Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 279: I’m Fine

“You’re in big trouble.”

This sentence, spoken in the silent crowd, was incredibly intimidating.

It made the 31 students realize that this new Martial Arts Hall Instructor might be a bit different.

After all, in everyone’s impression, teachers wouldn’t directly threaten students like this…

Qing Chen was breathing heavily, but although he looked exhausted, he didn’t have any external injuries.

What did this mean? It meant that none of these 31 servants could pose a threat to this new Instructor!

This included Wang Guang, the grassroots martial arts champion brought by Li Ke from the Li Clan’s main branch.

A chubby student said, “Is he E-Class? Aunt Changqing, you didn’t bring a D-Class or C-Class expert and tell us to bring E-Class servants, did you…”

Everyone reacted. The chubby boy suspected Qing Chen of cheating!

This was a normal reaction, after all, before this, no one had ever heard of an E-Class who could kill so many opponents of the same level in a carrousel battle.

Remember, all 31 servants were unconscious, which was no different from being killed on the battlefield.

Li Changqing raised her eyebrows, walked over, and twisted the chubby boy’s ear: “How do you talk to your aunt? Do you think I’m that kind of person?”

“Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” The chubby boy yelled, “Aunt Changqing, I’m wrong!”

A student beside him muttered, “We’re not intentionally suspecting you, Aunt, it’s just too unbelievable. You tell me, is it scientific for one E-Class to defeat 31 E-Classes?”

Xiao Tongyun couldn’t help but say, “Brother Qing Chen is the Tiger-level champion of City 18’s black boxing ring, he even killed Land Cruiser-level fighters!”

Qing Xiaotu’s name could be hidden from others, but not from the Li Clan, so everyone had switched back to calling him Qing Chen.

The students were stunned when Li Tongyun spoke up for him. This was a bully in their school, and her words naturally carried more weight.

They also knew what black boxing was, so when they heard Li Tongyun say that Qing Chen was the Tiger-level champion of City 18, they didn’t know how to refute it.

“Qing Chen? Is that Qing Xiaotu?” someone said, “I’ve heard of this name, but we didn’t have a chance to watch his match when he was promoted to Tiger-level champion…”

At this time, Li Ke walked through the crowd of students, squatted down beside his martial arts expert, Wang Guang, and calmly pinched his person.

Qing Chen watched quietly from the side. He suddenly felt that this young man was quite interesting.

Wang Guang coughed twice and slowly woke up.

He touched his neck, recalling what had just happened.

Li Ke calmly asked Wang Guang in front of Qing Chen, “Is this new Instructor really only E-Class?”

Wang Guang, having recovered, said, “Young Master, he is E-Class. He didn’t use brute force, he used pure skill. Moreover, he has injuries and cannot use brute force.”

Wang Guang was an expert and naturally knew the difference between ‘skill suppression’ and ‘strength suppression’.

To be honest, Wang Guang was somewhat admiring of Qing Chen. Both being E-Class, the other party, with injuries, chose to use grappling techniques to subdue and suffocate the enemy.

This way, he wouldn’t have to exert himself, thereby aggravating his injuries, and it also prevented them from touching the injuries on the boy’s ribs.

But the strangest thing was that everyone knew that Qing Chen only wanted to use grappling, yet they had no way to deal with him.

It was as if no matter how they tried to respond, he had already figured out how to counter it.

Wang Guang whispered to Li Ke, “Young Master, he is enough to teach you martial arts.”

Li Ke understood. He turned to the other students and said, “Losing is losing. People from the Li Clan can’t afford to lose. Welcome, Mr. Instructor.”

A group of students, looking at Qing Chen, who was not much older than them, bowed their heads and said, “Hello, sir,” regardless of whether they were willing or not.

However, even though these students had outwardly submitted, Qing Chen wasn’t necessarily willing to let it go.

The students, as the Li Clan’s gifted young ones, naturally believed that bowing their heads was giving the other party the greatest Face^[-].

Because they were the supreme beings in this Inner World.

This Inner World has classes.

