Lu Mingfei helplessly typed "GG" on the screen ("GG" referred to "Good Game" in competitive games, praising the other party for playing well, which also meant admitting defeat) and then switched out of the game. The last scene displayed on the screen was of twelve human cruisers firing their gorgeous Yamato cannons, turning his mother nest into a pool of blood.
He had lost the sixth round of the day. The winning ratio was zero to six. This time, he lasted until 22 minutes and 23 seconds before he was taken down. However, he was still taken down in the end. The opponent's micro-control was very good, and they were using humans. The human Machine Gunner was a perverse type of soldier in this game. Their firing speed was zero. When they stood still, they would pull their guns and shoot. When they put their guns away, they would run. Lu Mingfei's puppies could not catch up, and they were blown up one by one on the way.
In the public chat channel, the opponent was speaking with confidence." Humans don't necessarily need tanks to fight Zergs. Experts don't usually use tanks anymore. They start off with a burst of minions. A sea of machine guns and nurses rush over, continuously eliminating and attacking. When the enemy's minions are suppressed before they can level up, they can only send troops to grind you down. If the hydralisks can't form a party, you win. The cruisers behind them will attack in a formation. That's overwhelming…" Lu Mingfei could imagine the guy's exultation.
Lu Mingfei didn't say anything. He switched to QQ and saw that the girl in the baseball cap was still gray and motionless. The other party did not come online, so he waited for nothing again. He scratched his head in disappointment. The other avatar jumped up. It was a panda that looked very annoying.
"Brother, you're good at playing with the Zergs.”Panda was the guy who defeated him." You're just lacking in micro-control. Your tactical awareness is very good.”
"Alright," Lu Mingfei said.
The panda went offline smugly. Lu Mingfei stuck out his tongue at the screen. If the other party had seen Lu Mingfei's actions with their own eyes, they probably wouldn't have been so smug. They would have just cursed him as a " pervert " and turned around to leave. Lu Mingfei didn't take the mouse. He used the red dot on the old iPhone laptop to control it. Everyone knew how difficult it was to control a red dot in a competitive game. It was like picking your ears with a rolling pin. However, Lu Mingfei didn't bother to emphasize to his brother that he was just trying to challenge the high difficulty because he felt that it was boring too. After he had won against everyone in the channel with micro-manipulation, he would switch to playing with his left hand. If he won with his left hand, he would throw away the mouse and use the red dot to play. If one day he used the red dot to play all over the channel, what method would he use to kill time?
Why? Why bother? He sometimes told himself that. She was always playing an old game and waiting, but she rarely went online.
"A box of discounted milk, half a catty of Cantonese sausages, and the new issue of 'Zui Xiao Su' that Ming Ze wants. Come back quickly after you're done buying and pick the celery on the table for me! Also, go to the reception room and see if there are any letters from the United States! Playing games? If you don't care about your own matters at all, if no one accepts you, can you even get into a first-tier university? What's the use of spending so much money on you?”His aunt's voice sounded like thunder in the room next door.
Lu Mingfei felt his head buzzing from the shock. He quickly agreed and trotted out the door. It was quiet in the corridor. He leaned against the door and heard his aunt grumbling. The afternoon sun shone in through the window at the end of the corridor and shone warmly on him. The pure white bedsheets were hanging in the corridor, and the wind outside the window swayed the green leaves.
It was spring again. Lu Mingfei was eighteen this year.
He lived with his uncle and aunt. He had a cousin named Lu Mingze who was studying at the most famous private high school in the area. The tuition was expensive, and his teacher was strict. He had luxurious cars and beautiful women. There were three months and four days left before he had to take the college entrance examination. These days, it was as if the whole world was roaring in his ears, telling him that the end of the world was coming. He should be filled with fighting spirit and pounce on the model test paper like a murderous fighting rooster, showing his determination to stand out.
However, the greater the pressure, the lazier Lu Mingfei became. Other than playing the old game StarCraft, he would lie in bed and stare at the roof in a daze. He was completely uninterested in his future.
As a person with no sense of existence, his laziness was not difficult to understand.
