In class, Xue Dili was listening to the lecture while distractedly researching the Interstellar Corps' emergency communication device and chatting intermittently with the old man.
"The Silver Dragon indeed loves gold and silver; it often covers its residence with precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum. I even once saw a Silver Dragon who was depressed from not collecting enough gold and silver coins," Old Green recounted stories from their world.
"However, there's also a story about a Silver Dragon who fell in love with a human knight thousands of years ago and had a child with him, but due to life span reasons, the knight died before the little Silver Dragon was even born."
He continued to narrate the stories he saw in the school's library.
These included the origin of the Silver Country, the origin of the Silver Dragons, and many stories between Silver Dragons and humans.
Overall, the Silver Dragon is considered a neutral dragon race in their world. It doesn't actively harm humans but will rob gold and silver coins to build nests. Old Green mentioned that he didn't find any case of a Silver Dragon killing a human in the school's library, which says a lot.
Although robbing money could also be seen as abstract.
The origin of the Silver Country felt even more abstract to Xue Dili. They claimed to be the Silver Race, very good at business, but thousands of years ago, they were a people living under the oppression of other countries, until somehow a God seemed to promise them a nation.
They traversed mountains and rivers to reach that place, established Silver City, and after thousands of years of development, it gradually became the Silver Country.
Xue Dili: "..."
This story sounds so familiar, he even felt a tingling on his scalp, unconsciously wanting to raise his hand.
"By the way, Xue Dili, have you ever considered starting a school? A magic school, where you are the headmaster," Old Green suddenly proposed.
Xue Dili tilted his head in confusion, not understanding why the old man would suddenly have such an idea.
He leaned over to look; it was an episode from Tiga about the superpower user Tongye Mufu.
Xue Dili: "???"
"Look, if you had a magic school, you could educate this child named Tongye Mufu from a young age, preventing his tragedy, and he could become a good assistant for you. After all, you're always busy now, right?" Old Green paused the video and pointed at it,
"Like today's invasion, there might be more in the future. Having a few students as assistants is still a good choice." Old Green seemed to continue tempting Xue Dili to start a school.
And Xue Dili merely pointed at the bald teacher giving the moral reasoning lesson on the blackboard: "Look, I'm still just a male university student; occasionally teaching one or two children is fine, but to be a headmaster, spare me."
Moreover, in this world, there are no superpower users or mages. Xue Dili had seen his mother's backstage system; globally, he was the only mage left. Since the Divine Era of Blue Star was forcibly ended, no creatures were allowed to become supernatural.
This means he is the only extraordinary individual in this world.
Even those God-era descendants or otherworldly traveler offspring were forcibly regressed to become indistinguishable from ordinary people.
To put it simply, on Blue Star, aside from Xue Dili, it is an "absolutely non-magic" world.
Other entities can only be affected or enhanced by magic.
Finding a helper here is not possible; if he really needs to pull someone in, he'd have to rely on those unreliable Greek comrades.
If he eventually perfects Heroic Spirit Summoning, it might be OK. At that time, summoning "endless heroic spirits" is much more reliable than slowly nurturing students.
However, the progress on the Heroic Spirit Summoning Technique is stalled, Xue Dili can only achieve having himself summoned through a complete set of complicated rituals, but summoning other heroic spirits has all ended in failure.
Even the familiar folks from Ancient Greece couldn't be summoned through Heroic Spirit Summoning.
So whether in terms of enrollment or environment, starting a magic school seems daunting.
"Isn't your space quite suitable as a location for a magic school?" Old Green pointed at Xue Dili's Consciousness Space.
Xue Dili: "???"
"An independent subspace with infinite expansion potential, everything in this space, including light and environment, is bound to you. Wherever you are during the day here, it's day; wherever you are at night here, it's night, conforming to the 'mysterious' traits required by your world."
"Besides, if you could remodel your home here, it could become a dormitory, and installing a permanent teleportation gate, even going to other worlds would be convenient." Old Green grew more enthusiastic and found it more feasible as he spoke.
Thinking of action, he immediately drew architectural plans in the Consciousness Space, all parameters and building structures were clear and precise.
"You even drew it?"
"No need to trouble you, just provide me with stones and metals when the time comes. I can build this school all by myself, let me tell you, my Earth and Wood Magic is the strongest in the world, more than half of the buildings in the academy were erected by me alone." The old man's excitement seemed to grow, his eyes glowing green while looking at the building structure on the ground.
It was like an elementary school student eagerly building a sand sculpture on the beach, abstract indeed.
