Chapter 135
It was already ten o'clock in the middle of the night, and the square in front of the Xingfu Community was also deserted, only the faint lights from the nearby houses slightly illuminated the sidewalks of some communities.

Shen Qian, who was carrying a backpack, walked among them with a calm expression, and the fragmentary light and shadow made his face a little more trance-like.

Suddenly, a mad dog jumped out from the bushes beside him, and rushed towards Shen Qian, but Shen Qian didn't respond.

"Wow woof... ouch!"

The wild dog was kicked away by a figure rushing out from the slanting stab, and ran away with its tail between its legs.

"Shen Qian, why don't you hide, ah, you... what's wrong with you?"

The girl blamed at first, and then she saw Shen Qian's depressed expression which was very different from before, she couldn't help being startled, and carefully observed Shen Qian's eyes again.

"You...you won't cry, will you?"

"It's just a little emotional."

Shen Qian finally came back to his senses, glanced at the girl's pretty face, and wondered, "Why are you here?"

"I'm coming... I came to play with you when I passed by. Didn't the people in the school say that you are back, and you haven't replied to my messages, so I waited and waited downstairs. I was about to go home. I saw you came back, hehe!"

Huo Ling'er smiled foolishly, only then did Shen Qian notice that her cheeks were a little pale due to the attack of the night wind, so she raised her hand subconsciously, but quickly held back.

"Do you drink?"

Shen Qian took out a bag of white beer from his bag and said with a smile.

"go!"

Huo Linger waved her hand boldly.

……

"...I told Captain Song what happened. He was silent for a long time, but he didn't criticize anything. He just said that he had thought about this kind of scene countless times. Man, the shroud of horse leather might be a good destination."

"But I know he must not think so in his heart. When I left the mourning hall, I saw him sitting in front of the ice coffin with his back to me."

Shen Qian, who was sitting on the edge of the roof, took a sip of beer, then let out a long breath, and said with certainty.

"He was crying, he just didn't want me to see it."

"At that moment, I felt guilty too."

"Yeah, although it doesn't seem to have anything to do with me, I can't help but think, if Principal Huang and the others didn't think about helping me open the way, would it be... maybe that bastard wouldn't think about running away either?"

"Maybe it's a bit far-fetched, but when the snow falls, how can there be innocent snowflakes?"

"At that time, we were comrades in arms who should rely on life and death!"

"I still can't convince myself...I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me. Maybe it's this feeling?"

"Or if I'm a little more awesome, no one needs to die."

Shen Qian crumpled the soda can in his hand, and took another can of beer from Huo Linger who was quietly listening beside him.

"Ouyang Fei and Zifang... are the group of friends I just told you about during the college entrance examination. They sang in KTV, and I went to sit for a while."

"I don't want to play, I just want to chat with them."

"But I forgot that their memories are all fuzzy."

"They remember that there is Song Ben, but they forget that he is dead."

"They are still releasing the pressure after the college entrance examination. I listened to them singing 'The Wind Blows, Blows'. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time."

"The joys and sorrows of human beings are not connected, I just think they are noisy."

"I don't know if I think they are noisy, or they think I'm out of place, I can't sit still, and I just let the wine go..."

"I suddenly remembered such a sentence, especially when they asked me if I was unhappy. The funniest thing was that they still thought I was still worried about my failure in the first two subjects..."

"Hold!"

Huo Ling'er held Shen Qian's hand nervously, and Shen Qian shook his head to indicate that he was fine.

"I also thought of the mother and child I saw on the street..."

"Do you know that this world is not peaceful. In the mourning hall, Captain Sun told me that even though their Changyou Battalion is an elite force, the annual casualty rate is still around [-]%."

"That is to say, every year their battalion has to reduce about [-] people, which is unshakable."

"No one pays attention to these figures, and they are unwilling to publicize them. The saddest thing is that many military families will not mention them again. Some people have taken pensions and lived a new life, and maybe even formed a new life." family……

"I don't understand. It seems that the so-called human nature is involved again. I don't want to explore so much. It's very tiring."

Shen Qian's voice gradually sank, he picked up a can of wine again, lifted the lid and stood up.

"This glass of wine was originally made to drink with Second Brother Song when we returned to Jingcheng. Now, it can be regarded as a drink together..."

Shen Qian poured the wine down.

"Thank you for listening to me talking so much nonsense."

The gloom in his chest eased a little, Shen Qian said with a smile.

"We are... friends, we should." Huo Ling'er tilted her head and said, "Besides, I came here to comfort you today, so it's not a waste of time!"

"You knew these things before?" Shen Qian asked in surprise.