Lu Mingfei hadn't seen his parents for more than six years. The good news was that they were still alive and would write to him every six months. The bad news was that every time he wrote, his mother would regretfully tell him that her plan to visit him in the country had to be postponed again because there were new developments. His parents were both archaeologists. It was said that they were busy with a big project. Once the results were announced, they would be like Sven? He Ding's discovery of the ancient city of Loulan had shocked the world. When he was in middle school, Lu Mingfei was very proud of his parents. He read a lot of books on archaeology and talked about it with his classmates on the way home from school. However, he soon realized that he should be proud of his brothers who were picked up by his parents after school. Every time after school, a group of students would casually walk side by side, occupying almost half the street. The car horn would sound behind them again and again, and then a brother in the team would immediately restrain his swaying and obediently get into his family's car and leave. The number of people decreased one by one, and in the end, only Lu Mingfei was left, continuing to sway forward.
The brothers looked out of the car window. Lu Mingfei's back was kicking rocks as he walked away freely. They were very envious of him. They envied him for being able to go anywhere he wanted. He wanted to shop at the mall, buy food, and even play billiards. Anyway, his family was not strict and never came to pick him up after school.
However, Lu Mingfei didn't go shopping or play pool when he was alone. After he got tired of sitting in the internet cafe, he went home. He entered the building but did not enter the house. He crawled through the iron fence that led to the roof and sat beside the buzzing air conditioner to look at the city until the sun set.
Lu Mingfei felt that his parents were like supermen and superwomen. Perhaps they would only appear in front of him one day when his plane crashed and they would carry the plane to land safely. If not for that, they would have been busy working for the world and not for Lu Mingfei. Of course, he could brag about his superhuman parents, but in reality, it was no different from non-existence. Lu Mingfei almost couldn't remember what his parents looked like. Only when he occasionally saw his parents taking photos with him in his living room when he was young could he barely remember the man and woman, as well as the old building that was covered in ivy outside his house.
His uncle and aunt were more interested in the money that Lu Mingfei's parents sent back from abroad than Lu Mingfei himself. Thanks to that sum of money, Lu Mingfei was able to attend that private high school. It was also thanks to that sum of money that his uncle and aunt could buy a BMW with a small engine. His uncle had the money to buy some branded goods that looked very similar. His aunt had the money to lose at the mahjong table. It was also thanks to that sum of money that his cousin, Lu Mingze, had the nickname " Prince Ze " in school. Lu Mingze attended the same high school as him. Not only were his grades better than his, but his clothes were also more exquisite than his. As long as there were girls eating with him, he would fight over the money. His uncle and aunt would even dress especially presentable to attend Lu Mingze's parent-teacher conference, making people feel that Lu Mingze was a child who had grown up in a honey pot, while he, Lu Mingfei, was " Lu Mingze's older brother."
Lu Mingfei didn't really mind. After all, he wasn't a person with a sense of existence.
Even his parents didn't care about him. How high could he expect from his uncle and aunt?
Lu Mingfei had his hands in his pockets and tilted his head to look at the ground. He went downstairs and bought some milk and Cantonese sausages from the convenience store. Then, he went to the bookstall and bought a new novel," The Most Short Story." Her aunt felt that Lu Mingze was smart, studious, and ambitious. He was also especially passionate about literature. When Lu Mingze read " The Most Short Story," her aunt would say," Our Mingze is studying." Every time there was a new issue of the magazine, her aunt knew better than Lu Mingze and would rush Lu Mingfei to buy it. This made the old man at the newsstand downstairs think that Lu Mingfei was a melancholic child. But in reality, Lu Mingfei was very vain. Every time he finished buying " The Most Fictional Story ", he would lean against the newsstand and finish reading the latest issue of " Home Computer and Games ". Then, he would throw it back to the stall and frankly comment that the game was getting worse and worse. He would then leave.
Lu Mingfei was a little mischievous. For example, he didn't like Lu Mingze, but he always visited Lu Mingze's secret Qzone. Lu Mingze read " The Most Short Story " and gave himself a pen name," Lonely Gluttonous Snake." He copied many sad sentences and put them in his Qzone, along with a headshot he had taken with his phone. Occasionally, he would upload a few photos of himself smearing red ink on his wrist to pretend to cut his wrist. The poem he wrote was probably about dying without love. Lu Mingfei knew that his younger cousin was lustful. He hadn't found a girl he liked in school yet, so he wanted to meet some heavenly lightning on QQ. So he applied for a new QQ account called " Sunset's Mark " and posted a photo of a short-haired loli. He filled in his age as 16 years old, his gender as female, and his signature as " Let your smile and sadness be the mark of my life." While Lu Mingze was surfing the internet at home, he would sneak into the internet cafe and strike up a conversation with Lonely Gluttonous Snake. After a few rounds, Lu Mingze probably felt that he, the greedy snake, had finally found food. He was also willing to let his smile and sadness become the mark of a girl's life. Therefore, he happily hummed the Xin Band's " Song of Separation " every day and invited them to meet again and again, wanting to start a big time. Lu Mingfei would always make appointments when his aunt took Lu Mingze to piano lessons. Lu Mingze would never see the " marks of the setting sun," so when he sang " Song of Separation," he would sound a little sad. This was the happiest thing that had happened to Lu Mingfei recently.
