Study Monster Cultivation System-Chapter 313 - 312 I dump!

Temporary separation...

Causes great plans to go amiss.

Maybe it was because the recent schedule had been too tight, or maybe it was because the crew-cut glasses man had filled it too full during training.

When Li Zheng finally sneaked into the classroom and caught sight of Lin Yujing, he felt a strange impulse surge within him as he saw her mischievous smile.

He didn’t know that Lin Yujing’s presence was just a materialization of territorial awareness.

Just like how felines rub their scent on humans to declare ownership, others better think twice before approaching since cats can be super fierce.

Lin Yujing fiercely dug out a lunch box from her bag and shook it, "Hey, come and eat."

Li Zheng’s eyes widened, and a verse he had memorized instantly sprung to mind, "I only refuse the food that comes unbidden!"

"Who wants to recite text with you?" Lin Yujing scoffed, put down the lunch box, and then took out a rocket-shaped lunch box, sitting down with her cutlery ready to eat.

"Ah," Li Zheng exclaimed, "You made lunch for me?"

"Made it for myself, just made too much," Lin Yujing said, tilting her head as she pushed the lunch box toward Li Zheng, "Hey."

"Eat, eat, eat," Li Zheng eagerly moved closer, sitting down and lifting the lid of the lunch box with great anticipation.

!

Burnt fish fillet.

Then looking at Lin Yujing’s rocket lunch box.

Inside was a less burnt fish fillet.

Li Zheng sniffed, and it smelled like charcoal.

He chose to slowly close the lunch box.

The feeling was as if a feline animal had brought a dead mouse to share.

The intention was good, but better not.

"I’ve already eaten," Li Zheng swallowed and said, "This delicacy, I will keep it in the fridge and savor it thoroughly tonight."

"Hmm..." Lin Yujing took a bite herself, only to spit it out again, "I... I tried..."

"How about we go to the cafeteria?" Li Zheng suggested, "I have a huge face there, no need to swipe the card."

"Forget it, forget it," Lin Yujing wiped her mouth, "Already lost my appetite because of my own cooking."

"No worries... really no need to force yourself."

"You don’t understand anything," Lin Yujing said through gritted teeth as she packed up her lunch box.

Many things, actually, are more symbolic than practical, these two lumps of fish fillet rice had already completed their mission and could rest in peace now.

Packing up the lunch box, Lin Yujing reinvigorated herself, making a bold gesture with her fingers, and got serious.

"Bringing food was just convenient, I’m actually here to deliver a secret order."

"The Group to catch up with progress, plans to launch Saturn V to replace Yellow 2 for future missions, minimum one year, up to five years."

"Starting with my mother, personnel are all moving that way, Director Chen and Secretary Zhao are powerless to reverse it."

"So, before Saturn V comes to draft people, The First Institute has decided to send us out in advance to preserve the fire seed."

"Hmm!" Lin Yujing gestured dramatically, "The Wandering Intern Plan!"

Li Zheng, however, was not swayed by her, muttering to himself, "Isn’t it just going to The Sixth Institute? Director Chen agreed with me yesterday night."

"???" Lin Yujing paused, "No, he just talked to me about this this morning."

"Maybe it’s a buy-one-get-one kind of deal," Li Zheng nodded, "Since I’m going anyway, might as well shove you in too, no use keeping you here anyway."

"!!!" Lin Yujing despairingly covered her face, "But Chen Dada told me this morning that I am the fire seed, I am the hope... asking me to seriously help at The Sixth Institute... not to let the organization down..."

"Maybe he’s worried I won’t adapt on my own, so he’s sending you along," Li Zheng laughed, comforting her, "I really don’t mind, with or without you it’s all the same. Director Chen is really too considerate, I’m not a study-abroad student, what’s all this about supervision? It’s quite embarrassing."

"But..." Lin Yujing slumped onto the chair, more despondent, "Mom also encouraged me to go to The Sixth Institute to study last night..."

"Ah, Aunt Shen is involved in the arrangement too," Li Zheng inevitably felt a bit sympathetic, "Don’t be sad, Mom is doing it for your own good."

"You can’t call her Mom, she’s my mom."

"Hey, don’t be so formal, Aunt Shen is our common Mom in aerospace."

"Ptui, ptui, ptui!" Lin Yujing snatched the lunch box in front of Li Zheng back into her bag, "Not giving you any."

Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, having narrowly escaped disaster.

After that, Lin Yujing entered a phase of sulking and nibbling on her fingernails alone.

