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Ninety-eight is a small donkey, born on the twelfth peach tree in Ning District, Taoyuan. On the day it was born, the 98th berries had just emerged from the tree. Therefore, the highest leader of Taoyuan, the gray donkey, who is known as the teacher, wrote the name "Ninety-eight" on the Taoyuan household registration book, that is, a large board made of peach wood.

The residents of Taoyuan all felt it was a bit ugly. After all, this new little male donkey was very energetic, with white short hair like the first snow in winter, and a tuft of red on his head, like a slight fire that was accidentally burned in the snow. It was tenacious and humble, and hot and would not burn. There was no such sign in Taoyuan for a long time.

Ninety-eight, he doesn't pay much attention to whether the name sounds good. He only cares whether the peach trees can produce those white and sweet berries on time in March every year. The peach trees in the peach garden are different from those outside. They will bear two kinds of fruits. On the sunny side, green peaches will bear. Every inhabitant in the peach garden jumps out of this green peach; on the sunny side, berries that are not like peaches and dumplings will grow.

There are delicious foods everywhere in Taoyuan, and the residents of Taoyuan are very satisfied with the three meals. Berries are also a good snack and are widely loved. However, only ninety-eight will have a special passion for the first batch of berries produced every year. In fact, the first batch of berries are not good. The pink and white fruits must have a little greenish taste, a little astringent, and they are small in size. They are hidden in a low-key manner between the peach leaves. Until the second batch of ripe berries grows and they fall to the ground.

Before Ninety-Eight appeared, the first batch of berries were swept into bags and thrown away. Everyone said that these were berries that were not "overgrown" and were not delicious. Yongcui, who was born on the same day as Ninety-Eight, was unwilling to smell these fruits.

But Jiushiba said it was delicious. Whenever the teacher of Gray Donkey saw him gnawing fruits with relish, he would touch his head with a smile and say it was very good.

Ninety-eight didn't understand what the teacher said was good, so he just ate it. These sour and sweet berries are more delicious than those that are ripe and vary more on the tip of the tongue. Each tastes different.

Taoyuan is beautiful all seasons, summer is not hot, winter is not cold, spring flowers are colorful, autumn fruits are sweet. What residents do every year is to enjoy the flowers and the moon, eat and drink, or sleep soundly, or tell stories. There are too many books in Taoyuan, some are carved on stones, some are carved on bamboo slips, and more are written on peach leaves and string them together with threads. The place with the most books in Taoyuan is the library where Teacher Gray Donkey lives. In this area of ​​Taoyuan, which is not big or small, it is divided into four communities, Ping, An, Kang and Ning. The library is at the junction of the four communities, and it is also the most lively place in Taoyuan. Most residents here spend their time reading "fighting" and "calculation" on reading books, unlike the world outside Taoyuan, who like to do the opposite.

No one can tell where the Taoyuan is. The only thing that is certain is that the entrance to the Taoyuan is just a threshold, a warm and green one. In the space that the mortal body cannot see with its naked eyes, it will last for millions of years.

But some people know the existence of Taoyuan, and they also know that there is one of the most precious treasures in the Taoyuan Center's library - Zhiguo.

If you eat this fruit that is full of all wisdom in the universe, all problems in the world will no longer be a problem.

It is no secret that Zhiguo is placed in the flower pot on the third floor of the library. Teacher Gray Donkey doesn’t even need a safe. He only issued a rule that any residents who have touched Zhiguo will be immediately expelled from the Taoyuan once they are discovered. Everyone knows that as long as they step out of the Taoyuan threshold, they will turn from donkeys into humans and be permanently stuck in the world outside the Taoyuan. What a terrible thing, it will become the person you hit me and I hit you all day long!

Therefore, for many years, we have been at peace. The residents of Taoyuan have seemed to have forgotten the existence of Zhiguo.

So when Yongcui was thrown out of the threshold of Taoyuan, Ninety-Eight was so surprised.

Yongcui and Jiushiba were born on the same tree on the same day. His birth also caused a burst of surprise in Taoyuan. No donkeys with the same color as ruby ​​have ever appeared! Moreover, he is so smart. He can memorize all the books in Taoyuan by reading them once. He can calculate the speed of the stars in the sky, solve the most difficult math problems in the library, and dig traps and calculate that Jiushiba will fall into it as long as he walks a few steps. In short, the residents of Taoyuan like him and even pamper him. Even his catchphrase gradually left, "You are so stupid!" and everyone was not very concerned. Only the teacher of Gray Donkey rarely praised him, but just asked him to play and read more with Jiushiba. The teacher said that you grew up on the same tree, and you are brothers.

