Chapter 41: 39

Meng Guowei hurriedly calling Shao Zhan over earlier had been exactly for this reason; the predetermined student representative had suddenly had an upset stomach and had made a fuss while changing into their military training uniform, and no one knew where their speech notes were. This time after the leaders were done speaking, the first student representative to speak was from their Sixth High.

It really made the Sixth High teachers quite frantic. 

Meng Guowei, “What do we do.”

Zhou Yuan, “Can we reshuffle the order of the student representatives? Keep looking.”

 

 

Gu Yanwang’s strong sense of glory burst out. “There are so many schools training together this time. We must display our school’s talents!”

But the opening ceremony was about to start soon! How could they have the time to draft a speech! 

The situation was exceedingly urgent. As the teachers brainstormed together, only one person surfaced in their minds: It was Lin Jiang Sixth High’s pride, their genius youth Shao Zhan!

 

If they had to find a student who could improvise well, there was no other choice other than Shao Zhan.

And only Shao Zhan could control the current situation.

After discussing the plan, Gu Yanwang said, “When it’s  time I’ll try to drag it out as much as possible to buy some time for Shao Zhan. I’ll give him some more time to prepare under the stage.

 

So after Shao Zhan changed his clothes, he was directly spirited away by Meng Guowei.

“…So that’s the current situation. You don’t have any issues with improvising, right,” Meng Guowei said.

“Time.” Shao Zhan only asked about the key points. “How long do I speak for?”

 

Meng Guowei calculated the time. “A draft of a two thousand word speech probably takes about eight to ten minutes.” 

Shao Zhan didn’t have much of an expression the entire time, and wasn’t even surprised or suspicious. Only after he heard the ten minute time window  did his eyelids flutter slightly. He didn’t ask about anything else, and after his questions only said, “Okay.”

This “Okay”, which sounded extremely cold and tranquil, was like a heart-calming pill. Meng Guowei’s heart dropped down from his throat.

“The significance of national defence education lies in…” Shao Zhan stood on the stage. After saying that “stop being fucking noisy”, he began his speech. “…Building and consolidating the foundation of national defense and improving awareness of national defense and the spirit of the whole population.”

“It’s also an important way to enhance the cohesion of our people.” 

Shao Zhan was clearly organised and immediately divided the national defence training into three points, starting from the significance, then to the implementation.

The youth’s features were blurry because the distance was too great, but his inherent oppressiveness and coldness that made others shy away could be heard from his voice.

Was it because the sun was too bright.

The intense sunlight really made it hard for people to open their eyes. 

Xu Sheng squinted. His sleeves were rolled up, his wrists showing, his protruding wrist bones clearly visible. Among all of the students who had their cuffs and buttons fastened properly, he was still the one who gave the teachers and school staff the biggest headache. He faced the strong light, gaze passing over the levels of people to watch the youth on the stage. For a moment, he wasn’t sure where the light was coming from.

Hou Jun, “So amazing.”

 

Tan Kai, “This is really incredible, I’m sincerely convinced.”

“It is pretty amazing.” Xu Sheng expressed his agreement and said as he smiled, “As expected of my deskmate.” 

From the moment Shao Zhan had gone up with nothing in his hands, someone below had said lowly, “Fuck, is this ge making everything up on the fly?”

“Amazing, can he speak for ten minutes? I don’t believe he can’t make a single mistake.”

Someone intentionally took a look at the time and said, “It’s been three minutes, and he actually hasn’t made a mistake.” Forget about mistakes, he hadn’t even paused to think.

But these students from other schools would have never guessed that the truth was far more absurd than just making it up on the spot. 

Did you believe in skilled improvising?

Meng Guowei and the other teachers stood together in a row under the shade of the trees to the side, unable to help thinking to themselves: Ready.

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Gu Yanwang, “It is a great blessing for our school to have an amazing student such as Shao Zhan.”

Bright smiles showed up on two people’s faces. 

As Xu Sheng heard others lamenting over how the student that No.6 sent up was probably not even human, he lamented with them. . Then he faintly heard the sound of thunder in the distance.

Xu Sheng, “…”

After their body swap, Xu Sheng had an instinctual reaction to the sound of thunder now, his hairs began to stand on end, chills ran down his spine, and tingles of electricity seemed to run down his head to the tips of his toes. His entire body stiffened, and he said to himself he must have hallucinated it.

This sun had already made two female students from the neighboring school pass out from the heat. 