"No, it's..." Huo Ling'er hesitated.

"Is there anything else?" Shen Qian raised his eyebrows and moved closer, "Say!"

"You, don't get so close, people say it's fine..."

Huo Ling'er, who was leaning against the corner of the wall, was a little dizzy, and only after she pushed Shen Qian away a little did she regain her ability to think.

"Shen Qian, did you fail the martial arts college entrance examination?" Huo Ling'er asked cautiously.

"Did you hear something?" Shen Qian probably guessed.

"Just... there are a lot of articles about you in Jingcheng's newspapers and forums recently, saying that you... failed the exam, and comparing you with Wang Shuo, and even the city lord scolded you!"

Huo Ling'er spoke slowly, while observing Shen Qian's face, as if worried that what she said would irritate Shen Qian.

"That's it?"

Shen Qian took a sip of wine indifferently.

After so many days, at RT-Mart... Bah, after seeing so much abuse and attacks on the bracelet, Shen Qian didn't say his heart was as hard as a stone, at least he was calm!

"No, what they said was ugly, much worse than what I said!"

Huo Ling'er got a little anxious, and said very seriously: "Anyway, don't listen to those people talking nonsense, anyway, no matter what, you are very powerful in my heart!"

Shen Qian looked at Huo Linger's serious face pretending to be serious, but couldn't hold back after all, and pinched her smooth cheek.

"Hahaha, stop talking about this, drink!"

Shen Qian handed Huo Linger a can of wine and gagged her.

"Did you see that clothes-drying pole? It's not an ordinary clothes-drying pole, but an alloy clothes-drying pole. I bought it for [-] oceans when I got rich. After all, I broke it at the beginning. Yes, hey, at that time..."

Most men can't get rid of the problem of talking too much after drinking too much. Although Shen Qian is a teenager, he also has some spontaneous outbursts and starts to talk about the past.

While the night sky in Jingcheng was changing, stars appeared at some unknown time, and there was a full moon hanging high.

That night, the boy talked a lot with the wine bottle until late at night.

The girl was sitting next to her with her chin in her hands and her head up, her face full of intoxication, but she didn't know if it was because of the alcohol, the starry sky, or something else...

……

The white beer is extremely powerful when drunk, far surpassing ordinary beer.

Not surprisingly, Shen Qian, who didn't use his vitality to hangover, became drunk again.

Shen Qian opened his eyes, his head was still a little tingling, and he didn't become refreshed until he ran the "Hunyuan Refining God Chapter" once.

Next to the bed were the hangover medicine left by my mother and a bowl of thick soup that had cooled down. Although it was no longer needed, Shen Qian still picked up the bowl and drank it in one gulp.

Last night, I sat on the rooftop with Huo Linger until after three o'clock, and it was not until Huo Linger's driver came to pick her up that Shen Qian returned home unsteadily.

It's not advisable to drink too much, but once in a while it's nice to have a hangover like this.

I went out of the bedroom and looked, it was already noon, Shen Liang went to work, Wang Xiaojuan went to dance class, but the house was empty.

After taking a shower, Shen Qian, who had already eaten his full meal, ordered another takeaway for 20 people, and then sat on the sofa and took out the bracelet that had been charged for a while.

The chat box on the top is still gray, and "It's Xiaoding" is offline.

From the day Shen Qian set off from Jingcheng, Ding Yi left a message to participate in the training camp and never went online again. It seems that the training camp is still not over.

Shen Qian had roughly guessed by now that the training class that Ding Yi participated in was likely to be prepared for the grand competition in autumn and winter.

Let’s expand our thinking a little more. This year, the early enrollment of domestic colleges and universities is generally more violent than in previous years, and there may be reasons for this.

I'm really curious, what kind of game was that?
After closing Ding Yi's dialog box, Shen Qian continued to scroll down.

Many people have sent him messages, and even Chai Haotian called him. Shen Qian probably scanned it, and there was nothing particularly important. Almost most people's concerns revealed some inquiries.

Including Chai Haotian looking for him, Shen Qian presumably had something to do with the college entrance examination.

The annoyed Shen Qian ignored no one, and did not return Chai Haotian's call.

After thinking about it, Shen Qian still opened the local Jingcheng forum that he had neglected for a long time.

To Shen Qian's surprise, the most popular post was not related to him as he imagined, but another piece of news.

"An all-round prediction of the annual ranking of Jingcheng cities (including dry goods and revelations)."

The so-called annual ranking seems to be a comparison made by the Huaxia Executive Yuan every year. Shen Qian also read it in the newspaper before. It seems that this ranking is not just a paper honor, but a real interest dispute.

