Chapter 10 This Beast Should Be Killed Lu Mingfei
The Shilan Middle School Forum was originally an unofficial forum created by seniors from Shilan Middle School who were admitted to Tsinghua University in previous years, modeled after Tsinghua’s “Shuimu Tsinghua BBS”.
The original intention of establishing the forum was to help younger students answer questions and share some experiences and lessons in further studies.
As its fame grew, more and more students from Shilan Middle School flocked to the forum. In addition, the atmosphere of the Internet became more and more abstract, and the direction of this forum gradually went astray.
It has become a place for students to chat and have fun, and it also serves as a flea market and a place to exchange homework answers.
Of course, with the passage of time, the administrators of the forum are no longer the seniors who founded the forum. The current top administrator of the forum also graduated from Shilan Middle School, with the ID Lei Xiuyuan, also known as Lao Lei.
Some people say that Lao Lei was also a top student when he was studying. He always ranked first in his grade at Shilan Middle School, which is similar to Chu Zihang now.
But some people say that Lao Lei is not a top student at all, because they found out that Lao Lei did not graduate from Harvard or Cambridge, nor from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University or Jiaotong University, and he was not even from a domestic 211 university, but studied at an unknown private fake university in the United States.
However, no matter whether Lao Lei graduated from Peking University or Tsinghua University or a fake university in the United States, no one questioned his ability to be a forum administrator.
Because he created the greatest list ever published on the forum - the list of those who should be killed.
……
Old Lei had a pair of huge dark circles under his eyes as he stared at the big-headed machine screen that glowed in the dark.
If Shilan Middle School and Lu Mingfei's home are connected into a line, then the black Internet cafe where Lao Lei works is a point exactly on this line.
The Internet cafe was filled with smoke, the sky was darkened, and the long light tubes cast a hazy white light in the choking smoke. Several people who stayed up all night were lying on the chairs, drooling and snoring. The sun could not shine in because the few windows were also covered with game promotional posters.
The power strips and network cables on the ground crisscrossed like mine fuses. Music was playing from unknown brand speakers, but it was impossible to tell what song it was as the sound had long been drowned out by the clapping of keyboards and the shouting of people. The only sound that could be heard was the whirring of two large black exhaust fans on the wall, trying to blow air out.
"Lao Lei, I'm going to go back first. Remember to put up the new game poster later."
After counting yesterday's accounts, the boss put the money into his pocket and said hello to Lao Lei.
"Oh." Lao Lei nodded woodenly, holding a cigarette in his mouth.
With a creaky sound, sunlight shone in a few inches from the crack in the door.
Lao Lei was dazzled by the sudden sunlight that came in, and he was unable to come back to his senses for a moment. He squinted his eyes, but the sunlight was immediately blocked outside by the closed door.
A life in darkness.
Lao Lei stretched, took out glue from the drawer, and picked up a stack of "MapleStory" game posters behind him.
At this time, the computer started to beep, and the forum prompted that a new post had been published.
Lao Lei leaned over to take a look.
"'About the Fallen Lu Mingfei and His Life on Thin Ice'... What the hell?"
Old Lei clicked on it curiously and was delighted to see that it was a long manifesto that recorded Lu Mingfei's countless crimes in great detail.
It mainly talks about how he approached Liu Miaomiao, the beautiful piano girl from Shilan Middle School, how he hooked up with her, how he got her various invitations, and how he rejected Liu Miaomiao out of lust.
"Interesting." Lao Lei touched his chin.
There was another "creak" sound, and Lu Mingfei pushed the door open and walked in, avoiding the wires on the ground like clearing a landmine.
"Network administrator, please turn on the computer." Lu Mingfei said to Lao Lei, rubbing his hands together.
Lao Lei looked up at Lu Mingfei and suddenly smiled meaningfully.
"Good job, kid. I really didn't see that."
“???” Lu Mingfei looked confused.
"Nothing." As Lao Lei spoke, the cigarette butt with sparks rose and fell with the movement of his mouth. "Why did you come at this time today? Did you skip class?"
"No, no, I graduated in June and it's summer vacation now."
"A junior high school student is still a kid even after graduation. Is he an adult on his ID card?"
"Hehehe, do I still need to do this when I'm an adult?"
Lao Lei chuckled, went back to the front desk and opened the drawer. Inside was a pile of small pieces of paper cut from cigarette boxes, with mysterious eighteen-digit numbers written on them.
