Blue Star.
Great Xia.
June, not yet ended, but the sun blazes like fire.
As the final class of the third academic year, homeroom teacher Gao Ping was still meticulously writing and drawing on the blackboard.
"Students, in half a semester, you will enter society..."
"Your attitudes are becoming increasingly lax..."
"Even regarding the recent assignments, I've noticed you've completely forgotten my usual lectures. Your reading of the questions is rough and careless, and your answers are outrageously wrong..."
Gao Ping heavily tapped the words "reading of the questions" with white chalk several times.
"This academic year's assignment... if you are not continuing to pursue postgraduate studies... it will be your final academic year assignment... I will post the topic to the class group later... After the start of the fourth academic year, if I find anyone still not carefully reading the questions and providing wildly incorrect answers, your regular grade will be zero, and you will only be allowed to go out for social internships after successfully retaking the course..."
Finally.
Gao Ping earnestly and solemnly wrote several large characters.
[Not carefully reading the questions leads to tears of regret for your loved ones!]
...
Meng Hao.
A student in his third year, Class Four, Department of Applied Physics, at Shilin University, a small coastal city.
He was a student of the stern and serious homeroom teacher, Gao Ping.
Apart from his good looks and physique, which made countless girls swoon, he was practically ordinary to the point of being mediocre!
As a typical young person of the new century who believed in "lying flat," Meng Hao was a firm believer in pragmatism.
For example, learning too much was useless; passing was enough...
Furthermore, skipping required courses and definitely skipping elective courses...
Even more so, if he could sleep in class, he wouldn't wake up; if he could use his phone, he wouldn't look at the blackboard...
After all.
These four years of university were a rare time for "slacking off" in life.
Why be so diligent?
As long as he could pass the final exams!
Why be so meticulous with professional courses?
As long as he could "academically exchange" with a few classmates during the exam and pass the threshold, it would be fine!
Why try to please teachers, participate in student unions, and act as free labor during university life?
As long as he could pass his defense, get both certificates, and successfully find an internship and job, it would be enough!
With the principle of completely disregarding Gao Ping's words, quickly faking his way through the third-year assignment, and then going back to playing games and sleeping.
He clicked open the class group chat, which he hadn't looked at in who knows how long, and had even muted.
Gao Ping, that old rock from the toilet, even posted a group announcement?
Too long, too lazy to read!
Directly went into the group documents...
Selected the top file...
Successfully downloaded...
Opened the document...
And then!
Meng Hao was dumbfounded.
Damn it!
What the hell!
Had Gao Ping, that rock-like mentor,'s brain been preserved in formalin?!
The word count for the third-year assignment didn't even fill one page of the document interface.
As for the topic.
It was even more shocking to Meng Hao!
[Please choose one of the following topics to complete.]
[Topic A: Manufacture a mech and control it to perform a set of Wing Chun, and film it!]
[Topic B: Draw a 3D diagram of a Dyson sphere, and using the near-Earth star, the Sun, as a target, construct a Dyson sphere ring with at least 20% completion!]
[Topic C: Based on Mendeleev's seven main element groups, complete all the blanks in the periodic table!]
[Topic D: Thoroughly understand Einstein's theory of special relativity, and based on it, research and manufacture a time machine, anchor it to a prehistoric point, and explore the truth behind the extinction of dinosaurs.]
Completely stunned, Meng Hao's first reaction was—
Had Gao Ping, that stinky and hard rock from the toilet, been cuckolded, or was his marital life unhappy?
The four topics provided were truly preposterous, like a mother opening the door to absurdity, and arriving at the peak of absurdity.
What the hell.
Were these topics that a normal human's brain could come up with?!
Was he planning to make the entire Applied Physics Class Four fail, and continue to stay at Shilin University, this third-rate dilapidated institution, with him Gao Ping forever, never graduating?!
With the principle of never probing the minds of lunatics and successfully downgrading himself to insanity, Meng Hao decided to forgo closing the computer and instead directly unplug the power strip.
Right.
Cut the power early, save your brain!
[Ding!]
[God-tier Military Industry System Awakens!]
[Initial mission has been generated... Host Meng Hao, do you choose to accept the system mission?!]
Huh?
Eh?
Ah?
System awakening?
Is this that cool, awesome, and incredibly powerful?
Could it be that he was the legendary chosen one, just like countless male protagonists in online novels, about to embark on the path to life's pinnacle as a business magnate, a underworld overlord, a rising political star, or the king of the universe?!
Calm down.
Must remain calm.
Maintain the composure of a mountain collapsing before you, with a face as serene as a calm lake.
As someone on the verge of becoming a world-class successful individual, Meng Hao suppressed his inner elation and impulse.
"Okay, I choose to accept!"
Before he could review whether his expression was peaceful, his attitude was steady, or his tone was indifferent, the system responded instantly.
[Host Meng Hao has confirmed acceptance of the initial mission!]
[Generating initial mission.]
[Please complete this academic year's year-end assignment with quality and quantity.]
What the heck!
Are you kidding me?
Did this system also suffer from the same mental illness as Gao Ping?
Any of these four topics are not something a human... no, a carbon-based life form can complete!
Before Meng Hao could even voice his complaints and question the rationality of the system's initial mission...
The system panel, visible only to Meng Hao, began to flash dark green text before his retina!
[System prompt... If the mission is completed, you will be rewarded with 1000 technology points... Technology points can be used in the store to purchase technologies, enhance the host's body, and other products... If the mission fails, to prevent system information leakage, all traces of host Meng Hao on Earth will be forcibly erased.]
Mission failure!
Forcible erasure!!
All traces!!!
In simple terms.
If the system's assigned mission was not completed.
Meng Hao would not only be physically erased, but all information and memories related to him would also be wiped clean.
In other words.
It would be equivalent to deleting a game save.
Making Meng Hao untraceable and nonexistent in the entire world.
This is...
Too ruthless!
Despite the bright sunshine outside, Meng Hao inside felt as if a basin of ice water had been poured over his head in the depths of winter, freezing him into an ice sculpture!
This damned system.
Look at those four topics Gao Ping came up with.
Let alone a mediocre student from a third-rate local university like Meng Hao, even top students from prestigious universities... or even students from the Ivy League in the United States would only be able to stare blankly, and think that anyone who could list such questions definitely needed a mental health evaluation!
No, no, no!
To be precise.
Even if a high-dimensional being descended, or the Trisolarans from Liu Cixin's book appeared, they would only be able to sigh in helplessness at these four topics.
Ignoring Meng Hao's internal curses, the system, which theoretically had no emotions and was indifferent to abuse, once again flashed text before his retina!
[Please host Meng Hao do not delay... Please complete the assignment topic before the countdown... Special note: To assist host Meng Hao in completing the topic, the system will provide basic assistance for the topic chosen by the host... Please confirm your choice before the countdown reaches zero... 300 seconds... 299 seconds... 298 seconds...]