Cultural inheritance and innovation
Although the school prepared a checklist for the exchange students, with Ye Ziyu, Xiao Shichuan and Gao Shu, three people who knew Parnaki well, the students did not need to go to the prop street to buy them.
Before coming, Penglai College has already prepared all the props needed for class for each student, as well as all the expenses required for a year here. They even thoughtfully prepared pocket money for them, which will be delivered directly to the students every month.
Whether it is props, pocket money, or school fees, they all come from official sponsorship from China.
As the first batch of exchange students from China and even the Earth to officially enter Parnaqui, not only China but also countries around the world have shown great importance to them.
The performance of the first batch of students will determine whether the exchange student program can be immediately advanced. Each country has already selected candidates early on and is waiting for the new exchange student channel to open.
Although the exchange students were quite curious about the Gadget Street in the other world, a day of traveling and cleaning the dormitory had already consumed a lot of their energy.
After finishing the enjoyable hotpot queue in Rui Yang and Liu Xiaoyun’s dormitory, the exchange students packed up their dishes, returned to their own dormitories, and slept soundly until the next day.
At the moment, they didn't know that because of a hotpot meal, a new dormitory legend had been born.
——It is said that a student majoring in pharmacy was favored by the goddess of wisdom, who gave her a delicious potion. The aroma of the potion lingered in the dormitory for three days, making countless people anxious and unable to eat anything.
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Although Parnaqui's technology is not as developed as Earth's, some inventions in the two worlds have a strange overlap, such as clocks.
Long before Rui Hang and his companions crossed into Parnaki, timekeeping tools such as clocks had already appeared here. The clock tower standing in the center of the school has an ancient history of more than 800 years.
The bell will ring on time thirty minutes before the first class every morning, at 8:00 B city time, and at 6:00 p.m. when dinner starts every day.
It is said that the clock tower was originally built to enable students to develop the good habit of doing everything in advance, but now it is more for preventing students from oversleeping.
——No matter which world or which school, students never get enough sleep.
For students who have a good work and rest schedule, the clock tower brings them more of a sense of ritual than a reminder of time. For students who like to stay in bed, within half an hour, they can give up breakfast and use the flying props to rush to the teaching building, not a minute more or less, just right.
In a sense, this is also a way for the school to force students to use flying props. There is no time to waste precious spare time on learning transportation, so students can only be forced to practice independently during such fragmented time.
If you want to be lazy and don't want to use flying props, then unless you run all the way and make yourself out of breath, you will definitely not be able to catch up with the class on time.
But such little common sense is not included in the school rules, let alone in the textbooks. The leading teacher is not obliged to tell the exchange students about these things - in fact, this is also a way for the teacher to show them power. No one knows what the personalities of the students in the other world are. If they can suffer a little on the first day, it will be easier to discipline them later.
So on the first day of class, all the exchange students from Earth woke up to the sound of crisp bells.
Rui Yang yawned and reluctantly sat up from the bed: "What time is it?"
Before coming to Parnaki, Liu Xiaoyun deliberately adjusted the time difference. She picked up her watch and took a look: "It's eight o'clock. I remember our first class was at half past eight?"
Rui Yang silently lay back on the bed: "Then I'll sleep for another five minutes..."
The female college student, who was used to getting up at 7 a.m. and attending class at 7:20 a.m., was fearless.
Liu Xiaoyun didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You'd better not sleep. It's the first day of school. It would be bad if you are late."
Dragging the lazy Rui Yang out of bed, the two of them quickly washed up with convenient modern equipment and changed into school uniforms. Rui Yang, who originally had a messy hair and a tired face, instantly turned into a fresh and beautiful girl. The two of them walked downstairs hand in hand.
It is now 8:10 and there are still 20 minutes before class starts, but the distance between the dormitory building and the teaching building is a full three kilometers.
"How big is this school? Why are the teaching buildings and dormitories so far apart?" Liu Xiaoyun, who came here for the first time, was a little surprised.
"There is a lake between our dormitory and the teaching building. If we walk normally, we need to go around most of the lake." Rui Yang, who had already visited once, explained to Liu Xiaoyun: "But if we can fly, we can just go through the middle of the lake and get there in two minutes."
There is no translation magic in the school. The first condition for being able to come to Parnaki as an exchange student is to be proficient in Parnaki's common language. Rui Yang and Liu Xiaoyun still communicate in Chinese in private. Although their students can't understand, they can guess a little from Liu Xiaoyun's expression.
"They are in class with the second years, right? Who is the professor for the first period?"
"I remember it was Professor Adlet's Defense Against Magic class."
"Haha, doesn't Mr. Adlet hate being late? I remember last year several students cried because of his deducting credits, and they almost dropped out~"
"It looks like there will be something exciting to watch today."
These indigenous people of Parnaki could not understand what Liu Xiaoyun and Rui Yang said, but they could understand their language.
These students seemed to be very sure that they, the exchange students from another world, did not know flying magic, probably because students who knew flying magic would basically only choose to travel through the attic instead of walking out directly from the dormitory door.
