Chapter 139: Self-Exposure of the 'Secret

I don't know if the news of La He Man's arrival has spread.

While he was still hesitating whether to help Luo De, the desert mercenaries who had kept a low profile before kept coming to A Ru Cun one after another during this time.

Some of them were very polite, while others were extremely rude.

Just as Luo De had expected.

Indeed, someone actually tried to lure him out of A Ru Cun and then kidnap him.

The result, needless to say, was obvious.

With Luo De's current strength, he doesn't even need to use elemental energy; he can beat these mercenaries who lack a Vision until they're toothless on the ground.

The fate of these mercenaries who tried to seize people by force also goes without saying.

Luo De captured them all and dumped all the hardest, most exhausting work on them in A Ru Cun.

As for the other mercenary groups,

Intimidated by Luo De and A Ru Cun's strength, they didn't refuse Luo De's 'invitation' and had to accept Kantisi's employment, coming to A Ru Cun to help with new construction.

This turmoil has just ended.

La He Man also came around and agreed to jointly oppose the Academy.

Furthermore, he also made a request.

That is, he also wants to stay in A Ru Cun for a while.

As for the reason,

He didn't say.

He just said he simply wants to stay here to expose the conspiracy of the Dendro Archon's lackeys.

Luo De didn't refuse.

He let La He Man send his men back to the desert, then let him wander the village freely to look at whatever he wished, while Luo De himself signed up for Fei Lu Shan's small class.

This is Luo De's newly picked-up hobby.

Although Fei Lu Shan mainly teaches Knowledge Discourse, Classical Mechanism Studies is also her forte; Luo De thought that while learning Knowledge Discourse he could also pick up Mechanism Studies on the side.

Of course.

Fei Lu Shan's course is not one-on-one private tutoring.

A Ru Cun hasn't yet had any students systematically study Knowledge Discourse, so even someone as talented as Ka Wei must start from scratch.

Plus Ke Lai and some village children who have passed the enlightenment stage.

Fei Lu Shan's small class suddenly had a dozen or so students, young and old.

This made her, who hadn't taught students in many years, unusually excited.

However,

The imagined scene of students eagerly loving learning did not appear.

After a few lessons,

Except Ka Wei, who could barely muster the energy to listen, everyone else couldn't help yawning nonstop; even Ke Lai, who loves learning, showed signs of drowsiness.

Such a blow left Fei Lu Shan feeling quite dejected.

Looking at her, if it weren't for a few kids present, she would probably have flung her teaching stick in anger.

"Senior."

"Your course is really"

Luo De thought for a long time before finding a word: "unbridled imagination."

"What do you mean by that?"

Fei Lu Shan, already in a bad mood, grew angrier, raising her brows and saying: "You mean my lessons as a senior are exaggerated and impractical?"

"No."

Luo De said with a headache: "It's because you, senior, used too many specialized terms from Mechanism Studies in your lecture."

Knowledge Discourse knowledge and Mechanism Studies terminology are mixed together.

That is Fei Lu Shan's characteristic when she lectures.

But the problem lies in.

The Mechanism Studies knowledge Fei Lu Shan uses in her lectures is basically the Classical Mechanism School she founded back then.

Although back then this school was one of the required courses of the Wonderful Discourse School.

But now it has become an elective, and there are hardly any students specializing in it.

In other words.

Among the students present, only Ka Wei, a Wonderful Discourse talent with a foundation in Mechanism Studies, can barely understand; the rest, including Luo De, basically feel like they're listening to heavenly scriptures.

This also left Luo De quite disappointed.

He originally came to learn Mechanism Studies; that is the knowledge he's interested in.

However, most of what Fei Lu Shan lectures each time is Knowledge Discourse knowledge.

If her lecturing method were normal, it would be fine; Luo De would just treat it as learning new knowledge, and since he's already learned some Knowledge Discourse, he'd just be reinforcing his level.

But the problem is that Fei Lu Shan's lecturing method from a hundred years ago is truly too obscure and hard to understand.

