Chapter 3619

After Brainiac thoroughly replaced all administrative personnel at every level, administrative efficiency increased several times over, but it also meant that unless it was highly specialized technical work, everyone had to do some extra administrative tasks.

Schiller needed to be responsible for the Christmas decorations in the two classrooms and the public office of the Psychology Department. Simply put, it meant putting up the decorations Brainiac had transported over, setting up the blackboard bulletin boards, and preparing various items for the celebration.

In fact, during wartime control, Brainiac did not delay humans from celebrating holidays. To be precise, he insisted that humans celebrate. Humans begged him: "Please do something useful! A crisis that could destroy the Earth at any moment is hanging over our heads, and you still have time to celebrate?!"

However, Brainiac is a super artificial intelligence. This means his understanding of human physiological and psychological needs is very comprehensive. He believed that collective celebratory activities help reduce human psychological stress, so even if the war was intense, he would still divert a portion of redundant resources to let humans celebrate.

However, there are a wide variety of holidays in different countries and regions, and at that time, there was truly no time to celebrate them separately, so generally, one representative holiday was chosen for each continent. For example, Asia celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Americas celebrated Thanksgiving, and so on. Although there were no days off for the holidays, at least mooncakes and roast turkey were distributed.

After the victory, it was even more necessary to celebrate properly. Therefore, preparations began ten days in advance, and because everyone had to participate, the Christmas atmosphere was even thicker than before he arrived.

Schiller had not celebrated Christmas in the past: he had never hosted any Christmas dinners, would not exchange gifts with anyone, and did not accept gifts from students, at most receiving greeting cards. It could be said that this was the first time he had celebrated Christmas in the dozen or so years he had been here.

After finishing lunch, there were no classes in the afternoon. Schiller first went to the Academic Affairs Building to collect the props for decoration. Just as he walked into the Academic Affairs Building, he ran into a somewhat unexpected figure.

"Victor, you're back?" Schiller walked up quickly and called out to Victor, who was about to get on the elevator.

"Oh, Schiller, I was just about to go find you. I haven't been back long, and Brainiac already assigned me work. I have to go get the Christmas decorations for the Physics Laboratory Building done."

"So you all came back for Christmas?"

"Yes, most of the people on Krypton went home for the holidays. But we only have two days off; we'll leave after the holiday."

"Are you not celebrating New Year's?"

"No need, these two dates are too close together. We are the first batch to return. My Eastern colleagues won't be able to go back to celebrate their holidays for another two months."

"Spring Festival?"

"Yes, they have their own calendar there; it seems they celebrate at the end of January or the beginning of February."

"I'm going to pick up Billy tonight; do you want to come with me?"

"Forget it, I can't even leave the school today. A student in my cryogenics lab injured himself while doing an experiment, and I still have to go to the hospital to check on him."

"With Brainiac around, he could still injure himself?"

"Brainiac significantly overestimated my teaching level and the safety awareness of undergraduates. Even a super artificial intelligence can't stop him from sticking his fingers into the cryogenic liquid..."

The two chatted for a few sentences and took the elevator together to the storage room upstairs. It was packed with people, basically all professors and teachers from various departments.

"The weather is really cold," Anna said, rubbing her hands. "I have to go to the stadium later to check the setup there. The football game opens tomorrow, and there must not be any problems with the field."

"Are the players all back?" Schiller asked. During the war, many senior students from Cat Getan University were also transferred to Krypton and hadn't fully returned yet.

"Yes, thanks to Christmas, most of them are back," Anna said. "They will go home first and then come to school. Without this group of skilled hands, even moving the Christmas trees is slower than in previous years."

"I heard your students were the most transferred," Schiller said. "Is the decoration work in your Mathematics Department okay?"

"Yes, those damn little brats, they dove into the research institute and didn't even come back for the holidays," Anna shook her head and complained. "Many people took this opportunity to abandon mathematics and switch to physics; where am I supposed to go to reason with them?"

Victor smiled and said, "All the professors are complaining that they have too many students, only you are complaining that you have too few."

"That's right, you should be content," Schiller echoed. "Brainiac helped me clear out three doctoral students and even made most of the other students change their direction. Just for this, he is the best principal Cat Getan University has ever had."

Anna sighed and said, "You don't understand, there were already few people willing to study mathematics, and even fewer who understood it. Those who understood it a little bit all realized that this major has no future. It's just that they saw I had too few students and were embarrassed to switch departments, so they took advantage of Brainiac's momentum to go study applied physics all at once."

They chatted about students while waiting in line. Cat Getan University's engineering department has always been relatively strong, the strongest among all departments; and among theoretical subjects, the strongest is chemistry, followed by cryogenics, and then art theory.

As for the humanities and social sciences, although the ranking is not bad, it cannot compare to Metropolis University. Psychology is also in a mediocre position: most of those who can apply to this school are willing to aim for Harvard, and those who cannot apply are too far behind, and there is no way to force it.

