Chapter 1 I am a student, give me a gift

The tall boy in school uniform in front of him had been standing in front of the seafood glass tank for ten minutes.

If there wasn't anyone in the store now, the boss would be impatient.

But is this guy really a consumer group of Bolong?

Don't wait for someone to suddenly say "I'm a student, send me off".

That won't work, even if you were born.

"died."

"Die, die for what?"

"Boss, a lobster is dead."

"No way, they are all fresh. They were still moving just now." Although he didn't believe it in his heart, the boss still came over after hearing this.

Then, I saw a heavy wave dragon slowly floating upward until it reached the surface of the water. Seeing this, the boss quickly took out the fishing net and scooped up the lobster, but this one was definitely still moving just now, and it must have been alive before.

At this moment, it is probably dead.

"Fuck, is the aerator broken? Damn it! You beast, how did you die? What a fucking dog."

A wave dragon costs 288, and it can usually be sold before closing. If it dies now, it is equivalent to losing 288 out of thin air. Thinking of this kind of thing, the boss can't help but burst into laughter.

"Boss, how are dead seafood usually handled?"

"It must be thrown away. We never sell dead shrimps here."

The seafood market here has regulations. When the shrimps die, they can be sold at a low price or turned into frozen shrimps, but the shrimps and king crabs must be disposed of when they are dead.

"Boss, I am a student..."

"Hey, you, you--"

He stretched out his fingers and interrupted the boy's spell casting with a ferocious expression. The boss's expression seemed to be about to say the next sentence - Lin Bei sells seafood, you said you are a student? !

Then, the boy took out a ten-dollar bill.

Looking at the money and the shrimps, the boss sighed: "The packaging fee is more than ten yuan."

After saying that, he took out the foam box and ice pack and packed up the one-pound Bolong just now.

Forget it, I guess this kid really wanted to eat, otherwise he wouldn't have been staring at the lobster in the tank.

It's just a matter of throwing it away anyway, so it's better to give it to him cheaply.

But he was really lucky. This dragon must have just died. Now that it is frozen, there is no difference in taste from the one that was not dead. He can buy a 288 big lobster for only ten yuan.

"Thanks."

The boy stretched out his hand and took the plastic bag. Then he looked at the man who was about thirty-five years old with a round belly and a stubble on his face. After thinking for a moment, he said: "Boss, you are such a nice person. I wish you a long life." age."

"Why eighty-seven..."

You kid is really good at talking, and your words of blessing seem like a prophecy.

"Because eighty-seven is already considered a long time."

Holding the refrigerated Bolong in his hand, Chen Yuan walked out of the seafood shop.

Then I saw more and more red numbers.

A child holding a candied haws ran past him. The number hanging on his head was 21224, which is about fifty-eight years.

The silver-haired kind grandmother who followed behind told him to slow down. The number was 2934, which was about eight years.

A loving couple was walking towards him, arm in arm. The woman was 24321 and the man was 242.

When his eyes were about to meet with the boy's, Chen Yuan lowered his head and walked past him.

He can see the countdown to death of others.

The unit of measurement is days.

This ability appeared at 6:30 on Monday morning. After getting up and going out, he accidentally discovered that some red Arabic numerals appeared on his eyes, as if they were engraved on the retina, which was quite clear.

At first Chen Yuan thought it was dazzling, but after repeatedly rubbing his eyes to confirm, he realized it was true.

Just like the cunning Trisolaran projection in his eyes, he can't get rid of it no matter what.

Not just people, but also cats, dogs, reptiles, animals, including plants. Anything with life characteristics will have a string of numbers hanging on its head.

Because after discovering that this number was inversely proportional to age, he also vaguely guessed the meaning behind the number.

But this was confirmed by a frightening accident.

A Teddy with 0.00001 hanging on his head was crushed to death by a wheel of a truck in the next second and turned into a Teddy meat pie.

A day is 86400 seconds, and 0.00001 days is 0.864 seconds.

The trouble with this ability is that it doesn't convert and only displays the time in 'days'.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan was forced to learn abacus mental arithmetic by his mother when he was in elementary school. Although this thing is completely useless for learning and extremely destructive to the structure of mathematical thinking and logic, if you need to convert days into adults, That's so convenient.

