The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 287 Meeting Again
These books feel more like a world of command imagined by the artist.

Anyway, with those books, it's difficult to even understand how to be a commander, let alone learn how to command.

Jiang Hui didn't actually want to switch departments to become a conductor. She was thinking about what would happen a year from now, but hadn't made up her mind yet, because she couldn't guarantee her determination. Conducting was one of the options she could consider.

But there's nothing wrong with learning more, no matter what she wants to do in the future, anything is possible in interstellar life.

Actually, she had another option: she could use her course selection card. Then, her tutor at Stark gave her a long list of suggested elective courses, all lined up waiting for her to take. Jiang Hui decided to keep the card for now and see how it would be used later.

As for knowledge of command, we'll think of another way. She can just read some related books to get a general understanding first.

However, even just understanding it is so difficult, which greatly dampens Jiang Hui's enthusiasm for learning. He could easily find relevant materials when he wanted to learn the "side subjects" of the mecha department, so why is it so difficult to become a commander? Is it really an "extremely mysterious organization" as described on the school's intranet?
Thinking about it, it makes sense. It's been three weeks since the start of the semester, and she feels like she's constantly interacting with students from all sorts of majors, and some departments even have courses that they take together. But the command department is different; Jiang Hui has hardly run into any command students at school.

She never encountered people like Huan Xian or Lin Maowu again.

I heard that the command department also has field courses and evening classes, so it feels like we're not on the same wavelength.

Huan Xian visited her twice during the days she was receiving treatment at the medical center. However, unlike his performance on the field, he was much quieter, seemingly quite used to this silence and not at all bothered by Hillman's rambling.

The other person seemed more comfortable showing his true, unpretentious side in front of Jiang Hui and the others. To be honest, his true nature gave the impression of being even colder and more reserved than Clarence. Compared to him, even Jiang Hui seemed quite warm-hearted, not to mention the rather enthusiastic Zhou Xiuwen and Hillman.

However, perhaps due to course-related issues, Jiang Hui lost contact with the other person. Jiang Hui wouldn't initiate conversations, and the other person wouldn't reach out to her. Their contact pages on her personal terminal were completely blank, with no overlap whatsoever, as if the recent competition was just a dream.

But then again, theoretically it's just a competition, and it doesn't necessarily have to create close friendships...

Like Holly from Class One, she'd run into Mu Kun a few times, and it seemed like they didn't get along. She wondered if it was because the two of them didn't get along in the first place.

Anyway, it's just a competition. After it's over, things will be the same as before. Even Jiang Hui didn't become a "star" in the grade because she won first place. On the contrary, she felt that the teachers of each subject were much stricter with her.

Zhou Xiuwen would sometimes contact her. They had run into each other at the library before, and the two of them had a meal together with Hillman, who had gotten into the habit of coming to Jiang Hui for meals.

Jiang Hui's plan for today is to go to the library to find books to read, and then build a new mecha model in the afternoon. This thing is a limited edition, and she got it from Tohilman's family. It's supposedly a new type of mecha with a layered structure that came out this year.

For this, she agreed to Hillman's offer to treat her to lunch and tutoring in academic subjects for half a month.

However, her plans are likely to be disrupted today, as she encountered a "rare visitor" in the library.

Jiang Hui, feeling utterly bored, removed another fantasy-themed science book about command.

"Jiang Hui?"

Jiang Hui looked up at the person who asked the question and saw Huan Xian standing not far in front of her.

This guy was standing there wearing a special command department uniform. Wearing such a tight uniform even on vacation shows he's usually quite stressed.

"Good morning, Huan Xian." Since the other person called her by her name first, replying with "Huan" would be too formal. They were already quite familiar with each other, so it was best to just call each other by name.

The other person sized him up, then shifted their gaze to her legs and asked, "Is your leg injury healed?"

"I've fully recovered. The therapist checked me over and said there's absolutely no problem," Jiang Hui said.

The other person seemed to be stuck again, as if they didn't know how to start a conversation. Then his gaze fell on the book that Jiang Hui was flipping through, and his expression froze slightly.

"Don't underestimate this... it's ridiculous!" he said with certainty, even sounding a bit speechless.

Hmm, very good, it seems it really isn't her problem. Even the students from the conducting department have said it's ridiculous, so it really is ridiculous.

Then Jiang Hui asked naturally, "Do you have any book recommendations?"

Huan Xian's arrival was perfectly timed. She was just worried about not being able to learn about command. This guy was practically a perfect reference point; she could just ask him, and maybe even ask him about some useful books along the way.

Of course, it would be even better if the other party could lend her the textbook to take a look.

Yes, Jiang Hui is that shameless; she has a very clever plan.

The other party actually thought about it for a moment and said that there was nothing worth seeing in the library, but if she wanted to know more, he could just make a copy of the textbook and give it to her.

Making rubbings is such a waste; it would be better to just lend her the books to flip through. Her brain has mutated now, it's like a human scanner; she can't possibly read ten or eight books in a second.

Huan Xian wasn't curious about Jiang Hui's request at all, and said he would organize it and send it to her later.

It's true what they say, you really have to rely on friends when you're traveling. No wonder she's one of the few friends she's made since arriving in interstellar space—she's reliable. Jiang Hui completely forgot about how she'd previously secretly complained about how the other person was even more of a homebody than her, and she didn't even consider whether the other person considered her a friend. Anyway, the person's here now; even if they weren't friends before… maybe having lunch together will make them friends.

That's what Hillman taught her.

Besides, she's from China, and there's an old saying that 'nothing can't be resolved at the dinner table,' which would probably be quite effective in interstellar space as well.

So she invited this friend to dinner. Huan Xian, completely unaware of the usual routine, was somewhat surprised that Jiang Hui would invite him to the cafeteria, but he still accepted.

Then, fearing that he might have trouble communicating with the other person and that the conversation might become awkward, Jiang Hui tagged "Chatty Number One" Hillman and "Enthusiastic Person Number Two" Zhou Xiuwen. With these two around, even if Jiang Hui didn't say a word, they could still liven up the atmosphere.

Jiang Hui was satisfied with his arrangement. The two walked towards the canteen, just like three weeks ago, going in the same direction at a distance.

As for the reading room manager who secretly bet with his assistant at the front desk how many books Jiang Hui would borrow this time, he unfortunately lost for the first time since the betting began.

(End of this chapter)