After Lu Jing's assessment results were announced, the middle-aged man with a Chinese character put down the slate in his hand and returned to his previous kind expression.
First, he poured some corn into his hand and asked the nightingale on the copper table next to the bookshelf to fly into his palm and eat the rice, and then he said to Lu Jing again.
"Now you can ask me any questions you have."
Lu Jing was slightly relieved when he heard this. He sorted out his thoughts and asked the first and most concerning question, "Where is this?"
The middle-aged man with the Chinese character face was obviously not surprised by this question. He touched the feathers of the nightingale and said, "Academy."
Lu Jing was slightly startled, then asked, "What academy?"
The middle-aged man with a Chinese-character face shook his head, "This is called the Academy, and it has no name. It is said that the person who founded this place originally thought of a name, but when he thought that there was no other academy in the world that taught the same things as here, he decided There is no need to distinguish it from other academies by name."
This tone is really not a small statement, but considering the various mysterious methods shown by Kui and the man in black in Yama Xiao's notes before, there is nothing wrong with this statement.
"I haven't asked for advice yet..." Lu Jing looked at the middle-aged man with a Chinese-character face.
"My surname is Huang, and I am the supervisor of the academy, so everyone calls me Huang Supervisor. I am responsible for the assessment of newcomers. In addition, the money of the academy, the conduct of teachers and students, and some other miscellaneous matters are also covered. I’ll supervise it.”
After saying this, the middle-aged man with a Chinese-character face paused for a moment, then continued, "You have already spent the academy 4,124 taels of silver before you were admitted to the hospital."
"Ah, sorry, sorry." Lu Jing sweated when he heard this. Of course he knew where the money was spent.
After all, when he was in the trial realm, he had to buy a wave of fire lantern grass and white-eyed cicada clothes on time every ten days.
He had also asked Gu Caiwei to help him purchase them in the market before, and he knew that the prices of these two items had now skyrocketed.
It seems that the academy also shed a lot of blood in order to provide him with medicine.
Although Lu Jing was quite happy with the money, he thought that he would have to study on someone else's territory in the future, so there was no reason to make trouble with the Huang Jian Yuan in front of him just because of the more than 4,000 taels of silver.
So he hurriedly said, "I will pay back the money."
However, Huang Supervisor shook his head when he heard this, "No need, since Uncle Dong promised you before, then it is appropriate for the academy to pay for it, but if you still want it later, you have to pay for it yourself. "
After a few simple conversations, Lu Jing was able to roughly understand the character of the Huang Supervisor. The person in front of him was obviously a person who made a clear distinction between public and private affairs, could not tolerate a grain of sand in his eyes, and was quite upright in his actions.
No wonder he sat in the prison position.
Even though she showed her admiration for him when they met before, she still made it clear to him later that the academy would not pay for his personal expenses.
Such people are often selfless and unkind, but in his previous life in a company, Lu Jing still liked dealing with such people.
At least you don't have to be so tired. As long as you do things according to the rules and regulations, he won't make things difficult for you.
Lu Jing then asked, "What can I learn here?"
"You were admitted to the hospital on the recommendation of Kui. It is said that you worked with her to solve a strange thing. Since she gave you a waist tag afterwards, I believe she must have told you something about us, but since you asked , then I will try to answer in more detail.
"The world is far from as simple as it seems. Our ancestors were born in chaos. Through observation and exploration, they ignited the fire of wisdom, understood the world bit by bit, and then began to change the world and develop on this basis. Out of civilization.
"It has developed to the present prosperous age. Looking at my Chen Dynasty, the territory is vast, the world is rich, the world is rich, there are countless talents and poets, and there are many skilled craftsmen. All of this is based on the correct understanding of the world.
"Let me give you an example," Huang Jianyuan pointed to the bookshelf beside him. "The emergence of paper has made it easy for people to record words, which has made it easier for poems and articles to spread, allowing more people to be taught by saints.
"But now let's assume a situation. When the words you write on the paper become unreliable, they will spontaneously change their order, and even sneak into other people's paper. Then you will also change the words in your mind. Are valuable ideas recorded in a timely manner?
"Do you still dare to copy unfinished poems on paper? What's even more serious is that even the emperor's edict and the case files are no longer their original appearance, and it will lead to unimaginable consequences. We Can we still trust paper and use it to record and spread our words?”
Seeing Lu Jing's look of surprise, Huang Supervisor said, "Don't think this is fanciful, because this is something that really happened, and Yi Zi Two Hundred and One Shijiu is such a thing.
"At first it just rearranged the words written on it, but because no one noticed it for about 120 years, its power accumulated stronger and stronger, enough to affect a city All papers in .
“Fortunately, people from the department found it in the end, brought it back, found a way to cut off its connection with the outside world, and stored it properly.
"There is also [Well]," Huang Jianyuan paused and continued, "It is a very special and rare strange object. It has existed even longer than the academy, but it has always been very stable. After thousands of years, there has been almost no Any change, we use it to get to where we want to be quickly.
"You can even cross thousands of miles in the blink of an eye, and a very powerful expert in the department a thousand years ago successfully connected the [Trial Realm] and the [Well], so that you newcomers can go directly through the [Well] Go to [Trial Realm].
"A strange thing like [the well] is almost harmless to the world, and it can also facilitate people's lives, but the agency is still hiding the secret of its existence, not because we want to take it as our own. I don’t want to share it with the world.”
"Is it because the existence of [the well] has no benefit to the development of the world and civilization?" Lu Jing asked.
It would probably be difficult for other people here to understand the meaning of Huang Supervisor's words, but as Lu Jing, who came from a past life where technology exploded, he knows very well what the Huang Supervisor, or the people of this mysterious organization, are worried about. .
In order to travel faster, humans domesticated horses, invented the wheel, and then developed into horse-drawn carriages. After continuous evolution, horse-drawn carriages turned into cars, then trains, airplanes...
Although the sources of motivation are different, these things are essentially the results of human beings' continuous understanding and transformation of the world.
And in this process, civilization also developed.
But [Well] is different. Things like [Well] do not conform to any objective laws. Research on [Well] cannot promote the progress of overall civilization, and may even hinder the development of the world.
After all, if you could get where you want to go through the well, no one would bother to invent the wheel and carriage.
