Chapter 2
"My name is Lin Keli. You can call me by my full name, or you can call me Lili like the other colleagues. When you go in, just put this on the lectern, press the small red dot on the side, and the recording will start."
After Chi Xia finished recording her onboarding documents, the female teacher who interviewed her yesterday led her towards the teaching building, explaining things as they walked, and casually handed her a holographic micro-single Rubik's Cube with sides of two centimeters.
Chi Xia took it and weighed the little black crystal device in her hand. It was quite heavy. She had heard of this thing before; it was also called a 1:1 holographic restorer with no blind spots, and one cost tens of thousands of yuan.
Assassins love materials, equipment, just like photographers.
"Sister Lily, should I return this to you after class?"
"No need, keep it yourself. If you can survive a month, this thing will be yours."
This is truly a grand gesture; everything they casually offer is of high quality.
Chi Xia stuffed the "material" into her pocket, pretending not to understand as she pushed up her dark green framed glasses, "Sister Lily, why are we recording?"
Seeing her naive and easily fooled expression, Lin Keli kindly reminded her, "This is the basis for you to receive your retirement pension and all medical expenses later. In the contract we just signed, I emphasized to you that children around seventeen or eighteen years old are prone to acting recklessly, especially those with delayed talent development who are also rich and powerful. They feel unbalanced and act recklessly. But society cannot sit idly by and ignore these children, so it entrusts us with spending a lot of manpower and resources every year, hoping to do our best to reform them, including but not limited to sometimes accepting their beatings. Do you understand?"
Chi Xia nodded blankly. Her glasses and pigtails were still eye-catching, but at least she was wearing the black uniform of the Magic Fishing Academy's faculty and staff today, so she didn't look so bad. Otherwise, Lin Keli couldn't imagine how badly she would be bullied by those brats in a little while.
As they reached the last step, Lin Keli called out to Chi Xia again. She seemed even more nervous than Chi Xia. She straightened Chi Xia's collar, took a deep breath, and said, "Take care, Chi Xia. I hope you can stay a little longer."
Chi Xiacan smiled and nodded. Lin Keli couldn't bear it. Avoiding the clear, blindly trusting look in Chi Xiacan's eyes reflected through her glasses, she gave her a hard push and said, "Go."
The autumn wind is refreshing, making people feel itchy.
Chi Xia looked up and saw the row of sycamore trees on the left side of the corridor. Strangely, the leaves and branches of the sycamore trees on the side facing the corridor had been pulled bare, like a barber shaving off half a bald head on a whim.
One can imagine how outstanding the college's botanical gardeners must be to repeatedly turn the tide and save these plants from being bullied and oppressed.
If breaking a branch is bullying, then the oppression is specifically manifested in the fact that the remaining half, growing alone, is covered with stationery, shoes, school bags, keys, communication bracelets, necklaces, watches, and even pineapples, kiwis, dragon fruits, and durians.
It is a true Christmas tree, absurd and unconventional, but with maximum practical value.
Even a fool could guess whose masterpiece this was.
The real Chi Xia wouldn't have given up; in her eyes, these were just silly childish pranks. But in Lin Keli's eyes, she stopped out of curiosity, turned around, pointed at a row of sycamore trees covered with things, and gave an awkward laugh, looking like she'd never seen anything like it before.
Lin Keli curled her lips into a smile that looked more like a grimace. She glanced at the trees, the memories flooding back. Every teacher who had taught those two classes had been forced to experience the unique scenery there, and some things had even been left there forever.
Lin Keli nodded to her, signaling her to open the door and go inside.
Chi Xia turned around and slowly walked to the door of Class 3. There was not much sound coming from inside because the academy was too rich. The soundproofing of every brick, tile and glass was extremely good.
Standing in the corridor, Chi Xia could tell from the trembling walls and floors, as well as the vibrations she felt when she got closer, that the noise inside was no less than 100 decibels.
She acted like an enthusiastic new homeroom teacher, straightening her clothes, raising her little fist and shouting slogans to cheer herself up, before unlocking the classroom door with her wristband.
"boom!"
A wave of indescribable sound almost knocked her over. She steadied herself by grabbing the door frame, then turned to look at Lin Keli, who had retreated behind the wall by the stairs.
