Chapter 40:

"Grandpa, believe me once, really."
"Maya, don't look at that stinky kid and be fooled by that jerk."
"grandfather!"
The girl exploded instantly.
The old man was entangled by his own granddaughter all night and listened to the granddaughter's good words from another boy. He was also very upset.
"What do you know, just what that little guy can understand?"
"But he really taught me a lot I didn't know ..."
"He is bullying you don't understand."
"But it doesn't sound like it was made up ..."
"Maya, you're still young, don't be fooled by that stupid boy, it's all a coax."
The old man pouted and looked disdainful.
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The next morning, in the spacious room of the History Research Department, the girl with brown curly hair was lying on the quaint wooden table, looking tired.
"Sorry, Mute, no matter what I say, Grandpa doesn't believe me."
She rested her head on the table, and looked upset.
"That old stubborn--"
"It doesn't matter, anyway, it's still hard for you."
Sure enough, it's not that simple.
Mute shrugged. He watched the girl's upper body lie on the table, raised her head, her chin rested on the table, and her face looked rounder.
What a cute look makes the teenager laugh.
"I'm not angry. Why are you so fired?"
"Because Mute, you are very powerful-but grandpa, they just look down on you and look down on you-they look at people by their appearance!"
Maya patted the table hard to express her dissatisfaction.
However, Mute as a client is very calm. After all, his experience is too bizarre, and the entire universe is just such a wonderful one. It is taken for granted that others do not trust him.
He smiled at Maya.
"Aren't you afraid your grandfather is right, I was all made up to lie to you?"
"In terms of professional knowledge, I am far worse than my grandfather, but in terms of looking at people, I think I have good eyesight, and I think what Mute you said doesn't seem to be deceiving ... well, how to say ..."
The girl hesitated and continued to talk.
"I always feel that when I listen to you, it's like I can see the things you said ... I can't make up this kind of feeling, right?"
What I saw in that ancient book was only a rough picture, but Mute was talking to her. She seemed to see the narrow coast through Mute's voice.
The steep cliffs on both sides, and the numerous corals of various shapes under the clear sea.
The waves swept through, slap against the cliff.
The sea is connected to the desert, half fire and half water. The coast is an endless golden desert. The blue water is like a dark blue gem inlaid on the golden desert. When walking on the desert, the golden sand is hot, and when you step into the sea, it feels cold and soft. .
Diving into the depths of the sea, through the clear water, you can see countless colorful fishes flexing through the crevices of large corals, like the elves in the sea.
When you surface, you can see the refreshing blue sky as soon as you look up.
Close your eyes and listen to Mute's voice, as if you can see the beautiful sea, like a dream.
Let her indulge in it unconsciously, unwilling to wake up from this dream.
"I like the things you said about Mute, so I believe that what you said is true."
Maya lay on the table, tilted her head to look at Mute, and smiled, her eyes full of expectation.
"If only one day I could really see what you said."
"If you can find your way back to Earth, you can see it."
"It's so easy ..."
As soon as it came to this point, some listless girl sighed long.
"No one has been able to find it for so many years. How can it be said that it is found?"
"... Maybe I just found it at this time?"
Mute said with a smile.
He put his cheeks in one hand and looked at Maya. But his sight did not fall on Maya, but it seemed like the girl who had penetrated her eyes and looked at the distant shore.
The first step is to live well in this world.
The second step is to go back to Earth.
He wants to go back, he has to go back, to the planet where his father and mother were, and to the planet where he grew up.
He believes that with the memory of the earth he has, as long as the major general can trust him and is willing to cooperate with him, he will definitely find a way back to the earth.
This time, Maya did not refute his words.
She looked at the teenager stupidly. The teenager's eyes seemed to look at her, but not like looking at her.
His eyes seemed to look far away through her.
He looked at her with his cheek up and smiled quietly. There was still a little childishness on his face, but those black pupils were bright and firm that she had never seen at this moment. .
"Maya ... Maya?"
"what?"
Looking at those bright black eyes for a while, Maya was awakened by Mute's shout, and watching Mute came over, she quickly pressed down the bottom of her heart.
"Your grandfather seems to be asking you something."
Mute pointed opposite.
As soon as Maya turned her head, she saw that the old professors did not gather together for discussion as usual, but each sat on a huge mechanical chair.
Countless metal wires extend from above and wrap around those people's torso, while a silver-white metal earphone covers them. They sat on a mechanical chair wrapped in wire, eyes closed as if they had fallen asleep.
"Is it time?"
Maya suddenly jumped up and listened to Mute's words too loudly. I didn't expect time to pass so fast. No wonder the grandfather looked at her with a beard and stare.
"Come here."
Professor Terry told Maya with a stern face, glaring at the shameless kid who had abducted his own granddaughter.
