My Crystal Is Under Attack, I'll Go to Class After This Match

"Defend the high ground, you idiot! A bunch of trash teammates!"

Behind the cafeteria of Nangang Second High School, Shen Qi squatted on the ground, engrossed in a mobile game. He was so absorbed that his face was flushed and sweat beaded on his forehead.

"Shen Qi, class is starting." Suddenly, a man's voice called out from behind him.

"What class? Our crystal is under attack!" Shen Qi yelled, agitated, completely ignoring the man behind him.

"Shen Qi, it's time for class, math class." The middle-aged man was neither angry nor annoyed, unusually calm and serene.

"Team relies on no one, I'll take on five... Huh? Wait, math class?" Shen Qi, deeply addicted to gaming, was in the zone when he suddenly felt something was off. The voice behind him sounded so familiar.

He abruptly turned around, his heart leaping into his throat. "Te-Teacher Zhang!"

Zhang Wanbang was a math teacher at Nangang Second High School and the homeroom teacher for Class 2 of the second year. Shen Qi was a student in his class.

"Students aren't allowed to bring phones into school, Shen Qi. You know this school rule, right?" Teacher Zhang asked.

"I know." Shen Qi hastily quit the game, bracing himself for the storm.

Teacher Zhang continued, "I happened to be passing by and saw you playing. If I hadn't called out to you, you would have finished this game before going to class, wouldn't you?"

"Uh..." Shen Qi thought to himself, Yeah, that's right.

"Give it to me." Teacher Zhang held out his palm.

Shen Qi obediently handed over his phone. Caught red-handed, resistance was futile.

"Let's go, back to the classroom with me." Teacher Zhang put the phone away and walked towards the teaching building.

With heavy steps, Shen Qi followed behind Teacher Zhang. Mustering his courage, he asked, "Teacher Zhang, why aren't you scolding me this time?"

"Despair is greater than death. What good would scolding do?" Teacher Zhang shook his head, seemingly angry with himself. "Of course, if I haven't taught you well, the responsibility falls heaviest on me as your homeroom teacher."

At that moment, Shen Qi's heart trembled. He felt a very unpleasant sensation. For some reason, he felt that being severely scolded by Teacher Zhang would have been better than this indescribable feeling.

Because of his addiction to games, Shen Qi's academic performance was very poor, and he was always at the bottom of the rankings in exams.

It was normal for a failing student to be scolded by a teacher for breaking school rules. If the teacher stopped scolding him, Shen Qi felt something was wrong.

They walked back to the teaching building in silence.

Teacher Zhang began the math class.

"f(x) = -1? Li Bo, are you intellectually challenged? I'm asking you, how can f(x) possibly equal -1?"

"Such a simple geometry problem, and you calculated the length of line AD as 25? Chen Xiaoting, I think you should add a zero, make it 250!"

Teacher Zhang roared and berated. A female student was brought to tears in class just for getting a geometry problem wrong.

In class, Teacher Zhang was like a different person, easily provoked into yelling, with a short temper.

Piu~

The blackboard eraser flew off the podium like a cannonball, heading straight for a desk.

Bang!

The blackboard eraser hit its target precisely, knocking over a pile of books half a meter high on the desk.

The owner of the desk, a male student, woke up from his sleep, looking bewildered.

"Xu Rui, you've never passed a math exam, and you dare to sleep in my class? Get out, go wash your face, wake yourself up, and then write a profound self-criticism!" Teacher Zhang slammed the podium, raging like a beast.

Xu Rui scrambled out of the classroom in a panic.

The entire class was silent, not daring to breathe.

Actually, Shen Qi felt this was Teacher Zhang's true nature. From the first year to the second year, he had been scolded by Teacher Zhang countless times.

Playing mobile games at school was a more serious offense than sleeping in class. Teacher Zhang had only confiscated Shen Qi's phone, not made him write a self-criticism, and hadn't even scolded him.

"So Teacher Zhang has completely given up on me." Shen Qi felt a pang of sadness. In Teacher Zhang's eyes, he was probably an irredeemable failure.

"It's all this game's fault. I will rise up, quit games, study hard, and become a scholar! After all, there's still over a year until the college entrance examination. I have time to start over!" With a spirit of breaking down the old to establish the new, Shen Qi felt an unprecedented wave of ambition surge within him.

"Everyone remember this: the coordinates of the sum of two vectors are equal to the sum of the coordinates of these two vectors. The coordinates of the difference between two vectors can be derived similarly. This is a mandatory topic for the college entrance examination. If you want to get into university, pay attention! If you want to go work as a bricklayer after graduating high school, that's up to you!" Teacher Zhang explained the math concepts, not forgetting to add some encouragement.

Shen Qi resolved to start anew, study diligently, and catch up. He opened his notebook and listened attentively.

