Chapter 409

Uh... this teacher is truly excellent; if I were to publicly contradict him face-to-face, wouldn't that be a bit too disrespectful?

Su Meng also couldn't help but fall into inner conflict.

It's just one meal; even if someone drags their feet, they will eventually finish eating.

By the time Su Meng finished eating, a group of teachers and celebrities had long grown impatient.

One by one, they brought small stools and surrounded Su Meng, watching him with eager eyes.

Come on, tell us what happened to that rural teacher next!

Not only them, but the livestream's popularity also surged significantly.

During this meal, the video of Su Meng telling the story just now had already spread, attracting even more people into the livestream.

Under the gaze of the masses, Su Meng looked at this one, then at that one, his face a picture of inner turmoil.

This respectable rural teacher just said it was non-fiction literature, yet I turned it into a sci-fi masterpiece with a flip of my hand.

Isn't that far too disrespectful?

But if I don't tell the story... guess whether someone will send me razor blades?

Seeing Su Meng remain silent for a long time, his facial expressions shifting unpredictably, everyone felt somewhat bewildered.

Bai Xiao Ling frowned, then suddenly had a sudden realization.

"Teacher Su, did you just see those comments online, so you're in a bad mood?"

"The clear remain clear, the turbid remain turbid; no need to pay attention to them!"

Hmm? Su Meng was instantly stunned.

Comments online? What comments?

Before he could speak, Teacher Yuanyuan had already asked first.

"Teacher Bai, what comments are on the internet? Is someone slandering Teacher Su? How can they do such a thing?"

Bai Xiao Ling shook her head, a hint of mockery appearing on her face.

"They didn't name anyone specifically."

"However, some temples simultaneously posted messages on Weibo, promoting their charity work and such."

"They even said things like 'benefiting the world' and 'Buddha protects all living beings,' heh..."

Hmm? Many people's faces changed instantly.

Connecting it to what happened during the day, who didn't know what occurred?

Su Meng's few questions had obviously touched their sensitive nerves!

Su Meng was also stunned, and his expression immediately turned unpleasant.

Buddha protects all living beings? That really made me laugh!

Our China, with its five thousand years, has walked through wind and rain all this way; did we rely on gods or Buddhas?

We relied on ourselves!

When the sky broke, we patched it with stones ourselves; when floods came, we controlled them ourselves; when the sun scorched us, we shot the sun down; when mountains blocked the path, we moved the mountains aside!

We create the future with our own hands!

How dare you say something like 'Buddha protects all living beings'?

Screw you!

Su Meng suddenly stood up and bowed deeply to Liu Laoshi.

"Liu Laoshi, I'm afraid I have to let you down!"

Ah? His action left everyone completely confused.

Liu Laoshi was also startled.

"Teacher Su, what do you mean by that?"

Su Meng shook his head and said sincerely.

"You just said this article is non-fiction literature, but..."

"Sorry! I need to temporarily change the rest of the story!"

What?

Everyone on the scene and in the livestream was dumbfounded.

What the hell is going on?

This article has already been read for so long; with the rural teacher about to die, the story was about to end.

Now you tell me you want to change it temporarily?

What do you want to change? How do you plan to change it?

Most importantly... how the hell is that even possible?!

Under the incredulous gazes of the crowd, Su Meng raised his head, looking at the starry sky, his voice taking on a slightly ethereal quality.

"Far away, fifty thousand light-years from Earth, at the center of the Milky Way, an interstellar war lasting twenty thousand years is nearing its end."

"The background of the space stars there has been cut into a square opening..."

This... everyone was stunned.

Wasn't this about a rural teacher?

How did you suddenly jump into the universe?

And it's an interstellar war, no less!

What does this have to do with a rural teacher?

Although he couldn't quite grasp the question, Su Meng's narration had already drawn everyone in.

Before each person's eyes, a magnificent scene of interstellar war seemed to unfold.

A fierce aura of slaughter rushed toward them; grand descriptive techniques, shocking close-ups of the scene.

An extremely professional hard sci-fi flavor almost radiated from his very body; the majestic momentum made everyone's hearts surge.

The carbon-based civilization emerged victorious and would establish a quarantine zone in the first spiral arm of the Milky Way, destroying most stars within that zone to prevent the silicon-based civilization from entering the central region of the galaxy.

They would assess the level of civilization evolution within the quarantine zone to avoid destroying carbon-based life possessing advanced intelligence.

Thus, the fleet sped toward the first spiral arm of the Milky Way at an almost infinite velocity.

Su Meng paused, then lowered his head, his voice tinged with a hint of sorrow.

"Night has fallen. In the candlelight, all the children of the class gather around the teacher's sickbed."

"'Teacher, rest now; it can be taught tomorrow,' a boy said."

He forced a bitter smile with great difficulty. "'Tomorrow has tomorrow's lesson.'"

He thought, if it could truly be delayed until tomorrow, that would be wonderful; he could teach one more class. But his intuition told him it was likely impossible.

Everyone's hearts sank.

Only then did they suddenly realize: it seemed Su Meng's story was "The Country Teacher"!

But... what does it have to do with interstellar war?

Although they couldn't figure it out at that moment, everyone had no time to think.

Was this respectable country teacher really going to... die?

Everyone's hearts tightened.

At the final moment of his life, this country teacher thought not of himself, but of the children.

He wanted to impart all his knowledge to them, but he had no time.

His life's flame had grown ever more faint, yet he wished to open a new door for these children.

So he stubbornly insisted that the children memorize Newton's Three Laws of Motion.

Even if these three laws might be something these children would never need in their entire lives.

Su Meng shifted his tone again, and the perspective returned to that fleet in the universe.

They swept through everything; all civilizations that failed the 3C test were utterly annihilated by singularity bombs.

It was a geometric point in the strictest sense, infinitely small compared to an atom, yet it was enough to annihilate an entire star!

The country teacher's life had reached its end.