The red candy fell into Zheng Qing's mouth, and like it was oiled, it slid right down into his stomach.
Duan Xiaojian, who was looking for Liu Feifei and Nicholas, suddenly turned his head and revealed a lewd smile.
Zhang Jixin blinked, the concern on his Face vanished without a trace, leaving only excitement: "How is it? What does it feel like? What flavor?"
Zheng Qing did not speak.
Because a strange sensation was spreading from his stomach, rolling towards his limbs and meridians. The tuft of hair on top of his head suddenly stood up, then slumped back into his hair; his hands and feet felt a tingling sensation, making him unable to help but stand up, jumping around and scratching himself.
"Is it nettle-flavored?" Xin Fatty came over with a plate of cake, seriously observing the bouncing Zheng Qing: "It looks very stimulating."
His Face had turned blue at some point.
The other boys also gathered around Zheng Qing, pointing and commenting with great interest.
Zheng Qing opened his mouth wide, wanting to say something, but the stimulating sensation stubbornly surged towards his head, until it reached his Yongquan point, then it swirled and burst out of his eyes.
His tears then uncontrollably gushed out.
"I think it's chili," Zhang Jixin said confidently, pointing to the two lines of blood-red tears slowly trickling down Zheng Qing's cheeks, analyzing: "Given his strong stimulating sensation and the color of these tears, it must be chili flavor, no doubt!"
"No! No! No!" Xin Fatty shook his fat, short fingers, refuting: "Qing Ge'er is eating smoke candy for the first time, so it's not surprising his reaction is strong. As for this color of tears, I know no less than fifteen types! For example, cinnabar, goji berries, saffron, tomatoes, pomegranates... these can all make people shed red tears."
"But it's definitely not nettle, that kind of smoke candy makes green tears," Zhang Jixin pouted.
"Hehe, it's not over yet," Duan Xiaojian hunched over, smiling as he observed Zheng Qing, looking exactly like those villainous lackeys in movies: "Once he sprays out the smoke, won't we know the final result!"
As they spoke, Zheng Qing already knew he had been tricked again.
But at this moment, he had no mind to cause trouble; as soon as the continuous rounds of stimulating sensations slightly subsided, he heard an ominous gurgling sound from his stomach. It was as if an Airbus was about to take off from his belly.
Then, his recently closed mouth opened again.
A puff of smoke rushed out, gathering into the shape of a chili pepper in front of him.
Xin Fatty let out a long sigh of regret, raised his glass, and downed a glass of blood-red mist wine.
Strangely, when that puff of smoke was between his internal organs, Zheng Qing only felt suffocated. Once the smoke left, it seemed to take all the uncomfortable sensations with it, even the dizziness from drinking earlier seemed to be carried away by this puff of smoke.
For a moment, he felt completely refreshed from head to toe.
"What is this?" After beating Zhang Jixin, who was covering his head, Zheng Qing wiped away the bloody marks on his cheeks and asked.
"Smoke candy," Duan Xiaojian also honestly downed a large glass of mist wine and apologized.
"Smoke candy?"
"It's basically candy made by solidifying smoke of various flavors," Xin Fatty shrugged indifferently beside him, reaching out to hand Zheng Qing a glass filled with blood-red mist wine, adding: "It's the flagship product of Panda Candy Group, and no one knows how it's made. According to newspaper speculation, besides general Talisman techniques, it also incorporates some alien technology."
"What is this again!" Zheng Qing looked warily at the glass the fatty handed him, taking a step back.
"Demon blood wine, the most popular infused wine in the Wizarding World. It's brewed with demon blood essence and infused with various medicinal herbs, a very good thing." Tang Dun appeared among them at some point, smilingly raising the red drink in his hand and taking a sip.
Zheng Qing quickly raised his glass and took a sip as well.
The wine flavor was not strong, but it was slightly bitter, with a very full mouthfeel, somewhat like an aged vintage.
"That smoke candy seems to be very good for sobering up," Zheng Qing took another sip of the blood wine, saying with some lingering desire: "And it feels very comfortable after eating."
"That kind of thing, you should eat less of it," Tang Dun shook his head and said: "Things that are too stimulating like this still have a certain impact on us wizards, especially mentally."
He tapped his forehead with his finger.
Zheng Qing licked his lips, sighing with a slight regret.
"Ah!" A girl's scream interrupted the boys' wine party.
Zheng Qing turned his head, several girls were frantically jumping away from the wine table, occasionally reaching out to swat something.
"I was just thinking of an excuse to go over there," Xin Fatty stretched his thick, short neck to glance over, then quickly turned back to refill his glass, grinning at the guys beside him, and said with a chuckle: "What a great opportunity."
"Ahem," Class Monitor Tang, who was mature and steady, cleared his throat twice and said with a chuckle: "Since our female classmates are in trouble, as the boys in the class, we have to go over and see what happened."
"Yes."
"Exactly!"
A group of boys with shining eyes reached a consensus.
Zheng Qing silently followed behind these people, desperately trying to convince himself that his blushing was due to drinking too much.
By the time he got there, the matter had already been resolved to Perfection.
A girl was eating a cookie when a black cockroach crawled out of it, startling her. The entire table of girls was affected.
"This isn't a cockroach at all," Duan Xiaojian chuckled, grabbed a cookie, and handed it to Zheng Qing.
Zheng Qing held the Edge of the cookie, brought it closer to his eyes, and found that this cookie, which was baked into a ghost Face, seemed to be screaming in pain. As its mouth opened and closed, a small, black bug crawled out of the cookie's mouth.
"What a great hard candy," Seeing the little bug about to crawl onto the ground, Zheng Qing still hadn't made up his mind to eat it, so Duan Xiaojian lost patience, twitched his finger, and flicked the bug into his mouth out of thin air, crunching it with a crackle, and exclaimed: "It's coffee-flavored too."
Zheng Qing grimaced and said nothing, just took a bite of the cookie in his hand.
Powdered sugar rustled down from the cookie's eye sockets, like tears.
Zheng Qing felt a chill and immediately stuffed it all into his mouth.
Beside him, the girl who had screamed earlier was dramatically describing her frightening experience:
"I took a cookie from the plate, and suddenly I saw a bug crawl out of the cookie... At first, I thought the store's pastries were contaminated!... It scared me to death!"
The girl had fair skin, a middle-parted hairstyle, and thin lips.
Zheng Qing vaguely remembered her name was Ma something-xin.
Xin Fatty's next sentence solved that puzzle for him.
"Ma Kexin! You need to calm down." Xin Fatty handed the girl a glass with a serious expression, inside which a milky white mist rotated gently: "Have some mist wine, this stuff is very good for girls."
"I won't!" Ma Kexin looked excited, but her hand unhesitatingly grabbed the glass, her thin lips curving up in excitement: "If Mama knew I drank alcohol my first week at University, she would definitely be angry."
"It's okay, come on, come on," Class Monitor Tang stood beside the female Class Monitor Jiang Yu, calling out to everyone, trying his best to appear mature and steady: "We're all in the same class, we haven't even had a drink together yet."
Jiang Yu was whispering something to her female companion beside her, seeming to completely disregard Class Monitor Tang's call.
"She's like a queen," Xin Fatty muttered to himself.
Duan Xiaojian looked at Ma Kexin, nodding in deep agreement.
After several calls, everyone gave the Class Monitor some Face.
A group of people quickly formed a circle.
"Cheers!"
A pile of wine glasses clinked together, producing a joyful sonata.
The transparent glass walls reflected a bunch of excited smiling Faces.