Rebirth: Growing Up Together

"Hey, I only let people participate in these programs after ensuring that the people like them. The one you mentioned about wearing suspenders to play basketball didn't feel right to me, so I canceled it."

"That doesn't matter."

Xu Cheng said with a smile.

On the stage, the host spoke.

"Now, I would like to invite Xu Cheng, chairman of Qingzhou Network Technology Co., Ltd., to present to us the awards for the following Weibo Night Queen and Weibo Night King."

As a burst of warm applause rang out, Xu Cheng also adjusted his expression and walked slowly onto the stage accompanied by the etiquette lady.

The dazzling lights under the stage made him unable to open his eyes.

"Hello, Mr. Xu."

Mr. Hua bowed his head and shook hands with Xu Cheng very discerningly, "Mr. Xu, please also say hello to the audience present and those watching the live broadcast."

The etiquette lady handed the two trophies into his hands, one in each hand for Xu Cheng, then showed a very polite smile and faced the camera.

"Hello everyone, my name is Xu Cheng."

"OK, all right."

Mr. Hua glanced at the card in his hand, then turned his head and said to his partner Li Ai.

"If we talk about the man of the hour in 2012, I think Mr. Xu is definitely one of them."

Li Ai immediately sang along and sang along.

"Yes, everyone must be very interested in a young and promising young man like Mr. Xu. If we meet him today, we must not let him go easily. Don't you think so?"

"Correct!"

The audience roared under the stage.

The viewers who watched the live broadcast suddenly became interested when they saw that this mysterious rich man seemed to have something to eat.

So at the time when Xu Cheng appeared, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room not only did not decrease, but continued to soar, reaching the terrifying number of 50 million.

"The first question is to ask Mr. Xu, how did he achieve such success at such a young age?"

"Everyone has a different definition of success. Making money is a kind of success, learning can also be a kind of success, traveling around the world on a budget, and having a happy love, these can all be considered success. So I think I'm just lucky to make some money. If you want to ask me how to make money, then I think you can set a small goal for yourself, such as 100 million." Xu Cheng said lightly.

"Wow, then for the second question, I want to ask Mr. Xu. I heard that Mr. Xu's girlfriend is very beautiful."

"I'm personally relatively face-blind, so I can't really tell whether she's pretty or not."

"The third question is, does Mr. Xu have anything he regrets the most?"

"I regret establishing Qingzhou Company..."

After answering several questions that had been colluded in advance fluently, Xu Cheng was still anxious, but it was inconvenient to show it, so he suppressed it.

The host also selected a netizen to ask a question from the hot discussion on the Internet.

“This netizen’s question is very interesting.”

"He wanted to ask, if today is the end of the world, what does Mr. Xu want to do most at this moment?"

"..."

Xu Cheng suddenly paused.

Hua Shao felt that something was wrong when he saw it. He was afraid that Xu Cheng wouldn't be able to answer, so he quickly warned him.

"This netizen's question is really interesting. As everyone knows, there are rumors about the end of the world today. In fact, we can do whatever we want, right? Have a good meal, find a fun place to play... Mr. Xu, what do you think?"

After the prompt, Hua Shao put the microphone to Xu Cheng's mouth again, and the young man finally spoke this time.

"If today was the end of the world."

"I think……"

The boy took a deep breath, as if he had made a decision.

next second.

Under the watchful eyes of thousands of people in the venue.

In a live broadcast watched by 70 million people.

Xu Cheng held a trophy in one hand.

There was no hesitation in his movements.

Ran away...

Chapter 436: Calling for Love at the End of the World

A hotel in Shanghai.

National debate venue.

"Congee, what are you thinking about?" Li Meiying walked over quietly and sat next to Lin Wanconu.

The girl raised her head and glanced at her.

"Senior."

Li Meiying had already graduated. Logically speaking, she should not participate in the debate competition anymore, but she couldn't let go of the debate club at all, so she still took a vacation from her work and came to cheer for Lin Wanzhu and the others in their finals.

"Are you a little nervous?" Li Meiying looked at her with a smile, stretched out his hand and patted her shoulder twice, "It's okay, today's result is not important, you are already great, this is the final of the national debate, The place of enlightenment that all debaters dream of, before you, no one in our school could lead a team to get here."

The International Language Debate Invitational Competition has always been regarded as the highest level competition in the debate world because of its professional competition system and strong judging lineup, as well as the participation of the world's top university debate teams.

Being the best debater in this competition is enough to leave a name in every debater's mind.

"The team over there in Malay is really scary, and you've never been in contact with the team over there before."

"I've seen their videos."

In the past twenty years of development, the debate forum can be said to be a hundred schools of thought contending, and each school has formed its own unique style.

The Malay team that Lin Wanzhou will face today is different from the academic debate style of traditional domestic debaters with strong foundation. They tend to use debating skills, language skills and even strong momentum to win.

It was precisely the rise of this fierce and fast style of debate that shattered the country's belief in truth debate more than ten years ago.

If not for the truth, then what are we debating for?

"Have I ever told you about my sister?" Lai Meiying suddenly said, "My sister's name is Lai Weiqing. You may have heard of her. In 97, she led her team to the finals of the Sin Ka Po National Debate Competition, where they faced off against the Malay team. That year, people's doubts about debates reached a peak. The topic of the final debate was whether the truth would become clearer through debate."

Having said this, Li Meiying smiled.

"It's ironic that the debate has reached the point where it has to defend its own legitimacy."