But for Qing Chen, it wasn’t that simple. After his breathing evened out, he smiled slightly, “Just wait to die.”

The students looked at each other, somewhat at a loss, and looked at Li Changqing.

This new Instructor really seemed different from others!

It was just that when Qing Chen was challenged by the servants, she chose to stand by and watch a good show.

Now it was reversed, when the students were at a loss, she was also ready to watch the show from the sidelines.

As for what kind of abuse these Li Clan children would suffer, what did it have to do with her!

Although all this was orchestrated by her.

At this time, the bell from deep within Bieyuan Courtyard rang again, signifying the start of class.

The students rushed towards the Common Room. Li Changqing glanced at Li Tongyun: “What are you still doing here? Go to class!”

Xiao Tongyun reluctantly walked in, glancing back three times.

Qing Chen looked at Li Changqing: “Can I go in now?”

“Of course, you’ve passed the most important hurdle,” Li Changqing said with a smile, “Only if the Li Clan’s children accept you, will you be qualified to teach them.”

“Then let’s go in,” said Qing Chen.

“Oh, it’s not ‘us’, it’s you going in to report to the Headmaster,” Li Changqing smiled, “Although you’ve passed the student hurdle, things aren’t over yet.”

As she spoke, a hurried old man came from outside Bieyuan Courtyard. He was carrying a printed paper book under his arm, completely ignoring Qing Chen and the others at the entrance. He bowed his head and walked into Bieyuan Courtyard.

“Third Uncle,” Li Changqing greeted.

The old man froze for a moment. He squinted slightly at Li Changqing: “Oh, it’s Changqing. Are you back to cause trouble again?”

Li Changqing was stunned. She glanced at Qing Chen and quickly said to the old man, “What are you saying, Third Uncle? How could I be causing trouble?”

The old man looked up at the sky and pondered for a long time before saying, “Oh, you’ve graduated for a long time. Alright, let’s not talk about this. I have to go prepare my lessons.”

“Wait, this is the new Instructor I brought. He’ll be working under you, Third Uncle,” Li Changqing said to the old man.

The old man’s eyes lit up: “Teaching what?”

Li Changqing explained, “Martial arts. The Martial Arts Hall in Bieyuan Courtyard is reopening today.”

The old man froze: “Bad luck.”

Qing Chen: “???”

Then, the old man turned and entered Bieyuan Courtyard without saying another word.

Nangeng Chen was dumbfounded. This old man seemed a bit foolish, as if he didn’t care about worldly affairs.

Li Changqing explained to Qing Chen, “This is the Headmaster, my third uncle. He has never pursued fame and fortune in his life. He only wants to read books. He’s only the Headmaster of this school part-time. When he’s free, he only reads books and doesn’t bother with mundane matters.”

Qing Chen sighed. Perhaps only the Conglomerate could nurture such an unworldly person in the Inner World.

But the question was, why did the old man say ‘bad luck’…?

Li Changqing thought for a moment and patiently explained, “When my seventh brother opened the Martial Arts Hall, he was also the Headmaster. Then Bieyuan Courtyard was turned upside down. My seventh brother went to the streets to fight gangs, and even brought the whole school to help. So, my third uncle has always held a prejudice against the Martial Arts Hall, and against Knights. Although I personally closed the Martial Arts Hall later, he is the one who hates the Martial Arts Hall the most…”

Qing Chen thought, that made sense.

If he were the Headmaster and had a master who was good at causing trouble, he would also be very upset.

It’s just that the tide turns. I guess the Headmaster never imagined that the tide would turn and bring another Knight back…

If the Headmaster knew Qing Chen’s Knight identity, he probably wouldn’t just say ‘bad luck.’

Moreover, at this moment, Qing Chen understood why Li Changqing said that the students were only the first hurdle.

It seemed that the second hurdle was the teachers in Bieyuan Courtyard.

The sins of the master will ultimately be borne by the disciple.

“Okay, you go in. We’ll wait for you in Flying Cloud Courtyard,” After saying this, Li Changqing took Li Yino and Nangeng Chen onto the Flying Car and left swaggeringly!

