Ge Liang knew that everyone in the dormitory was looking at him wrongly, so he finally found an opportunity and solemnly declared, “I am not mutated!”
Yuan Sijie chatted leisurely over there, “You bit off nine pens in seven days.”
Ge Liang: “…That’s because the quality of the pencil is not good! Besides, biting the pen is not a special habit. Many people have it.”
“But you didn’t before.” After Wang Ye said this, he suddenly felt unsure. He frowned and tried hard to recall, “No?”
Ge Liang: “…”
Even if his memory is a bit faded, he has been living under the same roof for over a year. Does he really need to struggle so hard to recall whether he used to bite pens?
“It’s true,” Yuansijie and Wang Ye said, “the first time he bit off a pen was the day before the abnormal body events started trending globally. He bit the pencil at night, and the next day all sorts of abnormalities were trending worldwide.”
Ge Liang was speechless. “Your narration implies that my pencil biting triggered a global anomaly explosion.”
“Not that exaggerated,” Yuansijie looked over, “but the damage to your pencil and the global outbreak of abnormal body events did happen simultaneously. It’s hard not to think too much about the timing.”
Ge Liang wanted to argue based on reason. After all, besides biting pencils, he hadn’t developed any other issues recently. But before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Wang Ye.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s abnormal or not; check it yourself. It doesn’t affect your health anyway.” Wang Ye didn’t want to force anyone to admit anything. Whether Ge Liang mutated or not, they were still buddies, so sincerity didn’t matter. However, he added, “If you really transform into some kind of animal, let me know.”
Ge Liang: “…”
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This is unfair!
“No, why are you all attacking me alone?” Ge Liang finally realized the problem. “I’m probably the most normal one in our dormitory! At most, I just bite a few pens.” He looked at Wang Ye. “Big brother, you don’t even like people, always raising cats in the clouds every day.” Then he looked at Yuansijie. “You attract attention like a peacock in full display all 365 days of the year.” Finally, he looked at the quiet figure in front of the desk. “And Jiang Tan, I’ve never seen him smile at anyone. Isn’t that more serious than my problem?”
If even someone like Jiang Tan, who is quietly reading a book, can be targeted, some communication is needed.
Ge Liang stopped at this page, placed a bookmark, closed the book, and Jiang Tan slowly turned around, looking calmly at Ge Liang. “Rodent or canine.”
Ge Liang: “What?”
“Your animal nature,” Jiang Tan explained systematically. “Rodents have continuously growing teeth, and grinding teeth is a necessary habit for them.”
Ge Liang: “I already said I haven’t mutated!”
Jiang Tan continued, “Canines, after reaching adulthood, don’t need to grind their teeth. But some energetic dogs engage in behaviors like biting and tearing, broadly categorized as ‘destroying the home,’ to release excess energy.”
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Ge Liang: “Are you implying I’m a Siberian Husky?!”
Jiang Tan: “Both descriptions fit your current behavior. However, some animals also have the habit of grinding teeth during their juvenile tooth growth. If abnormal animal traits don’t necessarily limit themselves to ‘adult animals,’ then your range of choices would be broader.”
“No need,” Wang Ye said more seriously than the person involved, “a Husky is fine.”
Ge Liang: “…”
Don’t make decisions for others, big brother!
The sound of rain suddenly became louder, and outside the window, the trees danced wildly in the night, making a rustling sound.
Ge Liang gazed at the raindrop-covered gauze window, feeling colder than the night.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Tan changed the topic again and said to Ge Liang, “You don’t need to resist like this. Perhaps soon, the three of us will be like you.”
Ge Liang was absent-minded, and he only managed to catch the last half of the sentence in the noisy rain. He looked at Jiang Tan in confusion, “What will be like me?”
Wang Ye and Yuansijie had heard everything, but still didn’t understand. They looked at Jiang Tan with perplexity.
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Jiang Tan calmly said, “Did you not check the group just now?”
【Mechanical Engineering Class Group】
Society’s Tyrant: Astonishing discovery! The situation of abnormal body variations completely coincides with the global trend of dense fog at the beginning of the month… [Link for details] All members.
