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Chapter 41 Twelve Natural Elements

The students were having a good time at home, but Dong Chuang was not. The school gave the students a holiday but did not tell them when they could return to school, which resulted in a heavy workload for him. He called each student or their parents one by one to inform them to go to school tomorrow.

When the call reached Mu Zhengguang, he thought: The rare holiday is about to end. How long will the winter vacation last?

New Year's Day has not arrived yet, but Mu Zhengguang has already thought of the winter vacation. His vision can be said to be "long-term".

December 12th. Many people were late today, and Mu Zhengguang was one of them.

The snow had just melted, and the ice had frozen, making the road slippery and difficult to walk on. One step might lead to a snow pit, soaking your shoes and trousers. There was an even worse possibility: slipping in the snow and falling hard.

However, the most slippery part of the road is not outside the school, but inside. The tile floor on the first floor of the teaching building is as smooth as a mirror, and people walking on it are treading on thin ice and trembling with fear.

Mu Zhengguang walked along the way, steadily but slowly.

Mu Zhengguang was six minutes late. He sat in his seat and looked around. More than half of his classmates had not arrived yet, but his deskmate Lu Hao had already arrived.

"You're here so early."

Lu Hao looked at Mu Zhengguang strangely: "I didn't come early, you came late. I fell down not long after I left the house, and I went home to change my shoes. I was only a few minutes earlier than you."

"I just arrived too."

On December 12, some new news was announced on the official website of Asymptote.

The asymptote entity is the first order. The common ability of the first-order asymptotes is "element synchronization", which can make them immune to the damage caused by the corresponding natural elements to a certain extent.

The natural elements are divided into: water, fire, wind, earth, space, time, metal, wood, soil, electricity, light, and dark.

Mu Zhengguang remembered that water, fire, wind, earth and space were the divisions of the country of suffering (i.e. countries with the custom of asceticism). The five elements corresponded to five attributes, taste, color, touch, fragrance and sound. Gold, wood, water, fire and earth, water, fire, wind, earth and space, each had its own strengths. Two divisions, eight elements, plus "time" corresponding to "space", electricity commonly seen in real life, as well as light and darkness, a total of twelve.

The ability shared by the second-order asymptotes is "element control": to a certain extent, they can mobilize the corresponding natural elements and make them their own power, which can be used for attack, defense, speed increase...

Mu Zhengguang had never seen the benefits of element synchronization, nor could he imagine how element control was done: was it to convert mass into energy, or energy into energy? Or was it to directly control mass? It couldn't be to convert energy into mass, right? Tomorrow, during the New Year's Day holiday, he would meet with his classmates and talk about elements.

The old year is coming to an end and the new year is approaching. Before he could say anything, Ying found him at the end of the year and invited him to the cinema to celebrate the New Year.

Mu Zhengguang was naturally overjoyed and was happy to do it.

The two met at the school gate.

"Ah, I was going to come to you tomorrow."

"You come to see me tomorrow, or I come to see you today, it's the same. Let's go, I've bought the tickets."

"what movie?"

“Soul. I like the name.”

"Is that the only reason?"

"Ah."

It snowed heavily a few days ago, but the temperature has risen again in the past few days. When I go out at night and wear short-sleeved clothes, the temperature is surprisingly comfortable.

Mu Zhengguang walked along the same road where he and Lu Hao had the buffet, and arrived at a large shopping mall. The cinema was on the fifth floor of the mall.

There were many people getting out of the elevator and many people getting in. The elevator, which was not spacious to begin with, was crowded with people and could no longer accommodate one more person.

Xu Ying glanced at the elevator and turned around and left: "Let's take the stairs up."

Mu Zhengguang had no objection: "You planned, you bought the tickets, you led the way, it's reasonable. Even if you didn't do anything, I'm willing to give you the opportunity to lead the way. If you're right, we'll keep going, if you're wrong, we'll change the way."

