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[Blue Star Calendar, September 6, 2010]
[Gregorian Calendar, Monday]
[Lunar Calendar, Gengyin Year, Seventh Month, Twenty-Eighth Day. Good for building embankments, meeting friends and relatives, breaking ground. Bad for blessing ceremonies.]
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In the morning, Qin Siyang was woken up by knocking on the door.
He jolted upright, "Don't tell me I overslept and the room cleaners came?"
The first class of the semester was at eight Monday morning, Zhang Kuang's required freshman course, Introduction to the Apocalypse.
Qin Siyang's understanding of the apocalypse wasn't that deep. He didn't want to miss Director Zhang's lecture.
"Damn it! Why didn't my alarm go off?"
As he spoke, he lowered his head and glanced at his phone.
"It's only seven-thirty. No wonder the alarm didn't ring. Who's looking for me?"
"Mr. Qin, this is breakfast ordered for you by Ms. Wen."
"Hm?"
Qin Siyang's small eyes were full of huge curiosity.
'What is going on?'
'Could it be that last night's talk actually worked?'
"Wait a moment, I'm coming!"
Qin Siyang quickly got dressed, opened the door, and accepted the soy milk, fried dough sticks, and tea eggs Wen Shu had ordered for him.
Originally, he had set his alarm for seven-fifty and planned to wash up within ten minutes before heading to the teaching building.
Now, after comfortably finishing breakfast, it was already seven-fifty-five and he still hadn't washed up.
Being late on the first day of Zhang Kuang's class would be bad.
He could only activate [Origin Violence] and speed through washing up.
To avoid people saying he used sequence abilities inside the safe zone and violated regulations, he controlled himself and ran toward the teaching building at a speed ordinary people could barely understand.
This required course could only be taught by Zhang Kuang, so all two to three thousand students of the grade attended together. The class location was the lecture hall on the first floor of the teaching building.
Finally, with less than a minute before class started, he reached the back door of the classroom.
Since he was already close to being late, Qin Siyang didn't want to attract too much attention, so he planned to find a seat in the back rows.
But the moment he entered, people warmly greeted him.
"Brother Qin! Come sit in the first row!"
"Boss Qin! We already saved you a seat, come to the first row!"
"Brother Qin! Over here!"
The loud shouts echoing through the classroom made Qin Siyang's body tremble twice involuntarily as he looked forward.
Right in the center of the first row, Hu Chan, Zhao Sifang, and Fu Wanli were enthusiastically waving at him.
Gu Yunpeng and Chu Baxing were also sitting with them.
The eyes of all the students in the classroom gathered on Qin Siyang's glowing blue point badge.
"His point badge has been glowing the whole time... He should be Qin Siyang, right?"
"I think he looks pretty ordinary. Doesn't seem especially amazing."
"He came this late. Could it be he got up early and trained hard again this morning? I have to learn from him."
Qin Siyang licked his lips, glanced at Zhang Kuang silently holding a glass cup and drinking tea on stage, then helplessly walked to the first row.
"Brother Qin, sit!"
Qin Siyang put down his backpack and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "You guys... came pretty early."
"It's the first day of school, and it's Professor Zhang Kuang's class. Of course we came early. When I got here at seven, the classroom was already almost full."
"Then how did you guys get the first row?"
"All thanks to Little Fu," Zhao Sifang laughed and pointed at Fu Wanli, "Little Fu came at five-thirty to save seats for us."
Hearing Zhao Sifang's praise, Fu Wanli became so happy that his facial features scrunched together again, "Hehe! Saving seats for the five big brothers is my duty. The six of us brothers will stay in the first row from now on."
Qin Siyang didn't understand why these people all liked sitting in the first row.
He had always wanted to sit in the back. If he wanted to listen, he would listen. If not, he could leave by himself without disturbing anyone.
So he said, "Fu Wanli, if I come late and you still save a seat for me, other classmates will distance themselves from me in their hearts."
"Impossible!", Fu Wanli firmly waved his hand, "First of all, we have the highest points. According to South Glory University's rules, we can sit wherever we want, and other students have to give way. If they're unhappy, then compete with points."
"Second, I came earlier than anyone in the whole grade! High points and early arrival. Picking seats we and the big brothers like, who can say I'm wrong?"
"That's not what I meant..."
"Brother Qin, don't worry! Second Brother Chu, Third Brother Hu, Fourth Brother Gu, and Fifth Brother Zhao all agreed to this! The six of us brothers together!"
"I...", Qin Siyang forced out a smile, "Then... thank you very much."
Ring! Ring! Ring!
The class bell rang.
Zhang Kuang put down his cup.
"Alright, class starts now."
Qin Siyang raised his head and looked at Zhang Kuang.
Today, Zhang Kuang was wearing a suit. It was obvious he took teaching seriously.
His hair was still messy, but it was tied into a braid, making him look slightly tidier.
But his eyes were still lifeless. Qin Siyang remembered Li Tianming telling him this appearance was caused by Zhang Kuang's sequence.
"This class is everyone's first class after entering South Glory University. First, welcome everyone to the top university inside the safe zone."
"Next, I'll explain the requirements for this course. This course has no textbook and no lecture slides. From beginning to end, everything is spoken by me. During my lectures, I'll give you reference books. You'll need to read them in your spare time, otherwise you won't understand the later lessons."
"You are all outstanding sequence ability users. Basically, you can remember books after reading them once, so there's no need to worry about not being able to remember the reading list."
Hearing this, Qin Siyang sighed.
Zhang Kuang was giving everyone a warning in advance, telling the students this course had an extremely heavy reading requirement.
"Also, there will be no attendance checks normally, but everyone must attend the final exam. Otherwise, no credits."
Qin Siyang looked at Zhang Kuang and happened to meet his eyes.
"That probably doesn't include me, right?"
"You also have to take it."
"No, Director Zhang... Teacher Zhang, I have privileges..."
"South Glory University's privileges have nothing to do with me, Zhang Kuang."
"This..."
Qin Siyang looked at Zhang Kuang, speechless.
He hadn't expected the usually easygoing Zhang Kuang to seem like a completely different person once class started.
'His moral standards are obviously much higher now.'
'Is this the legendary teacher's ethics?'
Qin Siyang helplessly sighed, suffering bitterly inside.
"Enough nonsense. Next, we begin Introduction to the Apocalypse."
"As everyone knows, before the 21st century, the entire Blue Star operated under normal order. There were no gods and no sequences."
"But on January 1st of the millennium, a giant bird swallowed the sun, Blue Star entered eternal night, the apocalypse descended, and gods appeared."
"On that same day, unnamed heroes established the United Government and built several safe zones. Many people fled to the safe zones for refuge."
Hearing this, Qin Siyang immediately focused and prepared to listen to what came next.
"Then humanity lived inside the safe zones and began a new era."
'Huh?'
'Did I hear that right?'
'And just like that, it was a new era?'
Qin Siyang was a little dumbfounded.
He looked around at the other students and found that everyone looked normal, with no issues at all.
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