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Chapter 303 Official Notice

It rained heavily all night.

The next day, the campus paths were still somewhat damp, water droplets rolled on the grass leaves, and the various flowers and plants showed no sign of damage from the acid rain, still verdant and dripping with vitality.

Because Wei Ya didn't know how much of Xu Shuo's teaching plan was left, she sent over the new lesson plan early this morning.

Xu Shuo, like an examining teacher, checked it carefully.

Anyway, teaching here rarely follows the textbook's sequence, it is usually whichever article inspires the professor, and that's what they lecture on. The students also choose their classes on the school's online system based on their own needs.

Wei Ya had prepared a few fairly easy-to-teach lessons for him. Perhaps after attending two of his classes, she realized the level of hypnosis was simply too high, so she decided to keep the lesson planning simple.

Well, the class was short, without any unnecessary parts.

Xu Shuo uploaded the new teaching plan to the school's online system.

On the history department faculty forum, a fellow professor saw his classes and asked out of curiosity, "Why are your lessons for the next few days all so ordinary?" Read latest stories on My Virtual Library Empire

Xu Shuo, "It rained yesterday, no inspiration."

The professors, "..."

Someone joked, "I have been quite eager to lecture on the 'Solar Eclipse Cataclysm' part of history, and I thought based on your teaching progress you would have reached it by now, but if you're not going to teach it soon, then I'll schedule it!"

Xu Shuo, "That's fine."

The other party, "You're not going to backstab me and steal students once I start teaching it, are you?"

Xu Shuo, "No, I won't teach it."

The other party, "Great!"

After the chat, the person logged off from the forum, obviously excited to prepare the lesson.

Professors indeed compete for students since if two classes conflict, students will definitely choose based on the teacher's qualifications and the lesson plan.

The number of students attending your class also represents a kind of strength and honor.

Therefore, this kind of class scheduling competition is quite common.

The duels between literary workers are also filled with a literary air.

Xu Shuo, remembering the 'Solar Eclipse Cataclysm' the other party had mentioned, out of curiosity, looked it up because of its impactful name.

It was history from thirteen hundred years ago. On the day of a total solar eclipse, the entire world underwent cataclysmic changes, heralding the apocalypse. After almost five hundred years of conflict, it ended, and society gradually developed into its current form.

It was history that had changed the entire world's structure.

It is said that many of the insectoid monsters in holographic online games are inspired by the mutated creatures from that apocalyptic time.

So there was this part of history!

Xu Shuo simply indulged his curiosity and then stopped looking.

He casually flipped through the entire history book so he wouldn't be completely in the dark if a student asked him a question – at least he could bluff his way through it.

After leaving the house today, Xu Shuo tried out his sense of direction and found he still had some spatial disorientation.

It seems he used teleportation too frequently yesterday.

It was strange. Professor Li's mind transmission and telekinesis clearly have no side effects, but only teleportation and mind-reading cause direction confusion and face blindness, respectively. Aside from these, Xu Shuo had not yet discovered any other issues.

He even suspected whether Professor Li had any hidden abilities, but these could only be explored by himself.

Xu Shuo followed the map to the classroom, and after finishing today's lesson, he saw Wei Ya, who always attended his classes, signaling him with her eyes from the back row.

He didn't show any reaction and left the usual devilish amount of homework before gathering his things and leaving the classroom.

When outside, Xu Shuo would not carry the obsolete micro-end device with him. He simply tossed it deep into his office desk drawer to gather dust, and using a tablet to openly browse chat rooms during lectures was also not appropriate.

—There must be new messages in the chat room.

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By noon, the campus paths were no longer damp, and the sky system simulated warm sunlight.

The cats that had been nowhere to be seen in the morning were now out for walks, basking in the sun, fluttering after moths, and having fits on the lawns.

Wei Ya watched the white cat that was having a fit in silence for a moment.

"Did you change the programs of these cats?"

"Yes, I did," Xu Shuo also glanced over.

"So what's the deal with that one?"

"Cat behavior is always unpredictable, isn't it?" Xu Shuo rubbed his chin and said, "Then I wrote a 'random action' code into their daily routines, but when I ran it, I suddenly found out that I wrote the code incorrectly. Yet, somehow it still executed."

"..."

"I realized I couldn't understand how this BUG was functioning, and it was too much trouble to overhaul and rewrite it all, so I just couldn't be bothered with it anymore. As long as it runs, it's fine."

"..."

So now that piece of code could make these cats perform any random action, and even Xu Shuo himself didn't know what they would do.

Wei Ya silently stared at the cat having a fit and then, suddenly coming back to the subject, said, "Because of what happened at Jiangpu Port yesterday, the officials want someone from the New An Bureau to negotiate. Pianning is planning to have one of the four of us go."

Xu Shuo was surprised, "Me?"

Otherwise, why would she come to find him?

Oh, he seemed to have another use...

Indeed, Wei Ya shook her head and said, "Of course not, Banqian will go. You're just there to be nearby in case you need to get him out of there quickly."

They couldn't exactly send a junior into danger.

The reason the officials could hunt down New Humans was that they also had quite a few newly developed weapons targeting New Humans. Moreover, considering the control the officials had over the Empire and the urban districts, there were just too many things they could do.

Wei Ya continued, "Jiangpu Port is Deng Corporation's territory. Because of the huge losses they suffered this time, Deng Corporation is pressuring the Senate to demand an explanation from the New Humans, and the only New Human organization the officials can find is the New An Bureau."

Xu Shuo recalled that Deng Corporation was one of the world's seven major financial conglomerates, owning almost half of the Empire's land resources, on par with Long Group and Morales Group as the big three.

The reason the latter two could compete with it was that one specialized in the field of technology and the other involved military weapons.

"When are we going?" Xu Shuo asked.

"This afternoon at two o'clock, on the 301st floor of Silverglow Tower in the downtown area of Huai'an Center," Wei Ya said, checking the time on her micro-end. "Banqian is still with Cheng Can. You should deliver him to the nearby downtown area at one-thirty."

"Then I'll go have some lunch first."

"..."

There was still enough time to have a lunch break.

After discussing the serious matter under the big tree, Xu Shuo took the thirty-thousand-word paper Wei Ya handed him and scanned it into his electronic tablet, then casually turned and walked away with it tucked under his arm.

After he left, Wei Ya stood under the tree and stared at the cat still having a fit not far away for a while longer.

There seemed to be a faint ripple of energy passing through the air.

After a while, the white cat stopped its tango jumps and tail shaking, and ran towards Wei Ya. She picked it up and vigorously kneaded it.

Since their programming had been changed, these cats had become increasingly difficult to handle.

Because no one came out to resolve the hacking incident, the school authorities glossed over it, and in the school network, posts like "Strategies for Dealing with Cats in Different Areas" inevitably appeared.

In this day and age, giving a cat a good petting is truly hard!

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