Chapter 14: "Embracing the New World."

Liang Ge knew that the whole dormitory had been looking at him in a different way for a while, so he finally found a chance to make a solemn statement: "I'm not a mutant!"

Sijie Yuan chimed in, "That's nine pens bitten off in seven days."

Liang Ge : "...... That's a bad quality pencil! Besides, biting pencils is not a special habit, many people have it."

"But you didn't before." Ye Wang said and then suddenly wasn't quite sure, frowning tightly and trying very hard to remember, "No, right?"

Liang Ge: "......"

Even if the memory point is thin on him, this is more than a year of living under one roof, he used to bite the pen or not this thing still need to recall so hard!

"It's just not there," Sijie Yuan and Ye Wang say, "The first time he chewed off a pencil was the day before the physical anomalies piled up on the Hot Topics, which means he just chewed off a pencil this side of the night, and then all sorts of anomalies around the globe hit the Hot Topics the next day. "

Liang Ge Speechless: "Your 'tightly articulated' way of telling the story would make people think that the pencil I chewed off was a flare for a global anomaly ......"

"It's not that much of a stretch," Sijie Yuan looked over, "but your pencil disaster and the global outbreak of physical anomalies do coincide, and it's hard not to think about it when the timing is so close."

Liang Ge tried to argue his case, after all, he hadn't added anything else to his list of problems lately except for his love of nibbling on pencils, but he was cut off by Ye Wang after just one "I".

"It doesn't matter, whether it's abnormal or not, you can taste it yourself, anyway, it doesn't have any effect on the body." Ye Wang is not happy to press the head to force anyone to admit anything, Liang Ge mutation or not mutation, in his here are buddies, so is not really does not matter. But there is one thing, "If you really taste out what animal, let me know."

Liang Ge: "......"

He's wrong!

"No, why are you all ganging up on me alone," Liang Ge finally realized what the problem was, "I'm the most normal one in our dorm, right? I'm the most normal person in our dorm, right? I bite a few pens at most," he looked to Ye Wang, "Big brother, you don't even like people, you keep cats every day," then to Sijie Yuan, "You attract butterflies like a peacock opening its screen 365 days a year," and finally to the face in front of the desk. "Finally, he looked at the quiet back of the desk, "And Tan Jiang, I've never seen him smile at anyone, this is not more serious than my problem?"

Tan Jiang, if you can get swept up even when you're reading a book for good reason, then you need to communicate.

Flattening a bookmark on the stopped page and then closing the book, Tan Jiang slowly turned to Liang Ge, lifting his eyes to look at him calmly: "Rodent or canine."

Liang Ge: "...... What?"

"Your animalistic," Tan Jiang methodically said, "rodents have teeth that grow throughout their lives, and grinding is a necessary habit for them ......"

Liang Ge: "I told you I'm not mutated!"

Tan Jiang : "Canines do not need to sharpen their teeth as they enter adulthood, but some energetic canines will release their excess energy by gnawing and tearing in behaviors that can be loosely summarized as 'housebreaking' ...... "

Liang Ge : "Are you insinuating that I'm Erha?!"

Tan Jiang : "Both of these fit your current presentation, though certain animals also have a habit of grinding their teeth when they are young and teething, so if the physical abnormality of animality isn't necessarily limited to 'adult animals' then you have a wider range of options. "

"It's not necessary," Ye Wang said, listening more attentively than the people involved, "Shiqi Ha is just fine."

Liang Ge: "......"

Don't just make decisions for people ah big brother!

The rain suddenly became louder, and the trees outside the window were battered in the night, their branches dancing wildly and their leaves snapping.

Liang Ge looked at the screen window splashed with water droplets, his heart is cooler than the night.

Unexpectedly, Tan Jiang suddenly changed his mind and said to Liang Ge, "Actually, you don't have to be so resistant, maybe soon, the three of us will be just like you."

Liang Ge was so lost in thought that he only had time to catch the last half of the sentence over the noise of the rain, and looked at Tan Jiang blankly, "What's the same as me?"

Ye Wang and Sijie Yuan had heard all the words, but still didn't understand them, and looked over with confusion.

Tan Jiang asked indifferently, "Didn't you guys just watch the group?"

[Mechanic class group]

Social Your Tao: Lean into the shocking discovery! The body mutation outbreak situation overlaps perfectly with the trend map of the fog spreading across the globe at the beginning of the month...[link to details]@allmembers

The message was sent a few minutes ago, just as Liang Ge was having a "cordial discussion" with Ye Wang and Sijie Yuan about animal sex, and with the frantic sound of the rain, the three of them hadn't really noticed the new @all message.

But now it has been followed at a rapid pace by dozens more -

Guan Zheng:?

Guan Zheng: Have you found the cause of the mutation?

Social Your Tao: don't just come up here and ask if you can take a few minutes to click through and see if you can!

GUANGZHOU: [OK]

Guan Zheng: [You're the big brother and you're in charge.jpg]

Jack Yang: Crazy

Zhou Shiting: It's over. It's all over.

Cui Haohan: Don't scare yourself. It's not confirmed yet.

Jack Yang: Isn't it obvious? So many people with physical abnormalities and no chain of transmission to be found, then only environmental issues make sense!

