Chapter 101 Disappointment and Hope
Lin Guantang planned to take a leave of absence for about a week. According to Yuan Wenjun and his classmates' guesses, they all agreed that he would return to school early because he really loved studying.
It turned out that it took me nearly a month to come back, and the reason I came back was because it was the final week and I had to take exams.
And with a million-dollar inheritance——
Although it was donated by Lin Guantang, he still owned it.
When Yuan Wenjun learned that Lin Guantang had returned to the dormitory, she came to see her friend immediately.
As soon as I entered the room, I was stunned by the room full of books.
The single dormitory was not big to begin with, and once the books piled up, there was no room to even step.
Yuan Wenjun was just a little careless and walked straight inside due to inertia, almost bumping into a pile of books piled at the door. Fortunately, she grabbed hold of them in time, otherwise she would have been crushed to the ground.
"Haitang, are you planning to open a bookstore in the dormitory?"
Yuan Wenjun waved the dust in the air with her hand, and across the narrow passageway where books piled high and low, she looked at Lin Guantang's embarrassed smile:
"Sorry, sorry, I just brought it back and haven't had time to sort it out yet."
"It's the end of the semester, why are you still bringing back so many books?"
As Yuan Wenjun spoke, she helped him pile up the books scattered on the ground.
It had been a long time since she had seen so many physical books, and most of them looked very old. Even the air seemed to be stained with old dust.
I really don't know which second-hand store I bought these study materials from——
Although many people's final exam review materials, and even some textbooks that have remained unchanged for many years, are passed down from generation to generation by their predecessors, I have never seen any of them so broken.
Haitang is still too frugal.
I must have seen that the price was very cheap, so I bought it no matter how worn it was.
Yuan Wenjun sighed as he casually flipped through the book at hand.
[ABO Basic Psychological and Physiological Knowledge Popular Science Tutorial for Idiots]
[The Empire's Letter to All People: The Beginning of a New Era and the Official End of the End Times]
[Reminiscences of the Last Thirty Years - A Collection of 100 Diaries]
…
What the hell is this.
Why did you pack up someone else’s diary and bring it back with you?
The retro feeling that comes from the book makes Yuan Wenjun feel as if he has traveled back to the beginning of a new era.
She flipped through the pages and finally found a familiar book about ideological and political education, but both the cover and the content looked very unfamiliar and old.
She couldn't help but look at the publication date, which was fifty years ago.
"Haitang, where did you find these books? You got ripped off!"
Yuan Wenjun couldn't believe her eyes. She looked several times before confirming that she was seeing things. She looked at Lin Guantang, who was taking photos of the documents page by page, with deep sorrow.
"These are all outdated antiques, many of them obsolete books. We have no use for them at all. Which unscrupulous merchant is taking advantage of your ignorance and selling you these little pieces of historical garbage as fresh."
Lin Guantang answered casually:
"It looked interesting, so I brought one back. I didn't get scammed, so don't worry."
Yuan Wenjun cast a suspicious look at him:
"You're really not fooled? So, these things, so you are... suddenly interested in archaeology? Planning to go the retro route?"
Well, that's not wrong.
Lin Guantang had returned to the imperial capital from Yuanshang District a long time ago, but he did not rush back to the academy immediately.
First, he wanted to avoid the limelight and not be caught by others to watch the fun. Second, he wanted to find a quiet place to study Mr. Yuan’s books carefully.
He can also make up for the college courses through online classes, but he doesn’t want to let too many people know that he is looking for his relatives now.
So I just followed Huo Shizhen to where he lived to sort out the materials.
He was busy looking for and organizing the old materials, while Huo Shizhen was also continuing to improve the plan for the military academy students' final exams.
All O Colleges have indicators such as participation in various banquets as indicators of outstanding students. It is also an important indicator for military students to obtain scholarships. In addition to the completion of routine tasks, there is the large-scale mock exam at the end of the semester.
Each department puts forward its own ideas, which are then integrated and finally a large region is selected as the assessment location. Large and small assessment items are set up and the total scores are finally compiled.
You can participate on your own or in a team. Different forms will of course allocate different task points, which will require separate calculations.
Lin Guantang was originally worried about not being able to find any useful clues, but when he got impatient and wandered around the study, he saw the densely packed route markers and mission points on the projected screen, as well as the various system simulation error messages...
I feel that my problems are not that difficult to solve.
Sure enough, everything is revealed by comparison.
When he saw that the task item Huo Shizhen had painstakingly designed was repeatedly judged by the system as "too difficult, too low in assessment value, and recommended to be deleted"...
Then after deleting it all with an expressionless face, I strangely felt pity.
Just imagine if someone suggested deleting something he spent a lot of time on, he would definitely go crazy. From this perspective, Huo Shizhen is really strong inside.
However, people always can't stand seeing others having nothing to do.
After Lin Guantang went to the study too frequently to see his "miserable condition", Huo Shizhen finally decided to find him more things to do.
"If you can't find what you want in those materials, you can also look at the Central Military Academy's materials."
