bookrandom Chapter 473 An Unusual Arrival
Chapter 473 An Unusual Arrival
[Differentiation Rate: 31%]
29%...27%...25%...
The degree of alienation gradually decreases at a slow pace.
Xiong Yu'an enjoyed the rare peace and temporarily forgot his pain.
……
"Click! Bang!" The door was opened and then slammed shut, followed by two footsteps.
Xiong Yu'an was startled and suddenly straightened up, standing up from his chair.
Looking around frantically, where should I put the black bear? On the table? Hidden in the wardrobe? Or in the drawer underneath?
Mom will find it, right?
She'll definitely say I'm wasting money...
Would she believe me if I said it was a gift from my sister?
What my sister said last night might be useful.
The footsteps were approaching, and Xiong Yu'an, with a glimmer of hope, placed it directly on the table.
Then, he immediately darted to the door as fast as he could, pressed the handle with the lightest force, and made no loud noise.
"Squeak..." A slight friction sound rang out, and Xiong Yu'an opened the door wide and stepped out.
"Mom, Dad, you're back."
Looking at their expressions, Xiong Yu'an saw one with a furrowed brow and the other with a dark face.
She suddenly remembered that the teacher had said to call the parents, hadn't they already done so?
Xiong Yu'an panicked immediately, his heart raced uncontrollably, and his hands unconsciously began to clench and rub.
"Come here." Dad sat down on the living room sofa.
He would say this before he was about to reprimand someone.
Xiong Yu'an was completely disheartened. His face stiffened, and he walked over reluctantly and helplessly.
"Your teacher called me. You haven't done your homework for two days. Your attitude towards learning is terrible!"
"We've paid for your education, and this is how you study?"
“I told you, if you’re not doing well in your studies, you need to work even harder and put in more effort. But you’re the one who gets the teacher to call your parents.”
"Now you really have some ability."
After listening to it once at school, do we need to listen to it again at home?
Xiong Yu'an lowered his head, his heart heavy.
Are you really going to blindly trust your teacher like this? Do you really, really know what kind of person I am?
If it were before, Xiong Yu'an wouldn't have wanted to argue, but a figure appeared in her mind.
That person gave her courage.
Xiong Yu'an tried to push the stone away a little: "It's not like what the teacher said."
"Then tell me what kind it would be like."
Xiong Yu'an was surprised to have a chance to explain herself, so she quickly spoke up.
"My homework was stolen the day before yesterday, and today the group leader didn't write my name."
Dad's face darkened even more: "What do you think I'm talking about? You think homework is something valuable? Who would steal your worthless homework for no reason!"
"They can't even come up with a good excuse when they lie."
"..." Xiong Yu'an was speechless.
What's more despairing than having no hope at all is having hope given away and then having it taken away again.
Xiong Yu'an didn't want to give up, so he turned his gaze to his mother: "My sister can testify yesterday, and I also have message records on my phone to prove it."
The mother didn't say anything, but her gaze grew increasingly suspicious.
Give me your phone.
"I'll look it up for you." Xiong Yu'an quickly reached into his pocket, took out his phone, brought up the group chat, and pointed to the file history and chat messages.
"Mom, look, it's true."
Mom took the document, checked the time, browsed the records, and opened all the files to confirm them.
"Then why didn't you tell the teacher?"
Hearing this, Xiong Yu'an was overjoyed.
As usual, her mother neither ignored her nor completely disbelieved her.
I'm willing to listen to her this time!
"I wanted to say, 'Teacher, class is about to begin...'"
Actually, I just didn't want to say it because I thought the teacher wouldn't believe me. I wondered how much effort it would take to change the teacher's opinion.
And the teacher didn't give her a chance to speak.
Xiong Yu'an felt somewhat powerless when he thought about it.
"You're blaming the teacher now?" Dad frowned in displeasure.
Xiong Yu'an was taken aback: "That's not what I meant."
She didn't even mention the real reason.
She even made excuses for the teacher.
And is all of this just blaming the teacher?
She felt a surge of resentment.
"Don't let me hear the teacher complaining about me again. I can't bear the embarrassment."
Am I embarrassing?
Xiong Yu'an felt as if he had been violently torn apart.
"I won't be going to the parent-teacher conference tomorrow. You two figure it out yourselves," Dad announced.
The mother, who had been silent until now, suddenly changed her expression: "What do you mean? You want me to go?"
"It's meaningless, go if you want, don't go if you don't want to."
Mom's voice rose a few octaves: "How many times have you gone? I'm the one who goes every single time!"
