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Chapter 377: Chapter 274: A New Light_2
Dan Kaiquan had been eyeing him with displeasure for a while now.
Wang Longlong said, "Zhang Chi must be doomed this time."
The grade director took action, and it still stirred up quite a commotion.
As he spoke, Wang Longlong glanced outside. Students were still lingering in the hallway, waiting to settle accounts with Zhang Chi.
...
During the first class of the morning, Zhang Chi was absent.
Everyone then suspected something bad must have happened.
As soon as the class ended and the bell rang, the Fourth Middle School’s loudspeakers suddenly crackled to life.
The students of Class 8 were startled, even Teacher Guo Ran, who had been about to leave the podium, stopped in her tracks.
Not just Class 8, the entire Fourth Middle School, with thousands of students, heard it.
Then a voice came through the loudspeaker:
"On April 15, 2014, our student, Zhang Chi of Grade 1 Class 8, along with Yan Tianpeng of Grade 1 Class 9, used the school’s multimedia computers to install routers, and charged other students for the use of these routers, making a total profit of 513 yuan.
This behavior seriously violated the school’s management system and had a negative impact!
After investigation, it has been decided to give Zhang Chi and Yan Tianpeng a warning, with hopes that other students will take this as a warning."
Lin Zida said, "Genius."
Li Shi said, "Three yuan well spent to watch the drama unfold."
Zhao Xiaofeng hurriedly spread the word.
Dan Kaiquan said, "Epic."
Teacher Guo Ran, looking at the students of Class 8 in disbelief:
"If I heard correctly, from our class?"
Chen Siyu said, "Yes, from our class."
Dong Qingfeng, with a serious expression, said, "Congratulations to our Class 8’s sports representative, Zhang Chi, you’ve really made our class proud!"
"Let’s give him an applause!"
"Clap clap clap!"
Wu Xiaoqi joined in the applause, Cui Yu also clapped, and sporadic clapping broke out in the classroom.
Guo Ran thought Class 8 must be crazy as she clutched her textbooks and left.
The announcement certainly made an impact, even Yu Wen, who usually liked to gossip about celebrities, took the opportunity to discuss with Huang Zhongfei:
"Class president, do you think Zhang Chi’s financial aid will be cancelled?"
Huang Zhongfei was about to answer when a figure entered the door with a gloomy face.
Zhang Chi suppressed his anger. He had been slapped a few times by the grade director, informed that his parents would be notified, his financial aid was revoked, and what was important, the money he made from the router was confiscated.
Everything was gone.
Zhang Chi was aggrieved, furious, and he stood on the podium facing everyone.
The classroom was eerily quiet, except for Chen Qian who was writing answers, his pen scratching against the paper.
"Who saw my router?" Zhang Chi demanded.
"Who saw it?" Zhang Chi picked up the blackboard eraser.
No one answered.
He suddenly exploded, shouting, "Fuck! Who saw my router!"
The violent shout echoed throughout the entire classroom, a roar from a man pushed to the edge.
Pang Jiao was applying lipstick, startled, her hand trembling, the lipstick smudging her cheek.
She slammed the lipstick down on the desk, bellowed:
"Why are you shouting so loudly!"
Pang Jiao’s shout was louder than Zhang Chi’s, almost deafening those next to her.
Song Sheng was eating spiced beef and almost choked from fright.
Song Sheng was furious; eating in peace seemed impossible. He slammed the beef on the desk and yelled:
"If you want to fight, get the hell out!"
Pang Jiao said, "What’s it to you?"
Zhang Chi slammed the blackboard eraser on the podium, veins in his forehead bulging, his face terrifying:
"Shut up, listen to me!"
Pang Jiao, in a hoarse voice, shouted even louder:
"I’m telling you to lower your voice!"
Song Sheng loudly warned, "Fuck, both of you get out!"
"Everybody shut up, I’m talking!" Zhang Chi’s voice was nearly breaking.
As a result, the three of them, because of the noise, ended up arguing fiercely in front of the whole class.
Their voices overlapped non-stop, dividing and recombining, a cacophony of shouting that filled the class.
The other students covered their ears, faces speaking volumes of their silence.
Huang Zhongfei told them to stop fighting, but his voice was too soft to cover up the momentum of the three.
All three voices merged into one, with hardly a gap to be heard.
Wang Longlong, sitting at the back, shouted to Ma Shicheng in order to converse:
"Brother Ma, what’s going on?"
Ma Shicheng raised his voice, "Don’t ask me, I can’t make heads or tails of it."
Arguing at such a lung-tearing volume was quite exhausting, and after a short while, the three of them were worn out.
Song Sheng sat down to eat his beef to recharge.
Pang Jiao ate her sugar-control pills for her diet.
Zhang Chi’s voice was hoarse as he forced a breath and said,
"Who the hell stole my router?"
