Goddess Descends

The school's handling of Du Qiangwei's matter was vague this time. They merely said she would receive a demerit, without specifying what consequences it carried or affecting her studies in any way. She still attended classes and trained as usual, and the teachers still favored her as before.

Wei Zitong had long expected the school's approach of making a big show before letting it go lightly. Who was Du Qiangwei? He knew better than anyone. The school had brought her in to sift through talent and eliminate dead weight, so how could they truly punish her? They only had to give her a light punishment because of pressure from the families of the students who had been eliminated.

Wei Zitong had no time to care about that bullshit. His biggest task now was absorbing energy. After discovering the consequences of insufficient energy during his clash with Du Qiangwei, he had begun replenishing it almost frantically.

Dark Energy and Void Energy were hard for him to obtain, but weren't Light Energy and bio-energy easy enough?

Every day, he insisted on "enjoying" a sunbath when the afternoon sun was at its fiercest, sweating all over. He also ate enormous amounts of high-protein, high-calorie food until he was stuffed.

But the results were far from obvious. His energy recovery speed remained exactly the same as before.

At the same time, he had been using his spare time these past few days to cram physics.

In particular, he focused on Micro Wormhole Transport Technology. It was the most urgent subject at the moment, because he knew that their group would soon receive customized Dark Alloy Armor. They needed to master the most basic Micro Wormhole Transport Technology in order to equip it.

Next came that so-called "Vacuum Zero Point Energy," namely knowledge about Void Energy. Wei Zitong knew that in the world of Super Seminary, the void was an immensely powerful and terrifying existence. Even Carl, who researched the void himself, feared it greatly.

He had not known until he looked into it, but once he did, he was shocked. Vacuum Zero Point Energy was an enormous source energy hidden within the vacuum as predicted by quantum theory. It still existed at absolute zero, hence the term "zero point energy." The key was that it was produced in the instant of fluctuations in the universe's vacuum energy tides. Physical experiments conducted by more Advanced Civilizations had confirmed that the energy generated during those tidal fluctuations could rival the total energy produced by the entire universe in an instant. It could overturn the Law of Conservation of Energy on a small scale, including the law of dark conversion conservation!

Was this why the void was so powerful? Was it also the source of the Galaxy Power Gene Model's ability to overturn the Law of Conservation of Energy?

No, it was not that simple. If it were, the Galaxy Power gene would have been cracked long ago. The deeper one went into physics, the less it could be summarized with simple assumptions. It left Wei Zitong confused and gave him a headache.

He had already been studying very hard, spending nearly every night in the library. He even listened as attentively as he could to Ryze the Wanderer's lectures, but the results were minimal.

Learning truly was a long and arduous undertaking. He was starting to envy the Angels' knowledge-sharing system. They did not need to read so many books; they could just search for whatever they needed. Probably. Maybe. Hopefully...

"I can't lose focus!" Realizing that his mind had wandered, Wei Zitong decisively used his ability on himself. The effect was excellent, and he could immerse himself in the book again.

"I've noticed that you've been burrowing into the library all the time lately. What, are there beautiful women here?" A cold voice came from across the table, startling the book-focused Wei Zitong.

Seeing Du Qiangwei seated opposite him, Wei Zitong rolled his eyes irritably. "Isn't the biggest beauty here you? What, am I not allowed to come here and read?"

"Tch, changed your tune, have you? Can you really absorb anything by cramming at the last minute like this?" Du Qiangwei lightly touched her chin and asked teasingly.

"With such a beauty beside me, how am I supposed to read?" Wei Zitong shot back without mercy. He made a gesture of invitation and said, "Could our beautiful Miss Du please move somewhere else and stop disturbing a classmate trying to read?"

"This library isn't yours. I'll sit wherever I want!" Du Qiangwei had no intention of backing down.

"You're right!" Wei Zitong nodded, packed up his books, and headed toward the borrowing desk.

"You..." Du Qiangwei's expression darkened, and she nearly bit through her lower lip.

The moment he returned to the dormitory, Wei Zitong regretted it. Not only had the two grown men thrown their smelly socks everywhere, making the room reek, but they were also constantly shouting with the three gay guys next door. Wei Zitong could not help sighing. "It's easy to fall from top student to slacker, but hard to climb from slacker to top student!"

