“Not gonna lie, bro, you’ve been messing with that senior phone of yours ever since you got back to the dorm last night, and I still haven’t seen you figure anything out.”
Ye Qingchang looked at Liu Xie, who was still fiddling with the senior phone even during class time.
“What the hell do you know? Bro here is handling official business,” Liu Xie said. “Just like handling state affairs in the imperial court, no slacking, no distractions.”
Ye Qingchang was stunned for a moment, and for a moment she didn’t even know how to respond.
Then she saw the check-in code that was displayed before class as usual.
So she nudged Liu Xie with her elbow, who was still tinkering with the senior phone.
“Hurry up, scan the code to check in, let your senior phone work its divine power.”
Liu Xie rolled her eyes, checked in with her own mobile phone, and went back to fiddling with the senior phone.
Meanwhile, Zhu Niao also leaned her head over curiously at this moment.
“What are you doing?”
“She said she found this senior phone treasure when she went out to sea to become the Pirate King yesterday, and now she’s trying to decipher this treasure.” Ye Qingchang craned her neck and explained to Zhu Niao on the other side of Liu Xie.
Zhu Niao didn’t huddle up with Xun Pu to catch up on sleep or scroll through videos in today’s class.
Xun Pu seemed very tired today, though nobody knew why.
She could roughly guess a little, because whenever Xun Pu slept with her, she always had to get up to go to the bathroom, and this wasn’t a recent thing, it had been going on before.
Back when she and Xun Pu slept together before, Xun Pu would get up at night to go to the bathroom.
It was just that the frequency seemed to have increased recently.
As Little Bird, who was quite concerned about Xun Pu, after reasonable speculation she came to a conclusion.
Xun Pu most likely had some kind of digestive system issue, causing frequent urination, urgency, and incomplete emptying during sleep at night.
She decided to take Xun Pu to see an Old Chinese Doctor when she had free time, as she rather trusted Old Chinese Doctors for this kind of internal regulation.
After all, this kind of bodily matter couldn’t be ignored.
“What do you guys know?” Liu Xie extended a finger and explained while shaking her head.
“With the progress of the times, treasures also advance with the times. How could there still be a treasure chest just sitting there waiting for you to open it?”
“That’s true,” Zhu Niao acknowledged Liu Xie’s words.
“The fact that you believe her nonsense means you’re a lost cause in this life.” Ye Qingchang gave a thumbs-up. “You’ve been messing with it for so long, haven’t you been able to figure anything out?”
“I think that’s not necessarily true.” Zhu Niao extended her palm to interrupt Ye Qingchang’s words.
“Look at how she presses the buttons so convincingly. I think she might be using this opportunity to make a bid for the Snake game grand championship and world record.”
“?” Ye Qingchang’s expression shifted. “If that’s the case, bro has no choice but to support you.”
Zhu Niao also nodded. “When I played Snake back then, I just couldn’t keep going. I found there were more and more mines on the ground, and by the end I couldn’t get around them at all, and the score didn’t even change. This game’s difficulty is way too high.”
“That’s not fucking mines, that’s the fucking stuff that makes you score when you eat it. Otherwise, why do you think the game is called Snake?”
Ye Qingchang realized she shouldn’t have held any expectations for her roommates.
“Really? I don’t believe it.” Zhu Niao shook her head.
Then she leaned her head even closer, looking at the senior phone’s screen.
She stared for a while without making a sound, but her expression was quite focused.
This instantly drew the attention of Ye Qingchang beside her, who had been sitting up straight as if unwilling to associate with the two of them.
“She’s really playing Snake?” Ye Qingchang couldn’t control her gaze from drifting toward the two of them.
But she didn’t seem to see very clearly.
“Let me say this first, I’m not looking out of curiosity, I just happen to not be able to see the words on the PPT from my seat, so I’m leaning over toward your side.” Ye Qingchang found herself a reason.
Then, she tilted her body over, and together with Zhu Niao, looked at the dark screen of the senior phone in Liu Xie’s hand.
That tiny screen reflected the gazes of three people.
For a brief moment, Ye Qingchang felt her brain crash.
At that moment, Zhu Niao even spoke up. “Your senior phone is so amazing, how does it even have a privacy screen?”
“No, that’s not a fucking privacy screen, that’s just it not being turned on at all.” Ye Qingchang pointed out the situation with surgical precision.
“Oh, was I found out?” Liu Xie revealed a look of complete shock.
“I feel like you’re treating both of us like idiots right now.”
“Actually that’s not entirely true. I just haven’t found the way to turn it on yet. Otherwise, I’d soon be able to get the treasure inside. You understand?” Liu Xie seemed to still be holding on to something.
Ye Qingchang didn’t know what was inside this phone, so naturally she couldn’t judge.
“I fully understand your feelings about wanting to open something from a treasure chest, but let’s set aside the fact that you can’t even open this treasure chest. Just based on your current situation, what could possibly count as treasure inside this clearly ancient senior phone you’re holding?”
Just as Ye Qingchang finished speaking, Zhu Niao on the other side raised her hand to disagree.
Of course, she didn’t raise it very high, otherwise she’d be called on to answer a question again.
“I think that’s not necessarily true. Even if a senior phone is a treasure, there can still be things inside it.”
Zhu Niao began to explain.
“When I was little, I once found a senior phone. I planned to find the owner, so I opened the contacts and randomly picked someone to call. In the end, I successfully returned the phone as an Excellent Red Scarf, and even got praised during the Speech Under the National Flag on Monday.”
Ye Qingchang was taken aback. “You know what, based on your personal character, you saying that really doesn’t match at all.”
“I know. So what I want to say isn’t that I got praised, but that the names in that phone’s contacts were all things like Secretary Wang of the Municipal Party Committee, Old Hu of the Education Bureau, Old Li of the Water Conservancy Bureau.”
An expression of pain appeared on Zhu Niao’s face, clearly regretting why she hadn’t seized the opportunity at that time.
“So you weren’t targeted for revenge or promoted to the top, huh? You really do have some skill.”
“No way around it. I was pretty naive when I was little.”
“Wait, bros.” Liu Xie stopped the two’s conversation. “I think I found a way to turn it on.”
Then Liu Xie pressed one of the buttons, gently tapped a corner of the senior phone against the Dining Table, and then long-pressed that button.
Then a flash of light came out.
It wasn’t the screen lighting up. It was Liu Xie getting electrocuted.