At two o 'clock in the afternoon, the walkie-talkie at the door rang. Feng Bujue was woken up by the noise and felt groggy and irritable.
Although he had already bathed the cat at the pet clinic in the morning, he was busy for more than half an hour when he got home. He didn't even take off his clothes before he fell asleep. It had only been six hours since he woke up.
Walking to the door in a daze, Feng Bujue picked up the receiver of the walkie-talkie and said, "Who is it?"
"It's me," Wang Tanzhi replied, "Master Bao is here too."
"Is the door open?" Feng Bujue pressed the button to open the door and asked with a yawn.
"It's open, it's open. Come up and talk."
A minute after the call ended, the two took the elevator up. Passing through the hallway, they rang Feng Bujue's doorbell. The latter looked through the peephole on the door and opened the door. He didn't say hello to the two people and turned around to walk to the sofa.
Wang Tanzhi and "Master Bao" didn't stand on ceremony. They closed the door, put the pizza and a dozen beers on the coffee table, and went to Feng Bujue's kitchen to get a plate and chopsticks.
"Eh? Brother Bujue, why is there a cat? "Wang Tanzhi quickly found the little tabby cat napping in the corner of the sofa.
"Don't you see the sand table in the corner? It's my cat." Feng Bujue sleepily opened a bottle of beer, gulped it down like mouthwash, and then swallowed it...
"When did you start raising cats again?" Wang Tanzhi asked as he crept closer to the little tabby cat.
"This morning." Feng Bujue burped and said, "Don't think it's really sleeping. Cats are very alert animals. It seems like they sleep for more than ten hours a day, but in fact, their ears will move slightly if there's any movement around them. This means..."
Xiao Tan was just about to grab the little tabby cat when it suddenly opened its eyes, jumped forward, turned a corner, and slipped behind the sofa. Xiao Tan, on the other hand, lost his balance and stumbled.
"Why did you think of raising a cat again?" Master Bao came back from the kitchen with a plate and a tissue. He waved his hand and asked Xiao Tan to sit on the sofa before sitting down himself.
His name was Bao Qing, and he was only a few months older than the two of them. The three of them had been classmates from kindergarten to middle school, and Bao Qing had been called Master Bao since elementary school. The problem was … he wasn't dark at all. His family had never been an official, and he had never been a class committee member when he was studying.
Who would have thought that Master Bao would really become an 'adult' after he grew up? He was twenty-five years old this year and was a civil servant. His daughter was already two and a half years old. Compared to these two bachelors, he was much more mature. Lord Bao's characteristic was that he had a 'melancholy' face since he was young. Not to mention after he got married, he always had a bitter expression on his face.
"This is fate between me and that cat," Feng Bujue replied. "It's up to fate."
When the two of them asked the question, they used the word "again" because they knew that Feng Bujue had raised a cat when he was young. At that time, the neighbor's old lady raised a female cat and gave birth to four kittens. She gave one to Feng Bujue, and he raised it for thirteen years. The kitten became an old cat, and in the end, it died of old age. The child also became an adult, and he buried the old cat with his own hands.
"Have you named it?" Wang Tanzhi asked excitedly.
"Arthas." Feng Bujue replied very calmly, as if he had not blurted out the name, but had already thought of it.
"Pfft …" Master Bao spat out a mouthful of beer. "Even if you don't want Xiao Tan to participate in the naming, you should at least come up with a more normal name, like Ku Le, Mike, or something like that …"
Feng Bujue snapped his fingers. "Arthas."
The little tabby cat actually turned around and meowed.
"Look, it doesn't feel out of place." Feng Bujue pointed at Arthas' cat face.
"I'm going to post it online," Xiao Tan said as he took out his phone.
"Wait." Feng Bujue put down the beer, went to the window, and pulled open the curtains. Then, he picked up Arthas, who did not manage to escape in time.
Feng Bujue's hands passed under the cat's armpits, lifted the cat up, and turned the cat's face away from him. He straightened his arms, raised them high against the sun, and imitated the opening scene of the Lion King at the Glory Stone. He also said a line that had nothing to do with it.
"My son … On the day you were born, your name echoed in every corner of Lordaeron … Arthas …" Feng Bujue said in a serious tone with a deep voice.
Wang Tanzhi took out his phone and aimed it at the cat, who had a confused look on its face, and took a 360-degree video of it.
"What are you guys doing! How old are you this year? Is this the daily life of a chuunibyou?! "
After being scolded by Master Bao, the two of them sat back on the sofa, and Arthas slipped onto a cushion to take a nap.
"Master Bao, why are you free this week?" Feng Bujue asked.
"My wife brought our daughter back to her parents' home," Master Bao replied as he drank his beer.
"Is it permanent or temporary?" Feng Bujue asked again.
"Nonsense! How can it be permanent! My mother-in-law just wants to see her granddaughter. "Master Bao almost choked to death.
"Look at you, you look like you've been freed …" Feng Bujue said.
Wang Tanzhi interrupted them. He picked up the remote control and asked, "What's the theme this week?"
"Crappy movie marathon," Feng Bujue replied.
