Chapter 12: I'll take a bite and you can listen

At night, Lu Shu sat on the sofa and watched the rerun of the Spring Festival Gala with Lu Xiaoyu, while thinking about how to deal with his negative emotion value. Although more than 2,000 seemed like a lot, at least more than before, Lu Shu felt that he should still carefully decide how to spend the money.

　　This system currently only displays one product in the store system. Who knows what will appear in the future?

　　I don't know how these things appeared.

　　The host on TV said with a big smile: "The voting for my favorite CCTV Spring Festival Gala program in 2010 will end at midnight tomorrow. I hope everyone will cast their precious votes. Now please enjoy the performance brought by magician Liu Qian."

　　Lu Shu glanced at Lu Xiaoyu and said, "You've already watched it three times, and you still haven't seen enough. What's so good about the Spring Festival Gala..."

　　"What do you care about me?" Lu Xiaoyu didn't even take his eyes off the TV screen.

　　Lu Shu opened the chat software on his domestic smartphone and watched the class group, ready to grab red envelopes at any time. There were still a few students in the class who were generous.

　　He suddenly saw a male classmate sent a message: "I'm home, everyone please be safe on the road."

　　"I'm home too, haha!"

　　Lu Shu looked up and suddenly found that Lu Xiaoyu was no longer watching TV. Instead, he was staring at his phone: "They didn't invite you to the class reunion, did they?"

　　Lu Shu said indifferently: "They also know that I don't have the spare money to split the bill with them, so it's normal for them not to call me."

　　Lu Xiaoyu looked at him with disdain: "How can you bear this?"

　　"You don't know how expensive it is until you turn 16. You'll have to go to school, and the tuition will cost a lot of money." Lu Shu said seriously, "If we don't save money now, we'll be caught in a mess when the time comes. Electricity costs money, and water costs money. If it weren't for the extra vegetables in the yard, we wouldn't even be able to afford vegetables in the winter."

　　Lu Shu leaned on the sofa with his head resting on it, not knowing when he would be able to make money.

　　"Lu Shu, shall we buy lottery tickets?" Lu Xiaoyu's eyes lit up when she heard about lottery tickets. She has been like this since she saw in the news that someone won tens of millions.

　　"That's all behind-the-scenes manipulation, okay?" Lu Shu said with disdain: "Lottery is just a tax on the poor."

　　"What if I win?" Lu Xiaoyu was not convinced. If others can win, why can't I? "Then I can buy a lot of potato chips."

　　In Lu Xiaoyu's eyes, money is food, and her favorite food at this stage is potato chips.

　　Hearing the word "potato chips", Lu Shu stood up and went back to the house. He took out a bag of tomato-flavored potato chips, tore open the bag, took out a thin slice from it, put it in his mouth, and chewed it with a crunching sound.

　　Lu Xiaoyu's eyes widened: "Lu Shu, are the potato chips crispy?"

　　Lu Shu glanced at her and said, "Oh, I'll eat another piece for you to listen."

　　"Negative emotions from Lu Xiaoyu, +299..."

　　Poof, Lu Shu almost spat out the potato chips in his mouth. Why is this guy so resentful...

　　"Here, here, these snacks I bought for you this morning were meant for you." Lu Shu handed the potato chips to Lu Xiaoyu. He took some time out in the morning to go to the shopping mall on Shachang Road. In fact, it was not far from where they lived, and it was only three bus stops away.

　　After looking at the scene and not finding anything wrong, he came back and bought Lu Xiaoyu a bag of her favorite potato chips.

　　The biggest problem with this child is that she wants to eat whatever food is advertised on TV. Recently, potato chips are always on TV...

　　The two of them depended on each other, and Lu Shu felt quite satisfied that he could occasionally make Lu Xiaoyu happy.

　　What's more, the conditions to make this little girl happy are so simple, just having delicious food is enough.

　　It is becoming increasingly difficult for most people to be happy, simply because their desires are constantly expanding.

　　Lu Xiaoyu is always so obsessed with food and can be happy as long as she has food. Lu Shu thinks that Lu Xiaoyu is an extraordinary girl.

　　Suddenly someone in the class group asked: "Have you heard about the fire at Xinduhui?"

　　"I heard about it, what's the matter?"

　　"That fire was really terrible. It burned down the entire mall. But fortunately, I heard that only four people died: three security guards who didn't have time to escape that night, and a warehouse manager."

　　"Stop, stop, stop." The boy who first brought up the matter said, "I'm not talking about the fire!"

　　"Didn't you say it was a fire yourself...?"

　　"Do you know how the fire was caused?" the male student asked mysteriously.

　　"Didn't they say that there were flammable and explosive items in the warehouse that were not properly guarded?" Someone was curious: "Isn't it?"

　　"Of course not. My dad was there this morning. He said he saw a video in a man's hand. It was a clear video. It showed a man who seemed to have superpowers. He could release huge flames at will. It wasn't a stunt show. He just released flames with his bare hands!" The boy finally told what he had seen.

　"Is it true?" All the students who were watching the video in the group were shocked. "It can't be a fake video. Nowadays, the skills of faking videos are very advanced."

　　"How is it possible? The fire that started last night was recorded this morning. Who do you think can produce such a video so quickly? I think even the world's top special effects teams can't do it."

　　"That's right... time is too tight, and there's no need to do this."

　　"Does it really have super powers?"

　　After this question was asked, everyone fell silent for a short while.

　　Who didn't have some innocent dreams when they were young? If superpowers really exist, then the recent frequent topics about superpowers on the Internet, as well as those videos that have been deleted but remembered by people, are not groundless.

　　Some of my classmates have watched the video, and someone in it once mentioned that the most impressive sentence was: In the future, perhaps many people will awaken their abilities in various circumstances, perhaps with extreme joy, extreme anger or sadness, or even find ways to practice, everything is possible.

　　"Haha, do you think anyone in our class will awaken?"

　　"No one can predict this. If anyone has awakened, please tell me in advance and I will give you a helping hand..."

　　"You know what, I really have a feeling that someone in our class will have awakened superpowers!"

　　"Who do you think it is?"

　　"It's just me, hahahaha!"

　　"Forget it. I think it's better to visit famous mountains and find a master to learn from. Didn't someone see a Taoist breathing clouds on the top of a mountain? I think this is reliable!"

　　Lu Shu looked at the chat log without saying a word, as if he was standing out from the matter. This group of people had never thought of accepting him into this group, and he had never thought of integrating into it.

　　They are like familiar strangers to each other.

　　Superpowers may still be a bit far away for these students, but for Lu Shu himself, they are already within reach.

　　That is a wider world, where it seems that one step can take you a great distance up to the sky.