Lin Keli waved for her to come in, then watched helplessly as she, like a naive and ignorant little lamb, clung to the wolf's sharp canine teeth and stepped on its scarlet tongue, step by step, into the wolf's jaws.
The door closed automatically, silencing the mixed sounds. Lin Keli leaned against the wall, taking deep breaths, "Ten, nine, eight..."
After the countdown ended, Chi Xia didn't come out. She let out a long sigh, her face relaxed, and walked downstairs. If possible, she never wanted to come here again in her life.
Those children are like little wolf cubs who eat people without spitting out the bones; they're rotten to the core.
Chi Xia, carrying several books, walked timidly to the podium, placed the books on the desk, and then stepped down from the podium.
The students, engrossed in their play, didn't even notice someone coming in; the sound of the door opening was insignificant to them.
Chi Xia walked to the first table and saw four boys playing a card game with one foot on the desk and their hands on their knees. Every time they played a card, they would loudly greet the other person's relatives.
In pursuit of thrills, they play cards face down and draw them directly to compare sizes. The smallest cardholder is left speechless with despair, while the largest cardholder gets a hard slap across the face.
Chi Xia saw that each of them had bruises on their faces, which showed that the force was no joke.
The second group was large. I don't know where they got several fish tanks from, but they put them on several desks placed side by side. One person was blindfolded, and the others lined up behind him. A group of people surrounded him, watching him reach in and grab the fish tanks.
Chi Xia took a closer look. It was normal to have scorpions, rats, venomous snakes, and feces, but they had also mixed in mutated reptiles. Some of these creatures had glowing shells, some had grown strange tentacles, and some had even mutated to the point that they were disgusting to look at. If you were bitten by one of these things, it wouldn't be as lucky as just being poisoned and fainting; you might end up experiencing a terrifying mutation on the spot.
The blindfolded boy calmly reached in and touched something, while the others loudly tried to distract him, leading him to the left and right, trying to steer him towards danger. But the boy was lucky; he touched the poop in the corner on his first try and even squeezed it a few times.
"Ugh! That's disgusting, Cheng Mo, stop pinching me."
The boy named Cheng Mo smirked, removed his blindfold with his other hand and tossed it to someone behind him, then reached out with the hand that had been holding poop and chased after the girls.
"Get away! It's disgusting!"
The girls ran and shouted, knocking over several desks and chairs, creating a cacophony of clattering sounds.
Chi Xia looked at the next group. The two boys were sitting at their desks with stacks of books. In a normal classroom, they would undoubtedly be sleeping, but here, Chi Xia didn't believe they were sleeping.
She crouched down to the side and got closer. Sure enough, the two were wearing holographic glasses and watching content playing on a handheld computer. Chi Xia glanced at it and thought, "Good heavens, it's a simulated live human dissection."
Chi Xia had seen countless corpses, but she had never seen a film that explained the anatomy so clearly and completely, with every part of the human body described in great detail.
Starting with the least fatal spot, the incision was made little by little, peeling away the skin and removing the bone, sawing off the limbs, removing a kidney, and then removing half of the stomach...
The key issue wasn't how gory the scene was, but how engrossed the two boys were in watching it. Chi Xia straightened up; she didn't deny that she had underestimated the terror these children possessed.
A row of people formed a small semicircle around the back wall. Chi Xia couldn't see what was going on inside, but the tense, excited, and cheering look of the onlookers piqued her curiosity. Taking advantage of her height, which was much taller than many of the girls, she stood behind two female classmates and stood on tiptoe to look inside.
Behind two desks side by side, two boys with their sleeves rolled up stood doing the same thing: nailing a mutated rabbit to the desks and cutting open its abdomen to remove the insect eggs inside.
The outer walls of those insect eggs are very thin, and you can clearly see the insects inside, with their hacksaw legs and barbed mouthparts. Even the larvae of these insects are already very aggressive. Their venom is a neurotoxin, and if you are lucky enough to be pecked by one, you will feel so much pain that you will want to end your own life.