"Huh?" Wang Tanzhi turned around.
Feng Bujue said, "That's right, that's it. As we discussed last time, there are so many notorious crappy movies that have passed the test of time and become the bottom line of the film industry, but we haven't watched any of them. "
"Okay … Let me see …" Wang Tanzhi used the remote control to browse through the streaming options on the TV.
When the three of them were free, they would think of a theme and watch movies for more than ten hours. As for the movies they watched, most of them were from the late 20th century to the early 21st century. After that, as computer technology became more and more mature, and as fifth-generation computers became more common, there were basically no crappy movies. In the future, no matter how crappy a movie was, at least there were graphics and sound effects that could make it look better.
"What about Ghost Rider?" Wang Tanzhi asked.
"Do you know about Daredevil?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Mm … I've seen it," Wang Tanzhi replied.
"It's the same director," Feng Bujue said.
"Okay …" Wang Tanzhi searched again. "Look at this, Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part 2). Wow, there are actually seven movies in this series." (There were two more in 2055)
"I haven't watched any of them." Master Bao shrugged.
"I remember that this movie won seven out of the ten Razzies that year. Twenty years later, it was ranked as one of the three most dominant crappy movies of the early 21st century, "Feng Bujue said.
"I'm curious about the other two movies … Don't tell me it's the other episodes of the series," Master Bao said.
"No, it's Battlefield Earth and Jack and Jill. The latter won all the Razzies in 2012," Feng Bujue said. "I've only heard of it and have never seen it. Why don't we watch these three movies today? "
"It doesn't matter." "Agreed," Xiao Tan and Master Bao replied.
Two hours later …
"Are you guys okay?" Master Bao looked at the credits that appeared on the big screen and asked.
Wang Tanzhi looked at the floor with a gloomy expression. "I feel like I've lost something important …"
Feng Bujue looked at the sunlight outside the window with a blank expression. "This is the most humiliating two hours of my life. My brain has been raped …"
"There's still a sci-fi movie and a comedy movie coming up … Let's watch the comedy first." Master Bao's bitter expression was extremely serious.
Ninety minutes later …
"Alpacino's integrity is gone," Wang Tanzhi said.
"The acting is hard to criticize, but the plot is …" Feng Bujue said. "Master Bao, what do you think?"
No one answered.
"Master Bao? Bao … "Feng Bujue turned around and saw that Master Bao had fallen asleep with his eyes open and was even snoring softly.
"This despicable civil servant …"
At around 7 am, the three went to a roadside stall for some barbecue. Brother Bujue and Xiao Tan told Master Bao about their recent visit to Thriller Paradise, but Master Bao expressed his lack of interest. A man with a family had a hard life; he did not have much private time and entertainment time. The three chatted for a few hours before parting at 9 am. Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi promised to go online to farm a few more scenarios at midnight, and then they went their separate ways.
The friendship between the three was not easy to come by, and it was sincere. When they were young, they were all kids with snot running down their noses, and that kind of friendship was the purest of all. Even if he looked back at these friends in his fifties or sixties, the feeling in his heart would not change.
…
That day, Feng Bujue did not get enough sleep, and considering the fact that he was going to log into the game, he lay down in the gaming hub at midnight. After the scan ended, he chose to log into the game in sleeping mode and set the time to connect.
"Connecting to the game in sleeping mode, adjusting … Adjustment complete. Please set the time to log into the game or return to the menu.
"Setup complete. The connection program will be activated at 1: 00 AM, April 6th, 2055. Good night."
After listening to the voice message, Feng Bujue closed his eyes. The gaming hub was very comfortable, and combined with the drunkenness, he soon fell asleep.
When he woke up, he was standing inside that familiar elevator. The screen on the wall showed the time in real life, April 6th, 1: 00 AM, but the electronic timer did not show the seconds. Even after several minutes, the time did not jump to 1: 01. Obviously, this was Thriller Paradise in sleeping mode.
Wang Tanzhi's party invite soon popped up on the screen. After joining the party, Feng Bujue noticed that Long Aomin was also in the party. Xiao Tan had added him when he saw that Long Aomin was free.
"Brother Bujue, something big has happened!" Wang Tanzhi said.
"Someone has reached level 20?" Feng Bujue answered.
"Eh? You already know? "
"That's just a guess from your tone."
"Haha … Brother Feng, you are indeed a genius," Long Aomin said. "At around 12: 30 AM in real life, the server's first player to reach level 20 was born."
Feng Bujue glanced at the team tab. In just one day, Long Aomin had reached level 13, and Xiao Tan had reached level 11. He had probably logged in about ten minutes earlier and cleared a solo scenario to level up.
"Will there be an announcement for the first player to reach the maximum level?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Yes, all the players in the log-in lobby will hear the system announcement, and the news will appear on the touch screen. Furthermore, the forums have exploded," Long Aomin said.
"Let me see …" Feng Bujue clicked open the forum and found the official thread that was pinned at the top. The title read, "Congratulations to Fearless Champion from Regulation for becoming the first player to reach the level cap during the closed beta."
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