Gu Ya met his mentor, Liang Xun, in the third week after enrolling.
She had just returned from the battlefield, which was why her communicator had been unreachable.
Gu Ya had contacted her every day. Even if she deliberately ignored him, after twenty-odd days of persistence, she should have felt a little embarrassed.
Liang Xun appeared at the classroom door and waved affectionately at Professor Lü Jialu, who was lecturing inside.
Professor Lü Jialu truly had a good temper. Gu Ya had gotten a feel for his personality after his initial troublemaking.
He was always unhurried and amiable, smiling at everyone without being a two-faced person, and answering students' questions thoroughly.
Lü Jialu bowed slightly and trotted out, exchanging a few quiet words with Liang Xun before calling Gu Ya out.
"Ah! Little hero, you've finally arrived!" Liang Xun smiled as openly and plainly as ever.
Gu Ya could tell that she must have been a student who had graduated from this academy. She exuded a friendly, unkempt academic aura.
"Mentor, I've come for you. Of course, there are two matters. One is quite important," Gu Ya said with a calm, humble smile.
Liang Xun looked at Gu Ya with delight. She must have spent some time on the battlefield, as she was even more tanned and had become leaner than Gu Ya remembered; more precisely, she had become more toned.
"Heh heh~ You're making me feel shy. You're the first person to come under my tutelage as a prospective War God of Xianxia. However, following the standard procedure, you would have to wait at least another half year."
Gu Ya clearly anticipated Liang Xun's response, and he also knew she would make an exception for him.
As Gu Ya expected.
Liang Xun then uttered a "but" with an emphasized accent, and continued, "I will return in a month, and then I will apply for a special assessment for you from the academy. Upon passing, you can study with me. Work hard."
Gu Ya nodded.
The two of them stood outside the classroom corridor, admiring the tranquil beauty of the academy, and chatted for about another class period.
During their conversation, Gu Ya asked about "attack resonance materials" multiple times, but Liang Xun brushed him off, saying they would research it gradually once he followed her.
Gu Ya also consulted Liang Xun about the last matter, which concerned the confidential teaching materials.
Naturally, this was also valuable knowledge that was not to be shared. Liang Xun certainly would not reveal it to this young man who had not yet officially joined her mentorship.
After a conversation that was relatively pleasant, Liang Xun departed in a hurry.
For the remaining time, Gu Ya had little to do besides attending classes and eating.
Within these two weeks, he had nearly finished self-studying the year's curriculum. For any questions he didn't understand, he privately consulted Professor Lü Jialu.
Professor Lü initially thought Gu Ya was a diligent and eager student.
However, as Gu Ya delved deeper into his inquiries and his remarkably rapid self-study progress, the professor's perception of him gradually shifted.
From initial admiration to confusion, and then to a recent quiet contemplation.
Professor Lü Jialu's attitude toward Gu Ya changed almost every time, though the process was gradual, without any sudden shifts.
Today, Gu Ya once again approached the professor with a question.
"Regarding the 30° axial shift angular momentum coefficient obtained during high-speed rotation in the cyclotron accelerator, why is it 5, and not 5.171?" Gu Ya inquired earnestly.
This time, Professor Lü's gaze showed skepticism.
"Why did you arrive at the value of 5.171?"
Gu Ya hesitated for a moment before replying, "I conducted the experiment three times, and the result was the same each time."
In reality, the experiment Gu Ya referred to was conducted within his Mechanic skill, [Star Blueprint]. With increased proficiency, he could complete this experiment in under fifteen minutes.
Moreover, the [Star Blueprint] skill had not yet failed him.
Since [Star Blueprint] was infallible, the textbook must be wrong.
Professor Lü looked at Gu Ya with a troubled expression, pondered for a moment, and said, "I didn't expect you to have self-studied this far and even conducted three experiments. I'm curious where you found so much energy, not only to learn so quickly but also to repeat each experiment multiple times."
"Professor, please answer my question first," Gu Ya urged in a low, humble tone.
Professor Lü smiled amicably and replied, "This is actually an interval-based numerical value. Any value within the range of 4.815 to 5.297 is acceptable, so the textbook chose 5 as the midpoint."
Gu Ya nodded.
His Mechanic skill was infallible, which meant Gu Ya had simulated the optimal value for this problem within [Star Blueprint].
"From now on, 5.171 can be used as the optimal solution," Gu Ya murmured.
Of course, Gu Ya's [Star Blueprint] was not omnipotent. For certain large-scale experiments, he still couldn't fully simulate them. Even if he could, it would require a vast amount of processing power, with dozens of values being calculated simultaneously. Humans, especially males, were slightly inferior to females in handling multi-threaded tasks.
When Gu Ya simulated the exoskeleton mecha motorcycle, he did it bit by bit and then compiled the results.
After Gu Ya left Wuhe City, Hong Fei spent another three months perfecting it before finally commencing mass production.
This indicated that [Star Blueprint] also had its limitations.
Professor Lü Jialu, observing Gu Ya's dazed expression, couldn't help but whisper, "I've asked around about some of your classmates. They all say they rarely see you going out to conduct experiments. Where exactly do you conduct them?"
Gu Ya didn't lie. He raised a finger and pointed to his head, honestly stating, "In my mind."
Until Gu Ya left Professor Lü's laboratory, the professor's gaze remained unchanged: astonished.
Could Gu Ya be a once-in-a-millennium genius? Able to simulate experiments in his mind, and based on the questions he had been asking over the past month, his experimental results were all correct. Did the brains of geniuses have a different structure than those of ordinary people?
After Gu Ya's month-long anxious wait, he still hadn't heard from his mentor, Liang Xun.
As a battlefield mecha mechanic, she seemed to have unavoidable duties.
Of course, there was an even more critical matter that made Gu Ya forgive Liang Xun for her no-show in his heart.
That was the fact that the Black Star Empire appeared to be planning a large-scale invasion war against Xianxia.
In recent days, the news had been broadcasting related events daily.
Within Xianxia, ordinary citizens were bombarded by these news reports repeatedly, leading to a surge of rumors, whispers, and speculations.
However, before receiving official confirmation from the higher authorities, these were merely topics of conversation for people to pass the time.
Within the academy, students were also discussing these events, but their primary focus remained on their studies.
After all, to complete twenty-eighty thousand pages of textbooks in three years seemed almost impossible.
For ordinary newly enrolled students, it was like a vast ocean that would engulf them in despair, helplessness, and confusion.
Many students had already begun complaining about the inhumanity of the curriculum in the past few days.
In fact, Gu Ya had spent an entire night browsing through the textbook.
A significant portion of it introduced the uses and principles of parts, similar to a hardware manual in his previous world. It had some reference value, but those aspects weren't always tested in exams.
In other words, the textbook was also an encyclopedia of mecha knowledge.
Aside from the essential theoretical knowledge and experiments, for the most part in the future, these mecha mechanics would carefully keep and consult the knowledge within this textbook when needed.
Of course, compared to this not-so-important matter,
Another event had occurred, injecting a touch of novelty and amusement into Gu Ya's monotonous and busy study life.