I didn't know whether it was just my imagination, but this winter seemed particularly long.
It was already the end of March, yet the weather was still terrible.
It wasn't until April that there were signs of the weather warming up.
For students, the good news was that adjustments to the winter vacation meant they no longer had to brave the bitter cold to attend school every day. The bad news was that they had less free time to spend during the summer.
Overall, however, the students... were relatively satisfied.
There was nothing they could do about being dissatisfied. If they couldn't even reach C+, they wouldn't be able to enter a shelter and live there.
They couldn't afford a private shelter, but they couldn't enter the Official Shelter either. How was that any different from suicide? The atmosphere of studying throughout the Federal schools suddenly improved considerably, of course, referring to public schools here.
As for the students in private schools, they had long since met the basic requirements for entering a shelter. What troubled them was whether they should choose a Private Shelter or the Official Shelter.
Or... should they have their parents build a Private Shelter?
Lin Qi had a meeting that morning, a meeting of Light of Tomorrow. The consortium was operating very smoothly at present, and with him controlling its direction, its transformation was proceeding extremely quickly.
A number of emerging technology companies centered around "Natural Technology" began appearing rapidly. They focused on "near-future small appliances," which were actually highly conceptual products.
But that was precisely what made them so appealing—their "concepts."
People's anxiety about the future, and even their faint longing for it, left them in a state of unease.
It was like a man and woman experiencing their first time. Before taking off