I Am a Sinner (1)
Jiang Xiaoman was stunned.
The children who were playing throw-the-handkerchief with her were also stunned.
She tried stomping on the floor; it was very hard!
How do you make the playground collapse?
Jiang Xiaoman stared at him for a while and asked, “Is it because you’re too fat? You should lose some weight.”
Zhang Xinhua sobbed a few times, furious.
He wasn’t too fat! He was just too strong!
But even the strong would get spanked when they made a mistake as kids.
“You’ll see if you come with me.” Zhang Xinhua led her to the place where it collapsed.
The area was not deep, but quite large.
It was a large round pit, surrounded by a circle of children.
They were poking their heads and looking around. Their faces were curious and somewhat afraid, but they couldn’t help looking.
It was really unbelievable.
What had happened?
When Zhang Xinhua brought Jiang Xiaoman back, he enjoyed a treatment like the crowd opening the way for an Emperor. Every child there knew that he was the one who created this pit and thought that he was very powerful, so they had to make way for him.
But the hero was now afraid of being spanked, and was crying with snot coming out of his nose. It wasn’t really a good scene.
“Jiang Xiaoman is here.”
“I heard that she is even more powerful than Zhang Xinhua. Is she going to smash open another pit?”
“She’d definitely be scolded for that, right?”
The children were all talking and looking at Jiang Xiaoman.
She also looked amazed for a while, exclaiming full of amazement.
She turned back to Zhang Xinhua and asked, “How did you do that?”
So she didn’t know either?
Zhang Xinhua became even more flustered.
Under everyone’s gaze, Zhang Xinhua didn’t dare to talk carelessly anymore, so he could only cry, “I don’t know, waa… I only threw a single punch and it became like this.”
If he had known that the move was so powerful, he wouldn’t have done it.
But then again, if the power of this move was so great, then with so many grandmas and grandpas doing it everyday in the park, wouldn’t there be pits everywhere?
In this case, this was not the power of this move itself, but the person who executed it!
It was his own power!
No way, he couldn’t let anyone find out!
Zhang Xinhua looked at Jiang Xiaoman with a pale face, hoping her clever little brain could come up with a way to shield him from this tribulation. Otherwise, a superhero was about to fall!
But right now, even Xiaoman’s clever brain failed to work.
She didn’t know what was going on either.
But she still had an idea. She could ask the system!
It said, “It’s impossible to create such a large pit relying just on Zhang Xinhua’s power. Generally speaking, when the earth’s crust moves it could cause the surface to stick out or collapse. This should be one of those small-scale ground collapses. It’s very dangerous, don’t let your friends come close.”
As soon as she heard this, she immediately crossed her arms and said, “Quick, back up, quick! This pit is dangerous!”
She really had too much authority among the children. With just a single shout, all the children immediately backed away hand in hand. Her command was even more effective than a teacher’s.
But at the same time, they were still full of curiosity and had been stretching their heads to look at the pit.
Someone asked her, “Xiaoman, what is this hole?”
Xiaoman also only half-understood the system’s explanation. Children had not yet learnt something so profound, but she could answer based on her own understanding.
“This, there’s something moving underground all the time. When the shell cannot cover it anymore, it breaks out.”
“Wow, Xiaoman is great!”
“So, what is this thing that’s moving around all the time?”
“It’s scary!”
Jiang Xiaoman touched her head but could not think of anything found under the ground.
Could it be ……
“The Underworld?”
“Waaa!!!”
“How scary!!! I’m so scared!”
“So are there going to be weird creatures running out from it soon?”
“And then the world will be in chaos?”
“Then the world will become a purgatory?”
“I don’t want it, I don’t want it, it’s so scary.”
Everyone kept saying one thing after the other, and she could no longer interrupt them.
She regretted saying the word Underworld. It was all because of Grandma!
She kept saying that she would not die in peace, and would not let her go even in the Underworld1 etc etc.
Wuu wuu wuu, she made her think that what’s underneath was the Underworld!
And in Monkey King, the underworld was also located underground!
She wanted to cry but no tears would come out. The children’s conversation had developed to the point where they planned on moving to Mars during the end of the world.
She wasn’t the only one, however, who wanted to cry but had no tears.
Zhang Xinhua simply felt as if the sky was collapsing.
He… was the one who caused the end of the world? Making the human race be forced to move to Mars?
Was he the sinner of the world?
He did not want this, aaaahhhh!!!
He painfully grabbed his hair, his face grim.
Just when he was in so much pain and about to voice his resolve to fight the emerging monsters for 300 rounds, Yu Qingshi also came over.
It really was too noisy there. It was impossible for him to ignore it, so he came over to take a look.
He looked at the big pit in the middle of the playground and listened to the children’s conversation that involved demons and monsters coming out.
After thinking about it, he whispered to Jiang Xiaoman, “Actually, it’s probably just a problem with the quality of the construction…”
“Eh?”
“Anyways, it can’t be what they’re saying.”
“How do you know?” Jiang Xiaoman asked him.
“My dad has been tricked like this too before.” He said, “So I know a bit.”
“Oh, you’re very amazing.”
Jiang Xiaoman flattered him for a bit. She also felt that it was impossible to explain this clearly to the children, because compared to the explanation that there was a problem with the construction quality, they obviously believed the explanation they had made up in their heads more.
Footnote:
1. Probably referencing the stuff Jiang Xiumei said when she was beating up Hong Xingguo
I Am a Sinner (1)
Jiang Xiaoman was stunned.