Lu Mingfei was such a person. He wasn't a good person, and he didn't have the ability to do bad things. He lived until he was eighteen, but he still didn't know what his future was.
"Mingfei, I heard that you're going to study abroad.”The old man at the newsstand suddenly thought of this when he was browsing through the free home games.
"No, I applied for it. Who wants me?”Lu Mingfei said casually.
"It's good to study abroad. After studying abroad, you'll be a turtle and earn a lot of money.”
"I don't want to make a lot of money. If I can't get into university, I'll come to your shop to help you look after the stall.”
"Useless. I can't earn money from the newsstand. I'm old.”
Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes and looked at the sunlight shining down from the shade above his head." It's pretty good. You can bask in the sun. When no one comes, you'll be in a daze. There are also beautiful women passing by.”
This topic made Lu Mingfei rather depressed. He did apply to an American university, but it was not because his grades were too good. Everyone had different ways of evaluating his results. The homeroom teacher looked at Lu Mingfei's report card from last semester and sighed." Lu Mingfei, do you know how much you've lowered our class 'average score?" Auntie was telling Uncle that Mingze's good results were due to his family's genes. It was just not good to look at your family's genes! Only Lu Mingze comforted him, but it was on QQ. Lu Mingze said to him considerately," Xiyang, what's there to be afraid of if your results aren't good? I walk my own path. This is what people like us should do! Anyway, you are a good girl in my eyes!”
However, his aunt Lingji was the one who made the decision to go abroad. She made Lu Mingfei fill out the application form and generously paid the application fee of dozens of dollars for each school. His aunt had her own set of logic. Among Lu Mingfei's subjects, only English was good. When he took the TOEFL with his classmate, the English maniac, he got lucky and scored well. With Lu Mingfei's grades, it was very difficult for him to get into a first-class university. It was very popular to give up on the exams and go abroad. If he applied and got lucky enough to get accepted into an American university, he would be able to answer to Lu Mingfei's parents and the money they sent him every month. This way, his aunt would be at ease. She had already laid the foundation beforehand. Studying abroad was a matter of " enduring hardships to become a better person." If Lu Mingfei really succeeded in studying abroad, he could not be too delicate. He had to come back to China during the winter and summer vacations, work part-time, and study English there. In any case, he would do anything but stay on the other side of the ocean and not let his aunt see him. As for the tuition fees, it was a small matter. The wool came from the sheep. The money could be written to Lu Mingfei's parents to ask for it. Her aunt guessed that Lu Mingfei's parents must have been very rich after living abroad for so many years because she had checked the account that had sent them the money. It was a custody account in a bank. That account didn't need to be manually operated. As long as the bank agreed, the checks would be sent out automatically every month. This way, Lu Mingfei's parents would have to deposit a large sum of money into that account and spend it regularly every month.
Actually, Lu Mingfei knew that his aunt had another plan. Although Lu Mingze's results were slightly better than Lu Mingfei's, they were not top-notch either. He could not get into Tsinghua University or Peking University, the famous schools that his aunt had been talking about. It was not a bad idea to give up the exams and go abroad. It would seem like he was very trendy. However, going to university was a lifelong matter. Her aunt could not bear to see Lu Mingze take the risk. After thinking about it, the aunt probably remembered a famous saying," All difficult roads should be paved by the brave with hard soles of the feet." She also felt that Lu Mingfei was very brave, so she asked him to try to use his hard soles to pave a path for Lu Mingze. It didn't matter if he failed. It meant that the path was blocked, and Lu Mingfei could take the college entrance examination with his cousin a year later.
However, the difficult road was obviously not something that could be paved with courage alone. One had to have some ability. Lu Mingfei's abilities were probably limited to playing StarCraft. Unfortunately, there was no competitive gaming specialization in the United States. Lu Mingfei had already received more than a dozen replies. The opening was similar.
