Future World (Part 2)

The patrolling teacher's sharp gaze swept over, catching Lu Xing who was secretly observing his surroundings: "Please read aloud seriously. You will be deducted 1 point for being distracted this time!"

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Seriously? I was only distracted once, and you're deducting points?

Lu Xing had only experienced such strict disciplinary rules back in elementary school!

Half an hour later, the morning reading finally ended, and there were five minutes of break time.

Students got up one after another and walked out of the classroom, some with calm expressions, others with smiles. There was none of the roughhousing seen in 21st-century schools, nor any flirtatious glances between boys and girls.

Lu Xing walked out of the classroom, looking like a young girl, and stood by the railing, silently watching the campus in the virtual world.

Five minutes later, he returned to his seat and took out a book from under the desk. A slip of paper fell onto the desktop.

Lu Xing calmly covered it with the book.

This period was math class. A teacher, whether human or Intelligent Being, walked onto the podium and smiled: "Today we will discuss a proof problem: Any integer greater than two can be written as the sum of three prime numbers. I have blocked your internet access. Students, please spend half an hour thinking and discussing, and then I will explain how to prove it."

"..."

If Lu Xing remembered correctly, this was Goldbach's Conjecture. Are high school students in the Future World this advanced?

Students began discussing in twos and threes. Lu Xing was forced to be a listener, and he quickly realized that even if he knew how to prove Goldbach's Conjecture, he couldn't understand their conversation at all.

"Where do you think we should start the proof?"

"Try starting from dissociative mathematics, using the Zhang Feng Theorem."

"I think we can start with the Uncertain Dice. It's mentioned in the Opposite Prime Number Theorem..."

Lu Xing's face was expressionless.

He had discovered something, but he wasn't entirely sure yet.

After the discussion quieted down slightly, he quietly looked at the slip of paper covered on the desk. There was only one sentence on it:

"You are human."

Lu Xing's heart suddenly raced, as if he had been caught by a ghost in a bizarre game.

But he had experienced a lot these past few days, and his psychological resilience was quite good. He quickly calmed down, used his fingertips to tear the paper, waited for a minute, and let the shredded paper disappear from his palm.

"Student B73."

The math teacher called out his name from the podium, smiling: "Tell us your approach."

Lu Xing was already prepared. He stood up and replied calmly: "Teacher, I don't know."

There was no laughter; the classroom was very quiet.

The math teacher smiled and nodded: "Your creative thinking is very weak. Go to the infirmary for a check-up after class. You will be deducted ten points for this assessment. Please sit down."

Lu Xing clenched Jiang Xuannv's small fists, really wanting to punch this world hard!

It's completely unreasonable!

Naturally, Lu Xing couldn't understand a single word of the subsequent proof. After class, he followed the teacher's instructions and planned to go to the infirmary.

There was a twenty-minute break after class this time.

Lu Xing walked through the peaceful and friendly corridor and headed towards the infirmary via the stairs.

"Hey."

Someone called out to him, their tone mocking, "You're not really going to the infirmary, are you?"

Lu Xing stopped and looked back at the two classmates standing at the top of the stairs. He said calmly, "Going to the infirmary is the teacher's instruction."

The two people in front of him were classmates from his class, one male and one female. There was nothing remarkable about their height or appearance. The only thing that left an impression on Lu Xing was the boy's middle-parted hair, with slightly upturned ends, giving him an aggressive aura.

The girl, on the other hand, stood with her arms crossed, her gaze cold as she looked him up and down from above. After a moment, she sneered, "You judged wrong, she's not human!"

As she spoke, a small knife appeared in her hand, and she swung it in the air.

"Warning, network disconnected."

This warning came from Jiang Xuannv's auxiliary chip. Lu Xing immediately realized this was a network attack within the virtual world.

However, the first point of caution Jiang Xuannv had mentioned made Lu Xing hesitant to act rashly: never expose that he was human.

"Your judgment is poor, mine isn't."

The boy with the middle-parted hair retorted, slowly walking down the stairs, his eyes on Lu Xing. "She's been hiding very well these past few years. I was almost fooled. Several human organizations in the school never discovered her until today."

"What was unusual about her today?" the girl holding the small knife asked with interest.

Lu Xing knew how to respond:

He remained silent, quietly watching the two of them perform.

Because the chip had given him another prompt: Backup network connected.

He wasn't sure why, whether it was a backup network left by Jiang Xuannv or the authority he had with his 1700 points.

But he could deduce that the network attack from these two posed no great threat to him.

"Didn't you notice? When she entered the campus, she looked around. Before entering the classroom, she looked up. When she took out her books, she flipped through the contents randomly. She was warned by the teacher during morning reading, and after class, she would stare blankly at the scenery."

The boy with the middle-parted hair said with certainty.

Both of them stared at him.

Lu Xing replied, "Your judgment is baseless, and because of your behavior, I suspect you are both human."

The girl became nervous, but the boy laughed, "You don't need to pretend anymore. When they see the note, they won't hide, but report it directly. You are human!"

"So you were the one who put the note there!"

Lu Xing's eyes sharpened. "I am a member of the Purge Committee. You are under arrest!"

Both of their expressions changed simultaneously. The girl's hand switched to a large machete, and the boy raised his hand, a huge hammer appearing in the air, which he grasped.

Lu Xing was about to laugh out loud, thinking that the future people's cunning was no match for their ancestors, but the next moment.

"Attack detected, initiating combat mode."

He uncontrollably extended his hand, his slender fingers pointing at the two of them.

Bang!

The machete and sledgehammer vanished, and the two were shaken and fell onto the stairs, looking at him with terrified expressions.

Lu Xing calmly withdrew his hand and asked again, "Are you humans?"

The two exchanged glances, and almost simultaneously, they shed their expressions of fear and smiled, "We are not humans, we were just cooperating with your actions just now!"

Lu Xing finally couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Only then did the two opposite him realize they had been tricked. Their faces turned grim, and they stood up coldly.

Lu Xing saw their anger but had no intention of easing the tension. He said, "You attacked me without reason, and I haven't even held you accountable yet."

The girl replied, "I cut off your network just for safety. They don't like humans communicating privately, and I don't want to go to the second floor."

Lu Xing found it a bit strange. Wasn't exposing one's identity supposed to reset the score to zero?

He asked them again, "What do you want with me? Are you members of the Human Resistance Army?"

"No, we haven't heard of that organization in the school. We are the White Cat Association. My name is Chu Caifeng, and her name is Zhou Duohao. We're looking for you to invite you to join our White Cat Association."

The boy with the middle part pointed at the girl.

Lu Xing looked at them in surprise, confirming that their names were indeed these two and that he hadn't mistaken them.

"My name is Lu Xing, also known as Jiang Xuannv. I need to understand the current situation of humans, which is you, before making a decision."

"Alright. Here's some information for you. This is semi-public data. More information will be transmitted to you by the captain after your identity is confirmed."

Chu Caifeng, the boy with the middle part, sent a piece of information. Lu Xing's Auxiliary Chip quickly received it. After sending it, the two from the White Cat Association quickly left.

Lu Xing didn't go to the infirmary again. He wandered in the corridor for a while, then returned to the classroom and sat down.

He was eager to understand the current situation of humans.