The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 202: Chapter 202: Chattybox

Doctor Luo’s laboratory.

Principal Hong, Mu Jianling, and Doctor Luo did not immediately disperse after discussing Ji You’s matter.

A solemn expression showed on Principal Hong’s resolute face: ”The students from third and second year who went out on missions are about to return.”

Hmm?

Old Jiang’s expression could hardly be described as happy. Mu Jianling furrowed his brows, ”Is there a problem?”

Doctor Luo also wore a worried look, ”How are these students?”

Principal Hong’s lips tightened, and after a moment, he said, ”There have been casualties.”

Once these words were spoken, both Mu Jianling and Doctor Luo fell silent.

After a while, Principal Hong said, ”It’s our failure in teaching; the students are still too naive, innocent, and overconfident! These children, who have been well protected in the ivory tower, have not experienced hardships or bloodshed and are ultimately still too immature.”

The specific situation was that a few students were careless and provoked a level 5 Star Beast, thinking they could handle it themselves without seeking immediate help or escaping. By the time the leading teacher noticed, 2 students had already been injured or killed.

Moreover, these two students were top students; it was heartbreaking that they unexpectedly lost their lives in the rear logistics, where almost no losses should occur.

Doctor Luo moved his mouth, sighing, he said, ”Accidents are beyond anyone’s control...”

Mu Jianling’s eyes grew colder, ”The situation in the Sixth Star System has been growing more severe recently. We are in the eye of the storm, it is inevitable that we will be affected, and the way we teach must change.”

Principal Hong slammed the desk, saying, ”That’s exactly what I think. Therefore—I believe it’s too late to send them out in their second year. From now on, our students should start engaging with the mission system from their first year.”

Doctor Luo frowned in surprise, saying, ”That’s too soon! These kids don’t even have a single skill, they can’t even protect themselves! We can’t let them take such risks.”

Mu Jianling heard this and disagreed, saying, ”Keeping them protected in a cage, could that really foster their rapid growth?”

Doctor Luo was anxious, ”But we can’t joke about the lives of these children.”

These children, every one of them is a treasure.

These children, each of them is a future pillar of humanity.

How can their lives be taken lightly?

In short, Doctor Luo did not agree at all.

Principal Hong said, ”Let’s start by selecting a group of elites to engage in miscellaneous tasks in the rear. They won’t be on the frontline killing enemies, but as logistics support, as long as they have a functioning brain and limbs, they can certainly do it, right?”

Doctor Luo wanted to speak but hesitated.

Mu Jianling said, ”That could work.”

Principal Hong bowed his head in thought, then said, ”Jianling, you will personally lead this group of students.”

Mu Jianling nodded, his tone decisive, ”I wouldn’t trust anyone else with this.”

Doctor Luo looked at Principal Hong, then at Mu Jianling, held back a bit, and said, ”Have the other leaders agreed to this? Has the Academic Affairs Office approved it?”

Principal Hong said, ”Since I’ve brought it up, naturally, I will get their agreement.”

Doctor Luo was a bit angry but didn’t know what to say any more.

Then, Doctor Luo said, ”In that case, I shall go along as well. How can a team lack a doctor?”

Principal Hong said, ”You don’t need to go; the legion’s combat support troop has a comprehensive medical system.”

Doctor Luo opened his mouth to object, ”But...”

Principal Hong waved his hand, saying, ”You stay at the school, there are other matters.”

Doctor Luo eventually said no more.

And so, the decision was made.

Principal Hong stood up and said, ”Dismissed.”

**

After Ji You left Doctor Luo’s laboratory, thinking about how she might have spent millions without any improvement, she felt so anxious that she felt like her mouth was on fire; she didn’t even enjoy eating anymore. Therefore, Ji You didn’t feel like competing for food at the cafeteria anymore.

Of course—

The main reason was that at this time, the cafeteria had already stopped serving natural food, going to the cafeteria to eat would just mean buying some nutrient solution or synthetic food.

To eat that, Ji You might as well just stay in her dorm and munch on a nutrient solution.

Ji You didn’t delay, hurriedly ran back to the dorm, didn’t immediately eat the nutrient solution, and rushed into her training equipment to start the detection system.

[Beep—

Physical condition detection is over. Please wear the Spiritual Connector...]

Hearing the prompt, Ji You immediately switched to the Spiritual Connector. This device, slightly different from the mecha’s Spiritual Connector, is mainly used to detect the size of the spiritual power threshold.

After wearing it.

Ji You didn’t feel anything special, then, she just felt her spiritual power being continuously scanned...

A few minutes later.

The detection stopped, results were out.

Ji You jumped up to check the results the first thing, and upon seeing them, she almost spat out a mouthful of blood:

[Your Physical Strength: E-level Peak, Your spiritual power threshold: 499, D level.]

These results, aren’t they exactly the same as Dr. Luo’s diagnosis?

So—

Dr. Luo didn’t lie to her?

Is she really that hopeless?

Spending millions but only improved this little?

But—

Wait a second. Ji You clearly felt that her Spiritual World had widened a bit, and her six silly threads had also gotten fatter. But why can’t these be detected?

Or—

Could the current detection devices actually not be able to detect this?

Regardless, Ji You wouldn’t believe that she hadn’t improved at all.

She ostriched.

She shut herself down.

She stubbornly believed she was a genius.

Just as Ji You fell into self-doubt, she suddenly received a communication call, Ji You saw the caller, it was Sister Liya! Seeing Sister Liya’s deep blue eyes, with a gentle smile, staring softly at her, all the frustration and irritation in Ji You’s heart vanished!

Ji You opened her mouth wide, her eyes shining brightly, happily asked: ”Sister Liya! I missed you so much! Are you and Brother Qiong back?”

Upon seeing Ji You’s bright face, the slight gloominess in Liya’s heart gradually dissipated, she nodded and said softly: ”Yes! Brother Qiong and I are back. Where are you now? We went out on missions and didn’t even have time to celebrate your admission.”

The moment she thought of all her family members coming back, Ji You was as happy as a sparrow, chattering: ”I’m in the dorm here at South Campus, where are you? I’m gonna head out now, I really miss you guys.”

”Sister Liya, look, you’ve lost weight.”

”Poor thing, haven’t been eating or sleeping well, huh?”

”Was the mission hard?”

”Did everything go smoothly?”

”Did you go to another planet?”

”And also... what I can’t tolerate the most, your bust size has decreased! How could this be! Absolutely not!”

Liya: ”...”

These sentences coming out one after another, like little chatterbox, not even letting the person respond in time, the previous statements were all fine, but Liya frowned a bit at the last sentence, feeling slightly annoyed, she even took the time to glance down at her chest.

Huh?

At this moment—

Suddenly, a soft laugh came over, Ji You: ”Sister Liya, you really fell for it, you are actually still concerned about this.”

Liya darkened her face: ”...”