Genius Playground

Chapter 17 Celebration
the next day.

Jiang Ran arrived at the club activity room and pushed open the door.

Hundreds of eyes stared at them!

"Fuck!"

Jiang Ran was shocked:

"The Rhine cats have bred!"

Previously, there were only a dozen or so Rhine Cat dolls in the activity room, all of which Cheng Mengxue brought from her dormitory.

but now……

The entire activity room was taken over by Rhine cats!
Rhine Cat plush toys, Rhine Cat cushions, Rhine Cat water cups, Rhine Cat pen holders, Rhine Cat desk lamps, Rhine Cat trash cans, Rhine Cat sofa cushions... and so on.

All sorts of Rhinecat merchandise are everywhere, it's like a whole Rhinecat army has invaded.

"What are you yelling about?"

Cheng Mengxue emerged from the pile of Rhine cats:
"Rhine cats are toys, how could they possibly breed?"

"How is it? Doesn't the activity room feel much cozier? Being surrounded by Rhine Cats naturally improves my mood!"

"not at all."

Jiang Ran felt only horror:
"That must have cost a lot of money, right?"

"There aren't many left, most are normal models costing a few dozen yuan, only this one is a bit more expensive..."

Cheng Mengxue walked to the sofa and picked up a round yet square Rhine cat figurine:

"Look, this is the Rhinecat rice cooker I've always wanted!"

It was a Rhine Cat shaped like a rice cooker, or perhaps a rice cooker shaped like a Rhine Cat.

It's too abstract; Jiang Ran can't understand it at all.

"This thing costs 3000 yuan?"

"It's going to cost 4000 now."

"That's outrageous! What kind of idiot would buy that?"

"What do you know? This is a super limited edition personally designed by the founder of Rhinecat!"

Cheng Mengxue smiled mysteriously:
"And, hehe, do you know... why it's more expensive than other limited editions?"

"Because it can cook rice?"

“NONONO~”

Cheng Mengxue pried open the top of the rice cooker with her fingers, revealing a blue sphere inside.

"Because—ta-da! Because there's a spacetime particle, the Rhine Cat, hidden inside!"

"Haha, you didn't expect that, did you! There's another one hidden inside! Buy one get one free is such a great deal!"

……

Jiang Ran was speechless yet wanted to laugh, like a popular internet meme.

Is this a design conceived by carbon-based bioenergy?
He was very worried about the mental state of the founder of Rhine Cat.

"Is it a genius design?" Cheng Mengxue pressed, her interest piqued.

"What a terrible design!"

Jiang Ran couldn't understand it at all:

"What kind of nonsense is this? A rice cooker Rhine Cat... Why isn't there a microwave Rhine Cat? Does it also need a mini-fridge Rhine Cat?"

"It really exists!!"

When talking about Rhine cats, Cheng Mengxue's eyes sparkled.

She quickly squeezed through the crowd, grabbed Jiang Ran's arm, and shook it violently:
"It really exists, folks! It really does have a miniature Rhine Cat refrigerator! It's a collaboration with the JASK SPACE-T, to commemorate—"

"Alright, alright, that's enough." Jiang Ran interrupted Cheng Mengxue's endless chatter.

Hey.

In reality, the Rhinecat Legion was growing stronger, but he really didn't want the Rhinecat family tree in his mind to continue to expand as well.

"You two are such a pair of enemies, always arguing and bickering."

Qin Feng appeared at the door of the activity room:

"I could hear it clearly from the stairwell."

What did you do this morning?

Jiang Ran turned around:
"You're so secretive, you won't tell me even when I ask."

"hey-hey."

Qin Feng smiled slightly and produced three boat tickets:

"Look what I bought! The most luxurious cruise ship in Donghai City, and the top-floor luxury suite with its own pool and restaurant, offering panoramic sea views."

"Why buy this thing?"

Jiang Ran wondered if the timeline had secretly jumped without his knowledge... why were all his friends acting strangely?
"I found out that you two have become incredibly arrogant since you got rich."

