The appointed time arrived. Luo Xiao looked at the classmates with full backpacks walking through the school gate and then glanced at his own backpack that only had a few packs of biscuits and a couple of bottles of water. Well, he thought, let’s just go with this.
“Xiao Xiao, you’re already here.” The voice came from afar before the person showed up. When Ye Lan finally ran up to him, panting heavily. Luo Xiao saw the obvious stretched-to-the-limit backpack and couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
“Look, I brought a full backpack today, and it’s all the snacks you like!” Ye Lan pointed to his backpack and looked at Luo Xiao excitedly.
Seeing his embarrassed appearance with fawning expression on his face and sweat all over his head, Luo Xiao couldn’t help but feel a surge of tenderness in his heart. This fool!
“Oh, you’re all here so early?” He Ben appeared before them in casual wear.
“Teacher, it’s you who’s late!” Regarding this teacher who liked to bully them from time to time, they honestly felt that since it was vacation time, they didn’t have to be so obedient anymore!
“Eh? Is that so?” He Ben scratched his head. “Looks like I overslept.”
“……” This righteous tone, what was he up to?
“Haha, alright, let’s get going.” He Ben waved his hand and led them towards their destination.
After a long and arduous trek of over an hour, the students looked at the place in front of them and couldn’t help but have a black line on their faces: So, this so-called surprise is to make us climb a mountain? What kind of surprise is this!!
He Ben naturally noticed the deep resentment on the students’ faces, and he shrugged his shoulders, saying, “Kids these days really have no patience! Besides, even if it’s climbing a mountain, that’s still a good way to exercise your body, right? And in addition, I don’t think I ever said that the surprise would be climbing a mountain, did I?”
“Let’s go, the destination is still a distance away.” He Ben said after they had a brief rest, taking the lead and continuing forward.
The students behind him had no choice but to grit their teeth and follow, wondering why they were starting to feel a little regretful. Surely it wasn’t just their imagination, right?
But when they finally arrived at the real destination, all the classmates had excited expressions on their faces. Unexpectedly, there was such an interesting place in the city of S.
After seeing the situation inside, Ye Lan raised an eyebrow at He Ben: He knew it, based on this guy’s personality, there’s no way he would just come as a regular teacher, right!
“Alright, this is the surprise I’ve prepared for you. How is it, are you satisfied?” He Ben asked with a hint of pride.
“Satisfied!” The crowd shouted energetically. Their fatigue from earlier finally dissipating.
There is no way. The special thing about Class 13 is that all thirty students are boys! And at this age, boys are very interested in military-related things.
And the place He Ben brought them to this time was the first outdoor realistic military simulation entertainment venue in S City, which was co-invested and built by him and a few friends. The most eye-catching thing was the simulated gun combat competition. After all, every boy dreams of having a gun of their own.
“Okay, put your things in the rest area over there, and then come out and put on the camouflage uniforms to play.” He Ben pointed to a white building on the side, “But there’s one thing I have to emphasize, you must pay attention to safety, understand?”
“Mm, got it!” After answering, the crowd rushed towards the rest area to change clothes, impatient to start.
Luo Xiao and Ye Lan didn’t join the crowd in such a hurry. Instead, they slowly avoided the group and walked into the rest area to put down their backpacks and change.
“Xiao Xiao, what do you want to play?” Ye Lan asked after changing his clothes, waiting for Luo Xiao.
Luo Xiao tilted his head and thought for a moment, then shook his head, “I don’t know what’s all available here. Let’s take a look around first before deciding.”
“Okay, sure.” After Luo Xiao changed his clothes, the two of them walked outside together and saw the lively scene everywhere. Ye Lan didn’t mind playing anything as long as he could play with his Xiao Xiao. After looking around, Luo Xiao still chose to try rock climbing first.
Although he actually wanted to play the simulated gun combat the most, unfortunately it was too popular there. So he had to settle for his second interest, rock climbing.
You know, rock climbing was the only thing he was interested in in his past life. It’s just a pity that back then, he didn’t have much time to go rock climbing due to all sorts of things. Even when he did manage to go, he often didn’t have enough time to really enjoy it. This time he finally saw the chance, so he decided to just go for it.
“Yezi, let’s go rock climbing.”
After hearing this, Ye Lan deliberately looked at Luo Xiao’s thin body up and down and said, “Xiao Xiao, are you sure you want to go rock climbing?”
Luo Xiao understood the meaning in his eyes, widened his eyes and said, “What, are you looking down on me? How about we have a competition?”
“Are you sure?” Ye Lan flexed his biceps.
“I’m sure!” Luo Xiao gritted his teeth and spoke, “You better not lose to me!”
“Okay, then let’s compete! The loser has to grant the winner’s request, how about that?” Ye Lan said provocatively.
“It’s a deal!” Luo Xiao was confident he could win against this guy.
