Beyond The Outline

After the lights were turned off at night, the bedroom was pitch black, and the sensor lights in the corridor also went dark. Xu Sheng took a shower late, his hair was slightly damp, and after the word "metaphysics" flashed through his mind, he sat up propped up.

Since science can't explain it, you can try metaphysics.

The more Xu Sheng thought about it, the more he felt it.

What a fucking idea.

Zhang Feng just sent his mother away, and in the name of concentrating on his homework, he opened the mobile game.

As a result, just after the game started, his boss called. Zhang Feng stared at the word "Xu Sheng" on the phone screen for a while, and then hung up suddenly on the other side.

Zhang Feng immediately called back, but Xu Sheng didn't answer.

Zhang Feng could only send a voice message to ask: "What's the matter, brother, come to me at this point? Why didn't you answer the phone?"

Xu Shengxin said that because he almost forgot who he is now.

S: There is something wrong with the mobile phone, so I can't make a call.

S: Ask you something.

Zhang Feng sat up straight: Say it.

S: Do you still remember that at the end of last semester, you went to the commercial street near the school to ask for a visa.

Zhang Feng remembered this incident, and was ruthlessly ridiculed by Xu Sheng at the time: I remember, you said you were an idiot to ask for a lottery. If burning incense and worshiping Buddha is useful, there will be no people who fail the exam in this world.

He also said this?

"..."

Xu Sheng paused with his fingers, and the following sentence 'Is there any recommended shop' stopped in the input box.

The commercial street outside the school has everything. Ever since a fortune-testing tarot card store became an online celebrity store, all kinds of charlatans have seen business opportunities. , Meng must be right abcd dice... The business is a smash hit.

Zhang Feng is more familiar with the commercial street, he likes to go shopping with girls, Xu Sheng deleted that line, and finally could only start with "I have a friend".

"The fortune-telling booth has a good reputation. Let me think about it. The recently opened 'Half Xianju' is not bad." Zhang Feng thought for a while and said in a voice, "You have to make an appointment online, and bring your birthday when you go. Just go. It’s a good calculation. Zhang Tong just finished the calculation at his place last week. When he came back, he boasted that Hu Banxian was amazing, saying that he is definitely an outsider. If your friend wants to calculate luck, you can try it .”

S: Good.

S: Thanks.

After the chat was over, Zhang Feng scratched his head at the phone for some unknown reason, puzzled: Xu Sheng suddenly asked about a fortune-telling booth.

【Ding】.

[The game has found a match].

Forget it, take care of him.

Zhang Feng cut into the game, didn't take this matter to heart, and quickly put it behind him.

Turning off the lights does not affect the learning master to solve the problem.

At the same time, Shao Zhan pinched the bridge of his nose and turned over the last competition paper.

The boy was holding a pen in his hand, and the cloth was sticking to his straight back. Xu Sheng's fingers were slender, with slightly protruding knuckles.

The light from the desk lamp broke through the darkness around him and hit his slightly curved knuckles straight.

After Shao Zhan finished turning the page, he paused for two seconds, and for some reason suddenly recalled the way Xu Sheng held the paintbrush with this hand.

On the back is the last big question: Let V be a set of 2019 points in space, any four of which are not coplanar, and some points are connected with line segments, record E as the set of these line segments...

Shao Zhan looked back and hurriedly scanned the questions. Before he could find a solution to the problem, the door was knocked twice.

Xu Sheng sent Shao Zhan a message, but he didn't reply after a few minutes, so he knocked on the door directly.

When Shao Zhan opened the door, Xu Sheng was leaning on his dormitory door and fiddled with his mobile phone across the aisle.

Seeing him open the door, Xu Sheng turned his phone back, shook it and said, "I sent you a message, you may not have seen it."

Shao Zhan did not see it.

When he wrote the questions, he didn't look at his mobile phone much except for timing.

Xu Sheng usually seems to be very harmonious walking and lying around like a boneless person, but now this is in his body, Shao Zhan always feels strange looking at it, he turned sideways and said, "Come in."

This was his dormitory in the first place, so Xu Sheng sat down on the bed naturally, and said directly: "I thought of a way."

Shao Zhan couldn't guess what he wanted to say.

Xu Sheng: "Let me tell you a story."

"..."

Shao Zhan: "Story?"

Under Shao Zhan's gaze, Xu Sheng changed his posture and said, "My cousin accidentally fell into the river when he was a child, and his high fever persisted after being picked up. No matter what medicine he took, no matter how many doctors he visited, it didn't help."

Shao Zhan couldn't guess what he wanted to say this time.

Tell stories about my cousin in the middle of the night.

The talented boy who could score 145 points in Chinese was defeated and failed to grasp the key points.

At this point in Xu Sheng's story, he stopped and asked, "How do you think my cousin recovered in the end?"

"..." Shao Zhan cooperated with him and asked, "How did you recover?"

"metaphysics."

"..."

"There is a sorceress in our street. She drew a talisman for him. After burning it and drinking it, he will be fine the next day."

"so?"

"So sometimes for things that science can't explain, we can turn to the power of metaphysics."

Shao Zhan unscrewed the mineral water bottle by the table, walked to the bed and handed it to him.

Xu Sheng took it and said, "I've already inquired with Zhang Feng. There is a new 'Half Fairy House' near the school, and it has a good reputation."

The light from the desk lamp is not strong, and the light that shines on the bedside is even weaker.

After Xu Sheng took the water, he was about to raise his head and take a sip, but Shao Zhan didn't take his hand back. He stretched out his index finger and tapped it on Xu Sheng's forehead: "In your head, every day What are you thinking about?"

