Chapter 47: Sometimes I Really Want to Die
Wenren Chao left after dropping that sentence, leaving Jiang Ning completely clueless as to how he wanted her to prove her strength.
On the other side.
After leaving, Wenren Chao did not choose to go back to his dormitory but went straight to the principal’s office.
The principal of Semir was leisurely sipping tea in his office. He was startled by the sudden intrusion of Wenren Chao. The principal put down his teacup and immediately sat up straight.
“Is there something, student Wenren?”
Wenren Chao did not beat around the bush. “Let the plant department also participate in this new student ability competition.”
The principal: “?”
“This… that…” the principal hesitated. “The plant department… the entire department has only two people. According to the rules, each academy has a quota of ten people. If we let the plant department participate, it would be unfair to the other academies.”
Wenren Chao snorted coldly. “According to you, the elemental power department has the most people, but they also only have ten spots. Isn’t that also unfair to them?”
“You seem to have a point there,” the principal said, propping his chin.
“Cut the crap. My request is to let the plant department also participate in this academy competition,” Wenren Chao said impatiently.
“Hiss—” The principal’s brow furrowed into a knot, very dissatisfied with Wenren Chao’s attitude.
“You say participate, and they participate? Are you the principal or am I?”
“Principal Batu,” Wenren Chao said his name softly.
“Have you forgotten what you said when you begged me to enroll?”
Wenren Chao looked at him and said word by word, “As long as I have any request, you will do your best to satisfy me.”
As a 3S, which academy wouldn’t treat him like a treasure?
But Wenren Chao had chosen to go to Semir, a last-tier academy. Was it because he was born to do such a thing as being a crane among chickens?
No, of course not.
Wasn’t it because before he enrolled, Batu had talked for a full four hours about his grand plan, which had moved him?
Batu: “Stop! Was it my plan that moved you? Wasn’t it because I offered you a lot that you came?”
He had used both deception and coaxing and had given away a lot of things before this kid, Wenren Chao, had agreed to come here.
Wenren Chao looked at Principal Batu. “It’s not important. Are you going to agree to my request or not?”
Batu sighed. “It’s not that I’m saying no, but the current level of the plant department is just so-so. Even if I let them participate, they will be eliminated very quickly. Why are you going to so much trouble to pester me?”
“There is a 3S+ new student in the plant department this year,” Wenren Chao said slowly.
“What!?” Batu’s eyes widened, looking at Wenren Chao. “3S+?”
Oh my goodness!
He hadn’t misheard, had he? He had spent half his life’s fortune to invite two 3S-rank ability users to Semir, and now a wild 3S+ new student had come!
This was truly a godsend.
As Batu thought about it, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curved up.
“Okay, I understand,” Batu suppressed the smile at the corners of his mouth and coughed lightly. “I agree to your request. I will issue a new notice later.”
Seeing that his goal was achieved, Wenren Chao did not stay any longer.
After Wenren Chao left, Batu immediately summoned all the academy’s teachers and informed them of the news of the 3S+ new student.
That day, all the teachers received a task to do their best to cultivate this 3S+ plant-based new student. Especially Zhou Yuanshan, who was a plant-based teacher. Batu had specially kept him for a long meeting.
It was already late at night when Zhou Yuanshan came out of the principal’s office. He looked up at the moon, feeling a bit doubtful about life.
The principal, with his own power, had compressed their plant department’s four-year curriculum into one month.
Not only did he have to reverse the two’s inherent impression of the plant department in one month, but he also had to cultivate two novices to at least the graduate level.
Sometimes I really want to die.
Zhou Yuanshan sighed imperceptibly. He lifted his foot and went to Teacher Fang Li’s residence.
Being knocked on the door in the middle of the night, Fang Li was quite frightened.
She tremblingly opened the security system at the door and saw that the person standing outside was not someone else, but Zhou Yuanshan.
Fang Li opened the door. “It’s so late. Is something the matter?”
“Time is tight. Let’s talk inside,” Zhou Yuanshan rushed directly into her living room.
He told Fang Li everything the principal had said to him tonight. After listening, Fang Li finally understood what he meant by ‘time is tight’.
The two of them began to prepare and arrange.
The next day.
When Jiang Ning and Xia Shi woke up and received their class schedule, their entire faces turned black.
Their class schedules were packed full. It was all classes, not even the morning and evening, Saturday and Sunday were spared.
Even a workhorse wouldn’t have classes like this, right?
When Simon woke up, she saw Jiang Ning sitting motionless in the center of the living room, as if she were petrified.
Simon walked over and poked her. “Jiang Ning, are you okay?”
“Not okay,” Jiang Ning said with a bitter face, showing her class schedule to Simon.
“Oh my god!” Simon felt a wave of fear looking at the packed schedule. Compared to Jiang Ning’s schedule, her schedule could be described as ‘easy’.
“Could it be that the schedule is wrong?” Simon said weakly. “Why don’t you call your academic affairs office and ask?”
Jiang Ning glanced at her, having the same idea in her heart.
She dialed Teacher Fang Li’s number.
‘Beep, beep—’
The phone was answered after two rings.
“It’s student Jiang Ning. Is there anything?” Teacher Fang Li’s gentle voice was a bit hoarse.
Jiang Ning politely asked, “Teacher Fang Li, I’ve received the class schedule. There’s a small problem. Is our class schedule wrong?”