Qing Chen was thoughtful. He stood at the entrance and glanced at Bieyuan Courtyard before stepping inside gently.

The interior of Bieyuan Courtyard was larger than he imagined. After going around from the Common Room to the back, he suddenly discovered that there was another landscape behind the school.

Pavilions, artificial hills, and fish ponds—everything was there.

Further inside was the preparation and office space for the Instructors.

Li Changqing had mentioned on the way that Bieyuan Courtyard, including the Headmaster, had a total of seven Instructors, each teaching different subjects: language, mathematics, geography, physics, political history, chemistry, and biology.

These subjects were almost the same as those in the Outer World, except that foreign languages were missing, and political history was combined.

Because the Federation’s history was too thin, it was a little weak to make it a single basic subject.

Besides, politics and history have always been inseparable.

Politics itself must learn from history; otherwise, it’s meaningless.

Li Changqing told Qing Chen that the Li Clan school only taught basic knowledge. If they wanted to pursue further studies, they would have to go to the Federation’s “Qing He University,” while the military academy was the “Ember Military Academy.”

Walking to the courtyard at the back of Bieyuan Courtyard, a middle-aged man was sitting on a bamboo recliner in the inner room, leisurely flipping through his e-reader, as if reading the news.

Qing Chen walked over and politely asked, “Hello, I’m the new Instructor. Where is the office? Which desk should I sit at?”

The middle-aged Instructor looked up at Qing Chen, his tone somewhat lazy: “The office is in the next room, but you’re teaching martial arts, so you shouldn’t need a desk.”

Qing Chen thought for a moment: “Whether I need it or not is another matter, I need a place to settle down.”

The middle-aged Instructor calmly said, “Just go to the next room and find a place to sit.”

Qing Chen found that the Instructors in Bieyuan Courtyard didn’t seem too interested in the Martial Arts Hall. The Headmaster found it bad luck, while this middle-aged Instructor clearly looked down on those who taught martial arts.

As the saying goes, all professions are inferior, only reading is superior.

However, Qing Chen didn’t come to Bieyuan Courtyard to cause trouble. Creating a ruckus in the school right after entering wouldn’t be good.

So he didn’t pay any attention to the middle-aged Instructor and turned to the next room.

In the room, he saw the Headmaster he had just met, and four other Instructors.

The desks were all occupied; there wasn’t a single empty desk.

The people in the room seemed to have agreed beforehand, and no one even glanced at him.

Qing Chen smiled, pulled a chair to the corner, and took out all the political history textbooks from the bookshelf, quickly flipping through them.

At this time, some Instructors started to secretly look at Qing Chen.

They wanted to give this young man who taught martial arts a show of power, and when he made a fuss about the office space, they would ridicule him.

But now it seemed that this young man didn’t intend to cause any trouble; a chair was enough.

The Instructors thought, maybe this young man wasn’t fond of causing trouble?

This was naturally the best outcome; the school might even get an extra person to pour tea and water.

The Li Clan school stipulated that students must do everything themselves after entering, and this rule also applied to Instructors; the Instructors should lead by example.

At this time, the Instructor who was secretly looking at Qing Chen muttered in his heart, this Martial Arts Hall Instructor was too young, almost the same age as the graduates of the school, about seventeen or eighteen years old.

Someone like this coming to the Li Clan school, wasn’t it Li Changqing who used backdoor methods to get him in?

They all heard that a pretty boy had recently appeared beside Li Changqing. Could this young man be that pretty boy?

In a deep-rooted family like the Li Clan, other news didn’t spread quickly, but rumors and gossip spread the fastest.

However, this had nothing to do with the Instructors. As long as this Qing Chen didn’t cause any trouble and kept a low profile, they didn’t care.

The next moment, the Instructor who was looking at Qing Chen noticed something strange.

He found that Qing Chen was quickly flipping through the political history textbooks, looking like he was trying to blend in with the office atmosphere.

But the speed at which he was flipping was too fast; it didn’t look like he was reading normally at all.