The fiery temperature of the boy's fingertips touched it lightly.

Xu Sheng grabbed the water bottle, blinked, and was blinded by the temperature for a moment.

Shao Zhan: "When will we go?"

Before Xu Sheng came here, he was worried that Shao Zhan would think his proposal was absurd, and the dignified Xueba went to find a fortune-teller. No matter how he thought about it, these two elements would not be related together: "After evening self-study?"

Shao Zhan also thought that he would think this proposal was ridiculous, but in front of the four-school league, no matter how tough people are, they have to bow their heads.

"Row."

It wasn't until Shao Zhan withdrew his hand and went back to the desk to continue writing the test paper that Xu Sheng belatedly took a sip of water and put the cap on the bottle.

Xu Sheng's palms were a little sweaty, and he walked over with a water bottle: "Are you doing a competition question?"

The stack of test papers on the table, even though Xu Sheng couldn't understand a single question, he was the one who took it back from the meeting room after all.

Xu Sheng took a glance and saw the big problem that Shao Zhan was calculating on the draft paper. The problem was very long. Xu Sheng noticed the scalp-numbing numbers in it, which looked scary: "Satisfy the conditions, if E has n elements, then E must contain 908 binary subsets'.

908, binary subsets.

What's the meaning? ?

Shao Zhan glanced at him: "Do you want to try, this question is not difficult."

Xu Sheng: "..."

Shao Zhan: "Be familiar with it in advance."

The worst-case scenario is to take part in the competition as Shao Zhan, the big devil of the four-school league.

Xu Sheng hesitated for a while, thinking that it would be okay to meet Shao Zhan in advance.

You don't need to write the question, but you must show your momentum when the time comes.

Besides, Shao Zhan also said that this question is not difficult... Maybe he has a talent for competition?

Every scumbag who has never studied will inevitably imagine in his heart that once he turns on the learning switch, he may become a blockbuster.

Xu Sheng didn't have a clue in his heart and said, "Just try it."

In fact, listening to Shao Zhan's lecture is a kind of enjoyment. The young man's tone is cold and his thinking is clear. He follows his train of thought and writes a simple theorem on paper: "This question first proves a lemma. Let G=(V, E) be A simple graph, and G is connected, then G contains..."

Xu Sheng gave up decisively.

He woke up in an instant.

The "not difficult" in Shao Zhan's mouth is completely different from the understanding of the word "not difficult" by normal people.

After Shao Zhan finished speaking, he handed him the pen and motioned him to explain it himself.

"...I'm leaving," Xu Sheng said, "I can't write."

Having actually faced the competition questions and knowing the difficulty of the competition questions, Xu Sheng's desire to go to Banxianju became even stronger.

The next day.

After the evening self-study, the two packed up their things and prepared to sneak out through the back door.

"Brother Zhan, Brother Sheng," Hou Jun and Tan Kai patted their shoulders from behind, "Let's go to the commercial street for dinner. There is a new noodle restaurant recently opened, shall we go together?"

They are all going to the commercial street, so it is not appropriate to say that they are not on the way at the moment.

Xu Sheng: "You guys go, let's go to the commercial street to buy something else..."

Before Xu Sheng finished speaking, Hou Jun directly squeezed between the two of them: "Don't they all go to the commercial street, let's go together."

After school, the commercial street is decorated with lights and festoons. Half of the name of the school "Linjiang" comes from the school's natural environment, surrounded by bitter rivers. The commercial street is built in the style of an ancient town, with wooden buildings and square doors standing at the entrance of the commercial street. There were shouts from the door of the store.

"The noodle shop is open, [-]% discount——"

"Tarot cards, test your luck—"

Xu Sheng and Shao Zhan bit the bullet and walked with them for a while.

Except for eating out, Xu Sheng rarely came to this street for shopping. Occasionally, Zhang Tong and a few girls wanted to buy something and asked him for reference, so he would come and hang around for a while.

He made an appointment with the master for seven o'clock last night, but the 'Half Immortal House' was hard to find, so the two of them looked at the shop number as they walked.

"There is a noodle shop in front," Yuan Ziqiang asked curiously, "What do you buy?"

Xu Sheng was absent-minded: "Isn't the four-school league starting soon? I'll buy some competition booklets."

Yuan Ziqiang turned to Shao Zhan: "Brother Sheng?"

Shao Zhan: "Buy with him."

Oh.

Xu Sheng was looking for it, but was pulled by Shao Zhan: "Is that the one?"

Xu Sheng looked in the direction Shao Zhan pointed. At the corner of the intersection, there was a shop away from the noisy area. Xianju" three words.There is a faint feeling of a high-end store outside the world, and it is easy to miss if you don't pay attention.

Xu Sheng: "It's this one."

But Hou Jun and the others are still here, how are they going to pass now.

Xu Sheng was about to slow down and keep a distance from Hou Jun and the others calmly, but Shao Zhan moved more simply than him—he directly pulled Xu Sheng into the turbulent crowd, and walked forward from behind. Hiding in the crowd, he distanced himself from the person in front in the blink of an eye. After going through layers of obstacles, Hou Jun turned around and found that the two people behind him had disappeared at some point.

Green smoke billowed from the half-closed door of the half-immortal residence.

The lobby is lit with incense.

Pushing open the door, I didn't see him, so I heard his voice first, and said with a hoarse voice like an old man: "...But when you encounter something difficult, I see that you two have an unusual aura shrouded in you."

The voice said again: "Come in and talk."

In the next second, a gust of wind came from nowhere, and with a "snap", the door that had just been pushed closed closed by itself!