Global University Entrance Examination

Chapter 14: Crossroad

•Guess Who I Am

Humans are very resilient creatures.

The next day, everyone had adapted to their life living in the examinee's rest stop.

Although it was not a town, when compared to the hunter's cabin, it was much better.

There was food to eat, they could sleep at ease, they wouldn't die by going out and there weren't any chickens chasing after you reminding you to submit your answers.

Opposite the rest stop was a house that was three storeys high. It hung heavy plastic curtains that had turned yellow with age and is no longer transparent. Only a faint circle of incandescent light could be seen emanating from within.

There was a wooden sign displayed outside. The word "Warehouse" was written.

"What's a warehouse?" The twin girls asked in unison.

Old Yu was very patient with children. He explained: "It's like a grocery store. It sells everything. You haven't seen it before?"

Not only the girls, many others also shook their heads. They said: "Where we come from, we don't call it that."

"Is that so?" Old Yu muttered.

He was rather crafty so when he followed everyone in, he immediately tried to chat with the owner. After exchanging a few words, he found out that the owner was from the same town.

The owner of the warehouse was surnamed Zhao. He was a very unfriendly fellow townsman.

"Big brother. I'll call you big brother now." Old Yu said this passionately.

The owner Zhao Ding was at most fourty years old and is definitely younger than Old Yu. He had a strong build and a straight back, yet he shamelessly acknowledged this "big brother" nickname. Holding his cigarette, he said monotonously: "Up to you."

Old Yu said: "Big brother, you must have been away from home for many years. My accent isn't strong but yours is even more so. If not for seeing the word "Warehouse", I wouldn't have noticed."

Smoke constantly poured out from Zhao's mouth: "I guess."

"You've always had a shop here?"

Zhao: "Yeah."

Old Yu let out an "oh" and tentatively asked: "Looking at brother's posture, were you a soldier before? Why did you come here to open a shop?"

Zhao finally glanced at him from amidst the smoke. He said a long sentence: I haven't but seeing your posture, were you really once a soldier? How did you become fat like this?"

Old Yu: ".........."

Zhao inhaled the cigarette a few times and extinguished it after only the butt was left: "Don't try to act close. It's not going to work here. You may be acting all touched today but you might be dead tomorrow."

Old Yu: ".........."

"If you're going to buy something, hurry up and do it. If not, leave." Zhao said this and pulled out a new cigarette.

The first floor of the warehouse was covered in smoke. The sick patient Zhou Jin went in and left immediately with a coughing fit. But he didn't give up the opportunity to shop.

Because there were more things in this store than he had imagined.

It looked more like a comprehensive supermarket with a shabby external appearance. There were clothes, blankets, pillows, pots, pans, cups, spoons, chopsticks, medications and anything you would want to find in a supermarket. Things that you don't find in a supermarket were also here. From the first to the third floor, it was completely filled.