After being reborn, I have seven older sisters.

"Ms. Li, is this English novel from your alma mater's library?"

Everyone in Li Yufeng's class knew that she graduated from the Provincial Normal University.

When she chats with her classmates after class, she often talks about her experiences in college, and everyone looks on with envy whenever she does.

Chunsheng was the same way. Whenever he saw anything related to the university, he would take a second look and feel a surge of longing in his heart.

"That's right! When I went home last month, I went to the school and met up with my roommate who stayed on to work at the university after graduation. I happened to see this novel in her dorm, flipped through a few pages and found it very interesting, so I borrowed it."

"By the way, she has to return this book to the library by the end of next month at the latest. Please return it to me as soon as you're done reading it, and don't lose it."

"Don't worry, Teacher Li, I'll definitely return it to you before school ends this weekend!"

"There's no need to rush!"

Li Yufeng smiled and was about to say that she had finished explaining everything and that Chunsheng could go back to the classroom to wait for the morning and afternoon classes.

Suddenly, Chunsheng stared at a Chinese textbook on her desk and said hesitantly, "Teacher Li, could I borrow that second semester Chinese textbook for the second year of high school from your bookshelf?"

Without a second thought, Li Yufeng took it out and handed it to him without asking any questions.

Chunsheng took the book and paused for a moment, feeling a little strange. Just now, when he borrowed the book from his brother-in-law, he had asked him about it for a long time out of curiosity.

Why didn't the homeroom teacher even ask me a single question? Wasn't she curious?

Seeing that Chunsheng seemed preoccupied, Li Yufeng assumed he wanted to borrow the Chinese textbook for a long time but was too embarrassed to ask!

So she immediately joked, "You don't need to rush to return this book to me; you can read it for as long as you want!"

Chunsheng smiled awkwardly. He had actually been planning to ask this question, but he hadn't expected the other person to answer him first.

What a smart and kind teacher!

At this moment, Song Chunsheng was unaware that since their deep conversation last Friday, Li Yufeng could almost perfectly guess his intentions and thoughts with minimal effort.

Back in the classroom, before class started, Chunsheng immediately took out the "Junior Science" magazine and read through Ye Yonglie's science fiction story "Petroleum Protein" as quickly as possible.

As Li Yufeng said, it did offer him some inspiration, but not much.

But if Song Hongqin were to read it, she would be completely astonished by the novel's ingenious plot and unique imagination!

Because she hadn't really been exposed to this kind of reading material before, her first reading experience was bound to be refreshing, which greatly helped her in this essay competition.

But for our classmate Song Chunsheng, that was simply not enough.

Because in the next 50 years, due to the development of human technology and international integration, there will be countless domestic and foreign films, TV series and literary works related to science fiction.

Any novel with even a little bit of fame could completely outshine this one called "Petroleum Protein".

And then there's Jules Verne's science fiction novel, *Journey to the Center of the Earth*!

Reading it back then would have been incredibly imaginative, especially for readers who rarely encountered science fiction. It would have been absolutely amazing and would have overturned their understanding of the genre.

However, for Song Chunsheng, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" still falls short compared to later science fiction novels such as "The Three-Body Problem" and "The Martian".

Of course, literary works of every era are influenced and constrained by various factors such as the social and technological development of that time, and it is almost impossible to completely break free from that framework.

After Chunsheng finished reading the article "Petroleum Protein," he flipped through other articles in the magazine. Before the bell rang for the first class in the afternoon, he handed "Junior Science" to Song Hongqin and conveyed the homeroom teacher's good intentions to her.

Upon hearing this, Song Hongqin looked at the "Junior Science" magazine in her hand with excitement. "I was just wondering where I could find this kind of science fiction reference material, but I didn't expect Teacher Li to have already found it for us. She really is amazing, it's such a pleasant surprise..."

During the first two biology and music classes in the afternoon, Chunsheng barely paid attention. Instead, he sat close to the window, engrossed in reading the English version of "Journey to the Center of the Earth."

Although he knew that this novel would hardly be of much use to him in the essay competition, he still had to read it carefully.

After he finished reading it, he wanted to tell the story to Song Hongqin as soon as possible, so that she could also learn about science fiction novels by master foreign writers. Even if it didn't help her a lot in this essay competition, it would still be good to improve her aesthetic sense and appreciation.

Furthermore, Chunsheng was worried that if Li Yufeng discussed some plot points from the novel with him later, and he pretended to know nothing about them, he would be incredibly embarrassed!

While reading "Journey to the Center of the Earth," he also began to conceive some ideas for the essay competition.

He pondered that if he were to write a novel in the style of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" like Jules Verne, it wasn't entirely impossible, but he was afraid that what he wrote wouldn't be liked by the judges.

If that happens, it would completely contradict his original intention in participating in this essay competition.

Therefore, regardless of whether others like the stories he writes, he must at least make the judges like them.

The science fiction story "Petroleum Protein" demonstrates why it was featured in "Junior Science" magazine and became popular among many young readers in China. This is not only due to the amazing imagination displayed in the story, but also because its core message perfectly addresses a common problem facing society today.

Food shortages and hunger!

In the novel, the author cleverly imagines something called "super chewing bacteria," which can convert petroleum into high-quality protein that can be consumed by people, thus solving the food shortage problem.

Chunsheng felt that if he really wanted to pique the interest of the judges, he had to do what "Petroleum Protein" did: make them strongly resonate with the content of his story.

Only in this way can one stand out from tens of thousands of entries.

Otherwise, no matter how imaginative or imaginative a story is, it will only be seen as sensationalism and drowned in the sea of ​​essays.

Chunsheng was reading and thinking when the third period arrived. The original history class was temporarily changed to self-study due to the teacher's personal reasons.

He thought to himself, "Now I can watch 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' without any worries."

In the previous two classes, he was always afraid of being caught by the teacher, so he kept sneaking peeks, making him feel very uncomfortable, like he was doing something wrong.

However, when he opened the book and had only read five or six pages, his deskmate Sun Chaoyang suddenly nudged him with his elbow and immediately directed his gaze toward the classroom door.

At this moment, the classroom door, which was originally closed, was pushed open from the outside with a gap about half a foot wide, and a figure was moving around in the gap.

"Looking for me?"

Chunsheng immediately asked.

"right!"

Sun Chaoyang nodded, then deliberately lowered his voice and said with a mischievous grin, "It seems to be that bourgeois young lady from Class Three next door!"

Chunsheng was immediately startled. "Hou Cuicui! What could she possibly want with me?"

"Why don't you go out and ask her yourself? You'll find out!"

As Sun Chaoyang spoke, the wicked smile on his face grew even wider...