“Let’s go!”
The two of them, full of gun powder, got ready in front of the climbing wall. After exchanging a glance, they began the competition.
At first, Luo Xiao relied on his past climbing experience and climbed up the wall like an agile little monkey, taking the lead.
Ye Lan just smiled and followed closely behind. Experienced rock climbers know that the difficulty is the smallest at the beginning, and it gets harder and harder the further up you go, requiring more and more arm strength.
And that’s when Ye Lan’s advantage started to become more and more evident. Luo Xiao could only watch helplessly as Ye Lan gradually surpassed him, but that smug look on his face really made Luo Xiao’s teeth itch.
So Luo Xiao curled his lips and hooked Ye Lan’s right leg, preventing him from moving. When Ye Lan looked down at him puzzled, Luo Xiao grinned, then pushed off the wall with his feet, taking Ye Lan down with him.
Due to the safety ropes, the two of them landed safely on the ground. Ye Lan looked at him with a half-smile, “Xiao Xiao, this competition…”
Luo Xiao rolled his eyes and muttered unwillingly, “You won.”
“Hmm? What did you say?” Ye Lan pretended to cup his ear in confusion. “Did I mishear you?”
“Hmph! You got the advantage and still act coy! Since you didn’t hear it, let’s just call this competition void.” Luo Xiao huffed and turned his head away.
“Ah, that won’t do!” Ye Lan panicked. “I heard it, you can’t go back on your word!”
“Tch!” Luo Xiao turned and walked towards the next attraction that interested him. Ye Lan followed closely behind him.
The time for play always passes quickly. Before the group had their fill, the sun started to set towards the west little by little. He Ben gathered the reluctant students again and prepared to lead them back to school.
“Teacher, let us play a bit more, please.”
“Yes, yes, just a little while longer, okay teacher~”
Hearing that they had to go back, everyone started begging and pleading, but unfortunately He Ben was never an easy person to sway. He firmly shook his head, but the bright eyes of the students below were just too dazzling, so he reluctantly relented: “This time I really have to go back, but if you all do well on your midterm and final exams next semester, I’ll bring you guys here again. How about that?”
“Really? It’s a deal then!”
“Mm-hmm, a promise is a promise, it won’t be easy to go back on.”
Watching the students leave with happy hearts, Ye Lan sent his little wife Xiao Xiao home and then came to the off-campus apartment that He Ben was renting.
“How did you come up with the idea to set up this kind of simulated entertainment venue?” Ye Lan asked curiously as he skillfully opened the kitchen cabinets to grab some snacks.
He Ben looked at the snacks he was reluctant to eat with a pained expression and said with a hint of sadness, “You’ve always known I like these kinds of gun-related things. It happened that your old man came to see me at that time, and we talked about this. Your old man said he could give me those old gun models they had retired. So I thought, why not just open up this kind of entertainment venue?”
“Hey! Leave some of this osmanthus cake for me! I still want to eat it!”
He Ben reached out and with great difficulty snatched a slice of osmanthus cake he was very fond of, quickly shoving it into his mouth. This resulted in him directly choking on it, and he had to gulp down several mouthfuls of water before recovering. He patted his chest and continued, “You also know that our country has always been very strict about guns. If it wasn’t for your old man giving me this batch of retired old equipment this time, I wouldn’t have been able to set this place up for so long. But don’t worry, I’ve already gone through the national review and been approved to operate a place like this.”
“I see,” Ye Lan nodded thoughtfully. “By the way, has my grandpa been in touch with you lately?”
“No, why? What’s wrong?” He Ben looked at him questioningly.
Ye Lan put down the snack bag and brushed the crumbs off his hands. “These past few days, I’ve had a vague feeling that someone has been following me.”
“Huh? Are you sure?” He Ben immediately sat up straight ans looked at him seriously.
“Yes, I’m sure. I just don’t know what the person looks like. I’ve only seen his back.” Ye Lan nodded, “From the back, the person seems to be a man, about 1.75 meters tall.”
“Okay, I understand. I’ll have someone investigate this thoroughly. You need to be extra careful for now, alright?” He Ben looked at him worriedly, “These past few years have been a critical period, and you especially can’t have any accidents happen to you.”
“Mm, got it.” Ye Lan stood up and headed for the door, “I’ll be going then, Grandpa Huo is waiting for me to have dinner.”
“Alright, take care of yourself.” He Ben warned carefully. He suddenly felt grateful that the distance between their homes was only a few hundred meters, so he didn’t have to worry too much about kidnapping and other things happening.
Watching Ye Lan’s retreating back, He Ben suppressed the playful expression on his face, and a hint of ruthlessness began to appear in his eyes: It’s best not to let him find out who sent these people. If it were really sent by that person, he won’t definitely go easy on them!
Lucien On ABRWF Chapter 34.1