The Instructor shook his head, a warrior is a warrior, even making a show of it isn’t good.

Actually, it wasn’t just this Instructor who noticed that Qing Chen was pretending to read; others also noticed, but no one said anything.

Qing Chen spent about 20 minutes quickly reading six political history textbooks, and then closed his eyes to digest them for another 20 minutes.

It must be said that the political history textbooks used by the Li Clan school were indeed fierce. Many historical events and secrets that were unknown to the outside world were recorded in these textbooks.

They dared to write anything.

Yes, in the world controlled by the Conglomerate, the external textbooks were used to deceive the Federation’s people, but they couldn’t deceive their own children.

You can deceive others, but you can’t deceive your own children!

Qing Chen had also been to the sixth district public high school and seen the textbooks there.

For example, the history before the human new civilization era, the public high school textbooks didn’t mention it at all, but in the textbooks of the Li Clan school, the process of how mankind had fallen into disaster because of artificial intelligence before the new civilization era was described in detail.

It was not until this moment that Qing Chen clearly realized what Ling, the creator of Yi, had done.

That was why, throughout the generations of the Conglomerate, no one had been vigorously developing ‘artificial intelligence’, because they all knew what kind of disaster an artificial intelligence civilization would bring.

Suddenly, Qing Chen thought of the many internal books in the Li Clan school, and felt like he had found a treasure.

This was the most convenient place for him to understand the Inner World!

When the Conglomerate cultivated their young ones, they revealed the truth of the world, bloodily, to everyone.

After confirming that he had memorized the six political history textbooks, Qing Chen slowly opened his eyes.

He put the political history textbooks back on the bookshelf and took out the language textbooks, quickly flipping through them.

This time, he finished reading in 10 minutes. Compared to the literary heritage of the Outer World, the Inner World had nothing to look at. A few brilliant works were indeed good, but the number was too small.

After reading the language textbook, Qing Chen changed to mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry.

This time it was even faster, five minutes for each subject, and it took him only 20 minutes to finish all of them.

It wasn’t that Qing Chen was being perfunctory, but there was no need to be serious…

The Li Clan school’s basic education in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology was not as perverted as the Outer World’s exam-oriented education.

Compared to the difficulty of the Outer World’s competitions, it was worlds apart.

I don’t know if they put the high-difficulty content in the university.

Or maybe the Li Clan school felt that such heavy coursework wasn’t needed in the adolescent education stage.

After all, each Conglomerate has quota for recommending students to “Qing He University” and “Ember Military Academy” every year, and 60% of the education funding for each university comes from donations from the Conglomerate.

Therefore, most people in the school don’t need to compete with students outside.

This is also the Conglomerate’s encroachment on educational resources, depriving many children from ordinary families of their opportunities for higher education.

At this time, the Instructors in the office saw that Qing Chen quickly flipped through the four textbooks of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology in only 20 minutes, thinking that this kid probably couldn’t understand them, so it was normal that he read them fast.

Finally, Qing Chen took out the geography textbook. To his surprise, these textbooks even had a separate section dedicated to the Forbidden Zone!

This piqued Qing Chen’s interest.

However, before he could look closely, the middle-aged Instructor he had met outside walked into the room and looked at Qing Chen: “Uh…what’s your name?”

“Qing Chen,” Qing Chen introduced himself.

“Qing Chen, I’ll borrow your martial arts class tomorrow afternoon,” said the middle-aged Instructor, “When you have class, just say that you’re not feeling well, and then switch to my mathematics class. Is there a problem?”

“Yes,” Qing Chen said seriously, “I’m fine.”

Although he had injuries, as long as he didn’t exert himself, he was indeed fine, and he had gotten medicine from Jiang Xiaotang, and his recovery was faster than he had imagined.

The middle-aged Instructor was stunned: “I told you to say you’re not feeling well, it’s just an excuse, the point is that I need to catch up on the mathematics progress for the students.”

Qing Chen calmly said, “The mathematics taught by the Li Clan school is so simple, I don’t think there’s any need to catch up on the progress.”

The office suddenly fell silent.

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