Chapter 49: Flames and Rivers Abroad
A few days after arriving there, the goblin got in touch with him.
They got the bracelets before departure and replaced them with full-featured versions for adults.
When going abroad, the bracelet account can also receive pocket money from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to young international students on time. Otherwise, they can’t even afford popsicles.
The only obstacle to their contact is the time difference.
Domestically, it is the East Eighth District; Lanze is in the East District, seven hours behind the country; Goblin is in the West Sixth District, seven hours behind Lanze, and ten hours behind the country.
It's a bit difficult for the two of them, as well as their friends who stayed in China, to get together to chat and do things.
Probably, the teachers who sent them to study abroad deliberately used time zones to cause trouble.
For the time being, they can only leave messages to each other.
According to legend, America is a continent flooded with drugs. Lanze expressed concern about this.
The goblin replied that it was North America.
Drugs are rampant among teenagers in North America. A seemingly normal person may suddenly go crazy and kill someone while walking on the street.
In local minor schools in South America, he also heard various legends about the north: drug chemical factories, drug-addicted teenagers, and armed drug dealers.
Legend has it that drug traffickers used ground-penetrating missiles to bomb each other during the fighting, but they couldn't find each other's bases, and most of the buildings they blew up were residential buildings. The governments of the twelve federal states and the drug traffickers also bombed each other. If not, each other was afraid of nuclear retaliation.
, the north has probably become a nuclear wasteland like the desert on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf.
The world of war in the northern part of the American continent sounds fascinating.
But South America is even more fascinating. The goblin sent a big picture.
In that picture, the sun was shining brightly. Under the parasol, on both sides of him were beauties dressed in cool clothes. The goblin himself was hugging one another and smiling arrogantly. It seemed that he was already continuing his unfinished business of picking vegetables.
As autumn enters the Eurasian continent and the weather gets colder day by day, it is a good time for summer in South America.
"As expected of America." Lanze said with emotion.
"There are beauties everywhere," the leprechaun later told him.
The local beauties not only have the appearance of the Chinese aesthetics, but also have prettier figures. What’s even better is that they all take the initiative to throw themselves into the arms of the Wei fairies.
It’s actually similar here in Northern Europe.
I don't know why, but all the girls, whether it's the little sister living at home or the bisexual classmates at school, think Lan Ze is really handsome.
Lan Ze felt that there might be something wrong with their vision. But they were not familiar with each other for a while, so it was not easy to criticize them face to face. But why did the boy's eyes look blurry when he saw him, like "Oh Mom, it would be great if I wanted to look like you!"
Soon, all kinds of girls took the initiative to date Lan Ze. With the idea of collecting local special varieties, Lan Ze greeted his mother at home and went out for the date. After a few times, he discovered that skin color was not a problem.
Language is not distance, and he doesn’t pick looks anyway, as they are not very good-looking. Local girls, no matter black or white, have a special kind of lethality. Everyone brings his own seasoning bag...
The smell is so light that you can't smell it even when you sit and chat quietly. Once it starts moving, it's like a frying pan exploding. It's so exciting that Lanze has no intention of fighting and just wants to escape.
"Don't the local beauties over there stink?" he asked the goblin.
"Half of it," the goblin replied. "If you use heavy perfume, it must be smelly."
After waiting and watching for a while, Lan Ze made up his mind. "I give up."
"What exactly do you want to give up?" The goblin didn't understand.
Lanze later explained to him: "Every time I always feel like I'm being taken advantage of by those female monsters. You know, the women here have weird shapes. A sister told me that she is only 16, according to our calculation
I'm only 17. It looks like an aircraft carrier, and there are two frigates in front of me. If I quit, my life will be lost if I continue to set small goals, so I quit."
The goblin felt deeply regretful.
After avoiding the harassment from girls, life became quieter.
Lan Ze spends his free time learning languages with Brother Ao and Brother Ao who live at home.
His elder brother is one grade higher than him, and his younger brother is one grade lower than him. It is not difficult to learn daily vocabulary; reading is a bit difficult.
Although there are no more than 30 commonly used letters in total, plus the Greek letters and Cyrillic letters used in textbooks, the total number is just over a hundred; but the words used in the books are all very formal, and they are completely different from the words used in daily conversations.
Lan Ze discovered that he was illiterate. He could only speak a few words, which were "eat rice" and "drink water".
What can I do? Either find a dictionary and read the words one by one, or be thick-skinned and study hard and ask questions.
After a short period of thinking, Lanze chose the latter path. Anyway, there are Ao's father, Ao's mother, Ao's brother, and Ao's brother. They are all willing to help him learn daily idioms and Western Mandarin, and at the same time, they themselves can hone their Mandarin.
The classical Western academic language known as Western Mandarin carries the fruits of human civilization for hundreds of years, and it is still useful to learn it.
When the reliable adults and older children are away, he turns to his little sister for help.
Although the little sister is only 11 years old, she looks more serious than the two brothers.
She pretended to be an adult and taught Lanze how to speak word by word.
The same word "run" can be said in seven or eight different ways in the local language, such as: you run, I run, he runs, past run, present run, future run, run finished, plan to run, each run is different.
Same. My little sister can clearly distinguish so many similar things, which is quite impressive.
In school, he would randomly ask a classmate to help explain the words in the textbook, such as Xiao Dai, a classmate he knew well.
The textbook carriers in the school are flexible tablets imported from eastern Asia, and the textbook content is designed by a local education company.
But this flexible tablet has a problem that is simply inexplicable: it is easy to convert any piece of text into Chinese Mandarin and Western Mandarin, but it cannot be converted into local languages. Perhaps it is possible that this function cannot be used without paid authorization.
The language ability of the locals is simply amazing. They can use one language in daily life and another language in class; they can switch smoothly and seamlessly on different occasions.
Lanze didn't know much about the two languages they used.
Lan Ze could only scan the translation with his bracelet, but he still had to find someone to explain why he translated it this way.
By "studying diligently and asking questions" he shamelessly harasses others, and the time he saves is quite free.
Because Lan Ze is "illiterate", all the teachers have approved that he does not need to do homework. If he is a little lazy, he does not even need to read the textbook. Anyway, the teachers will explain to him what is taught in class in Mandarin.
There was nothing serious to do after class. He used his mind to think about girls to cause trouble for himself. Therefore, Lanze remotely found the math textbook on his bracelet that he had not learned while commuting. It was projected on the wall beside the bed and he read a little bit of it every day.
For entertainment. Stereoscopic projection is too tiring for the eyes, so it is more comfortable to project it on the wall. The bracelet is recharged by exercise + body temperature, and will never shut down due to exhaustion of energy. Although it consumes a little more energy when used for projection, it is still suitable for running outside.
Chapter completed!