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This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:chuappgame, author: Peng Chuwei

They are happily watching the high school students waiting to be saved in the group, but where are the high school students?

At the moment when I joined "Save the Senior three", I came up with such a picture: a group of enthusiastic adults grabbed the mobile phones of high school students and said with the rich voice of a superhero: "We will save your Rank in the game." and you, go learn! "

More than half a month ago, I joined this group. In the daily chat and fierce battle with my friends, the picture in my mind became more and more lifelike. In the virtual space, many warm and simple people kindly asked me, "do you want to score?"

Hearing their words, the warm current of kindness surged in the bottom of my heart. For a moment, I realized the nuance between the status quo and the expectation, but soon a person pulled me back into an atmosphere of kindness and enthusiasm. His name is Qinghe, and he is the founder of saving the third group of senior high school.

A good start on January 3 this year, Qinghe was in "what if he wants to raise the game to the highest Rank in the third year of high school?" Under the question of Zhihu, he added a sentence to his thousand likes: "this post has been effective for a long time to help senior high school students!"

In this question, a user who claimed to be in the third year of high school wrote down his troubles. He said that he usually studies very hard, but he still wants to reach the highest Rank by his own efforts-but it is not easy for a senior high school student.

This brings back memories of Qinghe. Qinghe has a cousin who likes to play games, but his college entrance examination results are a mess. He has not been admitted to the university for two years in a row.

After the results of the college entrance examination were released the next year, his cousin disappeared from the sight of his relatives, and no one knew how his grades were or where he went. A year later, Qinghe saw his cousin again. His cousin told him that he felt ashamed to go home after the exam, so he went to a factory in Guizhou and worked on the assembly line for a year. Recently, I felt that the factory was really depressed and hard, so I came back and planned to study again for another year.

Qinghe felt sorry for what happened to his cousin. On November 23 last year, after Zhihu saw the question, he wrote down his answer as soon as possible.

His own experience may be a reference for young people. In his answer, Qinghe recalled his cousin's experience and wrote carefully: "if you don't get into college, you'll have to move bricks on the Futukang assembly line for four years, and you won't have time to play games." Then he added his own idea: "although the average college student is now, you have to be the average person first."

Qinghe once regretted that he had not been admitted to a good university and was only admitted to an ordinary university. Qinghe has vivid memories of the college entrance examination: he stayed late at the Internet bar the day before and walked into the examination room the next day.

"this seems to be the situation for a lot of people." Qinghe regards the experience of himself and his cousin as a setback that most people will suffer: some people are smart and have clear goals, and can turn playing games into help; others are not strong in mind and have ambiguous goals, and playing games is a trap to step into. Time is running out.

In July last year, Qinghe's cousin took the college entrance examination again and was finally admitted to a university, but not everyone had the chance to enter the factory for a year and come back to study again, so Qinghe planned to help high school students play games in a gentle way. Qinghe left an eye-catching gap in the middle of his answer, followed by the final advice to the questioner who claimed to be a high school student: "I won't talk about the big truth." help you and you're done. "

In order to do this, he built a "Save the Senior three". Within weeks, Qinghe's answer garnered more than 100,000 views, hundreds of comments and dozens of private messages. These messages can be roughly divided into two categories: one is to ask Qinghe to help him play the senior title, and the other is to score high school students together with Qinghe.

Qinghe told me that his way to help high school students is to log in to the game with the QR code sent by the other side, and then improve the ranking of the account with a high victory rate, and finally make the account get a senior title. As for how to distinguish whether he is a high school student or not, Qinghe said that he will judge by his tone of voice: when communicating with high school students, he can feel a sense of astringency.

Of course, he also scores points for people who speak less bluntly, because he feels obliged to help friends who come to support him. He pulls these people and those who want to give grades to high school students into the group.

But not everyone can join the group. Qinghe made a lot of efforts to judge who was more qualified to come in. He has set some hard thresholds for those who join the group, such as not being an advertising liar, nor a fee-based practice, let alone an adult who only wants to practice for free and pays no attention to others.

Qinghe chatted over and over with everyone who wanted to join the group, carefully considering whether the other person was worth being dragged into the group chat. He wants his group to be pure enough. "Pure" means that everyone has to have a common good wish-to help high school students score. Around this wish, people talk about topics that can improve their game skills, invite each other to team games, and hone their skills in actual combat.

So far, there are a total of 58 people in the group, who come from all over the world, ranging in age from teenagers to thirties, mainly college students, graduate students and doctoral students, and some social people who have got married like Qinghe. Qinghe spends four hours with them after work every day. On weekends, Qinghe will go to the river to catch fish for a day. When fishing, he also talks about some game technology topics in the group.