With some curiosity, Shen Qian also clicked on the post to have a look.

The post is very long, and it lists various detailed data charts. It can be seen that it is indeed well-written and the analysis is well-founded.

After reading it, Shen Qian looked a little complicated.

The importance of the city's annual ranking to a city is far beyond imagination. For example, the living and production resources that each city can allocate each year have a base value, but this base value can only maintain the basic operation of a city.

And if you want to get more resources, you need to rely on city rankings to fight for.

The higher the ranking, the more resources can be allocated.

These resources cover almost all aspects, minerals, fruits and vegetables, manpower, transportation, military and so on.

This will lead to good cities getting better and better, while weak cities can only stand still.

It is the classic twenty-eight principle again.

The decline of Jingcheng began ten years ago, and it has fallen off a cliff since seven years ago. Among the more than 1000 cities in the country, Jingcheng has dropped from more than 600 at its peak to more than [-] today.

And according to the speculation in the post, if the Marquis of Jingcheng was not included, Jingcheng could only be ranked at more than 900 people.

This year, Jingcheng is likely to fall below the thousand.

After doing the math, the decline of Jingcheng coincides with the decline of education. Although education is not the only reason, it is very similar to the seed of the butterfly effect.

The reason why Shen Qian's complexion was that, sure enough, at the end of the post, this year's college entrance examination was inevitably mentioned, and Shen Qian was also mentioned.

"Don't wash the bottom one, Shen Qian was the last one to walk out of the will test room, there is a picture to prove it!"

"Inside information, Wang Shuo was actually forced to leave by Shen Qian's tricks..."

"Does it mean that Shen Qian must win the first prize? Why should he do what no one has done in the past seven years?"

"Hehe, 'Light of Jingcheng' is nothing if it can't win the first prize. If it's that simple, I can call myself 'Light of Jingcheng'!"

"The college entrance examination has been over for six days, and the candidates from Jingcheng have already returned. Did you see Shen Qian showing up? It must be because he consciously failed the exam and was afraid of being beaten on the street!"

"..."

There are a lot of posts, which are updated every second. Occasionally, some people speak for Shen Qian, but most of them are still critical and skeptical.

Shen Qian glanced roughly and didn't look any further, he was still afraid that his emotions would be really affected.

But Shen Qian thought of a problem at this moment.

That's where his inexplicable "bad luck" came from.

Chai Haotian had told Shen Qian before that he exposed Shen Qian's actions before he set off, which was tantamount to transferring part of Jingcheng's luck to Shen Qian.

In the final analysis, these good fortunes are the expression of public opinion in Jingcheng.

Perhaps Chai Haotian also considered using luck to help Shen Qian overcome difficulties in the college entrance examination at the beginning, but after the public opinion reversed later, these lucks became entangled bad luck, which was equivalent to turning public opinion into resentment.

Luck is really a double-edged sword.

In fact, Shen Qian has been wondering why everyone thinks he failed the exam?

He obviously never admitted it.

It's impossible for him to take a loudspeaker and shout "Full marks for me" all over the street, regardless of whether it has any effect, but that is too low.

Besides, he couldn't tell the secret of the perfect score in the college entrance examination.

After waiting for the takeaway to arrive, Shen Qian thought about it for a while after eating and drinking, and decided to go to the Kyushu Budokan to practice iron.

There are still three days until the announcement of the results of the college entrance examination. Since it is inconvenient to go out, then retreating is naturally the best choice.

Although the 99th floor of the Tongtian Tower has been renovated, it needs to be refurbished, and some furniture is purchased by the way, but it is not suitable for living for the time being.

She called her mother and said she was going out to play for a few days. Wang Xiaojuan seemed to understand Shen Qian, she didn't ask any more questions, but said implicitly that if she was going out with a girl, she should pay attention to safety.

Shen Qian pretended not to understand what his mother was saying, packed up a few changes of clothes, put on a mask and sunglasses like a star, and then went out and went straight to the Kyushu Budokan.

When he came to the Budokan, Shen Qian met Zhu Deyong who hadn't seen him for a long time.

Zhu Deyong was very enthusiastic as always, and personally helped Shen Qian arrange the diamond practice room, it seemed that he was not affected by the public opinion outside at all, but Xiaoxuan was unexpectedly absent.

"You haven't been here recently, so she asked for leave. It seems that someone at home has to take care of her."

Zhu Deyong smiled and said: "You also know that she doesn't serve other customers. She just passed the college entrance examination and it's off-season, and the front desk doesn't need anyone, so I approved a long vacation for her. How about I call her back now?"

