Chapter 77
The hub city of District 17 is called "Monstein". It is said that its usable area is as large as three Chat cities.
Larger urban areas, better urban construction, and more ubiquitous high-tech.
Jiang Yunu got off the school bus carrying her backpack. Compared with Zhou Jinxue who was dragging a small suitcase next to her, her luggage was obviously pitifully small.
Lu Xixi checked one by one to see if the students and their personal belongings were taken with them, and she paused when she saw Jiang Yunu.
"Wait a minute." Lu Xixi pressed Jiang Yunu's shoulder and said, "Did you leave anything in the car?"
Jiang Yunu raised his head when the teacher pressed him: "Huh? No."
Lu Xixi's eyes were still studying the bag on Jiang Yunu's shoulder and his empty hands. She frowned. Zhou Jinxue, who was more familiar with her teacher's micro-expressions, immediately vouched for her junior: "Teacher, she has brought all her things down."
Realizing that Jiang Yunu's luggage might be so little, Lu Xixi's expression changed again.
From "I suspect that you, a little girl, left something on the bus" to "The teacher now suspects that you didn't pack enough luggage."
But considering that Jiang Yunu was still a young girl, surrounded by students older than her, Lu Xixi couldn't directly ask if she hadn't packed her belongings properly. She let go of Jiang Yunu's shoulder and coughed, "Okay, I didn't expect you to be the type to 'travel lightly'."
After a simple teasing, Lu Xixi calmly pushed Jiang Yunu towards Reis Daniel.
The subtext of the action is: ...Hurry up and take a look at the child you care about!
After getting off the bus, Reis Daniel was responsible for contacting the people from Songnan College. Their school bus landed at an equally astonishingly large stop. After getting off the bus, they found that this stop was so far away from the arranged accommodation that it was not just a one or two minute walk away. They had to take a shuttle bus to send more than ten students to their accommodation.
After making the contact call, Songnan's reception manager assured him that the shuttle bus would arrive within three minutes. The other party also pulled Leis Daniel and said some polite words. After Mr. Lei dealt with the interpersonal relationships in the workplace and put away the contact screen on his personal terminal, he turned around and saw a white-haired girl standing in front of him with a bag on her back.
"Where's your suitcase?" he said subconsciously.
Teacher Lei also subconsciously assumes that children need at least a backpack and a suitcase when traveling long distances.
But Jiang Yunu raised an innocent face and said, "I didn't bring a suitcase."
Reisdaniel asked, "Where are your belongings?"
Jiang Yunu raised his shoulder and gestured to the backpack strap on his shoulder: "It's all in the bag."
The little girl seemed to find the teacher's questioning very strange. She looked at Reiss Daniel with a puzzled expression and asked the teacher, "Teacher, I only had this one bag when I was at the school gathering point. Didn't you notice it then?"
Reis Daniel was stared at by Jiang Yunu, and he felt that there were some unspoken words written in her eyes: [Why are you ignoring me so much?]
Reiss Daniel: "..."
Reiss Daniel did remember the image of Jiang Yunu that he saw early in the morning, but at that time he thought that the suitcase might be difficult to drag, so Jiang Yunu put it aside somewhere.
Inertial thinking is harmful.
"...When Songnan was the host, the accommodations were really good. We had everything we needed," said Reisdaniel. "If you found anything you didn't have, you could tell the room robot."
As a teacher who is more familiar with Jiang Yunu, Reiss Daniel cares more directly about the little girl's life.
But for a normal little girl, or an ordinary school-age child, would she have so little luggage when she goes on a long journey across the star region?
Reiss Daniel had a faint doubt in his mind.
In less than three minutes, the shuttle bus promised by the Songnan College receptionist arrived.
The shuttle bus was self-driving, painted a shimmering gold. As the doors opened automatically to welcome the teachers and students from Enge, a line of glittering, three-dimensional text was projected on the carport:
【Welcome to Songnan College! 】
Jiang Yunu's eyes were dazzled by the light from the signboard reflected from the car body, and he sighed in his heart that this was such a dazzling sight.
After about six or seven minutes of driving, the teachers and students were taken from the stop to the Songnan campus.
Songnan College is indeed wealthy and has specially planned an accommodation area for teachers and students from friendly schools who come to participate in the competition. The accommodation standard is one townhouse for each school.
Jiang Yunu got off the shuttle bus and stared at the western-style building in front of him, stunned for a moment.
"Why don't you leave?" It was Xie Shi who called her first.
Through the introduction to District 17 on the school bus, Xie Shi seemed to have learned the trick of feeling superior to Jiang Yunu without any instruction. He also had a mysterious attitude, as if he wanted to take it as his responsibility to keep an eye on Jiang Yunu to prevent her lack of knowledge from embarrassing Enge.
"It's just a Western-style building. Why are you standing there for so long?" Shesh asked. "You've never lived there?"