The message was sent a few minutes ago, precisely when Ge Liang, Wang Ye, and Yuansijie were discussing “intimate matters” related to their animal traits. Due to the chaotic rain, the three of them hadn’t noticed this new information in the group.
But now, dozens of messages followed swiftly—
Guan Zheng: ??
Guan Zheng: Have you found the cause of the mutation??
Society’s Tyrant: Don’t just ask, can you take a few minutes to click and see, can you?!
Guan Zheng: [ok]
Guan Zheng: [You’re the big brother, you decide.jpg]
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Teasing White: Damn, does this mean we’re all going to change?
Jack Yang: This is insane.
Zhou Shiting: It’s over, all over.
Cui Haohan: Don’t scare yourself, it’s not confirmed yet.
Jack Yang: Not obvious? So many people have abnormal bodies, and there’s no identifiable transmission chain. The only plausible explanation is an environmental issue!
Cui Haohan: Don’t believe rumors, don’t spread rumors, let’s wait for official confirmation.
Li Wen: I can’t wait, damn it, I can’t sleep every night now!
Meng Han: Just you can’t sleep? Not only can’t I sleep, but I also want to run laps on the ground every night!
Chen Zidong: Now I can catch mosquitoes barehanded, can you believe it? I can grab one accurately every time, I’m going crazy!
Reading through the messages one by one, although Ge Liang didn’t understand what had happened, his emotions were already becoming unstable. He quickly forced his gaze away from the group chat, moved it back to the top news, and clicked on the details link.
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After reading the news, Ge Liang finally understood why his classmates’ attitudes had collapsed.
He wasn’t collapsing; he was exploding.
He was racking his brain trying to extract himself from being “suspected of mutation,” but then he read, “Every person may be unable to escape; this bodily mutation may become a global catastrophe.” Where could he possibly extract himself to now?
Unconsciously, his eyes met Jiang Tan’s calm gaze again. Ge Liang was stunned and asked him, “Did you read it?”
Jiang Tan nodded.
Ge Liang asked again, “Did you click on the link and read all the details?”
Jiang Tan didn’t understand the significance of this questioning, but he still gave an answer, “Yes.”
Ge Liang looked at his roommate with an expression of despair. “The whole world is about to mutate, and you can remain so calm?!”
Jiang Tan’s expression finally changed a bit, a slight movement between his eyebrows. “Firstly, this is an unconfirmed speculation. Secondly, if the whole world does mutate, according to the theory of relativity, everyone being abnormal is equivalent to everyone being normal.”
Ge Liang: “Damn, what kind of devilish thinking is this…”
“But I don’t seem to be the calmest either,” Jiang Tan glanced in a certain direction, “There’s someone over there even calmer.”
Following his gaze, Ge Liang saw Wang Ye putting down his phone, looking up at the window.
Not staring or pondering, just gazing casually. His expression was unexpectedly gentle, so much so that even his sharp profile seemed less stern, leaving only handsomeness.
Ge Liang awkwardly swallowed.
He didn’t quite agree with Jiang Tan. Wang Ye couldn’t be called calm with this demeanor. Unusual events must have sinister motives; this eerie calmness looked dangerous!
“Relativity isn’t used like this,” Yuansijie spoke somewhat heavily, countering Jiang Tan’s delayed response. “If we’ve really all changed, life, society, everything will undergo drastic changes. This world will never return to the familiar track we know.”
Finally, someone who understands him, Ge Liang thought, wanting to give Yuansijie a brotherly hug. “Exactly, you get me, right? In the future, it might not be human society anymore; it could be an animal world…”
Yuansijie’s phone suddenly rang.
He quickly gestured a “shh” to Ge Liang, who was talking, and then answered, “Yeah… I saw it… Don’t cry first, it’s not confirmed yet…”
“I know you’re scared, but we’ve already broken up. I can’t comfort you anymore, give you false hope…”
“Yes, the world is going to be in chaos, but the feelings that come to an end won’t turn back just because the world is in chaos…”
“Darling, life is not a novel, there’s no such thing as ‘Unrivaled Love’…”
Ge Liang silently looked at the ceiling.
In the face of an almost apocalyptic disaster where the world is about to undergo drastic changes, what defines being calm?
