"Ah??"
Kevin instantly lost his composure.
And the other person who was no longer calm was Mei, who was still sitting in her seat.
In fact, Mei had already lost her composure from the moment Mobius spoke her first sentence.
After all, in her understanding, the doctor who stood at the forefront of biology in the current era should have been living for a long time on the M Continent, at the very forefront of the world's technology. However she looked at it, she had no reason to come to such a small city as Changkong City.
That was why, when she had allowed Kevin to go out and meet the two peerless beauties, one golden-haired and one green-haired, Mei had actually been partly testing whether the green-haired woman was the person she suspected.
And now... her appearance, her hair color, and that tone of voice that disregarded everything when she spoke... all of it practically made it explicit that she was Mobius, the woman who could reach the summit of world biology through her own efforts in this era!
Thinking this, Mei hurriedly stood up from her seat and rushed over to the top professor she had previously seen only in the news. After patting Kevin on the shoulder, she said:
"Kevin, apologize to the teacher!"
"Huh?"
Hearing Mei, Kevin became even more confused. He opened his mouth wide, pointed incredulously at Mobius beside him, then pointed at himself and said,
"Mei... you... you mean... she, she, she... she's the old biology professor who's coming to our school to teach us? No... look at her! Does she look anything like the word 'old'? Huh??"
"There's no time. I'll explain everything to you later..."
Feeling Mobius's gaze shift from Kevin to herself, Mei felt an enormous amount of pressure. She patted Kevin again and urged him,
"In any case, Kevin, hurry up and apologize to the teacher!"
"Uh... okay... okay, fine..."
Kevin, who was completely helpless against teachers, wilted the moment he heard Mei say that Mobius was their teacher. He lowered his head dejectedly, faced Mobius, and said,
"Um... sorry, Teacher. I didn't know you were our teacher just now, and I thought... sigh, I'm not very good with words. The more I say, the easier it is to make you angry... Anyway, what happened today really was my fault. I apologize, Teacher. Please don't take it to heart."
"An apology? I don't need your apology. Heh..."
Mobius glanced at Mei, then turned her disdainful gaze back to Kevin, who was bowing and scraping before her.
"Getting angry at you would only waste my precious time. I also don't want to keep entangling myself with you at this stage. You're not worthy. Right now, I only need you to apologize to my Little Mouse, then do as I said and get out of my classroom. If you understand human speech, hurry up and do what I told you. I can't be bothered to waste more words on you."
"This..."
Kevin's expression stiffened. Apologizing to one person would have been bad enough, but now he had to apologize to a second person as well—and both were girls he had once regarded as "targets"! He was the dignified Prince Kevin of Chiyu Academy. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?
Afraid Kevin might act rashly, Mei hurriedly patted him on the shoulder and said,
"Don't act rashly, Kevin. Do as the teacher says."
There was no helping it.
It seemed that the dignified Crown Prince of Chiyu Academy was destined to suffer this humiliation today.
"I'm sorry!!"
Kevin abruptly bowed to Xu Ziling behind Mobius, then fled the classroom in disgrace.
The fight between Xu Ziling and Kevin had already caused quite a commotion in the environmental classroom. Now, seeing the Crown Prince of Chiyu Academy lower his head to apologize before fleeing, Su sighed helplessly, while the other students erupted like vegetables doused with a ladle of hot oil.
"Holy crap! What's the deal with that green-haired lady and the golden-haired beauty? Even Kevin got beaten!"
"No idea... But to be fair, those two ladies really are stunning enough to be National Goddesses! Damn, I'm going to ask for their WeChat after class. Who's coming with me?"
"Me! Me! Me!"
"...Cool."
Listening to the increasingly noisy classroom, Mobius furrowed her brows slightly. She then looked at the trembling Mei beside her and said casually:
"Hey, since you could recognize my identity without exposing me, you're at least smarter than the others here. You should have some influence among your classmates, right? I'll give you ten seconds. Find a way to make your classmates quiet down."
"Mm."
Mei nodded. As the perennial top student at Chiyu Academy, she did have some influence among her classmates. After hearing Mobius, she hurriedly turned around and looked at the students in the amphitheater.
"Everyone! Quiet down for a moment! This is the professor who's going to teach us. Show some academic discipline and settle down!"
Among these high school students from Chiyu Academy, Mei's words were indeed much more effective than Mobius's. Of course, they knew that Mei's family was backed by her father, the owner of a listed company worth hundreds of billions, but that was secondary. Most importantly, they had no idea of Mobius's true identity.
Sure enough, after Mei shouted a few times, the lecture hall quickly quieted down. Mei coughed twice, cleared her throat, and added:
"Students! This is the professor who was invited to our school today to give a lecture to the graduating seniors... um..."
