Chapter 260: Childhood

Alessa looked at the three guys at the door who clearly had a different style of painting, and suddenly felt a little itchy on her scalp.
Of the four of them in the store, not one of them is a normal human being.
Alessa herself is just a malicious clone.
The triangle head is the spiritual projection she summoned.
Tom is a cat.
Li Ang is a psychopath.
However, these four are still wearing primary school students' clothes, which makes the style of painting look very strange.
"Oops! I didn't do my homework either!"
Alessa recalled the memories in her mind and suddenly exclaimed.
Now Alessa has begun to gradually adapt to her new identity.
I quickly finished my rice noodles and ran towards the elementary school with my classmates.
When she was about to enter the school gate, Alessa suddenly stopped and looked a little hesitant.
She remembered her true memory.
Thirty years ago, the memory of being bullied in school.
Just as Alessa hesitated, Tom stretched out his paw and pulled her.
The little girl turned to look at the cat next to her.
Suddenly, I felt like this cat wasn't so annoying anymore.
Follow the memory and quickly enter the classroom.
Very skillful in finding people to borrow homework for copying.
In addition to them, there are many others like this.
Today is Monday and the national flag needs to be raised.
So not long after entering the classroom, I had just finished my homework, and the "March of the Athletes" was already playing from the speaker at the door!
As soon as he heard this piece of music, Tang Mu's blood awakened and he stood up directly.
Alessa and the others are still a little confused.
Although their memories have already told them what they are going to do next.
But Alessa is also a foreign little girl after all.
I am definitely not familiar with the melody that Chinese students have carved into their DNA.
But that doesn't matter, as long as you stay in the world created by Tom Mu for a while.
Tom believes that it will bring great changes to Alessa.
Accompanying the "March of Athletes", primary school students left the classroom one after another and headed to the flag-raising platform on the playground.
According to classes, formations were formed one after another on the playground.
Next is the flag-raising ceremony.
Alessa's queue stood next to Tom.
Looking up at the flag-raising platform, the red shadow entered Alessa's eyes for the first time.
"Raise the flag! Play the national anthem!"
As the "March of the Volunteers" played, all teachers and students saluted the slowly rising red flag and sang the national anthem in unison.
Tom glanced at Alessa from the corner of his eye.
I know that this female girl still doesn't quite understand the current situation.
But it doesn't matter, she will gradually be able to understand it later.
After the national flag is raised, radio gymnastics will be performed next.
Now in 2006, they are using the second set of national primary and secondary school radio gymnastics.
"Preparation Day: Stay where you are! Get up!"
"one two three four five six seven eight!"
"Two, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!"
"Three two three four five six seven eight!""Four two three four five six seven eight!"
"Diffusion movement..."
Tom was meticulous and methodically doing the gymnastics he remembered from his childhood.
​Other students behaved differently.
Most of them are loose and lazy.
But there are also some students who are more serious.
As for outsiders like Alessa and Li Ang, they never experienced this when they were children.
Although the memory in their heads will tell them what to do, it is still a bit awkward to do it.
​But this is only a matter of time.
As time goes by, you will get used to it.
In five minutes, a set of radio gymnastics was completed, and everyone could finally return to the classroom under the leadership of the teachers of each class.
Next, it's time to start learning.
According to the curriculum, everyone starts class.
The first period is Chinese class.
The teacher was telling ancient poems on the podium, while Alessa was passing small notes below.
【What do you want to do? 】
Alessa tore up a piece of paper, wrote down her question, folded it and handed it to Tom Mu at the same table.
Tom Mu took the small note from Alessa, his face full of nostalgia.
Ah~
The taste of childhood.
This world was created by Tom Mu based on his own memory.
It's very strange to Alessa.
For Tom, it was a rare opportunity to recall his childhood.
【Meow meow meow meow】
Tom opened the note handed over by Alessa and wrote his answer on it.
When Alessa took it back and looked at it, she was immediately speechless.
She knew that the cat could write and speak.
Replying to such a meow meow meow, it was obvious that he didn't want to tell himself.
By some strange coincidence, like muscle memory, Alessa took a pen and drew a 38-point line on the desk, looked at Tang Mu and said, "You are not allowed to cross this line."
