Chapter 49: A Sense of Defeat
The teacher coughed twice and began to formally start the class. “In this lesson, we will learn how to perform perceptual connection.”
Perceptual connection only required the other party to have psychic energy and not reject your psychic energy to be successfully connected.
So even if the teacher was only an A-rank, he could still teach the three of them.
“Perceptual connection is most commonly used when you fight alongside your teammates in the future. It can not only quickly locate your positions but also transmit information through perception.”
Wenren Chao raised his hand and interrupted him, “Teacher, can you not just read from the lesson plan? All of this is written in the books. We can just read it and know.”
The teacher turned off the screen projection, sweating profusely.
3S is 3S. Not only are they highly talented and have strong psychic energy, but they also actually do their pre-study before class.
“Then let’s just skip the theoretical part and go straight to the practical part,” the teacher said.
Jiang Ning, who had just received her class schedule this morning, rushed to class, and didn’t even have time to get her books: “?”
Hiss—
This school was a bit different from what she had imagined.
Imagination: The teacher is strict and teaches everything in detail from the basics.
Reality: Directly skipped.
But she couldn’t blame the teacher. The other classes were indeed progressing step by step. When it came to her, who would have thought that a 3S+ rank would have no foundation at all?
“Teacher,” Jiang Ning called out to him. “I don’t know how. You can continue with the theory for a while.”
“This is very simple!” Wenren Chao released his perception and was about to invade Jiang Ning’s mind.
Jiang Ning sensed a trace of psychic energy that did not belong to her entering her sea of consciousness. She subconsciously tensed her nerves to resist.
As a result, Wenren Chao’s perception seemed to have hit some kind of barrier and was bounced back.
Wenren Chao: “Why did you reject me?”
“Was that your perception just now?” Jiang Ning tilted her head and asked.
“Yes.”
Jiang Ning suddenly understood. So this was the feeling of a perceptual connection.
“You invaded my perception without any warning. Shouldn’t I have rejected it?” she raised her eyes and met Wenren Chao’s gaze.
Wenren Chao was a bit reckless in his actions. She had seen it from the beginning when he had insisted on letting their plant department participate in the competition.
Perhaps because he had been pampered since he was a child, he didn’t realize that there was anything wrong with this.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. The teacher stood up at this moment and tried to smooth things over.
“I forgot to say just now that before performing a perceptual connection, both parties must first familiarize themselves with each other’s psychic energy. Otherwise, a rejection reaction will occur, just like with student Wenren and student Jiang Ning just now.”
The spiritual world was a very private place. No one would allow a stranger to easily intrude.
“Come on, Weisheng Yu.” Having failed just now, Wenren Chao changed his target.
Weisheng Yu rolled her eyes and rejected his perception from entering without a second thought.
“We are teammates. If we don’t get familiar with each other now, how will we cooperate on the field in the future?” Wenren Chao frowned and looked at Weisheng Yu, puzzled.
With Weisheng Yu’s strength, she was definitely a sure bet to enter the Federation competition.
Weisheng Yu ignored his clamor and walked straight to Jiang Ning.
She formed a small, soft pink ball of light in her palm.
“This is my psychic energy. You can touch it,” Weisheng Yu said to Jiang Ning.
As a fellow female, Jiang Ning had a natural friendliness towards Weisheng Yu.
She glanced at Weisheng Yu and, under her patient signal, slowly extended a finger and gently touched the pink ball of light in her palm.
A gentle and moist force was transmitted from her fingertip to her brain.
This force made her feel dangerous and mysterious, completely different from her own.
A beautiful arc curved at the corner of Weisheng Yu’s mouth, and her voice carried a hint of seduction. “My ability is psychic-type, puppetry. Want to try?”
As soon as her voice fell, without waiting for Jiang Ning’s consent, Weisheng Yu fully released her perception and rushed towards Jiang Ning’s body like a tide.
Jiang Ning instantly felt her hands and feet stiffen, unable to move.
The light pink energy just now was now roaming around in her body.
This turn of events startled both Wenren Chao and the teacher. Wenren Chao wanted to step forward and stop her. “Weisheng Yu, what are you doing?”
Weisheng Yu dodged his touch.
On the other side.
After being controlled by Weisheng Yu’s puppetry, Jiang Ning did not completely let her manipulate her.
Weisheng Yu had only made her unable to move, but she could not make her completely obey her.
After realizing something was wrong, Jiang Ning continuously used her own psychic energy to impact the pink energy roaming in her body, trying to drive it out.
However, the pink energy was like a stubborn stain. No matter how she drove it away, it just wouldn’t leave.
Jiang Ning could only use her psychic energy to trap them one by one.
But she soon discovered that the trapped pink energy balls were gradually shrinking, as if they had been swallowed by her psychic energy.
This discovery gave her great motivation. She continued to repeat the previous steps, using her own psychic energy to surround the pink energy balls, and then, like a greedy snake, swallowed them all.
