The First Analyst of the Interstellar Era

Chapter 13 : Academy Seven

Chen Sui's stunned peripheral vision saw rows of people around her, all uniformly lowering their heads.

And at this moment, when she reacted and prepared to follow the crowd to avoid the teacher's searching gaze.

Yang Qinhe noticed the unfamiliar face in the crowd, looking up.

Although her eyes appeared vacant, looking somewhat dazed, Teacher Yang, who hadn't seen a student's attentive gaze for a long time, nodded with some gratification.

Seeing the faint smile on his face, a chill rose from Chen Sui's back.

This is bad, Chen Sui thought secretly.

She! Had! Been! Spotted!

Sure enough.

"Second-to-last row on the right, black-haired female student," Yang Qinhe raised his hand, gesturing to Chen Sui.

Chen Sui's neck stiffened. She could feel all the surrounding gazes focusing on her, even with some grateful tears.

Chen Sui placed her hand on the desk, slowly standing up.

Yang Qinhe looked at her and asked: "Have you Awakened spiritually yet?"

Chen Sui raised her eyebrows in surprise.

As everyone knows, analysts must be Awakened.

She paused for a moment, but seeing his accommodating gaze, she sincerely shook her head slowly: "No..."

Yang Qinhe nodded understandingly, lowered his head to look at the substitute class information, and casually asked: "In that case, I won't ask you to demonstrate. Let's have a simple test instead."

Seeing that she was a new student, and a new student from another department, Yang Qinhe thought for a few seconds and raised a question that was familiar to military academy students, especially those in the soldier system.

"In your view, what tasks must an analyst complete in an energy field to ensure teammates are safer in combat against energy bodies?"

Chen Sui had just learned about analysts, how would she know what analysts should do? Until she saw the holographic image light up a second ago, she didn't even know this was a second-year course.

She remained silent for too long, causing the surrounding students to start whispering.

A female student sitting in front of Chen Sui covered her mouth with her hand, quietly prompting her: "Energy crystal... position..."

Chen Sui glanced at her, thought seriously for a second, then looked up to answer: "Just ensure my teammates are safe enough?"

Yang Qinhe nodded: "Yes, what methods can make combat safer?"

"It's simple," she raised her brow, her expression cold and severe, starkly contrasting with her thin face.

But at this moment, no one could directly meet her gaze, for within lay hidden dense killing intent.

"Find the position of the energy crystal, kill all the energy bodies."

The entire classroom suddenly fell silent.

The students looked up to see Teacher Yang's expression.

Teacher Yang blinked hard several times, asking incredulously: "I'm sorry, I might be getting old and didn't hear clearly. What did you just say?"

Chen Sui repeated seriously and earnestly: "I said, kill all the energy bodies."

"Pfft------"

"Hahahahaha sorry I really couldn't hold it in."

"I'm sorry, classmate, I'm not targeting you, but this is the first time I've heard such a brazen answer."

Some students burst out laughing. Other students who had been mindful of the classroom atmosphere were influenced and couldn't help but laugh as well.

The entire classroom erupted in laughter, with only Chen Sui tilting her head in puzzlement.

What's the problem?

If all enemies are killed, wouldn't our side be safe?

That's quite normal, right?

Chen Sui thought confidently.

Yang Qinhe stroked his chest with one hand, telling himself mentally, this isn't an analyst system student, be patient, be patient.

But this is a soldier system student!

On the battlefield, the main soldier responsible for protecting the analyst actually said to let the analyst kill the energy bodies.

Yang Qinhe hadn't heard such a blood pressure-raising answer in a long time.

His thin wrist trembled as he pressed the ruler, making a desk-slapping sound as the teacher steadily controlled the situation: "Alright, quiet."

"It seems this student doesn't understand our analyst system well enough. So I'll take a few minutes to remind everyone what responsibilities an analyst should bear on the battlefield."

"First, as an analyst, the foundation is to protect your own personal safety," Yang Qinhe stared at Chen Sui, "With the assistance of soldiers, avoid putting yourself in danger as much as possible."

"Liao Ruyi, tell us, why must analysts ensure their own survival?"

The female student called Liao Ruyi seemed to be his star pupil. Her high voice confidently answered: "Because the analyst is the eyes of the entire team. Once the analyst is eliminated, the team loses its judgment of the energy field and could fall into danger at any time."

"So, what is the most appropriate approach? You answer the previous question."

"Detect energy fluctuation levels, assist the commander in creating diagrams and energy body distribution maps, determine coordinates such as anchor points, energy monitoring instrument placement points, energy body location points, survivor location points, etc. During combat, remain rational and calm, accurately locate the position of energy crystals to facilitate the three outputs in extracting energy crystals most conveniently. The analyst themselves, in coordination with the protection of the main force soldier, takes protecting their own safety as the first principle, avoiding putting themselves in danger."

Thinking of Chen Sui's answer, Liao Ruyi added one more sentence at the end of the standard answer about the best practice for analysts.

Chen Sui listened with a bewildered expression.

When you can see the vital point with one glance, you still have to let others take action.

Being an analyst is quite frustrating, she thought glumly.

After finishing his explanation, Yang Qinhe specifically asked Chen Sui: "Do you understand now?"

Chen Sui met his gaze, and although she strongly disagreed with their viewpoint, she nodded lightly and slowly.

"Good," Yang Qinhe clapped his hands, partly thinking thankfully she wasn't an analyst, partly thinking how difficult it would be to teach her if she were an analyst.