The weather report had also stated that it was going to be a clear day, otherwise the school wouldn’t have chosen this period of time for their training camp.

It was definitely a hallucination.

 

How could they possibly swap bodies with each other another time? Once wasn’t enough?

This was a world of science. Science could change destinies. He should believe in science. 

Xu Sheng finished comforting himself, but that sound of thunder grew closer, and a solid roar cleaved the sky and rang in his ears.

Boom!

Oh, fuck.

Xu Sheng was dumbfounded by that sound. 

On the stage.

“With regards to the youth defense…”

Shao Zhan even halted in the middle of his fluent speech.

Even with Shao Zhan’s pause, Hou Jun and the others continued to sing his praises. “He only paused once after a whole five minutes, Lao Meng said the total speaking time was about ten minutes. What amazing ability! Our Zhan ge is amazing! Amazing beyond belief!” 

Xu Sheng patted Hou Jun’s back. “Hou Zi.”

Hou Jun turned back: ?

Xu Sheng asked, “Did you hear a sound just now?”

“I did,” Hou Jun said. “It’s the sound of our cries of how amazing Zhan ge is.” 

“…”

Xu Sheng didn’t dare to ask too boldly and said, “No, I think I heard some thunder just now. Did you hear it? Is it going to rain today?”

Hou Jun looked a little confused, and he didn’t know what Xu Sheng was trying to say. He said, “No. What thunder? The weather is so good today. The weather report also said that the chance of rain today was zero.”

Tan Kai and Yuan Ziqiang also chimed in, “What thunder? You must’ve heard it wrong.” 

As they spoke, another roar of thunder shook the heavens.

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—— Boom!

 

Xu Sheng and Shao Zhan, who was now forcing himself to continue the speech, were starting to feel the blood in their veins grow cold.

Absolutely. No. Way. 

Fucking hell, this damn thunder just wouldn’t let them go?!

Once wasn’t enough, it came again?

And it had to be at this very moment?!!!

The one most distressed was Xu Sheng. Shao Zhan could stand up on stage and present a two thousand word long speech, but he sure couldn’t do that. He could only do a two thousand word self reflection and that was it, and it was the kind that would make all the teachers’ and students’ ears of No.6 buzz. 

No matter how much Xu Sheng felt like he wanted to die, the thunder showed no signs of stopping.

The thunder roared louder and louder, until it sounded like bombs going off in their ears. Boom!

Xu Sheng, “…”

Shao Zhan, “…” 

Xu SHeng was completely frozen.

All of a sudden, it seemed like the sound was very far away. Time seemed to stand still, and the scene in front of them was like fragments of stars, and there were only the two of them as those fragments hurtled past, scattering under the bright sunlight, and refracting the light in front of them.

Xu Sheng’s mind blanked out for a moment, and when he came to, he felt that his head hurt. He completely didn’t notice where he was standing at that moment, and didn’t realise that he was holding a microphone in his hand.

Xu Sheng cursed quietly, “… Fuck.” 

His voice was quiet, but with the microphone, that ‘fuck’ was amplified, and it stunned all the eight thousand teachers and students.

Those eight thousand people had been listening to Lin Jiang Sixth’s Shao Zhan give his speech, and were listening well, completely persuaded by this young man who was speaking off the script. However, this student had just calmly said “that’s why we should work together to take action”, paused for two seconds, and then followed it up with a lazy sounding ‘fuck’.

What the hell was happening?

Lin Jiang Sixth’s representative was that amazing? He even cursed at people?” 

Not only were those eight thousand people stunned, even Xu Sheng was shocked by the volume of his voice. “…”

Only then did he realise that he was holding a microphone, and the electrical equipment was all right behind him. The bright red banner of the opening ceremony was also behind him, and he was currently standing on the speaker’s stage.

 

It was very obvious that he, Xu Sheng, was now Lin Jiang Sixth’s representative.

He was currently on stage, giving a speech. 

Xu Sheng glanced off the stage, and found Meng Guowei standing with his hands behind his back. There was a line of students standing beside him, and as Xu Sheng followed that line, he found ‘himself’, looking pale as he stood at the back of the row.

As they looked at each other, it was obvious that they were both feeling the same thing.

Shao Zhan’s feelings were not in a good place either.

He felt even more stressed than Meng Guowei when he couldn’t find the script after the previous representative fell ill. 

Neither of them had thought that there was the possibility of them swapping again; otherwise he definitely would have made Xu Sheng practise.

