After graduating, I became the Dragon King

Cheng Ni followed the direction of Xue Chen's fingers and slowly moved upwards, and then saw the hairtail that he had hung on the clothes rack for several days and was about to be successfully dried. His mouth was moving open and closed. He said, stubbornly making a sad and indignant voice: "Thirst—— thirst——"

Cheng Ni was in a daze for a moment before slowly opening his mouth: "This plot is a bit different from what I thought."

If he was shivering just now because there were monsters in the room, now he only had an indescribably funny feeling in his heart.

It is difficult for anyone to continue to be afraid when looking at a spirit monster that is almost dried out.

I don't know who has suffered more in the past few days, he or the fish spirit.

Under Xue Chen's command, Cheng Ni went back to the bathroom to fetch a bucket of water, then used a clothes fork to take down the clothes hanger with hairtail, and threw the clothes fork and fish into the bucket from a distance like throwing firecrackers Li - Although this octopus looks useless, Cheng Ni still doesn't dare to catch it with his hands.

The flat hairtail slid into the water one by one, and "gurgling" bubbles immediately appeared from the pointed fish's mouth. After drinking a few mouthfuls of water, the round yellow eyes of the hairtail finally moved with strength. One thing is that he rolled his big eyes and cursed weakly: "I hate you—"

"I hate you!" Cheng Ni, relying on the support of an expert, became a little bit stiffer, and said angrily with his hands on his hips, "Monster, let me ask you, where did you hide my roommate, hand it over quickly, or I will I'll fry you!"

"Hide your head." Hairtail turned his head upwards, posing in the classic posture of looking up at the stars, and cursed at the wind, "I'm your roommate!"

"??" Suspecting that he had heard it wrong, Cheng Ni turned around and asked Xue Chen, "Master, what is it talking about?"

Xue Chen was speechless, too lazy to answer such mentally handicapped questions, and directly made a trick, sending a trace of dragon energy into the bucket.

After a while, the hairtail turned into a human form. It was a slender young man in a plaid shirt. It was Cheng Ni's roommate Ling Da who had been missing for several days.

"Thank you for your help." Ling Da bowed towards Xue Chen, then glared at Cheng Ni, and wiped his face angrily, "If you are one step late, I will be killed by my roommate."

Cheng Ni: "..."

Cheng Ni felt that he was wronged, and said "wow" aggrievedly: "How do I know that my roommate is a salted fish... I should be afraid!"

Jane Lance looked at the two of them and said calmly, "Sit down and talk."

A few people sat down on the sofa in the living room. Cheng Ni took a few cups out to pour water. Lingda took a look, then ran into the kitchen, took out a bag of salt, added a few tablespoons of salt to his cups, and stirred While complaining: "The bucket of clear water just now almost killed me."

Hairtail is a tropical sea fish. Even if it becomes refined, it needs to be supplemented with salt from time to time.

Cheng Ni saw that one-third of the bag of salt was missing, and suddenly realized: "No wonder the salt in our family is always used up very quickly."

Xue Chen was still rushing to watch a movie, impatient to listen to their gossip, seeing that Ling Da had almost recovered, he said, "What's your situation, tell me honestly."

"Oh." Ling Da didn't dare to be obedient in front of his savior, so he lowered his head and explained his background in detail.

Lingda said that he was originally a shallow kelp fish born in the East China Sea. Because of his natural intelligence, he was favored by his seniors early on and took him to practice.

He is also very competitive. After a hundred years of hard work, he finally stands out from his peers and successfully transforms into a human form.

Lingda is a progressive hairtail, and he doesn't stop at transformation. His fish life has a more ambitious pursuit - to enter human society and leap to different levels.

After unremitting efforts, Lingda finally obtained the identity of a human being, and went to school with the support of national policies, and finally went all the way to undergraduate, choosing the most popular computer major today.

After graduation, he successfully applied for a job at a large Internet company in Fucheng and became a high-paying code farmer.

So far, Lingda's fish life has been very smooth, and his deeds have been widely circulated among hairtails. He is a famous "other people's fish" in the East China Sea.

Hearing this, Cheng Ni couldn't help applauding for him: "It's amazing, hairtail."

Lingda didn't look happy when he heard the words, but flattened his mouth, and with a "wow", he raised his head and cried.

He was so caught off guard by crying that Cheng Ni was stunned, and his palms stopped halfway, and he asked blankly, "What's wrong with you?"

"I hate capitalists! I hate 996!" Lingda was sad and angry, tears gushed out like a faucet, and his voice was splitting. Humans may be eaten by capitalists. I practiced hard! Go to school! Research! I thought I could live a good life after working, but ended up working overtime every day, which almost killed my life, woo woo woo woo woo—”

He was out of breath from crying, and it took him a while to explain clearly what happened to him.

It turned out that after Lingda got the offer from the big factory, he did not achieve his wish to achieve a leap in class, but instead fell into the vortex of working overtime.

The current employment environment is too harsh, and Internet companies are everywhere in 996. When Lingda first started working, he still had physical strength and enthusiasm, but soon, excessive overtime made him exhausted.

Spirit monsters need to continue to practice after taking human form, so that they can continuously improve their cultivation and become great monsters.

When Lingda went to school, he still had time to improve himself. After work, he would sleep with his head covered every day after work. Not to mention cultivation, he didn't even have the strength to move to the window to bask in the moonlight to absorb the essence.

Over the past few years, Lingda has saved a large sum of money, but his cultivation has become weaker and weaker, and his body has become weaker and weaker.

This year, he found that some salt flowers would precipitate from his body from time to time, but he didn't pay attention to it at first, thinking that it was just that he drank too little water and his body was too dry, so the salt in his body was analyzed.

