Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
“I heard Lu Shu stopped selling eggs in the morning, did he switch to selling stinky tofu?”
“From what I have heard… It seemed like it is quite tasty…”
In the afternoon class, Lu Shu started scrolling through the online forums. He had topped the class for the previous assessment exam and the contents of this semester were trivial to him.
The truth was that the 3 years of high school could be completed within a year and there were many cases of poor performing students with almost zero understanding of the content suddenly being able to do well.
Many a time, the content seemed difficult when studying but after graduating and looking back, it would seem easy.
Lu Shu suddenly realized Jiang Shuyi studying physics and curiously asked, “Why study physics? Aren’t you an art student?”
“It might be useful in the future,” Jiang Shuyi replied, “In the past, I felt that physics was quite useless and chose arts instead but after the appearance of metahumans, having some knowledge about physics will be beneficial.”
That made a lot of sense and upon hearing Jiang Shuyi’s views, Lu Shu felt that he was quite a forward-thinking student. Lu Shu requested, “Let me take a look at your chemistry textbook.”
Since the black coats were relying on science and technology to research and produce weapons for metahumans, this meant that physics and chemistry must be useful. Even if he wasn’t going to do intensive research, having more knowledge would not hurt.
Lu Shu had never been stubborn about such things. As long as it was something useful, he would always acquire it.
At least… next time he would not crack an unintelligent joke like how sodium was a mysterious path to greatness…
During the afternoon, there was a huge commotion again. 23 more students had been expelled from the Daoyuan class due to the violation of confidential regulations but fortunately, none were from Sophomore class 2.
Everyone had thought that the expulsion crisis had ended after the first time and no one expected for the second wave of ‘cleansing’.
These strict consequences left everyone speechless. No one knew what was allowed or what was not allowed to be said.
After the last wave of expulsion, many parents of the expelled students had tried pulling strings, either by means of bribes or threatens.
But what they realized was that they could not contact anyone of influence on the matter.
The black coats were more secretive than any officials or government sectors and things were not within their control either. They only listened to their direct higher-ups.
They were cautious about the thought of students making into the Daoyuan class through pulling of strings and this could only be possible through their higher-ups.
The role of the local officials? Insignificant.
Because of this, many understood the rule- once expelled, there would be no reverting it!
Any past relations were no longer useful. As a matter of fact, the black coats were not stubborn nor did they refuse to acknowledge these relations, but the extent of influence was just not enough.
Parents at home would constantly remind their child to be prudent as there was no turning back after being expelled.
The gravity of the situation had changed for the worse with the second wave of expulsion. However, cases of students awakening this time were rare and within the whole of Luo Cheng international school, there was only one such incident.
The rest were bawling their eyes out.
Lu Shu was thinking, what were the chances that there was someone within the Black Coats who could use his mind to spy on the entire country just like Professor X? That would be such a waste of talent! Could the black coats be using some kind of technology to keep track of everyone’s computers? He could not be sure.
With the new era of metahumans came happiness and sorrow…
In the evening, the twilight of the sunset painted Luo Cheng international school with a soft orange glow and clouds slowly drifted away into the endless skyline. The light shone through the small spaces the buildings, giving off a peaceful and quiet atmosphere.
Even the Daoyuan class students were required to leave the school compounds first before showing their night pass and after a series of stringent checks then they would be allowed back in.
Today, Xi Fei did not teach anything important, only the usual lecture on ‘The kinship of the three’ and some already known updates about the world- the people were changing, the environment was changing and so were the animals and plants.
Lu Shu had already read about these on the forums but they were mostly about changes in animals and plants. As for changes to the surroundings, no one really saw anything concrete besides the fact that several districts had been cordoned off.
As the lessons ended, Xi Fei looked at everyone sitting on the floor mat and calmly said, “I trust that everyone had learned from the last 2 expulsions that the Daoyuan class is a very serious matter and we definitely would not appease anyone who may be of harm to the country. I hope that no one else would commit the same mistake. I also understand that there are people in this society who wants to benefit of metahumans but I advise against it. Please do not waste your talents. From next week onwards, the consequences will not be as simple as expulsion.”
These words summarised 3 main points- confidentiality, no easy rewards and violating rules would not go unpunished.
The second point- the black coats knew that there were people trying to recruit metahumans and it was okay to earn some money. But since the students were precious talents to them, they did not want them to overdo it.
This was the difference in methods abroad and locally. In other countries, they were already maximizing on the commercial value of metahumans while locally, the metahumans were treated as talents to be cultivated. What exactly was meant by talents? Basically, they were important talents needed to build a good foundation for the country!
Lu Shu nodded. It seemed that the government was trying to gather all the metahumans for two reasons- stability and the prosperity of the country as a whole.
It would be best to go with the flow while experimenting on his own.
Hypothetically, someone could rebel and say, “I don’t want to be part of the ‘talents’ anymore and I’m going to do my own things so leave me alone!”
This would be an insane thing to do as, given the situation, the black coats had the power to overwrite anything.
The future was still uncertain but this was the case as of now.
But Lu Shu still had that same thought… What tragedy would befall upon the world if a gang of metahumans capable of resisting authority and modern weapons had appeared?
Lu Shu had a plan. If such a situation ever arose, he would bring Lu Xiaoyu and escape.
The third point of Xi Fei’s words- ‘From next week onwards, the consequences will not be as simple as expulsion’. This sentence had a hidden meaning… The Daoyuan class was finally going to impart the real deal!
Honestly, Lu Shu only cared about the training methods that the black coats had been talking about.
Wait… Actually, even the training methods were not as interesting anymore.
Previously, his interest in the training methods was because Lu Xiaoyu lacked abilities but not anymore.
Lu Shu was no longer concerned about anyone else as long as he and Lu Xiaoyu possessed the power to go against authority and modern weapons and this meant that they could do anything they ever wished for.