On the architectural plans, there were everything from teaching buildings, office buildings, the Demon Beast House, Clock Tower, Library, and Astronomical Tower.
Xue Dili looked at the densely packed drawings and felt a tingling sensation on his scalp. He didn't know what the old guy was thinking. His Consciousness Space wasn't that large yet; even a single library might be too much.
Forget it, if he wants to play, let him play. Just consider it as his exchange for Xue Dili's dozens of Fairy Tale Magic. He could slowly put together something with a batch of marble, steel rebar, and cement.
Meanwhile, he was researching the emergency communication device and occasionally wanted to test that batch of Fairy Tale Magic.
The bald old professor stood at the podium, continuously drawing on the basic knowledge points in the philosophy book with chalk, saying that these were essential content for the final exam.
Most of the students were drowsy. For the philosophy course, just the thick few hundred pages of text could deter most people, plus much of it was content from high school humanities courses, so many didn't care.
Secretly playing on phones, chatting, and countless drowsy students—this was still common even at a top-tier school like Ke University.
"The worldview mainly includes life attitude, life value, and life purpose. The three are unified and mutually restrictive. These are essential points for the final exam, so take notes seriously..."
The teacher on the podium seemed to want to awaken the classroom's enthusiasm, but it didn't have much effect.
Looking at the knowledge points on the blackboard, Xue Dili habitually took notes, while thinking in his mind if the Otherworld people he had brought to the station were also learning the same content?
He recalled that re-education also had philosophy classes and general theory exams, and the difficulty wasn't low; if you didn't memorize seriously, the sewing machine would double its pace.
As his mind started to wander wildly, suddenly the classroom door was knocked, and the department head suddenly said, "Sorry to interrupt the class, is Xue Dili here? Please come to the office..."
"Hmm?" Xue Dili stood up in confusion, put on his mask and sunglasses, and left the classroom.
The classmates began to whisper, after all, Xue Dili had attended only a few classes since the start of the semester and was already the most mysterious student in the class.
At the same time, he also carried the identity of a "director," which inevitably sparked more imagination.
When Xue Dili arrived at the office, he immediately saw the department head warmly chatting with a few officers.
Xue Dili was even more confused. Could it be that those Otherworld people caused trouble? It shouldn't be; he and Old Green's enthusiastic Sealing Technique Combined Skill handled them completely. Even a real Tier Four Mage would be helpless if sealed.
"Hello, student Xue Dili, there are some things we would like to understand. Sorry, Director, we need you to step out and stay away from the door; you might not need to hear the following." The old officer's eyes were sharp enough to make the department head shiver.
"Alright, okay." The young officer stood at the door, and then only Xue Dili and the old officer were left in the office.
"Is it the group of illegal foreigners causing a ruckus?" Xue Dili asked tentatively, but seeing the old officer's sharp gaze, it didn't seem likely.
If it were that group causing trouble, they should go after them; neither electric shocks nor six sticks a second would break the seal.
"No, they're undergoing forced philosophical education now, even more than your class, and it has nothing to do with them." The old officer did not touch the tea in the paper cup, only holding the cup's edge.
After seemingly contemplating how to speak, he finally said, "Something happened yesterday; it's unrelated to you. I'm here to make a routine inquiry..."
Xue Dili: "???"
"Someone died at school. They were found at 7 AM this morning, the body discovered not far northeast of the school, by Bao River, and it was divided into 108 pieces..." The old officer seemed to deliberate for a long time before saying this.
"What was the time of death?" Xue Dili immediately asked.
"Around 5 AM. Don't worry; you can't be a suspect. At that time, you should have been beating those illegal foreigners, so you're not a suspect. I'm just hoping to learn more about the situation and see if there's any information we haven't noticed." The old officer seemed to want to ease the tension with a joke.
But it seemed ineffective.
5 AM was exactly when he was busy dealing with those Otherworld people, just perfectly ensuring he wasn't in Jiang City.
Yet another life lost before him...
Xue Dili recounted all the details from last night truthfully. His mind at that moment seemed like a recorder, able to clearly replay all the details of the events.
No, there was another thing, the eyeball capture record.
This feature provided by the Great Sage allowed him to record all the scenes he witnessed.
Xue Dili immediately extracted that video without another word, handed the USB drive to the old officer, and pretended it was from a pinhole camera for video recording.
The old officer seriously accepted the USB drive and fell silent again.
"Where is the crime scene? I'd like to go with you to take a look. Maybe I can discover something."
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