Love at Second Sight [Interstellar]

The new year is here, and on the first day of the new year, according to the custom, neither visit relatives and friends nor work.

Even though the whole family got together late to watch the New Year's Eve, Zhuang Yan still got up at seven o'clock on time, washed up, and breakfast was delivered to his bedroom on time.

After Zhuang Yan had breakfast, he turned on the terminal, and many friends sent New Year greetings. He flipped through it, and Kevin Bulville also sent New Year greetings, plus the homework he left for Kevin when he left the "tower", a new design drawing.

Zhuang Yan opened his homework and looked at it, then sent a message asking: "Busy?"

Kevin quickly replied: "It's not busy, Professor. It's okay to be idle at home."

Zhuang Yan then sent a text message, and Kevin answered it, looking flustered, and said a little nervously: "Professor, my homework... is that a big problem?"

Zhuang Yan snorted and said, "When will your problem not be too serious?"

Kevin lowered his head in shame. Zhuang Yan enlarged the design drawing and pointed out some problems for him. Kevin listened and memorized it.

Zhuang Yan finished speaking: "You don't like to use more rough stones? Why, save?"

The raw stone is the basic material for making the mecha, and it is also the foundation of the mecha. Relying on the raw stone, the Sentinel can connect his five senses and mental power with the mecha. To use a very clever word, it is "the integration of man and machine".

"If one day you really become a mecha designer." Zhuang Yan said in a mocking tone, "Probably frugality is your biggest advantage."

Kevin blushed a little and said, "No, professor, it's not for thrift."

"why?"

"I saw it in the book you gave me." Kevin thought for a while, "Although the original stone can make the sentry's mental power and five senses reach a very high level in a short period of time, blindly pursuing explosive power will make the driver Excessive 'sharpening' in a single drive will be detrimental to the driver's post-war recovery. In the long run, it will consume the Sentry's mental stamina, leading to early symptoms such as barrier degradation and nervous disorders."

Zhuang Yan narrowed his eyes and said, "The ratio of raw stones used has been regulated in detail by the state. Why, do you think the standards discussed by the seniors are not reasonable enough?"

"That's not what I mean." Kevin hurriedly said, "But the use of rough stones will indeed cause damage to the sentries. Perhaps the average lifespan of sentries today is only about 70 years old, which is also the reason."

"But the sentinels are going to be on the battlefield." Zhuang Yan said, "If you design the mecha only considering the damage that the rough stone will do to them, and reduce the performance, it may directly lead to their death on the battlefield."

"Yes, so this is just an immature idea of ​​mine, and I don't have the ability to realize it." Kevin said sincerely, "I just think that the purpose of weapons is 'protection' rather than 'damage', not to mention It is our own fighters who are hurting, if... if we can design mechas that ordinary people can drive without the use of raw stones, then there is no need to pay the price of the lifespan of the sentries."

Zhuang Yan didn't speak for a long time.Kevin scratched the back of his head and looked at him a little afraid of being scolded.

"The book you read was written by my teacher." Zhuang Yan said.

Kevin was taken aback and said, "It's...really?"

Zhuang Yandao: "About the teaching of the basic knowledge of mechs, the Empire has many versions of teaching materials, most of which are also detailed and comprehensive, but my teacher created a separate chapter in his book, talking about the dangers of rough stones to sentries, Only his version is like this. As for the mech you said, ordinary people can also drive it..."

Zhuang Yan paused, and changed the subject: "I won't be in Suplin next semester."

"What?" Kevin was startled again.

Zhuang Yan said: "I will go to the imperial capital, be a guide student, and enter the Mecha Academy of the Imperial Military Academy." After graduating from there, you will enter the Army Department, which is the path most senior military officers of the empire take.He himself is a postgraduate graduate of the Imperial Military Academy, and now he only needs to go to the Mecha Academy to get the course completion certificate for the exclusive guide.

"..."

Kevin: "Professor, actually..."

Zhuang Yan: "? What?"

Kevin stammered: "Actually, someone found me and asked me if I would like to transfer to the Imperial Military Academy, saying that they could afford all my tuition fees..." He never dreamed of the Mecha Academy of the First Imperial Military Academy. The place.He was originally moved, but after much deliberation, he still couldn't bear Su Pulin.

As far as the school style is concerned, Suplin is more theoretical, while the Imperial Military Academy is more pragmatic.During his one semester in Suplin, he had a relaxed and happy life and learned a lot.More importantly, there are professors here.

At first, he was talking about Professor Zhuang with his classmates in the bathroom. He never imagined that in this school, the person who would take care of him the most would be the other party.It is also this professor who supports him and teaches him to learn and advance in the design of his favorite mecha.

When he graduated in the semester, he received a double scholarship, which was more than his tuition and living expenses for the next semester.Later I found out that it was because the Academic Affairs Office received a sum of money sent to him by the professor, and the description said: "From the results and performance of Kevin Boulville in my office, I think he deserves double bonus. Reissue."

