Chapter 66 Lessons (4)

...it's not the first time he's done something like this.

At sunset, in the open tactics classroom, Jiang Jianming looked at the boy standing opposite the simulator.

"Hey."

The young man with simple clothes and fierce eyes shouted.

"I know that Teacher Luo Hai called you here because he wanted you to teach me a lesson, right?"

Kevin snorted coldly, and the brown crystals on his wrists flowed with luster, crackling and quickly growing an arm-length crystal bone, and the ends were attached to the virtual screen.

"I'll tell you first, it's useless. Even if I lose, I won't give up my persistence."

——The Kaios Military Academy is named after the emperor's honorable surname. Although it is a military academy, in fact, the six faculties cover most of the disciplines, and it is the undisputed highest institution in the human empire.

There are many geniuses, which actually means that there are many thorns who are disobedient to discipline and have high self-esteem.

So shrewd teachers have an unwritten custom: to catch some more powerful students, even old students who have graduated, and rub the little cubs on the ground several times to wake up their minds.

"You lose before you fight."

Jiang Jianming rolled his cuffs lightly, stretched out his hands, spread his fingers, "Ominous."

Ten slender, white fingers silently pressed on the virtual screen glowing blue.

Kevin was stunned for a moment, his face suddenly pale: "You, you are disabled...!"

Jiang Jianming: "It doesn't matter, you use your crystal bone."

I heard that when Major General Xie of Yin Beidou was studying in the military academy, he was often caught by the teachers at that time to do this work.

He, too, has been a ruthless friction machine that Luo Hai has often used since he entered school.

"Concentrate on the left and right and prepare."

Teacher Luo Hai shouted.

Soon, the electronic sound from the analog machine was clear:

"This random map: b-03, the students on both sides are in place, the three-dimensional battlefield projection will be displayed after five seconds, and the simulated confrontation will start after thirty seconds. The countdown is thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-seven..."

It's just... Jiang Jianming's eyes once again looked at the young boy who looked like a wolf cub in front of him, and said in his heart: accommodation fee.

——When he worked as a friction machine for Teacher Luo, he always used coins.

In an instant, the blue light quickly spread out in mid-air, forming a two-dimensional map.

The random map this time is dominated by plains, with sparse vegetation, and there is no room for small tricks.

The rules of the simulated confrontation are actually very simple.

The blue light simulates the geographical environment of the battlefield; the red dots symbolize alien creatures; the black and white light blocks respectively symbolize the strength of the opposing sides.

The goal of the battle is simpler: protect your own faction, remove alien creatures along the way and capture the opposing faction. The system will give the final grade based on the students' comprehensive performance.

That is to say, students need to fight against the obstacles set by the machine at the same time, as well as the real opponent on the opposite side.

Rushing, some noises came from outside the classroom.

"Hey, Brother Kevin is playing a mock battle with someone!"

"Who is the other party..."

Jiang Jianming swept it out of the corner of his eye, and through the window on the door, he vaguely saw the sneaky figures of a few young girls.

They are all students... Judging from their clothes, civilian students?

That should be what Teacher Luo Hai said, the children who went on strike with the boy in front of him.

Outside the classroom, several teenagers and girls who came to hear the news were in a commotion.

"Hey, look at his wrist."

"Dead human beings!? It's actually not affected by Brother Kevin's crystal bone..."

"Did he take a sedative in advance?"

"Is he a noble? It doesn't feel like..."

"Come on," Luo Hai suddenly shouted, "Come in and see."

The little kids outside the door shut up all of a sudden, and after a while, they slipped in like eggplants beaten by frost.

In the classroom, Jiang Jianming's heart suddenly moved.

He realized that since he returned to the empire, the "atmosphere" he had vaguely noticed was different, and what was the difference.

Kneeling to the bishop of the Crystal Cult, weeping crippled humans, provocative nobles in the street, commoners who strike classes...

It's those hidden contradictions. Behind the brilliance of prosperity and peace, the contradictions within this huge empire suddenly intensified, like a mad beast freed from the suppression of iron chains, showing sharp fangs.

Why? Jiang Jianming couldn't help frowning, he wasn't like this before he set off, why suddenly...

"Hey, you're not from a noble family, are you?"

On the opposite side, Kevin stared at the simulated map and began to move his troops, "We just want to fight for equality, why are you blocking me?"

He is Baizi, and the style of this teenager after getting on the plane is not as impulsive as his attitude. On the contrary, in the face of the mysterious youth brought by Teacher Luo Hai, he showed 12 points of caution.

On the contrary, Jiang Jianming, who manipulated Heizi, rushed out in a straight line along the terrain.

The vanguard is in front, and the large troops follow steadily, expelling alien creatures along the way... It is a very solid but also very common offensive style.

"……equality."

Jiang Jianming looked at the young man in front of him with a peaceful expression, "Your name is Kevin, right, how much tuition do you spend in Kaios Military Academy every year?"

A girl who had just walked into the classroom suddenly shouted, "Brother Kevin is the best in our class. He can get scholarships and subsidies from the Empire every year! He doesn't have to pay tuition."

"Yes!" A chubby dude also shouted, "Just... just because he didn't want to bow his head and offended the Brandon family, the group of nobles tried their best to isolate him and bully him. It was obvious that none of those guys had any achievements. Better than Kevin."

It's a coincidence, why is it Brandon again...

Jiang Jianming smiled inwardly, and nodded calmly on his face: "It turns out that the scholarship from Kaios Military Academy is not easy to get, you are an excellent student."

During the conversation, on the simulated projection battlefield, Kuroko and Baizi collided on both sides.