What Yongcui said most often to Ninety-Bao is, "Why are you so stupid!"

When Yongcui was calculating the trajectory of the stars in detail, Jiushiba was busy asking the donkey sister-in-law how to effectively remove the pests that grew on peach trees. Yongcui won the first place in any game in the Taoyuan, and Jiushiba might not even be able to enter the finals. Donkeys in other areas like to use Jiushiba to play with berries from time to time to lead him into a cave with itchy bugs everywhere, put the little crabs under his quilt, etc. Every time, Yongcui came to help him get rid of itchy bugs, scolded him for being stupid, and taught him what herbs to use to avoid itchy bugs.

Ninety-eight always smiled and said I got it.

Yongcui had a very serious illness once. Ninety-eight ran for three days and three nights, and went to the distant hill to retrieve herbs for him to cure his illness. Yongcui said he was stupid, but he said, "Brother."

That year, it was time to choose the gatekeepers of Taoyuan again. The threshold of Taoyuan always requires gatekeepers, one generation after another.

The selection method is also simple. The youngest and strong donkeys were selected from the four regions, and the rock-scissors decided. In this session, Jiushiba and Yongcui attended as representatives of Ning District. Jiushiba lost, and he always gave up the stones.

When the show ended, the teacher of Gray Donkey called him, and before he asked anything, Ninety-Eight smiled and said, "Yongcui is a guy who can't calm down. Unlike me, as long as I have the first batch of berries to eat, I can stay anywhere."

Teacher Gray Donkey nodded and was silent for a long time before saying, "Keep the threshold of Taoyuan well. From now on, I will send someone to give you the first batch of berries every year."

The one who was ninety-eight replaced was the black donkey named Lao Bai. The time Lao Bai was guarding the gate was so long that he couldn't even figure it out. Anyway, on the day when Jiuyiyou took over, he saw Lao Bai turned into a ball of light the size of a dumpling, dissolved into the green threshold - every gatekeeper would do this in the end. Their hind legs would "grow" on the threshold at the beginning, guarding the only entrance and exit day and night. By the last day of his career, the whole body and soul turned into a ball of light, becoming part of this threshold.

However, as long as there are the first batch of berries that are not "floated" every year, the gatekeeper Ninety-Eight will have no complaints. Although the gatekeeper is unable to move, he can see the flower world outside the threshold every day. The gray donkey teacher often comes to see it, chats with him, and sends various books. Ninety-Eight's gatekeeper's career is still rich and happy. At least he thinks so himself. However, when Yongcui was thrown out of the paradise and fell out from the threshold he guarded, he saw a strange Yongcui in Yongcui's eyes, cold, angry, arrogant...

He wanted to chase him out, but he couldn't do it.

Time passed, and on the day when ninety-eight turned into light, he fell asleep sleepily into the threshold, and only a flowing green was seen around him.

He knew that this was not death, but an endless sleep. There were many gatekeepers like him sleeping in the threshold of Taoyuan. Like themselves, they drove away many outsiders who wanted to sneak into Taoyuan, and also stopped some of the same kind who wanted to sneak out of Taoyuan. Of course, they also understood many things that others could not understand.

What Jiushiba did not expect was that his sleep was interrupted by an unexpected person. The man used magic to make the successor's gatekeeper faint, but he did not hurt the other party, nor did he intend to break into the Taoyuan. He only used a small chisel with a strange and exquisite shape to chisel a small piece on the threshold. Unfortunately, Jiushiba happened to sleep in this piece. So he was put into a bag and left with a bumpy ride.

Ninety-eight never dreamed that he would leave Taoyuan in this way. He questioned the person who took him away: "Where are you going to take me?"

"Go and accompany someone." The man replied.

"Don't go!"

"She is very beautiful and has a nice voice."

“I only like berries!”

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1

"Next week, the largest water supply plant in the city will be put into use. Before that, we'd better have solved the problem of damage-free water melt in Borsey."

In the dark laboratory, only the ceiling light on the test bench in the middle was on, and Situ You's eyes flashed with a cold and stern light. The seven or eight boys and girls, who were about his age, were wearing high school uniforms, frowned and looked at the various instruments and petri dishes placed on the test bench.