Cui Haohan: Don't believe the rumors, don't spread the rumors, all wait for the official.

Levon: I can't wait, grass, I have insomnia every night now!

Meng Han: You're the only one with insomnia? Not only can't I sleep, but I always want to go down and run laps!

Chen Zidong: I can now catch mosquitoes with my bare hands, can you believe it? I can catch a mosquito with my bare hands, can you believe it?

Liang Ge read the news item by item, though without even understanding what exactly was happening, his emotions were already affected to the point where he was starting to become unsteady. He hurriedly forced his eyes away from the group chat that was on the verge of collapsing, moved back to the top news item, and clicked on the details link.

After reading the news, Liang Ge finally understands why his classmates' minds are broken.

He's not even crashing now, he's exploding.

He was racking his brain trying to get himself out of the "suspected mutation", and then "everyone may not be able to escape, and the mutation may become a global catastrophe"? Where else would we go?

Inadvertently meeting Tan Jiang's calm gaze again, Liang Ge was startled and asked him, "Have you finished?"

Tan Jiang nods.

Liang Ge: "Did you click on the link and read it? Did you read everything that was written in it?"

Tan Jiang didn't understand the significance of this follow-up question, but gave the answer, "Yes."

Liang Ge looked at the usual indifference on his roommate's face and simply despaired, "How can you be so calm when the whole world is going to mutate?!"

Tan Jiang's demeanor finally changed, though it was only a slight movement of his eyebrows, "First of all, this is just unconfirmed speculation, and secondly, if there really is a global mutation, then according to the principle of relativity, everyone being abnormal is the same as everyone being normal."

Liang Ge : "Shit, what kind of devilish thinking is this ......"

"I don't seem to be the calmest though," Tan Jiang raised his eyes in a certain direction, "There's a calmer one over there."

Liang Ge turned with his line of sight and saw Ye Wang put down his cell phone and look up at the window.

Nor was it gazing or contemplating, it was just looking faintly, with an unprecedented softness of expression, so much so that the well-defined side of his face was not so stern, but only handsome.

Liang Ge swallowed hard.

He didn't quite agree with Tan Jiang. Ye Wang this look how can be said to be calm, things out of the ordinary must be evil, this weird calm how to see is very dangerous!

"That's not how relativity works," Sijie Yuan spoke with some gravity as a belated rebuttal to Tan Jiang, "If we really all change, life, society, will change drastically, and the world will never be able to go back to the track we're familiar with. The world will never be able to return to the path we know."

Finally there was one who could understand himself, Liang Ge wanted to give Sijie Yuan a brotherly hug, "That's what I mean, you know me, right, in the future it will most likely not be a human society, it's an animal world ......"

Sijie Yuan's cell phone suddenly rang.

He quickly made a "shh" gesture at Liang Ge, who was talking, and then answered, "Well ...... I saw it ...... Don't cry, it's not confirmed. It's not confirmed ......"

"I know you're scared, but we've broken up and I can't go back to comforting you and giving you false hope ......"

"Yes, the world is going to be a mess, but relationships that have come to an end don't turn back just because of the chaos ......"

"Baby, life isn't a novel, there aren't that many Dumpster Dives ......"

Liang Ge silently looked up to the ceiling.

What is the best way to remain calm in the face of a catastrophe so close to extinction that the world will change dramatically?

Is it indifferent like Tan Jiang?

Or are you suddenly excited like Ye Wang?

Or, like Sijie Yuan, who just finished saying that the world is about to change dramatically and then proceeded to appease her breakup partner on the phone?

Liang Ge Just want to be an ordinary college student, live in an ordinary dormitory, have a group of ordinary roommates ...... How is it so difficult!

Without warning, Ye Wang suddenly jumped out of bed, threw on a T-shirt and stepped on his AJs.

Liang Ge was startled: "What are you doing?"

Ye Wang: "Go out and get some air."

Liang Ge: "It's raining."

Ye Wang: "I know."

Two or three words and Ye Wang over there opens the door.

Liang Ge was anxious: "You should at least take an umbrella!"

"No need." Before the words left his mouth, the man was already out.

Liang Ge hurriedly got off the ground and ran to the window to look down.

But with the rain and the darkness of the night, and through the screen, it was hard to see anything.

I was depressed when a hand suddenly reached out next to me and removed the screen.

Liang Ge looked at his roommate who stood beside him in dismay, " Tan Jiang ?"

Tan Jiang didn't say anything, but Sijie Yuan, who had gotten off the bed at some point, patted Liang Ge's shoulder from the other side: "Make room."

With Liang Ge sandwiched between Tan Jiang and Sijie Yuan, the three of them huddled together at the window, looking down.

Without a screen window blocking the view clear a lot of rain, although the rain is sharp and big, but a row of street lamps under the dormitory building, or with the weak light built up a hazy dense world.

Not long after, Ye Wang came out of the doorway of the dormitory building and stepped into the light.

The rain quickly blurred him, and the trio could only vaguely recognize his increasingly distant back through the streetlights.

At last, even that backside disappeared completely.

Ye Wang seemed to melt into the rain, the night, the world.

Liang Ge Thoroughly confused: "What the hell is he going to do ......"

Tan Jiang was noncommittal.

Sijie Yuan wipes rain splashed on her face, "Embrace the new world."