Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World-Chapter 37 - Account
Chapter 37: Chapter 37 Account
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The bus stopped at the station, Zheng Fa stepped off and headed towards the zoo, following the map on his phone.
He had checked online and found out that there actually was a zoo in the city where he was, although it didn’t have very high ratings on the map software.
Tang Lingwu spoke unintentionally, but he listened intentionally.
Previously, Seventh Young Master had told him that if he wanted to master “Spiritual Crane Body,” the secret was in the first book.
However, after turning the first book upside down, they still hadn’t found any hidden codes.
Seventh Young Master thought that since “Spiritual Crane Body” was a copied version, something crucial might have been missed out.
But…
what if the secret was in this biography?
Out of the four volumes of “Spiritual Crane Body,” only the first one has the most content, unless the author is an extreme narcissist… well, that’s hard to eliminate.
What if besides being narcissistic and bragging, the author had other intentions?
The most likely possibility is that the author described his experience of visiting Qianshan Temple and observing Qian Yu during the process of creating his technique, which is closely related to the martial art “Spiritual Crane Body.”
In the Xuanwei Realm, Old Man Bai was actually right; this author was definitely a person with great perseverance or even significant issues.
Xuanwei Realm is not like the modern world; mountains are often territories of various powerful Demon Beasts, and mountain climbing is often a life-or-death sport, so calling it an extreme sport is not an exaggeration.
As for observing Qian Yu…
You want to see birds, but do the birds want that?
How do you know they don’t have cultivation levels, even if it’s just ordinary birds, how do you know they don’t have Demon Beast parents?
And consider again “Spiritual Crane Body” and its talk about using martial arts as a path to enlightenment, it’s merely a mundane martial art, why risk your life?
So, even if someone had the same idea as Zheng Fa, it would almost be impossible to test it.
But what’s impossible in Xuanwei Realm is too simple in the modern world!
Zheng Fa arrived at the entrance of the zoo, which was more like a fenced public park.
At the entrance, there was a worn red-painted table, and behind it sat a woman in her forties wearing a red armband.
On the wall behind her hung a sign: Ticket Price 15.
“Twenty.”
Zheng Fa obediently paid the money.
He came during his lunch break, pressed for time, otherwise he would have saved five yuan.
The inside of the zoo looked as old as the table at the entrance.
During lunchtime, there weren’t many people…
or animals.
Right upon entering, he saw a sign the size of a person labeled “Treasure of the Pavilion,” accompanied by a bright arrow.
Driven by curiosity, Zheng Fa walked further in.
Sure enough, outside a building, he saw a sign labelled: Panda.
They have this thing too?
Excited, Zheng Fa craned his neck to look inside, and indeed, he saw two black and white bundles joyously running around, rolling…
barking.
Turning back to look, next to the big characters for Panda on the sign, was a small character for “dog.”
Zookeeper, you’re so cunning, why don’t you just paint yourself black and white and squat inside!
Deeply hurt, Zheng Fa directly headed towards the area of the park dubbed “Bird Paradise.”
Though he had lowered his expectations, seeing a bunch of pigeons pecking on the ground and the big black net overhead,
he fell into prolonged silence.
As he walked out of the zoo, he took out his phone and harshly wrote a bad review for the zoo.
…
Back at school, Zheng Fa lay on his desk, feeling somewhat dejected.
The experience at the zoo was one thing, but more importantly, the net made him realize a problem—birds are meant to fly.
Therefore, whether it’s a zoo or a bird market, they are keen on keeping flying birds as if they were land animals.
Even in high-end zoos, the birds probably have lost their natural instincts.
Trying to understand “Spiritual Crane Body” through these birds would likely not work.
Inside his desk, his phone vibrated twice.
Quietly taking out his phone, a little cat avatar was bouncing.
“Who’s this?” Wang Chen leaned his face over curiously and nosily peered over Zheng Fa’s shoulder at the little cat avatar: “Looks like a girl!”
“Tang Lingwu.”
Zheng Fa answered, then clicked on the avatar.
Tang Lingwu sent two messages.
The first one was a link.
The second was a rather long message: “I saw you wanted to go to the zoo?
Were you planning to watch birds?
Our city’s zoo is not great, so I found some documentaries for you.”
Clicking on the link, it was a file folder on the cloud with several sub-folders.
It was only after he clicked save that he felt something was off: Wang Chen was staring straight at his face.
With a look full of confusion.
“What’s wrong?”
“You are friends with Tang Lingwu?”
“Is there a problem?”
“The problem is big, you’ve been tricked!” Wang Chen said affirmatively: “She doesn’t have an account!”
Zheng Fa was stunned: “She added me in person.”
Wang Chen couldn’t hold back: “Haven’t you seen the class group chat?”
“I’ve blocked it.”
Their class had a group without teachers, only classmates.
But several people were very active in it, constantly flooding the group with messages, and Zheng Fa, finding it too noisy, had blocked it.
Wang Chen pulled out his own phone, almost sticking it to Zheng Fa’s face.
He opened the class group chat interface.
This chat was unusually quiet.
The last conversation happened two months ago.
“Tang Lingwu, I added you as a friend, why didn’t you approve?”
The speaker was one of the boys in the class who was usually very active.
“She doesn’t have an account,” replied someone using Tang Lingwu’s name.
“? freeweɓnøvel.com
Then who are you?”
“I’m her mom.”
After that, the people in the group were silent like they were dead, no one spoke again to this day.
“We already have a new group, I’ll add you,” Wang Chen said quietly, noticing Zheng Fa’s expression showing he was completely unaware of this situation: “I don’t know who was so dumb to add Tang Lingwu’s mom, this group is ruined!”
Zheng Fa finally understood why Wang Chen said Tang Lingwu didn’t have an account, he scrolled through his chat history with Tang Lingwu, and there weren’t many messages, the first ever sent by Tang Lingwu was:
“Medium size, half sugar, add pearls, no ice.”
And below was another line:
“Change to a large!”
Then there was a red envelope.
“You guys even drank bubble tea together?” Wang Chen marveled as he looked through the records, not having seen the previous messages, he still asked: “What did Tang Lingwu look for you just now?”
“She gave me…”
“The teacher is here!” At the back of the classroom, a righteous person who refused to reveal their name said in a deep voice.
Mr.
Chen, with a stern face, appeared at the back door, sweeping his eyes over the classroom, then staring intensely at Wang Chen.
“Wang Chen!
What are you doing with your phone!”
Wang Chen looked blankly at his own phone, then turned his head towards Zheng Fa.
Zheng Fa was holding a textbook, his brows tightly furrowed, lost in the sea of knowledge.
“Look at Zheng Fa, studying from books even during break, why don’t you learn from him?”
Wang Chen: “…”
Zheng Fa: As martial artists, we value being alert in all directions, and quick reaction to emergencies.
…
The videos Tang Lingwu found were very comprehensive, even overly so.
Domestic and international, Chinese and English.
Dozens of documentaries about birds lay in the cloud drive, giving Zheng Fa a blissful feeling of not knowing which one to choose.
However…
“The Disappearing Sky Dominator—Winged Dragon, does this thing even count as a bird?”
Zheng Fa frowned, feeling like Tang Lingwu probably got it wrong.