Fang Li: “The class schedule is not wrong. This is the teachers’ good intentions for you. Don’t let down the teachers’ expectations~”
This was the result of her and Old Zhou working hard for half the night.
Besides the fixed ability technique classes from the school, all the remaining time was filled with professional courses.
Jiang Ning: “…”
After hearing this, Jiang Ning felt even worse.
“Right!”
Jiang Ning looked up at Teacher Fang Li with a hint of expectation.
Fang Li: “There’s a professional class at ten o’clock. Student Jiang Ning, don’t forget! Bye~”
After Fang Li hung up the phone, a line of clear tears dripped from her eye sockets.
Jiang Ning’s inner thought: Damn it!
It was nine-forty now.
A class at ten o’clock!
Jiang Ning went upstairs, quickly tidied up, changed her clothes, and left after saying goodbye to Simon.
The first class was a practical theory class. Jiang Ning followed the classroom on the schedule and went to the fifth ability room.
To learn all the skills in one month, Zhou Yuanshan had to give up theoretical teaching and switch to direct practical classes. He would first learn how to use these skills, and the theory could be slowly understood in the subsequent practical operations.
The fifth ability room was for summoning purely ornamental and purely practical plants. It was the simplest of all the courses and was also related to what most schools in the interstellar space taught. Zhou Yuanshan planned to proceed step by step and first gradually change the two’s perception.
Jiang Ning spent some time looking for the classroom and arrived at the fifth ability room at exactly ten o’clock.
Only Zhou Yuanshan was inside. Xia Shi had not arrived yet.
Jiang Ning walked in.
In less than two minutes, Xia Shi also arrived.
Zhou Yuanshan glanced at the two of them faintly. “Hasn’t the ‘Student Code of Conduct’ been distributed? Didn’t you read it?”
Zhou Yuanshan was tall and sturdy, with a small mustache around his mouth.
His rigid and formal manner reminded Jiang Ning of the teachers in her previous school.
While she was lost in thought, Zhou Yuanshan put his hands behind his back and said in a loud voice, “Student Code of Conduct, rule number five: Do not be late for class!”
“Yes, yes, teacher, I’m sorry,” Xia Shi immediately apologized.
This directly choked back all the words Zhou Yuanshan was about to say.
Seeing that it was getting late, he composed himself and prepared to start the class.
“You are all from the plant department, so you should have some understanding. Although the status of plant-based ability users in the Federation is not high, the demand for plants is still very high.”
“Because of the pollution, original and natural plants are very rare, so most of the plants in the interstellar space have to be summoned by our plant department.”
“Mastering how to use our ability to summon various plants is a basic course and a compulsory course,” Zhou Yuanshan said.
Jiang Ning became interested upon hearing this. This was what she had come to learn.
She was relying on this to make a living.
“Next, I will demonstrate once. You watch carefully, and then you will practice on your own,” Zhou Yuanshan pressed a button. Immediately after, the floor in the middle of the fifth ability room suddenly sank downwards. Ten seconds later, a block of planting soil was slowly pushed up from underground.
Zhou Yuanshan released his perception while saying, “When using your ability, concentrate your spirit and imagine what the plant you want looks like in your mind, and then…”
Before he could finish, a plant with thorns on its stem, serrated leaves, and a bright red corymb-like flower on top appeared in front of the three of them.
“A rose will do,” Zhou Yuanshan said.
The rose he had summoned had skipped the seed and seedling stage and was directly a rose in its flowering stage.
This somewhat subverted Jiang Ning’s perception.
Zhou Yuanshan seemed to have seen the doubt in Jiang Ning’s heart.
He said slowly, “The state in which a plant is summoned can be controlled by the summoner. Whatever form you want it to be, it can be.”
As he spoke, a newly sprouted seed and a rose in its budding stage appeared in front of the planting soil before them.
“This is very simple,” Xia Shi raised an eyebrow.
He stepped forward, released his perception, and summoned three types of rose plants respectively.
“Not bad,” Zhou Yuanshan praised.
His gaze turned to Jiang Ning.
Seeing that both of them had summoned roses with great ease.
Jiang Ning’s confidence greatly increased. She followed their example and released her perception.
The first time was very successful.
She summoned a rose seed.
The second time.
Um… still a rose seed.
Jiang Ning: “?”
An accident, it must be an accident.
Jiang Ning glanced at the two of them and, not believing it, decided to try again.
The third summoning.
Still a rose seed.
Jiang Ning: “…”
Why were they all seeds?
“Imagine the appearance of the full bloom in your mind,” Zhou Yuanshan reminded.
Jiang Ning nodded, imagined the appearance of a blooming rose, concentrated her psychic energy, and tried again.
She didn’t even dare to breathe, staring intently at the planting soil in front of her.
“You succeeded!” Xia Shi cheered.
Jiang Ning withdrew her psychic energy, and before she could be happy.
The next second, the petals of the rose she had summoned fell off the stalk one by one and flew around the fifth ability room in a scattered manner.
The decorative paintings and curtains they passed were all cut.
Even the three of them were inevitably cut a few times, and the wounds were red.
“Stop!” Zhou Yuanshan released his perception, wanting to stop the flying petals.
But Jiang Ning was 3S+ rank, while his psychic energy was only SS-rank.
His perception could not interfere with the plant she had summoned.
In the end, the three of them could only huddle together and flee the fifth ability room.
The three of them looked at each other, at a loss.
Zhou Yuanshan opened his mouth.
Jiang Ning: “I’m sorry.”
Zhou Yuanshan: “…”