Who Really Got the Better Deal?
After successfully finding a new way to learn, Xuan Mo naturally got sidetracked in the days that followed and became hooked on watching movies. At first, they were all domestic productions. Since Wang Yue only watched domestic movies and TV dramas, that was what he downloaded for her when she asked him to get some.
Then one day, Xuan Mo happened to watch a foreign sci-fi movie, and she became fascinated by the genre. She wasn't interested in the plots; those movies rarely had anything worth pondering. She just kept pointing out things in their fictional worlds that were scientifically impossible in principle, though she couldn't rule out the possibility that some unfamiliar technology made them work. Her rigorous approach made it seem as if she were watching a documentary.
At first, Wang Yue eagerly watched movies with Xuan Mo, or went back and watched the ones she'd seen, hoping to hear her insights about the technology in them.
But eventually, Wang Yue discovered a disturbing fact: some technologies in science fiction weren't achievable by just anyone. At the very least, the Scorpio Galaxy didn't seem able to explain how a human could perfectly merge with spider genes.
Little by little, Wang Yue lost interest in the movies. Since this world had aliens, he figured he might as well use the time to summon his little friends for help. So he got to work writing artificial intelligence.
Time flew by, and another round of exams soon arrived. Before the tests, Xuan Mo had been full of confidence, thinking she might surpass Wang Yue. But this alien didn't really understand Earth's exams. She'd memorized the material by rote, but as soon as a question was phrased differently, she was stumped. Even so, Xuan Mo came