"Is it okay to splurge once in a while?"

Qin Feng shrugged:

"Besides, since it's a victory celebration banquet, we should definitely choose a good place."

Celebration party?
Jiang Ran asked:

"Didn't you hold a celebration banquet many days ago?"

"Yes, but don't you have no memory?"

Qin Feng stepped forward and patted Jiang Ran on the shoulder:

"You are the biggest contributor to our success today, how can we leave out the celebration banquet?"

“Since you have no memory, Xiaoxue and I discussed it… so we’ll celebrate for you again!” Jiang Ran finally understood what Qin Feng had been doing that morning.

It turns out that he wanted to make up for the lost memories of the victory celebration banquet.

There's really no need for that...

but.

Is this what friends are like?

I always pay attention to some unnoticed details, and to things that I am not even aware of.

"Speaking of which, I've never been on a cruise ship before," Jiang Ran said with a smile.

“I’ve never been there either.” Cheng Mengxue stood up with a chuckle.

"I've never been there either," Qin Feng said, shrugging.

"What are you waiting for?"

Jiang Ran looked out the window at the bright sunshine:

"set off!"

Peng————

Water splashed up from the pool.

Cheng Mengxue jumped down from the four-meter-high platform, splashing water that landed on Jiang Ran and Qin Feng's heads.

The two sat by the pool and wiped their faces.

"Is this a bomb?"

Qin Feng's rant:

"Could the splash be bigger?"

"It's already quite impressive that you dared to jump."

Jiang Ran protects his own:

Do you dare to jump?

"You dare?"

"If you dare, I dare."

"If you dare, I dare too."

Thirty seconds later.

The two stood one in front of the other on the four-meter diving platform.

It doesn't look like much from below, but when you actually stand on top of it, you realize that four meters is quite a height.

They were in the suite pool at the highest point of the cruise ship, and the diving platform was four meters higher... so this was the highest point of the entire cruise ship.

It is also the highest point of this sea.

Jiang Ran stood at the end of the diving board, gazing at the horizon where the sky met the sea, curving towards the end of the world in the shape of the earth.

Qin Feng stood behind him, looking up at the sky:

"Does this scene feel familiar?"

"what do you mean?"

Jiang Ran turned around, but was stopped by two fingers.

Those were Qin Feng's fingers.

Qin Feng made a gun shape with his right hand and pressed it against Jiang Ran's forehead.

“【Lilith.】”

His expression was grim as he spoke in a low voice:

"Let the sky darken."

The next second, a miracle happened.

The surrounding sunlight quickly dimmed until it disappeared, and the whole world lost its light source!
Jiang Ran raised her head.

Only then did they realize that it was just a passing dark cloud that was blocking the sun.

"hehe!"

No wonder Qin Feng looked up at the sky just now... He noticed that the dark clouds were about to cover the sun, which is why he suddenly became a drama queen.

"Lilith, all-powerful."

Qin Feng looked into Jiang Ran's eyes.

This is the script from that very first day when the two of them were filming on the rooftop.

The script was written by Jiang Ran and handed over to a film club for production. So... how could anyone be more familiar with the lines than Jiang Ran?

"Almighty, yet not a god."

In sync with Qin Feng's performance, Jiang Ran picked up the act and slowly turned around:
"Only those who control and manipulate history can be considered gods."

At this moment, just as at that moment.

In this era where we have the power to send time-traveling text messages and rewrite history at will, reciting this line evokes a completely different feeling.

Just like that day, standing on the edge of the rooftop, Jiang Ran opened her arms, bathing in the sea breeze of the diving platform:

"And now, we have this power, and our lives are just beginning!"

He altered the lines and improvised.

Under the boundless blue sky, seagulls cry out, and the sun emerges from behind the clouds, casting its rays upon everything!

"The future belongs to us!"

He leaped, losing all sense of gravity between the sky and the sea:
"History is ours too."

(End of this chapter)