Chapter 23 Compensation
In the eyes of all the students, Teacher Xiao Yuan is a lovely and gentle female teacher. But in Xiao Zhen's eyes at this moment, the laughter of this female teacher is no less than the hissing of a giant sadistic insect.
"Yan Zhen..." Teacher Xiao Yuan smiled sweetly, her face was also sweet and soft, but Xiao Zhen smelled something fishy, it was the dangerous smell emitted by carnivorous beasts when hunting.
“…”
Teacher Xiao Yuan said gently: "Yesterday, Qiuqiu and I waited at the intersection for four hours. Not four minutes or 40 minutes, but a full four hours."
That’s right, if An Yuan hadn’t intervened at the last minute, Teacher Feng would have talked with my dad until dawn.
"Finally, he got out. Your family even sent someone to drive him home." Teacher Yuan said kindly, "Your parents are really considerate."
"It's so late, I have to drive the teacher back home." Xiao Zhen nodded.
Teacher Yuan tilted her head and chuckled.
The fishy smell in the air became stronger and stronger, like an alien beast roaring and breathing.
Teacher Xiao Yuan raised her eyebrows slightly. "Tell me, what have you done that I don't know about that deserves your dismissal? Is it worth spending more than four hours on a routine interview?"
Because Teacher Feng wished he could turn himself into a shell and squat on the display shelf.
"Because Teacher Feng and my dad were talking so happily, I forgot the time for a moment." Xiao Zhen didn't plan to tell her that Teacher Feng was a fan of Shells. He had seen many interracial love affairs, and most of the time it would only bring an almost devastating blow to the parties involved. As for Teacher Xiao Yuan's bitter love and pursuit, Xiao Zhen's code of conduct was not to actively obstruct, but also not to actively help.
"What did they talk about for so long?"
Xiaozhen said she didn't hear clearly.
Teacher Yuan snorted, then smiled again: "Yan Zhen, because of your unreliability, I waited at the intersection for four hours in vain."
There was nothing I could do about it. My psychological suggestion was completely unable to resist his desire to make a nest in the pile of shells in my house.
"So you owe me. Then in order to make up for the teacher's wasted time, you need to make amends."
"Teacher, I'm just an ordinary local. I have no money and no ability. Even if I can inherit the family property in the future, Teacher Feng's grandchildren may already have one by then."
"Teacher Feng's what?"
"Nothing."
Teacher Yuan smiled and didn't dwell on the disrespect in his words. She continued, "The English scores of our class 2 have always been crushed by classes 1 and 3. There will be a grade English test in two weeks. My requirement is that our class must get first place in the grade in English. You owe me, so use this method to make it up to me."
"Teacher, do you have any misunderstanding about me? I am just an ordinary local."
"That Alte guy still lives in your house, right?"
"Mr. Cat is at my house."
"I've always heard that the Altes are very cunning. You can ask for its help. You are its local assistant. It will definitely help you with this small favor."
"...Teacher, being the top student in the grade is not something that can be achieved by just one or two people. It depends on the performance of all students in the class. Isn't this a bit too difficult?"
"It's okay. If you can't finish it, you still owe me. Then I'll come to you next time if I have something else to do." Teacher Xiao Yuan said with a smile.
"..." Xiao Zhen asked her: "Teacher, you are an alien. Are the grades of a class important to you?"
She replied, "It's important. Extremely important. It's about whether I can slap that hateful woman Lily in the face."
Teacher Lili? Xiaozhen remembered that Teacher Xiaoyuan had a competitor of the same age. That was Teacher Lili, who also taught English. Unlike the lively and cheerful Teacher Xiaoyuan, Teacher Lili was dignified and elegant, and her teaching was methodical. The two were of similar age and taught the same grade and subject, so it was inevitable to make all kinds of comparisons. In the previous exam, the English subject scores of Class 1 and Class 3 taught by Teacher Lili had improved overall. At the faculty meeting, the principal specifically praised Teacher Lili's achievements and directly asked other colleagues to learn from Teacher Lili.
