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Chapter 498: Chapter 335: This is, My Strategy!
Evening self-study, Classroom 8.
Jiang Ning was talking to Xue Yuantong when suddenly, noise from outside the Array disrupted them, and he slowly deactivated the Spirit Array.
The myriad noises in the classroom vanished, leaving only the two of them arguing relentlessly.
Turns out, it was Cui Yu and Zhang Chi who had started quarreling.
Bai Yuxia and her friends were watching the excitement, and her older sister, Chen Siqing, had a plum candy in her mouth, her little tongue skillfully swirling it around.
Zhang Chi launched a personal attack, "Have you no shame at all!"
"Didn’t you forget about the last time you watched a movie during English class and got slapped by Teacher Chen Haiyang?"
"You’re watching an art film tonight, how do you have the face to say that?"
Zhang Chi’s words were like knives, stabbing into Cui Yu’s heart.
He had disliked Cui Yu for a long time, jumping around in the classroom every day and causing trouble with students from other classes.
Compared to him, Cui Yu was nothing but a rotten person!
Absolutely shameless!
Cui Yu still grinned cheekily, "And you’re acting all mighty? Like that time you got cornered by a dozen students from our grade for selling a router."
"Look at Shen Xu from Class 9, his business is booming. And then there’s you, a complete waste!"
"If I had you as my son, I’d slap you right across the face!"
At the back of the classroom, Hu Jun and Guo Kunnan were watching the excitement with no intention of intervening.
Ma Shicheng, who was playing games, got distracted, he lifted his head, puzzled,
"Aren’t we supposed to be choosing a movie?"
Wang Longlong said excitedly, "Brother Ma, isn’t this better than a movie?"
If the two were competing on who could be more shameless, Cui Yu clearly had the upper hand.
Zhang Chi suddenly stood up, pointing at him, and shouted loudly, "Just try slapping me, see what happens!"
"Come on, slap me!" he thrust his face forward.
Indeed, Cui Yu didn’t slap him; he wasn’t stupid. If he were to strike first, should it escalate, he’d bear the larger blame.
"You want me to slap you, so I should slap you?"
"I’d be damned to have a son like you!" Cui Yu retorted cunningly. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓾𝒷.𝒸ℴ𝓂
Zhang Chi charged out of his seat, and the few boys around didn’t stop him, a fight seemed imminent.
Huang Zhongfei hurriedly went to intervene, spreading his arms to block Zhang Chi’s path,
"There’s a sports meet soon, and alumni might still be around the school. If this gets out of hand, you might get expelled."
At the mention of expulsion, Zhang Chi notably restrained himself and stopped moving.
"Be more careful from now on!"
Leaving those words behind, Zhang Chi walked away with a stern face.
Huang Zhongfei sighed in relief and, for some reason, he felt an urge to cry tears of joy.
Finally, as the class monitor of Class 8, he had successfully quelled a dispute.
He suddenly thought, ’I just wish the alumni were always here.’
Seeing Zhang Chi leave, a flash of anger crossed Cui Yu’s face:
’Zhang Chi, just you wait!’
After the class calmed down, Huang Zhongfei decided against letting everyone choose a movie again; who would have thought that picking a movie could almost lead to a fight?
He made a decision, "We’ll watch a sci-fi movie. I have two good ones on my USB drive, one is ’2012’, and the other is ’The Day After Tomorrow’."
Dan Kaiquan suggested, "Let’s watch ’2012’. I heard it’s excellently produced and that our country was involved in the production."
Dong Qingfeng said with a sense of superiority, "I’ve already watched it. I saw it as soon as it came out. The effects were stunning; I went to the cinema to watch it."
After hearing this, Dan Kaiquan remained silent; he came from a town in Hui Province, not as developed as the coastal regions, and there was no cinema in his town.
To watch movies, he could only take a bus to the county or the city.
But a movie ticket costing tens, which was enough for several days’ meals, how could he justify spending that?
Dan Kaiquan was 16 years old, and he had never been to a cinema.
At the back, Ma Shicheng shouted, "Let’s watch ’The Day After Tomorrow’, the ’2012’ movie is too long, we can’t finish it during the evening self-study."
Huang Zhongfei decided, "Okay."
Dong Qingfeng elaborated, "The special effects in this movie aren’t bad either. With our country’s capabilities, it will take another twenty years to produce these effects."
Wang Yongle commented, "We don’t have any sci-fi movies. Look at what’s out there, all trashy artsy films, pretentiously profound, I can’t stand them."
Dong Qingfeng added, "The technology isn’t there yet. They always advertise how much is invested, but in the end, it’s all garbage."
"Anyway, I wouldn’t spend a penny on these directors’ works."
Dan Kaiquan, previously silent, suddenly spoke, "I believe that in the future, there will definitely be big-budget sci-fi movies domestically, because by then, we are the main audience who spend money on movies; I am a viewer."
Hearing this, Dong Qingfeng couldn’t help but chuckle, "You’ll understand later, like movies, games, these things, as long as they can make money being hastily made, why would any producer put in effort?"
Amidst the idle chat, Huang Zhongfei started the movie.
The classroom lights went out, plunging them into darkness, only the screen beside the blackboard at the front flickering with the movie’s opening scenes.
Chen Qian put down his textbook, leaning back against the desk, closed his eyes to recall the problems he had solved, and in his mind, he transformed the problems, calculating the possible pitfalls that might appear in the exam.
At the back.
Wang Longlong looked at the screen and sighed, "Brother Ma, I still prefer the darkness."
Ma Shicheng was playing a game, playing at this time provided the ultimate enjoyment.
Guo Kunnan took a photo of the classroom and sent it to Xu Yan from Class 11: "We’re watching a movie 😬."
Xu Yan hadn’t replied to his messages.
Guo Kunnan laughed, "Haha, we’re watching a sci-fi film, it’s so cool 😬!"
He kept on messaging, "Have you been to the cinema?"
"I haven’t, but I plan to go soon, gotta keep up with the trends 😬."
Still, no reply.
Guo Kunnan continued, undismayed, sharing bits of his life.
...
Xue Yuantong was resting for a while, then suddenly nudged Jiang Ning and whispered,
"Are you hungry?"
Jiang Ning replied, "I’m not hungry, but I’m guessing you are."
Xue Yuantong retorted, "I’m not hungry, I’ve got some cookies here, was thinking of sharing them with you."
She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small biscuit wrapped in clear packaging.