Each of them had a timer behind them. They had to remove the insect eggs by hand, tear off the egg membrane, and put the thumb-sized insects into their respective incubators without getting bitten. The competition was to see who could get them the fastest and in the most quantities.
Chi Xia thought that it was normal for such students to scare away many teachers, even if the college had already offered them such generous conditions that they would never have to struggle again in their lives.
"They got away! They got away!"
"Ah! Ye Feng, a bug crawled into my sleeve!" a girl with long, straight hair suddenly shouted.
The people around her moved a little further away, but the boy called Ye Feng didn't stop. It wasn't his insect that ran away. He continued what he was doing without any reaction.
The other boy, seeing that one of his horses had run away and Ye Feng was ahead of him, didn't bother to pay attention to the girl with long straight hair.
The girl was about to cry, shaking her clothes as she searched everywhere. Although the two girls were a little scared, seeing how frightened she was, they came over to help.
"Where is it? Li Yao, are you sure you're inside?"
"I'm sure. I don't know where I am, it's terrifying, please help me."
Ignoring the fact that they were in a public place, the two girls helped Li Yao take off her school uniform coat and search for it.
"Why don't you take off your shirt and we'll take a look?" a boy joked while watching the game.
Li Yao: "Get lost!"
Chi Xia stood next to the three girls, also searching for insects. Just as one of the girls was unbuttoning Li Yao's shirt collar to peek inside—
"Whoosh!"
The insect flew out from Li Yao's collar. Chi Xia raised her hand and pinched the shiny black insect between two fingers. No matter how the mutated insect twisted its body or attacked with its mouthparts, it could not break free from the restraint of Chi Xia's two fingers.
"Gotcha! Thanks! And...who are you?"
Li Yao looked at Chi Xia in surprise.
The group of children chasing and playing around rushed over, and a girl bumped into Chi Xia's back, twisted her ankle, and was about to fall when Chi Xia turned around and caught her with one hand.
"You scared me to death, thanks!"
Cheng Mo stopped, holding up the foul-smelling hand, and frowned at Chi Xia, "Who are you?"
Chi Xia helped the girl steady herself. By this time, a small group of people had stopped and were looking at Chi Xia. Chi Xia carried the insect over and threw it into Ye Feng's incubator. She then took out a piece of paper from her pocket and carefully wiped the two fingers.
Although Ye Feng was focused on the game, he was aware of what was happening around him. He stopped, looked up at Chi Xia, and asked, "How did you catch it?"
Chi Xia smiled and wagged two of her fingers.
The boys competing against Ye Feng, as well as those around them, all turned to look. At least half the classroom remained still, staring at Chi Xia, this unfamiliar uninvited guest.
"She's wearing a college teacher's uniform; she's the new homeroom teacher!" someone shouted.
Ye Feng straightened up and slowly clapped his hands. Soon, everyone in the class stopped what they were doing and looked over. They even formed a circle in a well-trained manner.
Chi Xia didn't move, but she became the focus of attention.
Ye Feng reached out, and a classmate handed him a few wet wipes. He wiped his hands while looking at Chi Xia, raised his chin and nodded, "You come here, I want to watch you take out all the rest."
Several girls gasped, their hearts pounding just watching Ye Feng and the others, afraid that if they were too slow, they would be poked and their hands would be directly used to scare the new homeroom teacher crazy.
Ye Feng wiped his hands clean and gave up his seat. Soon someone offered him a cigarette and lit it for him. He leaned against the table and chair behind him, took a puff, and exhaled a smoke ring. "Not even half. It took me 7 minutes and 8 seconds to get all of them. I'll give you five minutes. Once the five minutes are up, I'll feed the rest directly to you."
Li Yao glanced at Chi Xia, and considering that Chi Xia had helped her earlier, she said, "Ye Feng, how about we call it quits? I don't think this teacher would dare to compete with you."
Ye Feng took out his cigarette, tilted his head and sneered, "Dare not? She can catch one that's running around with just two fingers. These ones haven't even shed their membranes yet. Do you think she'd be afraid?"
Li Yao: "..."
She thought to herself, "May this teacher have good luck."
Chi Xia walked over, pressed the timer fixed on the back blackboard, rolled up her sleeves, and said, "I'll give it a try."
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