As the nearby day students joined the waiting crowd, the whole bus stop became more and more lively. When Route 13 slowly drove in, the students rushed forward and hurriedly scrambled for a seat.
There are many people and few seats, so some people sit down while others stand.
"Lao Gao, please give me your seat. I stayed up all night last night. I feel dizzy and weak all over. Ahem~"
"Want to sit? Hehehe~ Call me daddy, oh my god, you dare to sit on my lap."
Just as they were fighting over the seats, the bus slowly stopped, and after the front door opened, several more students came in.
Among them was a girl with long straight black hair. Anna looked at her face with some surprise. It was her face, it was Anna.
Gao Zhiming pushed his best friend off his lap and quickly sat up, "Jia Jia, sit here."
Seeing that everyone in the car was looking at her, the girl lowered her head shyly and sat down in Charles' seat.
The man next to him made an exaggerated throat-cutting gesture towards Gao Zhiming, but Gao Zhiming simply ignored him.
The boy pulled the wheel ring and silently stood beside the girl to prevent others from bumping into her, like a knight guarding a princess.
Zhao Jiajia tucked the hair in front of her ears behind her ears, then took out two white earphones from her bag. She first put one into her own ear, and gently touched the back of Gao Zhiming's hand with the other one.
Such a warm scene made Anna smile like an aunt. "Oh~ Look at this couple, how nice they are. Although this memory is made up by me, I have to say it is so nice."
When the bus stopped at the school, the students rushed to school before the music for class started.
A large part of the previous dream was missing, and it switched directly to the moment when the bell rang for the end of evening self-study get out of class.
Anna started to complain to herself after seeing this: "Hey, Charles doesn't seem to be a studious person. He doesn't have any good memories of studying."
After studying for a day, they walked towards the bus stop in twos and threes. Zao Zhiming followed his classmates and walked towards the bus stop arm in arm.
A fat man with acne on his face looked up at the starry sky between the tall buildings above him and said, "Oh, being a high school student is so tiring. It feels like I'm back in elementary school."
"You are tired for nothing. You are a guy that even the teacher gave up on. Why are you tired?"
The fat man glared at the boy with glasses in dissatisfaction, "Spending so much time every day in a position where it's difficult to even turn around, isn't this torture? This is more uncomfortable than being in prison!"
Gao Zhiming interrupted their conversation. He said with longing in his eyes: "I don't want to go back to elementary school. I want to grow up quickly, get through high school, go to college, and go to a place where my family can't control me."
"You can see on the Internet that the lives of college students are really colorful. Damn, the lives of high school students are even worse than those of slaves in the old society."
Following Gao Zhiming's words, the four of them imagined their own future.
The freckled fat man clenched his fist and said firmly: "My dad said that when I go to college, he will give me a laptop. I want to learn programming and become a hacker."
"I want to fall in love! I want to **!"
"I don't have those unrealistic ideas. I don't want to do anything. I just want to get 8 hours of sleep every day! I want to sleep!"
After listening to his classmates' ideas, Gao Zhiming thought for a while and then said, "I don't know what I will do in the future, but I feel that I can do a lot of things in the future. I can do whatever I want. I like this feeling."
"Fuck you." Gao Zhiming, with a blush on his face, kicked him.
While playing, they passed by a supermarket. The four of them walked over, opened the freezer and took out their drinks.
Everyone else chose Coke, Sprite and Wanglaoji, but the fat guy with acne picked up a can of beer.
"Fatty, that's great. You're really showing off. You actually drank."
The fat man pulled the ring and took a big gulp. He frowned slightly and swallowed it quickly. "A bunch of little brats who can't even drink."
"It's just beer, what's the big deal? Look how you act. I could play finger-guessing with my dad when I was 6!" The bespectacled man snatched it away and forced himself to take a big sip.
The beer was passed back and forth and finally reached Charles. He also raised his head and took a sip, and his facial features instantly wrinkled into a bun.
The others looked at this scene and pointed at him and laughed.
"What the hell is this? It's so bitter and astringent. I won't drink it even if you pay me to."
The fat man snatched it and took another sip pretending to be serious. "You haven't grown up yet. You will know when you grow up."
Hearing his words, Charles froze in place. He seemed to remember something, and everything around him began to collapse. The streets and classmates around him began to fade into thin air.
A table with a bottle of liquor appeared in front of Charles. It was the table in the captain's room of the Narwhal. The bustling noise around him turned into the sound of waves, and the bright street lights began to shrink rapidly, turning into a shaking oil lamp.
The young Charles' body aged rapidly, scars appeared on his face, and his organs separated from his body. The outside world began to hear the special whispering of the gods.
Charles was about to wake up, but Anna beside him didn't want him to wake up like this, as waking up like this would be a nightmare.
With Anna's gentle wave of her hand, the surrounding environment changed rapidly, and Charles returned to his home again, enjoying the tranquility of his previous life and the warmth of his family.
Anna just watched silently at the side, watching Charles go to the Internet cafe with his classmates, watching Charles' sister fight over things, and watching their family celebrate the New Year happily.
Charles slowly opened his eyes from his dream. He looked down and saw Anna lying quietly in his arms, with her fair cheek gently against his chest.
After briefly recalling the beautiful dream just now, Charles lowered his head and kissed her on the lips, "Thank you, I'm almost forgetting what those memories felt like."
Anna slowly opened her eyes and looked at him in surprise, "You know I control your dreams? Where is the flaw?"
"Since I came to Earthsea, my dreams have only been nightmares. This is too beautiful. It doesn't seem like a dream to me."
Hearing this, Anna said slowly: "Do you miss your family on the surface? Do you want to return to the surface? After you obtain the power of God through wishes. Let's find a way to go back together. I will accompany you."
(End of this chapter)