Back when he had been in elementary school in his previous life, he had also been the top student in his class. But after entering middle school, he had been dazzled by the temptations of city life. In less than half a year, he had become one of the worst students in the class. Sleeping, playing on his phone, skipping class to hang out at internet cafés—he had done practically everything short of committing a crime. Now that he wanted to straighten himself out and turn back from a slacker into a top student, why was it so damn hard?

"Hey, Zi Tong, Xiaolun and the others are playing ranked. You coming?" The moment Liu Chuang saw Wei Zitong enter the dorm, he shouted in his booming voice.

"Eh, not in the mood!" Wei Zitong sighed and walked onto the balcony. Finding it much quieter there, he shut the door between the balcony and bedroom and sat down to read.

He used several layers of his superpower on himself again, to the point that he did not even notice Du Qiangwei's nearly murderous glare from the dormitory opposite!

"Hey, Qiangwei, what are you looking at?" Qilin stepped onto the balcony and asked curiously.

"Look at that guy. He specifically ran out onto the balcony to read. What exactly is he trying to do?" Du Qiangwei asked disdainfully.

"Which guy? Huh? It's him?" Qilin looked surprised. "Why is he reading?"

"You know him?" Du Qiangwei asked.

"Of course I know him!" Qilin said. "On Highland Street in Juxia City, he got into a street fight with Liu Chuang and Ge Xiaolun. I was the one who arrested him!" She did not mention that Wei Zitong had once pursued her. Mainly because she was not that familiar with Du Qiangwei yet, and she felt embarrassed bringing it up.

"Oh, I remember now." Du Qiangwei nodded. "You were there when I went over that day too. You were interrogating Liu Chuang, right?"

"Mm!" Qilin nodded. Looking at the handsome young man reading intently on the opposite balcony, she was absentminded for a moment.

The next morning, it was once again Ryze the Wanderer's lecture. Everyone listened until they were drowsy, while Wei Zitong could only force himself to stay alert and be a good student.

At the same time, he felt a little uneasy. A few days ago, they had said Lena would be arriving, but Ryze the Wanderer had yet to announce anything. It made him feel uncertain.

According to the Original Anime's plot, Ryze the Wanderer should have announced on the first day of class that Lena would descend on the third day. Four or five days had already passed, yet there was still no news. Could reality conflict with the Original Anime?

He was even more worried that the development of other events might also conflict with the Original Anime. That would be troublesome. With his current strength, even dealing with Du Qiangwei was difficult, let alone facing Morgana and a group of King Tier beings. If the course of the world went wrong too, one misstep could leave him shattered to pieces!

This was the first time he had spaced out during class. He only snapped back to attention when Ryze the Wanderer announced that the school would summon a God to descend tomorrow!

Ryze the Wanderer pointed at a blurry, Golden Light-shrouded figure on the display screen and said, "She will use her divine power to make all the dead weight get the hell out!"

All the students immediately perked up. The second round of assessments that had been the talk of the school for days was finally coming!

"You children have never seen a real God in your lives, have you?" Ryze the Wanderer said. "Tomorrow, at the school's central plaza, I will perform a spectacular summoning spell for you and let you witness a true God!"

"What God?" Qilin had been staying in lately and had not paid much attention to the school rumors.

"An alien." Du Qiangwei sounded casual, but inwardly she had already become completely alert. At the same time, she felt a small surge of excitement. She wanted to challenge this so-called "God" too!

"What is an alien coming here for?" Qilin asked in confusion. "Aren't we here to fight aliens?"

"Aliens can be good or evil too," Du Qiangwei replied. "Many of the Super Genes among our group were activated by this alien."

"I see!" Qilin nodded.

Wei Zitong's heart settled as well. It seemed the world's course had not strayed too far yet. As long as he remained careful, he should be able to accomplish his goal before the world underwent drastic changes.

Thinking about his goal gave Wei Zitong another headache. Memorizing that knowledge was possible, but deeply understanding it was difficult. He needed Experimental Data. It seemed he would have to find time to visit the academy's advanced laboratories and personally test and verify the guesses in his mind one by one.

"The Goddess is coming. I'm kind of excited!" Zhao Xin said with a lewd grin. "Xiaolun, you'd better be the first to challenge her!"

"Mm!" Ge Xiaolun wore a bitter expression and gave a muffled grunt to show that he understood.