Chapter 8: Bizarre World, Eating Soft Rice Hard
South Wind City could be called extremely huge. Last night, Jiang He had someone drive him there, and it took a long time.
The light at night was dim, and nothing could be seen clearly. Only during the day could one glimpse the peculiar scenes from memory.
Metal tracks crisscrossed in mid-air, with track trains shuttling on them. The closer to the city center, the taller the buildings on both sides became, giving a feeling like the skyscrapers of his previous life.
“What kind of world is this exactly…”
Even though the original body’s memories contained related scenes, Su Chen couldn’t help but sigh as he walked slowly down the street, occasionally asking people to confirm his location.
The closer to the area under the light source, the more prosperous it became.
Between the outer city and Inner City, one even had to pay a toll. Su Chen had not a single coin on him, but luckily he showed the Auditing Letter, which allowed him to pass.
The pedestrians on the street were dressed in all sorts of ways, as if time and space were disordered. He even saw a guy with a metal mechanical arm.
Walking and asking along the way made the various scenes existing in the original body’s memories truly become his own.
After most of the day, he finally arrived at South Wind Academy, located in the northern area of South Wind Inner City. The gray-brown city walls stretched extremely far, fully three or four meters high.
The grand metal gate was carved with dense patterns and was currently tightly closed. Only the small doors on both sides were open, with quite a few people coming and going, none of them very old.
He spotted Jiang He standing by the small door on the left at a glance because she was really too eye-catching. Her gray teacher skirt barely covered her knees, her upper body was in a purple shirt that outlined alluring curves, and she even wore gold-rimmed glasses.
Students coming and going, and even people on the street, all cast glances without exception.
Jiang He seemed already accustomed to this, with impatience on her face, her gaze constantly scanning.
Su Chen was spotted by Jiang He right away, and she walked over with a seductive gait.
“Why are you only arriving now?” Her expression was very unpleasant. She had waited here for most of the day and thought something had gone wrong.
“Too far away, no choice.”
“You didn’t take the maglev train?” She frowned.
“No money.” Su Chen was very honest.
Jiang He fell silent, turned around and said, “Follow me.”
Their communication attracted quite a bit of attention, with people whispering. Some male students’ eyes inevitably showed envy and jealousy.
Jiang He was a famous teacher at the academy. It was said that many good-looking students had once had in-depth communication with this teacher, which was thought-provoking.
After entering the school, this attention became even more obvious, and some people even took out some kind of device to secretly aim at them.
South Wind Academy wasn’t small either, and it took the two of them some time to reach the Academic Affairs building.
“Auditing?” The person in charge of the Academic Affairs Office was a middle-aged woman.
Her voice drew the attention of several middle-aged men in the same office. Their gazes toward Su Chen already carried some deeper meaning, which now turned into naked jealousy.
“Yeah, Teacher Zhao, hurry up.” Jiang He urged, “Oh, right, remember to arrange a dormitory for him.”
Su Chen added, “Best if it’s an independent dormitory.”
Teacher Zhao glanced at Su Chen’s face, shook her head inwardly, and put away the Auditing Letter.
She operated on the instrument in front of her that projected a gray-yellow Virtual Screen. “Identity Code.”
Su Chen, relying on memory, spat out a string of characters. Information loaded on the Virtual Screen.
“Refugee?” Teacher Zhao’s eyes widened.
The gazes gathering around became even more astonished, and the looks toward Jiang He also turned strange.
“Hurry up.” Jiang He said impatiently. She clearly had some status.
The other didn’t dare delay, quickly operated, and transferred the information into South Wind Academy.
“Done. Mysticism first year, directly follow her classes. Dormitory in Building 13, Area B, Room 301. Tuition plus accommodation plus miscellaneous fees total 1246 gold…”
Teacher Zhao looked up at Su Chen, and Su Chen looked at Jiang He.
Jiang He’s face darkened. “Got it. I’ll pay for him later.”
“Mm, then, huh?” Teacher Zhao’s expression suddenly changed, astonished. “Why does he have to leave the city in half a month?”
“Half a month?” Jiang He was also shocked and looked at Su Chen. “Didn’t you say there were three or four months left?”
“In my memory, it was three or four months.” Su Chen recalled. The original host remembered this matter deeply and shouldn’t have gotten it wrong.
Jiang He’s expression fluctuated. “Got it.”
“Your Student ID Card…” Teacher Zhao took a Gilded Card from the device beside her, with Su Chen’s photo on it.
“Most things in the academy require it.”
The two left one after the other, and discussions started in the office.
“Why is she playing the nurturing type now, even picking a refugee. Tsk tsk… even paying his tuition…”
“Who knows, probably this kid has some special skill and coaxed her happy…”
“But enrolling now is a bit late. He has to leave the city in half a month. Though as an Auditing Student he only needs to do near-city patrols, it’s not without danger…”
“Someone altered your information…” In the hallway, Jiang He said in a low voice.
“Can’t you change it back?” Su Chen asked.
“If your information was at the Refugee Bureau, I could still find someone to change it, but now it’s entered South Wind Academy. Very troublesome…” Jiang He was clearly annoyed. “They acted last night. Quite fast.”
“He probably wants to figure out what happened last night through you.”
“Why haven’t you killed him yet?” Su Chen asked, knowing who she meant.
“This matter is fishy. Not just him behind it. We want to root them all out, and he’s not easy to handle…” Jiang He was vague, then continued:
“But you’re already a Strongman, so no big danger. Everything that needs arranging is arranged. I’m going to check who altered your information. Maybe use that as a breakthrough.”
She looked quite excited. Su Chen’s role was already showing effect.
After leaving the building, Jiang He left in a hurry. Su Chen looked around, grabbed a student, “Student, where is our school’s Library?”
Seeing the Student ID Card in Su Chen’s hand, the other’s attitude softened noticeably and pointed him a rough direction.
After two steps, Su Chen suddenly stopped, sighing, “Forgot to ask for money.”
He shook his head and headed to the Library. He needed to figure some things out quickly.
The Artificial Light Source hanging over all of South Wind City gradually changed from blinding white to gray-yellow.
Fourth floor of South Wind City Library, Su Chen let out a long breath, twisted his stiff neck with crackling sounds, closed the 《 Profession Basics Precautions》 in his hand, and put it back.
He crammed a lot of basic information that even the original body didn’t have, such as Profession Sequences.
Broadly divided into three categories: Physical, Mental, and Miscellaneous.
Physical Professions strengthen the body, emphasizing great power returning to oneself.
Mental Professions focus on the spirit, mobilizing mysterious external forces.
But these two aren’t clearly divided. In the book’s vague introduction, some Professions can encompass both Physical and Mental.
Category division is just a classification method. As for Miscellaneous, they’re more peculiar, like Rope Master belonging to Miscellaneous Professions.
The book also gave some common examples. Like cartographers, who can turn others’ descriptions or even thoughts directly into real blueprints.
Or architects, who can uniformly allocate building Materials to construct large buildings in a short time.
Many Miscellaneous Professions are scattered across all walks of life.