It can only be said that a shot fired accidentally when he was young hit the Boston Lobster right between the eyes many years later.

Of course, this cool ability doesn't work all the time.

Such as this moment.

Standing at the intersection of Jinling Road in Xiahai City, the world in Chen Yuan's eyes seemed to be mentally polluted, extremely disgusting.

The tall buildings, like a forest of steel, line up one after another, seem to separate the busy social and animal students in Natsumi City at this busy intersection.

According to statistics, more than 2,000 people pass through here every minute.

In other words, as long as you wait for more than a minute at the traffic light, distorted numbers will appear on the heads of more than 2,000 people, densely packed together, and with the movement of the crowd, they will look like dancing blood-red worms. .

Breathe, breathe.

Close your eyes and meditate for a while.

Chen Yuan is not very adaptable to this ability, especially in public places.

But he felt that if this super power was always with him, he would be more or less calm than he is now.

Or another word would be more appropriate - numbness.

He discovered this ability yesterday morning. When it was confirmed that this was the countdown to death, he also tried to help those poor people who died young.

But just imagine, if someone suddenly comes up to you and says, my friend, I think you need to get checked out. You don’t look very good, 80% of people will think that you have ulterior motives, either from a physical examination agency or to promote products.

The remaining 20% ​​is - you are the only one who is sick.

Although Chen Yuan has not met eight people who think he wants to sell goods, he has already been annoyed by two people.

In fact, he should have figured it out a long time ago. If they had regular physical examinations, how could those people not find out that they were terminally ill?

There will definitely be reactions in the early and middle stages of terminal illness. He can resist not looking at you. Naturally, he will feel full of malice toward you, a stranger.

Forget it, put aside the plot to help others and respect the fate of others.

As long as it wasn't someone who was going to die in a few seconds, Chen Yuan would never take action.

But so far, only the poor Teddy died suddenly in front of him. He has never seen one with a lifespan below 0.1.

The red light in front of me turned into a green light.

Merging into the crowd is like drowning in a sea of ​​red numbers.

After getting on the subway, Chen Yuan put on his Bluetooth headphones and closed his eyes to rest in his seat. In the past, he would take the initiative to give up his seat to the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled, but now, for him, life and death are indifferent, so there is no need. .

And what was very disturbing was that he saw several times that the gray-haired tendon meat man lived longer than the young people.

The contemporary social animal master believes that living is tiring, dying quickly, and life is short and delicate.

After taking twelve stops from the Jinling Road Crossroads subway station, half an hour later, we arrived at Sunshine Community Station, where Chen Yuan also got off.

This is an old city, but it is different from the shantytown reform area. Although the urban construction is old, the roads are clean and tidy, the public facilities are complete, and the environment is very good value for this price, but there is no nightlife.

Chen Yuan lives in 502, an old building 300 meters away from the subway entrance.

He was not from Natsumi City. He originally went to school in a nearby county called Hexiang. After the high school entrance examination, his mother relied on many connections to find his cousin who worked in a district education bureau below Natsumi and asked him to put him in. Xiahai 11th Middle School is a provincial key school.

But because I came through a trusteeship, I could only study day-to-day.

The apartments near No. 11 Middle School started at 2,000 yuan for a single room, so he had to find a small single room in Sunshine Community with a rent of 700 yuan.

His parents are peaceful working-class people and cannot accompany him to school, so he has successfully lived the life of a male protagonist in a novel with no sister and a house, and both parents are busy.

Fortunately, it doesn't look like a starting point novel, otherwise my parents would have to send it as well.

It is now seven o'clock in the evening. I quickly go home to cook the rice, boil the Bolong, adjust the air conditioner to 26 degrees, take a sip of small beer, and then watch another episode of Cangyuan Tu.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan's pace up the stairs quickened, and he climbed to the fifth floor in less than half a minute.

Just when he took out the key and was about to open the door, a high school girl who lived opposite and seemed to be renting a house was also inserting the key into the hole.

The two of them turned to look at each other blankly.

On the opponent's head, Chen Yuan saw for the first time the number closest to the teddy cake.

【0.05】