Unlike the Mecha Master Academy, where males are in the majority, with some classes being entirely male.
When Gu Ya attended the Xian Chinese National Defense Academy, his neighboring class was full of monks.
This academy has an unusually balanced gender ratio, with slightly more females.
Beside the open-air experiment tables, pairs or trios of females conducting experiments were common, while mixed-gender groups seemed rare.
With a greater emphasis on academics than private life, most of the academy's females exuded an unkempt, academic nerdiness. Of course, there were those who cared about their appearance, but compared to the fashionably dressed beauties seen in Xianxia City, their styles and attire still appeared conservative.
Even so, the females were like this, and the males were even more so. Disheveled and unkempt individuals were seen everywhere, and one could even spot students dragging their sneakers and carrying their lunches back to the dorms in plastic bags. Even a male with a clean and tidy school uniform would be quite eye-catching.
Perhaps this was the consequence of a heavy academic workload.
Gu Ya had no mood to wander further. So far, he hadn't found his target:
Liang Xun.
The female mentor whom he had only met once, but who had planted the seed for his decision to come here for further studies.
Along with the impulse to meet her, a problem had been bothering Gu Ya for days:
Attack Resonance Materials.
This substance was the absolute defensive material for mechs. Gu Ya had witnessed its strength; countless offensive methods were ineffective against it during the Louhai battle. It could resist any offensive measure. If it could be used on a large scale, the world would truly be peaceful.
It was also from Liang Xun that Gu Ya learned that Xu Jie's black mech was made of this material.
If Gu Ya hadn't had his cheat abilities and killed Xu Jie from within, he wouldn't have known how Xianxia would have dealt with that black mech.
After the God of War selection competition, Gu Ya felt his own strength was increasingly insufficient.
Even his once-proud mecha piloting skills, Gu Ya hadn't fully mastered yet, let alone the mecha repair skills involving high-tech technology.
What was the point of having a system store? What was the point of having cheat skills? Gu Ya simply didn't understand the knowledge he hadn't acquired.
“Perhaps I should try my luck at the teaching building,” Gu Ya murmured.
There were still two days until the official start of the semester, and Gu Ya was an early arriver.
He had a private mech and was a quasi-God of War. He couldn't wait to encounter some bandits in the wilderness for some excitement.
As for those students who had only dabbled in mecha repair or whose mecha piloting skills were not very good, they could only reach the academy through regular transportation channels. Not to mention, mecha masters in the western cities of Xianxia, who wished to come here, would have to spend at least a week.
As he stepped out of the elevator, a small girl bumped into him. Gu Ya's guard immediately went up. After the experience with Dou Mei, he now had a conditioned reflex of caution and aversion towards unknown women.
The girl lowered her head, her disheveled shoulder-length hair covering half her face after the collision, revealing the other half. Her eyes looked a bit scared and apologetic, "I-I'm sorry!"
Gu Ya ignored her and walked away. He wasn't interested in this routine, and even if she called him "little brother~," he wouldn't turn back.
With such a predictable scenario, Gu Ya really didn't want to be played by another woman.
When Gu Ya left Xianxia City, Dou Mei didn't appear. She knew Gu Ya was coming to Zhuo Yuan City, so she might have already come to make arrangements. If it was Dou Mei in disguise, Gu Ya would be even less interested.
At the freshman registration desk in the academic affairs building, Gu Ya found the teacher who had helped him with his enrollment.
“Where can I find Mentor Liang Xun?” Gu Ya asked directly.
The male teacher at the freshman office pushed up his glasses and asked in a low voice, “Are you her advisee? I recall you are a freshman. Freshmen need to pass a mentor assessment before joining their team.”
There was a faint ring mark on his left ring finger.
Gu Ya nodded, “Then how can I undergo the mentor assessment? Can I take it early?”
“Ha!” The male teacher unexpectedly chuckled, then continued, “The academy explicitly stipulates that freshmen can undergo assessment after six months, and only if they have outstanding achievements. Alternatively, they can be specifically requested by a mentor. Are you qualified?” His tone was somewhat dismissive.
Gu Ya thought for a few seconds, raised his wrist, and found the manufacturing blueprints and invention patent descriptions for the mecha motorcycle and the exoskeleton armored motorcycle in the projected holographic panel.
Patents were not something to be secretive about. Even if this teacher publicized it widely, it wouldn't matter as long as the Gu Lang Group didn't object; any word from others was just nonsense.
As he showed it to the male teacher, his facial expression gradually shifted from suspicion to doubt. When he finally saw Gu Ya's name and the electronic seal from the authoritative institution in Wu He City, his expression was quite remarkable.
However, as a middle-aged man who had seen the world, especially with the added identity of a teacher, the man vigorously controlled his facial muscles and said blandly, “Ah... you do have some achievements. But it's still not enough. You need the mentor's personal authorization for the assessment.”
“Please tell me Mentor Liang Xun's communication number. Thank you. Please accept this.”
When one needs to ask for a favor, one must act like one is asking for a favor. At this moment, Gu Ya's face was entirely filled with a humble, cautious, and subservient expression.
Furthermore, he had already reached behind him and taken out a palm-sized, functionally special, exquisite, and expensive holographic miniature robot from the system store. The holographic projection of this little fellow was only interesting to males, and its attraction to men was fatal.
The reason Gu Ya was so sure was that he had seen the faint ring mark on the middle-aged teacher's ring finger. He had likely been divorced for about half a month.
When Gu Ya came out of the office, he got what he wanted and dialed the number without a second thought.
After a busy tone, a mechanical voice message came through.
It seemed she was busy. He could wait and go elsewhere for now.
Actually, for Gu Ya, he could find textbooks in the system store, but they were quite expensive.
At a price of ten thousand system coins, it was more expensive than an ordinary mech. This was because ordinary mechs had a chance to yield rare item critical hits and produce advanced mechs, like the Qilong 003.
Therefore, Gu Ya was very curious about what the textbook taught.
Gu Ya found an empty spot, sat on an open-air stone bench, and carefully examined the textbook's holographic projection.
Good heavens, the index alone had dozens of pages. The official textbook had 280,000 pages. If it were a physical book, how massive would it be!
It had to be said that the textbook's coverage was quite broad, basically explaining the mecha knowledge of various countries worldwide, including several main battle mech models of the enemy Black Star.
Moreover, the textbook provided explanations and annotations for the common parts, structural assemblies, and standard components of each mech model.
From the mecha's most crucial and mysterious virtual energy wave regulation and buffer device down to an ordinary screw, all components had annotations.
“No wonder the students here are always studying. To thoroughly digest this book in a few years is truly not easy!” Gu Ya exclaimed.
Even Gu Ya, who had a high foundation and possessed cheat abilities, felt a headache looking at this textbook, let alone ordinary people.
However, this also stimulated Gu Ya's interest in learning.
This was certainly just a basic textbook. After all, with the rampant intelligence warfare, the Black Star must also possess such freely obtainable information.
Therefore, there must be even higher-level, more strictly controlled textbooks.
Gu Ya searched further in the system store and indeed did not find what he was looking for.
“This means that kind of higher-level secret knowledge, like the in-depth data in the cloning laboratory, cannot be obtained from the system store.”
Just as Gu Ya was enthusiastically reading the textbook,
A faint scent of perfume wafted from behind him, the same scent as the girl he bumped into at the elevator entrance earlier that day.
“Hello, hello. We meet again. I want to apologize to you.” It was indeed that girl.