Is it being as indifferent as Jiang Tan?
Or suddenly becoming excited like Wang Ye?
Or perhaps, like Yuansijie, continuing to comfort a former partner on the phone right after solemnly stating that the world is about to change?
Ge Liang just wanted to be a normal college student, living in a normal dormitory, with a group of normal roommates… Why was it so difficult!
Without warning, Wang Ye suddenly jumped off the bed, casually put on a T-shirt, and stepped into a pair of Air Jordans, ready to leave.
Ge Liang was startled. “What are you doing?”
Wang Ye: “Just going out for some fresh air.”
Ge Liang: “But it’s raining.”
Wang Ye: “I know.”
In two or three sentences, Wang Ye had already opened the door.
Ge Liang was anxious. “At least take an umbrella!”
“No need,” he said, and before the sentence could finish, he was already outside.
Ge Liang hurriedly got down and ran to the window to look down.
But it was raining heavily, it was dark at night, and the view was still obstructed by the gauze window, making it difficult to see anything.
Just as he was feeling frustrated, a hand suddenly reached over from the side and removed the gauze window.
Ge Liang looked at his roommate who stood beside him in surprise. “Jiang Tan?”
Jiang Tan didn’t say anything. It was actually Yuansijie, who had come down from the bed at some point, that reached over and patted Ge Liang on the shoulder. “Make some space.”
In this way, Ge Liang was sandwiched between Jiang Tan and Yuansijie, and the three of them crowded around the window, looking down.
Without the gauze window, the view was clearer. Although the rain was heavy, the row of street lamps under the dormitory building created a misty and hazy world with dim light.
Before long, Wang Ye came out from the entrance of the dormitory building and walked into that patch of light.
The rain quickly blurred his figure, and the three could only vaguely recognize him getting further and further away under the streetlights.
Finally, even that figure disappeared completely.
Wang Ye seemed to have merged into the rain, the night, the world.
Ge Liang was completely bewildered. “What is he doing…”
Jiang Tan remained noncommittal.
Yuan sijie wiped off the rain splashes on his face. “Embracing the new world.”
Ge Liang knew that everyone in the dormitory was looking at him wrongly, so he finally found an opportunity and solemnly declared, “I am not mutated!”
Yuan Sijie chatted leisurely over there, “You bit off nine pens in seven days.”
Ge Liang: “…That’s because the quality of the pencil is not good! Besides, biting the pen is not a special habit. Many people have it.”
“But you didn’t before.” After Wang Ye said this, he suddenly felt unsure. He frowned and tried hard to recall, “No?”
Ge Liang: “…”
Even if his memory is a bit faded, he has been living under the same roof for over a year. Does he really need to struggle so hard to recall whether he used to bite pens?
“It’s true,” Yuansijie and Wang Ye said, “the first time he bit off a pen was the day before the abnormal body events started trending globally. He bit the pencil at night, and the next day all sorts of abnormalities were trending worldwide.”
Ge Liang was speechless. “Your narration implies that my pencil biting triggered a global anomaly explosion.”
“Not that exaggerated,” Yuansijie looked over, “but the damage to your pencil and the global outbreak of abnormal body events did happen simultaneously. It’s hard not to think too much about the timing.”
Ge Liang wanted to argue based on reason. After all, besides biting pencils, he hadn’t developed any other issues recently. But before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Wang Ye.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s abnormal or not; check it yourself. It doesn’t affect your health anyway.” Wang Ye didn’t want to force anyone to admit anything. Whether Ge Liang mutated or not, they were still buddies, so sincerity didn’t matter. However, he added, “If you really transform into some kind of animal, let me know.”
Ge Liang: “…”
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This is unfair!
“No, why are you all attacking me alone?” Ge Liang finally realized the problem. “I’m probably the most normal one in our dormitory! At most, I just bite a few pens.” He looked at Wang Ye. “Big brother, you don’t even like people, always raising cats in the clouds every day.” Then he looked at Yuansijie. “You attract attention like a peacock in full display all 365 days of the year.” Finally, he looked at the quiet figure in front of the desk. “And Jiang Tan, I’ve never seen him smile at anyone. Isn’t that more serious than my problem?”
