Chapter 36: 036 Wishing Roommate A Happy Military Training
After sending Pei Ningle to that express hotel, Wang Heng didn’t stay for even a minute and immediately returned to school. Meanwhile, all three roommates were already sound asleep.
He tiptoed back to his own bed, and then, this night finally passed peacefully.
The next morning bright and early, the counselor came to their dormitory.
The counselor was a plain-looking young man surnamed Liu, so the new students in the class all called him Teacher Liu.
“How are you adapting to the school environment? If there’s any problem, just tell me. I’m notifying everyone that military training starts tomorrow. If any of you have special circumstances and need to take leave, just let me know, okay? Oh, and you all have Q numbers, right? This is the class group; you can talk about things there in the future too.”
The three roommates agreed in unison:
“Got it, Teacher Liu.”
“No problem, Teacher!”
“We know.”
Teacher Liu nodded, turned around and left, heading to the next dormitory.
Last night, Wang Heng had gone to bed the latest, so he naturally got up the latest in the morning. Some of the three roommates were playing on their mobile phones, some on their computers, but only he was still lying in bed. He had just opened his eyes when he heard the counselor’s voice.
Then he sat up, got out of bed, and put on his clothes, which immediately drew teasing from his roommates.
Fu Hanwen: “Yo, lover boy didn’t spend the night outside?”
Tang Hexing: “Yeah, we all thought you wouldn’t come back last night.”
“How could that be?” Wang Heng brushed it off and tried to change the topic. “By the way, do you guys know how long our military training will last?”
Fu Hanwen looked down and continued playing on his mobile phone: “Don’t know.”
Wang Ke calmly passed over a paper slip: “I suggest you ask the counselor. This is the class Q group number he just left on the table; add it and ask him.”
Wang Heng thought this was reasonable, so he picked up his mobile phone, entered the number on the paper slip, searched for the class group, and sent a join request.
Less than two seconds later, the request was approved, and Wang Heng had joined. There weren’t many classmates in yet; including the counselor, there were only about 12 people. At a glance, judging from the avatars and nicknames, he figured these were probably all boys.
In a tech school for tech majors, it was just this that made Wang Heng feel at ease.
Suddenly, a new Q message notification sound rang out. He opened it and saw it was from Lu Qi:
【Are you starting military training?】
Wang Heng: 【It starts tomorrow.】
Lu Qi: 【A bit of trouble. I was going to say the mobile game project here has started and needs your help.】
Wang Heng: 【I’m melancholy too…】
Lu Qi: 【You don’t want to do military training?】
Wang Heng: 【Who likes military training?】
He certainly remembered the military training experience for first-year university students. In his impression, military training wasn’t that uncomfortable and even had some fun—but that was entirely based on knowing he wouldn’t have to go through it again. If he had to do it over, the feeling would be completely different.
So more than ten seconds later, the message from Lu Qi made Wang Heng involuntarily freeze.
【Want me to put in an application for you to take leave from military training and come work at Penguin Building?】
In Rongdu’s sweltering September, standing in military posture and marching on the sports field, or going to an air-conditioned office building office to write code? These two choices… no, in Wang Heng’s view, this couldn’t even be called a choice.
He replied without hesitation: 【Please send me an offer, a formal in-school student part-time job offer. Thank you very much!】
Lu Qi: 【I’ll write you an application letter in Penguin Company’s official format, an internship offer.】
Wang Heng: 【Great, great, thank you very much!】
Lu Qi: 【I can tell you really don’t like military training. Okay, leave this to me. You first take a look at the Unity3D book; we’ll use it for making the game.】
Wang Heng: 【No problem.】
Closing the chat window, Wang Heng stretched lazily with great ease, feeling that the sunlight outside the window seemed even brighter.
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Around five in the afternoon, the four boys from the same dormitory finished dinner in the canteen and walked back to the dormitory, chatting leisurely.
The chat content gave Wang Heng a very subtle feeling. After all, in terms of mental age, there was a bit of a gap between him and his roommates. And those popular phrases that had long faded from his memory, when said seriously by his roommates, the feeling was even harder to describe.
Tang Hexing: “There are really few girls at our school… and they’re all concentrated in the business school. For us computer majors, how many girls are in our class?”
Wang Ke: “I heard the gender ratio in our college is like ten to one?”
So Fu Hanwen couldn’t help but sigh: “That exaggerated? Me and my little friends are all shocked!”
Wang Heng beside them stayed silent, feeling full of complaints but unable to voice them. And just then, Wang Ke hit him with another critical blow.
This tall handsome guy said in a transcendent tone: “All that stuff is just fluff anyway; university girls are all old women to me.”
Fu Hanwen immediately complained: “We all know you’re a loli enthusiast, but we didn’t know you’d use such an old popular phrase.”
Tang Hexing nodded in agreement: “Yeah, really old.”
Wang Ke suddenly looked confused: “No way? I feel like it just got popular not long ago?”
Fu Hanwen looked at Wang Heng and asked: “What do you think?”
Wang Heng: “…It’s fine, let it go. In another ten years, all those words will be antiques.”
While chatting idly, the four had arrived downstairs of the dormitory building.
At that moment, Tang Hexing took out his mobile phone, glanced at the class group, and instantly froze, standing motionless on the spot.
Noticing this guy’s unusual state, Fu Hanwen turned his head and asked: “What’s up with you?”
Tang Hexing looked at his mobile phone again, then at Wang Heng, his voice trembling: “You guys check the class group…”
The other three also took out their mobile phones, opened the class group, and saw Teacher Liu’s notice:
【Classmate Wang Heng received an invitation from Penguin Company to work there part-time for a while, so he can’t participate in military training. Other classmates with similarly reasonable requests can also tell me. Our school isn’t rigid or inflexible; we won’t hinder students’ development or force them for the sake of rules and regulations. Also, classmates with physical condition issues should report to me in time, but falsifying or making trouble is strictly prohibited. Military training is hard work, but it will become a precious asset in your lives. Hope everyone cherishes this opportunity.】
Fu Hanwen and Wang Ke also looked at Wang Heng in a daze.
The Q chat they were using was from Penguin Company, one of the undisputed three giants in China’s internet scene. Getting a position in such a company after graduation was the career dream of all these computer major students—yet Wang Heng had already tasted the dream? And right at the start of first year university, without even attending a single class?
Wang Heng smiled slightly: “Oh dear, missing such a precious military training opportunity, what a shame…”
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