"Let's continue."

"Considering you mentioned the energy crystal position earlier, I won't deduct your credits this time."

The second-year analyst course mainly combined theory and practice. Occasionally Chen Sui heard some unfamiliar terms, but it didn't prevent her from understanding most of the content.

Yang Qinhe's teaching style wasn't as rigid as his personal demeanor, but rather humorous and interesting, complemented with several border army examples, making the group of students who aspired to join the military district laugh heartily.

Chen Sui learned about an unfamiliar field from his explanation.

Until he finished explaining the entire energy crystal analysis process, he suddenly took out a box from his spatial button. The black metal box opened, a cold chill blowing through, making one's bones feel cold even at noon under the bright sun.

"This is a mutated water-attribute energy crystal. On the market, an S-class energy crystal only costs a hundred thousand or so, but to analyze an S-class energy crystal costs this much," Yang Qinhe opened his palm, "Five hundred thousand."

"Our profession," in the last few minutes of the course, he said a few words off-topic, "low risk, high return. As analysts, apart from the high threshold, there are no other drawbacks. Study hard, everyone. Your future wealth, advancement, and fame all depend on the knowledge you learn."

He tapped his head.

But these words caused the students below to display expressions like spilled paint.

"Teacher, are you sure analysts have low risk?"

A student in the front row frowned, full of doubt.

Others nodded in agreement: "That's right, every time it's the analyst who gets surrounded and killed first. Even energy bodies are easily attracted to analysts. I'd say sometimes you don't even need soldiers to use energy liquid to attract energy bodies' attention; the analyst just needs to walk a few steps to the side, and energy bodies come following the scent."

Immediately, the analyst reserves in the classroom laughed one after another.

Chen Sui saw the female student named Liao Ruyi in the front row turn her head to glance at the laughing students, "Only useless people are afraid. The entire team protects one analyst, isn't the risk low? In which league competition weren't analysts surrounded and protected in the center? You're the coward, don't make excuses."

She seemed to have high prestige in the analyst system. The students who were laughing loudly just now immediately became serious, but they still disagreed with the alternative viewpoint.

"What I said is also a fact."

Yang Qinhe, looking at the various expressions below, left an assignment in the last few seconds of class that made everyone groan: "If that's the case, then let's have an assignment."

"The most recent analyst-turned-output player in the Star Alliance, Song Baining, experienced the same energy field in two different identities: Song of the Sand."

"Using this energy field, analyze what threats analysts and outputs face respectively, and the key to Song Baining's escape both times. The analysis summary should be no less than three thousand words, submitted to my StarNet communication by Wednesday. Remember to note your name."

"Substitute students, note both names."

Yang Qinhe's gaze swept over several students in the class, including Chen Sui and the female student in front of her who had quietly prompted her.

As he finished speaking, the class dismissal reminder sounded. He closed the ruler and leisurely walked out.

The analyst system students hadn't recovered yet, sitting in their seats and groaning.

The male student who had just argued that analysts faced high risks slapped his own mouth with a mournful expression: "This mouth of mine, why did I have to bring it up? If I hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have an assignment. If I didn't have an assignment, I would be such a cheerful young man right now."

Liao Ruyi stood up, heading to the next class, and seeing this, she reminded with a smile: "Alright, Teacher Yang's habit is to leave homework after class. Not asking us to analyze five Star League matches is already showing mercy."

"Sister Liao~" the male student's voice twisted into waves, "Sister Liao, please, let me copy!"

"Have some pride."

Liao Ruyi scolded with a laugh, then left without mercy.

"Enough, you're making me sick," the male student's companion said, "I'm going to the academic affairs office to check the assignment collection to see if anyone has done this energy field before."

Chen Sui was packing up her things and, hearing this, silently noted the assignment collection he mentioned.

She had also accepted the assignment for this class.

With free time in the morning, to understand the situation better, Chen Sui found the first-year analyst course in the academic system, planning to audit it.

The first-year analyst course was all basic content, explaining the terms Chen Sui didn't understand from the previous class. There were no other assignments, making it much easier overall than the previous class.

After class, she hurriedly drank a tube of nutrient solution on the way, casually threw it into the trash can, felt her light brain seemed to have a message, and glanced at it.

Gu Qinxue: Out for two days, please fertilize the carrot seedlings on the windowsill once, thanks

Chen Sui was just wondering where she got her light brain communication from when she saw the academy channel initiating chat at the top.

Chen Sui belatedly realized she had forgotten to add a communication friend yesterday, but quickly recorded what she said in her notes, while replying to show friendliness.

After completing all this, Chen Sui, carrying the anxiety and excitement of doing homework for the first time, headed to the library.

At this moment, far away at the star port, the four school team members about to head to the jump point were attentively listening to the team leader's instructions.

At this time, Gu Qinxue's light brain communication vibrated several times.

She softly apologized and looked at the message through the screen.

Chen Sui: 1

A strange expression appeared on Gu Qinxue's face.

The team leader had only ever seen her expressions of disdain, pride, and coldness.

Seeing such a strange expression from her for the first time, he couldn't help but ask: "Did something happen?"

Gu Qinxue shook her head: "Nothing, sorry for the interruption, please continue."

A tall, arrogant pink-haired male student beside her snorted lightly, receiving a cold glance from Gu Qinxue.

The team leader, seeing the two outputs in the school team already not getting along, felt even more headache.