"That's not necessary, so be it."

Shen Qian refused with a smile. After Zhu Deyong left, he first came to the simple simulator in the corner.

After blasting Old Wang with one punch, a string of numbers jumped out of the simulator.

"Burst force: 1209 Kg
Instantaneous speed: 2.1 s/[-] meters
......"

This number is basically within Shen Qian's prediction.

Shen Qian took a test during the college entrance examination, and his strength at that time was 1147. Although a week had passed, Shen Qian hadn't practiced much during this period, and the range of natural growth alone was not too great.

Shen Qian returned to the practice area, and took out a glass bottle from his backpack, in which black air was lingering, like a thundercloud, it was the dead air that the boss Gao helped him strip out of his body.

Strictly speaking, if so many people hadn't died in the battle in the valley, Shen Qian would have gained a lot.

Just absorbing these dead energy, I don't know how many days and nights of penance Shen Qian can be worth.

After all, he needs too much spiritual energy to break through, and it is difficult to satisfy his appetite through normal methods.

In order to prevent waste, Shen Qian first came to the almost unused sweat steam room. After sealing the doors and windows and leaving only a ventilation hole, Shen Qian opened the glass bottle, and then called out the system.

After all, he himself doesn't have the ability to absorb dead energy yet.

After the energy of the system was consumed again in the valley, it has dropped below 40%, and the search for energy has to be put on the agenda.

But if it's just daily practice, it's not too much of a burden on the system.

After setting the on-hook requirement, Shen Qian's eyes soon went dark and he completely lost consciousness.

……

In the blink of an eye, three days passed by, and finally it was the day when the college entrance examination results were announced.

Shen Qian had already greeted Zhu Deyong in advance, so in these three days, except for ordering a meal when he woke up occasionally, no one bothered Shen Qian at other times.

As for the bracelet, it was directly turned off by Shen Qian.

This is the best way to not be disturbed by the outside world.

Because of this, Shen Qian also spent the longest training period this year.

For three days, apart from sleeping and eating, he was practicing all the time.

Before Shen Qian even had time to sense the changes in his body, he was quickly dragged into the next training cycle.

By the time Shen Qian woke up, it was already the morning of the fourth day.

Shen Qian, who was full of energy and had bright eyes, stood up and glanced at the glass bottle on the table.

After three days of refining, about a quarter of the dead energy remained in the glass bottle.

After moving his hands and feet, Shen Qian felt that he was different.

The most obvious thing is that the vitality in the body has condensed a lot.

Judging from the quality, it should have crossed the threshold of beginners.

"This is probably the time I improved the most, right?"

Shen Qian clenched his fist, feeling that he could easily kill a liger with one punch.

After a brief rinse, Shen Qian couldn't wait to come to the simulator, and summoned Lao Wang again. After a little adaptation to the growing power in his body, he directly stepped out and blasted Wang Yangming.

After a few beeps, a line of data jumped out of the simulator.

"Burst force: 1703 Kg
Instantaneous speed: 2.0 s/[-] meters
......"

Shen Qian was very pleasantly surprised.

It was even more exaggerated than his own expected progress.

Every time a normal novice warrior advances, his strength will increase by about 100kg. Before he sinks, he has a perfect body. After excluding the loss of strength, the progress of each stage will be between 600 and 700, and then gradually decrease.

If calculated in this way, Shen Qian not only broke through the second stage of the beginner warrior, but even passed the initial stage of the second stage of the beginner warrior.

If the system takes action, the strength is likely to be approaching the 2000 mark.

A normal mid-level fighter starts at 1000Kg, and every time he breaks through a stage, his strength will increase by about 200 to 300Kg. In this way, the system's shots are almost equivalent to a fourth-stage mid-level fighter.

In other words, in terms of strength alone, Shen Qian has already equaled Wang Shuo in less than a month.

Among them, it is more than 1000Kg of progress.

It's a pity that death qi, which is essentially high-quality vitality, is rare, and Shen Qian will still fall into the "turtle speed" progress of 50kg a day.

But no matter what, Shen Qian's strength has been greatly improved.

After calming down, Shen Qian looked at the time, and it was not until eight o'clock in the morning, and the results of the civil and military college entrance examination were only available after ten o'clock in the morning, and this was even if the network did not crash.

Therefore, Shen Qian was not in a hurry, he rang the service bell and called a cheongsam lady.

After relaxing the tensed muscles and bones due to practice, Shen Qian put on the small suit that Tuo Zhu Deyong bought again, and went out.

(End of this chapter)

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