The Empire of Shilin
Chapter 40

The Great Noble

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Due to being delayed by those few extras from Canglan, by the time we rushed to the cafeteria, we found that there was no food left. Only half a steamed bun, thrown on the ground by who knows who, lay there with a gaping mouth, seemingly mocking our tardiness.

"Hungry..." Pandora said softly.

"Second that," Sandora agreed.

This guy's ability to absorb human knowledge is truly not ordinary!

Qian Qian rubbed her belly and suggested, "A Jun, how about we go buy some bread at the school gate?"

"No," I waved my hand, "Let's go mooch off a teacher!"

I finally realized one of the benefits of the Empire Commanders infiltrating this school: as a student, you can get a lot of privileges without attracting attention. For example, freely entering and leaving the school during lockdown, freely going online in the experimental building when it's closed, and mooching off teachers in their dorms when you don't get lunch.

As a school constantly striving to catch up to the nearby Canglan Private High School, the leadership of City No. 2 High School has always considered improving the working and living conditions of the school staff a very important task. The direct result of this guiding principle is that our school's faculty and staff dorms have outrageously high-end living conditions. They are fully equipped with bathrooms, kitchens, and living rooms, practically a standard hotel setup. Although they are completely incomparable to the five-star hotel-style faculty and staff dorms of the aristocratic school across the street, in the eyes of the students, the living conditions with this configuration far exceed our standards for dorms. Therefore, the faculty and staff dorms have become the target of criticism in our school, second only to the central themed toilet.

But today, we greatly benefited from these dorms.

Sitting in Pan Lingling's dorm living room, we stared dumbfounded at the table almost completely covered with a lavish spread of food. And the owner of this dorm, our beautiful teacher Miss Pan Lingling, was still flitting between the kitchen and the living room like a gust of wind, the clanging of pots and pans having a rhythmic rock and roll feel.

Clearly, the collective arrival of two Empire Heads of State and one Empire General to mooch off her had made this loyal female officer extremely nervous.

Unlike us, who were completely at ease, Qian Qian had been very reserved since she came in. To this day, she still doesn't understand how we could so brazenly come to our homeroom teacher's place to mooch off her.

"Teacher," when Pan Lingling brought the third plate of braised pork to the table, Qian Qian finally couldn't help but speak, "That's enough, we can't eat all this... and, it's almost time for class..."

"Oh..." Pan Lingling replied, quickly walking to the table, placing a plate of chicken strips in front of Pandora, then carefully looking around and saying nervously, "Wait... I still have a few dishes..."

"Alright! If you keep cooking, it'll be enough for us to eat until the end of the next century!" I said, both annoyed and amused. I really don't know what's going on with this Pan Lingling. She's so relaxed and natural in class, and she's not this nervous in front of me at all. Why is she so nervous now?

"This is a different situation," as if guessing my confusion, Pandora's voice sounded in my mind, "Now Brother and Sister Sandora are interacting with Xivis on an equal authority level. For a Shilin Apostle with only A-level authority, this is an extremely rare honor, so Xivis feels a lot of pressure."

I found Pandora's explanation amusing: "What about you? Why don't you seem stressed? And you can even call Sandora Sister so smoothly."

"I have SSS-level authority, and I have also received Brother's special permission to address the Shilin Emperor equally, so I am an exception."

"...I really don't understand your way of thinking."

Under my "command," Pan Lingling finally stopped. By this time, the food in front of us could basically be called a Manchu-Han Imperial Feast. It was truly amazing that she could make so much in such a short time.

I estimated that this meal was the most nervous Pan Lingling had ever eaten in her life. This could be seen from the fact that she broke her chopsticks six times in a row.

Sandora seemed quite satisfied with the Carbon-Based Lifeform's food, which made me even more curious about the physiological structure of the Shilin Apostles. Their diet seems to include everything from organic to inorganic, from energy to matter. It's hard to imagine what in this universe they can't digest.

This meal was an ordeal for Pan Lingling, but for Sandora, it was a feast. Thanks to this guy who ate half the table's worth of food and still wanted more, we were twenty minutes late for our afternoon class – thankfully, our first class in the afternoon was Ideological and Political Education and Legal Basis. Remember who the teacher for this class was? It was the fake money guy who printed 300 Empire Commanders' four months' worth of activity funds overnight...

Five minutes before the last class of the afternoon, the胖子 Zheng Hang suddenly rushed into the classroom, shouting loudly: "News! This is definitely big news this time!"

Why do I feel like there's so much news lately?

Normally, the胖子's news was basically just extremely boring gossip, and the credibility was basically zero. Few people in the class were willing to believe him, but recently the胖子 had miraculously brought two pieces of great news, and the students had gradually become interested in this guy's news broadcasts.

Given that the胖子 always liked to tease everyone's appetite whenever he had news to broadcast, the students were well-prepared this time: as soon as the胖子 jumped onto the podium, the people around him started lowering their heads to grab their stools.

Seeing the students' uniform movements, the胖子 broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly said, "No, no! I won't tease you this time, everyone put down your stuff first..."

After the students put down their stools, the胖子 cleared his throat and said, "According to the latest reliable information, a big shot has come to our place. There will be a grand welcome ceremony in the central square of the city three nights from now..."

"Tch—" everyone sighed in unison.

"At that time, there will be free drinks and snacks on site, and lots of hot girls to see. This big shot is also a rare beauty in the world!"

"Yeah—" everyone cheered!

A enthusiastic audience member below the stage raised his hand and spoke: "胖子, who is this big shot this time? Do they need such a grand display?"

The胖子 rubbed his shiny forehead and said, "I'm not sure about the specifics. It seems to be a member of a foreign royal family. I heard it's a princess, but the news is so tightly sealed that I can't even find out her name..."

The students near the podium were making a fuss, but I didn't have the leisure to join them.

"Sandora, tell me honestly, is it you?"

Sandora looked innocent: "What is it me?"

...Why can't this girl be as obedient as Pandora? Is the difference between a Shilin Emperor and an ordinary Shilin Apostle that they are more individualistic?

"Stop playing dumb," I said, somewhat exasperated, "What identity are you using to get involved in this world?"

"Well..." Sandora cutely put her index finger to her lower lip, "What does a princess do?"

My god! How did this girl do it?!

You know, completely integrating into an environment with a disguised identity is definitely not a simple matter. If you just want a fake identity, it's easy to say. Forging an identity document and by the way modifying the citizen identity records of government agencies can solve everything. This is not difficult for a Shilin Apostle to do. But establishing a false social network at the same time is not that simple. This means that you not only need an identity document, but also a fairly complete network of relationships, otherwise, if such a person suddenly appears, they will eventually reveal their true colors over time. To give a simple example, Xivis used the human identity of Pan Lingling to infiltrate our school and become a homeroom teacher. It only took her a few hours to obtain this new identity. During this process, she not only needed a new identity, but she also needed to use Keaos's group Mind Interference ability to apply mental suggestions to key humans, making her existence a part of people's "memories." Otherwise, if such a colleague suddenly appeared, the other teachers in the school would be the first to become suspicious.

From the above analysis, we can see that to establish a fictional network of relationships for oneself in a relatively short period of time, group memory modification will be an indispensable means. And the higher the attention rate of this false identity, the wider the range of memory modification required. If you want to become a figure like MJ... it is estimated that a memory cleansing of billions of people will be indispensable.

Now what did Sandora do?

According to her own words, she became the princess of a certain country?

My god, did she cleanse the memories of an entire country's humans?!

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