Fishing also follow the group in this way, one after another, Qinghe help more than 40 people won the senior title. For Qinghe, simply playing games is not that interesting, in order to improve the winning rate, he has to keep playing the same hero, which is not a good experience. Qinghe feels that the best thing about the top score is the moment he returns his account to others-the sense of achievement of achieving his goal, the gratitude he gets for helping others, and the satisfaction of encouraging young people. It makes him feel like he's young again.

At ordinary times, Qinghe occasionally feels the tiredness of middle-aged life. Day after day to go to work, raise children, and go fishing by the river on weekends, the passion and vitality seemed to fade away, and the people in this group gave him a hint of freedom and romance.

He told me about the moment when the best part of the feeling came: he won the highest title for a graduate student who asked his real name and told him to put his name in the thank you at the end of the paper.

Qinghe's tone was very insipid, but he still showed unconcealed joy. With the good wish of "saving high school students", in the days since the founding of the group, he has spent a lot of time and goodwill, but also gained a lot of gratitude and encouragement.

Something's wrong. The conversation with Qinghe is easy. He knows how to express his feelings, and he is equally good at conveying them to others. I can feel his kindness to young people, which comes from his rich life experience. We had a good chat, but I vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Just as I was trying to catch this kind of error, Qinghe's words interrupted my thoughts.

"Don't talk about it for a moment. The aquatic plants and Magima in the group are looking for me." Qinghe said to me, and then added, "Magima is a high school student."

Marchma went to Qinghe to help others score together. As the youngest member of the group, Marchma's speech is always short, usually a single word into a sentence. When others praise him, he will write down "6", and when he is invited, he will say "fight".

He thought it would show a master style. People in the group call him the "national server boss"-the player who is the best at a certain hero in the country.

Today, under the "anti-addiction" rule, most minors are limited to three hours a week. The name Marchma comes from the character of the same name in the cartoon "chainsaw Man". The character's ability is to "dominate entities that are subjectively considered to be inferior to themselves". It sounds very secondary two, but for Marchma, joining this group is, in a sense, dominating people who are weaker than themselves. In his mind, this "weakness" is reflected in both the ability to play and the ability to learn. Magima sees "domination" as a kind of help.

One day in December last year, Magima saw the question on Zhihu's home page. He came to this group along Qinghe's answer, only to find that many people in the group were "weaker" than him in the game. So he proposed to Qinghe to form a team game together.

In Magima's eyes, the inability to balance learning and games is also a kind of "weakness". This kind of "weakness" is more sympathetic than the low level of the game. With this sympathy, he decided to help the seniors in this group. As for Magima himself, he decided to do military service as soon as he finished high school and be a qualified soldier to defend his country-he liked the word "defense" very much, like a distinct line that divides the world into two halves, with the "strong" who can protect on one side and the "weak" who need to be protected on the other.

When someone in the group is invited to play together, Marchma always responds to each other in time, except in class. Marchma told the crowd that the reason why she could not come to class was not to study, but to "respect the teacher."

"but not all teachers deserve respect." Magima told me. He particularly hated teachers who cracked down on poor students. On one occasion, he posted a screenshot of a class group in the group, showing a man scolding a girl with poor academic performance. After a while, he sent out more pictures, all of which featured teacher-like people insulting students with poor grades in group chats. Some of the pictures are from his own class, and some are from his friends.

"I have never received such abuse." Marchma explained, "but I hate people who bully the weak."

With such a desire to protect the weak, Marchma forms a team with Qinghe every day in the group. Unlike Qinghe, Marchma thinks that her help to high school students is indirect. He does not log in directly to the accounts of high school students. Instead, he helps Qinghe improve his winning rate by forming a team together, so that Qinghe can score faster.

Compared with Qinghe, Magima doesn't care much about whether she can get thanks from high school students. He feels that it is his duty. In the game, he is strong, so he has to help the weak. Through such role-playing, Marchma constructed an ideal self. In his imagination of "self", as a "weak", "high school students" must exist in this group.

Marchma never takes the initiative to ask whether the account number of the helped person belongs to a high school student. He firmly believes that there are always endless high school students there, both inside and outside the group, whether they are silent group members or Qinghe Wechat friends. They waited in line for Qinghe to board their account and sent an invitation to Magima to form a team.

For Magima, joining this group also has a double meaning. On the one hand, he helps the "weak" who have no talent for games and learning ability in the group; on the other hand, helping the "weak" also satisfies his dream of being a hero. Whatever the reason, Marchma doesn't care much about the thoughts of the high school students who are helped.

But there is one person who takes this into consideration. This person is an aquatic plant.

"so what's the point of this group saving high school students?" When I was chatting with Magima, I received a message from aquatic plants, like asking me or myself.

Aquatic plants keep a low profile and do not often speak in the group. He likes to watch others talk and think for himself. Aquatic plants often visit game forums, so when Qinghe's answer became a hot spot and was pushed to his Zhihu home page, he quickly contacted Qinghe and asked the other party to take him in the event. From then on, he often played games with Qinghe and Machima in the group, and they were members of the inner circle of the group.