"Hehe, our class must win this time." Teacher Yuan clenched his fists, "We must defeat Lily!"
You are a group of alien crabs , you want to fall in love with local men and beat up local ordinary human women. You have traveled across hundreds of billions of stars to do this.
"...Teacher, why don't you grab a few students and give them intensive tutoring? That would be more effective."
Teacher Xiao Yuan smiled brightly: "This is the debt you owe me. And I will give you a certain amount of compensation, for example, 8,000 credit points."
"Teacher, I think Mr. Cat and I can give it a try."
Yan's house.
Mr. Cat was a little surprised: "So these alien crabs want to defeat a business competitor?"
"Yes, she said that I couldn't do it so she came to you for help. In her opinion, you are a cunning Alte."
Captain Madara said, "Very well, you are an ordinary local human, and you are an Elt kitten . It seems that I have been perfectly ignored."
"In her eyes, you're just a chicken."
“…”
"Let's not talk about that for now." Xiao Zhen asked Mr. Cat, "How is the vortex?"
Mr. Cat seemed somewhat pleased with himself. He announced that, with his unremitting efforts, he had put the vortex into a safe disguise.
"A safe disguise? It sounds like a foolproof device that could explode in a heartbeat."
"Your words sound like an amateur's sourness." Mr. Cat straightened his body. "Based on my observation, this vortex is currently very stable."
They returned to the school laboratory building at night.
After blocking all the surveillance cameras, the three Heart Eaters swaggered into the library.
Mr. Cat moved the bookshelf and placed the vortex in the cabinet below the bookcase. He lined the lower cabinet with the existing books. To enter the vortex, one must crawl into the lower cabinet, move the books aside, and then crash into the cabinet wall.
Xiao Zhen squatted down and looked at the disguise made by Mr. Cat in silence.
"how?"
"Have you ever considered the situation of library staff counting books?"
"The books below are all obscure magazines that no one has borrowed for years."
"What if a staff member comes to tidy up the cabinet and he climbs into it?"
"A normal person wouldn't bang their head against the cabinet wall like a blind person!"
"What if he's just an idiot who doesn't care and insists on hitting the wall?"
"Haha, just in case." Mr. Cat gritted his teeth and said, "This just in case is equal to the probability that the Security Committee members will come to your school for an inspection."
"Nothing is absolute." Xiaozhen said.
"Nothing is absolute," the chicken repeated.
"Shut up, everyone."
Living things cannot observe the vortex with the naked eye. Some special sensitive races in the galaxy cannot see it without the help of special instruments. It is the most mysterious existence in the universe, and even the Supreme Council and the leaders of the Legion are very secretive about it.
There are many explanations for its formation, the most common one being that it was an accidental product of a dimensional space storm. Xiao Zhen has two main concerns: How long has this vortex been here? And why did it appear here - an independent, remote planet that has not yet been taken in by the galactic civilization?
In response to Xiaozhen's question, Mr. Cat spread out his paws to show that he knew nothing.
"God knows how long this vortex has existed," said Mr. Cat. "Maybe it was the day before yesterday, or maybe it was many years ago. Judging from this peaceful school, it shouldn't have caused many anomalies."
"Maybe it has caused a lot of trouble, but the locals just haven't noticed it."
Mr. Cat smiled: "Maybe."
This ambiguous attitude instantly gave Xiao Zhen the urge to pick up Mr. Cat and spin him 360 degrees. After entering Yan Zhen's body, probably influenced by the host's brain, Xiao Zhen found that he became very emotional.
"I want to go to the other side of the whirlpool." Xiao Zhen said.
The cipher galaxy on the other side of the vortex is a very prosperous planetary city group in the galactic civilization circle. The existence of this vortex allows people to instantly cross from this remote planet to the night star thousands of miles away. There is no need to buy a seat on the ship ticket, no need to endure the torture of space jumps, and no need to endure the high risks of long-distance voyages. This dream-like instant span is enough to make every interstellar traveler cry.