Li Zheng quietly sat beside her, although he really wanted to see the rare puffing up in anger, he ultimately didn’t dare to provoke her any further.

After brooding (and being angry) long enough, Lin Yujing suddenly turned her head.

"Do you still have those columns of textbooks on mechanics and power that you were looking at before?"

Regarding the units of books Li Zheng read, they had already agreed to measure them in "columns."

According to Li Zheng’s habit, he would stack books of the same specific field together, forming a pillar, which typically contained between 5 and 50 books depending on the depth of the field.

And these pillars were categorized as new or old ones.

For example, books on chemistry were all part of an old pillar, bundled and sealed after the Chem Competitions, ready to be given away or sold anytime.

On the other hand, the pillars on mechanical dynamics were undoubtedly new, as he would still occasionally flip through them even when encountering problems.

However, for Lin Yujing, discussing books in terms of pillars was hardly realistic.

After all, it only took Li Zheng a day or two to finish one pillar.

In a broader view, if a normal person studied for eight hours a day, Li Zheng’s study time had already exceeded a normal person’s by ten times over the past year.

Plus some peculiar skills and his talent in the mathematical field.

At the very least, he had exerted the effort equivalent to completing a PhD.

And his learning advantage did not stop there; when he concentrated on a specific field, he unquestionably generated an overwhelming advantage.

For instance, in the past two months, he had dedicated all his study resources to aerospace engineering, building on his previous foundation, his actual progress equated to that of someone with years of experience.

It was precisely because of such overwhelming pace, one pillar a day, that Lin Yujing instinctively chose to diversify her learning from Li Zheng.

After all, overlapping study topics with Li Zheng was like racing against a rocket.

Torturous, humiliating, and hopeless.

And it would only increase the number of defeats.

But today, Lin Yujing actually took the initiative to ask about the "pillar" issue.

"Are you sure?" Li Zheng asked tentatively, "Maybe you should count by ’books,’ not pillars."

"I don’t want to either…" Lin Yujing grimaced, "The work at The Sixth Institute of Dynamics is too specialized… I can’t differentiate from you anymore…"

"You could start like a real intern, beginning with serving tea and water," Li Zheng said with a grin, "Prepare some cushions, tents, and such for me. I saw an employee voluntarily set up a tent at their workstation before; that was so inspiring."

"Should I also prepare some melons for you to munch on?" Lin Yujing taunted, arms crossed, "Will you take them or not?"

"Hmm… then I’ll give you the three foundational pillars first, and you can go to my house and fetch them later," Li Zheng patted Lin Yujing, "Finishing them in a month means you win."

"Um…" Lin Yujing scratched her head, "Even if I really finish them in a month… it’ll still be too late… an engine isn’t something software-related, from the beginning of learning to solving problems… it will take years…"

"Hey, worst come to worst, just leave after a year."

"What about you?"

"If I truly can’t solve it in a year, I might take another part-time job, the credits are quite easy to get anyway," Li Zheng stretched lazily, "Although the current Yellow 2 is fraught with difficulties, I believe the principles aren’t as complicated as imagined. After all, a few countries have already succeeded, and there are experiences to refer to. Future scientific research would only be more challenging, and solving the current engineering issues would give me the confidence to continue."

Though Li Zheng spoke beautifully, beyond the sentiments, he was also determined to obtain the rewards.

[Practitioner: Convert acquired knowledge into practical applications, participate in, and complete an experiment or engineering project costing over a million (excluding residential and commercial construction projects)]

[Reward: Senior Engineer—able to simulate complex experiments and engineering designs in the mind, more keenly identifying weak spots and optimizing ideas.]

Instead of searching for new projects and starting from scratch, it would be better to delve deeper into this favored domain.

By the way, by the time the flowers bloom...

The prestige of Ting Lan would probably also be maxed out.

By then, your Mother Shen, your Chen Dada, and the rest would be mine, how could you, Little Jingjing, dare to bicker?

In the classroom, however, Lin Yujing was far less decisive than Li Zheng.

"But maybe…" Lin Yujing struggled to squeeze the words out between clenched teeth, "maybe at this technical stage of chemical propulsion, it really might be worth investing in other options… Maybe the large-scale hydrogen and oxygen engines’ path… is indeed a mistake…"

"Then prove it’s wrong."

Li Zheng said this potential reality with eerie calmness.

Lin Yujing’s thoughts, however, were engulfed in turmoil.

Just as she understood Li Zheng, he understood her just as well.