He took a paper from the pile.
"How many hours?" "Let's start with two hours."
Lao Lei pressed several buttons on the switchboard.
"Password 123456. Try to sit closer inside. The inspections are strict recently."
"I know."
"By the way, do you want to try this?" Lao Lei pointed to the pile of MapleStory promotional posters on the front desk. "This game came from Korea. It just came online in China. Many girls are playing it."
“Oh oh oh.” Lu Mingfei nodded, “Let’s try again later. I’ll play a couple of games of StarCraft first.”
"Row."
Lu Mingfei puffed his way upstairs. Lao Lei took a big puff of his cigarette, then pressed it into the ashtray, opened the Shilan Middle School forum again, found the previous post, marked it as a featured post, and pinned it to the top.
After finishing everything, he showed a satisfied expression, and went out with the pile of posters, humming a little tune, and used the cute Q-version characters of "MapleStory" to cover the sexy female characters from "A3" that he had put up a few months ago.
A few hours later, the rumor that "Lu Mingfei rejected Liu Miaomiao" spread in several QQ groups and forums of Shilan Middle School.
Another hour later, the latest "List of Those Who Should Be Killed" was released, and a new name "Lu Mingfei" appeared in the top 50 of the list.
Many people who didn’t have time to watch the show saw the newly released “This Beast Should Be Killed List” and were wondering where this great god Lu Mingfei came from.
Lu Mingfei’s personal information and the reasons for being on the list were also made into a doc document and posted on the forum.
"Lu Mingfei, a student of Shilan Middle School's junior high school class of 2001, has now graduated, is 173cm tall, weighs 62kg, and his grades are in the bottom 20% of his grade.
My parents are unknown. I am currently living with my uncle and aunt. I also have a cousin in junior high school... Attached is a photo."
The photo was Lu Mingfei’s ID photo taken when he was taking the high school entrance examination. He had dark circles under his eyes, his head was drooped, and he looked miserable.
"Reason for being on the list: Rejected the school beauty Liu Miaomiao."
"Latest news: According to the informant's intelligence, Liu Miaomiao refused to give up and even invited Lu Mingfei to join her on her graduation trip!"
"Damn it!" "This guy deserves to die!" "No need for a graduation trip together!" "Hold the gun, follow me! Save the goddess, kill the road dog!"
In the forum, Liu Miaomiao's supporters posted messages wailing in unison.
Half of the people were indignant at Lu Mingfei who showed up unexpectedly... It would have been fine if the other party was Chu Zihang, but he was just a loser whose name they had never heard of.
And looking at his profile, he is neither good at literature nor martial arts. Although he looks okay, he has an ugly look. How could he deserve Liu Miaomiao's favor?
The other half regretted their decision, thinking that if they had known that the goddess liked this kind of unsophisticated type of guy, they would have slept with him long ago.
……
Of course Lu Mingfei didn’t know that in just a few hours, he would become the fastest dark horse in the history of “This Beast Should Be Killed List” and the public enemy of countless students in Shilan Middle School, mainly male students.
At this moment, what he was thinking about was whether he should play as the Terran or the Protoss in Interstellar.
The Zerg are already tired of playing anyway.
He threw his schoolbag onto the seat next to him, hummed Xie Di's "No Work Tomorrow" and pressed the power button.
However, at this point in time, there was no such person as Xie Di in the world, and rap was still an unknown niche culture, so no one could hear what Lu Mingfei was humming, and even if they heard it, they would just think it was a very strange tune.
Entering the desktop, Lu Mingfei found StarCraft with ease, connected to the local area network, and browsed the rooms that currently had vacancies.
"There aren't many experts at this time."
He sighed and glanced to his side boredly.
After just one look, he was dumbfounded.
Su Xiaoqiang was sitting in the corner to his right, only two camera positions away from him.
The cold light from the computer shone on her, her fair skin, slightly curly hair, long legs showing from under her CK blue skirt, and a pair of very beautiful eyes under her thick eyelashes...
But at this moment, these beautiful eyes were filled with dissatisfaction. Who knows which tactless guy has offended this little goddess.
Okay, okay, first it’s Xia Mi, then it’s Su Xiaoqiang, let’s do it wholesale among acquaintances, right?
Lu Mingfei was speechless.
(End of this chapter)