Stealing Pens: Travelers from the End of the World

"How old is the teacher now?" Huo Xiuxiu asked.

Jie Yuchen was also curious. Tan Yuchen looked like this when he was a child, but now more than ten years have passed, and he has not changed at all.

Qin Yuchen thought for a moment. If his age before coming here were added to the more than thirty years, he said, "Should he be almost sixty?"

Huo Xiuxiu leaned over and took a closer look at Tan Yuchen, and then asked, "Have you ever thought about getting married, teacher?"

"...Ahem." Tan Yuchen choked on his tea. He seemed to have never thought about Huo Xiuxiu's question, and he didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Seeing Qin Yuchen's pensive look, Jie Yuchen smiled and asked Huo Xiuxiu to sit down, and joked: "If the teacher wants to get married, should he find a girl of about the same age or a girl in her twenties?"

Qin Yuchen: "...Are you itchy?"

Qin Yuchen wondered if his temper had gotten better over the years? As a result, neither of them are afraid of him?

Jie Yuchen clenched his hands into fists and covered his lips with a chuckle: "No, Xiu Xiu and I are just curious."

What Tan Yuchen didn't know was that Jie Yuchen was not afraid of him when he first met him.

The sun was shining brightly that day, and Tan Yuchen was sitting in the front hall drinking tea and talking to Master Jiu about things. Two-year-old Yuchen stuck his head out the door and looked at Tan Yuchen, his round eyes bright and full of curiosity.

Xie Yuchen's first thought at the time was that this brother was really good-looking. When he heard his grandfather say that his brother was his teacher, Xiao Yuchen reached out and grabbed the man's sleeve, looked up and smiled sweetly.

At that time, Tan Yuchen was shrouded in sunshine and his whole body was warm. He knelt down with a smile on his face and told Xiao Yuchen his name. From then on, Xiao Yuchen especially liked to stick to Tan Yuchen.

Later, something happened to Jie's family, and Tan Yuchen still had the same smile when he came to see him. Even if he just finished cleaning up, he didn't forget to bring out sweet candies to coax him.

Everyone in the street said that Tan Yuchen had a bad temper and could kill without blinking an eye, but Jie Yuchen didn't think so. When he was sad when he was a child, his teacher would hug him and pat his back to comfort him, and when he was bullied, he would deal with justice for him. See The eyes that looked at him were always gentle, not at all like what others said.

"Xiaochen?" Qin Yuchen thought he felt uncomfortable when he saw that Yuchen suddenly stopped talking. He sat over and observed for a while, and then shouted when he saw that Jie Yuchen's face looked normal.

Jie Yuchen blinked and looked into those worried eyes. Tan Yuchen asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, I was lost in thought." Jie Yuchen shook his head and looked away, "Where is Xiu Xiu?"

"Going to the toilet." Qin Yuchen looked at Jie Yuchen's face again, and then sat back down when he found that there was no problem. "Have you eaten yet? Xiuxiu said she was full, what about you?"

"I'm full too."

"Okay, then I'll go and pay." Tan Yuchen stood up and said to Jie Yuchen, "Let's wait outside first."

After coming out of the hot pot restaurant, Qin Yuchen took the two of them to the supermarket.

Tan Yuchen pushed a shopping cart and Xie Yuchen walked side by side, while Huo Xiuxiu chose her favorite snacks in front.

The appearance of the three of them was too outstanding. Some girls would pull their companions' sleeves and shake them when they passed by Qin Yuchen and Xie Yuchen.

Qin Yuchen took a bottle of orange juice and put it in the shopping cart. After meeting the nth little girl passing by, he finally couldn't help laughing: "Look at those little girls, are they all looking at you?"

Jie Yuchen turned his attention to the two girls not far away. When the girls saw him looking over, they looked away in panic, pretending to be looking for something.

"I think they are all looking at the teacher." Jie Yuchen said.

When Qin Yuchen saw the two girls avoiding their eyes, his smile became even wider: "They looked away after you looked over. Isn't it obvious who they were looking at?"

Jie Yuchen: "..."

Tan Yuchen put his arms around Jie Yuchen's shoulders and leaned slightly on him: "This is how handsome I should be."

Jie Yuchen stabilized the person who was approaching him and sighed helplessly: "Well, whatever the teacher says is whatever it is."

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It was surprisingly cold as the Chinese New Year was approaching. Qin Yuchen was squatting in the snow with a sullen face, digging a hole with a Luoyang shovel in his hand.

The mission of 007 came suddenly. Just a few mornings after accompanying Jie Yuchen to dinner, 007's voice rang in his mind:

[big...]

"..." Tan Yuchen paused while drinking tea, glanced at Jie Yuchen who was sitting busy on the sofa, and asked, "Got a mission?"

[Yes... there is a meteorite jade in a tomb. A group of tomb robbers are planning to go there this month. Their target is the meteorite jade. The mission is to get it before the gang of tomb robbers. 】

[Just give it to me and I will destroy it when the time comes. 】

Qin Yuchen asked: "Is it big?"

[The system detection is not very big, only half a person tall and about the size of two fists. 】

"Okay, give me a seat."

007 adjusted the location and Qin Yuchen took a look. It was not far from Beijing and he should be able to come back in time for the New Year.