Tom Mu looked down and saw, my dear, childhood memories hit me hard again.
Tang Mu put his elbows on the desk and deliberately moved his hands across the 38th parallel.
Not to be outdone, Alessa also put her hands on the desk, wrestling with Tom Mu.
"Tom! Alessa! Stand up!"
The teacher on the podium obviously noticed their little move, and immediately patted the podium and glared over.

Tom Mu and Alessa were startled and quickly stood up.
"Listen carefully to the lecture and don't make any small moves!"
The middle-aged Chinese teacher is their class teacher, very powerful.
"There are sixty people in the class. If you delay for one minute, you will delay the whole class for sixty minutes!"
"Now go to the back and stand and listen to the class!"
Tom Mu and Alessa remained silent, quickly picked up their Chinese books and walked towards the back of the classroom.
At the back of the classroom, Li Ang and Triangle Head are sitting here.
After all, they are much taller than this group of third grade primary school students.
Li Ang made a face at Tang Mu.
There was a smile all over his face.
Although he didn't know what Tom Mu was doing.
But for him, it's quite fun to play here.
Li Ang is also an unlucky child.
Like Alessa, she never had a normal childhood.
In fact, these two people are quite similar in some aspects.
All have great power.
The spirit is also a little paranoid.
But compared to Alessa, Li Ang is luckier.
The forty-five minutes of a class passed quickly.
As the bell rang, the whole classroom seemed to come alive.
The children took action individually.
Fortunately, it's only elementary school now.
The situation of dragging the hall is not common.
If Alessa had gone to middle school or high school, she probably wouldn't have been able to experience the beauty of childhood.
"Sasha, let's go out and play!"
A group of little girls came to play with Alessa.
This made Alessa, who had been subjected to school violence, a little scared and at a loss.
But the group of students didn't notice it at all and pulled Alessa away with a smile.
They went to play skipping.
Two girls stood at both ends with long skipping ropes tied around their feet, and the other girl jumped in the middle.
Alessa doesn't know how to play this, and she has never seen it before.
But other girls will teach her patiently.
Gradually, Alessa started playing with them.
A clear female voice sounded on the playground:
"Ma Lan opened twenty-one, two-five-six, two-five-seven, two-eight-two-nine-thirty-one, three-five-six, three-five-seven, three-eight-three-nine-forty-one."
While shouting, several small figures were beating happily there.
"Tom! Let's enjoy it."
At this time, Li Ang greeted Tang Mu.
Tom Mu also ran towards him quickly.
It turned out that Li Ang was turning over a big stone there.
Under the stone are a lot of ants.
Not only Li Ang, but also other boys were squatting aside and watching the ants.
Tom Mu picked up a branch and put it in front of the ants. He watched the little ants climb up the branch with a smile on his face.
Suddenly I remembered that the happiness in childhood always came so small and pure.
When I was a child, the world was always small.
But it feels big.
The smallest little thing can quickly occupy a child's heart.
after growing up.
The more I know, the more I feel empty.and one's own insignificance.
It becomes increasingly difficult to fill my heart.
Compared with the fulfilled children.
Adults are like giant balloons.
Looks tall.
In fact, everything is empty inside and can only drift with the tide.
The Beetle that made people cheer when I was a child.
When I grow up, I don't even have time to count the stars on its back.
The lives of adults are always full of helplessness.
This helplessness, with the development of the times, has even begun to spread to the next generation of children.
Tom Mu always felt that he was lucky.
It's the post-1995 generation.
During childhood, it was in the early 00s.
At that time, technology was just right; academics were just right; playmates were just right; parents were just right.
He has certain material security and can study and play normally.
My family is not rich, but money is not as important to children as adults think.
Because children are the best able to find happiness for themselves.
As long as parents and teachers give them a certain amount of space.
therefore.
At that time, the space for children was just right.
But since 2023.
The involution of adults has even begun to involve children.
A small child is forced to grow up quickly and becomes a person who is as empty as an adult and can no longer easily obtain happiness.
This is something that makes Tom feel quite regretful.
When the children who are trapped by Uchimaki and Chicken Baby grow up, why are they not another kind of Alessa and Leon?
