Chapter 34: The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 3 (Updated) Old...

034 The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 3

The Academic Affairs Office of Canxing First-Class College called back the next afternoon.

The school decided to give Lu Jiu a chance, but Lu Jiu would face a very embarrassing situation if he went to school at this time.

——The new school year has been opened for half a month, and the Mecha Department that Lu Jiu originally applied for is a very popular department, and it is fully staffed every year. Even if Lu Jiu can pass the rescheduled entrance test now, he can no longer be admitted to the Mecha Department.

Either he could simply wait until next year to enroll with the freshmen, then he could continue to learn his mecha, and the academy would reserve a place for him;

Either he enrolls now, but he can only choose other majors that are still vacant, and he needs to make up the missed half month of courses by himself.

Of course Lu Jiu chose the latter. Just kidding, a year cannot be wasted. It’s not like he has to learn mecha.

"Then come to the third floor of the administration building on Friday, and we will reschedule an admission test for you."

During the next four days, Lu Jiu worked while studying.

The planetary environment of a second-magnitude star is not as good as that of a first-magnitude star, and continuous smog days begin in autumn.

The owner of the milk tea shop gave Lu Jiu a smog mask, which almost covered his entire face, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. Lu Jiu thought it was quite fun and wore the mask to and from get off work every day.

On Thursday, he discovered that some surveillance cameras on the road were being removed.

"They are replacing the surveillance cameras," the tea shop owner said as he watched. "This should have been done a long time ago. The Second Star government is really messing around with this. Those surveillance cameras have been broken for 800 years. They are useless!"

People around responded one after another.

"that is!"

"I don't know what they were thinking, changing it now."

“Maybe there is funding now.”

Lu Jiu glanced at it and continued to memorize the review materials without interest.

*

Since I wasn't planning on going to the Mecha Department, the entrance exam would naturally exclude the Mecha suitability test, leaving only the written test.

On Friday, Lu Jiu arrived at the third floor of Canxing's administrative building on time and completed a cultural course test in the classroom that was reserved for him alone.

The invigilator was the teacher who answered the phone that day.

She had been looking at Lu Jiu very subtly until Lu Jiu submitted the test paper and the system gave the result in one second - 200/200, full marks - she was speechless for a moment, then sighed and said, "How did you hit your head before?"

The teaching system clearly records that Lu Jiu was admitted a year ago with the first place in cultural subjects and the first place in the beta group of the mecha adaptability test.

Such students are not particularly rare, as three can be found in five years. But what is precious about Lu Jiu is that he was born in an orphanage in a slum and has been attending inferior schools since he was a child.

How amazing must his abilities and talents be to be able to stand out in such a teaching environment?

That's why the school offered such a high scholarship that year, and why the Dean of the Academic Affairs Office was so disappointed and angry when he found out that he didn't report.

Lu Jiu just smiled and didn't explain anything further.

"Are you sure you want to enroll now? If you wait until next year, you can go to the mecha department. You have to think about it carefully."

"I've already decided on a teacher, what other majors can I choose now?"

The teacher reluctantly gave him a table with the majors that were not yet fully enrolled. She analyzed the learning difficulty and employment prospects for him one by one. Lu Jiu touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

A minute later, he pointed to one of the majors.

"Weapon Manufacturing Department, that's it."

The teacher was surprised: "Are you sure? Do you want to try something else?"

As a school teacher, she couldn't say anything, but the general public agreed that weapons manufacturing is a job that will gradually be completely replaced by robots in the future.

There is no other reason. Weapons are too difficult to assemble and the design limit is too low.

The latter means that ordinary people can only become technicians after graduation, without any creativity or breakthrough.

The former means that only robots that follow the program can ensure that these precision components are assembled with perfect accuracy, as the human brain is too prone to errors.

This is different from mecha design and maintenance. Humans have much more room for design and creativity in mecha, and robots cannot replace them for the time being.

Lu Jiu should also know that the weapons manufacturing department now accepts some transferred students, and with his grades, he can go to a better major!

Lu Jiu stood up straight and said confidently: "I will choose this major. Thank you, teacher."

