novelraw Chapter 17 : Academy Seven
Chapter 17 : Academy Seven
Di Qian looked at her genuinely sincere expression, thought of the several aggressive combat techniques she had used, and helplessly covered his face.
"Tong Can, Zhang You, take Hemo'er to the school infirmary."
The waltz brothers were still debating whether Hemo'er had been knocked out or had fainted from anger after losing and not accepting it.
Unexpectedly, both were called out.
Tong Can, the one who had been supporting Hemo'er, saw Zhang You's admiring gaze toward Chen Sui and momentarily felt disgusted.
He raised his hand to respond: "Coming, Instructor."
Then before dismounting his mecha, he kicked Zhang You's mecha in the rear: "What kind of look is that, can't you be normal?"
"You don't understand," Zhang You kicked back defiantly, "this is respect from someone who admires strength."
"When Hemo'er wakes up, you tell him about your respect."
Zhang You felt guilty for a second, "Well, let's not discourage him, haha."
The two walked out of the combat arena supporting Hemo'er on either side.
Chen Sui took a sip of water, rubbed her stomach, feeling hunger, and then folded her arms to look at the instructor: "Does this count as completing my combat training? I'd like to go eat."
Di Qian turned his head, looking at her extraordinarily calm expression under her smooth short hair.
He suddenly felt that all his excitement and shock for her had been needless worry.
This person had no idea what level her combat ability represented at Zhu Jing Fu.
That was an opportunity to very likely pass the next school team selection and become a combat soldier.
Di Qian nodded heavily, thinking of her broken relationship with Hemo'er, and wanting to help Chen Sui ease the classmate relationship.
"Hemo'er, ahem, do you want to check on him?"
Chen Sui was eager to eat, "What's there to see? These minor injuries will heal after a brief stay in the medical pod."
She had exercised great restraint, hadn't she?
Di Qian silently closed his mouth, no longer struggling, pointing to the check-in point: "Go there for certification, receive your combat score, you're dismissed."
After speaking, he looked around at the group of students with gossip written all over their faces, with no interest in combat, showing a toothy smile: "Train well. I'll see who's still slacking, and I'll drag them to Arena 79 to go a few rounds with me."
The students looked at Chen Sui's departing figure, then at their companions, uncertainly asking: "When we fight, you won't slam me to the ground, will you?"
Then received their companion's speechless response.
Di Qian, watching the remaining people imitating moves, couldn't help but feel a headache. How could they all be taught in the same class, yet others could improve combat techniques and use them so well?
He took a deep breath and began teaching each person individually.
Chen Sui was among the earlier group to be dismissed, with few people still in the cafeteria.
Zhu Jing Fu's cafeteria used a rotating exchange form, with three rows of shelves adjacent to the four walls, food continuously transported on the shelves. There were several windows on the wall where robot arms picked up empty bowls and dishes and replaced them with new ones.
Upon entering, one could see a light screen displaying the day's menu.
There weren't many crops cultivated in the interstellar era, but ancient star recipes were well preserved, with simple combinations creating many dishes.
It's just that the appearance looked...
Chen Sui looked at the blue-purple mushrooms covered with a layer of green sauce at the food counter and suddenly fell silent.
Looks good.
Please don't make it again.
She cautiously selected a few items whose original ingredients could be identified, along with some noodles.
During Chen Sui's meal, a group of people arrived at the rear seats, appearing quite familiar with the place, expertly preparing their food.
As she was about to take her tray to the cleaning area, she heard someone ask: "Senior Yun, have you met the new school team?"
The young man called Senior Yun had a clear, gentle voice, answering warmly: "Yes, your class is much stronger than ours. If you could find a suitable analyst, perhaps in the next league competition, you could break the stalemate."
"Sigh, it's not that easy. The analyst system fought hard for this position this time, and their acknowledged top student's mental threshold value seems not good enough."
"Liao Ruyi?"
Another girl inquired. Chen Sui found her voice somewhat familiar. After putting down her tray, she glanced in their direction and indeed saw two familiar faces.
This was Academy Seven's just-returned school team. Unexpected to meet them in the cafeteria.
Chen Sui heard the school team analyst she had seen in the holographic projection ponder for a moment: "Liao Ruyi's mental threshold value is quite average, but not exaggerating, her foundation is definitely the best. With the school team's configuration, even with a slightly inferior analyst, they should be able to manage."
"Not necessarily," the young man they called senior interjected, "I heard from the school team's leader that although other academies' school team rosters haven't been published yet, rumors suggest that several schools have new analysts."
At this, the others were surprised.
"New people?"
"Students of the Analysis Association masters?"
"No wonder they can't let Liao Ruyi join. The current configuration of the school team, placed in the league competition we just experienced, would definitely have a fighting chance. But if other academies, especially the seven direct academies, improve their configuration, then the analyst becomes crucial."
Chen Sui heard them continue discussing the school team, including mentioning Gu Qinxue's name, but she had already finished her meal, and continuing to eavesdrop would be too conspicuous.
So she didn't linger and left early.
After completing the soldier system courses, Chen Sui had free time and went to the library to look at analyst courses.
For the first-year courses, Chen Sui planned to continue learning about knowledge related to analyzing energy fields to better complete the assignment left by Yang Qinhe.
After class, she checked it once, ensuring it was correct, then submitted the energy crystal analysis course assignment to Yang Qinhe's inbox.
The next day.
Chen Sui faced a leisurely afternoon.