"She caused this mess herself, am I supposed to go and get scolded? Am I supposed to go and become a laughingstock?" The father was getting annoyed by the voice, so he picked up his lighter and lit a cigarette.
Like a spark igniting explosives, Mom abruptly sat down: "I'm supposed to just get scolded? I'm supposed to just be laughed at?"
Xiong Yu'an looked helplessly at the two who had suddenly started arguing.
Mom was perfectly fine just now.
White smoke obscured the father's face and drifted past their noses, carrying a bitter, sticky, and stinging stench.
"Stop shouting, won't the neighbors hear you?"
"So what if I heard that? If you don't go, I won't go either."
"casual."
Xiong Yu'an felt extremely superfluous and filled with guilt.
Nobody wanted to go to her parent-teacher conference; she was like a hot potato being passed around, and nobody wanted to touch her.
In my family's eyes, am I someone they don't want to be mentioned?
If it weren't for this incident, the two wouldn't have argued.
It's all my fault.
[Differentiation Rate: 29%]
On items bearing Xiong Yu'an's name, the character "Yu" rarely appears anymore; instead, a clear "Yu" character for jade occupies most of the space.
The argument escalated, extending from the parent-teacher meeting to individual parenting styles, responsibilities, and habits, and eventually spreading to all aspects of life.
Xiong Yu'an listened quietly with his head down, but he had heard it many, many times before.
She only stood up and went back to her room when the two men's conversation no longer focused on her.
The door was not closed, allowing the sound to still enter the ears.
Xiong Yu'an covered his ears.
That's enough, I really don't want to hear anymore.
What should I do?
If I had known it would turn out like this, I should have told the teacher. Why didn't I do it?
Xiong Yu'an was filled with remorse.
But it's too late to undo the damage. Should I take the initiative to talk to the teacher tomorrow? Is there any way to make amends, or at least prevent things from getting worse?
I don't want to do poorly in school... I don't want to either...
Xiong Yu'an felt as if he were on the edge of a collapsing cliff, unable to move forward, but instead falling continuously.
She glanced at the black bear on the table, and for a moment, her negative emotions were interrupted.
elder sister……
I miss my sister so much.
We just broke up, but I already want to see her.
I want to send her a message.
Xiong Yu'an reached for his phone and was surprised to find that he didn't have his sister's contact information, neither her phone number nor any chat software.
What am I doing?
Such an important person as my sister left almost no trace in my life.
Xiong Yu'an felt apologetic and promised to ask about it next time they met and make sure to remember it.
Where can I find a field? Even just for a minute would be helpful.
Xiong Yu'an stared blankly into thought, and gradually some details surfaced in his mind. Every time he was in a bad mood, his domain would be triggered. Why didn't it happen this time?
She had considered calling for her sister's arrival, but she didn't want to do it.
My sister is so busy, there's no need for her to come over for such a small matter.
Xiong Yu'an didn't want to be so selfish.
She suppressed her desire to find her sister, but she really wanted to escape her current environment and couldn't help but miss the safe house she and her sister had built together.
Although there are monsters there, there will be no criticism or questioning.
My sister said that this piece of land will always belong to you.
That's my place.
If it's forever, could I go again?
I've been to that sea many times. Has it never disappeared?
Xiong Yu'an held the black bear in his arms, closed his eyes, and imagined what the safe house looked like and the surrounding environment.
……
Zuo Xiuyan was surprised to see purple energy, like gas, emanating from Xiong Yu'an and drifting in all directions.
The real object is as if it has been painted, its veil torn off, and transformed into a completely different object, which then transforms outward from her center.
Alienation has arrived?
However, the degree of alienation is far from reaching the next stage. Even according to the previous standard of 30%, it is still 1% short.
This time, the field is different from the previous two.
There were no piercing, long-waiting alarms, no billowing gray fog, and no decay or rust.
The scene on the sea surface looked like a pit, with seawater starting to pour in along the edge, but calmly sliding down as if it were the side of a bowl.
Reality and spirit intertwine and influence each other until they become indistinguishable.
The scene Zuo Xiuyan saw gradually disappeared, and the sea returned to its original state.
There was no beep or health indicator displayed.
She glanced around but didn't see Xiong Yu'an.
With a series of splashes on the sea surface, various monsters burst out of the water and gathered in one direction.
Zuo Xiuyan followed their silhouettes and looked toward the circular wall in the distance.
……
The arguing stopped and the room became very quiet. Xiong Yu'an could also feel that his chair had become very hard.
She was filled with anticipation and anxiety, her eyes half-closed before slowly opening them.