Brainiac's construction of the university is more inclined to strengthen specialized subjects, that is, to play to strengths. Although it won't go so far as to abolish comprehensive universities, unpopular majors won't get many resources.

Victor's cryogenics department is okay, after all, since Cat Getan became a logistics center, the employment scope for this major is very broad. But pure theoretical departments like Anna's and Schiller's are basically just a few people, and you can't even find anyone when there is work to be done.

After waiting in line for about 15 minutes, they finally reached the door of the storage room. After Schiller walked in, he found the shelf for the Psychology Department's supplies according to the number. Half a minute later, Schiller looked at the huge Christmas tree and was a bit speechless—so Brainiac wanted him to move this tree away?

This was not a Christmas tree for decoration, but a real large fir tree, the kind that had been cut down for less than two hours, and it was a full three meters tall. Even two football players couldn't carry this thing; how were they, a group of white-collar workers, supposed to move it?

Just as he was complaining about Brainiac in his heart, noisy sounds came from outside the door. Soon, a few big, tall students squeezed in to greet the professors. Schiller looked at them and found them very familiar.

"Are they members of the football team?" Schiller asked in a low voice.

At this moment, a more familiar face squeezed over: "Hey, Professor, it's me."

Kara waved her hand at Schiller and said, "We will be responsible for transporting these large items to where you need them. You just take the packages next to them."

Schiller breathed a sigh of relief, but he looked at the manpower that had come, probably only six or seven people, and there were fifty or sixty Christmas trees piled up here; how long would it take to move them?

The professors didn't care; those who had classes took the small decorations and left directly, and those who didn't have classes stayed where they were, playing on their phones and slacking off. Brainiac didn't care either.

They could wait, but Schiller couldn't; he still had to pick up Billy after school. So he directly called the Gray Mist in his heart.

The Gray Mist didn't need to be moved. A burst of mist directly enveloped Cat Getan University, and almost in an instant, all the Christmas trees were placed at the entrances of the teaching buildings of various departments.

Schiller's figure appeared at the entrance of the Psychology Department's public office. Several students were already waiting here.

"Put these two trees in front of the office windows respectively. Hang the ribbons over there. Put the gift boxes far away from the door so you don't trip anyone. Put two decals on each side of the window, and make sure they are symmetrical. There are few people in this office who don't have obsessive-compulsive disorder..."

Schiller directed the students to start decorating. Brainiac on his phone started sending him messages frantically:

"What was that?"

"Professor, what was that mist just now?"

"How did you move the Christmas trees, Professor?"

"Professor!!!"

Schiller impatiently muted his phone, but Brainiac started shouting through the office's loudspeaker. Schiller had no choice but to take out his phone and reply helplessly: "That's my superpower, what's the matter?"

"You're a superpowered person?! Why didn't you say so earlier?!"

"If I said so, would you have passed my mental evaluation report?"

Brainiac stopped talking. Schiller sneered in his heart—it wasn't that he didn't want to help fight the war, it was that this Brainiac insisted he was a mental patient and wouldn't let him go to the battlefield.

The funniest thing is that Brand's visa was also rejected by him, on the grounds that Brand was highly nearsighted and didn't pass the physical examination.

Even funnier is that Lucifer's visa passed, but Brainiac didn't know he was an angel, and the physical examination didn't find any problems, so he directly threw him to Krypton's geographical energy survey station as a porter.

It belongs to the category of recruiting talent without sticking to one pattern.

In fact, there are quite a few hidden superpowered people on Earth, but the vast majority can be easily discovered. For example, the omen Lilith, she was almost immediately recruited by Brainiac into the think tank to use her mind-reading and prophetic abilities to judge the battlefield situation.

The trainees at the Mercury base before were also basically the main force for attacking the front battlefield. Obviously, this great war tempered them well, and now they are still standing the last shift of Christmas at the temporary base on the edge of the solar system.

The Atlanteans performed very brilliantly in the war: they were naturally adapted to the space combat environment, had various superpowers, and were not few in number. Mera was a rare commander who could command large group armies, and Aquaman Arthur also went.

When fighting Darkseid's legion, many hard bones were gnawed down by them. Although there were many casualties, this greatly boosted their reputation among the human race—after all, they were also protecting the Earth, indirectly protecting humans.

Brainiac's rule over them was not that strict, because after all, the resources of the ocean are almost infinite, and they were all in the primitive tribal period, with no social system problems, and were easier to raise than humans.

But because their casualties were quite heavy, Brainiac coordinated some Green Lantern energy for them to heal the sick, and also obtained some special building materials from Mount Olympus through Diana to help them build underwater cities.

The gods of Mount Olympus did not participate in the war, but the Amazon female warriors also performed very well in this war: charging at the front, retreating at the back, bravely blocking the enemy, and not afraid of death. It also greatly increased people's favor for the Amazons.