That kind of fantastical incident had already been experienced once. How could there be another time?!

But the second body swap really happened just like that.

The student representative on stage was now Xu Sheng. How could Xu Sheng know how to give a speech? He had only done his self-reflection… Shao Zhan suddenly didn’t dare to watch, and he also didn’t dare to think about what would happen next. 

—Xu Sheng himself also didn’t want to think about it.

“Fu… Find our way to answer the call of our comrades and country.”

After Xu Sheng calmed himself down, he made a 180 degree change. “And actively develop our national defense education.”

After saying that, the audience stopped muttering. “That scared me. I thought this handsome brother from No.6 had gone insane.” 

Shao Zhan had noticed that this Xu Sheng would always leave him hanging in suspense at every turn.

And he always left him hanging hard.

Xu Sheng’s maneuver was basically trying to salvage the car after rolling it over. He had struggled to recover from the curse… Then what? What else was he going to say?

When the thunder was roaring, Hou Jun had already said that Shao Zhan had been talking on stage for five minutes. 

Which meant that there was still five minutes left.

Although he was in front of so many people, Xu Sheng wasn’t nervous. After all, he had been in front of larger crowds. If they were counting how many times he had been up on stage, it was probably more than Shao Zhan, just that the subject field was way too different.

 

What on earth was he going to say?

As such, the people closest to the stage saw this cold, handsome young man from No.6 stop his speech, suddenly raise his hand, and undo a button on his previously clean-looking uniform. 

As Xu Sheng did that, the audience once again started to bustle and murmur.

Xu Sheng seemed to not realise that doing such a thing while wearing Shao Zhan’s cold, icy face was a shock to the visual senses. He put down his hand, and after a few seconds, something seemed to click in his head. He first continued what Shao Zhan was saying before about hope for the future. “I believe that by experiencing this national defense activity, it will raise awareness about national defense for everyone. The future will definitely be brighter. We must treasure the present, and anticipate the future with our actions.”

Shao Zhan raised a brow. He felt like he had heard those words somewhere before.

Meng Guowei and the others were also shocked: This… sounded very familiar. 

Xu Sheng’s bullshit speech about hope for the future went on for about two to three minutes.

He stalled and repeated things, but he still couldn’t fill up the time.

Immediately after, he changed the topic. “There might be some people who aren’t very familiar with Lin Jiang Sixth. Our school is a very orderly school, with a beautiful campus. Lin Jiang Sixth’s motto is ‘civilisation and harmony’…”

Shao Zhan knew where he’d heard that before. 

The first time they had swapped bodies. Xu Sheng had put that stack of A4 papers down in front of him, and the self review that Xu Sheng had written had contained that particular passage.

“It’s generally divided into three parts: admitting your mistake, pleasing your superiors, and having hope for the future.”

“Pleasing your superiors is playing nice with the teachers and the school, and Lin Jiang Sixth is…”

“…” 

Xu Sheng talked about kissing ass for a full three minutes, exaggerating his praise for Lin Jiang Sixth to the moon and back, until the faces of the colonels for Lin Jiang Sixth were bursting with joy.

Hou Jun was dumbfounded. “What’s wrong with our Zhan ge? What is he saying?”

Tan Kai, “Do you understand? There are so many schools here this time, we definitely have to show off the strengths of our school! It’s for face, get it? Zhan ge’s skills are really amazing, really super amazing! But don’t you think that all this sounds a bit familiar?”

Why was it so familiar? 

Xu Sheng had stood on the stage to recite his self reviews countless times before, and his conclusion was always that particular passage of words, just that no one could draw the link between the Study God and the School Tyrant.

The two of them talked back and forth, and wanted to discuss it with Xu Sheng. However, “Xu Sheng” looked like he was in a bad mood, that evenuntil Hou Jun didn’t even dare to approach him, feeling like he was so cold until chilled him.

 

Then, as Hou Jun turned his head around, he seemed to catch the corner of “Xu Sheng”’s mouth turning up into a smile.

That smile was very, very subtle. 

Shao Zhan’s first reaction wasn’t to be afraid of his image falling apart, or to be afraid of this speech being a spectacular failure.

Everything since the first day they had swapped bodies, to the time that Xu Sheng had taught him how to write self reviews, and to this very moment, seemed to connect.

The image of Xu Sheng forcing himself to be calm and talk so much bullshit… Unexpectedly, it was very interesting to him.

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