Amethyst and silver metal overlap, and golden flames flicker inside the lamps, illuminating the strangely curved walls.
She suddenly stood up.
Safe house!
I have truly arrived.
Xiong Yu'an's heart pounded as he looked around at everything familiar in the room before slowly accepting the reality.
Just like my sister said!
She looked down at herself; she was still in her school uniform, but the black bear in her hand was gone, and the flames were still burning in her chest. Otherwise, nothing had changed.
The floor beneath her feet was also metal, and she gently stomped on it twice.
Although Xiong Yu'an was happy, she was cautious. She walked along the slightly narrow passageway inside the house to the door and pressed her ear against it to listen for any sounds.
It's very quiet.
"Hiss... Splash..." A faint sound of water and strange noises emerged.
Xiong Yu'an took two steps back, suddenly tensing up. It must be a monster.
She didn't want to go out; at least it was safe here, and she didn't know what was outside the door.
What if opening the door lets in something scary?
However, if you don't open the door and confirm, it will be too late to run away if you want to.
Hesitantly, Xiong Yu'an immediately walked to a spot a little further from the door, gathered the flames in his hand, and then grabbed at the wall in front of him.
The metal and amethyst loosened and floated out along her pulled-back hand, landing on the ground at her feet.
The wall grew thinner and thinner, so she turned sideways and took a few steps further away until she dug out a hole the size of a fist.
There was no sound at all.
Nothing strange came out of the hole.
Xiong Yu'an then peeked out of the cave and swayed left and right to observe the outside world.
A thin mist still shrouded the area, creating a gloomy atmosphere as if night was about to fall, but all was peaceful inside the walls, except that the sounds we had just heard had grown louder.
She gradually expanded the opening into a larger circle, using it as an observation window.
After confirming that there were no problems, Xiong Yu'an breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully he hadn't been affected yet.
Only then did she open the door and go out.
The ground outside the safe house was unpaved, so it was still seawater, with ripples constantly moving across its surface.
They came from outside the wall.
Xiong Yu'an felt it was necessary to confirm the situation and not just sit and wait for death. She quickly ran towards the thick wall. The closer she got, the clearer the sound became, and it seemed to be layered upon layered.
It's already predictable that, like the previous times, it will be another strange tide.
Just like before, they slowly made openings in the wall, only the wall was several layers thicker than the safe house, so it took a little more effort.
As soon as the fist-sized opening opened, a distorted face pressed against it, obscuring the entire opening.
Xiong Yu'an suddenly took two steps back.
The flames on her chest allowed her to see within a meter or two in the dim light; this was...
She gradually calmed down. Fortunately, it was just the same kind of humanoid monster she had encountered at the beginning, and her whole body felt like it had been twisted dry.
"A towel monster..."
Xiong Yu'an found that he was no longer nervous.
Compared to climbing the mountain, this monster poses no threat at all.
Xiong Yu'an thought back to when she knew nothing, and this monster was easily burned to death by her flames. Now, she... would be even less of a problem.
"Hiss... Uh..." The monster let out a hoarse, unpleasant cry, trying to crawl in.
With her left hand, she used flames to widen the opening horizontally again, making it rectangular. The floating flames in her right hand began to condense, gradually transforming into a flaming boomerang.
Then he suddenly swung it around.
"Whoosh..." The boomerang spun into a ring of fire and slammed into the face of the person crowding at the entrance of the hole.
"Ugh!" The monster screamed in agony as its massive body was instantly sliced in two, engulfed in raging flames, and reduced to ashes.
But the boomerang didn't stop; the monsters, like thin paper, couldn't withstand its force at all, one, two, three...
Like falling dominoes, it forms a magnificent arc-shaped wall of fire.
She reached out and caught the boomerang that flew back.
The weapon shrank in size, but she quickly infused it with new flames, restoring it to its original size.
The wall of fire didn't extinguish immediately; instead, it acted as a barrier, continuing to burn the monsters nearby.
The new weapon was even better than she had imagined, and its effects exceeded her expectations.
Looking at the fire that burned for a long time, Xiong Yu'an was excited and could hardly believe that he had done it.
Back then, we were in such a sorry state, surrounded and attacked by them, we could only passively take the beating and wait to die.
But now, he can take on a hundred enemies single-handedly!
With the wall built by my sister, the monsters can't get in.
Even when my sister isn't around, I still feel a sense of security from her.
Xiong Yu'an took a deep breath and looked at the densely packed monsters flashing with purple light. All she needed to do was focus on getting rid of these annoying things.
Even if my sister isn't around, I can handle it myself!