Chapter 3: Muddled Volunteer (2)

  "Alright." Perhaps fearing that I would really give up, Da P helplessly surrendered and said with a stinky mouth, "You will come to me when you need me."

  "Alright, let's get started." Little Aunt instructed us to sit down in front of the two computers and handed each of us a pair of specially made glasses. Dà Pí said with a flourish, "I know these are called sensor glasses, I've seen them on tech websites before."

  His aunt praised him: "You know quite a lot!"

  "Of course!" Big P gave me a thumbs up and said: "Lazy Princess, remember my ID is Little Cool, if you can't handle anything inside, come find Little Cool Brother."

  "You'd better be careful yourself," I said.

  "Thanks for your concern, see you at wizard school then."

  I gave him a white eye and put on my glasses.

  As soon as I went online, I found that the game was much more formal than when I played at my aunt's house. A man with a very standard Mandarin accent said to me: "Hello, Ding Xixi, welcome to Wizard General Mobilization, the wonderful journey of exploring the magical sanctuary is about to begin..."

  The music is also good, it's quite flavorful and exciting to listen to.

  All I heard was a "whoosh" in my ear. About one second later, I had landed smoothly at the door of that "Mocha Bar" again.

  "Hello, Ding Xixi. Welcome back to the storage location from last time. As one of the first batch of brave volunteers, you can go to the warehouse to receive the equipment worth 200,000 yuan that we have gifted to you. Have fun!"

  Warehouse? But where should I go to find a warehouse?

  I really regret forgetting to ask Auntie about some details.

  While I was in a daze, someone suddenly called out to me: "Xixi?"

  I turned around and was surprised to find it was him.

  "Hello, little wizard." I couldn't help but smile.

  "My surname is Yue, you can call me Yue Qingfeng." he said.

  "You really look like Da P." I stared at him and said blankly.

  "I told you before, 'Da P' is a very unpleasant name." He said, "My name is Yue Qingfeng, not Da P. By the way, where have you been these days? I've been waiting here for a week and you just arrived."

  "Oh." I said, "I have to go to school. You... why are you waiting for me?"

  "I'm temporarily in charge of reception at Elandel Castle."

  Looks like I'm one of the unlucky volunteers my little aunt found again.

  "Go sign up for wizard school now," he said, "you've already wasted a whole week."

  "Wait," I said, "you have to tell me where the warehouse is first. I have things there."

  "In the north of the city." Yue Qingfeng thought for a moment and said, "I'll take you there."

  "I won't eat wings," I said quickly, "I don't dare guarantee that I won't get food poisoning again."

  He smiled and stretched out his hand saying: "Alright then, I'll take you flying, give me your hand."

  I hesitated for a moment, and finally put my hand in his palm. This should be the first time I've held hands with a boy, but the joyful feeling surpassed the shyness, and it was completely different from the feeling of eating transparent wings. It was a real flight that I had fantasized about many times. I saw myself slowly rising up, getting closer and closer to the blue sky, and the houses and roads below became smaller and smaller. What's more surprising is that the melody in my ears was actually Wu Si Kai's "Lonely Highway", just music without singing. (Auntie really knows how to take advantage of a situation.)

  Yue Qing said softly to me: "Open your arms and relax a bit."

  Thank God, I did it.

  In the midst of wonderful music and whistling wind, we were like two light birds lightly flying over from a thin layer of clouds that was within reach, finally landing in front of a small silver-gray building.

  Looking at me with an excited face, Yue Qingfeng said in a very calm tone: "We've arrived at the warehouse."

  "But how am I supposed to get what's mine?" I really feel like an idiot.

  "Grasp the door handle with your hand, and the computer will automatically identify your password. If it's correct, the conveyor belt will send your things out from the door."

  I did as you said.

  Ten seconds later, the door opened as expected. A small cloth bag was delivered on the conveyor belt.

  I opened it and the first thing I recognized was something with four characters written on it: "Butterfly Wings".

  "This is the thing that poisoned your food last time." Yue Qingfeng said behind me, "But don't worry, this is an improved product now, guaranteed to have no toxic side effects. There are twelve in a bag, which means it can take you flying twelve times. When you're unable to move or encounter danger, this thing is very important."

  "Oh." I put away the wings and took out a second item, which was a pair of shoes that looked very light.

  "It's still Yu Qingfeng who did the commentary for me: 'This is not an ordinary pair of shoes, at its fastest it can reach a speed of 1,000 kilometers, of course, it's most useful when escaping, but not when sightseeing.'"

  The third item was something like a watch. Yue Qianfeng said, "This is a sensor watch, also the most useful one. You can use it to contact anyone you want to contact. As long as you enter his ID on the watch, you can get information about him. It's handwritten and very easy."

  I tried to write "Yue Qingfeng" on my watch.

  The watch "ding" rang out and a line of words jumped out: "He is standing one meter away from you."

  I laughed.

  "Tap on my name again if I'm also wearing a sensor watch and we can chat."

  I clicked again.

  The watch on his wrist suddenly beeped, and I said to my watch, "Hey, Yue Qingfeng, you look cool when you fly."

  The sound indeed came from his watch.