Feature Shows Extravaganza - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Photon Fairy

“Oh my! Isn’t this Du Bishu, my defeated opponent? What now? Are you so shameless that you want to challenge me again?”

Wearing a bright, blue jacket, Wang Jiaming stood outside the senior center of his residential area with his arms crossed. He brushed his smooth bangs to one side in a contemptuous manner as he spoke to Du Bishu, who had blocked his way.

He decided that he would ignore Pan Da all together.

Wang Jiaming decided that Pan Da was a lousy yo-yo player. He was too proud to think of the boy as his opponent.

Du Bishu wasn’t agitated by the taunting.

One could have said that he had come prepared and couldn’t care less about Wang Jiaming’s provocation.

“Wang Jiaming, how about we play something else?”

Wang Jiaming was taking out his yo-yo, but he paused when he heard this and asked hesitantly, “What do you want to play?”

Du Bishu looked very sure of himself when he slowly took out his “magic weapon”, which had cost him a week’s worth of breakfast money.

“Balala energy! Salo Salo! Fairy transformation!”

When Du Bishu took out the fairy flute and switched it on, colorful lights flickered in the flute and the confidence vanished from Wang Jiaming’s face. He looked stunned.

Panicked, he stumbled back.

Du Bishu took the opportunity to move closer and pointed the flute at Wang Jiaming.

“Wang Jiaming, do you know what this is?”

“No… I don’t…”

Pan Da and Du Bishu were pleased to see Wang Jiaming like this.

They couldn’t have imagined that they would one day see such a look on the bully’s face.

Wang Jiaming wanted to run, but Pan Da moved in first, catching him by the lower hem of his clothes. Du Bishu followed suit, and the two of them cornered the poor, little bully.

“What on earth do you want?! I told you; I don’t know what that is. I… I’m not competing with you…”

Wang Jiaming hastily took out his yo-yo and spoke in a pleading tone. “Let’s compete with yo-yos! I can verse you with one hand only…”

With yo-yos?

Hah!

Du Bishu smirked. “You’re not talking yourself out of this. Dada! Go!”

“Sure!”

Pan Da immediately took a crumpled poster out from his pocket and flattened it.

It was a printed picture, the one with Wang Jiaming showcasing his fairy flute on his second social media account.

Glaring at the two of them, Wang Jiaming asked in disbelief. “How did you know that’s my account? It’s impossible! No one I know follows me on that account, and it has access restrictions…”

Resting his arms on his waist, Pan Da guffawed like an excited gorilla. “Do you really think your lousy questions can stop me?”

Wang Jiaming had too many secrets in that account, so he had set up a security question for his own protection.

He believed that no one would be able to answer the question.

The question was “What’s my birthday?”

That seemed to be a simple question, for Wang Jiaming’s birthday was no secret. However, the answer wasn’t Wang Jiaming’s own birthday, but his mother’s.

Even his dad couldn’t remember his mom’s birthday, let alone other people.

No one should have been able to answer it.

But Pan Da was able to answer it.

He didn’t do anything special; he just visited Wang Jiaming’s home when he wasn’t there and asked his parents what their birthdays were.

Pan Da only took a wild guess, but he got lucky! Wang Jiaming had indeed used the birthday of a parent!

“Hahaha!”

Pan Da and Du Bishu guffawed, and that wasn’t a very pretty scene.

With the right answer, they had access to all of Wang Jiaming’s dark secrets, including but not limited to his girlie toys, his days when his mother dressed him like a girl, the penguin his cousin drew on his butt, his childhood wish of wanting to become a girl, his crush on Li Yan, the girl from Class C…

This feeling of having total control over another person’s fate —

It felt great!

“These people are laughing…”

Clenching his fists, Wang Jiaming looked dazed.

If his dark secrets got out, would he still be revered as the bully of the residential area? Would his buddies still consider him as their leader?

The thought made Wang Jiaming genuinely scared.

Seeing that Wang Jiaming was mortified, Du Bishu and Pan Da exchanged looks and chuckled. “Well, Wang Jiaming, we’re going to offer you a great deal. From now on, if you address us as Brother Du and Brother Pan, we’ll keep your secrets for you.”

“Really?” Wang Jiaming was pleasantly surprised.

Raising his head, Du Bishu looked like a proud swan. “Of course. Your Brother Du here is a magnanimous man, and he won’t hold grudges against you for things that happened in the past.

“Brother Du!”

Wang Jiaming bowed without hesitation. He turned to Pan Da after addressing Du Bishu. “Brother Pan!”

“Good boy!”

They liked the sound of that.

The two blackmailers tossed the printed picture to Wang Jiaming and left, laughing loudly.

Wang Jiaming felt so indignant, but didn’t dare to turn to others for help. He feared those two boys would reveal his secrets to other people.

He was Wang Jiaming, the famous bully of Zhonghai First Primary School and he had to defend his reputation!

What a tough choice.

After making Wang Jiaming’s life miserable, Du Bishu treated Pan Da to Old Wang’s stuffed bun stall for a few pork and leek stuffed buns, which was very rare for him.

They took a walk around the man-made lake in their residential area as they chewed on their stuffed buns.

“Dada, we’ve defeated out archenemy and life has just become meaningless. I’ve even lost my interests in yo-yo. What do you think I should do?” Du Bishu mumbled, his mouth filled with a stuffed bun.

Glancing at his good friend, Pan Da said contemptuously, “Are you saying that you’re invincible now?”

“Am I not?”

Du Bishu sounded forlorn when he said, “No one else in this residential area has the courage to play with their yo-yo in front of me, Du Bishu, the late night lover, anymore.”

“There’s like 10 yo-yo players in our area… If you’re that good, go play in the Yo-Yo World Cup! There has to be a lot of capable players there!”

The Yo-Yo World Cup?

Du Bishu’s quenched passion was reignited. Swallowing his stuffed bun, he clenched his fists. “That’s so true! I can’t settle on conquering a residential area. I, Du Bishu, will become the king of yo-yo!”

“Where can we enter the competition?”

“I have no idea. Let’s check the bulletin board at the front gate. I think I saw a poster there.” Pan Da shook his head.

They quickened their paces and reached the bulletin board in no time.

“Pengda Yo-Yo World Cup… To enter the game, all contestants will have to prepare their own yo-yos, the Photon Fairy, which has been specially designed for the occasion. Other styles will not be allowed to participate…”

Du Bishu was baffled when he saw this.

One had to buy a special yo-yo to enter the game?

And it was called Photon Fairy?

“What’s wrong with my Sprinting Meteor?”

The two of them went to a toy store afterward. Thanks to the “helpful” shop owner, they saw the PD Photon Fairy, whose exquisite packaging was reflected in its exorbitant price.

“Designated yo-yo for the yo-yo world cup. Equipped with an accelerating external spinning system, it can spin on its own for 10 minutes!”

— PD Photon Fairy!

Retail price: 250 yuan!

“I’m not worth it…”

Du Bishu was defeated by the price.

“You think that’s expensive? There’s a limited edition Photon Fairy S, and that’s sold at 9,999 yuan each! If my wife isn’t in charge of my family account, I’d like to buy one of those myself…”

The shop owner with a receding hairline heaved a sigh.