"Aren't all the books in the military academy library copied into the system?"
"It's just some useful information. Some of it is so old that it's not worth looking up. If you want to see it, I can bring those books over to you, but I need you to do one thing—"
Huo Shizhen said:
"As you read, you need to record the information into the system. Don't worry, just flip through the pages one by one and the system will record it automatically."
It sounded simple, so Lin Guantang agreed without even thinking about it.
When he saw a large truck drive into the basement and open the trunk to reveal a box full of books, his vision went dark and he suspected that Huo Shizhen was deliberately making trouble for him.
There is so much information, and he has to read it page by page. Even if he doesn't eat or drink, he won't be able to finish it until next year.
Lin Guantang raised his own doubts:
"You're not deliberately taking revenge on me for gloating over your misfortune, are you?"
Huo Shizhen raised his eyebrows, said "Oh", and said with sudden realization:
"So every time you go to the study to serve tea, it's not because you care about me, but to make fun of me?"
Lin Guantang: ...
That is of course unacceptable.
Lin Guantang ignored his question, looked at the books piled up in the room with a sad face, and said helplessly:
"There are so many, how can I possibly read them all?"
"Did I tell you to read it all by yourself?"
Huo Shizhen knew how to stop when he saw that things were going well. After teasing her for a while, he would not continue to make things difficult for her.
Almost all the facilities in his villa are taken over by the system - including the automatic flipping of books.
The intelligent machine placed the books, took them one by one, spread them out, and then scanned and recorded them. In fact, there was no need for Lin Guantang to manually collect them.
——So I just wanted to scare him on purpose.
Mr. Lin Guantang is a magnanimous person and would not argue with a vindictive person like him.
Then I compared it with the information left by Mr. Yuan and looked for content of similar scope in these books.
Generally speaking, according to Mr. Yuan's materials, his main activity when he was young was to travel to various districts of the imperial capital to conduct on-site investigations on the adaptation of people in various places twenty years after the start of the new era. This included, but was not limited to, recording the proportion of ABO gender groups, their respective advantages and disadvantages, and their greatest expectations, as well as specially collecting the feelings of those who lived from the old era to the new era.
Just from these remaining materials, we can get a glimpse of how huge a group of people were involved when these activities were carried out.
Similarly, this is undoubtedly equivalent to saying that the number of people that Mr. Yuan met sixty years ago was as numerous as sand in the mud, and it makes no difference whether that sentence is said or not.
There is another thing that I don’t know if it is a coincidence, but the book "Heart of the Mist" was first discovered and published because it stood out from these visit materials.
Unlike the incomplete meetings of others, this book consisting of personal diaries almost comprehensively records the changes in the entire end times. Once discovered, it was directly transported to the imperial capital for proofreading and publication.
But the original copy was destroyed in a fire several years ago, and the most complete copy is only owned by Jane Yinglai, an extreme enthusiast.
Just a few months ago, Jian Yinglai gave Lin Guantang a complete set of books.
This was also another reason why Lin Guantang came back to the academy, which was to read the book Heart of the Mist again.
After finally sorting out a place to work, Yuan Wenjun hesitated and tried to comfort him:
"Also, there's no need to get too emotional with what people say online."
"What?"
Lin Guantang was a little confused.
He spent all his time organizing information and paid no attention to the rumors on the Internet.
Yuan Wenjun knew that he didn't care about these things, so she took the initiative to explain in detail:
"You donated the inheritance left to you by the Yuan family to Thorn Moon. Wasn't it because you couldn't stand the online comments that you were greedy for money and that the orphan was a deceptive persona?"
This one.
Lin Guantang understood what she was saying.
He donated his inheritance because he always felt a little unworthy of it, and coincidentally, the people from the Moon of Thorns came to him—
Although Lin Guantang said that he did not intend to ask the Yuan family for compensation, it did not mean that they would not give it to him on their own initiative.
For example, Yuan Zhiyi had previously said that she would help him connect with the omega rights organization Thorn Moon, and indeed she helped the two parties communicate with each other.
The archives of Thorn Moon preserved within the Hexi system also confirm that they are a group of people who really do practical things, and it is not just a gimmick.
So Lin Guantang did not refuse to meet them, but since it was their first meeting, there was not much to talk about. They just introduced themselves to each other. Lin Guantang talked about his growth experience in District 35, and the other party talked about the growth history of Thorn Moon.
It is inevitable to talk about the various assumptions and difficulties encountered along the way -
For example, if you want to build a real all-O academy, it will be different from the all-O academy in the imperial capital, which is for the nobles, but it is designed to truly help omegas learn useful knowledge.
But there is a lack of funds, so it is just a thought. Other matters currently underway are all troubled by how to raise funds.
After the meeting, Lin Guantang planned to donate part of the property that Mr. Yuan had given him.
He was already worried about the money anyway - it would be a lie to say he wasn't happy, but he couldn't accept it completely and feel at ease.
Now, he has been given this opportunity.
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