Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 368: 279, I’m pretty healthy_3

By this time, the instructors had already begun surreptitiously sizing up Qing Chen.

They wanted to put this young man, who taught combat, in his place as soon as he made a scene about his office position, to ridicule him a bit.

But now it seemed that the young man didn’t plan to cause any trouble; one chair was enough for him.

The instructors thought to themselves, perhaps this young man doesn’t like to stir up trouble?

Of course, that would be the best outcome, as the school might gain another one to serve tea and water.

Li’s School had rules that students must do everything themselves once they join, and this rule applied to instructors as well, who should lead by example.

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At this moment, an instructor who was secretly observing Qing Chen murmured to himself, thinking that the instructor from the Martial Arts School was too young, looking about the same age as the students who graduated from the school, maybe seventeen or eighteen years old.

Could it be that this person came to Li’s School because Li Changqing pulled some strings?

They had all heard that recently a pretty boy had appeared beside Li Changqing; could it be this young man?

In a place like the Li Family’s large estate, other news didn’t travel fast, but scandals and gossip spread the fastest.

However, this had nothing to do with the instructors; as long as this “Qing Chen” didn’t cause any trouble and just kept to himself peacefully and discreetly, they didn’t mind.

The next moment, the instructor sizing up Qing Chen noticed something unusual.

He saw Qing Chen quickly flipping through political history textbooks, trying hard to blend into the office atmosphere.

But the speed of flipping was really too fast, it didn’t look like he was reading normally.

The instructor shook his head, thinking to himself that a Martial Warrior just couldn’t pretend properly.

In fact, it wasn’t just this instructor who noticed Qing Chen was pretending to read; the others noticed too but didn’t say anything.

Qing Chen spent about 20 minutes reading through six books on political history, then closed his eyes for another 20 minutes to digest the information.

It had to be said, the political history textbooks used inside Li’s School were indeed fierce, containing secrets of many historical events that couldn’t be known from the outside, all recorded in these textbooks.

They dared write about everything.

Indeed, in a world controlled by consortia, textbooks for the outside world were designed to fool the citizens of the Federation, but they couldn’t fool their own insiders.

Deceiving outsiders was one thing; deceiving their own children was another!

Qing Chen had also been to a public high school in the Sixth District and seen the textbooks there.

For instance, history before the new era of human civilization was not mentioned at all in public high school textbooks. In contrast, the textbooks inside Li’s School detailed the disasters humanity had faced due to artificial intelligence before the new era.

That was when Qing Chen truly realized what the creator of One, “Zero,” had done.

That was probably why no one in the consortium’s generations had vigorously developed artificial intelligence, because they all knew very well the kind of disaster it could bring.

Suddenly, Qing Chen thought of the many private books in Li’s School, and he felt as if he had stumbled upon a treasure trove.

This was indeed the most convenient place for him to learn about the Inner World!

When the consortiums were raising their own young, they laid bare the harsh realities of the world in front of everyone.

Confirming that he had memorized the six political history textbooks, Qing Chen slowly opened his eyes.

He replaced the political history textbooks on the shelf and then picked down textbooks on language arts, flipping through them quickly.

This time, it took him 10 minutes to finish; compared to the literary heritage of the Outer World, the Inner World had nothing much interesting, though a few brilliant works indeed existed, they were few in number.

After finishing the language arts textbooks, Qing Chen switched to math, physics, biology, and chemistry.

He read even faster this time, spending five minutes per subject, finishing everything in just 20 minutes.

It wasn’t that Qing Chen was being dismissive; it just wasn’t necessary to take them seriously…

Li’s School, in the realms of math, physics, chemistry, and biology, simply did not match the extreme exam-oriented education of the Outer World.

Compared to the competitive difficulty of the Outer World, it was day and night.

Possibly, the high-difficulty content was all reserved for university-level study.

Perhaps Li’s School believed that such heavy coursework was not necessary during the youth education phase.

After all, each of the consortiums had guaranteed admission quotas every year for Qinghe University and Tinder University, with 60% of each university’s educational funding coming from consortium donations.

Thus, most people in the school didn’t need to compete with those students outside.

This was also the consortium’s encroachment on educational resources, depriving many commoners of opportunities for advancement.

Just then, the other instructors in the office saw Qing Chen quickly flipping through the textbooks on math, physics, chemistry, and biology in just 20 minutes and thought to themselves that this young man probably didn’t understand the content, which explained why he could read so fast.

Finally, Qing Chen took out the geography textbook. To his surprise, these textbooks even had a separate section dedicated to the Taboo Land!

This piqued Qing Chen’s interest.

However, before he could examine it closely, the middle-aged instructor he had met outside entered the room and looked towards Qing Chen, “Um… what was your name again?”

“Qing Chen,” Qing Chen introduced himself.

“Qing Chen, I need your combat class tomorrow afternoon,” the middle-aged instructor said, “Just say you feel unwell during the class and then switch it with my math class, any problem with that?”

“There is,” Qing Chen said seriously, “I’m actually feeling quite good.”

Although he had injuries, as long as he didn’t engage in strenuous exercises, he was indeed quite fine, and he was recovering faster than he had expected, thanks to the medicine he got from Jiang Xiaotang.

The middle-aged instructor was taken aback, “I asked you to say you’re unwell just as an excuse, the point is that I need to rush the math progress for my students.”

Qing Chen calmly said, “Given how simple the math courses taught in Li’s School are, I don’t think there’s any progress that needs to be rushed.”

The office suddenly fell silent.

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