After walking out of the school, 111 asked in his head: "Jiujiu, why did you choose this major?"

"Because I've been interested in this major before!" Lu Jiu said with his hands in his trouser pockets.

He chose the mecha department because it is easy to find a job after graduation.

You can either follow the school's assignment and go directly into the military, or join the mercenary teams of major consortiums and go to explore outer space in the future.

One is a stable job, the other can make a lot of money. No matter how you think about it, if you learn mecha, you will never have to worry about food and clothing in the future.

But that was what he thought before he was 17.

Now he is a soul of over a hundred years old and doesn’t care so much about money. He just wants to do something fun.

Weapon manufacturing is so interesting. Whether it is equipped with mechas or aircraft ships, these weapons are born from their hands.

They can control precision and make personalized adjustments to existing designs based on different subjects - is it an objective fact that society believes that it is difficult to innovate in weapons manufacturing?

Lu Jiu didn't think so.

He was quite eager to try.

111 also became interested after listening to it, but——

"Hey, the escaped player hasn't been found yet, and we don't know where your old attacker is either."

The two important tasks were still unfinished and his host had to go to school.

Lu Jiu couldn't help but laugh when he heard its resentful tone.

"Why rush? Life is so long." He looked into the distance, "If it is really destined... we will meet again."

*

Lu Jiu handed in his resignation to the owner of the milk tea shop. The owner felt sorry but was also happy for him.

After deducting the cost of Lu Jiu's three meals a day, this week's salary was only 653 star coins, which was not enough to pay for one semester's tuition.

The school learned about his situation and asked him to apply for a student loan. It would not be too late to pay the tuition and other scholarships after he received them.

Two days later, Lu Jiu moved into the school with his luggage.

There was only one class in the new weapons manufacturing department with 20 students. After Lu Jiu entered, he became the 21st.

The student dormitory was originally for two people to share a room, and he was lucky enough to occupy one by himself.

On the day he moved in, several students from the neighboring dormitories came to watch him.

"Oh my god, it's great to have a room for each person."

"That's right, I can go to bed whenever I want, and I don't have to be disturbed by your snoring!"

"Shit, your snoring is really loud, it's just like the sound of a cow!"

Lu Jiu was making the bed and let them make a fuss in the dormitory.

I don’t know if it’s because their auras match, but he and they felt like good brothers who have known each other for years right after they met.

"By the way, Lu Jiu, you were supposed to come here last year, right? You were admitted to the Mecha Department, right?" One of the boys said, "You are amazing. There are very few betas and omegas who can get into the Mecha Department. It's basically all alphas!"

For example, their weapons manufacturing department is full of betas, and the people are as simple and unpretentious as their profession.

Another boy said, "I went to ask around these two days. Lu Jiu didn't report last year, so there was a vacancy in the mecha department. The school promoted the person who just happened to be out of the mecha class on the entrance test. Guess who it was?"

Lu Jiu calmly made the bed and began to organize his clothes.

There are only a few tattered pieces, so just hanging them in the closet is enough.

A group of kids gathered behind him, acting sneaky.

"Who is it?"

"It's that top omega Lin Miao!"

"Ah, it's him!"

Lu Jiu heard some gossip from these guys.

Lin Miao, the only omega in the previous mecha class, is also a top omega certified by the hospital. She is beautiful and has a positive personality.

Because there was a sudden vacancy in the Mecha Class, he was specially promoted to the Mecha Class. In the beginning, he was looked down upon and ridiculed, but in the past year, he gained everyone's recognition through his own efforts and is now the "male god" of many alphas in the Mecha Class.

Lu Jiu heard 111 hiss.

He also turned his eyes slightly.

"...Hey, Lu Jiu, it's such a pity for you. How come you fell from the mecha class to our major?"

Probably thinking that Lu Jiu was forced into this major, these guys patted his shoulders and sighed.

"Forget it, now that we are here, be happy! I have good news for you. Someone from the Royal Academy may come to our school for an exchange in a month, and someone from the royal family may come as well!"

Lu Jiu's eyelids twitched.

He turned around and looked at the boy who was talking.