Maya yelled and wanted to run over. She had been nervous for ten days because of today ’s affairs, and sometimes she could n’t even sleep at night. I fell asleep until dawn, and I was a little nervous when I came this morning. I just talked with Mute and the whole person was relaxed.
Thinking of this, she turned to Mute.
"Grandpa, isn't he going, Mute?"
"What can he understand? It's no use going."
Professor Terry was impatient.
Maya countered.
"But Mute is one of us. He can't be left here alone."
Perhaps Maya's words were very reasonable this time. Although Professor Terry didn't seem very happy, he never refused again.
"Okay, boy, you follow along, even if you take you to the world." He said, "But let's talk first, go and be honest with me, don't talk, don't make trouble, don't lose me face."
Mute had no idea where they were going, so Maya dragged her to a mechanical chair and sat down.
As soon as he sat up, countless metal wires automatically waved around him as if there was life, like countless tentacles, scared him almost to jump off the chair, but at a glance Professor Terry sternly stood beside him. Staring at him, he barely held back.
He watched as the metal wires entangled around him, and a little bit of light thread penetrated into his skin.
The silver-white metal earmuffs were automatically put on his ears, a bit like the last thought test, and then a huge glass cover slowly dropped down to cover his head.
Intense tiredness struck him, and he soon fell asleep.
…………
When he woke up, he opened his eyes and found that he was no longer in the room of the History Research Department, and in front of him was a huge space with black and white lines.
Under the feet is the dark ground, which is like a black that all the light in.
Above the head is a cosmic sky with no visible end, countless fine starlights flashing, meteorite belt flowing slowly like a galaxy in the starry sky, and from time to time there will be comets roaring past.
There is no one in the middle. Nearly a hundred silver-white oval seats are suspended there, and a translucent light curtain isolates them. The outer circle was full of vocals, and countless people gathered around it, divided into different areas and gathered together.
Mute looked around in confusion, wondering where he was now.
A hand stretched out from the side, grabbing his sleeve, he turned his head, and saw the girl with fluffy brown hair grinning at him.
"Don't be nervous. I was so nervous when I first came, but I came a few times, and it was just like that."
Taking Mute's confusion as anxiety, Maya whispered to comfort him.
"These people are ..."
"They are all ancient nobles or lords under the research of ancient civilizations of the earth." Maya whispered to him, "every three years, all the parties studying ancient civilizations of the earth will meet once because of the rating."
She also wanted to continue to say that she saw her grandfather's face turned towards him with a bad look.
"Looking at your left hand, everyone who logs in here will be automatically equipped with an information bracelet, and you can probably view it in the situation."
As soon as she finished speaking, she was taken away by Professor Terry.
As soon as Mute raised his hand, he saw that there was indeed a glowing aperture on the forearm of his left hand. As soon as he thought, a light curtain appeared above the aperture. .
Isn't this a rating test?
He flipped over the commentary on the light curtain, thinking so.
The place where he is now is not a reality, but a virtual world. Now everyone here is a simulated body projected into the virtual world by a virtual projection instrument in the real world. And the chiefs of the ancient civilization experts of the earth, who were offered in various lord forces, are now gathered together for the purpose of promotion.
Although the scholars who study the ancient civilization of the earth are very popular, they are also hierarchical, the higher the level, the more respected and sought after naturally. Of course, an elementary elementary student will not care.
Generally divided into three classes, from scholars, consultants, professors. As the name suggests, academics are still in the learning stage; consultants have certain professional knowledge, can be hired by some small noble lords and teach academics; and the powerful galaxy lords support all professors Scholar.
Each class is divided into five levels. For example, Maya belongs to the second level of subordinate scholars.
The highest two levels of the professor class are 'S level' and 'SS level', but they belong to the real empire national treasure. There are only a dozen empires in existence, and the youngest is 280. How old.
Their status is even higher than those of ordinary little lords and nobles. Even the heads of the noble families who support them for academic research have respect for them and dare not neglect them--otherwise, once such a national treasure professor does not I was glad to jump ship, but a bunch of people cried and begged them to come.
As for how to upgrade?
That's the rating every three years.
It is just that this rating test is held once a year, but very few people can successfully advance.
In particular, for each level of promotion in the professor class, only a single digit person can be successfully promoted in a hundred years, and almost all of them have progressed from primary to secondary.
The intellectual brain's autonomous operation, monitoring and evaluation completely eliminate the possibility of cheating.
It stands to reason that after so many years of research, there should be a lot of accumulated knowledge of earth civilization. However, due to the different research directions of each force or the different historical materials of ancient books, the mastery of things is completely different. The knowledge held by each force is unwilling to be shared with others. Once it is destroyed in the flames of war, the knowledge of the earth held by that force will be destroyed. Many historical materials are thus lost, thus leading to earth civilization for 10,000 years. The age of knowledge is getting worse.
