Mu Jianling said, "You lack sharpness, momentum, as well as the resolve to win and the means to protect yourself. Every battle you enter with a hope for luck. If that’s the case, you might as well not participate. Pack up and head back to sleep while you still can."
Listening, Ji You’s complexion turned from black to white, and then from white to red... After a while, she loudly said, "Teacher! I disagree with what you said! I am not someone who lacks sharpness! I just choose to show my sharpness selectively."
In her eyes, personal insults, outrageous offenses, patricide, the theft of one’s wife, matters of life and death... all were trivialities, so she didn’t want to quibble over such trivial things.
You can’t lose your sharpness.
She would only show her sharpness to the enemies who truly posed a threat to her.
A glint flashed in Mu Jianling’s eyes as she indifferently said, "Oh..."
Ji You continued, "Teacher, I apologize but I cannot accept what you said about me lacking sharpness, momentum, and edges. However,— I fully accept your advice. I do think you’ve made one correct point: whenever there’s a fight, I should engage with the resolve of facing death, giving my all!"
Hearing the applause, Ji You turned towards Mu Jianling a bit surprised—
Mu Jianling had a smile on her lips.
This child, criticized for lacking sharpness, instantly reveals her sharpness. She doesn’t just blindly accept the teacher’s words; instead, she retains her own thoughts and understanding, knowing to stand her ground...
Truly, Mu Jianling was happier to see Ji You refute her in person, rather than just agreeing with her.
She liked students who were smart, sensible, and had their own principles.
Mu Jianling smiled, gently lowered her clapping hands, and said, "Student Ji You, number 4444, I hope you don’t take my earlier words as criticism. In fact, it’s my recognition of you."
Ji You’s mouth twitched: "...Teacher Mu, your recognition is truly one of a kind, unmatched by any other."
Mu Jianling raised her hand, knocked her on the head, and scolded, "You’d be an even more likable child if you talked less."
Ji You: "...If you gave me a Candy Bean, I’d be even more likable."
Mu Jianling’s face darkened as she scolded, "You’ve only increased your spiritual power threshold by one level after eating so many Candy Beans; do you still have the face to ask for more? Anyone with shame would have died of embarrassment by now."
At the same time, she weakly thought to herself: With Candy Beans, I can afford to be shameless.
Putting aside the teasing, Mu Jianling seriously said, "None of your classmates currently have any experience with Mecha Battles, which is why you can drive a simplified version of a Mecha and easily fool them around. If they grasped just a bit of piloting skill, it would be impossible for you to fool them as easily as you do now. Do you know why? It still comes down to the quantity of Spiritual Silk. You have too little Spiritual Silk, and the techniques at your disposal are also limited. Let me give you an example, take Shen Changqing. His Spiritual Silk Cleaning Rate is the best among all the first-year students, already at 15%, meaning he has tens of millions of strands to use..."
"This also means, he can pilot the Mecha at high speeds while firing various ordnances, using different weapons, and at the same time, he can set traps for his opponents, deploy jamming devices... Faced with such an enemy, what will you do? You’ll be overwhelmed just dealing with one or two of his tactics..."
"That’s why I say, you need to treat every battle as a life-or-death fight with no turning back. Tell yourself to go all out! Only by doing so, will you really think hard about how to break through, how to ensure your own survival..."
"It’s easy to die, but too difficult to live."
"But— as long as we don’t want to die, we must face and actively overcome any life-or-death situation we encounter."
"This kind of training is not just meant for you. The teacher believes that all students should undergo this kind of training and foster such determination."
As she spoke, Mu Jianling raised her hand, gently patted the head of Ji You, who was listening intently, her voice unusually soft. "Keep it up—Ji You, the teacher believes you can live a few more years."
Ji You was listening earnestly, but almost choked to death at those words.
Ji You looked up, gazing at Mu Jianling with a resentful expression. "Teacher... I think you’re quite a good person, except you have a terrible mouth."
Surprisingly, Mu Jianling did not get angry but chuckled, pointing towards the door, "Okay, get out, and remember to participate in more competitions. Keep going until you lose your eligibility. The competitions among students are just like child’s play, but what else can you chicks do? We can’t just throw you into a battlefield to die, so it’s more appropriate for you chicks to peck at each other."
After listening to Teacher Mu’s words today, and gaining a few points with some lucky wins in 2 matches on the Alliance University Intranet, Ji You, who was feeling somewhat elated, suddenly lost all her self-conceited thoughts.
In the eyes of a true expert, she is just a chick.
And so are all her opponents.
What does it really mean to win a play fight among chicks?
Ji You furrowed her brow, speaking earnestly, "Teacher Mu, I’ve taken every word you said today to heart; I’ll remember them. I won’t claim to do this or that in the future, but every step I take now will be with real effort."
"Teacher Mu, thank you."
"You are a truly good teacher," Ji You said with a sincere face.
Mu Jianling couldn’t stand this sort of obsequiousness and waved her away, "Class is over, scram."
Ji You promptly ran out the door.
As soon as Ji You left, Mu Jianling immediately dialed Principal Hong’s contact number.
The call was quickly connected, and Mu Jianling said, "Old Hong, this child’s spiritual power isn’t as simple as it seems on the surface." Without revealing the specifics, Mu Jianling believed Hong Jiang would understand her meaning. After thinking it over, Mu Jianling asked, "The device you used to examine her last time, have the data been erased?"
Principal Hong, upon hearing this, also became very solemn, "Last time, Luo Wei and I did the check together, and we deleted the data immediately afterward."
"That detection device of yours was obtained from the highest research institute, and my fear is that the institute might have kept a backup..." Mu Jianling continued, "Just to be safe, have Luo Wei conduct another test for her. Make sure it is foolproof, and let the upper echelons regard her simply as a poor, deformed child with a spiritual power mutation."
Even a sly old fox can be careless at times.
Mainly because, at that time, even Principal Hong didn’t know that Ji You’s situation would be so special.
Principal Hong’s expression turned even more solemn, and a fierce coldness flashed through his eyes, "I will handle it well."