At the same time, Weisheng Yu discovered that the psychic energy she had input into Jiang Ning’s body was gradually draining away. She made a decisive decision and quickly withdrew her psychic energy from Jiang Ning’s body.
“Your psychic energy is very magical,” Weisheng Yu raised an eyebrow, not explaining what had just happened at all.
After Weisheng Yu’s psychic energy withdrew, her limbs gradually regained consciousness. Jiang Ning moved her recovered hands and feet and looked up at her fixedly.
She could see that these two both had their own evil tastes.
Jiang Ning did not hold it against her and just silently moved away from the two of them.
After a small interlude, the teacher began to continue the class.
At Jiang Ning’s request, he began to continue with the theoretical part.
The principal’s meaning at the meeting yesterday was also to prioritize the cultivation of this 3S+ new student.
The theoretical part was simple and boring. Wenren Chao and Weisheng Yu were unwilling to listen after a few sentences.
They took out their Star Brains and squatted on the side, browsing the StarNet.
Jiang Ning was happy to be free and enjoyed the teacher’s one-on-one guidance alone.
Without Wenren Chao’s interruptions, the teacher taught very meticulously. Whatever questions Jiang Ning had, he would answer them on the spot.
So Jiang Ning learned very quickly.
However, in a place she did not notice, Weisheng Yu, who was sitting on the side, had been silently sizing her up.
The emotion in Weisheng Yu’s eyes was unclear.
If the gap between psychic energy A-rank and S-rank was a hurdle, then the gap between 3S-rank and 3S+ was an insurmountable chasm.
Although her psychic energy was already high enough, in Jiang Ning’s body, she could clearly feel the existence of a more majestic psychic energy than her own.
And her proud puppetry seemed to have no effect on Jiang Ning.
Two hours passed.
The perceptual connection class finally ended.
“Have you never been to school before?” Wenren Chao asked, yawning.
The teacher taught too dryly, almost like reciting the lesson plan word for word. And yet Jiang Ning had listened so attentively.
“No,” Jiang Ning said, looking down at the class schedule on her Star Brain, thinking about where the next class would be.
Wenren Chao’s hand, which was stretching, paused. He looked at the expression on Jiang Ning’s face seriously and asked uncertainly, “Are you kidding? There are still people who have never been to school in the current interstellar era?”
“Yes.”
The next class was a flying class. Jiang Ning had wanted to learn it for a long time. Her pace unconsciously quickened. She said to Wenren Chao as she walked, “There are plenty of them in the slums of the numbered planets.”
Weisheng Yu followed and happened to hear this sentence.
“You’re from the slums?” she frowned and asked.
Although she had long guessed that Jiang Ning was from a numbered planet, she had not expected Jiang Ning’s background to be even worse than she had imagined.
“Yes, I’m from the slums of Planet M412,” Jiang Ning’s tone was calm.
Weisheng Yu and Wenren Chao looked at each other, their expressions hard to describe.
As far as they knew, people in the slums even had problems with food and clothing. And Jiang Ning, not only had she awakened an ability, but her psychic energy had also reached a rare level of 3S+ or above.
One had to know that in the current interstellar era, even on their capital planet, a large portion of the high-rank psychic energy was artificially enhanced by spirit tools.
“Is your psychic energy natural?” Wenren Chao asked.
Jiang Ning suddenly had the thought of teasing him. She did not directly mention the sunflowers but said half-jokingly, “The people where I’m from all think that being able to awaken an ability is a sign of ancestral fortune, so my ability is probably because my ancestors’ spirits are protecting me.”
Her words happened to be heard by a passing new student.
The new student recognized Jiang Ning as the one who had been tested for 3S+ psychic energy in Jinsha Square yesterday.
So he recorded her words and posted them on the internal forum of Semir Academy.
Jiang Ning had not expected that from then on, the students of Semir who saw this message would treat her words as a treasure. Every year, a large number of people would go home to worship their ancestors, not asking for 3S, but SS would also be fine.
Coincidentally, some people had actually improved their psychic energy level because of this.
Of course, these were all later stories.
The flying class was held outdoors. Unfortunately for Jiang Ning, her classmates were still these two.
“Do you need a ride on my flying vehicle?” Weisheng Yu asked kindly.
Thinking about what had happened in class, Jiang Ning was reluctant to go with her.
Who knew if Weisheng Yu would suddenly use her ability on her again?
But Weisheng Yu immediately said, “The class is at Mermaid Square. It’s at least a half-hour walk. Are you sure you don’t want a ride on my flying vehicle?”
She was really being kind and wanted to give Jiang Ning a ride this time.
Jiang Ning struggled with her thoughts for a while and finally had to get on Weisheng Yu’s flying vehicle.
Sigh.
When the school arranged the classes, did they not consider the distance between the classrooms?
The two places were so far apart. What were the students who couldn’t fly and didn’t have a flying vehicle supposed to do?
It seemed that the matter of getting a flying license had to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
As she was thinking this in her heart, she turned her head to the other side.