Humans feel that they cannot continue in this way. If this is the case, I am afraid that all earth civilizations will be lost.
Therefore, more than a thousand years ago, mankind established an alliance, and all experts and scholars studying earth civilization were automatically merged into the alliance, and they were promoted through the intellectual brain evaluation in the alliance.
... So isn't this an upgrade quiz on Earth?
Mute thought.
The Earth Alliance has implemented compulsory education worldwide. It is divided into eight levels. Regardless of age, you can advance as long as you pass the assessment test at each level. Everyone is forced to pass the fifth level test before they are allowed to graduate. The next three levels are for you. You can choose to continue your studies or enter social work.
Before he got sick, he had already reached the seventh level ...
"I'm just starting to look at the explanation now. It is indeed the person of His Majesty Major General Troll, it seems that the winning ticket is in the hands."
A chuckle rang aside, and Mute looked up, talking to a brown-haired young man. He smiled at the aperture in Mute's hand, showing a sense of sarcasm.
He saw Mute look at him, with a stronger look of taunt in his eyes.
"Looking at you like this, it must be easy to take a professor level."
Mute looked at the sarcastic gaze of the youth, blinked, and thought a little.
Then he nodded, and smiled at the other with a childish face.
"should be no problem."
As Mute said, the young brown-haired man laughed.
At first he was a little dismissive of Mute, but now Mute responds with such disdain. What's so good about a silly hat?
"It was a fool."
He laughed and said, too lazy to waste time, and turned to leave.
"Dole, what are you doing here? You are not welcome here."
"You don't have to react so much, Maya, just to greet you."
Looking at Maya who kept the boy behind him, the young brown-haired man smiled with a little disdain.
"This is the fifth time you have participated in the assessment. How about it, can you pass this time?"
"..."
Maya pursed her lips without a word, and her eyes were guilty.
In this circle, rating is everything. She is about the same age as Dole, but after five ratings, the two are far away. She is still moving from the academic level to the second level, and Dole has reached the fifth level. It is said that this time it is likely to be promoted to consultant level.
That was a qualitative leap, and when Dole became an advisor, she had the qualifications to educate her. Then she had to bow down to the nasty guy every time she met.
"Don't understand, Dole, you are not welcome here."
A low voice appeared, and Professor Terry stepped out, frowning at Dole.
He looked at this young disciple who was originally cultivated with all his heart, but betrayed him a disciple of another person more than ten years ago, and his face was ugly.
"Leave, immediately."
"Don't be so serious, Terry."
Someone stepped in. A middle-aged man in a dark dress holding a cane with a long arm appeared in front of everyone with a smile. He was tall, but his face was rounded.
He smiled and looked very close.
He glanced at the young brown-haired man and said, "Dole, come here."
"Yes, Count Wally."
Dole walked over and saw the old man next to Count Wally and shouted again, "Teacher."
The gray-haired old man who looked almost the same as Professor Terry nodded, and seemed quite satisfied with his proud disciple.
He glanced at the people on Terry's side, showing a proud look.
"You're still the same, Terry." He said harshly, turning his gaze on Mute, showing a disdainful look. "Even this kind of ghost brings numbers together, aren't you ashamed?"
Count Wally and Major Troll were close in their sphere of influence, and the two parties often had frictions. Naturally, the relationship was not good. If possible, they would suppress each other. However, Earl Walli has never won every small-scale battle caused by friction, and he naturally sees Troll very unpleasant.
The only thing he could compare with Troll was that the old professor at that time looked down on Troll, an emerging force, and chose the long-standing Wally family.
"Well, the boy from Troll is after all just an upstart, and you will follow him at your level."
After the old professor spoke sternly, he didn't look at Professor Terry, who was so white with anger, that he left his disciples with his head raised in a spirited manner.
Although Professor Terry was furious, his level was one level higher, and his disciples were several levels higher than his granddaughter. He had no room to refute, and in the end he could only suffocate the breath.
And just when he was so annoyed, the little devil who made him taunted by the other side spoke openly.
"Rating quiz ... I'll take it too."
Looking at the back of the group of people leaving, Mute said suddenly, thoughtfully.
"You don't feel ashamed!"
Professor Terry's stomach full of fire was thrown out at the ignorant little guy.
"Give me back and stand still!"
The boy shouted indifferently to Professor Terry's roar.
"Come here, let me try it."
"Yeah, yeah, grandfather, Mute has a family tradition, maybe he can still be promoted to the junior level." Maya hurried to help, "And I'm a little nervous now, if Mute can stay with me, I will relax some."
Maybe it was the last sentence of granddaughter that moved Professor Terry. He thought for a moment, and nodded gloomily.