However, Shen Qi's passion for learning was quickly doused with cold water.

"Damn it, I don't understand!" The ice was not formed in a single day. Shen Qi had fallen too far behind in the past year or two; one math class wouldn't be enough to fix it immediately.

Ding-a-ling.

The bell rang for the end of class. Teacher Zhang left the classroom expressionlessly, carrying his lesson plans.

Shen Qi looked up at the ceiling. I don't understand, I don't understand at all. What can I do? I'm desperate too!

Just then, a line of text suddenly flashed before Shen Qi's eyes: "Listened attentively to one math class, Scholar Points +1."

"What the heck?" Shen Qi rubbed his eyes. Was he hallucinating?

The strange text appeared again: "Repeating: Host listened attentively to one math class, Scholar Points +1. Remaining Scholar Points: 1."

"This is... is this the legendary system possession?" Shen Qi was ecstatic. Could it be that his desperate thirst for knowledge had moved the heavens?

"Hey, System, come out! What should I call you? And what are Scholar Points?" Shen Qi shouted in his mind, eager for deeper communication with the system.

But the system didn't reply.

The second class of the morning was Chemistry. Shen Qi listened attentively, though he didn't really understand the use of sp hybridization orbitals. He still forced himself to finish the chemistry class.

Text appeared before his eyes again: "Host listened attentively in one Chemistry class, Scholar Points +1. Remaining Scholar Points: 2."

So, as long as he listened attentively, he could gain scholar points, even if Shen Qi didn't understand much.

As for what scholar points were used for, the system would reveal the answer sooner or later.

After the next two classes, Chinese and Biology, Shen Qi gained another 2 scholar points.

All four classes in the morning were over, and Shen Qi had accumulated a total of 4 scholar points.

It was March, the second semester of the second year of high school. The schedule for the second-year students was four classes in the morning and three in the afternoon. They also had classes on Saturdays and rested on Sundays, with holidays on national festivals depending on the situation.

The three classes in the afternoon were slightly easier: Physics, English, and History.

The reason they were easier was that the last class was History. Students in the science stream, like Shen Qi, didn't have to take History for the college entrance examination.

In addition to Chinese, Math, English, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, which were all mandatory subjects for the college entrance examination, the second-year science classes also offered History, Geography, Politics, and Physical Education.

By the first semester of the third year of high school, History, Geography, and Politics would be removed from the science curriculum. In the second semester of the third year, Physical Education would also be gone, leaving only the six core subjects: Chinese, Math, English, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.

"Host listened attentively in one Physics class, Scholar Points +1. Remaining Scholar Points: 5."

"Host listened attentively in one English class, Scholar Points +1. Remaining Scholar Points: 6."

"Host listened attentively in one History class, Scholar Points +1. Remaining Scholar Points: 7."

After the seven classes of the day ended, Shen Qi had gained a total of 7 scholar points. "System, hurry up and tell me, what are scholar points for? Waiting online, very urgent!"

The system displayed text: "Query mode enabled. Host can perform self-queries. The host can operate this system via brainwaves."

An interface resembling a holographic image appeared before Shen Qi's eyes. Only he could see it; the other students in the classroom were unaffected.

The system interface displayed:

Host: Shen Qi Age: 17 Chinese Level 0 (0/100) Math Level 0 (0/100) English Level 0 (0/100) Physics Level 0 (0/100) Chemistry Level 0 (0/100) Biology Level 0 (0/100) History Level 0 (0/100) Remaining Scholar Points: 7

Scholar points can be used to upgrade any subject through attribute allocation. As the subject level increases, the host's practical ability in that subject will also increase.

The subject levels are set as follows:

Level 0: Trash Level 1: Beginner Levels 2-4: Intermediate Levels 5-7: Professional Levels 8-10: Elite Levels 11-13: Master Level 14: Almost invincible Level 15: Invincible, I am so lonely Above Level 15: Invincible in non-human realms as well (theoretically unreachable by humans)

To help the host understand the system's settings, here are some reference templates from the real world, using Mathematics as an example:

Level 0 (Trash Level): A math failure, the host's current state. Level 1 (Beginner Level): Average high school math level. Level 5 (Professional Level): Can make a living through mathematics. Reference template: The host's homeroom teacher, Zhang Wanbang. Level 8 (Elite Level): A more advanced mathematics professional, such as a mathematics professor or a dedicated mathematics researcher. Level 11 (Master Level): A rare mathematics master, a top-tier authority scholar. Level 14 (Almost Invincible): Reference template: Fields Medalist Tao Zhe Xuan. Level 15 (Invincible, I am so lonely): There are no mathematicians at Level 15 in the current era. Historical reference template: Gauss. Above Level 15: No reference templates in human history yet.