A low sobbing sound came from among the children.
He gave up trying to write on the blackboard, weakly waved his hand to let a child take it away.
He started speaking, his voice as thin as silk:
"Today we will talk about junior high physics. Physics, you may not have heard of it before, it’s the reasoning of the material world, a very profound knowledge..."
"Teacher, please stop!"
The students were desperately begging him.
Ignoring their pleas, he continued his lecture.
This might be his last class, and he wanted to talk about the origins of science:
The three most famous and fundamental laws of physics on Blue Star.
A master imparts knowledge and resolves doubts.
Zhan Yun regarded Chu Kuang as his rival, with the sole intention of defeating him, even at this moment.
But at the same time.
Zhan Yun felt a deep respect for Li Baoku in this story.
He was a good teacher who devoted his life to the children reading in the countryside.
Zhan Yun must admit that this part of Chu Kuang’s story made him feel a pang of sourness, even causing him to tear up.
He thought of his own teacher.
He truly should thank his physics teacher for his ability to write science fiction.
That physics teacher, although at the age of retirement, insisted on teaching students with his graying hair.
It was many years after his graduation that he learned that the teacher was also seriously ill, and so wanted to spend his last days on the podium.
This is the greatness of a teacher.
Just village teacher, dedicating a lifetime merely to shine the light of science into the ignorant village.
Even if the cost was his life.
This is a more resolute and tragic way to take risks, in what appeared to be a calm demeanor, each class was already as weighty as Mount Tai!
Yet Zhan Yun still didn’t know:
How would Chu Kuang allow the two lines to converge?
Zhan Yun continued to read, with a peculiar heaviness in his heart.
On the other side of the dual narrative.
The Carbon-Based Alliance had won the interstellar war.
To prevent the Silicon Empire from reviving in the future, using stars for interstellar jumps and once again threatening the safety of the Carbon-Based Alliance, they must create a buffer zone!
Creating the buffer zone meant:
Having to sacrifice the primitive life forms around the stars within the buffer zone.
Following this logic.
The highest councilor of the Carbon-Based Alliance, under the command of the council, began conducting civilization assessments on the stars within the buffer zone.
What sort of civilization counts as a primitive one?
The Carbon-Based Alliance’s answer was, those below the 3C standard are considered primitive civilizations.
Blue Star was within the buffer zone set by the Carbon-Based Alliance.
If the civilization assessment didn’t pass, all life on Blue Star would be wiped out!
Zhan Yun’s heartbeat quickened slightly.
The two seemingly unrelated lines seemed to have a faint chance of entangling!
Back in the village classroom.
The village teacher was in a state of anxiety, trying hard to impart as much knowledge as possible to the children in the limited time.
He was amazed at how clear his mind was, how quick his thoughts were, and that his voice seemed to regain its strength:
"The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the force acting on it, inversely proportional to its mass. Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity over time; it is different from velocity. High velocity doesn’t necessarily mean high acceleration, and vice versa..."
A final glowing moment.
He knew the candle of his life had burned to the end, the wick had fallen, igniting the last little bit of wax, a flame ten times brighter than before burned fiercely.
The severe pain vanished.
The body no longer felt heavy.
In fact, he could no longer feel the existence of his body, his whole life seemed to be reduced to that frantically working brain, suspended in the air, trying its best, as much and as quickly as possible, to output all the stored information to the surrounding children, but speaking was a damn bottleneck, he knew he was running out of time.
The children sobbed uncontrollably.
They desperately begged him to stop talking.
Anxiously, he asked them, "Did you understand?"
He could no longer see the children around him, but he could still hear their voices.
"We understand! Teacher, please take a rest!"
He felt the last flame was weakening, "I know you don’t understand, but memorize it, and you will understand it later. An object’s acceleration is directly proportional to the force acting on it, inversely proportional to its mass."
"Teacher, we truly understood, please rest!"
With his last strength, he shouted:
Choking with sobs, the children started reciting:
"An object’s acceleration is directly proportional to the force acting on it, inversely proportional to its mass. An object’s acceleration is directly proportional to the force acting on it, inversely proportional to its mass..."
The flame extinguished.
The children huddled around the teacher’s now lifeless body and wept.
Zhan Yun, too, didn’t know what happened, he felt as if something within him had collapsed resoundingly.
The Carbon-Based Alliance conducted sampling checks of the level of civilization on the planets inside the buffer zone.
When it came to Blue Star.
The alien unexpectedly selected the mental replica of the village teacher, Li Baoku, and his students from that small village.
There wasn’t much choice in the matter.
The Carbon-Based Alliance intended to destroy over a hundred million stars in the buffer zone, among which an estimated ten million planetary systems existed, possibly amounting to fifty million planets.