After a while, the dark ground suddenly lit up, and a transparent barrier rose from the ground, showing a semi-arc shape covering the hundreds of floating seats in the middle.
Nearly a hundred people participating in the assessment passed through the translucent soundproof cover, and the whole world became quiet in an instant, and noisy sounds outside could not be heard at all.
There is no fixed position, so Mute found a floating seat on the side and sat down.
As soon as he sat down, a light curtain emerged in front of him, and the translucent barrier around him turned into a dark color, separating him from the people next to him. At the same time, a light-emitting headphone cover On his ears.
A gentle female voice came out of the headset and began to explain the test rules to him.
Suddenly Mute felt like he was back on earth to perform an upgrade test, or a foreign language test.
………………
An hour passed, and with a crisp sound, the light curtain in front of everyone closed by itself.
The black-colored isolation barrier also changed to a translucent appearance at the same time that the light screen disappeared, allowing people to see the people around them.
Maya was sitting next to Mute, and she looked pretty good.
"how about it?"
Mute asked.
"OK, this time you should be able to be promoted to the third level."
Maya replied happily, but before her words fell out, a sneer came from not far away.
Mute turned and looked. The brown-haired man named Dole also sat not far from the two of them, leaning slightly on his chin, smiling proudly at them.
"It's just academics."
He said scornfully, apparently, this time he was confident that he could be promoted to a consultant.
The smile on Maya's face that had been quite happy disappeared, and she held her breath and lowered her head.
Dole glanced at her with a smug glance, shifting his gaze to Mute, and his eyes became even more disgusting.
"How dare you come to take the test? What, is it really good to sit for an hour?" He mocked. "It is indeed a subordinate of the upstart. It is uncontrollable and really afraid of shame."
"Since it's all here, it's good to play."
The teenager laughed.
"I'm a subordinate of that upstart anyway."
"........."
Is this kid too shameless or stupid? Can't he hear such a clear satire?
Saying he is a subordinate of the upstart is still looking at me. I'm proud of the upstart. It really has a problem in my head.
Dole also wanted to teach Mute a few words, and then suddenly hesitated again, he immediately turned his attention to the front.
The calculation speed of ZhiNao is very fast. The result comes out less than half an hour after the test.
At this moment, a huge light curtain appeared in the air from the air, so that everyone can see clearly.
The appraisers below looked at the light curtain with wide eyes and tensions. The frontal portraits and names of the passers and advancers appeared on the light curtain one by one.
The highest level of participants in this evaluation was also the consultant level, so placed in the forefront, the bust and name of Dole clearly appeared on the second line.
He looked at his image and nodded with satisfaction.
Maya's name also appeared, and she was successfully promoted. It was supposed to be a happy thing, but she couldn't be happier now. Moreover, she searched for a long time and did not find Mute among the primary passers.
"Oh, it's true that not all cats and dogs can be judged."
The sound of taunts made Maya's face even more ugly. She was willing to refute, but now Dole was already one step higher than her, and she couldn't hit him.
She could only hold back her breath and turned her head, trying to comfort Mute.
But before she spoke, the huge light curtain suspended in mid-air suddenly flickered, and everyone's information disappeared. Immediately afterwards, a huge white-blue badge with a blue planet as a base appeared in mid-air.
As soon as this badge appeared in the air, the entire virtual venue was instantly heard.
Many people stood up violently with shock, staring at the giant badge slowly spinning in the air, with an incredible look on their faces.
"Someone has been promoted to professor level ?!"
"SS class ?!"
"Impossible-this super badge hasn't appeared in more than 80 years-"
"It's impossible! I've seen the information of the people who participated in the rating this time. The highest one is the consultant level-jump directly from the consultant level to the professor level-or the highest SS level! Your brain is malfunctioning! "
"Don't make a joke, this is a cosmic brain that operates autonomously and will never go wrong."
"Who is it?"
The huge virtual venue exploded at this moment, everyone's eyes were staring at the middle, waiting for the answer to appear.
The bright white and blue badge disappeared slowly, a figure of a person appeared in the center of the disappeared badge.
The young face with a little childishness opened everyone's eyes wide, revealing an incredible look.
From the elementary level of the scholar, he jumped directly to fourteen levels and jumped to the highest SS level of the professor level.
This message shows that a lot of people are scared.
In the spotlight, the teenager sat safely on the suspended round chair with his legs crossed, and the dark hair fell on the immature face.
He clasped his hands and placed them on his knees.
In the eyes thrown at him in all directions, he tilted his head and smiled at Maya, who had been foolish around him, then turned his head again, and his bright black eyes looked to the side.
Dole looked at the young man who was young or even immature, and his mind was blank at this moment.
He stared blankly at the boy turning his head and bending at him.
"Sorry, overplayed."
The teenager said so.