Lin Wanzhu didn't speak. She had occasionally heard about what Li Meiying said, but she hadn't understood it in such detail.

"That day my sister was on the affirmative side of the competition, which means she had to defend the legitimacy of the debate, and the final result was..."

Li Meiying smiled and said, "They lost miserably. Although my sister won the best debater in that match, she didn't finally point out the other party's logical trap until the free debate stage. Even so, on the factual level, As a pro-positive person, she is unable to refute the negative side.”

"That night, together with my sister, the team known as the Four Golden Flowers broke the dream of the Lion City. In the post-match interview, they told the camera that they would never engage in debate again."

"And just after that night, many people who once believed in the debate of truth left the debate forever, and those who stayed embarked on a long road to regain their value."

"I was also sitting at the game that day. Although I was still very young, I also saw my sister covering her face and crying bitterly on the field. Perhaps it was from that time that a small seed took root and sprouted in my heart."

"But, I am not very knowledgeable and can't do it myself, so I can only train you." She patted Lin Wanzhou's shoulder, "Come on, Zhou Zhou, you are the best debater I have ever seen. Today, go and defeat them."

"..."

Eyes facing each other.

Lin Wanzhou only felt that Li Meiying, who had always been gentle and generous, seemed to have a burning fire in her eyes at this moment.

She nodded seriously.

"Don't worry, senior sister. It's just for myself. I will also win this debate."

"I feel relieved when you say that. After this game, I'll reward you... well... I'll reward you by asking your Xu Cheng to take you out to relax."

"???"

Lin Wanzhou almost fainted, "Senior, how do you reward me for something like this?"

"I'll tell him for you. He's usually so busy, doesn't he even accompany you? Doesn't he take you out to play?" The fighting spirit in Li Meiying's eyes was suddenly replaced by gossip.

"No more..." Lin Wanzhou of course had to help Xu Cheng clear his name, "He usually spends a lot of time with me, and we often go out together. We even went to Qingpu together last week."

"Over there at Qingpu? What fun can you two have there?" Li Meiying thought for a long time, "Playing in the field?"

"Cough cough cough cough."

Lin Wanchu fainted, "What are you talking about? Senior sister, please be more dignified."

She didn't expect that a senior who usually looked healthy would have such perverted thoughts.

"Ouch, sorry."

Li Meiying blushed and picked up the water bottle to take a sip.

I felt regretful in my heart, why had I just had a heart-to-heart talk with Lin Wanzhou and now I accidentally exposed my true nature.

"We went there... to see the trains."

"Cough cough cough cough."

Now it was Li Meiying who was spraying water, "...What are you two doing? Watching the train?"

She was completely shocked. Could it be that as a social creature, she was really immune to romance and could not get young people?

Watching the train?

What kind of number is this?

"He didn't go to see the train." Lin Wanzhou said with some embarrassment, "He said he wanted to wait there to see some scenery, but you can only see it if you are lucky. We waited all night but didn't see it."

"View? Train?"

Li Meiying thought for a while, "What he wants to see, isn't it... a train spewing fire?"

"Train spitting fire?"

"correct."

Li Meiying nodded, "Do you know why the train is called a train?"

Lin Wanzhou was also very smart and guessed at the answer.

"Can it breathe fire?"

"That's right." Li Meiying snapped her fingers.

Although she is the president of the debating club, science and engineering knowledge attracts her more than liberal arts. Therefore, her debating ability has always been weak.

"The earliest trains were basically steam trains, so there were two places where the train would emit gas, one was near the power wheel, and the other was the chimney at the top."

"Because trains use furnaces to emit combustion exhaust gas, we usually see white smoke, but if the coal quality is not good and the combustion is not complete, then black smoke will be emitted." Li Meiying explained very skillfully, "Incomplete combustion of carbon dioxide and oxygen produces carbon monoxide. We have learned this in chemistry."

"......" Lin Wanzhou was a little anxious, "What do you mean by fire-breathing? Why have I never seen a train spit fire?"

"So it's quite rare. Like I said before, if the fire is big and the blower is strong, then there will be flames." Li Meiying put her hands on her notebook and started clicking on the search. "This is the same principle as when fire comes out of the chimney in a rural home. Here it is."

She pointed at the screen and clicked the mouse to show Lin Wanzhou a video.

The video was shot at night. In the center of the shot is a train, which is coming from a distance with billowing white smoke. And just at the place closest to the camera, the front of the train suddenly spurts out balls of fire, like sparks all over the sky. The world is covered with stars, a fire dragon dances in the darkness, and sparks scatter in the air, like fireworks in full bloom, which is stunning in an instant.

“No wonder we didn’t see it the whole night…” Even though she only watched a video, Lin Wanzhou was stunned by the beauty of the scene and was speechless.

"Yes, the power of machinery is very shocking." Li Meiying said with a thumbs up.

The waiting time seemed to pass quickly, but it also seemed to be very long.

"Lin Wanzhou, it's our turn."

The second debater on the same team reminded him, and Lin Wanzhou hurriedly put away his mobile phone, stopped paying attention to the news on Weibo, and stood up and took a deep breath.

"Let's go."

At Jiaotong University, a science and engineering school, the four members of this competition team are actually four girls.

This made many people click their tongues, and at the same time they couldn't help but sigh. After so many years, the combination of four golden flowers finally appeared again in the national debate competition.

Lin Wanzhu came on stage under the instructions of the staff. He glanced at the crowd of people in the audience. He didn't see any face. He suddenly felt a little disappointed. He immediately comforted himself and returned to his normal state.