"No playing marbles!"
Among the crowd squatting to look at the ants, a little fat man suddenly made a suggestion.
This proposal instantly attracted the attention of other students.
Everyone happily agreed.
Marbles are very fun.
It can be said that it is the childhood of several generations.
Under normal circumstances, the common way to play marbles is to use your own marbles to bounce other people's marbles.
As long as you hit it, you can take away other people's marbles.
Some people with good skills even win a plastic bottle full of marbles.
Looking at the bottles full of marbles, it's quite a sense of accomplishment.
Time in elementary school always feels like it goes by quite fast.
Most people don't even have much memory of the class.
These are all memories of playing with my friends during recess.
Not long after, the announcement that school was over came from the radio.
Today is the day for students in Tang Mu's row.
Everyone put their chairs upside down on the desks, then swept and mopped the floor.
The two big guys, Li Ang and Triangle Head, were assigned the job of taking out the garbage.
Adults may feel bored with daily activities like this.
​But for these primary school students.
They are originally at an active age. As long as they are not asked to study, everything they do seems to be playing.
​Ah, of course.
When you are with your friends, you just play.
If you still ask them to do housework after returning home, that would be another matter.
"Alessa knows what to do!"
"Hahaha!"
Tom held the broom in his hand and imagined himself as a swordsman, gesticulating with Alessa in the void.
Alessa rolled her eyes, feeling that Tom was bored and didn't want to play with him, so she just swept the floor silently.
"Don't bully Alessa."
Alessa's other friends couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to stop Tom Mu.
Tang Mu laughed and didn't care.
Put down the broom, took the mop, dipped it in the bucket, and started sliding around the classroom.
Finally, he did a dance imitating Michael Jackson.
A group of children were playing and making noise.
The hygiene of the classroom has been improved in this way.
We put our little schoolbags on our backs and left the classroom together.
The door will be closed and locked by the student on duty.
After leaving the school gate, Tang Mu and the four of them were walking home.
Alessa still felt a little like she was in a dream.
Turning around, he looked at the big cat beside him.
Alessa still doesn't understand what Tom Mu is doing.
But she did have a great time that day.
A normal life like this is what she has always wanted.
Although this world was created by Tom Mu.
But Alessa suddenly had an impulse.
Even if she is deceiving herself, she still wants to stay here.
"Oh!"
While walking well, Tom Mu suddenly let out a ghostly scream!

"What's wrong?"
Alessa was a little confused.
However, Tang Mu and Li Ang ran straight towards a tree in front of them.
One person and one cat bent down at the same time and picked up a straight wooden stick from the ground.
Li Ang and Tang Mu held on to both ends of the stick, refusing to give in to each other.
"Meow!"
Tang Mu showed his fangs and threatened Li Ang.
This is what it sees first.
"He who sees it has a share!"
Li Ang also stared at Tang Mu, not wanting to hand over this long and straight stick.
"Meow!"
Tang Mu shouted, rushed forward, and fought with Li Ang.
"Why……"
Alessa shook her head helplessly.
Boys are just childish.
What's so valuable about a stick?
With a glance, Alessa walked to the canteen nearby.
She saw beautiful animals thereDraw character stickers.
Prices in this era are just right, especially at the entrance to primary schools.
Even though Alessa only had two dollars in her pocket, it was still enough for her to buy some things she wanted.
Even after buying the stickers, she could also buy a pack of spicy strips for 50 cents.
Ignore Tang Mu and Li Ang who are fighting for sticks over there.
Alessa went home first.
I just opened the door.
Alessa felt a strong wind blowing past her.
The big cat wearing a long skirt and heavy makeup was already standing in the living room, serving food to the dining table.
Seeing Alessa come back, Tom turned his head and grinned with bright red lipstick: "Welcome home."
Alessa was stunned for a moment and said speechlessly: "You should hide the stick on your back first and then pretend to be my mother."
Tom pretended not to hear the call, just whistled, quietly dropped the stick to his feet, and then kicked it away.
When Alessa saw Tom turning around and returning to the kitchen, a smile appeared on her face and she whispered, "I'm back."