Mei stopped. She did not know whether it would be good or bad to reveal Mobius's identity directly, so she looked at Mobius for help.
"Professor Serpent."
Before Mobius could speak, Xu Ziling cut in. He then smiled and pointed at himself.
"As for me, I'm Professor Serpent's assistant. You can call me Mr. Xu."
"Tsk."
Mobius clicked her tongue and glanced at Mei casually.
"Listen to him."
Mr. Xu...?
Hearing Xu Ziling's self-introduction, Mei looked at him. His looks were no less striking than those of the "Lightning Queen" of Chiyu Academy—if anything, he was even more beautiful. Yet this "National Goddess" was calling himself "Mr." A question mark large enough to weigh ten stones rose above Mei's head.
But a question was one thing; she still could not neglect what deserved respect. Seeing that Mobius also agreed with Xu Ziling's explanation, Mei braced herself and addressed the students in the amphitheater:
"This is Professor Serpent, who has come to our school tonight to give a biology lecture, and her assistant, Mr. Xu. Everyone! I know you may be surprised by their ages, but that is how human science works. The result you find hardest to accept is often the correct one.
"Now that Professor Serpent and her assistant, Mr. Xu, have arrived, show the bearing of Chiyu students and don't slight Professor Serpent. Can you do that?"
To make sure everyone in the amphitheater could hear her, Mei shouted loudly. On top of that, she usually did not pay much attention to physical exercise, so after a few sentences, she was already slightly out of breath.
"Click."
"Hm?"
For a moment, Mei thought she saw a camera in some corner of the classroom, taking pictures of her as she gasped for breath. But when she focused her attention on it, the camera seemed to have disappeared.
Had she imagined it?
Mei did not think much of it. Once all the students had quieted down after listening to their "top student," she turned to Mobius and said:
"Mobius... uh, Professor Serpent, you can begin the lecture."
Hearing this, Mobius was not in a hurry. She stared at Mei for a while, clicked her tongue, and said:
"Tsk, what a pity..."
"?"
Mei became even more puzzled. She looked at Mobius in confusion and asked,
"Professor, why did you say 'what a pity'?"
"What a pity about you?"
Mobius waved her hand indifferently.
"What a pity that although you're intelligent, you're destined not to get along with me... All right, go back to your seat, little girl. You said it yourself—I'm about to begin the lecture, and this is my podium."
"This... all right."
"Okay."
After Mei returned to her seat, Mobius picked up the oak ruler on the lectern and tapped the desk.
"The little girl just now already said everything that needed to be said, so I'll begin the lecture now... There's no microphone, and this is as loud as I can speak. Those who want to listen can move to the seats near the front. Those who don't can leave my class. I won't stop you."
After Mobius finished speaking, many students in the amphitheater exchanged glances before voluntarily taking their notebooks and moving toward the front. Klein, who had originally been sitting alone in the corner of the class, also thought for a moment before picking up her notebook and study book and moving forward.
"Very good."
Mobius looked at Klein, who had always sat alone and never shared a desk with anyone, and nodded in satisfaction. She casually tossed Xu Ziling a USB drive.
"Little Mouse, plug in the drive. The lecture is about to begin."
Xu Ziling plugged in the USB drive as instructed. A PPT immediately appeared on the large Seewo whiteboard in the amphitheater. Several large words were written on it—
Modern Biology: The Evolution of Life and Human Ethics
Next, Mobius pulled a pair of round-framed glasses from her bosom and put them on. She truly began speaking eloquently like a university professor, explaining her knowledge and achievements in biology...
However, it seemed a little beyond the syllabus. Mobius was not teaching high school biology or even university biology. She was explaining the understanding, views, and attainments of "biology" held by a top biologist at the forefront of world biology. What she was teaching at that moment was not knowledge called "biology," but knowledge called "Mobius."
Under Mobius's completely over-the-top teaching style, the students who had originally been full of enthusiasm gradually drooped like wilted cucumbers and lowered their heads in embarrassment. They discovered that they understood every word Mobius said, but once the words were strung together, they were utterly lost.
But that was fine. Mobius had never expected most of the people in the class to understand her from the beginning, and she did not care. As long as the Klein recommended by Blanca could understand, that was enough. After all, from a certain perspective, she had prepared this lecture for Klein alone. Everyone else was merely incidental.
According to Blanca... Klein's future academic specialization was biology. If she really was as outstanding as Blanca had said, then she ought to be able to understand Mobius's lecture.