If even someone like Jiang Tan, who is quietly reading a book, can be targeted, some communication is needed.
Ge Liang stopped at this page, placed a bookmark, closed the book, and Jiang Tan slowly turned around, looking calmly at Ge Liang. “Rodent or canine.”
Ge Liang: “What?”
“Your animal nature,” Jiang Tan explained systematically. “Rodents have continuously growing teeth, and grinding teeth is a necessary habit for them.”
Ge Liang: “I already said I haven’t mutated!”
Jiang Tan continued, “Canines, after reaching adulthood, don’t need to grind their teeth. But some energetic dogs engage in behaviors like biting and tearing, broadly categorized as ‘destroying the home,’ to release excess energy.”
Advertisement
Ge Liang: “Are you implying I’m a Siberian Husky?!”
Jiang Tan: “Both descriptions fit your current behavior. However, some animals also have the habit of grinding teeth during their juvenile tooth growth. If abnormal animal traits don’t necessarily limit themselves to ‘adult animals,’ then your range of choices would be broader.”
“No need,” Wang Ye said more seriously than the person involved, “a Husky is fine.”
Ge Liang: “…”
Don’t make decisions for others, big brother!
The sound of rain suddenly became louder, and outside the window, the trees danced wildly in the night, making a rustling sound.
Ge Liang gazed at the raindrop-covered gauze window, feeling colder than the night.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Tan changed the topic again and said to Ge Liang, “You don’t need to resist like this. Perhaps soon, the three of us will be like you.”
Ge Liang was absent-minded, and he only managed to catch the last half of the sentence in the noisy rain. He looked at Jiang Tan in confusion, “What will be like me?”
Wang Ye and Yuansijie had heard everything, but still didn’t understand. They looked at Jiang Tan with perplexity.
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Jiang Tan calmly said, “Did you not check the group just now?”
【Mechanical Engineering Class Group】
Society’s Tyrant: Astonishing discovery! The situation of abnormal body variations completely coincides with the global trend of dense fog at the beginning of the month… [Link for details] All members.
The message was sent a few minutes ago, precisely when Ge Liang, Wang Ye, and Yuansijie were discussing “intimate matters” related to their animal traits. Due to the chaotic rain, the three of them hadn’t noticed this new information in the group.
But now, dozens of messages followed swiftly—
Guan Zheng: ??
Guan Zheng: Have you found the cause of the mutation??
Society’s Tyrant: Don’t just ask, can you take a few minutes to click and see, can you?!
Guan Zheng: [ok]
Guan Zheng: [You’re the big brother, you decide.jpg]
Advertisement
Teasing White: Damn, does this mean we’re all going to change?
Jack Yang: This is insane.
Zhou Shiting: It’s over, all over.
Cui Haohan: Don’t scare yourself, it’s not confirmed yet.
Jack Yang: Not obvious? So many people have abnormal bodies, and there’s no identifiable transmission chain. The only plausible explanation is an environmental issue!
Cui Haohan: Don’t believe rumors, don’t spread rumors, let’s wait for official confirmation.
Li Wen: I can’t wait, damn it, I can’t sleep every night now!
Meng Han: Just you can’t sleep? Not only can’t I sleep, but I also want to run laps on the ground every night!
Chen Zidong: Now I can catch mosquitoes barehanded, can you believe it? I can grab one accurately every time, I’m going crazy!
Reading through the messages one by one, although Ge Liang didn’t understand what had happened, his emotions were already becoming unstable. He quickly forced his gaze away from the group chat, moved it back to the top news, and clicked on the details link.
Advertisement
After reading the news, Ge Liang finally understood why his classmates’ attitudes had collapsed.
He wasn’t collapsing; he was exploding.
He was racking his brain trying to extract himself from being “suspected of mutation,” but then he read, “Every person may be unable to escape; this bodily mutation may become a global catastrophe.” Where could he possibly extract himself to now?
Unconsciously, his eyes met Jiang Tan’s calm gaze again. Ge Liang was stunned and asked him, “Did you read it?”
Jiang Tan nodded.
Ge Liang asked again, “Did you click on the link and read all the details?”
Jiang Tan didn’t understand the significance of this questioning, but he still gave an answer, “Yes.”
