"Lin!
Li Yang shouted directly at Lin Beichen, then took three steps to be next to him. He made a hand gesture and waved it in front of Lin Beichen, jokingly saying, "You say you don't want to, but your body says otherwise. Not researching Thunder at home, and you still came out to play with us?"
At this point, he realized he hadn't mentioned where to meet, so he turned to the other classmates and asked, "Who told Lin we're gathering here?"
The classmates were all stunned, then shook their heads simultaneously, indicating that it wasn't them.
Only then did Lin Beichen realize what was happening. He had come to the mall to buy some things and unexpectedly bumped into Li Yang and the others.
"No one told me,"
Lin Beichen looked at Li Yang, smiled, and shook his head. "Actually, I just came to Yida to buy some stuff, and it's a coincidence that I ran into you guys."
"Out buying stuff so early in the morning?"
Li Yang squinted at the plastic bag in Lin Beichen's hand, trying to see what was inside but couldn't make it out. "What did you buy?"
As he said this, he reached out to grab the plastic bag from Lin Beichen's hand.
Zhang Hao laughed, "Doesn't matter what he bought. Lin, since you're here already, are you really going back? Come join us for some fun!"
The other classmates echoed his words.
"Yeah, Lin!"
"Lin, you don't have to treat us to bubble tea!"
"Yeah, let Li Yang do it!"
"Lin, you're not going back home to continue researching thunder, are you? Hahaha."
"..."
Lin Beichen was good-looking and had a nice personality. He usually got along well with his classmates, who enjoyed playing with him.
"It's nothing," Lin Beichen didn't struggle with Li Yang and let him take the plastic bag. He then smiled apologetically at the classmates, "I'm really short on time today and have to head back home. Sorry about that. Let's play some other day, my treat!"
"Whoa!"
Li Yang's surprised voice rang out.
Li Yang had opened the plastic bag and was staring at its contents with a strange look.
The other classmates turned to look as well.
Inside the plastic bag were many lighters and stun batons, all in different models without any duplicates!
From small ignition devices inside the lighters to police stun batons...
These were the devices Lin Beichen had bought to experience electric shocks, according to the information he had found online yesterday on safe voltage levels. He had come to buy them early in the morning.
"So many stun batons?"
"Lin, are you actually researching thunder or stun batons?"
"Why so many lighters? Lin, I remember you don't smoke, right?"
"..."
The classmates were dumbfounded.
Li Yang exaggeratedly said, "Lin, tell me the truth. Have you already decided to replace Yang Yongxin and become the next Thunder King?"
"Get out!"
Lin Beichen glared at Li Yang and snatched the plastic bag back from him. Without explaining, he waved to the classmates, "Have fun, I'm heading out now."
They watched Lin Beichen's figure quickly disappear at the end of the street.
The classmates glanced at each other, still in a daze.
Everything that had just happened...
Was truly bizarre!
But, it was just a small interlude.
They quickly got their energy back.
"Let's enjoy ourselves!"
Li Yang waved his hand and headed towards the bubble tea shop, "What do you want to drink? I'll order!"
...
On the other side.
After parting ways with his classmates, Lin Beichen returned home and immediately entered his little workshop. He quickly disassembled a lighter and took out the ignition device inside it.
"Tsk!"
Lin Beichen looked at the small black device between his fingers. He was familiar with it, having often used it to play pranks when he was a child.
"I used to use this to zap others. Never thought I'd be zapping myself one day."
He sighed and placed the wire connected to the ignition device against his arm, then pressed the metal cap.
"Snap--!"
Though he had been prepared, it was evidently not enough.
As soon as he felt the electric shock, he reflexively jolted and pushed the ignition device away.
"Geez, this little thing packs a punch!"
Lin Beichen took a deep breath to calm his nerves. He focused his attention and pressed the metal cap again.
"Snap--!"
This time, he was better prepared and felt the sensation of the electric shock!
But...
He only felt the shock and nothing else.
Well, Lin Beichen had anticipated that enlightenment wouldn't come easily.
He wasn't discouraged.
He pressed the metal cap again.
"Snap--!"
"Snap--!"
"..."
He didn't know how many times he had pressed the metal cap.
Suddenly!
Lin Beichen felt a different sensation on his arm, or more accurately, on the spot where the ignition device was shocking him.
Upon hearing the snap, the first sensation was not pain but the hairs on his skin standing up, followed by a burning feeling. As his hairs settled down, the pain reemerged.
The pain wasn't the first sensation!
But why do hairs stand up?
Where does the burning sensation come from?
...
Lin Beichen's mind raced, and he continued pressing the metal cap.
"Snap--!"
"Snap--!"
"..."
He didn't know how many times he had shocked himself.
Lin Beichen felt his arm had gone numb, barely feeling the pain anymore, yet the sensation before the pain became increasingly clear.
"Snap--!"
After this shock,
Suddenly!
He felt as if all sensations had slowed down.
He seemed to sense the relatively balanced positive and negative charges on his skin, surrounding the hair, agitated.
It's the charges!
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The agitation of the hairs and the burning sensation...
Were caused by the imbalanced charges due to the electric shock!
"But..."
"Although the charges felt unstable, they were still balanced after a while!"
"Did the shock really disrupt the balance?"
"Why didn't the balance change immediately?"
"And..."
"Isn't electricity the result of positive and negative charges colliding?"
"If so, electricity becomes neutral after being released. How can it disrupt the balanced charges then?"
..."
A series of thoughts made Lin Beichen realize that he was perhaps still far from the answer he sought.
His intuition told him...
There must be something off!