Xiao Zhen wanted to try this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he went back to Planet City to do some things. Ji also jumped onto his shoulder and asked to go with him.
Mr. Cat gave Xiaozhen a plastic bracelet.
"What's this?"
"A locator."
Xiao Zhen's tone was full of admiration: "If I can't come back, can you still pull me back from this side of the vortex? Brother, you are wiser and more reliable than I thought."
"No, you're overthinking it. This thing is just a cheap product. If you get within 2 meters of me, the bracelet will light up. That's all it's good for."
“…”
"A vortex has no concept of spatial dimension. This thing is just to make it easier for you to find the entrance to the vortex on the other side." Mr. Cat licked his paw, "I will wait for you on this side. Of course, if you don't come back in more than three hours, I will assume that you are dead."
"It's such a touching camaraderie. Why three hours?"
"Oh, because three hours from now is the latest time you can go home. Your mother will sentence you to death."
“…”
It was hard to describe what it felt like to go through the whirlpool. It was like riding in a rapidly descending elevator, or like traveling underwater in rough water. All his senses were caught in a storm, confused and blurry. He felt the hazy consciousness of Captain Madara, and their consciousnesses were linked to each other to avoid being separated when passing through the whirlpool.
When all the chaotic echoes in his ears ended, and when a nerve-stimulating smell of rust in the air rushed into his nostrils, Xiao Zhen had already crossed tens of millions of stars and arrived at the central capital of the Secret Code Galaxy - Zhiye Star.
Xiao Zhen saw the towering buildings in the distance. Looking around, there were incomparable tower buildings, countless bright lights piercing the night sky, thousands of airships, aircraft, transport ships and electronic fairies swimming among them. There were arcs of flashing electric light in all directions.
This is the world he has long missed, the world of galactic civilization.
The chicken sighed: "It's been a long time since I saw this scenery."
"The city of long night, the place that never sleeps." Xiao Zhen said. He looked around and saw that he and Captain Madara were really in a garbage dump. The garbage disposal machinery was roaring, and the air was filled with excessive clean fragrance and rotten smell.
"We've saved a lot of money on long-distance sailing tickets." The chicken flapped its wings happily. "What do you want to do now? Go have a drink?"
"I don't have any money. So I want to go to the credit library (i.e. the interstellar bank)." Xiao Zhen said. His previous StarNet account was frozen, and now it was time to use the backup account.
"That's right! It's time to settle your debt. By the way, I want to drink pink sickle wine."
"I don't think we can reach the city on the horizon in three hours at our speed."
The chicken looked at the urban buildings in the distance and wailed, "This lousy garbage dump is too far from the city!"
A cold voice came over, "Why are you going to the city?"
Several uninvited guests appeared on the garbage heap. Their long fangs gleamed in the light, and their hoods were covered with patterned blue-green skin. Each of them held a weapon in their hands, and hostility was written on them from head to toe.
Xiao Zhen glanced at the weapons in their hands. They were beam guns that could blow a hole in his body with one shot. Although they looked like black market contraband, their power should not be underestimated. Xiao Zhen admitted that he was a little panicked. He did not want to use Yan Zhen's body to evaluate the performance of these black market beam guns.
He was really a little panicked.
"Why would a Homo sapiens appear here?" the other party roared, "Are you a spy sent by the parliament?" He pressed his hand down.
Xiao Zhen grabbed the chicken and rolled down the garbage mountain. The laser passed through his hair. "Go!" he shouted to the chicken with his brain waves.
Mr. Cat is licking his fur. This is actually an autonomous action of his host. When he is not using his body to rest, Mr. Cat will return the control of his body to his host.
bump!
The door of the bookcase was kicked open, and Xiaozhen and Ji rolled out.
"Welcome back, warriors," Mr. Cat said, "your interstellar journey lasted a total of 5 minutes."
The chicken crowed, "This is still the best place!! I like peace!"
Xiao Zhen said: "At least here they won't blow your head off with a laser cannon just because of your alignment."