The boy beamed with joy: "It is said that the Empire now attaches great importance to the students of the Second Star Academy. If I perform well and am valued, maybe I can go to the Royal Academy as an exchange student next year!"

Lu Jiu looked puzzled.

After a moment, he smiled softly in his heart.

*

In the first half month after entering school, Lu Jiu studied hard.

He was immersed in the ocean of knowledge and almost forgot about the escaped player and Shen Yu.

Interstellar is great, which of weapons and mechas is not more interesting than program code?

Weapons are composed of various metal accessories, energy boxes and energy lines.

The bottleneck in contemporary weapons development lies primarily in the design of energy lines.

——The circuit determines the power of the weapon, but the existing circuit designs all follow the directions left by weapon masters hundreds of years ago. Countless people have proposed these directions over the past few hundred years, but they have reached the end, and innovation is necessary. But how can innovation be so simple?

Countless weapons designers have tried their best, but countless others have hit a wall.

Even now, some people have suggested that "there can be no new design directions" and "all feasible line frameworks have been seen by the world."

The internal learning materials of Canxing Academy are much richer than those outside. Lu Jiu spent a few days in the online library, and a framework was vaguely taking shape in his mind.

111: "Jiujiu, you seem to be more motivated in this world compared to the last world!"

Lu Jiu did not deny it.

What lies before him are new things that are interesting and challenging.

…

After working day and night for a week, he drew dozens of sketches and finally came up with a usable one.

So where can I find materials to try it out next?

After thinking for a moment, Lu Jiu opened the [Learning] section of the campus forum.

"The C-class mecha's hand circuit is blocked. I need to repair it for 1000r. Requirements: Mecha maintenance department of third year or above! Seniors, look at me!"

"I didn't understand a little bit of today's battle strategy lesson. Let's discuss it in this thread!"

"Just for training, 200r to squat on an abandoned mecha~ you can take it away after repairing it~"

"Buy a C-class mecha for 2000r."

Lu Jiu looked down and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"The D-class mecha has been having a bit of a lag in firing its laser cannon lately. I need your help. I'm too poor so I can only pay 100r. I'll provide the materials and we can discuss other paid plans. QAQ"

Perhaps because the money given was too little, no one has responded to this post so far.

Lu Jiu clicked on it and carefully read the problem described in the main post. After she had an idea of ​​the problem, she sent a private message to the poster.

99: "[Raises hand] This can be fixed."

Half an hour later, the other party finally arrived.

Poor Fighting Dog: "Here I come! Senior or senior? What's your name?"

99: "It should be my junior =_="

Poor War Dog: "?? Senior, I'm a sophomore!"

99: "Well, I'm a freshman."

Poor war dog: "..."

Poor War Dog: "If I remember correctly, the first grade seems to have only been in school for less than two months =_="

99: "Yes, you remembered it right =_="

99: "I can fix your problem, but I don't want money, I just want the materials. If there's any extra after the repair, I'll take it away. How about that?"

Poor War Dog: "What if it fails to be repaired =_="

99: "I'll give you my kidney."

Poor war dog: "=_="

99: "Really? Maybe one day this will be useful."

Poor War Dog: "[Crazy scream.jpg]"

Poor War Dog: "Mech Repair Bay No. 3, Position 9. I'm here now. Come over and take a look."

*

The school has 9 mecha repair bays specifically for students.

Most of the time, the parking spaces here are full.

Lu Jiu hurried to the No. 3 repair warehouse and found the poor War Dog at position 9.

The miserable Zhan Gou's face was full of misery. Although he was 2 meters tall, like a small mountain, he frowned and pouted, looking like a wronged young wife.

When he saw Lu Jiu, he was amazed: "Fuck, now all the people in the modeling department come out to repair mechas to make money?!"

Then he said, "Junior, I really don't want your kidney, please fix it!"

Lu Jiu took down a set of military green one-piece protective suit from the wall, which is called "work clothes" in the industry, put it on and climbed up the ladder.

He came to the location of the laser cannon, holding the first-class test electric stick that each member of the weapons department had, and began to test the lines one by one.

The surroundings were filled with gazes.

