In the distance, Zero heard Candy complain and turned around to make a face at her. Candy stomped her feet in anger.
"Ugh, this is so frustrating! I can't go over there."
Candy didn't know what would happen if someone who knew they weren't allowed near the water went over anyway, but as the study committee member, she was sure to get a scolding from their homeroom teacher.
If it was serious enough, the teacher might even call her parents.
And... Zero would definitely sneakily tell her brother.
After carefully thinking through the consequences, Candy turned around and rejoined the games. She'd leave Zero to fish alone!
Seeing Candy go back to playing with her classmates, Zero turned his gaze to the male teacher who'd just snapped his fishing rod. "Tsk, tsk. That fish just now must've weighed over twenty pounds."
"Definitely!"
After seeing that rod snap, everyone had something to hope for. Their goal wasn't ambitious; they just wanted to catch a big fish weighing around ten pounds. But it seemed as if God was playing a joke on them.
By the time the cafeteria delivered boxed meals at noon, the dozen or so teachers had caught only five little river fish. Even put together, they didn't weigh three ounces.
Feeling Zero's strange gaze, the teachers were so embarrassed they didn't know what to say. "We'll try again this afternoon. Maybe we'll catch a big one."
Listening to Zero's earnest words, the principal couldn't help feeling that this artificial intelligence was messing with him. Was it really that easy to catch a big fish?
As the students began lining up to get their boxed meals, Mo Jingchun, who had just finished eating and returned to his office to rest, opened his computer and used a satellite feed to check