When you want to help high school students, aquatic plants will shout in the group: "which student needs to score? add me if you need it." Then wait for others to add him as Wechat friend. When no one came to join him, he would team up with Qinghe and Magima. He sometimes felt that Qinghe must have contacted many high school students, and that the account used by Qinghe should be the account of high school students.

In the process, the idea of aquatic plants is very similar to that of Marchma: "as long as you can win the game, it will help."

The opportunity for a high school student to join this group has something to do with his own memories. At 03:00 in the senior high school, out of desire to win or lose, he invested a lot of time in the game to "improve his technology." In his mind, the most important thing for high school boys is whether they can reach a certain Rank, and whether this Rank is higher than their peers. He also knows that this Rank is not worth mentioning when it comes out of society. After graduating from high school, Shuicao went to a junior college. During his college internship, he found that the job he wanted to do was not educated enough, and he did not like the job with sufficient academic qualifications, so he "plugged in" for another year.

Shuicao is a veteran member who joined the group at the beginning of its founding. He typed very slowly, as if he was carefully reflecting on every word he said. This reflective quality makes him more quickly and deeply aware of the inconsistencies in his behavior-"can we really save students?" After thinking about it for a long time, the aquatic plant finally came to the answer: not sure.

Shuicao carefully analyzed it with his friends. He thought that some students might think that it was enough to get the title, and some students might think psychologically that "I didn't play this, and I'm still not satisfied." but because their own technical level is not enough, they may be "afraid to play, afraid of losing points", or "play for a while and find that it's boring", so they play even less.

Shuicao feels that he belongs to the latter, the kind of person who is "afraid of losing points". If a person had contacted him in high school to help him score, his life would have been very different now. Out of this idea, aquatic plants joined the group. The significance of taking a Rank for a person in the group is to save himself from the past. Shuicao believes that in the process of continuous rescue, one day he will reconcile with himself who wasted time in the past and "let himself climb another tall building."

Looking at the water grass by the shadow of the past, he realized earlier and faster than many people in the group that "helping senior three students by playing games" may always be a good wish that can not be realized, because he has not seen the helped junior high school students in the group. But he still invested a lot of time in the group, because he believed that if there were high school students like him in the group, what he did would be helpful, and in the process of helping high school students, he can also gradually forget the unyielding self of the past.

When the aquatic plants talked to me about reconciliation and redemption, my conversation with Magima also got to the point. Magima told me that his current study task is not onerous, so he has plenty of time to help people play games. I was surprised to hear it and asked him, "aren't you in your third year of high school?" After a while, Magima scratched her head and said, "I'm a sophomore."

At this point, I finally understand what "something is wrong" that I have always felt-Qinghe and Shuicao, who believe that there are high school students in the group, and Marchima is indeed a high school student, but he is in his second year of high school. Most of the other people in the group are college students or graduate students, so there are very few high school students in the group who are really from the third year of high school and waiting for a grade.

Still waiting, but there may be no need to wait for nearly midnight, the group is still very lively. These days are the interval between the old season and the new season, and people are talking about the trivia of life: Qinghe talks about the difference between marriage and pre-marriage, talking about his children, talking about fishing, and persuading Marchma to read; Magima talks about how good-looking girls are in Sichuan; and the aquatic plants send out selfies and talk to people who like his photos.

People who play games in the group, this is a small microcosm of the group. People gather together with a happy attitude to share the joy of life and games-perhaps, as Qinghe said, "this group will eventually become a group with the theme of sharing daily and technological exchanges."

I have been in the group for half a month, and the only person I know who has anything to do with the identity of a "high school student" is a teenager like Marchma, who has a clear understanding and plan for his future. I just want to spend my energy in a place where I can chat and find someone to play games.

Finally, both aquatic plants and Magima have found their good friends, gained some meaning, and spent countless happy games in the group. Qinghe didn't bring many high school students into the group from beginning to end, but he gave a lot of points to many friends and got a lot of thanks. These thanks gave him a lot of satisfaction in addition to taking care of his children and fishing.

On the last day of 2022, Qinghe told me that some real high school students had actually come to him, but in order to protect them, he did not let them join the group. "there was a little girl who spoke well, so I told her to study hard," Qinghe said. "We were just chatting, talking about dreams, talking about the future."

"if you want to help high school students, you don't have to score in the game." Finally, Qinghe said so to me.

Qinghe's words remind me of my fantasy picture before I joined the group. Up to now, I still think the picture is very vivid. Everything I imagine is working as usual, maybe some elements are missing, but it doesn't seem to matter. At the very least, everyone is still living happily-- this is saving the senior three, and the people in the group are still waiting for more "high school students" who need help to join. They will keep waiting.

They are still waiting (Qinghe, Maqima and aquatic plants are aliases in the article. )

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