He put down his teacup and sat next to Jie Yuchen, casually took out two toffees and put them in front of him, saying, "Xiaochen, the teacher will be out for a few days."

Jie Yuchen raised his head and glanced at him, picked up the candy and put it in his pocket, humming softly: "Well, pay attention to safety."

Tan Yuchen rubbed Xie Yuchen's head, stood up and left.

Qin Yuchen dug the robbery hole and climbed in with his waist bent.

007 said that this tomb is not big and it is easy to find things. Tan Yuchen didn't take two steps before he came to an ear room. In the middle of the ear room was a large cauldron. The cauldron was half a person tall and was gray-black in color. Tan Yuchen stepped forward and walked around the cauldron. There was no danger.

He came to a wall and knocked on it. The sound of one stone brick was obviously different than the others. Qin Yuchen smashed the stone brick with the handle of his knife, reached in and pressed it. The wall behind him opened, revealing a dark passage. .

Qin Yuchen took out a cold firework and threw it into the passage. The fire illuminated an area. The passage was not wide, just enough for one person to pass through, and there was nothing on the stone wall. Tan Yuchen looked at it for a long time, then walked in.

He walked in the passage for a long time, but still couldn't find the exit. Qin Yuchen stopped and looked back at the way he came. The ear chamber where he opened the door just now was gone, and the surrounding area was dark except for the area illuminated by the flashlight. Tan Yuchen frowned and took a few steps forward.

Suddenly, a white light appeared in front of his eyes, and Tan Yuchen raised his hand to block it.

When he opened his eyes again, the surroundings had changed. He was now standing on a street. There was no one on the road. Abandoned cars were blocked on the road. Garbage was flying everywhere. The high-rise buildings on the roadside were also scattered. It was crumbling, as if it would collapse soon, and the strong smell of blood in the air assaulted Qin Yuchen's sense of smell.

He looked at all this with cold eyes and understood that he had entered an illusion.

This is his previous world, the end of the world where there is no hope. Tan Yuchen walked along the street, wanting to see how to get out.

When I walked to the entrance of an alley, a man suddenly rushed out of it. His face was full of panic. When he saw Qin Yuchen, he shouted: "Help, help me!"

Tan Yuchen looked over and silently took five or six steps back. Behind that man were five or six zombies. Some were missing a hand, some had half of their faces torn apart, and some had eyes hanging on their faces with pustules on their faces. They staggered toward him with their mouths open to the ears. The man came after me.

The man ran towards Tan Yuchen, reached out and took Tan Yuchen's hand and pushed him into the pile of zombies. He kept apologizing: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please help me... I don't want to die yet... I don't want to die..."

Tan Yuchen sullenly grabbed the hand on his wrist and moved it towards him. The man's center of gravity was unstable and he fell towards Tan Yuchen. Tan Yuchen took half a step back, picked up the man's collar and threw it at the zombies.

The two zombies at the front were knocked down, and the zombies behind them instantly surged up and drowned the man. Screams rang out, and finally stopped slowly.

After a few zombies shared the man, they walked towards Tan Yuchen again. Tan Yuchen didn't move, waiting for them to press on him.

Feeling pain on his arm, Qin Yuchen opened his eyes suddenly and grabbed the insect biting his arm.

The insect in his hand looks like a centipede, as long as an arm, with thousands of legs flapping constantly, and its mouthparts are still clicking and biting.

Tan Yuchen took out a gas mask from the space and put it on his face. The air here contained hallucinogens. Tan Yuchen didn't dare to be careless. In the hallucination just now, he felt no pain. The man's hand holding on to him seemed to be crawled by something. It seems like there is no other feeling except itching.

Qin Yuchen stared at the insect for a while, then threw the insect to the ground and cut it in half with a dagger. He lifted up his sleeves and took a look. There were two holes the size of fingernails on his arms, and blood was still pouring out of them.

It's not poisonous. Tan Yuchen thought, he casually wrapped it with a bandage and walked in again.

When he woke up, he was still standing in the ear chamber facing the passage, so he entered the hallucination from the moment the passage was opened.

It didn't take long this time, and he entered another ear room. There were spider webs everywhere, and there were many eggs hanging on the top of the tomb on some spider webs. Qin Yuchen looked at it, and he touched the spider silk with a flashlight. The viscosity of the spider silk was very strong, and the flashlight was completely stuck to it as soon as it touched it. It took a lot of effort for Qin Yuchen to take it off.

He took out alcohol and poured it on the spider web, then struck a match and threw it up. Then he quickly retreated into the passage and waited for the fire to burn away the spider web. The fire spreads quickly, and a "squeaking" scream can be heard as the eggs are burned.

After waiting for about five minutes, Qin Yuchen walked in again. He glanced past the charred corpses and walked toward another passage.

There was a lot of spider silk here, but Qin Yuchen didn't encounter a single spider. He didn't know how many spiders there would be. In order to avoid trouble, he had to speed up his pace.

The passage was very long and narrow, with dense green eggs everywhere. Tan Yuchen didn't know what kind of eggs they were, but the thing gave him a bad feeling, so he walked forward slowly and lightly.

There were so many eggs that they almost covered the entire passage, and it was difficult for Tan Yuchen to settle down several times. He couldn't help but complain about 007:

"The owner of this tomb is a bug turned into a spirit?"

[emmm... maybe? 】