Dong Qingfeng was perplexed, "Your router wasn’t set up in Class 8, what are you talking about in our class?"
Meng Gui said, "Our classmates, without saying anything else, have top-notch quality."
Beside the podium, Dan Xiao felt his fondness for Meng Gui increase a little.
He secretly decided that if any leftover items of Meng Gui’s were worth no more than 30 yuan, he wouldn’t lay a hand on them.
Zhang Chi had only wanted to vent his anger, but after saying this, found he had no outlet for his rage.
Thinking about the future made him feel waves of despair.
Now that the money-making path with routers was locked up, and with so much debt owed, how could he turn things around?
Zhang Chi despaired. He felt the future was bleak, and the classroom no longer bright.
He moved to his seat like a corpse, the light of hope vanishing from his eyes.
He sat there for an entire class period.
His classmates, seeing his state, avoided him like the plague.
Zhang Chi could hear their whispers and felt the occasional piercing gazes.
Those looks deeply wounded him.
Recalling yesterday’s glory, he looked at today’s downfall.
From the summit, he had tumbled to the valley floor.
Zhang Chi felt hatred, he hated the thief who had stolen his router!
He wished he could flay the perpetrator’s skin.
Yet within this despair and hatred, a figure appeared before Zhang Chi.
It was a simple and honest smile, wearing a plain school uniform, giving off a feeling of being sincere and approachable.
Dan Xiao said, "Zhang Chi."
There was no sympathy in his words, but a solid light in his eyes.
Seeing Dan Xiao, Zhang Chi’s mood lifted for a moment before sinking again.
Dan Xiao said, "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next piece will taste like."
Zhang Chi had heard this saying before but felt no emotion at first. Now, after experiencing these events, the words resonated powerfully.
"Who could have thought I, Zhang Chi, would fall into such a state?"
Zhang Chi said with a wry smile.
Dan Xiao took out a bar of chocolate and placed it on the desk, saying,
"Try it."
Zhang Chi looked down to see an unflavored Dove chocolate bar, knowing that a single bar was priced at 6 yuan.
"Dan Xiao, are you, giving me a Dove to eat?"
Zhang Chi couldn’t believe it, this chocolate was like a luxury to him.
Dan Xiao said with a smile, "No, this is your Dove."
Dan Xiao had taken 12 routers and sold them off that very evening, 20 yuan apiece, netting 240 yuan.
A piece of chocolate, he could easily afford that.
Zhang Chi thought he was just joking to comfort him.
Zhang Chi tore open the chocolate, took a bite, and found it very sweet, not bitter at all. The sweetness gradually healed his wounded heart.
He ate the chocolate voraciously, the bitterness disappearing from his mind.
Dan Xiao said, "Zhang Chi, you are the most resourceful person I have ever seen, you will definitely succeed."
After finishing the chocolate, even the coldest people have a warm side. Zhang Chi did not throw away the wrapper, but carefully folded it and placed it in his pocket, planning to keep it as a memento.
With tears nearly flowing, he pledged with utmost sincerity,
"I will repay this debt of gratitude tenfold one day!" 𝙣𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Dan Xiao said, "I will wait for you, forever and always, until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble away. I will definitely wait for you!"
With that, Dan Xiao left once his business was done.
...
Seeing Dan Xiao leave, Wang Longlong came back to his senses and said worriedly to Brother Ma,
"Now that the school knows about the routers, how are we going to set them up in the future?"
After the incident with Zhang Chi, the school administration would certainly strengthen the management of multimedia computers, making the placement of routers riskier.
Ma Shicheng flipped through an English vocabulary book, "No need to worry."
Wang Longlong asked, "Brother Ma, do you have a solution?"
Ma Shicheng looked around to ensure no one was paying attention, then took out a little gadget from his pocket.
Wang Longlong examined it and asked in confusion,
"A USB drive?"
Ma Shicheng said with a light smile, "It’s a portable Wi-Fi device. As long as it’s plugged into a computer, it can be used as a router."
Wang Longlong was astonished, "There’s such high-tech stuff?"
Ma Shicheng replied, "Learn more, read more."
Yet Wang Longlong worriedly said, "Brother Ma, it may be hidden, but once it’s plugged in, the Wi-Fi will definitely be exposed. Everyone will be able to detect it."
Ma Shicheng explained confidently,
"Do you know what the SSID function is? As long as we turn off the SSID in the admin interface, the Wi-Fi won’t show externally, and nobody else will be able to see the Wi-Fi, only I can connect."
"When the time comes, I will also use the root feature to remove the Wi-Fi icon from the phone’s status."
Wang Longlong stared at Ma Shicheng speaking with authority and was dumbfounded,
"Holy cow, Brother Ma, you’re brilliant!"
