The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Both the original academic city builders and the Royal Family of Teresa believe that scholars should not just fill their minds with all kinds of knowledge, but their bodies are weaker than ordinary people. Can afford to fight with weapons.

So, at the place where the Academic City was built, they took this issue into consideration. When they built the Academic City on the top of the mountain, even if they built a noose cable car that could easily reach the Xuecheng city, they did not allow the inside of the Xuecheng. For scholars and students, as long as they are not physically disabled, or are too old to walk, all scholars and students must take the winding mountain stairs to reach the Xuecheng city.

Moreover, the winding mountain stairs are not the only one that reaches the first urban area from the bottom of the mountain. Basically, after passing through the linked arch bridge, an additional winding mountain staircase is required to reach the urban areas located on other tops of the mountain.

The most special thing is that the management of the city will often adjust the location of the classrooms, so that the relevant scholars and students can take a climbing exercise before the class.

In this way, scholars and students in the Xuecheng have to accept this passive exercise. No matter how weak the students and scholars who come to study here, after staying here for a year, their bodies will be under this kind of exercise. Become stronger than ordinary people, not to mention that they will also participate in some very professional warrior or knight training in their spare time.

A scholar like Delkan, apart from not having the rich combat experience and awareness of a real warrior, his physical fitness and combat skills are not much worse than that of ordinary warriors, and almost all scholars who are assigned as exchange teams are mentors. They are all like that.

Although this passive exercise method is very effective, and it is imitated by city colleges in some countries, none of the colleges can really imitate it successfully. This is not only because other colleges do not have the prestige of an academic city, but more importantly The reason is because the vast majority of students and scholars who can study at City College are either rich or expensive, and the management of the college does not dare to offend these people. Therefore, even if the relevant rules are formulated, they will not be implemented. .

Although both the Academic City and the Theresa Royal Family are proud of such a passive exercise method they have established, and have also received a lot of praise from others, in the eyes of Leo and Sylvia, this so-called passive exercise Exercise is really unnecessary.

The role of scholars is to study all kinds of knowledge, the body does not have to be as strong as warriors, instead of spending so much time, energy, money and resources to help them build this passive exercise setup, teach them the skills of warriors, let the scholars of the academy If you can't concentrate on related research all the time, it is better to spend more time on the logistics of the research project, on behalf of the scholars, and on related security, so that the scholars can concentrate on the research project without any worries. way of doing.

Although Leo and Sylvia disliked the role of the winding mountain ladder, they did not show it, because it was not difficult to see from Delkan's expression that he also highly respected this passive training method in the academy.

While climbing the stairs, he also introduced some information about the academy to Leo and the others, such as the city's laws and regulations, such as the rights and obligations of tutors, etc. Leo and Sylvia also listened quietly, And ask some questions from time to time.

When they reached the gate of the first city, Leo and Sylvia already knew the situation of the academy very well, and they were definitely no worse than those who had been in the academy for a few years.

Although at the arch bridge below, the scholars in Xuecheng were extremely unfriendly, even blocking the arch bridge to create obstacles for Leo and Sylvia, but at the city gate of the first city, the scholars on duty who were responsible for checking the identities of people entering and leaving the city. Even if they did not show any kindness, they did not deliberately trouble Leo and the others. Penny and Joan successfully identified their identities and let them pass. They also assigned special student guides in the first place. As an entourage for a month, he was specially responsible for leading the way for Leo and the others, introducing the various facilities, departments and institutions of the academy.

Compared to the indifferent attitude of the scholars, the student of the academy named Boll who was arranged as the accompanying guide was very respectful to Leo and the others. This respect is not the superficial kind, but the real one. Respect from the heart.

This abnormal performance made Sylvia feel strange, so she casually asked the other party why.

However, without waiting for the student to answer, Delkan explained it for him. It turned out that Bohr's uncle was the great tutor of the exchange team of the city that Leo and the others followed, so the student took his uncle from his uncle. Knowing that Leo and Sylvia did not become mentors through relationships, as rumored from the outside world, but people with real talents and practical learning, so they took the initiative to get Leo and their accompanying guides through relationships, and planned to After this month's contact, I have a good relationship with Leo and the others. After Leo has set a research project, he can join their project with the pre-established relationship.

"Is it difficult for Xuecheng students to join the mentor program? Even the nephew of the great mentor needs to use this method to compete for a spot?" Leo asked with some doubts after listening.

"The general mentor program recruits scholars, and few students are directly recruited as assistants. Even if they are recruited, they only recruit a few responsible for some sundries. Students want to join the mentor program directly unless they have excellent knowledge and wisdom. Otherwise..." Perhaps because of the presence of an acquaintance and nephew, Delkan didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning of what he wanted to express was very clear.

"Is there any benefit for a student to join a mentor's research project?" Sylvia continued.

"Students with a resume of joining a supervisor's research project can get a certain bonus on graduation credits, and scholars with a similar resume can be more easily hired by supervisors who need manpower to participate in new research projects when needed in the future. Go.” Boll took the initiative to explain: “Scholars after graduation cannot live in the academy permanently. Each person only has a residence time of about half a year. After this time, they will go to cities in other countries in the world under the arrangement of the academy. The Academy serves as a tutor, or it is looking for the opportunity to become a noble tutor, only scholars who join the tutor's research project can stay in the academy for a long time."

"Is it better to be an ordinary scholar in the academy than to be a respected tutor in other city colleges?" At this moment, Penny asked in confusion.

Faced with such a question, both Bol and Delkan just smiled and did not answer. Obviously, for them, this question does not need to be answered.