There are nearly two thousand students in the four grades of Canxing Academy's Mecha Design Department, Mecha Maintenance Department and other majors, but only a few familiar faces appear in the maintenance warehouse on a daily basis.

Students from the weapons department basically do not appear here - they are at the bottom of the contempt chain and their professional scope is too limited.

Therefore, the appearance of Lujiu attracted a lot of interested attention.

His handsome appearance would certainly attract some admiring glances, but most people just watched what he was doing.

They were certain that Lu Jiu would come down soon, and although the poor Zhan Gou was miserable, he was destined to continue looking for students from the maintenance department to help.

Unexpectedly, five minutes later, Lu Jiu used the robotic arm to remove the laser cannon.

Six minutes later, he turned on the laser cannon neatly on the ground.

Ten minutes later, he found the three faulty energy lines and quickly cut them off. His speed was so fast that the maintenance engineers around him who had been observing carefully for a long time before taking action looked like a bunch of fools.

"Are you sure you didn't make the wrong cut?"

Some students who were watching couldn't help but come over.

"Don't damage the good lines. And you cut all the lines at once. Do you remember how they run?"

Generally, a section is cut off and then replaced with another section. Everyone is afraid of accidentally installing the wrong line. After all, even if you take a photo in advance and install the line according to the photo, you may accidentally make a mistake.

Only a big guy who has been in the industry for more than ten years would dare to do something as bold as this boy, right?

When the poor war dog heard this, he immediately became nervous.

"Remember it." Without even raising his head, Lu Jiu picked up a pen and quickly drew the trends of the three lines on a piece of scrap paper.

The students watching were stunned.

Poor Zhan Gou was still worried: "Is this how it went? I don't even remember it, is it wrong?"

"..." The student watching was from the Mecha Maintenance Department. He compared Lu Jiu's drawings with the incomplete circuits inside the laser cannon, and his expression changed slightly, "...it should be correct."

The complexity of these three lines is B-level, and this weapons student remembered them at a glance...

Even their seniors in the fourth grade may not have this ability!

He looked at Lu Jiu.

Who is this person?

*

The processing and preparation of the new circuit will take several days. Lu Jiu has some other ideas. Maybe he can improve the performance of this laser cannon by one level.

He talked to the miserable war dog.

After listening to what the classmate who was watching just now said, the poor Zhan Gou knew that he had attracted a hidden boss with a bunch of miscellaneous materials, so he naturally nodded in agreement to the idea proposed by Lu Jiu.

"As long as you can fix it, I'll give this mecha to you to play with for a whole day!"

So for the next few days, Lu Jiu kept moving between the teaching building, dormitory and maintenance warehouse.

Over the past week, the atmosphere on campus has gradually become more lively, and students are becoming slightly excited.

——The rumored Royal Academy exchange group is coming soon.

The students don’t know exactly when they will arrive. Perhaps one morning the principal will suddenly announce that the exchange students have arrived.

Lu Jiu didn't care much about this matter.

After all, the school did not reveal who the so-called "royal family members who will come along" are.

The students guessed and guessed that it was Shen Qing, the cousin of the current Crown Prince Shen Yu.

He owns a manor on this planet and is considered the host.

On Wednesday, first- and second-year students from the Mecha Department, Close Combat Department, and Weapon Manufacturing Department had their first forest combat drill of the semester.

This is also one of the largest practical courses in Canxing Academy every semester.

At nine o'clock that morning, a large number of students gathered near the training forest, many of whom were there to watch.

The training forests of the three departments are separate.

The ones on the far east are for melee combat, and the ones on the far west are for weapons. They are all about to face D-level beasts, which are the smallest and least aggressive insect beasts.

The training forest in the middle is the largest and is the battlefield for students of the Mecha Department. They have to face high-level insect beasts of levels C, B, and A.

Lu Jiu was wearing a pure black tight melee suit and a helmet.

Students from the weapons department and melee department were all dressed like this, and no one could see each other's face clearly through the armor.

Only students from the mecha department got into the mechas, and all the others could see were humanoid machines.

Next to me, the boys in the next dormitory were lamenting: "We are just repairing weapons, why should we go to the battlefield with them?"