Jiang Yunu was like a natural barrier, completely unaffected by the sarcasm of others: "If the school dormitory building can be considered a 'Western-style building' in your eyes, then I have lived there."
After she finished speaking, without giving Xie a chance to continue her opinion, she nodded at the gate of the western-style building in front of her. "I'm just a little confused. Why don't the dormitories in Songnan go for that 'high-tech style'?"
Along the way, Jiang Yunu witnessed the prosperity of the city of Monstan, and also saw that the various high-tech facilities here were far more dazzling than those in Chat City.
She had thought that, as the "host" here, Songnan College's accommodation style might also be high-end and high-tech, and she would see the kind of very high-end and futuristic buildings. However, the Western-style buildings that came into view were unexpectedly... traditional.
Shesh said, “You really don’t understand.”
“…”
Okay, Jiang Yunu really doesn’t understand this aspect.
So when Jiang Yunu entered the western-style building, was assigned a room, and put her luggage in the room, Xie Shi grabbed her and forced her to "fill in her knowledge". Xie told her seriously that this seemingly traditional retro style was the style that was popular even in the highest-level First District.
"What's so fancy about all the technology and smart technology?" Xie said. "As long as you have money, anyone can build a house according to the most cutting-edge residential technology standards."
But it’s a different story if you want to go for this retro style. It tests the architect’s control over traditional aesthetics, and also takes into account the convenience of the house, hiding the household’s daily technology under the retro decoration instead of exposing it so bluntly.
After technology developed to a certain level, the upper class people began to pursue "returning to nature", and the middle class people chased after upper-class fashions. The trend of retro houses spread like waves, from the first district all the way to the seventh district.
"If you want to experience a purely technological décor," Shesh concluded, "you should try staying in one of those budget-friendly hotel chains."
Jiang Yunu: “…” Okay, it turns out that pure high-tech hotels are considered “chain express style” here.
But Jiang Yunu still had a question. She looked at Young Master Xie, whose family conditions were known to be very good, at least in the seventh district.
She asked, "What if the house only has a retro look and feel, but has virtually no smart devices installed? How would you rank it?"
Xie Shi thought for two seconds: "...Does anyone really live in a house like this? A primitive hut?"
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Jiang Yunu was also silent for two seconds, and then she slowly gave Young Master Xie a strange smile.
It's okay, it's okay. A savage like her who crawled out of an isolated island base is a perfect match for the primitive hut.
They are such a perfect match!
Xie Shi was puzzled by Jiang Yunu's laughter. He almost followed Jiang Yunu to the girls' dormitory area without realizing it, but was called back to another corridor by Reis Daniel.
The townhouse has two floors with a loft. There are rooms on both sides of the corridor, one for boys and one for girls. The guest rooms in the middle of the first and second floors are for teachers.
After the students received their room numbers and entered the keys to the door locks of the building and their rooms into their personal terminals, they had free time until dinner.
Jiang Yunu couldn't sit still, so she left the small western-style building and took a walk around the "friendly school dormitory area". She found that they were the second earliest school to arrive.
The first school is the "King of Papers" among all the junior supernatural academies in the region, and is famous for its high score in the exams.
The teachers and students of the "King of Papers" were said to have arrived at the Songnan campus before noon. Their own school was not close to Monstein, but in order to get this "first arrival" ranking, all the teachers and students of the team got up early in the morning and took a "red-eye flight" across regions, arriving in Songnan at noon.
Jiang Yunu heard these things from a student who was a "King of Papers". At that time, she saw a person moving in an S-shaped route in a public area. It seemed that the other person was about to hit a landscape tree in the next second. Jiang Yunu called out to remind him to "be careful", but the other person's body tilted, and he leaned against the tree trunk at an angle, and then slowly slid down the tree.
Out of humanitarianism, Jiang Yunu, who thought the other party had suddenly fallen ill, took three or two steps over and rescued the student who was about to fall to the ground.
The strange student was picked up by her, revealing a face that looked extremely sleepy and dazed - it turned out that he was not suffering from a sudden illness, but just lack of rest and was too sleepy.
"She said she's a student council member for the King of Rolls." After Jiang Yunu returned to Enge's own small building, she shared her experiences with Zhou Jinxue, who happened to be looking for her. "Their school leaves at dawn and arrives before noon. After lunch, the ordinary team members can take a nap, but the council members are required to stay behind to help the teachers and handle miscellaneous matters. As a result, she never got to rest."
In addition to Zhou Jinxue, there were several other Eng students around. After listening, everyone agreed that being the "King of Papers" was really miserable.
The "King of Rolls" arrived first, and Eng was second.
That night, after dinner, the dormitory area suddenly became noisy. Resdaniel counted his students and found that one person was missing. Then he looked again and found that a little girl with white hair was missing.
Jiang Yunu went out again to gather intelligence and found that the "flea market" school famous for its changing policies had arrived.
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