Sure enough, as the lesson progressed, a faint glimmer gradually appeared in the blue-green eyes of Klein, who sat alone near the side of the classroom. Her steel pen kept recording Mobius's lecture in her notebook. Her expression changed from confusion at the beginning, to sudden realization, and then slowly developed into understanding and agreement.
Seeing this, Mobius knew that she had achieved the purpose of her visit. Based on the experience she had learned from a certain Pink Demon, as long as a relatively vulnerable girl like Klein developed a sense of identification and belonging toward her ideas, Mobius would only need to answer a few of her questions after class, slightly lower her stance, and then "accidentally" mention that she happened to be short of an assistant. Finally, at the right moment, she would reveal that her true identity was Mobius, a person who could shake the entire field of world biology just by stomping her foot. As long as a vulnerable girl like Klein was not an idiot, she would definitely follow her.
Still, this Klein had one shortcoming. Mobius had been staring at her for so long, yet she had not reacted at all. Her counter-surveillance awareness was far too poor. In the past, when Mobius had been short on funding and forced to attend shareholders' banquets, she had gotten dead drunk several times, and Blanca had always safely rescued her. If it were Klein, who currently had no defenses at all against other people's gazes... then the question would not be whether Mobius could be rescued, but whether Klein herself would also end up falling into trouble.
However, this problem could be remedied over time. Once Klein followed her, Mobius could have her Little Mouse, who specialized in physical conditioning, train Klein's counter-surveillance awareness.
Thinking this, Mobius slowly shifted her gaze away from Klein and quickly swept her eyes over the rest of the amphitheater. She found that most of the students had already slumped over their desks in a daze. Only Klein, Mei, and Su were still sitting upright.
Su's expression was somewhat troubled. Compared with the specialized Klein and the well-rounded student Mei, Su clearly belonged to the awkward category of someone with intelligence—but not much of it.
Noticing this, Mobius simply waved her hand and said:
"All right, that's the end of what I have to say. You still have... hm, thirty minutes before evening self-study ends. Little Mouse, you take over from here. I'm going out to prepare some things."
"Huh? I'm taking over?"
Xu Ziling, who had also been listening in a daze, pointed at himself in shock when he heard Mobius's instructions.
"Doctor, the gap between you and me... seems to be more than just a little?"
"You only need to read from the PPT. Who said you actually had to lecture?"
Mobius waved her hand, then walked toward the front door of the classroom.
"Come find me when class ends. I'm going to prepare some things..."
Prepare what?
Naturally, she was preparing what would allow Mobius to be "noticed" by Klein after class and then smoothly "kidnap" her.
Realizing this, the corner of Xu Ziling's mouth twitched.
But... I'm giving the lecture?
Xu Ziling looked at the empty podium and at the gazes Mei and Klein directed toward him after Mobius left. After thinking for a moment, he walked to the lectern, picked up the blackboard eraser, and tapped it against the desk. His voice was not loud, but it was just enough to wake every drowsy student in the classroom.
"Wake up. How can you sleep at your age? Get up and sleep again!"
Xu Ziling folded his arms. Before transmigrating, he had also been one of countless students before going to work at Dog Boss's company, so he knew exactly what tone could wake up students who were slacking off in class.
Hearing Xu Ziling's words, "Get up and sleep again," the students' expressions became rather awkward, and one after another they laughed, completely dispelling the lifeless atmosphere in the classroom.
"As you can see, the doctor had something to do and left early. For the next thirty minutes, until class ends, I'll be taking over."
Seeing everyone in the classroom wake from their drowsiness because of his voice, Xu Ziling nodded in satisfaction. He then turned off the PPT, removed the USB drive, closed the sliding blackboard, and faced the students below the podium.
"My teaching style is slightly different from the doctor's... I don't like reading from a PPT by myself. I like harassing others... uh, no, I like interactive classes. Next, I'll use questions to tell you what 'life' truly is."
Xu Ziling's deliberate slip of the tongue successfully attracted everyone's attention. Most of them had never heard of such an interesting and daring teaching style. One by one, they perked up, eager to see what tricks this "professor's assistant" was about to play.
Xu Ziling was not surprised. After all, before he transmigrated, his former boss—the Dog Boss who would sooner or later be strung up from a lamppost—had used similar rhetoric to deal with the honest employees under him, glorifying it as "stimulating employee enthusiasm." Now Xu Ziling had learned from him and immediately used it on these students from Chiyu Academy who had yet to be beaten down by society.
"All students, get ready. Listen to the first question!"
Seeing that he had more or less roused the entire class's enthusiasm, Xu Ziling picked up a piece of chalk from the podium. He turned around and rapidly wrote several large characters on the blackboard, then announced loudly:
"Students! Please 'listen to me'—why can birds fly?"
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