But in fact, Penglai University has long taught flying magic, and the school also has props such as brooms for students to use, but both Liu Xiaoyun and Rui Yang prefer technological tools for traveling.
"Hey, you two, what are you dawdling for? Class is about to start in fifteen minutes, hurry up."
Fang Yasi's voice suddenly rang out. She was wearing a helmet and driving a small electric scooter leisurely towards the two of them: "Do you want me to give you a ride?"
"Three people sitting? Even if there is no traffic police here to issue a ticket, I wouldn't dare." Rui Yang said with a smile. While talking, she and Liu Xiaoyun took off their backpacks and took out the mobility devices in them.
Fang Yasi: "...I hate you two privileged dogs!"
It would be fine if the suitcase had space magic, but how come even the backpack has space magic!
The black scooter was placed on the ground, and the three of them drove towards the teaching building at a speed far faster than running. Not far away, Jiang Bowen, who chose the alchemy department but majored in immortal cultivation, stepped on the flying sword and drew a graceful water mark on the lake.
The roommate next to Jiang Bowen was riding a flying skateboard that was mixed with magic technology and was recently released in China. He carried a backpack across his shoulder and put his hands in his pockets, looking both relaxed and handsome.
In addition, there are people who use the same bird-headed stick as in Cardcaptor Sakura to fly, people who ride bipedal skateboards, and people who ride roller skates...
These ways of traveling, which have long been commonplace and even fancy in China, have successfully caused all the students around the dormitory to fall into a long daze.
It was not until the group disappeared from the students' sight that someone pointed in the direction Fang Yasi left and asked, "That person just now...was he riding a magic beast? But why can't I sense any trace of magic?"
No one knew the answer, and the only answer he got was silent silence.
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After showing off in their fancy transportation on the way to school, international students quickly put aside their desire to show off and devoted themselves to their studies.
The courses taught in the common language of Parnaki are different from those in China. When encountering some complex vocabulary, the teachers will often explain it in Chinese to facilitate understanding.
But the teachers at Parnagi didn't consider whether they could understand or not. They spoke as fast as a machine gun, mixing slang and other languages into the common language, which made the students confused.
Fortunately, the students were fully prepared. They used all kinds of props, such as recorders, mobile phones, tablets, etc. They first recorded all the knowledge taught by the teacher and took pictures of the blackboard. After preparation, they returned to the dormitory and slowly digested it.
Such scenes are common in universities all over the world, but in Parnaki, they are enough to attract everyone's attention.
Fang Yasi was writing furiously on her tablet when she felt the surroundings became much quieter. When she looked up, she saw Adlett, the professor of Magic Defense, standing beside her, curiously looking at her tablet.
"What kind of magic item is this?" Professor Adlet asked with great interest. "It doesn't seem to require ink, and the paper for writing will never run out...but I don't seem to sense any trace of magic."
"This is technology, professor." Fang Yasi said, and took the initiative to hand over the tablet.
Adlet took the tablet in his hands and looked it over and over. "It's amazing... What kind of magic is technology?"
"Professor, technology is a product created using science..." Fang Yasi gestured in the air: "Science is... uh, you can understand it as a summary of the truth of the world."
Professor Adlet's eyes widened. "I heard that there was no magic in your world originally - but you have actually come into contact with the true meaning of magic? This is incredible!"
Fang Yasi: “…Ah?”
"For the Parnaki people, the true meaning of magic is the truth of the world." Rui Yang, who has a deeper understanding of magic than Yasi, explained in a low voice.
"This...I'm not too sure." Fang Ya Si blushed.
There was already a huge gap between science and magic. She had never studied science or philosophy in high school or college, and had no idea how to explain it specifically to the professor.
Fang Ya Si had no idea how big a storm her words "a summary of the world's truth" had caused in the Aguro Royal Academy.
The Parnaki people, who originally looked down on people from other worlds and believed that they came from remote and poor areas without magic, suffered a direct blow from technology for the first time.
More and more people are discussing the other world and science at school, and are curious about it. What pushed the discussion to its peak was a magic practice class.
For a magician, casting magic is certainly very important, but if the magic cannot be accurately directed to the target, no matter how perfect the spell is, it will be useless.
What we learn in the practical magic class is how to aim at the target and cast magic.
The professor who taught the practical magic class was named Gardner, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his 40s or 50s with exaggerated muscles. It was said that he was originally a royal knight, and after retiring from the army, he was specially invited to become the teacher of the practical magic class.
In order to prevent students from affecting others when performing magic, the school has allocated an entire mountain for practical classes, including sand, shooting ranges, fighting dolls, and other equipment.
Liu Xiaoyun finally understood why the school's area was so exaggerated and why the student dormitories were so far away from the teaching area. According to local students, this was because hundreds of years ago, two students took a magic practice class and accidentally broke through the double magic defense barrier of the training ground and the dormitory, destroying most of the dormitory.
One of these two legendary students is the current Pope of the Temple of Destruction, and the other is the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
Professor Gardner had obviously heard of the "legend" of the exchange students from another world. After demonstrating to the students the correct method of magic aiming, he walked straight towards Rui Yang and Liu Xiaoyun who were in class.
