Chapter 378

With a breakthrough speed like his, he’s basically a graduate-level deep space ship captain!

Maybe even... a star-destroyer captain graduate!

Of course, that’s just a thought.

A star-destroyer...

That’s definitely impossible.

……

Inside the inner academy, in an office specially built for the vice-principal, Xu Zi'an.

Although Xu Zi'an was the one who demanded the vice-principal position.

Since the school had granted it, they naturally ensured all facilities, equipment, and benefits were up to par.

Don't be fooled by Gu Gu Chengzhan’s reluctant words.

In his heart, he was beyond thrilled that Xu Zi'an had taken the position.

How much prestige would Xu Zi'an bring to Shenzhou Academy by serving as vice-principal?

To say nothing else.

Just look at this year's freshmen—they had captured every single genius of this generation!

Yes!

Every single one!!!

Every genius had listed Shenzhou Academy as their top choice!

Because there were too many people, the Shenzhou Academy set its enrollment standards to top-tier geniuses.

Even so, a massive number of freshmen joined, including many from outside the Earth Federation!

Among them...

There were even several geniuses at the ordinary monster level...

Just considering these benefits, let alone making Xu Zi'an vice-principal, Gu Gu Chengzhan would have been perfectly happy to let him be the second principal.

In the extremely luxurious office.

Xu Zi'an and his group were discussing the upcoming plan.

Since he had taken the position of vice-principal.

Xu Zi'an would fulfill his duties as such.

In any case, Xu Zi'an absolutely refused to admit it was because of the massive amount of points Gu Gu Chengzhan offered as compensation.

Absolutely not.

I, Xu Zi'an, am not the type to be blinded by money!

The combat plan this time was simple.

It was for Xu Zi'an to lead the students of Shenzhou Academy to slaughter the students of a certain school from the Alien race!

This kind of slaughter was the same as when Xu Zi'an fought the Sky Mantis Demon Camp in the B-level battlefield previously.

Non-school students were forbidden from participating.

And on the battlefield, there was far more than just Shenzhou Academy.

In fact, among the three races, many schools didn't have inner or outer academies; they only had one academy.

This academy was built right on the battlefield!

Specifically to slaughter the students of enemy schools!

For example, the number one ranked academy in the Nine Heavens Star Sea, the monster-concentration camp known as the [Nine Heavens Academy], was built on this C-level battlefield!

It was unclear if it was because of Xu Zi'an.

Students from two top-tier academies of the Alien and Insectoid races had been attacking Nine Heavens Academy frantically during this period, while not attacking each other.

This had caused the students of Nine Heavens Academy to suffer heavy losses recently.

Then, their principal suddenly thought of Xu Zi'an.

It suddenly occurred to them...

Xu Zi'an could also participate in this war between students!

Because he was still a student too!

Thinking of this, the principal immediately came up with a plan to take fierce revenge, and even pull a fast one on them—

Hire Xu Zi'an to take action!

With Xu Zi'an there.

These so-called genius students of the Alien and Insectoid races were just wheat, and Xu Zi'an could harvest them at will.

So they approached Shenzhou Academy Principal Gu Gu Chengzhan, expressing their willingness to pay a high price to have Xu Zi'an lead Shenzhou Academy students into battle.

Gu Gu Chengzhan then found Xu Zi'an.

He told Xu Zi'an the offer, converted into school points.

Xu Zi'an, who had been worrying about what tasks to take on...

Instantly perked up.

After some haggling, and Gu Gu Chengzhan increasing the original reward by another fifty percent.

Xu Zi'an finally 'reluctantly' agreed.

He stated righteously that as the vice-principal of Shenzhou Academy, leading his classmates to fight monsters was a duty he was obligated to fulfill!

Hearing this, Gu Gu Chengzhan wanted to rush over and give Xu Zi'an a beating.

He had never seen anyone so shameless.

And so.

The current scene came to be.

After final discussions, the action plan was decided.

The operation.

Would commence in three days.

Xu Zi'an would lead the team personally.

Acting as fresh reinforcements, in coordination with Nine Heavens Academy.

They would take the genius students of the Alien and Insectoid races...

And swallow them whole!

Leaving none behind!

The plan's name—

【Follow Brother Xu to Fight Monsters!】

The night sky here.

Was as deep as an abyss.

Looking up, one could see several massive planets suspended in the void, and occasionally, starship fleets or spacecraft passing by like meteor showers.

Inside the most luxurious super-villa specially arranged for Xu Zi'an by the Shenzhou Academy inner academy.

Xu Zi'an leaned against the bed, holding a glass of wine, drinking while looking up at the unique starry sky.

Today, he was rarely at leisure.

Thinking carefully.

Ever since he became a biological ship captain.

It seemed he had been in a state of intense growth every single day.

Only once or twice had he been this relaxed and at ease.

He could get tired too.

Especially over the past few years, with almost non-stop simulations every day.

And after the simulations ended, he would consolidate and study in reality.

Even a machine would need a rest.

Now.

Having broken through to battleship captain.

A dignified War Emperor-level powerhouse.

His lifespan was already long enough that living for tens of millions of years was no problem at all.

Deep space ships had lifespans of hundreds of millions of years, and star-destroyers started at a billion years.

With such a long life, he had been like a perpetual motion machine, never stopping, let alone relaxing properly.

Xu Zi'an decided to treat his time on the battlefield as his leisure time.

After all...

On this C-level battlefield, there were only a few things that truly threatened him now.

Immortal ship captains, Void ship captains, and the Star-Chasing ship captains of the Insectoid and Alien races.

Basically, as long as he was a little more careful.

