Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 302 301. Use your subjective initiative

The damage from this mission will still be quoted and reflected on Sefer's bill, and it will be up to him where to repair it.

If we look at it from the logic of an independent mercenary, this trip is a pure loss, but from another perspective, the story is different.

It was only half an afternoon, and Seifer had just sat in the office for a while, flipping through some college-related materials, when someone from the college plucked up the courage to come over and ask.

They all asked in the same way whether the legendary teacher who had just arrived today was free to come over and help them solve some problems. However, considering that the work seemed to be just like that, Seifer did not respond.

Instead, he summarized it and put it aside, and continued to look at other submitted information.

In this kind of joint school area, the fastest-spreading news is the impact of "emergency situations". Less than two hours later, Sefer's communication suddenly rang.

"Red Arrow, I heard you solved a bank robbery in just ten seconds today, and you even stripped all the students involved and left them outside the bank as punishment?"

Leica's communication came through, his voice filled with disbelief and a desire for confirmation. Seifer poked at the screen and replied, "Except for the bank robbery, everything else is exaggerated."

“…Huh, that’s good.”

Cypher was perceptive. "So which part do you believe?"

"I... well, that's not important. Red Crossbow, the point is, you've become a hot topic. Right now, on the student union's newsletter, 'New Teacher Red Crossbow' is the most discussed topic. That's impressive."

"What kind of communication is that?"

Leica explained that this was a website developed by their school's technology research team, specifically for students to use to bypass adult surveillance. Anyone can only enter using a student's identification card...

It sounds quite technical. Do my fellow passengers also have this authority?

"In short, I think you'll be very busy for the next while. With the security management of various schools, the student unions, and so on, aside from the powerful ones, no one else can handle those arrogant guys."

Cypher was actually quite speechless. "So they're just going to let these people cause chaos in the city? I think it's a mystery that they can still study normally."

"Once you get used to it, you'll find it's a trend. Anyway... as long as you don't go to the streets where security is chaotic, you'll be isolated and unrelated to those things."

After saying this, Leica thought for a moment and said, "By the way, Red Crossbow, you should really need to find an institution like a research institute to cooperate in developing the equipment on the vision blueprint you have."

"Indeed, but you also know that the company will definitely take a cut of this. The worst-case scenario is that I can't even get a copy of the blueprint and will just sell it cheaply."

In response, Leica suddenly chuckled and said, "Then why don't you come to our academy? In the entire academy city, you may not find any other school with as rich a knowledge reserve as our technical students."

...What do you mean?

No, wait a minute. In theory, all the students who go to school here have moved here. They are the children of researchers or practitioners in various companies. So, is it possible that these people can inherit their parents' scientific research capabilities and make efforts in this area?
After confirmation, Sefer had to admit that there was indeed such a group of elites in the world... and that this group of elites was currently troubled and bothered by some things.

Seifer flipped through the commission and was surprised to find that their troubles were quite real.

First of all, as a technical group of [Xinxiang Research Institute], they have to face three major difficulties.

One is the problem of "insufficient talent", but this is a common problem, because other schools also have groups of technical personnel, and everyone will communicate with each other to see if they can poach people from other schools, etc.

Technical talents...

The second issue is the lack of sufficient funds. This is a common problem, as we are all students. It is really difficult to find money to support technical research, which is a money-burning thing, from living expenses and family subsidies. Financial support...

Finally, the most important problem was that the technical team of Xinxiang Research Institute was often attacked by strange "machines" when testing vehicles outside, resulting in failure or even complete failure of testing, and finally all the vehicles were piled up in the school.

"Tell me more about the machine attacks. I'm very concerned."

Leica was clearly prepared. She hummed softly, "In fact, it's not just our academy. Other academies are also complaining about similar things."

"For several months, a mecha, visible only to us students, has been wreaking havoc in the academy city. It will attack any student who requests its data."

Interesting... This college town is much more interesting than I thought.

You can’t actually sabotage it, so everyone is messing around within the system, and the punishment is pretty severe anyway.

In this way, the city's management organization is happy to let them do things on their own and will try to loosen up their authority as much as possible, allowing these students to continue to make trouble on their own, and will only intervene when human lives are actually lost.

All I can say is that everyone has their own set of management methods, and they cannot be forced to apply.

After learning the details, Seifer nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll contact your school's academic affairs staff and come over for an on-site inspection tomorrow."

"Oh, tomorrow...Okay, I get it."

Leica hung up the phone in a panic. Seifer raised his eyebrows in confusion and continued to look through the information.

Then, a notification came from the visitor's side. After the call was connected, Wei Erwei's recognizable voice rang out: "Hey! Captain, it's time to get my weekly pay. Oh, right, we came to visit you. Why is the store downstairs closed?"

...You are really lucky to have made it through there safely.

He asked the access control to open and told her which floor he was on. Sefer waited for a while and suddenly saw two heads popping out of the door.

One of them was Lin Shenxue, who had messy black hair and was still wearing the sound-isolating headphones. She looked like she had lost all hope in life.

The reason why she felt so hopeless was because she was wearing a tan school uniform with some bright colors as a color, and the skirt was just above the knee.

The style of the uniform on the upper body was even a bit like the Western-style dress that Seifer had seen before, and there was a small shirt with a bow tie underneath.

On the other side, Wei Erwei, who had short green hair and had recently become significantly less oily, was also wearing the same uniform, the difference being that she was not wearing the small leather shoes given to her by the school, but a pair of proper sneakers.

"Captain, let me tell you, they gave me this uniform after I started school. Also, when I got here just now, I was in the car watching those guys shooting at each other with toys on the street, and now they're using real guns. What kind of skill is this?"

Advanced technology, boy.

"Calm down. First, let me confirm... have you all enrolled safely? Did you encounter any strange people during your stay, or did any organization come looking for you?"

Lin Shenxue had been observing the room from the side. After the guy next to her quieted down a little, she tapped the tablet.

'Why are there weapons in your office?'

What a joke! What if an unconvinced student attacks me? I have to be on guard against myself, right?

(End of this chapter)