"I heard that your other world has amazing magic props... Oh, they are called scientific ones." Professor Gardner asked with great interest: "When there is no magic, how do you defeat the enemies in your other world? With sticks or bows and arrows?"
Liu Xiaoyun silently took out a pistol that had been prepared long ago from her waist.
Rui Yang: "...Wait a minute?!"
She called out to Liu Xiaoyun before the professor did, and the shock on her face was even more exaggerated than when a person from another world saw an electric car for the first time: "How could you have such a thing!"
"Don't I work at the Tower of Babel? This is standard equipment for staff." Liu Xiaoyun loaded the gun skillfully: "Of course, when we are not performing official duties, we are generally not allowed to take it out. But our director (Lin Yuan) said that we can take it to Parnaki for self-defense, especially during the magic practical class, to let the Parnaki people see our Earth's fighting methods."
Rui Yang: “…”
Brother, please take care of your students! What the hell are you teaching people out there?
Liu Xiaoyun raised the gun and pulled the trigger in one go.
With a loud bang, the bullet penetrated the bull's eye at a speed beyond human dynamic vision, so fast that even the battlefield-hardened professor had no time to react.
All the Parnaki people turned pale and looked at the fixed target pierced by the bullet in horror.
Professor Gardner, in particular, was very sensitive to weapons and could see the power of the pistol at a glance.
Such terrifying speed, such terrifying power, not to mention intermediate magicians, even advanced magicians are likely to suffer losses from such weapons!
The most terrifying thing is that such a weapon does not have any magical fluctuations at all - this means that even ordinary people without magic, as long as they possess this weapon, will have the power to kill high-level magicians.
What kind of horrible things are these people from another world researching?
Liu Xiaoyun calmly put away his gun, hiding his merits and fame. Rui Yang, who was still complaining about Lin Yuan a second ago, followed suit and said to Liu Xiaoyun in a familiar manner: "Professor, times have changed."
Professor Gardner: “…”
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Not far away on the roof of the teaching building, Sun Jingshu, who was watching the training ground, twitched her lips and said speechlessly: "How dare you let them bring something like this into the school?"
"Don't worry, I have complete security facilities. No one will be able to snatch it from Liu Xiaoyun." Ou Wenna said, "It's time to let those nobles know what kind of means the Earth has. Don't think you are great just because you know a little magic. You keep urging me to attack the Earth when it's unprepared, and even secretly gather private soldiers from me - I'm so tired of living!"
Sun Jingshu chuckled: "These people are just frogs in a well. Only those of us who have seen how vast the two worlds are know that the only possibility of war is mutual destruction."
At this point, Sun Jingshu changed the subject and asked curiously, "Then why did you ask Ye Ziyou to prepare fancy transportation for these students?"
"Didn't I want to cooperate with Huaxia to build signal towers and power plants?" Ou Wenna said, "But those stubborn old men just didn't want to accept it. It was a waste of my time to explain it to them."
Although Owena had the final say in the Holy Roman Empire, she had more than just the Holy Roman Empire under her control. The principalities that were dependent on the Holy Roman Empire were the ones that gave her a headache.
These countries were all based on the Holy Roman Empire. Although they belonged to the Holy Roman Empire in name, they had a certain degree of autonomy. Like other countries, the nobles had absolute say.
Although Ovina has the idea of unifying the world, she does not want to integrate the world into a unified country - each country has its own civilization passed down to this day, and unification will be counterproductive, and Ovina does not have that much energy to manage them one by one.
But since these countries have chosen to submit to her, Owena cannot really leave them alone and not consider their economic development.
It’s just that these principalities were quicker to surrender than the others, but more slow when it came to reform.
"After all, the majority of students are nobles. Only when these young people see the convenience and practicality of technology and create a trend, will they take the initiative to persuade the elders of their families to invest in technology-related industries." Ouwena sighed. She didn't want to start a big fight, nor did she want to force the other party to obey her arrangements in an overly coercive way - this would only arouse rebellious psychology. Therefore, she chose this roundabout way.
These students are the hope for the future of Earth and Parnaki. Only by letting them accept each other can the two worlds truly become one without any grudges.
The two chatted for a few more words, and Sun Jingshu glanced at the guards waiting for Ou Wenna downstairs in the teaching building, and asked curiously: "Speaking of which, where is Sebastian beside you? You always take him with you wherever you go, why can't you see him today?"
"Since they are exchange students, some will come to Parnaki, and some will go to Earth." Owena smiled mischievously, her eyes full of joy at having succeeded in a prank: "Teacher Rui sent Ulysses to Earth, and I thought such a good opportunity should not be wasted - I simply sent Sebastian over as well, and enrolled them in an MBA by the way."
Sun Jingshu: "...They haven't even finished college yet."
"So there's no rush. You can learn slowly." Ouwena stretched and said, "Finally, I can have a few days of quiet time."
At this moment, far away on Earth, Sebastian and Ulysses stood on the side of the road, watching the speeding traffic, and fell into a long state of stiffness.
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