Dear applicants:
Thank you for your interest in the academy, but unfortunately…
Her aunt felt sorry for the application fees. She had spent hundreds of dollars in application fees, but in exchange, these Americans had thanked her again and again. This kind person made her very unhappy. However, Lu Mingfei was neither anxious nor impatient. He was unusually calm. It was just that he did not want his aunt to be too depressed, so he squeezed out a bitter expression every time he received a rejection letter.
He counted the schools that had filled in the application form. Only one school had not replied to him, and this was the University of Chicago, which was ranked at the top of the list.
"Is there any letter for me?" Lu Mingfei stuck his head in from the entrance of the reception room and said in English," Mingfei Lu.”
"Yes, it's from America." The guard threw out a letter.
Lu Mingfei touched the envelope. There was only a thin piece of paper inside. It was basically a rejection letter. It was said that if it was an admission letter, there would be a lot of forms and introductory materials, a thick stack. Last year, a boy from their school had successfully applied. He threw the pile of materials on the table with a disdainful look and said impatiently under the girls 'admiring gazes,"How can I fill in so many materials?" Let my dad get me a typing machine!
Lu Mingfei tore open the envelope. The letter was written in Chinese.
Dear Mr. Lu Mingfei,
Thank you for your interest in the University of Chicago, but unfortunately, you did not meet the admission requirements of the University of California.
However, we always say that there is always another choice.
Cassel College is a private university located in Chicago suburbs of the United States, and it is a bond school with the University of California. Every year, we jointly organize equestrian, rowing, hot air balloon, swimming, and other inter-school competitions at Lake Michelle. In addition, there are more extensive academic exchanges.
We are very honored to have received your application materials from the University of Chicago. After a detailed evaluation of your resume and academic records, we believe that you have met the admission requirements of Kassel College and are hereby inviting you. In addition, your excellent biology results have attracted the attention of Professor Guderian from our school. He hopes to allocate $36,000.00 from his research fund to you every year as a scholarship for your admission to our school. This scholarship is enough to cover all your tuition fees and living expenses for four years of university.
Please contact Professor Guderian as soon as you receive this letter. He is currently on an academic visit to China and is very interested in meeting you.
If you decide to accept our invitation, please contact me via email regarding the itinerary and accommodation. We will arrange it for you. I'm Norma, the secretary of Kassel Academy. Lawns, it's my pleasure to serve you.
Sincerely,
Norma
Lu Mingfei put down the letter and looked up at the roof in a daze. He remembered that he had seen the exchange rate of US dollars to RMB when he went online. It was 6.83. That meant that 36000 USD a year was 245880 RMB. It was enough for him to buy 61470 pirated PlayStation 2 discs, 8196 Warcraft cards, or 64 of the NokiaN96 cell phones that he had been looking at for a long time. More than half of the students in their class had cell phones, and Lu Mingze had one as well. His aunt said that it was to reward Lu Mingze for placing third in the class in last year's final exam, so she didn't buy it for Lu Mingfei.
He was a little confused. He had originally read the letter that had a very good start, a standard rejection letter. How did it suddenly jump from hell to heaven after the sentence " But, we always say that there is always another choice "? This sentence was miserable before, but after this sentence, flowers bloomed brilliantly. Horsemanship, rowing, hot air balloons, swimming, a private aristocratic college, and generous scholarship. The college secretary's tone was as friendly and gentle as a female salesperson in an international brand store. Lu Mingfei didn't know what he was capable of. He didn't even contribute to the application fee for Kassel Academy. Perhaps Lu Mingze was playing a joke on him? This couldn't be ruled out. Perhaps Lu Mingze had discovered the true identity of Sunset's Mark, and Lu Mingze was thinking of ways to take revenge. However, the postmark on the envelope didn't look fake. Lu Mingfei could recognize the postmark from the State of Illinois-USA.
He turned the envelope upside down. There was nothing else in it except for the exquisite printed paper. He was sure that this was a scam. The letter also told him to contact Professor Guderian as soon as possible, but he didn't even give him a contact number. He felt a little more relaxed when he thought about it this way.
"Sign here." The guard threw another list over.
"Do I have to sign for the letter?" Lu Mingfei didn't understand.
"There's a package that came with the letter.”
Lu Mingfei signed the papers in a blur and received a large envelope from FEDEX. There was something hard inside. He tore open the envelope and found a black N96 phone inside. He began to feel that he needed to calm down. It was as if there were countless bees flying in his head. He turned on his phone, and the battery was still half full. In the name card holder, there was only one contact," Professor Guderian."
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