"Brother Lin!"
Li Yang directly shouted Lin Beichen's name, then took a few quick steps to reach him, joining his hands in a 'Thousand Years of Pain' gesture and waving them in front of Lin Beichen’s eyes. He joked, "You say you don't want it, but your body is very honest, isn't it? You're not at home studying lightning; you've decided to come out and play with us?"
At this point, he realized he hadn't mentioned where they were meeting, so he turned to the classmates who had caught up and asked, "Who told Brother Lin that we were meeting here?"
The classmates were all stunned, then shook their heads in unison, indicating it wasn't them.
At this moment, Lin Beichen also realized. He hadn't expected to run into Li Yang and the others while just buying something at the mall.
"No one told me."
Lin Beichen looked at Li Yang, smiled, and shook his head, saying, "Actually, I just came to Yida Commercial Street to buy some things. I didn't expect to run into you guys by such a coincidence."
"Coming to buy things so early in the morning?"
Li Yang pursed his lips and peered into the plastic bag, but after a long time, he still couldn't see what was inside. "What did you buy?"
As he spoke, he reached out to take the plastic bag from Lin Beichen's hand.
Zhang Hao laughed heartily and said, "Who cares what he bought, Brother Lin? Since you're already here, are you going back? Just have fun with us, and that's it!"
When he mentioned this, the other classmates also chimed in.
"That's right, Brother Lin!"
"Brother Lin, at most, we won't let you treat us to milk tea!"
"Exactly, exactly! Let Li Yang treat us!"
"Brother Lin, you're not still thinking of going home to continue studying lightning, are you? Hahaha."
"..."
Lin Beichen was handsome and had a good personality. He usually had good relationships with his classmates, and everyone was willing to play with him.
"It's nothing."
Lin Beichen didn't wrestle with Li Yang and just let him take the plastic bag. At the same time, he gave an apologetic smile to the other classmates and said, "I really don't have time today. I have to go home immediately. I'm truly sorry. Another day, another day I'll treat everyone to a good time!"
"Good heavens!"
At this moment, Li Yang's astonished voice rang out.
Li Yang opened the plastic bag and looked inside with a strange expression.
The other classmates, startled by his shout, also looked over.
Inside the plastic bag were many lighters and stun guns. Both the lighters and the stun guns came in various models, with no two alike!
From small lighters with piezoelectric igniters to police-grade stun guns...
These were the devices Lin Beichen intended to use to experience electric shocks. Based on the information he found online yesterday, he came early in the morning to purchase them within the safe voltage range for human tolerance.
"So many stun guns??"
"Brother Lin, are you studying lightning at home, or are you studying stun guns?"
"Why are you buying so many lighters, Brother Lin? I remember you don't smoke?"
"..."
The classmates were all dumbfounded.
Li Yang exaggerated even more, saying, "Brother Lin, tell me the truth, have you already found a path for yourself? Are you going to take over from Yang Yongxin and become the new generation Lightning Dao King?"
"Get lost!"
Lin Beichen gave Li Yang an exasperated look, then snatched the plastic bag back from his hand. He didn't explain anything, just waved to his classmates and said, "You guys have fun. I'm going to leave now, okay."
They watched Lin Beichen's back quickly disappear at the end of the Commercial Street.
The classmates withdrew their gazes, looking at each other in a daze.
What had just happened...
It was truly too strange!
However, this was just a small interlude after all.
They quickly regained their energetic selves.
"Let's play our game!"
Li Yang waved his hand grandly and walked towards the milk tea shop: "What do you guys want to drink? I'll go order!"
...
On the other side.
After parting ways with his classmates, Lin Beichen returned home and immediately went into his own little world. Then, he skillfully disassembled a lighter and took out the igniter inside.
"Tsk!"
Looking at the small black device pinched between his two fingers, Lin Beichen was no stranger to it; he often used this thing to play pranks when he was a child.
"I used to use this to shock other people. I never thought there would be a day when I'd be shocking myself."
Lin Beichen, caught between laughter and tears, pressed the wires connected to the igniter against his arm, then pressed the metal cap.
"Click--!"
Although he was prepared, it was clear that his preparation wasn't enough.
The moment he felt the electric shock, he didn't even have time to register the sensation. His arm instinctively jerked, pushing the igniter away.
"Good heavens, this little thing is quite powerful!"
Lin Beichen took a deep breath, calmed his fluctuating emotions, and put himself in a state of super-focused attention before pressing the metal cap again.
"Click--!"
This time, having made more complete preparations, he felt the sensation of the electric shock!
But...
He only felt the sensation of the electric shock; beyond that, there was no other feeling.
Fortunately, Lin Beichen had already anticipated that the process of comprehension would not be smooth.
He did not get discouraged.
He pressed the metal cap again.
"Click--!"
"Click--!"
"..."
He didn't know how many times he had pressed the metal cap.
Suddenly!
Lin Beichen felt a different sensation appear on his arm, or, more accurately, at the exact point where the igniter was shocking him.
The moment he heard the click, the first sensation was no longer a stinging pain, but rather a restless movement of the fine hairs around that point, accompanied by a burning sensation. The next instant, the fine hairs calmed down, and the stinging pain reappeared.
The stinging sensation wasn't the first sensation after all!
But why would the fine hairs be restless?
Where exactly did the burning sensation come from?
...
Lin Beichen's mind raced, and his hands were not idle, continuously pressing the metal cap of the igniter.
"Click--!"
"Click--!"
"..."
He didn't know how many more times he had been shocked.
Lin Beichen felt that the point on his arm that was constantly being shocked had become numb, almost unable to feel the stinging pain, but the sensation that occurred before the stinging pain became increasingly clear.
"Click--!"
Just after this electric shock.
Suddenly!
He found that all sensations seemed to slow down by several times.
He seemed to feel the relatively perfectly balanced positive and negative charges on the surface of his body, surrounding the fine hairs, constantly restless.
It was electric charges!
The restlessness of the fine hairs, and that burning sensation...
They were all caused by the positive and negative charges, which were originally relatively perfectly balanced and stable around the fine hairs, becoming unstable after being subjected to the electric shock!
"But..."
"Although the positive and negative charges I felt became unstable, they seemed to remain in a completely balanced state for a period of time!"
"Did the electric shock really change the balance?"
"But why didn't it change the balance of positive and negative charges immediately?"
"And..."
"Isn't electricity produced by the collision of positive and negative charges?"
"In that case, once electricity is released, it is neutral and no longer carries any positive or negative properties. How can it change the balance of positive and negative charges that are in a completely balanced state?"
"..."
A series of thoughts made Lin Beichen, who initially thought he was close to the answer he wanted, realize that he seemed to be very, very far from the answer.
His intuition told him...
There must be a problem somewhere!