"Ah, Mingmei! You came so early today and didn't even call me!"

Among all the people Mingmei knew, Lu Xiaoyao was definitely the most clueless.

Mingmei looked at Lu Xiaoyao, who had dark circles under her eyes and sleep-mussed curly hair. She was leaning on the table in front of Mingmei, pouting in mock complaint.

Lu Xiaoyao hadn't even noticed Mu Chen sitting next to Mingmei.

Lu Xiaoyao's dorm was next to Mingmei's. On the first day of school, Lu Xiaoyao had suggested that they attend offline courses together.

Who knew that they would be so out of sync on the very first class.

"I knocked on your door forever this morning..."

Mingmei couldn't be blamed. She really did look for Lu Xiaoyao that morning, but no one answered.

As Mingmei spoke, she looked at the dark circles under Lu Xiaoyao's eyes and asked, "What were you doing last night? You look so tired?"

"It's nothing..."

Realizing that Mingmei hadn't failed to look for her that morning, but that it was her own fault, Lu Xiaoyao decided not to say that the psychologist had kept her up half the night doing psychological tests.

Then he just said, "Okay, you can go."

Lu Xiaoyao: ???

You kept me up all night just to mess with me?

Lu Xiaoyao quickly smoothed her hair, deciding to drop the topic. Then, she was about to say something about sitting next to Mingmei, but naturally saw Mu Chen sitting next to Mingmei.

Lu Xiaoyao stared at Mu Chen's face and blinked for a long time, then rubbed her eyes in disbelief, muttering, "This person... looks so familiar. Have I met him somewhere before?"

Mingmei: ...

She knew it. Lu Xiaoyao had thought she looked familiar when they first met, but didn't recognize her, and didn't connect her with the person in the game. It wasn't surprising that she was reacting this way to Mu Chen.

So, Lu Xiaoyao, are you a goldfish?

That's what Mingmei thought, having spent time with Lu Xiaoyao. Anyone else who heard Lu Xiaoyao say that would have had a complicated expression.

It was one thing for other people to think he looked familiar, but how could Lu Xiaoyao only think he looked familiar?

He was the Boss in the game storyline that you experienced firsthand!

Bai Xiao and Hu Yue were sitting near Mingmei and them. Hearing Lu Xiaoyao's words, Bai Xiao couldn't help but touch her chest.

"What's wrong?"

Hu Yue noticed that Bai Xiao looked like she was suffocating and asked in a low voice.

"Nothing..." Bai Xiao twitched the corner of her mouth. She just hoped she wouldn't run into Lu Xiaoyao again in the game.

"Everyone was in the same class when school started a few days ago, so naturally you'd look familiar."

Knowing what Lu Xiaoyao meant, Mu Chen didn't intend to remind her. Instead, he gave a vague explanation, secretly observing the expression on Lu Xiaoyao's face.

"Really? We're in the same class?"

Lu Xiaoyao had no recollection. There were only a dozen people in their class. Other than the first day of school, when everyone sat in the classroom for a while, they all ran away as soon as class was over.

Lu Xiaoyao had only gotten to know Mingmei because she was pretty and looked familiar. She really didn't remember anyone else.

"Okay, class is about to start. You're late today, so hurry up and find a seat."

Seeing that Lu Xiaoyao still wanted to stand there, and that the gazes around her were becoming more and more focused on her as more people came into the classroom, Mingmei felt like she was sitting on pins and needles and urged her to hurry up.

On the other hand, Mu Chen didn't seem to feel uncomfortable at all, which made Mingmei even more curious about him.

During class, Mingmei secretly sent a message to her uncle using her optical computer to confirm whether what Mu Chen had said about selling the rights to use his image was true.

Her uncle's reply was straightforward, saying that it was true.

After receiving her uncle's message, Mingmei listened attentively to the lesson for a minute, then began to contemplate life...

She had originally thought that the basic mecha knowledge class would just be a theoretical course.

But when a scaled-down model of the retired B-class combat mecha from the previous generation of the Empire's military appeared on the table in front of her, Mingmei was dumbfounded.

The teacher in the class was also efficient, leading everyone to disassemble the mecha from beginning to end. The projection magnified the small parts of the model, and the reasons for the existence of each part, combined with relevant physics and mathematics knowledge, made Mingmei's scalp explode!

What to do?!

She was really a salted fish! (lazy person)

She couldn't understand at all!

Mingmei held a fingernail-sized part in her hand, with a magnified 3D image of the part projected in front of her, and Mingmei felt like her eyes were about to form mosquito coils.

No way, no way?

What kind of material is heat-resistant?

What kind of shape reduces friction?

What were these things?

Even so, Mingmei's expression didn't reveal her confusion. On the contrary, she looked even more serious, which in other people's eyes was a sign of being very serious!

But only Mingmei herself felt the malice of the world!

No one in the world of cultivation told her that directly ascending to the heavens and escaping to the earth violated Newton's laws, right?

No one told her that flying to the heavens and escaping to the earth required science, right?

"It's so hard~"

Suddenly, a soft complaint came from her ear. This complaint simply spoke Mingmei's mind!

Mingmei turned her head and saw that Mu Chen also had a solemn expression, his eyes fixed on the direction the teacher was speaking. He was holding a mecha part in his hand and muttering, "...too fragile."

Because his voice was too low, Mingmei only heard half of it. Then, he said, "Why do I have to learn this..."

"I want to know too..."

Without thinking, Mingmei blurted out her own thoughts. Hearing this, Mu Chen turned his head slightly, a hint of joy flashing in his eyes, and asked, "Do you think it's difficult too?"

"Yeah." Mingmei nodded quietly, not denying it. But thinking about it this way, Mingmei felt that she had nodded too quickly just now. Would he think she was an idiot?

However, Mu Chen didn't show any bad intentions. He just stared at the mecha and said softly, "Why do we have to study carefully something that can be destroyed with one punch?"

Mingmei: ??

What did she just hear?

"What... what did you say just now?"

"Huh?" Mu Chen turned to look at Mingmei's confused expression and shook his head innocently, "No, I didn't say anything."