless, he had no choice but to leave Huo Cifeng's dream and go to Zhang Ze's dream.
However, upon entering, he was suddenly beaten up by Zhang Ze.
He begged for mercy and revealed his identity.
Afterwards, Zhang Ze laughed so hard he was shaking, "Hahaha... you said you're a god?"
"How ridiculous! If God exists, why doesn't He save humanity? What's He doing here with someone like me?"
The god, bruised and battered, and still a short man, didn't answer the question about saving all living beings. Instead, he asked directly, " Huo Cifeng only has two years left to live in this world. Do you want Huo Cifeng to live on?"
Zhang Ze was taken aback for a moment, then asked, "What do you mean?"
God: "Then release me!"
With a gentle wave of his hand, Zhang Ze sent the rope back into his grasp. Indeed, in his world, even dreams were under his control. He could control everything within the dream, since dreams were simply a result of the activity of his own cerebral cortex.
"Say it," Zhang Ze repeated.
God: "If you agree to make a deal with me, I will help you save Huo Cifeng. What do you say?"
Zhang Ze nodded without hesitation. "Okay, but if it costs me my life, I hope you can help me erase his memories of his past life."
God sighed, "You're overthinking it. What would I do with your lives?"
Zhang Ze frowned. "Then just say it directly. What kind of deal is this, all this secrecy? Isn't it just about absorbing the lifespan of mortals to let someone like you, who may or may not be a god, live on?"
God: "... You mortal, how can you be so ungrateful! I am a god of this plane! You should obey my commands!"
Another huge hammer appeared in Zhang Ze's hand.
God swallowed hard. "No, don't be impulsive... Listen to me first. If it weren't for my permission to give you new life, you would have died long ago. Is this how you treat a God of grace?"
Zhang Ze: "Why can you only communicate through dreams? Can't we talk during the day? Where is your real body?"
God: "... You mortal, how can you be so easily fooled? My true form is, of course, in the realm of gods, but there's been a slight mishap in this world, and I can't go down."
After all, I went down there just a week ago; gods can't frequently travel back and forth to the human world.
Zhang Ze sat down on the ground. "Go ahead and say it, but only if I can do it."
The god smiled and said, "When I flew over there last time, I dropped a jade token engraved with the character 'thunder' on Phoenix Mountain. If you can help me find it, I can cast a spell remotely to save someone for you."
"Wait, you still haven't said why we ended up in this world, and why you're looking for me instead of someone else."
The god paused for a moment, "It's because your obsession was too deep before you died, and you turned into a vengeful ghost. That world was afraid that you would harm society, so it automatically purified you when you crossed the space-time barrier, and thus threw you into this world."
You and Huo Cifeng are bound by a destiny, inseparable, and were sent here together. Because purification will take you a long time, Huo Cifeng, who came in first, will stay in this world for much longer than you.
The reason I sought you out is that you received a gift from me and can communicate with me, unlike other humans who cannot see or perceive me.
"Then why can't we find Huo Cifeng a good body?"
God: "It's good enough that you're even useful! Mortal, don't push your luck!"
Zhang Ze smiled maliciously, "I agree, but there's one more condition."
God: "What are the conditions?"
Zhang Ze shrugged, and the object in his hand vanished instantly. "I'm afraid you'll cheat me, so I need a deposit first, because I always make him angry and upset. So, could you help me improve his physical condition a bit?"
The gods nowadays also need a system to manage the world. If it weren't for the fact that he was in someone else's dream, he would have already dragged out the control panel and immediately increased the immunity value of the human body named " Huo Cifeng ".