As he spoke, Boll, who was the accompanying guide, took Leo and his group into the first city, walked around the edge of the city along the ring road, and walked towards the first arch bridge. As he walked, he also did his due diligence. Introduce the situation of the first city to Leo and the others.

The entire academic city is divided into five districts, two of which are education districts and thinking districts for ordinary students and scholars. Students will study in these two districts and think about their future after becoming formal scholars. The other three are. The urban area is the core area, and all mentor projects are concentrated here for discussion and research.

Of course, the names and functions of these five urban areas are only officially set by the Academic City. In fact, there is another set of urban divisions that are implemented by default. For example, the education area is directly called the chick area, and students can only Activities in this area cannot enter other areas, and the thinking area has become an urban area exclusively for scholars, while the third, fourth, and fifth urban areas are respectively called the basic tutor area, the famous tutor area and the big tutor according to the different identities of scholars. Area.

The identities of residents in these five urban areas are very clearly divided. People in low-level urban areas are absolutely not allowed to enter high-level urban areas at will. A student like Bol, even if his uncle is a great tutor, if he does not get special permission , for example, becoming the accompanying guide of the tutor of the new city, is absolutely not allowed to enter other urban areas, otherwise, even if he will not be punished in the face, he will definitely be deducted points for this behavior record when he graduates. of.

After listening to it, Sylvia couldn't help frowning and asked, "Has the academic city always had such a strict classification of identities?"

"Of course not." Without waiting for Bol to answer, Delkan took the initiative to explain: "The interior of the academic city was very free at first, and anyone can enter other cities at will without any restrictions, but with many mentors The number of restrictions on the city’s research projects have been frequently stolen, or the tutors have been bribed to become spies. However, these rules have not been recognized by the city’s management, and are just the initiative of the city’s scholars. Behavior, any problems, Xuecheng…”

Delkan didn't finish his words, but his meaning was clearly expressed, and Leo and Sylvia were very familiar with this bureaucratic approach, so they couldn't help but smile, and their views on the academic city changed slightly. a little.

During the conversation, Bol led the crowd onto a small steam rail car that circled the city.

This kind of rail car around the city did not exist at the beginning. It was only erected a few years ago. At that time, there were still many people who opposed it, believing that it was contrary to the original intention of Xuecheng to passively exercise the body of scholars, but the proposal to erect a rail car was still in The management passed, and now the city rail car has become the most indispensable and most used facility in each urban area.

Because of the convenience of being a tutor, a group of people can directly ride in the scholar's carriage with a relatively small number of people, instead of crowding the crowded student carriage at the back.

It's just that Leo and the others jumped on the moving rail car and the moment they entered the car, they still inevitably became the focus of the scholars in the car. They all recognized Leo and Xi through Delkan for the first time. Sylvia is a topic of constant discussion between the two academies.

Although most of the lecturers in the carriage showed a cold attitude towards Leo and Sylvia, none of them stood up and rashly provoke the two of them. It was obvious that those activists had already gone down the mountain. And the people on the mountain are just rationalists.

In the eyes of these people, since the management of the academy has passed the recommendation proposal of the mentor, it is useless no matter how much trouble they make. They can only accept the result, and rashly offend the new mentor who has the support of many mentors. For scholars like them It's a very stupid thing, so expressing their attitude with eyes or expressions is the limit of their resistance to injustice.

The cold-handling behavior of the scholars in the carriage made Delkan a little relieved. He was really worried about what happened in the Xuecheng again, and what happened down the mountain before. Although the performance of these scholars is not what he most hoped to see, it is not the same. What he was worried about, at least judging from the smiles on Leo and Sylvia's faces, they didn't have any bad thoughts about Xuecheng.

As for Leo and Sylvia, they didn't take the performance of these people seriously. In their opinion, these people are not even as good as those who protested by blocking the bridge at the foot of the mountain. At least those people still have some blood, and these so-called rational scholars are all Some ordinary people whose edges and corners have been smoothed out, it is no exaggeration to say that these people cannot even become a formal scholar.

In this way, in this quiet and weird atmosphere, the rail car drove to another city gate in the city, and Bohl, who was already restless because of the atmosphere, couldn't wait to stand up and told Leo and the others that they had to get off the bus. After that, he jumped off the moving rail car first.

Leo and the others followed closely behind and jumped off the rail car one after another.

"Does your car not stop? What if you jump off and get injured?" At this moment, Penny, who was full of curiosity, couldn't help but ask.

Bol did not answer directly, but instead asked: "If you don't have the ability to jump out of the car, why would you sit on it?"

Penny was stunned, not knowing how to answer. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

Boll added: "Since he decided to sit up, whether he will get hurt or not when he gets down is the result of his own decision, and he needs to bear it by himself." Then he pretended to be deep and said: "This is Railcars are like life, some people get on the train halfway, some get off, some people find their other half when they get on the train, and some people get hurt because of their ability and behavior when they get off the train, but life It will not stop because of these things, and will continue to drive until the end.”

Hearing Bol's words, Penny and Joan couldn't help but be stunned. They didn't expect the young student in front of them to say such philosophical words.

However, Delkan soon dismantled Bol's disguise and said: "Use the words of Mentor Millland to pretend, if your uncle hears it, he will definitely give you a slap. Don't forget that his funding last year was not enough. A large sum of money was robbed by Mentor Milland, and the anger has not disappeared until now."

Boll scratched his head embarrassedly, and said, "Hey! I just think this sentence is very appropriate to use now, Master Delkan, please don't mention this in front of my uncle."

As he spoke, he led the crowd out of the city gate, and after bypassing a stone house where the identity was verified, the famous arch bridge came into the eyes of everyone.