"You can become my teammates because you are the best and smartest students in Taoyuan High School." Situ You pointed on his finger, "Originally, our school has become a country that belongs entirely to us, and there is no hindrance to our teachers and stupid classmates. As long as we work hard, next week, human history will be up to us."

The boys and girls had strange lights on their faces and they smiled like devilishly.

A guy with a flat head and wearing thick-soled glasses walked into the laboratory and said to Situ You: "The lie of closed training in the whole school may not last long. Just now, a parent and a teacher's family called and asked to talk to them. I'm afraid we have to speed up, or change places..."

A loud slap in the face made his glasses fly away.

"I just want to know whether the remaining classmates are obedient." Situ You didn't look at him, "I hate others to teach me how to do it the most."

The flat-headed boy covered his face and said tremblingly: "Everyone is studying hard. No one dares to violate your orders. He also deals with his parents well and does not arouse any suspicion."

"Okay." Situ You nodded with satisfaction and said to another pretty girl beside her, "Aren't you very good at handling audio? Let's fake the voices of those guys to deal with those phone calls for people, so that they can wait for another week."

"Okay, I'll go right away." After hearing his order, the girl left extremely obediently.

"Let's go here today. Let's go to rest." Situ You stretched and suddenly asked again, "Yu Tianyin, didn't you come today?"

"Before coming to the laboratory, she said she felt uncomfortable and wanted to go to the infirmary to get some medicine." A girl said so.

Situ You frowned and didn't say anything.

After everyone left, Situ You sat alone in the middle of a closed laboratory, with slender hands comparable to a pianist, slowly flipping through a fairy tale book - "The Story of Fairies and Rice Li".

This fairy tale tells the story of a smart and beautiful fairy who turned those stupid monsters and humans into Mi Li'er and locked in the box forever.

2

I only now realize that as a literary and artistic Taoist priest who will never reveal his destination, a strange man who hides his weapons in a toothpick box, and a big-name helper who needs to pay extra for me to replace tires once, the existence of A and B has other value besides testing my endurance-

The long sword that was usually in the toothpick box revealed its true appearance, whizzing through the air, and quickly split a cockroach as big as Godzilla into two.

This is the Nth attacker who was killed by A and B along the way. Before, there were giant worms and giant rats that could not be named. Each guy was N times larger than ours! I was born to like bugs. In the past, as long as a cockroach appeared, it would be enough for me to scream for a few minutes until Ao Chi or Mr. Zhao appeared and dealt with me cleanly. So don’t expect me to fight with them. If I touch them, my hair would stand up!

I resisted my nausea, carefully avoided the broken cockroach corpse, and jumped to another clean floor. Next to me, a tall and high chair leg stood tall under the incandescent light. Next to me, the huge trash can looked down at me coldly like a monster. And I had to walk very carefully so that I could not fall into the gap between the marble floor tiles. For me, the gap less than one centimeter is now a wide gap. I even had to use some spiritual power to fly up to cross it at once.

Watching the fun, do you think I'm making a science fiction movie? Nothing movie! I... I'm shrunk!!

The dignified boss lady may be only a little bigger than Mi Lier now? Otherwise, where do you think those cockroaches and mice as big as Godzilla come from! In this world, an ant can fall with me, and I may not be able to win.

I leaned against a ball of waste paper landing beside the feet of the chair and sat down to calm my mind. Otherwise, I wouldn't know how to tell you this inexplicable experience. I have seen a lot of fairy tales in the country of Lilliput, but when you become a villain and the surrounding environment has not changed at all, you will cry like me, and fairy tales are all lies.

Only A and B were as calm as ever, and took out their mobile phones from their arms from time to time, adjusted the GPS and looked left and right, and then drew a roadmap on the notebook he carried with him.

GPS is useless because I have seen my phone hundreds of times just now, and the positioning of the top is only at "Taoyuan Taoyuan High School". The place we are now is the second floor of the teaching building of Taoyuan Middle School, a fully enclosed laboratory. No one knows that we are here, and even if outsiders find it, it is difficult to find us who have become like this.

"The entire laboratory is about 300 square meters, and our current height is only about 0.5 cm. If you walk out of the cafeteria, there will be no rest and stops in the middle, which will take about 1.7 days." A and B calculated slowly, "If you can still fly, it will take several hours."

What a sad calculation!

"Don't talk to me about math anymore!" I gave him a blank look and pointed at him, "I'm hungry. The older ones want to eat, and the younger ones want to eat! Go and get me some food!"