He could walk sideways through the C-level battlefield.

Treating this as his vacation resort...

Didn't seem to be a problem.

Looking at the skylight above, drinking wine, and feeling the gentle breeze carrying the scent of flowers from outside the window, this feeling was truly amazing.

Unknowingly, Xu Zi'an gradually felt a hint of sleepiness.

Yet, in this half-dreaming state, his ears suddenly twitched, and his gaze turned toward the door.

Almost the next second.

The doorbell rang.

A virtual projection of Sister Haitang appeared before his eyes.

Sister Haitang seemed to know Xu Zi'an was looking at her; she raised the bottle in her hand—

She was actually holding a bottle of wine too.

It was clear she had come to drink with Xu Zi'an.

Xu Zi'an smiled.

He waved his hand, and the door opened automatically.

"I knew you weren't asleep."

The incredibly tall Sister Haitang walked in with a cat-like gait, bringing a fragrant breeze with her.

Her naturally curly wavy hair was still damp, and she was dressed quite casually.

Yet even so.

It couldn't hide her peerless elegance.

"Want to have a drink together?"

Sister Haitang shook the wine bottle held in her slender, fair hand, her voice cool yet slightly hoarse.

Xu Zi'an smiled and nodded, saying, "I was just drinking; it's boring to drink alone."

As he spoke, he finished the wine in his glass and extended it toward Sister Haitang.

Sister Haitang opened the bottle decisively and poured the clear, golden liquid into Xu Zi'an's glass.

In the interstellar era, just like chili peppers.

The wine for biological ship captains naturally wasn't ordinary.

Ordinary alcohol couldn't make powerful biological ship captains feel tipsy, let alone drunk.

The wine of this era was brewed with various high-end materials, even including rare heavenly treasures.

The alcohol in such wine had the same taste as regular wine, or even better.

The biggest difference was that the alcohol inside could make biological ship captains feel tipsy or drunk.

Of course, the price was something ordinary people couldn't afford.

Just this one bottle, because it was brewed with heavenly treasures, cost as much as 1.88 million Universe Coins.

But this amount of money was nothing to a battleship captain.

After pouring for Xu Zi'an, she poured a glass for herself.

Sister Haitang, without any hesitation or avoidance, climbed directly onto Xu Zi'an's bed and sat right next to him.

Xu Zi'an was startled and turned to look at her.

But he saw Sister Haitang’s expression was unchanged, still as calm as ever.

Xu Zi'an smiled lightly, said nothing, clinked glasses with Sister Haitang, and the two sat in silence, drinking while looking up at the night sky outside the skylight, watching the beautiful, rotating planets and the starships and spacecraft speeding by.

Neither of them spoke again.

Who knows how much time passed.

Just when Xu Zi'an was feeling a bit tipsy...

Sister Haitang finally spoke.

"When I first saw you, I thought you were just a very ordinary boy."

Sister Haitang didn't look at Xu Zi'an, just speaking to herself: "But after hearing from Fuyue about your experience saving her, I felt you seemed to be a genius, and I paid quite a bit of attention to you."

"But even then, I still only thought you were a genius with some talent—at most, a top-tier genius."

"However, in the special recruitment exam, your performance far exceeded my expectations. From that moment on, I began to pay serious attention to you."

"After that... I paid attention to everything you did."

"And you, time and time again, brought me shock and awe."

"Then, I don't know when it started, I fell in love with you."

When Sister Haitang said this, her tone suddenly paused.

She gently turned that perfect, peerless face, her beautiful eyes looking straight at Xu Zi'an, unblinking, frank, and generous.

Xu Zi'an's heart shook, but he still didn't speak.

As expected.

Sister Haitang’s red lips parted slightly, her breath like orchids, carrying a faint, pleasant scent of wine, as she continued: "Perhaps it was the moment you were fearless, in the special recruitment exam, when you chose to perish with the traitor of the Assault Ship race."

"Perhaps it was also the moment your starship was blown up, and you luckily survived, yet didn't feel the slightest discouragement and stood up again."

"Or perhaps it was the moment you took the title of college entrance exam champion with peerless grace, a feat unprecedented..."

"I can't clearly say which moment I fell in love with you."

"But I can be sure of one thing."

"It was the time you asked me to protect your path while you went on a mission, and midway, you used your keenness and wisdom to see through the Insectoid race and the human traitors."

"And then, with supreme courage and daring, as well as the unwavering determination of a human, you took great risks to track the Insectoid race, thereby completely exposing their conspiracy..."

"I fell in love with you."

"Since then, just like you stood up without hesitation back then, I also fell in love with you without hesitation."

"And following everything you've done since then."

"The betrayal of the Gana race."

"Invading the hinterland of the Alien race."

"Winning the Earth Federation Youth Evolutionist Competition."

"Leading Shenzhou Academy to take first place."

"Chasing down the Flowing Cloud Divine Sect..."

"Including killing Barbaruslu in the training camp!"

"And even more so, this time destroying the Insectoid command center!"

"Everything, everything, made me sink deeper and deeper."

"If you say... at the beginning, I had concerns and struggles in my heart about how to handle the relationship between you and Fuyue."

"But after this incident, I know."

"No matter how many concerns I have in my heart, or how much I struggle."

"I cannot deny that I have fallen deeply in love with you, to the point of being completely unable to extricate myself!"

"This time."

"You even evolved my Sea Siren for me, evolving it into the most perfect form in my heart."

"Even the interior decoration... was done just as you promised me, very much to my liking."

"You put your heart into it."

"Since I have seen your heart."

"My own heart can no longer be hidden."

"So."

"Tonight."