"Had you been suspicious from the very beginning?"
Andrew gazed at the first student he had ever cultivated, a strange glint flashing through his eyes.
"Isn't that normal, Teacher Andrew?" Wo Gu forced out a weak smile. "You hadn't taken a disciple in billions of years, yet you suddenly took an interest in an outcast Xenomorph like me. With all the obvious goodwill and concern you showed me, if I wasn't your illegitimate son, then you must have had some other plan. Surely it couldn't be that I was simply too outstanding, so you treated me with such concern?"
Tiris Fa Academy was the foremost university in the Northern Star Region. Although the Northern Star Region was ostracized by orthodox powers and was a paradise for the undead and Xenomorphs, the prestige of this top-tier academy held absolutely no water in the Interstellar Federation. It had never ranked below the top five in the Federation, and it had even taken first place many times during interstellar exchanges!
There were countless students more talented than him, so he would never believe that his teacher treated him so well because of his abilities.
The stories in comic books about dull-witted, honest juniors being favored by hidden experts and receiving their legacy were all nonsense. At least, Wo Gu had never seen such a case.
This was an age of fierce competition. No one would act arrogantly or humbly in front of their mentor when trying to win favor. If you tried to act like a pig to eat the tiger, you often really were just a pig.
Yet Andrew had made an exception. Not only had he looked after Wo Gu in every way, he had even made an exception and brought the yet-to-graduate student into his research group, as if he