In the dormitory, Gu Qinxue had been missing since returning to school yesterday, only seen coming back at noon. At that time, Chen Sui was fertilizing the plants on the windowsill.
Gu Qinxue pushed open the door and collapsed onto the soft long chair in the living room.
Her face was frost-like. Chen Sui glanced lightly, and Gu Qinxue hooked a nutrient solution with her finger. Seeing Chen Sui's lack of curiosity, she became curious herself:
"Aren't you going to ask where I went?"
Chen Sui glanced at her: "School team training? I saw it on the forum today."
Gu Qinxue was stuck, couldn't help complaining to her: "Just selected, and it's endless training, it's killing me."
Chen Sui finished fertilizing and leveled the soil in the plants.
Gu Qinxue looked at her green eyes, focused on the flowerpot, and followed her gaze to look.
With this glance, she noticed something unusual.
"Strange, how did this grass grow so fast?"
The carrot seedlings had grown unexpectedly tall, excessively green.
Gu Qinxue pulled out her light brain, found a photo taken before leaving, and placed it in front of Chen Sui for comparison.
"Look."
Her white hair was blown onto Chen Sui's face, making her inadvertently brush it aside. Gu Qinxue felt the tug, chuckled lightly, grabbed the end of her hair, and a silver ring slipped from her index finger root, tying the white long hair behind her head.
With no silver hair blocking her view, Chen Sui finally saw the picture she showed.
After looking, she lowered her head to examine the growing carrot seedlings.
"It seems... a bit big, and a bit... green?"
Chen Sui only looked at it when fertilizing; she wouldn't deliberately record the carrot's growth. She just gave it the right amount of fertilizer daily and then went about her business.
Who knew.
Two days ago, it had yellow leaves, thin stems, just a few leaves on the seedling.
How did it suddenly grow so many green buds, leaves doubled in size, and become so vibrantly green?
Gu Qinxue compared the two, and the more she looked at the current carrot seedlings, the more she liked them, thinking they looked healthy.
So she patted Chen Sui's shoulder, seeing her self-questioning frown, comforting her: "It's growing quite well; you have quite a talent for this."
"If you were in the biology department, someone like you would be especially popular with classmates; seedlings you nurture are all very healthy."
Chen Sui had a not-so-good premonition internally, nodding vaguely, but her brow remained furrowed.
"Are you free these days?"
She asked Gu Qinxue.
The other shook her head: "I'm free these days, but in a few days, I'll go for training matches."
"So you'll handle it yourself these days?" Chen Sui pointed to the carrot seedlings.
Gu Qinxue nodded with a light smile: "Of course, thank you for these past two days. In a few days, I'll buy some spirit body nourishment; do you want me to bring..."
As she finished, she remembered that Chen Sui seemed to be a non-Awakened, so the words at the tip of her tongue took a turn: "bring you something?"
Chen Sui shook her head, not needing anything at the moment.
After a brief rest, in the afternoon, Chen Sui with no classes went to the library.
She applied for an analyst holographic online course.
Although it was hard to understand why a soldier system student would study analyst courses.
The fact was, Chen Sui discovered that in the entire substitute class group, assignment orders were more time and effort-efficient than substitute class orders, and priced higher, especially analyst assignments.
The assignment she submitted yesterday received high praise from Yang Qinhe. Qi Sixia applied to be her communication friend through the group chat at noon, with a crying face saying:
Your assignment was so well-written, it puts me in a difficult position.
Now the teacher wants me to submit one of similar quality.
Chen Sui thought he was looking for someone to write it for him, but unexpectedly, this guy wanted her to tutor him.
And he offered quite a high price.
Then Chen Sui discovered that analysts were truly a group of money-rich fools.
Today, reminded by the carrot seedling incident, she once again remembered her awaiting Awakening status.
She had previously learned on the StarNet that during the awaiting Awakening period, there would be energy overflow situations.
Chen Sui couldn't help but wonder if the abnormal growth of the carrot seedlings might be related to her energy overflow.
She needed to speed up, quickly earn some money for examination fees.
Without the repair technician certificate, no repair shops would hire her. Campus business was currently the only source of income in her hands.
For analyst holographic online course applications, other departments could only apply for basic content.
Chen Sui copied the course code to the StarNet, found a place to sit down, and prepared to listen to the course to immerse herself.
She also had a book called "The Origin and Development of Analysts" placed in front of her, appearing thoroughly engaged.
When Hemo'er came out of the medical pod, his face was still somewhat swollen and bruised, having fallen twice and been injured quite badly.
But fortunately, there were no classes today. He had lost too miserably yesterday, and the soldier system forum posts these past few days had been flooded with terms like "Hemo'er's crushing defeat" and "soldier system's new student top position changing hands."
The popularity even had the potential to surpass the end of the league competition.
Hemo'er himself was more shocked than the gossip crowd.
Others watching from outside didn't know, but he himself knew all too well.
Throughout the entire process, he had only launched one attack, spoken a few harsh words, and the rest of the time was spent being beaten.
Today when he received the combat arena scores, Hemo'er was almost stupefied.
His effective attack was 10%, seemingly the aftermath of a steel ball explosion that had shocked the opponent's mecha.
The damage sustained was recorded as 98%, truly a laughable score.
Only Hemo'er himself couldn't laugh at all.
He couldn't believe it—was this person really that formidable?
He could only last one move under her hand?
One more match, this time he'd strive to last three moves!