Before she finished speaking, a pack of dried fruit flew into my arms. Opposite the little girl with a thread hat and exposed her dark and short curly hair, her white melon-shaped face, and a fresh rose color flew on her cheeks. It was rare that she had a good figure at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and her slightly widened dark blue high school uniform could not cover the exquisite lines. The most special thing was the small flame-shaped red birthmark on her forehead, which not only did not reduce points for her beauty, but also added a bit of aura.

What a beautiful girl, but what I want to do most now is to beat her up! If it weren't for her, A and B should be on the beautiful road of spring, delicious food and drink and anxiously looking for our "98".

After the Qianji incident, what I was most passionate about with A and B was to look for everything related to "98", because the next prompt from the "Brishang Bird" obtained from Qianji was - 98. It was just such a number.

So I became an obsessive-compulsive disorder. I drove through Highway 98 and visited countless buildings with addresses related to No. 98. Even after eating for 97 yuan, I stubbornly asked to give them one more dollar. Anyway, I didn’t let go of anything related to 98. Even the music played in the car was the queen’s song “Meet 98”. Unfortunately, there were all the handwritings on the “Birds on the Branch”, which meant that we didn’t find the right partner at all.

But it was just like the house was leaking and it rained all night long. "98" was not found, but was implicated by this girl and was touched by another big trouble.

Good intentions cause trouble!

During the day, my second-hand car was probably a little outraged and refused to leave on strike. Fortunately, I had already entered Taoyuan City, which was more prosperous than Songshan City. There was a car repair shop not far away. Although it was not a professional 4S store, I thanked me very much. I ordered A and B to push the car over. The master in the store had to tossed it for two hours and said that it was impossible to repair it, so I could only ask the tow truck to deliver it to the 4S store. When I was hesitating whether to spend the money to call the tow truck, this girl was wearing a hat and carrying a large bag of snacks from the small supermarket next to the car repair shop. Without saying a word, she blew on my car. In less than ten minutes, the engine started proudly.

I remember the scene at that time, the little girl said expressionlessly: "The battery terminal is loose, it's okay."

Awesome... When I was as old as her, I couldn't even tell the difference between a cow and a car. No, when I was a teenager, there was no car in the world... I was far from going too far. Anyway, before I could say thank you, this girl had already stepped on a silver samo on the side of the road. Before leaving, she threw me: "You women, you are diligent in making facial masks. Don't know if the car needs to be maintained? You are not educated!" Then, with a throttle, the person disappeared.

I didn’t even have the chance to retort “I rarely make facial masks”!

However, the salesperson girl who followed me up from the small supermarket gave me a chance - this girl accidentally threw her student ID in the supermarket when she paid, and all her information was on it.

School: Taoyuan High School

Grade: Class 1 (A)

Name: Yu Tianyin

3

I didn't have the habit of picking up the widows and never paying back the widows. I thought about this girl repairing my car. In addition, the salesperson said that Taoyuan Middle School is in the suburbs of the city, which is only half an hour away. Naturally, I drove the car to someone kindly. Before leaving, the young salesperson told me with great envy that Taoyuan High School is the top school here, with only one class in each grade. All the students who were admitted there were very smart top students, and it would be no problem to go to a first-class university in the future. She had taken the entrance examination of Taoyuan High School before, but the scores were too different.

I comforted her silently in my heart. I really couldn't understand her love for this place for an old monster who had never studied in school and took the college entrance examination. Could it be that it must be the so-called "top man" that makes people envious?

I'm going to go back to sending student ID cards. This Taoyuan Middle School is really interesting. It is located in a good location on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by green flowers and leaves, quiet and quiet. Except for the birds and birds flying in the sky and fish that splash bubbles in the river, there is almost no noise, and it has a bit of a paradise.

It was afternoon when we arrived. The school's absurdly high door was tightly closed, and there was no security guard at the door. Looking into the crack of the door, we saw a teaching building, not big, three floors high, silent in the warm sunshine, and there was no one on the playground.

The so-called top-notch schools are a bit too quiet.

We looked around and found a red button on the left side of the gate, with subtitles scrolling on a seven or eight-inch monitor next to it - Welcome to Taoyuan High School! Please click the button to get the access card. Thank you.

So advanced... Fully automatic and no one operated?! I muttered in my heart and pressed the button.

Then something happened that hurt my self-esteem - on the monitor, I changed the subtitle content: Please click the correct answer within three seconds. Then, something like this pops up: If the function y=(x1)(x-a) is an even function, then a=? (Please click one of the following four options!)
To be continued...