Li Zheng was very aware that she was caught in self-doubt.

And the fear of a complete failure of the hydrogen and oxygen engine technology path.

In the past, she had always managed to choose the shortest, simplest path, dodging all difficulties and obstacles, claiming the rewards that belonged to her.

But such easy progress always met its limits one day.

There was initially no path in the world, but when many tread on it, it became one.

However, no matter which direction one takes, as long as it’s far enough, they would eventually reach a place with no people around.

There, there would be no ready-made paths to choose from, only the need to forge one’s own.

Further out, there was the wall Professor Yang Zhenhua had spoken of.

"If you’re always right, it only means you haven’t gone far enough."

Li Zheng’s hand gently rested on Lin Yujing’s shoulder.

"We are fortunate now to have reached a frontier; there’s no road ahead of us, it would be good if our choice is right, but even if we crash into the southern wall, the event itself still holds its value."

"In conversation with the professor, even though he explicitly opposed the construction of a large collider at this stage, he also affirmed the collider’s value."

"Even if it utterly fails, a collider still has inherent value."

"At least it tells future generations, ’Don’t go this way.’"

"It’s nothing." Li Zheng lightly rubbed Lin Yujing’s shoulder and smiled, "If we can’t succeed, let’s have a spectacular, bone-shattering failure then."

Lin Yujing’s face stiffened, then flushed. It took her a long time to turn her face slightly and squeeze out a word.

"Hand..."

"Ah." Li Zheng quickly withdrew his hand, "I reached out involuntarily..."

"We had agreed beforehand..." Lin Yujing didn’t mind but said with a lowered head and clenched teeth, "I can only stay here until the launch of 927. If we still can’t see the future by then... I might not be able to hold on..."

"You’re thinking too much, you’re just here to keep me company academically..."

"Hmm..." Lin Yujing turned her head and squinted, "You’ve been letting me win recently, and now you’re getting confident! It’s just three books, right? If you can learn them, why can’t I?"

"~~~~~"

"Don’t mimic my expression!" Lin Yujing got up with her bag and glared, "Come on, let’s go to the cafeteria."

"Ah." Li Zheng stood up too and said, "There are many people now; let’s go when it’s less crowded."

"I want it when there are many people!"

Lin Yujing started yelling again.

...

In the cafeteria, many people felt that today’s lunch...

wasn’t appetizing.

The rumored breakup did not exist.

On the contrary, she was there aggressively marking her territory.

Some meals might smell good but had already gone sour.

One person was sour but continued to proclaim it was delicious.

That person was Du Songtao.

In the past, Du Songtao would avoid Li Zheng as much as possible when he saw him in the cafeteria.

But this time.

"Really delicious." Du Songtao said, sitting next to Li Zheng with his plate, uninvited, and smirked, "Everyone said you were heartbroken, that was a quick reversal."

"Still pretending!" Li Zheng cursed, "Wasn’t it you who said that?"

"It wasn’t me, I didn’t." Du Songtao waved his hands repeatedly, "It’s probably Yin Hang guessing wildly because he saw you down last night."

"He already confessed."

"You believe him?" Du Songtao thumped his chest and said, "Isn’t it too familiar to forget that I’m on the same level as Shen Tinglan, I’m a leader, you should be calling me Director Du, am I someone who would casually spread rumors?"

"..."

As Du Songtao spoke, he extended his right hand towards Lin Yujing, winking and smiling, "4th Institute, Du Songtao. Don’t worry; I’ve been looking after Li Zheng these days, watching him closely for you."

"Hmm..." Lin Yujing reluctantly shook his hand, looking skeptically at Li Zheng, "?"

"Remember to wash your hands." Li Zheng shook his head, "Be careful not to get infected by Candida."

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"Hmm!" Lin Yujing was so frightened that she immediately withdrew her hand and started wiping with a tissue.

"Is this the attitude interns from the 1st Institute have towards a leader?" Du Songtao cursed, laughing.

"Sorry, it’s the 6th Institute now." Li Zheng started eating silently.

"That fast?" Du Songtao exclaimed, "That’s really a scorched earth strategy."

"Scorched earth?" Lin Yujing asked, wiping her hands.

"It’s like knowing that the project team of Yellow 2 is getting pulled, they dispatched everyone in advance, pretty much like an army burning the place when they can’t win a war and have to flee." Du Songtao explained, cracking open his chopsticks with a smile.

"Not at all." Lin Yujing shook her head, "It’s just the two of us who left."