"What can we do? Weapon department members may be assigned to close combat units when they arrive at the military headquarters. We can only follow them and fight."

Unlike the other two majors, each member of their weapons department is equipped with a space box, which is equipped with various basic weapons and accessories.

——The school not only tests their basic melee combat ability, but also their ability to temporarily deploy weapons during actual combat.

Lu Jiu thought it was quite interesting, and he felt his blood boiling.

111 trembled in fear: "I'll see if there is any basic function that can protect you from getting hurt...Ah, no, how can there be no!"

Lu Jiu was still in the mood to joke: "If 1 point can buy the body protection function, then your low-level treasure chest is useless, right?"

"Ah, you're still laughing! Your teacher has already told you that you might get hurt in this class, so be careful!"

"I know. I'll be careful." Lu Jiu stared straight into the depths of the woods and raised his lips, "Don't worry."

9:30

At the command, students from three departments and two grades entered the training forest together.

They will have one hour, during which they can get points by killing insect beasts, and the school will rank their results in real time.

The first-year rookies were trembling with fear and caution. For safety reasons, they traveled in groups of two or three.

The second-year students were experienced and did not want to face a situation where two people were fighting over one insect beast, so they dispersed as they entered the forest.

Lu Jiu was also one of the people who set out alone.

He pulled a ray gun from his space box.

This thing is small and flexible, but its disadvantage is that it is not very comfortable to use and does not have much bombing power.

According to what his teacher had taught him in the previous month, he looked for cover along the way, observed the situation ahead, and advanced quickly.

In the woods, spherical flight monitors kept flying around, keeping an eye on their performance and personal safety.

…

There were sounds of bombing coming from the woods next door, and the screams of animals pierced my ears.

——The students of the Mecha Department have already started.

Lu Jiu noticed a dark shadow flying in front of him, which quickly disappeared into the bushes. He stopped, held his breath, and squatted behind a rock that covered half of his body.

He stared ahead intently.

Swish!

Something broke through the bushes on the left, and a black bird half the length of a man opened its sharp beak and swooped down at him fiercely!

111: "Jiujiu, be careful!!"

Lu Jiu twisted his body and swung his arms. The red rays accurately cut into the side of the black bird's neck. The oblique rays split it in two. Blood splattered in the air, and the upper and lower halves of its body fell in front of Lu Jiu due to inertia.

A trace of blood splattered on Lu Jiu's armor mask, but he didn't blink, remaining calm and composed.

He had already anticipated the insect beast's sneak attack route.

111: "…Fuck!"

Lu Jiu tossed the ray gun in his hand, and a mechanical sound came from inside the helmet.

"Student Lu Jiu, killed a D-level beast, the Yellow-beaked Bird, a total of 1 point."

The ray gun was not very pleasant to use.

Lu Jiu stuffed the thing back into the space box and took out a thing that looked very much like a machine gun. It was at least one meter long.

111: “………………Fuck!”

The young man held the gun handle with one hand and easily carried the heavy-looking gun on his shoulder. He stood up, put one foot on the stone, and looked into the distance. His posture was like a battlefield maniac!

In the previous world, 111 knew that its host would fight, but it didn't expect that its host would be so good at fighting!

This world simply inspires the bloodiness of its host!

"I'm just average at fighting with humans, but isn't it fun to fight with something that's not human?" Lu Jiu said with interest, "Just treat it as playing a game."

*

Outside the training forest, a holographic screen displayed the real-time score rankings of all students.

The three departments were of course ranked separately. At this moment, the highest scores of the Melee Department and the Weapon Department were only 5 and 2, while the highest-ranked student in the Mecha Department had already scored 15 points.

"The number one in the mecha department is now Lin Miao!"

"He's an omega, right? He performs better than the alpha? He's too strong!"

Further up, on the top floor of the administration building.

The principal has just welcomed a distinguished guest.

"Your Highness, why are you here in person?"

He walked forward excitedly to greet the handsome and noble young man who was surrounded by people in front of him.

The man walked over, smiling gently and politely.

"Teacher, long time no see."