The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 105: Chapter 105: Tears of Poverty

Ji You covering her face, whined: ”Principal, you make it sound so easy.”

Principal Hong glanced at her: ”I’m just spouting some breezy words, of course it’s easy.”

Ji You: ”...”

Principal Hong scolded: ”100% Applying Power, as long as you focus on training one skill, even a fool can become a genius!”

Ji You felt a bit disheartened: ”That sounds so effortless...”

But—

With only 6 strands, no matter how you use them, you can’t make miracles happen. Didn’t you hear what Teacher Luo just said? With her condition, she could only pilot the lowest-star antique mechs.

The antique mechs only have a few buttons, very few functions, so they require less Spiritual Silk.

But... those antique mechs were phased out because they could not keep up with the evolving human needs and demands due to their very limited capabilities in defense, attack, and practicality...

Although Ji You never thought of becoming a Mecha Master, it’s not just mechs, many technological products in life have closed their doors to her.

Tragic!

How tragic?

”No, wait...” Ji You suddenly thought of something and said, ”Teacher Luo, my spiritual power was at Level F, then it upgraded to E, my Spiritual Threshold really did improve... According to you, I shouldn’t be able to upgrade.”

”But why was I able to upgrade? You said that from Level F, there should be at least thousands of strands... I only have 6 in total... This doesn’t make sense?”

”It makes no sense.”

Teacher Luo thought for a moment and explained: ”We did not witness your specific situation when you upgraded from Level F to Level E, so we can’t analyze it specifically. But the Spiritual Threshold and the usable number of Spiritual Silk are not measured and tested in the same way.”

”The Spiritual Threshold only tests strength, not detailed analysis. The system determined that your Spiritual Threshold reached Level E because the effect and strength of your 6 strands of Spiritual Silk after usage met the qualifications of Level E, thus giving you the Spiritual Level E certification result.”

”One day, if your 6 strands can match the effects of someone else’s millions at Level A, the Spiritual Threshold system will still judge you to have reached Level A!”

Ji You was a bit confused and said, ”So you mean, as long as my 6 strands of Spiritual Silk are strong enough, they can match the strength of someone else at Level A, S?”

Teacher Luo smiled and said: ”In theory, yes, but it still requires specific situations and analysis. Moreover—what you described is the ideal state, but, tell me, how can your 2 hands compete against someone else with 200 hands?”

”Impossible.”

”So—”

Teacher Luo looked at her and said, ”Ji You, you can cry now. Teacher won’t laugh at you.”

Ji You: ”...”

”Wuwaa...” She was truly sad...

Principal Hong raised his hand, pointed at the door, and said: ”Alright, there’s the door, get out now.”

Ji You: ”...”

As cold as Principal Hong, no one else compares.

Ji You stepped out the door, not looking back.

Inside, Teacher Luo worriedly said: ”Poor kid, what will she do with so few Spiritual Silk strands in the future? What can she do?”

Principal Hong knocked on the table and said: ”This troublemaker hasn’t decided on a mentor yet, has she?”

Teacher Luo replied: ”Not yet... For self-paid class students, there are no such concerns? They attend whatever classes they like, and as long as they don’t cause trouble, after four years, the school will just issue them a degree...”

Principal Hong frowned: ”These idiots wasting resources, should be barred right at the entrance, cancel their enrollment.”

Teacher Luo said: ”That won’t do! We receive a hefty sponsorship fee every year, Director Wang of the Academic Affairs Office would never agree to that.”

While they were talking, Principal Hong’s contact number rang, he looked down, it was Director Wang from the Academic Affairs Office calling.

Principal Hong hung up directly and said to Teacher Luo, ”Tell Mu Jianling to take Ji You under her wing; her teaching methods should be helpful to Ji You.”

”Okay! I’ll mention it to Teacher Mu later.” Teacher Luo chuckled secretly, thinking to himself: He’s harsh to the students verbally, but kindhearted at heart.

At that moment, Director Wang’s call came through again.

”Debt collector!” cursed Principal Hong and hung up.

Before long, Teacher Luo’s communicator rang, and as she expected, it was Director Wang.

Principal Hong glared at her: ”Why would you answer it? I don’t want to listen to his nonsense!”

Teacher Luo had already picked up the call, and Director Wang’s stern voice came through: ”Principal Hong, regarding the consumption of rabbits in the exercise of the 131st batch of freshmen, how should we explain this to the Agricultural Department? Do you have any regulations on this matter, Principal?”

Principal Hong glared and replied, ”Why should I explain anything? This is your job!”

Director Wang, still in a stern tone, continued, ”Then... The remaining rabbits from this batch’s exercise, why did you, Principal Hong, relocate them without permission?”

Principal Hong denied it sharply, ”Where did I relocate them without permission? I just leased them to Old Li at the neighboring Agricultural College—200 rabbits leased out, and a return of 500 rabbits including interest in a year! Where else can you find such a profitable deal?”

Hearing this, Director Wang immediately became unsettled and said, ”This batch of breeding rabbits is of high quality; why only take a lease of 300 rabbits? That won’t do, I need to call Principal Li at the Agricultural College right away!”

As Principal Hong was about to relax after dealing with Director Wang, the miser, Director Wang hadn’t completely lost his reason and turned to ask, ”Then—how shall we explain it to the Agricultural Department? Give me some advice, please.”

Principal Hong glared and snapped, ”Idiot! Report a depletion of 200 rabbits, and for the remaining 100, just say the school still needs to use them! Don’t return them!”

Hearing this, Director Wang felt assured and said, ”I understand, I will arrange it.”

—With the Principal’s authoritative word, the blame could be passed onto him.

Witnessing all of this, Teacher Luo felt somewhat melancholic: In the entire school, maybe she was the only relatively normal one?

After hanging up the call, Principal Hong cursed: ”Ridiculous thing, making me take the blame again.”

He indeed was clear-minded.

Teacher Luo sighed and asked, ”Then why did you still bear the responsibility?”

Principal Hong responded, ”If not me, then who else?”

Teacher Luo looked at him, not knowing what to say.

Lanyue Star is located in the Sixth Star System of the Alliance, truly a secluded and impoverished area. Ever since Principal Hong took up the mantle, he has been dedicated to developing the Lanyue Star Military Academy. Over the years, the subsidies the Alliance provided to the school were even less than those given to the neighboring Agricultural College. It truly hasn’t been easy for Principal Hong to bring Lanyue Star Military Academy to its current status as one of the Top Ten Alliance Schools.

Meanwhile.

Ji You left Teacher Luo’s medical office, pondering over her spiritual power issue all the way.

She always felt it wasn’t that simple; there might be other aspects of her condition that had yet to be discovered.

She remembered that during her use of the medicine bath, she almost had a cerebral explosion from bleeding from all seven orifices; it was the ’Iron Plate’ that saved her.

Subsequently, after a little training, her spiritual power leveled up.

Could it be because of the Iron Plate?

It seems she needs to buy a Soul Device and use it on herself to see if it can indeed help increase her Spiritual Silk.

That...

How much does a Soul Device cost again?

million?

million?

Or even 5 million?

—Hopeless.

—She shed the tears of the impoverished.