Chapter Twenty-Three Memories

  "It only swallows man-made objects, and does not swallow raw materials. To be precise, it only swallows utensils, such as food and medicine that can be eaten."

  It was several days later, and time had once again arrived at the weekend. At sunset, near the streets of County No. 1 High School, Guo Zhengyang walked out of a supermarket with a single-shoulder backpack, and his eyes also flashed with a hint of confusion.

  On Monday morning, he got that gourd, and in the blink of an eye, five days passed. For five days, he has been using his spare time during meals or after self-study to do various experiments before lights out. After so many trials, he basically figured out the characteristics of that gourd.

  That thing swallows something and when it spits it out, it makes that thing undergo a qualitative change. An ordinary knife can become sharp enough to cut through iron like mud, as if it were a divine weapon. Ordinary clothes can become impenetrable to knives and guns, as if they were precious armor. But this gourd only swallows man-made objects, such as knives, clothes, teacups, books, wallets, etc.

  Other things such as leaves, grass and other natural objects, the calabaza does not swallow. Also baozi, snacks, medicines and so on are man-made but they are food, not utensils, the calabaza also does not swallow them.

  Swallow something, and after a while in the gourd it will spit it out. The time it takes to swallow also depends on the strength of the thing itself that was swallowed. For example, swallowing clothes, the calabaza will spit them out in about an hour, but swallowing paper, it will spit it out in just a few minutes. Swallowing a green brick takes about two hours, and a knife takes three or four hours.

  The more fragile the thing it swallows, the easier it is to destroy, and the faster it spits out. The change after being spat out is also relatively weak. For example, paper that has been swallowed by a gourd is still much tougher than ordinary paper, and ordinary people may not be able to tear it even with force, but Guo Zhengyang can still easily tear it apart. However, clothes that have been swallowed by the gourd cannot be torn apart even with Guo Zhengyang's strength of several hundred kilograms. Similarly, bricks that have been swallowed by the gourd are as hard as steel, but can still be easily cut by a knife that has also been swallowed by the gourd.

  Everything goes in a circle and comes out, changing direction is only two, either becoming extremely tough or becoming extremely sharp. As for the things that have been swallowed once, it will not swallow them again.

  In addition, Guo Zhengyang also discovered another characteristic of the gourd, that is, if it doesn't swallow anything, when he tries to pick it up with his hand, he can't do it at all. As soon as he picks it up, he will feel nauseous and want to vomit. At this time, he either has to find something for the gourd to swallow, after which it can be picked up freely, or wrap the gourd in an object that the gourd has swallowed before picking it up, or use some objects that the gourd won't swallow to wrap around it, as long as there is a barrier in between, it can be grasped.

  "The properties of this thing are now temporarily clear to me, but what is it after all? It's so magical that any artificial tool can become extremely powerful in just one circle, it's simply unbelievable."

  Although he had roughly figured out everything about the gourd, Guo Zhengyang's doubts only grew bigger, mainly because this thing's abilities were simply too heaven-defying.

  He really thought that if he had a master-level spiritual instrument now, it should also be possible for the gourd to swallow and turn around in circles, wouldn't those spiritual instruments be able to upgrade one or two levels? From low-grade spiritual instruments directly becoming mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade?

  Top-grade spiritual artifact directly turns into a magic treasure?

  If it were really like this, this calabaza would be enough to drive the entire Xiuzhen world crazy.

  Not to mention one Wind Flower Pill is far from comparable, even if there were ten thousand more Wind Flower Pills, they wouldn't be worthy of holding the shoes of this crooked gourd.

  This time, after killing the long-haired man and snatching the opportunity from his opponent's hands, Guo Zhengyang felt like he was dreaming. Comparing the two opportunities, he found that although they were both opportunities, their magnitude could be vastly different, differing by as much as a thousand miles.