The children who were playing throw-the-handkerchief with her were also stunned.
She tried stomping on the floor; it was very hard!
How do you make the playground collapse?
Jiang Xiaoman stared at him for a while and asked, “Is it because you’re too fat? You should lose some weight.”
Zhang Xinhua sobbed a few times, furious.
He wasn’t too fat! He was just too strong!
But even the strong would get spanked when they made a mistake as kids.
“You’ll see if you come with me.” Zhang Xinhua led her to the place where it collapsed.
The area was not deep, but quite large.
It was a large round pit, surrounded by a circle of children.
They were poking their heads and looking around. Their faces were curious and somewhat afraid, but they couldn’t help looking.
It was really unbelievable.
What had happened?
When Zhang Xinhua brought Jiang Xiaoman back, he enjoyed a treatment like the crowd opening the way for an Emperor. Every child there knew that he was the one who created this pit and thought that he was very powerful, so they had to make way for him.
But the hero was now afraid of being spanked, and was crying with snot coming out of his nose. It wasn’t really a good scene.
“Jiang Xiaoman is here.”
“I heard that she is even more powerful than Zhang Xinhua. Is she going to smash open another pit?”
“She’d definitely be scolded for that, right?”
The children were all talking and looking at Jiang Xiaoman.
She also looked amazed for a while, exclaiming full of amazement.
She turned back to Zhang Xinhua and asked, “How did you do that?”
So she didn’t know either?
Zhang Xinhua became even more flustered.
Under everyone’s gaze, Zhang Xinhua didn’t dare to talk carelessly anymore, so he could only cry, “I don’t know, waa… I only threw a single punch and it became like this.”
If he had known that the move was so powerful, he wouldn’t have done it.
But then again, if the power of this move was so great, then with so many grandmas and grandpas doing it everyday in the park, wouldn’t there be pits everywhere?
In this case, this was not the power of this move itself, but the person who executed it!
It was his own power!
No way, he couldn’t let anyone find out!
Zhang Xinhua looked at Jiang Xiaoman with a pale face, hoping her clever little brain could come up with a way to shield him from this tribulation. Otherwise, a superhero was about to fall!
But right now, even Xiaoman’s clever brain failed to work.
She didn’t know what was going on either.
But she still had an idea. She could ask the system!
It said, “It’s impossible to create such a large pit relying just on Zhang Xinhua’s power. Generally speaking, when the earth’s crust moves it could cause the surface to stick out or collapse. This should be one of those small-scale ground collapses. It’s very dangerous, don’t let your friends come close.”
As soon as she heard this, she immediately crossed her arms and said, “Quick, back up, quick! This pit is dangerous!”
She really had too much authority among the children. With just a single shout, all the children immediately backed away hand in hand. Her command was even more effective than a teacher’s.
But at the same time, they were still full of curiosity and had been stretching their heads to look at the pit.
Someone asked her, “Xiaoman, what is this hole?”
Xiaoman also only half-understood the system’s explanation. Children had not yet learnt something so profound, but she could answer based on her own understanding.
“This, there’s something moving underground all the time. When the shell cannot cover it anymore, it breaks out.”
“Wow, Xiaoman is great!”
“So, what is this thing that’s moving around all the time?”
“It’s scary!”
Jiang Xiaoman touched her head but could not think of anything found under the ground.
Could it be ……
“The Underworld?”
“Waaa!!!”
“How scary!!! I’m so scared!”
“So are there going to be weird creatures running out from it soon?”
“And then the world will be in chaos?”
“Then the world will become a purgatory?”
“I don’t want it, I don’t want it, it’s so scary.”
Everyone kept saying one thing after the other, and she could no longer interrupt them.
She regretted saying the word Underworld. It was all because of Grandma!
She kept saying that she would not die in peace, and would not let her go even in the Underworld1 etc etc.
Wuu wuu wuu, she made her think that what’s underneath was the Underworld!
And in Monkey King, the underworld was also located underground!
She wanted to cry but no tears would come out. The children’s conversation had developed to the point where they planned on moving to Mars during the end of the world.
She wasn’t the only one, however, who wanted to cry but had no tears.
Zhang Xinhua simply felt as if the sky was collapsing.
He… was the one who caused the end of the world? Making the human race be forced to move to Mars?
Was he the sinner of the world?
He did not want this, aaaahhhh!!!
He painfully grabbed his hair, his face grim.
Just when he was in so much pain and about to voice his resolve to fight the emerging monsters for 300 rounds, Yu Qingshi also came over.
It really was too noisy there. It was impossible for him to ignore it, so he came over to take a look.
He looked at the big pit in the middle of the playground and listened to the children’s conversation that involved demons and monsters coming out.
After thinking about it, he whispered to Jiang Xiaoman, “Actually, it’s probably just a problem with the quality of the construction…”
“Eh?”
“Anyways, it can’t be what they’re saying.”
“How do you know?” Jiang Xiaoman asked him.
“My dad has been tricked like this too before.” He said, “So I know a bit.”
“Oh, you’re very amazing.”
Jiang Xiaoman flattered him for a bit. She also felt that it was impossible to explain this clearly to the children, because compared to the explanation that there was a problem with the construction quality, they obviously believed the explanation they had made up in their heads more.
Footnote:
1. Probably referencing the stuff Jiang Xiumei said when she was beating up Hong Xingguo