But…
“Why are you following?” Jiang Ning looked at Wenren Chao.
She remembered that Wenren Chao had his own flying vehicle.
“Can’t you tell?” Wenren Chao said with a straight face. “I’m hitching a ride on her flying vehicle.”
Jiang Ning: “?”
So righteous?
Wenren Chao: “Fuel is so expensive now. I should save when I can.”
Weisheng Yu said angrily, “Get lost!”
Jiang Ning opened her Star Brain. She wanted to see how expensive the fuel for flying vehicles was that even a rich person like Wenren Chao would bend his back for it.
【Today’s fuel price: 1918 per liter (unit: star coin)】
Jiang Ning gasped.
“So expensive!”
Wenren Chao nodded in agreement. “I’m not the only one who thinks so.”
1918 star coins per liter. A normal flying vehicle would need about twenty liters to be full. Wouldn’t a full tank of fuel cost nearly forty thousand star coins?
Truly have the money to buy but not the money to maintain.
No wonder all the flying vehicle owners in the entire interstellar space were complaining endlessly.
She had to reconsider her decision to buy a flying vehicle.
Weisheng Yu’s flying vehicle was from the “Shan Hai” series, and its speed was impeccable.
In just six or seven minutes, the three of them arrived at Mermaid Square.
It was even a minute or two faster than expected.
They were not the only three taking the flying class. Students were continuously arriving at Mermaid Square.
Jiang Ning’s gaze fell on a fiery red figure, and her heart skipped a beat for no reason.
The next second, Feng Yanzi indeed came in this direction.
“Hi, student Jiang Ning, hello. We meet again,” Feng Yanzi greeted her enthusiastically.
Jiang Ning squeezed out a smile. “Hello, Teacher Feng. Are you here to teach the flying class?”
“Yes, I’m your flying class teacher! Surprise,” Feng Yanzi grinned.
Jiang Ning: “Surprise.”
She thought to herself: Old Zhou, it’s really not her fault for getting close. Who would have thought that Feng Yanzi was her flying class teacher?
“Why do I feel like you don’t like Teacher Feng Yanzi?” Wenren Chao asked in a low voice.
Jiang Ning: “No, you’re overthinking it.”
“Teacher Feng is the fastest teacher in all of Semir. Even in the entire interstellar space, there are few who can outrun her,” Wenren Chao said.
“Student Wenren, you’re too kind,” Feng Yanzi said, crossing her arms, her nose almost pointing to the sky, not showing any humility at all.
Feng Yanzi coughed twice and returned to a serious expression. “Without further ado, let’s start the class.”
“First of all, the flying method doesn’t require too much psychic energy, but it does require talent,” Feng Yanzi said. “Some people are born with a good sense of balance and can learn to use it without being taught, like me.”
Jiang Ning thought of Li Xiang in her mind. He belonged to the same category as Feng Yanzi.
“And some people have a very poor sense of flying and can’t learn no matter how they are taught,” Feng Yanzi looked at the three of them. “But, I have high hopes for you three. You are definitely exceptionally talented people.”
“Next, I will demonstrate once for you. You watch carefully.”
Feng Yanzi circulated the psychic energy in her body. Her toes tapped the ground, and her body gradually became light, slowly rising to a certain height, away from the ground.
Her control over the flying method had reached a state of ease. Not only could she fly, but she could even stay in mid-air without moving.
“In the academy competition a month later, the first stage will be about speed. So the use of the flying method will be very crucial for you in the competition,” Feng Yanzi said.
The ability competition prohibited the use of all external forces, such as flying vehicles and light weapons. They were all forbidden in the competition. Contestants could only use their respective abilities to compete.
“I’ll try first,” Wenren Chao said.
Jiang Ning watched as Wenren Chao easily flew up.
Weisheng Yu was not to be outdone.
The two of them had learned the flying method in their previous schools and were both 3S. They had an extremely high comprehension ability in terms of techniques.
“It’s your turn, little Jiang Ning,” Feng Yanzi looked at Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning pursed her lips.
She followed the method Feng Yanzi had just demonstrated and tried to mobilize the psychic energy in her body.
“…”
Although the method was the same, her body did not move at all.
The three of them flew down at the same time and looked at her. “Did you use your psychic energy?”
Jiang Ning: “…”
“It’s normal to not succeed the first time. Try again,” Feng Yanzi comforted.
Under the encouraging gazes of the three of them, Jiang Ning tried again and again.
On her last try, she finally gave up.
She had had a total of three classes today. With each class, she felt more and more like a stubborn fool who couldn’t learn no matter how the teacher taught.
Clearly, she used to be able to understand with just a little guidance.
The day’s blows gave Jiang Ning a sense of defeat.
Feng Yanzi lowered her head and thought for a while. Her hand rested on Jiang Ning’s shoulder. “Perhaps, flying is not for you.”
Yes.
She thought, flying was indeed not for her.