If you change schools, can you still meet such a mentor?So Kevin decided to stay and didn't tell others about the school transfer.But if the professor is leaving too...

Zhuang Yan knew what was going on as soon as he heard it.

The universities of the empire have such a rule for the guide students awakened during their own school: after the students have received basic training in the "tower", if the school they belong to is not a military academy, they will be transferred to the military academy, and the students can freely choose from any regular military academy in the empire. , if you belong to a military academy, you still have one chance to choose.

Since the tuition fees of the mech academies in all military academies are quite expensive, the empire will also give these guide students a subsidy. The quality will be much higher.

At this time, if guides with insufficient financial resources want to go to those expensive mech academies, they still have a chance.They can accept external funding, and the funding from a big family is often a kind of solicitation. The guide accepts the funding at this time, and it will be used for his encouragement in the future.

There is also a special situation that often happens, that is, according to the matching information released by the system, the noble Sentinel family finds such a qualified civilian guide for their children, then the two sides negotiate, and the Sentinel family will be responsible for everything about this guide from now on. , the exchange condition is that the pair of guides and sentries will be bound from then on.

Just like the "child bride" in ancient novels.

Because of personal privacy, Zhuang Yan never asked about Kevin's matching list, nor did he think about it for him.So someone has already come to the door?

Zhuang Yan asked, "Who is it?"

Kevin was still in a daze: "Huh?"

Zhuang Yan asked impatiently: "Which one is it?" Was it recruited?Or do you go to be a "child bride"?

"Uh..." Kevin's eyes began to wander, and he intuitively felt that the professor would react more when he heard his answer, "It's... Admiral Zhou."

"Zhou Yuchen?" Zhuang Yan stood up and stared at Kevin, "Are you and Zhou Yuchen a match?"

"No, no, no." Kevin said hurriedly, "It's not the general, it's his younger brother."

Zhuang Yan's face changed again and again—he himself and Zhou Yuchen matched up like that, and now his student matched with Zhou Yuchen's younger brother?

Zhuang Yan began to wonder if there was such a thing as God's prank.

"Professor, you forgot..." Kevin said in a nasty voice, "That time I awakened in the Mecha Contest and injured a sentry who was competing on the field. He is Admiral Zhou's younger brother..."

The corners of Zhuang Yan's mouth twitched again and again, after digesting for a while, he said: "Don't go."

"Ah? Oh." Kevin said a little disappointed.

Seeing his disappointment, Zhuang Yan became angry: "They said they would pay for your tuition, you don't know what their intentions are? You just want to combine with a sentinel you haven't met? Take your future In exchange for a little tuition? Are you so hungry?"

Kevin is used to filtering out the ugly parts of Zhuang Yan's words. He thought that he just wanted to follow the professor, and said, "I'm a commoner, professor, and money is also very important."

Zhuang Yan wanted to pass through the screen and shoot the poor-looking student on the head with a bare board. Seeing that something was wrong, Kevin quickly said, "Okay, I understand. In fact, Suplin is also very good..."

Zhuang Yan said coldly: "Whoever asked you to stay in Suplin, you will transfer to another school next semester."

Kevin said, "Huh? But I don't have any money."

Zhuang Yan: "..."

Kevin: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ghhhh! Professor, do you want to pay for my tuition?"

Zhuang Yan felt that if he continued to communicate with this idiot, he would probably vomit blood with anger, so he said "shut up" to the grateful Kevin, sent him the revised design drawing, and then shut down the communication.

After talking too much just now, he picked up his teacup and planned to go to the tea room downstairs to make some tea and take the gift with him.

On the first day of the new year, people in a house give gifts to each other.There is no such habit between Zhuang Yan and Zhuang Ze, the presents are for the servants.However, all the servants in the villa had families and went back to accompany their families. The only ones who were single were Amber and a maid. The cook also went back after making breakfast.

Zhuang Yan went downstairs and walked to the tea room. The screen on the wall was playing the news. There were people in the lounge next door. It was Amber and the maid. They got up and came over when they heard the movement.

"Good morning, Amber, Zelda."

"Good morning, master, didn't you sleep a little longer?"

Zhuang Yan exchanged gifts with them, watched the maid Zelda open the box and called out, "Master, this is too precious."

"It's nothing, your presents are better." Zhuang Yan looked at the box, a small wooden figure carved after him, the corners of his mouth could not help but slightly curled up, Zelda said with a smile: "The butler's craftsmanship is really unmatched by anyone .”

Amber would send him such a small wooden figure every year, and they would engrave him after he came back. Zhuang Yan raised his head and looked at the silver-haired old man with a hint of kindness in the stereotype, and was about to say something. Suddenly heard the news broadcast on the wall:

"Regarding the recent pirate attacks that have caused a sensation across the country, the investigation team of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau has given preliminary interrogation results..."

He turned around.

"After a rigorous interrogation, the prisoner confessed that his true identity is a soldier of federal origin... The imperial court will hold a hearing in February and broadcast it in real time to try the criminal in front of the public."