Ge Liang looked at his roommate with an expression of despair. “The whole world is about to mutate, and you can remain so calm?!”
Jiang Tan’s expression finally changed a bit, a slight movement between his eyebrows. “Firstly, this is an unconfirmed speculation. Secondly, if the whole world does mutate, according to the theory of relativity, everyone being abnormal is equivalent to everyone being normal.”
Ge Liang: “Damn, what kind of devilish thinking is this…”
“But I don’t seem to be the calmest either,” Jiang Tan glanced in a certain direction, “There’s someone over there even calmer.”
Following his gaze, Ge Liang saw Wang Ye putting down his phone, looking up at the window.
Not staring or pondering, just gazing casually. His expression was unexpectedly gentle, so much so that even his sharp profile seemed less stern, leaving only handsomeness.
Ge Liang awkwardly swallowed.
He didn’t quite agree with Jiang Tan. Wang Ye couldn’t be called calm with this demeanor. Unusual events must have sinister motives; this eerie calmness looked dangerous!
“Relativity isn’t used like this,” Yuansijie spoke somewhat heavily, countering Jiang Tan’s delayed response. “If we’ve really all changed, life, society, everything will undergo drastic changes. This world will never return to the familiar track we know.”
Finally, someone who understands him, Ge Liang thought, wanting to give Yuansijie a brotherly hug. “Exactly, you get me, right? In the future, it might not be human society anymore; it could be an animal world…”
Yuansijie’s phone suddenly rang.
He quickly gestured a “shh” to Ge Liang, who was talking, and then answered, “Yeah… I saw it… Don’t cry first, it’s not confirmed yet…”
“I know you’re scared, but we’ve already broken up. I can’t comfort you anymore, give you false hope…”
“Yes, the world is going to be in chaos, but the feelings that come to an end won’t turn back just because the world is in chaos…”
“Darling, life is not a novel, there’s no such thing as ‘Unrivaled Love’…”
Ge Liang silently looked at the ceiling.
In the face of an almost apocalyptic disaster where the world is about to undergo drastic changes, what defines being calm?
Is it being as indifferent as Jiang Tan?
Or suddenly becoming excited like Wang Ye?
Or perhaps, like Yuansijie, continuing to comfort a former partner on the phone right after solemnly stating that the world is about to change?
Ge Liang just wanted to be a normal college student, living in a normal dormitory, with a group of normal roommates… Why was it so difficult!
Without warning, Wang Ye suddenly jumped off the bed, casually put on a T-shirt, and stepped into a pair of Air Jordans, ready to leave.
Ge Liang was startled. “What are you doing?”
Wang Ye: “Just going out for some fresh air.”
Ge Liang: “But it’s raining.”
Wang Ye: “I know.”
In two or three sentences, Wang Ye had already opened the door.
Ge Liang was anxious. “At least take an umbrella!”
“No need,” he said, and before the sentence could finish, he was already outside.
Ge Liang hurriedly got down and ran to the window to look down.
But it was raining heavily, it was dark at night, and the view was still obstructed by the gauze window, making it difficult to see anything.
Just as he was feeling frustrated, a hand suddenly reached over from the side and removed the gauze window.
Ge Liang looked at his roommate who stood beside him in surprise. “Jiang Tan?”
Jiang Tan didn’t say anything. It was actually Yuansijie, who had come down from the bed at some point, that reached over and patted Ge Liang on the shoulder. “Make some space.”
In this way, Ge Liang was sandwiched between Jiang Tan and Yuansijie, and the three of them crowded around the window, looking down.
Without the gauze window, the view was clearer. Although the rain was heavy, the row of street lamps under the dormitory building created a misty and hazy world with dim light.
Before long, Wang Ye came out from the entrance of the dormitory building and walked into that patch of light.
The rain quickly blurred his figure, and the three could only vaguely recognize him getting further and further away under the streetlights.
Finally, even that figure disappeared completely.
Wang Ye seemed to have merged into the rain, the night, the world.
Ge Liang was completely bewildered. “What is he doing…”
Jiang Tan remained noncommittal.
Yuan sijie wiped off the rain splashes on his face. “Embracing the new world.”