  However, after the shock, Guo Zhengyang quickly regained his composure and rushed to Class A. Today was Friday again, although there were no exams, but as another week passed, the college entrance examination was also one week closer, and his time was getting shorter and shorter, so he still had to go back and study.

  "Studying is important, but this warped gourd also needs to be put away properly. First, I'll wrap it in clothes, lest it swallows my desk directly without anything inside, that would be hilarious. From now on, I won't let it swallow things randomly, the more things it swallows, the harder it is for me to deal with them after it spits them out, and without a storage ring, it's just too inconvenient..."

  Gathering his emotions, Guo Zhengyang temporarily did not plan to continue studying the gourd. After all, no matter how good the gourd was, it didn't have a direct use for him at present. He could only put it away and wait until his cultivation improved before using it again.

  But just as Guo Zhengyang was walking, a shout of surprise suddenly rang out from his side, "Guo Zhengyang?"

  As soon as Guo Zhengyang heard the voice and turned his head, he saw that there were two boys and four girls staring at him from across the street. Those people were all young men and women, among whom Guo Zhengyang knew two of them. One was An Xiang, and the other was An Xiang's deskmate. Last Sunday evening when he went to return money to An Xiang after school, there was a girl with An Xiang, but it wasn't those two girls who called out his name. Instead, it was another tall and slender girl who didn't look very pretty but had some charm, plus her fashionable outfit and fiery figure, which made her look very youthful and spirited.

  In that row of four girls, the prettiest and most eye-catching was An Qi. Next to her was this girl, whose looks were two grades lower than An Qi's, but her figure was the hottest among the four girls. Her plump chest was a street ahead of the other three girls, and her beautiful legs, although not very slender, were extremely long and slightly plump, looking very sexy.

  It seemed also because of the sexy girl's shout, several others beside her looked over.

  After seeing the situation over there, Guo Zhengyang was stunned at first, and then he stared at the girl who was calling him and was completely stunned.

  Is it really her?

  He really recognized who this girl was, and Guo Zhengyang indeed felt a little absent-minded, because this girl had left an impression in his memory.

  The other party had chased after him, but that wasn't the key point. In Guo Zhengyang's high school years, there were quite a few girls who had chased after him. It could be said that after his rebirth, he only remembered being popular in high school, but couldn't recall who exactly had confessed to him. He remembered the girl with the sexy figure in front of him, only because in his impression, about a month later, she would jump from the fourth floor window of the teaching building, landing headfirst and dying instantly.

  It was because of that incident that Guo Zhengyang remembered the name Fang Xiaoying and the fact that she had been chasing him, as it was the first time he saw a dead person in his previous life.

  In her memory, Fang Xiaoying was raped by a male student surnamed Yang, which led to the idea of suicide.

  However, the reason was not known at first because Fang Siying did not leave a suicide note when she jumped off the building. The police announced that she had chosen to end her life due to poor grades and immense pressure as the college entrance exam approached.

  It wasn't until more than a month had passed, near the time of the college entrance exams, that another male student with the surname Gu revealed the truth. He said that one time when they were out playing, the male student with the surname Yang raped her, and then she jumped from a building the next day.

  It is said that the ancient surname male student could not bear the psychological pressure and told the truth, but this truth was soon covered up. The ancient surname male student suddenly dropped out of school, the school denied the rumor, and the Yang surname male student also transferred schools...

  Guo Zhengyang had only heard about it in passing, but the truth was that the ancient surname boy dropped out of school because his family was threatened and he himself was repeatedly beaten. The Yang surname boy's family was very powerful, and it was said to be a shady force. In the end, the whole thing was swept under the rug. When Guo Zhengyang was still in school, before the college entrance exams, he had heard that the Yang surname boy was living comfortably in another school, mixing and mingling with others. After the college entrance exams, he no longer paid attention to this matter.

  In his memory, Fang Xiaoying was about to take her own life, but at this moment she was standing alive on the opposite side of the road, looking at him with a slightly surprised expression, which made Guo Zhengyang feel dizzy for an instant.