Compared to the wide and bright shopping mall, the low staircase separated by only a wall was dark and empty, with only a few people laughing loudly and talking freely. Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying quickly walked up the stairs and pushed open a green iron door to enter the mall. In a corner of the mall, next to the cinema, there were many tables and chairs. People sat here, chatting, waiting, eating, or just resting... The heat from the crowd made the temperature here obviously higher than outside. There were too many people and not enough seats. Some people sat on the tiles of the flower bed, and some walked around, bringing the heat to a farther place.

The two queued up to buy fruit tea and starch sausage, which was paid by Mu Zhengguang. They ate the starch sausage before the movie started and brought the fruit tea into the theater.

Many years later, when Mu Zhengguang recalls what happened today, he will be surprised to find that the plot and content of the movie have become blurred, and he only remembers coming to the cinema.

Just like Ying only looked at the name when choosing a movie, Mu Zhengguang only remembered the name after watching the movie. As she once said, the movie is not important. He thought: What is important is you and me, and this time.

The movie is over and a new day has just arrived. Everyone goes home and doesn't talk about anything else.

At noon that day, Mu Zhengguang went to Ying's home for lunch again.

Winter bamboo shoots stewed with crescent bones, yellow fish soup, boiled shrimps, braised pork, stir-fried beef slices with mushrooms, and shredded cabbage.

As soon as the three of them sat down after the meal was served, Xu Yingze could not wait to serve him some food and said with a warm smile, "Come and try my new dish, stir-fried beef with mushrooms. Only good reviews are allowed, no bad reviews are allowed."

The beef tasted a bit bland, but the mushrooms were pretty good, smooth and tasty. Mu Zhengguang savored it and said, "Well, there are only good reviews, no bad reviews."

The pork ribs soup was clear as water and full of crispy bones, which he liked very much.

Mu Zhengguang rarely buys vegetables, so he doesn’t know that crescent bones are commonly known as brittle bones.

The fish soup is golden in color, as thick as rice dried in the sun, and has an extremely mellow taste.

Mu Zhengguang noticed that his classmates ate the shrimp very quickly, without peeling the shells, and were very skillful and brisk. In contrast, he used both hands to tear open the shrimp shells and tear off the shrimp heads, which was "brutal and rude."

After lunch, the two went to the room to plot something big.

"Twelve elements: water, fire, wind, earth, space, metal, earth, wood, lightning, light, darkness, and time. I guess you belong to the fire element. Do you want to try it?"

Xu Ying picked up the lighter on the desk, lit it, and then summoned the silver key to create the fire in her memory. The two flames flickered and jumped, exactly the same.

Mu Zhengguang stretched out his little finger to touch the fire in his memory, and it was unharmed. This was within his expectations: the fire in his memory was weak force, different from real fire. The real fire was in front of me, so I didn't dare to try it.

Xu Ying didn't force him. She removed the two fires, took some water from the coffee cup with a small spoon, poured it on her palm, and shook her hand, and there was no water on her hand. "I am a water element, and you correspond to me, either water or fire. It doesn't matter if you wait until the second level to try again. Do you have anything to do this afternoon?"

Student Ying said "correspondence", which Mu Zhengguang also agreed with. The similarity between the operating force and the existence force is very high, and both determine the development of all things at different levels.

"We will test the New Year fee this afternoon."

"Oh, New Year's fee. It should be tested."

Mu Zhengguang suddenly realized something was wrong and quickly changed his words: "I have nothing to do this afternoon, the annual test fee can wait."

Xu Ying said, "I have a trivial matter to ask you for help. I want to go back to my hometown to get something. Can you come with me?"

Mu Zhengguang mercilessly threw the annual fee aside and ignored it: "It's an honor to go home with you."

"Time is a bit tight, you may not be able to test the annual fee until tonight."

"Your matter is more important, and it comes first. The annual fee is always there. If we don't test it today, there will be tomorrow, and tomorrow is also a holiday. Besides, the annual fee has just been released, so it is estimated that it will be strengthened."

"Thank you. Let's go now, okay?"

"can."

The bus station was not far from her home, so they walked there. Pinglin County has ten towns, corresponding to ten bus route numbers. Bus No. 15 departed from Pinglin County Bus Station, stopped more than a dozen times along the way, and after more than an hour, finally arrived at the terminal: Yuantian Town.

(End of this chapter)