Chapter 53

"Classmate, do you know Liu Dezhu from the next class?"

This sentence took only 0.001 seconds to pierce Nangeng Chen's heart.

Two such beautiful classmates made Nangeng Chen feel he was in love in an instant.

Then, there was nothing more.

It was as if Cupid, the god of love, was originally going to shoot an arrow at him, but he watched helplessly as Cupid replaced the arrow of love with an RPG rocket.

It was too sudden.

Nangeng Chen was silent for a long time before he suddenly said, "I don't know him... but I can go and get to know him."

Wang Yun smiled and said nothing more, instead focusing on tidying up her desk.

These two girls didn't bring much to school, just some stationery and textbooks for Chinese, Math, and English, nothing else.

Qingchen noticed that the labels on their clothes were mostly unfamiliar to him.

Although he had a broad range of knowledge, his poverty led him to naturally omit the category of luxury goods when storing knowledge.

How poor were he and Nangeng Chen?

To put it this way, their friendship could even be used to prove their moral standards.

They were both people who had been forced to detach from low-level interests.

After one class, Qingchen was already very clear: Wang Yun and Bai Wan'er were also time travelers. The reason they transferred was actually to target Liu Dezhu.

In 45 minutes, Wang Yun couldn't help but look at her arm six times, and Bai Wan'er looked at her arm five times, both at the countdown position.

Notably, Nangeng Chen looked 21 times.

After class, Wang Yun and Bai Wan'er walked out of the classroom. In the corridor, two boys were already waiting there.

These were two boys Qingchen had never seen at school before. One was tall and fair-skinned, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, with a demeanor reminiscent of a refined villain from a movie.

The other was a gentle, bespectacled boy.

The four of them stood in the corridor, whispering to each other, drawing the attention of countless classmates.

There were six classes on their floor, with 452 students in total.

But these four people standing there seemed to be the focus of the entire floor, forcing everyone to turn their gaze and feel a sense of inferiority.

The boy with the gold-rimmed glasses seemed to be the leader of the four, as he spoke calmly the most, while the other three listened.

At this moment, Nangeng Chen returned to the classroom in a hurry, lowering his voice, "These four transfer students are together. I asked the next class, and the two boys transferred to their Class 2-4."

"Hmm," Qingchen said, "Anything else?"

"The one with the gold-rimmed glasses is called Hu Xiaoniu. Someone said they saw him driving the other three to school this morning," Nangeng Chen said, "The other boy is called Zhang Tianzhen."

"Driving?" Qingchen was taken aback.

They, these hardworking teenagers, had never seen a classmate drive to school. Wasn't this something that only happened in idol dramas?

However, Qingchen suddenly felt that Liu Dezhu was now a target. Perhaps many more people would come for the name Li Shitong in the future.

And Liu Dezhu would gradually become the center of a vortex, continuously attracting new time travelers.

For the entire day, Wang Yun and Bai Wan'er hardly spoke to their classmates. Every time after class, they would go outside to chat with Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen.

They didn't give the other students any chance to interact with them.

During the day, the two girls spoke a few words to Nangeng Chen, asking about the teachers' names, the progress of the lessons, and some facilities and habits at the school.

As for Qingchen, they didn't say a word to him.

Qingchen could see that these two girls were better at studying than he had imagined.

Bai Wan'er took out a 2021 TOEFL practice test from her bag during the English class, which Qingchen had done before.

Wang Yun was doing physics competition problems, not paying much attention to other classes. These competition problems were something Qingchen had never seen before, definitely from a private educational institution.

Moreover, when Qingchen passed by the corridor to go to the bathroom, he clearly heard the four of them speaking English.

This was probably to deliberately prevent the other students from understanding, so they chose English.

Qingchen couldn't eavesdrop, but he still heard some key words: time traveler, time travel, how to go from City 7 to City 18.

When it was time for evening self-study, Qingchen whispered to Nangeng Chen, "I'm leaving first. If anything happens at school, send me a WeChat message."

Wang Yun and Bai Wan'er watched Qingchen turn out of the classroom, and one of them asked Nangeng Chen, "Is he skipping class?"

"Yeah," Nangeng Chen replied wistfully.

"Isn't he a good student? Why is he skipping class?" Bai Wan'er was puzzled.

"That's the privilege of a good student. The teacher hasn't said anything to him yet," Nangeng Chen said.

As he spoke, he saw Wang Yun and Bai Wan'er also get up to pack their things and leave without looking back.

Nangeng Chen was left alone, sitting in the last row, feeling a bit lonely as he watched the sunset outside the classroom.

...

Qingchen walked home, intending to change into a set of clothes he hadn't worn in a long time... then go to a small shop that privately buys gold to sell the gold he had extorted from Lu Guangyi.

The breathing technique consumed too much of his energy, so his diet had to keep up.

However, he was unsure if the gold from the inner world would show any differences from the gold in the outer world.

Although he had tested the density with the water displacement method yesterday and found it to be the same, he was still a bit uneasy.

The water displacement method for testing gold involves suspending the gold in water to determine its volume, then calculating its density based on its weight. The method is simple.

At room temperature, the density of gold is 19.23 grams per cubic centimeter.

If the density difference is not significant, it is real gold.

After preparing everything, Qingchen put on a backpack and opened the door, only to meet Wang Yun, Bai Wan'er, Hu Xiaoniu, and Zhang Tianzhen.

He realized that his new neighbors were indeed them.

Wang Yun and Bai Wan'er lived on the second floor, opposite Jiang Xue.

Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen lived opposite him.

They were indeed targeting Liu Dezhu, but if they could also get to know Jiang Xue, it would be a good choice.

This was the only reason they chose to live in this small, dilapidated building.

When Wang Yun saw Qingchen, she was taken aback. She smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to live here too."

The boy with the gold-rimmed glasses, Hu Xiaoniu, smiled and asked Wang Yun, "Who is this?"

"This is our classmate from Class 2-3," Wang Yun explained, "The teacher said he is one of the best students in the grade."

Hu Xiaoniu looked at Qingchen, "Hello, I'm Hu Xiaoniu. Nice to meet you."

"Sure," Qingchen nodded calmly, "Nice to meet you too."

After saying that, he quickly disappeared into the twilight, not intending to interact with them further.