Running in the middle of the night.
He Jin took off his helmet and sat in the chair for a while before his thoughts slowly returned to reality.
"You came back!" Hou Dongyan heard the noise and quickly turned around. He smiled. "It's been almost five hours. I came to see you a few times and was afraid you wouldn't come back!"
He Jin: "You watched too many sci-fi movies …"
Hou Dongyan said, "Big Head came over just now and saw you sitting there motionless with your helmet on. He asked me curiously if you were perming your hair." Big Head was their roommate's nickname. He was also a study maniac who buried himself in books all day. "I told him that you were playing games, and he asked me, 'Is this how you play games? I don't read much, don't lie to me'. I told him a bunch of things about the holographic helmet, and I even said, 'You've seen Avatar, it's the same'. He was completely dumbfounded, hahaha!"
He Jin also laughed and asked, "Is he looking for me?"
Hou Dongyan: "Yes, he came to ask you to borrow your class notes, and I found them for him. I even told him not to touch you, lest your soul leave your body and never come back. You didn't see his expression at that time, it was so funny!"
"Pfft, it's not that exaggerated …" He Jin remembered that Xian Yun in the game said that he felt itchy when a crane tickled him in real life, so he went offline. He told Hou Dongyan that it didn't matter if he was disturbed.
Hou Dongyan: "I was just kidding. Only Big Head would believe these words."
He Jin shook his head with a smile and got up to wash up. He caught a glimpse of his wristband flashing red. There was an unread text message from Qin Yang — "Do you want to go jogging tonight?" It had been received two hours ago.
Since two weeks ago, when Qin Yang was teaching He Jin how to play tennis, he casually said that he would take He Jin jogging. As long as He Jin was free, he would call him.
He Jin was especially grateful for his junior's constant concern and enthusiastic behavior. Therefore, when he saw the message, he didn't care that it was already late and quickly replied, "Sorry, I didn't see it just now. You're already asleep, right?"
Unexpectedly, Qin Yang quickly replied, "I'm not asleep. Were you busy?"
He Jin: "No, I was just playing and didn't see the message."
Qin Yang asked, "Do you want to sleep now?"
He Jin: "I'm going to wash my face, but I'm pretty excited. I don't think I'll be able to fall asleep anytime soon."
Qin Yang asked, "Do you want to go down and run two laps?"
He Jin was stunned. It was already past midnight. Should he run now? But then he thought about it. Two laps of jogging would only take ten minutes. Maybe he would fall asleep when he was tired. Not to mention that he didn't reply to his message tonight. It wouldn't be good to reject him again …
"Okay, I'll change. See you downstairs in five minutes."
Qin Yang didn't wait downstairs. Instead, he went straight to the staircase on the third floor. In less than two minutes, he saw He Jin come out of 306. He was wearing slightly thick sportswear. When he saw Qin Yang from afar, he immediately walked over.
"Why are you here?" He Jin seemed to be in a good mood.
"It's cold downstairs. I'll wait here." As Qin Yang spoke, he went downstairs with He Jin. Huaxia University's male dormitory didn't have a restricted access time. With an electronic access card, it wasn't a problem to leave in the middle of the night.
It was the winter solstice in December. The temperature at midnight was close to zero degrees Celsius. There wasn't a single person on campus. Even the lights on the side of the dormitory were mostly out.
He Jin breathed into his hands and started jogging around the campus with Qin Yang. After five hundred meters, his body started to heat up. After two laps, the two of them slowed down and strolled back. Qin Yang then asked, "What game do you play?"
He Jin: "God and Demon. It's a domestic online game. It's holographic now."
"Oh?" Qin Yang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is it the game that one of the girls mentioned when we went on the lake last time? She even said that there's a god in the game who sounds like me? "
"… Hmm, yes." He Jin's heart tightened. He had almost forgotten about this.
"You play this game too?" Qin Yang pretended to be interested and asked, "Is it fun?"
"Uh, it's alright. Actually, I haven't played it for long." In fact, He Jin felt that the game was very fun. However, because of the "shady" relationship between him and Shang Huo in the game, he always felt a little guilty when he mentioned it to his friends in real life. "It's mainly because the game had a lucky draw some time ago. I was lucky enough to draw a holographic helmet. I felt it was quite fresh, so I wore it to experience it."
Qin Yang's eyes widened. "Really! How does it feel to be holographic? "
He Jin: "Cough, it's quite realistic."
Qin Yang: "How realistic?"
"It's like time travel …" He Jin remembered that Qin Yang said that he didn't play games when they went on the lake. He coughed again and said with a deep expression, "You've seen 'Avatar', right? It's similar to that. In a holographic game, after you put on the helmet, you're in the game world." — Monkey, I'm using you as an example to scare Big Head!
Qin Yang: "…"
He Jin: "…"
It's over. It's over. Junior seems to be getting more and more curious. What if he also wants to play and asks me what race I play in the game and which server I'm in and wants me to carry him … What should I do?
"Um, what were you doing tonight?" He Jin hurriedly changed the topic!
Qin Yang: "I watched a foreign tennis match online."
He Jin: "Oh …"
He Jin: "…" What an awkward silence!
After a pause, He Jin remembered something and hurriedly asked, "You took the CET-6 test yesterday, right? How did you do? "
Qin Yang: "I didn't feel too good."
He Jin: "…"
He Jin clenched his fists and said, "When the results come out, if your score exceeds 600, I'll treat you to a meal!"
Qin Yang finally reacted. "600?"
The CET-6 test had been implemented since 1984 and hadn't changed for decades. A total score of 710,420 was considered a pass, and 600 and above was considered a high score. But for Huaxia University students, 600 and above should be quite common.
He Jin: "Uh, it's high?"
Qin Yang: "How much did you take last year?"
He Jin: "Around 680 …"
Qin Yang: "…"
Qin Yang raised his eyebrows. "You have such low expectations of me?"
He Jin blushed with shame. In fact, he had only said that to salvage the atmosphere. Qin Yang had already said that he didn't feel too good. If He Jin wanted to set a high bar, wouldn't that be embarrassing?
Qin Yang looked at him with a smile that wasn't a smile. "And even if you passed, shouldn't I be the one treating you to a meal? Senior ~ "
This was the first time Qin Yang had called He Jin "senior". It was supposed to be a form of address, but when he said it, it was full of ridicule. He Jin's heart tightened. He was clearly older than Qin Yang, and whether it was in terms of experience or results, he was better than Qin Yang, but Qin Yang's tone made it seem like He Jin was the younger one who needed to be taken care of.
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