Kevin's eyes flashed, and he was secretly happy: The other party has been tricked!

Hei Zi came all the way from the red dots that symbolize alien creatures, his strength has been somewhat damaged, and he is waiting for work, now as long as...

The teenager used the crystal bone to maneuver quickly, Baizi's wings were deformed, and the array became a curved "u", which surrounded Kuroko like dumplings.

It went better than expected.

The corners of Kevin's mouth couldn't help twitching: Very good, so the enemy is the turtle in the urn. The next step is a protracted war, as long as we can nibble away the opponent's forces little by little...

"As far as I know, Brandon's family donates millions of dollars every year for the construction of the military academy."

Suddenly, a clear and slightly heavy voice floated from the opposite side.

The brows of the black-haired youth were low, and when he spoke, there was no wavering in his eyes staring at the simulated projection.

White fingers swiped a graceful trajectory on the virtual screen, and moved his troops without haste.

"what!?"

Kevin's face changed greatly, and he looked at the projection in front of him in disbelief, "How, how, how can this happen!?"

The encircling circle as expected was not formed, and Bai Zi didn't even have time to completely enclose Heizi, and the bottom of the "u" slammed to pieces.

The sunspot on the battlefield is like a sharp knife, or a spear, or even like a rampaging bull, directly breaking through the array of Baizi, and the original half-arc is completely divided into two pieces!

"And you, not only can't pay the tuition, but the military academy has to lose money to help you complete your studies."

Jiang Jianming raised his eyes unhurriedly, "Is this equal to the military academy?"

The depressing red light of the setting sun outside the window and the icy blue light of the analog machine in front of him were swaying and swaying in the depths of those pitch-black pupils.

There was a little sigh in his tone, as if a little melancholy, or perhaps pitiful.

Kevin was stunned, and the boys and girls watching the battle were also stunned. don't know if it's for the momentary change in the battle situation, or for the words from the black-haired youth in front of him.

Jiang Jianming knocked on the edge of the machine, trying to get the young man back to his senses: "Your formation is too loose, and you don't have enough experience, so don't rashly disperse your troops."

The girl who first spoke for Kevin raised her eyebrows anxiously: "Don't talk nonsense! Isn't Kaios a royal academy, isn't the purpose of cultivating talents for the empire!? What makes money and loses money, and it's not for business. Small businessman—"

Jiang Jianming shook his head helplessly and glanced at Teacher Luo Hai.

these kids...

Where is the problem of making money and losing money.

It is precisely because the status of Kaios Military Academy is here that sometimes it has to be restrained by more invisible things, and has to make a certain degree of compromise.

Let's just say that the current tactical simulation machine, with the most advanced computing system and intellectual brain, costs nearly one million points.

If you don't make money, how can you subsidize these civilian children who can't pay tuition fees to go to school?

In the same way, if you don't make some compromises, once the military academy itself collapses, how can you protect these innocent children who talk about "destroy all evil aristocrats" and "we won't come to class without expelling those scumbags"?

But such a complex thing, for a while, can't be separated from this group of children.

So Jiang Jianming could only sigh: "Yes, what you said...that's right."

The next second, he raised his eyebrows indifferently and asked, "But with the way you are now, do you count as talents?"

"..."

The faces of the boys and girls were ashes as they fell into silence.

The heating in the big classroom is clearly on, but there seems to be a cold current pouring down from the top of everyone's head. They looked at each other with timid expressions in their eyes.

Are they... talents? Are they worth more than a million coin points?

Jiang Jianming took another look at the battle situation at this time. Kevin was covered in cold sweat and was gritting his teeth, trying to bring the two scattered forces closer together.

Jiang Jianming flicked the screen at will, and the sunspots moved from left to right, like a giant dragon swinging its tail, breaking the two strands of white stalking one by one: "It's all like this, is it useful to try to gather troops again?"

"See your enemy clearly and make the right judgment."

"Face me, you should run."

Kevin raised his face sharply, the corners of his eyes twitched and his face was red, whether it was from shame or anger.

Jiang Jianming: "I can't even beat what Teacher Luo grabbed at random. You're still a long way off."

Kevin's teeth were shaking, and he closed his sour eyes unwillingly, and with difficulty... began to manipulate the remaining soldiers, throwing away his armor and fleeing in embarrassment.

There was a red dot in front of him.

The red dot, which symbolizes alien creatures, is in front of the scattered Baizi.

Jiang Jianming's face sank: "Where are you running? Didn't you just keep on the defensive? The alien creatures in that area have not been eliminated. Have you lost your head?"

"what……"

Kevin's face paled instantly.

Heizi greeted him leisurely, and the soldiers divided into four groups halfway, and accurately ate the scattered Baizi.

- Total annihilation.

"..."

Kevin stood there blankly, with a hunched back, dragging an unbearable shadow on the ground.

However, as the setting sun completely sank, the surrounding darkness also drowned out that shadow.

Several friends walked over silently, surrounded their "Brother Kevin" in the middle, and stared at Jiang Jianming defensively.

They looked a little pitiful, like stubborn gray stones.

"Do you still want to fight?"

Jiang Jianming moved his wrist, and there was no trace of winning or losing on his face. "If you are not reconciled, put away the crystal bones and replace them with manual manipulation. I can play a few more games with you."

"Before that..." He turned around and looked at Luo Hai, who had been standing with arms crossed, watching silently.

This time, there were more vivid traces between Qing Jun's eyebrows and eyes, Jiang Jianming said softly: "Teacher Luo, can you invite me for coffee?"