It's a sea fish after all.

Cheng Ni suddenly said, "So, you didn't use the salt powder in your room to drive away evil spirits, but it was precipitated from your body?"

"That's right." Lingda sighed, "I'm too busy, I don't have time to clean during this time, and some salt has accumulated in the quilt."

The truth is too funny, Cheng Ni covered his face: "...you continue to talk."

Ling Da continued, he insisted on working overtime for more than half a year when his body was constantly emitting salt. It was not until a few days ago that he realized that the salt in his body was not due to drinking too little water, but A harbinger of physical deterioration.

As a result of not paying attention, the silver phosphorus on his fish skin also began to fall off.

The silver phosphorus of hairtail fish is equivalent to the scales of other fish, and it is a serious warning for a spirit to shed its scales without external force. This shows that his cultivation is almost unable to support this body, and it is likely to return to its original shape.

Only then did Ling Da realize that he became anxious. He couldn't drink the chicken soup the boss cooked for him, so he hastily submitted his resignation letter to the company and planned to rest at home for a while.

But he was one step late after all. On the day he submitted his resignation letter, he wanted to take a bath and have a good sleep, but because he was too tired, he stumbled in the bathroom and fell back to his original shape.

This was already bad enough, but Cheng Ni saw Lingda's real form when he went to the bathroom, and mistakenly thought it was a hairtail that Lingda bought and didn't have time to deal with, and hung it directly on the balcony, ready to be dried into salted fish.

Fortunately, Cheng Ni is not professional in making salted fish, so he didn't cut Lingda's abdomen to bled out the internal organs, and just hung the whole fish out, otherwise Lingda would be a real dried fish now.

It was also fortunate that Lingda was a ghost, no matter how weak he was, he could hang on his breath, and he didn't die from the sun after a few days in the sun.

Cheng Ni was sweating, and said guiltily, "Sorry, I didn't expect you to be so miserable, and almost killed you..."

"Ghosts don't die so easily." Xue Chen raised his eyes and glanced at Ling Da, then snorted slightly, "I think you don't want to move."

Anyway, it is a century-old hairtail, no matter how weak it is, it always has the strength to move it.

Lingda didn't move after hanging on the balcony for so long, which only shows that he didn't want to move at all.

In addition, when Xue Chen and the others entered the door, there was an undisguised unrestrained evil spirit in the room, and the temperament of self-abandonment should not be too obvious.

Sure enough, Lingda didn't deny it, raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and let out a long sigh: "It's so comfortable to be a salted fish. Although these few days have been miserable, they are also the most relaxed and comfortable days since I was a social animal."

Lingda had been living so tensely for the past few years, and after falling back to his original form that day, he suddenly felt a sense of relief.

There is no need to worry about maintaining a human form, no need to work overtime, and no need to think about KPI life. It is really relaxing and comfortable like never before.

So much so that Cheng Ni hung him on the balcony, basking in the sun during the day and looking at the moon at night, his body was blown dry by the wind, and he didn't want to move.

The only bad thing was that there was no water to drink, so Lingda howled "thirsty" from time to time, hoping that Cheng Ni would be smart and send him back to the water.

However, his IQ was obviously affected after his cultivation was exhausted. Normal people would never think that salted fish can talk.

In this way, Ling Da kept living with Cheng Ni for a few days, until his former colleague called and was picked up by Cheng Ni, which aroused Cheng Ni's suspicion.

Hearing this, Cheng Ni suddenly thought of something, and looked at Lingda in horror: "Wait, you've been hanging on the balcony, so didn't you see everything I did in the living room these days?"

"That's right." Lingda gave him a sideways glance, and suggested earnestly, "To be honest, as a roommate, I hope you will exercise more restraint in public areas."

"You have the guts to blame me for your perverted peeping." Cheng Ni almost vomited blood. He thought that Lingda was not around these days, so he didn't pay much attention at home, so he went to the living room to get things naked several times.

Not to mention indecent movements such as picking feet and picking noses.

The more Cheng Ni thought about it, the more humiliated he felt. He slapped himself in the eyes for the last time, and fell back on the sofa cushion: "I don't want to be a human anymore."

"I don't want to be a human being anymore." Lingda drank another two mouthfuls of salt water, with a serene expression on his face, "Now I think it's good to be a salted fish, and I don't want to work hard anymore."

These few days of living with salted fish gave him a new understanding of fish.

A hairtail, who has worked hard to become an adult, should never waste a good fish in endless overtime, let alone exhaust his cultivation and energy.

"It's boring to be a human being." Lingda said, "I'm also a promising octopus in the East China Sea. I don't have to work overtime in the world until I lose my cultivation base. I decided to go back to my hometown to take the civil service exam. Take your time."

"That's hard to say." Xue Chen's eyes became moist unconsciously, and he uttered the same sad voice, "As far as I know, the competition for water prefectures in various places is also very fierce. All of them have been attending cram schools since they were young, and you may not be able to compete with other fish just because you have academic qualifications but not enough cultivation.”

Lingda puffed out his chest in dissatisfaction: "I can write bug-free code."

"What's that?" Xue Chen just snorted, "I've seen fish spirits who know python, C++ and java at the same time."

Although his cultivation was not as good as his, it also made Long feel nervous.

"Isn't it?" Lingda's face turned pale, and the whole fish collapsed on the sofa, "How could this be—"

The author has something to say:

I once went to play in the salt lake with my salted fish friend. She accidentally stepped on the lake water. During the next few days of the trip, salt was continuously deposited on her shoes...

So with this inspiration...