"Oh?" Du Songtao pursed his lips, "Really counting on you two as the fire starters..."

"Hmm!" Li Zheng copied Lin Yujing’s gesture and said, "It’s the wandering intern plan."

"Hahaha." Du Songtao laughed loudly, "You two are really amusing like this... But don’t think too much; it’s far too challenging. Engines aren’t something you can understand just by picking it up for a couple of months; when our school cooperated with NASA back in the day, it took me three months to barely understand it."

"NASA?" Lin Yujing’s eyes brightened.

"Yep, there’s quite a lot of cooperation with them at Stanford, that time it was..."

Li Zheng glared suddenly, interrupting, "Be careful, he might spray Candida when he talks."

"Hmm..." Lin Yujing quickly drew back again.

"Ah, how did I become a snake?" Du Songtao shook his head and smiled, then asked, "Is there any internally published data on the system tests?"

Lin Yujing kept her mouth shut and shook her head.

"What a hassle." Du Songtao sighed, "Then send me a copy when you pass over; I want to see how troubling it is, making you all have to double back on the path."

Li Zheng chewed his food and replied, "You should apply for it yourself; it can’t be issued randomly."

"Hey, it’s fine within the system, I’m a notable person too."

Lin Yujing, observing Du Songtao’s playful and smiling face, leaned towards Li Zheng and whispered with her hand covering her mouth, "He seems like a spy... "

"Agreed," Li Zheng nodded.

"Hmm... be careful with this person."

"Got it."

Perhaps wary of Candida, Lin Yujing barely ate before she started to clean up and get up.

"I’ll be going then," Lin Yujing picked up her tray and asked, "Where are those pillars? I’ll get them myself and feed the cat on the way."

"They’re on the table, to your right," Li Zheng nodded. "See you at The Sixth Institute."

"Okay." Lin Yujing then pursed her lips, gave Du Songtao a goodbye nod, and quickly slipped away.

Du Songtao felt something was off, and took out his phone to check.

"Turns out Candida is this thing." Du Songtao suddenly lost his temper, grabbing Li Zheng and scolding him, "I don’t have Candida."

"And I’m not heartbroken."

"No, the severity is completely different. You’re using Candida to mess with me; how am I supposed to get around after having been through the garden of many flowers?"

"... right, that was indeed too much," Li Zheng muttered, "then I won’t tell others you have Candida anymore."

Clatter.

The sound of a tray hitting the floor came from nearby.

Turning their heads, they saw the administrative teacher quickly picking up the tray and running away with their hand over their mouth.

"Damn..." Du Songtao was in despair.

...

At eight in the evening, Li Zheng entered the classroom as usual to conduct simulation training with the rocket study team.

But this time, he blinked his eyes, feeling that something was off.

[☬Demon Monarch Challenge☬]

[Study team assembled.]

[Basic Academic Power Value: 3465]

[Current Academic Power Value: 3742 (7%↑)]

That’s not right; it was less than 3% when class started yesterday. Did they improve by 4% in their dreams?

Li Zheng looked around the room and blinked several times continuously.

Yin Hang asked, "What’s wrong... Is Teacher Li also not feeling well today?"

Big Beard started to smirk along, "Is it... because you expended too much energy during the day?"

"How about we let Chief Engineer Du take over a lesson again?"

"Chief Engineer Du is really capable; he talked about Saturn V for a long time."

"Right, we are currently heading in the direction of Saturn V."

Only then did Li Zheng react.

This substitute was more impressive than himself.

Soon, he found Du Songtao changing clothes in the gym.

"Chief Engineer Du!" Li Zheng rushed over to start dressing Du Songtao, "I’m not in good shape, I’ve had a breakup."

"???"

"Come, teach a class with me, I’ll be your assistant."

"Get out of here!" Du Songtao, infuriated, began to flail his lower half, "Come on, come on, I’ll whip you with my Candida."

"Don’t be like that, Teacher Du... You’re a respected engineer... The students all really like your classes."

"Now you realize I’m a respected engineer?"

"Just cover one more class, just one..."

"You’re so annoying..." Du Songtao chuckled, "Test data?"

"I’ll run the process, consult with the leadership, and send it to you right away."

"Sigh..." Du Songtao then put on his briefs, "That’s still not enough, go out later and buy two dozen beers, white beer, more than 15 yuan a bottle."

"We haven’t even finished yesterday’s yet..."

"Still talking? Candida, I whip!"

"Ah, too powerful, I’m scared now, I’ll buy."