"Can't understand!"

"Absolutely can't understand!"

Besides scratching his head and pulling his ears,

Luo De could only try to persuade Fei Lu Shan to change her teaching method.

"Not easy to change."

Regarding this proposal to change teaching methods, Fei Lu Shan didn't continue to be angry, but instead let out a heavy sigh.

She hasn't taught students for a hundred years.

Now the Academy's teaching methods are completely different from before.

At that time, the Academy's research on classical mechanisms was not yet mature.

Therefore, the Knowledge School's study of mechanism runes and the Wonder School's study of mechanisms were learned together.

Helu Shan developed this teaching habit at that time.

But as the Wonder School's mechanism studies became increasingly refined, the teaching divisions between the Knowledge School and Wonder School grew clearer, and now the teachings of the two major schools have evolved to be non-interfering, just like other schools.

Knowing it was impossible to persuade Helu Shan to switch to teaching only the Wonder School.

After pondering for a while, Luo De suggested: "Why not, senior, change the curriculum to first teach basic Wonder School knowledge? Once everyone is familiar with your mechanism terminology, learning will be much easier than now."

"That's all we can do."

Helu Shan hesitated slightly, then sighed in response.

Having said that.

Luo De took out several toy design drawings: "Senior, I have a few design sketches I drew idly; please give me some guidance."

These drawings depict the structure and gameplay of some educational toys.

Luo De drew them from memory.

Simple structure, complex gameplay.

This was also one of Helu Shan's early research topics; she had lectured on it several times before.

But lately she has focused her energy on researching large-scale mechanisms like automatic irrigation sprinkler equipment, and hasn't yet devoted any thought to these small mechanisms.

"What is this?"

Helu Shan merely glanced at it, and her interest was instantly sparked.

Tower of Hanoi, Rubik's Cube, Tangram, Nine Linked Rings.

Luo De introduced them one by one.

He drew a total of seven sheets.

When he previously went to the school in A Ru Cun, he always felt something was missing.

Only yesterday, seeing children playing Dragon Warrior with sticks, did he realize.

He was lacking the toys appropriate for a child's stage.

Moreover, it wasn't just educational toys; the children of A Ru Cun had hardly any decent toys, and what they did have were mostly old toys discarded from the rainforest area.

So Luo De stayed up all night drawing these several sheets with relatively simple structures.

As for more complex toy structures, given his pitiful grasp of Wonder School, even if he had the structure in mind, he couldn't draw it at all.

Moreover, Nadixa couldn't help with this either.

Because Luo De couldn't accurately describe what those childhood toys he remembered looked like when taken apart.

So he could only first give these simple educational toys to Helu Shan for the senior mechanism expert to polish, then pass them to Duo Li to place an order.

However.

After looking at these toy drawings.

The first thing Helu Shan questioned was Luo De's drawing ability.

"Have you really studied the Wonder School?"

"The last time Ka Wei told me your drawing skill was on par with his; could that level produce something like this?"

Helu Shan raised the drawing in her hand, her eyes full of bewilderment.

One would know.

Seeing such a baseless drafting level at a glance, Helu Shan would surely suspect.

Fortunately.

Luo De originally didn't plan to continue hiding it from her.

Or rather.

Helu Shan had stayed at the Academy for so long, and also spent that much time with Luo De in A Ru Cun, yet only through Luo De's own voluntary exposure did she discover he was actually a Wonder School novice, which is already surprising enough.

"I originally didn't know much Wonder School knowledge."

"That drawing last time was done by a senior for me, and what I told Ka Wei about studying all three schools was just to gain his trust; otherwise, given our relationship back then, he would likely not have agreed to come to A Ru Cun."

Luo De recounted in detail how he had invited Ka Wei at the Lan Bade Tavern, then sincerely said to Helu Shan: "Senior, please keep this secret for now; as for my lacking Wonder School knowledge, I truly wish to learn from you, hoping you can teach me."

(End of chapter)