No, my train of thought has gone off track again. Am I really considering whether he's a pervert or not?
I guess there's no other way for now!
"We're moving too slowly like this. Xiaoguo, you hold the torch and I'll carry Guoer!"
Guoer pursed her lips: "Why are you being so nice today?"
"Don't talk! I don't mean to take advantage of you. We need to hurry or the torch will go out before we reach our destination!"
With that, Lu Zhe crouched down, grabbed Tang Xiaoguo by the waist and lifted her up onto his shoulders! Tang Xiaoguo's snowy white legs were left dangling in front of Lu Zhe's chest!
"Oh my..."
Tang Xiaoguo blushed and said: "Lu Zhe, what are you doing? I wasn't ready yet..."
Lu Zhe said coldly: "Be quiet! Or I'll drop you."
Tang Xiaoguo obediently kept silent.
Carrying Tang Xiaoguo on his shoulders felt as effortless as holding a child to Lu Zhe. It must be because he had become stronger!
He picked up the plastic bag without any trouble either!
Lin Qianqian said: "Just hand those things over to me!"
Lu Zhe replied: "You just watch over the torch."
"Alright then..."
Moving in this formation greatly increased their pace!
Sitting on Lu Zhe's shoulders, Tang Xiaoguo happily gazed at the scenery around her, while her thoughts began to wander...
In the future when we have a child, our child can sit on my shoulders while I sit on Lu Zhe's. How blissful would that be!
But what if...we have two children?
Could Lu Zhe and I each carry one on our shoulders?
Then where would I sit?
No no, two is not ideal. One child is best...
"Xiaoguo, sit properly! Don't move your legs around!"
"Oh..." Tang Xiaoguo responded sweetly.
After about half an hour, the three arrived at the two coconut trees!
Ning Shu had gathered a pile of firewood nearby and prepared the bonfire. She was now arduously cracking open coconuts.
The torch in Lin Qianqian's hand was also nearly extinguished. Lu Zhe quickly set Tang Xiaoguo down and rekindled the fire!
Lin Qianqian put her things aside to check on Jiang Yao's sprained ankle, which had swollen into a radish shape. Distressed, she asked: "Does it hurt?"
"A little..." Jiang Yao glanced at Tang Xiaoguo, "Xiaoguo, aren't you being too unreasonable? Lu Zhe is so tired yet you're still bullying him!"
Tang Xiaoguo pouted her lips and said sweetly: "It was Lu Zhe who insisted on carrying me! I refused several times but he was adamant, said he was worried about me."
"Tang Xiaoguo, please act your age!"
When Tang Xiaoguo turned back, she saw Lu Zhe looking at her with utter disdain.
"I did offer to carry you because it was too slow with you walking. I was afraid we would run out of time before the torch extinguished, that's why I brought you."
Embarrassed, Tang Xiaoguo stuck out her tongue.
Jiang Yao had an epiphany: "Oh, so that was it. It reminded me of a father carrying his daughter!"
Tang Xiaoguo muttered with a pout: "Typical straight man, we've slept together yet he can't even give a more romantic reason."
"Tang Xiaoguo, let me make this clear, sleeping together and having slept with someone are two different things!"
Tang Xiaoguo kept pouting: "What's the difference?"
Jiang Yao explained sagely: "One occurs between a husband and wife, while last night...you can consider it parents huddling together to keep their sick daughter warm!"
Outraged, Tang Xiaoguo exclaimed: "Who's the daughter?!"
Jiang Yao leisurely replied: "Whoever's cuter is!"
Tang Xiaoguo was rendered speechless.
While they were bickering, Lin Qianqian noticed over 20 coconuts on the ground and happily said: "There really are a lot of coconuts! Now we'll have something to drink!"
Tang Xiaoguo urged: "Quickly, open one! I'm parched."
While massaging her sore arms, Ning Shu said: "Don't celebrate too soon. I've been smashing them for half a day but haven't cracked open a single one!"
Lu Zhe asked: "What have you been using to smash them?"
Ning Shu pointed at the protruding rock on the beach: "That! I learned it from Bear Grylls, he cracks coconuts by hitting them against rocks!"
Lu Zhe examined the stone: "That's one way, but this rock isn't sharp enough and you don't have enough strength. No wonder you can't open them."
"Can you do it then?"
"Of course I can..." But looking at the 20 over coconuts, Lu Zhe thought to himself: I probably could crack them open, but smashing 20 plus coconuts would still tire my ass out!
Do we have any tools?
Nothing at all!
Just then, Tang Xiaoguo blew a tiny bubble with her chewing gum.
Lu Zhe's eyes lit up!
That's right, he had seen this method on a science program before!
On the show, the genius student Gao forcefully smashed open coconuts using chewed gum, which the beauty Shen greedily drank. Who knows what Du Tao Tao thought then!
The trick is to shape the gum into a cone with the tip facing up, then smash the coconut hard onto the tip!
Chewing gum may be soft but it has non-Newtonian fluid properties. Under a sudden immense impact, it can become very hard!
This pierces the coconut shell to obtain the juice inside!
And now, the students had each chewed a stick of gum for oral hygiene that morning.
But one piece was too small to form a cone capable of piercing the coconut shell.
If they combined everyone's gum into one bigger piece and dried it slightly to harden it, it could pierce the shell!
Lu Zhe said: "Everyone spit out your gum..."
Still chewing, Tang Xiaoguo asked in surprise: "Why?"
"To open coconuts with the gum!"
Tang Xiaoguo laughed behind her palm: "You're kidding me right? I'd sooner believe you could gnaw it open with your teeth. Opening coconuts with gum is too absurd..."
Ning Shu nodded: "I agree, it does sound far-fetched."
Jiang Yao said: "Buddy, you're not joking are you?"
"He's not joking!"
Lin Qianqian spoke up: "Chewing gum has non-Newtonian fluid properties, I read about it in a physics book. It said gum can be used to open coconuts!"
Tang Xiaoguo shook her head in disbelief: "I don't buy it. How does he know all these weird facts?"
To her, it seemed as incredible as using beer as rocket fuel.
"We won't know if we don't give it a try!"
Somewhat hesitant, Lin Qianqian said: "But isn't it kind of awkward for girls to spit gum into a guy's hand?"
Jiang Yao said: "True, though I am curious!"
With that said, she spat her gum out onto her palm and held it out:
"Here you go, Lu Zhe!"
Lu Zhe accepted Jiang Yao's gum and directly popped it into his mouth.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
